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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Democrats wallow in self-pity

    Echoing the failed Al Gore cry that he won the popular vote in 2000, Clinton thinks she’s found a way to wrangle a few superdelegates writes the Washington Times;

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her supporters are talking as if the Democratic nomination is within reach, claiming a popular vote victory with the last metric that possibly favors her.

    The senator from New York is pushing the vote totals as her final message, as the presidential nod is nearly in the hands of her rival Sen. Barack Obama.

    “Seventeen million Americans have voted for Hillary Clinton – more than for any primary candidate in history,” her campaign proclaims in an upbeat, last-minute television ad running in Montana and South Dakota, which end the long nominating season with primaries Tuesday.

    “Some say there isn’t a single reason for Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee. They’re right – there are over 17 million of them.”

    According to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, it’s only fair the Democrats should be fighting over this election and stealing votes from each other – it’s karma;

    [I]t was hilarious to watch party chief Howard Dean on Saturday invoke the “stolen” election of 2000 without a hint of irony about what the Clintons are up to this time.

    To prevent this nomination theft, Democrats decided to count only every half vote. This means Mr. Obama needs to win a few more superdelegates to gain a majority, and it isn’t sitting well with the Clinton camp. Senator Clinton is now saber-rattling about challenging the Michigan ruling at the Denver convention. Her feminist supporters are also suggesting that their heroine is the victim of “sexism.” Meanwhile, if the superdelegates do give the nomination to Mrs. Clinton, many of Mr. Obama’s supporters will cry “racism.” The identity politics that Democrats love to use against Republicans has now come back to haunt them.

    There is little chance, based on what we know now, that superdelegates will overturn Mr. Obama’s solid lead in the pledged delegates. These Democratic pros aren’t about to give black voters an excuse to stay home in November.

    What no one wants to say out loud is that racism is playing a bigger role in this little theater than anyone wants to admit. Hillary voters think that Americans are too racist to vote for a Black president and Obama supporters think Americans are too scared of being admitted racists to vote against him.

    Of course, they don’t take into account that many think his proposed policies are odious, his experience is nonexistent, and his associations with real racists and terrorists tell us a little too much about him. Oh, and we’re not all that crazy about Hillary, either.

    UPDATE: Rurik sends this link to a discussion at Grouchy Old Cripple. I put the video up yesterday, but the comments are especially interesting.

    I find it exceedingly interesting that in 2000, the Democrats were insistent that every vote be counted. Living in Palm Beach County, home of the butterfly ballot and loads of jerks who can’t see or read and voted for Buchanon instead of Gore, they hammered that home to us every damn day.

    But now? Oh no, let’s disenfranchise millions of voters because the big party didn’t like when the state was going to hold their primaries.

    Appalling.

    And it makes me happy I’m not affiliated with that party. Bunch of hypocrits.

    Every single NY Jew I know that lives down here, and I know a lot, and they are all registered Democrats, are voting for McCain. Every.Single.One.

    Now I don’t believe that every single Jew in Florida will vote for McCain, but this comment is significant nonetheless and should give all Democrats pause.

  • Under the Bus with the Whole Lot of You!

    CNN is reporting that Barack Obama has officially “resigned” from Trinity United Church. How exactly does one “resign” from a church?

    Has the vitriolic sermons from that church changed in the last 20 years? Nope
    Has it suddenly turned to a Black separatist’s theology? Nope
    Has it just now started fomenting “White hate”? Nope

    So, what happened?

    Barry has simply pimped this racist church until it offers no more political advantage. No more complicated than that, the pimp pushed the whore under the train.

    After 20 years of using this church to prop up his street cred and obviously to make him black enough, Barry has realized that this flavor of hate makes him “Too Black”.

    Now the question is what will Jeremiah Wright’s response be? Something tells me that this shameless, racist, media-whore is not going to like being rejected by the very man that he helped to create.

    My prediction? Brace yourself Barry, this is going to be painful.

  • “G** Damn the Democrats!”

    Rurik sends me this video of Harriet Christian, a Clinton supporter from Manhattan. She’s obviously upset because of the Rules and Bylaws Committee’s decision to rearrange the delegate votes for Michigan and Florida.

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    Here’s a picture of Christian being tossed out of the committee meeting because she shouted that she was going to vote for John McCain in November.

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    In the video, she calls Obama “an inadequate Black male” and declares that Americans will vote for McCain after seeing the way Democrats treated women. It’s pretty amazing to see a Democrat say these things in public. She claims that she’s gone from being a second class citizen to “nuthin’” because of the Committee’s decision.

    Of course, it’s just one woman’s opinion, but the video, posted by Firedoglake, went up on YouTube last night and won honors in 35 categories, with 135,000 views and 3500 comments. The funniest part of the comments is that they run the gamut of name calling. Obama, Clinton and Christian all get called racists at some point. I guess this’ll blunt the impact of the term.

    In another Firedoglake video, Deborah Foster from Long Island shows the bruises she got from being ejected from the committee meeting;

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    It’s nice to see the Big Tent Party coming together. Even unflappable Lanny Davis was smoking according to the Huffington Post;

    “I’ll tell you what,” Davis chimed in, “the Clinton campaign’s position has been misrepresented by this wonderful love-fest, and the lady who testified for us was saying that the Obama campaign and your proposal is not generous. But it is in fact unfair. If you want to hear, now that the love-fest is over, why don’t you come over and hear the counterpoint to this completely disingenuous argument.”

    I suspect the “unfair” charge will lose it’s cache like the “racist” charge. Here’s another video from from Marc Ambinder (h/t someone at Ace) of another Democrat woman predicting a McCain win in November;

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    I suspect that Obama made his decision to leave his church to mute coverage of the rules committee’s decision.

    UPDATE: More at Gateway Pundit and Flopping Aces.

  • Fat lady sings, but it ain’t over

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    Well the Democrats’ Rules and Bylaws Committee has spoken first on Florida (from WSJ Washington Wire);

    The decision would give Sen. Hillary Clinton a net gain of 19 pledged delegates over Sen. Barack Obama, with Clinton receiving 52.5 votes, Obama 33.5, and former candidate John Edwards 6.5. The remaining unpledged delegates, known as superdelegates, also get one half of one vote on the convention floor.

    A motion to seat the full delegation, with a full vote, according to the unauthorized Jan. 29 primary results failed, with 12 in favor, and 15 opposed.

    Florida citizens in the crowd voiced their displeasure with the decision, shouting “Denver! Denver! Denver!”—a reference to where the party’s national convention will take place in late August.

    Then Michigan;

    The delegates of the contested Jan. 15 primary were given a 69-59 split in favor of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the contest. That split means 34.5 delegate votes for Clinton, and 29.5 delegate votes for Sen. Barack Obama.

    Opponents of the decision, including Clinton senior advisor and committee member Harold Ickes, condemned the move because Obama was awarded delegates he did not earn outright because his name did not appear on the ballot.

    It doesn’t seem democratic to me, but then the Democrats are at fault for nearly every election misstep since John Kennedy took Chicago. Now their malfeasance has infected their own internal election. I can see how they’re trying to be “fair” but, just like most Leftist attempts at being fair, a lot of voters are getting screwed. And, of course, the Clinton’s are calling foul and threatening to drag it out (WSJ Washington Wire link);

    Shortly after the news broke of the RBC’s decisions regarding Michigan and Florida’s delegation, Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee read a statement from the campaign to the press corps:

    “We strongly object to the committee’s decision to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan’s delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan. The committee awarded to Sen. Obama not only the delegates won by uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Sen. Clinton. This decision violates to the bedrock principles of our democracy and our party. We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.”

    You’d think after a while voters would see how the Democrats have been jiggering with elections over the last few decades. It’s hard to pick a side in this, so I guess I’ll just let the Democrats figure it out. Maybe get some pizza.

  • Obama sends in the clowns

    Since Barack Obama has no foreign policy experience, or any other kind of experience worth note, his campaign has decided that they’ll rely on their supporters as surrogates to attack McCain. Today, John Kerry took on McCain’s Iraq policy, according to the WSJ’s Washington Wire;

    “John McCain is out of step with history and facts,” Kerry said today, calling the Iraq War a mistake. “John McCain defends that mistake, Barack Obama understood from the beginning that it was a mistake,” he said, “By any measure this is a failed foreign policy that not only is John McCain defending, but promising to continue for four more years.”

    Kerry is admitting that Obama knows more than Kerry, who voted for the war himself (before he voted against it)? It’s not a failed foreign policy, unless you want to talk about the failure of Democrats to turn it into a failed policy. Kerry is the last person we want telling us who is out of step with history and facts. The same guy who claims he was in Cambodia for Christmas, 1968 while Richard Nixon was President.

    Kerry continued;

    The Massachusetts senator also knocked McCain’s quasi-serious offer to go to Iraq with Obama, who has not been there since 2006. Kerry said he would recommend Obama make the trip, but on his own terms. Kerry said McCain’s offer rang hollow and would result only in a “media circus” and considered it a “political stunt.”

    It’s a political stunt to highlight the fact that Obama hasn’t been in Iraq to assess the situation for himself since the war has turned around? I’d say it’s a political stunt to avoid making a personal assessment, lest those pesky facts get in the way of pounding away at outdated campaign rhetoric.

    Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle joined the McCain-bashing;

    Doyle also criticized McCain for featuring Gen. David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen in an email fund-raising solicitation. As ABC reported, Mullen recently cautioned military employees to remain “apolitical” this campaign season.

    “It is the kind of politicization of the military that we have worked so hard not to happen here,” Doyle said. “They are not to be used in political fodder in one way or another.” Obama’s campaign Web site also features images of troops, a factor the McCain campaign references.

    Funny, Obama can put images of the troops on his website, but John McCain can’t? Why? Is it racist?

    When is John Kerry going to tell us that the troops are too stupid to know anything about politics to take part in a Republican campaign?

    I just think it’s damn awful funny that Democrats don’t understand that Kerry is damaged goods. He’s blithering idiot yet they still trot him out as some sort of expert. But, then again, he’s the best they’ve got isn’t he?

  • Bush running for third term?

    I just got an email from the Barack Obama campaign begging me to help defeat George Bush in November. Here’s the email headed “You vs. George W. Bush”

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    It appears to me that Obama would rather run against anyone other than John McCain. I remember the Democrats telling us in 2000 to “get over” Clinton – that he wasn’t running in the election. So what do they do? “A different sort of politics”, indeed.

    I wonder who the super-secret donor is who’d match my contribution.

    So where do I send my donations to support the third Bush term?

  • Hope for change

    Obamistas will tell us that Barack Obama is a different kind of candidate – his emails to supporters tout the fact that Obama is different from every other candidate whoever sought the Presidency. Heck, even his supporters are different from every other candidate’s supporters. Reminds me of the type of goofus who stands at the the finish line of every marathon shouting “You’re all winners!”

    Karl Rove, in the Wall Street Journal this morning, writes that Obama is the same old populist sock puppet telling the same old lies we’ve heard from a long line of sock puppets;

    Mr. Obama told an Iowa radio station last October he didn’t wear an American flag lapel pin because, after 9/11, it had “became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues . . . .” His campaign issued a statement that “Senator Obama believes that being a patriot is about more than a symbol.” To highlight his own moral superiority, he denigrated the patriotism of those who wore a flag.

    Yet by April, campaigning in culturally conservative Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama was blaming others for the controversy he’d created, claiming, “I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins. This is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with and, once again, distracts us . . . .” A month later Mr. Obama was once again wearing a pin, saying “Sometimes I wear it, sometimes I don’t.”

    The Obama revision tour has been seen elsewhere. Last July, Mr. Obama pledged to meet personally and without precondition, during his first year, the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea. Criticized afterwards, he made his pledge more explicitly, naming Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Venezuela strongman Hugo Chávez as leaders he would grace with first-year visits.

    By October, Mr. Obama was backpedaling, talking about needing “some progress or some indication of good faith,” and by April, “sufficient preparation.” It got so bad his foreign policy advisers were (falsely) denying he’d ever said he’d meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad – even as he still defended his original pledge to have meetings without precondition.

    The list goes on. Mr. Obama’s problem is a campaign that’s personality-driven rather than idea-driven. Thus incidents calling into question his persona and character can have especially devastating consequences.

    Michelle Malkin, in her syndicated column, has listed the “gaffes” that would have sunk a Republican candidacy before now;

    All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

    But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

    Michelle’s list continues to grow;

    The gaffes just keep on coming. Via Jim Hoft and Power Line comes the latest in a long line of Obama-isms which, as I noted last week, will get a pass from the MSM:

    Sweetness and Light’s Steve Gilbert tried to track down Obama’s latest story about his uncle who liberated a concentration camp. Fighting a webmaster suffering a serious bout with Bush Derangement Syndrome, Steve got convoluted answers to questions we really can’t ask correctly because, like John Kerry, Barack Obama won’t give us all of the information we need;

    Mr. Kitchell has still not produced any evidence to substantiate that this Mr. Payne is actually Mr. Obama’s great uncle, such as a serial number.

    And, as we have noted, in most genealogy charts he is listed as Charles W. Payne rather than as Charles T.

    Of course it would also be helpful if the Obama camp would tell us his great uncle’s full name and date of birth and other such handy details.

    Pamela Geller, of Atlas Shrugs, quotes from Yid With a Lid that Obama’s enduring relationships with Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, et cetera-ists, isn’t a recent phenomena;

    It seems that Senator Obama’s Old party was called the New Party. The party was a Marxist Political coalition. This was not a guilt by association thing. Senator Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. Read more on the Marxist endorsement that Barack Obama sought out:

    Karl Rove sums up with conclusions that anyone not blinded by that divine light coming from Obama’s halo already knows;

    Stripped of his mystique as a different kind of office seeker, he could become just another liberal politician – only one who parses, evades, dissembles and condescends.

    In other words, give up hope for change.

    UPDATE: Beer-drinkin’ buddy, TSO, dissects Obama’s commencement address to some group of besotted grads in “I keep feeling like he’s missing something…” I don’t know how TSO sat through reading that tripe – but TSO’s right; How do you give a commencement address on service the day before Memorial Day and don’t mention the military?

  • Vote for Barry or Enlist!

    Little Green Footballs has this bit of lunacy from the Daily Kos.

    If you’re going to help McCain get elected, you need to take responsibility for your actions. This election is bigger than you. It’s bigger than Barack Obama. It’s bigger than Hillary Clinton. Lives will be saved or lost depending on who is elected in November, and if you’re going to willfully help prolong the war, it’s time to do the honorable thing and enlist.

    Click here to locate a U.S. Army recruiter in your area.

    Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to get election results from Baghdad, and you’ll still be able to “sit this one out” under the comfort of a mortar attack. And yes, I’m sure hearing about an Obama defeat will seem all the more sweet when you’re laying in the choking aftermath of an IED explosion with a piece of half-melted plastic burning a hole into your intestines. I’m sure you’ll be comforted by the knowledge that history had no place for President Obama when you’re staring at the empty space where your leg used to be. And certainly, I’m sure the crippling terror of post-traumatic stress disorder will be nowhere as severe as the disingenuous “concern” you’ll suffer over debunked Rezko conspiracy theories and the excited ramblings of a liberation theologian.

    I won’t go into the FACT that Barry is tied very closely both personally and financially to Rezko who is in fact about to go to jail for being a crook and a conman who stole millions from Barry’s inner city constituents.

    Nor will I start with Barry’s piss poor judgment for sitting on his pathetic ass for over 20 years listening to “excited ramblings” like GOD DAMN AMERICA!

    But let’s look at the whole “Vote Barry or Enlist” alarm. I guess the idea is that if you vote for anyone other than the Messiah you should enlist or forever be a hypocrite.

    Well dumb ass, if you love Barry so much, you might want to help him achieve one of his objectives.

    From Barry’s website:

    Expand the Military: We have learned from Iraq that our military needs more men and women in uniform to reduce the strain on our active force. Obama will increase the size of ground forces, adding 65,000 soldiers to the Army and 27,000 Marines.

    So, what’s it going to be numb-nuts? Planning to follow the Messiah’s stated goal? Of course you aren’t, you POS. You don’t have the courage to help Barry and his big “Change”.

    That’s okay though; see the Democrats have thought of the lack of personal courage among their many followers. So, they are going to draft your sorry ass!

    – Press Release from Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY)
    FEB – 2006
    The bill would mandate military service for men and women between the ages of 18 and 42. Deferments would be allowed only for completion of high school up to the age of 20, and for reasons of health, conscience or religious belief. Recruits not needed by the military in any given year would be required to perform some national civilian service.