Prior to speaking last night at the Israeli Embassy, Barack Obama discussed Israel’s 60th anniversary.
** NATIONAL TRACKING POLL: CLEAR OBAMA LEAD OVER CLINTON, SLIGHT LEAD OVER MCCAIN. HILLARY WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE POLL. With the rolling average shifting upward for Barack Obama since his big Tuesday night, through last night he now leads Hillary Clinton, 50% to 42%, in the latest Rasmussen national tracking poll. He has a slight edge over John McCain, 47% to 44%.
The Rasmussen poll is run by Republican Scott Rasmussen, and usually shows Democratic candidates running lower than in other polls. For example, Obama’s unfavorable ratings are much higher in this poll, which is an automated poll. It’s the only nightly national tracking poll.
Rasmussen has just announced that it is going to stop polling Hillary Clinton as a candidate, shifting instead to the Obama v. McCain match-up.
Needless to say, this is another big straw in the wind for the fast-fading Clinton machine.
Obama continues to have the highest image score of the three candidates — favorable vs. unfavorable — with McCain second and Clinton third. He retook this edge, as I’ve noted, a few days ago, for the first time since March 10th. It’s remarkable that he has recovered so quickly from weeks of horrible coverage.
Rasmussen notes that Obama is doing very well again with independents, though his Democratic numbers are depressed in the midst of the fight with the Clintons. This is a pattern that frequently repeats in the heat of nomination battles.
Obama now leads McCain among unaffiliated voters by nine percentage points. As we look to November, the Obama-McCain match-up will feature a clear generational component. Obama leads by twenty-three percentage points among voters under 40 while McCain leads by eleven among those over 50.
** MY NEW PODCAST. The road ahead.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama is in Portland, Albany, and Eugene, Oregon.
Hillary Clinton is in Portland, Oregon and Louisville, Kentucky.
Bill Clinton is in Madison, Williamson, Wayne, St. Albans, Ripley, WV
John McCain is in Columbia, South Carolina and Jersey City, New Jersey.
** SCHWARZENEGGER LIVE WEBCASTS THIS MORNING. After a week of numbers-crunching on California’s chronic budget deficit (it’s big, but maybe not as big as feared) and psychodrama on the Democrats’ now-dropped recall of a Republican state senator who helped hold up the budget last year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger holds two live webcast events today.
At 9:45 AM, Schwarzenegger holds a Capitol press conference on the upcoming fire season. With California’s annual water supply 37% below normal — and possible water rationing coming in some parts of the state this summer — the fire emergency this summer will be great.
At 10:30 AM, Schwarzenegger hosts the annual memorial service for public safety officers who’ve died in the line of duty, at the Peace Officers Memorial across the street from the Capitol. The nineteen officers killed over the past year will receive full honors, including a 21-gun salute.
The events will be webcast live at www.gov.ca.gov.
For today’s Victory Day celebration in Red Square, Russia staged the biggest parade of military power seen in the world since the Cold War.
** RED SQUARE SHOW OF FORCE. On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin’s longtime deputy Dmitry Medvedev — the guy the Democratic presidential candidates didn’t know much about in a recent debate, and whose name Hillary Clinton couldn’t pronounce — was sworn in as president of Russia. (Putin was loathe to change the nation’s constitution, which limited his presidency to eight years.) On Thursday, Putin became Russia’s new prime minister, and promptly gave a one hour address on his agenda for the future. Today the duo looked on in Moscow’s Red Square as they staged the largest military parade seen anywhere since the Cold War.
The occasion is today’s 63rd anniversary of Victory Day, the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in which 27 million Russians lost their lives. When he replaced the unsuccessful Boris Yeltsin as president eight years ago, KGB veteran Putin revived the Soviet tradition of military parades to celebrate the holiday in Red Square.
Today’s was by far the biggest, with 8,000 troops passing in review, along with rumbling tanks, mobile missile launchers, and big nuclear ICBMs. Jet fighters and bombers screamed overhead in formation.
Yakob Vasilyevich, a former WWII fighter pilot watching the parade, said: “We can sleep easily at night with an army like this. Europe has always coveted our territory, just look at Hitler and Napoleon.”
Gesturing to the Tu-160 supersonic bomber whistling overhead, he added: “That can carry ten nuclear bombs - if we used them, it would be as if Europe had never existed.”
It was an anything but subtle reminder that Putin’s assertive policies — fueled by the rise in oil, natural gas, and other commodity prices — have returned the Russian armed forces, a shambles in the 1990s, to the status of second most powerful in the world. Behind, of course, the US.
Speaking of which, Moscow expelled two US military attaches from the country this week. Neither country is commenting on the incident.
** NOTE: While NWN is rounding nicely into shape since the transition to a new software platform at the beginning of last week, there are still a few glitches.
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel. You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND U.S. ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Crashing through yet another record today. Crude oil is now trading in the $125 to $126 per barrel range. It had closed yesterday at a record $123.72 per barrel.
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Jonas Blane:Wow, the entire Red Square parade today.
May 9, 2008 - 6:48 am Sacramento Solon:Good morning,
Hope I’m providing you all with new information and not something discussed yesterday…
New York Times is reporting two more superdelegates for Obama…Donald Payne, a congressman from New Jersey is crossing over from Hillary to Barack and Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon announced for him last evening.
May 9, 2008 - 7:05 am Jonas Blane:That’s a good statement by Obama on Israel.
May 9, 2008 - 7:10 am Capitol Boy:What are the Russians trying to do, intimidate the world?
May 9, 2008 - 7:49 am Capitol Boy:Barack’s statement should shut up the loons claiming he’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas.
May 9, 2008 - 7:51 am Capitol Boy:When they take you out of a big poll, you SHOULD know it’s time to go. Clintons.
May 9, 2008 - 7:53 am Ann:lol
May 9, 2008 - 8:02 am Bill Bradley:Thanks …
May 9, 2008 - 8:06 am Bill Bradley:The lights are going out, one by one.
>Capitol Boy:
When they take you out of a big poll, you SHOULD know it’s time to go. Clintons.
May 9, 2008 - 8:07 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:53 am
We’ll see, about all those things.
>Capitol Boy:
Barack’s statement should shut up the loons claiming he’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas.
May 9, 2008 - 8:07 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:51 am
It’s more complex than that. It has as much to do with Russians as anything else.
>Capitol Boy:
What are the Russians trying to do, intimidate the world?
May 9, 2008 - 8:08 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:49 am
He comes off as a standard pro-Israel Democratic politician.
>Jonas Blane:
That’s a good statement by Obama on Israel.
May 9, 2008 - 8:09 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:10 am
Thanks, Solon!
>Sacramento Solon:
Good morning,
Hope I’m providing you all with new information and not something discussed yesterday…
New York Times is reporting two more superdelegates for Obama…Donald Payne, a congressman from New Jersey is crossing over from Hillary to Barack and Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon announced for him last evening.
May 9, 2008 - 8:10 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:05 am
Yep.
>Jonas Blane:
Wow, the entire Red Square parade today.
May 9, 2008 - 8:10 am Len:May 9, 2008 - 6:48 am
New West should stop covering Hillary, too. Do more on McCain.
May 9, 2008 - 8:22 am Jack Aubrey:I wonder when she finally gets out of the “race.”
May 9, 2008 - 9:00 am Bill Bradley:She’s getting more and more nudges. She stays thru May 20th at least.
May 9, 2008 - 9:59 am Bill Bradley:I’m doing a big interview with one of McCain’s top strategists today.
>Len:
New West should stop covering Hillary, too. Do more on McCain.
May 9, 2008 - 8:22 am
May 9, 2008 - 9:59 am huxley:Hillary has her own agenda and her own avid base. She is not in the race to please Obama supporters.
I don’t know what her calculation is–whether she is still hanging in for the outside chance that the Obama campaign will implode or whether she is doing some sort of horse trading for a position on, say, the Supreme Court or who knows what else.
Perhaps Bill B. has some ideas.
May 9, 2008 - 10:50 am Bill Bradley:The sands of the hourglass are running out on her campaign. I’ve already speculated on her motives, go out with a couple wins, pay off her debt, have some ownership of the party, maybe try to get on the Obama ticket, etc.
A big part is pride, of course. She’s having trouble coming to grips with political reality.
May 9, 2008 - 10:55 am huxley:Say what you like about the Clintons, but they are fighters who have turned around many impossible-seeming positions. Maybe their luck has run out, as all things eventually do, but it shouldn’t be surprising that Hillary hasn’t given up yet.
In 1980 Ted Kennedy was losing almost 2:1 in delegates to Carter, but nonetheless he took the fight clear to the convention.
May 9, 2008 - 11:01 am Wilbur:Wow. Confirmation hearings re: Hillary on the Supreme Court.
May 9, 2008 - 11:57 am huxley:Now THERE’S some must-see reality TV!
Anything’s possible in this election.
May 9, 2008 - 12:40 pm Brasky:Hillary vows to stay in race no matter what (video): http://tinyurl.com/5sxybr
May 9, 2008 - 12:56 pm Brasky:“Hillary…is not in the race to please Obama supporters.”
As if you had to remind us of Hillary’s ego…
When Hillary attacked Obama’s record…in KINDERGARTEN, it was pretty evident that no shot was too low. Hillary is VERY lucky that Obama has run the campaign that he has. She is still going to lose, but another candidate would have humiliated her too.
This primary is like one of the fracking three hour Super Bowl pre-game shows. Enough already – when’s kickoff?!
May 9, 2008 - 1:13 pm Brasky:“Barack Obama is in Portland, Albany, and Eugene, Oregon.
Hillary Clinton is in Portland, Oregon…”
Hillary continues to ignore the cities with the #2 and #3 largest populations of Democrats in Oregon. She should get out before she gets thoroughly embarrassed in this predominately white, middle-class, Democratic state.
BTW, the Oregon primary (May 20) represents 25% of the delegates remaining.
May 9, 2008 - 1:21 pm Brasky:Since the Bush and Clinton Bubbles seem thoroughly impenetrable to the outside world, I suggest we store spent nuclear fuel THERE rather than Yucca Mountain.
May 9, 2008 - 1:24 pm Brasky:I’ve been on the road for 4 days and a lack of sleep and an overabundance of really bad coffee is making me…honest.
May 9, 2008 - 1:26 pm Ann:lol
Brasky:
Since the Bush and Clinton Bubbles seem thoroughly impenetrable to the outside world, I suggest we store spent nuclear fuel THERE rather than Yucca Mountain.
May 9, 2008 - 1:24 pm
May 9, 2008 - 1:53 pm Ann:It’s the righty wingnut dream. Tear gas in the streets of Denver!
lol
huxley:
Say what you like about the Clintons, but they are fighters who have turned around many impossible-seeming positions. Maybe their luck has run out, as all things eventually do, but it shouldn’t be surprising that Hillary hasn’t given up yet.
In 1980 Ted Kennedy was losing almost 2:1 in delegates to Carter, but nonetheless he took the fight clear to the convention.
May 9, 2008 - 11:01 am
May 9, 2008 - 1:54 pm Pat Skipper:Does it strike anyone as strangely political for Rasmussen to drop Clinton from the poll? For now, she’s still a candidate. Is it now the place of pollsters to “put pressure” on candidates?
I take her at her word, by the way. I don’t think she drops out until June, if then.
In typical Clintonian style, she points out that Bill didn’t receive enough delegates to claim the nomination until mid-June of 1992 (not mentioning, of course, that California didn’t vote until June in ‘92).
May 9, 2008 - 2:41 pm Capitol Boy:It’s getting to the point it doesn’t matter what she does.
May 9, 2008 - 2:54 pm Brasky:Pat - I’d say that the Clinton team hasn’t shown any reason this election to take them at their word.
I seem to remember something about Hillary saying that we shouldn’t attack each other back in the “diamonds or pearls” debate.
The reason Rasmussen dropped Clinton is that she’s no longer a viable candidate for the democratic nomination. It costs money to poll and there ain’t any point to continuing the facade that this horserace is continuing. As I pointed out the other day, Obama would have to lose Oregon 52% to 48% and every remaining race 100% to 0% before Clinton came out on top. And that ain’t happening.
The democratic horeserace is over, except the leadership is insisting to look at the photo before declaring the winner, even though one horse hasn’t croseed the finish line yet and the other one is already in the stable. Super delegates need to end this thing instead of waiting for Clinton to conceed.
If one, ONE(!) hit is issued by the Clinton campaign from now on, it’s on the heads of the remaining superdelegates’ heads. And that listed WILL be posted on NWN (provided I have time).
May 9, 2008 - 2:56 pm Brasky:Oops, sorry for the redundant “heads” - I was thinking about getting the list of the uncommitted superdelegates.
May 9, 2008 - 2:58 pm Brasky:Which is here: http://tinyurl.com/3ckhle
Far right column (appropriate). According to the NYT, Obama is only 2 supers behind Clinton. Wasn’t she up by some astronomical 170 before?
May 9, 2008 - 3:04 pm Pat Skipper:ABC reports Obama ahead of Clinton in Supers.
May 9, 2008 - 3:14 pm Brasky:NYT must have forgotten to count supers in one of their two small blind spots: East of the Mississippi and South of the Mason Dixon.
May 9, 2008 - 3:23 pm marcus leon:How much does it cost to run a national nightly poll on the Demos?
May 9, 2008 - 3:29 pm Brasky:out of my price range and it’s robo and I’ve never bought one of them either.
May 9, 2008 - 3:35 pm Hap Hazard:I take her at her word, by the way. I don’t think she drops out until June, if then. — I totally agree with Pat that she is not going anywhere until at least after the Puerto Rico vote.
May 9, 2008 - 3:38 pm Hap Hazard:Regardless of whether Hillary gets out of the race anytime soon,l this is a great opportunity for Obama to begin focusing on November and McCain. He no longer needs to respond in kind to her volleys, which as Bill says are likely to be muted in any event. I hope he takes the opportunity.
May 9, 2008 - 3:51 pm huxley:Aside from the pique Hillary’s detractors feel that she’s still in the race, why should Hillary drop out now? Running for president is not an exercise in altruism.
As long as she’s got supporters, the energy to campaign, and the willingness to take the financial hit, she might as well as continue until she’s convinced that it’s not worth it anymore or she makes whatever deal she’s working in the backrooms.
Likewise the superdelegates have their own interests to look for. That’s the way politics work.
Also Hillary does have a sizeable number of supporters. Obama people might want to consider how the Hillary people get reintegrated into the campaign against McCain later. Letting Hillary play out her string graciously rather than trying to yank her off the stage with a hook might make that reintegration easier.
May 9, 2008 - 3:53 pm Brasky:I say she’s a mortally wounded animal that should be finished off before she hurts someone. She’s going to get burried in Oregon. Montanna too.
It’s time to wrap this up.
And where’s my boy Edwards? He would do well to tap Obama early so he can still get extra credit.
May 9, 2008 - 3:58 pm Bill Bradley:Well, I was running around the Sierra foothills earlier chasing after a top McCain strategist … So let’s see what we got here.
May 9, 2008 - 4:18 pm Bill Bradley:Her relevance is fast diminishing.
Speaking of fast diminishing relevance, there’s John Edwards.
In the end, it may be all he accomplished was making sure Obams didn’t wrap this up in New Hampshire …
>Brasky:
I say she’s a mortally wounded animal that should be finished off before she hurts someone. She’s going to get burried in Oregon. Montanna too.
It’s time to wrap this up.
And where’s my boy Edwards? He would do well to tap Obama early so he can still get extra credit.
May 9, 2008 - 4:20 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:58 pm
Well, that is a lot of what will go on. Trying to strike business deals for the Clinton folks to retain some relevance in the new Democratic Party power structure.
>huxley:
Aside from the pique Hillary’s detractors feel that she’s still in the race, why should Hillary drop out now? Running for president is not an exercise in altruism.
As long as she’s got supporters, the energy to campaign, and the willingness to take the financial hit, she might as well as continue until she’s convinced that it’s not worth it anymore or she makes whatever deal she’s working in the backrooms.
Likewise the superdelegates have their own interests to look for. That’s the way politics work.
Also Hillary does have a sizeable number of supporters. Obama people might want to consider how the Hillary people get reintegrated into the campaign against McCain later. Letting Hillary play out her string graciously rather than trying to yank her off the stage with a hook might make that reintegration easier.
May 9, 2008 - 4:21 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:53 pm
That’s what Obama is doing. I believe he is going to start a TV advertising campaign “contrasting” with McCain.
He has the money to sustain it in a way that Democrats haven’t been able to in the past.
>Hap Hazard:
Regardless of whether Hillary gets out of the race anytime soon,l this is a great opportunity for Obama to begin focusing on November and McCain. He no longer needs to respond in kind to her volleys, which as Bill says are likely to be muted in any event. I hope he takes the opportunity.
May 9, 2008 - 4:22 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:51 pm
Then, as Hillary’s own chairman said yesterday, it goes pretty fast after that.
>Hap Hazard:
I take her at her word, by the way. I don’t think she drops out until June, if then. — I totally agree with Pat that she is not going anywhere until at least after the Puerto Rico vote.
May 9, 2008 - 4:23 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:38 pm
I don’t know. But I can tell you that by cutting Clinton from the mix, Rasmussen — the only operation doing nightly national tracking polls — has cut their expenses significantly.
Essentially, they’re doing only about half as much polling.
>marcus leon:
How much does it cost to run a national nightly poll on the Demos?
May 9, 2008 - 4:25 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:29 pm
Perhaps.
>Brasky:
NYT must have forgotten to count supers in one of their two small blind spots: East of the Mississippi and South of the Mason Dixon.
May 9, 2008 - 4:25 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:23 pm
Yeah, I think Obama picked up 8 net superdelegates today.
>Pat Skipper:
ABC reports Obama ahead of Clinton in Supers.
May 9, 2008 - 4:27 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:14 pm
When they update it, I believe the Times will have Obama ahead in superdelegates, too.
>Brasky:
Which is here: http://tinyurl.com/3ckhle
Far right column (appropriate). According to the NYT, Obama is only 2 supers behind Clinton. Wasn’t she up by some astronomical 170 before?
May 9, 2008 - 4:28 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Happy to have it, but perhaps unnecessary.
>Brasky:
Pat - I’d say that the Clinton team hasn’t shown any reason this election to take them at their word.
I seem to remember something about Hillary saying that we shouldn’t attack each other back in the “diamonds or pearls” debate.
The reason Rasmussen dropped Clinton is that she’s no longer a viable candidate for the democratic nomination. It costs money to poll and there ain’t any point to continuing the facade that this horserace is continuing. As I pointed out the other day, Obama would have to lose Oregon 52% to 48% and every remaining race 100% to 0% before Clinton came out on top. And that ain’t happening.
The democratic horeserace is over, except the leadership is insisting to look at the photo before declaring the winner, even though one horse hasn’t croseed the finish line yet and the other one is already in the stable. Super delegates need to end this thing instead of waiting for Clinton to conceed.
If one, ONE(!) hit is issued by the Clinton campaign from now on, it’s on the heads of the remaining superdelegates’ heads. And that listed WILL be posted on NWN (provided I have time).
May 9, 2008 - 4:29 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Correct.
>Capitol Boy:
It’s getting to the point it doesn’t matter what she does.
May 9, 2008 - 4:30 pm Sacramento Solon:May 9, 2008 - 2:54 pm
Braskey,
And where’s my boy Edwards? He would do well to tap Obama early so he can still get extra credit.
——
Dear Mr. Back From the Road…
Our boy is still on the fence. Will admit to having voted in North Carolina, but won’t fess up to who he pulled the trigger for.
Perhaps he’s waiting for the party to start a draft Edwards movement! Only kidding…really, I am.
May 9, 2008 - 4:32 pm Bill Bradley:Well, Obama’s rebounded in the national polls from weeks of hits, he’s moved ahead of McCain, he’s more favorable than McCain, she can’t beat Obama in earned delegates or popular vote, she’s way behind financially, the superdelegates aren’t going for her … AND it costs money for the only nightly national tracking poll to waste time on a candidate who’s done.
>Pat Skipper:
Does it strike anyone as strangely political for Rasmussen to drop Clinton from the poll? For now, she’s still a candidate. Is it now the place of pollsters to “put pressure” on candidates?
I take her at her word, by the way. I don’t think she drops out until June, if then.
In typical Clintonian style, she points out that Bill didn’t receive enough delegates to claim the nomination until mid-June of 1992 (not mentioning, of course, that California didn’t vote until June in ‘92).
May 9, 2008 - 4:32 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Nah. No riots in Denver. Some of these conservative bloggers were going on about that yesterday. They need a broader acquaintanceship …
>Ann:
It’s the righty wingnut dream. Tear gas in the streets of Denver!
May 9, 2008 - 4:33 pm Bill Bradley:Well, we can’t have that …
>Brasky:
I’ve been on the road for 4 days and a lack of sleep and an overabundance of really bad coffee is making me…honest.
May 9, 2008 - 4:34 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 1:26 pm
Oh, the Clinton Bubble is not impervious. I talked to some of ther old friends Tuesday night who get what’s going.
>Brasky:
Since the Bush and Clinton Bubbles seem thoroughly impenetrable to the outside world, I suggest we store spent nuclear fuel THERE rather than Yucca Mountain.
May 9, 2008 - 4:35 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 1:24 pm
I’m sure she’ll show up there. The primary’s on the 20th and she wants to get a big vote in Oregon.
>Brasky:
“Barack Obama is in Portland, Albany, and Eugene, Oregon.
Hillary Clinton is in Portland, Oregon…”
Hillary continues to ignore the cities with the #2 and #3 largest populations of Democrats in Oregon. She should get out before she gets thoroughly embarrassed in this predominately white, middle-class, Democratic state.
May 9, 2008 - 4:36 pm Bill Bradley:I’ve seen two editorial cartoonists use that old Monty Python bit as their own cartoons …
>Brasky:
Hillary vows to stay in race no matter what (video): http://tinyurl.com/5sxybr
May 9, 2008 - 4:38 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 12:56 pm
As Borat would say, not so much.
>huxley:
Anything’s possible in this election.
May 9, 2008 - 4:38 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 12:40 pm
What’s that about?
>Wilbur:
Wow. Confirmation hearings re: Hillary on the Supreme Court.
May 9, 2008 - 4:39 pm Bill Bradley:Now THERE’S some must-see reality TV!
May 9, 2008 - 11:57 am
Let’s see. Differences. Ted Kennedy wasn’t $25 million in debt. Ted Kennedy repped the liberal wing of the Democrats in an ideological fight with Carter (then something a moderate conservative). Ted Kennedy was the brother of absolute American legends who’d been assassinated less than 20 years earlier …
>huxley:
Say what you like about the Clintons, but they are fighters who have turned around many impossible-seeming positions. Maybe their luck has run out, as all things eventually do, but it shouldn’t be surprising that Hillary hasn’t given up yet.
In 1980 Ted Kennedy was losing almost 2:1 in delegates to Carter, but nonetheless he took the fight clear to the convention.
May 9, 2008 - 4:41 pm Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 11:01 am
If you listened closely to Edwards this morning, he said he voted for “him” in the primary.
He’s for Obama, his wife likes Hillary.
It doesn’t matter that much.
>Sacramento Solon:
Braskey,
And where’s my boy Edwards? He would do well to tap Obama early so he can still get extra credit.
——
Dear Mr. Back From the Road…
Our boy is still on the fence. Will admit to having voted in North Carolina, but won’t fess up to who he pulled the trigger for.
Perhaps he’s waiting for the party to start a draft Edwards movement! Only kidding…really, I am.
May 9, 2008 - 4:43 pm Hap Hazard:May 9, 2008 - 4:32 pm
They need a broader acquaintanceship — Too accurate and too funny.
May 9, 2008 - 5:00 pm Sacramento Solon:Mr B., sire, sir, your Fellowship, Greatness…
Being a very old person, I was fast asleep when Mr. Edwards was on the television this day. I got my information on-line, in print.
Sorry if I have sinned…I can go drinking if that will be enough to atone for them. Is that what you want???
May 9, 2008 - 5:01 pm Brasky:“It doesn’t matter that much.”
Except to us Edward backers - not in the grand scheme of things. It’s time to get off the fence, back Obama and move on. Since I’m calling everybody out, I’d thought I should do the same to my guy.
My third choice for president (Richardson) has already endorsed. Now if only my first (Edwards) and my fourth (Clinton) would do the same…
May 9, 2008 - 5:02 pm Ann:lol
Hap Hazard:
They need a broader acquaintanceship — Too accurate and too funny.
May 9, 2008 - 5:00 pm
May 9, 2008 - 6:53 pm marcus:Old Man Mac still kicks axe.
Thank God the Grand OLD Party didn’t nominate Mittens Romney.
May 9, 2008 - 7:17 pm Wilbur:The Justice Hillary fantasy just was something new visitor Huxley tossed out as something she might bargain for.
>>Bill Bradley: That’s what Obama is doing. I believe he is going to start a TV advertising campaign “contrasting” with McCain. He has the money to sustain it in a way that Democrats haven’t been able to in the past.
Here’s a counterintuitive thought borne of my abundant ignorance: what is the date or event which defines/cuts off “primary contributions” and “general” contributions? Does letting the train roll on awhile longer, pretending it’s still a contest, help Obama max maximum use of his sizeable “primary” warchest for what is becoming de facto “general” purposes, or is the money once collected fungible for either purpose?
(Did that question even make sense)?
May 9, 2008 - 11:31 pm sergei:I do not believe that America should be troubled by Russia. It was most impressive display in Red Square for Friday. We feel powerful, special now again.
May 10, 2008 - 1:29 am Jonas Blane:What video today?
May 10, 2008 - 8:19 am Bill Bradley:Indy.
May 10, 2008 - 10:01 am Bill Bradley:It all depends on how much America wants to box Russia’s ears.
>sergei:
I do not believe that America should be troubled by Russia. It was most impressive display in Red Square for Friday. We feel powerful, special now again.
May 10, 2008 - 10:02 am Bill Bradley:May 10, 2008 - 1:29 am
Oh. Right. Hillary doesn’t want to be stuck on the Supreme Court.
Her alternate move is VP or Senate Majority Leader.
>Wilbur:
The Justice Hillary fantasy just was something new visitor Huxley tossed out as something she might bargain for.
May 10, 2008 - 10:04 am Bill Bradley:Indeed.
>marcus:
Old Man Mac still kicks axe.
Thank God the Grand OLD Party didn’t nominate Mittens Romney.
May 10, 2008 - 10:04 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 7:17 pm
I like Edwards. Long story there. Suffice to say that the Edwards’ positioning of 2004 is an absolute winner in 2008.
>Brasky:
“It doesn’t matter that much.”
Except to us Edward backers - not in the grand scheme of things. It’s time to get off the fence, back Obama and move on. Since I’m calling everybody out, I’d thought I should do the same to my guy.
My third choice for president (Richardson) has already endorsed. Now if only my first (Edwards) and my fourth (Clinton) would do the same…
May 10, 2008 - 10:07 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 5:02 pm
Drink much Scotch. In honor of the Scots-Irish who may decide the Obama-McCain election.
>Sacramento Solon:
Mr B., sire, sir, your Fellowship, Greatness…
Being a very old person, I was fast asleep when Mr. Edwards was on the television this day. I got my information on-line, in print.
Sorry if I have sinned…I can go drinking if that will be enough to atone for them. Is that what you want???
May 10, 2008 - 10:08 am Bill Bradley:May 9, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Thank you.
They don’t get it.
>Hap Hazard:
They need a broader acquaintanceship — Too accurate and too funny.
May 10, 2008 - 10:09 am Ann:May 9, 2008 - 5:00 pm
Ridiculous wingnuttery.
>Bill Bradley:
Oh. Right. Hillary doesn’t want to be stuck on the Supreme Court.
Her alternate move is VP or Senate Majority Leader.
>Wilbur:
The Justice Hillary fantasy just was something new visitor Huxley tossed out as something she might bargain for.
May 10, 2008 - 10:04 am
May 10, 2008 - 10:31 am Brasky:“Suffice to say that the Edwards’ positioning of 2004 is an absolute winner in 2008.”
Yup…sigh…
But I’ve been pretty happy with my second choice thus far.
May 10, 2008 - 10:36 am Sacramento Solon:Bill Bradley:
Drink much Scotch. In honor of the Scots-Irish who may decide the Obama-McCain election.
——
Would it be okay to drink much Irish instead???
May 10, 2008 - 12:13 pm Chris M:Re: Edwards 2004 a sure winner in 2008
Please elaborate. Do you mean that “two Americas” would have won this year with Obama in the race or that he would have beaten Kerry, Dean et al this year? Or something else?
May 10, 2008 - 12:59 pm Bill Bradley:I mean that a mediagenic, center-left, nationally experienced Southern white guy mops the floor with the Republicans this year.
May 10, 2008 - 1:47 pm Bill Bradley:Only Jamesons. But there are no NWN endorsements.
>Sacramento Solon:
Bill Bradley:
Drink much Scotch. In honor of the Scots-Irish who may decide the Obama-McCain election.
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Would it be okay to drink much Irish instead???
May 10, 2008 - 1:48 pm Bill Bradley:May 10, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Obama’s not too shabby.
>Brasky:
“Suffice to say that the Edwards’ positioning of 2004 is an absolute winner in 2008.”
Yup…sigh…
But I’ve been pretty happy with my second choice thus far.
May 10, 2008 - 1:49 pm Sacramento Solon:May 10, 2008 - 10:36 am
Bill Bradley:
Only Jamesons. But there are no NWN endorsements.
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Other than Midleton Very Rare, which is made in Dublin, Jameson’s is the only Irish Whiskey the old feeble one consumes.
May 10, 2008 - 2:21 pm Bill Bradley:I’m more of a scotch and bourbon drinker. Though what I should be drinking is all the chilled green tea on hand …
May 10, 2008 - 2:43 pm Sacramento Solon:Love chilled green tea…so good. Mix it with a little scotch, bourbon and Irish and you have yourself one hell of a refreshing drink!
May 10, 2008 - 3:09 pm Jack Aubrey:Flush the Clintons.
May 10, 2008 - 3:54 pm marcus waldron:I’m sure most Americans like the yappers here are ignorant and/or caught up in bla bla about Obama’s minister, McCain’s wife, Arnold’s trips. The Red Square parade looks scarey to me.
May 10, 2008 - 5:01 pm Bill Bradley:Well, I don’t think it’s scary. But it is a lot more important.
May 10, 2008 - 6:06 pm Bill Bradley:See the Weekend Edition.
>Jack Aubrey:
Flush the Clintons.
May 10, 2008 - 6:06 pm Bill Bradley:May 10, 2008 - 3:54 pm
That, of course, defeats the purpose.
>Sacramento Solon:
Love chilled green tea…so good. Mix it with a little scotch, bourbon and Irish and you have yourself one hell of a refreshing drink!
May 10, 2008 - 6:07 pm Sacramento Solon:May 10, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Oh, you might have a point there!
May 10, 2008 - 8:17 pm Bill Bradley:Incidentally, NWN passed 62,000 comments sometime in the past week.
May 15, 2008 - 2:16 pm Janet Reno:Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.
Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.
Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.
Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON –
Recently, Obama’s campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming Tax Fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM “PATWANG-FWEEE” and disclose Obama’s MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said “truly epitomized greatness.” That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago’s Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Oddly enough, Barack Obama, and his mentor Rev. Wright, failed to mention Planned Parenthood, an organization established by eugenicist Margaret Sanger expressly for the purpose of black genocide. The Obelus — Kiss-A-Cuss and “GLORK” black demagoguery of Obama’s Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X, foreshadows X - PATRIOT Obama (the nuclear AGA KHAN) - the Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), translated “Spear of the Nation” - as the bringer of a “new politics,” rising above the old Washington ways of expediency. It’s hard to think of an act more blatantly expedient than renouncing Wright when his show, once done from the press club instead of the pulpit, could no longer be “contextualized” as something whites could not understand and only Obama could explain in all its complexity. Pope Benedict XVI quoted Alexis de Tocqueville and Franklin Roosevelt on the positive role of faith in society, used the term “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin for “Out of Many, One.”), and extrapolated America’s long history of interfaith cooperation efforts in his speech to America. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke “GLORK” Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo “GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA” Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! –
OBAM YOU’RE NO JFK –
“GLORK” Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: “Tales Calculated To Drive You.” He is a MUSLIM “Glork” He’s MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM “PATWANG-FWEEE” and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake “GLORK” Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo “GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA” Police Department Buffalo Creek.
Michelle Obama should be ashamed.
“GLORK” Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago’s Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband — the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster — Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-Complex of Barack and Michelle’s relationship with MUSLIM “PATWANG-FWEEE” Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama’s Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV– AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
“God damn America” - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
“God bless America” - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton –
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast — failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beast-’ist Michelle, his jackanapes’ excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas Our Father Our King — black rage, and “GLORK” black demagoguery of Obama’s Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI — FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM “Glork” It’s time to introduce this false, fake “GLORK” Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo “GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA” Police Department Buffalo Creek. He’s MAD!!!
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
THE SPEECH –
The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama’s speech takes credit for Ashley’s dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic “I Have A Dream” speech. In Obama’s speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama’s grandmother share; represents Obama’s self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama’s Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn — a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama’s speech is a brilliant failure.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
MUSLIM LIES –
The ILLIGITIAMTE MUSLIM MESSIA has blundered yet again!!! The self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, lied about the politics of his campaign. The danger involved with this self-aggrandizing, -a-hoop, Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster — Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama is that — “Like Father Like Son” X - PATRIOT Obama (the nuclear AGA KHAN), is constantly wanting to impress America with “…his incapacity for sound judgment.” In 2005, Sen. Obama voted for the Dick Cheney energy bill, which Cheney wrote in secret with the Exxon Mobil oil industry. Hillary Clinton opposed Cheney’s energy bill, has a plan to eliminate oil industry tax breaks, and would require oil companies to contribute to a $50 billion strategic energy fund to jump-start research and investment in clean energy technologies. On top of the horrible crime Obama executed in Harlem, the fact is, we have to hear it from Karl Rove about Obama’s latest Campaign Crisis.
“GLORK” Top Ten Obama Lies:
1. Obam said his parents met at the Selma march — Reality: He was born 4 years before that.
2. Obam said he was a constitutional law professor — Reality: . . . Obama Made This False Claim In His 2004 Senate Race. “Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama’s primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school..
3. Obam said he spoke fluent Indonesian as a child — Reality: . . . Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet another Phi Beta Krakatau lie from Obama. Those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews. Israel la Pareira Darmawan, Obama’s 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. Truth-be-told: Obama’s Indonesian teachers say Kaku-Pooh.
4. Obam said he was involved in community asbestos and housing project for the poor — Reality: . . . Didn’t happen. This was the basis for Barack and Michelle’s claim, that he was a community activist on the South and East Side of Chicago. Usher United Arab Emirates (UAE) A+ lie both he and his twenty-four (24) mule-team, Hus-suey loving wife Michelle Obama have been claiming in the campaign — Reality: The Chicago Newspaper’s Obelus — Kiss-A-Cuss:…NO-MAMA.
5. Obam said in his book that he received his racial awakening at age nine reading a Life/Ebony Magazine story about a black man who was scarred trying to dye his skin white — Reality: . . . Didn’t happen. Both Magazines (Life and Ebony), and the Rev. Wright and Farrakhan MUSLIM Trumpet Newsmagazine say, just didn’t happen.
6. Obam’s Campaign Didn’t Have The “Technical Capacity” To Produce The “1984” Ad:
Obama: “But it’s not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don’t have the technical capacity to create something like that.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 3/24/07) — Reality:…The Creator Admitted All It Took Was A “Sunday Afternoon” On His Mac. Phillip de Vellis: “I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.”
7. Obam’s Campaign Claimed His High School Friend Tried To Extort Money From Them:
“According To The Obama Campaign, [Obama’s Punahou Classmate Keith] Kakugawa Explicitly Raised The Possibility That He Could Make Up False Stories About Obama, Implying He Would Do So If The Campaign Did Not Give Him Money.” (Maurice Possley, Kirsten Scharnberg and Ray Gibson, — Reality: “…An Old Friend’s Troublesome Return,” Chicago Tribune, 3/25/07).
8. Obam voted to bring low-cost foreign labor into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — Reality: . . . This was a slap in the face against the African-Americans who were displaced in that city. Obama also voted to place Michael Chertoff, the man responsible for the Katrina catastrophe, in charge of Homeland Security. Obama voted for Senate-Bills that gave Blackwater the funding they needed to shoot the folks of New Orleans who were only trying to save their own lives. Inextricably, the towel head voted to allow Michael Chertoff to waive all applicable laws, including murder, torture, kidnaping, and he suppoted water-boarding.
9. Obam voted more than five times for USA-PATRIOT ACT renewal — Reality: . . . This is a Senate-Bill patently offensive to most Americans. City after city has passed resolutions condemning USA-PATRIOT ACT. Passively or reflexively, Obama chose to side with tyranny over freedom and Bush over the folks on this issue. The Real ID Act, which would allow Michael Chertoff to declare martial law and imprison Americans, was supported by ex-patriot Obama, as noted above.
10. Obam is not a MAD MAN. Sen. Obama has not exaggerated the disconnection with . . .”The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth” –Ex. xxxiv. 6; or extolled his venomous-vexatious-Vesuvius MUSLIM madrassahs’-faux-pas on us. Sen. Obama Is not involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor, now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO); or Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley. Sen. Obama is not involved with- nor has Sen. Obama exhibited any nuclear security, bribery, money payoffs, or cronyism in the state of Illinois; or criminal activities related to the BIG HALIBURTAN and V.P. Cheney’s Halliburton bribery case; or any political misjudgment in his escalating Campaign Crisis. Sen. Obama does not take money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists or state lobbyists. “GLORK” Sen. Obama Is not involved with any Hoax or Oxfam volunteers and HIV– AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed. Sen. Obama is not associated with Exiled “God damn America” SOULJAH JIHAD — Rev. Jeremiah Wright, MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA — Louis Farrakhan and black-rage demagoguery; or Obama’s Mea Culpa-Apologia; or Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; Sen. Obama has not exulted the virtue of being an aggrieved black man. Sen. Obama does not accept political contributions from terrorists. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the October Surprise: “X-Files” — The 1980 election scandal exposed… the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and aging [VX] Vietnam-era Weather Underground Radical Terrorist William Ayers. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the November Surprise: “X-X-Files” — The 2008 election scandal exposed… the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam and Solar-Solecism-Sista-Soljah-Souljah-Jihad — AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA — Louis Farrakhan, and Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI — FATIMA EXTREMIST underground-money connection to Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Sen. Obama is not a separatist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast is not a liberal-leftist-sexist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast — did not fail the Illinois Bar Exam and trot out her Marxist leftist-separatist-racist Socialist X box - Soapbox; X - PATRIOT Obama Is not the new AGA KHAN. Sen. Obama is not a self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box. “GLORK” Obama executed no crime in Harlem. Obama is Not America’s Poison — Reality:…He’s Radio-Active.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
NUCLEAR SOULJAH JIHAD — OBAMA CAMPAIGN CRISIS
The Republicans’ disengagement (media bias), if not disillusionment, with the economic campaign issues is borne out by the fact that many more Republicans are able to explain, extinguish, and excoriate the name Barrack Obama with the term (JIHAD), than can name Bush/Dick Cheney and McCain — as the Big Oil — BIG HALLIBURTAN politicians expanding GOP IRAQ WAR ideology, and Republican White House Party Elders’ GI Bill of Rights for the 21st century IRAQ WAR ECONOMY. Even among Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, Ben Holt, Cotton-Club to Lenox Club- a.k.a. “The Breakfast Club,” Staples Singers In Ghana 1971: “When Will We Get Paid,” Paul Robeson, DMX or Jay-Z . . . excerpts from the infamous Malcolm X speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” inexperienced Obama and conservative Republicans: Clinton is much more visible than GOP presumptive candidate John McCain towards affecting positively the important economic issues facing America’s middle class economy. Next, Speaking at an awards banquet for the Society of Professional Journalists on April 4, “Phoenix New Times” and Village Voice Media Inc. Executive Editor Michael Lacey used the “N-word” to refer to a former colleague who voted for the godless, money-laundering, call-girl-reach-around loving liberal McCain, who collaborated with the Viet Cong, hides a Rx- cyanide pill in his check, and secretly fathered a black child with a Unicorn Crêpe Suzette look-alike, who turned out to become — you guessed it — Barack Obama?
When asked who they would vote for in the general election for president of the United States, the natural pendulum swing in America is approximately 79% of Republicans named Hillary Clinton as their choice. Reasons for Obama’s Campaign Crisis “GLORK” Campaign Crisis include:
No excuses. Sen. Obama accepted more money from oil company executives last month than any other candidate, while he ran an ad saying he didn’t take money from oil companies. Context of ad extends that oil money taken by IL Sen. Barrack Obama from BIG HALIBURTAN spells bad MO-Jo for Obama Campaign Crisis and RX for U.S. stock x-change = VX for U.S. economy. Sen. Obama’s giveaways to the oil industry are not limited to tax breaks. They also include provisions like royalty relief that are worth billions. And many of the tax “increases” are simply extensions of existing taxes that do not impose any additional burden on oil companies. Exactly half of giveaways were not tax provisions. For instance, the oil companies received billions in royalty waivers. Obama voted for Big Oil — BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney’s 2005 energy bill containing “billions in dollars in giveaways to the oil companies.” [ Ludacris ]
Big Oil — BIG HALLIBURTAN — OBAM 50 Cent LIES –
EXAMPLE:
Sections 344-345
Waives royalty payments for drilling for some natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Section 346
Waives royalty payments for drilling in offshore Alaska.
Sections 353-4
Waives royalty payments for gas hydrate extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf and public land in Alaska.
Section 383
Allows oil companies drilling in federal land off the coast of a particular state to pay the state 44 cents of every dollar it would have paid to the federal government for the privilege of drilling on federal land.
“Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show. Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month. At least $140,000 has come in chunks of between $1,000 and $2,300, the maximum permitted under federal law.” [LA Times, 4/24/08]
“Obam has more holes in him than Swiss-Cheese.” [CNN’s “Politics.com,” 4/01/08]
Obam presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obam has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam extracted $666,357 from Exxon-Mobil. [factcheck.org]
Obam extorted $213,000 from Exelon- a nuclear plant operator in Illinois. [truthdig.com]
Obam has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
NUCLEAR “GLORK” SOULJAH JIHAD — CAMPAIGN CRISIS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&q=Fitna&total=1413&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
WASHINGTON — Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened.
“GLORK” Sen. Barack Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month, particularly among men and upper-income voters, as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The survey suggests that Mr. Obama’s proximity to Chicago, Democrat of Illinois, may have been at something of a peak in February, propelled by a string of primary and caucus victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and that perceptions of him are dramatically trending downward.
Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seventeen percentage points, to 42 percent, since the last Times/CBS News survey, in late February. While that figure is steadily declining, this dramatic decline came in a month during which he endured withering attacks from Mrs. Clinton, and responded to reports that his exiled former pastor had made politically inflammatory statements from his church’s pulpit in Chicago, and swirling questions about Harlem, and the criminal money generating underworld of 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam Mosque No. 7; and what Barack Obama did in Harlem — from which he cannot extricate himself.
The events of the last month (with the possible exception of Muslim Jihad).appear to have fundamentally altered the race for the party’s nomination and provided Mrs. Clinton’s campaign extensive evidence of a collapse in Mr. Obama’s standing or an overwhelming preference voiced for Mrs. Clinton by Democratic and Republican voters in polls: — perplexing developments in Obama’s ongoing Campaign Crisis, that could be used to persuade uncommitted super-delegates to sign on with Hillary Clinton.
Twenty-six percent of the general electorate voters who heard of the Apologia speech that Mr. Obama the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama gave to try to deal with the controversy over Obama’s separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago’s Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah, said it made them dislike him. And 74 percent of Democrats and Republicans said Mr. Obama’s Campaign Crisis “GLORK” Campaign Crisis “God damn America” - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. “God bless America” - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton… stems from the fact that he shows continued misjudgment for even the most challenging problems. Next, the overall opinion of people in the news this year; Mr. Obama lacks the decisive capability to lead, willingness to listen, conviction and courage. Mr. Obama is no Alexander Manly when it comes to sexist-racist issues, and he uses false charges and exaggerated hate-the Saxon-race claims to play politics with national security.
The junior senator from Illinois has been doing a lot of explaining about the inexcusable company he has kept for the last 17 years or so. The complexity of Obama’s extremism is that it is all about him. He’s the change… as in La change, c’est moi! (”I am the State”) Exactly. Barack Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX, and his wife Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast — the Marxist Leninist Separatist-Racist Socialist X box - SoapboX come across as condescending Ivy League black rage liberationists. A politician can not chose the family he has However; he can chose the pastor he keeps. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has influenced Obama’s liberal-elitist-separatist-racist Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad views on a variety of subjects. This flare-up may have exacerbated what happened to Obama over the years, as his MUSLIM radicalism and demonize the White-Saxon-race, may expel the same Rev. Wright belief — that America and its US allies brought on 9/11. In a sincere re-examination of his world-view, Obama’s Mea Culpa-Apologia says this guy is like an uncle to him. To Obama the excursus of AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA — Louis Farrakhan black rage, is grounded in extremist-racist hate Israel world-view, and extols Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s praise of Barack; while white resentment of Obama’s black-rage demagoguery is exaggerated and exploited. But shouldn’t his long term relationship with these despicable characters call into question at the very least Obama’s judgment? From Waxahache, TX.– to Axis-of-Evil, Mr. Obama lied about the politics of his campaign, and knew about Ex-Pastor Rev. Wright’s MUSLIM Militant Farrakhan Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI — FATIMA EXTREMIST mob connection to Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Colfax: Sen. Obama on Lobbyists –
“Considering that Sen. Obama voted to suspend the gas tax three times when gas cost less than $2 a gallon and has an energy lobbyist chairing his Indiana campaign, it’s hard to take his latest criticisms very seriously. Senator Obama wants Americans to pay the gas tax but Senator Clinton thinks the big oil companies should pay it this summer.” - Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer
Colfax: Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon. Next, Kip Tew, the top advisor to Obama’s Indiana campaign is an energy lobbyist. Tew said recently, “I’m not running away from the fact that I’m a lobbyist. I have a healthy client list, and I’m proud of it.”
May 3, 2008–APEX– 2:11:35 PM #
The choice is simple: Senator Obama wants the American people to pay the gas tax this summer but Senator Clinton thinks Big Oil should.
The Clinton gas tax holiday is financed exclusively through a tax on windfall profits from oil companies and keeps the Highway Transportation Trust fund intact. Hillary opposed a plan in 2000 for a gas tax holiday because it was financed with transportation funds.
Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon.
MAY 2, 2008–APEX– 11:54:21 AM #
“When it comes to lobbyists, Senator Obama’s words might sound nice but voters need to make sure they read the fine print. Despite trying to give the impression that he has no relationship with lobbyists or special interests, the reality is that Senator Obama takes money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists and state lobbyists.”
Statement from Clinton Deputy Communications Director, Phil Singer
Sen. Obama Has Ties to Lobbyists in His Presidential Bid.
Public Citizen: 10 of Sen. Obama’s bundlers have been federal lobbyists. The Public Citizen report listed the following ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists: Frank Clark, Commonwealth Edison; Scott Harris, Harris Wiltshire and Grannis; Allan J. Katz, Akerman Senterfitt; Robert S. Litt, Arnold & Porter; Thomas J. Perrelli, Jenner and Block; Thomas A. Reed, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; Paul N. Roth, Schulte Roth & Zabel; Miriam Sapiro, Summit Strategies; Alan Solomont, Solomont Bailis Ventures; and Tom E. Wheeler, Core Capital Partners. [Public Citizen, 1/29/08]
Sen. Obama and his thugs extort money from employees of firms that lobby and has lobbyists as advisers. “But those who lobby for a living say it’s not that simple, and even Obama’s stance shows some flexibility. He won’t take money from federal lobbyists but accepts money from employees of firms and corporations that lobby, and he uses lobbyists and other government relations professionals as advisers… Obama has also used major fundraisers who are registered lobbyists on the state level. And he uses registered federal lobbyists such as Broderick Johnson, who lobbies for AT&T and Shell Oil, among others, as a campaign adviser. Because Johnson isn’t giving money to Obama, his name won’t show up in Federal Election Commission records.” [Chicago Tribune, 2/10/08]
Bloomberg: Five of [Obama’s] ten biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington. “While Obama doesn’t accept money from registered federal lobbyists, five of his 10 biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington…Among Obama’s top donors were employees of the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, who gave $105,750 in the first quarter. The firm was paid $4.5 million last year” for lobbying the federal government. [Bloomberg, 6/7/07]
Obam presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obam has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam extracted $666,357 from Exxon-Mobil. [factcheck.org]
Obam extorted $213,000 from Exelon- a nuclear plant operator in Illinois. [truthdig.com]
Obam voted for the Big Oil — BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney’s 2005 Energy Bill, Hillary opposed. [H.R. 6, Vote #213, 07/29/05]
Prior to His Presidential Campaign, Sen. Obama extorted Money from Lobbyists and PACs
Obam’s Leadership PAC includes John Gorman of Texas-based Tejas Securities, a major supporter of Senate Democrats as well as the Bush presidential campaigns. [truthdig.com]
1996-2004: $296,000 of the $461,000 Sen. Obama raised as a state senator came from PACs, corporate contributions or unions. “But behind Obama’s campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama’s campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator in Illinois, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant. In Obama’s eight years in the Illinois Senate, from 1996 to 2004, almost two-thirds of the money he raised for his campaigns — $296,000 of $461,000 — came from PACs, corporate contributions, or unions, according to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and many other corporate interests, the records show.” [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Sen. Obama raised $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs. “Obama’s US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. His $1.3 million from PACs represents 8 percent of what he has raised overall.” [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
FITNA: Nostradamus often used anagrams: barack hUSsein oBAMa. The capitalized letters spell MABUS–Nostradamus name for the antichrist.
Remember–God is good, and is in time, on time–every time.
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40’s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal…. the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything.
Is it OBAM ??
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