Live From The University Of North Carolina And On The Road With Barack Obama (Wednesday's Show)
Hi everybody. Field trip time! It seems 360 has gotten themselves a "get" that involves EXCLUSIVE access to Barack Obama. Ooh. Booker, you get a cookie. Anderson Cooper is coming at us live from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, surrounded by the usual crowd of students who "woo hoo" with look-mom-I'm-on-tv enthusiasm. He throws to a piece of his own that begins with the basics of the Wright controversy and then moves into clips of the Obama interview he just did. Obama tells us he thinks they were getting comfortable in the campaign and now this controversy has shaken them up and reminded him that the odds of him winning this thing were never good. In regards to Wright's statements, he admits to hearing controversial things from him in the past, but not necessarily of a political nature. He notes Wright has a blunt style (no!) and would sometimes preach about issues regarding family life that would leave people blushing. My old pastor once made a penis joke. It was traumatic. Heh.
Obama tells Anderson he didn't make a bigger deal of the situation after Wright's 9-11 comments because he knew he was about to retire from the church. Anderson then brings up the flag pin debacle and Michelle's comments about the US, wondering if Africa Americans define patriotism differently than whites. Obama doesn't think so, but he does think we often talk about patriotism in ways that don't get at the core of what it truly means to be patriotic. In regards to Wright, he thinks his statements were unpatriotic not because he criticized America, but because he defined the country as static. That's a really good point, though I'm not sure it's something everyone will pick up on. There's nothing wrong with pointing out the country's faults in hope of making improvements. The problem is when you define the country as bad and believe it will always stay that way. Man, Obama is such a 180 from Bush. Here we have nuanced dialogue; with Bush we get rhythmic grade-school-level grammar, punctuated by hand gestures: "I'm the decision maker. That means I make the decisions." Because apparently we're too stupid to understand after just the first sentence.
For discussion, we're joined by David Gergen, former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Meyers, and Amy Holmes. The Gerg thinks Obama needs to try to move on from the controversy, but not avoid the topic of race. Then...we go to commercial. Well, that was a weird break. Anyway, coming back, they talk about how the 527's can really hurt Obama with those Wright clips in the general election. Amy actually thinks he should just stop talking about the whole thing. The Gerg is all about being positive and making lemons out of lemonade, which is what he thinks Obama did with his speech. He also notes that it's only March and that's about a billion news cycles until November. So true. I mean, I think there's still a few governors out there who have yet to be busted for or admit affairs. So much to cover!
Dee Dee disagrees, stating that the speech was good, but the controversy will drag on him. Anderson wonders how many people actually watched that single speech versus how many have seen or will see snippets of the Wright sermon. That is a great point and something I was sort of thinking about. To get the impact of the speech you have to watch the whole thing and it was long. Plus it ran during the day. How many people actually watched it? Those clips are going to reach so many more. But damn if The Gerg isn't the most optimistic guy on the planet. He seriously breaks your heart a little sometimes, doesn't he? I hope he's right and the speech will really change things. But forgive me if I don't hold my breath.
A little explanation now from Anderson about, well, what's up with his face. He looks like he's been punched under the eye, though not all that hard. Anderson states that actually he had "a little cancerous thing" removed, though he kinda mumbles over the word "cancerous." Apparently the fangirl (and boy!) email-concern is running high and he wants everyone to know "it's nothing to be concerned about." This story actually left me in awe of the power of the Internets. Anderson can rest assured he is a popular guy because not long after his blog post about the surgery, the story was everywhere. He was even on the front page of Yahoo. Granted, he quickly got bumped for some dude that accidentally pushed a button and caused a gas station to be covered in foam, but that's life. There will aways be a foam-covered gas station to steal your thunder.
Not that this was thunder. Cancer is a very scary word and though I've been joking here, I sincerely wish him all the best and hope he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Erica Hill teases that perhaps he got in a fight with Charlie Rose, who you might have noticed is sporting some face damage himself. Apparently Charlie values Apple products over his own body. Geez Charlie, does PBS pay so poorly that you couldn't afford to buy a new one if it broke? How awesomely hilarious would it have been if they'd been able to coordinate their stories and the fight thing is what they actually told people? Now those would be some headlines.
Back with Obama, we next have an Anderson piece that kind of goes behind-the-scenes on the trail. The day begins at a technical college, where Obama is going to speak about Iraq. People wait behind barricades, knowing they won't get in, but just want to get a glimpse. That's kind of intense. Anderson talks about the tight security and again I can't help but think there was something wrong when he came to St Louis because we did not go through security. Scary. Anyway, Obama and the press then hop a plane to Charlotte. Anderson shows us that the press sit in the back, and perhaps in an attempt to keep their mouths too full for questioning, they get fed a lot. When Anderson gets his chance to sit down with the senator on the plane he finds him working on...an NCAA Tournament bracket. Well, at least he's not clearing brush. Asked about what he does to decompress, he basically just says he sleeps, adding, "Although, I try to watch AC 360 all the time." Bwah! A true politician. "Please. I don't need your sympathy. I don't want your pandering," says Anderson. Well, he is still young enough to be in the key demo...
On now to Obama talking about the Michigan vote and doing a little Clinton dissing. We all know by now that Clinton wants the delegates seated and she seems to be blaming Obama for holding that up. For his part, Obama says he's just playing by the DNC rules and she's playing politics. I say, make it stop! We're then joined by Candy Crowley live for more on what's going on with Michigan, but I'm completely distracted by the people in the background. Apparently they're looking at themselves in a monitor and then back again at the camera. It's like a ping pong game. After that, Anderson puts on his defensive face for a minute to respond to all the people emailing and wanting to know why they're not going on the trail with Clinton. Well, they asked and the campaign has not answered. So there. All these accusations are kind of ridiculous. I think the bloggers are slowly driving poor Anderson crazy.
Transitioning to the subject of Iraq, Anderson asks if the surge is working. Obama thinks it is tactically, but our whole Iraq strategy is a failure because it has not made us safe. We're then played a clip of Clinton pouncing on a comment from one of Obama's advisors in which the adviser says they might not be able to get the troops out in 16 months as Obama says. I'm sure there are things she could go after Obama on regarding Iraq, but that's just stupid. Of course he's going to listen to the commanders on the ground. As he says, to not do so "would be the height of foolishness." "My commitment to end the war is one that dates back to 2002. Senator Clinton's commitment to end the war dates back to her decision to run for president," says Obama. Ohh, snap! Anderson notes he doesn't hear Obama talk about victory much and wonders if he thinks it's still possible. Obama thinks stability is possible and really what he's looking for is a "victory for common sense." That would be good. I'm a big fan of common sense and have missed it greatly these past seven years.
We're next joined by The Gerg and Michael Ware, two of my favorite people. Anderson wonders how Obama's 16 month withdrawal plan would play out realistically. Michael tells us that if he really listens to commanders on the ground, there will be no withdrawal because doing so would result in nastiness from Iran and Al Qaeda. Are you sure Michael? Because we seem to not be so good at predicting things. The Gerg thinks whoever gets elected has to be careful they don't become the president who lost Iraq. Whoa. Hold on there, Mr. Optimistic. The president that lost Iraq will always, always be Bush. Taking away the fact that we never should have invaded in the first place, we did everything wrong, and that's on him, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the merry bunch. Anderson then wonders if pressure will work on the Iraqi government. But Michael says they're already under pressure. Yeah, I suppose having your country be all explodey isn't a cakewalk. And Iran is just waiting in the wings to pick up our slack if we leave. And so it goes.
The Shot tonight is a billboard-type sign that gets blown down in extreme winds and then hit by a bus. Not the sign's best day. I should point out to the people that don't watch both hours (which includes me) that they're hiding new pieces in the second hour. And I don't know why, though I'm sure there's an explanation. We've missed some Planet in Peril stuff and a troop piece as well. All I know is I'm about as loyal a viewer as they come and even I'm not going to sit through mostly repeat tape for three to five minutes of new material, so it's just annoying. At least put the second hour pieces online. The show tonight was good. An impressive exclusive. B+
Obama tells Anderson he didn't make a bigger deal of the situation after Wright's 9-11 comments because he knew he was about to retire from the church. Anderson then brings up the flag pin debacle and Michelle's comments about the US, wondering if Africa Americans define patriotism differently than whites. Obama doesn't think so, but he does think we often talk about patriotism in ways that don't get at the core of what it truly means to be patriotic. In regards to Wright, he thinks his statements were unpatriotic not because he criticized America, but because he defined the country as static. That's a really good point, though I'm not sure it's something everyone will pick up on. There's nothing wrong with pointing out the country's faults in hope of making improvements. The problem is when you define the country as bad and believe it will always stay that way. Man, Obama is such a 180 from Bush. Here we have nuanced dialogue; with Bush we get rhythmic grade-school-level grammar, punctuated by hand gestures: "I'm the decision maker. That means I make the decisions." Because apparently we're too stupid to understand after just the first sentence.
For discussion, we're joined by David Gergen, former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Meyers, and Amy Holmes. The Gerg thinks Obama needs to try to move on from the controversy, but not avoid the topic of race. Then...we go to commercial. Well, that was a weird break. Anyway, coming back, they talk about how the 527's can really hurt Obama with those Wright clips in the general election. Amy actually thinks he should just stop talking about the whole thing. The Gerg is all about being positive and making lemons out of lemonade, which is what he thinks Obama did with his speech. He also notes that it's only March and that's about a billion news cycles until November. So true. I mean, I think there's still a few governors out there who have yet to be busted for or admit affairs. So much to cover!
Dee Dee disagrees, stating that the speech was good, but the controversy will drag on him. Anderson wonders how many people actually watched that single speech versus how many have seen or will see snippets of the Wright sermon. That is a great point and something I was sort of thinking about. To get the impact of the speech you have to watch the whole thing and it was long. Plus it ran during the day. How many people actually watched it? Those clips are going to reach so many more. But damn if The Gerg isn't the most optimistic guy on the planet. He seriously breaks your heart a little sometimes, doesn't he? I hope he's right and the speech will really change things. But forgive me if I don't hold my breath.
A little explanation now from Anderson about, well, what's up with his face. He looks like he's been punched under the eye, though not all that hard. Anderson states that actually he had "a little cancerous thing" removed, though he kinda mumbles over the word "cancerous." Apparently the fangirl (and boy!) email-concern is running high and he wants everyone to know "it's nothing to be concerned about." This story actually left me in awe of the power of the Internets. Anderson can rest assured he is a popular guy because not long after his blog post about the surgery, the story was everywhere. He was even on the front page of Yahoo. Granted, he quickly got bumped for some dude that accidentally pushed a button and caused a gas station to be covered in foam, but that's life. There will aways be a foam-covered gas station to steal your thunder.
Not that this was thunder. Cancer is a very scary word and though I've been joking here, I sincerely wish him all the best and hope he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Erica Hill teases that perhaps he got in a fight with Charlie Rose, who you might have noticed is sporting some face damage himself. Apparently Charlie values Apple products over his own body. Geez Charlie, does PBS pay so poorly that you couldn't afford to buy a new one if it broke? How awesomely hilarious would it have been if they'd been able to coordinate their stories and the fight thing is what they actually told people? Now those would be some headlines.
Back with Obama, we next have an Anderson piece that kind of goes behind-the-scenes on the trail. The day begins at a technical college, where Obama is going to speak about Iraq. People wait behind barricades, knowing they won't get in, but just want to get a glimpse. That's kind of intense. Anderson talks about the tight security and again I can't help but think there was something wrong when he came to St Louis because we did not go through security. Scary. Anyway, Obama and the press then hop a plane to Charlotte. Anderson shows us that the press sit in the back, and perhaps in an attempt to keep their mouths too full for questioning, they get fed a lot. When Anderson gets his chance to sit down with the senator on the plane he finds him working on...an NCAA Tournament bracket. Well, at least he's not clearing brush. Asked about what he does to decompress, he basically just says he sleeps, adding, "Although, I try to watch AC 360 all the time." Bwah! A true politician. "Please. I don't need your sympathy. I don't want your pandering," says Anderson. Well, he is still young enough to be in the key demo...
On now to Obama talking about the Michigan vote and doing a little Clinton dissing. We all know by now that Clinton wants the delegates seated and she seems to be blaming Obama for holding that up. For his part, Obama says he's just playing by the DNC rules and she's playing politics. I say, make it stop! We're then joined by Candy Crowley live for more on what's going on with Michigan, but I'm completely distracted by the people in the background. Apparently they're looking at themselves in a monitor and then back again at the camera. It's like a ping pong game. After that, Anderson puts on his defensive face for a minute to respond to all the people emailing and wanting to know why they're not going on the trail with Clinton. Well, they asked and the campaign has not answered. So there. All these accusations are kind of ridiculous. I think the bloggers are slowly driving poor Anderson crazy.
Transitioning to the subject of Iraq, Anderson asks if the surge is working. Obama thinks it is tactically, but our whole Iraq strategy is a failure because it has not made us safe. We're then played a clip of Clinton pouncing on a comment from one of Obama's advisors in which the adviser says they might not be able to get the troops out in 16 months as Obama says. I'm sure there are things she could go after Obama on regarding Iraq, but that's just stupid. Of course he's going to listen to the commanders on the ground. As he says, to not do so "would be the height of foolishness." "My commitment to end the war is one that dates back to 2002. Senator Clinton's commitment to end the war dates back to her decision to run for president," says Obama. Ohh, snap! Anderson notes he doesn't hear Obama talk about victory much and wonders if he thinks it's still possible. Obama thinks stability is possible and really what he's looking for is a "victory for common sense." That would be good. I'm a big fan of common sense and have missed it greatly these past seven years.
We're next joined by The Gerg and Michael Ware, two of my favorite people. Anderson wonders how Obama's 16 month withdrawal plan would play out realistically. Michael tells us that if he really listens to commanders on the ground, there will be no withdrawal because doing so would result in nastiness from Iran and Al Qaeda. Are you sure Michael? Because we seem to not be so good at predicting things. The Gerg thinks whoever gets elected has to be careful they don't become the president who lost Iraq. Whoa. Hold on there, Mr. Optimistic. The president that lost Iraq will always, always be Bush. Taking away the fact that we never should have invaded in the first place, we did everything wrong, and that's on him, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the merry bunch. Anderson then wonders if pressure will work on the Iraqi government. But Michael says they're already under pressure. Yeah, I suppose having your country be all explodey isn't a cakewalk. And Iran is just waiting in the wings to pick up our slack if we leave. And so it goes.
The Shot tonight is a billboard-type sign that gets blown down in extreme winds and then hit by a bus. Not the sign's best day. I should point out to the people that don't watch both hours (which includes me) that they're hiding new pieces in the second hour. And I don't know why, though I'm sure there's an explanation. We've missed some Planet in Peril stuff and a troop piece as well. All I know is I'm about as loyal a viewer as they come and even I'm not going to sit through mostly repeat tape for three to five minutes of new material, so it's just annoying. At least put the second hour pieces online. The show tonight was good. An impressive exclusive. B+
posted by eliza at 1:49 AM
4 Comments:
Hi Eliza,
I enjoy reading your blogs. They are insightful, funny and fair-minded. I agree with you about the road trip with Obama, he was comfortable to listen to. I hope the Gerg is right, about the speech. When I look at the mess in Iraq, I am pessimistic because I see no clear way out of this war. I cannot believe the neo-cons who orchestrated this war didn't follow the history lessons and the advice of the military personnel who knew this would happen. In the past five years, Bush has never felt the heat of his disastrous decision as much as Obama has to endure with his pastor decision this week. I didn't know that 360 has been putting in extra stuff in 2nd hour. Not fair, I don't watch 2nd hour because it has been a repeat of 1st one.
Anne
Hello,
I have to admit,when I saw Anderson's post about what had happened with him,my heart went to my throat.
There was THAT WORD-and it is so scary to hear that.
I so hope and pray everything will be ok for him.
OH,I am not Anne 5:51...LOL
@anne 5:51-Thanks for your comments. I'm pessimistic about the war as well--I think everyone is, at least those living in reality. While there might be improvements, the fact of the matter is things are being held together because we're paying people off and keeping them separated. I can't see how that doesn't eventually backfire. Bush will probably never be held accountable for all he's done. That's just something we're going to have to deal with and hope he gets his in another place or life.
Yeah, I'm annoyed about the second hour. Maybe it's just a time issue? The panels are usually live, so it would make sense to throw an already taped piece in with the rest of the tape. Maybe they're in the podcast--I never watch those.
@anne 10:55-Yeah, his post kind of threw me for a loop. I'm no doctor, but it sounds like he's telling the truth when he said it's no big deal, so I don't think anyone should worry. Hopefully that'll be it for him and he won't have to deal with it again. At least he caught it early and had the resources (money/insurance) to act immediately.
Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.
Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.
Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.
Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming Tax Fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Oddly enough, Barack Obama, and his mentor Rev. Wright, failed to mention Planned Parenthood, an organization established by eugenicist Margaret Sanger expressly for the purpose of black genocide. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --
OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --
"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.
Michelle Obama should be ashamed.
"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-Complex of Barack and Michelle's relationship with MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
"God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
"God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton --
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beast-'ist Michelle, his jackanapes' excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas Our Father Our King -- black rage, and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
THE SPEECH --
The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama's speech takes credit for Ashley's dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. In Obama's speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama's grandmother share; represents Obama's self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama's Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn -- a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama's speech is a brilliant failure.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
MUSLIM LIES --
The ILLIGITIAMTE MUSLIM MESSIA has blundered yet again!!! The self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, lied about the politics of his campaign. The danger involved with this self-aggrandizing, -a-hoop, Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama is that -- "Like Father Like Son" Obama is constantly wanting to impress America with "...his incapacity for sound judgment." In 2005, Sen. Obama voted for the Dick Cheney energy bill, which Cheney wrote in secret with the Exxon Mobil oil industry. Hillary Clinton opposed Cheney's energy bill, has a plan to eliminate oil industry tax breaks, and would require oil companies to contribute to a $50 billion strategic energy fund to jump-start research and investment in clean energy technologies. On top of the horrible crime Obama executed in Harlem, the fact is, we have to hear it from Karl Rove about Obama's latest Campaign Crisis.
"GLORK" Top Ten Obama Lies:
1. Obam said his parents met at the Selma march -- Reality: He was born 4 years before that.
2. Obam said he was a constitutional law professor -- Reality: . . . Obama Made This False Claim In His 2004 Senate Race. “Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school..
3. Obam said he spoke fluent Indonesian as a child -- Reality: . . . Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet another Phi Beta Krakatau lie from Obama. Those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews. Israel la Pareira Darmawan, Obama's 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. Truth-be-told: Obama's Indonesian teachers say Kaku-Pooh.
4. Obam said he was involved in community asbestos and housing project for the poor -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. This was the basis for Barack and Michelle's claim, that he was a community activist on the South and East Side of Chicago. Usher United Arab Emirates (UAE) A+ lie both he and his twenty-four (24) mule-team, Hus-suey loving wife Michelle Obama have been claiming in the campaign -- Reality: The Chicago Newspaper's Obelus -- Kiss-A-Cuss:...NO-MAMA.
5. Obam said in his book that he received his racial awakening at age nine reading a Life/Ebony Magazine story about a black man who was scarred trying to dye his skin white -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. Both Magazines (Life and Ebony), and the Rev. Wright and Farrakhan MUSLIM Trumpet Newsmagazine say, just didn't happen.
6. Obam’s Campaign Didn’t Have The “Technical Capacity” To Produce The “1984” Ad:
Obama: “But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like that.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 3/24/07) -- Reality:...The Creator Admitted All It Took Was A “Sunday Afternoon” On His Mac. Phillip de Vellis: “I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.”
7. Obam’s Campaign Claimed His High School Friend Tried To Extort Money From Them:
“According To The Obama Campaign, [Obama’s Punahou Classmate Keith] Kakugawa Explicitly Raised The Possibility That He Could Make Up False Stories About Obama, Implying He Would Do So If The Campaign Did Not Give Him Money.” (Maurice Possley, Kirsten Scharnberg and Ray Gibson, -- Reality: “...An Old Friend's Troublesome Return,” Chicago Tribune, 3/25/07).
8. Obam voted to bring low-cost foreign labor into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- Reality: . . . This was a slap in the face against the African-Americans who were displaced in that city. Obama also voted to place Michael Chertoff, the man responsible for the Katrina catastrophe, in charge of Homeland Security. Obama voted for Senate-Bills that gave Blackwater the funding they needed to shoot the folks of New Orleans who were only trying to save their own lives. Inextricably, the towel head voted to allow Michael Chertoff to waive all applicable laws, including murder, torture, kidnaping, and he suppoted water-boarding.
9. Obam voted more than five times for USA-PATRIOT ACT renewal -- Reality: . . . This is a Senate-Bill patently offensive to most Americans. City after city has passed resolutions condemning USA-PATRIOT ACT. Passively or reflexively, Obama chose to side with tyranny over freedom and Bush over the folks on this issue. The Real ID Act, which would allow Michael Chertoff to declare martial law and imprison Americans, was supported by ex-patriot Obama, as noted above.
10. Obam is not a MAD MAN. Sen. Obama has not exaggerated the disconnection with . . ."The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth" --Ex. xxxiv. 6; or extolled his venomous-vexatious-Vesuvius MUSLIM madrassahs'-faux-pas on us. Sen. Obama Is not involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor, now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO); or Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley. Sen. Obama is not involved with- nor has Sen. Obama exhibited any nuclear security, bribery, money payoffs, or cronyism in the state of Illinois; or criminal activities related to the BIG HALIBURTAN and V.P. Cheney's Halliburton bribery case; or any political misjudgment in his escalating Campaign Crisis. Sen. Obama does not take money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists or state lobbyists. "GLORK" Sen. Obama Is not involved with any Hoax or Oxfam volunteers and HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed. Sen. Obama is not associated with Exiled "God damn America" SOULJAH JIHAD -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan and black-rage demagoguery; or Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia; or Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; Sen. Obama has not exulted the virtue of being an aggrieved black man. Sen. Obama does not accept political contributions from terrorists. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the October Surprise: "X-Files" -- The 1980 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and aging [VX] Vietnam-era Weather Underground Radical Terrorist William Ayers. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the November Surprise: "X-X-Files" -- The 2008 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam and Solar-Solecism-Sista-Soljah-Souljah-Jihad -- AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan, and Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST underground-money connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Sen. Obama is not a separatist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast is not a liberal-leftist-sexist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- did not fail the Illinois Bar Exam and trot out her Marxist leftist-separatist-racist Socialist X box - Soapbox; Sen. Obama is not a self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box. "GLORK" Obama executed no crime in Harlem. Obama is Not America's Poison -- Reality:...He's Radio-Active.
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SOULJAH JIHAD -- OBAMA CAMPAIGN CRISIS
The Republicans' disengagement (media bias), if not disillusionment, with the economic campaign issues is borne out by the fact that many more Republicans are able to explain, extinguish, and excoriate the name Barrack Obama with the term (JIHAD), than can name Bush/Dick Cheney and McCain -- as the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN politicians expanding GOP IRAQ WAR ideology, and Republican White House Party Elders' GI Bill of Rights for the 21st century IRAQ WAR ECONOMY. Even among Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, Ben Holt, Cotton-Club to Lenox Club- a.k.a. "The Breakfast Club," Staples Singers In Ghana 1971: "When Will We Get Paid," Paul Robeson or Jay-Z . . . excerpts from the infamous Malcolm X speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” Obama and conservative Republicans: Clinton is much more visible than GOP presumptive candidate John McCain towards affecting positively the important economic issues facing America's middle class economy. Next, Speaking at an awards banquet for the Society of Professional Journalists on April 4, "Phoenix New Times" and Village Voice Media Inc. Executive Editor Michael Lacey used the "N-word" to refer to a former colleague who voted for the godless, money-laundering, call-girl-reach-around loving liberal McCain, who collaborated with the Viet Cong, hides a Rx- cyanide pill in his check, and secretly fathered a black child with a Unicorn Crêpe Suzette look-alike, who turned out to become -- you guessed it -- Barack Obama?
When asked who they would vote for in the general election for president of the United States, the natural pendulum swing in America is approximately 79% of Republicans named Hillary Clinton as their choice. Reasons for Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis include:
Sen. Obama accepted more money from oil company executives last month than any other candidate, while he ran an ad saying he didn't take money from oil companies. Context of ad extends that oil money taken by IL Sen. Barrack Obama from BIG HALIBURTAN spells bad MO-Jo for Obama Campaign Crisis and RX U.S. stock x-change -- VX U.S. economy. Sen. Obama's giveaways to the oil industry are not limited to tax breaks. They also include provisions like royalty relief that are worth billions. And many of the tax "increases" are simply extensions of existing taxes that do not impose any additional burden on oil companies. Exactly half of giveaways were not tax provisions. For instance, the oil companies received billions in royalty waivers. Obama voted for Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 energy bill containing "billions in dollars in giveaways to the oil companies." [ Ludacris ]
Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN -- OBAM LIES --
EXAMPLE:
Sections 344-345
Waives royalty payments for drilling for some natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Section 346
Waives royalty payments for drilling in offshore Alaska.
Sections 353-4
Waives royalty payments for gas hydrate extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf and public land in Alaska.
Section 383
Allows oil companies drilling in federal land off the coast of a particular state to pay the state 44 cents of every dollar it would have paid to the federal government for the privilege of drilling on federal land.
"Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show. Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month. At least $140,000 has come in chunks of between $1,000 and $2,300, the maximum permitted under federal law." [LA Times, 4/24/08]
"Obama has more holes in him than Swiss-Cheese." [CNN's "Politics.com," 4/01/08]
Obama's presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obama has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
"GLORK" SOULJAH JIHAD -- CAMPAIGN CRISIS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&q=Fitna&total=1413&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
WASHINGTON -- Obama's support among Democrats nationally has softened.
"GLORK" Sen. Barack Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month, particularly among men and upper-income voters, as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The survey suggests that Mr. Obama's proximity to Chicago, Democrat of Illinois, may have been at something of a peak in February, propelled by a string of primary and caucus victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and that perceptions of him are dramatically trending downward.
Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seventeen percentage points, to 42 percent, since the last Times/CBS News survey, in late February. While that figure is steadily declining, this dramatic decline came in a month during which he endured withering attacks from Mrs. Clinton, and responded to reports that his exiled former pastor had made politically inflammatory statements from his church’s pulpit in Chicago, and swirling questions about the criminal money generating underworld of 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam Mosque No. 7; and what Barack Obama did in Harlem -- from which he cannot extricate himself.
The events of the last month appear to have fundamentally altered the race for the party’s nomination and provided Mrs. Clinton’s campaign extensive evidence of a collapse in Mr. Obama’s standing or an overwhelming preference voiced for Mrs. Clinton by Democratic and Republican voters in polls: -- perplexing developments in Obama's ongoing Campaign Crisis, that could be used to persuade uncommitted super-delegates to sign on with Hillary Clinton.
Twenty-six percent of the general electorate voters who heard of the Apologia speech that Mr. Obama the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama gave to try to deal with the controversy over Obama's separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah, said it made them dislike him. And 74 percent of Democrats and Republicans said Mr. Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis "God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. "God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton... stems from the fact that he shows continued misjudgment for even the most challenging problems. Next, the overall opinion of people in the news this year; Mr. Obama lacks the decisive capability to lead, willingness to listen, conviction and courage. Mr. Obama is no Alexander Manly when it comes to sexist-racist issues, and he uses false charges and exaggerated hate-the Saxon-race claims to play politics with national security.
For a United States Senator, Barack Obama has been doing a lot of explaining about the company he has kept for the last 17 years or so. A politician can not chose the family he has. However; he can chose the pastor he keeps. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has influenced IL Sen. Barack Obama's liberal-elitist-separatist-racist Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad views on a variety of subjects. This flare-up may have exacerbated what happened to Obama over the years, as his MUSLIM radicalism and demonize the White-Saxon-race, may expel the same Rev. Wright belief -- that America and its US allies brought on 9/11. In a sincere re-examination of his world-view, Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia says this guy is like an uncle to him. To Obama black rage is grounded in extremist-racist hate Israel world-view, and extols Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s praise of Barack; while white resentment of Obama's black-rage demagoguery is exaggerated and exploited. But shouldn’t his long term relationship with these despicable characters call into question at the very least Obama’s judgment? From Waxahache, TX.-- to Axis-of-Evil, Mr. Obama lied about the politics of his campaign, and knew about Ex-Pastor Rev. Wright's MUSLIM Militant Farrakhan Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Colfax: Sen. Obama on Lobbyists --
“Considering that Sen. Obama voted to suspend the gas tax three times when gas cost less than $2 a gallon and has an energy lobbyist chairing his Indiana campaign, it's hard to take his latest criticisms very seriously. Senator Obama wants Americans to pay the gas tax but Senator Clinton thinks the big oil companies should pay it this summer.” - Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer
Colfax: Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon. Next, Kip Tew, the top advisor to Obama's Indiana campaign is an energy lobbyist. Tew said recently, "I'm not running away from the fact that I'm a lobbyist. I have a healthy client list, and I'm proud of it."
May 3, 2008--APEX-- 2:11:35 PM #
The choice is simple: Senator Obama wants the American people to pay the gas tax this summer but Senator Clinton thinks Big Oil should.
The Clinton gas tax holiday is financed exclusively through a tax on windfall profits from oil companies and keeps the Highway Transportation Trust fund intact. Hillary opposed a plan in 2000 for a gas tax holiday because it was financed with transportation funds.
Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon.
MAY 2, 2008--APEX-- 11:54:21 AM #
"When it comes to lobbyists, Senator Obama’s words might sound nice but voters need to make sure they read the fine print. Despite trying to give the impression that he has no relationship with lobbyists or special interests, the reality is that Senator Obama takes money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists and state lobbyists."
Statement from Clinton Deputy Communications Director, Phil Singer
Sen. Obama Has Ties to Lobbyists in His Presidential Bid.
Public Citizen: 10 of Sen. Obama's bundlers have been federal lobbyists. The Public Citizen report listed the following ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists: Frank Clark, Commonwealth Edison; Scott Harris, Harris Wiltshire and Grannis; Allan J. Katz, Akerman Senterfitt; Robert S. Litt, Arnold & Porter; Thomas J. Perrelli, Jenner and Block; Thomas A. Reed, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; Paul N. Roth, Schulte Roth & Zabel; Miriam Sapiro, Summit Strategies; Alan Solomont, Solomont Bailis Ventures; and Tom E. Wheeler, Core Capital Partners. [Public Citizen, 1/29/08]
Sen. Obama takes money from employees of firms that lobby and has lobbyists as advisers. "But those who lobby for a living say it's not that simple, and even Obama's stance shows some flexibility. He won't take money from federal lobbyists but accepts money from employees of firms and corporations that lobby, and he uses lobbyists and other government relations professionals as advisers... Obama has also used major fundraisers who are registered lobbyists on the state level. And he uses registered federal lobbyists such as Broderick Johnson, who lobbies for AT&T and Shell Oil, among others, as a campaign adviser. Because Johnson isn't giving money to Obama, his name won't show up in Federal Election Commission records." [Chicago Tribune, 2/10/08]
Bloomberg: Five of [Obama’s] ten biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington. "While Obama doesn't accept money from registered federal lobbyists, five of his 10 biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington…Among Obama's top donors were employees of the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, who gave $105,750 in the first quarter. The firm was paid $4.5 million last year" for lobbying the federal government. [Bloomberg, 6/7/07]
Obama's presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obama has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obama voted for the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill, Hillary opposed. [H.R. 6, Vote #213, 07/29/05]
Prior to His Presidential Campaign, Sen. Obama took Money from Lobbyists and PACs
1996-2004: $296,000 of the $461,000 Sen. Obama raised as a state senator came from PACs, corporate contributions or unions. "But behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator in Illinois, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant. In Obama's eight years in the Illinois Senate, from 1996 to 2004, almost two-thirds of the money he raised for his campaigns -- $296,000 of $461,000 -- came from PACs, corporate contributions, or unions, according to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and many other corporate interests, the records show." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Sen. Obama raised $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs. "Obama's US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. His $1.3 million from PACs represents 8 percent of what he has raised overall." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
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