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Posted on Apr 2, 2008
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Here’s one person in Pennsylvania Barack Obama doesn’t want to shake hands with. After repeatedly refusing to pose for a photo, the candidate finally relented, but warned: “I won’t be smiling.”

Obama called the man “an eBay guy,” a reference, according to The Politico, to campaign profiteers.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 7, 2008 at 3:25 am Link to this comment

Waterboarding, eh? Do they have that at UCSB?

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 7, 2008 at 1:06 am Link to this comment

Show them to your psychiatrist, Carla, duh…....

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By cyrena, April 6, 2008 at 11:33 pm Link to this comment

Chalmers,

You’ve been hinting at this for a while, and I’ve been ‘saving’ you….from even further embarrassment..so far


•  “Strange about a woman who contacts a man on the internet to chat - then turns around and attacks him on a forum they both regularly blog on. This obsession has to stop, cyrena. Its no longer excusable.”

So, when you didn’t get the response that you wanted from putting the first part of my name on this public forum, and when nobody paid attention to the your other constant ‘droppings’ of your fantasies involving “Private Messages” you just had to keep it up.

So, you’re still in this meltdown, eh you poor miserable soul?

So, let me give you a chance to ‘bow out’ and change you mind, before I do this Chalmers. I KNEW I’d saved ALL of those PRIVATE MESSAGES that you bombarded me with, (from way back when) for a REASON! Creepy as they were, I did save them.

And yes, I even saved my own responses. Now for whatever the reasons, I have NEVER been able to generate a “Private Message” through truth dig, on MY end. I don’t know why, and it’s never been all that important. I CAN however, RESPOND to messages that have been directed to me, through that same system.

AND…yep, you guessed it, I’VE SAVED THOSE AS WELL. So Chalmers, you think about this, and let me know if you would like me to post ALL of those messages that I received FROM you, along with my own limited responses. I’m more than happy to do that, because it’s really rude to keep this blog bogged down with YOUR obsession with ME. It’s tacky, it’s unprofessional, and if you’re going to continue doing this, then the least we can do is make sure that EVERYBODY else knows what’s going on.

So, think about whether or not you would like me to post all of these things in a very nice and tidy sequence with date and time, as well as your email address, which you sent me in the VERY FIRST PRIVATE MESSAGE that YOU SENT ME!

At the time, you must have recognized that I was very new to this ‘blogging’ thing, and I was. It’s called ‘lying in wait’…and lecherous old perverts on the Internet are little different than lecherous old perverts anywhere else.  Only my own intuitive common sense made me realize, (after the first few messages) that this was EXCACTLY what you were/are.
So, you let me know what you want me to do Chalmers. You’ve been trying to ‘work this up’ for a REALLY long time.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 6, 2008 at 10:42 pm Link to this comment

Strange about a woman who contacts a man on the internet to chat - then turns around and attacks him on a forum they both regularly blog on. This obsession has to stop, cyrena. Its no longer excusable.

Its nice to know that you can live a functional life with your uhh, problem, but do kindly learn to stop blogging before you take your medication….. and forget about “post reference numbers” here - they don’t exist.

Scheer and I get on quite well together. He runs an open-minded blog which is very tolerant and “Truth” is his motto. His purpose is partly to facilitate learning for his media and journalism students. In return, I appreciate a blog which is progressive in its content and front page if not its format.

What you don’t know about Robert Scheer can be found at http://annenberg.usc.edu/ where he is a clinical professor….... such unprofessional laziness, Carla. Your abuse of the privilege of free speech is utterly apthetic.

But China has Han and 55 ethnic minorities. They are quite distinct from South Asians or other east Asians or S.E.Asians and particularly from South Asians or West Asians (Arabs, Turks, Persians). Pretending you know something in order to appear clever is foolish….......

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By cyrena, April 6, 2008 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment

Lib,

Chinese in an ethnicity that falls under the created race category of ASIAN.

All of these are CREATED categories, in so far as genetics are concerned.

What do you suppose the difference is between a Japanese person, or Chinese person, or a Korean person?

Well, you go do some genetic studies lib, but what they have in COMMON, is that they are all ASIAN. You and doug need to understand the difference between genetics and geography.


As far as I know, Robert Scheer doesn’t ‘work’ at a campus, nor (as far as I know) is he in anyway associated with a campus.

Also, bi-polar disorder is a very serious mental impairment from which many people suffer. (several million in the US alone, and many remain untreated). Fortunately, I don’t, but I have an enormous amount of empathy for those who do.

The disorder is not ‘curable’ but it is TREATABLE with medications and other therapies. There is still much to be learned about it, as well as other forms of mental illness.

MOST importantly though (while the scientific experts do what they can to come up with better methods for assessment and treatment) is to EDUCATE the PUBLIC, specifically ignorant people like TXlib so that they KNOW what this is, and how to deal with it. Needless to say, that becomes far more difficult for those whom are afflicted themselves.

Persons suffering from bi-polar and other mental disorders or psychological impairments CAN live functional lives, if properly diagnosed and treated. But, NOT ALL mental or psychiatric disorders CAN be. So, people should learn to know the difference.

For instance, multiple personality disorder, (which is EXCEEDINGLY rare) isn’t anything close to bi-polar disorder or even schizophrenia. So here again, lib shows her ignorance in comparing the two. I’m not surprised.

Since SO much of an individuals psychic ‘wiring’ is determined not only by genetics, but by life experiences and just plain CIRCUMSTANCES, it isn’t an easy thing to assess. Nor should ignorant people attempt to do so.

There is definitely a level of dysfunction evident in the postings from many of you. In some cases its may be genetics, but JUST being physiologically/psychologically compromised doesn’t explain the foundational mean-spiritedness found in the postings from Chalmers, and the constant focus and insults to ME personally, which can be found in almost ALL of his posts. There is something very obsessively driven about those, to the extent that EVEN AFTER it brought to his attention, he can’t help himself. He can’t just ignore whatever I may say, and can only go back to the same things over and over again, in his obsessively compulsive need to focus on ME, and what it is that has ‘defined me’ IN HIS OWN MIND, from day one.

Time after time after time, he will focus on 1) my mixed ethnicity, and 2) what HE has assumed is my ‘legal background’ of which he knows nothing.  This is DESPITE the fact that I have, (on more than one occasion) explained that my primary (and lengthy) ‘career’ was in the aviation industry. My academic focus in the field of Law and Society don’t attest to me being a ‘legal type’ anymore than my career in aviation did.

So, Chalmer’s has multiple ‘issues’ and he’s chosen me to obsess on. That’s not to say that he doesn’t fling similar accusations at others that he’s NEVER MET or otherwise communicated with, such as Robert Scheer, the editor of this website. Same thing. He accuses he and his staff of being drug abusers and the like. Same old shit.

Meantime lib,  learn how to site your ‘accusations’. If you want to ‘quote’ me on something that I said and later denied saying, you better get some smarts, and coordinating your fingers with your brain before you type. Use post reference numbers. Otherwise, you look just as foolishly ignorant and IMMATURE as Chalmers, jimmyjam, menstrual member and the occasional others.

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By Expat, April 6, 2008 at 5:21 am Link to this comment

^ trolls here and they’re very disturbed.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 6, 2008 at 4:32 am Link to this comment

You’ve got the clue, lib in texas (the three faces of Eve turned out to be seven…) and cyrena just makes them up as she goes along. Eventually (if not alrready) it becomes ‘possession’ and anyone and anything will ‘talk’ through her as she ultimetely channels utter garbage.

That IS what happens to legal types in the end. their monstrous egos finally get the better of them (or the cocaine) and, well, what they talk and believe in is madness anyway. Such is the insanity of desiring to control others…......

But “Asian” is not a race anyway, uhh. Everywhere between Turkey and Taiwan is Asia. The Chinese are not Arabs or whatever. I wonder if cyrena works(?) at the same campus that Scheer does, poor guy? Then again, maybe she is a ‘controlled experiment’ gone wrong, ha ha. Hey guys…......

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By cyrena, April 6, 2008 at 1:20 am Link to this comment

Chinese isn’t a ‘race’ you idiot. Asians are a ‘racial’ category, designed by some psychopathic white folks back in earlier centuries. For those purposes, (and their highly suspect) Chinese fit into the ASIAN genetic breakdown.

PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN CHINA are part of a national geopolitical group.

You really should join the course with lib and mensa, so you all can at least figure out the difference between what is a ‘genetic’ identification within the human race, and a geopolitical identification.

Never mind, you’re simply not wired for that kind of comprehension. Now go put your feet in a bucket of hot water and plug in your hair dryer.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 6, 2008 at 12:06 am Link to this comment

Uhh, the poor Chinese aren’t even allowed to be a race now. They are just as much of one as your native Americans, cyrena.

So while you are “piss(ing) up a rope” or one of your other animist tricks, you once again show your racist bias and religion of hatred and enmity…...

No wonder its “difficult to sort out” for you because you are still defiantly wedged into your white mindset - because that is all you know - and that is what you want to be, uhh.

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By cyrena, April 5, 2008 at 11:52 pm Link to this comment

Mensa member,

Neither Canadian or Chinese happen to be ‘races’.

Sorry you didn’t know that. Canadians are of all races. It’s a national identity, not an ethnic one.

Same with Chinese.

Now you’re going to have to study the same course work as lib in texas, if you want to get this right.

I don’t promise it will be easy, but then…that just depends on your comprehension level.

The biggest problem that lib has, is that she doesn’t know the difference between genetics and religions.

You don’t seem to know the difference between genetics and geography, or demographics.

The race issue is more difficult to sort out of course, because it is a CREATED classification system for what is one race, which happens to be the HUMAN race.

So, you’ll have to get up to speed on that part first, before you can understand the created/constructed categories of the ‘races’ breakdown, and what genetics constitute what race.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 5, 2008 at 9:32 pm Link to this comment

Poor Purple Girl, uhh, did I tread on your pet prejudice (or preoccupation) - or was it just your ego? Nobody is complaining about yer smelly ol’ pussy….. or your sagging breasts.

Talk about “paranoia”, you and cyrena have wooden stakes in your hearts but still won’t die, ha ha. Anyway, get out of your cloistered campus and “socialize”. Its far more enlightening…...

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By Purple Girl, April 5, 2008 at 5:42 am Link to this comment

Do You even KNOW what Anthropolgy Studies?
I have an Bachelors in sociology, anthropology and Gerontology. It’s the Study of Groups and group dynamics- past & Present. What makes that an Offensive field of Study. What makes that ‘suspecious’ to YOU? I’m more suspecious of those who prefer we remain intellectually isolated and Forgetful.
Also why do you fear Women- same mentality which Burned ‘witches’ at the stake. Because other than Sperm we handle the rest of that which gives & sustains life- feeling a little useless? vagina & Breast envy?
you are One Twisted… Man- paranoia run in your family- along with Racism & Sexism?

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By cyrena, April 4, 2008 at 8:28 pm Link to this comment

I haven’t denigrated anything Chalmers, other than you maybe.

Nope, as a avowed agnostic, I believe everybody has the right to practice whatever faith or religion that want, as long as they aren’t inflicting it upon those who choose..NOT.

So, go piss up a rope Chalmers. Surely that’s somewhere in your pagan bag of tricks.

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By lib in texas, April 4, 2008 at 8:05 pm Link to this comment

“Esp someone of another race.”  Jesus, stop with the race sh**!!!! Have nothing to say bring up race !!!!!!

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By jackpine savage, April 4, 2008 at 3:35 pm Link to this comment

A. I didn’t “thrash”...i only suggested that you have some issues.  I said this because on every thread you post this Rev. Wright stuff.  It may be true for all i know, but i figure that anyone who steps foot inside a church is a fool to begin with…no matter who the preacher is or what they say.  Your issue is that you’re obviously afraid of black people.  A lot of white preachers have said that we need to defeat/kill the Muslims…are you wrapped up like a pretzel over that? (And i don’t care if the Muslims want to kill us too…it only proves the fundamental stupidity of the Semitic traditions.)

B. You didn’t “print” anything, you typed it.

C. You can barely construct a readable sentence, so i tend to skim over your posts.

D.  Look out, the darkies are coming to get you…

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By kath cantarella, April 4, 2008 at 3:06 pm Link to this comment
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He doesn’t have to play Jesus with greed-bags.

Or maybe he does: you can’t always trust the media with grabs like this.

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By rc, April 4, 2008 at 11:32 am Link to this comment
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Wrong. Every human being has the right to thier own personal space.

As for having the gonads, well maybe that tells you that Senator Obama is a little more personable than you give him credit for. Especially to those of another race. The ironic thing is, if he had his security feed this fellow to the the pavement you’d be on here crying foul regardless.

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By lib in texas, April 4, 2008 at 8:47 am Link to this comment

I don’t have any problems.  Look this up your lazy self and see instead of thrashing out at everyone.

WHAT I printed is TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!

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By lib in texas, April 4, 2008 at 8:32 am Link to this comment

personal space ??? When you run for president there is no personal space. 
If Obama had had any gonads he would have had the jerk removed.  He has secret service all around him.

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By tdbach, April 4, 2008 at 7:01 am Link to this comment

Where do you come up with this stuff? uhh? unbelievable…

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By jackpine savage, April 4, 2008 at 4:10 am Link to this comment

You’ve got some real issues, there buddy.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 4, 2008 at 2:58 am Link to this comment

Generally, I would agree “that the West has declined culturally since the 17th century and now has lost its will to survive…”.

That’s what happens when you become a colonialist power and invade and occupy other peoples’ countries for an extended period for your own gain.

That is the kind of karma that the USA is socking away for itself too, duh. “Oh, no, not us…”!!!!

And thanks to cyrena for her denigration of Christianity as well as Paganism, hope for immortality, etc etc. So typical of an American black person who is desperately trying to disavow their own tribalist and animist-worshipping past….......

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By cyrena, April 4, 2008 at 12:50 am Link to this comment

heavyrunner,

“...and I didn’t see the Secret Service guys putting themselves between the aggressive guy and the candidate…”

I DID notice some minor action from the Secret Service guy, (or at least one of them).

But, you’re right. That would never have happened in LA, or anywhere else that I can imagine. And, I’m not so sure why the ‘lax’ attitude with Obama.

To be on the fair side though, Hillary Clinton was here in my area of Southern Calif several weeks ago, and I didn’t see a whole lot more SS attention given to her either.

Now she wasn’t ‘harrassed’ by anyone as Obama is here, and her ‘appearance’ was kept under wraps until just before she arrived. In other words, nobody knew until the last minute, that she would even be here.

Still, my point is that the Secret Service weren’t all that much in evidence during her short time in the area. Lots of local cops, (like cop available) were around, but that’s really all that was here to keep a watchful eye over what was a relatively small gathering.

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By cyrena, April 3, 2008 at 11:06 pm Link to this comment

Outraged…what GREAT work you do!! I would never have even bothered checking it out. (anything Chalmers links to that is).

I mean, his stuff is also so totally ‘out there’.

But then, so is this stuff from Spengler that you researched.

Now, were you being somewhat sarcastic when you suggested this?


**Did you catch that…? “He writes from a conservative Judeo-Christian religious perspective” really Chalmers…, one would think you of all people wouldn’t espouse this garbage. Sad, really sad….”

I mean, this stuff sounds EXACTLY like what Chalmers would espouse.

I agree that it’s really sad, but I think it’s right in line with every single other thing that Chalmers posts on this site. Paganism, hope for immortality, on and on.

Matter of fact, maybe Spengler is really Douglas Chalmers, (or vice versa) or…whatever…

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By rc, April 3, 2008 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment
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I’m disappointed at the lack of respect showed to senator Obama by this rude individual. Not only did he invade Mr Obamas personal space creating a potentially dangerous situation, but he also disrespected the senator when he refused to take “no” for an answer.

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By jimmyjam, April 3, 2008 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment

Exactly what this site( Liberal ) does. Politico,is conservative so what, you have moveon.org, this isn’t news, this guy getting this close to Obama is the news, that should be questioned.

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By jimmyjam, April 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm Link to this comment

You have conservatives sponsoring a known conservative site. and Truthdig is sponsored by a liberal school and writers, so what is the problem. Although as much as I am against Obama, that guy never should have gotten that close, and even I would like to know how and why it happened, also Obama did not know he was an autograph hawker until politico told it, so his arrogance ,or as much as I hate to say it his safety was at risk, he should have punched the fool in the head.Then he would have been an outcast for resorting to violence. lolololo

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By Outraged, April 3, 2008 at 11:44 am Link to this comment

Douglas Chalmers:

Here is a portion of the Wikipedia entry of the author, Spengler, from which you get your smear.  Who is this ANONYMOUS author, William Kristol?

“Spengler is the pen name of an anonymous Internet columnist published in Asia Times Online (ATol) since January 2000. He writes from a conservative Judeo-Christian religious perspective using aspects of Western history and culture to comment on current geopolitical events.”

(It continues…)
“Spengler’s analysis of contemporary geopolitical events revolves around the theme of Christianity’s encounter with paganism, which he also describes as the conflict between individual freedom and traditional national identities. Receiving repeated emphasis is the idea of immortality, which pagans seek to find in a particular time-bound culture. Spengler finds this hope misplaced and refers repeatedly to European nationalism as an extension of paganism. Instead, Spengler believes that Christianity offers a hope of both individual immortality and a transnational collective identity that is potentially compatible with individual freedom and resistant to destruction by it.[3]

Spengler indicates that the West has declined culturally since the 17th century and now has lost its will to survive, largely because its Christianization was incomplete and failed to eradicate pagan loyalty to traditional nations and cultures that growing individual freedom has been destroying for centuries but to which post-Christian Europeans still cling emotionally.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spengler_(columnist)

**Did you catch that…? “He writes from a conservative Judeo-Christian religious perspective”  really Chalmers…, one would think you of all people wouldn’t espouse this garbage. Sad, really sad….

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 3, 2008 at 11:12 am Link to this comment

Do read “Obama’s women reveal his secret”, Outraged…....

“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.” In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America…..

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother’s milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion.

He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath….. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States….. http://atimes01.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html pages 1 + 2

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By Outraged, April 3, 2008 at 10:42 am Link to this comment

If you don’t want to see the ad, don’t watch the video or go find the video on youtube or something.  Sometimes I think you are perpetually cantankerous….  Geez…  Before anyone decides that Chalmers is posting from a mental hospital or something, she’s not.  I’ve worked in one and the clients are MUCH, MUCH more pleasant. (I’m dead serious.)

Smile, it’s good for your health.  Remember, it’s about care BEFORE you get sick.

As for this: “Perhaps Obama has “issues” with white people???”

Sure Chalmers.  And “probably” he hates his mother and his grandmother and ALL of his ancestry on his mother’s side…right?  That’s idiotic.  You’re running dangerously close to the “lib in Texas” ideology.

Perhaps Douglas Chalmers has “issues” with black people???”

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 3, 2008 at 10:40 am Link to this comment

“That guy could have pulled out a pistol and shot somebody…

Uhh, maybe that’s the (covert) agenda, heavyrunner, but the last thing any country needs are political assassinations.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 3, 2008 at 10:37 am Link to this comment

Isn’t it amazing all the uses that religion can be put to, eh,  lib in texas?

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By steve, April 3, 2008 at 9:28 am Link to this comment
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I agree with almost all of the posts here so I won’t say much.  Surely everyone, black, white, hispanic asian, native americans, etc etc, can see through these stupid games.  The neocons simply can’t find anything on Obama so they have to invent stuff like this.  Although I admit I don’t know much about his history, Obama must be as clean as a whistle up to now and must have always paid his taxes on time in order for “them” to be inventing crap like this for the news cameras.

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By Pacrat, April 3, 2008 at 8:57 am Link to this comment
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I realize that smiling is a feature of all political campaigns - just like kissing babies, or attempting to bowl when one has never bowled before. Why pretend? Or, wearing a hard hat and overalls to show one’s sympathy for the working man!

Obama has a right to smile or not smile, but who can stand phoney smiles!

Question: Will Obama be smiling after the convention?

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By thebeerdoctor, April 3, 2008 at 7:54 am Link to this comment

Obama’s reference to ebay guy, is not about race, but about those opportunistic individuals who want to make money or fleeting fame, by making contact with someone famous. As far as the secret service, that incident would have never been allowed to happen, if that were McCain or Clinton.

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By lib in texas, April 3, 2008 at 7:10 am Link to this comment

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright in interview last year on ‘Hannity and Colmes’
Barack Obama’s suddenly radioactive pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Americanism and racism by referring to his foundational philosophy, the “black liberation theology” of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a “black messiah” and blacks as “the chosen people” who will only accept a god who assists their aim of destroying the “white enemy.”

“If God is not for us and against white people,” writes Cone, “then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community.”

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By heavyrunner, April 3, 2008 at 6:28 am Link to this comment

That guy stepped over the line.  What’s the deal with the Secret Service?  That man impeded Obama’s progress.  Why was he not arrested?  In California, I assure you, if you harassed Jack Nicholson like that for a photo you would be beaten, tazed, pepper sprayed and taken to the Twin Towers ( a very bad jail in LA ) and charged with felony stalking with a very high, like $100,000, cash only bail, and the story would be on page 1 so they could make an example of you and let everybody else know that such behavior will not be tolerated.

If there is a race angle to this it may be that the Secret Service is not doing its job diligently when it comes to Obama. 

That was terrible.  That guy could have pulled out a pistol and shot somebody, and I didn’t see the Secret Service guys putting themselves between the aggressive guy and the candidate.

Somebody should be reprimanded in the Secret Service over that.

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By Bart, April 3, 2008 at 5:54 am Link to this comment
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this guys sounds like Joe Pesce—-and acts like a stalker.  I would not take a photo with this nut. Probably a Rove ringer.

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By Aegrus, April 3, 2008 at 5:24 am Link to this comment

This new smear campaign against Barack has to be the weakest yet. Both Hillary and the Republicans are running out of ammunition. Sucks we still have the general election to be concerned about. Guess McCain will really have to be nice and play by the rules in the Fall, just to prove he is a nicer candidate than the tall, thin black man from Illinois.

Honestly, folks, it is the greatest experience of my life to see all these stupid arguments get deflected off of Obama time and time again. Nothing stops the ObamaMachine.

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 3, 2008 at 4:39 am Link to this comment

If that guy was BLACK, would you still have “issues” with him then, cyrena???

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By cyrena, April 3, 2008 at 4:01 am Link to this comment

Holy Shit cwhipps!!

Allbritton the Pinochet pal?!!! I always knew these F#$@er’s were connected to the Bush Rove gang!!

I ditto Expat. Thanks for the info. I had no idea.

Meantime, you couldn’t be more correct on what would have happened if this guy had tried to pull the same thing on Bush or Cheney. Hell, he wouldn’t have made it within 50 yards of either one of them. Matter of fact, now that I think about it, if he’d gotten that close to one of them, he wouldn’t have gotten as far as half-way to Gitmo. He’d be in a body bag on his way to the morgue.

What a moron this guy is. And what’s that thing he’s got pinned on his shirt? Looks like those fake ‘wings’ they used to hand out on the airplanes to the kids.

Chalmers, only YOU would claim that Obama must have an issue with white people. Are you just pissed off because YOU don’t have some ‘wings’ on your shirt?

You could be .0000000000000000001 percent right though. If YOU’RE white, (and that’s still real debatable) there’s no doubt he’d have an issue with your ass!!

Who wouldn’t?

Thanks again for the info cwhipps. (and the greenwald link at salon)

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By Douglas Chalmers, April 3, 2008 at 3:30 am Link to this comment

“an eBay guy”??? Just clicking to replay this clip and you get a second ad shoved at you, uhh.

Perhaps Obama has “issues” with white people??? Looks like he’s going to go on having them…... “You are wearing me out, brother.”

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By Expat, April 3, 2008 at 3:23 am Link to this comment

^ a good thing to know.  I have noticed they get a lot of quotes in many articles.  Now I will scrutinize what they say.

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By cwhipps, April 3, 2008 at 1:53 am Link to this comment

If this guy had been harassing Bush or Cheney like this, he’d be half way to Cuba with a bag over his head. But, the interesting part of the story isn’t this guy, it’s the website the story comes from.

The ownership of “Politico” seems to be tightly connected to George Bush, and if one remembers Karl Rove’s recent “Obama is arrogant” statement, it seems this story is a set-up. Let’s call it the “uppity negro meme” for now.

Here’s a quote from Glenn Greewald’s article about this, and a link to the entire reporting is below:

“We hear incessantly about how this group or that group is funded by George Soros, as though that fact, by itself, proves the group’s political affiliations. But those groups do not purport to be nonpartisan newspapers or sources of news. The Politico claims exactly that. Surely it is notable that those who created The Politico, who are funding it, and who are in charge of its operations, are long-time Republican operatives and those firmly implanted in right-wing circles.”

Apparently the culprits are Joe L. Allbritton (Riggs Bank and Augusto Pinochet pal) and Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico.

So much for the death of FOX news. It looks like “Politico” is the lastest effort to re-brand the American fascist propaganda.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/04/politico_funding/

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