Obama-Backing General: Clinton Lacks "Moral Authority" Over Bosnia Gaffes

A key military surrogate for Barack Obama went after Hillary Clinton on the Bosnia story today -- triggering an accusation of hypocrisy from the Hillary camp in light of Obama's own words about the controversy during this week's debate, when he said people should let the story go.

"One of the inherent duties of the president of the United States is to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day," said Gen. Walter Stewart on an Obama campaign conference call this afternoon -- then proceeding to lambast Hillary over the Bosnia gaffes. "Imagine the lack of moral authority she has now to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day."

Clinton spokesman Phil Singer immediately pounced: "When it comes to negative campaign tactics, Senator Obama has been a hypocrite from day one, decrying attack politics from one side of his mouth while he and his campaign wage a character assassination effort from the other."

 

PRINCETON, NJ -- The peeling away of national Democratic support for Barack Obama seen this past week may have run its course. After trailing Hillary Clinton by one percentage point in Saturday's Gallup Poll Daily tracking report, Obama now leads Clinton by two points, 47% to 45%.

 

 

How can Obama's eight years in the Illinois State Senate, where he passed an Earned Income Tax Credit for working families, expanded healthcare, and did ethics reform, among other things, be dismissed by the right wing?

 

For people who spent the last 50 years claiming to be strict constructionist, states righters, and at the extreme, claim that there is no higher law enforcement authority outside of the local sheriff, to now say that State politics has no relevance, strains credibility and the right should be ashamed of themselves.

 

Daley embraced Ayers, but does Chapman attack the white man Daley? 

 

No, he only attacks the black man Obama.

 

Keep it up, press, the world can see your racism overflowing.

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By Steve Chapman

By that standard, Barack Obama is a liberal, but not a conscientious one. I don't much care if he declines to wear a flag pin; I can overlook his wife's limited capacity for patriotic pride; and I defended his relationship with his former pastor. But his comfortable association with an unrepentant former terrorist should induce queasiness in anyone who shares the humane values that Obama extols.

 

 

 

 

Good for you Rachel!!!!

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Joe Scarborough Walks Off MSNBC's "Race To The White House" After Exchange With Rachel Maddow

 Huffington Post   |   April 17, 2008 07:55 PM

Update from MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines to Huffington Post:

"Joe didn't walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion because he felt the conversation didn't fit his role as a political analyst."

Previously:

Did Joe Scarborough walk out of David Gregory's show "Race to the White House" Thursday night on MSNBC? It seems that way by the video below. Joe was a panelist on the show along with Air America's Rachel Maddow, CNBC's John Harwood and former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.

The panel was discussing the effect of Sen. Obama's personal and professional relationships on his campaign when Rachel and Joe disagreed. Joe started to challenge Rachel's argument that relationships only become an issue when a political opponent makes them an issue, but she cut him off, "Let me make my point and then you can dismiss me." She then finished with an example of a McCain campaign co-chair in Florida's bathroom activities.

After a commercial break, Joe prefaced his rebuttal to Rachel's point by saying "I don't engage in Crossfire-type debates and certainly I don't want to talk about what people do in bathrooms." When he finished speaking, and after David Gregory had shut Joe vs. Rachel down, John Harrow came on camera. Then, viewers can hear Joe taking off his microphone (2:47 into the below video). When the panel picture came back, no Joe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/joe-scarborough-walks-off_n_97330.html

 

Thomas B. Edsall-Huffington Post-April 18, 2008

A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical activities of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, two former members of the '70s group the Weather Underground, who decades later, in Chicago, crossed paths with Barack Obama.

The document - a three-page emailed essay by Rick Sloan, communications director for the International Association of Machinists as Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) -- takes both literary and political license to outline what Sloan believes would be the thrust of a hypothetical Republican campaign against Obama focusing on his tangential connection to Ayers and Dohrn.

The goal of the essay appears to be to discredit Obama as the prospective Democratic presidential nominee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World can you see why black people say that white people are mean?

 

Here Kudlow blames Obama who has never been President, for blacks not having jobs, while letting 44 white presidents off the hook.

 

This stuff is maddening!!!

 

 

"Jack Kemp has effectively made the point that African American communities desperately need capital in order to create new businesses and jobs. Yet as Obama takes the capital out of capitalism, all those who are not rich will be hurt when the rich folks with capital have less of it -- after tax -- to invest in those new businesses and new jobs.(JK)"

 

 

 

Clinton-Clinton has an end game-Steal the election from Obama.

 

McCain-Bush-Lieberman have an end game-Help Clinton-Clinton steal the election from Obama.

 

The Democratic party has an end game-Let Clinton beat up and bloody Obama so that Clinton wins or McCain wins.  We know this to be true because if Clinton had the most delegates, the most states won, and lead in the popular vote, as Obama has, the Party would have asked Obama to step aside, or the super delegates would have thrown their selection to the white lady-Clinton by now.

 

Since they have not done so for the black man leader Obama, proves that their end game is to assist Clinton in stealing the election from Obama or to help McCain win.

 

 

 

Therefore, Black people what is our end game?

 

(1). After all these millions of votes and the expending all of this tremendous energy, will we once again accept like Jesse did, a prime time speaking slot at the convention?

 

(2). Is that all we are worth to the Democratic Party?

 

(3). Will we black people accept that?

 

(4).  The Party is counting on us to once again vote for the ticket and not vote for McCain.  The Party argues that a vote for McCain is a vote for more Scalias and Robertses.

 

I say that's the Party's problem.  The Supreme Court has not been relevant to black people since the Warren Court, so that argument should get no sympathy from us!!!

 

(5). The Party argues that a vote for McCain is a vote for a 100 year Iraq War.

 

I say that too is the Party's problem:  McCain will send their sons and daughters to die in the war.  Our sons and daughters are already over there dying.

 

I say welcome to the club!!!

 

(6). The Party says that if black people walk, the Party will be shatterd for the next 40 years, leading to Republican elections, recessions and depressions in the economy which will adversely affect black people more.

 

I say the Party ought to think about that before they steal this election.  Black people are already shattered- have been in a depression for the past 100 years; unemployment 4 or 5 times higher than whites; drop-out rate 6-7 times higher.  Nothing has changed. So don't blame us for destroying the Party.  Blame the lying cheating Clintons and those who enable them.

 

(7). Black people-will you be molified if Clinton steals the election and taps Obama as running mate?

 

I would say at that point that "principle is bigger than Obama."  If he joins the lies, the cheating, the thievery of the Clintons, then we would have to part company and wish him well.

 

JFK and Johnson did not like one another, but Kennedy did nothing to cheat against Johnson to win the nomination.

 

Bush called Reagan's policies "voodoo economics" but Reagan did nothing to cheat against Bush to win the nomination.

 

The Clintons are the lowest of the low-below the belt-gutter-lowest common denominator-treasonous-Never in the modern history of primaries has a Democratic challenger praised the Republican challenger over a fellow Democrat.  That alone should have brought all of the superdelgates over to Obama's side.

 

So if Obama wants to be on that stolen-treasonous ticket with Clinton, that's his business; that has nothing to do with black people.

 

At that point we would have to chart our own course; but I don't think Obama would do that; and I don't think Michelle would let Obama do that.  They appear to have too much integrity to be a part of the Clinton train-wreck-awaiting-to-happen Administration.

 

(8). So black people what is our end game?

 

(9). I would advise our end game to be this:

 

   Jesse, Al, The NAACP, The Urban League, All the Black Greek Organizations, all the young people brought to the polls by Obama; Rev Al and Jesse representing 35 million black people, and representatives of the young people, white, Hispanic, Asian and Native Americans representing at least another 35 million people, should go on national TV and announce right now, that if the Clintons steal this nomination, that he, Jesse, and Al will organize and lead 70 million Americans out of the Democratic Party and over to the Republican Party.

 

Say to the Party-intentionally destroy Obama and we will intentionally fight back.  Just like John Edwards said on another subject, "you can't reason with these people; you have to fight them power for power."

 

Some will say, isn't that black mail; if you don't do what black people want, we'll leave?

 

Only an idiot would say that.

 

We are saying conduct a fair election or we'll leave.

 

If the Clintons win fair and square we'll accept it; but if it is stolen, we are out of here!!!

 

I'd rather be in the pure _ell of the Republican Party, than to be in the pure _ell of so-called friends in the Democratic Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Obama and the Chicago Insider

By David Ignatius

Sunday, April 20, 2008; Page B07

The trial of Barack Obama's wheeler-dealer friend, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, was back in the news last week because of a disagreement over whether Obama did or didn't attend a party at Rezko's house for an Iraqi-born billionaire named Nadhmi Auchi.

A prosecution witness testified that Obama and his wife were guests at the April 3, 2004, gathering in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. The Obama campaign responded that neither of the Obamas recalled attending such an event. Auchi similarly has "no recollection of meeting Senator Obama at any party in 2004 or at any other time," according to his lawyer, Alasdair Pepper.

The testimony was a reminder of the vortex of business and politics swirling around Rezko -- and of Obama's curious 17-year friendship with the indicted Chicago businessman. The Clintons rightly have gotten hammered over the years for their friendships with political fixers. And although Obama complained in Wednesday night's debate about "distractions" in the campaign, his long association with Rezko is worth a careful look.

The mystery about the Rezko matter, for me, is why Obama stood by the Syrian-born businessman as his legal troubles mounted. The answer, near as I can tell, is the same one that emerged in the debate over inflammatory statements made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor. Obama remains doggedly loyal to his friends, especially those who embraced him when he first came to Chicago as a young man struggling to find his place in the world.

Obama met Rezko in the early 1990s as he was finishing up at Harvard Law School. Rezko was well connected in Chicago's African American community, in part because he had worked with Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad, when he was managing the career of boxer Muhammad Ali, according to a May 2005 profile in the Chicago Tribune.

 

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802707.html

 

 

  

Barack Obama endorsed by Robert Kennedy's widow Ethel Kennedy

By Philip Sherwell

Last Updated: 4:25pm BST 19/04/2008

Ethel Kennedy, the matriarch of America's greatest political dynasty, is back on the campaign trail for the first time since an assassin’s bullet brutally ended the presidential run of her husband Robert 40 years ago.

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Just days after turning 80 on April 11, Mrs Kennedy was leading three generations of her family seeking votes across Pennsylvania for Barack Obama, a politician whose crowd-drawing ability and soaring rhetoric has often earned comparisons with both Robert, killed in June 1968, and his brother, President John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

Robert Kennedy, Barack Obama

Barack Obama's oratory and charisma have drawn comparions with the Kennedy brothers

In her public endorsement of Mr Obama, Mrs Kennedy said: "Barack is so like Bobby...With courage, caring, and charisma, Senator Obama is leading us toward a kinder, gentler world."

After greeting residents of a senior citizens home in Scranton and leading a round of "Irish Eyes", she told The Sunday Telegraph: "He's such an inspiring man and he'll be a great president for our country.

"He's just what we need, a breath of fresh air." An energetic figure in blue blazer, grey trousers and pink scarf and sweater, she left the family compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, at dawn and flew to Pennsylvania for a long day of Get Out The Vote events at community centres, old people’s homes and college campuses. Long after dark, she was still shaking hands and urging people to vote for Mr Obama in Tuesday's primary.

And between campaign stops, she demonstrated a political mind as sharp as ever as she discussed singer Bruce Springsteen's endorsement of Mr Obama and tactics for a major Democratic dinner in the area this weekend.

Mrs Kennedy was accompanied in Scranton by two of her surviving nine children - son Max, 42, and daughter Rory, 39, with whom she was pregnant when Robert was shot dead - and Max's wife and his daughters, aged 13 and nine.

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"It's remarkable. I have never seen Mom so energised by an election. She really means this," said Max, an attorney and writer.

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"To this observer, ABC's coverage seemed slanted against Obama. The director cut several times to reaction shots of such Clinton supporters as her daughter, Chelsea, who sat in the audience at the Kimmel Theater in Philly's National Constitution Center. Obama supporters did not get equal screen time, giving the impression that there weren't any in the hall.(TS)."