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She would be president now but for corruption among misogynist Democrats. But you can’t keep a good woman down. From The Guardian:
Clinton is a highly trained and accomplished lawyer. After her stint at state, Obama could one day appoint her to the supreme court. Then her ability to wield power would go on [...]

From Time:
Over the first nine months of the Obama Administration, seven different Obama officials have spoken on the Sunday talk shows about foreign policy. Clinton has been on each of the Sunday shows once. “Either you have one person sending the foreign policy message, with the clear approval of the President,” says a former Republican [...]

From Newsday:
The Gallup survey conducted Oct. 1-4, and released Thursday, shows Clinton’s favorable ratings at 62 percent and Obama’s at 56 percent…
It was Clinton’s best Gallup showing since December 1998, when her favorable rating hit 67 percent. That was just after the House impeached her husband, President Bill Clinton…

From the New York Times:
The book depicts Bill and Hillary Clinton as sharing a close, easy domesticity. In an interview near the end of his two terms in office Bill Clinton talked about wanting to “demystify the job” of being president. “It is a job,” he declared, and “there’s a lot to be said for [...]

From Huffington Post:
“It’s always strange to be dressed as someone and stand next to them,” she said. “My inner thoughts at that moment were, one, that she was so gracious and lovely to work with, and also I was pregnant at the time so my inner thought was, ‘Please don’t let me barf.’”

From a letter to the editor in The Guardian:
She must be commended for having departed from what has proved ineffective in our own case, the usual diplomatese of communicating such message to our leaders who, like the demonic affliction, feed fact on the very medication meant to cure it. The ripples caused by the outburst [...]

From Cindy Sheehan:
Flying under the radar is the fact Obama’s EPA has approved 42 new sites for West Virginia mountaintop removal to extract coal. Obama loves to promote the myth of ‘clean coal’ which Robert Kennedy, Jr, calls a ‘dirty lie.’ The Sierra Club is rightfully distressed over this, but the group endorsed ‘clean coal’ [...]

Heard this interview on Middday with Dan Rodricks on NPR today:
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Here we go again. From the Wall Street Journal:
About half-way through President Obama’s press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. “All, Chuck Todd,” the President said, referring to NBC’s White House correspondent. “Where’s Chuck?” He had the same strange question about Fox News’s Major Garrett: “Where’s Major?”
The problem wasn’t [...]

From Glenn Greenwald:
Ultimately, the success of this program will be measured by whether it produces successful results, so why shouldn’t Democrats use their majority to enact the policy they think is most likely to achieve that? Numerous people have commented on the deeply repellent behavior from former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Hardball [...]

“When Obama says this stuff, I don’t think he really means it, and that gives me hope.”

From Lew Rockwell:
Obama: “Anything Is Possible”
That was the crazed headline on a local newspaper. That was the crazed message of Obama’s collectivist yawner in DC. But here is the good news, though Obama doesn’t think it is possible: the highpoint of his life was the inauguration. With that speech, he began his long downhill slalom [...]

Lord what fools these mortals be. When I hear them chanting about Obama, I think of I Am The Walrus by the Beatles.
John Lennon explained the origins of I Am The Walrus in a 1980 interview: “Part of it was putting down Hare Krishna. All these people were going on about Hare Krishna, Allen [...]

She must be scratching her head. Hey, Obama got away with not having experience… but he’s a guy, Caroline. If you helped deserving women get into office, instead of working against them, maybe we women could challenge the double standard together. From the BBC:
Caroline Kennedy’s latest attempt to press her case to [...]

Sensible woman. From the AP:
New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro told “Meet the Press” that Paterson should pick someone already familiar with Congress, probably from within Congress, to hit the ground running amid national and state fiscal crises.

What does it say of Kennedy’s character that she would even consider leveraging the boys club to trounce a far more deserving woman? Of course, as we know, this is nothing new for her. From Juan Gonzalez at New York Daily News:
By all accounts, Kennedy is a fine person and a devoted mother [...]

“… How rich is it that we sit around and say “we don’t know, we have to wait until Obama tells us,” we don’t know about these connections… We don’t know the truth about any of this… They are not covering the nexus… I’m convicting the press because they didn’t investigate this past summer, [...]

Moulitsas (“Kos”) is a “former” Republican who happened upon some handy little blogging software and was the first to exploit it. So much for his claim to fame. After all the damage he has done, now this misogynistic little twit’s defense for undermining the Democratic party is “well, at least Obama will be [...]

Daily Mail
Think of what some of that ring money might have done for the aunt Obama threw under the bus after using her to sell his book. I guess she’s far away by now, poor soul…

Wow, this is good stuff:
In other words, while their lives haven?t changed, the lives they can now allow themselves to dream about have. Thus, even if this ?symbol of possibility? sees fit to demean the very men [Obama] purports to represent in order to achieve their ?shared? goal of ethnic respectability, it is excused [...]

I think the women who left comments like these at ABC News captured the essence of why she should probably decline if asked:
Please for God sakes, Hillary do not do it, do not leave your senate seat, obama will eventually toss you under the bus to save himself and force you out of his administration [...]

Will’s proposal for a 2012 primary schedule is in his latest column at the Huffington Post. He covers my two biggest concerns that would address the widespread disenfranchisement of voters which occurred in this past Democrat party primary: 1) eliminate the caucuses and go to fair and accessible one voter, one vote primary elections [...]

Tell us something we didn’t already know. Generic Democrat was poised to win no matter what because of George W. Bush’s DISASTROUS (p)residency. Too bad the DNC didn’t want a full suit (pants suit, that is) instead of the empty suit they hoisted upon us. From the AP:
What if it had been [...]

From the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Obama’s messianism may be setting him up for a fall. It might make sense between now and his Inaugural Address for the president-elect to lower his flight path. Among the images evoked by Greek columns is the myth of Icarus. …Many phrases and passages in the speech suggest an America [...]

With all the talk of the historic election of an African American, no one mentions this nation has never had a female president or vice president of any race, creed, or background. And we would have had one today, had it not been for good old boy corruption within the Democrat party and their [...]

Leave social issues out of government.
As Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said, “The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.” [...]

What a sad day. I didn’t vote for president. I’m one of those old fashioned patriots who get teary-eyed when the Star Spangled Banner plays. I remember feeling so honored to go into the voting booth with my mom as a child. I’ve not missed voting for president in years. [...]

From JTA:
Rep. Jerrold Nadler was caught on tape saying something critical of Barack Obama, and the Republican Jewish Coalition didn’t hesitate to tell Jewish voters about it.
The RJC sponsored a minute-long robo-call (which can be heard here) to 300,000 Jewish households in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada on Monday featuring Nadler’s statement that [...]

“Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as Handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking Man.” ~ Jane Austin, in a letter to her sister
Appearances can be deceiving; how someone appears is no indication of their character.
Similarly, words are no indication of a person’s character, nor a predictor of what a [...]

I find this story heartbreaking. Here’s this frail, elderly woman from another country hobbling along on a cane through life alone in a Boston slum. She’s got barely enough money to survive, but she sends $5 here and there to help her millionaire nephew, who, after using her to sell a book, forgot [...]

“All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There’s oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” [...]

From the U.K. The Times:
Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.
Zeituni [...]

“Obama has captivated the enthusiastic support of America?s youth and ignited their interest in presidential politics. His eloquent speeches are designed for the bully pulpit. But does a good speech make a good president?
Obama stresses he was against the invasion of Iraq, but he doesn?t say he was not in the Senate when it was [...]

Chris Obama Makes A Thrill Goes Up My Leg Matthews finally asks some tough questions about Obama, after the media has anointed him once again:
MSNBC?S CHRIS MATTHEWS: ?We’ve watched John McCain over the years.. a number of cases reach across the aisle to get things done… Can you give me a case where Barack [...]

From his remarks at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs forum Ensuring Democracy Delivers Real Dividends: A Perspective from Former Presidents and Prime Ministers:
Whether a government can actually deliver becomes quite important. It becomes, in a way, the question. Suppose, for example, you’re a voter, And you’ve got candidate X [...]

Gotta love the Big Dog… This article is clearly written by an Obama supporter, but lots of good Clinton quotes, from the New York Observer:
Clinton saluted McCain as ?a great man? and to call his running-mate, Sarah Palin, ?an instinctively effective candidate.? Asked if he believes that Obama, like McCain, is ?a great [...]

From the AP:
Barack Obama’s support from backers of Hillary Rodham Clinton is stuck smack where it was in June, a poll showed Tuesday, a stunning lack of progress that is weakening him with members of the Democratic Party in the close presidential race.
An Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll shows that among adults who backed his rival [...]

The Maverick McCain of 2000 with a running mate of Olympia Snowe, Senator from Maine, would be running away with this thing.
Olympia Snowe has many years of national experience and she is well-respected by her peers on both sides of the aisle. She is also well-respected by women across the political spectrum, [...]

I never got the whole fabulous orator bit. To me, his voice sounds harsh tinged with arrogant, and all his pauses just give me time to wonder who is feeding him lines. But then again, I prefer a nice cup of tea (tea, Earl Grey hot, à la Captain Picard) to a glass [...]

Couldn’t have happened to two more deserving people – deserving of losing their jobs. Obama is and always has been out for Obama. We tried to tell the female impersonator “leading” the House Democrats and the anti-choicer “leading” the Senate Democrats. But we know they don’t listen to women. From Politico:
…Earlier [...]

Not because women were ticked off. Because Republicans were ticked off. From Glenn Greenwald in Salon:
…There’s one other point really worth making here. Throughout the primary season, Clinton supporters were furious at what they endlessly complained was MSBNC’s biased coverage in favor of Obama and, more so, its intensely hostile coverage of Hillary [...]

I hate to link to Maureen Dowd’s drivel, but every time I get that urge to glance at roadkill I read what passes for a New York Times op-ed. She’s always squirming outside the boy’s club, even though her nose will be forever pressed up against the glass. Sometimes she imagines public figures [...]

Sound eerily familiar? I’ll be watching this when it plays on TCM tomorrow tonight 10:15 EST. I haven’t seen it in years, but I remember the movie closes with a classic line by Redford you won’t want to miss – something we don’t want to see in November (see the bottom of this [...]

The other day, I found this conversation on the Daily Kos:
cartwrightdale – There’s actually something about that photo — Barack’s slightly clenched teeth, the little brow furrow, the forehead vein — that makes it seem like Barack is whispering something naughty, not sweet. “I can’t wait to give you rug burn in the Oval Office” [...]

Every time I think of Obama being adored in his temple tonight, I think of this dance by John Hurt as the Emperor Caligula, who has declared himself to be a god, in I, Claudius. Not Sheryl Crow or Stevie Wonder as in Denver, but perhaps The Troggs will do.

Wow, very subtle presentation. Cinie’s World has two speeches side by side… Guess who is extraordinary. Guess doesn’t come even close. (Ever notice how Obama’s favorite word in the whole world is “I”…)

From Klownhaus, Chris Bowers and his ?creative class? ilk are puzzled: “I am feeling really frustrated today. I am sensing that something is wrong with this convention, and that there will be no bounce. I don?t know exactly what we need to do to get a bounce.” That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in [...]

I’ve been watching Erbe for many years on her show To The Contrary – she’s a real pro and definitely will never sell women short. From Bonnie Erbe at US News:
Why should it be Clinton’s job to unite the party, after all? As I wrote below, this still feels at times like a contested [...]

There is live blogging today by riverdaughter and Heidi Li Feldman…

US News and World Report thinks it will be Mitt Romney. Romney had the same flip flop on choice as McCain. At first respect for Roe v. Wade as the established law of the land (and what business of government are social issues?) Then hard-line anti-choice, as they both tried to win [...]

Chris “a thrill runs up my leg when I hear Obama speak” Matthews, after disparaging and dismissing Hillary Clinton in the most explicitly sexist terms, admits that she has “double the lead over McCain than the guy who won the nomination”… Diane: “You were the inspiration behind many women who were incensed by [...]

Update: Oprah’s paid friend is going to the Democratic Convention next week, and Oprah’s channel has been hawking her coverage and upcoming interview with Michelle Obama… also for more on Oprah’s XM channel and Obama, see Oprah’s Messiah…)
Just heard Gayle King’s show, or what passes for a show, on the Oprah and Friends [...]

“Tougher than they imagined” – what we knew all along… From the New York Times:
Party leaders say he must do more to convince the many undecided Democrats and independents that he would address their financial anxieties rather than run, by and large, as an agent of change ? given that change, they note, is [...]

Check out the rabid reaction of Obama supporters in the comments – Clemons merely makes an observation and they are all over him. As Obama reminds me of Bush, his supporters remind me of the religious right. From Washington Note:
General Wesley Clark is not attending the Democratic National Convention. I was told by [...]

Google took me inadvertenly to the Orange Satan just now.
First thing that came to mind was those Tiger Beat magazines when I was a kid – David Cassidy was the frequent cover boy. Of course, I had good taste even then, and never got into such silly things. I satisfied my adolescent urges [...]

Excellent job by PUMA/Just Say No Deal reps Will Bower and Darragh Murphy… David Shuster (this is the same guy who was suspended for his Chelsea Clinton “pimp” remarks) wouldn’t even let them speak at times – this was not even tough interviewing, this was just bullying – and they held their ground… Question [...]

Here is a woman who, if the process had been fair, won the nomination. And I am not eager to see her shown as less the victor than she really was. From the Washington Post:
… Advisers on both sides said Clinton had initially been reluctant to pursue a roll-call vote for fear that [...]

From PUMA Alliance:
1980:
Jimmy Carter – 1981 delegates
Ted Kennedy – 1225 delegates
Uncommitted – 122
Kennedy had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1984:
Jesse Jackson – 465 votes
Jackson had no chance of winning, but his name was placed in nomination.
1988:
Jesse Jackson – 1218 votes
Jackson had no chance of winning, but his name was placed [...]

Seen on Obama’s events page:
Please commit to praying for them daily to 1) stop trying to hurt the Obama?s and the Democratic party. 2) Pray God will speak to them all and change their hearts so their only pursuit will be party unity and whole heartedly backing Sen. Obama.
So the cultists are pretending they are [...]

This time, from Riverdaughter (she’s got a way with words – pole vaulting vs. easing over a knee wall with an assist is spot on):
…Without Florida and Michigan, Hillary?s other states lacked the critical mass of delegates that would have put her on an even footing with him. In fact, if FL and MI had [...]

An interesting analysis at Buck Naked Politics:
…But Florida and Michigan were not full partners during the most important part of the Democratic nominating process, which occurred a few months ago.
At the risk of sounding repetitive yet again, the Democratic party (with Sen. Obama’s support) cut Florida’s and Michigan’s vote strength in half at a [...]

I am now unaffiliated/independent, thanks to Barack Obama, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and other assorted miscreants…
From Rasumssen:
During July, the number of Americans who consider themselves to be Democrats fell two percentage points to 39.2%. That?s the first time since January that the number of Democrats has fallen below 41% [...]

From the New York Times:
?The McCain campaign was compelled to respond to this outrageous attack because we will not allow John McCain to be smeared by Senator Obama as a racist for offering legitimate criticism. We have waited for months with a sick feeling knowing this moment would come because we watched it incur [...]

From the Washington Post:
Obama went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally. Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president’s. Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, “This is the moment . . . that the [...]

This is pretty good – I like the Roe v. Wade graphic at the end…

Sporting a spectacular looking pair of high heels…

The PUMA spokespeople are doing such a great job…
Just Say No Deal…
(Check out the beginning of the video – Obama is such an ass…)

From Rasumssen:
…McCain fares better against Obama than he does against two other prominent Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Clinton leads McCain by eight points, 50% to 42%. Former Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, leads McCain 50% to 43%.
These numbers help explain why Election 2008 is competitive even though events so [...]

Obama’s lack of experience is remarkable, but even so, he hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself (other than his Elmer Gantry-style speeches).
We can’t justify giving Obama this level of responsibility and trust (president of the United States), based on what we know about his past.
Obama doesn’t really stand for anything except himself – he flip [...]

The rest of the article dove headfirst into far right territory, but he certainly summed up the fundamental case against Obama pretty well: inexperience. From Real Clear Politics:
…No candidate for President since Wendell Wilkie in 1940 has had as little relevant experience before running for President as Barack Obama. The Illinois Senator served [...]

From CNN (who couldn’t resist twisting the findings by dissing Hillary and Bill):
A growing number of Clinton supporters polled say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, an indication the party has yet to coalesce around the Illinois senator four weeks after the most prolonged and at times divisive [...]

Maybe he’s just not likable enough.

Read the post at No Quarter…

We told them so. And red flag for inept pundits/politicians – the “they’ll come around” dismissal. Yes, please keep believing that. From Jake Tapper:
…Women, particularly married white women, however, may be a problem for Obama, according to the Washington Post/ABC poll.
It showed that McCain has a 20 point advantage over Obama [...]

Let’s hope not. From Scott Ott:
Yes, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews found a way to use even the death of a beloved journalist (there’s a term you don’t see often) to again roll out the liberal chestnut that the Bush-Cheney cabal had manipulated Americans into war by raising the specter of nuclear weapons in the hands [...]

People make videos like this. ***One*** legislative accomplishment… Seen on No Quarter:

Hillary Clinton: “We need a nominee who can pass the commander-in-chief test, someone who is ready on day one. There is no time for on-the-job training … Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, I will bring a lifetime of experience, Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave [...]

That’s the funny thing about the internet – we have no idea who is behind the user name and the words. Is the person who they say they are? Are they deeply rooted, and stand strong? Or do they blow this way and that, with the wind.
Case in point, one of [...]

The headlines are saying Obama won the nomination (someone tell the Obama-biased media that can only happen at the convention in late August.) And nowhere is the South Dakota primary, which Hillary Clinton decisively won the same day, mentioned. And of course, nobody mentioned that Hillary won the overall primary popular vote. [...]

The nomination of the party’s candidate occurs in late August at the convention. Not when the media and Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy’s vote rigging gang say it happens. Here is the current status of the primaries (and an objective press would have reported it this way): Hillary has 300,000 more votes, [...]

Read the whole article, it will remind you of another person who didn’t deserve to be president. From Atlas Shrugs:
…We begin with a brief explanation of the legal world Obama claims to belong to by reason of his intelligence. That world is defined by 3 inescapable proofs of such intelligence. They are: [...]

As J. Cifre at Savage Politics says:
So it is that today, the Democratic Party is attempting to nominate a Black candidate, who does badly with most Whites, most Asians, and most Latinos. They will have a Muslim apostate candidate, who attended a racist and un-American church for 20 years. They will have a Leftist candidate, [...]

From the Catholic League:
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Rev. Michael Pfleger?s remarks at Sen. Barack Obama?s church that led the Catholic priest to apologize and the Democratic hopeful to renounce them:
?Most commentators are already focusing on the inappropriateness of the race-baiting comments by Father Pfleger. More serious is the venue in which he [...]

Obama Superdelegates…

From Jerome Armstrong at MyDD (BTW, Jonathan Singer is a major Obama-apologist… the point Jerome Armstrong was making was is that Obama isn?t Mr. Hope and Change, he?s just like all other politicians (only just not as experienced), and yeah, he did try to win in Florida, but like in the other big states, Hillary, [...]

What she said.
All Voices Heard, All Voices Matter

From ABC News:
Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at an African-American church — St. Sabina?s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago — is a longtime friend and associate of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, having known him since the presidential hopeful was a community activist. In September, the [...]