> GEM OF THE DAY
The Kennedys are rabidly jealous of the Clintons.
Bill actually accomplished something. JFK built a dynasty.- lute
Caroline Kennedy:
there are many ways into public life and public service
With her knowledge of the ways into public service and her experience as a best-selling author, I hope that she writes one more book for the rest of us:
Ways Into Public Service for Dummies
I’m sure we morons who would like to serve in public office can profit by her example and follow in her footsteps.
- oowawa
Obama writer, John Favreau has a little fun. Photo compliments of No Quarterusa
On Caroline Kennedy’s entitlement to HRC’s senate seat:
We wouldn’t even be discussing the idea of CK as a replacement Senator, if HRC had not accepted the SOS position. I think that Hillary made a big mistake. We have Samantha Powers of “HC is a monster fame” back in BO’s administration. Now, CK is a possible replacement for her! This smacks of cronyism, elitism, and fraud.
Hillary come back to the Senate!
- EWard . . . have you read ‘her’ (co-authored) books? They read like a Law I’s set of cram notes, headlining what big cases did, with absolutely no legal, academic, critical, or even cultural commentary to give any point to the whole vacuous exercise.”
CK may have felt some affinity for civil rights at the outset, as she was giving up museum curatoring for law, but it looks like just squibbing the civrts cases in Ellen & her first book scared her into focusing on privacy for real.
If squibbing a bunch of cases with a hardworking co-author qualifies someone to jump from token board spots to senator, I am disgusted.
Surely we should want more than that in a democracy, even one as degraded as the Daley/BO gang have made it.
- Kal
Senator Obama does not have sufficient leadership experience, nor has he been tested in difficult times . . .
I will vote for John McCain because the differences between the two candidates are so vast and profound . . .
– Mark W. Erwin | democrat & former AmbassadorKeith “Giant Head” Olbermann.
- David Letterman | 10.04.08
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions
- Barack Obama
CNN said it well, “Obama voted with Bush.”
- Hillary is 44
The convention was a total fraud. The roll call vote was rigged, and every Democratic rule and procedure was violated in order to do it and they did it in broad daylight right in front of the watchful eyes of the news media who have the powers of observation of a drunken sailor on a Saturday night. They just let the corruption happen without comment.
- Marc Rubin | courtesy of Ani, No Quarter
I live in Davenport, Iowa – Precinct 23. I arrived at our precinct caucus at 6:30. At 6:50 pm, over 75 people of African American descent came walking in, past the tables and sat in the Obama section. I knew one of them from my canvassing. I knew another one who did not live in this precinct! And aside from the 4 or 5 families that live on Hillandale Road, there are no other black people in this unusually white precinct and one of those black couples were in my Hillary section. The results were Obama 3, Clinton, 2, Edwards 1! It was impossible for me to argue since the precinct chair was an Obama supporter from another precinct. A very large bus was seen in the parking lot afterwards carrying these folks back. FROM IOWA
– Dr. Lynette Long, No Quarter USA
Some PUMAs endorse John McCain. But it’s not a necessary part of being a PUMA.
For me, it’s a protest vote to keep a crooked Democrat out of the White House.- Perry Logan
Sarah fought Republican corruption in Alaska. Obama embraced Democratic corruption in Chicago.
- BoboBolinsk
If you can’t do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?
- Bill Maher
They aren’t “feeling” BHO in Massachusetts.
See, the prototype for his campaign was tried out here, and it gave us a (whiney) Democratic governor that promised hope and change and can’t get along with a fucking DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE.
It’s no accident that HRC won the primary here. It’s also no accident that McCain is working hard here. He’s got an opening.
When BHO has to fight for a blue state like Massachusetts, he’s in trouble. And he WILL have to fight.
- Clinton Fan
. . . for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate, and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda.
- Tony Blankley | Washington Post
My friends were state delegates and they witnessed this fraud in plain daylight. They were planning to stand and vote for Hillary even if they were the last ones yelling her name through acclamation. They never were given a chance. How is that fair and square when the chosen State delegates weren’t even able to state the vote that they came there to cast?
– Vinny | No Quarter
we do know that Caroline Kennedy took . . . the position that the VP for the Dems should be Roman Catholic, . . . That leaves out a huge chunk of America. Whether Obarky and company like it, people who are white and protestant are not all a bunch of rich people. once again, it ignores the people Jim Webb writes about, the people who live in the hill country and who fight our wars. And who voted for Hillary.
Soros will make billions from the present stock market crisis – Soros, Svengali to the minion, Obama.
- tillthen, No Quarter
I have voted democrat all my life, after this years primary I no longer feel like I belong in a party that has annointed and fixed the election
- Ada Blanco, Oklahoma, June 10
And this is why I’m voting Republican for the first time in my life. The Democratic Party needs to be disinfected and hosed down. It’s repulsive.
- Peggy Sue NQ | 2008
Ignoring the party base is never a good idea.
- Hillary is 44
John Coale — a top backer of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy — has endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket because, he told Newsweek in an exclusive interview, “Obama is not who he says he is.”
– Susan UnPC, No Quarter
you voted for pigment. so we will vote for ovaries. by the way, we outnumber you.
– God Damn Michelle Obama
“Osama Bin Biden”
- unknown
Here’s Obama, this morning, in front of a teleprompter (you can see one the the TP’s to his right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqpIe1bC6tA&eurl
Here’s Obama, without a teleprompter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S47sO1TCVmEand again,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcnjxYiG7M– Phil, No Quarter USA 8_23
For a campaign that says it wants to end the politics of the Bush-Cheney years, the Obama for President effort has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks of 2000 and 2004.
- Karl Rove
Just today, courtesy of the Rocky Mountain News, we confirmed that Barack aka Barry Soetoro Obama was a citizen of Kenya since 1963.
– Larry Johnson
. . . Clinton would have done half a dozen town hall events with McCain by now–including one in New Orleans and Fort Hood. It is sickening to see how low the Democratic Party will go to push Nowhere Man on the American people. . .
– bmc
How many Kossacks does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three. One to argue why it’s brilliant for Obama to support screwing it in, a second to explain why it’s brilliant for Obama to refine his position to now support having it unscrewed. And a third to explain to us why we aren’t actually being screwed by Obama.”
– tamerlane
“People using computers at the Barack Obama Campaign are using them to systematically hack, attack and shut down websites that don’t agree with him. This is so messed up. It’s some Orewellian type business and it’s stuff like this that makes Obama scary as hell…”
- Texas Hill Country
I will not be held hostage by the Democratic Party that turned a blind eye to the corruption in the Democratic primaries and Democratic caucuses.
– Lynette Long | No Quarter
McCain… has frequently rebelled against established orthodoxy, especially in his own party. Obama…is more cautious — and more likely to stick with his party’s usual position.
– Doyle McManus, LATimes
If the NYT had gone after Bush the way they went after Hillary Clinton, Gore would be finishing up his last golden weeks as president.
Republicans would be screaming because the market only went up 2000 points last year because of over-regulation.-standard | 10.05.08
Republican-inclined voters I know were indicating the same thing. McCain was the last nominee any of us wanted.
However all has changed and even those of us in Illinois are determined to vote… against Obama.
You will not hear any of us say one enthusiastic word in favor of McCain.. You will hear much disappointment, anger and frustration directed towards him.. but we’ll be voting for him.
– VinceP1974
Do we want a candidate we have to protect, or someone who is going to protect us?
– Ari, No Quarter
Only two facts matter. First, Obama, as a U.S. Senator, can visit the troops any time he wants. Second, the only restriction was that he could not bring reporters. Obama didn’t want to do it without reporters, so he blamed the military for forcing the cancellation.
- Comment by Bill Dupray
. . . Barack is a lightweight, an empty suit, and an old style Chicago politician who has gotten ahead by hanging out with corrupt businessmen and other unsavory characters. Sorry, but that’s the kind of change I am not willing to believe or accept.
– Larry Johnson, No Quarter
His votes in the Senate were more pro-Bush than Hillary’s, than Biden’s, than Dodd’s, than Edwards’. Progressive Punch ranked Obama the 42nd most progressive member of the Senate. There are 49 Democrats and one Socialist and one “Independent” in the Democratic Caucus. . .
. . . News flash: he says what he thinks will please his audience at the moment and then he does whatever he thinks will advance his career the most. And what a career it is. Zero legislative accomplishments. Zip. Name one. . .
- Charles Lemos
He gets away with one thing after another. He’s beyond Teflon – he’s a freakin’ trampoline.
- Stan Brand
From the instant that he felt that the Democratic nomination was in his hands, Obama has moved relentlessly to the right in a breathtaking, stunning exhibition of cynicism, duplicity, and fraudulent campaigning. Everything he stood for has been thrown overboard, and Obama has broken his verbal contract with his own core voters and donors.
– Will Bower
. . . By November the party will represent nothing in the eyes of Americans
– Seattle Moss
For the ‘bots, can we just agree that you thought it was cool that he’s (half) black and leave it at that? There is no other reason to support this man — especially after the last couple of weeks.
Campaign Finance FISA Church And State Iraq and (soon) NAFTA
And it’s not even November yet.
– JAY in Los Angeles | 2008-07-03
Yes Obama did, he passed a Bill to recognize the Democracy of the Congo and a Bill renaming a Post Office, two vital pieces of legislation needed to make America strong and and and….. Shit Kool Aide wear off meltdown…..lol
- Mel | 2008-06-18 18:14:05
/01/05: Obama was part of a unanimous consent agreement not to filibuster the nomination of lawless torturer Alberto Gonzales as chief law enforcement officer of the United States (U.S. Attorney General).”
“2/15/05: Obama voted to confirm Michael Chertoff, a proponent of water-board torture… man behind the round-up of thousands of people of Middle-Eastern descent following 9/11. By Roll call 10.”
“4/21/05: Obama voted to make John ‘Death Squad’ Negroponte the National Intelligence Director. In Central America, John Negroponte was connected to death squads that murdered nuns and children in sizable quantities. He is suspected of instigating death squads while in Iraq, resulting in the current insurgency. Instead of calling for Negroponte’s prosecution, Obama rewarded him by making him National Intelligence Director. Roll call 107″
“4/21/05: Obama voted for HR 1268, war appropriations in the amount of approximately $81 billion. Much of this funding went to Blackwater USA and Halliburton and disappeared. Roll call 109 ”
“11/15/05: Obama voted for continued war, again. Roll call 326 was the vote on the Defense Authorization Act (S1042) which kept the war and war profiteering alive, restricted the right of habeas corpus and encouraged terrorism. Pursuant to his pattern, Obama voted for this. .”
“12/21/05: Obama confirmed his support for war by voting for the Conference Report on the Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863), Roll call 366, which provided more funding to Halliburton and Blackwater. ”
“5/2/06: Obama voted for money for more war by voting for cloture on HR 4939, the emergency funding to Halliburton, Blackwater and other war profiteers. Roll call 103 .”
“5/4/06: Obama, again, voted to adopt HR4939: emergency funding to war profiteers. Roll call 112 .”
“6/13/06: Obama voted to commend the armed services for a bombing that killed innocent people and children and reportedly resulted in the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi… Michael Berg, whose son was reportedly killed by al-Zarqawi, condemned the attack and expressed sorrow over the innocent people and children killed in the bombing that Obama commended. Roll call 168 .”
“6/15/06: Obama voted for the conference report on HR4939, a bill that gave warmongers more money to continue the killing and massacre of innocent people in Iraq and allows profiteers to collect more money for scamming the people of New Orleans. Roll Call 171 .”
– Hope Floats | No Quarter
I find extremely troubling Obama’s new found religion in courting the far right evangelical vote. Not only is he proposing that Bush’s faith based initiatives be maintained, but expanded! . . .
. . . Evangelicals beware of the Pharisee in your midst.
- Jason, posted in NO QUARTER
– Tell me why Barack Obama promised Maytag workers he’d fight for their jobs and took their hard-earned money for his campaign, then turned around and got a big donation from Maytag board member Lester Crown (as well as his family and friends), but never said a word to Crown about saving those workers’ jobs?
– SusanUnPC, NO QUARTER
And while being a Navy fighter pilot and a POW for 4 years certainly doesn’t qualify someone to be Commander-in- Chief, being mentored for 17 years by Jeremiah Wright doesn’t exactly move you to the top of the list either.
– Marc Rubin
George Soros owns Obama. George Soros is the main sponsor of Move On.Org, Daily Kos.com, and Blue America. The question should be, what is Soros going to get for his Money.
- dnesser | 2008-06-30 20:32:30
– Uppity Woman at NQ
More Gems worth saving
Comment by Leisa | 2008-06-11 00:46:20
I am always in awe of the disconnect of the “movement”.
They say; “No More Dynasties”, then they employ the Kennedy branch of the party…
Another gem:
The Harvard Law Review leader who never published a
thing during his time there??????
Comment by jangles | 2008-06-19 22:17:12
. . . UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BARACK OBAMA AS CHAIR 100 MILLION $ WERE SPENT IN THE NAME OF IMPROVING CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. NOTHING WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN TERMS OF IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING OR IMPROVING STUDENT CAPACITY TO LEARN OR IMPROVING SOCIAL SKILLS IMPORTANT TO SUCCESS IN LIFE BEYOND SCHOOLING.
I am a retired educator and I can not tell you how angry this kind of “school reform initiative” makes me. These people come in to serve on educational boards because of their “community connections and ambitions”. They attend lavish Board meetings and discuss mosquito minutiae ad infinitum. They totally fail to develop protocols to assess real impacts on improving the learning or life of the students they are purporting to serve. What comes through so clearly about this report is that the perspective of Ayers and Obama and the whole CAC effort was about creating political power relationships as the way to impact and improve student learning in inner city schools. As one who has actually done this work, I find this approach about as irrelevant to the reality of the problem as one could possibly dream up.
As for educational “debts”, the entire “No Child Left Behind” is a reform initiative that is based upon a “student deficit model”. The emphasis is on “what is wrong with these kids and how can we fix them”. This deficit model has not worked over the last 75 years. What we need is a national educational model that is based upon “what skills and abilities do these students have and how can these skills and abilities be used to help them be more successful with “school learning”.
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Comment by SONIA | 2008-06-18 20:37:13
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘post turtle’. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’.’
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face,
so he continued to explain. ‘You know he didn’t get up there by himself,
he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a moron put him up there in the first place.
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Comment by marisa | 2008-06-16 05:26:11
Actually, Obama is unelectable because there are no caucuses in the GE.
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Comment by Obama “We don’t need the people. We just need the checks.”
Comment by destardi | 2008-06-17 10:00:17
What part of “national leader wannabe” raising “race and ripping fresh wounds” and accusing two of the very best liberals in America in modern times of being racists, do you
NOT F*CKING UNDERSTAND.
Yes, we really need someone who uses one of the most hurtful issues in America as a wedge issue to attract votes.
Yes, that is a quality, classy individual.
stay classy barackula!
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Comment by bornagaindem | 2008-06-29 08:08:23
“. . . most people consider me pretty leftist and I take umbrage at the fact that you think it is only moderate democrats that don’t support Obama.
In fact one of my main reasons for not supporting Obama from the beginning was all his trash talk about the democrats. He constantly talked about bringing people in Washington together. Implying that democrats were equally responsible for for the gridlock there. Implying that democrats weren’t compromising enough. Well I considered that the warning siren that this guy was not a leftist and if anything wanted to make even more compromises with the repugs. Absolutely the last thing I want to see.
I liked Hillary because she has no illusions about what the repugs are capable of and will stand her ground and make them come to her rather than the constant crawling to the right that the usual cowardly democratic pol exhibits. So Obama showing more of his true core beliefs now is no surprise to me. I’d go so far as to call him a DINO.”
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Comment by caligirl | 2008-06-28 22:42:13
“The Republicans set this up so they could get Obamba nominated knowing darn well that they will whip his ass in November with all the dirt they have on him. A Republican client of mine told me last summer that Republicans were going to switch to Democrats to make sure Obama got the nomination. That is exactly what they did. Why do you think he won all the red states! . . . ”
“does Obama realize that PUMA is HIS OWN CREATION, a little Frankenstein that bloomed during 6 months of the foulest, most abusive web campaign in history?”
“What did he think would become of all those people who were cursed at and thrown out of our democratic blogs because they did not support him? Did he think they would just disappear?”
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R is for real bad, man. There’s nothing worse. I’ll be voting for them. But I’ll be damned if I’ll
pretend to like the cruds.
DNC must get the message that voters will not tolerate having their votes stolen.
DNC must get the message that they are there to act as transparent facilitator. They are not
there to disregard the will of the voter.
DNC is going to clean house, or else lose this vote, and this volunteer forever.
– Comment by Lipstick LaPig
Nobody can deny that Barack Obama certainly surrounds himself with slimeballs interesting friends.
– Uppity Woman, No Quarter
goatsandmonkeys
June 11, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Another great post from No Quarter USA:
Comment by lightacandle | 2008-06-11 22:07:09
Is Barack Obama actually a “liberal,” meaning he gives a damn about poor people, black people, blue-collar workers, and middle-class people?
No.
Eleven of slumlord Tony REZKO’s dilapidated and condemned housing units were in Barack Obama’s Illinois state senate district, but Obama “never” noticed.
Obama had helped REZKO to get state and federal loans to rehab buildings, BUT Obama “never” noticed the eleven REZKO-built, dilapidated, un-inhabitable buildings in his state senate district — these REZKO-built housing units were supposed to be for the benefit of the poor blacks Obama “claims” to give a hoot about.
Well, the sad fact is that Barack Obama much prefers hanging out with the rich and privileged power-brokers who have given him money and power … he does not give a fig about poor or working class people.
Not a fig.
In other words, Obama has gotten his, and the rest of us can go soak.
Does Obama give a fig about protecting a “woman’s right to choose””
Let’s see …
As an Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama took the coward’s way out and did not vote either “yes” or “no.” Instead, he voted “present” on seven abortion bills, including a ban on “partial birth abortion,” two parental notification laws and three “born alive” bills. In each case, the right vote was clear, but Senator Obama chose political cover over standing and fighting for his convictions. http://www.illinoisnow.org
As I said: Obama has gotten his, and the rest of us can go soak.
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Comments from the Howard Dean petition:
3:11 pm PDT, Jun 10, Ada Blanco, Oklahoma
I have voted democrat all my life, after this years primary I no longer feel like I belong in a party that has annointed and fixed the election. What kind of leader sits silently while the media destroys one of his party leaders reputation? Howard Dean allowed that and Hillary supporters will not forget. We will not fall in line, we have minds and we will not vote for your unexperienced chosen one. Dean, Brazile and Obama must all go!
3:29 pm PDT, Jun 10, Kathleen M Bentley, Indiana
When someone in his position puts money and a personal agenda
ahead of the people who support the party,
he should step down from the DNC Chair position.
Dean has made me ashamed to have been a democrat all of my life.
3:26 pm PDT, Jun 10, Yael Thompson, Louisiana
Nominees should be elected, not selected. What the DNC
did with Barack Obama is not different than what the Supreme
Court did with George W. Bush.
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I worked the phones for Kerry in the last presidential election. 95% of the volunteers were white women well over the age of 50. (Kerry wouldn’t take the time to wipe his ass on us, much less say hello). These women are the backbone of the party. They are taken for granted, and marginalized. I’ll never forget the snide commentary by an Iowa editor. It was something like: “It’s snowing and sleeting. Not a Hillary day. Slips and falls, and brittle bones break” in other words, the old ladies – her supporters, wouldn’t be out voting.
Next time DNC needs a volunteer, tell them to call a Kossack.
– lute
goatsandmonkeys
June 12, 2008 at 3:41 am
Senator Clinton gives of herself, develops her own thoughts, invests $10 million of her own dollars, offers her opinions freely and the party selects who for the nominee? The big donator himself. He gives 2300 of his own dollars but he takes how many millions from others in the form of finances, ideas, speeches (or words), and even delegates. This gem is like Obama … just glass, not a diamond in the rough. It further supports Obama’s weaknesses and leadership ineptness.
Today
June 28, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I sense righteous indignation among ye! Keep it up, PUMAs!
tamerlane
August 4, 2008 at 2:47 am
Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid -xcamel, Free Republic
Tom
September 23, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Tom, I’m not sure who you are talking about.
Bill Clinton came from a poor family, and
George W. Bush was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. We’ll all be in the poorhouse by the time he finishes his term!
goatsandmonkeys
September 24, 2008 at 8:38 pm