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Google Locks Down Anti-Obama Sites On Blogger Platform

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:47:44 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: **UPDATE**

I have been hesitant to post this update because I cannot find a link to prove the claim, but it is starting to look like this Blogspot shut down of anti-Obama sites occurred because of a concerted effort by Obama supporters.

What they did was go to the Blogspot addresses found on the site of the NoObama coalition called Just Say No Deal and constantly hit the “mark as spam” link so that Google’s Blogger would be flooded with spam warnings. This caused Google/Blogger to freeze the sites marked.

Apparently, this campaign merely took advantage of Google/Blogger’s flawed system of finding spam blogs. So, it looks like what we have here is an Obama dirty trick to shut down political opposition. Looks like Obmatons aren’t much for that whole democracy thing, eh?

Once I find a link to an Obama site talking about this attack, I will post it.

Clip Source: conservablogs.com

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google’s Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Tags: google blogspot team, shut-down, anti-obama sites, obamabots, "mark as spam" link,

It's All About Obama

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:11:17 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Americans overwhelmingly find it a hopeful, optimistic sign that the country could elect an African-American president. But they rightly want to know what kind of leader he might be. They may well reject as cynical any maneuver to discourage close examination of him by suggesting any criticism is racially motivated.

The candidate's self-centeredness has been on display before. Having effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination, he could have agreed to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations (states Hillary Clinton had carried). While reducing his lead by 50 to 55 delegates, it would not have altered the outcome. But Mr. Obama supported cutting these battleground-state delegations in half. At a time when magnanimity was called for, the candidate decided he'd strut.

In a contest over who is willing to put principle above personal ambition and self-interest, John McCain, a war hero and a former POW, wins hands down.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Last month he replied "anywhere, anytime" to John McCain's invitation to have joint town hall appearances. Last week he changed his mind. Fearing 10 impromptu town halls, Mr. Obama parried the invitation by offering two such events – one the night of July 4, when every ambulatory American is watching fireworks or munching hotdogs, and another in August. His spokesman then said, "Take it or leave it." So much for "anywhere, anytime."

My former White House colleague Yuval Levin pointed out that Mr. Obama, in his first national TV ad rolled out Friday, claims credit for having "extended health care for wounded troops," citing the 2008 defense authorization. That bill passed 91-3 – but Mr. Obama was one of only six senators who didn't show up to vote. This brazen claim underscores the candidate's thin résumé and, again, his chutzpah.

Mr. Obama has now also played the race card, twice suggesting in recent weeks that Republicans will draw attention to the fact that he's black

Tags: obama, clinton, mccain, wounded warriors health bill, race card, townhall debates

The New Meaning Of "Politics Of Change"

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:37:15 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: * Obama repeatedly vowed to meet with various heads of terror states - most notably Ahmadinejad of Iran - "without preconditions." Then, with the nomination in sight, he zigzagged: "There's no reason why we would necessarily meet with Ahmadinejad. He's not the most powerful person in Iran."

* In October, he supported NAFTA expansion. In March, campaigning in the Ohio primary, he called for a "reopening" of the trade pact's terms. This week, he called his own primary rhetoric "overheated" and said NAFTA has had a positive effect on the US economy.

Change, yes.

But "change we can believe in"?

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

"In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public-financing system in the 2008 election," he wrote in November. "My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fund-raising truce, return excess money from donors and stay within the public-financing system for the general election."

June 21, 2008 -- Awash in campaign cash, Barack Obama this week announced that he's opting out of the public-financing system for presidential campaigns. He'll be the first general-election candidate to do that since the system was set up.

This isn't the first time Obama has, um, "changed" political lanes:

* He ripped Hillary Clinton for months for voting to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Days after Clinton conceded, Obama flipped and said he supported the definition.

* Yesterday, after signaling opposition to nuclear power, he told Democratic governors he's open to expanding it.

Tags: obama, policies, nuclear power, meet heads of iran, nafta, "change"

When Obama Is Off The Teleprompter

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:25:28 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: I suspect this is why John McCain is so eager to get Obama into those town-hall meetings Obama seems intent on avoiding. McCain has been doing them for 25 years and is very good at them; it’s a mark of how good he is at them that he doesn’t make career-threatening gaffes during them. McCain wants Obama off that teleprompter, which is sound strategy. But he can’t make Obama go anywhere Obama doesn’t want to. The media pose a different challenge for Obama.

Clip Source: www.commentarymagazine.com

The November election is, and remains, Barack Obama’s to lose. Usually, candidates whose victories are entirely in their own hands make it through. It is clear Obama’s path to victory is through the teleprompter. Let him give a big speech and he drives it like Tiger Woods hitting a fairway, as he did Sunday with his stunning sermon about the importance of fathers. But let him sit for an interview with a well-prepared reporter who isn’t interested in shilling for him and Obama makes mistake after mistake. This is what happened the other day with ABC’s Jake Tapper, who got Obama to talk about how we need to treat terrorism as a law-enforcement matter — which is exactly what he should not be saying if he wants to solidify those less-liberal Democratic votes in the states where he was shellacked by Hillary Clinton — and how he opposes all forms of school choice — which works against his vague message that he is a vague agent of vague change.

Tags: obama, teleprompter speech, interview, reporter, debate mccain

Only As Strong As The Weakest Link

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:00:16 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Beyond policies, though, a president should unite, not divide; however, Obama’s severe case of liberalism segregates the country into left and right. Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) recently stated he might vote for Obama, but he refuses to endorse him. Why? Because the congressman believes Obama is the most exclusive club’s liberalist. As such, he doesn’t believe he can represent his constituency if he endorses the Democratic nominee. Others have joined the Boren ranks. If he can’t convince his own party to band together, how will he unite a country?

Failing to acknowledge weaknesses does not translate into an absence of flaws, and finding the strongest links doesn’t prevent the chain from breaking. We have the choice to either anticipate the weak link or we can wait … wait until the last moment when the chain is most strained … wait until the instant the country is most vulnerable … wait until it can no longer hold … wait until it snaps.

Visit www.armstrongwilliams.com .

Clip Source: pundits.thehill.com

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaks well; he campaigns well. Sen. Obama brings youth; he brings new voters. Sen. Obama creates history; he creates a nice motto. Sen. Obama beat Hillary; but can he beat the Republicans? Yes, this year’s eternally long primary season highlighted many of Sen. Obama’s strengths, but it neglected to elaborate on his weaknesses — the inexperience, the questionable policies, the liberal extremism.

Sen. Obama talks about his foreign policy initiatives — planning to withdraw from Iraq almost immediately after entering office. Yet he refuses to visit our soldiers and see the progress. The senator from Illinois claims to want to help the poor and clean up the environment, yet he supports energy policies that do little for the environment but “gradually” raise energy costs for America’s poor. The Democratic candidate asserts he will fix the ailing economy yet supports policies economists fear will derail America’s economic infrastructure.

Tags: obama, rep dan boren (d-okla.), armstrong williams

"Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses"

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:26:15 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The academicians' theme songs are "Kumbaya" and "Imagine," while Jacksonians prefer Toby Keith: "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."

It was when they lost their warrior edge that Democrats started losing the White House, winning only in unusual circumstances such as the Watergate scandal or in that brief window in history (from the fall of the Berlin Wall through September 11) when foreign threats had faded out of the picture.

"Priests . . . write books and sometimes verse," and indeed, Obama wrote two of them.
Their campaigns become crusades, fueled as much by an inchoate longing for a 'new politics'. "Obama is not at all a warrior, and is something of an academic," writes Barone:
He is all college campus and not at all boot camp. He has campaigned consistently as an opponent of military action in Iraq. He is up against John McCain, a true Jacksonian if ever there was one. Of course, he dispatched another Jacksonian in Hillary Clinton.

Clip Source: www.weeklystandard.com

While the term Academician explains itself, Jacksonian comes from Andrew Jackson, the first of the Democrats' warrior heroes

The Barone view is a close cousin to that of political reporter Ronald Brownstein, who identified a split in the Democratic party's candidates between those he described as "warriors" and "priests."

The divisions between these two classes tend to be deep. Academicians traffic in words and abstractions, and admire those who do likewise. Jacksonians prefer men of action, whose

achievements are tangible. Academicians love nuance, Jacksonians clarity; academicians love fairness, Jacksonians justice; academicians dislike force and think it is vulgar; Jacksonians admire it, when justly applied.

Each side tends to look down on the other, though academicians do it with much more intensity: Jacksonians think academicians are inconsequential, while academicians think that Jacksonians are beneath their contempt.

Tags: michael barone, political analyst, democratic party, division, obama, clinton, "academicians", "jacksonians"

Obama and Iran:The Democrats Modern-Day McGovern

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:36:56 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Judging from last week's address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Sen. Barack Obama doesn't want voters to see him as soft on Iran and its genocidal President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Iranians "understand - sometimes, it seems, better than a lot of Americans do - that if American power collapses in Iraq, if we abandon our allies" then "our position throughout the region will become much weaker and Iran's position much stronger," Lieberman added. The Senate - including well over half of the Democrats - voted for the amendment, which passed 76-22. Obama, who was absent, said he opposed the amendment because it could be used as pretext to invade Iran. Obama denounced Kyl-Lieberman as "reckless" and criticized his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for supporting it.

However tough he tries to sound when talking to AIPAC, Barack Obama's real sympathies are with the George Soros/MoveOn.org wing of the Democrat Party.

Clip Source: www.aim.org

On September 26, 2007, Sens. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Independent Democrat, introduced a nonbinding amendment to the defense authorization designating the IRGC a terrorist group because of its role in killing American soldiers. "The consequences of this Iranian terrorism in Iraq have been immense and terrible for our men and women in uniform and for their families and friends at home," Lieberman said in explaining the need for the amendment. "According to LTG Ray Odierno, the deputy commander of our forces in Iraq, Iranian-supplied weapons were responsible for a full one-third of American combat deaths [in July 2007].That builds on a similar record in preceding months. Let me repeat that: Up to a third of the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq in July were caused by sophisticated explosive devices used by people trained in Iran, with those devices supplied by Iran. That means the Iranians and their agents are killing our troops."

Tags: aipac, joseph lieberman, jon kyl, irgc, designated terrorist group, george soros, moveon.org, obama

"Welcome Back, Clintons" The Musical Video

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:32:09 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: You can watch the musical of the Clintons' return
to The White House by clicking the URL
www.minimovie.com

Clip Source: www.minimovie.com

Average Rating:
Movie Title: Welcome Back, Clinton

Synopsis: Bill and Hillary are back!

Or are they?
Total Running Time: 03:28
# of Views: 17486

Tags: clintons, the white house, video

"Vetters" Search For Obama Veep

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:55:01 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Jones, a Vietnam vet born in Kansas City, MO (swing state alert!), was a career military officer rising to one of the highest posts possible.

Being the least known potential veep, it shouldn't be surprising that the vetters have to spend more time on him in their various conversations on the Hill. But the fact that he's being, um, added to the very long short list, is an interesting development.

Besides Jones, the other names on the list bandied about with congressional Dems include (and not in any order): Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Evan Bayh, Kathleen Sebelius, Ted Strickland, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Jim Webb, Bill Nelson, Jack Reed, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Tom Daschle, and Sam Nunn. You'll notice a few names NOT on this list (that's not my exclusion -- hint hint). Besides Jones, I'm told the two other names that invited extended discussion were Biden and Strickland.

Take this chatter for what it is -- chatter.

Clip Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro
So you think you know who's on Obama's veep short list? Well, think again. According to sources on the Hill, Obama veep vetters -- specifically Jim Johnson and Eric Holder -- have been asking Dem members of Congress this week their input about potential running mates. The conversations are free-flowing but one name the vetters are inserting in the conversations is one that is not a household name... Ret. Gen. James Jones, the former Marine-turned-NATO Supreme Allied Commander.

Jones currently is the president and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, which is an affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce, not exactly the type of organization a typical Democrat gets involved with. Potentially problematic is that he's on Chevron's board. He also serves on the boards of Boeing and Invacare, a manufacturer and distributor of medical equipment. (Invacare’s slogan, ironically, is: “Yes, you can.”)

Tags: ret. gen. james jones, usmc, nato supreme allied commander, obama, vice-president

Reverend Wright, Gone, But Not Forgotten

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:42:50 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: and the abject absence of a truly honest and principled discussion of his disturbing past subsidy of it.

A more honest candidate might have explained why a future president of the United States should never have abetted the racialist mentality, by encouraging, by his presence and purse at Trinity, some to blame others for their problems, and why as people first we cannot advance our own careers and agendas by investing in the tribe rather than in transcendent ideas and values.

So here we have the Obama paradox: The more he poses, and is praised, as the post-racial healer, the more 25 years of his career belie the rhetoric. In short, he now talks far more humanely than most about race, but the way in which he started and nourished his career proves that he was also far more cynical and divisive than most.

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

When Obama bought stock in the Trinity race industry, he sent a message that grievance-blaming America, the country’s past, whites, and present bias — not behavior or values of a black underclass — explains almost all problems in the black community. That deeply offended poor whites who haven’t had anything handed to them, recent immigrants whose ancestors had nothing to do with Wright’s rogue’s gallery of evil white men, and Hillary’s women supporters whose glass-ceiling argument was out-victimized (cf. Bill’s rant about Trinitites cheering as Fr. Pfleger caricatured Hillary as a racist).

When pundits say that Obama “must define himself” or “introduce himself to the American people” they are on to something they don’t fully understand. Better to define his problem as this: Each time he soars with his lofty utopian rhetoric, the not-so-amnesiac voter frowns, and then remembers Wright’s hatred, Obama’s former investment in it,

Tags: obama, trinity, wright's rogue's gallery, fr. pfleger, hillary's women supporters

A little cheese with your whine.

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:44:55 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Barack Obama is many things — a senator, a gifted orator, and a charismatic figure. But he’s also a whiner.

In recent months he’s complained about the questions during the ABC News debate with Hillary Clinton because they were not to his liking and whined that the media coverage of McCain wasn’t harsh enough. (Pretty rich coming from Obama.) He whines that scrutiny of his wife’s statements are mean and “low class” and that media scrutiny of his connection to convicted felon Tony Rezko is unfair because he was poorly served by his staff. He claims he is a victim in the Rev. Wright controversy and that the black church is being harshly attacked. Then there is the non-whine whine in the NBC News debate, in which he said that Hillary Clinton “has consistently sent out negative attacks on us, email, robo-calls, flyers, television ads, radio calls, and we haven’t whined about it….”

Hillary's Battle Plan: It's A Win--Win

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:20:03 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: >>>>>>>POLITICAL SATIRE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Clip Source: www.cagle.com

Tags: hillary, president, vice-president

Obama's Admiration For Hillary Clinton

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:46:34 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: But, on the other hand Obama wants our troops in Iraq to quit.

Clip Source: www.cagle.com

Tags: obama, hillary, iraq

House Liberals Want About $60 Billion In Defense Spending Cuts

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:57:51 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: But McCain could feel some discomfort because his campaign views Hispanics as a crucial voting bloc. His support for shifting emphasis from defense to social programs could help him appeal to that group. The calls of liberal groups and lawmakers come at a particularly awkward time for Obama.

During a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Wednesday, Obama proposed sanctions on Iran that analysts viewed as far tougher than what he suggested before.

Now Obama must balance tough talk on national security with the desires of many Democrats to slim American military power.

Specifically, they want to steer money away from what they call “Cold War-era” weapons systems, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Liberals have also called for cuts to the ballistic missile defense program, the F/A-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey and the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer.

Clip Source: thehill.com

Two influential liberal groups have sent the presumptive Democratic nominee a letter pressing him to support cuts to defense programs to pay for universal preschool, relief for Americans facing foreclosure on their homes and expanded benefits for military veterans.

The demands carry weight because the groups, the Black Leadership Forum and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), represent two constituencies that are important to Obama’s political strategy: blacks and Hispanics.

Their calls for defense cuts have drawn the support of leading House liberals, many of whom gave Obama crucial support early in his contest against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

The groups have also called on presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to support the cuts.

Tags: defense programs cuts, universal preschool, foreclosure relief, blace leadership forum, league of united latin american citizens, obama, mccain

Larry The Liar?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:10:47 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: It was not part of a pulpit service at Trinity. It was a conference. I am waiting for confirmation of the specific conference.

And now we have Beckel and Fund claiming a tape exists and is coming out tomorrow. Would be nice but I don’t know. What I do know for a fact is that the folks who control the tape want to keep it on ice until after the Democratic convention in Denver. Whether they will achieve this is outside my knowledge.

Clip Source: noquarterusa.net

I never cease to be astonished by the base ignorance of the Obama crowd. They have spread the word claiming that I said I have the tape and was going to produce it. What? Nope. Nevr wrote that. They have a reading comprehension problem. If I had the tape I would put it up in a heartbeat. While it is true I am relying on second hand sources, my immediate sources are trusthworty. They are not related to each other. They hold different political views. But all tell the same story–there is a tape of Michelle Obama appearing at a conference with Louis Farrakhan had she says some very disparaging things about white people.

My sources tell me the Republicans who have the tape are hanging on to it and do not (I REPEAT FOR YOU OBAMA CLOWNS) DO NOT want it released now. They want to use it against Barky in the fall. They fear that releasing it now will kill Obama’s political support and open the door for Hillary. The tape, I am told, appears to have been made in June 2004

Tags: obama, michelle, farrakhan, tape