Hold The Video

I have not even sat through the whole Obama attack video (YouTube freezes on my prime time computer) and I have only leafed through his book but I am going to get behind Dan Collins and Sean Hackbarth.

And though I am deploring him elsewhere, Marc Ambinder does provide some helpful context here.

That said, I have no doubt that the attack theme - Mr. Reconciliation has some notably angry and unreconciled people in his life, starting with his wife and pastor - will remain with us and be effective.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY:  I notice a reference to the Don Imus situation in the video.  I assume the point is that white people (Barack's grandma, Geraldine Ferraro, Don Imus) can't catch a break from this guy, yet Barack is willing to defend Wright.  That ties in to the theme that Mr. Reach Across The Aisle never has, and that Barack is a reliable liberal vote who never says "boo" to his own side.

Comments

[dmh]

I am not sure this bank shot approach--Obama is no good because some of his associates are no goo--will work. How many people have friends, relatives, acquaintances who say and do things we don't like but who we continue to be associated with nonetheless? I would guess most of us. Guilt by association might have a minor impact but if that is all there is, we are in deep, deep trouble.

[PMII]

But if he was a Republican, he would have already resigned from the race. The MSM doesn't want to vet him and if he gets elected, and the truth about him comes out, there's going to be lots of folks who say, %$%^$#^^ where was the press.

[Cecil Turner]

Guilt by association might have a minor impact but if that is all there is, we are in deep, deep trouble.

Huh? The person talking on that video is Barack Hussein Obama himself. That ain't "guilt by association" or "some of his associates are no good." It's all the good Senator himself. And I for one don't appreciate how he talks about "white people" or explains how reading Conrad gives an illuminating view into "what makes white people so afraid." Stereotypical horsecrap that I'd denounce in a heartbeat if the races were inverted . . . and yet this is supposed to be his forte. Concur that there is a lack of context . . . and I'd particularly like to see the entire sections on the black value system. But some of the statements are simply indefensible.

A conversation on race? Or a black politician pandering to his base? I know how I'd call it.

[JB]

Well, as the video showed, Obama was drawn to Wright primarily BECAUSE of his rhetoric ("white folks greed", etc.) not despite it.

You're missing out on the detail here.

Which is -- (1) Obama initially dug Wright's rhetoric. (The defense that he no longer does would be more convincing if there were any evidence of ACTION during the 20 years to support it.)

And 2) Obama lies, or more charitably, lawyer-spins when confronted with inconvenient truths. (No, sir, never heard any such statements.)

The video isn't about Obama's associations per se. It is about his character. And it is damn effective for anyone who bothers to connect the dots.

[DebinNC]

The problem I have with Obama in the video is not with the racial views and conversations he had in his youth, but that, as a 45 yr. old author, he fabricated those conversations. The Chicago Tribune investigated his claims in the book and found:

"At the same time, several of his oft-recited stories may not have happened in the way he has recounted them. Some seem to make Obama look better in the retelling, others appear to exaggerate his outward struggles over issues of race, or simply skim over some of the most painful, private moments of his life."

And what did the real "Ray", not the anngry, white hating fictional version, have to say?

"But those talks, Kakugawa said, were not about race. "Not even close," he said, adding that Obama was dealing with "some inner turmoil" in those days. "But it wasn't a race thing," he said. "Barry's biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. The idea that his biggest struggle was race is [bull]."

[buford gooch]

The effort to "pass" is no longer an effort to be accepted as White, but an effort to be perceived as not being a Black racist. Obama excels at it.

[Rick Ballard]

The "Dreams" copyright was issued in 1995, when Obama had reached the ripe age of 34. He was barely on the pad to Rezko when he wrote it and one may surmise that it's original purpose was to establish some sort of "street cred" for his descent into Chicago politics. One might wonder about the level of advice received from his race baiting pastor/mentor/advisor prior to submission of the manuscript.

The extent of the phoniness and lying has to be understood in the context of Obama's purpose in writing - he had to lie to have a chance. He still had not lied enough to beat former Black Panther Bobby Rush when he ran against him for Congress in 2000. Southsiders required Rush's level of "authenticity" in order to gain their votes. Don't forget, the adjacent district's seat is held by Jesse Jackson Jr.

"Dreams" is a book written to be read on a Prog Plantation - it's as fictional as anything else issuing from such a swamp.

[GMax]

Another day another moby? Is there a townhouse memo someplace telling these mopes to show up here and basically say "nothing to see here behind the crime scene tape, move along now."

Sheesh

[Danube of Thought]

This dude is toast. His associations don't make him guilty of anything at all, but they do make it certain that he doesn't belong anywhere near the White House.

[DebinNC]

I'm unable to link to it, but at www.youtube.com there is an eye-opening video called "Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling", which shows his lack of authenticity better than anything I've yet seen.

[MayBee]

From Time Magazine's profile of Obama's mother this week:

Before her death, Ann read a draft of her son's memoir, which is almost entirely about his father. Some of her friends were surprised at the focus, but she didn't seem obviously bothered. "She never complained about it," says Peluso. "She just said it was something he had to work out." Neither Ann nor her son knew how little time they had left.

I find that interesting.

[Danube of Thought]

Jeez--'pon my word, I had not seen the following item from the Canada Free Press when I posted at 11:02:

"Obama is Toast
By Alan Caruba Friday, April 11, 2008

"We already know that only a Democrat Party suicide pact to give the nomination to Hillary will keep Barack Hussein Obama from heading the ticket."

Etc...

[DebinNC]

Before her death, Ann read a draft of her son's memoir, which is almost entirely about his father.

By 1995 Obama had worked with Rev. Wright for 4 years, joined Trinity, went to Harward, returned to Chicago and Wright/Trinity. Wright is the father he longed for but never had imo. If he distances himself further from Wright and his racial views, it will only be a temporary, insincere move for appearances sake.

[M. Simon]

Tom,

I use FireFox to watch videos. Videos freeze on my computer too.

Re-installing Flash before opening the browser sometimes helps. But FireFox always works. Some times it locks on videos too but it comes back if you close it and then re-open it. No need to re-install Flash.

[M. Simon]

Obama Is Toast

==

Here is how you make permalinks:

<a href="url">text to display</a>

replace url with:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/
leave the quote marks

replace text to display
with:
Power and Control

Power and Control

If you keep a cheat sheet (text file) up of your most commonly used forms (probably around 10 to 20) it is really easy.

[M. Simon]

There Will Be Bamboozling.

[GMax]

You think Obama's mom was thinking something like, "well at least he did not write extensively about me abandoning him to grandma and grampa will I ran off to Indonesia to do an indepth study of the blacksmithing techniques of Indonesian craftsmen."

[Danube of Thought]

How do you keep a cheat sheet up?

[pagar]

From the link @Obama is toast@ shown above by M. Simon above.

"I think he’s toast"

IMO, this message will be repeated millions of times before election day. But it is up to us, the American voter, to make sure the message gets delivered on election Day.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In answer to the 1st poster's question "How many people have friends, relatives, acquaintances who say and do things we don't like but who we continue to be associated with nonetheless? I would ask~~How many of your friends, relatives, acquaintances who say and do things you don't like, and have no friends, relatives, acquaintances, you like or respect do you believe should be president?

[DebinNC]

Thanks for linking that video, M.Simon. Watching it reminded of what Jane said about Obama reading directly from the Deval Patrick script. Obama is Synthetic Man .. man-made, nothing natural on display.

[Sara]

I've mentioned this before. If you use Firefox, you can add the addon Xinha. Then all you have to do is right click in a blank comments box and open Xinha, which gives you full wordprocessing/linking capabilities while writing your comment. It is a nifty utility, especially on sites, like this one, that don't give you the code by clicking on buttons. Try it.

[M. Simon]

Slick Barry

I remember the '04 campaign. We didn't have near this much material on Kerry at this point in the cycle.

Not just toast. Burnt toast.

Simon

[Danube of Thought]

How do you begin to use Firefox? What is it? (You may begin to see the scope of the problem you are dealing with in the ancient Danube.)

[GMax]

OK lets see how Xinha works

[GMax]

Again

[M. Simon]

Danube.

I have a text file I keep open. I click on it when I need a form.

The "how to do links" bit is a moderately complicated bit of html so I keep that in the file instead of having to look it up and insert all the codes so the browser doesn't interpret it as links.

[GMax]

Firefox is a competing browser for IE, and in my opinion far superior. Plus its a small way to flip the bird to Bill Gates, so consider it a two-fer.

[GMax]

No on colors of fonts, no on underlining yes on strike thrus and bold and changing fonts. Perhaps a tad easier with links instead of inserting the HTML manually, looks like a good tool.

Thanks for the tip.

[Sara]

Danube, a quick way to add Firefox is to download it for free. I have a button at the top of the right sidebar for downloading if you don't want to search. Look at Pal2Pal.

[Sara]

Eeeew, I meant TOP LEFT SIDEBAR

[M. Simon]

Danube - geeze. Well I have been doing computers since '75 so I have a head start. So that is why this OF is moderately knowledgeable. I can't keep up with all the intricacies. However, if you need an assembly programmer or a driver written or help bringing up cold iron, I'm your man.

FireFox is a browser. Google it and you can down load it. Make sure your fire wall, virus scanner, and bad cookie eliminator are in good shape. It doesn't have as good a protection system as the latest (and last alas) Netscape.

[DebinNC]

M.Simon, I've learned a serviceable, if needlessly complicated, way of providing a link. Do you know why TypePad refused to let me post that YouTube-Bamboozling video as I do other links [a href=...]? IOW, is there something different about posting links to videos or to YouTube?

[bgates' AM impression]

Try as you might, I don't think you guys will get anywhere with these tenuous connections between Obama and people he may at one time have met or women he may at one time have married or books he may at one time have written.

[pagar]

I went to Firefox and clicked on search for addons and got "Xinha Here". Is that the same as Xinha? Thanks

[Sara]

pagar: Xinha Here! is Xinha. Yes.

[Danube of Thought]

That "attack" video featuring Obama hasn't been seen by .01 percent of the electorate. Come October, the RNC can run a series of 60-second excerpts (pick your favorites) with a solemn prefatory voice-over intoning "Barack Obama--in his own words." Run a few of those babies during NFL games and the World Series. Then keep your eyes on the tracking polls.

I say the RNC can do it, because we all know McCain won't.

[cathyf]

While we are talking about browsers, I'll throw in my pitch for opera. It is missing some of the nice features that other browsers have, but it has some completely different features, too. The one most important to me is the little pull-down menu that allows me to scale the web page to anything between 20% and 1000%. This is not just the text, but everything.

It's definitely got my half-blind old-lady endorsement!

[Danube of Thought]

Downloaded Firefox and went online with it. Immediately I noticed that I had no "favorites" icon, and couldn't find a way to make a listing of favorite sites to link to.

[boris]

bookmarks?

[Sara]

Bookmarks = Favorites

[Sara]

You can also drag any URL in the address bar to the Bookmark toolbar

[GMax]

I am certain I imported my favorites from IE into FF bookmarks with a click. Of course that was several years back and versions ago and I dont remember how to do it. I would run a Dogpile search for "importing bookmarks from IE to FireFox" if You cant find anything in the firefox details.

[Jane]

Dot,

You can do it. I did, I think on either Cathy or JM Hanes recommendation a year or so ago and I've never looked back.

I don't know anything about that Xinha thing tho.

[Sara]

I don't remember how I did it, but when I open the Bookmarks menu at the top, there is a listing that says: From Internet Explorer and in that list are all my "favorietes" from IE.

[Sara]

I don't remember how I did it, but when I open the Bookmarks menu at the top, there is a listing that says: From Internet Explorer and in that list are all my "favorietes" from IE.

Oh, look under FILE, Import. It is all right there.

[pagar]

Today's Obama's unsavory associate is Bill Ayers, speaking tonight at~

Friday
11
Apr
2008
Shimer Lecture: Trudge Toward Freedom: Education for Liberation
Trudge Toward Freedom: Education for Liberation

Bill Ayers, Professor of Ecducation and Senior University Scholar, UIC

Organized By: Shimer College
Contact: Stuart Patterson
e-mail: s.patterson@shimer.edu
Phone: 312.235.3529
Location: Shimer College, Cinderella Lounge
3424 S. State St.

Link

"The talk is called, Trudge Toward Freedom: Education for Liberation, and it will take place in the Cinderella Lounge at 3424 S. State Street."

Mr. Ayer's idea of liberation is~~

"The woman who read the statement over the radio airwaves was Bernardine Dohrn. She's no longer a terrorist--she married now to fellow ex-Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Both are among Barack Obama's earliest supporters.

As for the statement, wouldn't you know that the ubiquitous Ché Guevara, a brutal killer, just had to make a cameo appearance.

Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn.

I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR.

This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground.

All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire. "

Link

I do not believe one can associate with these types of people and be qualified to be the President of the US.

[pagar]

Sara, Thanks for the info.

[centralcal]

I see Obama dissed just about everybody in "small town USA" (Pennsylvania, really).

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

[centralcal]

Of course, he made these remarks at "millionaire's row" in San Francisco, to an elite crowd.

Zomibie took photos of the mansion, the guests, and Obama's arrival (through the servant's quarters).

[DebinNC]

Obama Visits Billionaires Row