Rep. Steve King smears Obama's name: "radical Islamists will be dancing in the streets'
And you thought it would only be the walkie-talkie type Bill Cunningham's of the Republican Party to smear Obama's name and make lunatic observations about terrorists ruling the world based on it. Notice how comfortable he is with this rant. Is Iowa even embarrassed over his remarks? How many more times will McCain have to refute these childlike diatribes?
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president -- precisely because of not only Obama's position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama's middle name is "Hussein," his father's Muslim roots, and his appearance -- or "optics," as King put it.
"I don't want to disparage anyone because of their, their race, their ethnicity, their name - whatever their religion their father, father might have been," King said just before doing just that.
"I'll just say this that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States -- and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?
"And I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the, the radical Islamists, the, the al-Qaida, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11….
"It does matter, his middle name does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world, it has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict.
So there are implications that have to do with who he is and the position that he's taken. If he were strong on national defense and said 'I'm going to go over there and we're going to fight and we're going to win, we'll come home with a victory,' that's different. But that's not what he said. They will be dancing in the streets if he's elected president. That has a chilling aspect on how difficult it will be to ever win this Global War on Terror."
Terror is home base for the worlds Con artists.
WTF!?!??! This is getting ridiculous.
Can we just call people like this bigots? That's what they are; scared, ignorant bigots who should be shamed back into their imaginary bubble of supremecy.
marvelous, given that al-qaeda's strategy is specifically to keep us entangled and BANKRUPT us. obama's plans would take away much of their actual, ongoing success.
Yeah. Prognostication. The Thugs are really good at judging outcomes. How are those chocolates and flowers coming, GOP?
I think it's long past time we gave up on the idea of the reasonable Republican. They are there, but their numbers are shrinking.
Excuse me, but after watching that, I feel a sneeze coming on....!!!DOUCHEBAG!!! There...I feel much better now.
The GOP is no more. It's now the BOP. The Bigoted Old Party...
But... but... but... isn't this what neo-cons want? Terrorists "dancing in the streets"?! At least they'll finally be able to identify them!
And the military coup continues.
The U.S. Defence Department banned Google teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases, after images of a Texas base ended up on the popular internet site.
A message sent to all Defence Department bases and installations around the country late last week told officials not to allow the mapping website to take panoramic views inside the facilities.
http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Pentagon+bans+Google+from+mapping...
It's going to get ugly. The stuff these people are going to fire at Obama is going to make Hillary's little pokes at him look like kindergarten or pre school play.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
Hillary doesn't have to. She already endorsed McCain if you don't vote for her. Fear, fear, fear.
And then CNN gives this scumbag even more airplay.
The fix is in, everyone.
Well, Bin Laden has stated that his goal is to bankrupt the USA. So he would be far more likely to cheer the election of a candidate who promised to be in Iraq for 100 years, since (at the current rate of the Iraq expenditures) it would take much less time that to accomplish his stated goal.
Actually, if you follow his logic, if we FAIL to freely vote for someone based on his name because "that's what the terrorists want", then aren't we capitulating to the terrorists? Shouldn't Americans be free enough to vote for someone regardless of what the terrorists want? If our votses are based on NOT doing what they want, isn't that terrorism exercising the same control either way?
People aren't buying that terror bullshit anymore.
Bud Osama Bin Laden Hussein @ 9:
They know who they are, and where they are:
"they are to the north, south, east and west of Tikrit, somewhat..." Donny Rumsfeld
Whether or not you wish to call names like "bigot" what do you think will happen if a person who basicly states get out of Iraq at any price is to be elected without even considering the other comments. It may take some thinking on some individuals part, but what do you think will happen if he proceeds to "disarm" the military as he has proposed? He has other plans for the US military. His plans would drive out young professional NCOs and there WILL be a NATIONAL DRAFT to fill empty ranks.
ConcernedCanuck @ 12:
When did she endorse McCain. I must have missed it.
Link me please.
Isn't it the point? To give them some sense of happiness, joy, relief in life and hope that maybe the new guy will not turn their land into a play ground for the-puppy-throwing-and-head-smashing f**ktards. Republican Steve King thinks that perpetual hatred of America is the way to go. Go ahead. 100 years sounds like a plan to me.
This just in from Faux Snooze.........US military forces in Iraq have captured Al Qaeda's number 2 man.......in a related story......US military forces in Afghanistan have captured Al Qaeda's number 2 man........in a related story.......Obama's middle name is "Hussein".......Is he a terrist? Faux Snooze investigates next.
Gene @ 16:
I wish that was true. But there are still a lot of tiny-brained folks waiting to be told what to think by RWA's (Right Wing Authoritarians) like this joke that we have to do everything in our power to get the facts out.
but that isn't close to the cheering that will be held in China and Saudi Arabia, if the GOP's John 'wayne' McCain wins. They can be assured of more massive borrowing, and the price of gasoline going skyrocketing high. We all know the Saudi Arabi will cheer either way, they escaped what Iraq is going thorough. Seeing that they bombed the U.S. on 9/11... what a damn mess Bush has created.
Are we the only Nation to take control of two countries full of Oil, and have the price go up? Maybe we should have left them alone, and our pockets would be a bit fuller.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
You didn't miss it LA. You ignored it. LOL. If Hillary supporters don't admit, the Repubs damn well will if she's nominated. You can bet your Karl Rove on that, and take your Dick Cheney to the bank on that one.
idiots.
How come these imbeciles from the horseshit GOP who purport to know so much about Muslims and their intentions/feelings/thoughts , didn't have a clue before the 9/11 attacks on what was about to occur , and didn't realize they weren't in Iraq until Chimpy stupidly ordered an illegal attack on it ?
The only reason the Dems will lose is if Obama voters don't turn out if Hillary gets it or people just don't freaking turn out like in 2000.
It should be landslide after 7 years of this shit.
I'm voting for Hillary or Obama. NOT JOHN McCAIN.
A Dem margin of 533 Votes is not going to be enough in November come the end of the day to prevent "trouble".
Does Steve King know about the citizens of Wyoming, Obama supporters, currently dancing in the
streets?
Clearly, the repugs are terrified of running against Obama. Scarier than the Islamists "dancing in the streets", are the Americans who will actually believe this racist crap, and act on it.
They'll be dancing in the street if McWar wins because it'll drive up their recruitment like wild.
Furthermore, I'm getting sick and bloody tired of people talking about this "War on Terror" like it's something tangible that can be won, particularly in light of the fact that terrorism has been used by the US president and his administration to drive home the point that Americans should all be very afraid in this big, bad, dark world of ours.
ConcernedCanuck @ 24:
Hey idiot GIVE ME A LINK OR YOU TUBE. Instead of stabbing me in the back with your bullshit.
Thanks
Yes, most of us normal people in Iowa are ashamed of him. He is also a introduces a "Defense of Marriage Act" every year.
Last week one of our Dems in the statehouse that was being pressured to sign on by the Repugs told them, " I will sign on if you make a marriage to be between one man, and one woman, ONCE! That shut up the serially married Repugs.
I was slightly confused cus I thought it was Peter King R/NY another RePUG asshole. Same shit different day.
Project much? You frightened, weak little man
I've no doubt that we may see people dancing in the streets in Islamic countries if Senator Obama is elected. Of course it is more likely that the reason will be that the U.S has not elected another Muslim hating racist white guy. Either democratic candidate, if elected, would dramatically improve the opinion the rest of the world holds of America.
Several million people will be dancing in the streets should the Bush administration, it's congressional watercarriers and the christian fundementalist and MSM enablers get hauled off on war crime charges along with their corporate thieving associates 5 minutes after Obama's inaugeration . Then the real "war on terror" will have been won Mister ..... "King" , was it ?
Brian @ 35:
Right on the money.
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
NEVER MIND I'll do it myself.
Sheesh
George Bush, the Republicans, and their policies have done more to increase the strength of al Qaeda and radical Islamists worldwide than Bin Laden could have ever hoped possible.
Why is it so difficult for the American people to see this? Are we really that dumb?
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
Put up or shut up CC. I think we all might have noticed this endorsement if it were anything but a figment of your imagination.
I get e-mails from stupid flag-draped xenophobes who say Obama is a Muslim plant, and that the "terr-ists" are just itching to come over here and kill us all in our beds. They basically say we should just bomb the entire Middle East into a parking lot. Just kill all of the brown-skinned sand niggers and get it over with.
Seriously. They see terrorism everywhere. They're scared out of their gourds, and only the Repugs will save them.
America, R.I.P., 1776-2000.
Back to the Fear card. Talk about a tired line. Surely to God there can't be even one American left alive who will jump when a Republican says, "Fear this America!" If it weren't so pathetic it would almost be funny.
Okay America. Let the GOP throw all their garbage against the wall one piece at a time until November and then PLEASE retire them all. How can you stand to live in the same country as those brain dead, one trick ponies.
King is simply a pig.
Rico @ 40:
A variation of the J.R. Ewing rule comes to mind - J.R. once said, "If you have to ask how much it costs, you probably can't afford it."
Unfortunately I believe this statement can be applied to our collective national intelligence level - IOW, you don't wanna know!
ConcernedCanuck @ 17:
It still dumbfounds me to this day that the media let this marble-mouthed imbecile spout that off and ACCEPTED it.
What the fuck was anyone thinking, letting these chowderheads make a decision AT ALL?
I am so sick of this stupid "win the war on terror" BS. At what point, if ever, will these idiots realize that there is no military solution to "terror"? How long will this be an effective rallying cry for all the wingnuts?
What would this look like to the rest of the world?
That America can choose intelligent, pragmatic leaders that have a clear sense of our nation, the world and the leadership role that the world so desperately needs us to assume.
Oh also....
It just make look like we are not ruled by war criminal fucktards after all.
I'd say everyone in the whole world will be dancing in the streets when BushCo is gone. Except me. I'm not dancing until either BushCo goes to tribunal or the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis are resurrected. I'm not sure which event is more likely.
look, obama is a plagiarist
he's been telling america one thing, while telling the foreign press just the opposite.
he was a dopie in high school.
he doesn't want poor people to have health care.....
so frankly, this republican kook is absolutely right....
......
wait wait.....i forgot myself, thought i was a hillary halo person for a second there...
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
Ouch....settle down there....
I'll let someone far more eloquent answer it for you
http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/keith-olbermann-eviscerates-hillary.html
King,
They'll, American citizens, be dancing in the streets in this country when George is ousted upon his petar from the throne!
They'll dance the world over!
Hell! I'll do a jig or two whether it be Obama or Hillary that replaces the liar, you mealy mouth, fearmongering sycophant!
Who in Iowa would vote for such an idiot???? I thought people in Iowa had more brains than that. RepubliCONs like King are ruining America every time they open their foul mouths. They hate America and want it to be ruled by brownshirted RepubliCON fascists.
Just another anti-American - let's scare America first Republican.
This is no surprise...name a single, real, Conservative value? I can't find a single moral or value that comes from the so-called Moral High-grounders. these people are so bankrupt you would think they all were victims of the current mortgage crisis.
Lets see how Bush has done in the eyes of these gleeful dancing extremists.
...Gave the jihadis an easy entrance into Iraq...gave them the best recruiting tools ever...through torture and eliminating habeus corpus conclusively demonstrated that the American ideals are fictitious stage props...showed them that the most powerful military in the world can be tied down indefinitely by disorganized militias and homemade bombs...Isolated itself from its allies while uniting its enemies...drove the economy into the ground to the point that the current deficit is greater than ever in history by a number of orders of magnitude...legitimized their holy war...Started eliminating the freedoms that America is apparently so despised for...Given the Mullah's, whose power was waning in Iran, an excuse reconsolidate power...
Yes I can see why they are excited by the prospect of Obama coming in and changing policies.
(ps. What kind of message does it send to the muslim world that America might elect a man with Hussein as his middle name? Could it be that the American people don't actually have a blind, irrational, almost religious, hatred of Muslims. That message shows weakness.)
Morons like this will be legit in many peoples eyes as long as their is no accountability for the crimes of 9-11.Only deception and cover-ups supported by blogs just like this one
Most of the people on this planet will likely be dancing in the streets.
If you want to hurt King donate to either of the Democrats running against him.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/IA.phtml
I recommend Progressive, Minister, Veteran, Scholar, Teacher, and political activist Rob Lewis Hubler.
CNN's coverage overall has been dismal. Their lead politics headline is a poorly structured Obama smear, and they love to invoke Rezko and Obama-NAFTA allegations, while completely ignoring Renzio and the Clinton-NAFTA flap.
HACKS!
ConcernedCanuck @ 12:
Okay I saw the "clip".
She didn't say I endorse John McCain.
She's politically schmoozing and spinning. What else is new. Even Obama does it.
Look. You have two Choices. A Democratic Administration or Right Wing Nut Farm in November.
You make the decision.
tballou @ 46:
Until Eastasia is defeated.
It's always been about the perpetual war against the phantom menace. Terrorism by some DEAD guy in a turban just turns out to be the most effective ghostly boogeyman that's come along in decades.
The mainstream of culture is starting to lampoon these guys, as they are clearly not very good at actually terrorizing anyone, and it's not going to be much longer before the Steve Kings of the world get laughed off the stage.
Hey idiot. After September 11th the people of Iran were standing in candle light vigils in support of America. It is your idiotic, bigoted, racist ignorant attitude that makes you think that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 or that "they" are all alike and someone's middle name means diddily shit. It is your brain dead President, with his 19% approval rating, that blew this war on terror up into a financial bonanza for his buddies throwing the doors to our Treasury open to be raped and raided by Halliburton, Blackwater et al leaving our Country in a Recession. But you are too blinded by bigotry to see that simple fact.
Did they dance in the streets when our current president, who kisses Saudi royal ass, hangs out with the Bin Laden family, and funded the Taliban, was elected? No? Because Bush's middle name doesn't mean "handsome" in Arabic I guess. Honestly, these conservative Republicans seem to have the reasoning power of 5 year olds.
Frankly, there will be more Americans dancing in the streets than there will be radical Islamists.
That is such a ridiculous argument.
Just because you have a traditionally Muslim name doesn’t necessarily mean you want Jihad or that you sympathize with radical Muslims.
For instance, my Muslim name hasn’t stopped me from wanting to kill large groups of random Muslims.
So you see, you can’t make a blanket statement like that without sounding like a xenophobic hate monger.
let's never forget this
bush has had 6 plus years with the full weight and measure of the US military, the US treasury, the US people....and he can't kill the one man responsible for 911...
Clinton or Obama will find and kill bin laden within the first couple years of their term.....something which bush and the republicans didn't think was too important (too busy looting the treasury and getting bjs from interns, lobbyists and SOS's...oh yeah, but they were wearing a flag pin through it all, and they said confession every sunday)
http://www.house.gov/steveking/email.shtm
overload his email server
be nice, but tell him how much of an idiot he really is
oh, and since the email is only for iowa residents, use whitepages to find an iowa addy
Just another fake christian republican who enjoys lying.
jxn @ 4:
So right. King has it backwards. The terrorists will be dancing in the streets if McCain wins. Is King too stupid to realize Iraq is the same trap that defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan? Why does King hate America?
anonymous @ 63:
I'm expecting people in my neighborhood to set off fireworks.
L.A. Confidential @ 59:
excuse me
please point to another election anywhere in history where the candidate in one party used the candidate of another party to denigrate the opponent of the same party
it has never happened....and it was disgusting
Iowans are horrified by this crazy, right wing, religious/racist bigot. He does nothing but spew hate! This is a man who loves the attention he gets for making outrageously hate-filled statements. He is up for reelection soon, hopefully his Congressional district will wise up and throw him out of office. He is a despicable "human" being. Iowans overwhelmingly voted for Obama in the first caucus of this election cycle, and we are damn proud we did!
I don't want to go through another 8 years of the Bush Cabals Circle of 300 People's bullshit.
As ugly as politics is in general when it comes down to it I vote for Obama or Hillary.
I'll take my chances, take the risk because I damn well know the Bush Cabal doesn't represent ME.
gwen @ 62:
Actually Gwen, I think they are just reading scripts targeted at the 5th grade mentality of their audience, none of whom are browsing this board. The sad fact is most people are idiots, and this demagogue simply solicits the schlock they respond to. It's like tutoring a bulldog on philosophy. No matter how long you spend tutoring him, he'll still vote for the guy with the fresh meat.
yokel
I'm starting to notice a trend that is catching . People who are sick of the overt racism and fear-mongering being hurled in Obama's direction from the sick toads that get near a microphone or keyboard are now inserting "Hussein" in the middle of their names as a show of support. I think this can only help hasten the impending meltdown of the entire right wing community, so count me in !
L.A. Confidential @ 59:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOytXkCw0NY
She crossed into the land of a Right Wing Nut Farm Democrat.
I won't go there.
She has stepped out of bounds.
Obama or Nader for me.
I am an Iowan, and yes I/we are embarrassed of King. He was in the news earlier this week with other embarrassing ideas http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=7FD4EF93-DB49-F51A-8E1B...
Sheeze! Am I wrong? To me, this sort of hate mongering religious and racist bigotry is unAmerican, enemy of the people and traitorous to our great American tradition of equality of all people and freedom of religion. Just because our idiot-in-chief says Islam is a religion dedicated to the destruction of America, that is only so because his bigot, hateful war on that religion has made it so. Muslims were not enemies of America until Bush and bigoted, rateful racist idiots like Rep. King made them our enemies.
Has Hillary Clinton come out in support of Rep. King yet?
From Wikipedia:
"In May 2004, King said the events of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse "amounts to hazing."[10] King continues to receive questions about his hazing comment"
"My wife lives here with me, and I can tell you… she’s at far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than an average civilian in Iraq."
"There probably are not seventy-two virgins in the hell he's at, and if there are, they probably all look like [liberal journalist] Helen Thomas."
What an icky, icky man.
Republicans are bed-wetting cowards.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
--Joseph Goebbels
I think we all know whose playbook the Republicans are using.
ConcernedCanuck @ 50:
Not an endorsement of McCain. A rather inept attack on Senator Obama's experience true.She's not running against McCain yet.
Is this one of those individuals Michael Moore wrote about? You know, "Stupid White Men".
L.A. Confidential @ 59:
LA, you have every right to back whatever candidate you want, that's your business and your right. Have you ever in your life heard of a political candidate from either party, that endorses the opposing parties candidate over another member of their own party? I mean other than Lieberman. That's kind of disgusting. What exactly is she afraid of? She is more afraid of Obama than McCain? Karl Rove now advises McCain according to the headlines. You think Karl "Spin" Rove isn't going to play those endorsements over and over and over if she's the candidate? Why wouldn't they? She just said (and Repubs will take it to mean this) that "if I'm not the candidate, well then you are better off voting for McCain over Obama, cuz McCain has experienc and Obama has a speech".........I've never in my life seen any politician do this.
Alice Hussein at 77, same here. If Clinton is ANYWHERE on the ticket, there are two votes in this house for Nader, and that goes for the whole Democratic ticket. We also have the option of an independent, John Frohmeyer, here in Oregon as a possible replacement for Republican Senator Gordon Smith so we have options!
Alice Hussein @ 77:
Nader?
LMAO man you didn't learn did you.
TO REP Steve King;
Al Qaida dancing in the street if Obama wins is much more acceptable to Al Qaida blowing themselves up in the streets if McCain wins.
And,
Rep Steve King, How do you know Al Qaida so well?
Are you recieving daily memos from Osama ?
Can Rep Steve King go on record and put his Congressional career on the chopping block if McCain wins and Al Qaida not only dances in the streets but also continues to blow themselves up in the streets ?
There are so many questions I'd like to ask Rep Steve King (in the public domain). When will the media ask of him the obvious retorted questions of such statements?
“I’ll just say this that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?
Ahh-umm...let me take a guess. Maybe, if it were true, a western society's tolerance of other cultures, potentially opening up more cooperation with the nations who doubted an accepting and more open-minded America. For those willing to see this rationally, the optimistic symbolism would be quite astonishing--if Obama were a muslim in the first place.
Why didn't this guy just go ahead and say something like: "If this Hussien guy becomes president, don't hold any of us (Republicans) responsible for the actions of the paranoid redneck who tries to assassinate him."
Everyone Will Be Dancing In the Streets
They'll be dancing and shouting Bush is GONE !!! Hurray
Peter G @ 84:
Thats what I saw. And some clever editing to appeal to the less then critical thinking audience.
ohio progressive @ 65:
The Headline will read more or less: Osama killed, body not found, a bunker-buster bomb caused absolute evaporation of everything and everyone around. Until we wake up to this Breaking News one day, Steven Kings of America will keep on bankrupting this nation morally and financially.
L.A. Confidential @ 88:
I learned a lot. I voted for Nader in '96 but Gore in 2000.
This time I could write in Edwards who was my original choice. Would you feel any better.
As was noted, what purpose is served by replacing a corporate republican with a corporate democrat.
Not enough purpose to worry about. It is mere cosmetics.
L.A. Confidential @ 92:
Oh come on. I've read your posts LA. You aren't stupid. She is saying that Dems should vote McCain if it comes down to Obama vs. McCain, and that is EXACTLY what the Repub supporters will read into it. If these people ARE representing their own party, they sure as heck don't say stuff like that, even for political points in a leadership campaign. Check out a rightwing nutbar blog. That is exactly what they are reading into it. Hillary has evolved into Hillary Lieberman.
Every virulent anti-black racist in America will be dancing in the streets after watching this Steve King video.
We're certainly engaged in the Dumbing Down of American democracy, thanks to people like this.
Bud Osama Bin Laden Hussein @ 13:
NEWSFLASH!! The fix was in when the corporations tried to get Gen. Smedley Butler to lead a violent military coup d'etat against FDR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUmMC5P8IE
And it's only gotten worse since Eisenhower tried to warn us against an out of control military industrial complex. We ignored him at our own peril.
The fix has been in for a long time and now because we have been collectively suckered into being "consumers" as opposed to "citizens" we can consider ourselves to be collectively f&*#@d.
If anyone on this thread has any ideas on how we can get out of this f&*#ing mess I'd love to hear them. And please. Don't tell me Obama or Clinton will save us. The historical record should clearly tell all of us that any "politician" with a (D) or (R) after their name is not the answer to the problem. They ARE the problem!
Which reminds me of the Eldridge Cleaver quote: "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem." To which a good friend of mine retorted, "The problem is that we are the solution!"
Ok, so his middle-name matters because it will have meaning to that part of the world... BUT, wouldn't it be a POSITIVE impact you knuckle-dragging, mouth-breeding, sister-humping troglodyte?!?! FUCK!!!!
Who cares? People of Wyoming are coming out in record numbers to VOTE for Obama!!!!
Gee sort of like a member of obama's team, someone who had been with him for 14 months and a supposed PR expert who called Hillary Clinton and said she would do anything to win.
Is this the type of people he will surround himself with if he was president. People who run around the world and calling his opponents names. They sure picked a place to start. A place where President Bill Clinton had helped broker a peace between the IRA and the English.
But then that just goes to show he was trying to flame her name from afar. Course when you say do anything to win,,,how about caging those control cards so you could be in charge of the Texas caucus and how about roaming the streets all day long, getting people to sign caucus cards so you would later put obama's name on them. Course this was made up, the Texas Democratic Committee caught his campaign. But all they did was rebuke them. Wonder what would have happened if HIllary Clinton's campaign had been caught doing that. If the call her a monster when she hasn't done anything will the jumping dancing cult leader be called for it, heck no. He never is.
Obama said he'd go into Pakistan and get OBL. Even Bush isn't that tough, as he said himself, he's "really not that concerned with him."
Also the "optics" of Chimpy or McChimpy probably actually encourage more hatred from extremists. Obama is a breath of fresh air for this country.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Bud Osama Bin Laden Hussein @ 13:
NEWSFLASH!! The fix was in when the corporations tried to get Gen. Smedley Butler to lead a violent military coup d'etat against FDR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUmMC5P8IE
And it's only gotten worse since Eisenhower tried to warn us against an out of control military industrial complex. We ignored him at our own peril.
The fix has been in for a long time and now because we have been collectively suckered into being "consumers" as opposed to "citizens" we can consider ourselves to be collectively f&*#@d.
If anyone on this thread has any ideas on how we can get out of this f&*#ing mess I'd love to hear them. And please. Don't tell me Obama or Clinton will save us. The historical record should clearly tell all of us that any "politician" with a (D) or (R) after their name is not the answer to the problem. They ARE the problem!
Which reminds me of the Eldridge Cleaver quote: "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem." To which a good friend of mine retorted, "The problem is that we are the solution!"
gowest272004 @ 100:
Are they dancing in the streets?
Is anyone running against this nitwit? There has to be someone in Iowa who can beat this goober. I mean, the cast of Hee-Haw had more political acumen.
Hillary doesn't like caucuses. She only likes Diebold machines and the way they count elections.
ConcernedCanuck @ 95:
Any Dem who's stupid enough to Vote for McCain needs some serious psychological help. Regardless, I didn't see the subtle, diabolical, subliminal hint your referring to above.
I think thats a little way to out there even for me and you need to yank in your imagination just a bit.
johnny @ 93:
Bin Laden is much more valuable alive, to some people.
Kill him and most reasonable people would say 'we got the guy who did it, we won, now let's go home'.
Bush's extraordinary commander in chief extra legal war powers would come to an end. The obscene war profiteering comes to an end.
Bushco wants Bin Laden to live forever.
We will see about the others.
That's really funny because there will be a lot of Americans dancing in the streets too. Some will dance because the worst President of our lifetime has been finally shown the door. Some will dance because there is hope that our racial divide past will be partly erased for all time. Some will dance because the music will be sweeeeeeeet. I promise to dance even though I can't do it very well.
Stupid Git @ 3:
Um, yes, I think we can. Here, let me try...
Rep. Steve King is a BIGOT.
Hey, that felt good (and correct). Try it everybody!
Do they mean dancing in the aisles like when the liberal blogosphere did when Hillary Clinton is called a MONSTER?
Had this man said the same of Hillary Clinton, would this blog have mentioned it?
If the progressive movement doesn't start trying to play fair and get of the Clinton's ass, we are going to find ourselves with a President McCain.
What they are saving for the general election, if Queen hillary wins, is the KNOWN disdain and hatred of women leaders these types have.
But they'll probably make a game on the odds of having a terrorist terrorist attack here and where it will happen at no matter which one wins.
Stopped listening at "the optics", because only a complete idiot uses "optics" as a socio-political adjective. Or am I missing something? Maybe it's a new- or even perhaps an old- meme in policy writing?
Nope, you'd still be a tool...
You have just witnessed the GOP's main talking point strategy for the 08 election, in case you missed it let me boil it down for you = terrorists -heart- Democrats .
whoever wins the nomination needs to EFFECTIVELY counter this
Jack Jett @ 111:
There is a big difference. Calling HRC a 'monster' is a personal attack directed at HRC based solely on one's opinion of her. That is a far cry from the type of race-baiting, fear-mongering that Mr. King is engaged in. BIG DIFFERENCE
What Obama's supporter did was stupid.
What Rep. King did weakens America.
Rodham Hussein @ 58:
The TV sports folks figured this out a long time ago. When they all mutually agreed to stop showing live video of streakers and other disruptive conduct during live NFL games, the behavior was cut way back. Maybe it's time for the political media to agree to stop reporting and re-reporting blatant political smears like this as news.
his middle name has a special meaning??? it really is scary how ignorant some people really are--
As an Iowan...this is embarrassing! Here is what I just sent King's office:
Dear Mr. King -
Your recent comments about the potential election of Senator Obama as President of the United States are EMBARRASSING! You are an embarrassment to all Iowans! Your comments are incredibly bigoted! A man's middle name does NOTHING to tell you what kind of person he is! Absolutely nothing! I would have thought you were educated enough to realize that! Apparently bigotry is your stronger characteristic! I am appalled and ashamed that I have to say you represent my state in our Federal government! At least you do not represent my district! I would work every day to ensure that you are not re-elected in November! In fact, I will be donating money to your opponent's campaign this fall! I would wish you luck but you are not deserving of any! Go away in shame!
Muckraker @ 48:
I plan on dancing when Bush & Cheney are out next January, and again when they are indicted, and again when they are imprisoned. My dancing shoes will be worn thin by the time Bush & Cheney get what they deserve!
Iowa needs to get rid of this guy.
Doesn't matter to me if it's President Clinton or President Obama I'm still going to watch them like a Hawk to make sure they don't FU*K UP.
I have been saying for years to anyone who will listen that the US Congress is home to some of the stupidest people in America.
ConcernedCanuck @ 95:
I am not responsible for what anyone else reads into a given statement. Certainly the Republicans would vote for McCain in any event.Let the right wing blogs preach to their own choirs. Recognizing your opponents strengths is hardly an endorsement and constantly trash talking your opponent gets old fast. When the time comes I'm quite sure that Hillary will be up to disarticulating McCain. Including damning with faint praise. Frankly I think Barrack would do the same and I would be satisfied either way. What disturbs me is the number of people here who plan to take their marbles and go home if their candidate doesn't take the nomination.
What is going on in Iraq is NOT!! a war. It is an occupation, you can NOT!! win an occupation you can end it. It makes me so mad that the word war is thrown around like its a game. War is the most serious endeavor that a country can engage in and its use by republicans to gain political advantage. What happened on 9/11 was a crime and should have been treated as a crime. It has been used to enrich the select few at the expense of the many.
I dont give a rats butt what anyone says, Steve King is absolutely right. I am in no way conservative but i know darn well if MY middle name was Hussein, I would have changed it right after 9/11 happened out of disgust. Obama needs to ditch the name if for no other reason than out of respect for 9/11, our country and those that died for us. That is if he is serious about wanting to be president.
This shit is going to go on all year, especially after Obama gets the nomination.
These jerkoffs don't give a shit about America or anything for that matter...except their own self interest and money.
FUCK THEM ALL!!
L.A. Confidential @ 121:
You'll have a lot to watch then. Take the mess Bush leaves behind, combine it with a weak spineless congress and I really find it hard to believe even the best pres in the world is going to have much luck turning things around.
naschkatze Hussein @ 87:
Then you're a complete fucking retard. have anice day.
david schmitt @ 114:
I agree but might I add, it is also going to about skin color. Notice how King kept referring to the father? Obama's father was black, mother was white.
I'd prefer to have terrorist dancing on the streets, than pointing their weapons and hatred on us.
Go Obama!!!!!
Alice Hussein @ 77:
Then you're a complete fucking retard. Have a nice day.
john bourne harbour @ 117:
That does it!! I am now going to change my middle name to Hussein, everyone should! Just think of the wingnut drivel that would create!!?? The headline could read "Half of Americans have now changed their middle names to Hussein" LOL!
When Obama wins and the Chimp & his cohorts are out of office we shall declare a madatory National Dance in the Streets Holiday.
HillaryWillWin @ 125:
If Senator Obama did that then he would be no different than McCainiac or Billery...doing ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to win the office of the President! Not sure why I even responded to that nonsense though...waste of time...
ohio progressive @ 65:
There's only one tiny problem with anyone hunting down and killing OBL. According to the FBI he's not even on their "most wanted list" for 9/11 because they say they don't have enough HARD EVIDENCE against him as to the events of 9/11:
http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html
But, you're probably right. They would go after OBL and kill him, most likely with their beloved Blackwater goons. Kind of like the hanging of our "good friend" Saddam. Why let a little thing like HARD EVIDENCE get in the way?
HillaryWillWin @ 125:
What about the middle-eastern people who serve in our military, or who died on 9/11, or who are Americans?
I think any reasonable person can see what Rep Steve King is appealing to and without thought to the consequences to his radical words.
We've seen Don Imus fired for about the same thing from his radio show.
Why isn't this man being fired from his Congressional seat ? Because it is OK to be racist or whatever during a political campaign ?
If this Steve King falsely yelled, "bomb" in an airport and said, "get used to it if Obama wins the election". Could he get away with it because he was making political hackery ?
If you want to really hurt King donate to the Democrats running against him.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/IA.phtml
I recommend Progressive, Minister, Veteran, Scholar, and Teacher Rob Hubler.
HillaryWillWin @ 125:
By that logic Hillary should have changed her last name right after Monica-gate, um, happened. Get real.
Filthy Harry @ 127:
Not a pretty picture. What I'm concerned about is Wall Street desperately needs a president who will “sweep all the corruption and losses, would-be indictments, perp walks and prosecutions under the rug and get on with an unprecedented taxpayer bailout of Wall Street.
And all three. . . Obama, Clinton, and McCain have one thing in common.
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
Citigroup
Lehman Brothers
JP Morgan
The GOP wants to use "terror" as their campaign slogan again. Republicans are nothing but repeats, repeats, repeats... nothing new and intelligent, just repeats.
How come the Republicans aren't repeating all the terror that has been inflicted on families that have lost loved ones to the illegal war in Iraq? How come they don't want talk about that? They don't mention veterans returning with hearing loss, they don't mention the children missing a parent, they don't mention the long wait for rehabilitation for veteran's for both physical and mental injuries? And they don't mention the....
Coffins draped with flags God forbid we honor our dead because that would upset the privileged Barabara Bush and we don't want to upset her because that would upset the boy Bush and god only knows what he's planning on screwing up next.
Vote McCain and get more wars, less jobs. Vote Clinton, get more wars, less jobs. Sounds the same to me.
HillaryWillWin @ 125:
Go the fuck away, you racist troll.
I live in and love the great state of Iowa. But we sure do have some idiots in our government. Surprise surprise.
And I agree with John Bourne Harbour: We should really do it though, that is, change our middle names to Hussein.
Alice Hussein @ 94:
You should listen to Nader, he is the only one who tells the whole unvarnished truth.
We need him in the race, however many votes go his way.
Edwards was very close to doing so, too close for the comfort of the corporate media.
Consider: Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky & Herman.
I never hear anyone complain about the wingnut votes that went to Buchanan in '00.
This shows the minute capacity that right wingers have for any actual coherent debate of policy. What a pile of crap. Groucho Marx should have changed his name too, right?
Bill B @ 55:
Please Billdoe enlighten us. Tell us of Building 7. No wait that's not allowed here.
Abbybwood @ 135:
count me out of the conspiracy crowd
i think bin laden did it, and bush was complicit only in gross negligence, deliberately ignoring the threats, deliberately spending the day running like a coward, deliberately failing to kill the sob since then...
but i don't believe the USA had any involvement a la some bush kid planting explosives up and down the WTC....
kill bin laden, and we got the crazy sob who mapped out that whole deal...
mind you, i expect obama to prosecute the high crimes and misdemeanors of bush and cheney, but they don't involve conspiratorial involvement in 911...
Just because you are in the Democratic Party doesn't make you "the problem". That is simplistic thinking. Kucinich is pushing for Impeachment of Cheney. Cynthia McKinney investigated 9/11. JFK had to be assassinated because of his challenges to the powers that be. You have to be kidding me. Most are corrupt I agree, but would you encourage us to vote against JFK back in the day? Obama might do the same thing. Besides its about an evolution. You vote for the candidate that moves the country in the right direction and still has a chance of being elected. Extremists might have voted for some unknown candidate in the JFK election. They might have voted for some unrealistic candidate in the Al Gore election. I think it is obvious we'd be better off with Al Gore being president than Bush. I think we'd be better of with Obama than Clinton or McCain. Obama may follow the lead of JFK and work to end the military industrial complex. Contain the CIA. and Get common sense monetary policy.
God Damnit. I'm sick of hopeless people. And I'm hopeful by people who speak of Smedley Butler etc. I can't stand people who ignore the realities of those situations. Obama might be a bust. He might be a bigger threat than JFK. We don't know. But I'd rather vote for him than some "perfect" candidate that has no chance. Either that or I dedicate my time to installing Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) or a system in which we rank our preferences for President.
CNN reported Obama's response that crap like this has "no place in politics".
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