Seems the Obamessiah sang a different tune when he was an Illinois state senator..
He thinks its a gimmick today..but back then, he voted for it...

"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.

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Here is our friend Oliver Willis: another blog I used to enjoy before "unity" destroyed it...

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

First two segments tonight..as usual..devoted to outright bashing of Hillary..complete with fawning, almost embarrassing worship of the Obamamessiah. Even the freepers are in awe of his skill..
His pathetic sneering screeds against Hilalry are getting tiresome.
Honestly Keith..get a room already.
Hillary better invite him to a BBQ or something..maybe that'll help.
Joebasic
Recovered DU member

via Taylor..
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view...

"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". ... .. "
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It's turning into a replay of South Carolina:

(speaking for myself only, of course, and with apologies to pigs for comparing them to DU)

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"?

Lord..
You can just see the faux outrage..
After going on about Clintons legitimate complaint regarding biased media coverage: "Complaining about the refs apparently worked a little bit this week," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told reporters today. "So in addition to my call to Lorne Michaels, hopefully now people think everything has evened out."

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..

Watching this whole primary campaign take place, I am seeing some haunting similarities to the events of the 2000 Presidential campaign.
In 2000:
Bush, or "Dubya" came down off the mountain, never said all that much, spoke in generalities and platitudes.
In 2008:
Obama comes out of nowhere, speaks in generalities and platitudes, and adds fainting adoring crowd members for extra good measure.

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".

via the great folks at talkleft:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/4/1...

"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.

Here are a couple of posts from the cesspool called DU.
This is one of the main reasons why i will have a VERY hard time supporting Obama if he should actually win the nomination. Jerks like these, make the freepers seem friendly and they seem to forget that the people they are trearing down are the people they will not be able to win without.

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..

Thats it for me..my time has come. Today, I proudly went and changed my voter registration from Democrat to Independant. I can't tell you yet how I will vote in the Fall, but I honestly cannot see myself voting for Obama.
For me, its not that he won..if indeed he does win, but for me, it is the how of it.
Hillary Clinton tried to run as good a campaign as she could. She had the right, the media, the lefty blogs all against her. I can't even watch keith Olberman any more..his outright contempt for Hillary Clinton is disturbing, to say the least.
I have seen the most vile and atrocious attacks against Hillary coming, not from the right, but from the so-called progressive left. Many female progressives have become little more than Ann Coulter wannabes, in their attacks against Hillary.

The latest, breathless entry into the "what will these clowns do next"? series, we have the following..

"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.”