By now, you have probably heard that Obama's retired former pastor had some radical views and said some outlandish things. While it is shocking that an elderly African American clergy person might harbor some resentment after suffering decades of harsh discrimination, thorough research by the Clinton campaign with copious help from myself and other members of Democratic Underground have unearthed a plethora of unsavory characters and additional nefarious activities going on around Barack Obama and his campaign.
It turns out that Obama's barber is a Communist. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5071326 An unnamed Clinton campaign source is quoted as saying "He better explain his 20+ year association with his barber. Obviously, during the one hour every two weeks he spent with his barber, he listened to the subversive things the barber was saying. He must have agreed with the barber because he kept going there to get his hair cut. Obama needs to distance himself from his barber or lose the election."
Also, as shocking as it might seem, anonymous sources have learned that the Obama's pool boy is a closet Nazi. It's hard to see how the Obama's missed it. I've never before seen a pool guy that insists on wearing thigh high shiny black boots and has a proclivity for goose-stepping from one end of the pool to another. How can we trust the oval office to someone who would miss this?
Those are some of the reports that we have confirmed. There are additional rumours to the effect that the Obama's cat is a Castro supporter. Despite our normal vigorous efforts to find out the entire truth, we have not been able to ascertain whether the feline is a supporter of Raul or Fidel Castro. Additionally, this reporter can confirm that the Obama's dog has connections to the Taliban and has been working with them and the Russian mafia to import Afghan heroin into the US.
There is more, and Obama supporters are just going to have to steel themselves to the truth here. A Democratic Underground member under the pseudonym "Thurston Howell III" was able to uncover a nearly 1000 year old mystery and tie it to Obama. According to this post, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5071867 Obama was responsible for the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror. In that same thread, a decendant of William I, who is recognized as England's first monarch, refused to deny the allegations. Calls to Buckingham Palace as well as Ten Downing street (Not to mention 221B Baker street) for additional verification went unanswered.
The Clinton campaign has promised that additional scrutiny of the people who surround Barack Obama's life will continue. Another unnamed Clinton staffer was quoted as saying "We have to know everything there is to know about Barack Obama. The people deserve to know who they are considering for the Democratic Nomination. If that means we have to dig into everything there is to know about the Obama family Veterinarian, Michele's manicurist and the guy who normally helps them out at Home Depot, we are going to do that."
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and I agree with you although you know my position that it is all bogus and the deal is done: McCain will be Pres. But in all fairness, Steve, a lot of people and politicos use the absurd claims based on the 1000-2000-3000-n1000 years's old perceptions and dubious events to justify the policies and decisions made NOW and no one laughs at that (as we should) anymore. We, you and me can give hundreds of examples of that total nonsense and still, people will cling to those vehemently. Moreover, they are willing to die and kill for those. Apparently, as one very wise man said, 'The human reason has its limitations but human stupidity is omnipotent'. You know..
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Mark Sashine (47 articles, 19 quicklinks, 236 diaries, 3362 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 8:38:01 AM
The reason that Barack Obama is a progressive centrist is due to the conflicting influences of his barber and pool boy! The dynamic tension of these influences pulling in opposite directions places Obama in the middle of the American mainstream! It's like a veil has been lifted from my eyes!
This pastor business is really serious, though. I heard on Bill Press' radio show that the pastor claimed that Hillary had never been called the "N" word, and was not raised by a single mother. I can see why Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson would advise her to be outraged by such racial slurs, even if they weren't slurs, and were more of a discussion of the experience of folks in his neighborhood, like Barack Obama. It's just important that she be outraged for whatever.
You have to wait for the other shoe to drop though. I think I might have heard a rumor that Barack Obama's brother in law's boss's third cousin is a serial jaywalker. I'd like to see him wriggle out of the ramifications of that relationship!
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John Sanchez Jr. (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 1059 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 8:38:05 AM
Hillary might want to watch how silly she gets trying to smear(Karl Rove would be proud) Obama. Somebody might want start digging up her past and I'll guarantee it is much worse that Baracks. Anybody remember "Whitewater"? There were quite a few little sidelites to that scandel and Hillary was involved more than Slick Willy. Those who live in glass houses might not want to throw any stones. I seem to remember a saying "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". It might well be reworded as "Let he who wants to remain without sin not cast any stones at all".
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 12:31:43 PM
Yes, I do recall Whitewater and Travelgate and Mz Lewiskey. All Republican talking points and all beneficial to George W's ascendancy. Apparently, you don't recall David Brock's "Blinded by the Right," in which he more or less apologizes for his foray into the labyrinth of right-wing dirty politics. Hillary should rein in some of her staff but I do totally understand their frustration that Obama is getting a pass and a daily get-out-of-hot-water free card.
And while we are on the subject of bad campaign behavior, shouldn't Barack can billionaire business mogul, Penny Pritzer, chair of his national finance committee? Now there is a morsel that you won't be giggling about, I bet.
Great article up at Huffington Post by Earl ofAri Hutchinson (correct spelling) on why Pritzer should go. She helped to instigate the deplorable sub-prime debacle that is fleecing millions of poor Americans out of their homes. All the while, Obama is enjoying his mansion in Chicago's toney "PhD district." Quite a big social leap for a poor boy of modest means.
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Marilyn Frith (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 191 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 6:35:14 PM
All the bad BO news will come tumbling out sooner or later. Unfortunately it seems that it will come out later when he is facing an opponent who will not be cowed by his cries of foul.
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fou (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 8:14:10 PM
For every questionable backer Barack has Hillary has at least 10. That is what her experience has gotten her. Her "Karl Rove" like tactics are just like Bush and McCains. Obama has shown remarkable restraint so far in not stooping to her level. Of the 3 remaining candidates with decent chances to win he is by far the best. Yes, he has money. Big whoop! He has nothing to compare with Hillary. It is ridiculous what it costs to run for president. I cannot help but think how much more good all of that money would do if it were used to help save our economy. I cannot ever see myself voting for someone who acts like Hillary is. Her desperation is pathetic and her integrity has disappeared completely. Sorry, but I'll be voting for Barack
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 9:54:20 PM
your descent into hyperbole is no real substitute for careful and thoughtful analysis. You may support whomsoever you wish, but when you smear on the right wing talking points all you prove is your own lack of worth.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 3:08:28 PM
I have never been in Hyperbole in my life. I do not even know where it is located! As far as right wing or left wing it does not concern me at all. Facts are facts and Hillary has a very poor collection of facts. Her lack of integrity is not as bad as McCains but it is close enough to make me have very grave doubts about voting for her if she is nominated for the presidency. The manipulations she is and has been making are rather underhanded and remind me of the Republican right with their "fixing" of elections over the last 8 years. We need to vote as if our country's life depends on it, because it does.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11:22:34 AM
I have said from the beginning that the Democrat Primary is the proving and testing ground for Obama.
If you think the Clinton campaign is rough, just wait until the corporate media turns their sights on him, just wait until the jerk in Maryland turns up his nefarious but well organized legion of lies, just wait until the Swift Boaters for Truth backers in Texas start running their thirty minute around the clock, seven days a week attacks on Obama, just wait until Melon Scaithe in Chicago produces the "Obama Chronicles" movie like he produced the "Clinton Chronicles" with Clinton running a drug ring out of Mexico into a private airport outside Little Rock while personally being in charge of murdering twenty-two men—one more than Billy the Kid.
This is nothing more than a pimple on a teen's face. Just wait, you ain't seen nuthtn' yet.
Those in the know will know the difference, but average Joe Blow will just soak it up believing that Obama is a direct descendant of Saadam Husein because they share the same name.
It is far this reason, I do not think Obama will draw above forty percent of the national vote. Obama will win the Primary, but he will lose in a landslide in the November General Election.
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pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 948 comments)
on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 11:02:04 PM
The only way a Democratic vote will be a throwaway vote will be 1)If the election fraud we are worried about comes true, 2)If too many third party candidates drain off Demo votes, and 3)If Hillary continues her slime campaign and totally disillusions voters on any Democrat. If McCain(or Mumbles, as I like to call him) gets into a debate with anyone who can speak positively and pronouncs their words correctly he will go down worse than Nixon in 1960. McCain has sold out big time to Bush and the religious Right and will suffer for it. His persona is already that of a beaten person. He looked better when he was released from the Hanoi Hilton. Obama is still the best choice for president since he has fewer years to have picked up the detrimental baggage that Clinton or McCain have. He will be much more responsive to the American people and the rest of the world as well.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 8:43:39 AM
then the ideal candidate might be my 9 month old grandson......Silly reasoning that the slimmest resume makes for the best candidate. A unique perspective seems to be the common factor among the supporters of Senator Obama, an ability to overlook the corporatism and globalism of Obamas politics, as detailed in his book ( which you havent read I'd bet), the friends he has among the indicted business leaders and the money he has taken from exactly the same sources as the other two candidates.
You are certainly free to support whomsoever you choose, you are also free to make that choice based upon any criteria whatever, even to ignoring the obvious.
votenader.org
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 9:05:35 AM
At least in this case. It is the quality of the experience, not the quantity. In case you have not noticed the last few administrations have been disasterous in many ways and both Clintons and McCains experience has come during those administrations. They are experienced at being corrupt and greed. Two values we do not need. I am not saying that Obama is a saint but he is far better than the other two. It is time for newer blood in DC. It is also time to remove as many veteren congresspersons as possible. The "old guard" has been letting down it's guard for much too long.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 10:41:19 AM
is an inability to understand that your opinion is simply that, it is far from written in stone. A second problem may be your ability to ignore that which challenges your belief system, such as my referencing Obama's book in which he emphatically supports globalism and corporatism.
He has voted FOR every Iraq War funding bill that has come before him, so how does he differ from the other two candidates again? Senator Obama's resume wouldnt qualify him as a CEO for any major corporation in the land, yet you believe his exceedingly sparse credentials qualify him for perhaps the most complex job in the world.With thinking this shallow is it any wonder we get Presidents like Reagan and Bush?
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 3:13:53 PM
I would have thought that my opinion was "my opinion". Duh! You do realize that A. Hitler, A. the Hun, A. the Great, Napoleon, Caesar, and many other nefarious characters in history had the very same "experience" you seem to value so much. The problem this country is facing at this time is a presidency that has become way to strong and a Congress that has bowed to Bush's every whim. I do not want to send another person into that office with that kind of "experience" and strength. You need to look at the entire situation before you decide on whom you want to vote for. Obama at least espouses the right attitude to "change" this situation back to where it should be. Both Hillary and McCain are tied into the existing regime and that will only make things much worse than the already are. If you would look at the way McCain and Bush are snipping at Obama it would be obvious that they fear him much more than Hillary. My original choice for president was Mike Gravel but he was ignored and banned by the powers that be, so Barack is the choice that has been left to me.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 6:57:33 PM
Nixon didn't "go down" so badly in 1960 -- Mayor Daley of Chicago delivered 100,000 votes after and agreement with the Kennedy people. That 100K votes won JFK the state of IL and the presidency. Talk about stolen elections (and I'm a Democrat -- but I happen to like the Truth).
And to the point of the debates -- actually tests were run that year and anyone who just listened to the debates without visuals thought that Nixon had won on the facts, the staements, the debating points. Kennedy was just a womanizing pretty boy who made the audience who could see him, wet with joy.
So, I think the others are right. If we Democrats want to win this election, we need to nominate Hillary.
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fou (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 5:37:19 PM
It does not bother you that Hillary has become a divider? She is being very destructive and negative in almost everything she does. I would not want to vote for someone that stoops to the very low levels of Karl Rove and Bush. The next thing you know she will be claiming that Barack has ingrown toenails and ginguvitus. She has totally lost any perspective. Almost anything that she says in a positive manner she has picked up from Obama or Edwards. If I were a woman I would be embarassed by her conduct. She seems to be embracing many of the dumb stereotypes that people have of women. I have no problem voting for people of any gender or race. I just want them to be decent, honest, and at least have the integrity expected of a person that will represent the entire United States of America. In other words, someone who is the exact opposite of the Bush administration.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 10:09:14 AM
Hillary has not become the divider. But let's see who is.
You will recall that after the NH primary, BO had his minions start whining about racism. Jesse Jackson, Jr. made the horrible remark about Hillary not having any tears for the Katrina victims! Where did that come from?
It came from the "let's pull the race card and make sure we ruin the reputations of good people" bag of tricks that BO has used time and again.
Ever since that moment in the campaign, BO has consistently maligned good people. Apparently no one can say anything against the great BO -- because it will then be spun into racism. A neat trick -- but he hasn't pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
BO is the divider because he uses race to divide us -- in a manner that he "promised" he would not. His campaign is nothing but a lie -- and like Bush, it seems very likely that BO and his followers have the "if you're not with me, you're the enemy" mind set.
No thanks, BO. I won't be voting for him.
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fou (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 88 comments)
on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 3:33:47 PM
And you are trying to tell me that Hillary is not using "feminism" to win? Both sides are having a rather hard time controlling their minions mouths. I have found Obama's to be less offensive than Clintons. Hillary has been reaching much farther into Pandora's box than Obama by quite a large margin. This articla alone shows to what depths she will go to harm someones image. A communist barber and a closet "nazi" pool boy? What's next? If Obama wanted to he could really find dirt in Hillaries closet. But so far he has not and I really hope that he does not. The cleaner he stays the better off we all are. It is hard to find any class in politics and Barack has more than either of his 2 opponents.
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Hayesml47 (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 395 comments)
on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 8:02:08 AM
