Area Mayors Take Offense ("Upset that Barack Obama would characterize them as gun-toting zealots")

Times-Tribune ^ | 04/13/2008 | Jeremy G. Burton

[bannie]

He should take offense. We've accepted too much crap for way too long. Maybe "blonde jokes" should become as taboo as those against other groups.

It is time to END OPEN SEASON ON WHITE "FOLKS."

[2ndDivisionVet]

This thing is growing legs like the Jolly Green Giant on human growth hormone. I think this is it for Barry.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Maybe "blonde jokes" should become as taboo as those against other groups.

... but... but... but:

I mean: c'mon. ;)

[Just mythoughts]

It sure is going to be interesting to see who makes ‘hay’ or only ends up with straw out of Obama’s revelations... I think ‘bitterness’ is going to spread like a burning fever, from the bottom all the way up to Billionaires Row.

One can only imagine the sermon Rev J Wright could give over this episode.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I think this is it for Barry.

Even as recently as yesterday, I most likely still would have opined "no" -- given how effectively his fawningly sycophantic MSM servitors had managed to shield him from all but the faintest scorings of hard, lasting damage previously, re: the Reverend Wright affair -- but now I genuinely find myself wondering if this business might not just end up being Obama's own personal "Dean scream" or "Muskie's tears" moment, after all. ;)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Both Senator Muskie and Governor Dean’s meltdowns occurred much earlier in those then much shorter primary seasons. I shouldn’t wonder if the superdelegates mightn’t ask someone like former Vice President Al Gore to accept the nomination, in lieu of either Senator Obama or Clinton, as they are both so badly damaged now. This has to be the strangest election since at least 1968.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"Earlier in the day, Mr. Obama’s campaign held its own conference call. Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock said the underlying sentiment is sincere. Small-town Americans, he said, are frustrated and angry."

But Obama had gone further in the SF speech, he blamed "the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration". He painted the small-town Americans as victims, and Obama may get the support of those small-towners who accept that "victim" role; the same support Rev. Wright gets when he tells his congregation that they are "victims". All part of Obama's strategy to expand the "victim" population and then harvest the "victim" vote.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Both Senator Muskie and Governor Dean’s meltdowns occurred much earlier in those then much shorter primary seasons.

Good point. And -- interesting little ancillary "fun factoid," here: did you know that the late Hunter S. Thompson took "credit" in his political writings, years after the fact, for Muskie's untimely teary meltdown?

Thompson's claim was (and I'm doing this solely from memory right now, so let's all hope I'm not screwing things up too badly) that some sort of mood-altering (*kaff*kaff*) "medicine" he'd been toting around at the time had "accidentally" kinda somehow found its way into Muskie's coffee, an hour or so prior to said gent's next (and soon to be famous) scheduled stump speech.

Now, given Thompson's not-infrequent (albeit still darkly entertaining!) tendencies towards... ummmmmm... well... "embroidery," let's say, in much of his work, this really is the sort of claim requiring several doduble handfuls of salt as a chaser, plainly... but: HMMMMMMMMM. ;)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I shouldn’t wonder if the superdelegates mightn’t ask someone like former Vice President Al Gore to accept the nomination, in lieu of either Senator Obama or Clinton, as they are both so badly damaged now. This has to be the strangest election since at least 1968.

The terrifyingly prescient Mrs.KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle was wondering aloud along precisely those same lines, earlier this evening... although, in her case, substitute "John Edwards" for "Al Gore." ;)

[Bernard]

“For a man who just spent six days crossing this state saying he was listening, obviously he wasn’t listening, because he missed us,” Mr. Doherty said.

Maybe Obama is just making a case that he doesn't listen at all, to anybody. That could explain how he spent all those years not listening to Jeremiah Wright.

[Gondring]

“For a man who just spent six days crossing this state saying he was listening, obviously he wasn’t listening, because he missed us,” Mr. Doherty said.

Oh, he listened...and continued with his élitest, condescending views.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[Gondring]

I R TRAPD IN CHURCH CUZ I LOSTED MY JOB!

[Cobra64]

It is time to END OPEN SEASON ON WHITE "FOLKS."

Yup. I'm fed up with the white political correctness I've had to endure against the likes of Jesse, Al and now The Black Pretender to the Presidency.

Screw 'em. Let the Negroe take his koran and go back to Nigeria.

/rant

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ah, but Thompson was also well known for his “recreational” drug use, so that particular story may just be true. I read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72” many moons ago, and that is just the kind of thing that HST might try.

[agere_contra]

I R TRAPD IN CHURCH CUZ I LOSTED MY JOB!

LOL

[ethics]

What does Senator Robert Casey Jr think about these comments?

Casey Jr is a big supporter of Obama!

[Travis McGee]

I for one will not be unclinged easily.