Well Obama made it through his very 1st Press Conference, besides having looked as if he had pre-chosen his "interrogators" from the MSM President Elect Official Press Corp (it goes with the new seal) I assume that in fact he was just looking at the cheat sheet for the seating arrangement, but he accomplished insulting a First Lady,
“Obviously, President Clinton — I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.’’
Mrs. Reagan´s sister simply stated the facts, “My sister is not a medium; she’s an astrologer.’’
Obama did call and apologize to Mrs. Reagan, but I wonder what he said to Hillary.
I guess the security briefing on Historical Mysticism of the White House is next week.
Since the first moment I ever considered going to law school, Greta was my inspiration, my hero...I only wish I had had her coolness. Today she reaffirmed my belief in how brilliant she is, thank you Greta!
It is not fair how the MSM has treated Gov. Palin. It was not fair how the MSM treated Sen. Clinton. Both are to be admired, respected and cherished.
I was glued to the tv and my laptop, I could not believe what was happening, could this be real? Wolf Blitzer was saying the words that people all over the world would now be rejoicing in, but the truth came out this morning.
According to The Dallas Morning News,
"The CNN election coverage "hologram" wasn't even a real hologram!"
The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape Obama, Ayers, and PLO supporters toast Edward Said’s successor, but the press doesn’t think it’s quite as newsworthy as Sarah Palin’s wardrobe.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Let’s try a thought experiment. Say John McCain attended a party at which known racists and terror mongers were in attendance. Say testimonials were given, including a glowing one by McCain for the benefit of the guest of honor ... who happened to be a top apologist for terrorists. Say McCain not only gave a speech but stood by, in tacit approval and solidarity, while other racists and terror mongers gave speeches that reeked of hatred for an American ally and rationalizations of terror attacks.
Now let’s say the Los Angeles Times obtained a videotape of the party.
We have, as we tend to do, been focusing on us. Biden did not make a gaffe the other day, he made a prediction (remember both parties recieve National Security Briefings now that they are candidates)
Let´s set the Scene for this prediction:
A FUND RAISER - (ALCOHOL ALWAYS MAKES ONE HONEST) For his second Seattle fundraiser of the evening, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., spoke in a smaller ballroom at the downtown Sheraton Hotel, following the introduction of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash..
The estimated total haul for Biden's fundraisers in the Emerald City this evening: a cool million bucks.
"I'm losing my voice, which would make everybody in the Senate very happy," said Biden at the outset of money-pitch part deux.
But despite his cold, the senator pressed on, speaking for about 15 minutes.
"You should have told me about your prowess," he told the Obama supporters about their fundraising skills.
"I just wasted a whole year hanging out waiting for something to happen," he joked about his own failed presidential bid.
Biden then implored the audience of organizers to help re-elect Gov. Chris Gregoire.
"It is almost as important that you re-elect the governor as it is that you elect the next president," he said.
But back to the Obama/Biden campaign...
"One of the things we're trying to do in this race is not just change the agenda, but we're trying to change the chessboard here. We're trying to change the way politicians have played, the divisive politics."
"Clinton was such an incredibly talented, incredibly talented president and politician, he was able to run upstream," Biden noted. "The truth of the matter was that if you noticed, even in those days, it was not a direct confrontation of the agenda. What we had to do was a little jujitsu."
"That was what drove the Republicans crazy - he took their playbook and he turned it on them."
As he has in the past, Biden described how the nation is at "an inflection point", one of "maybe five times in American history since the founding".
"The next four years are going to determine what it looks like 25 years from now because we either get this right internationally or we're in trouble," he said, citing the Korean peninsula and Pakistan as potential hot-spots.
He then talked about the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
"It's where al Qaeda lives. It's there. It's real. We focus so much on the bad policy on Iraq, we sometimes seem to think that somehow there isn't a real problem. Our CIA has pointed out that bin Laden is alive and well, Iraq, excuse me, in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He's getting (inaudible) and support from those tribal areas. You have, folks, the Taliban is coming back. We're on the verge of finding ourselves in a position to see the regression occurring in Pakistan.
Biden emphasized the importance of injecting economic assistance to build hospitals, roads, and schools.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee warned that unless people there have "a reason to look to Islamabad instead of looking to the tribally-controlled areas, then in fact we got no hope, folks."
"Bin Laden is alive and well," he cautioned. "Our own agencies have pointed out that we have created more terrorists than we have dissuaded and destroyed as a consequence of shredding the constitution, keeping Guantanamo open."
"We talk about Iran getting a nuclear weapon and threatening Israel and us. Let me tell ya something, Pakistan already is bristling with nuclear weapons, all of which can hit Israel right now, all of which can strike the Mediterranean and well into the Indian Ocean."
Biden recalled when his helicopter came down in a snowstorm at 10,500 feet in the middle of the mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
"You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region. The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real."
"My generic point is you can't win it militarily," he said. "You gotta go beyond that."
He showered praise on Cantwell for her work in foreign affairs before referencing an article by the "most enlightened conservative columnist in America", David Brooks.
"David Brooks wrote a piece basically endorsing Barack Obama last week in the New York Times. You should get it. And I think it best summarizes why Barack is the right guy at the right moment for this job, that he understands, like Maria does, he looks at this from a very different perspective. This is the 21st century. We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes. It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."
So why was Biden saying this to the crowd of supporters? He'll tell ya why...
"We're gonna find ourselves in real trouble when we get elected. This is gonna be really hard. This is gonna be really, really, really hard. We're gonna have the largest systemic deficit in modern - not modern - in the history of the world. Literally. Literally. We're gonna find ourselves inheriting a debt, yearly debt this year, that may approach three-quarters of a trillion dollars. You hear me? We left this guy with a $232 billion surplus. At a minimum when we take office - God willing - we're gonna have a $450 billion deficit. And the way the economy is tanking the way it is now it may be as high as $750 billion."
"28 states are in serious trouble and they're about to contribute to the economic downward spiral because what are they doing? Cutting services, laying people off as they lose their tax base. So there are going to be a lot of tough decisions Barack's gonna have to make, a lot of tough decisions, including on foreign policy."
"And here's the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you, not financially to help him, we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Because all these decisions, all these decisions, once they're made if they work, then they weren't viewed as a crisis. If they don't work, it's viewed as you didn't make the right decision, a little bit like how we hesitated so long dealing with Bosnia and dealing with Kosovo, and consequently 200,000 people lost their lives that maybe didn't have to lose lives. It's how we made a mistake in Iraq. We made a mistake in Somalia. So there's gonna be some tough decisions. They may emanate from the Middle East. They may emanate from the sub-continent. They may emanate from Russia's newly-emboldened position because they're floating in a sea of oil."
After again touting Cantwell's judgment, Biden told the crowd to "gird your loins."
"Only thing I'm asking you is, you know, gird your loins. We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Aegean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than - think about it, literally, think about it - this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets, this is a systemic problem we have with this economy."
As he did last week in Missouri, Biden then touted Obama's team of economic advisers.
"I have great respect and have had great respect for a long time for Barack Obama, but I've never, I never thought that I'd have the kind of respect I have after watching him assemble probably the finest economic team that's been put together in the history of this country, Democrats and Republicans. You should see him orchestrate these meetings we have with 18 of the best minds in the world, from both parties. There's no doubt about who's charge, Gov. There's no doubt. There's no doubt about how incisive his questions are. What he asks of this group is stunning in terms of there responses. They kind of go, 'whoa, whoa!' This guy has an ability to move to the quick of things like anybody I've ever served with, at least this up close. So I think we're gonna put our hands, take this ship (inaudible) in the right hands. I think we got this ticket right. I think we got it in the right balance here."
After a round of applause, Biden continued.
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going 'oh my God, why are they there in the polls, why is the polling so down, why is this thing so tough? We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."
Noting that he's a practicing Irish-Catholic, the Delaware lawmaker said, "Let's not be, for those of a different faith remember St. Peter denied Christ thrice, you know? We don't need anybody denying us, this is gonna be tough. There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go 'whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision.' Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."
While the crowd laughed, Biden noticed your pooler in the back of the room pounding away at his keyboard.
"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," the senator said.
"All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place. We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."
Crunching the numbers, Obama's 28 male staffers were paid a total of $1,523,120 for an average salary of $54,397. Obama's 30 female employees divided $1,354,580 for a female average salary of $45,152. Obama's female staffers, on average, make just 83 cents to the dollar his male staffers make. McCain's office, by contrast, is a feminist fantasy. McCain's 17 male staffers carve up $916,914 for an average salary of $53,936. His 25 female employees split $1,396,958 for average pay of $55,878. In McCain's office, a woman earns $1.04 for every buck a man makes.
100,000 stood in line to get a bit of the wealth Obama is doling out, and in St. Louis, with an uneployment rate of 7.2% , (higher than the national avg.), it is no wonder the crowd was so big, they had nothing better to do and were offered the promise of free money in the future. Socialism at it´s finest!!!!
I am so frustrated by the MSM. Big new folks, Obama 13 points ahead of Mccain according to the CBS/New York Times Poll. Ok, let me see the data, POLL. ARE YOU F#%#$%G KIDDING ME. You read, You decide. To me it looks like OBAMA may be losing some support from the party.
LOOK AT THE POLL RESULTS (pg 1)
NOW, LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS FOR THIS POLL (pg 7)
AND NOW, HOW WAS IT "WEIGHED"?
271 votes were thrown out or 25% of the effective voter model. Based on what? 75% of the Republicans in this poll had never been contacted before? This skews the model, in my humble opinion.
Oh the debate is only an hour and twenty from kickoff. This is the latest syndrome to hit the world OPND, obsessive political news disorder. To date there is no know treatment, and symptoms range from bloated ideologies to diarrhea of the mouth, eventually leading to what may be akin to the anticipated release of the latest Methane discovery in the Artic. So Alka seltzer or Beano?
From here Naughty Monkey Pumps to her Kawasaki Glasses. Sarah can get merchandise flying of the shelves and spur the economy. She has the style to get the job done. Well it may be the best plan so far, lol.
Or should that be the other way around. Michelle has been placed on the trail, having her own rallies, but there is a HUGE HUGE difference. Palin could sell me the whole catalogue of Tupperware, Amway, or any cookie, but Michelle, talks about suffering, and worst of all the "uh" between every great statement. I get excited listening to Sarah, I start counting those "ah and ums" when listening to Michelle. Some people were not meant to be on the stage. Michelle, you are one of them.
If this is true, well...Obama: you are pathetic, if it is false, FoxNews: you are pathetic...what else can I say, just pathetic.
Report: Obama Tried to Delay Withdrawal Agreement of U.S. Troops by FOXNews.com Monday, September 15, 2008
Barack Obama privately tried to persuade Iraqi political leaders to stall an agreement on scaling back American troops in Iraq while publicly campaigning for a speedy withdrawal, The New York Post reported Monday. Full Article
In Hindsight, Hillary Looks Good as a Running Mate By Marianne Means
Sen. Hillary Clinton must be as bemused as her many supporters are (that's a polite word) by the excitement Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to a dull Republican ticket. It might even help the GOP win! Horrors! Why didn't Sen. Barack Obama think of this? Why didn't he summon the courage to add Clinton to his own Democratic ticket?
No real understandable reasons, or excuses, have been forthcoming. Except, of course, he was running so strongly against the old guy in white hair that he thought he didn't need any help. Read Full
It´s lunchtime, a chance for me to watch all the live feeds from the DNC, as opposed to just listening. Something I noticed "HILLARY" is mentioned 70% more than "OBAMA". For the pundits saying there is a problem with unity, well...yes there is!
Slowing coming out of the Hillary Depression I miss the good old primary days, when news was entertaining. Weighing in on the VP pic, the August suprise might be Bill Clinton, now wouldn´t that be a jaw dropping news day. Hillary 2012!
I am learning to Sip and not Gulp. Gulping, or the ACT OF GULPING is unknown to most, however it is extremely prevelant in our society. Gulping, according to dictionary.com (5) the amount swallowed at one time; mouthful. Kinda makes me understand politics and the world today. Russia, please don´t bomb us, Obama, please pick Hillary, and Jupiter, please dont explode into a massive star that you were meant to be.
So I have decided to sip, as it will be awhile before more beer arrives.
271 votes were thrown out or 25% of the effective voter model. Based on what? 75% of the Republicans in this poll had never been contacted before? This skews the model, in my humble opinion.
