Obama pulls Lieberman aside for "slightly intimidating" confrontation
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Jun 04, 2008 8:45am
Wednesday on the Senate floor, Barack Obama pulled Joe Lieberman aside for a three minute conversation that, according to their body language (someone call BillO!), got pretty intense.
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Furthermore, during a Senate vote Wednesday, Obama dragged Lieberman by the hand to a far corner of the Senate chamber and engaged in what appeared to reporters in the gallery as an intense, three-minute conversation.
While it was unclear what the two were discussing, the body language suggested that Obama was trying to convince Lieberman of something and his stance appeared slightly intimidating.
Using forceful, but not angry, hand gestures, Obama literally backed up Lieberman against the wall, leaned in very close at times, and appeared to be trying to dominate the conversation, as the two talked over each other in a few instances.
Still, Obama and Lieberman seemed to be trying to keep the back-and-forth congenial as they both patted each other on the back during and after the exchange.
Afterwards, Obama smiled and pointed up at reporters peering over the edge of the press gallery for a better glimpse of their interaction.
Well, when someone in your own party says stuff like this about you, they should expect a strong reaction.
Good for you, Senator Obama.
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I'm pretty sure Lieberman is an independent and not a member of Barak's party.
Screw Lieberman. Toss his bony ass out of the Party TODAY.
"when someone in your own party says stuff like this about you, they should expect a strong reaction."
Lieberman is NOT a Democrat - he's an independent pretending to be a Democrat, who's actually a Republican.
I hope that Barack was finally letting Lieberman know that it is time for him to stop being such a putz and to go ahead and formally get the hell out of the Democratic Party. He is a self-serving, hypocritical, McCain-loving fool. If he doesn't leave on his own, he should be driven out. Period.
Which party? What party?
John McCain's surrogate got a tongue-lashing of Obamaeske proportions.
Looks like John McCain will need to find a new message-boy for John McCain.
Too bad he didn't scream at the little jerkoff, what an AHOLE this guy is. Nice job Barack.
I would pay to hear what was said.
Did Lieberman lose any teeth yet?
Obama should have dragged Lieberman to the nearest bathroom,and showed him what he can do with his two hands.
Lieberman and Obama to McCain...."you gonna get raped!"
The only people who take the time to even lend an ear to lie-bur-men are the msm scum who need something that takes no time, money or effort to gather, to fill their pages with.
Memo to joey,
When you command no respect as a person, neither does any sounds emitting from your pie-hole.
heheheheheee! LIEberman is a traitor to Democratic Party. And should be oustered!
This is encouraging. After Clinton and Obama fell in line yesterday at the Aipac conference doing the customary ass kissing. I felt depressed.
Nothing will change in the middle east with Obama I thought nothing. Just after watching the coverage of the Aipac conference I spent a half an hour with a student from India who is working on his Master's in International studies here at Ohio University. He stated that he believes that terrorism and the angry attitude that so many in that people feel towards the U.S. would be cut by 75% the day after a U.S. administration would seriously attempt to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict in a fair and balanced way. He claimed that the majority of people fully honor that Israel "exist". But that it is critical that they honor the many UN Resolutions that they are in violation of and stop expanding settlements.
I mean how many times do we have to hear leader after leader, expert after expert say these very words? How many times before we get it?
Obama's body language with Lieberman gives me a bit of hope. Americans attitudes about this situation have shifted the last 10 years. Mearsheimer and Walts book "The Israeli Lobby" (a must read) has pushed this debate that Jimmy Carter, Norman Finkelstein and so many others have been pushing and working on for a very long time.
Let's hope Obama can deal with this situation more fairly.
Pro Palestine
Pro Israel (67 border)
Pro Peace
Thats called taking charge of his house. Now the rest of the Dems need to get BO's back and kick some ass.
A Democrat with balls... what a concept!
What Obama did was brilliant.
He just better be prepared for the RNC to use the whole racsist 'scary black man' defense.
Lieberman should be out of the Democratic Party. He's a quisling. A rather blatant one at that.
By the way, did you know that one of the way's that people tend to pick political candidates is by height?
Just saying. Those to ancient, pasty faced, jowly old men look like shrunken mummies next to Obama.
hopefully the new boss of the democratic party let lieberman know he's going to be kicked off the team in november.
and that he can go likud ehud olmert's balls.
Barack Obama is not shy about confronting issues. He faces opposition straight on. This is one of the things that I like about his character.
paganpaul @ 14:
Hells yeah!
Let's see how the media covers this.
About freakin' time. It's time to shake up this Party. Youth must be served.
I've had enough of wrinkled up, insulated white guys with no perspective on how real people live...on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Fresh blood. Fresh ideas.
Great photo. Lieberman is finished. He is a turncoat. He's support for McCain is strange and at best, infuriating. I can't believe he was re-elected, were they drinking Kool-aid?
I woulda punched LIEberman, right in the goozle!
This is just the beginning. All of the dopes who called Obama "soft" will learn harshly that you don't fuck with Chicago boys.
Looks like McBain is advising Schlieberman to STFU and listen in that pic...HA!
I think the picture is "Photo Shopped".
Darn! No video?
P.D. @ 22:
Kool-aid that was laced with the opiate called religion.
Blind faith can make people, even decent ones, do very stupid things.
It was one of the reasons we got Bush, the chimp... well, that, and voter fraud.
How long before the rest of the Republicans are demanding an apology from Sen. Obama?
Why do some of us still refer to Lieberman as a Dem? Lieberman is one of our success stories, we got rid of his sorry ass when he ran against Ned Lamont in the 2006 Democratic primary.
Has anyone noticed that Georgie is barely mentioned anymore? Just a couple of photo opts with the military and a virtual no-show. Is MSM afraid to show their unpopular Golden Boy?
still hoping that Crooks and Liars does a full page on the Aipac conference and the ass kissing that all of the Presidential candidates are participating in at the conference.
How in the hell has Aipac come out unscathed during the investigation(that the MSM will not touch) of two top former officials of Aipac . How is it that the "alleged" spying by Steve Rosen and Weissman's and the undermining of U.S. National Security via the passing of U.S. classified intelligence to Israeli officials has barely been reported about in the MSM and barely in the so called "progressive" blogosphere. Firedoglake will not touch this topic, Crooks and liars has skimmed the surface.
How is that Aipac seems to be unscathed after being the vehicle used to undermine U.S. National Security?
In the month of May private hearings took place at the 4th District Court in Alexandria Virginia. From what I was told when I called the classified documents in the case were being reviewed in private so that this espionage trial could still be made public. That is if and when the trial takes place, the trial has been "indefinitely" postponed and the Israeli Lobby would very much like that trial to be dismissed.
I ask again how is it that Aipac seems to have come out of this espionage investigation that the MSM will not report about at all or the delayed trials unscathed?
U.S. vs Rosen
Here are some of the case files in regard to this investigation and "indefinitely postponed" trial
http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/aipac/index.html
The GOP, McCain, and their enablers like Lieberman still haven't gotten the message: Barack Obama is NOT John Kerry. He's not going to take this bullshit lying down. The GOP hasn't dealt with somebody like Obama in a long, long. LONG time. I can't wait for the debates!
Lieberman is a douche nozzle, NOT a Democrat! He is just trying to hold on to the title long enough to Zell Miller us at the Republican convention but old turncoat Joe sold his soul long ago.
P.D. @ 31:
I think he moved in with Cheney.
A Democrat with spine. Whoda thunk it?
Obama needs to take The NYTimes' Mo Dowd aside and tell her to stop calling him "Bambi" every time she writes about him.
No, I take that back. He should tell her that when the cameras are rolling so everyone can see it.
Yeah Liberal, let's hope they ride off in the sunset in Crawford, and never look back!
Obama to Lieberman: "Go F_ck yourself!"
Obama: You have been my friend and mentor, but you had better get on board, or get out.
Lieberman: Barak, you know that I would ever...
Obama: Save it, Joe. I'm just putting you on notice. You can kiss your committee memberships goodbye.
Lieberman [smiling]: Don't threaten me you little...
Obama [smiling]: It's not a threat, Joe, it's a promise.
Lieberman: I've been a senator since you wore footie pajamas
Obama: And I'll put them on again in order to plant my foot up your wrinkled old ass, Joe. It's time to choose sides, and if I see you cozy up to John again you will have a lot more free time on your Senate schedule.
Lieberman [clapping Barak on shoulder]: I'm gonna fuck you up.
Obama: Bring it, Joe, bring it. I pulled my punches with Hill, I am under no such constraints with you.
I LOVE IT!!!
I always thought I saw a little bit of bull dog in Obama.
Cats r Flyfishn @ 18:
so if Obama hits issues straight on. Why in the hell did he slip out of town the day he could have made a solid stand against the warmongers like Lieberman. When Obama could have voted NO NO NO on the Kyl lieberman amendment last fall (Hillary voted for it,,,how stupid) which defined the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist (potential tool to be used by chicken hawks like Lieberman to bomb Iran) OBAMA WAS OUT OF TOWN AND DID NOT VOTE NO NO NO.
confront confront? Obama did not confront this then.
Watch this video and you will get a look at the way Obama sometimes deals with issues. And this one was critically important to say NO NO NO to. Dodd and Biden voted No.
John Edwards explains it best
Listen to Edwards and watch Obama carefully
Hillary Laughs about Iran War Resolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npzN3dZR6JM
Hillary blows it, Edwards gets it and Obama avoids it.
ALTHOUGH IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE HE STOOD UP TO LIEBERMAN ABOUT SOMETHING. REFRESHING.
Liberal AND Proud @ 36:
How many think that Cheney is a 'Pitcher' and Bush is a 'Cather'?
Will the who Jeff Gannon (remember him) issue, and politicians around the world commenting on Bush's... ahem... lack of 'manliness', you have to wonder about those two.
Albatross @ 42:
That was awesome, albatross. But I think, coming from South Side Chicago, Barack may have said "I'll put them on again in order to break my foot off square in your wrinkled old ass"
What Obama was telling Joe: " Don't mess with me'...
I can use my hands in many ways beside playing basketball...
Watch and listen to Senator Hagel confront Lieberman
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/14/chuck-hagel-smacks-lieberman/
Hagel has been really standing up on the Israeli Palestinian issue and the war in Iraq
Watch Senator Webb confront the Lieberman push for the Kyl Lieberman amendment
Crooks and Liars posted this at the time
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/25/sen-webb-blasts-liebermankyl-amendment-this-proposal-is-dick-cheneys-fondest-pipe-dream/
I had watched the whole thing on C-Span and was glad to see that Crooks and Liars caught this as they usually do.
While it was unclear what the two were discussing, the body language suggested that Obama was trying to convince Lieberman of something and his stance appeared slightly intimidating.
"Stance" had nothing to do with it. Obama is a six-foot-something black man. Lieberman is the sort of sheltered little man who practically craps his pants when a big black man gets too close. Obama could have been inquiring as to his preferences in tea and Joe would have been intimidated.
Numinous @ 45:
Obama, please PLEASE toss jerky Joe out of the party. (can't somebody do that?) Joe probably needs the time off so that he can run as McSame's VP.
Molly, NYC @ 49:
Exactly Lieberman is the type of man who made sure he received a deferment during Vietnam, but does not hesitate to send other people's family members to unnecessary and immoral wars. Lieberman is the worst kind of individual on the planet.
"Lieberman never served in the military. A spokesperson told The Hartford Courant in 1994 that Lieberman received an educational deferment from the Vietnam War draft when he was an undergraduate and law student from 1960-67. Upon graduating from law school at 25, Lieberman qualified for a family deferment as he was already married and had one child, Matt.[8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman
I firmly believe that Senator Lieberman does more harm in regard to Israel and their safety and the potential settling of the Israeli Palestinian issue than good.
Albatross @ 42:
Excellent
A lot off topic, but has anyone received any weird, racist text messages on their phone from an AIM user about Obama? I keep getting them and they are freaky. The username is coiling64rockets.
Very weird!
CNN is also saying that Barack will ask the DNC not to accept lobbyist and PAC money going forward.
Welcome to the new Democratic Party!
Time for Leave-rman to go. He gets too much attention, which is what he wants. Connecticut where are you? Write to this guy and tell him to represent the reasons you voted for him, or at least to stop trying to divide the country. To think I used to like this egocentric fool.
Bring in McCain now to the ring...
I think Obama is ready.
McCain described Obama as young,and know little so are many TV pundits and GOP surrogates.
They are all going to be surprised.
I Heard McCain speech two days ago,he sounded like a guy delivering speech from a hospital emergecny room.
Obama is mature,strong and capable..
If you beat the Clintons machine,and not being a Washington insider you deserve respect. Obama earned it. Hillary had big help and big name,so is McCain...
Obama is not afraid from guys like multi colored Joe Lieberman..
He will not be the new Kerry...
when was that picture taken?
would help to see a dated caption...
Kathleen @ 50:
GAH! Thanks for a truly disturbing mental picture!
"Listen Joe, Al Gore made an error in judgment. You're NOT going to be MY running mate!"
Mmmmm....is that chickenhawk I smell cooking?
HUACfan @ 1:
Does that make him a DINO?
Kathleen @ 13:
I had the same reaction to that speech. Both me and my wife (who IS Jewish) thought it was depressing to hear Obama defend Israel's "divine right" to push the Palestinians around. Both of us agreed that it is politics and he realistically can't give AIPAC the cold shoulder. But, jeezus krist, for all of us non-religious Americans to listen to the rousing applause for someone defending such barbarism, it is quite nauseating.
sharkcellar @ 63:
I know! I'm sick of religion dictating policy!
Dear Joe,
Listen....we gotta talk. Here's the thing, I know you support Israel and that's great. I respect the Jewish state. Hell, they have a gay pride parade when every country surrounding them will throw you in jail or worse for even thinking it.
But look, you were elected to represent the concerns of the folks in Connecticut, not Tel Aviv. If you want to be the secretary of Defense for Israel than run on that platform...but I have to tell you, I think they already have someone filling that position.
I guess what I'm trying to say Joe is that your dishonesty is starting to reach dizzying heights. Pastor Hagee as Moses?
C'mon!
You should know better. And people are starting to figure it out. Not just the informed and intelligent, but even the hayseeds in the Evangelical movement.
They don't care about you Joe. They think your going to hell as soon as the Rapture sucks them up into heaven.
Remember 2000? The first Jew on a presidential ticket. EVER. And now your campaigning against the people who put you there.
Do the right thing Joe. Pack up the last shred of dignity you have and disapear. Nobody cares where. Just go away.
I'm telling you this as a person who used to respect you, so no hard feeling, O.K.?
Obama should have slapped some sense into him.
Important.
Emptywheel is spitting nails this morning.
Go Read
Fitzgerald to Conyers: “Okay, Now I’m Ready to Talk”
By: emptywheel Thursday June 5, 2008 6:51 am [digg]
Thanks to BayStateLibrul for pointing out this provocative comment from Patrick Fitzgerald after yesterday's Rezko verdict:
"Let's see. Fitz "respectfully decline[s] to discuss matters currently at issue in a trial ongoing." The trial is over. And on the day the trial ends, Fitz says, "I owe Congress" a response about Kjellander's and Rove's efforts to get him fired???
I'm reading that message loud and clear, Chairman Conyers. Are you?
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/06/05/fitzgerald-to-conyers-okay-now-im-ready-to-talk/
ONE OF THE REGULARS AT MARCY'S POINTS OUT THAT IT IS TIME TO CALL CONYERS AND ASK HIM TO HAVE FITZ BACK FOR A VISIT. 202-225-0072
LET'S DO OUR PART
I smell a stinkin' Clinton/LIEberman ticket....pheeeeeeew!!
timbale @ 15:
For too long it has been the policy of the Democratic Party to bring a knife to a gun fight.
I also saw them engage briefly, with others around, at Reid's podium on the Senate floor. Obama then turned and walked away, with his cool and confident strut, while the much shorter Lieberman ran after him like a puppy.
Lieberman has been like a tick jumping on the back of the next free meal for years now.
Hmmm, has his current meal shriveled up like a dry old piece of toast so much so that ol' Joe now seeks a new and juicier ride???
Maybe Obama was warning Lieberman that he would hunt him from every mountain and from every hill.
Mister Anderson @ 55:
If that's true...THAT takes real gonads.
I'm all for it.
sharkcellar @ 63:
Many Jews marched against the invasion of Iraq, many Jews feel the treatment of the Palestinians is barbaric and wrong. We just all need to step up to the plate together and demand that this situation is dealt with more sanely. The Israeli policies now are not really getting Israel anywhere except into hotter water.
Did you hear that Prof Norman Finkelstein (one of my long time heroes) was banned from Israel for 10 years. Amy Goodman did a short interview on his experience. And Muzzlewatch has some good articles about Finkelstein being banned.
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?p=365
Interesting articles about a purge going on at Haartz
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?p=370
41 Rollo Tomassi Says: Obama to Lieberman: “Go F_ck yourself!”
Obama has a jillion times more class than chainy. I don't hear him saying that.
Cats r Flyfishn @ 18:
But what has he said? Change? Change what?
Obama wants Liebermann to be his running mate.
Getting into that quisling face may be enough reason to like Obama.
I'm sure he was far more diplomatic, but this is what I wish Obama had said....
"Look, you little Bush apologist traitor. You can go around campaigning with McCain now, and bash me left and right, but once we take back this country, you will be marginalized into nothing. You will lose your committee seats. You will be removed from the Democratic Caucus. I will do EVERYTHING in my power to see you are defeated in Connecticut. I will personally campaign in your state against you, and tell the crowds how much damage you have done to our country."
Liberal AND Proud @ 72:
Damn I have been waiting for Obama or Clinton to make the same commitment that Edwards had made early on. Hot Damn!
Kathleen @ 13:
He stated that he believes that terrorism and the angry attitude that so many in that people feel towards the U.S. would be cut by 75% the day after a U.S. administration would seriously attempt to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict in a fair and balanced way.
Like bill o'really?
someone get the 2-by-4 .. it's time to "talk" to Joe ..
Mister Anderson @ 55:
Maybe that exchange between Lieberman and Obama had to do with that.
Albatross Can't wait for your script on that possibility
ysbaddaden @ 79:
He stated that he believes that terrorism and the angry attitude that so many people in that part of the world feel towards the U.S. would be cut by 75% the day after a U.S. administration would seriously attempt to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict in a fair and balanced way.
They're all assholes.
BrianFL @ 77:
If he was going to start talking like that, he should've begun with Tony Rezko, Reverends Wright and Pfleger, and William Ayers, don'tcha think, BrianFL?
rain @ 75:
Hillary is conceding Friday, so give it up already.
If you don't know his policies, that just means you don't know how to pay attention.
Don't listen to pundits, do your own research.
SWEEET! He's using LBJ's tactics!
It's likely that they floated a "red herring" to Joe Lie-berman and it surfaced in the McCain camp. Scum.
John Tighe @ 69:
This is one of the reasons Edwards went down early. (the MSM ignored him after his second place in Iowa, even Air America's owner Mark Green and Arianna Huffington ignored Edwards second place win during a discussion just after Iowa) He took this commitment on early. I actually heard him say during one of the debates, no lobbyist in my administration, no pac money, no one who has ever been registered as a lobbyist for a foreign government.
Wondered when Obama or Clinton would have the "chutzpah" to do this?
dennis @ 84:
dennis @ 84:
Lieberman deserved something he didn't get----A stiff left-hook to the jaw.
Lieberman is a Repugnican.
'Nuff said.
dennis @ 84:
It's funny that's the best ya can do, d. Enjoy explaining to non-wingnuts who Rezko, Fleeger, and Ayres are, over and over, from now until November.
And say, what about that "bombshell"? It was supposed to explode the day before yesterday, but I didn't hear anything about it. Got a non-broken link?
Here's what really was said:
Obama: "Listen, Joe. I know you're a Penguins fan. But that OT win against my Redwings was shear f*cking luck. We're gonna f*ck your Pens up on ice tonight, baby."
Lieberman: "Bite my ass, Golden boy. The Penguins got home ice. That's all we needed. Your Redwings are going to be sh*tting ice cubes after tonight's game."
Obama: "Boy, you are an idiot wrapped up in a moron. No way the Wings lose three in a row!"
Lieberman: "$500 says they do!"
Obama: "I can't believe it. You're dumber than I thought. You're on!"
Over at Emptywheel talk of Fitz going back in front of Congress, Obama announces NO LOBBYIST, NO PAC NO NO NO, Obama stands up to Lieberman about something, and now this folks. Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is out.
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007493.html
Jesus Mary and Joseph did the sky open up or what?
xenophon @ 10:
X-boy........this comment is offensive in several ways. Peddle you crap on a rethug blog, which is where your mindset originated.
dennis @ 84:
Yawn!!! Tired tired tired BS talking points. NEXT!
Kathleen @ 81:
Here's a link to that CNN posting:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/05/obama-making-imprint-on-...
XuYu @ 29:
How long before the Entire World demands an apology from the rethuglicans..............indeed!!!!
Bobby @ 38:
Modo is an aging, attention-seeking, egomanical S H R E W. Never bother with her.
brokenarrow @ 98:
Modo needs a date.
The Brits call it "getting your retaliation in first"
Too bad Obama has too much class, but he should have decked him
I wonder if the conversation went a little like this....... Obama, "Listen here you little duplicitous back stabbing Quisling, if you ever dog me out in a speech again I will have your shriveled nut sack made into a chew toy for Barney, dig it?" Lieberman, "Yes Mr. Obama sir, so sorry sir, please consider me for a cabinet post sir, I don't really like McCain sir...snivel, grovel, snivel......."
Backed Joementum up against a wall?! Can I just say it now: Barry is tha' PIMP! But, yeah, he shoulda slapped Lieberman so hard that David Brooks could feel it all the way back on line at Applebee's Salad Bar. Not that I advocate violence, of course...
Just wish Kerry had kicked some Zell Miller ass back in ought-four.
Lenny @ 6:
*choke!*
*coffeespit*
*cleanup! "dammit"*
Molly, NYC @ 49:
This is not a high-school dance. I'm guessing the beady-eyed lieboyman was baiting GObama, but was nipped in the bud.
Also, Senator Obama, was born via the birth canal, as were we all...........the man is bi-racial. I think this is a major asset, unique to only one Candidate.........think about that. Think about the dimension this adds to one's worldview while growing up.
Reflect on this, if you will. We are on the threshold of a paradigm shift in leaders, and in the psyche of our nation...............JUST IN THE KNICK OF TIME, I would say.
Left&Left @ 24:
People never seemed to understand that he flicked hillary off his shoulder like so much dust from the past. He praised har all along while informing her and the rest of the planet that HE HAS THE NOMINATION BY THE RULES AND THE NUMBERS.
Obama apparently has had no use for the two "advisors" LIEberdouche donated to his campaign when he started. That's great. Now Obama needs to meet with Reid, Feinstein and the other booshdogs, straighten them out and let them know, in no uncertain terms, that there will be expectations for them to meet.
Lieberquisling is such a slimey scumbag. On the other hand, I hope Obama puts AIPAC squarely in its place when he becomes president.
Carol @ 101:
Nope! Obama did it correctly. In full view, Obama not-so-cordially administered the senatorial version of an ass-kicking, very collegial, but firm. Let us do all the rest by supporting him.
How long until the rightinwg smear machine spins this as Obama the antisemite or Obama has a temper problem?
brokenarrow @ 97:
How long before the world takes all Americans asses to the Hague? How complicit were the majority of Americans in this disastrous war in Iraq? How lazy? Happy to stay in their bubble with their pedals to the metal driving to the malls with crosses around their necks. The hypocrisy is maddenning
I don't know what this is suppose to mean.. But if Obama WAS reading him a riot act of some kind..... It's been long overdue in that putz's case....JD
BaScOmBe against Bitter Elitist Appeasement Bullshit @ 104:
I think Obama is sending us all a message enough of these right wing radical warmongers. Enough!
galmud @ 109:
Obama has a "rapid response team" to handle the media. We can always help by continuing to blast the CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CNBC/CBS/FUX/WSJ/NYT smear machine.
Repeatedly.
Incessantly.
Viciously.
Because we can and we must!
I've heard some Democrats call Obama a 'hack,' and 'empty suit,' and not qualified for office. Pulling a senior senator aside and making a case about something on the senate floor is a very positive sign.
Liberal AND Proud @ 112:
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 96:
Who's he ever talked tough to that way? You're dreaming he'd ever talk to Lieberman like that.
Hoping and dreaming. Convince yourselves he'd talk to Ahmadinejad that way, too, while at the same time they both come out of it slapping each other on the backs.
Convince yourselves he's not Obama the naive, as John Bolton says he most assuredly is.
John Tighe @ 62:
No, it makes him a NADA -- which is Not A Democrat Already
Am I missing something here? He's a pain in the ass, but he is not a member of the Democratic Party, no?
Left&Left @ 24:
People who wondered if he is tough enough, have never been on the southside.
This is a great video from the recent AIPAC conference that puts things into perspective
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YPJsx5dG0tc
Am I the only one who thought "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" when seeing that picture?
The fact that Obama has been using his birth name throughout his political career, and not 'Barry', is a testament to his character. Even with the understanding that politicians are prime targets for mud, he stayed true to who he is, and didn't try to put a facade on his ancestry.
Joe Lieberman should respect Barack's athori-TIE!
If it was me, I'da kicked him right in the NUUUTS!
Lieberman should be sent to Guantanamo to think things over.
OT, but it's bedtime in Korea.
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WorldAsUnwill @ 121:
Yea, but that can be said for any photo with Obama and McCain. Labiarman just makes the ugly uglier.
Kathleen @ 110:
Iraq is an occupied country. It is not a "war" it was and is an invasion. Those mall rats, at least the twenty-somethings, are swimming in credit card debt from shopping for stuff they don't want or need.......too bad they can't declare bankruptcy quite as easily anymore.
IMHO..........it's the boosh admin. that will be marched to the Hague. As a citizen of this country, I played no part what-so-ever in the invasion of Iraq.
dennis @ 117:
You're bottom feeding to the level of quoting the diplomatic genius John Bolton, Dennis? How does Alberto Gonzales and Scooter Libby feel about Obama's chances?
I'm playing this picture in my mind:
"Listen, Joe, you fuckhead, this is your one and only warning. Continuing to kiss McCain's ass will piss me off highly. Fall into line or I will make you sing soprano."
I'm sending him $50 US for this ass kickin'...
And I'm going to send him additional$10 for every repeated performance.
I'm going to help buy this country back from the multinationals: and hope that this money, and boycotting of their money machines (as much as can reasonably be accomplished) will give us back our individual Sovereignty and Rights.
I'll pay $100 bucks to see him allow the Rule of Law to proceed, regarding the FISA/Protect America Act law suites.
And I'll give him (DNC) $500 US to cover the cost of a plane ticket for "Dead Eye Dick" to the Hague!
Back to the Ghost Dance
Wow, this is newsworthy?
What's next?
'Obama farts, and Clinton holds her nose........what could it mean?'
SickupandFed @ 119:
Obama treads gingerly around Clinton
Tough southside Chicago guy.
Obama Campaign Open to Helping Clinton Pay Off $20 Million Debt
Ah, the price of party unity: $20 million.
Consider it alimony.
Hey Dennis, go make your .10 a post somewhere else. Apparently you're too much of a chump and a tool to notice that your crap isn't floating here. Take it somewhere else fool.
Ah dennis, I love the way you can use so many words to not make any kind of point.
ABC @ 130:
The smell of victory?
How hard could it be to intimidate Weasely Joe? Like a sack full of cash, a cold stare will get Zell Loserman to do whatever you want him to do.
WorldAsUnwill @ 121:
Good Shot!
Left&Left @ 127:
Seriously. When I saw "John Bolton" I lulzed. He has no credibility outside Freeperville.
dennis @ 131:
Rusty Shackleford @ 137:
No shit, lol! Bolton is a fuckin idiot!
When one quotes idiots...one may well be an idiot also.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 23:
Obama is a lawyer so he knows a punch would be battery. However, he could have slipped and trying not to fall accidently smashed his elbow into Joe's jaw. Ergo, no obvious intent to commit battery. Accidents happen.
dennis @ 117:
John Bolton is a stupid, loudmouthed prick, though. Like most wingtards, if he got into a real fight with somebody he'd shit his pants. Another one who talks tough and has nothing to back it up.
If Sen. Lieberman was half as concerned with the USA as he seems to be with Israel, he would probably make a GREAT Democrat... but as it stands, he is nothing but wasted space and a great candidate for replacement.
MaudeLebowski @ 141:
Whether that's true or not you have no way or no evidence to back it up. The fact is, he has infinitely more experience than the man he is writing about. This sad attempt to make an argument that Barack Obama is suddenly a tough guy is pathetic and lame, but not entirely unexpected, to be sure.
It's almost as bad as some of the posters that show Obama silhouetted in a halo.
dennis @ 143:
Yeah, but if Obama killed Osama bin Laden with his bare hands, you'd still have a problem with him. Your right-wing bias shows in every post, princess.
fuck them all Aipac ass lickers, the real election of the united state is in israel
dennis @ 143:
Good job proving all our points at once, d.
But tell us - seeing as how the last seven years have proven that conservative principles destroy good governance, why is it that you're so desperate for four more years of the same?
timbale @ 15:
I didn't see this balls at Aipac
I bet Holy Joe wishes his buddy Clinton were the nominee so they could talk gaily about dropping a million more bombs to solve problems.
dennis @ 143:
Hey Dennis you're up to what, a $1.50 today? Great work! I'm sure you were just as appalled at the Bush halo pictures or Huckleberry's cross in the Christmas ad, NOT!
Take it some place else putz, the grownups have got a serious job to do, taking back our country from the fascists you suck up to.
You might want to wipe that brown speck off your nose, kinda' tacky to not clean your face after you stick it up the arses of the rich and powerful.
Rufus @ 140:
Yeah, I know Obama's FAR too smart for such shenanigans...but damn it would be funny to watch.
dennis @ 143:
Dennis,
Obama WALKED Chicago's south side streets as an organizer. TRUST ME, that takes great courage...from anyone. You would last maybe sixteen seconds on the south side....and not because you're white. The brothers would immediately pick up from you what we notice here at C&L....that you're a punk.
Name-required @ 147:
For that I am grateful.
Could have been worse. We coulda seen McCain's wrinkly old balls. Or worse...Hillary's.
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