Posted on 06/04/2008 6:19:17 AM PDT by BibChr
Well, today is supposed to be the day the big, huge, bad, devastating, apocalyptic, {insert-dire-adjective-here} political "bombshell" is supposed to drop on Senator The Obama's head.
Which... um... (looking around)...so far, no "boom."
So I am proposing we mount a "Bombshell Watch."
And thus, I make the first log entry:
6:13am PT — so far, no "boom"
In the meanwhile, you can (if you like) read my own prediction
Man your posts, FReepers!
We're over 40 minutes into this thread and Ann Archy has yet to chime-in with her incessant “Why’d he” rant.
If you're going to talk about a FReeper it is common courtesy to ping them.
If I was going to lower the boom today, I’d wait until the last possible second before the end of the daily news cycle for print.
I’d try to keep my news release before the public without allowing my opponent time for an easy reply.
I think that's redundant.
Cedric, I see a trend here and it's reflecting badly on you my FRiend.
Code Name: Vaporboom
Instead of “there is no spoon”, now it’s “there is no boom”
Gore, perish the thought.
Let the Obama bots get real comfortable with their illusionary messiah, THEN
BAM...release the tape when it is too late for damage control OR fielding another candidate.
Patience is a virtue.
If it fizzle, you must... acquizzle.
Fo’ shizzle.
Check this out:
YESTERDAY- Alisyn Camerota had THIS on her Green Room blog:
by Alisyn Camerota
Were you watching at 6:25 when Democratic strategist Bob Beckel dropped a bomb on us? He said he’d heard through his political pipeline that a big shoe was about to drop on the Obama campaign. It has something to do with Michelle Obama. Beckel wouldn’t say anything more other than this explosive story may happen tomorrow. Do you think the GOP has something up its sleeve that could blow up Obama’s campaign? If so, when do you think they’ll unleash it?
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I just went there to see what the recent comments are- and much to my surprise- the entire blog entry has DISAPPEARED!
Looky here:
http://greenroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/03/beckels-obama-bombshell/
If they take a bidding war and soliciting bids from Soros (who wants to seat Obama), then it becomes blackmail and is criminal.
Expose the emperor as having no clothes NOW and let him flaunt his exposure of his shameful attributes.
THEN we can focus on the Marxism of his politics and the TERRORISM of his supporters (abroad and domestic).
“Holding” key details until October will only result in a shrug.
He is a disgrace and a permanent stain on the DNC presidential nomination process.
Al Sharpton never got this much respect from the DNC but the two are cut from the same cloth.
If it is Hillary’s team, they will wait until 2 minutes after Rush goes off the air. Or maybe 2 minutes after Hannity.
Smarmy is the word that fits McQueeg to a T. I don’t think it’s going to wear well with the voters this year.
Just checking under the tree...still no Santa and its 2:15ish on the east coast. I’m bummed.
If its another inept GOP disclosure, they’ll probably do it on Sunday afternoon and it’ll get buried.
You forgot “cataclysmic”. “seismic”. “incubusical”.Ok, I made that last one up.
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Maybe, but it’s now a keyword. So it’s officially FReepspeak..
Yes, I’m series.
From the Volokh Conspiracy:
http://www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_06_01-2008_06_07.shtml#1212598400
Trying to debunk the internet rumors about Michelle Obama.— As many of you know, there has been an ever-shifting intenet rumor launched publicly by an extremely unreliable pro-Clinton blogger, Larry Johnson, that there is a video recording of Michelle Obama saying some intemperate things at Trinity United Church. The way that this story is being spread leads me to think that there is little or nothing to the rumors, which is why I haven’t posted on the issue here until now.
Until today, the rumors have been too vague to be debunked, but they have now become specific enough that the currently most prominent version of the rumor could potentially be determined to be false. A specific conference for the remarks has been specified: the 2004 Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Annual Conference starting on June 26, 2004.
In an attempt to get the information necessary to put this matter to bed, I drove over to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition National Headquarters, which is in the opposite corner of my Hyde-Park/Kenwood neighborhood. I spoke with Robert (Bobby) Lewis, Director of Studio Services, who apparently handles the recordings of events. He said that the recording of events from 2005 and earlier was farmed out and most or all of the existing recordings (listed on the website) had not been conveyed in-house to the National Headquarters. He said that he did not know if the organization had a recording of the 2004 conference. In response to my more specific question, he said that the one-hour Saturday broadcasts on the 2004 Annual Conference (June 26, 2004, and July 2, 2004), which are listed on the website for purchase, are not available, since they come from the earlier outsourced period.
I was very surprised when he informed me that I was the first person to have contacted them about this matter. Given the furor on the internet, I suspect that many of you are skeptical about this claim, but he really seemed in the dark. He wanted to know the name of the website that had the story about the conference. And at first, he thought I was talking about an event where Barack, not Michelle, had appeared. In manner, he was gracious and he didn’t seem to be particularly guarded or defensive.
As I write this, I am aware that it seems unlikely that Barack Obama’s campaign would not have scoped this out with Rainbow/PUSH long ago. Either the Obama campaign neglected to do so, or Rainbow/PUSH picked the right person to persuade outsiders that no inquiries were made, or — more likely — there was nothing to scope out.
I suggested to Mr. Lewis that he try to find a copy, since he was likely to get inquiries. He said that he planned to get on it right away, since I was probably only the first of many more requests.
I hope that if Rainbow/PUSH locates a copy they release it as soon as possible to prevent this rumor from snowballing. In its limbo state, this rumor does damage to all three candidates, as well as to the political process.
>> Maybe, but [”incubusical” us] now a keyword. So it’s officially FReepspeak..
Gosh, thanks! (blushing) Ah feel speshul.
200!
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