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The following memo was leaked to PJM anonymously from a server tracked to a hotel in downtown Denver.

by
Stephen Green

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August 14, 2008 - 1:21 am
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DETAIL: It is NOT true that devotees who want a picture of The One must rake his lawn. That’s only if they want it autographed. But don’t mention that last part. Also don’t mention that thing with the yard signs we had printed up in China. Who knew how flammable those were going to be? Anyway, stick to the denial, and don’t elaborate under any condition. The Boss has gotten into trouble doing just that (remember His promise to meet all those dictators?); we don’t need to make more trouble for Him.

DENY: Not every DNC attendee will have to detail His car. Just the ones who insist on wearing stupid hats and anything in excess of three (tastefully sized; see my 4/20/08 memo) lapel pins. It’s also not true Clinton delegates will be forced to park their cars right next to the Designated Protest Pen. The Clintons caught wind of that idea when Plouffe first floated it — find that mole! — and so now we’ve got to let BOTH of them speak during His convention. The Democratic Party doesn’t belong to the Clintons anymore, and we can’t give them any chances to make people forget that it’s ours.

DISTRACT: Those gun-toting religious nuts at Focus on the Family down in Colorado Springs stepped in it, too. They had an announcement on their website asking all their people to “pray for rain” on the night of The One’s big speech. Remind the cattle, gently, that Mile High isn’t a dome, and do they really want to get their nice hair and suits wet? The fuss got so bad at Focus that they took down the page. Tell the cattle — er, press — to “focus” on THAT. (ABC News is already carrying water for us on this one. If you thought The Note was in the bag for Lurch in ’04, wait’ll you see what Rick Klein has hinted he’ll do for US in the next 90 days.

Remember, it’s vital we keep a lid on this. I don’t want to see this all over the web tomorrow. The Clintons are paying dearly for their own leaked memos at The Atlantic, and that’s not the kind of trouble we need this close to His ascension.

Stick to the script!

-DA

David Axelrod

END DOCUMENT

Pajamas Media hasn’t been able to verify to our complete satisfaction the authenticity of this document. But we figure, if it’s good enough for CBS News…

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  1. 1. Brian

    Wow!Trouble in Obamaland?Some of those comments were from longtime supporters too.Looks like Obama really is an empty suit and all must bow to the Messiah!LOL!Hey whatever Barrack Obama.Maybe ill do a raindance on that day…

  2. 2. Boris

    Every time I think I see the stupidest Pajamas Media post, you guys outdo yourselves. Well played.

    Gosh, asking someone to volunteer to get a ticket is so wrong. It’s slavery, I tell you.

  3. 3. Daerken D Duck

    This “document” is far too snarky about its own agenda to be genuine in my opinion.

  4. 4. Sheila

    Folks – you gotta click onto the link and just read the comments – the Libs are hilarious fighting among themselves (honour among thieves – I think not!). They hate each other as much as they hate Republican/Conservative.

    I wonder has there been a study done to determine whether Democrats/(Big L) Liberals have higher blood pressure…It’s just a thought.

  5. 5. TomJW

    Funny! Funny that some people are taking it seriously too.

  6. 6. dan

    I have an idea: let’s show our contempt and opinion of Obama – let’s comment on him, if you will – by Not Talking About Him Anymore. All this idiot inspires is po-mo discussions about popularity and media representation. I thought we buried that trash during the 80s.

    Just a suggestion.

  7. 7. Sully

    Don’t quit your day job Stephen.

  8. 8. The Wizard

    “The One” and his 300 advisors strike again! Just confirms the “empty suit” label and the naivety and idiocracy of the entire Obama campaign. How anyone could vote for this pandering fool is beyond comprehension…he can’t speak without a carefully scripted speech and teleprompter, he has to continually explain his position on issues (which changes constantly) and the man is an elitist and a RACIST! God help us all.

  9. 9. Paul From Hamburg

    Now dan, we obviously can’t stop talking about Obama; he is just too important. On the other hand, it is also clear that “Barack Hussein Obama” is not a name to be used trivially; realistically, we should only say the name if we are addressing him directly. In other circumstances, we could simply use that “O” hand gesture. e.g. “Last night, I was completing my mandatory reading of the autobiography written by [makes "O" hand gesture].” In print, we could simply type the letter “O”. In order to avoid confusion with the other wise, powerful and benevolent “O” from Chicago, we would need to use a special font to create a skinny O. Of course, would also have to change the font color from the default of black.

  10. This “document” is far too snarky about its own agenda to be genuine in my opinion.

    Ya think?

  11. 11. jay

    How bout that Michael Phelps.

    Someone had to say it

  12. I know a few things about fonts, and I’m pretty sure this document is genuine.

  13. 13. Joe

    It would be SIX hours of volunteering, probably over three days….that would mean 6, 6, 6. Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!! Scary! Dobson is right. Obama is the Anti Christ. But wait Dobson hates McCain. Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!! We can’t stop the Anti Christ. It is all predestined.

  14. 14. Joe Buzz

    I dont know why these Progressives are complaining about having to work for 6 hours to get a ticket. Michelle told them months ago that her hubby was going to make them work.

  15. 15. NC Doc

    OK – so all humor aside we’re working with some folks who are PO’d that they’ll need to volunteer. This after we spent a day (or more!) going on about whether or not Oilbama’s CLB is legit.

    What are we doing here, people? Pull your fingers OUT OF YOUR EARS! I might just be a simple country doctor, but I can read just fine – thank you. Oilbama is polling ahead of Kerry ’04 (!!?!?) in FOURTY ONE STATES. Senator McCain is polling ahead of Bush ’04 in only THREE STATES!!?!?! Scott Rasmussen has as much as said they’re tilting the polls to make Senator McCain “appear” competitive until the convention. Coburn has told candidates that coming to the convention would be a “waste of time”!?!?!

    We’re in a full-blown meltdown here, and the best we can do is fixate on Oilbama’s CLB or whether or not some Dims are mad about how they’ll get a ticket to see “The One”?!?! Tell me again how we’re going to take this SOB down, because right now, I don’t see it: not while we’re fixated on conspiracy theories and easy pot-shot jokes about angry Dims.

    Sorry to yell – this sham of an election is just getting me really worked up. And we need to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!

  16. 16. Heather

    Obama is scarey and must be stopped. How much evidence do people need? The creepy “Kids for Obama” campaign (on his web site … ‘have a cool vote-for-Obama party this summer!’), the “Obama Training Camps” (on his web site … ‘learn how to intimidate the old broads from League of Women Voters at the polls’), voting for FISA and encouraging his goons to hack opponents’ computers (just practice for electronic voting machines).

    And oh yeah, as for the ‘Muslim’ and the ‘birth certificate’ smears, check out this document completed by his step-father in which his name is given as “Barry Soetoro” and his religion “Islam”. If the bitter white kooks are wrong, I’d like to see Barry stand up and explain this to the American people:

    http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D

  17. 17. Pope Adam I

    Join the Church of Obama the Redeemer (on Facebook) if you are one of the many millions who have come to know that Barack Obama (Victory Be Upon Him) is the One. There you can read about His many miracles, such as appearing on a piece of toast.

    Barack bless you,

    Pope Adam I

  18. 18. Boris is boring

    Boris – are you sure you can refer to slavery in a comment on a post about Barack “PBUH” Obama? That smacks of racism.

  19. 19. tanstaafl

    …and the man is an elitist

    No no no, Michelle O was on camera yesterday claiming her man couldn’t be elitist because he’s the product of single Kansas mom (after…dad abandoned said mom in Hawaii to resume studies stateside.)

    Michelle’s point, I guess, that nobody of such humble origins could possibly be “elitist”.

    I would beg (beg !) to differ with Michelle’s rationale. Nobody who “analyzes” the hoi polloi as Barack did for the San Francisco wealthy could possibly be anything but an elitist.

    (for the record, Barack’s dad exhibited enormous grandiosity during his turbulent life, so maybe the elitist syndrome is genetic :)

    Here are some other recent goings on at a Denver hotel. The “Canadian man” (29-year-old Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, of Ottawa, Canada) isn’t identified as a Somali Muslim anywhere in the article. Hey, it’s Denver.

    Pound Of Cyanide Found In Denver Hotel

  20. 20. pappy

    that hand signal is for the asschewing his crap on a stick groupies get every time they screw up. i hope he keeps the same ones til election time. by then, he will have lost and their collective asses will look like a meteor crater.

  21. 21. Kevin

    Joe Buzz was right, here is her quote:

    “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

  22. 22. HRPKathy

    Kevin,
    Are you sure it says “uninformed”? I think BO meant “ununiformed”.

  23. 23. tanstaafl

    Barack didn’t require any quid pro quo from the Germans to listen to him bloviate.

    I call foul.

    He’s willing to rent gigantic Invesco stadium so more folks can gather to listen to the bloviation.

    I call Hitleresque.

    Generally, I think “access” to Barack Obama (who does and who doesn’t get it/have it) is a big part of his mental make up.

    He has refused to condescend to one on one with McCain (in “Townhalls”) to protect his image. He doesn’t do well speaking extemporaneously, as was evident in debates with Hillary.

    This is really pathetic, considering that this way ! too long (years’ long) election cycle is actually drawing to a close and Obama won’t debate his adversary.

  24. 24. Hillary4me

    The Dem Party never belonged to the Clintons and it shouldn’t belong to Obama. The years I’ve put into it, it belonged to the people! Sad, sad times.

  25. 25. Kevin

    Someone posted awhile back that this MO quote sounded like Mao’s wife Jiang Qing:

    “There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
    “I was Chairman Mao’s dog. What he said to bite, I bit.”

    It seems that I will need more popcorn for this event :)

  26. 26. Sandra M

    NC Doc asked:

    >> Tell me again how we’re going to take this SOB down, because right now, I don’t see it: not while we’re fixated on conspiracy theories and easy pot-shot jokes about angry Dims.

    After seeing the man who brought John Kerry down in 04, on FNC, I bought his book, OBAMA NATION on Amazon. I underlined and taped the most important material (from primary sources) and have been passing it on to Republican and Democrat friends.

    I then saw the author Jerome Corsi on Hannity & Colmes and he made all the points I could have wished him to make. (Corsi’s a former college debater). There’s another book on Obama by David Freddoso with some of the same info, but when I saw Freddoso on TV he had a deer in the headlights look and said nothing that would motivate anyone to buy his book or vote against Obama.

    I consider buying the Corsi book a contribution to this year’s campaign. And apparently many other people thought the same way. It reached the #1 spot on Amazon and The New York Times, which forced the Times to write an article attacking the book, which, of course, tells people who might be interested that such a book exists. Not all NYT readers are far left libs.

    Keeping the Corsi and Freddoso books on the best seller list will motivate more people to buy the books and get info out on Obama that the media may not be able to suppress till after the election. The Kenya story, the Chicago connections, etc.

    Whether Obama was a Muslim as a child doesn’t matter. That Tony Rezko, his convicted partner in putting up shoddy public housing in Chicago, is a Syrian with questionable Middle East connections does matter. That Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, made a deal with the minority Muslims (15% ) to institute sharia law in 85% Christian Kenya if he won the election, and his murder of 50 Black Christians by setting them ablaze ina Pentecostal church after he lost does matter. I had Googled the story but Corsi had more devestating detail about Obama’s campaigning for his cousin in Kenya in 2006. (photos on Google). Corsi takes the story further. Obama prevailed on Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice to force the pro-Western government to “power-share” with Odinga, educated in East Germany, Odinga is now “Prime Minister.” The muslims control the Sudan and Somalia. If Kenya falls into their hands they control the horn of Africa.

    And that’s how you defeat Obama. With facts and figures about what an Obama presidency will mean.

  27. 27. goy

    Hillary4me, every day I watch this circus play out among those who’ve all but destroyed the Party I once supported… and every day I thank God for taking a moment out of His busy day to wake me up.

    DNC bumbling and in-fighting is only going to get worse, as its members impotently vent their rage, born (as anger always is) out of fear – fear from the realization that they’ve backed the wrong horse and must now double down because the die’s cast. Case in point: the overblown, knee-jerk reaction they spewed at the very notion of Hillary having been robbed of the nomination by the ego and poor judgment of a lying shyster who turned out to be unelectable. But of course this rage seems to be perpetual, doesn’t it? Something to do with backing the wrong ideology, perhaps?

    Legacy media continues its wholly irrational rejection of reason, common sense and journalistic accountability as they actively ignore Obama’s lies, disassociations, ineptitude and clearly racist rhetoric. Ignore? What am I saying? They’ve celebrated these things. But whether they realize it or not, it’s becoming clear that Obama’s shills in the media and elsewhere are very likely setting him up for an electoral faceplant the likes of which we haven’t enjoyed since America violently rejected Fritz Mondale’s liberal agenda back in 1984. At least Fritzy carried his own home state. That was better than Al Gore could manage, much to his lasting shame, and much to the BDS-afflicted Anti-Bush Party’s… perpetual rage.

    NC Doc, media opinion polls are hardly a concern. Some of you may remember how President Reagan endured almost four straight years of media and liberal abuse over “Reaganomics”, tax cuts, peace through strength and not kowtowing to unions – much as President Bush and the Republican Party has endured throughout the last 8 years. Some of you may remember that Mondale was the “clear front-runner” (read: media darling) early on. We know how that story ended.

    The past few weeks’ results of AOL’s running straw poll (which look eerily familiar) may very well portend an American version of the “Anbar Awakening”, here, in 2008. If nothing else, November will be a very telling indicator as to how willing Americans are to “pull an Obama”, and throw their country’s founding principles and Constitution under the bus.

  28. 28. NC Doc

    Sandra M: I wish i shared your faith on Obama Nation. Did you see how it was handled on the MSM last night? They more or less called Corsi a crackpot as the lead-in! Whether or not it’s gotten to number one as the result of a “bulk buy,” that’s the story and they’re sticking to it. Yes, people will buy it and more of us will know the truth it provides, but it’s preaching to the choir if the undecideds or independents are being told it’s full of lies and never pick it up. Look at the NYT review, for instance (yes, I know! but stick with me) – they say straight out that there are four or so “inaccuracies” to preface the review. Now I’d argue with a one or two, but on the others – Corsi should have known better than to throw them softballs or easy-to-fix errors, because I tell you what: most folks will hear that and just skip it unless EVERY ONE can be countered. If he’d been more careful, I think we’d be looking at a much bigger phenomenon than what we’re gonna be left with. As it is – it looks like a wash from my vantage point, again, bearing in mind that we need to be talking to the MIDDLE right now if we’re gonna counter Oilbama’s celebrity status. I’m right there with you re: facts and figures, but i don’t for the life of me see how we’re gonna break through the NOISE!!!

    Goy: sorry, but AOL’s poll doesn’t hold mustard – internet only, for one. What I’m talking about is the state-level polling (try RCP’s composite Battleground States polling chart), which i’ve also seen compared to the comparable ’04 data. People, we’re on the verge of LOSING VIRGINIA at this point. VIRGINIA!! Here in NC, Senator McCain does not have *ANY* field offices open – at least on my side of the state. What in the world are we doing – ignoring NC like we haven’t been inundated with Dims already?!!?! How do we get the electoral votes if we’re not doing anything in states that SHOULD BE OURS!!!

    Again, I’m sorry everyone, but I’m maxed out to Senator McCain’s campaign and for the life of me, I don’t know what’s being done with that money.

  29. 29. Fred

    This is just another case of another blog that doesn’t actually write or break news and has nothing to say, but looks through the real news from real journalists (whom they claim to despise, but who would choke for material after posting their mother’s muffin recipes) for anything to keep their traffic flowing. Pajamas media is a misnomer – this is just more white noise in the conservative blogosphere – it means nothing…

  30. 30. Fred

    From my last post. Check the masthead of this blog – they claim they’re an alternative to the MSM, yet not one of their “writers” is a journalist – and, without the MSM to feed them their stories, this would basically be a blog about nothing. I challange the PM folk to spend ONE week without posting MSM regurgitation and see if they can actually BREAK a story – like drudge or even the lowest of the print media papers they love to deride but for whom they owe their very existence. heck – forget about one week – one day – Can Glen or Jennifer or Rick actually replace the media they disdain? Can they offer original stories and original coverage? Can they break a single peice of news by themselves? In fact, are they anything else but a conservative echo chamber, useless to the greater society at large? let’s face it – without the press these clowns have nothing.

  31. 31. Fred

    “Corsi should have known better than to throw them softballs or easy-to-fix errors, because I tell you what: most folks will hear that and just skip it unless EVERY ONE can be countered. ”

    That’s exactly what the blogosphere does – particularly the right wing blogs – they look for any inconsistency – any error, anything they can grab hold of as a way to discredit the greater story. If Corsi left easy to fix errors, what makes you think the tough stuff has any credibility.

    the guy is a clown and has been proven one…

  32. 32. Fred

    “and the man is an elitist and a RACIST.”

    Right, he only owns one home to McCain’s 10, he’s never been flown arounf in Chaz keating’s private Jet – he doesn;t own his OWn private jet, nor has he appeared in numerous TV and movie slots – oh, and he never used the word Gook to describe the Vietnemese…

  33. 33. Fred

    “He’s willing to rent gigantic Invesco stadium so more folks can gather to listen to the bloviation.

    I call Hitleresque.”

    Really so what do you call the 20 or 30 people who want to listen to McCain speak?
    Boring? Lame? Unappealing?
    Pipsqueakesque?

    it’s amazing that the right wing now counts popularity as a negative…

    if that’s true, you have the perfect candidate in John McCain…

  34. 34. barrybarryquitecontrary.com

    Whether this document is factual or not, it seems to me that the basic premise fits neatly into what what the liberal socialists at every level communicate in word and deed. Maybe it’s funny because it’s accurate.

  35. 35. Louise

    NC Doc, Sandra M, Shelia and the rest of you racist commies:

    Keep your vile hatred going. It shows the world what republicans are really like.

    Thanks for sharing :) **hugs**

  36. 36. radical_moderate

    “…he can’t speak without a carefully scripted speech and teleprompter.”

    And you’re saying that McCain CAN? LOL. All that McCain is missing when he gets on stage is Mark Salter with an arm up McCain’s back jacket.

    Not to mention when McCain speaks on his own “off scripts” he makes pesky little mistakes that drive his campaign wild like telling ABC that new taxes were “not off the table,” or not being able to give a coherent opinion on why it’s OK for medical insurance to cover VIAGRA and not birth control.

  37. 37. Boris

    “He’s willing to rent gigantic Invesco stadium so more folks can gather to listen to the bloviation.

    I call Hitleresque.”

    So, Billy Graham is like Hitler?

    I call stupidity.

  38. 38. Boris

    Sandra M

    You do know that Corsi is a lying sack, right? You know he hangs with the discredited lying swiftboat vets, right? Just checking.

    (I know you guys think the swiftboats didn’t lie. But even McCain knows they lied, so stop denying it.)

  39. 39. Mary in LA

    Boris, what exactly did the Swift Boat veterans say that was a lie?

  40. 40. jaymaster

    Well, that’s one way to motivate some folks to do the work Americans won’t do….

  41. 41. glc

    Folks,

    I’ve read Jerome Corsi’s book.

    Wow!

    I wanted to know who Obama was–and this book is very helpful.

    Jerome takes Obama at his word by dissecting Obama’s books. Jerome challenges what Obama writes and checks it against other sources. And what results is a very revealing portrait of Obama that Obama does not want the American public to know.

    What struck me the most was the blatant dishonesty and outright leftist, socialist and communist associations that Obama has had–I mean, these were his close friends–and Obama has distanced himself from each one of them in the name of expediency to get into the White House.

    Fact: Obama’s dad was an alcoholic polygamist, socialist and Muslim.

    Fact: Obama did indeed receiving much education in Islam–indeed, he can recite the evening call to prayer in perfect Arabic. Ask him to do it.

    Fact: Obama’s friends in Chicago are all leftists, socialists, and communists. (Ayers, Bohrn.

    Fact: Obama rejected his white blood; has major feelings of abandonment; which led him to find acceptance in the philosophy of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, William Ayres, Bernedette Dohrn, and other radicals.

    Fact: Obama is good friends with Ayres–has been to his home many times–and knew him before he (Obama) became a state senator in Illinois.

    Fact: Obama has continuing connections with Kenyan politics. Obama is part of the Luo Tribe. Obama supported the candidacy of Raila Odinga, the radical socialist presidential contender who came to power amid Islamist violence and church burnings (and Obama was in constant contact with Odinga during this violence).

    Fact: Obama is closely tied and has been supported by the corrpupt left-wing Chicago political machine.

    Fact: Obama pulled his “change” slogan directly from Saul Alinsky….

    And I haven’t even begun to talk about his 20-year association with the Rev. Wright.

  42. 42. glc

    Hillary can win the nomination.

    Watch.

  43. 43. Boris

    Hey, guys. I hear Corsi is going to be on a white supremacist radio show, so that’s, what, number 3 on your car radio presets? :)

  44. 44. John Samford

    “Gosh, asking someone to volunteer to get a ticket is so wrong. It’s slavery, I tell you.”

    Boris, I don’t think that word means what you think it does;

    Main Entry:
    1vol·un·teer Listen to the pronunciation of 1volunteer
    Pronunciation:
    \ˌvä-lən-ˈtir\
    Function:
    noun
    Etymology:
    obsolete French voluntaire (now volontaire), from voluntaire, adjective, voluntary, from Old French, from Latin voluntarius
    Date:
    circa 1600

    1: a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service: as a: one who enters into military service voluntarily b (1): one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest (2): one who receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving valuable consideration 2: a volunteer plant3capitalized [Volunteers of America] : a member of a quasi-military religious and philanthropic organization founded in 1896 by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth

    Note this part;
    1: a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service:

    Maybe this will help you understand;

    Main Entry:
    1vol·un·tary Listen to the pronunciation of 1voluntary
    Pronunciation:
    \ˈvä-lən-ˌter-ē\
    Function:
    adjective
    Etymology:
    Middle English, from Anglo-French voluntarie, from Latin voluntarius, from voluntas will, from velle to will, wish — more at will
    Date:
    14th century

    1 : proceeding from the will or from one’s own choice or consent 2 : unconstrained by interference : self-determining 3 : done by design or intention : intentional 4 : of, relating to, subject to, or regulated by the will 5 : having power of free choice 6 : provided or supported by voluntary action 7 : acting or done of one’s own free will without valuable consideration or legal obligation

    Notice that one VOLUNTEERS out of one’s free will, not through coercion. Do you need help with that word too?

    If so look it up yourself, you could use the practice.
    Since I helped you with something that confused you, you can help me with something I find confusing. Why do Obamanics seem to have the IQ of a flatworm?

    http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/Flatworm.html

    If Obamassiah decides to get rid of the Donkey (Ass) maybe you can offer the Phylum Platyhelminth as a replacement.

  45. 45. OLDPUPPYMAX

    Great stuff. Thing is, this could be quite genuine and no one would really be surprised! Scary.

  46. 46. tanstaafl

    …it’s amazing that the right wing now counts popularity as a negative…

    ‘scuse me, Fred, but I was obliquely referring to grand gatherings of the faithful, or the obedient, in using the term “hitleresque”.

    Any previous individual accepting their party’s nomination for President was content with the size of the available “convention hall”.

    I find Obama’s “need” to bloviate at a huge outdoor gathering rather extraordinary.

    So, Billy Graham is like Hitler?

    Bill Graham is an infamous, lifelong anti-Semite.

    Scares the crap out of me every time Billy (or these days Franklin) gathers up the faithful for a huge money making event, uh, religious rally.

    So, I guess, yes.

    You people don’t seem to be in a very good mood today.

  47. 47. Javelin

    Typical Obama hit piece, today’s 5 Minute hate.

  48. 48. Cletus

    Boris must not have much to do with his time if he spends it hanging around places he clearly doesn’t like so he can get into arguments with others over the internet.

    I hope it helps you with your self esteem, Boris :)

  49. 49. tanstaafl

    …Right, he only owns one home to McCain’s 10

    Giving off an elitist air is not a function of homes owned, having a millionaire brewmeister’s daughter as your spouse etc.

    It’s attitudinal.

    I’ve been watching and listening to Obama for way (!) too long now to not want to reach for the descriptive words “arrogant” and “elitist”.

    In his case, it may be an attitude he adopted to maintain aloofness (thus self-protective), but it rubs me very much the wrong way.

    And his wife, eeks ! The analysis she has offered of the modern American citizen is beyond arrogant.

    They’re trying hard, behind the scenes, to tone her down.

    Can Glen or Jennifer or Rick actually replace the media they disdain?

    I don’t think that’s the point.

    It’s often more interesting to read thought pieces than account pieces in the so called MSM (where does the dumb phrase “legacy media” come from anyway ?)

    And then go on to see what other human beings are thinking on the topic.

  50. 50. Boris

    Okay, John, so we don’t have an all voluntary military because we pay our armed forces? Or are they coerced?

    Or are you saying that Obama supporters don’t have free will to not go door to door?

    You are one confused individual.

  51. 51. Boris

    “You people don’t seem to be in a very good mood today.”

    Maybe it’s because morons like you dishonor the memory of the six million by claiming that renting out a stadium makes you Hitler.

    But I enjoy pointing out dumb right wing comments on this site, so please, keep ‘em coming.

  52. 52. tanstaafl

    Maybe it’s because morons like you dishonor the memory of the six million by claiming that renting out a stadium makes you Hitler.

    Gee, there’s a little revisionion of my point, Boris.

    Maybe you should re-join the Kos Kids and leave the grownups alone.

  53. 53. Boris

    “He’s willing to rent gigantic Invesco stadium so more folks can gather to listen to the bloviation.

    I call Hitleresque”

    Did you forget what you wrote? Are you saying Hitler is best known for speaking to large crowds? Yes, it’s quite common for people to say “Look at all the people in the crowd! Reminds me of Hitler.”

    Or do you want to somehow connect Obama to what Hitler is REALLY known for?

    No need to answer.

  54. 54. tanstaafl

    No need to answer.

    Thanks for letting me off the hook, sweet pea.

  55. 55. John Samford

    “Okay, John, so we don’t have an all voluntary military because we pay our armed forces? Or are they coerced?”

    No, obviously, you didn’t read what I cNp’d 4 U.
    “2 : unconstrained by interference”

    “having power of free choice ”

    There, does that help? Those people DID NOT volunteer. If they did, why would they complain about being forced (coerced) to do something they didn’t want to do. You just don’t get it do you?
    Not unusual for flatworms.

    “Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”
    - Winston Churchill

    “Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.”
    - Winston Churchill

  56. 56. CaptDMO

    “Or do you want to somehow connect Obama to what Hitler is REALLY known for?”

    You mean…..Socialism?
    *sigh*
    THAT was TOO easy.

  57. 57. Boris

    Yes, Hitler is known for being a Socialist. Well played, sir.

  58. 58. Yaakov Watkins

    I live here in Denver. The DNC backed off on this. I have been a conservative all my life and I think this was a snafu. They were just trying to get visitors to volunteer and it was done with Obama’s usual finesse. But they said that you don’t have to volunteer to get a ticket.

    This has been beat to death in Denver. I suggest you drop it.

  59. 59. BloodingtheEars

    Yaakov what happens if we don’t drop it will you start stamping your feet?

  60. 60. tanstaafl

    Yes, Hitler is known for being a Socialist. Well played, sir.

    NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist party.

    Hitler…redefined socialism by placing the word ‘National’ before it. He claimed he was only in favour of equality for those who had “German blood.” Jews and other “aliens” would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end.

    “selective” equality in Adolph’s version of socialism.

    None of which “isms” necessarily have much to do with Barack Obama.

    However, it would be very hard to call Barack’s proposed version of American government (huge overweening government, taxing everything that moves) as anything but “socialistic”.

  61. 61. Dee

    Hey Guys-
    This is a piece of humour. If you are so sensitive to its points it must be right-on.

    Reread it if you must, and laugh at it.

    Have a great and cool evening.

  62. 62. Anna

    Obama is pure evil. The man will destroy all good if he gets the power of presidency.

    This article makes me ill to even read! How can a loving human being support this kind of barbaric behavior!

    In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.

    But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.

    For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby’s skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.

    Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, “comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary.”

    Yet, when Congress was voting to ban this terrible form of death for a mature fetus, Michelle Obama was signing fundraising letters pledging that, if elected, Barack would be “tireless” in keeping legal this “legitimate medical procedure.”

    And Barack did not let the militants down. When the Supreme Court upheld the congressional ban on this barbaric procedure, Barack denounced the court for denying “equal rights for women.”

    As David Freddoso reports in his new best-seller, “The Case Against Barack Obama,” the Illinois senator goes further than any U.S. senator has dared go in defending what John Paul II called the “culture of death.”

    Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion. Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.

    How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?

    If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is a mother’s life or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her — but lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?

    How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to death? Yet, that is what Obama voted for, thrice, in the Illinois Senate.

    When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf:

    “Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill. … Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we agree with that. … We join with an ‘aye’ vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous.”

    Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade. But if Roe v. Wade did allow infanticide or murder, which is what letting a tiny baby die of neglect or killing it outright amounts to, why would he not want that court decision reviewed and amended to outlaw infanticide?

    Is the right to an abortion so sacrosanct to Obama that killing by neglect or snuffing out of the life of tiny babies outside the womb must be protected if necessary to preserve that right?
    Obama is an abortion absolutist. “I could find no instance in his entire career,” writes Freddoso, “in which he voted for any regulation or restriction on the practice of abortion.”

    In 2007, Barack pledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or local regulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization for Women says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding of abortion.

    What we once called God’s Country would become the nation on earth most zealously committed to an unrestricted right of abortion from conception to birth.

    Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso’s “Case Against Barack.” For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?

    And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?

  63. 63. Judy, NYC

    i don’t care what barry obama supports or doesn’t support. he’s a crazy bastard and anti-american. he has stirred up so much race hatred i can’t look at him without wanting to vomit. what is there to dissect. barry is the essence of a society in collapse. do you get that.

  64. 64. Boris

    “Obama is pure evil.”

    What’s funny is you don’t even realize how stupid this sounds.

    “NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist party.”

    Thanks for the history lesson, chief.

    If you think Hitler is REALLY known for his socialist policies then, well, you know…

  65. 65. Sheila

    Uh Louise – you called me a “racist commie” above – please elaborate….I merely pointed out that judging from their own behaviour on another blog, and what they have written down themselves, that they appear to hate each other as much as they hate us. Indeed they possibly hate everyone. I don’t hate anyone, I am laughing at how they abuse each other.

    Saying that, your comment proves my point. While you are throwing around meaningless titles I’m pissing myself laughing at you.

    Again – how in the name of God can my comments suggest I’m racist and communist??? You certainly have weird notions.

  66. TO: Stephen Green
    RE: R U….

    ….channeling IowaHawk here? Or merely imitating him?

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [Imitation is the highest form of flattery.]

  67. 67. tanstaafl

    If you think Hitler is REALLY known for his socialist policies then, well, you know…

    Boris Boris Boris

    “For modern society, a colossus with feet of clay, we shall create an unprecedented centralization which will unite all powers in the hands of the government. We shall create a hierarchical constitution, which will mechanically govern all movements of individuals.”…Hitler began to create the National Socialist state by eliminating all working-class and liberal democratic opposition…all private organizations of business, labor, and agriculture, as well as education and culture, were subjected to party control and direction…anticapitalist promises of National Socialist propaganda…

    Absolute and total government infusion into all aspects of the human condition.

    Sounds more and more like Bambi.

  68. 68. tanstaafl

    Anyway, if the “tickets for work time” offer was suspended (violation of some standard or rule) also suspended was a previous offer at Barack Obama’s website along lines of…”if you donate $5 (or more, naturally), you will be eligible for a chance at one of 10 free tickets to the Invesco speech and meeting the candidate face to face.”

    Oh goody.

    That offer was rescinded for violating some lottery rule or something.

  69. 69. Boris

    “Sounds more and more like Bambi.”

    You are really really stupid.

  70. 70. tanstaafl

    How does that go, Boris ?

    The last refuge of the intellectually inept is name calling.

    Something like that.

  71. 71. John Samford

    “The last refuge of the intellectually inept is name calling.”

    At least he didn’t have to spell it stoooopid! to get past the robocensor. I consider that a step in the ‘right’ direction.

    “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
    Sir Winston Churchill
    British politician (1874 – 1965)

  72. I have to admit, I was terribly impressed with the goose-stepping helots that escorted one of the the torch bearers on his lengthy journey. Had Leni Riefenstahl been given a bunch of digital cameras and an Avid video mixing desk I’m sure she could have made the 1936 Olympics look like they were directed by McG.

  73. 73. B Dubya

    Boris.
    Unfortunate choice of nom de plume, perhaps, but telling none the less.
    You are serving your apprenticeship as an Obamabot in an exemplary fashion. Soon you will graduate to full blown apparatchik. Congratulations.

    Javelin
    I know I should not feed the troll, but you should really do something about your outlook. Take 1500 milligrams of copper jacketed lead through the roof of your mouth please. That will solve your problem, and ours as well. It’s one thing to be outraged and eloquent, at least that would have some entertainment value. But, unfortunately for you and your poor audience, you are predictable and very boring, and that is unforgivable.

  74. 74. Kelly

    Why can’t we get copies of Barry’s yearbook from university…something to hide???!! I don’t trust him, wake up people before it’s too late. He and Michele are concealing lies that are too important to the safety of our country, which could lead to the end of our freedom. He was a memeber of a “church” for 20 years and ignored the fact his religious leader was a racist, against America…a dangerous person….hello! I am amazed at the stupidity of this country

  75. 75. Lee

    Obama supporters keep chanting the mantra that Barack Obama
    is the candidate who can unite our country … but, Obama couldn’t
    even unite his own party … even after winning the nomination. And,
    in reality, McCain has the history of working across the isle in congress.
    Obama has brainwashed his followers into operatIing on ‘belief’, rather
    than reason … just as he learned in Jeremiah Wright’s church … the power of BLIND faith.
    Even his campaign solgan is based on belief, not common sense, logic,
    or reason. Obama’s even got his followers publicly denouncing the importance
    of experience … as if that’s the reason Bush performed poorly … when the
    real reason Obama and his followers denounce experience is because
    Obama doesn’t have any.
    Keep America Strong … Elect Senator John McCain in November !!

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