Susan Estrich once again puts forth the notion that the only reason Barack Obama might lose this election is because of racism. She cannot for the life of herself, understand how anyone could be troubled by Senator Obama’s dubious funding, or his campaign’s race-baiting, or his system gaming thuggery during the primaries. Nope, it’s racist alright, to be even a teensy bit uncomfortable with Obama’s lack of experience and accomplishment, or to question the character of a man who would lie about how often he went to church. He made the “Greatest Speech On Race In The History Of America, Nay The World” to explain it, didn’t he? Doesn’t bother Ms. Estrich at all that said senator withdrew from said church on the same day his party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee violated their own rules to award him delegates he didn’t even bother to compete for. Uh-uh, it’s race.
Golly, gosh, gee whiz, Susan, give it a rest, will ya? It’s not now, nor has it ever been, about race. To think so, is just stupid.
Okay, I’ve been following African Press International’s claims of being the recipients of an angry phone call from Michelle Obama since day one. They claim to have tapes of said call that will be aired on FOX News’ Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren’s shows. Greta has called such claims an outright lie. Now, API is calling Greta a liar right back. API’s Chief Editor Sammy Korir, as he likes to be called, has been accused of being, shall we say, less than truthful on occasion, here on this blog, and here, on Mountain Sage. Yet, he continues to proclaim that the tapes will be released and all details will be revealed.
Many people have been occupied with the Michelle Obama tape, wondering whether it will be made public by Fox News Network.
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If things do not�go as planned between API and Fox News Network, API will ensure that the contents of the tape will be released one way or another so that the People who have believed in us will continue putting their trust on us. The release of the tape is also important for API’s credibility
CNN is reporting that Barack Obama is warning his followers that those mean ol’ Republicans are going to try to do everything they can to make him lose. Duh.
“Don’t believe for a second this election is over. Don’t think for a minute that power concedes anything. It’s gonna get nasty, I’m sure, in the next four days,” Obama told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, on Thursday night.
“They will throw everything at us like they’ve been doing, and we’re gonna have to work like our future depends on it in this last week. You know what? Because it does, and every single young person here tonight — I’ve gotta have every single one of you voting, and you’ve gotta grab five more, all of you, have gotta vote,” he said.
FOX News says, because Obots are delusional, Camp O knows they’ve got to take pains to let them down easy, even if Obie wins:
Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.
The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of “hope” and “change” are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.
One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, “so there’s not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair.”
Gee, I wonder why you would have to lower expectations of what a novice, junior senator with no practical experience doing anything but running for office and rabble rousing could potentially accomplish if a rock star obsessed nation actually elected him president? Hmmmm, it’s a puzzlement, all right. I guess you don’t want too much truth too soon to assault the senses of true believers, kinda like you don’t want to force drug addicts to quit cold turkey. System overload leads to massive breakdowns or something. Anyway, one way to “massage the message” is to manage the messengers. Politico’s Ben Smith verifies Drudge’s report that Team Obama is doing just that:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge’s report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News.
“We’re trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some tough choices. but we are accommodating these folks in every way possible,” he said.
The Post and the Morning News are both read primarily in states that aren’t in play, but the Washington Times is read in Northern Virginia.
Burton said the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times had returned to the plane, and confirmed that Ebony and Jet magazines have seats on the plane. (The Tribune has had a reporter on the plane for most of the cycle, but recently added a photographer.)
Makes you wonder why the Sun-Times, Tribune, Ebony and Jet, Chicago publications all, were not all on the plane to begin with. The move pissed the Washington Times off, the Dallas Morning News was just a little miffed, and the New York Post doesn’t seem to care much at all, as far as I can tell.
Some Obama apologists pointed out the fact that “McCain did the same thing,” referring to the ejection of Maureen Dowd and Joe Klien from the Straight Talk Express, but it seems nobody wants MoDo aboard:
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said in an email that, contrary to Drudge’s suggestion, she won’t be on Obama’s plane.
But Dunn insisted that editorial criticism was not a factor. She said her staff is working with the excluded reporters to find them hotel accommodations if they can catch up with Obama on their own, and has offered them space on the plane of running mate Joe Biden. “It’s not like we’re trying to block coverage of our campaign,” she said.
Naaaah, and it’s not like anybody should have any unreasonable expectations of truth, logic, and fairness from your guys, either. Right?
Good Lord! Erica Jong, the woman who literally wrote the book on doing it with strangers on airplanes, is now running around telling the foreign press that if Barack Obama is not elected, look out for another Civil War. Obviously, the woman needs a new prescription for whatever she’s not taking at the moment. Running out of meds right before an interview, as Jong apparently did before talking to Italian paper Corriere della Sera, can be a bitch. The New York Observer writes:
Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night.” She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.
Shamelessly name-dropping, Jong is quoted as having said:
“My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can’t cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves.”
“My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium.”
“After having stolen the last two elections, the Republican Mafia…”
“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
“Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act.”
Susan Estrich once again puts forth the notion that the only reason Barack Obama might lose this election is because of racism. She cannot for the life of herself, understand how anyone could be troubled by Senator Obama’s dubious funding, or his campaign’s race-baiting, or his system gaming thuggery during the primaries. Nope, it’s racist alright, to be even a teensy bit uncomfortable with Obama’s lack of experience and accomplishment, or to question the character of a man who would lie about how often he went to church. He made the “Greatest Speech On Race In The History Of America, Nay The World” to explain it, didn’t he? Doesn’t bother Ms. Estrich at all that said senator withdrew from said church on the same day his party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee violated their own rules to award him delegates he didn’t even bother to compete for. Uh-uh, it’s race.
