“He said drying up gas tax collections would batter highway construction, costing North Carolina up to 7,000 jobs, while saving consumers little.
“We’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something,” said Obama.
“Well, let me tell you, this isn’t an idea designed to get you through the summer, it’s designed to get them through an election,” said Obama. He said his call for middle-class tax cuts would be far more beneficial than suspending gas tax collections.
]]>“He said drying up gas tax collections would batter highway construction, costing North Carolina up to 7,000 jobs, while saving consumers little.
“We’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something,” said Obama.
“Well, let me tell you, this isn’t an idea designed to get you through the summer, it’s designed to get them through an election,” said Obama. He said his call for middle-class tax cuts would be far more beneficial than suspending gas tax collections.
Obama took a different view on the issue when he was an Illinois legislator, voting at least three times in favor of temporarily lifting the state’s 5 percent sales tax on gasoline.
The tax holiday was finally approved during a special session in June of 2000, when Illinois motorists were furious that gas prices had just topped $2 a gallon in Chicago.
During one debate, he joked that he wanted signs on gas pumps in his district to say, “Senator Obama reduced your gasoline prices.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/2…
I wonder if Olberman will do a special comment on Obama’s about face?
I wonder if DU and Kos will pounce on it as well..
Ya think?
According to Willis..”Barack Obama is not sitting in the back of the Hillary bus.”
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/20…
Yes friends, the very thought that the Obamessiah would even think of being on the ticket with those apparantly racist Clinton folk is the equilavant of African Americans being forced to sit at the back of the bus.
Imagine the horror… the outrage… the fainting couches that would be needed of anyone even remotely associated with the Clinton camp had said something like this.
Who, I ask, is playing the race card here?
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
According to Willis..”Barack Obama is not sitting in the back of the Hillary bus.”
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/20…
Yes friends, the very thought that the Obamessiah would even think of being on the ticket with those apparantly racist Clinton folk is the equilavant of African Americans being forced to sit at the back of the bus.
Imagine the horror… the outrage… the fainting couches that would be needed of anyone even remotely associated with the Clinton camp had said something like this.
Who, I ask, is playing the race card here?
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
“Like Obama did in South Carolina, Obama is using racial language to attack Clinton in Mississippi. Obviously, to get chummy with the voters in language he thinks will work.
qouting Obama:
… .. “See, I was trying to explain to someone the ’okey-doke.’ Y’all know the okey-doke? It’s when someone’s trying to bamboozle you, when they’re trying to hoodwink you. They are trying to hoodwink you. You can’t say that he’s not ready on day one, unless he’s willing to be your vice president and then he’s ready on day one”. … .. “
end quote
It’s turning into a replay of South Carolina:
]]>“Like Obama did in South Carolina, Obama is using racial language to attack Clinton in Mississippi. Obviously, to get chummy with the voters in language he thinks will work.
qouting Obama:
… .. “See, I was trying to explain to someone the ’okey-doke.’ Y’all know the okey-doke? It’s when someone’s trying to bamboozle you, when they’re trying to hoodwink you. They are trying to hoodwink you. You can’t say that he’s not ready on day one, unless he’s willing to be your vice president and then he’s ready on day one”. … .. “
end quote
It’s turning into a replay of South Carolina:
It was wrong when Obama did it in South Carolina, though it was blamed on Bill, and it’s just as wrong in Mississippi”.
I agree, and I think its a bit cocky at this point for him to be ruling anything out..
Correct me if I am wrong..but isn’t there still a primary going on?
My deepest hope is that Hillary win the popular vote, followed by the nomination, followed swiftly by a granting of Obamas wish, followed just as swiftly by a toss of the Obamessiah back to his freeper wannabe supporters.
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
NY Gov Spitzer was implicated in a pristitution ring today. Bad news for any Democrat today..with the exception of those “hopeful” pigs at Democrat Underground.
According to these faux freepers, this is all..
wait for it now…
ya ready..
this is all…
HILLARYS FAULT!
witness the stupidity..
“Bill Clinton involved in the prostitution ring too”?!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
“Should Spitzer impugn Clinton in anyway? Should it innoculate Obama a bit on Rezko”?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
“If Hillary becomes President - will she pardon Spitzer”?
]]>NY Gov Spitzer was implicated in a pristitution ring today. Bad news for any Democrat today..with the exception of those “hopeful” pigs at Democrat Underground.
According to these faux freepers, this is all..
wait for it now…
ya ready..
this is all…
HILLARYS FAULT!
witness the stupidity..
“Bill Clinton involved in the prostitution ring too”?!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
“Should Spitzer impugn Clinton in anyway? Should it innoculate Obama a bit on Rezko”?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
“If Hillary becomes President - will she pardon Spitzer”?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
“Hillary & Eliot … BFF”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
Sad..what unity does to some..which is why I will never be able to unite with this crowd should the Obamessiah get the nomination.
They do Freerepublic proud.
Joebasic
Gratefully recovered DU member
Umm..
So, the Obamessiah may not have actually picked up the phone and called SNL..
but one has to wonder..did he also call MSNBC as well? You know…to complain about the bias that MSOBAMA shows as well?
Via the always excellent talkleft..
]]>Umm..
So, the Obamessiah may not have actually picked up the phone and called SNL..
but one has to wonder..did he also call MSNBC as well? You know…to complain about the bias that MSOBAMA shows as well?
Via the always excellent talkleft..
“My view is that for pure comic relief, spoofing Tweety Matthews and Punchline KO Olbermann’s incredible spluttering outrage that Clinton refuses to drop out after winning Texas and Ohio is a sure fire comedy classic. But it will be hard to top the original performance. Funniest thing I have seen all year. They could even do Fineman as the Grim Reaper. It was hilarious”.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/5/1…
Olberman has fallen off the tracks with his utter hatred of Clinton..his rabid, anti-hillary rants and screeds make Twetty seem like a fawning, gushing admirer.
It gets pretty bad when a Kos diarist, yes, I said a Kos diarist, notices..
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/14/1412…
“Keith Olbermann has finally pushed to Anti-Clinton, Pro-Obama bias too far. Tonight he was showing her new ad in Wisconsin and talking about how “there have already been too many debates”, etc. I just found the entire segment to really lack any journalistic discipline, as it was basically an anti-Clinton tirade. I’m so sorry about this too-as I used to LOVE Keith. He was my hero. Now I will have to stop Tivoing the show. That’s it- I’m done with MSNBC”
I must point out..that Kos is not a site friendly to Clinton by any stretch of the imagination.
But to his credit, he obviously doesn’t ban Hillalry supporters likie they do at the clownhouse known as DU.
This excellent blog has more details..
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/1485…
here are some tidbits..
“OLBERMANN: The Clinton camp’s intense desire to paint Obama as unfit to lead or unready at least, to command the mightiest military in human history consistently runs smack into the Obama rebuttal, that her experience and that of Republican rival, John McCain led to their participation in the worst American foreign policy mistake in decades if not centuries, a single Senate vote in 2002, authorizing the use of military force in Iraq.
Yesterday defending that vote, President Clinton not only referenced the fallacy that led to it, that Iraq was somehow tied to 9/11, in doing so, he also suggested, an experienced senator was tricked by an inexperienced just removed from Texas governor…
OLBERMANN: And just as the Clinton camp urged the media to focus on Obama’s foreign policy credentials, so too did the media do so today. The “Associated Press” and the conservative “Washington Times”, the latter paper headlining its piece: “Military Fears Unknown Quantity”, quoting only one fearful military by name, retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, happens to be an analyst for the FOX News Channel. And unnamed war profiteer was also quoted and nobody else. Obama’s rebuttals are coming from his military backers, most of them veterans of the Clinton administration…
OLBERMANN: Which stage of grief or stages of grief will we see from Senator Clinton? And how does Senator Obama play in all this?…
OLBERMANN: Even in these final moments before the 20th Democratic debate, what is going on inside the campaign of Senator Clinton of New York? The apparent answer is, everything. We are told to stand by for a kitchen sink fusillade against Senator Obama. Then again, we’re also told of Senator Clinton’s senior advisers thinks she’s about to lock the nomination down. Dana Milbank of the “Washington Post” who heard that actually said out loud as we continue our countdown to the MSNBC Democratic debate in exactly 21 minutes and 30 seconds. That’s next…”
Keith Olbermann may have done a lot of good things in the past BUT in my opinion he is no longer credible and he has lost ALL of the respect that I once had for him. When I watch Olbermann right now, I monitor him for his personal bias just like how I do the same thing when I watch Bill O’Reilly on FOX News and when I listen to Rush Limbaugh and others like him on extreme right wing talk radio!
Can anyone find just one Countdown video link or transcript within the last week or so where Keith Olbermann had ANYTHING nice or positive to say about Hillary? If it exists, then please show it to me because I have not seen it yet and I watch Countdown every day. If I had a nickel for every compliment that Keith Olbermann has given to Obama and for every time that he has defended Obama either from Hillary or McCain within the last week or so, then I could probably retire right now!
Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and other openly biased pundits in the mainstream media just like them are NOT doing Democrats or the public any kind of a service by acting as apologists for Obama, by not asking the tough questions about obama that we all need to know BEFORE the nomination is decided, and by trying to give Obama a free ride to the Democratic nomination while trying to imply the Clinton campaign’s political obituary to their viewers. Shame on all of them!
If Keith Olbermann wants my support and confidence again, then he will definitely have to earn it by showing some true objectivity instead of his own personal bias when he talks about Democrats!
I know that this post may not be popular with some people here but those who know me know that I always call things how I honestly see them right down the middle no matter who it is even if it is not always popular. I completely stand behind everything that I have said in this post without any apology because it is what people definitely need to hear and be aware of right now in my opinion”!
and from another Kos diarist..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/7/8…
“I don’t know if it is possible at this point. I’m sure many of us never expected Keith Olbermann to turn this way in becoming SHOCK TV. We thought of Keith Olbermann as a respected Commentator who seemed to care about reporting truth. An Edward Murrow of our time.
But he instead has become the waterboy for the Obama campaign. Or shall I call him their media hatchet? Now resorting to making up stories and coloring the facts and bringing on guests that were known to be a Gore basher during the Bush 2000 campaign, Richard Wolfe, proceding to “commentate” and LIE on the air”.
Much more at the link..well worth reading…
So, Barack, will you call Mr Olberman and implore for unity and fairness?
Will you point out to him that he is doing the RNC’s work for them, by endlessly trashing Clinton and providing ad copy for them, should she become the nominee?
Somehow, I don’t think Olberman is waiting by the phone.
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
In 2000:
The press was gushing and fawning in their coverage of this new Emperor, he could do no wrong. His campaign events were described in almost messianic tones. I remember an MSNBC reporter saying that “the atmosphere was positivly electric..people were hanging from the rafters, and couldn’t wait to vote for “W”.
In 2000:
The press was gushing and fawning in their coverage of this new Emperor, he could do no wrong. His campaign events were described in almost messianic tones. I remember an MSNBC reporter saying that “the atmosphere was positivly electric..people were hanging from the rafters, and couldn’t wait to vote for “W”.
Gore’s campaign events were describes as sparsely attended, with a pervading sense of gloom and doom.
In 2008:
Obama’s events are described as “rock star” events, complete with traffic jams, adoring fans and a sense of euphoria. As an NBC reporter recently admitted..”It’s hard to stay neutral when covering this guy..thjere is just something about hin that sweeps you away”. (paraphrasing there)
Last night on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell described the Hilalry events as “sparsely attended, and unenthusiastic” Howard Fineman droned on about a sense of gloom at Clinton headquarters, “there is no champain popping there..a sense of grim determination is evident”
In 2000:
During the recount, Bush and his crew declared victory early, saying Gore just didn’t have the numbers and assumed he was the elected President all through the recount.
Mobs of angry supporters and operatives stormed the recount places, demanding that Gore step aside for the good of the country so that we could rally around the President.
In 2008:
Obama is declaring that Hillary does not have the numbers to win. Mobs of angry Obama supporters descend all over the internet, (check out the clown house called Democratic Underground for all the proof you need in order to demonstrate how damaging to the mental process that unity can be), they bully people at caucas sites..demanding that Hilalry stand aside for the good of the party so that the Democrats can rally around a candidate.
Put aside the fact that neither Obama or Clinton can win the nomination without the Superdelagates, who were designed to be the precise independant group of decision makers that the Obama folks seem to deplore.
I hate re-runs..especially when I know how awful the movie ends..thank God Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island provided a much needed intermission.
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
“As I entered my polling place wearing a Clinton button, Obama’s supporters (about 6 of them) literally gave me dirty looks and turned their back on me. Other voters were greated with hellos, good mornings, and hope you’ll vote for Obama. The attitude of Obama’s campaigners to me was rather nasty. It was a real turn-off to me, and if he’s the nominee, I’ll really have to think twice about voting in the general election.
]]>“As I entered my polling place wearing a Clinton button, Obama’s supporters (about 6 of them) literally gave me dirty looks and turned their back on me. Other voters were greated with hellos, good mornings, and hope you’ll vote for Obama. The attitude of Obama’s campaigners to me was rather nasty. It was a real turn-off to me, and if he’s the nominee, I’ll really have to think twice about voting in the general election.
Other information: At my polling place there were TONS of Obama signs all over the place, not a single Clinton sign. As I mentioned, about 6 Obama people outside, not a single Clinton person. Inside the polling place, it looked like 2 of the 10 or so machines were off-line (a tech was there working on them), but there was no wait”.
and of course..let us not forget those adorable and deplorable unity clowns over at DU..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
(They actually think Hillary doctored a photo to make Obama look blacker)..
and here we have the subliminal insertion of race in a photo..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
These boobs get this info directly from the right wing and vomit it back out on their little clownhouse forum.
Ah..unity.
These folks are giving unity a very bad name..
Joebasic
Recovered DU member
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
as if that post was not offensive enough..some pig had to go all out and flat out call Hillary a murderer..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
you will see that this kind of crap is given free reign at the pigpen..
]]>http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
as if that post was not offensive enough..some pig had to go all out and flat out call Hillary a murderer..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis…
you will see that this kind of crap is given free reign at the pigpen..
I have said it before..I’ll say it again..Bullies like these..who want to win so badly..too badly, that they are willing to destroy a Democrat who has served the party for years..I will have a very hard time supporting their candidate if he gets the nomination.
This is offensive and insulting..
Joebasic
Reformed (Thank God) DU member
]]>“From NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli
CANTON, OH — Robert Holeman came to Timken High School here today with a message to deliver to Bill Clinton. He did — and he said the former president wasn’t happy about it.
Clinton spoke to a capacity crowd in this Northeast Ohio town, the third of five events today in the Buckeye State. He told voters that the contest was “the power of speeches against the promise of solutions by a world-class change maker.”
]]>“From NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli
CANTON, OH — Robert Holeman came to Timken High School here today with a message to deliver to Bill Clinton. He did — and he said the former president wasn’t happy about it.
Clinton spoke to a capacity crowd in this Northeast Ohio town, the third of five events today in the Buckeye State. He told voters that the contest was “the power of speeches against the promise of solutions by a world-class change maker.”
Throughout the event, as Clinton made his case for his wife, Holeman’s dissenting voice could be heard. At times he simply shouted Obama’s name. When Clinton would set up a sure applause line, Holeman could be heard heckling. As soon as Clinton finished speaking, the Canton native made a beeline to the ropeline to give Clinton a piece of his mind.
“I asked the president to please stop the bickering between the campaigns,” Holeman said in an interview afterwards. “All this name calling is like the bully in the yard. He can’t get his way, he can’t get nothing done.” Holeman said he thought Clinton was “gasping for air.”
“This is the last hurrah. After March 4, Hillary Clinton will be out of the race for good, and Obama will take the commanding lead,” he said. “She should back him with her delegates immediately. That’s what I’m asking them to do.”
Holeman said that Clinton responded by saying Obama came after him first. Holeman also described Clinton’s reaction to him as “irate.”
“I think he even hit me in the face with his hand,” he said. “He did give me a little pop. It was okay, because I understand his tenacity for his wife.” Clinton did engage Holeman for a few minutes, at times pointing directly at him. It was unclear whether he did make physical contact, however.
Holeman said he did support Bill Clinton during his campaigns, but that now the country wants a “new perspective.” “I think the president’s trying hoodwink us, bamboozle us, put us back in the okie doke,” he said. “He had eight years to do what he was supposed to do. All the things he said that she’s gonna do, he had the same authority that he wants her to have. Now if one Clinton, the male Clinton can’t get it done, how is Ms. Clinton [going to].”
Several Clinton supporters who saw the exchange came up to Holeman after to — shall we say delicately — express their disapproval for his actions. More negativity, Holeman said. “Hillary Clinton has started the most negative campaign I have ever seen, other than what the Republicans can launch,” he said. “I think we need to come together on those issues.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2…
Drudge is highlighting this as “out of control Bill”
Lets see now..some jerk comes into a Clinton event, acts disruptive, interrupting, yelling, and generally making an ass out of himself. Then asks Bill to ask Hillary to “stop the name calling and bullying”?
Hard to say which is more amazing here..
the fact that this is typical of the Obama zealots..or that they are simply so lost in the clouds that they can not see that they are engaging in the same bullying tactics that they decry.
I can’t wait for the MSM to jump on the bandwagon and cover this as not some obnoxious, typical Obama supporter, but another example of Bill becoming unhinged and how he is hurting the campaign.
If this were a movie, I’d walk out..this is just too sad.
Joebasic