Posted on 12/25/2008 3:29:39 PM PST by dascallie
He obviously carries some intense inner rage--was sent the below today--it was published in May...Obama is not the Mr Smoothie he is packaged up to be--as the press pushes him, he is likely to show his true colors.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
BARACK OBAMA
"Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me."
(Jim Geraghty reporting)
There's a lot of new, fresh, eye-opening anecdotes in this long article on Obama as a state legislator by Todd Spivak of the Houston Press.
But in light of today's story of Obama's near-physical altercation, this anecdote of Obama's temper is interesting:
It's not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.
Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands.
It's the first time I ever heard him yell, and I'm trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned...
In a follow-up report published a couple weeks later, I wrote about these disgruntled black legislators and the central role Senate President Emil Jones played in Obama's revived political life.
The morning after the story was posted online, I arrived early at my new offices. I hadn't taken my coat off when the phone rang. It was Obama.
The article began, "It can be painful to hear Ivy League-bred Barack Obama talk jive."
Obama told me he doesn't speak jive, that he doesn't say the words "homeboy" or "peeps."
It seemed so silly; I thought for sure he was joking. He wasn't.
He said the black legislators I cited in the story were off-base, and that they couldn't have gotten the bills passed without him.
I started to speak, and he shouted me down.
He said he liked the other story I wrote.
I asked if there was anything factually inaccurate about the latest story.
He repeated that his former colleagues couldn't have passed the bills without him.
He asked why I wrote this story, then cut me off when I started to answer.
He said he should have been given a chance to respond.
I told him I had requested an interview through his communications director.
He said I should have called his cell phone.
I reminded him that he had asked me months ago to stop calling his cell phone due to his busier schedule.
He said again that I should have called his cell phone.
Today I no longer have Obama's cell phone number. I submitted two formal requests to interview Obama for this story through his Web site, but have not heard back. I also e-mailed interview requests to three of his top staffers, but none responded.
Maybe he'll call the day after this story runs. I'll get to the office early just in case. And this time I'll have my recorder ready.
Again, my point from the earlier post stands. I don't think Obama is a hothead, or flies off the handle with any degree of frequency. It's entirely possible - nay, likely - that many of us, in Obama's shoes, would want to take a swing at state legislator Rickey Hendon as well.
But the Washington Post did a front page story on McCain's temper, leading with an anecdote of Bob Kerrey breaking up a near-fight between McCain and Sen. Chuck Grassley in 1992. Too bad Bob Kerrey says the account is false, that Grassley and McCain worked out the emotional issue at hand among themselves, and that the Post never contacted him.
In Mendell's book, we find a near mirror-image of that McCain temper anecdote. The book has been in print since last year, and no major media organization has found the story of Obama "ready to throw punches" worth mentioning.
The image of an angry Obama being restrained by others doesn't mesh well with the smooth, calm, confident, always-at-ease, ready-for-the-moment image we're being sold. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Obama's fans in the press want to avert their eyes.
05/21 04:16 PM
The cracks in the illusion of the Messiah.
Won’t stop the USA Pravda though.
They will continue to enthuse over Obama like they enthused over Castro when Castro first came to power.
Thank God Lieberman has some cajones.
“Ayers claimed their dress & appearance and language turned people off, resulting in the hippie movement either being ignored or not taken seriously. For people to pay attention, one needs to cut their hair, wear a suit, and stay away from polarizing slang.”
Malcolm X’s theory as well.
I read about this incident of the ‘I didn’t mean to vote that way’, but didn’t realize O was going to throw punches over it. That wasn’t the only vote in the Ill. Senate he tried to weasel his way out of.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Illinois+senator++barak+obama
[snip]”Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed. “I was not aware that I had voted no,” he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he “intended to vote yes.”
” Some lawmakers say the practice also offers a relatively painless way to placate both sides of a difficult issue. Even if a lawmaker admits an error, the actual vote stands and the official record merely shows the Senator’s “intent.” On March 19, 1997, he announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6: “I was trying to vote yes on this, and I was recorded as a no,” he said.
“The next day, he acknowledged voting “present” on a key telecommunications vote. He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. “I pressed the wrong button on that,” he said.
“Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. “I pressed the wrong button by accident,” he said. But two of Obama’s bumbles came on more-sensitive topics. On Nov. 14, 1997, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside. The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two “yeas” to spare — including Obama’s. “
“Moments after its passage he rose to say, “I’d like to be recorded as a no vote,” explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
SOURCE May 20, 2008—LA Times excerpt
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/05/20/obama-had-a-ready-explanation-he-goofed/
.... An Ass "O", thats what.
Toss up between Chavez or Mugabe.
He won’t want to give up the throne once he gets a taste of it.
I heard a guy on the radio a couple of days ago talking about how Obama said: “I don’t think people should be allowed to own guns.” And then, instead of discussing it, just walked away. He said that many conversations with Obama ended that way. There is increasing testimony that Obama is impervious to any facts or argument.
He’s going to be a stubborn, blind, deaf ideologue. We can only hope he’s a total failure. I have not one particle of hope that he “succeeds.” “Success” for Obama is the dismantling of the U.S.
I will be overjoyed if, on any morning after January 20, I wake up and hear that the military has relieved Obama of his Command.
Did anyone watch him TRYING to play golf in HI? He barely knows how to play...guess he’s trying to look like a president....what a dumb S...........
Since the beginning of Obama’s presidential run, Hendon has stopped talking to the media about the incident. As he told Mendell, “I have been advised to leave Barack alone and that is what I am going to do.”
He or his family were threatened.
“They elected what they were told was going to be elected. “
The media, more than any other force (including voters), elected Obama. Voters as a group (present company excluded) are rather ignorant (sometimes appallingly so) of politics or often even basic information about government, and moving the scales one way or another is not that hard a job with some psy-ops, which the US media made hardly any effort to disguise this time around.
“He or his family were threatened.”
Seems quite likely.
Seems quite likely.
Hussein is going to emulate the great thug Hitler.
Thanks.
He’s a thin-skinned, nicotine-addict, who can’t take criticism, and who will buckle under pressure.
An empty suit with a remarkable talent for self-promotion, fresh from the corrupt backroom political world of Chicago.
He was aided and abetted by the adoring media in both shedding the stench of Chicago's gutter level politics and in creating the statesmanlike image he projects. With the media totally on his side to cover his tracks and give him a boost out of the gutter, he skillfully created a public persona, who if this article is any guide bears very little resemblance to the man himself.
The next four years, (please dear God let it only be four) will be interesting to say the least, provided the nation survives them intact that is.
“But in light of today’s story of Obama’s near-physical altercation, this anecdote of Obama’s temper is interesting: “
Is today’s story about something that happened today, December 25, or something that happened when this article was published?
Put The Fool-Elect and Vladdy Putin in a room. Pooty would tear The Fool to pieces!
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