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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 10:29 AM

The obamaniacs are in ultra-maniac mode. . .

Lets see . . . .

The obamaniacs have taken every single song in the republican song book when it comes to smear "the Clintons", See how David L. judges the abilities of HRC in economics by the finances of her campaign (as per an article by Obama central . . . I mean, politico.com) and not for how "the Clintons" ran a tight ship with a balanced budget for 8 years. But when it comes to smear Bill, Hillary always gets bundled. What else is new?

bernbart news-flash: HRC already won OH by double digits. If you meant PA, you can count on it. This is why Obama wants to avoid by having his henchmen to pressure her to drop out of the race.

JasonF I am not threatening anyone I am just saying what I will do if Obama gets the nomination. Or do you think he owes my vote or something. Last time I checked I was able to vote for whoever I wanted. The arrogance . . .

bernbart another news-flash: The one that violated his own pledge not to campaign in Florida and Michigan was Obama with his "coincidental" national media purchase. The funny thing is that the purchase ended the day of the Florida election. There was however, no rule to make anyone pull their names out of the ballots in MI, for your information. And Hillary won well over 50% of record turn outs in BOTH states, without campaigning.

Flatblonde that was some diatribe out of a single phrase. I appreciate the fact that you got exactly what I was trying to say. To bad that to counterpunch you came with that ridiculous "capture of the imagination" thing. I understand that though, since besides that talking point there is little else that Obama can offer or has to say.

Good job guys, keep on trying.

And again Obama, thanks for stating the obvious. How about some consistency with the rest of your campaign.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:57 PM

More about Obama spiritual pals . . .

The Chicago Sun Times published a very interesting piece on Reverend James T. Meeks, quoted by gaywired.com. A megachurch pastor nonetheless, Obama's other spiritual guide.

This exquisite character has dropped pearls like these in the past:

"We don't have slave masters. We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able, or to be educated."

"You got some preachers that are house niggers. You got some elected officials that are house niggers. And rather than them trying to break this up, they gonna fight you to protect this white man,"

Maybe some of you may agree with some of the pearls of wisdom above. Gaywired however, reports the following.

"A spring 2007 newsletter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) named Meeks one of the "10 leading black religious voices in the anti-gay movement". The newsletter cites him as both “a key member of Chicago's ‘Gatekeepers’ network, an interracial group of evangelical ministers who strive to erase the division between church and state” and “a stalwart anti-gay activist… [who]… has used his House of Hope mega-church to launch petition drives for the Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a major state-level ‘family values’ pressure group that lauded him last year for leading African Americans in ‘clearly understanding the threat of gay marriage.'”

Tis character has accompanied Obama during his entire career, has campaigned for him and has used his mega church to campaign for Obama, very much in the same fashion as Jeremiah Wright. Meek, as Obama, has been the willing receptor of Tony Rezko's contribution.

http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=18614

I wonder what major discourse will be teleprompted to Obama, to justify his ties with this bigot. Let the excuses begin.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 01:15 PM
Original article: "I'm f---ing Obama"

And your point is . . .

. . . Koppelman?

Are you going to blog about every single slanderous and smearing video posted on YouTube against Hillary Clinton? Good luck with that, it will certainly become the only thing you will write about from now on.

Hillary is not fucking Obama. Rezko is, Wright is, Rev. James T. Meek is, Michelle certainly is, in every conceivable way, but who cares, since now War Room is a video critic and reporting blog.

This is beyond stupid, . . . both the video and the coverage.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 01:57 PM
Original article: "I'm f---ing Obama"

Actually the fucking part . . .

. . . is kind of funny if you can stomach the bad taste but the rest is pretty offensive. Apparently these days you have to be black to be able to be offended. Well I claim the same right for this latino boy here.

I am offended by the implications, I am offended by War Room publishing it.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 02:28 PM
Original article: "I'm f---ing Obama"

@ gezelligtexas

Actually, I am kind of a veteran here. I don't think I have felt offended before but stupidity is very offensive and both the video and its propagation here are very stupid.

So, you see gezelligtexas, this is not my first time here, but may very well be among the last ones.

The Silvermann and Kimmel videos were hilarious though.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 02:33 PM

You are rights David L.

The fact that Obama is a racist homophobe doesn't seem to be affecting him all that much. But hey! what do I know? It may affect him at the end.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 03:12 PM
Original article: "I'm f---ing Obama"

I don't pay for Salon . . .

It used to be that you had to endure some internet ads, but not even that anymore. Still I visit less and less. Today was a stark reminder why.

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