Clinton supporter steps down over racial remarks
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Mar 12, 2008, 22:32 GMT
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'...I did what you asked Senator, why do I have to go?'
'...momma had to sacrifice a bitch, Geraldine....sorry...had to do it...no other way...'
'...but senator....'
'...you'll land on your feet, Geraldine...now get out...'
You're supposed to tell us what you think, not reprint whole articles.
As much as you blabber on here with lies and half truths I would not at all be asking anyone to keep it short. What a blabber mouth and what nerve you have---you must have been raised in a woodshead.
Geraldine Ferra-who? Why is this old douche bag flapping her pie hole. Let her go back to her racist eyetalian bretheren. If Obama is where he is at becuase she is black, then Clinton is where she is at becuase she has a vagina and married Bill. They are both affirmative action presidential candidates.
And I really enjoy Clinton continuing to destroy the Democrat party. The first party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ... stupid predictable Democrats. Obama had the only shot to defeat McCain, and now the Democrats are going to either destroy Obama or let Clinton steal the nomination. Either way, McCain now can defeat a Clinton mauled Obama or an election stealing, racist, horn dog husband having, permanent victim.
What half-truths?
...is the party of Grievence melting down.
First - impune a conservative
Second - impune your own party members
The next thing: they'll call Obama a racist...
I have been saying this all along but it bears repeating. When Americans pull the lver, they ought to be fully aware of what they are getting themselves into. 'The day will come when Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world,” Hamas' Gaza leader and former foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar announced at a rally last year.
Author confirms: Terrorists 'rejoice' at Obama victory
Aaron Klein, WND Says lawmaker correct policies further goal of Islamic domination
Terrorists worldwide indeed would be emboldened by an Obama election victory not so much because of the senator's middle name – Hussein – or because of his family background, but because terrorists know many of Obama's policies would translate into victory for the global jihad movement.
Obama has made clear he favors a swift American withdrawal from Iraq, direct dialogue with Iran – the largest state sponsor of terrorism – and a more 'evenhanded' approach toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What do the terrorists think about these policies? Well, I recently asked them:
* Ramadan Adassi, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades terror group in the West Bank's Anskar refugee camp, pointed to Obama's rise to stardom as 'an important success. He won popularity in spite of the Zionists and the conservatives.'
* Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the northern Gaza Strip, explained Democrat candidates' anti-war positions 'prove that important leaders are understanding the situation differently and are understanding the price and the consequences of the American policy in Iraq and in the world.'
* Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel 'proud.'
* 'As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk,' he told me for my book. 'Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.'
* Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip, was more direct: the policy of withdrawal, he stated, 'proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation.'
What about dialogue with America's enemies, such as sit-downs with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Obama has so fervently advocated?
Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and a senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, recently explained U.S. willingness to negotiate and initiate dialogue 'shows the Islamic resistance is bringing the giant [America] to its knees.'
'It would be a great achievement complimented by more and more dead American soldiers they will carry in coffins to the U.S.,' said Abdel-Al.
These terrorists are not just spewing rhetoric. Obama's policies absolutely will further their goal of world domination.
Are Iraqi Insurgents Emboldened by Antiwar Reporting?
Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq? The short answer, according to a pair of Harvard economists, is yes.
In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the authors are quick to point out numerous caveats to their findings, based on data from mid-2003 through late 2007. Yet, their results show that insurgent groups are not devoid of reason and unresponsive to outside pressures and stimuli. “It shows that the various insurgent groups do respond to incentives and shows that a successful counter insurgency strategy should take that reality into account,” says one of the paper’s coauthors, Jonathan Monten, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
The paper “Is There an ‘Emboldenment’ Effect in Iraq? Evidence From the Insurgency in Iraq” concludes the following:
—In the short term, there is a small but measurable cost to open public debate in the form of higher attacks against Iraqi and American targets.
—In periods immediately after a spike in “antiresolve” statements in the American media, the level of insurgent attacks increases between 7 and 10 percent.
—Insurgent organizations are strategic actors, meaning that whatever their motivations, religious or ideological, they will respond to incentives and disincentives.
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The Obama-Clinton-McCain Paradoxes [Victor Davis Hanson]
Part of the problem with discussing race, Obama’s middle name, his wife’s astounding proclamations, and all the rest is perhaps remembering that there are two different constituencies, his base and the country, that require an Obama two-step.
No doubt having a middle name like Hussein was ‘cool’ at Columbia and Harvard where it might solidify one’s ethnic or exotic fides. By the same token, a well-paid, Ivy-League-educated African-American woman like Michelle Obama, of course, had considerable success in lecturing upscale elite liberal audiences on their sloth, or cynicism, or why one should not heretofore have pride in the United States, or why America was a mean place. And a bumper-sticker African-American identify was advantageous in the Ivy League for Obama, and essential for success in local districted Chicago politics.
But once one slowly metamorphosizes from a state politician to a liberal Illinois Senator to the purported Democratic nominee, then all of those self-embraced identities that deliberately emphasize, rather than play down, race and culture can become polarizing to a wider constituency — and must be as muffled by the candidate as they are emphasized by his opportunistic opponents.
So now we are in this silly situation, in which at one time Obama was happy enough to remind some that his middle name was Hussein and now it is a slur for other less well-intentioned to do so; in which his wife’s browbeating of America was salve to guilty liberals and now it is considered illiberal to question her assumptions; in which a candidate who rose to prominence as a “black” candidate and garners majority margins of 90% among African-American against a very liberal female opponent insists that he has transcended race and to suggest otherwise is, well, racist.
Nothing is new in all this: all candidates expand beyond their base and try to play down their former zealotry, on issues as diverse as abortion to guns to gay rights. But what is unique is that the usual flak that meets a politician’s readjustments and opportunism in the case of Obama is additionally questioned as being racist or at least insensitive.
A final irony is that Clinton, Inc. made careers on playing up America’s supposed unfairness and insensitivity to a variety of aggrieved groups, and Hillary, as a powerful professional woman par excellence, was prepared to ride that victim horse all the way to the Presidency. But suddenly her offer to Obama of the VP spot is seen as racial condescension, the white girl in the commercial when the 3 AM phone call comes is said to be subtly racist, exegesis about who got Civil Rights legislation enacted is derided as inappropriate, and on and on. In short, the Clintons have been completely Clintonized, and when they turn to the media for their accustomed help, as in the past against the Right Wing Attack Machine — they learn it has become a Left-Wing Attack machine and directed at them!
McCain may become a proper antidote for all this. Unlike the verbose Michelle Obama, he really has suffered in his life; unlike Barack Obama he really has reached across the aisle and paid a price for it; and unlike Obama's promises of transparency, he really does talk in specifics and bluntly rather than in mellifluous platitudes. And as for an against-the-odds candicacy, in postmodern America a 71-year-old survivor of communist torture and malignant melonoma seems to match the narrative of a young Ivy-League graduate of mixed ancestry.
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I hope Obama wins the Presidency...even though it will be short term...because I want to also see him being the first black president to be 'IMPEACHED'....hahahahahaha!!
'you must have been raised in a woodshead'
You are totally wrong...he was rasied in his Momma's Basement..and that ignorant women forget to keep the door locked.
Hillary and her Camp have slyly divided this country between gender and race and then play the Victim Card when called on it. They have thrown more than the Kitchen Sink at Obama who has still refused to defame Hillary like she has defamed him, a true sign of leadership and character of the right kind to lead America back to dignity and respect. Hillary and her camp our divisive, distorters of the truth, masters of spin (which all means they are liars). This is old-party politics and not the politics of the future, towards a more holistic way of leading.
This was always the charge when Clinton was in office. Anyone disagreeing with them was 'divisive'.
The old tricks are the best tricks...
The old tricks are the best tricks ?You mean smear and mudslinging ?I can't help but notice the neocon efforts to associate Obama with radical islamist fundamentalists .All straight our of the republican dirty trick department .This campaign is not based on personal efforts but is a carefully crafted piece of neocon spin ;citing all the arabs satisfied with an eventual Obama victory takes efforts and time .One has to weed for days or weeks through all kind of media for that .The best way to serve this kind of innocent information as a potential weapon is to stay vague ,avoid precise and direct information but keep repeating the smear for months ,and months ,and months ,and months ....Hoping some of the mud will stick .The right attitude against this kind of campaign is to seriously ask yourselves;would you vote for anybody that uses this kind of tactcs .Remember the swift boat campaign ?
For your information,not only arabs would be satisfied with a democrat as president .The whole world is praying for a good president of these eight years of failure .
you people faces. What has Obama done to you? Is it because he is biracial? Or is it because he is not an 'uncle tom', did your momma raised such racists. Grow up people....
opp's i posted this in the wrong forum. sorry it belongs on a differn't site.
though Andy. Doesn't matter which forum you say Bush is a son of a bitch, you are still right.
Why is it not okay to talk about the fact that he has been getting 90% of the black vote and that that is the only reason he has a (slight) lead over Hillary? The numbers show they are in a tie if you just count citizen's votes. If you had 90% of whites doing that all hell would break lose and there would be riots in the streets. The whole thing has turned off so many people that I seriously think McCain will win because people can't bring themselves to vote for Obama. What a shame the DNC can't get a candidate who can win when it should be a shoe in at this point.
said is absolutely true. A white man with Baracks credentials wouldn't survive the first round. I wonder how McCain did it. He's a nothing too:)
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