So Obama will not be elected because of his middle name?
Genius.
Ha!IF YOU SMEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL WHAT BARACK IS COOKING!!!!
DOESN'T Barack Obama SOUND LIKE DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON
That's funny, because the wife and I have talked about this a number of times.
I've used the "If you smell what Barack is cooking" line several times, along with "Finally... Barack is back in (insert city)" whenever there is a debate held.
I think Barack is about to drag Hillary down "Know your role" boulevard and check her "candy ass into the Smackdown Hotel".
whottt wouldn't have voted for George Washington.
If your second name is Hugo, you cannot become the US president.
I don't think you are a racist but not voting for someone because of their name? That just doesn't make any sense to make and if he did change his name there would be those who would say he was ashamed and blah, blah, blah. He is who he is and no name is going to change that.
I say weat the next GTG and laugh about all this BS anyhow.
JC, the "uniter"....you've clearly been smellin' what the Barack's been cookin!
I say we
We are the United States of America!!!!
It will be comedy if we find that the emperer has no clothes at the EXACT same instant he becomes the nominee. I may have to start buying into the "Right Wing Conspiracy" mantra.
Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, March 4, 2008; A02
SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of "Saturday Night Live" to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.
Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama's trade policy. A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter. The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.
Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble. "That was the information that I had at the time. . . . Those charges are completely unrelated to me. . . . I have said that that was a mistake. . . . The fact pattern remains unchanged."
When those failed, Obama tried another approach. "We're running late," the candidate said, and then he disappeared behind a curtain.
Before he beat his hasty retreat, however, Obama found time to assign blame for the tough questions suddenly coming his way. "The Clinton campaign has been true to its word in employing a 'kitchen sink' strategy," he protested. "There are, what, three or four things a day?"
Spoken like a man who had just been hit on the head with a heavy piece of porcelain.
Obama may be the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but to a large extent Hillary Clinton is setting the terms of the debate in the final days before Tuesday's crucial primaries. If Clinton doesn't win both states, even her closest advisers have said she'll face pressure to pull out of the race -- and yet, for the first time in months, she seems to have put Obama on the defensive.
First came her ringing-phone ad last week: "It's 3 a.m., and your children are safely asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?" Then the Clinton campaign trumpeted the acknowledgment that a top Obama aide had discussed NAFTA with a Canadian official -- contradicting adamant denials by Obama and his underlings. Add to that the opening of the trial in Chicago for Obama pal Tony Rezko, and Obama had lost any hope of controlling the theme of the day.
Even the much-mocked Clinton assertion that she offers "solutions" instead of Obama's "speeches" appears to have spooked him into a change in tactics. The candidate has largely disarmed himself of the mass rallies that have been the high points of his campaign in favor of small and sober town hall forums.
And so, Obama found himself in San Antonio on Monday, presenting a small group of veterans with a collection of small-bore policies that sounded downright Clintonian. "I led a bipartisan effort to improve outpatient facilities. . . . I passed legislation to get family members health care while they're caring for injured troops. . . . I've introduced legislation to make sure each service member receives electronic copies of their medical and service records upon discharge."
The modest proposals were met with modest applause.
For 40 slow minutes, Obama delivered his policy prescriptions and answered questions from the veterans. "I want the budgets to come in on time!" he told one questioner. He pledged to another his support for SR 1838, a new VA facility in the Rio Grande Valley. He told a third questioner about his plan for a $4,000 tuition credit. And the great orator found himself proclaiming that "it makes sense to have transferability."
Whatever. Reporters, at tables in the back of the room, answered e-mails and read newspapers. Obama, by making no news in his speech, had left them plenty of time to plot their ambush -- executed minutes later to the obvious surprise of the candidate.
"I don't have any preliminary statement," Obama said as he began his news conference, encouraging reporters to "just dive in." That was a mistake.
Tom Raum of the Associated Press led off with a question about whether an Obama aide had told Canadians not to take seriously the candidate's public rhetoric critical of the NAFTA trade agreement. "Let me, let me, let me, let me just be absolutely clear what happened," Obama answered, explaining that the meeting was a "courtesy" and involved no "winks and nods."
Then an agitator -- columnist Carol Marin with the Chicago Sun-Times -- broke in. Marin, a visitor to the Obama entourage who accused the regulars of being too "quiet," accused the candidate of concealing details about fundraisers Rezko had for him and a real estate transaction between the two.
"I don't think it's fair to suggest somehow that we've been trying to hide the ball on this," Obama answered. But this only provoked a noisy back-and-forth between Marin, Sun-Times colleague Lynn Sweet and Michael Flannery from Chicago's CBS affiliate. "How many fundraisers? . . . Who was there? . . . Disclosure of the closing do ents?"
Obama, while repeating his formulation that it was "a boneheaded move" to do business with Rezko, tried to shut down the requests for more information. "These requests, I think, could just go on forever," he said. "At some point, what we need to try to do is respond to what's pertinent."
Reporters, however, had a different idea of what was pertinent, and the questions about Rezko, NAFTA and other unpleasant subjects continued to come. An aide called out "last question," and Obama made his move for the exit -- only for reporters to shout after him in protest. "C'mon, guys," he pleaded. "I just answered, like, eight questions."
The questioning, however, has only just begun.
That damn liberal media!!!!
Cool Joe..and if it makes you feel any better, I'd vote for you for President. I think Jose is a cool name..as is Joe. Joseph I'm not so crazy about, as that could mean you are a communist dictator
Or the step father of JesusCool Joe..and if it makes you feel any better, I'd vote for you for President. I think Jose is a cool name..as is Joe. Joseph I'm not so crazy about, as that could mean you are a communist dictator
Was Joseph on my list of names I would not vote for? Uh...no it wasn't. I'm just not crazy about it. Could mean you're the stepfather of Jesus....could also mean you're the stepfather of communism...or an insane Nazi doctor.
It'd definitely be a situational call...
Sounds like a dog pile to me. I guess the trick to turning the Mo in a campaign is to keep dishing out the BS in one right after the other and hope something sticks. Damn that Hilary is desperate.
How about Leon?
Cool Joe..and if it makes you feel any better, I'd vote for you for President. I think Jose is a cool name..as is Joe. Joseph I'm not so crazy about, as that could mean you are a communist dictator
Si se puede, pinche mamon!
Joe, your Spanish is getting a little rusty . . .
Obamas intials are B O...... whewwwwww!!!!!!!!!! eeeegaddddd
that awful stench!
Rick Moran gives readers a tour of the "Chicago Way" and starts off the education with a quote from the movie The Untouchables.
Moran's article is a tour de force. There's just one thing I don't get. The guys down at the New York Times can read the Chicago Tribune just as well as anyone else. New York may be big, but Chicago isn't that small a ville. So why would political events roiling that town give the national news a miss? What else is going on? What explains the curious media blindness towards Chicago, Rezko and -- coming in from left field -- Auchi? The blindness isn't caused by illiteracy, it's not even caused by bias.Many of us familiar with Chicago politics have been wondering for months at the apparent disconnect of the media regarding Obama’s relationship to the Chicago political machine. Where did they think this guy came from?
The lack of curiosity by the press about Obama’s connections to one of the most corrupt city governments in the United States should be one of the big media stories of this campaign. While it is true that Obama’s connections to the Machine are not as extensive as many other politicians, I’ve got news for you Obama apologists; try running for any office in Chicago – local, state, or federal – and see how far you get without support from the regular Democrats.
The blinders were probably caused by the Audacity of Hope. The inability to look closely at Obama was rooted in what they feared to see. It's not as if Obama's media admirers didn't know about the Chicago Way. They just didn't want to think about it; that would break their own spell.
The more bankrupt an ideology, the more more manic-depressive it is. The more manic-depressive it needs to be. In Orwell's 1984 the Two Minutes' Hate regularly alternated with ecstatic news bulletins about mythical victories on the Eurasian Front. True believers oscillated from a state of outrage to ecstasy with the permission of the Party because both were safe states. It was the quiet that was haunted. It was the moment of calm realization that the Party feared. Bankrupt ideologies require prodigies and miracles to keep its world spinning on its axis. As long as it spins you can't look around. And in the 21st century, which has been shorn of miracles, the wows are supplied by appearance, rhetoric, youth and glitz. Liberalism needed Obama as much as he needed them. He gave them dreams and they would give him power.
To truly accept tha the existence of the "Chicago Way" is to simultaneously concede the necessity of the painstaking, often morally ambiguous ways needed to deal with it. The "Chicago Way" is the domestic expression of the International Way. Not the fairy-tale United Nations paradise imagined by some, but as it really is: a sad place thronged with tyrants, psychopaths and dangerous people, the Capones, Rezkos and Daleys of the world stage.
People who need to believe Barack Obama can solve the world crisis by calling a Muslim summit must of necessity need to forget you can't clear corruption from Chicago by meeting with the aldermen of that great city. To believe in the Audacity of Hope you need to dis-remember the Chicago Way. Especially if you plan on voting for the man representing Hope who came from there.
So was Truman a bad president or not?
Cool Joe..and if it makes you feel any better, I'd vote for you for President. I think Jose is a cool name..as is Joe. Joseph I'm not so crazy about, as that could mean you are a communist dictator
All three names mean "Servant of God" therefore, as a firm supporter of the neocon faith, you should like all three.
The Truman Doctrine was a decent attempt at foreign policy IMO. Back then we had no comforting assessment of soviet power.
Well, Truman was a product of the Kansas City Democratic "machine" and he turned out alright.
Holt's Snatch.
Truman = McCain with brains
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