Category: Republicans
The Dutch are cowards.
I think it’s the best movie ever made, about Islam.
I personally think we need to follow Ann Coulter’s Advice.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war. – Source
No wiser words have been said.
Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person’s in the World
Bronze: Walmart’s CEO for doing nothing about being nominated Yesterday.
Silver: Lindsey Graham for going Faux Noise and saying McCain never said the war would be easy. Even though, he did.
Gold: Michael Chertoff for sending his agents out to catch a radioactive cat! (*meow?*) 
Proud to be White!
You know, with all this talk about Racism on Blogs. I think it’s just high time, that I spoke my Mind…..
Without further ado, I present:
Proud To Be White
Someone finally said it.
How many are actually paying attention to this?
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’
‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’ … and that’s OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head,
Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink …
You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you,
so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we’d be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month , we’d be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’
OUR lives we’d be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber
of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American
pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students
scholarships you know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges
in the US. Yet if there were ‘White colleges’ THAT
would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were
marching for your race and rights. If we marched for
our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and
you’re not afraid to announce it. But when we announce
our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a
white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats
up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a
threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud.
But you call me a racist.
Funding the very terrorists we’re supposed to be fighting against
That’s right folks.
Via WorldNetDaily:
Just days after it was announced the U.S. would transfer $150 million directly to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ government, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared military wing of Abbas’ Fatah party, were told they would receive cash grants, WND has learned.
According to Palestinian militant sources familiar with the issue, earlier this month, 20 members of the Brigades leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah complained to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad they did not have enough money to pay their bills, including, for many of them, rent for their apartments.
Last week, according to the informed sources, Fayyad told the complaining Brigades leaders he would provide them with a one-time grant of $3,000 each, or $60,000 to the Ramallah-based Brigades leadership.
The sources said after Brigades leaders in other West Bank cities, including Hebron and Nablus, heard of the grants, they also demanded pay increases.
"Some of the other fighters accused Fayyad of favoring the Brigades leaders in Ramallah since that’s where Fayyad lives," said a militant source. "So he gave grants also to other cells."
Unreal. Can the lies and deceptions, from this feckless administration, be any clearer?
I guess Ron Paul was correct. 
Political Cat Fight……On a Sunday?
Not to mention on Easter Sunday, at that!
Good Lord Almighty! 
Is it just me or does the Blogosphere just need a big fat group hug or something????!?!
I guess, from what I can follow, Glenn Greenwald saw something that Glenn Reynolds linked to. I am assuming it was this.
Well, I guess Glenn was snooping around on that site and saw this here, and is now having a hairy fit about it.
Good Lordy people! 
Time out! Let’s all not get so danged ugly on a Sunday here! It is after all, A Holiday.
Of course, Everyone and their uncle is Blogging about it. Go here and read it all.
Goodness, I thought I was only uppity person around here… 
Can we all just get along?
Oh, and BTW, I wouldn’t use the N-Word of those listed, Race-Baiters maybe. But….
Update: Oh good grief, this has turned into a huge thing now…. here’s the links: JustOneMinute, Open Left, The RBC, The Impolitic, Orcinus, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Liberal Fascism, The Smirking Chimp, American Power, Little Miss Attila, Unfogged, Liberty Street, The Anonymous Liberal, American Street, The Newshoggers, First Draft, INSTAPUTZ, Sadly, No!, Mercury Rising, RADAMISTO and all the rest via Memeorandum
It wasn’t just Obama’s Passport…..
So, it wasn’t a conspiracy after all…
The Story: Obama urges inquiry into passport snooping (via CNN.com)
Sen. Barack Obama called for an investigation Friday into how the security of the passport files of the three remaining presidential candidates was breached.
The State Department admitted Friday that the passport files of Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain had been accessed without authorization.
"One of the things that the American people count on in their interactions with any level of government is that if they have to disclose personal information, that it stay personal and stay private," Obama said in Portland, Oregon.
"And when you have not just one but a series of attempts to tap into people’s personal records, that’s a problem not just for me but for how our government is functioning," he said.
Obama said he expected "a full and thorough investigation" by the administration in conjunction with congressional oversight committees.
Now if I were one of them overly paranoid Liberals, I would say this was released to stop the coverage of it, as a attempt to roust out Obama from the race or something silly like that. Truth is, is was most likely just some bonehead who thought that they’d be really cool and access the info.
However, it does speak the absolute incompetence of the State Department. This should have been released to the Candidates and the Media the very minute it happened.
Many questions linger and will most likely be brought out eventually, Most likely when the offending parties are safely out of office.
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Humor Break: Um, Who’s Marci McCain?
Oh Yeah, you can tell I’m really with it today….
I saw this: Merci McCain (via OurFuture.org)
First thing I thought was "Who the heck is Marci McCain??!??!"
Then I ran the Video, that is when I got it, Oh Right, it’s French… duh!
D’oh! 
Well? What the hell do you expect? I’m just now working on that second mug of coffee. I’m a night person, so sue me! 
Being with it….Oh yeah, I got to really work on that.
Others: Think Progress, Blog entry and Ben Smith’s Blogs
The Left is being played like a fiddle….
A sad, but true fact.
The story, Which comes via Newshoggers, who saw it at Rising Hegemon. A story that appeared in the Village Voice, the story of how the Republican Operatives are strongly trying to weaken the chances of a Democratic Nominee of winning in November. Now in the interest for fairness, this is really nothing new, this sort of Political underhandedness has been going on for years. Nixon did it, as did others. But the reason why it is so bad in this race, for one, is because there is no fairness doctrine anymore, opening up the ability to editorialize the coverage of the election process, another factor is, that you have a Republican propaganda machine, known as Fox News, or as I like to call it, Faux Noise. But, because I am fair, Fox News is not the only ones that do this sort of thing. MSNBC does it, CNN does, even the so-called NPR, which is supposed to be a-political, has a noticed liberal slant to it. So, all in all, the Bias is on both sides of the camp.
Anyhow, on with the story….
Quote:
The prime movers of both political parties have long tried to game the presidential nominating process—not only to choose their eventual winner, but also to pick their November opponent. And in this landmark election without incumbents, the media wing of the Republican Party, in particular, has quite visibly been playing that game. Right-leaning pundits for months now have very openly not just called for Hillary Clinton’s head, but also coddled and promoted Barack Obama, salivating over the prospect of facing him in November.
Meanwhile, voters have been echoing that program: Barack Obama has been beating Hillary Clinton in part because Republicans are helping him.
Sixteen of the 45 Democratic primaries and caucuses held before this week were open affairs, allowing Republicans and independents to take part, and Barack Obama has won 11 of those contests. He almost invariably carried the Republican vote, which accounted for as much as 9 percent of the total in Wisconsin and Texas, and frequently ran even stronger among independents, who represented a fifth or more of Democratic primary voters in state after state. The 75 percent of the Republican vote that he won in Missouri, for example, may have pushed him over the top, and certainly, when combined with his 67 percent of the state’s much larger independent vote, it delivered many of the district-apportioned delegates to him. Republicans in Obama states like Washington, Wisconsin, and Virginia were even freer to cross the aisle, since by the time they voted, John McCain had already sewn up the GOP nomination. While Obama often won some of these states so handily that Republicans and independents could not have provided his margin of victory, there is no way to know how many delegates in close congressional-district contests will wind up in Denver because of the impact of Republican or independent voters. And there is no exit-poll data to measure their impact on the caucuses.
I highly recommend that you read the rest of this story, as it paints a tale of how the Republicans are attempting to destroy the Democrat nomination in November. The sick and sad part is, they are doing by using the old, outdated system of nomination and voting.
Cernig at Newshoggers weighs in:
In every case, these rightwing mouthpieces have ignored their own previous overt race-baiting to accuse the Clintons of being closet racists, have ignored their own open misogyny to accuse Obamites of sexism and generally muddied the waters every way they could.
Limbaugh, Novak, Kristol, Bennet, York, Hannity, George Will – all have their gamesmanship exposed by this must-read column. They’re all on the same page of the GOP playbook. It’s the page headed "Divide and Conquer".
Truly, this is a sad case, I just hope that Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton have the ability to overcome the negative press coverage and can be elected. Because we do not need four to six more years of the Neo-Conservative nightmare in this country. Now, if McCain nabs the Presidency, I won’t jump off a building or anything. But it will set this Country a great deal if he does. Not to mention, it will be the biggest embarrassment to the Democrat Party.
Here is hoping that things will work out, and the underhanded folk, on both sides, will be exposed, for what they are.
The ever continuing Story of Obama Wright Gate
Now it has gone to a new level of silly
The Story: Jeremiah Wright was White House guest (Via Ben Smith’s Blog @ Politico.com)
The recent coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has often cast him as a marginal, almost fringe figure, but Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution, and Wright has long been a prominent pastor on the American scene.
And an anonymous blog set up to defend his church offers some compelling photographic evidence of this: A photograph of Wright and President Clinton, which it says was taken on Sept. 11, 1998 — the date of a White House gathering for religious leaders.
[UPDATE: The blog seems to have taken that item down; here’s the full image that was posted.]
Hillary Clinton, according to her recently released schedule for the day, was present at the gathering. Al Gore also appears in the picture.
"In the course of his two terms in office, Bill Clinton met with, corresponded with and took pictures with literally tens of thousands of people," Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told Politico.
That’s where Clinton reportedly told the assembled clerics, at the depth of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, that he had "repented."
The only reason I can see that this was even picked up by the MSM and the Bigger Blogs, is because of an effort by the Conservative Bloggers to make ALL Democrats look like hatemongers.
Nice try guys, anyone with a half a brain is going to know that Presidents often meet and are photographed with many people. This picture, as it says above, was snapped during the Clinton Monica scandal.
Of course, we are dealing with Desperate Conservatives aren’t we? Could it be that they are totally scared out of their minds, that a LIBERAL might take the white house back and they will lose those tax breaks, that they received from the alcoholic, coke headed, village idiot, in the White House? Who’s having extra-martial sex with Coni Rice!
Horrors!
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McCain Aide suspended for promoting Anti-Obama Video
This is interesting…..
The Story: McCain Aide Suspended for promoting Anti-Obama video on Twitter (via Politico.com)
An aide to John McCain was suspended from the campaign today for blasting out an inflammatory video that raises questions about Barack Obama’s patriotism.
Soren Dayton, who works in McCain’s political department, sent out the YouTube link of "Is Obama Wright?" on twitter at 12:31 today with the tag, "Good video on Obama and Wright." It has since been taken down.
Twitter is an online device that allows users to send out short messages and links en masse through computers or PDAs.
As this article goes on to say, The Video was produced by none other than Lee Habeeb, a former producer of, none other than one of the worst Conservative talk show hosts, and suspected closet lesbian and One boobed freak, Laura Ingraham.
I mean, I am no fan of Obama, really, but to try and paint him as a Marxist? That is a stretch. A big one, if I do say so myself.
I am glad that McCain is, at least, trying to keep his campaign above the noise and nonsense of the "Michael Savage" crowd in the Conservative Party.
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Obama Passport-Gate
This new Obama story that will bury the Rev. Wright Scandal.
The Story: 2 fired over Obama passport breach (msnbc.com)
Quote:
Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the department itself detected the instances of "imprudent curiosity," which occurred separately on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14. He would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined.
"We believe this was out of imprudent curiosity, so we are taking steps to reassure ourselves that that is, in fact, the case," McCormack said.
This was Keith Olbermann’s Lead story tonight and I believe he dedicated the rest of his show to it. As did Dan Abrams.
I have been reading around and listening to the coverage. People are comparing this to the 1992 breeching of President Clinton’s passport records, of which, I must confess, I knew nothing of.
There has also been, already, comparisons to Watergate. Which I think is a bit of a stretch, if you ask me. Although, I believe before it is over, someone will be charged over this or at least will be publicly shamed.
This will be an interesting story to follow.
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FOX News’s Hypocrisy
This is wild, go check it out. I have no words… Just wow.
Racist comments on FOX News Website – Where is O’Reilly’s crack team now? (via Crooks and Liars)
Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World
and… Keith is quite pissed!
Bronze: Major League Baseball
Silver: Lynndie England that took the pictures at the Abu Ghraib, for blaming media.
Gold: Sean Hannity for race baiting and hypocrisy…. which is about normal for him.
Oy….. McCain Edition.
Man, I know McCain is not known for his overreaching brilliance, But…. This?
The Story: McCain rep to Jewish crowd: the Christian right is ‘serious problem’ (Via Haaretz)
The location keeps changing, and the speakers might be different as well, but the goal remains the same: courting the Jewish vote. Today, it was in Washington, at the Washington 15 Conference, an event of the United Jewish Communities aimed at young Jewish leadership. And three campaigns sent their representatives to convince these young enthusiastic crowd that Obama/Clinton/McCain is the candidate they should be voting for.
For Obama, it was advisor (and former ambassador to Israel) Daniel Kurtzer. For Clinton, it was senior advisor Ann Lewis. McCain dispatched the most senior speaker of the three, former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger. I will write more about this event later, but this first installment will be dedicated solely to the person speaking on behalf of McCain. With his abrupt, grumpy style, he stole the show, and also made some rather interesting comments.
Here is one prediction: that mouth of his might get the candidate in some trouble.
Yes, it can.
Eagleburger was trying to have fun. He was mocking his fellow panelist Kurtzer, sitting to the left of the others ("where he belongs"), and making noises and funny, impatient faces, while Ann Lewis was speaking. But more importantly, he did not mince his words. In a response to a question about the religious right, an important component of the Republican coalition, he said that it was, indeed "a serious problem," and reminded his listeners that he now lives in Charlottesville, surrounded by such people that he needs to fight.
If McCain wants to woo the American people this is NOT the way to do it.
Like I said above…. Oy…
Others: Crooks and Liars, Haaretz and The Raw Story
It is official Dick Cheney is an Asshole
This comes via Think Progress:
Transcript:
CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.
RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.
CHENEY: So?
RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think?
CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
Man, not only is he an asshole, he’s a delusional asshole as well.
Of course, when you’re the second lackey to a President who’s approval rating is 19% and has a bunker mentality of it’s us against the world, what do you expect?
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Obama’s lead shrinks, McCain Does quite nicely….
Believe it or not, this is not a big surprise
Story: Obama’s lead over Clinton narrows: Reuters poll (Via Reuters)
Quote:
Democrat Barack Obama’s big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
The poll showed Obama had only a statistically insignificant lead of 47 percent to 44 percent over Clinton, down sharply from a 14 point edge he held over her in February when he was riding the tide of 10 straight victories.
Illinois Sen. Obama, who would be America’s first black president, has been buffeted by attacks in recent weeks from New York Sen. Clinton over his fitness to serve as commander-in-chief and by a tempest over racially charged sermons given by his Chicago preacher.
The poll showed Arizona Sen. McCain, who has clinched the Republican presidential nomination, is benefiting from the lengthy campaign battle between Obama and Clinton, who are now battling to win Pennsylvania on April 22.
McCain leads 46 percent to 40 percent in a hypothetical matchup against Obama in the November presidential election, according to the poll.
One thing to note here, this is a short term loss, I highly doubt that this little flare up is going to cost Obama the Nomination, the next Primary vote is like 5 weeks away in PA. So, I highly doubt that Obama will sustain any lasting damage. Once this Rev. Wright story finally leaves the News cycle, his numbers will return to normal.
McCain on the other seems to be benefiting from this dust up, the cameras and the attention is off of him for the time being. I can imagine he is quite happy about this. Many people are predicting that many independents will flock to McCain because they see Obama is too extremist.
Well, Sorry, I disagree, Any person who has looked at how Bush has totally screwed this country up, over the last 6 years. How Bush turned the 9/11 attacks as a excuse to invade a country that had NOTHING to do with the attacks at all. How much Bush and his Administration totally mangled the handling of the war, I highly doubt that these people are going to flock to McCain. Because too many people see McCain as a continuation of Bush.
Quite frankly, and I address this to MSM, I do not think that the Independents, like me, are quite that stupid. I know that I, and many others that I know, are not.
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Memo to the G.O.P.: Step Lightly Folks….
The question is…. Will it work?
The Story: GOP sees Rev. Wright as pathway to victory (Via Politico.com)
Quote:
For months, Republican party officials have watched with increasing trepidation as Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, packed arena after arena with shrieking fans and pulled in significant Republican and independent votes.
Now, with the emergence of the notorious video showing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright damning the country, criticizing Israel, faulting U.S. policy for the Sept. 11 attacks and generally lashing out against white America, GOP strategists believe they’ve finally found an antidote to Obamamania.
In their view, the inflammatory sermons by Obama’s pastor offer the party a pathway to victory if Obama emerges as the Democratic nominee. Not only will the video clips enable some elements of the party to define him as unpatriotic, they will also serve as a powerful motivating force for the conservative base.
The G.O.P. has indeed been looking for some ammo to use against Obama.
The real question is, will it work? At first blush, one would say "yes, absolutely!” However, thinking about it more, it could come back to haunt the G.O.P, some Liberal 527 group could come along and attempt to paint an attack of that sort as a racial attack against Obama and try to paint the G.O.P. as utterly racist.
If I were the G.O.P., I would be very, very, very, careful in how I approached this, because handled the wrong way, could and possibly would, come back to haunt the G.O.P, in November and would only serve to strengthen the Democrats and Obama’s Campaign.
So, as the title of this entry says… Step Lightly folks, or it could backfire on you.
Just a thought.
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Keith Olbermann’s Worst Persons in The World
Here’s the Worst persons:
Bronze: Himself (Keith, that is) for blaming the New York Times Editor for hiring William Kristol, because of his writing about Obama with bad facts from NewsMax (I bet that was an interesting phone call! "What the hell you blaming me for? I didn’t hire the idiot!)
Silver: Rupert Murdock for royally screwing his 99 year old Mom. (Beware, that site is quite slow.)
Gold: Republican Presidential John McCain’s Now infamous Gaffe.
To Gaffe or not to Gaffe…..
The other large headline in the world of Politics is McCain’s supposed Gaffe about the war on terror. This was posted on the Washington Post’s Blog, or one of them at least. Although, right at the moment, I cannot seem to bring up the Blog, looks like the Washington Post needs to get better hosting for their Blog or better servers.
Of course, the Neo-Conservative apologists are coming out in full force defending John McCain and saying he was right in the first place, armed with talking points galore, they look more like Amway salesman, than they do political pundits.
Whether or not the statement was a gaffe or not, is quite frankly irrelevant in my mind. It overlooks the broader issue, that this so called “war” in Iraq was, in fact, a tragic mistake, that was based upon bad intelligence, some say cooked, I won’t go that far, as I do not know personally, as I was not there. But the fact remains is, President George W. Bush foolishly bought the false intelligence and the Neo-Conservative lie, that we could and would dominate the world through Military might, and now we are living in the great chasm that is the Iraq disaster.
Anyone that sees the war and how we go pulled into this landmine filled field of foolishness, any other way, is, in fact, defending the Neo-Conservative flawed worldview. Heck, even the late William Buckley denounced what Bush was doing as wrong. What more do we need, to believe what has happened in Iraq was wrong?
What amazes me is the ignorance of the people that defend McCain and his continuation of the flawed polices of George W. Bush. They know no bounds, and that worries me, greatly.
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Obama’s Speech
Here is the Video, a link to the transcript and my personal reaction.
Here it is:
Transcript is available at TPM Election Central
Okay here is my official reaction. I watched the entire speech. At first, I thought, "Oh Boy, here he goes into his regular talking points." However, as I continued to watch, he began to discuss the current situation, and I feel he addressed them as best he could, given the situation that he is in.
I am however, quite dismayed of the reaction among the conservatives within the Blogging community. They are just downright dismissive, and that, frankly bothers me, how is it, that the party that was, during it's formative years, the party of Anti-Slavery, is dismissive of a man, who is in one of the most unique of circumstances? How can they be so vile and hateful towards a man, that is doing his utter damnedest to calm down a situation, that was not of his own doing, you know who you are, You are Bastards! All of you! You should hang your God-forsaken heads in shame! You are doing absolutely nothing to further the discourse of the discussion of this election, instead, you are retreating to the cowardly corners of your Political Ideologies. May the Almighty God be your Judge! Again, I say, you ALL know who you are!
Anyhow, that's my reaction, I like it, I did feel, however, that he could have went a bit further, however, one must realize, that he is walking a tightrope, between not alienating himself from the black community, all elements of it, and not alienating the rest of America as well. It is not an easy thing to do.
Hopefully, this speech will quell the nonsense within the media. At least it is a start on Obama's part.
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Shocka!: William Kristol fudges the facts while writing his Anti-Obama Article at The New York Times
Well now, here’s a big surprise! (Well, maybe not….)
Well it seems Mr. Kristol used one of the worst news sources…. NewsMax! Ugh… No wonder. Anyhow, here’s the fudged fact:
But Ronald Kessler, a journalist who has written about Wright’s ministry, claims that Obama was in fact in the pews at Trinity last July 22. That’s when Wright blamed the “arrogance” of the “United States of White America” for much of the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks. In any case, given the apparent frequency of such statements in Wright’s preaching and their centrality to his worldview, the pretense that over all these years Obama had no idea that Wright was saying such things is hard to sustain.
The Problem is, According to Ambinder and the facts:
The error is in trusting the source without checking.
The truth is that Obama did not attend church on July 22.
He was on his way to campaign in Miami.
There is video evidence to support this, if you go to Ambinder’s article, there is a link to it.
The point of this entry is this, wasn’t this why Kristol was fired/let go/was ask to quit Time? I seem to recall that there was a huge stink about him being released from Time, because of his constant fudging of the truth.
Of course, this is a Republican we are talking about here, and in the tradition of the Republicans or more specifically here Neo-Conservatives, The truth is usually optional, when it comes to furthering your political agenda. Just ask George W. Bush.
Update: Here is the Video, Proving Obama was not in that Church.
Update #2: Kristol Writes:
In this column, I cite a report that Sen. Obama had attended services at Trinity Church on July 22, 2007. The Obama campaign has provided information showing that Senator Obama did not attend Trinity that day. I regret the error.
Yeah, I bet he regrets the error, Lying stack of crap. He most likely got told, print a retraction or kiss your job goodbye. Which is more than this moron deserves, his track record for telling factual stories isn’t the greatest.
Also via the Huffington Post:
But according to the Washington Post’s presidential tracker, Obama did, in fact, make an "appearance" in Chicago on the morning in question: July 22, 2002. He also, later in the day, flew to Miami for a speech.
Obama’s spokesperson Tommy Vietor confirmed that the schedule was accurate but stressed that the senator did not make a stop at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.
"We have reviewed his schedule," he wrote. "He didn’t go to church that day."
Which is perfectly plausible. Just because Obama was in Chicago doesn’t mean he attended church. But he was, in fact, in Chicago that morning.
Of course, not to be lost in all of this is the fantastically poor job Kristol did in his column in which he apparently failed to run a basic Google search, or, for that matter, call the Obama campaign.
The Times must be proud.
Not mention the Republicans themselves, Not the formal G.O.P., I’m talking about their Operatives, Rupert Murdock’s boys (and Girls!) spreading the stupid misinformation. Like I’ve said a bunch of times in the past. I’m all for debating the issues and all, and sorting out the differences between the Democrats and Republicans, but using underhanded tactics like this, is just flipping wrong. Before anyone comes and says it, yes, I am quite aware that the Democrat’s do the same stuff, and yes, I do think that it is wrong and Yes, I will bitch to the high heavens about it on this Blog, if and when it happens. You can bank on it.
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Oy…. New Jersey Style!
So much for the Naive wife thing!
McGreevey aide says he had sexual trysts with ex-governor, wife – (via NJ.com)
Quote:
A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits.
The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for the weekly romps, from 1999 to 2001, that typically began with dinner at T.G.I. Friday’s and ended with a threesome at McGreevey’s condo in Woodbridge.
They called them "Friday Night Specials," according to Pedersen.
Pedersen described the encounters during an interview with The Star-Ledger. He said he wanted to refute the innocent image that Matos McGreevey has projected – both during the couple’s ongoing divorce battle and in interviews she gave after New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned last week in a sex scandal. He said he was also incensed by her portrayal of herself as an unsuspecting wife in her book: "Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage."
Friday Night Specials eh? Wow……Just Wow. So much for the Naive Wife. I suspect many people will be wanting their money back for the book that she wrote.
Wow, We aren’t even out the Primaries yet and the craziness is really getting….well, Crazy.
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A Very Funny Song and Video
At least, I think so anyway…
Via Huffpo:
Kiss The Ring
There’s a space at the table for everyone
From the crackpot fringe to the favorite sons, bring them in
Bow down and kiss the ring
Cozy up to the zealots and disown their quotes
From the hellfire preachers to the talk show hosts bickering
Kiss kiss, kiss the ringSign all the checks to the bottom of the deck
if it deals you a hand you can win
And I know it’s just as well that a special place in hell
it can wait if they can help you get in
The purple hearts and silver stars that got you where you are
No they won’t add up to a thing
‘Cause all the guards on patrol in the circles that you roll
Will never ever let you make it anywhere unless you kiss the ring
Kiss the ringPeeling off the cover of the old façade
If you can’t beat them then give them a job, yes it’s odd
The very same thugs that did you in
There’s a reputation that you might’ve once deserved
Before the Straight Talk Express hit Dead Man’s Curve
Even though I never agreed with you on much of anythingPut the bus in reverse as your principles disperse
And let the big games begin
Say goodbye to your code as you move on down the road
It won’t do shit for you from here on in
The purple hearts and silver stars that got you where you are
No they won’t add up to a thing
So Senator, it’s time, let them kick you down the line
I hope that you don’t mind the taste of metal ’cause it’s time to kiss the ring
Kiss the wrongI’m crossing your name off the list of people I respect but still disagree
If you expand your ranks to the likes of them it’ll never include the likes of m
Of course I want you to lose, but maybe just maybe with some dignity
But it don’t matter much how you do it, as long as you do
It’ll be just fine with meSign all the checks to the bottom of the deck
if it deals you a hand you can win
And I know it’s just as well that a special place in hell
it can wait if they can help you get in
The purple hearts and silver stars that got you where you are
No they won’t add up to a thing
‘Cause all the guards on patrol in the circles that you roll
Will never ever let you make it anywhere unless you kiss the ring
Kiss the ring
I’m right of center, and I think that’s downright funny.