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Fauckdacity: Obama knew how bad it would be
Do my fellow readers remember the time you first read one of the Obama smear e-mails? The ones that dredge up Muslim associations (doubly hard to refute without insulting Islamic American voters?), the ones that question Obama's mothers' sexual proclivities for dark skinned men, the ones that focus on the meanest, scariest, blackest people who ever crossed Obama's past? I do. It was really jarring.
That first moment has to be in the background for context, but this post is about another moment: The Moment I Realized Barack Obama Also Heard These Smears. He probably read some version of these years ago. He's bright enough to imagine what ignorant Americans would do with his incredibly difficult (love the man, but it's not just "funny", it's damned insane post 9-11, post Iraq II). He knows--he knew--what was coming. When he entered the race he said:
I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this — a certain audacity — to this announcementNo kidding. Effing - audacious! Audacity or blind stupid courageous conviction? Should be a new swear word--fauckdacity! (fukdacity?!) This man can take it. He's been Barack Hussein Obama his entire life, through the first Gulf War, through 9-11, he knows. He learned to trash talk in basketball for a reason. This man uses these ridiculously big cajones to elevate the national dialog. He knew, and he's doing this anyway. He knew his life would be threatened, he knew, and I think this man has his eyes completely wide open to the facts and still -- still -- still talks of hope.
Has anyone else had that moment---when you realized exactly how audacious this campaign really is?
Comments (85)
I apologize for this error in the second paragraph:
He's bright enough to imagine what ignorant Americans would do with his incredibly difficult name (love the man, but it's not just "funny", it's damned insane post 9-11, post Iraq II).
April 15, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
My silly html incantations have been counter-cursed, apparently.
April 15, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Severus;
Like many left leaning people I was thrilled by Obama's address at the 2004 Dem Convention.
Then for the first several months of this campaign I felt like THAT person (who gave that inspired, powerful speech) was absent.
Then after Edwards dropped out I started reading stories about Obama from his Conservative Colleagues at Harvard. They generally praised him for being open and fair minded.
I started paying more attention to Obama's campaign and it seemed like he was starting to let it rip.
Now-the more I see, the more excited I get. We actually have a chance to right the ship-to take our country back. And to finish the work that MLK, Malcolm, JFK and Bobby (to name only a few) started in the 1960's.
I am getting increasingly exuberant-we just might become the America that we were taught about in grade school!
GO Obama!!
April 16, 2008 8:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, you really, really like Obama? Thanks for sharing.
April 15, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's difficult for many of us not to admire the man. I recognize he has faults, but I do not believe I have seen his equal on the national level in my lifetime.
April 15, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps you could see beyond my obvious fault (too much Obama love) and note the question I was asking--Am I the only one who experienced that weird thought that Obama has read these smears, new it was coming, but still keeps going?
April 16, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is one other person in this campaign that is taking this plunge that you can't forget...Michelle. She is a very brave, tough, and smart lady. You know that she has thought about the many awful things that could, and some of which will, happen. The Clintons are giving the Obamas just a little taste. As much as I despise the Clintons for what they are doing, maybe it is a good thing...practise makes perfect.
I will admit that I have half-held my breath for months. Every punch by the Clintons hurts. We just have to have faith that he is going to be able to fight his way through the muck and mire. He has done better than I had ever hoped......
April 16, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Certainly had that moment from the beginning. I didn't focus too much on the goings on initially because, honestly, I didn't think he stood a chance. Wow, I've never been so happy to be so wrong, and have been gradually drawn into the campaign goings-on to the point of obsession. Audacity and hope are perfect characterizations of his candidacy, and far from being 'just words' have been apparent at every twist and turn of this thing. Kudos to the Obama team and the man himself!
April 15, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've mentioned this quote before, but it bears repeating because it is so apropos to this thread:
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. "
- Albert Einstein
April 16, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barack Hussein Obama
April 15, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Glad to see you've come around and are now on the winning side! :D
April 15, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Louis, my friend, do you realize how utterly ridiculous you sound with such comment. I often see people writing Obama's full name as comment on blogs here and there with the intention to offend. It always makes me snicker as it brings to mind the image of someone mooning while saying: "Look at my brain!" Funny? Yes. Pretty? err... I'll pass.
Here's to you, my friend!
April 15, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
excellent link/retort
April 16, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess the question is then. Is a name actually a comment?
April 16, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not really. What's your point?
April 16, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone said I made a comment. Which I didn't think I did.
April 16, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's in a name?
If it makes you feel better, I read it as an offhand endorsement of a candidate that you had grievously underestimated earlier in this process. Almost an admission that Obama has been able to rise above any negative attack thrown his way with grace and class, and will be an exceptionally formidable opponent for the Republicans in the general.
Maybe it was just me.
April 16, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES Louisville!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
We are going to take racist stereotypes DOWN several notches when our President stands for equality and human decency.
Take a look at the movie Lawrence of Arabia (also from the 1960's)-you will see a time before Arabs were villified in the U.S. They were still considered allies and there was little negative connotation to be an Arab.
That is one of a multitude of issues that Presidnt Obama will help set straight by his presence, his strength of character and his integrity.
Go Barack Hussein Obama in 2008!!!!
April 16, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking about the term "fauckacity." I think it's more of a fuckthemdacity. A cheerful, hopeful, positive fuckthemdacity. Like the last day on a job you hate, where you've got what looks to be a much better opportunity ahead. This is the best day you've got on this job. You give the boss the full fuckthemdacity attitude.
And, in your parting shot, you turn to that backstabbing suckup in the next cubical, and that person is Louisville1975. You smile, tell them you hope they have a lovely time hanging on bitterly to their soul-killing position, and you flip them off with both hands, laughing.
April 16, 2008 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Awww bat, But since I cling to my guns I'd have to pull out and blow you away.....bitter person that I am. :)
April 16, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
wording..damn just re-read that....tooo funny. sorry bat.
April 16, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooo...
I'm still smiling, still flipping you off, this time with both middle toes, too!
April 16, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
bat,
If you can do that with your toes.....Damn we gotta see a picture of that.....can you wiggle your ears too?
April 16, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
Woo Hoo!!!
April 16, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thats President Barack Hussein Obama to you.
April 16, 2008 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am Joyatta Hussein Payne, what about it?
April 16, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fear that most African-Americans in public office know about the smears, the hate mail, and the threats. I think it's why so many have their mail delivered somewhere other than their homes.
I do not understand how folks face that ugliness, look it in the eye, and keep on coming. Especially when they have small children at home.
I'm glad they do.
April 15, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Severus, I think what you're saying is what's pictures in the following video. I'll post it again. It's fauckdacious!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA
April 15, 2008 11:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was the most fucking brilliant, hilarious, insightful, perfect video I've ever seen!! Thanks for sharing it, now I'm going to start spreading it around.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA
April 16, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I meant to say is "what you're saying is in pictures in the following video."
April 15, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was awesome! Loved it!
April 16, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is America. Aren't black people supposed to have the names of their old slave holders? Until I see the historic Obama Plantation, I'm convinced that he must be from some alien regime.
April 15, 2008 11:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your heart is very small...isn't it?
April 16, 2008 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
quasar, my comment is the only explanation I can muster to represent the cause of people's problem with Barack Obama's name, people like Louisville.
April 16, 2008 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry for not recognizing the relative snark , puellagina.
April 16, 2008 1:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Careful with that snark, puellagina.
April 16, 2008 4:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a dark shadow you cast in the world.
April 16, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Funny you should mention that slaves having slave owner's name thing. Did you know that both sides of John McCain's family come from Mississippi slave owners and that his mother's family name is Wright? You know like---Jeremiah Wright. I wonder if things like that would make a person bitter? Or angry? Or distrustful? I have no idea if there is a connection, but it's disgusting that there could be.
April 16, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was the day Edwards dropped out and I went to the local Obama office to volunteer.After setting me up with a phone and a computer, the guy in charge gave me some info on Barack's specific policy positions, then stopped and asked;"what brought you down here to help?" I told him I was tired of politics as usual and was impressed by Obama's "bottom-up,people-powered" campaign and that I felt strongly that we needed some serious change in Washington to turn this country around. He replied "thats what I want you to say to the people you'll be calling,we can give you some bullet points if you want,but what you just told me is far more powerful because it comes from your heart" I'm a 46yr old confirmed cynic but that just blew my shit away...Obama gets it, its really not about him', it's about us.
April 16, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Love your story. Love your 'name' too. Thanks for making the calls.
April 16, 2008 4:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bingo.
April 16, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I grew up not knowing what it must have been like to hear JFK give the speech 'Ask not what your country can do for you...', not knowing that in my lifetime a candidate of equal vision and equal greatness would come forward, break all records and defy all expectation and is now on the verge of taking the nomination for the presidency. And I am very very happy that he has. And that is something that makes me feel proud of our democratic process, and my fellow Americans, for the first time in many a long year.
April 16, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
I had a similar moment, though it came more subtly. I mentioned to a friend how Obama reminded me of JFK, and that friend mourned that she was afraid that if we voted him in as president, he'd be assassinated like JFK too. I knew something was wrong about her concern, but couldn't put it into words until later in the evening. And what occurred to me (finally; I can be slow) was: Don't you think he knows that? Doesn't he have the right to take that risk?
To me, the four ugliest words in our language (except when spoken to children) is: "For your own good." Obama is no child and, as you say, he's had his name his whole life. He knows better than any of us what he's going up against, which is a lot more danger and resentment than Clinton faces--and frankly, I think he can handle it just fine.
April 16, 2008 1:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have a friend who said the same thing. Wonder if it's the same person? Anyhow, yes, obviously he knows. And Michelle knows too. I suppose anyone who runs must understand that they're a target. Even Reagan took a bullet. And while we've come a long way since MLK, there are some out there who will not accept the idea of a black man as president - ever. The Obama's know this. That takes guts, conviction, and even a certain degree of faith. Audacity and hope, indeed.
April 16, 2008 4:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I confess I have developed serious antipathy to some of these Hillary supporters, like dembilic, Louisville, as much as I have come to *loathe* Hillary, sad, huh, I hardly know these guys. I usually enjoy some convival jostling with fellow posters with whom I disagree, but I have grown highly allergic to falsehood, spinning every possible word into a manufactured crisis, political smearing, tearing down of a decent man, the tactics of Turdblossom, I can't stomach Hillary's foot soldiers anymore than I hold back the nausea at the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh.
April 16, 2008 2:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
*** Qwerty
Likewise. I was talking to a friend in Indian telling her i disdain HRC -- who feels the same. Neither of us like that we feel this way, but Clinton stepped outside the boundaries.
The LATimes/Bloomberg poll show women are defecting to Obama:
Indiana:
Obama: 35%
Clinton: 35%
North Carolina:
Obama: 43%
Hillary: 36%
Pa: more honest and has more integrity:
Obama: 47%
HRC: 26%
The saying, "you cannot fool all the people all the time and only some part of the time" or something to that effect -- is prescient for what is taking place today. Hillary's behaviour is appalling IMHO.
Check this site:
How to Argue Like a Right-Winger:
http://theinterroblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-argue-like-right-winger.html
I suggest reading articleman's blog -- although Iam not sure if it is snark or true -- titled:
"Copy of Storied "Republican Playbook" Found in Clinton Headquarters; Bush, Rove Angrily Demand Its Return"
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April 16, 2008 5:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
serena1313,
Yeah, I dig those two blogs! To play the Devil's advocate, this Politico site has a more sympathetic take on the Clinton's approach, courtesy of TPM:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=47B82639-3048-5C12-006FAA614CC2E556
However, the DLC has "striangulated" ourselves to death FEARING the Rightwing slime Machine and Polling the tiniest demographic and bending over backwards to not offend anybody. Thus, the neutering of Dr Dean.
Look what happened to "Nice Guys" Gore and Kerry.
These DLC sorts never considered another way to face the Rightwing Bully, to FIGHT BACK against the Bully's Bullshit.
Take the Fight to the Public, fight them every step of the way that they no longer get away with smearing and swift-boating. Fooling Americans who don't pay attention beyond the loudest sound bites and most outrageous lies. It's time we raise a ruckus, I'll pit in money to air spots and run ads, I'll march, I'll demonstrate, I'll knock on every door to get the message out.
If only the Clintons had used a tiny smidgen of this kitchen sink strategy against George Bush when he was fighting the Democrats, I would have loved them more. Instead, they reserved their fire power for THEMSELVES, and we were sternly admonished against fighting Bush-Rove by the DLC.
Ugh, they make me sick.
April 16, 2008 7:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
*** Louisville
Do you really believe a "name" scares people?
C'mon, that is just silly! LOL
You can type Barack Hussein Obama a million times over; It is not going to scare anyone.
April 16, 2008 5:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
When I was canvassing for obama in OH, some of his supporters said that same thing about assassination risks. They were most relieved to hear my response - same as mentioned above - Obama knows it too. I also said "You can't protect him by not voting for him" which is what some people were trying to do.
April 16, 2008 8:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cause, I knew you guys couldn't resist. See it does make you nervous when people say it doesn't it. Barack Hussein Obama.
April 16, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Millard Filmore
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Spiro Agnew
Strom Thurmond
Leslie Graham
John Sidney McCain
...and many many more
I'm thinking that Americans have looked past funny sounding names when voting for politicians on either side of the aisle. But if the GOP wants to under-estimate him based upon his name, so be it. A much better politician than any on their side also under-estimated, him to her peril too...
April 16, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know what's funny, Lman? That your candidate of choice and the way in which she's run her campain has effectively destroyed an equally good name, "Clinton," besmirching it for many of us who stood by that name and the people who bear it.
"Hussein" may make racists and ignoramuses uneasy, but for a vast swath of us "Clinton" will now forever make us nauseous at the depths to which a fellow Democrat went to kneecap a true statesman out of narcissistic vanity.
But keep pandering to the hate-filled and the stupid, Lman. As your own candidate seems to acknowledge with each passing blunder, it's all you've got left in the bag.
April 16, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Joe, you speak for many of us. Well said.
April 16, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
i think after eight years of the strutting, willful arrogance, ignorance, incoherence and incompetence of the George Walker Bush administration, a man with a face, a name, a voice and a mind like Obama's is right for America.
i think the American voters will largely be inclined to agree. those on the spectrum between out-and-out racism and nervous nelly social anxiety syndrome (i'm not going to presume to judge where on the spectrum you lie, Louisville) can get on board or get left the hell behind.
April 16, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
It used to, but not any more. I encourage you to write it all you want. It only helps make it more familiar, and simultaneously discredits the candidate for whom you flog inane points like this.
But by all means... keep it up.
April 16, 2008 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is your point? You sound like a child with this "see, see, I told you so" bullshit. No one here is nervous about his name, except YOU.
April 16, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
You got me. Really didn't have a point.
April 16, 2008 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Obama's comment about "presumptuousness" and "audacity" didn't have anything to do with his name. He was referring to his own resume - his age and lack of experience in national politics. Yes, it is audacious for someone barely into his first term as a US Senator whose previous experience was the Illinois State Assembly to run for President. If you want to read a subtext into his remark, you might say he was making subtle reference to his race as well: it is audacious for a black man with his experience to be running for President. But in no way was he foreshadowing attacks on him because of his middle name.
April 16, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's just stupid.
April 16, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stupid? Really? Why not take a look at what he actually said?
“Now listen, I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness — a certain audacity — to this announcement. I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.”
As I noted, Obama was referring to his lack of Washington experience, not, as the post suggests, foreshadowing fringe attacks on his name. It’s not even a criticism to point this out., though apparently anything less than conferring sainthood on Barack leaves one open to attack.
April 16, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess you are not familiar with “not every thing has to be stated” or “obvious things aren't mentioned”? He knew there was audacity in a Black, 46 yr. old, 1st term senator with the name Barack Hussein Obama, running for President of the United States of America.
April 16, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
You guys are too funny. Had a bet with someone that I could get the guard dogs to the "kingdom" to come after an "intruder". Thanks for winning it for me. You folks need to relax just a bit. Take a deep breath look out at the sunny spring day and smile. This is a blog not life or death.
April 16, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a blog not life or death
Ah, but Louisville, for many Americans this ELECTION is about life and death. Over 4,000 American families are grieving the loss of a loved one because of the last two elections (and in part because of a vote HRC--among many many others--made). That doesn't count the hundreds of thousands of families who will get their loved one back but with brain damage or missing a limb or suffering from PTSD. For tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the last two elections were a matter of life and death.
I'm please that there's so little difference b/t Clinton and Obama's health care plans--but unless we can come together in time to beat McCain and, even beating him, can convince enough of the American people and the Congress of the validity of these plans, neither of them will pass. And that will be a matter of life and death for tens of thousands more Americans.
I have sat in a hospital room, beside my seriously ill dad, trying to get my Mom to not talk about getting a second mortgage on the house (to keep him in the rehab hospital) in front of him, but she was so exhausted after months of daily trips to the hospital, she didn't always guard her words around him. I'm half convinced that the fear of her doing just that--of us risking our homes, getting second jobs, etc.--is one reason Dad just gave up and died.
For you, this may just be a hoot. But for many of us, this is most CERTAINLY a matter of life and death.
April 16, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, don't want to bust that bubble for you but all these words here aren't helping anyone. Let alone helping those 4,000 soldiers families. Sitting there and pontificating on it isn't helping any of them. If you really want to help them you'll stop sending money to Obama and instead send it to an organization like the DAV and maybe spend of your time volunteering at local VA hospital.http://www.dav.org/nsf/columbia_trust_info.html
But, no, I suspect your not going to do that your going to sit there and slam down on your computer and blame everyone else but yourself. Congrats Vaughn yet again you've confirmed my belief about Obama supporters. Your latte is getting cold.
April 16, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read your post twice. It sounds like you are making Obama's candidacy all about race, and how Obama overcame prejudice. Your message starts off with all the smears against him as a black man, and ends with how marvelous it is that he is still on his feet.
If it is all about electing a black man for you, fine. For me it is electing the best possible candidate.
April 16, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I regret that it sounds like Senator Obama's candidacy is all about race. I meant to comment on the realization that Obama has read the smears, that he knew it was coming and still ran.
Clearly Obama's candidacy is about more than that--but I particularly like that he's attempting to changethe way politics is conducted--and this goes directly to the smears. He wants to elevate the conversation, while building grassroots coalitions. The grassroots coalition issue is fodder for many diaries in its own right.
April 16, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
My three-year-old grandson is fond of saying.."When I get big, I am going to be a monster truck driver, and President of the United States like Barack Hussein Obama". Obviously, he does not see any problems with a name, as you seem to. I think it is time you got at least as big as a three-year-old.
April 16, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I honestly have no problems with his name. I submit that it is a lot of folks that support him that have a problem with it. Not sure why but seems to me there is reality to it.
And I applaud your 3 year old for wanting to be President...but unfortunately he will have to wait to see Sen. Obama as President.
April 16, 2008 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right Louisville, her grandson will have to wait to see a President Obama, until November. P.S. I'm glad you found your party;The G.O.P.
April 16, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Registered Dem Inde.....which leads me to believe your an Independent. Pick a side man.
April 16, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
O yeah. In fact, I keep having that moment.
So I want to say something: I'm so sick of being accused of being abnormal because I really love my candidate. I'm hardly the only one - he seems to have this affect on a lot of people, like Bill Richardson, who said all the same things I see. I'm sorry for anyone who doesn't have a candidate who makes them feel this good about them - this is a first in what amounts now to a pretty large number of years I've been around.
So quit telling me I don't know what I see and believe - I do. I'm sorry you don't - but if I was supporting either one of the Republicans: Hillary Joe Clinton Lieberman, or John "I'm a War Criminal" McCain, I'd feel the same way you do.
I think Obama is a fucking gift to this country and we better be smart enough to accept it.
April 16, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
That "cult" syndrome at its finesst.
April 16, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure to whom you're referring, HusseinTenaX, but I agree with you completely.
I would make a joke about our "Dark Lord" fitting with my Potter character, but I'm afraid that would be taken seriously--the perils of having to label snark in print. Ahhh, but until the end, no one really knows who Snape supports, do they? Fired up!
April 16, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I think Obama is a fucking gift to this country and we better be smart enough to accept it."
Such language from a maybe lady
I strongly suggest that you "don't look that gift horse in the mouth" ( Mark Twain or Will Rogers or maybe one of those country singers) Sorry, boss
April 16, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the Hil-liar-y continued campaign is good for him. We can see how he will handle the republican attack machine. We can have confidence that he will stand up to them. At least Hil-liar-y is good for something after all.
April 16, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
"- Barack Hussein Obama - they are throwing "the obvious, ultimate fear bomb. . . . When all else fails, be afraid of his name."
Anyone want to guess who made that statement?
Most of us have no trouble with the
name "Hussein", now that he's gone on over or where ever. (Sadam that is)
Osama, now that's another problem, especially for McBush.
April 16, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I can do much better than that.
You obviously don't know any ladies.
:)
April 16, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is nothing new. I was at Obama's Springfield announcement in February '07 and a Dodge minivan plastered with big signs on the side and back that said "I don't want a Muslim president" passed our bus on the highway on the way home. We all jeered.
Remember in the Blues Bros when Jake and Elwood spotted the Illinois Nazis? When I see that I feel the same way about Republicans. Or ppl like L1975.
April 16, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I get labeled a Nazi for just saying his name Barack Hussein Obama? Isn't that just a touch over the top?
April 16, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah you get labeled a Republican. Nice choice you made.
April 16, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, a fascist by any name is still a fascist. Or Gertrude Stein style: a fascist is a fascist is a fascist.
April 16, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
A fascist? Good lord. First time for everything I guess. The cult of Obama lives on.
April 16, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some of the gun toters in Pa decided they wanted;
A White Cacus
A white College Reunion
And a White History Month (er year)
Guess what they are being called?
April 16, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
CALLING ALL FELLOW OBAMA SUPPORTERS:
Last night I came to the conclusion that it will be up to us to counter the Republican 527 adds (Swift Boats) if the Democratic party is not up to the task. These attacks have to come from the party or us-NOT Obama. he has to stay clean while we do this awful dirty work for him. Kerry's swift Boating proved that these attacks cannot be ignored.
I really believe we can make the difference when the Repubs start coming after Obama and Michelle.
But lets start now!
Who knows how to get in touch with anyone associated with a 527 organization. I think if we could run this "Screw Them" piece on video from now until the primary next Tuesday we just might be able to finish Hillary off. If Obama could beat her in Pa this would be over!
I REALLY HOPE SOMEONE CAN RESPOND TO THIS!
April 16, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
You really don't get it, do you Louisville? Words are how we frame ideas and move them into action. Of course I do what I can to help our vets--but what about the soldiers who WILL die because this war continues? What about the fathers who WILL die because, despite that they have paid for health insurance their whole lives, our medical system can't tolerate them taking more than two months to go home from the hospital and they would rather give up the will to live than see their families go into deeper debt?
I tried to communicate something powerful and personal to you, and all you want to do is call me a latte drinker (wrong) and pontificate about helping the vets? Apparently I was mistaken in thinking communication was possible, so try this:
FUCK YOU.
April 16, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
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