Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 10/21/08

Matt Davies

MEDIA ALERT: Prophet Yahweh Predicts Spaceships Will Appear Oct. 31st in Support of Senator Obama
Prophet Yahweh, Seer of Yahweh, Master UFO Caller says that on October 31, 2008, superhuman black men, from other planets, will appear in their spaceships and hover over his UFO Summoning School for three days as a sign that all Americans should vote for Obama as President.

Obama to travel to see ill grandmother
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Barack Obama will leave the campaign trail Thursday to travel to Hawaii to see his 85-year-old grandmother, who has fallen ill, spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday. “In the last few weeks her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious,” Gibbs told reporters aboard Obama’s campaign plane… His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, “has always been one of the most important people in his life,” Gibbs said. “Along with his mother and his grandfather, she raised him in Hawaii from the time he was born to the moment he left for college.”
While he’s in Hawaii, he should pick up a vault copy of his birth certificate and provide it to the judge to settle Phil Berg’s lawsuit. If he doesn’t do that, he should resign from the race. We Americans have a right to know for certain whether he’s qualified to be president.—Caro

And this means we’re supposed to vote FOR the guy?
Biden to Supporters: "Gird Your Loins", For the Next President "It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables"
(Political Radar, ABC News)
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions. "Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy… [W]e're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right." [Emphasis added.]
Masslib at Alegre’s Corner believes that this command is the equivalent of saying, “DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. Oh, and ask your neighbors to do the same.” And gqmartine at Corrente says “It seems like Biden is hinting at their possible governing strategy: Even if you think we’re wrong, we need you to use your influence to convince people we are right. ” Don’t you love the new authoritarians? So much better than the OLD authoritarians.—Caro

McCain to Hit Obama on Biden's Prediction Obama Will be Tested by International Crisis (by Jake Tapper at Political Punch, ABC News)
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected president, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in office, a comment Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., intends to highlight Monday, aides said, in order to highlight concerns some voters have had about Obama's preparedness to be commander-in-chief.
McCain would be a fool not to use it. Of course, it will be considered “negative”, “hateful”, and “racist” by the Obama-loving media.—Caro

[T]he entire episode suddenly reminded me of how we’ve been waking up to what’s under the facade that is the Democratic Party, how we’re seeing “under the rim.”

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

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on Grandma--

she's dying so he has to rush out there and she's so important to him, etc--but he's not rushing--they announced it days before he's actually going, and he's scheduled it to hit when he was supposed to be in 2 safe states and he'll be back in time for the next swing state event.

marketer of year? that's Axelrod,

assisted by hundreds of millions and the media--Obama is the product, not the marketer.

Going after someone for visiting his sick relative

Doesn't do us proud.

using sick relatives to score points

and to drive media coverage of your campaign doesn't--you're absolutely right.

this is not a "visit"--he's "rushing out there" and "suspending his campaign" and "she's gravely ill", etc -- except he's not--it's actually carefully scheduled and fit in so it doesn't affect swing states.

rofl! comment at Gawker--

http://gawker.com/5066478/obama-suspends...

"Is now when, on her deathbed, his grandmother reveals that Obama is a foundling with a nametag that read "Claus" and now he must do battle with the Winter Warlock?"

Jesus.

First the "no living parent" thing, and now this.

If he's flying commercial, he may not have been able to get a flight at short notice.

Sorry he doesn't show the proper concern for your taste. May you never have anyone question your alacrity when it comes to a sick relative.

The COLB point is bogus

As Cannonfire, to his great credit, has shown.

That's a second item does doesn't do us proud -- both, as it happens, in Hawaii.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Occurs to me that if we're gonna bash Grandma-visiting

the trap we're gonna fall into has a Rovian flavor.

Just sayin'.

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18


We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

1 John 4:18

I'll Go On Record Right Now

and say I'm all for visiting a sick grandma. Always. Every time. Because you never regret going. I didn't. He won't.

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt

Way to erase his mother entirely

While he’s in Hawaii, he should pick up a vault copy of his birth certificate and provide it to the judge to settle Phil Berg’s lawsuit. If he doesn’t do that, he should resign from the race. We Americans have a right to know for certain whether he’s qualified to be president.—Caro

First, he owes Phil Berg nothing, because Phil Berg has filed a frivolous lawsuit and Obama has moved to dismiss it on the pleadings -- which means that he doesn't have to give Berg a damned thing unless and until the motion to dismiss is denied, which it hasn't been (nor has Berg's motion to deem the Requests for Admission to be admitted, though he's running around saying that Obama admitted a laundry list of stuff. But it's way, way premature for the RFAs).

Second, Phil Berg's allegations depend not so much on where Obama was born, but on his mother's marrying an Indonesian man and (allegedly) becoming a naturalized Indonesian citizen. He's citing the Nationality Act of 1940 in support of his allegation that Obama *lost* his citizenship when Stanley Ann Dunham remarried while Obama was a minor.

Berg places great stock in this as a disqualification, but a few minutes' research would reveal that the Nationality Act of 1940 was declared unconstitutional in 1967. Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, and women hadn't automatically lost their citizenship upon marriage since the Cable Act in 1922. Berg's complaint doesn't specify what Dunham did to lose her citizenship, other than get married, which would of course be contrary to the holding of Afroyim and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, which eliminated any lingering women-lose-their-citizenship-upon-marriage stuff and applied the immigration laws equally to men and women). And because losing your citizenship requires a knowing and affirmative act, it's kind of hard for a kid to lose it because his mom got married.

Berg's a hack, basically, and I'm surprised to see him being cited with approval.

As for whether he was secretly born in Kenya, it doesn't matter. Stanley Ann Dunham was an American citizen, and she conferred that status on Barack Obama regardless of where he was born (just like John McCain's parents did the same for him when he was born in Panama.

Here are a couple of useful links from the State Dept. website:
http://www.travel.state.gov/law/info/inf...

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/...

Yeah, All for it.

But, I hope I wasn't the only one a bit disgusted by the "breaking news" banner on Yahoo. There are two seperate issues, here: Obama is going to visit an ill relative, and how the media has covered it. There was absolutely no reason for this to have been treated as "breaking news" on Yahoo. For his campaign schedule, this could have easily been treated as a passing new piece to alert folks that he'd be cancelling particular upcoming rallies. I think how the media treated this is a legitimate critique.

But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...