Posted on 01/22/2006 5:51:45 AM PST by KeyLargo
Obama might be walking on hot water
January 22, 2006
Everybody knows that when U.S. Sen. Barack Obama walks, lilacs bloom from his every footstep, even in parking lots.
He can cross the Potomac without bridge or boat. When his fellow Democrats became hungry, he feeds them by the thousands with two perch and a bag of Cheetos. And what about that nice Shiraz flowing from the Senate water cooler?
According to his glowing media, there is nothing he can't do. And when he saved Sen. Hillary Clinton from her own big mouth--she told a black audience that Congress was a "plantation, and you know what I'm talking about"--I became a believer too.
But now he's trying to pull off a real miracle.
Obama, the Chicago Democrat, is the lead public thwacker of Republicans on the corruption issue involving self-admitted crooked Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Obama was scheduled for more public thwacking on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. But that's not the miracle.
The miracle is that he's trying to do this and push ethics legislation, while avoiding mention of the corruption among Democrats in Illinois.
Federal investigations are crawling through the administrations of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. Rod Blagojevich while Obama skips the mess back home.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
"Yep, he is a good friend of mine."
Ted Kennedy
Every time I see "Obama" in a headline my first thought is "Osama". Oh well. I guess that's one kind of name recognition.
Russert on MTP labeled him the Dems' point man on ethics.
lol
Obama maketh the sun to rise and the stars to shine. He overturneth the money tables. Who annointed Barack Obama as Mr. Clean, Champion of ethics?
He's being groomed, just you wait.
Hillary and Obama will run in '08.
I'd love to have the audio clip. Anyone have a link?
He looks like he wears make-up, especially lipstick. He turns my stomach when I see him on TV.
Wrong assumption here on people that don't live in the Chicagoland area.
Chicagoans love corruption, they laugh at it openly and relish corruption religiously.
One party socialism breeds corruption. To the avergae Chicagoan, these corrupt insiders are the lucky ones who can put their entire family (including their dead relatives) on government payrolls and get rich, it's like hitting the lotto.
good government (an oxymoron?) is not a goal in Chicago. Getting your hands on money and votes without being sentenced to the prison is a lifetime dream of Chicagoans.
Hillary alone seems like a loser...but pair Hillary & Obama, that would be a tough ticket.
Correction:
What Hillary! actually said was "And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout".
Get it first, but get it right.
Rush has it, but you need to be a member.
The bumper stickers already have been prnted:
http://www.cafepress.com/shop/hillary/browse/Clinton+Obama
http://www.cafepress.com/shop/hillary/browse/store/liberal_shop.30041698
Obama defends Hillary Clinton's 'plantation' remark
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:08 p.m. January 18, 2006
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama and other black Democrats are defending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's description of the House of Representatives as a "plantation." First lady Laura Bush says Clinton's remark was "ridiculous."
Clinton, D-N.Y., a potential presidential candidate for 2008, did not retreat from the "plantation" remark, telling reporters the term accurately describes the "top-down" way the GOP runs Congress.
Obama said Wednesday he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters.
The Illinois senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input."
"There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don't have access," Obama said. "That should be a source of concern for all of us."
New York Rep. Gregory Meeks also defended Clinton.
"There was no race card played here. If any card was played here it was a joker, because that's who seems to be running the House right now if you look at the leadership," said Meeks, a black Democrat.
First lady Laura Bush, en route home from a visit to West Africa, criticized Clinton.
"It think it's ridiculous – it's a ridiculous comment," Mrs. Bush told reporters when asked about the senator's remark.
Obama, D-Ill., told ABC's "Good Morning America" that under GOP control in Washington, "what one has seen is the further concentration of power around a very narrow agenda that advantages the most powerful."
Obama also said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was correct to apologize for suggesting that the hurricane-ravaged city would be majority black again because "it's the way God wants it to be."
"If I'm the mayor of New Orleans, I want everybody to come back," said Obama, the Senate's only black member.
Clinton, who is seeking re-election this year, said during a Martin Luther King Day event in Harlem this week that the House "has been run like a plantation," in that "nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
Clinton appeared briefly in Washington Wednesday at a Democratic event, but quickly slipped out a back door far from reporters. On Tuesday night, she adamantly stood by the comments, saying "top-down" decision-making by GOP congressional leaders was bad for the country.
Obama might want to look at this also:
40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus who took Jack Abramoff money
• Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
• Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
• Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
• Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
• Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
• Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
• Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
• Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
• Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
• Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
• Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
• Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
• Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
• Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
• Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
• Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
• Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
• Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
• Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
• Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
• Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
• Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
• Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
• Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
• Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
• Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
• Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
• Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
• Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
• Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
• Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
• Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
• Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
• Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
• Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
• Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
• Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
• Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250
I know some Republicans were also getting money but have never seen a list. Obama it would seem, is just another politician playing by the book for his party, rather than using the moral high ground once attributed to him.
Clinton/Osama Obama '08
Video:
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2006/01/18/clintonbarackam/
If link doesn't work, go directly to http://www.thepoliticalteen.net and click next page twice (bottom).
As further evidence of Democrat hypocrisy, Obama is a big supporter of Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd (D-KKK). Apparently, Obama thinks its OK to use the "N" word if you are a white Democrat.
I think a lot of people like him and he is one of the few bright spots the dems having going for them.
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