April 11, 2008 10:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
American Street: Our public discourse is so broken, so dysfunctional, that privileged people worth millions can describe someone with a background like Obama's, as elitist, and be taken seriously.
Emptywheel: John 'Torture' Yoo and academic freedom.
MoJo Blog: Cops and former Secret Service agents ran black ops on Greenpeace and other progressive groups.
Roger Ailes: The Senate Gay-Straight Alliance Club
Politics in the Zeros : Dr. Greenspan's amazing invisible thesis
Mark Of The Beast: Don't Sugarcoat It award-winner for today...
well, dammit... barack took it seriously... haven't read the articles, just expressing my initial disappointment...
Obama says he erred in comments on "bitter" voters
Reuters - 52 minutes ago
MUNCIE, Indiana (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, attacked by his rivals as an elitist for describing small-town voters as people who "cling to guns or religion," said on Saturday he erred in how he expressed the concerns of ...
Opponents Call Obama Remarks ‘Out of Touch’ New York Times
Obama Concedes Remarks Were Ill Chosen The Associated Press
well, not so bad... from the rueters:
After facing a barrage of criticism from New York Sen. Clinton and Arizona Sen. McCain, Obama told a campaign rally in Muncie, Indiana, his description was clumsy and did not convey his meaning.
"I didn't say it as well as I should have," said Obama, who is vying with Clinton for the Democratic nomination and the right to run in November against presumptive Republican nominee McCain.
Obama said he believed many voters were indeed bitter about the economy and he meant to say "when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on."
"So people -- they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community," he said. But he said he had not meant to imply that was a bad thing.
"The truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That's what sustains us," he said.
RE MoJo article:
How many of these stories are we going to have to read before the phrase, "conspiracy theory" stops incurring ridicule?
Apr 12
Recent violence in Basra has convinced the administration of President George W. Bush that Iran and not Al-Qaeda is now the primary threat to US interests in Iraq.
6 hours ago
David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for US air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East. Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services.
"Hold on and Prey" is being mentioned around the net.
BDM @ 3:
There's no conspiracies, just startling and stunning coincidences.
yes, LA, the drums are getting louder...
Iran Top Threat To Iraq, US Says
Washington Post - 11 hours ago
By Karen DeYoung Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to ...
Iran Fighting Proxy War in Iraq, US Envoy Says New York Times
US chides Arab states for not doing more on Iraq Reuters
interesting take from reuters...
did you mean prAy?
Someone needs to protect business from these idiots socialist groups!
Thanks Mike, nice batch, especially the Obama one. Talk about the pot calling the kettle rich.
I also think it's richly ironic when white pundits play the race card by trying to keep Obama's race in viewers minds. They're basically playing the race card themselves by doing that.
Obama stayed away from the sticky topic of race as much as he could, until the Rev. Wright video forced him to address it. And then, look out, address it he did!
Macon D
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/
then I saw Obama's reply to his political critics. And it was awesome. Here's what he said:
"When I go around and I talk to people there is frustration and there is anger and there is bitterness. And what’s worse is when people are expressing their anger then politicians try to say what are you angry about? This just happened -- I want to make a point here today.
"I was in San Francisco talking to a group at a fundraiser and somebody asked how’re you going to get votes in Pennsylvania? What’s going on there? We hear that it's hard for some working class people to get behind your campaign. I said, 'Well look, they’re frustrated and for good reason. Because for the last 25 years they’ve seen jobs shipped overseas. They’ve seen their economies collapse. They have lost their jobs. They have lost their pensions. They have lost their healthcare.
“And for 25, 30 years Democrats and Republicans have come before them and said we’re going to make your community better. We’re going to make it right and nothing ever happens. And of course they’re bitter. Of course they’re frustrated. You would be too. In fact many of you are. Because the same thing has happened here in Indiana. The same thing happened across the border in Decatur. The same thing has happened all across the country. Nobody is looking out for you. Nobody is thinking about you. And so people end up -- they don’t vote on economic issues because they don’t expect anybody’s going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don’t believe they can count on Washington. So I made this statement -- so, here’s what rich. Senator Clinton says ‘No, I don’t think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he’s obviously out of touch with people.’
“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain -- it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I’m out of touch? No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on. I know what’s going on in Pennsylvania. I know what’s going on in Indiana. I know what’s going on in Illinois. People are fed-up. They’re angry and they’re frustrated and they’re bitter. And they want to see a change in Washington and that’s why I’m running for President of the United States of America.”
right on, barack...
Mark of the Beast was good. Preach it brother!
[Roger Ailes: The Senate Gay-Straight Alliance Club]
"My story became a situation where my wife and I watched it almost as if it were caricatures out there being talked about," (Larry) Craig said. "It certainly wasn't me... "
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Well, yes, Larry, it was YOU. GOP delusion at its best.
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