DFA Swiftboating McCain

Howard Dean’s Democracy For America,

Democracy for America is our nation’s largest progressive political action community. With over 725,000 members nationwide, DFA is a grassroots powerhouse working to change our country and the Democratic Party from the bottom-up. We provide campaign training, organizing resources, and media exposure so our members have the power to support progressive issues and candidates up and down the ballot. Join us in the fight to take our country back!

an organization, now chaired by his brother, James, in conjunction with Brave New Pac, has a new Swift Boat-style ad aimed at John McCain.  The ad features former Navy Midshipman Philip Butler, who was imprisoned with McCain, claiming that McCain’s “volatile” temper makes him “unfit to lead.”  DFA is already planning for a second ad:

Thanks to your support, our ad featuring former POW Dr. Phillip Butler is already making a splash and exposing John McCain as “unfit to lead.”

This is just the beginning of our aggressive, hard-hitting ad campaign to expose the real McCain. It’s time to take it to the next level.

For our next ad, we want to hear your ideas. DFA has always believed in the power of the grassroots over Beltway consultants. We need to continue unmasking the real McCain. The ad should be aggressive, creative and truthful.

Fox News reports that the new “527’s are okey-dokey” attitude of the Obama camp seems to be encouraging other outside groups to jump into the fray:

The Service Employees International Union, a labor group backing Obama, launched its own ad campaign Sunday, announcing a $2 million ad buy in targeted markets in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Iowa.

The ad, titled Family, features a mother talking about the strain of trying to provide for her family in an economy defined by higher costs, lower wages and lost jobs, and draws distinctions between Obama and McCain on their approach to the economy.

Marc Ambinder reported on Camp O’s new thinking in The Atlantic on September 9:

The upshot: Obama’s campaign will no longer object to independent efforts that hammer John McCain, just as, in their mind, the McCain campaign has not objected to those efforts targeted at Obama. “I assume with their 527s stirring, some [Democratic] ones will as well,” another senior campaign official said.

From the DFA “about us” webpage:

James H. Dean, Chair

Jim Dean is the current Chair of Democracy for America (DFA). As DFA’s key spokesperson and fundraiser, Jim keeps DFA in the national spotlight. Jim brings DFA’s mission across the country to all 50 states. He meets with candidates, organizers, party leaders and activists, inspiring everyone to get involved and take back our country. Jim has been involved with DFA since our founding in 2004. He has a long history of political involvement and was a key fundraiser for his brother, Howard’s campaigns for President, Governor and Lt. Governor.

Governor Howard Dean, Founder

Governor Howard Dean founded Democracy for America in 2004 to build on the grassroots momentum for reform that his bid for the presidency sparked. The movement propelled DFA into a successful national organization committed to the “50 State Strategy.”

In early 2005, DFA ran a people-powered campaign to elect Governor Dean to chair the Democratic National Committee. Democrats nationwide badly wanted reform and found the answer in Dean. In February 2005 Governor Dean resigned from the leadership of DFA to take his new post as chair of the Democratic National Committee.

One of Democracy of America’s first acts was to name Barack Obama one of the newly initiated Dean’s Dozen politicians to watch.

Brave New Pac is associated with Brave New Films and Brave New Foundation.

Obama is said to have been targeted by the original Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, himself.

*I do not endorse either candidate running for president, the donation button was part of the web page posted here merely for purposes of elucidation.

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Obama, McCain Both Pitiful

Maybe the two guys running for president, John (He Did Say That) McCain and Barack (At Least I’m Not The Other Guy) Obama, should just use the feet they both have stuck firmly in their mouths as pacifiers and suck on them like the big babies they are and keep quiet.  On Good Morning America today, Obama proved he can’t even defend himself right.  Asked about negative ads, Obie said:

“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.

Hey, who am I to argue?  Meanwhile, AP reports that in Jacksonville, Fl., McCain commented about his Lipstick/Pig-gate ad:

Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe? “No,” McCain said Monday. The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama “chooses his words very carefully.”

So, I guess that while Obama didn’t call Palin a “pig,” he implied that she was.  Any way you look at it, a  pig’s a pig, right?

Geez.

These are our only two choices?

Of course, there’s always Joe (Somebody Rescue Me) Biden, a guy you can count on to speak his mind, whether you want him to or not:

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

Now, vote for the black guy, dammit, transform America.  Tell ‘em Joe said so.

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HuffPo Hearts Hillary

All of a sudden, rabidly anti-anything Hillary and pro-anything Barack, Huffington Post is floating the “dump Biden for Clinton” trial balloon.  Why?  Could poll panic have prompted a 3:00 am phone call from Camp O to Huff Po?

“Arianna?  Ya gotta help me!  We need to do something, quick!  We’re freaking desperate over here!  The big guy’s been stammering and stuttering at the top of his lungs for days!  I don’t know what to do!  Huh?  Oh, sure, you’re right, dahling…deep breath…whoooooo…ya still there?  Okay, what I need is, uh, what I mean is, see…oh, what the hell, can you find out if those PUMA bitches will behave if we put…“her” on the ticket?  Whaddaya mean, “her” who?  You know perfectly well…come onnnnn, waaaah…don’t make me say it, please…do you know what time it is here?  I’ll never get to sleep!  Oh, all right!  Hillary!  Hillary!  Hillary!  Ya happy now?  Geez!   Sooooo…will ya do it?  Get somebody to write a piece putting the idea out there, see what kind of response you get?  Don’t bother calling back, the big guy’s finally resting…and Lord knows I don’t want to be the one to wake him up, if I don’t have to.  There’s only so much whining I can take.  Any more would be above my pay grade.  Yeah, that was a good one, too bad he stole it when he did.  How many times do I have to tell him, if it’s not on the TelePrompTer…right, sure, I know you know exactly what I mean.  Thanks Ari.  Huh?  Oh, yeah, Arianna, I forgot myself for a minute.  Anyway, you’re a dear, dahling, thanks again.  Of course I owe you, how could I forget?  You fax the running tab every fuc…uh, day.  Anyway, thanks again.  Kisses to you, too.  M’bye.

Whew!”

They’ll never get it.  Once a lousy boyfriend has the nerve to dump a chick, that’s it.  And Obie’s one lousy boyfriend.

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Obama Doesn’t Add Up

I don’t trust Barack Obama.  On anything.  Never have.  For one thing, I have never believed that he raised gazillions of dollars from millions of legal, under-two hundred dollar donations.  How did he get to be such a fundraising phenom in the first place?  When and from whom did he learn this fine art?  Why couldn’t he use some of his prodigious money-making mojo to fund a few programs benefiting the South Side residents he was so generously giving of his precious time and talents while being St. Community Organizer Extraordinaire?  Call me crazy, but maybe a few hundred “small donors” pooling their resources back then could have had real, tangible reason to “hope” for “change,” even if their fearless leader abruptly abandoned them to pursue his own collegiate ambitions before they could accomplish anything of note.

The New York Post says you can’t trust Obama about the war, either.  Big surprise.  Once you realize that the only recordings that exist of the foundational anti-Iraq war speech upon which Obama’s whole campaign is built were faked by the Obama campaign because nobody thought it was notable enough at the time to record it, you know pretty much all you need to know about the guy.  Anyway, Amir Taheri, in a Post opinion piece claims that Obama tried to pimp the war when he was in Iraq this July:

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.

Meanwhile, a couple of blog sites are revisiting some old allegations re: SuperCommunityMan.  One, Sweetness and Light explores claims made July 9, on another site called Analyze This that Obama truly does the impossible and actually pads his Gillette-thin resume to it’s current anemic thickness:

Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big fan of Barack Obama, the Illinois freshman senator and hot young Democratic Party star. But after reading his autobiography, I have to say that Barack engages in some serious exaggeration when he describes a job that he held in the mid-1980s.I know because I sat down the hall from him, in the same department, and worked closely with his boss. I can’t say I was particularly close to Barack – he was reserved and distant towards all of his co-workers – but I was probably as close to him as anyone. I certainly know what he did there, and it bears only a loose resemblance to what he wrote in his book.

If that’s not enough, the folks at Right Voices re-examine last month’s Wall Street Journal story involving illegal Palestinian donations to Camp O, as well as the ever popular ongoing ACORN voter fraud saga.

Now, I’m not vouching for any of these sites and stories, I didn’t go out of my way to find them, just visited BuzzTracker and there they were.  And you know what?  I don’t really care if they’re true.  Obama will fail because he reached his public service level of incompetence way back in Altgeld Gardens, that’s why he left the community he was supposed to be organizing high and dry and ran off to law school.  He certainly doesn’t seem to have helped anyone as a community organizer/politician.  As days go by, he will continue to expose the obvious simply by embodying the truth of his thin resume and will inevitably prove himself to be what he is, a school teacher.

Everything else is just somebody else’s lipstick on a pig.

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Enough With The “What If”

Randall Kennedy writes another race-baiting article in the Washington Post, entitled The Big What If, asking the hypothetical question, what happens if Barack Obama is defeated in the election?  The answer is simple, he loses.  Big deal.  But Kennedy, of course, does not take that rational position.  How could he when the subtitle of his article is: “The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome’s way up in the air”?

Come on, enough.  This whole article is based on the proposition that Barack Obama is qualified to be president.  He is not.  If he were a white man, he’d be considered to be exactly what he is, a pretty unexceptional junior senator.  He has been selected, propped up and greased through the nomination for the sole reason that he is black, by people convinced that that fact could be exploited to their benefit.  So far, they’ve succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.

There is no need to go through Obama’s record, the lack of it speaks for itself.  He is being graded on a curve by people afraid to assess him on merit for fear of being labeled “racist.”  Yet, the opposite is true, giving him the benefit of unreasonable and unearned doubt is the real height of racist behavior.  He is not an Affirmative Action candidate as some have claimed, Affirmative Action supposes that all things being equal, qualified minority applicants must be granted extra consideration in an attempt to level the playing field.  Obama’s being given a pass is racial exploitation on a par with extortion.

Kennedy claims that he was born in 1954, the year of Brown vs. The Board of Education.  So was I.  Raised in Chicago, the Civil Rights struggle was an integral part of my upbringing.  Schools, in an effort to integrate, were regularly re-assigned to me because of redlining and “white flight,” dinner conversations were filled with discussions of the nightly news stories of demonstrations, protests, sit-ins, bombings, beatings, hosings, attack dogs and all the other tragedies, successes and failures of the brave men and women putting their lives, and the lives of their families, friends, and sometimes entire neighborhoods and communities on the line in their efforts to affect true equality for me and other children like me.  I watched my parents work harder at upward mobility than most people work at their jobs in a lifetime, squeezing every drop out of a series of blue-collar positions, moving from changing neighborhood to changing neighborhood, scrimping and saving, all to afford me the promise of American success that the Movement allowed them to dream of.  Their strength, determination and dedication shaped my life and gave me the confidence to think for myself, pursue my dreams and demand to be treated fairly in all my endeavors.

The pathetic attempt to attach the hopes and dreams of black America to Barack Obama’s bandwagon pisses me off.  Due to lessons learned at the knee of the Civil Rights Movement, I expect any black person anywhere to be able to represent himself and other black people with pride and dignity, not to run from their blackness in order to lessen any perceived potential offense to those who might be  uncomfortable in it’s presence.  I am black, deal with it.  I bring it with me everywhere I go and wear it proudly.  Barack Obama does not.

He deserves no loyalty from black America.  He joined one of our churches because he wanted to ingratiate himself with the poor, pitiful people he had appointed himself to save from their wretched, miserable lives.  When that religious affiliation became inconvenient to white people, he abandoned it as quickly as he abandoned those South Side residents he had earlier failed to help.  He refuses to appear at political functions designed to present and address concerns of the voting bloc he depends on for his political life, doing so only when he can score points by belittling those voters in front of white people, playing out his Oedipal complex at the expense of those he characterizes as “boys.”  In his “historic speech” commemorating his “milestone accomplishment” of securing the nomination for president, the man upon whose shoulders he claims to proudly stand wasn’t even mentioned by name.  Can Mr. Kennedy imagine Dr. King or any other Civil Rights leader in his lifetime trying not to appear to be “too black” in order to appease white people, for any reason?  Would that not be a price too high?   What, in such an event, would be the point?  What is the point now?

In an America truly free, a black man would not have to compromise his very blackness to succeed.  In this current America, most people, black and white, instinctively know this and subliminally resent any man who does so.  For their own purposes, many Americans, black and white, pretend that such things must be done because other Americans demand such capitulation.  Bullshit.  Anybody whose prejudice would preclude them from voting for a black man is not going to vote for him because he pretends not to be.  Such a person would only resent him more for his wimpiness.

“The Big What If” is not related to an inevitable Obama loss and the possibility that mass disappointment of black Americans might lead to rash behavior or an across-the-board setback of race relations.  The real fear is that a loss would cause the scam to unavoidably be exposed, leading to the disillusionment of all of so-called liberal America.  In order to prevent the truth of this Democratic Blaxploitation-gate coming to light, the farce must succeed, or the blame for it’s failure must be placed at the feet of America’s racist past.  Otherwise, if the blinders are removed, allowing people to see the reality of the grand-scale manipulation of racial guilt for political gain, people, black and white, just might riot.

Putting a black face, ashamed of it’s blackness, on the appearance of racial conciliation is unacceptable, shameful and wrong.  What if Mr Kennedy wanted no part of it and used his voice in a national newspaper to proclaim so? 

That would be racial progress.

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