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please do not live in denial...Obama once again falls short

2008-08-18T10:15:11Z

This is not a new issue, but it is one that has been allowed to linger, for what reason I cannot imagine.

Senator Obama is eloquent, we saw that several years ago, and he has only gotten better.

But, in debate formats, or in formats not within his control, he simply underperforms.

This has been blamed on the media, how unfair ABC was, it has been blamed on horrid mind games of intimidation and brass knuckle politics by the Clintons, or on any number of scape goats.

Senator Obama, if he wants to be President, he needs to put some time in studing the great debates of generations past, get up to speed, understand your audience.

How, how can I listen to talking heads give the thumbs up to McCain?

The issues are with Obama, the need for change is palpable, but these debate confrontations are only going to get more pointed and more heated....standing pat is no alternative.

I have gone from disappointed Clinton supporter to one who vows to vote for Obama, but then I live in SC and a poll in our local paper yesterday cited a poll giving McCain a double digit lead, with only 15% of whites indicated as being Obama supporters.

Due to racism in good measure, along with good, old fashioned fear of the unknown, this will be a close election, Obama needs to find a way to up his game in debates, he does not need to give anyone an excuse to not vote for him, he cannot afford it.

If I were him I would study Bill Clinton in his 1990 debate in the town hall meeting, try to learn, its not a sign of weakness.

do not make excuses for Obama, expect and demand he do better, he cannot afford to be cool when it comes to that hot medium

Hate Hillary Express TPM leaves the station

2008-05-27T10:47:51Z

for the past two months i have had the fact that the election is over drilled into my consciousness, the image of a white hot branding iron comes to mind in its effect.

despite vaccilating results the lead of Obama has been made crystal clear...the math was done, redone and certified by a cpa firm, and i thought, fool that i was, that the obama campaign would pivot and move onto McCain.

but, alas and alack, just a scan of the most recommended posts and recent ones, enought vitriol against Bubba and Hillary, gosh, why would you fine Obama supporters insist on reading every word, every facial tic, every possible interpretation negatively casting the former President and First Lady as ogres, this is indeed a funny way to campaign for Presidents, cast vile aspersions, based on skewed ideological temper tantrums, to expect the millions upon millions of people all across the country who voted for her, to then vote for what gives every impression of the angry mob of villagers chasing Frankenstein's monster, perhaps some justification for their alarm, but crowd hysteria is not pretty.

it does not appeal to me, and will not to many average person, i suggest you folks find another outlet for your fantasies, trying to place outraged victim every time a Clinton burps is getting tiresome, not to mention the need to demonize, dehumanize them, this kind of simple minded fervor rings akin to the simple minded bigotries that bush and his band of neocons and left behind Christian Zionists...you all seem to be so sure of yourselves, you know what every person means, all the time, you are indeed on a mission, if not for God, then surely for the change that you have been looking for, aforementioned change being, well, you the one who have been seeking it.

it is awfully hard to understand if you are not a part of one of these sect like movements

why do TPM folks care about the $ Hill raises?

2008-05-21T10:45:20Z

why would the readers be so interested in the finances of a lost candidacy? what possible difference would it make, given the insurmountable lead in delegates that Obama has established?

we are told it is over, we are treated to Obama supporters alternately telling Clinton supporters: welcome we want your vote, or, you old geezers & uneducated dopes, we do not need you, be gone.

Obama won a state big, Hillary won a state big, they are both popular candidates with lots of supporters.

but, back to my original thought, why the obsessing about the Clinton finances, do you think she will declare bankruptcy and go away to live in a mobile home park?

why does it bother the winners, when their candidate is engaged in debate over appeasment and other hot topics for the eternally lame brained?

move on brothers and sisters, drop your hostility at the door, let it go, it is going to the convention, you will have a vote, and in all liklihood, win, so why sweat the small stuff?

it is more reflective on your own sense of inadequacy of your candidate that makes you so pathetically transfixed on how much money the Clinton campaign raises, there are millions upon millions of us who will contribute to any fund we want to, we want to make sure the first real candidacy of a woman for President is not snuffed out like a candle, a paen to the dark.

get over it, please...and I do hope I did not stalk or otherwise hurt any living person, animal or stuffed toy in this statement.

many of us Clinton supporters are watching, and what we see is pretty perplexing. but, we are Democrats, I have always been one, and there will come a time to vote in November, I wonder if some will still be whaling away at the dead horse then, out of reflex?

your slips are showing, and we do notice....get over it, get over yourselves and your lofty enlightenment, it could just be gas, you know?

You Obama supporters who boo Hillary

2008-05-15T11:10:45Z

at the Edward's endorsement yesterday....hey, you folks who continue to wallow in the Hillary hate, available easily as cheap handguns on the street, compliments of those who hate women and the Clintons in general...hey, folks, keep it up.

we are watching. if you do not want our votes in the general election, please, please keep it up, as your ranks are replete with those who cannot get out of the sewer, winners are supposed to be more tidy and less messy.

I can take the daily dosages of sneering and sarcasm of the talking head elites, I have long ago decided those folks are just buffoonish. but, to my fellow libs & Democrats, as a Hillary supporter, I do not hate Obama, but the facts are facts, the Obama campaign has dealt in race and gender politics, but now, you have won.

you can afford to be generous, or you can prove that you are so single minded in your hate that nothing, not even triumph on a grand scale can lift you out of your morass. \

we are watching, listening and waiting...insult us, boo us, sneer at us all you want. then, in November, when we sit home and pass on the election, if you fail, think long and hard about the seeds you sow, as ye shall surely reap what you sow.

mickey cantor & clintons slimed as racists...again

2008-05-03T10:52:31Z

there is nothing new here to see, so lets all run duck cover and pretend that this kind of calumny is not to be tolerated by us dumb arsed white people who are supporting hillary...a doctored video sends the obama nuts, yes, i mean that literally, the ranks of obama supporters clearly support nut jobs who would crassly inject a false issue, cynically, into the national bloodstream, one already inflamed by much talk of racism, most of it having zero, nada, zilch, nil, none, help me here...all this stuff obama is suffering from,...all the unfair crap that little timmy russett potato headboy will throw at him...wright, ayers, bitters...none of it has any damn thing to do with hillary.

thus, to propogate the filth this fake video comes out, setting off the loons into full flight and voice, a loon makes a loony sound, sort of like the pod people, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil, all is good for obama even making racist taunts and charged almost totally unsubstantiated by any rational human being.

oh, of course, its been shown to be a fake, well, too bad, when you make a racist slander even if you go back later and say, my bad, oops, the damage is there, the poison exists.

this diary will disappear into the swamps of disregarded and distained, i can live with that, but listen up dudes, when i, as a 60 year old white guy, who pretty much has stood for fairness for all people, everywhere, human rights mean more to me than other crap, when i see people i have supported, in good faith, and still hold in varying degrees of value to society, when they are slandered, i am slandered.

we old codgers value loyalty, at least this one does, and when we see one of us...being slimed in this manner by folks speaking about change...bullshit, this aint change, this is still racism, only now spewed and sold by so called progressives, hey, if this is your "change" please take it, turn it sideways and shove it up...well, i am getting carried away here, but to make a point, you do not destroy a village to change it....you can do that, but you are going to piss those villagers off, and this really pisses me off, nobody likes being called a racist, not obama, wright, cantor, or me....give this crap a rest, run on qualifications not lies, poison and bitter cynicisms

Obama only gets mad if you call him a pol

2008-05-01T11:00:46Z

he only simmers, reflects and pontificates when confronted with someone who has the thought that the US of America would want to develop AIDS as a weapon against people of color....he only simmers & muses when his pastor is quoting as damning US of America with faint praise....he only simmers when his mentor speaks of the dastardly Zionists...and has the Nation of Islam protecting the speaker while he spews the imprecations.

until the Reverend implied that Senator Obama was being, uh, how shall we say it, hypocritical or acting like a regular old pandering politician, well, THAT got the man from Illinois into a real state.

then, and only then did he reject, dismiss & wholly disassociate himself from the Reverend. this speaks volumes as to the values of Senator Obama, its all about him, ultimately, thus, where is the new politics?

i have been lusting to do this, but now I get to Mondale on Barrack: WHERES THE BEEF? WHERES THE BEEF? I DONT THINK THERES ANYBODY BACK THERE?

does Clinton have an ego? does the Pope sleep in the woods? but, no way she shows her petulance in any way shape or form compared to Obama, he is the King of Spin and his ego is petitioning for statehood.

so now the story on Rev Wright changes

2008-04-30T11:36:07Z

I see from the TPM page a link to the biography of Obama, and his service at Trinity, picking up on Wright's social agenda.

Ok, but over 20 years you expect us dunces out here in fly over land to believe that at some point in these deep discussions of intellect, that some of the Reverend's peculiar views did not seep through?

If I worked with someone over 20 years, if he were a closet Klansman, I think at some point you would get a clue.

But, Obama gets a pass...oh, he never heard, he never saw, but he engaged in deep intellectual discussions but learned nothing over 20 years and is not legitimately shocked by being stabbed in the back.

Leaves his judgement in question, but lets wait a few days, this is subject to further revision and extension of remarks, most of them alarmingly facile

funny I show up & its all downhill for Obama

2008-04-30T00:49:53Z

I hate to have to point out that my odd brand of commentary was not well received here in the most audaciously hopeful pro-Barrack website.

I have been mocked, with merit, for grammatical and other sins, and that is all well and good.

But, as much as it pains me to point this out, my protestations of the giddy, cocky and snooty attitude of many Obama supporters was not yet justified, of course I was mocked, told to do math and such.

Well, after this week in April, things no longer seem the same. Hmmm...could it be that I was prescient and many of you were not?

I can adhere to literary standards, they simply bore me, but I did try to write in a semblence of terse correctness...you could sum it up in the crass, I told you so, but I am far above such ripe fruit.

So now the race in NC tightens, Hillary looks solid in Indiana...hey, funny how a short time changes perspective, if you look with no rose colored opticals.

there are liberal weenies, then there are liberals like myself, who do not fit the life story of most liberals, and have little patience with folks with lack of foresight.

I am being proven right about Obama, he lapses as Hillary surges...why not the best?

leave it to Bill Kristol in New York Tmes- a challenge to TPM

2008-04-28T10:19:59Z

this early morning I scan the major media sources, as I do every day,along with many others, and as a Clinton supporter after scanning the Washington Post I mentally noted an absence of any stories about the Clinton Campaign, rather a nice summary of world events, disasters, and, of course, several items on Senator Obama and Reverend Wright, we appear to be in a rehabilitation mode for the Reverend, based on the available verbage.

this did not shock me..so I peruse the New York Times and, again, an absence of any stories about Clinton, with one column breathlessly describing how Obama is retooling hid message to reflect real or perceived problems with blue collar or Catholic or whatever voters....alas, I think to myself, another blank insofar as Clinton, but, lo, up in the corner, in smaller print a praising column by Bill Kristol.

hmmmm...I mused, that is sure going to get Hillary some traction with the effete liberals who have all been calling for her public execution, at dawn and televised around the world, a laudatory column by a neo-con architect of the war in Iraq.

wow...but then I read the following comment in Kristol's piece, which, interestingly enough, I found nowhere on these respected media sources, nor, after perusing TPM...if you allow my poor non-computer person to cut and paste the following, which you can read in the Times site, of course:

Hillary has achieved this despite much disparagement of her candidacy by liberal commentators, and in the face of the media’s crush on Obama. Even those who started out being well disposed to Clinton have moved toward Obama, if only out of concern that the prolonged race is damaging Democratic prospects in the fall.

Obama understands his advantage with the media, as he perhaps inadvertently demonstrated over the weekend on “Fox News Sunday.” In the course of dismissing much pundit commentary for typically overreacting to events, good or bad, Obama explained, “Well, look, after you lose, then everybody writes these anguished columns about, why did you lose?”

Obama chose a nice word: “anguished.” You’re only anguished by an Obama defeat if you’re rooting for an Obama victory. Obama was tacitly acknowledging that much of the liberal media has been hoping he’d win. Now, they’re rooting for him to close the deal

The title of the Kristol piece is "Hillary gets no respect".
Again, I typically would not be heartened by the comments of Bill Kristol, but do find it remarkable he seized on comments by Obama clearly showing he knows the media is in the tank for him.

I guess that is why he got so pissed off at George S & C Gibson from ABC, I mean, did they forget that they were supposed to be anquished.

Anquished, it is a word that fits well the circumstance of liberal politics now, you fiery Obama supporters of TPM...and, as well for people like me, anquished that my voice is ridiculed and mocked, run off, ignored, how do you like them apples son?

Many of us do not like having our views demeaned, we like being ignored even less, so as you go about your daily tasks of being anquished over any and every thing that does not fit into your square holes, some of round objects, otherwise indistinquishable from you in make up, composition, whatever, but you want to ignore us.

yes, Hillary has become a marvellous candidate, Obama has faded and is fading as we speak, but dare not let us admit anything negative, do not allow it, do not let it into your heads, cause, I sypathize with your disability...your anquish over not getting what you want when you want it.

grow up liberal weenies...there are some of us out here who are tough as nails, ready to rumba and your biased slip is showing maam

Obama on Fox News...why?

2008-04-27T15:51:14Z

he was going to take them on, but apparently played the continued prevent defense, do not say anything to tip the boat...having said enough to cause sizeable listing.

he apparently wants to distance himself from some of his, uh, well, more unsteady supporters ready to brand the clintons and the second coming of nathan bedford forrest and scarlett o'hara...which group includes wide swaths of the liberal blogashere, including this one.

if obama is willing to foreswear these vile insuations about racism and trying to destroy obama so he cannot win, then i suggest his more ludicrous followers try to head his call, because the arrogance is not working, the do the math, no chance, give up hillary arrogance, along with the trashing of the clintons, quite unfairly history will show, this attitude that settled about the obama supporters and campaign is quite a toxic brew, the american people do not like cocky, know it all smart kids, they appreciate confidence and smarts, but do not appreciate having their own deficiencies rubbed in their noses by those who would deign to tell someone when to quit, accuse of heinous offenses and generally act like a group of spoiled children

get over it, we need obama to show some heart, some fire for what he wants, and we get, well, not hot water and steam but a tepid spray.

i am 60 i have seen more than one golden boy who was going to change politics....they aint changed yet

from a south carolinian to rep clyburn: chill!

2008-04-25T10:52:38Z

with all due respect, who appointed the rep as the spokesman for anything. face it, he is the product of gop gerrymandering, providing s.c. with a safe black seat, with a district that looks like an octopus.

i respect rep clyburn, he is a good guy, but his comments about the clintons trying to make sure obama cannot be elected in the general election indicate the poor man must be smoking something good.

it is his right to criticize the clintons if he wishes, he has already done so. the bottom line is this: bill clinton does not owe black people a duty to not support his own wife vociferously in this campaign.

as for this kitchen sink line, big freaking deal, that phraseology has been around in politics for a long time, it simply indicates a campaign is frustrated cause it is not getting traction...so you change your strategy.

throwing the kitchen sink simply means throwing a bunch of stuff up in the air and hope....it is not bill clintons fault that obama has ties to a pastor who is still, to this day muddling the waters, terming obama's distancing of himself from reverend wright as just politics....huh? i thought it was new politics?'

it was not the clintons that made obama make really dumb comments in california about pennlyvania voters.

it was not the clintons who made obama associate with an unrepentant former bomber and play stage terrorist asshat ayers...as a grizzled old dude who lived in those days, i feel only pity for a person who can pretend to be a revolutionary then plays middle class games yet yearns to have killed more, bombed more...it was not bill clinton who created this.

it was not bill clinton during the debate asked obama uncomfortable questions, it was not bill clinton that made obama look uncomfortable while hillary looked presidential\

look, listen up, word up...we are seeing a first, a real live strong black candidate...and we are witnessing a dynamic which has never been seen. words that may have been used in the past suddenly develop baggage, and once tarred with the racist, extremist, radical, whatever label, somehow life and events and misfortune lead people to say stupid stuff sometimes they wish they had phrased better, but once said, well it sits.

bill and hillary clinton are not racists, having lived in south carolina almost all my life i know what racism is...i am old enough that i recall as a young boy driving on a light rainy night passing an area where a cross was burning, the klan was meeting. i have seen racial deprivation and bigotry closer than most white people, not a pleasant thing to say, but its true. i have seen gray haired black men have to lower their eyes and kowtow to young moronic white boys.

as a long time democrat, a southerner who has tried in his life to strive for equal treatment for all, i do not think i am a racist, though no doubt my heritage does leave a mark on me...the clintons are not racists

they are politicians struggling, striving, fighting, scratching and clawing towards a goal...this is what running for president is about...you either go all out, or you need to go home, the fire in the belly is another phrase, old politics, but its a truism nonetheless.

facing an attractive, eloquent man like obama is not an easy task, but eventually its a brutal experience, do not blame the clintons for the atmosphere in which we now find ourselves, but like any politician, when given weapons, they will use them, but that does not make the public concerned about these issues that haunt obama, the public decides what is important...throw it up in the air and guess what? obamas own associations and comments helped them stick.

so, representative clyburn with all due respect, you should know better...as a good politician..but i think, as my comments might infer, that the obama folks are getting pissed off at the wrong person.

blame obama, its his past and words that are harming him, not bill clinton...you know, its, hmmm, what? oh, i know, its a distraction.

TPM blogs all agree: its over, who cares & nanny nanny

2008-04-23T17:14:40Z

boo boo.

ok, wow, tough day at the primary polling places in pennslyvania, with a huge money advantage, the media telling everyone for weeks upon weeks clinton is dead, she cannot win, its all over...yet and all hillary smoked obamas ass yesterday.

it is awesome to see a group of liberals in a fog, unable to face the simple facts of life: the obama campaign has had every chance, every opportunity and advantage for months, and here he still cannot close the deal.

simple message from someone who finds it hard to get on this blog, too many comments or too harsh of comments probably make up the cause, but i am a south carolina resident, having lived in florida and north carolina at times, i am a born and bred southern white guy, 60, i do have a college degree, my lapses in english notwithstanding, i grew up in racism that would curdle your milk if i got within a mile of your home. i am a lifelong democrat, i try not to be a racist, though i am self aware enough to know with my upbringing and conditioning, its a struggle, but one i gladly undertake, and with some success i hope, but here goes:

obama is not going to win blue collar white voters in middle america, he has zero chance in any southern state.

it may be unfair, it may be and likely is racist to some degree, but obama has developed an image that is suceptible to demogoguery & his recent comments have only solidified that image

the posts here are overwhelmingly positive for obama. it is surely as if we have been transported into a different dimension, where a bad loss is taken with smiles, hugs all around, its over, and hey, why doesnt she drop out now?

there is a paucity of drop out now hillary posts...for small favors i thank you supreme being

Obama walks on water

2008-04-19T11:53:20Z

i saw this on the local news, details to follow shortly..i am not surprised, as i have learned now, all that happens is good for obama...and cause for another post on TPM bashing clinton or extolling the lastest brilliant move of the senator from illinois

if obama falls down stairs...high five, another well calculated move, or else, it had to be hillary tripping him, that bitch!!!!!

but now i am one of the pod people, i resisted so long and so hard, but the multiplicity of posts here and elsewhere in liberal land got the best of me...yes, obama we have no wrong we have hope, audacious hope and gosh, its so spine tingling, i now see what all the others have been hooked on before, so so sad i resisted.

will obama heal the crippled? i do not know, but why not give it a try, who knows, it could work and even if it didnt, hillary probably would have run in a fake cripple anyway who would keep acting like one, the son of a bitch

Dean wants decision now Obama says no more debates

2008-04-18T10:43:26Z

hmmmm.....I am betting Senator Obama is wishing he had come to that conclusion before the most recent debate. And, given the knee jerk support by Dean and Pelosi & others, its not surprising that after the horrid performance of their favored candidate, they want it over, pretty please, make it stop, the clearly solidifying image of Obama as a snooty, petulant person is hurting us, we realize its going to be disaster come the general election, but we must, now we have to make sure Obama wins, otherwise we look really, really stupid.

When will the Obama accolytes finally realize their candidate, while awesome as a speech giver, is not that good on his feet, debate style, when things begin to go in a direction, or distraction, he does not like, well, sorry, he cannot pout.

the pennslyvania primary is so close, so now Dean wants a decision, and Obama says no mas to debates, hm, signs of worrisome worry to me, I say let more voters vote, what are they afraid of?

Will Senator Obama boycott debates if he wins the nomination and those pesky media papparazzi types ask him intolerable, insulting questions?

The emperor has no clothes, except for that speech giving tee shirt....he has baggage, he does not look Presidential in a crucial debate, its getting harder and harder to tolerate those pesky voters, who knows what those bitter, clingy people out there in WalMartLand might do??? they are scary, those pesky moderators and pesky voters, what oh what shall we do about them?

some suggestions for TPM hype of Obama

2008-04-17T17:10:54Z

I am happy for all the smiling, attractive pictures of Obama, and the frowing, petulant looking ones of that major pain in the ass Clinton, plus all the hot stories derisive of Hillary, its refreshing.

I thought perhaps we could get some front page links on Senator Obama's favorite charity, that way we can spend some more cash supporting the campaign for the change that we have all been looking for, now finding it it us, ourselves, we are the change we have been looking for.

I would like to know what toothpaste he uses, gosh some action figures.....obama organizing community dashing to thwart some lowlife bad guy...i know the Obamas need some money, they just paid off their student loans, golly, i m saying THEY are elitists...well...doh what can you say other than GoObama...i am going to sing that chanting song, yeah you could link to that, we need a quasi religious sensation

all in the spirit of further aggrandizing the all obama all anti-clinton news all the time

screw those conservatives anyway,