Just sit by and watch folks.
Posted on 01/25/2007 7:38:25 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Before the serious stuff -- an analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton's impressive ''shock and awe'' White House launch and Barack Obama's aggressive pushback to religious smear attacks -- this revelation:
I discovered the secret location of Obama's 2008 presidential exploratory campaign office in Washington. When Obama jumped into the 2008 contest a week ago, I asked a routine question. Just where in Washington is the exploratory campaign based, since the legal papers used the address of his Washington lawyer. Obama's team declined to say.
The only clue Obama's team yielded was the name of a street in downtown Washington. That's kind of like looking for an office with the only tip it's on LaSalle Street in Chicago's Loop.
But I guessed where it might be. Years in the business, you know.
I followed my hunch and just showed up. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton materialized after I arrived, and we had a very pleasant chat.
When I e-mailed Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, it took all of three minutes for him to reply with the answer. Clinton is starting her White House quest in the K Street offices in Washington housing her Friends of Hillary Committee and HILLPAC political action committee. On this match, point goes to Clinton for transparency.
When the two rivals take it, as expected, to the next level, Obama's campaign will be headquartered in Chicago, and Clinton will plant her flag in the Washington area.
Clinton shock and awe Based on body language when I watch Obama and Clinton in the Senate, it looks like a developing chill between the two. The genial backslapping Obama avoids getting into her zone, and she stays in her space. To borrow a military phrase, Clinton rolled out a ''shock and awe'' offensive when she said Saturday, ''I'm in. And I'm in to win.'' Clinton's blitz pushed Obama off the front pages for a few days. It was specifically designed to roll out all at once and win Clinton maximum coverage. The elaborate Web site, the three nights of innovative webcasts, targeted waves of e-mails, flurry of national television interviews, press releases, pollster and polling memos -- all flooded the political zone as intended. Clinton created a new narrative.
The Clinton campaign was working up to the launch for weeks. The timing was not connected to Obama's announcement. Clinton's team realized that if she did not announce before the State of the Union, all she would be asked in interviews is if she was going to run. (Same would be true for Obama.) The Clinton camp assumed for weeks Obama was going to run, and her move was not conditioned on his. In any case, Clinton's launch was too elaborate to be thrown together in a few days.
Obama fights back Obama is not going to be ''swiftboated'' by the right. Robert Gibbs, the chief spokesman for Obama, issued a rare memo on Wednesday, to push back on the smear campaign started by Insight Magazine and picked up by Fox and other outlets: that Obama was educated at a radical Islamic school in Indonesia and that nameless researchers for Clinton dug up the dirt. Neither is true.
''People appreciate that we are fighting back,'' Tommy Vietor, an Obama Senate spokesman, said.
It was an effort by conservative outlets to take down two 2008 presidential contenders at once and make Obama seem like a character on ''Sleeper Cell.''
Gibbs caught a break in that CNN had a definitive report from Jakarta that showed Obama's school to be secular in nature.
Gibbs' memo does not mention Clinton's name. What's interesting is that he is explicit for the first time I recall in saying that Obama ''has never been a Muslim.'' That clears up a small point in the Obama biography. He's now under a microscope as he starts a White House campaign.
Obama moved to Jakarta at age 6, returning to Hawaii four years later.
It should not matter, of course, if Obama or anyone was raised as a Muslim or any other faith.
Obama's Senate aide who handles faith-based policy, Joshua Dubois, organized a letter signed by 12 religious leaders of different faiths deploring ''this despicable tactic. . . . We have had enough of the slash-and-burn politics calculated to divide us as Children of God.''
(For the full Gibbs memo and the letter from religious leaders, visit my blog: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/)
I think she can beat him, but it will require her to step out of character and actually put her grimy fingerprints on the body.
Just sit by and watch folks.
...saying that Obama ''has never been a Muslim.
Looks like they just blew the Muslim voting bloc.
Of course, as the Democrats are the party of inclusion and diversity, this shouldn't really matter, should it?
An America that would elect a Hillary/Obama ticket is a country that is doomed.
Ms. Sweet is emblematic of the ongoing media orgasm over Obama. I turn the page quickly because I can't stomach her continuous masturbation over this joke of a candidate.
Was Obama's mother a Muslim? Did she ever convert since she did marry two Muslim men?
CNN had a definitive report from Jakarta that showed Obama's school to be secular in nature.
I guess that answers any questions I had.
Let's face it folks, a definitive report from CNN is on the same level as the Gospel.
Else where we read that when enrolling in Catholic school in Jakarta his religion was listed as "muslim" and the school he went to after that included mulslim teaching and prayer as part of the day.
Was this incoherent, grammatically deficient "article" really written by a "professional" writer?
Liberal guilt will succor [aid, assist,help] Obama more than anything.
There are those who will bend over backwards to give the impression that they are anti-anti-Muslim [against those who are against Muslims], and thusly, will give Obama their full support to show their unbiasness, even if he does have some Islam in his personal upbringing.
| The audacity of apostasy: Barack Obama’s Muslim links (by Dr. Jack Wheeler) |
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| Posted by Gritty On News/Activism 01/24/2007 7:10:23 PM CST · 47 replies · 1,527+ views Brooksnews.com ^ | January 8, 2007 | Dr. Jack Wheeler One of the most entertaining opportunities that will emerge in 2007 will be using Barack Obama to fight Islamofascism. He is the product of a black Moslem from Kenya, Barrack Hussein Obama, and a white atheist from Kansas, Shirley Ann Dunham, who met at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. That is why his middle name is the same as Saddam’s: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. His first name is taken from the Islamic term in Arabic for “blessed,” baraka, used in the Koran. His father deserted the family when Barack Jr. was two and returned to Kenya. His mother then... |
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| Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia |
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| Posted by JerseyHighlander On News/Activism 01/24/2007 2:00:46 AM CST · 46 replies · 1,256+ views laotze.blogspot.com | Jan 2007 | An American Expat in Southeast Asia blogger The blogger 'An American Expat in Southeast Asia" who lives near Barack's childhood residences in Jakarta tracks down leads and does some correspondence gumshoe journalism to find more info on Barack's early years.Part 1 part 2 Part 3 I thought Freeper's would enjoy these bits of info... http://laotze.blogspot.com |
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Bump. I smell RAT!
"An America that would elect a Hillary/Obama ticket is a country that is doomed."
They will..............and we are!
Obama's school was "secular in nature"?? Can you please be just a little more specific, ma'am??
How many girls were there in his class?
Did any of these girls suffer the customary genital mutilation? (Wouldn't want them to actually enjoy sex--they might become promiscuous.)
Certainly not to Liberals (unless the other faith is Christian or Jewish, that is), and to believe Muslims are not a threat is to believe in the tooth fairy..........
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