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Obama At Bon Jovi Event: 'We Won't Be Bullied'
http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/bon.jovi.obama.2.811125.html ^

Posted on 09/06/2008 1:45:36 PM PDT by kcvl

Presidential Nominee Vows To Fight Back Against Character Attacks Better Than John Kerry Did In '04 MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) ― Unlike his Republican opponent, Democrat Barack Obama is still raising money for his presidential campaign, and he turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help.

Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, hosted more than 100 people for dinner on their mansion lawn by the Navesink River in Middletown, N.J. The price was $30,800 a person, to be divided between the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

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"We're not going to be bullied, we're not going to be smeared, we're not going to be lied about," Obama said. "I don't believe in coming in second."

Earlier in the evening, Obama attended a $2,300-per-person reception at the nearby home of veteran party fundraiser Phil Murphy. About 200 people, including the Bon Jovis and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, attended.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bonjovi; campaignfinance; corzine; fundraiser; fundraising; nj2008; obama; obamabiden
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To: kcvl

Bon Jovi is teaching the Omamanation how to sing “ Shot down. in a blaze of glory !”


41 posted on 09/06/2008 2:03:32 PM PDT by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: kcvl

TRANSLATION: We’re not going to be exposed! Our media servants will continue the cheerleading and protection. No one will find out who I am, what I am or what I will do to this stinking country.


42 posted on 09/06/2008 2:04:03 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: kcvl

I’ve only seen one side in this election use bullying tactics and that side would be Obama’s. Between going after a man who was reporting on what were in the UC papers where he served with Aryers, to sending threatening letters to TV stations that aired a commercial he didn’t like. No one has ever tried to do that to you.


43 posted on 09/06/2008 2:04:25 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: kcvl
"We're not going to be bullied, we're not going to be smeared, we're not going to be lied about,"

Pro-jec-tion, n.


44 posted on 09/06/2008 2:04:30 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
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To: kcvl

Barry is real thinned skinned, isn’t he?


45 posted on 09/06/2008 2:04:50 PM PDT by mort56
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To: kcvl

Yeah, all those attacks against Barack Obama, that he is a religious extremist, that he had an affair with his wife’s business partner, that his youngest “daughter” is actually his grandchild, that he has abused his office for personal reasons, and that he is forcing his daughter to carry a child to term against her will... Those attacks are just horrible and Barry had better fight back against them...


46 posted on 09/06/2008 2:05:28 PM PDT by gridlock (HIX IN STIX DIG MCCAIN CHICK PICK)
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To: Renegade

Obama told the $30,800-per-person attendees -– the money goes to a joint Obama campaign-DNC fund — that he hoped they were “up for a fight.”

“I hope you guys are game,” he said, “because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife –- I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second. I don’t believe in coming in second. The American people can’t afford for us to come in second. We’ve got to win this thing and we’re going to win it with your help.”

Obama said that the assignment of his Republican opponents is “to see if they can snuff out that spirit in this campaign and to knock me down more than one peg,” he said. “The reason that events like this are so important, we’ve got to have the resources and the energy and the determination to say ‘No’ to that. To say ‘enough.’ We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about. We’re not going to resort to the same tactics, but we are going to confront them.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/i-dont-believe.html


47 posted on 09/06/2008 2:05:50 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: freekitty
No, he said it right. 'WE' (he and his entourage) will not be bullied ... 'YOU' will be bullied into voting for him!

48 posted on 09/06/2008 2:08:10 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: LikeLight
I don't believe in coming in second.

Well, I dunno Barry... You can try to come in third... But I just don't see Ralph Nader pulling in quite that many votes!

49 posted on 09/06/2008 2:08:30 PM PDT by gridlock (HIX IN STIX DIG MCCAIN CHICK PICK)
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To: gridlock

Blue Collar Jersey Guy to Host $30K a Plate Obama Fundraiser

Man of the people Jon Bon Jovi will be swinging open the gates of his New Jersey mansions for $30,800 a plate fundraisers for Barack Obama Friday. If you’re expecting to head to the Jersey shore for the weekend, plan to be stuck in traffic as roads are closed to allow the community organizer to get there in time for the arugula appetizers.

http://tinyurl.com/6lhnz9


50 posted on 09/06/2008 2:09:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

He does all the lying, all the bullying, all the smearing, and he’s whining????


51 posted on 09/06/2008 2:09:26 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: kcvl

Sarah Palin could take him and he knows it.


52 posted on 09/06/2008 2:09:35 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: AndyJackson

Their internal polling must really be scaring the hell out of them.


53 posted on 09/06/2008 2:10:10 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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“Can’t beat a girl! Can’t beat a girl!”


54 posted on 09/06/2008 2:11:31 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Can't the messiah settle for being Moses and lead his people out of the country?)
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To: Carley

The events at the two Jersey Shore homes will boost the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee run by Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Both are also being co-hosted by Gov. Jon Corzine.

Whatever you do, don’t dare make fun of Obama for his relations to celebrities. It might hurt his feelings.

http://tinyurl.com/6lhnz9

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Menendez enlisted in ‘army of Barack Obama’

Sen. Robert Menendez gives a press conference after the New Jersey Delegation Breakfast. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a former co-chair of Clinton’s failed presidential bid, rallied the delegates with strong praise for Obama during a breakfast gathering at their just outside Denver.

“I will tell you now I am enlisted in the army of Barack Obama,” Menendez said.

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Webb, Denver’s first black mayor, stressed that Obama’s candidacy is not just about his race.

“He is not the black candidate for president of the United States of America,” Webb said. “He is the candidate for president of the United States of America.”

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Ex-Goldman Sachs honcho’s donkey fight

Rubin assured Murphy he could handle Washington.

“He has very substantial technical expertise from his corporate finance work, but he combines that with a wonderful facility for dealing with people,” Rubin told Fortune. Murphy, Rubin added diplomatically, could handle the “complexity” of the DNC schism.

Murphy has spent the past year plying his Harvard undergraduate, Wharton MBA, and Goldman alumni networks to build a base in stubbornly red states like Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.

He has turned to friends like Cappy McGarr of McGarr Capital Holdings in Dallas, Jonathan Lavine of Bain Capital in Boston, Goldman senior director Robert Kaplan, now teaching at Harvard, and Orin Kramer of hedge fund Boston Provident in New York.


55 posted on 09/06/2008 2:17:09 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

“We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about,” Obama said.

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Bambi telling that to Bon Jovi and room full of east coast arugula munching effetes. Pure estrogen.


56 posted on 09/06/2008 2:19:03 PM PDT by bereanway (Sarah get your gun)
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To: All
This was the first thing that came to my mind:

"You're going down, Soldier Boy!"


57 posted on 09/06/2008 2:19:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Oh, when the left finds itself defending a poor, abused police officer from attack by a woman!)
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To: kcvl

58 posted on 09/06/2008 2:19:36 PM PDT by txgirl4Bush (I Support President Bush and Operation Iraqi Freedom)
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To: AndyJackson
Are the Dimocrats embarrassed by their pick yet. I mean Joe is more of a man than this guy.

Sarah is more of a man than this guy.

59 posted on 09/06/2008 2:20:13 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: mainepatsfan

How dare people scoff at the divine right of the oNe.


60 posted on 09/06/2008 2:21:15 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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