David Corn

Yesterday Barack Obama was a Marxist, today’s he’s only a socialist (and that only by blood relation) — heck, by the time Pennsylvania votes he may be a devout supply sider.

Hillary Clinton and LBH approve of this message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXucMY7Dvk
What does that tell you?

That's putting it "mildly"

lol

Yesterday Barack Obama was a Marxist, today’s he’s only a socialist (and that only by blood relation) — heck, by the time Pennsylvania votes he may be a devout supply sider.
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Just goes to show that no one really knows what this guy stands for or beliebes in. Next time you trolls pick a canidate, you might want to do your home work on the guy first. Now you're stuck with him just like Kerry and will go down with him just like Kerry.

Johnson cites race in Obama's surge

Bobcats owner, who supports Clinton, says Ferraro said it right

JIM MORRILL
jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com
DAVIE HINSHAW / Staff Photographer4/14/08 -

Charlotte Bobcats owner Bob Johnson talks with Observer reporters.

Johnson's comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white.

"What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?" Johnson said. "And the answer is, probably not... ."

"Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial ... it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything."

Johnson, who made a fortune after founding Black Entertainment Television and now owns the Charlotte Bobcats, is a longtime friend of Clinton and her husband, the former president.

Dog Benson-
it looks like you global warming alarmists are causing worldwide famine. It's time to repent while the Pope is here my friend.
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Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing

By ANDREW MARTIN

The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries. That strategy seemed to reach a high point last year when Congress mandated a fivefold increase in the use of biofuels.

But now a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, with political leaders from poor countries contending that these fuels are driving up food prices and starving poor people. Biofuels are fast becoming a new flash point in global diplomacy, putting pressure on Western politicians to reconsider their policies, even as they argue that biofuels are only one factor in the seemingly inexorable rise in food prices.

In some countries, the higher prices are leading to riots, political instability and growing worries about feeding the poorest people. Food riots contributed to the dismissal of Haiti’s prime minister last week, and leaders in some other countries are nervously trying to calm anxious consumers.

At a weekend conference in Washington, finance ministers and central bankers of seven leading industrial nations called for urgent action to deal with the price spikes, and several of them demanded a reconsideration of biofuel policies adopted recently in the West.

Many specialists in food policy consider government mandates for biofuels to be ill advised, agreeing that the diversion of crops like corn into fuel production has contributed to the higher prices. But other factors have played big roles, including droughts that have limited output and rapid global economic growth that has created higher demand for food.

Global warming rage lets global hunger grow

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Last Updated: 1:08pm BST 15/04/2008

We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

A demonstrator eats grass in front of a U.N. peacekeeping soldier during a protest against the high cost of living in Port-au-Prince

"The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.

We are all part of this drama whether we fill up with petrol or ethanol. The substitution effect across global markets makes the two morally identical.

Spain's gain from wind power is plain to see
Read more of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The financial crisis in full
Mr Diouf says world grain stocks have fallen to a quarter-century low of 5m tonnes, rations for eight to 12 weeks. America - the world's food superpower - will divert 18pc of its grain output for ethanol this year, chiefly to break dependency on oil imports. It has a 45pc biofuel target for corn by 2015.

See Obama talk about the issue in 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGF3cyHE7M

"[P]eople in hard-pressed areas become bitter because they see the system failing them and they cling to their belief in gun rights and/or God (as well as other beliefs, such as opposition to immigrants or gay rights). Obama obviously knows that these beliefs--the good and the bad--were already deeply held before the mill jobs disappeared. Such beliefs, though, are presumably further embraced in difficult times. "

Asked how his economic policies would differ from President Bush's, McCain said: "Spending, spending, spending. This administration let spending get completely out of control. We mortgaged our children's futures and it led to corruption, and we presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society."

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Spending, spending, spending, raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes~ that's Hillary and Obamas answer.

Neil,

Great clip!

Thanks

Anytime Capt.

Here's another on the same topic with Rachel Maddow, Phd.

http://tinyurl.com/6zpxlq

try again:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/28315/1/rttwh_maddow_media_bias_041408.wmv

It is tax day - I wonder if the M$M will get around to asking McSame for his tax returns?

They did dog HRC, BHO released his so . . .

Sorry about that. The previous link didn't work either. If this doesn't work then I'm done trying:

http://tinyurl.com/4zej36

"To a certain extent, I think we’re really commenting on the caricature of his comments. If you look at what he said, what he said was not that these values of small town America, and rural America and working class white America are the product of economic hardships. He’s saying that those folks in America do not believe they’re going to get any economic help from Washington so they don’t’ vote their economic interests when they vote, they instead vote these other things. It’s actually…we’re not actually taking this on as a political issue and debating whether or not that’s right or wrong. We’re debating the damage of the caricature of his comments. It’s this…become this meta-narrative about how he’s been described rather than actually taking on the meat of what he argued. "

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I got there - more excellent stuff!

Linking into C&L is not what it used to be.

Our elections are dominated by the same tired personality script, trotted out over and over and over. Democrats and liberals -- no matter how poor their upbringing, no matter how self-made they are, no matter how egalitarian their policies -- are the freakish, out-of-touch elitists who despise the values of the Regular Americans. Right-wing leaders -- no matter how extravagantly rich they are by virtue of other people's money, no matter how insulated their lives are, no matter how indifferent their policies are to the vast rich/poor gap -- are the normal, salt-of-the-earth Regular Folk. These petty, cliched storylines drown out every meaningful consideration and dictate our election outcomes, and they are deployed automatically.

It doesn't matter what the candidates actually say or do. The establishment press just waits for the right episode and then reflexively and eagerly fills in the gaps in the shallow script -- the script with which they are intimately familiar and which serves as their only framework for talking about and understanding political disputes.

-Glenn Greenwald

McCain doesn't file taxes because he doesn't have any income. It's Cindy, the "trollup" and "c*nt" who is footing their bill for their lifestyle. That's not my description of Cindy, it's John McCain's. More here:
The Real McCain http://tinyurl.com/5q9qyt

Things must have picked up at the gas-n-sip. Nice chatting Capt. BBL.

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In a sense it's tragic. Clinton could have had a distinguished record of accomplishment, and in a sense she has one; she got her husband elected president. But now she thinks it's her turn in the light.

Her elitism and desire for independence came in a symbolic moment during the debate. Russert asked each candidate to name who they would choose as their lifeline if they were on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Clinton answered, "You, Tim." Lazio responded, "My wife."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah091800.asp

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From 2000. HRC knows darn well it is a GOP talking point.

Just heard on the radio - BHO didn't make an ad about Bosnia and snipers? He didn't make an ad about the hospital lies or Mark Penn, or Columbia and Bill . . . .

I hadn't thought about that - BHO is on the high road and he is all that. I might be drinking the BHO koolaid but I like it.

HA!

As always - my pleasure.

McCain doesn't file taxes because he doesn't have any income.
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Wow!

You trolls and McCain have something in common for once!

McCain’s plan to help struggling homeowners: Fill out paperwork at the post office

In what was being billed as a “major speech on the economy,” Senator McCain today laid forth an, um, underwhelming plan to help the tanking American economic system. In addition to the conservative staple of cutting corporate tax rates, St. McCain proposed a bold plan to help Americans who are having trouble paying their mortgages. His solution: fill out a form at the post office. I kid you not. When it comes to high energy costs, McSame revives a 10 year old Bob Dole plan to suspend federal taxes on gasoline over the summer. Never mind that he wants this plan to go into effect this summer, a whole six months before his term as President would begin. CNN’s Ali Velshi breaks down the specifics (or lack thereof) of McCain’s plan.

(C&L)

I made seven digits last year - sadly most of them were leading zeros.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

(attytood via huffpo)

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I was going to vote for McSame but now I am fully behind Barack!

Whoop's:

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

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Add that first paragraph and it makes more sense.

With Barack Obama surging in the Gallup tracker, which shows him up by 10 points over Hillary Clinton and 2 over John McCain, influential voices renewed their calls for him to withdraw across this site today.

Goatlife, who cleverly tweaks our eventual nominee as "Snobama," led the charge. Billy Glad chimed in with the observation that Obama will surely lose pivotal Indiana, and not have enough delegates to win on the first ballot in Denver (apparently as superdelegates defy both the pledged count and Howard Dean's July 1 deadline) -- all over Bittergate.

Indeed, the fact that Obama leads McCain in a new Michigan poll, while Clinton trails McCain badly, lends badly needed implicit support for the call to withdraw. By implication, of course, Obama was up on McCain by 15 last week, before Bittergate, and Clinton down by 30, until a horde of miffed, angry guntoting deists left the Obama camp to join ranks with Hillary. By next week the transformation will be complete. And prosperity is just around the corner.

Clintonistas from coast to coast have found something else to agree with McCain about -- Obama is ahead by too much, and must step aside.

If you ask me, they sound bitter.

(TPM)

For Obama and McCain, the Bitter and the Sweet

Washington Post ^ | 4-15-2008 | Dana Milbank

John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation's newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist.

At a luncheon for the editors hosted by the Associated Press, AP Chairman Dean Singleton quizzed Obama about whether he would send more troops to Afghanistan, where "Obama bin Laden is still at large?"

" However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
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Unless your a friend of Tony Rezco~~~

Bush Defeats Truman

Tough But Familiar Numbers for Bush: High Disapproval on Job Performance, Iraq and Economy

At 39 months in the doghouse, George W. Bush has surpassed Harry Truman's record as the postwar president to linger longest without majority public approval.

Bush hasn't received majority approval for his work in office in ABC News/Washington Post polls since Jan. 16, 2005  three years and three months ago. The previous record was Truman's during his last 38 months in office.

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His response?

"So?"

Put down the Obama-Kool-Aid, Corn.

Clinton is right!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you imagine shifting a substantial number of Afghanistan — a substantial number to Afghanistan? For the Taliban has been gaining strength and Obama bin Laden (sic) is still at large.

OBAMA: I think that was Osama bin Laden.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I did that, I’m so sorry.

OBAMA: No, no, no. This is part of — part of the — part of the exercise that I’ve been going through over the last 15 months, which is why it’s pretty impressive I’m still standing here.

(C&L)

Carter kisses Hamas terrorist

Former president also lays wreath at 'peace fighter' Arafat's gravesite

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Jimmy Carter meets with Palestinian Authority officials (Israel Broadcasting Authority)
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Former President Jimmy Carter today warmly embraced a top Hamas terrorist and laid a wreath on the gravesite of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom Carter called a "peace fighter" and a "dear friend," according to Palestinian officials speaking to WND.

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Jimmy's hug a terrorists tour seems to be a success.

What a disgrace!

Bill and Hillary's 'Stockholm Syndrome'

The two most distinctive features of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign – and Bill Clinton’s attempts at a supporting role – are a seemingly bottomless pit of self-pity (excavated in part by the right-wing attack machine years ago) and the copycat use of many right-wing tactics to demonize their opponents and critics.

It’s like watching a Democratic mirror image of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove (albeit without all the creative destructive brilliance and with more whining about alleged media bias against individuals, Hillary and Bill Clinton).

Not that the Right didn’t whine over the years. A central theme in the Right’s faux populism was the long-asserted grievance about “liberal media bias.”

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/041308.html

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That'd be more like HRC is Reich?

HA!

Good ol boy Jimmy laid a wreath on Arafats grave site trying to remember the good ol days when his buddy Arafaft was killin Jews for fun.

Obama Fights Back With A Historic Speech on Rednecks

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:05:49 AM · by Mount Athos ·

Dodging the flak over his description of typical small-town rednecks as those who turn to guns and Bibles if left without government supervision, Obama has once again skillfully turned the tables on his opponents with the same maneuver he used during the Jeremiah Wright "controversy": he returned to Philadelphia and delivered a sweeping speech on the legacy of rednecks in a post-redneck society and the importance of establishing a full government control over the redneck territories - a speech that political strategists agree hearkens back to those of America's founders, and deserves a similar place in history. Obama, who grew...

Gallup: Obama Has His Biggest Lead Yet, No "Small Town" Damage

Today's Gallup tracking poll gives Barack Obama an 11-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his widest margin ever in Gallup's polling. Here are the numbers, compared to yesterday:

Obama 51% (+1)
Clinton 40% (+0)

The poll was conducted entirely after the "small town" controversy first erupted, a further indication that the whole flap has yet to actually harm Obama's poll numbers.

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Oh snap, nothing seems to break his forward momentum, eh?

The Civitas Institute’s April DecisionMaker shows Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) leading Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) 45-27 in the Democratic primary for President. 28 percent of those polled were undecided.

“Unless Hillary Clinton can do something dramatic in the next few weeks to change voter sentiment, it appears that Sen. Obama is on his way to winning North Carolina quite handily,” stated Civitas Institute Executive Director Francis DeLuca.

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Not hurting BHO in NC.

Yep, that is a con-pollster - too funny.

New Poll Proves Obama Can Gain Ground with Bitter-Gate

Today a new poll from MediaCurves has solid proof that Barack Obama actually stands to Gain Ground over this whole bitter-gate flap and actually innoculate himself against the Charge of Elitism, which seems to be John "Ahi Tuna" McCain's future General Election Strategy.

A new national study among 843 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and independents, indicated that Senator Obama’s explanation for his recent controversial remarks, successfully addressed criticism, especially among Democrats and independents.

The study was conducted by HCD Research earlier today to obtain Americans’ perceptions of video segments from Senator Obama’s speech in Indiana yesterday, in which he addressed controversial comments that he made during a fundraiser in San Francisco on April 6.

(Kos)

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It helps BHO in the polls? I think that was my first comment about the whole flap. (stopped clock rule)

Will Lincoln Survive "Gettysburg" Comments?

Transcript from "Hannity's America" November 20, 1863

Sean Hannity: Well, we've got the transcript right here and it looks like Mr. Lincoln's really put his foot in it this time. The question for our panelists is: "After Gettysburg, Does Lincoln still have a chance for re-election?" Pat?

Pat Buchanan: I'd have to say no Sean. Right from the start he's set himself up as another liberal elitist, hopelessly out of touch with the voters. "Four Score and Seven..." The number he's looking for is eighty-seven. Maybe if he put down his chablis and brie plate for a minute he'd understand how real people actually speak.

Laura Ingraham: And the whole thing was written on the back of an envelope for cryin' out loud. Hey Abe, get a clue: it's called "paper." Not everybody can use a perfectly good envelope, which as all Americans know is meant for mailing things... and he uses it for scratch paper! Give me a break!

Sean Hannity: Let's go a little further down here to the comments that really seem to have set American's teeth on edge, the part about not being able to dedicate, consecrate or "hallow", whatever that means, this ground. Is it wise for someone running for re-election to tell us what we can't do? Does he just hate Americans? Pat?

Pat Buchanan: Sure sounds like it to me.

Laura Ingraham: Well, he certainly doesn't seem to care much for women that's for sure: "Our fathers"? "Brave men"? "All men are created equal?" I tell you, if women could vote, they certainly wouldn't vote for him!

Sean Hannity: And here he says we're engaged in a "Great Civil War." Really Mr. President? I bet there's a lot of Americans out there who'd like to know what you think is so great about it. He also says "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." I bet now he sure wishes we're not gonna remember!

Pat Buchanan: I know it's a small point, but isn't "Abraham" a Jewish name?

Contrary to the old saying, honesty is not always the best policy.

Obama spoke the truth, more or less, but he spoke it in a suprisingly undiplomatic fashion.

However, I am given to understand that he thought he was speaking privately, but someone sneaked a tape recorder into the meeting. In these days of ubiquitous security cameras, tiny tape recorders and digital video cameras, and also cell phones with video capability, no politician should assume ANYTHING s/he says is off the record.

It's not just happening to famous people, either. More and more ordinary citizens are being caught doing embarrassing or even illegal things on camera. Remember that woman who got caught smacking her kid by a parking lot security camera--I think it was in Ohio?

The technology differs greatly from Asimov's "chronoscope", but I think we may be approaching the society that was being born at the end of his classic story "The Dead Past".

Zero privacy.

"Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone..." :(

I suspect the Corporate Holodeck Media has received its marching orders from its masters that it's time to start piling on Obama, so that he'll be thoroughly slimed by November.

The masters want Obama to run against McSame, assuming that no black man will never persuade enough white folks to vote for him. So, first the masters had their CHM destroy Edwards through the silent treatment, then they had the CHM concentrate on tearing down Clinton, while treating Obama relatively well. Now they think Obama has the Democratic nomination wrapped up, so it's time to start sliming him so they can get McSame and four more years of glorious [for them] "Banana Republican" corporate kleptocracy.

We can only vote, and hope the masters will prove to have outsmarted themselves.

Apologies for the double negative. I hope none of my old English teachers read this blog. ;)

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Clinton decided not to jab Senator Obama or Senator McCain Tuesday afternoon speaking in Washington, D.C. at the Newspapers of America National Annual Convention. On day five of the back-and-forth between Obama and Clinton, she abstained from raising the "bitter" remarks or mentioning anything about clinging to guns or religion. Instead, Clinton focused her message on criticizing President Bush and addressed what her plans, if elected president, would be to fix the country.

(abc)

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If the BS was working she would have stepped it up. The HRC camp has read the polls.

Double negative?

Oh no! How can we continue?

[...]

We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.

Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment - all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/15/8300/

Robert Reich writes better than he speaks.

Obama uses Hillary YearlyKos footage in Latest Ad!!!!

I'm proud to say that the netroots convention that some you may have attended in Chicago last August has made a difference in the Obama-Hillary race as it cames down to the end. Obama has a new ad out. It's called "Guide":

Boasting a jaunty lounge-lizard soundtrack and faux film-reel effects, the ad matches the cool irony of Obama's "Annie Oakley" attack; with no voiceover and no mention of Obama's name, think Ginsu knife more than meat cleaver. But the slick style masks a typically aggressive Obama counterpunch: the implication that because Clinton has accepted more money from lobbyists "than any other candidate, Republican OR Democrat" (and once said "they represent real Americans"), she would, as president, put their priorities above the needs of average Americans--just like a typical Washington "player."

http://www.youtube.com/v/jS2UkRSUoPo&hl=en

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Wow, great ad.

Poster of Obama ‘Bitter’ Remark Receives Death Threats

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:23 AM

By: newsmax staff Article Font Size

The citizen journalist who first revealed Barack Obama’s “bitter” remarks about small-town Americans has received death threats from Obama supporters.

Mayhill Fowler of Oakland, Calif., has been covering the Democratic presidential campaign and submitting her stories to the “Off the Bus” section of the Huffington Post Web site.

An Obama supporter and contributor to his campaign, Fowler obtained an invitation to an April 6 fundraiser in San Francisco that was designated as “closed” to the mainstream media.

At the fundraiser, Obama told the gathering that Middle Americans have turned to God and guns and against immigrants because they are “bitter” about their economic lot.

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” he said.

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment of anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

After her report on Obama’s comments appeared on the Huffington Post site, Obama became the target of elitism charges by his presidential rivals, and Fowler received about 200 e-mail messages that she said ranged from “creepy to threatening,” including several death threats, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Writers on the liberal Web site Daily Kos accused Fowler, 61, of feigning support for Obama to gain access to the San Francisco event.

“It’s like the liberal blogosphere has issued a fatwa against me,” Fowler told the Times.

She said she was “dismayed” by Obama’s “bitter” words.
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**Seems like the only people that are bitter are angry liberals that can't accept the fact that Obama got caught with his foot in his mouth~~~

“It’s like the liberal blogosphere has issued a fatwa against me,” Fowler told the Times.

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Angry little trolls at Kos need a life!

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=166074

Jon Stewart on the "Bitter" BS - too funny!

Rezkogate Bittergate Rev.Wrightgate Farakhangate

Wow! This guy has more gates than Bill clinton, no wonder you libs love him!

Rezkogate Bittergate Rev.Wrightgate Farakhangate

This guys got more gates than Pandomaniacs back yard border fence!

McCain 'gas-tax holiday' is a campaign retread

Democrat Menendez, Republican Dole have been down this road before

WASHINGTON - If it seems like there is something familiar about the gasoline tax “holiday” being proposed by Sen. John McCain, there is.

You may have heard the Republican presidential nominee propose something similar before — 12 years ago when the GOP nominee’s name was Dole, not McCain.

And more recently, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, running for election in 2006, proposed the “The Menendez Federal Gas Tax Holiday Amendment,” which would have removed for 60 days the 18-cents-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline and the 24 cents-per-gallon tax on diesel.

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Agent of retreads versus the agent of change.

Agent of retreads versus the agent of change.

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Spend, spend, spend, raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes. Nothing new about that. In fact that's about as retread as retread gets. Not even Bill Clinton was that stupid on the economy.

I would love to hear how Obamas planning on lowering gas prices.

Maybe his minions could shed some light and enlighten us all.

How can he change something if he has nothing to offer?

The only rival Hillary has in terms of irresponsibility is, of course, Grandpa John McCain who today is calling for elimination of the Federal tax on gas between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Other than the usual irresponsible GOP howling for more income tax cuts for the rich to be paid for later by working Americans, this has to take the cake! Will anyone in the media ask how he proposes to deal with the shortfall in gas taxes which will cause the contraction of federal highway construction and maintenance projects nationwide? Of course not. It won't even cross their minds. It's simply outrageous pandering that not only doesn't do anyone any good, but it panders particularly to the most wasteful and polluting among us as well as encouraging exactly the opposite kind of behavior that the country needs right now. He proposes to make it easier to burn more gas and thus keep "fueling" (pardon the pun) the worsening global warming problem by lowering gas prices so as to make it more economical for Americans to avoid altering, in any way, their gashog lifestyles.

(TPM Cafe)