Willie Horton Ad Creator Crawls From The Slime To Smear Obama
Community organizing and peer-to-peer communications have worked out well so far in Barack Obama's presidential campaign. So well, in fact, that one group of conservative activists is co-opting one of the Obama campaign's online communications strategies to use it against him.
This new effort is a viral e-mail campaign that aims to frame Obama as a disastrous-for-the-country left-of-left liberal. It is on view at a website called ExposeObama.com.
A group of long-time Republican operatives run the effort, the most high-profile of whom is Floyd Brown, a communications and organizational consultant who created the infamous "Willie Horton" television advertisement that sank Democrat Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential campaign. Read on...
The GOP attack machine is geared up and the rabid lies and smears are on the way. The Republicans are scared to death and you can smell the desperation in each attack. They're on the wrong side of every issue, dozens are retiring from Congress, they're losing to Democrats in Congressional elections in traditional GOP strongholds and running the weakest candidate for president they've had in decades. The Obama camp has set up a website to combat those lies and smears, and show no sign of backing down this time. You can be sure we'll be here to help our candidates every step of the way.
shock! all I can say... shock! of all people to run a negative campaign. shock!
Gee, I don't get it...why don't the Republicans just run on their record?
The only groups that this smear shit will work on are the illiterate, lazy, bigoted who will never, ever, vote for the "unelectable" black guy anyway.
Just emailed this slime ball a nasty message. Told him I'd be back in November when his butt is raw.
"left-of-left liberal"
obama?
bwahahahaha..... *deep breath* bahahahahahaha
MAKE DEMANDS on the media outlets in YOUR local town or city:
Demand that they report accurately.
Demand that they verify new items before they report rumors or mis-information.
Demand that they support the notion that our democracy depends upon a well-informed electorate.
But Cindy said Johnny didn't want a smear campaign. He just doesn't like those kind of things. Would she lie??
Bring it on! This isn't the democratic party of Dukakis or Kerry. This is the new and improved ass kicking democratic party supporters. We're on a mission and slime won't stop us.
I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep, if that asshole ended up in several landfills. Not that I would condone such things. Just sayin is all.
I heard PAt Robertson is going to Bless his satelite
and start playing Darth Vadar boogyman adds
the exposeobama.com web site looks like it was constructed by a blind baboon, or floyd brown.... same thing i suppose.
Hey, thats a favorite site over at Taylor Marsh's web site. I stopped in there thinking it was a democratic web site, but all it was, was a smear Obama site 24/7. If that site is for real democrats have a huge problem with its own party. Once again repugs will rally around McStain and democrats will fight themselves and then in the end ,bitch about 4 more years of necon repug rule.
CowboyBob in Austin @ 6:
Shoveling the tide would meet with more success. Or maybe herding cats.
Some are doubtless actually Republicans who allow personal bias to color their reporting. Think Blitzer though he may simply be an unregistered agent of AIPAC.
Most are either very lazy or very frightened and find it much easier to simply attach their names to press releases from the Republicans.
If Brown produces an ad with entertaining video, CNN and Fox producers will put it on endless loop and go out for a beer.
They have to resort to a campaign that was successful in the past so that when Diebold secretly flips Obama's votes to McCain they can say their campaign was successful, there was no vote fraud. And no one would be able to prove they cheated...
have you guys SEEN the exposeobama.com site? if you're trying for a viral approach, that generally means appealing to the youth, and i can't imagine any young person responding positively to this HTML 1.0 mess. plus, item #1 is abortion! wedge issues are so 2004.
WOW, things are turning to SH-T for REPUGS and they're running their "weakest candidate in years" BUT, BUT, BUT...McCain and Obama are in a dead heat!!! That's some powerful SLIME MACHINE!!! So let's just keep dishing Hillary and analyzing the various possibilities for VP (based on NOTHING) and let's see if we just can't HAND this election to McCain...I'm betting that something the DEMS CAN be successful at! With a little help from their MSM and blogosphere friends!!!!!
diamondmc @ 12:
if some of the dems wouldn't suck so bad it would cut down on the in-fighting. (see, kucinich's appeal for impeachment and the pelosis, deans, reids, and obamas of the party look the other way)
Off topic but interesting. In Germany bush said he regrets his tone before the invasion of Iraq because it may have made him sound anxious to go to war.
I guess he's trying to mend that all torn to hell legacy of his.
I just don't think the smear thing will work this time except it will give an excuse to the people who would never ever vote for Senator Obama in the first place.
I'd like to see a 527 set up quite apart from Obama to keep the public informed about McCain and expose the dirt, which Obama doesn't want to make part of his campaign against McCain.
And keep it honest and provable. Maybe start with McCain's term of endearment, "c*nt", addressed to his wife in public. His adultery. The Keating Five can be added, as well as a merciless repetition of his political and philosophical connection to GW Bush, his turning against his own campaign finance reform and torture laws.
IOW, anything too low but true that Obama won't touch but is known about him.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
you got it.......his ratings are in the teens and will talked about for years.......we can't fall for it. there are people with money trying to raise his approval rating. bush is an extreme neoconservative war and religion
If Senator Obama is so bad, why is McCain copying everything he does?
The Democrats don't need a slime campaign against McCain. All they have to do is play videos of what McCain says one day, and what he says the next.
Pull someone from the classic re-PIGlic template to find a way to save their endangered asses.
White, doughy, male, christian, old.
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pissed off patricia @ 8:
Love this!
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pissed off patricia @ 21:
Exactly!
McBain and GOP are shittin their skivvies, because Obama's campaign is juggernaut that is picking up steam by the hour.
And they have no way of stopping it.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 24:
Seems I can't type today either...keep forgettin my the's and a's....
Remember last time some repubs at their convention had those insane purple heart band-aids, making fun of Kerry's medals?. So what clever symbol will they come up with this time?
Paul @ 15:
When it comes to the internet the GOP is in WAY over their heads.
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I'm still waiting for Floyd Brown's background to played for all to see on YouTube. Did you hear he was classmates with Obama at a madrasa in Indonesia? Did you know he was also seen eating yellow cake with a man who is from Niger at a bakery! Did you hear that his son was making 'terrorist fist jabs' with one of his friends on the playground AND neither one was wearing an flag lapel pin!? I wonder who the real danger to America is...
Why don't they just come out and run an ad that says "Don't vote for Obama; he's a n****r!!!" At least then their true intentions will be laid bare.
Left&Left @ 3:
The ones that huddle around the East Podunk, Alabama, public library computer after their Klan rallies.
pissed off patricia @ 21:
maybe he wants to appear to be similiar to confuse voters especially ones that won't vote for obama for reasons such as his race or that he may be a muslim there is a certain demographics where people believe this stuff it's very dirty.....this is gearing up to be very dirty...mccain is playing mr sweet old man wait and see when people inside around him tell him he can win
Samson- @ 17:
Sad but true. My point was that repugs stop their infighting when it comes time to win elections. Democrats don't know when to quit. They continue to tear each other up, and in the end they lose again. When the hell will democrats learn that they have to win first to do anything? You can't fix your party when you have a slim majority.
Their site is hilarious. The issues pages. Click on them. Reasonable policy is listed, which I guess drives wingnuts crazy.
-He voted to make insurance companies cover birth control. Gasp!
-He wants to take back the tax cuts from the rich. Oh my!
-He voted to expand kidcare and family care programs. That Bastard!
What's next:
He's still married to his first wife, never seeing the need to upgrade to improve his station in life. He also fathered two BLACK children.
Some say, people play weak defense against him on the basketball court just to make him look good.
He chooses his lapel pins based on the event he may be attending clearly trying to gain favor from those he speaks to.
He has had difficulty stopping smoking so he lacks the willpower to be C.I.C.
Why not put McCain on the defensive just like neocon bloggers do to Obama? Throw out the lies & let the lazy media carry the message as they do SO well & force McCain to endlessly defend himself.
That's the ONLY way the Repubs will figure out that dirty tactics aren't in their best interests. So far, lies HAVE served them very well. This has got to change because too many voters are just TOO stupid to know what's real & what's not. That's how we got stuck with a failure like bush.
I wonder if this ad will hurt or help Obama? An ad devoid of logic, fair play and lies is going to really piss a lot of people off. It is about time these people got some "blowback!"
There are a lot of young people of all races who are fired up about Senator Obama. Those voters aren't going to give a damn about these slime machines. They aren't stupid enough to believe this junk. I don't think the repubs realize how important these voters are or have any idea how to deal with them.
That ad is the most vile, disgraceful, racist piece of crap I have ever seen in my life. I'm not voting for Obama (nor mccain) but I can give people 10 reasons why Im not voting Obama without ever having to mention islam, muslim, black, or left.
Bush_MUST_Go @ 34:
Ok, let me see if i can come up with something bad about McCain that isn't true....
...give me a minute...
...um...
Oh, I know!
"He is from Mars and needs to be Commander In Chief so he can shut down Norad so the flying Saucers can land safely!"
displaced @ 29:
They are working toward that, guaran-fuckin-tee ya those asshole GOP fascists are just CHOMPIN at the bit to use that word in an ad...you know they use it daily in private.
xoites defends Constitution @ 38:
Oh man....you done went and done it now...
Here is a better ad. :)
Gary @ 37:
Question: Since we live in a country that is a two party system and you aren't voting for McStain or Obama, why vote at all? Just asking.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
your right they will go after parts of ohio,west virginia,florida,kentucky...parts of georgia these people are looking for a reason to hate the democratic candidate........and they will give it to them
What i want to know is why does the headline of this post claim that Floyd Brown has climbed out of the slime?
a couple of days ago rachel maddow (who must live in the msnbc studio) remarked that the dems/left/libs/progs should be ruthless in attacking the attackers, smearing the smearers, you get it.
people, and i use that term loosely when referring to the likes of floyd brown, who, as a profession, dabble in lies and hate should be made a part of the story. when these hate ads are produced we should make a practice of exposing the producers of the hate.
so, kudos to C&L and Wired (although it kills me to thank Wired...) for this
People actually get paid for slinging this shit/mud. How do they sleep at night knowing they deal with falsehoods and in no way contribute positively to the democratic process?
Of course, the first item on the list is "Obama on ABORTION". First thing I look at in a candidate. Not.
Slander and defamation suits could be useful here.
Gary @ 37:
OK...let's see 'em then! How many reasons ya got for not voting for McBain? Like to see those too.
karl @ 43:
But it makes me wonder if the Repugs are wasting their time, since many of the people they are targeting probably won't vote for a black man or Democrat to begin with.
Frybread @ 46:
I heard a hitman for the mob asked that question back in the 1970's.His answer? "Like a baby."
Frybread @ 46:
alcohol and paxil.... this people surround themselves with dirty people......beyond that they believe they are doing a service for humanity.....ordinary people don't understand so they rationalize their lying go tochurch for a quick prayer and hit the bars withyour girlfriend
diamondmc @ 32:
My theory is that the Corporatists in the Democratic Party would prefer a Republican be elected rather than a Progressive Populist Democrat.
The Corporate Coalition is the enemy - in both parties.
The GOP has done an excellent job of self-destruction.
Now the job is ridding the Democratic Party of the Corporatists.
Put an end to
"Government of the People by the Corporations for the Corporations."
and replace it with
"Government of the People by the People for the People."
Frybread @ 50:
could be but their going to make sure in addition to that if it turns to attract haters they love company...so it could start a movement within certain communities
Mr. Obama and his campaigners and supporters are gonna kick Floyd Brown's ass, along with Floyd's fellow Republican$ asses!! Time for a change and those pasty fat ol' boys don't like that. Move over, Floyd and GOPers... your turn is over.
They think you're stupid and if you're republican, you probably are.
O/T, I posted a playlist of Dennis Kucinich and the Articles of Impeachment on my blog.
http://weaseldog.blogspot.com/2008/06/articles-of-impeachment.html
pissed off patricia @ 26:
A watermelon?
Gary @ 37:
i'm interested in your reasons for not voting for barack obama and may i ask who are you voting for?
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 39:
Muslim means n****r to goopers.
MountainMan23 @ 53:
First we have to get the Democrats in power and then we can weed out the traitors of the people. Yes, we have lots of work to do.
hey! just want to the site. what's the deal with the shirt-less picture in the banner. are we symbolizing obama just getting his feet wet? is this back to the talking point that he's not an american and this shows his arrival from wherever people think he came from? is it just homoerotic in an effort to anger those self-hating rebublicans with homosexual tendencies?
what are you thoughts?
karl @ 43:
And for every hate motivated bullshit justification they produce to not vote for Obama it will inspire decent right minded people to go out and simply do the right thing....and vote for the best candidate. If anger, hate, fear and bigotry wins in this election our nation will lose the very little respectability it has left in the world's eye.
StirFry Belvedere @ 60:
Yup...goopers means fascist-traitorous-warmongering-homophobic-pseudo-xtain-hypocrites to me.
xoites defends Constitution @ 51:
There are definitely some parallels between the Richard Kuklinksi ("Iceman") and Floyd Brown (I call him "Shitman") .
Willie Horton Ad Creator Crawls From The Slime To Smear Obama
"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself."
Frederick Frankenstein
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Hopefully it'll lead to them putting their heads up their collective butts!
Left&Left @ 63:
Agreed...if we do lose, I would suspect cheating on the GOP's part right off the bat. Then I'd probably move out of the country.
There are people out there, though they will never admit it, who know they were taken by bush not once but twice. These people won't be as gullible as they were in the last two elections. They aren't going to be sucked in again by bullshit artists like Floyd Brown. This time his ads are playing only to the choir.
The people who will believe these slime ads are the same ones who get all their
intel from pox news. They will not wake up from their slumber untill they no longer have money to fuel their pick-ups or buy a crappy american made beer or they are targeted as having links to "owl- kater". Most are not in danger of losing their homes, always the house-trailer next door up for rent, complete with junk car in the yard and a nice collection of beer cans on the porch
MountainMan23 @ 53:
exactly
of course this is difficult when the majority of top dems, such as the clintons (and their merry band of neoliberal advisers), are some of the biggest culprits in the corporatization of the government. the corporate faction would be easier to eject if it was some side-lined, distant wing of the party. unfortunately market populism has become part and parcel of the dem-centrist ideology.
what the dems MUST do is reject the GOP practice of party-before-country.
real change is not the simple act of putting a dem in the white house. but a president that rejects the corporate control of our nation, well, that would be a real change, and victory.
tom from nj @ 62:
Slaveowners made the male slaves remove their shirts before administering lashings.
"All the GOP has is fear itself"
pissed off patricia @ 8:
You're kidding right?
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 70:
Hey...you been snoopin around my neighborhood?
pissed off patricia @ 8:
Jay @ 74:
I said "democratic party supporters" not elected democrats.
Jay @ 74:
No...she's not kiddin', I'm not kiddin', WE'RE not kiddin'. The Democratic party WILL NOT BE DENIED VICTORY! The GOP has screwed the country and the world long enough dammit!
The (GOP) party is over.
don't hold your breath there's a lot going on...i'm with you but i personally want to win this election for now...we could potentially have the office for at least 8 yrs.
pissed off patricia @ 77:
We're kicking ass right up the spineless Democrats in congress who want do anything once they get some freshly kicked Republican ass....yea, that'll show em!
John Oliver did a great report from the "Pollie" awards for political ads a while ago. Brown Floyd makes an appearance. Very funny. Very pathetic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/07/john-oliver-reports-from_n_1006...
Logan, they would have done this in anycase. They are zero sum social darwinists (ZSSD's my acronym).
They are NOT trying to make a point. You should know by now - unless you have had your eyes closed for the last 8 years - that when they win, its scorched earth. They are NOT inclusive, they are ... wait for it ... exclusive. As it happens - again if you are paying attention - its also scorched earth when they lose (vis all the filibusters and counterproductive and harmful activities.
They see this all as good - really.
They are dangerous. They need to be seen for what they are and they need to be treated for what they are. That starts with their leadership and requires impeachment followed by trial for crimes domestic and foreign. If that doesnt happen, starting in January 2009 the Bush administration will be refactored as one of the great administrations and high crime will become a permanent feature of governance.
MountainMan23 @ 53:
You are absolutely right.
... but Logan, you wont read @82 in anycase.
karl @ 59:
I just fundamentally disagree with Obama on everything. I did actually consider voting for him despite being conservative, until he went to AIPAC and gave that pandering speech to those who are so eager to Bomb Iran, saying all options are on the table, when we've had an NIE saying Iran aren't even building nukes. I also generally disagree with his stance on Gun control, Economic policy, States rights, and most social issues, and I think he's far too inexperienced to take on the HUGE burden of problems left by this president. The other issue I have is that it often feels as though he simply avoids votes in the senate, rather than having to take a stance on particular issues. Im aware it's been a political campaign for the last 2 years, but I'd just like to see him have a little more backbone, but again, I think thats due to inexperience, and him trying to please everyone. Thats admirable, but it doesnt get us anywhere.
Will an Obama presidency be as bad as the Bush presidency or McCain presidency? No, but its just getting a little tiring of having to go and vote for the guy who I thinks going to cause the least problems of the two candidates. As for an alternative vote, I just don't know. The libertarian party was an option until Barr got the nomination, and i'd rather die before I voted for Neo-Cain.
EarthAbides @ 14:
BINGO!!!
MountainMan23 @ 53:
StirFry Belvedere @ 60:
Bingo.
nothing is beneath these scum.
karl @ 43:
Espesially a black Democratic candidate! There, unfortunately, is still an audience for this sort of invalid and errant idiocy. Hopefully, the economy, the wars, the mortgage crisis, gas prices, food shortages, and every other vestage of the abysmal Bush43 Administration that McCainiac promises to continue during his own reign of overt terroism will slim that herd of naive lobotomites considerably by November.
Gary @ 85:
This is the way elections were meant to be. Your dilema exists - my opinion - due to an attempt by right wing extremists to subvert democracy itself since WWII (again my opinion).
Your task is to retake your party from those people that clearly want to destroy what this country has been from several hundred years.
The republican party has a very very long and progressive history. You wouldnt know that if you only knew the republican party by todays fascist flavor.
Study Teddy Roosevelt. (He invented the phrase 'living wage')
Well, mountain man I had a comment but it was thrown away. Sorry - I have to go out of town on a consulting thing.
Fleece @ 81:
Ok, that has to be fabricated satire, americans can't be that insane, can you?
Oh, wait, never mind.
Norse @ 93:
I have always admired Norway. (In spite of its religious tendencies) The odd thing is - and this is honestly the truth - I have never met a Norwegian that I have come even close to getting along with, and I knew many while in college. I dont know why.
I dont find your comment uncharacteristic in any way.
Gary @ 85:
hey i understand how you feel i'm a democrat my entire family is democrat with time i do listen to the libertarian philosophy.......a big concern is it seems very idealistic ie. getting rid of the federal reserve for instance........hey i don't like believe me just because i'm a democrat but i recently moved to a state with no state tax i see the difference. i was going to ask you specifics about what you don't approve of as far as obama but if your liber. i basically understand. i proudly didn't vote for bush....i didn't connect the war to 9-11..the extreme neoconservative party has put us in a lot of trouble i'm not sure anyone has experience for this mess....it will take all branches all legislation to get us out of this......personally one more thing i don't like the church being used in politics i think it's wrong and it's a strategy...it develops hate by design to divide people on social issues. issues i believe shouldn't matter if you think people have a right to live their lives how they want.....i don't big government we can't afford it.....the republicans increased the gov. by 40% their not conservative...it's a business
anneyhussein @ 19:
Why don't we add McCain's coziness with his "friend" and foreign policy adviser Henry Kissinger. The "war criminal" Henry Kissinger. The same guy who said:
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
I've posted this quote by Henry Kissinger at least five times on these pages and it doesn't seem to have any legs for some reason. Everyone seems to be so high on "supporting the troops" (even when they're parties to war crimes?), so why not hit McCain with this and force him to publicly denounce Kissinger if for no other reason than for the crack Kissinger made about soldiers being just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy?? Seriously folks. Kissinger is McCain's Rev. Wright AND George W. Bush!!!
Plus, we will all recall the fact that the 9/11 Widows, probably within a matter of a few hours, managed to deep-six Kissinger as the head of The 9/11 Commission for the simple fact that some of his top clients in his private firm were the bin Ladens!
Of course then, after all is said and done, Obama has his own "Kissinger problem" (much worse than Larry Sinclair, who by the way is having a big press conference at The National Press Club I think on June 18th? to go into all the gory details about his alleged daliances with Barack Obama with homosexual sex and crack cocaine...):
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Here's a "getting to know you" link about him:
http://civiliannewswire.blogspot.com/2007/10/zbigniew-brezinski-author-g...
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 24:
No way of stopping it, eh? Wanna bet they don't?
karl @ 95:
as far as AIPAC you and i both know that's a difficult topic israel's gov. has really moved to the right as has AIPAC..israel knows it needs the u.s. if they want to start something in iran........obama is all options on the table i believe if he is in office diplomacy will work the supreme leader of iran just spoke the other day they want nuclear power not nuclear and they have that right israel doesn't trust anyone........not sure they trust themselves 80% of israel's population doesn't want conflict with iran it's the extreme right...i don't like entanglements either but this has been in the making for many years maybe even before israel became a state....i'm against permanent bases in iraq....this is for resources let's not kid ourselves
Abbybwood @ 97:
Well....no way of stopping it by legal, honorable means....
I didn't bother to watch the ad, but the rest of the site is so weak that if your views are any where from the near right to the left, they don't really have anything on him. The "on abortion" tab has some bad sounding stuff, but if you even think to read between the lines, I am sure there is a very good reason that led to a "no" vote. On the other issues they just don't have anything to use against him.
Samson- @ 11:
Watch out... some baboons are my friends. That man (Floyd Brown) and his ilk doesn't even belong in the same classification as us primates. They're maggots.
Floyd Brown - a new benchmark for "shit-eating grin".
Not that I give a rat's ass about Larry Sinclair, but here's the link confirming The National Press Club event he's having on June 18th:
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/national-press-club-co...
Tune in to C-SPAN for all the gory details...developing.
Loonie @ 102:
Then shouldn't his teeth be as brown as an Englishman's smile?
It was "a new ball game" with Dukakis. When it came to Kerry, it was also new to the Democrats "just how low the smearing machine of the neocon fascist party could sink".
Now, we know they have no depth low enough, and they don't hesitate at fabricated lies and total fiction trash in their game. I think the Democratic Party had better be well prepared for these pigs and their game of slime.
However, we are a nation of morons. To reach the brain dead morons will take a strategy that makes it crystal clear what is truth, and what is lie. Be ready Democrats.
We are #1, we are #1, we are #1.....in morons.
Thank goodness for DVR. I can't remember the last trashy political ad I had to watch on Television.
"...no sign of backing down this time. You can be sure we’ll be here to help our candidates every step of the way."
Amen. Let's all stay on board, get the rest of us to jump on, and stay the fuck focused. Eyes on the prize.
shantiquax @ 107:
Hell fuckin YEAH!
ThunderMonkey @ 101:
you are correct, i completely retract my comparison of this human-slime to our primate cousins.
people fall for it every time. pretty soon the MSM will be on board and
repeating the right wing talking points mantra as a matter of general
perception and therefor must be somewhat ture......without of course looking at
the facts and stating them.
reminds me of a stock market quote i heard one time...."the reality is that there is no reality in the market only the perception"
mathews has been doing a better job lately.
Hopefully in November it will be GOP-RIP.
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Ever hear someone say: "No offense, but..." or "not to be rude, but..." or "I'm not ______ but,"? It's one of those things where someone really is trying to be rude or offensive, but figure that brief phrase before their moronic statement will make things all right.
Fine example just the other day: some homeless guy approached me and while I was trying not to make eye contact with him, he said, "I'm not racist or nuthin', but those damn n****rs over there scare the sh** out of me!!" pointing in some random direction. Yeah right you're not racist you crazy bastard.
This is what the GOP should do... "we're not racist or nuthin', but O'bama is IRISH!!!" or something. Hee hee.
Crap, forgot to close the boldface after "really is".
Email these "people" and let them know we won't put up with their racist hate-mongering.
This is not your father's 1988 (or 2000 or 2004)!
The electorate is smarter by having learnt the lesson the hard way. Witness Letters to the Editor (LTE) in my hometown's Los Angeles Times. Recently "Idiot" Bolton wrote a smear piece titled "Obama The Naive" about how talking to Iran and Syria would be disastrous. There were 4 LTE that uniformly criticized Bolton's own naivete. One was from a former official in Department of State in the papa Bush administration.
Similarly Max Boot regularly gets the boot by readers. Most of the letters are very critical of McInsane and the Rethug talking points.
I think this election cycle, scary bugaboos about "liberal", "tax and spend", and "gay marriages" and other crap is not going to work with anyone but the Bush "deadenders". Not when going to the gas pump is a shock every time (here in Southern California the prices have jumped from $3.99 in late May to $3.47 yesterday), when real estate is crashing, dollar is weakening, and joblessness is rapidly growing.
"Willie Horton" is so last century, and so is McInsane.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
Amen to that. People are so fed up with the repukes that nothing they come up with will stick given the fact that Barack is no candy-ass as was John Kerry. Obama can pitch as well as catch.Give it your best shot assholes 'cause it ain;t gonna work this time around!
anneyhussein @ 19:
can we start with the fact that Dukakis sank his own campaign by being Dukakis.
if there had been no Horton ad and even if there had not been that photo oh him sitting in the tank he still would have lost.
i find it hard to believe that any one ad no matter how vile and false or even accurate and true could sink any one campaign.
I just find it hilarious that a website called crooks and liars has chosen to push for a candidate who has been exposed as a crook and liar by his own hometown newspapers for years! The Republican smear machine wont have to make anything up about Obama, all they have to do is wait until after the convention and then roll out the truth. Rezko Ayers Auchi Alsammarae etc etc etc. Obama missing document trail, his allowing terrorist groups to have blogs on his official campaign website... why on earth would they need to lie when they have 10 times more facts than needed to guarantee he loses worse than McGovern!
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
120 POdVet Says: "his allowing terrorist groups to have blogs on his official campaign website"
which terrorist group do you speak of?
bigironal @ 117:
Absolutely! I've been wondering for a couple of decades when the Dems were going to find their gonads. I even gave serious consideration to supporting the development of a viable third party because I was so disgusted with their unwillingness to stop being such wimps. But Obama gets it. We're the new Dems and we're not going to take the crap from the rabid Right lying down.
I bet these assholes will accept donations for an Obama hit job.
POdVet @ 120:
Spoken like a true fat disgusting Elephant lover.
Abbybwood @ 103:
Try leaving a comment there that disagrees with those people. It won't even show up.
Yes, the GOP really hates free speech don't they.
It wouldn't surprise me if they try to start race riots to disrupt the election.
These guys are REALLY afraid. REALLY afraid!!!!!
Watch out for rabid GOP dogs!
Samson- @ 121:
Post from Jemaah Islamiyah For Obama:
Greetings Fellow Obama Supporters!
By Fatima - Mar 31st, 2008 at 10:13 pm EDT
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Welcome to Jemaah Islamiyah! My name is Fatima, and I'm thrilled to be supporting Barack Obama for President. For now, we have a man of integrity, who will fight for the rights of Muslims everywhere. Allah has blessed us with a man who will stand up to the neoconservatives and the racist zionists. I believe with all my heart that Barack Obama will stop the American occupation of Iraq. No longer will American soldiers be able to kill our women and children with impunity.
Mr. Obama will also talk to Iran's leader Mahmoud Amadinejad, whom the current chimp in the White House has treated so badly. I mean why should American and Israel be able to have nukes but not Iran? That is very unfair. Obama will right that wrong.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
Who commented on here over and over and over predicting the right wing would begin this assault? Me, and others like me.
But nooooo . . . all you people could do was demonize Hillary to the point where you marginalized a whole lot of voters (18 million is a sizeable number).
What were you thinking?
Now, you need them and they ain't votin' for Obama.
God, I hate seeing this, warning of it, and then seeing it smack you in the face.
Well, at least you got your intentioned assault in.
Idiot Democrats, of who I was with since birth . . . but no more. You Donna Braziled me right out.
Buh Bye.
Guys like POdVet@120 who drink the King Dick and Puppet George KoolAide and thinks its all right for a Party in power to destroy our Constitution and to use political tricks to win aren't close to being Americans. If John McCain is as honorable as he claims to be he'll stop those like Floyd Brown and POdVet@120 from using the tactics they prefer to use. I'm assuming since POdVet wants to be heard he's hiding behind his alias(POdVet@120) to try and convince people he's a true patriot which is probably a lie also.
How is showing that Obama has knowingly allowed a known terrorist group that was responsible for the Bali bombings in 2002 to maintain a blog on his official campaign website a dirty trick?!?
And incidentally I am all for impeaching Bush and Cheney. I would take it further and have them prosecuted for treason since their lies has led to the deaths of American servicemen for personal profit!
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
Underground Pirate @ 125:
Ok...showing my ignorance here....but who's Larry Sinclair?
Samson- @ 5:
Yeah, pretty funny hah? It's not so funny when you realize
this comes from the same bunch of people that had their
followers convinced Obama was a Muslim...and many of them
still believe that lie by the way.
Phlipper @ 127:
Really...I think there was demonizing from both sides. Not just from Obama supporters...and tell me...why would ANY voter who supported Hillary vote for McBain out of spite? It's against their own interests if they were supporting Hillary for her stance on any given issue. McBain is a step backward at best! Any feminist in her right mind would NEVER vote for McBain.
I think all this shit about Hillary supporters switching to McBain is either BS, or they're the republican voters that that scumbag Limbaugh got to vote for her in the primaries. And now they're moving onto the next phase of operation chaos. And THAT my friend is called electioneering, if I'm not mistaken, and that's illegal.
But I guess the goopers only care about the law when it suits their purpose.
displaced @ 29:
Every time I hear one of those 'questions' about Obama, I think of Blazing Saddles. They are just like Gabby Johnson, hollering "The sheriff's a "
Phlipper @ 127:
Have you signed the required Loyalty Oath? Go there right away and you'll be covered.
The McCain Loyalty Oath for Women
I _______________ pledge to transfer my support from Hillary Clinton to John McCain. I agree to do all I can do to get McCain the vote. In order to achieve this noble goal I promise to support McCain's...
fight to overturn Roe v. Wade and my right to choose.
fight against equal pay for men and women.
opposition to providing low-income and uninsured women and families with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening to birth control.
opposition to sex education and support of abstinence-only education.
opposition to insurance covering birth control.
endorsement of women's rights more "in theory" than in practice.
pet name for his wife.
As a woman I promise to apply McCain's principles to my own life and vow to...
call myself and my female friends the C word.
picket abortion clinics.
not use contraceptives.
drink bleach so I don't catch HIV and drink Mountain Dew so I don't get pregnant.
give back part of my salary to male coworkers.
not vote, but pursue education and encourage my father/husband/brother male friends to vote for McCain.
Once McCain is elected, I will continue to support him and I will not complain about my losing my right to choose, and other reproductive freedoms. And I will continue to refrain from pursuing equality for women.
Signature ____________
The McCain Loyalty Oath for Straight White Men
Straight white men, I bet you thought we left you out. This country may have turned its back on you, but we haven't. Here's a pledge of your own:
I _______________ pledge to transfer my support from Hillary Clinton to John McCain. I agree to do all I can do to get McCain the vote. In order to achieve this noble goal I promise to support McCain's...
commitment to follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
opposition to limiting soldiers' deployment to 12 months.
fight against benefits for veterans.
support of Bush's preemptive war doctrine.
Operation Infinite Presence in Iraq.
As a straight white man I promise to apply McCain's principles to my own life and vow to...
use Iran/Iraq and Shiites/Sunnis interchangeably.
clear my schedule for the next 100 years.
enlist in the military.
follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell (while smiling).
be willing to kill and/or be killed in Iraq.
be willing to kill and/or be killed in Iran.
be willing to kill and/or be killed in Syria.
be willing to kill and/or be killed in Venezuela.
Once McCain is elected, I will continue to support him and I will not complain about my loss of limbs or life. And I will continue to refrain from questioning the war in Iraq or any other wars we will be fighting.
Signature __________________________________
Phlipper @ 127:
you can't be serious... can you? no way.... i shudder to think that this was a legit post
Hmm, I see that ObamaExposed is supported by the 527 group, the National Campaign Fund - the same group that sponsored the Obama/Rev. Wright ads against two Democratic gubernatorial candidates in NC.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/23/202619/124
Has anyone read what's on that site? I mean - it's not like it's that bad.
Basically it talks about how Obama is going to raise taxes on the wealthy. So what? They already have more resources to take advantage of loopholes and, on average, pay much less (in the 15% range) in overall taxes vs. income.
Then there are these:
"In 2003, Obama voted yes on legislation supported by both Planned Parenthood and the ACLU that would allow "age appropriate" sex education to be taught in grade school."
"Obama supports a new American Opportunity Tax Credit worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year."
" OntheIssues.org, quoting the 1998 Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test, claims Obama supported
providing state-funded tuition and fees to any Illinois student who attends a public college or university as long as they
maintained a "B" average."
What's wrong with all these? I mean, really? Who would have any opposition to this, other than the wealthy or crazy?
Phlipper @ 127:
You my friend, are full of BS. Your talking points are about as sharp as the leading edge of a ball bearing.
Just because you say it doesn't make it so. In fact, I liked both candidates. And Will support Sen Obama to the fullest extent.
And I'm not alone. " Idiot Democrats" You gave yourself away with this one. Tell me something, Are you really that scared of losing this election? That you have to impersonate a Dem. sad little man.
I spread a goodly supply of smears all over YouTube myself. I'm always getting repsonses from right-wingers (whose heads seem about to explode). Very calmly, I send back some glib, snarky retort. Hey, it's entertainment.
mudshark hussein @ 138:
It was interesting to note, that not one Hillary supporter lost control in their comments about Obama or his supporters, wan't it? (snark)
mudshark hussein @ 138:
Maybe if you're lucky, you can vote for a McSame/Romney ticket. I hear they want Alberto Gonzales back, and pardons for everyone.
Edwin Hussein @ 140:
I'm not going to hash this out with you all over again. Both sides were wrong. You have your opinion and I have mine. Time to move on.
Were you talkin to me Edwin?
a,a,say, a say, Were You Talkin Too ME!?
:)
we should invade there countries kill there leaders and convert them to christianity
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