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2008/10/20

UPDATE: Obama knew......

@ 05:17 AM (13 months, 9 days ago)

.....'kill him' remark was unfounded before the debate.

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  1. Are we surprised? As long as it is politically expedient, Obama will tell any lie that suits him.

    Comment by Brooke— 2008/10/20 @ 07:51 AM — (Reply)

  2. Since when does the "truth" matter to a lawyer. What's important is whether or not the allegation is "credible".

    Comment by FJ— 2008/10/20 @ 09:22 AM — (Reply)

  3. Don't ya' love politics? Always brings out the best in people.

    Comment by Burns— 2008/10/20 @ 10:29 AM — (Reply)

  4. Obama could say invented the computer, the internet and the NFL and every media outlet except FOX would agree with him.

    I forget who said it, but 2008 is the year journalism died.

    Comment by Joe Gringo— 2008/10/20 @ 11:52 AM — (Reply)

  5. How do you guys explain away Colin Powell's endorsement?

    Comment by Ed— 2008/10/20 @ 02:07 PM — (Reply)

  6. Ed,

    I respect Gen. Powell for his service to this country but he's got it wrong this time. Especially so since he considers himself a Republican. I think he's got a little bit of that cult of personality syndrome.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/10/22 @ 02:04 AM — (Reply)

  7. He Was Co-ersed ! Look for the Barrel print on his forehead.

    Comment by jim— 2008/10/22 @ 08:16 AM — (Reply)

  8. Don't think so Jimbo. I also don't think a man like Powell would be seduced by a personality cult whatever that is.

    Comment by Ed— 2008/10/22 @ 01:13 PM — (Reply)

  9. Alright, Maybe the Print is on the side of his Head. Making it appear as if it were suicide !

    Comment by jim— 2008/10/22 @ 02:00 PM — (Reply)

  10. That is a tricky one Ed. I'd like to hear some answers on that one. Good to see you BACK EB.

    BG

    Comment by Barry G.— 2008/10/20 @ 03:17 PM — (Reply)

  11. "cult of personality syndrome"? Our old friend millardo might be interested in drilling down into exactly what that means. For example, millardo might infer that those are "buzz words" inferring that Powell's support is based solely on skin color despite his very detailed and understandable analysis for why his vote will be for Obama.

    Surely millardo would have been in error. What is a "cult of personality" as it appllies to Obama?

    BG

    Comment by Barry G.— 2008/10/22 @ 12:13 PM — (Reply)

  12. only if that buzz or code word reminds you of Beatlemania Barry.... but certainly Powell has dropped his Republican values for something and I think it's because he sees Obama as the Second coming

    why else would he vote for someone who wants to gut the very institutions that gave him his stature and return us to the 1920's

    understandable analysis? my ass

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/10/22 @ 02:25 PM — (Reply)

  13. now if Powell were to say drop his affiliation with Republicans then he's certainly entitled to his opinion but to CLAIM to still be a Republican...nope

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/10/22 @ 02:26 PM — (Reply)

  14. His own campaign Barry has been a JFK remix without JFK..remember the Berlin trip...the faux Brandenburg Gate at the DNC convention...

    Charles Krauthammer said it best:

    Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder -- who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap -- called "a Europe whole and free"?

    Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

    It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history -- "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment" -- when, among other wonders, "the rise of the oceans began to slow." As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone.

    Obama may think he's King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty.

    After all, in the words of his own slogan, "we are the ones we've been waiting for," which, translating the royal "we," means: " I am the one we've been waiting for." Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule -- it was pointed out that he was not yet president -- induced him to take it down.

    He lectures us that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, "you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish" -- a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how "embarrassing" it is that Europeans are multilingual but "we go over to Europe, and all we can say is 'merci beaucoup.' " Obama speaks no French.

    His fluent English does, however, feature many such admonitions, instructions and improvements. His wife assures us that President Obama will be a stern taskmaster: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

    For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is?

    We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more. As he said on victory night, his rise marks the moment when "our planet began to heal." As I recall -- I'm no expert on this -- Jesus practiced his healing just on the sick. Obama operates on a larger canvas.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/10/22 @ 02:35 PM — (Reply)

  15. Well Said !

    Comment by jim— 2008/10/22 @ 02:47 PM — (Reply)

  16. Powell is only one of many long time Conservative Republicans to come out for Obama. I hear on a daily basis guys who have voted straight Republican as far back as Nixon say this will be the first time they vote for a democrat Presidential candidate. Me included.

    BG

    Comment by Barry G.— 2008/10/22 @ 04:40 PM — (Reply)

  17. I respect you Barry but believe you're dropping your Republican ideals to vote for someone who is unknown and untried

    Comment by elmers brother — 2008/10/22 @ 05:09 PM — (Reply)

  18. Well EB. I certainly respect your opinions and on this subject I think we should simply agree to disagree. For example, we would get nowhere in a discussion about why the "inexperienced" argument applies to Palin and not to Obama. So let's not dissect this subject so as not to get each other riled up. Our "virtual friendship" is important to me.

    BG

    Comment by Barry G.— 2008/10/23 @ 12:51 AM — (Reply)

  19. I agree Barry, I've not meant to offend.

    I guess my point is and I'll leave it at this is to continue to call oneself a conservative Republican like Powell does and yet vote for the most liberal member of Congress is disingenuous.

    I understand that one can have reasons for making such a vote but Powell is trying to have it both ways.

    It doesn't fly with me.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/10/23 @ 05:33 AM — (Reply)

  20. I Mean To Offend ! I want Sheople Everywhere to be Talking ! About the crap goin on these days ! Is It Gods Will ? The things we see now and Tommarrow ?

    Comment by jim— 2008/10/23 @ 03:22 PM — (Reply)

  21. It flies with me and I feel the same way. McCain, American hero that he is, is yesterday's days, more of the same that has not worked. Kennedy got us to the moon and Obama is going to get us independence from foreign oil. A huge shift. The biggest of a generation.

    Comment by Ed— 2008/10/23 @ 01:35 PM — (Reply)

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