Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

I think I'll check in before looking at the video, :)

Obama's website quietly ditches Hamas supporter

"The Obama campaign quietly removed from its official website a page managed by a fundraiser tied to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.

The page for Hatem El-Hady – former chairman of an Islamic charity closed by the U.S. government for terrorist fundraising – listed Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, as one of three "friends" as recently as yesterday...

But by yesterday morning, days after Johnson's "Little Green Football's" site drew attention to the El-Hady page, Michelle Obama's name had been removed. Then, later in the day, the entire page disappeared."

(Yes, I know it is WND)

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62653

Tell us more about Grigs, Craig.

Good video..watched first part , then began to stop and start.. will watch later..

President Clinton had a great rally, packing them in in the small South Coast town of North Bend.

We have beautiful weather today as President Cllinton holds Solutions for America rallies in Junction City, Albany, Monmouth (Western Oregon University), McMinnville, Oregon City, and Portland.

Oregonians look forward to the two debates in or sate that are proposed by Senator Clinton, one dealing exclusively with Oregon rural issues.

The Obama campaign says the debates would not be a good use of his time.

omg that video was great! And funny! Especially Dukakis... what a doofus! And I don't think I ever saw the Howard Dean screaming video though to be honest, I didn't think it was all that bad...

OD have you gotten Bill to sign your tshirt yet?

Michael Dukakis is a very fine person. I was proud to volunteer on his campaign and still remember the great outdoor rally at Portland State University the day before the election.

He carried or state of Oregon and we would have been a lot better off if he had won the election.

Who's Grigs? Dog? Cat? Unknown Relative?

I thought Michael Dukakis was a wooden idiot. He has no charisma, no charm... the only thing I thought he had going for him was that his cousin was Olympia Dukakis... He couldn't even recover from the debate question by Bernard Shaw... remember? CNN's Bernard Shaw opened the debate with this question to Gov. Dukakis: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Dukakis responded, "No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We've done so in my own state."

From CNN.com:

The question was meant to give Dukakis an opportunity to show -- and the voters an opportunity to see -- the emotional side of a candidate dubbed by many as the "Ice Man." Shaw had said that the voters had a difficult time getting a "feeling fix" on Dukakis, and felt that only a very personal question could elicit an emotional response. (In fact, he feared that he might be criticized for asking a too-easy question.) But Dukakis' response did just the opposite. Dukakis' passionless response was the news out of the debate.

********************

Dukakis had even less charisma than John Kerry and THAT's saying something...

Gordo,
It seems Obama is starting to take more seriously the stuff we have posted here than the Obama supporters. We have both mentioned El-Hady and Rez should note this guy was mentioned in that "eacko" Candaian Press article. Obama cannot cover his tracks however. The Republican Machine is taking every note to show how Obama is trying to pivot center and cover up his past affiliations. Soon you will see AAAN retract their colaboration with Cairns. It is all a big game to limit damage. A game to fool the uninformed.

Yes, Obama's suits are far more than $1000. I was just being casual in my pricing. They are probably closer to $5000 which only makes my point stronger.

http://stubbornfacts.us/politics/2008_election/the_late_and_unlamented#comment-14201

This is the link from the last thread which discusses the popular vote and whether Obama should really take the high road and drop out. If he loses the general, kiss his ass good-bye.

Good clips Craig. Perhaps a picture of Obama with Auchi? How about a clip of Obama listening to a rant by Wright or even Farrakhan? There are many opportunites in the dog race for a single major flub to end it for a candidate.

Max I don't think we need to be doing that here. The right wing is already doing it for us and I do not agree. I am for Hillary; I am not for tearing down Barack Obama is such a manner.

I'm off to Portland for the President Clinton event.

Bye

New Republic: Reverend Wright was a Muslim turned Christian

"Chameleon presidential candidate Barack Obama appears to have something else in common with his mentor and spiritual inspiration, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. A recently uncovered article from a credible source indicates that Wright, like Obama, was a Muslim before he Christianized. A previously unnoticed 2007 report from a senior editor in the New Republic indicates that Wright was a "former Muslim." The report indicates that Wright's background was a factor in persuading Obama to join his church and thus improve his "street cred."

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12784.htm

Honestly have people taken their mean pills today? If Reverend Wright was a Muslim and converted to Christianity, so what? It doesn't make him less of a Christian. In fact, one could argue that it makes him even more of one because he chose to leave one religion for another. It's not something he inherited, but something he sought out. For that he should be commended!

5,000 dollar suits? Wow we've really veered off into crazyville.

On Fox News this morning, Martin Frost was very defensive while discussing McCain's mention of the Hamas endorsement of Obama. The Repub was on the attack - Frost was not happy.

Max - we understand that this is only the beginning for the attacks on Obama. The Obama supporters are in denial.

Gordo,

Is that inter-galactic tractor beam a handheld model or is it on wheels? Please post a photo if you have one. Thank you!

It's a shame they don't give twofers on shock therapy treatments, you two could be saving a fortune.

I have to say Brian, you can sure fire off some real zingers! Rude as hell, but also a bit funny... I am ashamed that I laughed!

OMG Brian, that was so rude !!! LOL... oops well I did laugh but I am ashamed. You are pretty good at one line zingers, Anyway, that wasn't nice !

well here the "one more cow" version of an inter-galactic tractor beam: http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/abductionlamp_cow_ill_500x500.jpg

Brian --------------------------

OPEN LETTER TO ALL LGBT COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/26/open-letter-to-all-lgbt-community-members-and-supporters/

Ok well color me embarrassed... My first one I tried to change.. oh well, they both say pretty much the same thing...

ROFLMAO! Good one, Crawford

Tom,
I think you should understand that Obama selected his pastor and Wright shares some significant views with Obama's first mentor, Frank Davis. If you check out what Davis wrote about Jesus and then explore the theology that Wright inclines to, it is certainly fair game to see the common view. Obama has been touted by his wife as the smartest and most intellectual candidate running. Then it is not credible that he does not understand the links between radical black theology which Wright often falls into and the idea Hamas and the ISM crowd tout as Jesus being black. There is absolutely a link between the two groups and now that this is surfacing, Obama's campaign is cleaning up the links. Hillary does not have this problem. I repeat: the links between Obama's religious connections and the ISM crowd are loud and clear. Do your homework.

You are completely missing the point and the thread I linked is a centrist thread. Tully, in fact, is working on a Democratic campaign. I find it absurd to be touting the high road after Obama's latest remarks on race and oil prices. Check out his fear-mongering and suggesting Hillary quitting before McCain wins. What you are asking me to do is to ignore the very problems that will sink Obama in the general. Can't do that Tom. Now where the hell do you think Obama got his mantra, or does that not matter too? It seems you want to ignore a hundred dots and when someone starts drawing the lines between them and a picture emerges you say, don't draw, leave them as unimportant dots. Then you say, let's discuss the real issues, but even then as in the last debate Obama stutters over the economy, Israel, and slips back into his redundant, boring rhetoric about uniting Republicans, Democrats and Indies. He hasn't done that and has no record of doing that. He wants to make the NeoLiberal line mainstream. It is a shame. Hillary supporters ought to be saying that loud and clear. Count Florida, count Michigan, vet the record and end the slide into a racial divide now amplified by the Obama campaign. He will get his ass kicked in the general and not because of racists or bitter Democrats. He has made his bed and wants us to think he is sleeping somewhere else. He is playing out the clock as Hillary is landing blows. I find it rather pathetic. Obama harkened back to Truman and JFK again Tuesday night. Really now Barry........He will say anything to get elected even praising Reagan and Bush 1. It doesn't matter. Obama thinks he can have it both ways and call character issues, destractions. I wonder what he will call defeat, a major distraction?

Craig! Stop, I have tears in my eyes. When I moved to the Netherlands and later to Belgium, I was fascinated by all the cows there were around, and I'd stop my bike go over near the fence and start MOOing... Yes, I know, retarded but true... most of the time the cows would just look at me and go back to their grass chewing... one time coming home from a vacation in Northern France I had to stop for a moment and I saw these cows in a pasture, so I made the moo-ing sounds and the whole damn herd started walking my way.. Scared the bejeezus out of me! Anyway, I tell people I can't speak French but I do "moo" in French...

This is such "udder" nonsense, but I had to "milk" the subject for all it was worth :-)

Sorry Gordo, I never go to your links.

Shock therapy Brian?...LOL Tell me about your treatment. How many times were you shocked before they gave up? Five, ten, twenty times?

So tell me, what does Obama pay for his suits? Or did Rezko have them delivered as a gift?

Okay Craig, feeding is not recommended.....

Uh max... I was just commenting on what Gordo posted about Rev. Wright once being a Muslim and that I didn't think that was relevant. I support Hillary Clinton. I have consistently said that all votes should count from all the primaries, and I don't think what Obama is doing to suppress the count in Michigan and Florida is even a little bit democratic.

I don't mind criticisms and I do believe Hillary is the stronger candidate. I liked some of what Jeremiah Wright said but, unfortunately, he went too far with some sermons, particularly the "God DAMN America" comment. But, in the context that he might have been once a Muslim, well that shouldn't reflect badly on him. I don't get why that is important. It's all starting to sound so Manchurian in nature. If I were a Christian, I'd be pleased to hear that Rev. Wright converted from Islam to Christianity. What I was trying to say before was that, if it is true, he made a conscious choice about faith and belief, unlike so many of us who grow up in a certain religious identity that is handed down generation to generation.

I am still quite for Hillary!!!

Brian is able to save with do it youself proctology exams.

http://www.humoronline.com/weird-news/head-up-ass.html

Right - just like Jamie. Sure.

Max I have no idea what Sen. Obama pays for his suits, I don't care. I know for myself I usually pay somewhere between 500 to 750 per suit. But in all candor I don't buy suits that often as I don't have reason to wear them much. The last suit I bought was for my niece's Bat Mitva. Luckily for me Brooks Brothers was having a sale and I got a pretty nice midnight blue tropical weight wool flannel for about 650.

Reminds me of that South Park Craig.

Someone should a few of these lamps to Kucinich....

my husband went to sale barn last night and brought home a black angus steer.We usually butcher one every year but freezer is so full now we will just let him graze then reurn him to sale barn in late fall.We live on 2 acres and he keeps the grass down.And if we butcher you can't get better beef.No chemicals or red dye in meat
Ruth

Brian,

This time you made even me laugh.

Obama was on the cover of Vogue in 2006 and in recent appearances he and Dave Letterman talked about what a stylin guy he is. It's not because he gets his suits off the rack at Robert Hall

and he does not shop at Books Brothers but does
frequent Barney's.

$5000 might not be far off and of course the point was Obama standing in a gas station trying to appeal to blue collar motorists wearing an expensive suit while blaming Hillary for rising gas prices. Now that's crazyville.

Tom, you miss the underlying convergence between the Hamas strategy and radical black theology. Both see a point is making similar stands towards Jews and even the color of Jesus's skin. There is certainly a serious thread between Davis, Wright, Meeks, Farrakhan, Lee, Khalidi and a host of others connected to Trinity and Woods Fund. It is not credible Obama knows nothing of this. It is fair game because it shakes the image Obama would like us to believe about his inclinations and rhetoric.
The Obama damage control is to isolate the leaks and keep the dots separate. There is simply too much time before the election to achieve this deflection. The ISM connections are being flushed out, the money trail examined and the Republicans hoping they face Obama come November.

Max what's crazyville is you've spent a great part of your day typing away about Obama's suit. What is it about Hillary that seems to attract the whacko fringe. Someone should do a study.

Right Wing view of herd of liberals

http://www.goofigure.com/images/library/heads_up_ass.jpg

McCain Rips Obama for Weatherman Link

"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., continued to try and use the Weather Underground to rain on Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., telling conservative bloggers in a conference call today that Obama needs to repudiate William Ayers, apologize to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for comparing him to Ayers (as an example of a friend with whom Obama disagrees), and to apologize to the American people for his relationship with Ayers, "an unrepentant terrorist."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/tinkers-to-ever.html

h

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Visiting Priest
The priest usually visited the area every six months and was surprised when Betty Sue told him she got married during his absence.
The good Father asker her if she married a good Catholic boy, Betty Sue replied negatively.
He said "did you marry a good Christian?"
No, I am afraid not.
What did you do marry a member of the Klu Klux Klan?
Betty Sue looked at the priest and asked what was that.
Why the priest replied, it's a devil under the sheet.
Betty Sue winked at the priest and said proudly, "That's my Boy!"

Oh Please, I think William Ayers is being slandered... Here is a statement from Wikipedia:

"In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since the year 2000 stems from an interview he gave to the New York Times on the occasion of its publication.[4] The reporter attributed several inflammatory assertions to him including: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." and "I don't want to discount the possibility." when asked if he would "do it all again". [3] Ayers protested the reporter's work in a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times published September 15: "This is not a question of being misunderstood or 'taken out of context', but of deliberate distortion."[5] In the ensuing years, he has repeatedly avowed that "no regrets" had been spoken in reference to his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that "we didn't do enough" had been spoken in reference to his opinion that efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War were obviously inadequate as the war dragged on for a decade. Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.[6][7] The interview also mentions what he wrote in his forward to his memoir regarding Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film about Weatherman, Underground: "[Ayers] was 'embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way. The rigidity and the narcissism."[3]"

He has certainly disavowed the bomb tactics.

Would someone be so kind to explain to me what painter's last post is about?

m

She's having posting problems. She thinks it's the blog, but it sure looks like an interrupt problem to me.

Just a joke Brian.Got to lighten things up a bit.
Ruth

And by the way, The Students for a Democratic Society was an important movement for social change in the 60's. I was most impressed with their founding document: "The Port Huron Statement" . Particularly, I was impressed with their view on education and the need for reforms:

"The academic life contains reinforcing counterparts to the way in which extracurricular life is organized. The academic world is founded in a teacher-student relation analogous to the parent-child relation which characterizes in loco parentis. Further, academia includes a radical separation of student from the material of study. That which is studied, the social reality, is "objectified" to sterility, dividing the student from life -- just as he is restrained in active involvement by the deans controlling student government. The specialization of function and knowledge, admittedly necessary to our complex technological and social structure, has produced and exaggerated compartmentalization of study and understanding. This has contributed to: an overly parochial view, by faculty, of the role of its research and scholarship; a discontinuous and truncated understanding, by students, of the surrounding social order; a loss of personal attachment, by nearly all, to the worth of study as a humanistic enterprise.

There is, finally, the cumbersome academic bureaucracy extending throughout the academic as well as extracurricular structures, contributing to the sense of outer complexity and inner powerlessness that transforms so many students from honest searching to ratification of convention and, worse, to a numbness of present and future catastrophes. The size and financing systems of the university enhance the permanent trusteeship of the administrative bureaucracy, their power leading to a shift to the value standards of business and administrative mentality within the university. Huge foundations and other private financial interests shape under-financed colleges and universities, not only making them more commercial, but less disposed to diagnose society critically, less open to dissent. Many social and physical scientists, neglecting the liberating heritage of higher learning, develop "human relations" or morale-producing" techniques for the corporate economy, while others exercise their intellectual skills to accelerate the arms race.

Tragically, the university could serve as a significant source of social criticism and an initiator of new modes and molders of attitudes. But the actual intellectual effect of the college experience is hardly distinguishable from that of any other communications channel -- say, a television set -- passing on the stock truths of the day. Students leave college somewhat more "tolerant" than when they arrived, but basically unchallenged in their values and political orientations. With administrators ordering the institutions, and faculty the curriculum, the student learns by his isolation to accept elite rule within the university, which prepares him to accept later forms of minority control. The real function of the educational system -- as opposed to its more rhetorical function of "searching for truth" -- is to impart the key information and styles that will help the student get by, modestly but comfortably, in the big society beyond."

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html

It is sad that some members broke off and created the Weather Underground. I think this was a by-product of frustration over the Vietnam War and the belief that radical action was necessary to end it. Naive yes, and certainly building bombs seems quite contrary to the idea of "all we are saying, is give peace a chance"... But the SDS itself was a post-McCarthyism movement that was brought on by social unrest created by the war, and the inevitable soul-searching that society was confronting after the redbaiting of McCarthyism and the meaning of what America was and should be in the 60s and beyond.

What's an interrupt problem Flatus?
Ruth

Oh,Sorry Brian ,you were talking about my letter post

*shurgs* Guess I didn't get it, being a Jew I guess the Klan just never struck me as being funny.

I never had this problem until I got new pc with Vista
Ruth

ET ------------------------

This is not about the truth. It's about what the Repubs can use against Obama.

See this link:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/04/where-the-buses-dont-run.html#comment-69942

Brian,
It wasn't the clan that was funny.it was the devil under the sheet.

Ruth, an interrupt is kind of like the pass you give the hall monitor when you want to go somewhere. If you don't have the pass, you're stuck.

Do you think that your Vista has all the current updates?

Brian,
Being jewish I am surprised you are for Obama.Many news articles do not show him favorable to Jews.
Ruth

Flatus
Not sure about all updates but pc updates regularly.It could be aol.My son hates aol because he said it controls pc too much.I have pop up control and I disabled it for this site but it didn't make a difference
Ruth

Sorry Ruth,
"Jokes" about the klan and "my boy" just don't strike me as funny. Like I said, I don't get what's funny about it. But hey if it gave you a chuckle more power to you. Have any amusing limericks about Auschwitz?

guess the Klan just never struck me as being funny.

As opposed to posting pictures of Htler youth and calling them Clinton supporters

Brian,
Didn't look at "my boy" the way you did.Guess I am not looking at anything racial in the statement.It's a shame that we have to measure our words so carefully because people take offense so easily.
Ruth

oh Max I have no problem with you taking swipes at me, but at least have the stones to do it under your name.

Her new husband was a devil under the sheets.That was the funny part.

Pan-Terrorist Arab Muslim Group Brags About Sponsoring Rev. Wright Speech

"ADC is openly pro-HAMAS/pro-Hezbollah. The Detroit-area chapter of ADC is headed by FBI award revokee, marriage fraud artist, and "former" Islamic terrorist, Imad Hamad."

(Yes, I know it is Debbie Schlussel)

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/

Gee Ruth, a joke about the klan with the term "my boy" in it, not much of a leap in there to seeing it a racial joke.

husband going to Peoria riverboat casino.Wants me to go but I am the born loser so am staying home.Gave him a twenty last time he went and he grought me back 75.That's the only way I can win

Brian likes to pretend ignorance when he wants to call someone a racist. He knows darn well the joke was about her new husband's prowess, but Ruth supports Sen. Clinton so Brian just absolutely knows she is attending regular Klan Rallies.

His holier than thou erroneous opinions mean he doesn't actually have to have conversations or get to know anyone.

Oh and by the way Brian.Whenever my grandson sits on my lap I ask him "who's my boy".Didn't know that was racist.
Ruth

Sen. Clinton has offered Sen. Obama a "no moderator" debate with each one alternating to control two minute discussions. So far only the sound of silence.

Jamie had there been anything funny about the joke I might have overlooked it's obviously racial tones.

Just looking at Russert. He has Fineman on. What a pompous piece of work. He just told us why the women supporting Mrs Clinton are too poorly educated, and too unread to understand the clarity of Mr Obama's message. What a condescending turd.

I was raised in a community of Polish,Italians,Germans,Irish,Mexican.There was only a handful of AA's.Racism was the farthest thing from our minds.The only encounter I had with racism was when a transfer student from Alabama was offended when a black student from a neighboring town came into our local hamburger joint and she was offended because he was allowed in.This was 1957.The rest of us were surprised at her attitude.We were unaware of the racila problems of the south.And Brian maybe you could call us naive but we were a very small northern town.
Ruth

Only you thought it was racial. You have a real problem in that respect. You and only you seem to be able to find a racist hiding behind every tree. Why are you so scared?

Most of my AA friends would have thought the joke at least mildly humorous since the Klan is being insulted and a man pleasing a woman in bed is being praised.

Flatus,
I stopped watching Russet and Mathews weeks ago.They take such delight in anything negative about Hillary and lap up everything about Obama and sweep under the rug anything negative about Obama.
Ruth

I didn't understand it, so I just walked by.

Thanks Jamie,
I'm just one of those uneducated Hillary Supporters who just can't understand the message of the Great One.
Ruth

Don't worry Ruth, you'll have a chance to get it and vote for Obama in November.

I find that a lot of very educated people have no common sense and if that offends anyone then I am sorry.And if you notice I said a lot not all.Have to be very careful with words.
Ruth

Brian,
Be prepared for President McCain if Obama gets the nomination.And my vote won't matter because as I said before I am from Il.And Obama will win this state because of favorite son status.But it will probably be his only big state win.
Ruth

Not that it's any of my business Ruth but I'm curious who did you vote for in the senate race, Obama or Keyes?

Got another fund raising letter from Mr McCain today. He sure is persistent. I must have gotten at least a dozen in the past couple of months.

Says he's trying to $21.5M in the next 30 days.

I think what he's really trying to do is get people to commit to his candidacy; once they make a contribution, doesn't matter how much, they're invested in the campaign.

Brian, I have two master's degrees in a medical field and I support Hillary. The educated women I know either support Hillary or McCain.

I don't watch Russert.

Carol

Have fun at Prom tonight, Craig, and please be careful and don't hurt yourself again!

Carol, are many of the medical professionals in your cohort supporting Mr McCain?

h

It takes more than intelligence or a good education to understand Obama. It takes ESP. Who really knows what he thinks.

Helen is the designated driver.

ct I'm touched by yours and your other female friends concern for the uninsured.

Yes, many are but I don't hang with them. I have had to fight with Repubs for many years. Now I try to avoid them.

Brian,
I voted for Obama.He can handle the senate but I don't want him for president.Maybe if Hillary had not been running and maybe if the media had not been promoting him so shamelessly at the expense of Hillary Clinton and if he had not accused the Clinton's of being racist and if he had not threatened the AA's who supported Hillary and if he had not been associated with Rezko and the radical segment of the muslims and maybe if Kennedy had not accused the Clinton's of playing the race card so he would have an excuse to vote for Obama .Do I need to say more because there is a lot more.I will not vote for McCain but I can not vote for Obama either.
Ruth

Good for you, Carol.

EuroTom , that's me in that picture. My 8 year-old niece had her 1st communion today. Off to a cookout now. Red Wings kicking ass today! Later all!

Ruth, I think you ought to serve on that jury!

Brain I can write a book about the difficulty in taking care of people without health insurance. Actually I have and it is still in my computer. I now work in a prison/jail as a NP. It is my retirement job and the most difficult job I have ever had.

I do care about the poor and for years I have been an advocate for the poor.

I even wrote Hillary a letter back when Bill first took office. I outline some of the problems I saw in the healthcare system. She wrote back. I still have her letter. It was just before she took on her healthcare project.

h

I would hang them all Flatus
Ruth

ct rather odd then that you could vote for a man who will do nothing to get health care to the poor and uninsured.

What man?? I am voting for Hillary!! Are you reading my posts??

ct didn't you say you would for McCain if Obama is the nominee?

h

Brian I am sure Hillary will win. Glynis, the numerology lady said so. I heard her on Coast to Coast AM. I like to listen to Coast to Coast am late at night when I am at my camp on the weekends. It is a nice break from MSM.

I guess we all have our weird sides, even educated professionals.

Brian I am sure Hillary will win. Glynis, the numerology lady said so. I heard her on Coast to Coast AM. I like to listen to Coast to Coast am late at night when I am at my camp on the weekends. It is a nice break from MSM.

I guess we all have our weird sides, even educated professionals.

If you missed Moyers interview with Reverend Wright
You can view it here
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html
You can see the transcript there also
I highly recomend it.

Jack

Brian, as Craig can confirm, my computer posts here as Maxtrue only. I can take swipes at you with my username. As I said, I am an Independent who has never voted for a Republican. I use only Maxtrue here as a username. And by the way, if you think I spent the "greater part of the day "typing away about a suit those shock treatments have certainly effected your sense of time. One of my usual posts are longer than the words I spent on suits.........and an empty one at that.

What I find fitting is that Obama the Lincoln pretender won't engage Hillary in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. Yep, Mr. Obamatory is afraid Hillary will show him up. He stuttered endlessly in the last debate so he is quite scared to have an open debate where Hillary can ask all those questions he can't answer.

And yes, Painter, Obama has a whole history of associating with people who have said anti-Jewish BS and certainly anti-Zionist BS. The convergence between many on the religious side with those on the Hamas side is their belief that Jesus was a Palestinian and a Black one at that. The idea that Obama knows nothing of this is utter garbage. I wonder why that smart group at Messiah University never asked Obama is he thought Jesus was a Black Palestinian. Maybe he is worried Hillary will.ask him. She will ask him why he waited so long to denounce the Trinity newsletter which published a rant from Hamas, In the general, should Obama run, Jews will desert him. The sad truth is that there are many Jews who are more Leftist than Jewish. They tend to be atheists, lend towards socialism despite their capitalistically derived wealth, often given them by their parent's hard work. In Brian's case, I doubt that this exactly applies. Marx was rather bitter. I suspect Brian is too. There is also a rift growing between the majority of Jews supporting Israel and many reform Jews who take issue with Israel. Remember, some Jews completely reject Israel because they feel it takes away the singular authority of their cultish leaders.

You guys may be interested in reading the Jackson Williams post on Huff Post, "No laughing matter...."

Max,

I didn't realize you moonlighted as a press reporter.

Sounds like this young Obamaniac is drinking too much kool-aid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kica8hmSdAM

CT

That Jackson article was interesting in its review of the required states

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/no-laughing-matter-obama_b_98670.html

Gallup Daily - All Tied Up

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106825/Gallup-Daily-Clinton-Obama-Tied-47.aspx

Same link as above.

Clinton beats McCain

McCain beats Obama

Jamie,
With the margin of error, the gallup poll shows everybody is tied. Nobody beats nobody.

Don't worry Ruth, you'll have a chance to get it and vote for Obama in November.

Brian In NYC

"...to get it"..

Wow.

The depth, the acuity, the detail, the total Miley Cyrus that is you, Brian.

I get it!

Indians 4, Yankees 3 final score in Cleveland

Timeline: British billionaire and Barack Obama

"Events bringing Nadhmi Auchi, British-Iraqi billionaire, together with Antoin Rezko, Barack Obama's fundraiser"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3433363.ece

Loudon Wainwright - The Picture

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yeHsS6sgfgo

Jack

Loudon Wainwright III - Hard day on the planet

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GPIRzu14viA

Jack

the last Loudon Wainwright III for the night

Dead Skunk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yuY44PHC0wI

Jack

The Band, Who Do You Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dn0SngXfzKk

Jack

Jack,
Loudon Wainwright III is going to help you move.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVX64woxu5k

*shurgs* Guess I didn't get it, being a Jew I guess the Klan just never struck me as being funny.
---Brian

Brian.....that statement makes it obvious that you've never been to a Klan rally........

coming back into nashville oncet on our converterted school bus band vehicle we got halted as the KKK parade was going up Broadway........we said the hell with waiting and we caught an empty space and pulled into the parade......went on down the street for about 10 blocks waving to and being jeered at by the totally angry multitudes lining the street.......very weird......

I must say Billy Ray Cyrus did really well with his fleeting moment of fame..........

You got me sturg! I've never been to a klan rally.

Jack,
Here's a sweet little ditty for the ladies from Jeff Beck

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xbx-Qgt65bI

Which is another miracle of your youness, Briley Cyrus!

Even without ever attending a Klan rally, you still attain the vision of someone who lives with a pillowcase pulled over his head.

You are the person you've been waiting for!

Brian......aside from the parade........I've been to two of them......one a really good sized regional one and the other a bunch of local yahoos trying to make the big show........we were kids and went to see what the deal was ........our parents vilified the klan but you know kids.......you have never in your life seen such absolutely raw unadulterated hilarity.....from our side, I mean.....THEY were all deadly serious......it remains one of the most hilarious events I've ever witnessed.......bunch of hayseeds out in a field on the back of a flat bed truck with a really cheesy P.A. system talking the weirdest crap you ever hoid........wearing sheets on their haids..........

coen bros made a good stab at recreating one in a most fanciful way........

Did anyone catch what Richardson said to James Carville the other night on Larry King.He said Obama won the swing states.What swing states could he have been talking about.I thought they were Florida,Ohio,and Penn. and Hillary won those.Has he been drinking the cool-ade
Ruth

richardson is probably being laughed at by the obama group.......he's made himself, I'm afraid, rather jokey.

Bob Dylan - Forever Young
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Il-WqilLCPM

Sturg I have a friend, a photographer who decided to a do a serious on skin heads. At about the 5th or 6th event he went to one of the chicks came on to him, and he went off with her for a brief "respite". Upon his return all his camera equipment was stolen from his car and his car was completely trashed, a bunch of skin heads standing around with that "yeah what you going to do about it look" on their faces. My friend ever the Pollyanna finished telling the tale to me with "well you know she was a good piece".

Ruth: Richardson said Obama had won "Battleground States" such as Colorado and Kansas. Colorado? Maybe. Kansas? Highly doubtful.

McCain Frequently Used Wife’s Jet for Little Cost
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/politics/27plane.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

No wonder he doesn't want to release his wife's tax returns.

m

I dont remember which story it is but there is a great and hilarious story on the Klan by Columbia SC writer Wm Price Fox in his book SOUTHERN FRIED + 6..............

the skin head version of "The Rat Race" with Tony Curtis

"No wonder he doesn't want to release his wife's tax returns."

And Slick won't release his Library donor list either because I believe you would find Nadhmi Auchi, British-Iraqi billionaire, together with Antoin Rezko and billionaire Frank Giustra, former owner of Russian Uranium mine on there. Maybe even
Norman Hsu and Johnny Chung.

I goddam sure hope jackie chan aint on that list.........

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?scp=1&sq=Military%20News%20Analysts&st=cse

The trouble with our pentagon: when your brain is a hammer.........every problem is a nail.

LOL Sturgeone

LOL I kinda like Jackie Chan. Don't dirty him up by having him associated with Bubba.

Actually don't we think this more of an indictment against MSM than the Pentagon. Has anyone else noticed that war coverage has pretty much disappeared from our TV screen? Why bother covering the wall when you can show an endless loop of Obama bowling after all.

oh come.......what's a war compared to an internecine strife in the democratic party.........america wants to know.........

Obama campaign moves event from a 9,000 person capacity venue to a 2,500 person capacity venue in IN...why? Only 1,400 people showed up...

while...over 3,000 people showed up at a Hillary event in IN...

and now back to your regularly scheduled programming

;-)

As I suspected, when I watched Andrea Mitchell man handle Craig on MSNBC on Friday, he is a Hillary lover. How soon people "forget" that the Clinton family brought scandal and shame to the White House nigh 10 years ago. All of this discussion about why Obama stayed at his church, what about the fact that Hillary satyed with Bill- even after it was made plain that he-did-have-sexual-realtions-with-that-woman. Amazing. Do you really think that they have the best interest of the country at heart? Or will we be discarded and villified like Monica? Like Moveon.Org that formed to save the Clintons? Hillary's pandering is pathetic. She changes every day. What is her answer to upstate New Yorkers when asked about the 200,000 new jobs that she was going to create whilst she was campaigning for the Senate? She says, we were "over ambitious and thought that Al Gore was going to be the President". Please. Not helping the New Yorkers much, but I don't think that was the goal of becoming their senator anyway. And so it goes, they will say anything to get their way, and I am not buying it. Like the Bosnia sniper fire. And obliterate Iran? Iraq wasn't enough of a quagmire.

What kind of campaign has Clinton run? It has run out of money and had multiple firings. Is this a picture of things to come? Funny that we haven't heard about the fund raising after the $10 million in 24 hours. Point 1: Nobody asked what kind of debt they were carrying.....I think that money is gone. 2. I don't think that they got that much. At an inefficient $1 million/day (ouch) pace, that won't get her to May 6.

Criticizing Obama for the cost of his suits? The guy made $4 million dollars. And if he dressed down, you would criticize him for being phoney. How much do Hillary's Suits cost? Why isn't she being criticized for not dressing down? Why isn't she being criticized for not wearing a flag pin? Will she play basketball, since she made such a big deal out Obama's 37? And Shes's not elitist going to Wellesley and Yale? Right.

So, if the Democratic Party implodes, how long will it take for another entity to fill the void?

Frank...thanks so much for Jeff Beck

I also wsh you could find a link for Tommy Bolin.

it's all somewhat akin to the "Blues" and the "Greens"......the chariot teams in Constantinople about the time of Count Belisarius...........strange how everything old is new again.........

Windy you keep posting these things without links, how bout some sources to back up your stories.

Anyone watching the Correspondents Dinner on
C-SPAN?

Craig Ferguson is doing a fairly good job.

hmmm - BIG R much have watched a different Craig Crawford/Andrea Mitchell dialog on Friday than I did because I thought he shut her down quite nicely by explaining the facts rather than going along with her fantasy narrative.

looks like BIG R has his/her own fantasy narrative running through his/her head just like Andrea Mitchell...problem is the narrative is pure fiction and not based in any fact or reality.

[shrugs]

He is doing oops did a good job--like him better there than on his late nite program.

Oh look Obama picked up another SD today:

Senator Barack Obama, who spent the day campaigning In Indiana in advance of the state’s May 6 primary, collected the endorsement of an Arizona superdelegate today.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/obama-picks-up-superdelegate/

(see how the works Wendy)

Obama's Twin

"The friendship between these two leaders made headlines last month when it was revealed they were such great buddies that they sort of talk like each other. To wit: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick ...

The troubling pattern of similarities between Patrick and Obama surfaced again this month when Patrick lost a high-profile battle over resort casinos with Massachusetts Speaker of the House ... Sal DiMasi. You see, Patrick promised to bring "unity" to government but he failed, just like Barack Obama will fail when he is president, which he will never be because he cannot pre-emptively unify things."

http://wonkette.com/372854/deval-patrick-fails-as-governor-so-barack-obama-is-unelectable

(There is more to this than most of you can imagine - do some research.)

mitchell feels that her clout and international reknown surely trumps the guy they have to let on every now and then........(not MY math)..........Craig backed both of the creeps up to very close to the truth and they were afraid......but like I said, msnbc has been taken over by the inmates and a voice from outside the given sway is received with all the pleasure that was butterfly mcqueen's as she came to realize that she might be called upon to actually deliver the baby.........

sturgeone ---------------------------

The " LBs " control what we see and hear!

gordo......what's a LB?

Don't know if you delusional Clintonites have read this, but...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9862.html

hey bib bib........when I earlier remarked over your "rational post" the other day I forgot to point out the rationality and enviable creativity which led your pseudonym: "bye bye billary"........

keep up the good work.........

led TO yer persootonym, as it were......

Who do they get to share a table with Salman Rushdie??

Andrea can't be Butterfly. I made Craig Butterfly when the gang was putting up the Burnett spoof on Gone With The Wind.

it would of necessity be another fish..........we must cast wide the net.........Salmon must have support.

sturgeone ----------------------------

I am reluctant to explain for reasons which would be obvious upon posting an explanation.

When I came across this, so much became clear - most of us see JW's " LBs " everyday.

Sorry to be cryptic, here are some clues:

1) Johnny Depp movie - " What's Eating Gilbert Grape "

2) Vampires

no......wasnt casting mitchell as mcqueen........was referring to their waking to the jarring reality that they might be called upon to actually do what their real job is supposed to be.

bob marley - one love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uteBX4_wxXk

Jack

gordo........what's a LB?

LB= Lead Belly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE9QYkkxyVQ

Jack

sturgeone ---------------------

That's the vampire part.

Another clue: What remains after you eat an apple?

Good night Irene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOualK5GP0

Bob Marley, No Woman No Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg2n039txnk

Jack

gordo..........do I get a secret decoder ring?

sturgeone -------------------

Clue: Golden Fleece

lb = pound

As in
10lb moustache by Man Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxv0qhAauAk

Jack

The " LBs " are growing in number, but some are shrinking in size.

The Grateful Dead To Donate Band Archive To Uc Santa Cruz

http://www.kbsradio.ca/news/music/87/706364

Jack

This bit of good news from of all places Alabama.

"Senate wisely nixed English-only bills"
http://www.al.com/opinion/press-register/index.ssf?/base/opinion/120920130313330.xml&coll=3

http://www.gomusic.ru/album.aspx?id=27615

Click on "Promise of a Fisherman" by Carlos. I used to crack this up for inspiration. I think it is one of his best solos, almost godly.......

Maybe Gordo is mixed up and he means LF

And as everybody knows

LF= Little Feat

Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO3ZMdcL8Pc

Sorry, I thought they would play the whole song. Anyone have it. Carlos at his best....

This used to be a site that discussed the press and its problems.

Here Elizabeth Edwards makes some good points.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27edwards.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin#

Jack