WTF, Obama supporters....?

[Fallakin Kuvari]

If you can find the story from anywhere but the NY Times I might take it seriously.

[Harlowe]

You must have your blinders on...it's all over the place

Here, how about the AP for starters then Google it and see all the states complaining about it.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNEx ... gD93T0D2O0

GOP senator slams them

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar ... r-sla.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... e=politics

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/200 ... nd_states/

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNEx ... gD93SJQ600

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoints ... lleges.php

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2 ... -phone-is/

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10738766

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/ ... S-81017046

I could go on and on....there are tons of articles about it.

[Ddrak]

Umm... yeah - you must be fairly seriously blind to not know McCain's using the exact same company that Bush used to smear him in the 2000 primary. I got about 4000 hits on Google News.

Dd

[Lurker]

You're all fucking crazy ass liberals! All of you!!!

[Harlowe]

It will be interesting to see if Colin Powell endorses Obama tomorrow. He's one craaaaazy-ass liberal. Oh wait it will just be black-pride right?

More crazy ass....Republican and Conservative ummm Liberals. WTF are they thinking???

Elected Officials:

Jim Leach, Former Congressman from Iowa

"For me, the national interest comes before party concerns, particularly internationally. We do need a new direction in American policy, and Obama has a sense of that."

Lincoln Chafee, Former United States Senator from Rhode Island

"As I look at the candidates in order who to vote for, certainly my kind of conservatism was reflected with Senator Obama, and those points are that we're fiscally conservative, we care about revenues matching expenditures, we also care about the environment, I think it's a traditional conservative value to care about clean air and clean water."

Richard Riordan, Former Mayor of Los Angeles

"I'm still a Republican, but I still will always vote for the person who I think will do the best job."

Lowell Weicker, Former Governor and Senator from Connecticut

"At issue is not the partisan politics of two parties, rather the image we have of ourselves as Americans. Senator Obama brings wisdom, kindness, and common sense to what is both his and our quest for a better America."

Jim Whitaker, Fairbanks, Alaska Mayor

"If we are as a nation concerned with energy, then our consideration should be a national energy policy that is not predicated on crude oil 50 years into the future. We need to get to it, and I think Barack Obama is very clear in that regard."

Linwood Holton, Former Governor of Virginia

"Obama has a brain, and he isn't afraid to use it."

Government Officials:

Douglas Kmiec, Head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Reagan & Bush 41

"I was first attracted to government by Ronald Reagan, who lives in our national memory as a great leader and an inspiring communicator. Senator Obama has these gifts as well, but of course, more rhetorical flourish without substance would be worth little. Is there more to Senator Obama? I believe there is."

Jackson M. Andrews, Republican Counsel to the U.S. Senate

"Barack Obama is a thoughtful visionary leader who as President will end the decline of American law, liberty, and fiscal responsibility that are the hallmarks of the extremist policies of the current Administration, now adopted by John McCain."

Susan Eisenhower, Granddaughter of President Eisenhower & President of the Eisenhower Group

"Given Obama's support among young people, I believe that he will be most invested in defending the interests of these rising generations and, therefore, the long-term interests of this nation as a whole."

Francis Fukuyama, Advisor to President Reagan

"...Obama probably has the greatest promise of delivering a different kind of politics."

Rita Hauser, Former White House intelligence advisor under George W. Bush

"McCain will continue the wrong-headed foreign policy decisions of Bush, while Obama will take us in a new direction."

Larry Hunter, Former President Reagan Policy Advisor

"I suspect Obama is more free-market friendly than he lets on. He taught at the University of Chicago, a hotbed of right-of-center thought. His economic advisers, notably Austan Goolsbee, recognize that ordinary citizens stand to gain more from open markets than from government meddling."

Bill Ruckelshaus, served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations

"I'm not against McCain, I'm for Obama."

Lilibet Hagel, Wife of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel

"This election is not about fighting phantom issues churned out by a top-notch slander machine. Most important, it is not about distracting the public-- you and me-- with whatever slurs someone thinks will stick."

Columnists and Academics:

Jeffrey Hart, National Review Senior Editor

"It turns out that these political parties are not always either liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican. The Democrat, under certain conditions, can be the conservative."

Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University

"For conservatives, Obama represents a sliver of hope. McCain represents none at all. The choice turns out to be an easy one."

David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman

"I hope Obama wins. President Bush has clearly been a disaster from the standpoint of libertarians and conservatives because he has presided over an astonishing rise in government spending."

Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist

"Obama has in him-- I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rehtoric-- the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for."

Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly

"Obama's legislative record, speeches, and the way he has run his campaign reveal, I think, a very even temperament, a very sound judgment, and an intelligent pragmatism. Prudence is a word that is not inappropriate to him."

Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review

"I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses. But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history."

More Republican-leaning papers endorsing Obama
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp ... 1003875479

The Denver Post, which had backed George W. Bush in 2004 and is owned by Republican-leaning William Dean Singleton, this evening endorsed Barack Obama for president. So did the Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star. Southwest News-Herald (Ill.) and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And to top it off: another Bush-backing in 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune.

[Ddrak]

Here's the thing:

Even if Obama were an America-hating Terrorist-palling Muslim who-thinks-he's-Jesus (what fucking sense does that make anyway) who was both a Fascist and a Socialist and apparently the half-black incarnation of Stalin, he'd *still* be better for America right now than McCain/Palin. McCain is a self-serving adolescent minded petty fool who can't see past his personal desire for power but will happily do and say anything at this point to win, and Palin is wrong on so many levels that if she wasn't impeached within 2 years from some scandal (probably caused by her husband) then it would only be because of incompetence on her part to actually carry through a task rather than desire to avoid placing herself above the position she holds.

I used to think W was a spoiled brat, but he ain't got nothing on McCain.

Dd

[Harlowe]

Well said Ddrak, I meant to post this right after my post...

So, what I'm pointing out is it's not just partisan support, he's appealing to a lot of Americans (and people in general) in a broader sense than that. He's not the messiah or some angel sent from heaven to save the world, people are excited because there is something very positive about him, something that does give people comfort and - that dirty ridiculed word "hope" for our nation. What he is - is the kind of leader, the kind of person that is appealing to the majority of Americans right now. An intelligent, calm, decent guy, and a strong family man, with some ideas for sorting out the mess our country is in. A task that most probably wouldn't want to wish on their worst enemy. Ideas that seem better to most of us than his opponents and his manner of connecting with people is, pretty amazing. He comes across as a really decent, intelligent and sincere guy. Hell even O'Reilly said that about him after interviewing him.

God love em, but we don't need Palin the Alaskan Moosehunter, Joe Six-pack & Joe the Plumber to distract us from what is important. It's not productive, it's not good for our country.

****** Just something random below, because they tickle me.

I like videos like this because you get little pieces of the person, not just their speech- I was sort of tickled by the "gimme me a kiss" exchange.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp ... 1003875479

and the 106 year old nun voting for him, she's just precious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9VAMeRb-s

[Fallakin Kuvari]

I didn't go actively searching for that article when I posted that, I was getting ready to walk out the door and come to work.

Thanks for the multitude of links, though.

[Harlowe]

Holy crap look at this crowd.....in Missouri?



http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/1 ... -missouri/

[Select]

That picture makes me a little nervous. I'm happy for him, but with a crowd that size and in the open, I'm so afraid of someone trying to take a hit at him. I don't have faith in people's sanity. I fear some wacked out moron with the wrong idea about him will try and get rid of him.

[Ddrak]

That picture makes me a little nervous. I'm happy for him, but with a crowd that size and in the open, I'm so afraid of someone trying to take a hit at him. I don't have faith in people's sanity. I fear some wacked out moron with the wrong idea about him will try and get rid of him.

You can bet there were a *lot* of SS agents in there.

Dd

[Lurker]

I read on Drudge that there were 40k SS agents and the other 60k was really just one guy ACORN made show up over and over again. I'm just repeating what I've heard though so I could be wrong.

[Harlowe]

As if the Crazy McCain Rally Lady weren't a bad enough reflection on MN, we have .....Michelle McCarthy Bachmann. Good lord this woman is batshit insane. I knew she was before (she's not my district so don't blame me for her), because she's a HUGE homophobe and virtual Stepford Wife. I'm not kidding we had pictures here of her SPYING in the bushes at a gay pride rally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3KidxA6saY

She makes us very proud when she says things like this ...

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

She so radical, that she's not even for McCain

He is not my man. Our candidate was chosen by the media.

She's also pretty intolerant against immigrants

"Without having some sort of a barrier at the border, we're going to continue to have the kind of problems that we've had with Olga Franco that we saw most recently in the tragic death of four children in the accident," Bachmann said, referring to an illegal immigrant whose minivan struck a school bus in Cottonwood, Minn. "These are preventable and we need to do that with sealing America's borders."

Tinklenberg replied, "I think it's just a little untoward to exploit a tragic situation to advance a narrow ideological agenda in regard to immigration. Going after Olga Franco and every other immigrant because of that accident just doesn't seem right to me."

Bachmann called that remark "highly offensive, especially for the families who are victims, not only just here in Minnesota but all across America" and said illegal immigrants were "bringing in diseases, bringing in drugs, bringing in violence."

http://www.startribune.com/politics/nat ... anchO7DiUr

It's not my district, so I know nothing of Tinklenberg, but I can't imagine anyone being any worse than this intolerant nutjob.

And what the fuck people, is everyone losing their mind? Seriously, I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone, with all the crazy shit that's being said.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/13/it ... tate-flag/

On the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bob Grant said: "[W]hat is that flag that Obama's been standing in front of that looks like an American flag, but instead of having the field of 50 stars representing the 50 states, there's a circle?" He then said: "Is the circle the 'O' for Obama? Is that what it is?" Grant later said: "[D]id you notice Obama is not content with just having several American flags, plain old American flags with the 50 states represented by 50 stars? He has the 'O' flag. And that's what that 'O' is. That's what that 'O' is. Just like he did with the plane he was using. He had the flag painted over, and the 'O' for Obama. Now, these are symptom -- these things are symptomatic of a person who would like to be a potentate -- a dictator." '

Grant did not further elaborate on what he meant by the " 'O' flag." However, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin stated on October 13 that she had "received several e-mails today from readers complaining about Barack Obama's backdrop in Toledo today. Apparently, some talk show hosts have also gone ballistic over what they think is an 'Obama flag.' " But, as Malkin noted, the flag appearing behind Obama during his October 13 speech was actually the Ohio state flag.

From Malkin's blog post:

I received several e-mails today from readers complaining about Barack Obama's backdrop in Toledo today. Apparently, some talk show hosts have also gone ballistic over what they think is an "Obama flag:"

Relax, folks.

That's not an "Obama flag."

It's the state flag of Ohio:

[Ddrak]

Nothing brings the nutjobs out more than the opposition leading. The left has had its fair share of whackos too...

Dd

[Harlowe]

Nothing brings the nutjobs out more than the opposition leading. The left has had its fair share of whackos too...

Dd

No one is more nuts than Michelle Bachmann and I'm not really talking about fringe people - but people in office (like Michelle Bachmann) and media personalities.

[Lurker]

You forgot to link to her latest nutty comment and the appropriate response. I just hope the people in your state vote that wacko out in November. Her opponent has raised a ton of money since her hateful rant.

[Harlowe]

I actually linked to the wrong one, that's what I meant to Lurker. They were both called "michelle bachmann's crazy comment" - and I should have realized there are MANY from her.

I didn't realize her opponent is a Minister and the former Mayor of Blaine (and was the minister of one of the churches in Blaine), which is, I believe, in the district they are competing in. So with the outpouring of funds from all over now, he probably has a decent chance. I've spent some time this evening looking into the guy and he really seems like very pragmatic fellow - I can't imagine that hateful loon winning at this point.

Elwyn Tinklenberg, 57, was born in Princeton and grew up on a farm in Pease, Minnesota, a small, Dutch, farming community in central Minnesota, where he learned the values of faith, pragmatism and hard work.

He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota at Duluth and attended seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He served as a United Methodist Minister in Blaine, Minnesota from 1977 to 1986.

While serving on the city council for 4 years and as Mayor of Blaine from 1987 to 1996, Tinklenberg quickly gained a reputation as an expert in the field of transportation, eventually serving as Governor Jesse Ventura's Commissioner of Transportation from 1999 to 2002. Charged with managing the day-to-day operations of the department's 5,500 employees and $2 billion annual budget, he worked directly with the legislature to secure funding for the state's first light rail, the development of a regional commuter plan, and a (short-term) doubling of the state transportation budget. In 2003 he served on the Board of Directors for the American Public Transportation Association.

In 2006, Tinklenberg ran for congress in Minnesota's sixth district. He eventually lost out on an opportunity to run in the general election when he was narrowly defeated by Patty Wetterling in a bid for the DFL endorsement.

What a mistake that was for the DFL -Patty Wetterling was kind of a goofball herself. Though nowhere near as batshit as Bachmann, but I don't think people really knew the depths of her dumbfuckery until she got into office.

[Harlowe]

Some more Michele Bachmann comments...I think she might be retarded. I don't know why I didn't pay more attention to this woman, I guess not having her in my district, sheltered me from her stupid.

“Literally, if we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” —Michele Bachmann

“Many teenagers that come in should be paying the employer because of broken dishes or whatever occurs during that period of time. But you know what? After six months, that teenager is going to be a fabulous employee and is going to go on a trajectory where he’s going to be making so much money, we’ll be borrowing money from him.” —Michele Bachmann, 1/26/05, explaining why teenagers should pay employers for the privilege of working instead of receiving minimum wage.

“If raising the minimum wage to $7.00 an hour is a good idea, that why dont we just raise it to $20.00 an hour, that must be even better.” —Michele Bachmann

“It isn’t that some gay will get some rights. It’s that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.” — Michele Bachmann

(On gay marriage) “This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.” — Michele Bachmann

“The sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community.” — Michele Bachmann

“If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.” — Michele Bachmann

“They aren’t just kind of gay-friendly, they are gay advocates at Proctor and Gamble… Here’s just a few other companies that support the pro-homosexual agenda. They include Levi-Strauss, American Airlines, Sarah Lee Bakery, Jaguar and LandRover.” — Michele Bachmann

“You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says “Mom! What’s gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today.” The mother says “Well, that’s when a man likes other men, and they don’t like girls.” The boy’s eight. He’s thinking, “Hmm. I don’t like girls. I like boys. Maybe I’m gay.” And you think, “Oh, that’s, that’s way out there. The kid isn’t gonna think that.” Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don’t think that this is intentional, the message that’s being given to these kids? That’s child abuse.” — Michele Bachmann

“I am so proud to be from the state of Minnesota. We’re the workingest state in the country, and the reason why we are, we have more people that are working longer hours, we have people that are working two jobs.” — Michele Bachmann

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

She's in what position Harlowe ? I'm sure you said but i'm too busy laughing at her statements right now.

This is my favorite

If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

Taxious, you're involved in personal bondage ! What she neglects to mention is that's called life, when your job keeps you "all tied up" for days at a time to make ends meet and pay all the bills in the same month... that's also personal enslavement and despair I reckon =D

[Harlowe]

She's a Republican Congresswoman representing the sixth district in MN..... but would be more appropriate representing Crazy Town.

I sort of forgot about her until her recent nonsense, but remembered the incident in the news with pictures of her really kneeling behind bushes (literally) and watching a gay pride rally here. For real.