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By Chris Cermak Aug 1, 2008, 3:48 GMT
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What nitpicking! And he's absolutely correct in his explanation. McGrumpy is grasping at straws. He starts every sentence with a remark against Obama. It's getting old - he needs to spend more time talking about what he's going to do, not about Obama. That's a major turnoff to younger people.
Imagine being able to tell your wife on Wednesday that you would love to go to the opera with her on Saturday and then being able to change your mind and all she says is 'That's fine dear, anything you say.'
Or perhaps you could envision telling your 15 year old teenage daughter on Thursday that of course she can go to that unchaperoned party on Saturday night at the frat house only to put your foot down at Saturday and have your kid tell you 'You're absolutely right, dad. You're the greatest.'
Life would be sweet, yes?
Well this is the feeling I'm getting watching the press as Obama does a back somersault, triple flip with 1 and 1/2 twists on the issue of offshore drilling:
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said today he would be willing to open Florida's coast for more oil drilling if it meant winning approval for broad energy changes.
'My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,' Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.
'If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage - I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done,' Obama said.
But wait just one minute. Hold the phone. Just a few months ago, you were singing a different tune, Mr. Messiah:
'Obama has opposed exposing more coastline to drilling, saying that oil companies have not fully explored the areas open to drilling now and insisting that it would have little immediate impact on prices at the pump.'
So what happened to change The One's mind? It seems that John McCain is slaughtering Obama and the Democrats on this issue in the polls. So Obama, fully aware that the press will never call him out on his shameless, pandering flip flop, suddenly jumps on the drilling bandwagon - and has the audacity of shamelessness to pretend to get out front of the issue by calling for a 'comprehensive' energy policy - something McCain has been calling for all along.
'McGrumpy is grasping at straws. He starts every sentence with a remark against Obama'
Is this you Becker?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRFj_joPn2s
Obama can take care of himself!
...can take care of himself.
McSame is not going to win this election. There is still 10% of the country that have not made up their mind, but the majority of them are tired of the the current mess of the country (thanks neo-con, right wing Holy Roller nut-balls). He does not have the legs, but if by accident he lies his way to the top (like his side is used to doing), I like my odds here:
RCP Average 07/14 - 07/24 48.7 37.3 Democrats +11.4
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 07/18 - 07/21 49 36 Democrats +13.0
Democracy Corps (D) 07/21 - 07/24 50 42 Democrats +8.0
Rasmussen 07/14 - 07/20 47 34 Democrats +13.0
If we can end up with a veto proof majority in the house and senate, who really cares if McSame is President? I know I don't.
McCain/Bush - it's all the same.
McCain needs to step it up with some serious talk about his plans for this country rather than approve of those insidious campaign spots regarding Paris and Britney or constantly talking about flip flopping, of which he's done his share. There are still some voters on the fence, and time is running out.
'McSame is not going to win this election.'
Hussein is not going to win this election.
'There is still 10% of the country that have not made up their mind,'
And they will be shocked to hear that B.O. decided that he was ready to be president of the united states after a grand total of 143 days in the senate. When they realize that you can''t believe anything Obama says and his only record is incredibly short and as the most liberal senator in congress, he and his klingon wife will be headed back to the south side of Chicago.
' but the majority of them are tired of the the current mess of the country'
'mess of the country'... They are tired of $4.25 gas which is entirely the fault of the democrats.
RCP Average has McCain and Obama in a statistical dead heat, and Obama has out spent McCain by about 60 million dollars. (of your money, lol)
'If we can end up with a veto proof majority in the house and senate, '
Heh, nope.
'who really cares if McSame is President? I know I don't.'
Excellent, you are making progress.
'Hussein is not going to win this election.'
Thank you this is one of the reasons the old man is going to lose.
'And they will be shocked to hear that B.O. decided that he was ready to be president of the united states after a grand total of 143 days in the senate. When they realize that you can''t believe anything Obama says and his only record is incredibly short and as the most liberal senator in congress, he and his klingon wife will be headed back to the south side of Chicago.'
Blah, blah, blah, same thing you have been spouting all the time Mr. Obama was kicking the crap out of everyone else on his way to being the next President of the United States. Besides the conservatives are the ones who have screwed this country into the ground---the change is we are now going to get a liberal...
'They are tired of $4.25 gas which is entirely the fault of the democrats.'
Liar. You idiots on the right had a Republican't President with a Republican't House and Senate and could not even pass a mediocre energy play---total failure on our part!
'RCP Average has McCain and Obama in a statistical dead heat, and Obama has out spent McCain by about 60 million dollars. (of your money, lol) '
So what as long as he wins who cares if McSame cannot raise the money he can?
'Heh, nope.'
I love how delusional you really are. We will see, I guess all the crooks are going to get reelected? Or their base is proud of all the corruption in your world?
'Excellent, you are making progress.'
And your not, still as stupid as the day your vile mouth appeared on this board.
It would have been enough for me not to vote for Obama, knowing that he is the most liberal politician in the U.S. Congress, as judged by the non-partisan National Journal and based on the cold hard facts of his far-left voting record.
It would have been enough for me not to vote for Obama, knowing that he has zero experience in foreign policy and has never managed or run anything of substance that requires executive experience – not a company, not an agency, not even a senate committee!
It would have been enough to know that Obama makes John Kerry’s acrobatic flip-flopping look like child’s play.
▪ He’ll pull the troops out of Iraq in 16 months, now he’ll “refine” that policy.
▪ He’ll filibuster the FISA bill, but he voted for it.
▪ He’ll campaign with public financing, but he rejected that option.
▪ He’ll renegotiate Nafta, but now he won’t.
▪ He’s against gun rights but supported the Supreme Court’s Heller decision for gun rights.
▪ He’ll debate Sen. John McCain anywhere, anytime, but he has refused to.
▪ Iran poses no serious threat, but oops, Iran poses a grave threat.
▪ He supports an undivided Jerusalem, but 24-hours later said he “misspoke.”
It would have been enough to appreciate Obama’s sponsorship of the “global poverty” act, which lays the groundwork for the United Nation’s draconian tax on America, and also that he fervently supports that cesspool on 2nd Avenue, which for decades has been a consistent purveyor of virulent anti-Semitic bias.
It would have been enough for me to consider Obama’s oft-repeated promises to raise taxes to unprecedented heights, open our borders further to the flood of illegal aliens, appoint his socialist cronies to the Supreme Court, reinforce his death-wish for America’s unborn babies, institutionalize socialized medicine, and support the anti-free-speech return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
Again the Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.
It would have been enough for me to witness – with revulsion, I might add – Obama apologizing to a throng of Germans for America’s “mistakes.”
All of this, and much more, would have been enough for me not to vote for Obama. But it is not only his florid narcissism and Marxist policies that offend me.
It is his judgment, particularly when it comes to the people he admires, associates with, looks to for mentoring, and especially listens to. Lie Down with Dogs, Wake Up with Fleas
But who are those associations that, as an American and especially as a Jew, I am so worried about? Obama’s 300-plus foreign policy advisors include high-ranking people who are known for their undisguised contempt of Jews, in general, and their loathing of Israel.
I haven’t even mentioned the terrorists William Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn, his indicted Chicago crony Tony Rezko, his first and most influential mentor, the Communist Frank Marshall Davis; or Father Michael Pfleger, the liberal Chicago priest and longtime friend of Obama, who delivered an explosive, racially charged sermon at Obama’s church, which forced the Democrat candidate to – what else? – dispense with him! You can Google these enemies of America!
Among the other people Obama has chosen to affiliate himself with are:
George Soros, the multibillionaire, self-hating Jew who has devoted a good part of his life to vilifying Israel and funding groups that work unstintingly to destroy the tiny state. With his 527 groups, he has funded people – like Obama – to shatter the bonds between Israel and America.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for over 20 years, has shrieked his Black Theology anti-American and anti-Semitic “sermons,” to which the current candidate for president had not a word of objection! Until, that is, Wright’s venom came to light and Obama had to dispense with him in the same way he dispensed with the “typical white woman” – his grandmother – who raised him. Wright, remember, is an ardent supporter of Louis Farrakhan, who called Judaism a 'gutter religion' and said Jews are 'bloodsuckers'.
These are only a smattering of people who, in Obama’s “judgment,” are worthy of being his mentors and political advisors.
If the corrupt ACORN group he so heartily supported in the Chicago machine – where he “made his bones” – doesn’t rig the election with the votes of millions of dead people and convicts, as they have so many times in the past. I trust the electorate will do the right thing.
The right thing, of course, would be vote against Obama, a candidate who has been infested with far more odious things than fleas, specifically the treacherous anti-American, anti-Israel advice that has clearly shaped his worldview.
Obama would make America less safe, and an unsafe America – which is the last, best hope for the survival of the Jews and Israel – would destroy the twin pillars of steadfast Judeo-Christian values. Destroying both nations is the goal of the Jihadists that Obama would sooner chat with than confront.
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Thank you this is one of the reasons the old man is going to lose. '
Why, because Barack is an islamist appeaser?
'Blah, blah, blah,'
Not exactly a rebuttal.
'same thing you have been spouting all the time Mr. Obama was kicking the crap out of everyone else'
Barry has spent almost as much as EVERYONE ELSE COMBINED and he is still even with grandpa who is sitting on his cash.
'-the change is we are now going to get a liberal... '
Not with the 9-14% approval rating that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi enjoy. Regardless, Liberal is fine, leftist isn't. You aren't a liberal, you are a leftist. There is a gigantic difference.
'Liar.'
Who has stoopped drilling iin the USA? Who filibustered 2 attempts to open up domestic drilling? Tom Daschel even called it the 'Democrats Christmas gift to America'.
'You idiots on the right had a Republican't President with a Republican't House and Senate '
The democrats FILIBUSTERED more drilling in the USA and just yesterday Nancy Pelosi shut down debate on a proposed bill to increase domestic oil production. The democrats don't mind 4.25 dollar gas because people like you don't have to drive to work.
'So what as long as he wins'
Look at how much money he has flushed down the toilet so far and you will get a small idea of what he will do if, God forbid he becomes president.
'I love how delusional you really ar'
Not a rebuttal.
' still as stupid as the day your vile mouth appeared on this board.'
:-D
Obama backs away from McCain's debate challenge
WASHINGTON - Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain's challenge for a series of joint appearances before the political conventions, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall.
In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, 'I think that's a great idea.' In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events.
On Saturday, in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the short period between the last political convention and the first proposed debate made it likely that the commission-sponsored debates would be the only ones in the fall.
'We've committed to the three debates on the table,' campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Saturday in an interview. 'It's likely they will be the three appearances by the candidates this fall.'
Obama previously said:
'“If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, Iran, the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I’m happy to have...''
Looks like he got caught lying again.
Why, because Barack is an islamist appeaser?
Sounds just about right for you, liar extremist.
'Not exactly a rebuttal.'
Trying to rebut your constant lie filled bigotry is exhausting. Blah, blah, blah is all I get out of your rants.
'Barry has spent almost as much as EVERYONE ELSE COMBINED and he is still even with grandpa who is sitting on his cash.'
So what? Grandpa is going to get his diaper changed for him.
'Not with the 9-14% approval rating that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi enjoy. Regardless, Liberal is fine, leftist isn't. You aren't a liberal, you are a leftist. There is a gigantic difference.'
I will take leftist or liberal, makes no difference to me as long as it is not anywhere near the right. I would love it if a socialist was elected president.
'Who has stoopped drilling iin the USA? Who filibustered 2 attempts to open up domestic drilling? Tom Daschel even called it the 'Democrats Christmas gift to America'.'
Hey dumb as*. The fact that we did not drill in protected placed did not make gas go to $4.25 per gallon, even someone as blind as you knows this. The fact that the Europeans have made their milage standards be above 40 for over 10 years means nothing? A good energy policy, milage standards, common sense and investment in alternative fuels is the answer---not drilling in some middle of nowhere for enough oil that in 10 years will make gas go down .10 a gallon.
The democrats FILIBUSTERED more drilling in the USA and just yesterday Nancy Pelosi shut down debate on a proposed bill to increase domestic oil production. The democrats don't mind 4.25 dollar gas because people like you don't have to drive to work.'
You are so full of sh*t! I can't wait until November, idiots like you will have to sit around and cry in their be.
'Look at how much money he has flushed down the toilet so far and you will get a small idea of what he will do if, God forbid he becomes president. '
Again now concentrate---so what???
'Not a rebuttal.'
Again right wing talking points and no need for a rebuttal.
:-D
Again, now concentrate---still as stupid as the first day your vile mouth showed up on this board.
“Sounds just about right for you, liar extremist.”
…Not exactly a rebuttal.
“Trying to rebut your constant lie filled bigotry is exhausting”
How would you know? And stop calling me a bigot, you are the only one who has vowed to vote for someone because of his race. And liar? Good lord. Look, you are just sick in the head, that’s all.
“So what?”
It shows how glibly he wastes other people’s money and why he shouldn’t be allowed to manage the United States. It also shows that he needs to saturate the media just to break even. Wait until grandpa starts breaking loose.
“Grandpa is going to get his diaper changed for him.”
Hey he’s old, he has earned it; you are just a spoiled infant. Who changes your diaper? How many people does it take to roll your fat ass to do it?
“I will take leftist or liberal, makes no difference to me”
Because you are too thick to understand the difference. There is a world of difference between the 2.
“I would love it if a socialist was elected president.”
Of course you would, you don’t know any better. Socialism does not work; it wrecks industry and gets the weak dependent on a nanny state. Since you are weak I guess you wouldn’t mind. The thing is, socialists will take all of your parents money away. You might actually have to do something.
“The fact that we did not drill in protected placed[sic] did not make gas go to $4.25 per gallon,”
Yes it did. We were not allowed to drill off the coasts, in Alaska or in the oil shale in Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas. We could have been an oil exporter if we were allowed to exploit our own recourses. The democrats voted against it and filibustered bills to drill so instead we ship billions overseas to countries that want to see us destroyed… Thanks.
“The fact that the Europeans have made their milage[sic] standards be above 40 for over 10 years means nothing?
The democrats have also put restrictions on the diesel engines that the europeans use to get higher mileage, and no, 40 mpg is not their average. Not unless you are counting Vespas. They also are paying about $10 US a gallon, not exactly a role model for success. (Just like your candidate)
“---not drilling in some middle of nowhere for enough oil that in 10 years will make gas go down .10 a gallon.”
Are you a geologist? No? Guess you don’t know what you are talking about.
“You are so full of sh*t!”
I can prove what I wrote.
“Again now concentrate---so what???”
Flushing money down the toilet isn’t an issue to someone who never earned hers. What do your parents have to say about Obamas mismanagement? Never mind, seeing the mess they made out of you doesn’t qualify him to talk about management. Guess you are just out of touch.
“still as stupid as the first day your vile mouth showed up on this board”
I see your vile self spent another Saturday night alone with the computer. If I am so stupid why is it that you can't come up with a smart rebuttal to anything I say?
Those of you that love the word 'neocon' really do need to look up it's definition.
Dare I suggest that those that use the word leftist or socialist as well asz libnazi do the same .99 percent of republican posters use it as an insult,which it isn't...
Why is McCain consistently making Obama the star of his campaign ?People expect a candidate to talk about his own program and are perfectly able to choose in such a context .Failing to understand that is a weakness:it demonstrates an inferiority complex that needs to be compensated by bashing the opponent,every psychologist will tell you that .A real disgrace for a politician.
McCain is becoming the king of bashing. It does sound like desperation - maybe he can't really remember what he stands for. I had been somewhat on the fence, but he's rapidly pushing me to the other side, and his smirk is getting as irritating as Bush. Guess a lot of people think he's a clone anyway.......
Libnazi is simply an accurate discription.
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