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"I Will Let No One Question My Love Of This Country," Democrat Says
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- More proof:
Anatomy of a Right Wing Smear: Obama is the most liberal Democratic Senator
By: Howie Klein
Lately John and I have been gnashing our collective teeth every time we see one of the Republican shills on TV repeating, mantra-like, the #1 GOP Big Lie of the campaign: %u201CBarack Obama is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate.%u201D
If only! Actually there are 39 Democrats with more liberal voting records, although Obama does at least beat perennial Bush rubber stamps Holy Joe Lieberman (CT), Ben Nelson (NE) and Mary Landrieu (LA). His voting record%u2013 however you slice it, however you dice it%u2013 points to a solidly mainstream centrist%u2013 and, to be honest, considerably less liberal than Hillary.
So how do CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC all allow the paid GOP shills to get away with their Big Lie? Good question. There%u2019s one cooked up National Journal %u201Cstudy%u201D that these clowns keep referring to%u2013 yes the same cloddish National Journal that criticized its own ranking of John Kerry as %u201Cthe most liberal senator%u201D in 2004.
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This year, their utterly meaningless ranking system, ready-made for Republican smear attacks, defined %u201Cliberal%u201D as members who voted, on January 18, to establish a Senate Office of Public Integrity to handle ethics complaints against senators. Given the Republican Culture of Corruption that still rules the Beltway, that may be anti-Republican, but what makes it %u201Cliberal?%u201D Similarly anyone who agreed in mid-March to the final passage of a bill implementing the 9/11 Commission%u2019s Homeland Security recommendations, is suddenly %u201Cliberal?%u201D And on May 9, Obama joined many other senators in voting to block individuals from serving on Food and Drug Administration drug advisory panels if they have conflicts of interest.
Let%u2019s hope more Americans start defining liberal this way. Because to me this all sounds very mainstream, even if John %u201CW%u201D McCain was on the wrong side of each vote. - Reply to this comment
- Obama admitted on national TV to the use of illegal drug can cause brain damage the time they are used.Obama seem''s to show signs of this.Listen as he speaks.Um um um ah o um.Now more than ever we need a leader who is sharp and quick.This is not Obama.Look how slow he was on the Rick Warren forum.
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- Does the American Media have the guts to ask John McCain to differentiate the policies he intends to follow from those of the Bush administration?
Posted by makeitso928
That would be journalism, you will not find that in the corporate media, only he said, she said tabloid stuff.
The thing that people need to realize is who will actually decide this election: the candidates, the corporate media or the voters? Just consider this, who will get the most time on the cooperate media; the actual candidates or the %u201Cspin doctors%u201D from each party that engage in %u201Cfact-free accusations%u201D and the %u201Che said, she said%u201D crossfire debates?
Who is going to fact check any of these statements that these paid pundits make, the cooperate media? Pundits will dominate the election coverage spewing any statement, however inaccurate and never be called on it.
Here%u2019s an example of fact versus %u201Cspin fiction%u201D:
John McCain, who has voted with President Bush 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time in 2008 is being spun as a %u2018bipartisan%u2019 who reaches across the aisle and Barack Obama is being cast as %u2018the Most Liberal Member of the Senate%u2019 who has only the 40th most liberal voting record.
Who will tell the people? - Reply to this comment
- I might owe you an apology. I thought you were the leftwing looney tune I was ragging on in another forum. But you don''''t appear to be the sme one.
Posted by bigwhtpony at 11:04 AM : Aug 20, 2008
No problem....since I know who you really meant it for, that comment cracked me up! - Reply to this comment
- His Lips are moving.
Posted by makeitso928 at 11:02 AM : Aug 20, 2008
Oh you bedwetting libs are just sooooo amusing. He learned it from John Edwards. - Reply to this comment
- Demacrats, if you are who you say you are. We have bigger problems than the mud slinging created by the American media and operation chaos founder Rush Limbauge.The question of who truely love this stolen by Europeons country.Is that Patriotism or Bold Ilmorallity against a people? As you know, we as the so called freeist nation of the woild, America. And we never got a chance to revote and even bigger elction fraud the Zimbabwe our 2000 Bush-vs-Gore. The American Supreme Court ruled we were ,not free enough to challenge such intimidation in this country. Now get this, they released this major issue into the hands of a die hard republican advocate, Katherine Harris! You all remember that. This is my concern right now. I know that once again if the vote is not there for the republican party, they will some how make it be there. We sould demand our election watched by UN appointees, guns in hand! THIS IS NECESSARY! We need to have our party focus on this the down side of our elections. Let''s not play into the republicans hands wasting precious time bickering until it''s to late. NO MORE POLLS, JUST COUNT THE VOTES!!!! STOP THE POLLS, ,JUST COUNT THE VOTES!!!! NO MORE POLLS,JUST COUNT THE VOTES!!!! STOP THE POLLS,JUST COUNT THE VOTES!!!!NOOOOO MOOOOOORE POOOOOLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Posted by leftyintexes at 10:41 AM : Aug 20, 2008
I might owe you an apology. I thought you were the leftwing looney tune I was ragging on in another forum. But you don''t appear to be the sme one. - Reply to this comment
- chitown
I am what is known as old school. If it smells like a duck, quacks like a duck and wallks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. - Reply to this comment
- I''''m not sure what problem you''''re having.
Posted by leftyintexes at 10:56 AM : Aug 20, 2008
The ''problem'' is he''s not a bedwetting liberal, like you. He can see the difference and can think for himself....unlike you. Do you have your TiVO set for Oprah? LOL - Reply to this comment
- I believe obama is a racist and will make programs to benefit the blacks o such a degree the white population will revolt and we will have a race war.I am not against a black candidate that is qualified. I am against obama because i believe he has a hidden agenda to destroy this country.
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Posted by patriot12436
Really, and who told you of Obamas hidding agenda to destroy the country??? - Reply to this comment
- Uh Ohhhh.....I just heard they are looking in to Ubama''s relationship with two US terrorists. They are trying to get documents unsealed to find out Ubama''s true relationship with Ayers (et al) and Annenberg Foundation.
October surprise in August! LOL - Reply to this comment
- Does the American Media have the guts to ask John McCain to differentiate the policies he intends to follow from those of the Bush administration?
Posted by makeitso928 at 10:51 AM : Aug 20, 2008
Read McCain''s webpage....compare to Bush''s 2004 webpage.
I''m not sure what problem you''re having. - Reply to this comment
- was less than a standup prisoner, a lousy pilot, an extremely poor student at the Naval Academy and a total phony.
His plane was shot down into a lake. They rescued him.
There was another choice.
Posted by truthmatterz at 10:47 AM : Aug 20, 2008
You don''t seem to be associating the fact that the reason a lot of people have doubts about Barry Saddam Hussein Obama''s patriotism because of the type of people supporting him.
You are a prime example.
BTW...what the he11 is a "stand up prisoner"? Was that supposed to be a joke about McCain''s leg injuries? - Reply to this comment
- Do we have to patronize this self-styled patriot that Mcain has designed himself to be?
Does anyone in the media have the guts to ask what John McCain was doing dropping bombs on civilians in Hanoi?
Think about how Americans felt about 911 and then put yourself in the mindset of the Vietnamese who suffered MILLIONS of civilian casualty thanks to the John McCains of this world.
I%u2019m sure they were plenty angry at these pilots, who never really saw the people they were killing.
So yes, I%u2019m sure they mistreated prisoners. Clearly the US mistreats prisoners of the war of terror as well.
The Vietnamese created a museum they created documenting the atrocities they suffered.
Have you heard one word of contrition or remorse from this professional patriot who apparently was less than a standup prisoner, a lousy pilot, an extremely poor student at the Naval Academy and a total phony.
His plane was shot down into a lake. They rescued him.
There was another choice. - Reply to this comment
- "He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."
Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.
"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.
For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college."
No thanks to Barry Saddam Hussein Obama. His half-brother gets to live in feces-filled mud, while Barry and Michelle eat $500 steak dinners! - Reply to this comment
- "The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate''s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.
"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."
Hey Barry Saddam Hussein Obama....if you can''t help your own family...HOW DO YOU PLAN TO HELP AMERICA???
Another hypocrite from the Demslobs! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by jackDems at 10:20 AM
Obamas patriotism has NOTHING to do with whether or not he was raised a christian. Futhermore, in point after point you make reference to a number of ridicuously bizarre smears as if there was any truth in the lie thats commonly circulate over the internet. My advice to you is to find out, READ your countrys Constitution!!! Stop indoctrinating yourself and others with the tabloid style smears that are gernally promoted by area Bigots and local Hooligans... - Reply to this comment
- I''m watching you crackers....you best not be questioning my patriotism and character (or I''m gonna cry.)
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- Obama says "Stop Questioning My Patriotism".
I say that Obama can go screw himself. The voters are entitled to question that and anything else they want, and vote accordingly. He may be a devout marxist and think that the government (Obama) should be in charge, but this is America and the people are in charge.
Posted by ragnar30066
Let me explain, there is a huge difference between questioning someone and slandering someone with statements you know to be untrue.
Obama is a Muslim
Obama is a racist
Obama is a hate monger
Obama is just an *uppity* celebrity
The intent of all these false accusations is to raise doubt about the candidate. See the Karl Rove playbook - when you have no record to run on start making baseless accusations of your opponent - see also character assassination. If a person is uninformed these statements create doubts about the candidate and they are more likely to support the familiar, "more of the same" candidate; that is why they say negative ads work.
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