All Posts Tagged With: "Obama"
Is Obama The End Of Black Politics?
A lot of the old activists stood in the path of an African-American’s advancement rather than blazing it. While Democratic black voters embraced Obama by ratios of 8 or 9 to 1 in a lot of districts, the 42 House members in the Congressional Black Caucus, for a time, split more or less down the [...]
7Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Thou Shalt Not Challenge Barack or, What Are You Going To Believe?
What I said Before Or What I’m Saying I said Before?
Las Vegas Now Eye Witness News
It’s not often that Obama is challenged aggressively, and when he is he often responds with resentment. He’s not accustomed to reporters giving the alternative position and critique, and when it happens he attacks them as the opposition rather than [...]
6Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Paris Hilton For President?
John McCain’s mouthpiece has responded to Paris Hilton’s stinging retort — but he’s not attacking Hiltie!
In the unkindest cut of all, McCain’s spokesperson Tucker Bounds tells TMZ that on the subject of energy, Paris is deeper than Barack. He says, “Sounds like Paris is taking the ‘All of the Above’ energy approach that John McCain [...]
5Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Nomination His, Obama Full Recognition For Michigan And Florida
Political Punch
Jake Tapper
In May, before Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, withdrew from the race, Obama was urging a very different outcome for the two states’ delegates, urging the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee to penalize both states.
Now, it’s a different story.
“Party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to [...]
Heckler Forces Obama To Say Pledge of Allegiance, Ohio Attendees Groan “UPDATED”
McClatchy
A heckler sitting in the press section interrupted Barack Obama’s opening remarks at a town hall meeting in Berea, Ohio, and forced the candidate to lead the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience of several thousands groaned with the heckling, but Obama waved them back and then led the group in reciting the [...]
5Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Comparing Himself To Paris Hilton - Washington Post 24-Feb-2005
Rising Star Barack Obama Is Resolutely Down to Earth
By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2005; Page C01
There’s nothing exotic or complicated about how phenoms are made in Washington, and, more to the point, how they are broken.
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had [...]
Bob Herbert Sees Two White Women, Two Phallic Symbols And Barack Obama
Warning: excessive adulation of Barack Obama is harmful to the vision and can in extreme cases cause hallucinations.
We’re all familiar with how an Obamania overdose produced strange tingling sensations in Chris Matthews leg. A new, virulent strain of the affliction has now emerged, claiming its first victim in the person of Bob Herbert, who [...]
Bill Clinton “I Am Not A Racist”
Insists, ‘I Am Not a Racist,’
At times, he appeared to grow testy as he discussed his wife’s failed bid for the nomination and was asked if he deserves at least some of the blame for his wife’s losses.
When asked, “Do you personally have any regrets about what you did, campaigning for your wife?” Clinton, [...]
David Gergen To Sell: ‘Hancock’ Secret Racial Decoder Rings
David Gergen, McCain using Moses in his ad, “The One” is Racist code.
Allahpundit
On Sunday, longtime Washington hand David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain’s recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as “outside the mainstream” and “uppity.”
Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a [...]
3Aug2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Mel Martinez: Race Card Not Played, Obama Is Above That
Mel Martinez
Obama Did Not Play the Race Card
“I think we should be in a post-racial environment,” said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., a supporter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., “I think Sen. [Barack] Obama has done an admirable job of that. I don’t think he has race-baited. I think he has been very good about [...]
