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Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama, and even before that happened Obama has a commanding lead not just nationally, but in the state polls.
There were 18 states in 2004 that had a margin of victory of less than 10%. Every single marginal state, except Arkansas, has Obama in the lead in state polls.
Obama needs 269 electoral votes to win. At present he has 286 locked in and 364 likely. It would need something massive to happen to stop him.
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Tags: 2008 US Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Colin Powell
October 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Powell was turned down for a cameo in ‘Nailin Paylin’.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Looks like, with the collusion of a partisan press, the US will elect it’s first marxist president. Hello Chavez style politics.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
im disappointed in Mr Powell.
Why would he endorse a socialist?
Oh yea, hes a black candidate.
I guess its hard for me to understand, being a white guy etc.. we have always had a white male PM (apart from shipley)..
id like to think that i wouldnt sell my soul to vote for someone based on skin colour though.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:18 am
The hippies are winning. Damn.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Oh man, free reign for Iran, North Korea and missles allowed on South American soil, not to mention the fast-track removal of US soldiers in Afghanastan and Iraq!
I was always praying that the ONE (Anti-Christ), wouldn’t appear in my time on earth, but no such luck
October 20th, 2008 at 9:21 am
For America right now, Obama/Biden is the right call.
Change was required.
Palin has been exposed as a lightweight for this moment in Time. However, having had a taste of the rareified atmosphere of Presidential Campaigning, we can expect a strong challenge in 2012.
McCain will have had his chips by then!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:25 am
If Ms Clark thinks Mr Key is inexperienced then how does she rate Senator Obama?
October 20th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I’m not convinced it’s over.. the polls are strange and Obama isn’t putting his man away. Every time Obama gets a good lead McCain somehow closes it up. The candidate, the media and his supporters are screaming “It’s over, stop resisting, there’s no chance, it’s racist to resist” etc, they are trying to browbeat their man into the presidency.
McCain may not win, but I suspect there will be a backlash on polling day against this massive manipulation.
JC
October 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Obama will win, but he will be the first single term president since Bush I.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:33 am
“For America right now, Obama/Biden is the right call.”
Obama hasn’t run anything and you call Palin lightweight? As Gov of Alaska she has a higher security classification than either Senators Biden and Obama.
Some schmo on the street asks Obama a question after he stops outside the guys house for a walkaround and the media gives the poor sap more scrutiny than they have with any of Obama’s dodgey friends. Given that Obama’s ACORN group are enrolling Princess the Goldfish and Mickey Mouse and anywhere up to millions of fraudulent non-voters, there wont be another US election after this one. Not one with any more legitimacy than the last one in Venezuala.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am
To be fair to Obama, he is not advocating any fast-track removal of of the US military from Afghanistan, in fact hes advocating a second “surge” there. He also fully supports Bush’s military spending and the plans for a larger military.
He is advocating fast track removal from Iraq but that really does not matter as the Al-Qaeda in Iraq have been well and truly beaten. Whatever ongoing violence that is still occurring is about internal domestic politics and of no relevance to the larger WOT. Plus the recent deal struck there means US troops will be out by or before 2011 regardless of who is in power.
If Obama is real smart, he will offer the post of Secretary of Defense to Powell. That would make a lot of people, myself included, feel a little less concern about him being Pres.
Don’t get me wrong, I would far rather have McCain/Palin in the job, and I have a lot of concern about the Nancy Pelosi nutbars on the far left having too much control over Obama. He needs to prove that he really is a moderate by choosing good people like Powell.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
So Powell was a moron hack for claiming WMD’s in Iraq now hes a hero of intelligence and perception.
My how the times change.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Lee, not at all concerned that someone with his heavily Marxist background, could soon become the leader of the ‘free’ world?
If he’s okay to rule, then that makes the Greenies as non-threatening as a bunch of Teletubbies!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am
One of the first acts Obama has promised to do is sign the death-promoting FOCA into law if he becomes President. This henious piece of legislative gunk from the sewer will ensure that 100,000 more Americans will be murdered more than today. Also, this legislation will re-legalise partial birth abortion, in which babies up to 39 weeks gestation are pulled out of the womb apart from their head which remains in the birth canal. Then, the abortionist gets a pair of scissors and punctures the back of the head just below the base of the skull and then sucks the brain out. Pretty good at ensuring death to the baby.
This barbaric practice was outlawed by Congress and that legislation signed into the Federal Statutes by President Bush. Family Planning, NARAL and other pro-abortion organisations challenged the law all the way to the Supreme Court of the US who upheld the legality of the law. It remain on the books today.
If the baby does survive such a gruesome method of murder, then Obama has a second plan: he voted against a law (that again had two separate laws that were overwhelmingly passed in both the Illinois legislature and Congress) that required a doctor to give life saving medical assistance after an abortion failed to kill the baby.
Obama is a prophet of death, supports both infanticide and euthanasia, a Marxist in belief and if voted into power will wreak havok on American values. He is a liar, deceiver, considers himself wiser than the person who gave the Beatitudes (Jeses Christ). He is not only against Christians, but is also against humanity. It’s a pity the MSM don’t publicise his true values and expose his character that is more in keeping with the antichrist (not that I am saying he is).
October 20th, 2008 at 10:02 am
DamnedAngry,
Of course I am, but sometimes you just have to hope for the best. I don’t think he’s a Marxist, though I think he may be a socialist in the European SD sense. And I don’t think he can reasonably be compared to Chavez, who really is a Marxist.
But what I really suspect is that he does not believe in anything except himself. I saw a BBC doco on the election a couple of nights ago which did a surprisingly good job of delving into his past and asking some hard questions about Obama, and what came out strongly with the people that know him best is that he does not seem to have any fixed ideology of any sort, just a very strong self-belief that he should be Pres. If that is the case, then all I can hope for if gets the job is that he surrounds himself with people like Powell and the centrist blue dog Democrats.
And yes, his stanch on abortion disgusts me.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Whoa matthew, whoa. Nobody is taking you seriously. So you don’t like Obama. Why don’t you just be up front with everyone; you’re racist, right?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Helmut, I grew up in an African country as a child and would sooner live in that African country, run by black African men and women, then move to a country that may be run the Marxist candiate.
BTW, that country opposed South Africa’s apertheid policies.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am
“Someone [Obama] with his heavily Marxist background…”
This is somewhat of a fetish of the fringe right.
The problem is that the Republican’s have in power been into big government at home and abroad. They have also adopted an authoritarian view of the role and power of the State that would impress most Marxists.
The Marxist/Socialist line on Obama represents a total misunderstanding of both Chicago and Obama.
At worst he is guilty of getting along to get ahead. A number of politicians are guilty of this, whatever their final philosophical position is.
I suspect that economically he will be much like Bill Clinton but without the distraction of personal indiscretions.
His campaign is possibly the best indicator at the moment of how Obama will be as President: studied, disciplined and cautious. His desire to be re-elected plus the prospect of a return of Republican control of one or both Houses of Congress will act to moderate economic policy and of course the US faces the judgement of the global economic system.
Constitutionally, he is his likely to have a more restrained view of the power of the Presidency.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I posted this at another blog site some days ago but it seems appropriate on this. The following story is from the Politico website and it describes an email sent from a Republican consultant the blogger knows well.
This guy has been advocating hitting Obama harder and to that end he had conducted a focus group in an upper-Midwestern state, showing them the kind of ad he thought would work: A no-holds-barred attack, cut for an independent group, which hasn’t aired. The guys email then went on about the focus group as follows:
I loved the ending:
October 20th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Osama Bin Laden will be pleased.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Matthew (9:53am) – Obama is not totally “against Christians”.
Don’t forget that Barack has spent the last 20 years worshipping at Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ (put aside for a moment that it is a caustic cauldron of race-hate etc), so some “Christians” are OK…and presumably Obama considers himself a Christian too, at least by Jeremiah Wright’s standards.
Unfortunately, while he claims to “disagree” with Wright’s hatefilled devisive rhetoric, Obama cannot bring himself to disown the man.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Colin Powell was never that strong a Bush supporter – when he was dithering about running nobody knew whether he would be a Democrat or a Republican. The fact he is endorsing Obama tells us not much. There is a perception that this is a lifelong Republican changing his spots, but that isn’t true.
Matthew, I’d like to see this baby that survived after having scissors stabbed into the back of its head and it’s brains sucked out, so that the doctors could fail to resuscitate it. I’m thinking you are combining bits from about 5 different procedures into one ghoulish story. I’m not sure that the detail of how a baby is aborted makes any difference to the fact that it is dead – much as you are trying to sensationalise it.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Obama may or may not win, but if he does, its down to the efforts of the rank leftist propaganda army posing as journalists, TV news anchors, late night TV hosts, reporters and commentators. Almost without exception they have worked to a script written by the Obama campaign. Conceal everything that matters about the extremist Obama. Promote him as a Messiah. Denigrate and attack the Republican ticket. I would say that never in any previous election have the media been so openly partisan.
For the sake of democracy, this pack of treacherous left wing bastards posing as objective commentators needs to be dealt with, and I predict that if Obama wins, there will be a considerable backlash directed at the partisan mainstream media by that sector of the public who are smart enough to understand the reality that a massive fraud has been perpetrated. There are a lot of people in the US who feel very strongly about their country being purposefully infected with the disease of European socialism, and they will be understandably angry at the deceitful manner (if Obama wins) in which it has been imposed upon them.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I love it that people are railing against Obama as a ‘socialist’ and ‘marxist’ at the same time that George W Bush is nationalising America’s banks. Do you idiots even know what Marxism is?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Matthew said “I grew up in an African country as a child and would sooner live in that African country, run by black African men and women, then move to a country that may be run the Marxist candiate.”
So the blacks come a close second to the marxists in your book Matthew. Is it just me or does that statement sound a bit racist?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:44 am
“Do you idiots even know what Marxism is?”
Someone who wants to “spread the wealth around”- as if an arrogant obscenely conceited idiot like you would ever fucken well know.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I’m really worried about America, and the world, if Obama wins. Really worried…..
October 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
People, we really need to start focussing on Binden as the next USA President, as you can bet your bottom dollar that Obama is a marked man, should he win this election! What do we know about Binden…is he really capable of running that country?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Biden is one of those leftist “intellectuals”. He knows “jobs” is a three letter word.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Typical approach from Helmut – many of us have been down this road before so I wont waste my time
I do take on board that Tom Hunter said though and if that really is the case with American voters then that country is finished. America exports violence on television, abortion, sexual promiscuity and sexual violence, greed, and pornography. The one thing it did have was leadership at the top for the unborn, who do not have a voice of their own except those who speak out in defence of them. Now they don’t even have that.
Obama is a pro-death, lying, extremist marxist who will ensure that the remaining parts of what has made America strong will disappear. If America wants to get out of bed with fallible human beings and into bed with Obama then they will suffer the consequences. The greed, immorality and lying will continue, it will just be endorsed by the top now.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:03 am
“extremist marxist”
Off to nationalise the means of production is he?
October 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I have been saying for a long time that an Obama Presidency could never happen. I have always believed that Americans would look more closely at the detail closer to the election date, and polls leading up to the election have always tended to be more favourable by several points, to the Democrat. But what Tom Hunter says above has me more worried than anything I have ever read on this subject.
It is ironic that all this mortgage bubble and crash stuff can be firmly tied to certain DEMOCRATS and their legislation or blockage of reform. If the Republicans lose, THEY lost it. MORE government involvement in the mortgage/financial equity scene will make the NEXT crash all the WORSE. If the American people elect the “more government” candidate out of spite now, they have asked for trouble, and the trouble is, we will ALL get it.
How bad might an Obama Presidency be? Anyone knowing the truth about his history and his associations cannot ignore the possibility that he is an outright stooge, quisling, “Manchurian Candidate” for dark anti-US and anti-Western culture forces.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Someone has to pay for the corruption and cronyism of the last eight years and unfortunately for him it has to be John McCain. It is a shame he did not win the Republican primary in 2000; it is arguable he would have been a better president than Bush, and he surely would have initiated a better invasion and post-invasion plan in regards to Iraq and Afghanistan. People who are quick to jump on the mainstream media and blame them for Obama’s possible victory need to realise that a lot of people are sick to death of the Bush administration and are craving a change. They cannot be blamed for that.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:15 am
“Off to nationalise the means of production is he?”
You blind ignoramus- the means of production have been nationalised for decades.
Get a brain you cultural Marxist.
(cultural Marxist= A Marxist who doesn’t know he’s a Marxist, usually identified by comments that make it evident he doesn’t know his arse from his elbow)
October 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am
“the corruption and cronyism of the last eight years ”
Give an example.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Radar, we all know they are craving a change to certain policies. The issue here is with Obama is a change to what. And that has already been well canvassed on this thread.
You raise a fair point about McCain back in 2000 though.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:24 am
“…people are sick to death of the Bush administration and are craving a change.” No doubt true but reminds me of the idiom: Out of the fryingpan, into the fire!
October 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
The one thing it did have was leadership at the top for the unborn, who do not have a voice of their own except those who speak out in defence of them. Now they don’t even have that.
The Republican party doesn’t care about abortion – they just pretend they do. From 2000 to 2006 they had control of all three branches of government and a 7 out of 9 majority on the Supreme court. If they were ever going to outlaw abortion they would have done it then and there would have been no way for the democrats to stop them. They didn’t. US voters need to base their party loyalty on factors other than abortion, because on that issue both major parties are largely indistinguishable.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Gallup has it 46% to 43% for Obama based on likely voters as against the raw poll (which is more strongly in favour of Obama), meaning there are still enough undecideds and a polling margin for error to leave the door open for McCain.
Agree the state by state situation so far is not looking good for McCain, but I wonder if that polling would also be closer than it seems if it was using the “likely voter” adjustment used by Gallup.
The voter turnout could be crucial.
May be too early to call with such certainty yet.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
“The Republican party doesn’t care about abortion”
So who is defending the Republican Party on this issue?? Like the Nats, made impotent by the infiltration of leftist dumbfucks who should be Democrats.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am
To suggest this was somehow a racist endorsement only highlights the posters own ignorance/racial prejudice. He made his reason very clear
“I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities — and you have to take that into account — as well as his substance — he has both style and substance,” Powell said. “He has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president.”
He also thinks, like the rest of the world, that Palin is a bimbo.
“Now that we have had a chance to watch her for some seven weeks, I don’t believe she’s ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president,” Powell said. “And so that raised some question in my mind as to the judgment that Senator McCain made.”
He think the Republican campaign is negative and plain wrong;
“Mr. McCain says that he’s a washed up terrorist, but then why do we keep talking about him? And why do we have the robocalls going on around the country trying to suggest that because of this very, very limited relationship that Senator Obama has had with Mr. Ayers, somehow Mr. Obama is tainted. What they’re trying to connect him to is some kind of terrorist feelings. And I think that’s inappropriate. Now, I understand what politics is all about, I know how you can go after one another and that’s good. But I think this goes too far, and I think it has made the McCain campaign look a little narrow. It’s not what the American people are looking for.”
Powell also spoke passionately against the insinuations by some Republicans that Obama is a Muslim.
“Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian,” he said. “But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, ‘He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.’ This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”
“We can’t judge our people and hold our elections on that kind of basis. Yes, that kind of negativity troubled me. And the constant shifting of the argument, I was troubled a couple of weeks ago when in the middle of the crisis the campaign said ‘we’re going to go negative,’ and they announced it. ‘We’re going to go negative and attack his character through Bill Ayers.’ Now I guess the message this week is we’re going to call him a socialist. Mr. Obama is now a socialist, because he dares to suggest that maybe we ought to look at the tax structure that we have. Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who pay them, in roads and airports and hospitals and schools. And taxes are necessary for the common good. And there’s nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is or who should be paying more or who should be paying les, and for us to say that makes you a socialist is an unfortunate characterization that I don’t think is accurate.”
October 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Some quality comments here. My the rabid right in full flight are a sight to behold.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
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October 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Matthew (9:53am) – Obama is not totally “against Christians”.
“Don’t forget that Barack has spent the last 20 years worshipping at Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ (put aside for a moment that it is a caustic cauldron of race-hate etc), so some “Christians” are OK…and presumably Obama considers himself a Christian too, at least by Jeremiah Wright’s standards.
Unfortunately, while he claims to “disagree” with Wright’s hatefilled devisive rhetoric, Obama cannot bring himself to disown the man.”
Look, it speaks volumes that Obama CHOSE that church, he CHOSE the narrative of that church and the narrative of the evil, racist America; WATCH JEREMIAH WRIGHT SAYING “GOD DAMN AMERICA”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5ixmT83JE
When he could have chosen a church like THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuUrPbFzIo
I rest my case.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
“Give an example.”
I will give the most famous two examples. There are many more out there. (If you are willing to look).
Michael Brown
Harriet Miers
October 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The Spectator
“Pinch yourself” By Melanie Phillips
Tuesday, 14th October 2008
“The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama’s radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day. The Obamaniacs are spinning the relationship between Obama and William Ayers, former of Weather Undergound Terrorism Inc, as of no consequence because this was supposedly a chance acquaintance and because the educational project they worked on, the Annenberg Challenge, was a worthy one.
Stanley Kurtz now nails that canard by showing how, through the Annenberg Challenge, Obama and Ayers channelled funds to extremist anti-American Afrocentric ‘educational’ programmes which were a carbon-copy of the world view of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s black racist mentor who, under pressure, Obama was forced to repudiate. These programmes promoted, amongst other radical ideas, the ‘rites of passage’ philosophy which attempted to create a ‘virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world’ in order to ‘counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.’ One such teacher taught that
‘The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.’
Kurtz concludes:
However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright.
No surprise there, since back in June Kurtz pointed to evidence that Obama shared the black racism of the Trinity United Church of Christ. In this article Obama was reported as rejecting ‘integrationist assimilation’ and wanting to channel black rage more effectively into political organisation. Kurtz dug out a chapter in a 1990 book called After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois in which Obama sketched out how radical black churches could be harnessed to help radicalise the black population. As Kurtz wrote:
So it would appear that Obama’s own writings solve the mystery of why he stayed at Trinity for 20 years. Obama’s long-held and decidedly audacious hope has been to spread Wright’s radical spirit by linking it to a viable, left-leaning political program, with Obama himself at the center. The revolutionizing power of a politically awakened black church is not some side issue, or merely a personal matter, but has been the signature theme of Obama’s grand political strategy.
Those few brave souls who do try to enlighten the public about all this come up against the kind of intimidation by Camp Obama charted here by Michael Barone:
Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program in Chicago. Mr. Kurtz had been researching Mr. Obama’s relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago – papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters. Obama fans jammed WGN’s phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest e-mails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Mr. Rosenberg’s example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.
Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Mr. Obama that were ‘false.’ I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-’02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Mr. Obama’s ties to Mr. Ayers.
No such threats, of course, will be made against this new book whose publication is tactfully timed for next year so as not to frighten the horses — Race Course Against White Supremacy, by none other than William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Meanwhile, it turns out that not only did Obama do favours for convicted Chicago fraudster Tony Rezko, but as this story reports Alexi Giannoulias, who reputedly bankrolled Michael ‘Jaws’ Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution, became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, and has now has pledged to raise $100,000 for Obama’s campaign.
You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.”
October 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
It is well worth going to that Melanie Phillips article above, and following up all the LINKS from it: (and the links from the links…! there is one heck of a lot of uncovering going on here, ignored by the MSM)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2293196/pinch-yourself.thtml
October 20th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
“He made his reason very clear”
We can read you patronizing idiot, and whilst dromgools like you might accept his reasoning without questions, others more intelligent and capable of critical thinking might reject it as total bullshit.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
“I will give the most famous two examples.”
Examples of what you fatuous moron?? Eight years of “cronyism and corruption” and this is the best you can do?? Silly little inbred fuckwit.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
If the means of production have been nationalised, there won’t be anything for Barack Marx to do except set pig-iron production quotas I guess. Phew
October 20th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Steve;
What Ratbiter thinks of the US presidential election, and how it’s all a socialist MSM conspiracy, is of utter irrelevance and for that we can all be grateful.
How much clout does a Colin Powell endorsement really bring these days, I wonder?
October 20th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
“If the means of production have been nationalised, there won’t be anything for Barack Marx to do except set pig-iron production quotas I guess. Phew”
There’s plenty for him to do- The “Fairness” Doctrine for example. He’ll busy himself bit by bit by bit stamping out whatever remaining vestiges of freedom of expression he can. Its what leftists do.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Redbaiter, when it comes to baiting, you really are the Master. You should change your name accordingly.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Redeye,
he actually said that Palin was not ready to lead yet. Lets ignore the irony of that for a moment given Obama’s utter lack of experience in anything except self-promotion; at NO point did he use or imply the word “bimbo”, and for you to do so is gutter trash level debate. Palin may or may not be ready, but she at least deserves a little respect.
“The rest of the world”. Russia? China? The Islamic empire? Africa? Gutless Euroweenies who have allowed their major cities to be carved up into no-go zones by Muslims? Who cares? The “rest of the world” can take a flying leap.
As to cronyism, since gaining control of Congress there has been far more cronyism from the Dems than anything the Republicans did. Look at the bailout bill, which contained crony pork spending for Nancy Pelosi’s husband!
I agree that McCain would have a been better choice in 2000. I agree that Congressional Republicans made big mistakes and squandered a historic opportunity. But I have seen NOTHING NADA ZIP from Obama except a very dubious past, a scary belief in his own destiny and an ability for self promotion.
It is not just us who are concerned with media bias. A large percentage of Americans think it has been to. While Obama has had some very shady friends, while there has been massive voter registration fraud from ACORN (a group that Obama has close ties too), while the police of obe pro-Obama town said they would arrest anyone criticising Obama, and while there are still questions and concerns that Obama has received funding donations from foreigners (a violation of the Constitution) the mainstream media has had people going through dumpsters in Alaska trying to dig up personal dirt on Palin’s family!. And now the New York Times is writing attack articles talking about McCains wifes supposed emotional problems!!!
Only someone with their head in the sand or firmly up Obama’s butt would dismiss concern about the vile MSM.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
“others more intelligent and capable of critical thinking might reject it as total bullshit. ”
So these ‘others’, used their intellect and critical thinking and came up with…Wait for it…He’s black.
As I said before Master baiter.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
jesus redeye, ya now come here to bug me?
ill pay ya if obama wins.. now can ya get back to the huffington post?? (redeye believes fox news is all fake and the huffington post is factual and relatively unbias).
in saying that redeye did get banned from the standard for knowing me haha even though hes the hell irrational leftist!
and redeye – its a black thing. will be fun to watch the left tell us whata great guy he is.. after abusing him for years.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Why do the media always pronounce Colin Powell as “Colon” Powell – is “Colin” not considered exotic enough?
…or does he have a brother called “Rectum”?
October 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Lee, no ‘Bimbo’ was definitely my interpretation. I wouldn’t expect a man of such standing to use such words but we can read between the lines. She’ll never be ready and the Republicans know it.
You should apply your own rigorous standards to your own preferred candidate and see if he still comes out so squeeky clean. But then he’s wearing your own teams colours so I imagine you’d find that a little difficult.
How about Palins church, her efforts to secede Alaska from the U.S, McCain’s Keating 5 association, his Liddy association etc.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
So by Dimes logic, if a white man endorses McCain it must be racist?
October 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Look the fact is he’s black, so he must be better. The only thing that could make him more attractive to liberals would be if he was homo.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
“She’ll never be ready and the Republicans know it.”
On what basis? And no you are not reading between the lines your projecting your own bile.
“You should apply your own rigorous standards to your own preferred candidate and see if he still comes out so squeeky clean.”
By comparison to Obama? Hell yes he does! By comparison to the congressional Dem’s? Again yes. No politician is squeaky clean, its politics. But Obama has so many skeletons in his closet he could open a Halloween store.
That said, Mike Huckabee was my prefered candidate.
“How about Palins church”
I like her church. Its just like the one I go to.
“her efforts to secede Alaska from the U.S”. ROLF! She went to a party meeting. Thats hardly “efforts to secede”. Plus I’m a US southerner by birth. A fierce sense of independence and a belief in states rights is perfectly fine with me.
“McCain’s Keating 5 association, his Liddy association etc.”
Not a patch on Obama’s domestic terrorist associations. None of McCains associations tried to blow up federal buildings.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2008/10/as-a-scholarly-observer-of.html
James Wollcott is very funny on the dispirited dregs of the right wing opinionsphere.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“Look the fact is he’s black, so he must be better. The only thing that could make him more attractive to liberals would be if he was homo”
This is not only incredibly and disgustingly racist, but terribly offensive to those of our who consider ourselves centre right and are social liberals.
I suggest you all hunt down a youtube of Powell’s endorsement and watch it. It’s an excellent summary of why I, as a conservative, feel uncomfortable with the way the McCain campaign has been run. I should point out that I repsect and even support John McCain, but to be focusing on character assassination, hate smears and blatant lies about a US Senator (REGARDLESS of political views) is disgusting given the massive economic upheaval and important issues the US – nay, the world – faces.
Colin Powell is a retired 4 star general and a former senior ranking member of George W. Bush’s cabinet. If you want to make this a “black thing” then that says a lot more about you than it does about his endorsement.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Redeye – say dimes lived his life in nigeria… all his life there has been a black president or whatever.. im a member of the right wing party…. all of a sudden, a white leftist has a chance of becoming president… so i sell my soul and endorse the white leftist (who has standard issue creepy beard and speech impediment).
you wouldnt be suspicious?
October 20th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Powell continues to show good judgement – he supported getting rid of Saddam and now prefers Obama over McCain. It looks like a very considered decision that doesn’t have any of the McCain Is A Monster hysteria.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Obama sits on a board, with a bunch of republicans, and an old washed up terrorist and that’s a skeleton? You’d like to project it as some close relationship because it’ll justify your own bias but there’s nothing in. If there was the McCain team would be calling from every roof top.
Do you have witch hunts in your church? Ever found one that floats?
Oh and you forgot troopergate. And her husband is still a financial member of that secessionist group. And before you brng up Wright, Palin’s happy to sit comfortably in church while the pastor rips into the Jews again. Must of done wonders for the Florida vote eh?
So let’s see, you’re quite happy with William Timmons being named McCains transition Chief? you’re quite happy with McCains association with convicted watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy. Your quite happy with McCains association with convicted fraudster Keating. As long as Obama doesn’t sit on the same ‘charity’ board as an unconvicted ‘terrorist’.
Ayers will not influence Barak in anyway but Timmons and Liddy will definitely be getting a spot in McCain’s ear. And odds on, will more than likely be hawking that access for a fee.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I have to say I agree, at least partly, with m_c.
Colin Powell is not remotely PC and certainly not a liberal. If he’s prepared to support Obama, he will be doing so for honorable reasons. I think he’s wrong, badly wrong about Obama, and I think hes wrong about Palin. But I respect him and his decision. I’m happy to throw dirt at someone who deserves it. Powell does not.
Powell should have been Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration. Instead we got Rumsfeld, who to put it bluntly is a dangerous fool. Rumsfeld came in with bizzare ideas that a global war could be fought on the cheap and with minimal troops. Powell stood up to him, but was not listened to. Rumsfeld’s strategic stupidity, including relying on local Afghan troops during the invasion, was directly responsible for allowing bin Laden to escape. Rather than learn from the mistake he repeated it in Iraq. Powell would have gone in with overwhelming force and locked the whole country down, preventing the kind of anarchy that resulted. Rumsfeld wanted only the bare minimum force (he actually wanted even less than he was eventually made to use), and the result was chaos that could have been prevented, and a far greater loss of US and Iraqi lives than was necessary.
There is a lot about the Obama campaign and the biased MSM that reeks. But if the Republicans lose this, it will be at least in part for the mistakes that have been made by their own side.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Lee, so do you think they will be digging that US Muslim soldier up from
Arlington and moving him ?
After all a Muslim could not be a true yank could he ?
October 20th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
“and an old washed up terrorist and that’s a skeleton?”
He did not merely sit on a board with him. Thats decpetive to say the least. And hes hardly “washed up”. He seems very active.
“Do you have witch hunts in your church?”
Spiritual warfare is a constant fact of life.
And I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the MSM. Pentecostal churches are overwhelmingly pro-Jewish and pro-Zionist.
Now you can rant about me being “quite happy with” this and that all you like. I am a damn sight happier with McCain than with Obama and Democratic liberal nutbars like Pelosi.
Get over it.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
“After all a Muslim could not be a true yank could he ?”
Why not? So long as they put country first and give up the anti-Israel crap.
I have nothing but respect for any person that serves and dies for their country, regardless of their religion.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Sorry Lee, but I disagree with practically everything you say.
Bill Ayers is now a academic at an American university, who once served on a board of directors with Obama several years ago. I should also point out that when Ayers was politically active, Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD and living in Indonesia with his remarried mother. THIS IS NOT AN ELECTION ISSUE. People are losing their homes, their super funds have been destroyed by the economy, they have lost their job. People are concerned about how they will feed their kids. It’s the economy, stupid. Bill Ayers is not an “active terrorist” and this is not an issue.
Most evangelicals in the US are pro-Israel, but they are not pro-Jewish. There is a very very large difference.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Lee, the “washed up” phrase was McCains’. It seems you don’t even agree with him on this?
October 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Lee
since when was being ‘pro israel’ a prerequisite for being a ‘true yank’? Last I saw being ‘pro country’ and ‘anti israel’ are not mutually exclusive, especially when israeli spies are being rooted out of various govt departments.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
“Sorry Lee, but I disagree with practically everything you say.”
I’m not losing any sleep.
“Most evangelicals in the US are pro-Israel, but they are not pro-Jewish. There is a very very large difference.”
Not in reality. Most are in fact pro-Jewish as well. Research polls have shown this. That does not mean you cannot find exceptions, but the majority certainly are. Don’t remotely believe what the MSM says about Christian Zionists secretly hating Jews.
Read this on the effect that conversion from Roman Catholicism to Pentecostalism has on the attitudes of Hispanics towards Jews and the close relations being forged between the two communities.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=203762&ac=Religion
“Bill Ayers is not an “active terrorist” ”
So he’s an inactive terrorist. Oh well, that makes me feel a whole lot better.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
“since when was being ‘pro israel’ a prerequisite for being a ‘true yank’?
The US has always had a close relationship with Israel since the liberation and has always been the worlds safest shelter for Jewish people. Thats not to say the relationship is never rocky, but I would say that being pro-American and being pro-Israel go hand in hand.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
how democratic of you to decide what people should believe in to be true yanks. How can you be both pro American and pro israel if you also believe in America first?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
“how democratic of you to decide what people should believe in to be true yanks.”
Democratically speaking I’n in the majority on this issue. Over eighty percent of Americans right across the political spectrum agree with me.
Democracy is cool huh?
“How can you be both pro American and pro israel if you also believe in America first?”
America and Israel are family and allies. Putting America first means supporting Israel.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
America and Israel are family and allies. Putting America first means supporting Israel.
America and Saudi Arabia are also allies. Does putting America first also mean supporting the Saudi Royal family?
October 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
So you are saying that 20% of your fellow countrymen are not “real yanks” because they don’t meet the prerequisite? Why are Jonathan Pollard and Larry Franklin serving gaol sentences?
October 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Some home truths about Obama:
William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn: These prominent members of the violent leftist organization known as the Weather Underground have taken responsibility for at least 12 bombings, including the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. As Ayers told the New York Times recently, “I don’t regret setting bombs. … I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers and Obama are currently personal friends, and they etched their political alliance in stone when Obama visited the couple at their home in 1995, secured their support and received financial help for his political campaign.
This Chardonnay chic progressive Hyde Park Chicago alliance ultimately provided the platform his for presidential aspirations.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright: By now everybody knows some of the most defamatory anti-American declarations made by Obama’s black separatist pastor. Rev. Wright screamed from the podium that we shouldn’t embrace the motto “God Bless America” but instead the decree of “God Damn America.” Rev. Wright said the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks lies with the United States, and it was an incident of “chickens coming home to roost.” Barack Obama at first tried to downplay his 20-year association with Rev. Wright, but the facts speak clearly.
Jodie Evans: As I reported last week and in this column the week before, Barack Obama filed a report with the FEC revealing that one of his campaign finance bundlers is none other than Jodie Evans, a radical, anti-American activist who helped orchestrate a scheme that provided $600,000 in aid to Islamic terrorists in Iraq. When she wasn’t determinedly undermining U.S. troops in Iraq, Evans was working to help advance the anti-American Marxist regimes of Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Evans isn’t just a Barack Obama fundraising bundler; she also put together Obama’s first Hollywood fundraiser and launched the Code Pink “Listen Hillary” campaign against Obama’s chief Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
These are the people Barack Obama calls his friends, and it’s been a comfortable fit for him.
Obama was ranked the most liberal of all 100 U.S. senators last year. He made press headlines for castigating people who wore American flag lapel pins as embracing a false patriotism. And his wife famously announced that she had not been proud to be an American during her adult life – until her husband entered the presidential election campaign.
This is the kind of “hope” Barack Obama has for America?
The last person to be considered as the commander in chief of the United States of America is Sen. Obama.
I intend to continue to report these truths, even as Barack Obama does everything he can to deny their existence.
An electorate that doesn’t pay attention to the choosing of its leaders will end up being led in unexpected ways.
Just ask the Germans…
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Looks like a fine choice to lead America forward!
October 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
“America and Saudi Arabia are also allies.”
I said the US and Israel were FAMILY and allies. Big difference. It a special relationship. There is a reason you often hear American accents from Israeli citizens.
By the way, do you have some kind of problem with Israel? Or are you just asking inane questions for the hell of it?
“So you are saying that 20% of your fellow countrymen are not “real yanks” because they don’t meet the prerequisite?”
I dare say its less than that. But yes I would. And no, I could care less what you think about that.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Just as a pre-emptive strike on what I suspect will be the next question:
Every country and civilization has its traitors.
Just look at the Greens
October 20th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
DamnedAngry:
Waste of a post mate. This scare, fear, hatred campaign has been done to death by the McCain camp and it doesn’t work. Sorry to be the bearer but it doesn’t seem to be working for Labour here either.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
“An electorate that doesn’t pay attention to the choosing of its leaders will end up being led in unexpected ways.
Just ask the Germans…”
You’re seriously comparing Barack Obama to HITLER? The evil tyrant who slaughtered millions of innocent Jews and is possible the most evil man history has ever known? As well as implying that an honourable US Senator is an secret terrorist with radical Islamic connections who is threatening to create a Machurian state.
You cannot be serious.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
you mean that hasn’t been US policy?
Powell’s endorsement has certainly led to some aneurism-inducing mental gymnastics. Crazies on the right are calling him traitor and many on the left have to twist things quite severely to conclude that one of the primary architects of the Iraq war coming out for Obama is such a good thing.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
The thought of Obama winning is scary: someone should tell the Americans what life is like in NZ under the reign of the White Witch (aka Helen Clark). I believe that Obama will be as bad if not worse, and the world doesn’t need more fundamentalist Marxists in power.
There is a children’s book that basically portrays Obama as a cross between Moses & the Messiah:
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/portraying-mccain-and-obama-as-saints/
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/helen-clark-is-now-the-white-witch/
October 21st, 2008 at 12:29 am
“This is not only incredibly and disgustingly racist, but terribly offensive to those of our who consider ourselves centre right and are social liberals.” m_c
Yawwwwnnnn!! More faux outrage from the dark side.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:49 am
m_c, lots of fog coming from you, Ayers and Obama are long-standing friends who live in the same neighbourhood, have worked together for a number of years and Ayers has also ghost-written one of Obama’s books! Ayers is unrepentant about what he did and wishes he could have done more! Boom boom, as Basil Brush says.
As for troopergate, pft! Palin offered Walter Monegan another position, she didn’t sack him! He did a sook and resigned. Why did she sack him? For trying to keep alive a program he backed and which she had cut from the state budget. The smoke screen about her sacking him for not sacking the state trooper (remember him, nice guy, tazered a young child & was drunk behind the wheel of his patrol car) is all smoke and mirrors. Turns out her husband actually had very little involvement at any level in this affair, aside from a few words trying to protect his sister-in-law.
You can’t bullshit us jack, we actually research facts, not just rehashing CNN reports!
October 21st, 2008 at 9:09 am
“more fundamentalist Marxists in power”
No-one-knows-what-Marxism-is-anymore, la-la-la-lah
October 21st, 2008 at 9:22 am
“You can’t bullshit us jack, we actually research facts, not just rehashing CNN reports!”
Based on the bulldust in your post you do your research at johnmccain.com
October 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am
“Based on the bulldust in your post you do your research at johnmccain.com”
Even if he did, it would be closer to the truth than the lies pushed by your Goebbells like cronyists, those lying yellow scum who daily betray the craft of journalism and tout for the left in every word they write, those scum sucking totalitarians in the mainstream media.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Another interesting defection, uber-hawk Ken Alderman. This email exchange with George Packer worth reading.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html
Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was a thoroughgoing critique of McCain’s issue-free, fear-mongering campaign and a rejection of the politics of scapegoating and bullying that have defined the Bush years.
The wingnuts will no doubt live to shriek another day but I think we are seeing a popular rejection of the poisonous culture wars………maybe confined to the comments thread of kiwiblog!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
“Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was a thoroughgoing critique of McCain’s issue-free, fear-mongering campaign and a rejection of the politics of scapegoating and bullying that have defined the Bush years.”
It was utter racism, as inarguably proved by Powell’s earlier statement that a black president would be “electrifying”. Why?? What the fuck would his race have to do with it?? Powell’s endorsement is even worse considering his own military background and Obama’s treasonous statements and disdain for America’s troops. Nobody with any regard for America’s security and its armed forces would be endorsing a craven appeaser of terrorists like Obama. Powell has always been a liability to the Republicans, and this proves what an utter waste of space he really is. Slimy racist dipshit needs to fuck off and join the Democrats like so many other so called Republicans.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
What utter crap redbaiter. As if America’s standing in the world and security has been improved by this disastrous administration. The real treason has been committed by Bush and the neocons who’s disdain for their troops has been total.
How many lives wasted by these gilded turkeys and their deranged apologists? And if you can’t see what race has to do with it and see this as a positive well then you truly are one sad fuck.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Thanks for that opinion Illy. As daft as it is, you’re of course free to express it. At the moment that is.
(When they say opinions are like arseholes, [in that everyone has one] they must have been thinking in particular of yours.)
Incidentally, if America’s security hasn’t been improved as you claim, when was the last terrorist attack in the US?
October 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I was about to correct you, and advise that 269 would be a draw and kick to decision from the Electoral College to the House … oh wait the democrats hold the House (and will likely do so for the next two years), and while I’m not going to check, I think they’ll hold majorities in a majority of state delegations too.
So instead of correcting you, I thought I’d congratulate you … admirable precision (though I suspect Obama wants 270 to be safe, and to make sure he’s not elected with Sarah Palin as his VeeP!)
October 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
MCCAIN/PALIN can still beat OSAMA/BIN LADEN on 8 November.
October 21st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
““You can’t bullshit us jack, we actually research facts, not just rehashing CNN reports!”
Based on the bulldust in your post you do your research at johnmccain.com” redeye
Just search redeye, it might liberate you from your reliance on CNN…..try it….try it!
Nah, typical kak-hander, lazy research and reliance on the retard MSM. Then again Farrar fell for the Obamadrone too, oops.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
The race isn’t over yet.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
How do people see McCain going about winning on 4 November?
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Only one week to go before Osama comes out for Obama.
Or is it Obama coming out for Osama?
October 25th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Could this be Christmas Future if Obama wins?:
Chappelle’s Show – The N***** Family
What a celebration of humanity if it is.
Obama, the ready made scapegoat.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:03 am
McCain pulling back the deficit. Looks like this could be a real race now.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Damn, John McCain lost to the
one.