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20th February 2008 01:01 PM
gimmekeef If elected his presidency will likley live down to his initials....B..O...
20th February 2008 01:06 PM
Riffhard Yeah he's not a socialist! Just keep telling yourself that. Forget facts just repeat the mantra-"Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can!" Are the visions of the marching hammers in your brain yet? They are in mine.


YES WE CAN!!!






Oh yeah and then there's this. Seems there's more to Barack's socialist leanings than even I thought!

___________________________________________________________

The mysterious "Frank" cited as a friend and adviser by Democratic president contender Barack Obama while he was growing up in Hawaii has been identified as Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA.

The identification comes from Cliff Kincaid in his column, "Obama's Communist Mentor," which was made available on the Accuracy in Media website.

"Let's challenge the liberal media to report on this," he wrote in his column. "Will they have the honesty and integrity to do so?"

Kincaid, who earlier reported on Obama's pending plan to ship $845 billion overseas to battle "global poverty" as evidence of his socialist leanings, said the newly revealed connection is even more worrisome.


Here's the link


___________________________________________________________



Riffy


20th February 2008 01:08 PM
Starbuck
quote:
Kincaid, who earlier reported on Obama's pending plan to ship $845 billion overseas to battle "global poverty" as evidence of his socialist leanings, said the newly revealed connection is even more worrisome.



now wait a minute...i said condos for palestinians, not for the poor bastards in nigeria, sri lanka or east los angeles....

this obama thing must be reconsidered, post haste!
20th February 2008 01:37 PM
monkey_man Yes and we all know that hedge fund managers and their ilk all like to back socialist candidates. Do you guys hear yourselves? Obama is backed by all the big money that pushes mainstream candidates. He is already a puppet of the corporations. . .communist. . .I think not! Take a deep breath and relax, nothing of any substance is going to change in this country. Obama will keep that status quo and truly disappoint anyone that wants REAL change.
Sheesh the fear mongering here is rampant!
20th February 2008 02:05 PM
Fiji Joe
quote:
monkey_man wrote:
Yes and we all know that hedge fund managers and their ilk all like to back socialist candidates. Do you guys hear yourselves? Obama is backed by all the big money that pushes mainstream candidates. He is already a puppet of the corporations. . .communist. . .I think not! Take a deep breath and relax, nothing of any substance is going to change in this country. Obama will keep that status quo and truly disappoint anyone that wants REAL change.
Sheesh the fear mongering here is rampant!



Assuming all that's true, that the status quo will be maintained, Obama trumps McCain on the basis of his foreign policy skills...He has already shown great promise in that regard...His father was Kenyan...and he was schooled in Indonesia...and he dated a girl from Cabrini Green...What's McCain ever done?


[Edited by Fiji Joe]
20th February 2008 02:07 PM
Riffhard
quote:
monkey_man wrote:
Yes and we all know that hedge fund managers and their ilk all like to back socialist candidates. Do you guys hear yourselves? Obama is backed by all the big money that pushes mainstream candidates. He is already a puppet of the corporations. . .communist. . .I think not! Take a deep breath and relax, nothing of any substance is going to change in this country. Obama will keep that status quo and truly disappoint anyone that wants REAL change.
Sheesh the fear mongering here is rampant!



Look monkey_man I certainly know that Obama is not about to rewrite the constitution and try and transform the republic into a communist regime. He'd catch a bullet before that was ever allowed to happen. However, anyone that does not see that he is pushing a very obvious and blatant socialist/collectivist agenda just hasn't been listening.

Just last night he made allusions to a collectivist society. His spending programs would make Bush look like Silas Marner! The guy is vapid, vague, and vacant. Not to mention the fact that in a speech that lasted over 45 minutes last night he did not mention what he hopes to change with even the slightest degree of specificity. That so many people are so gullible to this guy's empty rhetoric is just a bizarre thing to watch.

Kinda like this-->




Riffy

[Edited by Riffhard]
20th February 2008 02:11 PM
sirmoonie My Cabrini-Green Appreciation thread has been pre-empted. Damn. And it was going to be good too. Like real good.
20th February 2008 02:23 PM
Factory Girl
quote:
sirmoonie wrote:
My Cabrini-Green Appreciation thread has been pre-empted. Damn. And it was going to be good too. Like real good.



My dear friend,

We need a Michele Obama App. thread. We need it bad...rotfl.
20th February 2008 02:39 PM
sirmoonie
quote:
Factory Girl wrote:


My dear friend,

We need a Michele Obama App. thread. We need it bad...rotfl.


You're frisky today. Buoyant like. I approve.
20th February 2008 02:39 PM
somebody can what?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-crawford/yes-we-can-what_b_87137.html
20th February 2008 02:53 PM
Starbuck
quote:
Kinda like this-->





20th February 2008 03:14 PM
sirmoonie
quote:
somebody wrote:
can what?




Wrong. I have been to what is left of Cabrini-Green. I made my brother take me there last time I was in Chicago, circa 9/07. We were intoxicated, but not looking for crack. Neither of us smokes crack. We were just observing negroes, and asking some of them if Thelma still lived here. His idea, not mine.
20th February 2008 04:02 PM
parmeda
quote:
sirmoonie wrote:
Wrong. I have been to what is left of Cabrini-Green. I made my brother take me there last time I was in Chicago, circa 9/07. We were intoxicated, but not looking for crack. Neither of us smokes crack. We were just observing negroes, and asking some of them if Thelma still lived here. His idea, not mine.


Fear not, my dear moonie.
Mother Cabrini would be proud to know her homage is still intact!

Did a drive-by a few weeks ago - only difference was my windows were up and I drove like a cat's ass on fire to get past it and out in one piece. Things looked pretty calm on the corner of Sedwick, though - it's too damn cold even for Thelma's pimp to hawk her ass out on that corner!

Rest assured this will all change within the next 3-4 weeks with daylight savings time and all...
20th February 2008 04:35 PM
nankerphelge moonie, you haven't really lived until you've bought drugs at a public housing project.

When I lived in New Orleans in 1985, I had no connections.

This guy at work who was originally from Haiti told me about Dirty D -- the Desire Housing Projects. Said you could get whatever you wanted. He was right, but let me tell ya - I'm lucky I am not a statistic.



You drive down Rt 10 into the outskirts of the downtown area. You get off and immediately you can tell things are not right. The streets were essentially bowed in the middle (high in the middle but sloped down on either side) and in horrible condition. There was litter everywhere. Building after buidling with no sign of life, nothing in the windows, no one outside -- looked totally deserted.

I slowed down and all of a sudden, about a dozen or so kids (ages 12-18) come out of the woodwork. They all start hanging in the windows yelling like brokers on the NYSE floor. All fighting for the $10 in my hand.

You make the purchase and literally have to drive away to get the kids out of the window.

Frightening.

Did it like 3 times and my heart was racing each time.
Felt so wrong on so many levels.

Desire was one of the nation's worst projects.
Torn down now I believe.
20th February 2008 04:51 PM
monkey_man You can't be a true Keith fan unless you've copped off the street. . .
20th February 2008 06:15 PM
Rev Twenty Redlights
ABC's Wright: Obama Rallies Like Springsteen Concerts

The reporters at ABC's "Nightline" continued to outdo themselves in their glowing adoration for Senator Barack Obama. Correspondent David Wright, filing a story on Tuesday about the swelling crowds at the Democratic presidential contender's rallies, advised viewers to think of the events as "Springsteen concerts, but the tickets are free."

Describing those who waited outside in the cold for such a rally, he bubbled, "...Everyone waited patiently, because inside...they felt the warm glow of hope." Wright even wondered if the candidate can "redeem politics from mere partisanship."

Descending to a level of fawning that's usually reserved for the subjects featured in Tiger Beat or on "Entertainment Tonight," Wright created a religious metaphor. He rhapsodized, "Obama's true believers respond as though they've spent their whole lives out in the cold." Continuing the analogy, the ABC journalist exclaimed, "Politics doesn't even begin to describe it. A visit to an Obama rally is a pilgrimage... Black people hoping he can finally achieve Martin Luther King's dream. White people hoping he can redeem America from the sins of slavery and segregation."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/02/20/abcs-wright-obama-rallies-are-springsteen-concerts
20th February 2008 06:38 PM
Rev Twenty Redlights Quotations from Chairman Obama:

"I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible."

"Don't expect government to solve all your problems."

"There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is only the United States of America."

"My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time."

"That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son."

"The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams."

"I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation. It had to serve as the center of the community's political, economic, and social as well as spiritual life; it understood in an intimate way the biblical call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and challenge powers and principalities. In the history of these struggles, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world."

"There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome—others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends."

"We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained."

"Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."

"When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups."

"Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts."

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential."

"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "It works. It makes sense."

"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."



20th February 2008 08:07 PM
pdog McCain is like Bill Clinton?


Oh No!!!
20th February 2008 08:56 PM
Fiji Joe
quote:
Rev Twenty Redlights wrote:
Quotations from Chairman Obama:

"I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible."

"Don't expect government to solve all your problems."

"There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is only the United States of America."

"My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time."

"That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son."

"The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams."

"I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation. It had to serve as the center of the community's political, economic, and social as well as spiritual life; it understood in an intimate way the biblical call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and challenge powers and principalities. In the history of these struggles, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world."

"There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome—others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends."

"We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained."

"Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."

"When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups."

"Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts."

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential."

"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "It works. It makes sense."

"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."




Pdog rattles off better than that sitting at home in his underwear....
20th February 2008 09:35 PM
Rev Twenty Redlights New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, at an Obama rally:

"We originally scheduled the Rolling Stones, but we
canceled them when we figured out that Senator Obama
would sell more tickets."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/us/11obama.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
20th February 2008 09:45 PM
LadyJane
quote:
Rev Twenty Redlights wrote:
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, at an Obama rally:

"We originally scheduled the Rolling Stones, but we
canceled them when we figured out that Senator Obama
would sell more tickets."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/us/11obama.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin




RockStar using the ULTIMATE Rock Stars.
Interesting.
Interesting...indeed

LJ.

Hey Rev..I like the O-Bama-Hey Bama song.
20th February 2008 09:52 PM
Riffhard
quote:
Rev Twenty Redlights wrote:
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, at an Obama rally:

"We originally scheduled the Rolling Stones, but we
canceled them when we figured out that Senator Obama
would sell more tickets."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/us/11obama.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin




Were this true it would be the ultimate in humiliation. As it stands it ranks right up there in the top three.



Those Obamaites are a funny bunch, ain't they? Run little lemmings, run!







Riffy
20th February 2008 11:21 PM
somebody Hilary has the ideas and knowledge to make a great president, alas, the american people obviously once again, must turn a blind eye to someone who can actually do the job. I feel like they must want a dummy in office. I have a bad feeling about Obama, that there will be no logical focus... Its really hard to stay and watch this pie in the sky mentality take over again. I grow weary...
20th February 2008 11:28 PM
Brainbell Jangler
quote:
somebody wrote:
Hilary has the ideas and knowledge to make a great president, alas, the american people obviously once again, must turn a blind eye to someone who can actually do the job. I feel like they must want a dummy in office. I have a bad feeling about Obama, that there will be no logical focus... Its really hard to stay and watch this pie in the sky mentality take over again. I grow weary...


You just know nothing about Barack Obama. If I've ever met a person with a logical focus (and there were a few in my law school, which some posters prefer I do not name), it was Barack.
20th February 2008 11:29 PM
Brainbell Jangler
quote:
Riffhard wrote:


Were this true it would be the ultimate in humiliation. As it stands it ranks right up there in the top three.

Riffy



More humiliating than Bill Clinton's birthday party?
20th February 2008 11:31 PM
Brainbell Jangler
quote:
Fiji Joe wrote:


Pdog rattles off better than that sitting at home in his underwear....


Perhaps, but he's not on the ballot. BTW, the sainted Pdog pledged me his vote several years ago on another board. I take that endorsement very seriously.
20th February 2008 11:50 PM
sirmoonie Fuck the goddam proletariat! The middle class in America is the biggest bunch of whining bums any society every allowed. The proletariat spends their "working" eternity here on earth spanking away and complaining about their pencil pushing jobs, yet they take weekends off, they drink light beer, host barbeques, wear baggy shirts and sweatpants to cover their porcine guts, and elect dopes like George Walker Bush III. I'm surprised every corporation in America hasn't moved the puptent to Dubai and bailed out on this nation's horrific excuse for a manpower pool.

Between 5-7% of the population creates all the National Product (gross AND net), all the wealth, all the value-added, and everything on the left side of the balance sheet. You think the proletariat does any of that? Hell no. The proletariat is barely fit to live under semi-economic slavery to the nation's capitalists, and should be grateful to do so.
21st February 2008 02:36 AM
TampabayStone
quote:
sirmoonie wrote:

Wrong. I have been to what is left of Cabrini-Green. I made my brother take me there last time I was in Chicago, circa 9/07. We were intoxicated, but not looking for crack. Neither of us smokes crack. We were just observing negroes, and asking some of them if Thelma still lived here. His idea, not mine.



Nice! Concise and right to the point...

Photobucket

Let's not forget; that's my women!!!

21st February 2008 06:44 AM
Rev Twenty Redlights Pearl Jam: Rock Around Barack

(to the tune of Rock around the Clock)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5jFTS4u5Jw&eurl=http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Pearl+Jam/track/Rock+Around+Barack

plus, in case you somehow missed it, the great barack
video by will.i.am of the black eyed peas (who also
i think did an official remix of "rain fall down"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk&feature=related
21st February 2008 07:00 AM
Rev Twenty Redlights Tomorrow's News Today:

It's only Barack and Roll by the rolling stones to
be featured on new album...

The 3 disc compilation includes such remakes as Neil Young's Barackin' in the Free World, Elton John's Baracket Man, The B-52's Barack Lobster and the Ramones' Sheena Is a Punk Baracker, to mention a few.

The producer of Barackin' 44 for the candidate's RockPAC label, Akon Daughtry said, "The level of support for Senator Obama from the music industry has been phenomenal and we believe this compilation album may be just enough to put us over the top."

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=336
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