Quick! Somebody get Pat and Vanna on the phone, stat! The Obamaniacs desperately need to buy a clue!
Answer: Clueless in the White House.
Question: What is the constant state of the Obama administration, Alex?
Alex: You are correct. Pick again.
Though many of us have known all along that Barry and the Bus Drivers never had any idea what the hell they were doing, a quick perusal of the weekend news round-up proves that despite Obie’s delusion that he was actually, at least navigating his “historic” course to the Nobel Prize, if not driving his custom, tricked out, re-built, rented GM Fishbowl, and owed his current position to his own aptitude and the acumen of his pit crew, nothing could be further from the truth. No, a careful reading of the “tidbits” contained in David Plouffe!-There-He Goes!’s upcoming tell-nothing-cuz-he-don’t-know-shit “expose” of the behind the scenes machinations of the Axelrovians, Audacity To Win, proves that whoever is responsible for the front man status of the Spokesmodel-in-Chief, it ain’t none o’ these clowns.
According to CNN, reporting on excerpts of the book now running in Time Magazine, Obombo was seriously considering nominating Hillary Clinton as vice-president, unbeknownst to Double David, both of whom were absolutely horrified about the prospect, horrified, I tellya! and thus, majorly relieved when Obie came to the conclusion, all by his lonesome, mind you, that he was too shy about exposing his potentially shriveled-looking, at least one short huevos in a political threesome with Billary to ask his Dream Girl out. Read the rest of this entry »
Bah!Rock Whoosayin’ YoMama’s pretendidentin’ style is the exact opposite of Follow the Leader. Rather than setting off on a bold course and expecting everybody to either walk by his side or follow along behind him, our Celebritician in Chief is far more apt to send everybody out in different directions and then try to follow all of them simultaneously. Then, he and the AxelRocket Science Crew would stand around with one finger of one hand up their butts, and a finger of the other up their nose, wishing they could scratch their heads ar the same time, while looking around lost and confused about how come they’re lost and confused, seriously clueless about where everybody went, and how they ended up right where they started, in the middle of nowhere, all alone.
Like the one kid in every crowd who’s so smart he’s stupid, people delight in inviting ObiWan to play and letting him be “It,” as long as he agrees to close his eyes and count to a million. Like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, Everybody’s 3rd Cousin Clem never seems to tire of finding himself facing a tree at midnight, halfway through the count, hours after everyone else has not only gone home, but finished dinner and homework, gone to bed, and been deep in REM sleep for at least an hour, convinced that one of these days he’s gonna find everybody before daylight. Read the rest of this entry »
The insidious danger of AstroTurfing as a political/public relations/advertising/marketing/propaganda tool lies in its seductive, yet simplistic beauty. Once successfully planted, it has the power to take root and behave as if organic. Artificially created out of whole cloth, if blanketed and aggressively enough tended and cultivated, it becomes sod-like and grows like wildfire. Were this not true, Barack Obama would not be president today.
There is simply no other justification for Obamania. Let’s face it, when our currently embattled, yet once almost universally beloved, Pretendident initially threw his hat in the ring, there was no groundswell of support. If not for the determined efforts of his personal news network, MSNBO, and its tingly-legged staff of on-air “talent,” and partners, like Slate, the Washington Post, and The Root, (launched in January, 2008 by Henry Louis Gates) along with the repossessed former Republicans-turned-”progressive” (“reprogressives?” “fauxgressives?” lying, bought-and-paid-for Axelrovian shills?) Obama cheerleading denizens of the virtual, Sheeple-thought control compound of Sullivan’s HuffCheetoville, Outer Blogistan, Barack Obama would have been the mildly interesting also-ran his resume and accomplishments justify. Yet, when combined with a few other timely elements of former newsman and then-current political PR hack, David Axelrod’s Machiavellian AstroTurf campaign, this 98th-ranked, inexperienced junior Senator, (D-Illinois Combine) suddenly became the darling of a racially repressed nation supposedly starved to that point for representation by a semi-competent black TelePrompter reader. Read the rest of this entry »
Uh-oh. Seems like the Place Putters of the Patriarchy have run into a snag in their well-coordinated Chick March to Cleaverville. Their duly appointed, previously compliant mascot, First Lady of the Ebony Arms, Michelle Obama, has apparently realized she has a pair, and that hers are not only bigger than theirs, they’re up front, where they count.
Of course, such insubordination from the Symbol of Submission is sure to cause considerable consternation to the Weenie Warrior Brigade, who, by dispatching their allied footsoldiers to go on the offensive, toy guns a-blazing, launching a preemptive opening salvo, the generals of AstroTurfania have given away their position. Thus, the Times Online, UK screams the panicked headline:
Michelle Obama raises fears over Hillary Clinton-style debacle
…and features this picture:
Hahahahahahahaha…wooooooo! I’m dying here. What, you may ask, on God’s Green Earth could FLOTUS have possibly done to shrink the packages of so many that they would actually lob such loaded grenades directly at her, and, through Hillary, indirectly at women in general, from the sanctuary of their little laptop barricades? Had a sandwich-making cigar session with Mark Sanford and John Ensign in the Lincoln bedroom? I mean, pulling out the “Oh my God, she’s acting like…Hillary! Save us!!” card before they even hint at what Sleeveless Sue might have done, denotes a pretty high level of irrational fear and desperation from the Skid Mark Crew. And, maybe the Boyz in the Backroom are right to be so afraid, because Ms. Obama is making it patently clear that from here on out, she’s gonna be…involved!
I am not a bandwagoneer. It takes a lot to get me to go along with anything, or anyone, at any time. Given the way perceptions can be radically shifted by agents employing fairly subtle techniques, I have a hard time accepting things that are reported as “prevailing wisdom,” or “common knowledge,” or anything suggesting that whatever being discussed is something “everybody knows.” Everybody knows shit. Nobody knows squat. However you want to say it, unless you’re under the age of 17 and trying to cajole a parent into granting permission for something you want, but know good and well you shouldn’t have, “everybody knows” has no place in anybody’s vocabulary. Everybody knows that.
When I hear people compare the current power struggle in Iran to last year’s Democratic party primary shenanigans here in the United States, and cast the Iranian dissidents in the role of PUMAs, i.e., disgruntled voters outraged about voter fraud, I can only scratch my head. Trying to cast Mir Hossein Mousavi into the Hillary Clinton part is way too big a stretch for me. Although in the primaries and caucuses, the “establishment” was felt to be unfairly supporting Obama, especially in the case of Michigan and Florida, and it was Obama who bussed shitloads of people to out of state caucuses and gangstered them, not Clinton, and it was Obama who bought off the superdelegates, and strong armed any number of people in order to circumvent a true floor vote at the convention, it was Obama’s camp that threatened to riot in the streets, and, who spread their message through the social media. It was Obama who captured the malleable passions of the latest gullible campus bound Pepsi Generation, and conscripted them into an online army. Read the rest of this entry »
And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
-Barack Obama, Cairo
While the media, mainstream, mid-stream, and off the deep end included, is still stuck in it’s traditional, preliminary “suck up to the Pretendident” mode in their coverage of his “suck up to Islam” speech, we’re still at least a couple of days, if not weeks, from anything approaching objective journalistic analysis. Since I never pretend to bother with such restrictive standards in the first place, being equally inordinately fond of my own opinion as the best (and, worst) of them, I figured I might as well jump into the fray with my pontifications on the ObaMessiah’s Sermon On The Nile.
Rather than start out with his shout out to the brotherhood, which of course could not have been a shout out to the brotherhood since Obrother is not a Muslim, but a committed, never verifiably baptized Christian who’s been to church maybe once since he kicked his pastor of nearly 20 years, (whom he had embraced after the Catholics and Jews he fronted for as a community organizer encouraged him to join some kind, any kind, of church, in order to better pimp the poor) to the curb in return for unearned delegates at the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting nearly a year ago, I’d like to start with the latest episode in the now characteristically Obambivalent assault on womanhood he likes to engage in. In any classic example of Obambivalence, the ObaMassah puts forth a seemingly even-handed nudge to the position he favors, cleverly disguised as a condemnation of it. Or vice versa. Read the rest of this entry »
There seems to be a movement afoot to send women back to the kitchen, happy, barefoot and maybe, unwillingly pregnant. Now, I could be seeing bogeymen in the bushes, so to speak, but, this “women need permission to make decisions, men don’t” developing theme bears watching. Between the Barackulator’s backtracking on selecting a woman to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, (which really doesn’t count as backtracking since he’s only responded to that trial balloon floated in the Omedia by advocates, like the Wimpy Wishy Washer he is) and “Michelle’s Got The Whole World in Her Bare Arms” articles all over the place, one can be forgiven for seeing a typical Axelrovian AstroTurf campaign in the making. Add the feminist-endorsed-by-their-silence, “FOCA is not a legislative priority, because women usually do the right thing when they talk to their Daddies” happy crappy recently uttered by the Face of Feminism, and, I think it’s past time to worry. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that so many people entrusted to run our country are as dumb as they are. Sometimes it’s harder to imagine that the people entrusted to bring us information about the dumb shit the dummies in charge do in our collective name are even dumber than the dummies they’re reporting on. But, if reading the news reports of the past week can be trusted at all to contain any smidgen of a hint of a scintilla of anything resembling truth, we are being governed by a plethora of Keystone Kop wannabes, and we know that because Spanky and Our Gang, Jr. told us so.
Let’s face it, ya gotta be at least a little stupid to get punked by White House Press Secretary and Tom Arnold/Wally Cox love child look-a-like, Robert Gibbsmeabreak. But, according to Fox News, that’s exactly what happened to the White House press corps Friday. Told ya they were all stupid. The whole lot of ‘em. In fact, not even I could believe they were that dumb, and kinda figured maybe the humorless drones over a Fox were having their idea of fun and yanking everybody’s chain with a belated April Fool’s Day-type prank, but, no, other sources like the Christian Science Monitor, and the Talking Points Memo press conference transcript, also confirmed that the sorry attempt at humor did indeed happen: Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, President Bam-Bam Bamboozle hasn’t exactly left the building, but he has somehow morphed into this strange, zombie-like reincarnation of an Elvis clone, complete with legions of impersonators who look and sound nothing like him, and only qualify as “impersonators” because they say so. That, and, they wear clothes like the ones he usually dons. That’s it. Obelvis Pressein Fauxbama. Uh-uh-huh.
Now, I thought we, as a nation, had jumped the shark back around the time of the over-the-top, once-in-a-lifetime, you saw it here first, step right up, come one come all, sold out in ten minutes Inaugurationapalooza, when Omygod was being featured on the cover of a special-edition Spiderman comic book cuz, ya know, he always liked Spidey as a kid in Blue Hawaii, and well, people who read the chronicles of Peter Parker love them some Obestillmyheart, right back at him, cuz he’s…brown? I dunno, but it moves product, and, that’s the American Way.
We nuked the fridge when ObaMassah ducked into a phone booth to have his picture taken changing into his “my hero,” Ms. Magazine-as-Polly Purebred, face of feminism persona. Somehow, the twisted irony of a man whose actions make him more resemble the Denzel Washington, Training Day, “King Kong ain’t got nuttin’ on me!” character than a tan Gloria Steinhem with a dick penis, being celebrated as Prince Charming rescuing Cinderella the Riveter as she stumbles on her broken heel on the way to the ball after work, managed to both sail over the top and slide under the radar of ridiculousness at the same time. Fridge effectively nuked. Read the rest of this entry »
Michelle Obama’s arms?!?! Michelle Obama’s arms!?!? Who gives a flying flip about Michelle Obama’s arms? What the hell is the big deal? She’s got arms. So what? Most people do. In fact, most people come with two. They usually have hands attached. I assume hers do, too. Again, so freakin’ what?!?!
I have seen Michelle Obama’s arms. Maybe it’s just me, but, I don’t remember being overly impressed. It’s not like they’ve got cash registers growing out the top of them or anything. Honestly, (and I’m not being snarky here, at least not in this sentence, I make no promises about the rest of this post, though) I’m just not that into the First Lady’s arms. To tell you the truth, I think this national media preoccupation with her arms is sad. She’s the First Flippin’ Lady, for goodness sakes, she’s a freaking lawyer, for cryin’ out loud, and she reads from a TelePrompTer much better than her husband. So, why are people so fixated on her perfectly ordinary arms? When you have the World’s Greatest AstroTurf Machine at your disposal to do your bidding, you should be able to expect they’d find more to celebrate about you than the fact that you’ve got two freakin’ arms, just like everybody else.
I hate to go there, but, is this a black thing? Are some white people so unfamiliar with the humanity of blacks that they would be amazed we have regular arms, with hands and opposable thumbs and everything? What? What?!?! What on God’s green earth would make any “responsible journalist,” or even hack writer, or, second grader, for that matter, compose a paean to Obama’s Baby Mama’s arms?
Today is Mother’s Day. Today we should celebrate Michelle Obama’s arms as the arms of a mother.
Oh, fork me up the ass with a spoonula. This is the kind of drivel Clinton-hating hypocrite Sally Quinn wrote far too many lines of in today’s Washington Post. “Michelle Obama’s got arms! Two of ‘em! They’re brown! That makes her a great mom, feminist and First Lady! Doo-dah, doo-dah!”
Puh-leeze. Big crap ball of doo doo.
This is a woman who has the courage to say “I am mom in chief” and make her children and her family — unapologetically — her No. 1 priority. She is able to do this because she is so intelligent and accomplished that she doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone. She is healthy enough to be able to say, this is who I am, these are my values and my priorities. Read the rest of this entry »
President (Can’t I Just BE My) Waffles Obama is going to subject us to yet another boring Reading of the TelePrompTers From On High on his unremarkable 100th day of equivocating, even though his spawn of Tom Arnold Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs claims the day has no special significance. Yep, typical ObaLogic. None.
“It’s an arbitrary day in which presidents are measured. We get that. We’re playing along,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
Gibbs said Obama and almost everyone in the White House agrees with “a huge majority” of the American people “that the 100th day is not a ton different than the 99th, the 101st or the 123rd.”
Politico, the Blog Up The President’s Butt, is reporting that the public is by and large, waiting for this upcoming speech with bated breath according to some poll they found.
The rate of one news conference a month seems to sit well with the public, which likes to see Obama on TV, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released this week.
More than half of the public, or 59 percent, say the president is on television about the right amount of time. Just 28 percent say he’s on too much, and only 10 percent would like to see him on the tube more often.
Soooo, the bestest, most groovalicious, hippest hipster of a Pretendident to ev-ah don a pair of RayBans and hightail it to Hawaii on vacation, says he sees “glimmers of hope” in our economic forecast? No shit? Duh-uh-uh-uh-uhuh-uhhhh. A guy who gets to give billions upon billions of dollars of other peoples’ money to his buddies as payback, should be seeing bright, blinding fucking horizons of brilliant white light and rainbows, gloriously shining down upon herds of albino unicorns leaping and frolicking across pristine fields of blooming white poppies, if you ask me. Hell, the man just got back from an otherwise wasted, Rock Star Feel Good European Tour in time to fly in a pizza chef from St. Louis for a pizza party celebrating pissing in the faces of his hometown, world famous pizzerias, andget a free dog on his way to church for the first time in a year. Must suck to be him, huh?
Enough, is e-flippin’-nuff, where’s the gosh darned dog President Perfect promised his daughters, huh? He’s been putting it off long enough. What could be more important than keeping a promise to your kids? Especially when you’re the Freakin’ Waters-Parting, Lightbringing, Mystical Magical Obamessiah, Politidol, Celebritician, Hero of the Entire Fluckin’ World and All-Around Good Guy? Haven’t those poor children suffered enough?
I’m not the only one who wants to know, either. Mary Ann Akers of the Washington Post has been sleuthing around the White House looking for answers, and the FLOTUS’ official doublespeaker told her…get this…wait for it, it’s a doozy…the frackin’ EASTER BUNNY is bringing it! The Easter Bunny? Are you kidding me? And, guess who the “Easter Bunny” is?
According to a very, very loosely sourced report by WBBM News Radio in Chicago, the Obamas have already chosen a Portuguese water dog and the future first pup has even visited the White House for a meet-and-greet session. The news station says the dog “may be a gift, perhaps from Senator Ted Kennedy and his family.”
Of course, the “Easter Bunny’s” people disavow any knowledge of any such “gift,” and the Humane Society and Animal Rescue League swear nobody from On High has contacted them about any kinda First Family dog, either. Man, oh, man, that just bites.
I don’t know about you, but this just frosts my cookies. And I hate frosted cookies. Any guy who would lie to his kids over and over again, and let everybody know it, to boot, deserves to be impeached immediately. And you can tell him I said so. Read the rest of this entry »
No, it’s not “The Barackian.” It’s worse. Much, much worse. See, a Chicago-based comic book company, Devil’s Due Publishing, is promoting 2 soon-to-be-released offerings featuring the Spokesmodel-in-Chief, Just Barely President Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail Ceasar!) as a loin cloth wearing superhero, “Barack the Barbarian.” Okay…stop laughing! I mean it…this is serious, now. Nooooo, I am not kidding, and it seems this is not a belated April Fool’s Day joke. At least, not according to NBC New York, the New York Post, Breitbart, the Chicago Tribune, and, Devil’s Due’s own website:
Thursday, 02 April 2009 It’s no joke! You may have read about it on Newsarama, MTV’s Splash Page Blog , and io9. DDP is here to tell you that it’s true. DDP is readying two new titles for June 2009 featuring U.S. President Barack Obama. Check ‘em out!
DRAFTED: 100 DAYS: (1-Shot 48 Page Special) Devil’s Due’s original Sci-Fi hit returns with this double-sized one-shot featuring the President who could have been. Mark Powers offers a poignant look at a man the world never got to see achieve his true greatness when a race from beyond the stars drafted our planet into intergalactic war. See how he struggles, just as every other man, woman and child on Earth does in this truly inspiring story. As can be expected from Powers, there’s one other difference about our hero in this story in that due to an injury… he is MUTE. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the original, pre-Fabreau-ized, pre-Axelrod-approved draft of President Black Obama’s “give up da nukes” speech in Prague, Czech Republic today, written by Just Barely President, Baracus Hubris Maximus, (Hail, Ceasar!) as imagined by me.
Hey, yo, y’all, whazzup? I’ma be rappin’ atcha for a few, so chill. First, let me do my obligatory JFK thing, and tell you how glad I am to be the man who brought Michelle Obama to Prague. She hates being cooped up in the White House (I think it’s a color thing) and she can beat me up, so I didn’t have much choice; besides, the real Jackie Kennedy wasn’t available. Ha, ha. Being from Chicago, I know a lot of Czech people, the town’s full of people whose names I can’t pronounce, and, y’all like to travel back and forth, like the guy whose statue is behind me…what’s his name…the one who drew 80,000 more people when he spoke in my home town in 1918 than I did here today? It’s hard for me to think (read) when my ego shrinks, but, wait a minute, don’t tell me…Tomas Masaryk, that’s it! I’m not pissed, though. Hell, some of my best friends are Czech, like Tony Rezko. Wait a minute, he’s Syrian, my bad. But, since he’s in jail, he’s not the same Tony Rezko I knew, and I’m pretty sure he was Czech back when I did know him. Maybe I’m thinking Blagojevich, he claims he’s Serbian, but, I can’t pronounce his name either, and, since he’s also going to jail soon, he probably used to be Czech back in the day, too. Besides, Czech, Slovak, Serb, Syrian, what’s the diff?
Ever since that time between the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries over a year ago, when Barack Obama wrested the support of the black community from Hillary Clinton, without making promises or concessions, I’ve been trying to imagine what could account for the continued support of a man more likely to scold, belittle or stereotype a group of people (when he can be so bothered as to even acknowledge them) than to embrace or champion them. What is it that inspires such irrational devotion from people who’ve been repeatedly characterized as lazy, shiftless ne’er-do-wells, unworthy of special attention by the object of their affection, lest any perceived association with them taint his relationship with others whose support he deems more valuable and desirable? A man whose every contact with black people includes spouting right wing talking points while he admonishes his mythical Cousin Pookie and Brother Ray-Ray to get their lazy Popeye’s Chicken-eating, Sports Center-watching asses up off the couch and get a job so their trifling, baby-popping, Welfare Queen Women can stop gaming the system long enough to make their stupid children a proper breakfast and help them with their homework, is no “brother” of mine, and in no way inspires me to vote for him. As hard-fought battles and hard won victories threaten to be repealed simply because he is the color he is, I expect him to be outspoken on my side, but, he’s not. He’s on the side of the guy who wants to take public school education out of the control of school boards and turn it over to clueless city government, instead of giving them the resources they need to succeed. Screw him. Read the rest of this entry »
Soooo, the “hug heard ’round the world” was apparently no big deal. Even though, by all accounts, hugging the Queen of England is a diplomatic no-no, it’s okey-dokey if Queenie grabs hold first. All those same accounts claim that that’s exactly what happened, so all you Obie haters kwitcherbitchin,’ ‘kay? Buuuuuutttt, the photos (which we all know can be shown to lie, like this one) show clearly that Ol’ Lizzie tired of the embrace a bit before Mrs. Obamessiah.
Yup, that’s the President of the United States, Barack Hussein (I Am Not A Muslim) Obama’s big ol’ butt in the air, as he bows (actually, genuflects) before Saudi King Abdullah, which is something even Saudi King Abdullah usually frowns upon. I wonder how the ObamaTurfers are gonna spin this, since something tells me the Limbaugh League ain’t gonna let go of this one easily. Read the rest of this entry »
By now, we all know that Just Barely President, Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail, Ceasar!) and his wife and left tackle for the Chicago Bears, Michelle, (okay, that was mean, but she’s not exactly graceful, ya know?) gifted the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, with a loaded iPod and a Richard Rogers songbook, while she gave him a signed photo of herself and her husband. There’s enough confirmation from enough various sources to be able to take on faith that this exchange of tacky gifts indeed occurred. The only question remaining is, does NRO’s Jonah Goldberg have a sense of humor? This is his whole posted report, reprinted and referenced all over the internet:
Diplomatic jaws dropped across the continent yesterday when it was revealed that U.S. President Barack Obama had, once again, fumbled a routine protocal of international statecraft: finding the right gift for a foreign leader or head of state. In a private ceremony with Queen Elizabeth, Her Royal Highness bequeathed to the Obamas one of the earliest known copies of William Shakespeare’s Henry V. She also presented him with the framed orginal sheet music of John Newton’s “Amazing Grace.” To the Obama daughters, the Queen gave a dollhouse-sized replica of Windsor Castle with a functioning train station in the year of the compound. They also received a prize Shetland pony. Mrs. Obama was given a ruby ring commissioned and worn by Queen Victoria. Read the rest of this entry »
While conspiracy theorists and other befuddled Americans are searching for hidden agendas to justify, or at least, explain, the media-driven election of an inexperienced junior Senator who can’t form complete sentences without the use of a TelePrompTer, they’re missing the all-too obvious agenda staring them dead in the face. Whoever funded and formulated Barack Obama’s meteoric rise from obscurity to omnipresence is bound and determined to totally revamp the country’s policies, programs, and policy-making procedures, as we’ve known them. This is not cosmetic surgery we’re talking here; a little nip here, a tuck there. This is fundamental, foundational, systemic change, according to their dictates. If you’re not on board with every element of the sweeping “change” they have in mind, well, that’s just too damned bad.
The Press-ident and his backers want the economy to fail. That’s the only way his policies to this point make any sense at all. He has said he wants the population angry, outraged, even, so that he can push his agenda through under his budget umbrella. The economic system we live under must collapse, so that a new one can be put in place. With it, healthcare, education, housing, energy and other core elements of out national foundation will experience profound systemic “change.”
What if the Obama family dog isn’t a moose? That’s what Michelle Obama wants to know. What I’d like to know is, wtf does that mean? Doesn’t the First Lady have multiple degrees? Even if she did have to prove she was good enough to get into college, shouldn’t she have at least learned that a dog can never be a moose by the time she got out? Okay, I’m being snitchy, (snarky bitchy) but, maybe Blackie O should think a bit more before she opens mouth and inserts foot.
The moose/dog question arises in an interview with People Magazine about the dog the President and his wife have been promising their poor, deprived children “for years” (according to Michelle herself). And, the poor kids still aren’t going to get their pet until April Fool’s Day (the day the rest of us get our tax cuts, btw) at the earliest. Mommie and Daddy Dearest haven’t yet even settled on a breed.
Though the Huxtables-in-Chief claim to have narrowed their potential choices for this so far mythical dog down to a decision between a Portuguese water dog and a Labradoodle, they’re already trying to name it. I suggest Harvey, since so far it’s invisible, and a giant rabbit dog makes just as much sense as a moose dog, but the Addams Family has other (bad) ideas:
“Oh, the names are really bad. I don’t even want to mention it, because there are names floating around and they’re bad,” Mrs. Obama says with a laugh. “You listen and you go – like, I think, Frank was one of them. Frank! Moose was another one of them. Moose. I said, well, what if the dog isn’t a moose? Moose. I’m like, no, come on, let’s work with the names a little bit.”
Them Obamas be so intelligent. I told you she said a moose was a dog. You thought I was just being mean, didn’t you? That’ll teach you to doubt me.
I wouldn’t even be writing about the Obamas and their stupid non-dog if there was anything else in the news besides, The Speech That Saved The World And Cured Cancer. Yeah, sure, there’s the Obama Wants A 634 Billion Dollar Down Payment On A 10 Year Unspecified Health Care Thingy, but, it’s unspecified so, what’s to talk about? The 3 Trillion Dollar Budget That Ate the World, it’s supposed to come out of? I’d rather talk about the pseudo dog.
I guess you’d have to expect the world to be all a-Twitter about a vague speech so powerful it could knock the “catastrophic” state of our economic “crisis” right off the front pages, even when no matter who says what, stocks are still down and people who keep getting laid off still can’t pay for their overpriced houses. But that’s what happens when you give a State of the Union speech that’s not really a State of the Union speech and still honor the time tested tradition of schmoozing with the media before a State of the Union address, even if it isn’t one for real.
When this supposed time-honored tradition of having off the record, pre-speech gourmet spin-fests began exactly is anybody’s guess, though The Wahington Post claims that they date back to Clinton:
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton routinely had the anchors over for lunch on State of the Union day.
While all reports from “journalists” who attended, like George Stephanoupolis and Katie Couric agree that the purpose of these “just between us” gatherings is for the president to chew the fat informally and run his ideas up their flagpoles, the ground rules specify that the events can only be reported broadly, with no direct attribution allowed. In other words, the president greases up his fluffers.
Such chatty get-togethers haven’t always been seen to be so acceptable, however. At one time, any overture to the press by the president was met with skepticism and suspicion. An April 12, 1989 Maureen Dowd column about the subject derisively questions George H. W. Bush’s motives for issuing such untrustworthy invitations. But, then again, it is Maureen Dowd:
Some reporters say such private contacts give them additional insights. But many other journalists and media critics are skeptical, remembering the Camelot days when John F. Kennedy’s courtship of reporters seemed to turn many of them into cheerleaders, and the tense days when Lyndon B. Johnson tried to build support for the Vietnam war with intense, personal persuasion of the press corps.
In both cases, many journalists worried afterwards that they may have crossed the line from journalism to advocacy.
Ha, ha, ha! Crossed the line? Oh, MoDo, honey, that line has been completely erased by the Tickle Me President! These guys, and gals, would sell their mothers into white slavery for a chance to lick this guy’s plate. They can’t wait to write breathtaking exposes about his favorite movie and how his socks smell. Rock stars can’t get as much tail as our Spokesmodel-in-Chief could get from any one of these “reporters” with just a wink and subtle head nod.
They’re not the only ones, either. Even CNN’s ObaLover, Anderson Cooper, had to put aside his own desire to get him some ObaMan in order to ridicule those members of Congress who waited up to 12 hours to get an aisle seat for the Speechapalooza Tuesday night:
You wanna talk pathetic? How about a hotshot cable news yacker mocking a New York congressman for being excited about his President?
That’s the response of veteran BronxRep. Eliot Engel, who was ridiculed by CNN host Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night for staking out a choice aisle seat 12-1/2 hours in advance for President Obama’s address to Congress.
“It’s like waiting for, like, Madonna tickets or something. It was … kind of pathetic,” Cooper snarked as legislators swarmed Obama after the speech for handshakes and autographs.
Brian Williams wrote about a September ‘07 George Bush lunch summons to the press which was markedly different in tone than the self-congratulatory love note he wrote about scoring a seat at the left hand of the ObaFather. Wolf Blitzer’s take on his luncheon with W last year was pretty generic, even though the Houston Chronicle said there was a bomb threat at the White House that day. The Weekly Standard said the man was psychotic. But then, according to Fred Barnes whose version of an earlier SOTU luncheon with Bush in 2005 is recounted in his book “Who Gives A F*ck” (that’s not the real name, I just see no reason to promote Fred barnes’ book) Georgie Porgie wasn’t exactly happy to see them:
“Why do I have to go to this meeting?” Bush asks his communications director, Dan Bartlett. “It’s traditional,” Bartlett explains.
Nope, it seems this new Mutual Admiration Society Obama has going with his news hoochies is unique, and uniqely beneficial and powerful for all concerned. He schmoozes, they swoon, everybody’s happy. For the price of a lunch, or dinner for those whose pants he wants entree into, or an hour of face time with those ‘ho’s already in his clutches, and thus, obviously secure in their place in his heart, Obama merely has to ensure that the compliant members of his audience agree to do the Hokey Pokey every time he follows the “pause” direction in his script as he reads the words of the Cardboard Titty Groper aloud on TV, to ensure that the ObaLovers will do eveything in their power to see to it that his act always plays in Peoria.
Crisis, schmisis.
And you wonder why I’d rather write about the Mythical Moose Dog.
Looks like Obama the Candidate was really serious about “change.” As we all know, “change” was the buzzword of the 2008 campaign season, promoted constantly, incessantly, annoyingly by Barack Obama, and picked up on by all of his opponents in self defense. But, while everybody else was just spouting campaign rhetoric; after all, whenever one administration replaces another, you’re going to get “change,” Obama seems to have been serious as a heart attack without health insurance about it.
Conventional wisdom and common sense would indicate to even the densest among us that in order to achieve the “true change” Obama promised to bring to the “old ways of Washington” in his determination to “remake the country,” the country in question, as in any renovation, would need to be torn down to the studs. And, it appears Obama is well on his way to completing Phase One. At least, according to George Soros. Reuters reports that Soros, speaking at a Columbia University dinner, echoed the sentiments of the speaker before him, Paul Volcker, head of the president’s new Economic Advisory Board, when he said the world as we know it is well on its way to irrevocable destruction, economically speaking:
Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis.
Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.
He said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September marked a turning point in the functioning of the market system.
“We witnessed the collapse of the financial system,” Soros said at a Columbia University dinner. “It was placed on life support, and it’s still on life support. There’s no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom.”
Hmmm…isn’t that what Rep. Paul Kanjorski said, and all the Obots went, “Pfssshh, yeah, right“? And, if I’m following all this correctly, doesn’t this mean that the economic event that lead to Paulson’s TARP (don’t call it a) bailout and propelled a curiously over-funded Obama from a hotly contested, tied competition into the White House virtually unopposed, is also the catalyst of global financial ruin? What say the Obots, now?
Well, they can’t say Obama leads by example. Or, maybe he does, since people not paying bills, for one reason or another, is a big part of the mess we’re in. Obama doesn’t seem to want to pay his bills, either, at least not the one to his adopted home city for the Bashapalooza they threw for him on Election Night. The Chicago Sun Times has the details:
Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.
“The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,” Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. “We’re reaching out to them this week.”
I guess South Side Slick expects the city to just hang on for the stimulus money since there’s probably pork aplenty to cover. And, now that the Illinois legislature has done its part in kicking Rod Blagojevich to the curb, the state qualifies for its share. There’s probably a bonus for breaking harmless little Roland Burris‘ heart by stomping on his dreams and jackbooting him out of the Senate job he dearly wanted, foolishly embraced and would be out of in a minute anyway. One way or another, Chicago will be paid; either they’re headed under the bus, or somebody will “deliver an envelope,” if you get my drift. Obama takes care of his own, it’s the Chicago Way.
Of course, the Obama Way means nobody has to pay their bills; he’s hellbent on seeing to it that everybody at least has a house, regardless of whether they can afford it, or not. He unveiled his big, stock market tanking housing plan to help out the lender-seduced buyers who jumped off the deep end into houses that now have them underwater, and financially back up those lenders for going along with the program with government money, if they feel like it, unless they’re Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Since that’s the only way the greedy lenders can get the up front bailout money and back end insurance, I have a feeling they’ll probably play along.
For those pretty much destitute-from-the-jump folks just given over-priced houses by lenders, basically for free, just to get the right numbers on the paper those bankers were going to turn right around and sell for even more worthless computer bits and bytes signifying nothing, even though everybody knew they’d never be able to pay it back, Obie has sicced ACORN on the problem on the QT. All those folks have to do is make like Wild West expansioneers and just squat on their homestead, since Obie’s got their back with the bailed out bankers, no matter what. Besides, the original mortgage has probably been through so many grubby banksters’ hands, the guys trying to foreclose probably couldn’t produce the necessary paperwork if they wanted to. If the system gamers get cold feet, or the banker on the low end not hip to the deal tries to lock them out, a quick call to Obie’s ACORN enforcers will bring the strongarm crew to help you gain access to your now completely free house. Of course, like all Dons, Obie’s three steps removed, especially since he got Rep. Marcy Kaptur to sell the plan to the clueless for him.
Don’t be fooled by the “hold bank executives feet to the fire” rah-rah coming from the administration, either. The whole “salary cap” thing is bogus all around, being nothing but re-election theater as it is. Team Obama and his money man, Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner, tax cheat (TTTG,tc) tried to quietly tiptoe out of the whole TARP-related “take my money, play buy my rules” dramatic ploy, but Congress realized they need votes too, so they snuck it back into the stimulus bill. And, even though it sounds like “Ooooooh, we showed those bad bankers,” anybody who believes there isn’t enough wiggle room in the provisions to drive a fleet of private jets, and Daschle limos through, is a hopium head, and deserves the no grease screwing a-comin’.
Same for anybody who really believes Obie’s gonna close Gitmo; I’ll believe it when I see it, since the Obama patented “clear myself ahead of time” review panel he commisioned, this time through the Pentagon instead of White House counsel like the brush-Blago-off-the-shoulders one, says everything at Gitmo is Geneva convention compliant and thus, hunky dory. So, why close it? Look for him to rescind his exec order sometime in the coming year, on the sly, like he’s extending those Bush policies. Shhhhhh.
So, while Obacrats raise Democratic in-fighting to a new art form, using definitions of “what is is” as a time tested, media approved bludgeoning tool against their brethren-on-the-outs in the case of David (Caroline wasn’t my first choice) Paterson and Roland (but I didn’t give him any money) Burris, the Teflon TelePrompTer Reader can continue happily fronting for the banksters, robbing the world blind, fighting wars, and tearing the country to the ground, so he can remake it in his own image with a clean slate. Like he, and his wife, told you he would.
All the while, remaining more popular than Jesus in the process. Like Dee Dee Myers told us he was.
With the country in a headlong freefall to economic hell in a borrowed handbasket, the continued Obama obsession of some in the media is just a little too scary to be as funny as it should be. There are actually people printing their intimate fantasies of Dumbo Ears and his lovely wife, the First Lady of GLOW (okay, that was uncalled for, but, hey, it’s the weekend). This is just wrong on so many levels. People really have dreams of him? And her? Together or separately, that’s just…fully freakin’ creepy-assed bizarre. The fact that anybody would share such thoughts, dreams and fantasies in any forum, even a solitary, anonymous one like cyberspace, is just…unbelievably…spooky. And really, really hard to fathom. Anyway, the New York Times‘ Judith Warner unnecessarily shared her Freudian field day of a dream of having a visiting Barack Obama smoking a cigarette in her shower, preventing her from shaving her legs, while her husband yelled at him for smoking in the house. The mental picture she conjures boggles the rational mind, but, her readers, asked to share their fantasies, manage to kick the “ewwwwowwww” factor up to 11:30.
Many women — not too surprisingly — were dreaming about sex with the president. In these dreams, the women replaced Michelle with greater or lesser guilt or, in the case of a 62-year-old woman in North Florida, whose dream was reported to me by her daughter, found a fully above-board solution: “Michelle had divorced Barack because he had become ‘too much of a star.’ He then married my mother, who was oh so proud to be the first lady,” the daughter wrote me.
There was some daydreaming too, much of it a collective fantasy about the still-hot Obama marriage. “Barack and Michelle Obama look like they have sex. They look like they like having sex,” a Los Angeles woman wrote to me, summing up the comments of many. “Often. With each other. These days when the sexless marriage is such a big celebrity in America (and when first couples are icons of rigid propriety), that’s one interesting mental drama.”
Barf me the fuck out! Gag me with a spoon ladle. Yuck, tooey, foo! Talk about weirdObots! Oh, man, I soooo don’t need this, so I thought I’d share. Not every entry invoked images of wrinkly seniors cavorting with a stick figure, or slobbering soccer moms diddling in the Lincoln bedroom closet as they watched the First Couple of Color canoodling; one wanted to make Barack “the perfect sandwich, (arugula on waffles, maybe?) or sharing a tuna fish sandwich with Michelle (oh, really?) while the kids had a playdate in the basement. That last one’s waaaaay to Freudian for a layperson like me.
One woman wrote that when she couldn’t get to sleep at night, she “lay in bed and thought about the Obama girls in their rooms at the White House. I thought about Marian Robinson up on the third floor. And about Barack and Michelle, a couple who clearly have a ‘thing’ for each other, spooning together in bed. It helped me relax.”
Are you frightened yet, boys and girls? I know I am. There Are No Words:
Another Washington woman, a global health care consultant, expressed her sense of Obama-inadequacy in a dream: “I dreamed I was an Obama girl. I had a chance to be in the same room with him for the first time. There were dark velvet chairs and he was standing there with all this dark and mist around him. His lips so purple and sensuous as if to be otherworldly,” she wrote to me. “I moved gently toward him and then I said the wrong thing. Obama tamped it down like some vapor that didn’t register. He wasn’t even flattered.”
Okay, you get the idea. The rest of the column as well as some of the reader comments continue in this warped vein, but thankfully, there are enough, “you people are sick,” “get a life” type responses to not only give one hope, but provide a really good belly laugh. But, seriously, the whole thing is just plain creepy weird.
Michelle Obama will soon join her husband, President Black Obama, in Washington D.C.’s Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum, says the Associated Press:
Madame Tussauds wax museum is adding Michelle Obama to its collection of famous figures in Washington.
Museum officials released pictures of the design process Wednesday and said the full figure will be unveiled in March. Designers will have spent six months on the figure, studying photos and video of the first lady.
General Manager Janine DiGioacchino says having an image of Obama is an honor because “as our nation’s first African-American first lady, a proud working mom and budding style icon, Mrs. Obama is a role model to women around the corner and around the globe.”
The figure was designed at Merlin Studios in London and will be placed alongside President Barack Obama’s figure in a replica Oval Office.
The then Senator Obama was placed next to then Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill in February, 2008, with Obama placed at the desk in the Oval Office replica, flanked by the Clintons and JFK with his wife, Jackie.
As black Americans join hands with other Americans of all races to boogey down in celebration of the “fact” that our nation has erased hundreds of years of discrimination by electing it’s first black president, I think it bears remembering that the only thing we’ve really proven is that a black man can become president if white people approve of him first. I believe, that when you think about it, you’ll realize, that’s always been the case.
Now, before y’all get your long johns in a twist and start going off on me, remember, many of you, black and white, in blog post after blog post, magazine and newspaper article after magazine and newspaper article, on TV and radio, have said the same thing, and went ahead and did it anyway. The story goes, that before Iowa, black people hadn’t awakened and gotten it yet, that white people would vote for a black man, so many of us were still blindly loyal to a white woman, who would go on to speak the truth about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson and other racist stuff like that. But, once the “black man” we weren’t yet sure was “black enough” got the stamp of approval from the whitest state in the country, and we were made sure Hillary Clinton wasn’t even as black as her husband who was not the first black president, btw, I mean, look at him, he can’t even tell the difference between a real black man and Barack Obama, and besides, he can’t even dance, well then any fool could see that the black man the white folks picked to run in the first place was at least blacker than that.
Since I’m sure that there are those who might be outraged, livid, and just plain pissed off that I would allege, infer, or even suggest such things, I wouldn’t dare ask you to believe me just because I’ve been trying to tell you these things all over the internet all along, you can read what the white folks who selected, promoted and funded your Obamessiah had the people they pay at the L.A Times tell you he said and did almost one year ago to the day, Jan. 7, 2008:
Volunteers for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign fanned out into black neighborhoods over the weekend with new instructions: Tell undecided voters that Obama “proved the cynics wrong in the Iowa caucuses.”
The message about Obama’s decisive Iowa victory Thursday is familiar to those who have heard his theme of transcending old-style politics. But for many black voters, the warning against cynicism carries a special and somewhat different meaning: Let go of old fears that white America will never elect a black man to the presidency; Iowa has proven doubters in the black community wrong.
The fear that Americans will not accept a black president has loomed as a persistent obstacle to Obama’s chances in South Carolina, where blacks are expected to account for at least half of the voters in a crucial Jan. 26 Democratic primary, and in other states with large black populations.
In effect, they told you what your problem was, and how to fix it. It certainly wasn’t that you might be right about their candidate’s commitment to your issues. Nooooo, it was “old school politics,” which refers to back in the day when black people chose their own candidates to support because those candidates supported them. So, as you dance the night away in celebration of the fact that the WPS (White Power Structure, i.e., corporate America) has pulled off the biggest swindle since the Pilgrims bought Manhattan by having black America help them ensconce their preferred candidate in the Oval Office of a country where young black men can still be shot dead by the police on subway platforms without a word of protest from the “old school” Civil Rights leaders they got you to deem irrelevant in this post-racial Joshua generation, shout Hallelujah, praise Jesus, keep in mind that the next con might involve you boogeying your happy black asses right back to the plantation.
Parrrrtaaaayyyyyyyy!
Get down.
*Maybe more of us are awake and have gotten it than we’ve been lead to believe.
You can’t surf the news sites without reading a superfluity of stupidity as it regards our first black president-elect. Like this nugget from America’s TV Dad, Bill Cosby, who believes that because Barack and Michelle Obama are the personification of the values his television family projected, as opposed to the real family he came from and doesn’t talk about, they are, in his opinion, the standard the rest of us dysfunctional black families miserably fail to meet. Which of course, means he’s been right all along when he calls us shiftless, irresponsible bad examples. From Politico:
“Who is Barack Obama and what did he tell us, when he talked about his mother? What was it he was saying when he said his mother woke up, 4:30 in the morning…to correct his homework, to get it done?” Cosby asked rhetorically. “Let’s listen to Michelle Obama who talks about her father with a disease, but he doesn’t call in work and say, let me call in later. He gets up an hour earlier.”
“Her father with a disease?“ Does she have another, disease-free, one? Presumably, he would have been able to get up early and let the sick one sleep in, relieving some of the burden, but I digress. And, didn’t Obama say his mother would wake him up to “take correspondence courses,” so, what does it say? White people in Indonesia stay up late just to torment their children? But, like I said, I digress.
While reading another article, this one about the Man Taking The Huxtable Torch of Camelot’s (when Caroline’s not using it) upcoming inaugural presidential trip to Canada, I was reminded of last month’s news that he wanted to make a Really Big Important Speech on Islam in a Muslim capital as soon as he was sworn in.
Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital.
And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.
Naturally, a couple things jumped out at me. First, I don’t think any other presidents were sworn in using the name Barack Hussein Obama, but I could be mistaken. Second, I thought his middle name was Steve. I also wondered just how many Muslims live in Canada and just when it became a hot bed of Islamic activity. Turns out, it’s not, not with Muslims making up only 2% of the population. So, I guess the Canada thing is just the first stop on an upcoming Official Rock Star Presidential Winter World Tour Avoiding The Troops, and a good chance to make up for that NAFTA-gate thing in the primaries. All that’s left to be decided is which Muslim capital will let him talk without starting shit global conflict.
Now, I know being president is hard, the last guy who effectively proved that the country could pretty much run itself into the ground without one told us that. A lot. So, I understand why a president-elect would practice multi-tasking, like having a photo-op at a legendary local soul food (black owned) eatery on a weekend to try to divert attention from the previous week’s bad news while grabbing a bite at the same time. It just seems strange that one would chose to add to one’s indigestion with a quarter pound beef and pork sausage with chili sauce and a side of cheese (not Velveeta) fries. Unless of course, bumping up one’s street cred was an essential element of said multi-tasking photo-op:
After Obama’s motorcade wandered through the U street district, passing the African-American Civil War Memorial and a flee market selling shirts that bear his face, he and Fenty surprised the restaurant around lunchtime. Patrons shrieked with delight and surprise as they saw his face. A mother blushed as Obama held her baby in his arms. The president-elect and the mayor moved slowly through the restaurant’s crowded rooms, shaking hands and getting pictures taken with patrons.
Still, they came there to eat. “Where the food at?” he finally asked the counter staff, drawing laughs from them and nearby patrons.
“Where the food at?“ I hope Cliff Cosby wasn’t listening, he’s got a thing about Ebonics. Besides, Obama doesn’t have to pander to the brotherhood, he’s good no matter how close he gets to Cosby. No, the black thing Obama should be worrying about, the one that’s giving him indigestion and threatening to blow his gig is that Roland Burris has let it be known he’s about to act ugly. While it might be all too true that keeping people busy looking into Rod Blagojevich’s business has the added (primary?) benefit of keeping noses out of Obama’s, pissing off Burris doesn’t seem to be a good way to do it, no matter what Big Dick Durbin says Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn can do:
Burris and his advisers, armed with both the Blagojevich appointment and White’s certification, are refusing to back down in their dispute with the Senate leadership, and they now want to increase the pressure on Reid and Durbin to accept him as the newest senator from Illinois.
“We are frustrated after doing everything we could to cooperate and to help diffuse this unfortunate situation,” said the Burris adviser. “We made a genuine effort to be respectful and to minimize our level of confrontation. But Reid and Durbin have forced our hands and have called into question their own credibility to be trusted as honest negotiators. They’re now nearly guaranteeing that there will be a direct confrontation on the week of inaugural.”
The adviser also said that having Quinn appoint an Obama successor is illegal and that Blagojevich’s appointment must stand.
“The option to have Quinn make a Senate appointment is not legal,” the adviser said. “The governor’s appointment can’t be retroactively revoked. Illinois already has two senators.”
When you’ve got an ace in the hole, or a wild card, or an abundance of trumps, you can play with confidence. If you’ve tucked the only Joker in the deck up your sleeve, only allowing it to magically appear when needed, you can wipe out your opposition without breaking a sweat. But when another player, seemingly low on chips and on his way out the game, suddenly not only goes all in, but produces an even bigger Joker than yours, showing yours to have been a rather poor imitation of the real thing all along, your ass is punked.
After Obama relinquished his seat in November, there were no blacks in the Senate. In all of American history, there have only been five Senators of African descent. Only three African Americans have been elected to the Senate since Reconstruction; two of those Senators were from Illinois, and Barack Obama had a hand in the election of both of them.
Recruited by Sandy Newman to head up the Chicago chapter of Project Vote! in 1992, the group credited with increasing black voter turnout and putting Chicago’s first black U.S. Senator, Carol Moseley Braun over the top, Obama, before he became “post-racial,” actively, shamelessly, and successfully promoted black voter participation. From Chicago Magazine, 1993:
Within a few months, Obama, a tall, affable workaholic, had recruited staff and volunteers from black churches, community groups, and politicians. He helped train 700 deputy registrars, out of a total of 11,000 citywide. And he began a saturation media campaign with the help of black-owned Brainstorm Communications. (The company’s president, Terri Gardner, is the sister of Gary Gardner, president of Soft Sheen Products, Inc., which donated thousands of dollars to Project Voters efforts.) The group’s slogan-”It’s a Power Thing”-was ubiquitous in African-American neighborhoods. Posters were put up. Black-oriented radio stations aired the group’s ads and announced where people could go to register. Minority owners of McDonald’s restaurants allowed registrars on site and donated paid radio time to Project Vote! Labor unions provided funding, as, in late fall, did the Clin¬ton/Gore campaign, whose national voter-registration drive was being directed by Chicago alderman Bobby Rush.
Though Obama later claimed he never worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, (ACORN) Project Vote! is, at least now, affiliated with them, and the two groups collaborated on a voter drive on his behalf. In 1995, a Chicago Reader profile documented a community organizing relationship with ACORN that went undisputed by Camp O, even though the article does not chronicle direct employment.
Once Obama became a candidate for the U.S. Senate himself, however, it became necessary to distance himself from his radical blackness and adopt a more conciliatory demeanor. This facade was shaped in some measure by his defeat for Bobby Rush’s Congressional seat, when he was perceived as being out of touch with black reality:
Mr. Obama’s Ivy League education and his white liberal-establishment connections also became an issue. Mr. Rush told The Chicago Reader, “He went to Harvard and became an educated fool. We’re not impressed with these folks with these Eastern elite degrees.”
Mr. Rush and his supporters faulted him for having missed experiences that more directly defined the previous generation of black people. “Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it,” Mr. Rush told The Reader.
Mr. Obama was seen as an intellectual, “not from us, not from the ’hood,” said Jerry Morrison, a consultant on the Rush campaign. Asked recently about that line of attack, Mr. Rush minimized it as “chest beating, signifying.”
The implication was not exactly that Mr. Obama was “not black enough,” as some blacks have suggested more recently; his credentials were suspect. “It was much more a function of class, not race,” Mr. Adelstein said. “Nobody said he’s ‘not black enough.’ They said he’s a professor, a Harvard elite who lives in Hyde Park.”
No dummy he, Mr. Obama quickly learned to exploit both his blackness and his whiteness successfully. Playing up his bi-raciality while at the same time being conveniently black only when necessary, placing himself above historical racial “distractions” was a neat trick, deftly executed, and proved to be irresistible to voters of all races. However, it was not without pitfalls, nor were racial aspects eliminated from the equation. Far from it. He just had to be clever about when, where, and how he chose to be “just black enough” to turn a given situation to his built-in advantage of being the only person of color in his races subsequent to the disastrous one against Rush. When you’re the only black guy running, you can define what blackness is without challenge.
Therefore, when you can get the Secret Service to protect you just because you’re black, when your wife can channel Spike Lee and implore blacks to “wake up” and vote for you, when you can get the safest, most beloved Mammy-figure since Aunt Jemimah to embrace and endorse you, when black mainstream media pundits and politicians champion the idea and ideals of your candidacy over it’s substance, it is akin to having an entire deckful of Aces up your sleeve. You can feign outrage over every perceived slight you can find to blow out of proportion, casting your opponent in the most vilely negative light imaginable in that situation, while nullifying the legitimacy of any condemnation of your actions. After all, how can a white person tell a black person how to feel about racism? How can a black person in their right mind defend such attacks against a “brother” who says he’s being demeaned? And, even if some things might seem overblown, and others inexplicably dismissed, when the players in the game all agree that the new guy has a right to the race cards up his sleeve simply because they know he knows they used to cheat guys who looked like him on a regular basis, the game becomes an exercise in futility for all but the guy it’s being guiltily thrown to.
Rod Blagojevich, who enjoys a lot of support in the black community himself, knows exactly how the game has been played, and saw clearly who was letting pots go, and who was slipping chips under the table to who. Seeing his own stack dwindle to almost nothing, he decided to call in the only guy to have ever beaten Barack Obama at the game he taught him, and by appointing an equally safe, seemingly unassailable black man to fill Obama’s vacant seat, go all in on having a bigger pair. From CNN:
Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush, who appeared at the Tuesday news conference, warned senators about blocking Burris.
“There are no African-Americans in the U.S. Senate. And I don’t think any U.S. senator who’s sitting in the Senate right now wants to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the U.S. Senate,” he said.
“I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer and separate the appointee from the appointer,” Rush said.
Unlike Obama, Rush has no incentive to pretend to be racially ambiguous; he is not, nor has he ever been; the former Black Panther has always been radically black. Now that all the race cards are face up in the middle of the table, it will be interesting to watch how Obama plays his hand.
It’s obvious that the curiously-funded, political science lab-created Axelsteinian entity selected by the nebulous powers-that-be to front the shadow cabal that actually seems hellbent on running the country into the ground thinks, along with his masters, that Joe and Jane Public are stupid as tree stumps. There’s evidence to support their opinion. First of all, USA Today says that America’s new Leader in the Light is the most admired man in the country. Despite the fact that he accomplished nothing of note as a state or US Senator, it seems that being elected because he wasn’t a Clinton or a Republican, as well as having the good fortune to be black in today’s Madison Avenue defined post-racial America, as designated by the Hope Pope, is enough to inspire awe and respect in 32% of those of our fellow citizens willing to be polled about such nonsense during the holidays. Hillary Clinton was dubbed “Most Admired Woman” for the umpteenth time, beating out Sarah, Oprah, Condi, Michelle and all the other American women famous enough for being famous that we know them by their first names.
However, the strongest evidence that the Obamessiah and His Disciples in and of the media are primarily committed to tending their sheeple flock is the realization that they believe that touting such fluff is sufficient to distract attention from the fact that their Teflon TelePrompTer Reader and two of his acolytes have been questioned at length in an investigation of “pay-to-play” corruption in his home state. In the federal building with lawyers present and everything. In their defense they cry, “we investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent and the US Attorney says we’re not a target, anyway, and we told the governor all we were offering him in return for doing what we wanted was appreciation, but we didn’t know he wanted anything in the first place, and besides, that same US Attorney stopped the illegal enterprise before anybody besides the bad guy we want you to hate could be implicated, like us, but, since it’s Christmas we know you’re not really paying attention, and, oh, by the way, have you seen our guy’s pecs?
And, on top of all that, Rahm’s not even in the country right now, he’s in Africa, ‘cuz, well, he really, really wanted to go, and the Great Hype Hope is in Hawaii, spending googobs of somebody’s money while he rests up for the Greatest Inauguration Ever in a Recession, and nobody talks to Valerie Jarret besides her lawyer, so you couldn’t ask any of them any questions even if you were up on things. And don’t even worry about why the New York Times mentioned VJ staffer Michael Strautmanis in connection with the investigation and nobody else has, it’s probably not important.”
Who, besides, presumably Barack Obama, cares about Michelle Obama’s butt? Erin Aubry Kaplan, aka Erin J. Aubry, that’s who. She’s a columnist whose work has been featured in the L.A. Times, Essence Magazine, L.A Weekly, and Black Enterprise among others. She’s also contributed essays to books like Body Outlaws, and Mothers Who Think. And, she has a thing about butts. Big, black, female butts to be exact. The author of a 1998 Salon article about Jennifer Lopez’s abundance, entitled “Back Is Beautiful,” (she thinks Lopez is “a possibly African-descended Latina,”) Ms. Kaplan is back in Salon with a dissertation on the First Lady-elect’s derriere called “First Lady Got Back.”
Why?
Beats the hell outta me.
Again I ask, who the hell cares about Michelle Obama’s butt, let alone what it means to society? Forget about examining the socio-dynamics of it’s size and shape, and it’s impact on American women of color’s self-esteem and/or lack thereof, has anybody else ever even looked at it? I mean, I’ve seen Ms. Obama sitting down, so I assumed she had a butt, (when I happened to think about it, which was never) but, frankly, there’s nothing about her face that would make me want to look at her ass. Though many have spoken of her beauty, grace and charm, she “don’t float my boat,” if you catch my drift. Not to be indelicate, but as a woman who has enjoyed the company and favors of a few other women in my day, as far as I’m concerned, she’s a dog.
But that’s beside the point. Why would anyone, especially a woman, especially a straight woman, ever write more than one treatise on booty? I can’t imagine why any woman would write one, but I’m trying to give Kaplan the benefit of the doubt. But, really, what’s up with that? I’m a black woman and I’ve never once wondered what impact my ass had on society at large. Or anybody else’s, for that matter.
Yes, some people objectify women, but writing article, after article, about the particular cultural implications of black women’s behinds and the impact on the feminine psyche due to the exploitation of such objectification in our shared popular culture, runs the risk of objectifying us further under the guise of social commentary. Kaplan writes:
Lord knows, it’s time the butt got some respect. Ever since slavery, it’s been both vilified and fetishized as the most singular of all black female features, more unsettling than dark skin and full lips, the thing that marked black women as uncouth and not quite ready for civilization (of course, it also made them mighty attractive to white men, which further stoked fears of miscegenation that lay at the heart of legal and social segregation). In modern times, the butt has demarcated class and stature among black society itself. Emphasizing it or not separates dignified black women from ho’s, party girls from professionals, hip-hop from serious. (Black women are not the only ones with protruding behinds, by the way, but they’re certainly considered its source. How many gluteally endowed nonblack women have been derided for having a black ass? Well, Hillary, for one.)
Now, Hillary Clinton has a “black ass?” What the hell is Kaplan talking about? Black women are considered the source of the big ass? How? Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture? Don’t get me wrong, Ms. Kaplan seems to be a fine and justifiably accomplished writer, but this obsessive “thing” she has about her and other people’s butts is an issue she might want to spend some time discussing with an expert. It needs to be examined. It’s not healthy. And, if she really thinks Michelle Obama’s rear end is worth celebrating, for any reason, Erin Aubry Kaplan can forget about the doctor, any fool could tell her she has lost her mind.
And I bet her ass is huge.
UPDATE: Mr. Kaplan responds to her critics. Basically, she says she wrote the article because she felt like it. No other reason is valid, imo, regardless of other people’s reaction. If you have to explain it or apologize for it, you shouldn’t write it. If you do, let it stand.
No shit! I am not freaking kidding! Okay, maybe I am, but not by much. I’ve pretty much given up on the API soap opera; like all sudsers, they get tedious and predictable after awhile, then they inevitably “jump the shark.” But, checking in on the API website today, I find that they have not only “jumped” the shark, they have played hopscotch on it’s back before grabbing a fin and hanging on for a flight. First, seems that yesterday,(or maybe tomorrow or the day after, who knows Nowegian time?) Chief Editor Korir, (who has been exposed as a fraud many times by Mountain Sage) wrote his API “family” an open letter promising to “reach the mountaintop” and “overcome” the “evil doers” who “sabotoged the airing of the (mythical Michelle Obama) tape.” I have no flipping idea what this means, but hey, no matter, because today, (or tomorrow, or whenever the 15th of November is in Norway) an “imposter,” pretending to be Korir, “took over” the site in order to give API a “bad name.” So now, (or, later, or whenever Korir came up with this scheme, Norway time) the site has been “closed” so that it can be “cleared.” (The original post claiming Michelle Obama had called API saying that her husband was adopted, but still eligible to be president, has been already “cleared.”)
Now, I don’t know about you, but I say, props must be given for Olympic-grade execution of “shark jumping.” Korir might be a hoaxter and scammer, but he has definitely raised pointless posturing to a fine art.
Boy, oh, boy, talk about a thick plot. Sammy Korir, Chief Editor of African Press International, the little news web that couldn’t, is fighting back against those who say that his claims of having audio tapes (cassettes, are you kidding me?) of a surprise Michelle Obama telephone call are false. Korir, in a long, rambling post, says they’re just picking on him because he’s black. Yep, he went there. If you want to read his explanation, go here. If not, I more than understand, I overstand. Korir’s story of legal agreements to air the tapes, all sorts of allegations about mainstream media involvement and subsequent denials, combined with various elements of international intrigue is just..well, weird, and far too long, complicated and frankly, tedious, to recap in depth. For all the juicy details though, API, Mountain Sage, my archives, and the following video are good places to start. Get your popcorn and tinfoil hat ready though, and a mop to clean up your brains from the floor after your head explodes, and maybe some hip waders ’cause baby, this stuff is deep. All I can say is, it sure beats the hell out of daytime TV for mindless entertainment by a mile.
Yeah, that’s a lot to put in one headline, but after perusing the news this morning, that’s “all the news that’s fit to print,” as they say. Well, except for the fact that President-elect Obama tried to Bogart President-now Bush into doing his bidding with the auto industry yesterday, then had his boys drop a dime to the media in an attempt to show off his flex, but Bush got his boys to hip Drudge to the fact that Obie’s actions are crass and out of line. Being lectured about etiquette and protocol by Bush has to suck, but it’s just one more example of how Obie rolls.
But I digress. At a mainstream media panel discussion last night, reported here, here, and here, Joe Scarborough professed his love for Hillary Clinton:
Discussing the perceived bias against Sen. Hillary Clinton, Scarborough joked, “I love Hillary. She’s my girlfriend. We don’t like to talk about it much.” (She already asked him to be her running mate.)
Oh, what might have been. Clinton/Scarborough; beats Obama/Biden and Joe and Mika all to hell, doesn’t it? Moving on, last night’s festivities gave the mainstream media-types a rare opportunity to good-naturedly bash themselves while simultaneously patting themselves on the back. Neat trick, glad we finally figured out what they’re good at.
Next up, Ms. “If she can’t run her own house” Obama, suddenly feels that Hillary Clinton can run a house just fine, especially the White House. In fact, Shelley wants tips. Oh, happy day. Just what we need more of in the media, political “women’s place is in the home” girl talk.
“Michelle may not have loved the senator, but she always respected how the Clintons raised Chelsea,” said a person familiar with Clinton’s end of the call. “They need to talk. There just aren’t too many people who have shared that kind of experience.”
An aide briefed on Obama’s side of the chat said she was “grateful” for Clinton’s “pointers” on “raising children in the public eye.”
What’s next, friggin’ meatloaf and macaroni recipe swaps? I guess the two women do have something in common, though; they’re both being used and abused by the same man.
Yet a half-dozen Clinton insiders told Politico they are disappointed that Obama’s vaunted fundraising operation hasn’t reciprocated by planning new events or an Internet campaign to help Clinton pay off the $7.9 million she owes to vendors. (Clinton has already written off the $13 million she loaned the campaign during the primaries, aides say).
And in other news, talk about adding insult to injury; looks like Barack Obama’s prodigious, yet apparently dubious, fundraising will escape scrutiny, while John McCain is going to be audited up the yingyang, by law. Again, according to Politico:
The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.
Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.
Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors. Another factor: The FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other – like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president.
So, if I’ve got this straight, Obama gets away with collecting gazillions of dollars from Doodad Pro and other fictitious donors, some from foreign countries, by disabling the security features on his donor site, because he decided to do it that way. Humph, imagine that. If he had actually agreed to play by the rules, like he promised, he would actually have had to play by the rules. But since he didn’t, he doesn’t.
Ya gotta hand it to the guy, he and his boyz and blogger bullies might be thugs, but they’re damned good at it. And, according to his ace gangsta bitch chick, Valerie Jarrett, he’s ready to “take power and rule” from Day One. Thug life, president for life, ride or die, a’ight?
African Press International, according to African Press International, has received $500,000 dollars (US) from an anonymous American company grateful for their (API’s) efforts to bring the audio tapes they possess of Michelle Obama going off about her husband being adopted, but still eligible to be president, that have not yet been aired, but assuredly will be, though discussed no further, so don’t ask again; and if that’s not enough, they have confirmation that a Mombasa Imam who has knowledge of Barack Obama’s Kenyan birth, as well as possession of his stolen, official Kenyan birth certificate, has left Kenya and will soon be safe in the U.K.:
The Imam who came forward to assist in the search�of Barack Obama’s identity left Kenya secretly last night, and will arrive in the UK this morning. He will meet with a US contact person who will assist him in recording an asylum statement in the UK after handing over the documents that caused the blessing of Obama when he was born and to confirm�the origin of the name Hussein.
The man will join relatives in the UK because his life will be in danger if he were to return to Kenya after removing the documents from the Mosque’s archives and taking them out of the country. The man has been informed about the on-going case filed in� the US Supreme Court by attorney Philip Berg challenging Barack Obama’s citizenship.
When the man heard that Jerome Corsi was in Kenya a few months ago, he took a decision to try and meet him, but had to travel back to Mombasa from Nairobi on hearing that Corsi had been bundled and taken to the airport on deportation orders.
The Imam is the grandson of the late Imam who blessed Barack Obama when he was born in Mombasa on the 4th of august 1961.
While in the UK, the Imam and the American contact person will visit Amnesty International before handing himself over�to the authorities where he will formally deliver his application for asylum. The contact man has arranged so that they get an official from Amnesty international to accompany them to the home office desk where he will inform them on he dangers that will face him if he were to return to Kenya after delivering the documents on Obama.
This may now bring to close the speculations on Obama’s citizenship and the secrecy on where he was born.
API will dispatch a detailed letter in support of the Imam’s -�application for asylum�and protection� – to the UK Home Office Secretary later today. The letter will be made available on the site here, but minus the names of the Imam.
Whew! Just when you thought it was safe to…I don’t know, ignore the madness? go back to reality? trust human nature? something this deliciously juicy comes down the pike. I mean, how can you not enjoy the sheer spectacle (balls) of such an operation? Who cares what the motive is? What difference does the outcome make? This is James Bond meets Shaft In Africa plus Jimmy Stewart’s big white rabbit, Harvey, all rolled into one! Wow! Popcorn is not enough for this one, I need Jujubees…and a big, fat Hersheybar…oh, and a Slurpee…and maybe, a hot dog…no, pizza, yeah, that’s it. And a Taffy Apple…ooooh, gotta have some Jr. Mints…this is gonna be good!
After refraining from commentary about the mischief-making Kenyan-in-Norway, “Chief Editor” Sammy Korir’s African Press International and it’s wickedly outlandish claims of possessing audio tapes of a scandalous Michelle Obama telephone call for a few days, I decided to check in and see what was going on. Well, honey, let me tell you, a whole helluva lot seems to be happening with ol’ Sammy and Co. Looks like November 7, was a particularly busy day, what with API’s call for a national protest march against Barack Obama’s right to take office due to questions of eligibility. See, according to API, M. O. let it slip in her telephone call that Barack Obama was adopted by his stepfather, but that shouldn’t disqualify him from being president. Okay, stay with me now. Now that API has not released the tapes of this alleged phone call, and FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren has flat-out called API-generated rumors of a deal between them to air the tapes to be a bald-faced lie, and websites like Mountain Sage have exposed Mr. Korir’s rather colorful past flights of fancy, API is, rather than backing away from these imaginative claims, weaving them all together. In other words, we must protest Obama’s election because we haven’t seen his true birth certificate and we know he was adopted because Michelle Obama said so on the mythical tapes. Get it?
Also on the 7th, API says the tape thing is not a dead issue, by a long shot; according to them, they will be aired. When, where, how; who knows? They’ll get back to us on that, they say. Later, that same day, or earlier, who the hell knows? API claimed that a Mombasa Imam would release Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate…soon:
We have stated earlier that Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
A confirmation to the effect will now be forthcoming. A Mombasa Mosque Imam has decided to release documents of birth that will indicate Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, given his middle name on the day he was born and blessed by the Imam of the day.”
All other documents pertaining to his registration of birth in Kenya have been sealed and categorised confidential.
Gotta hand it to Mr. Korir, I love a good story-teller, and in my humble opinion, he’s damned good. Who needs truth when you’ve got a fertile imagination?
Ah, the Dawning of the New Day has arrived! We are standing on the precipice of deliverance from all oppression, despair, and yucky stuff. Oh, yes, Barack Obama will now lead us to betterness. Like all Americans, I want the next president to succeed. However, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to fervently praying for just one good “told ya so” smack upside the head moment to rub in the face of all the balloon heads who voted for pr driven campaign slogans of “hopey-changey-happy-happy” as if that had something to do with actually governing this country out of the hell or handbasket we’re riding so jubilantly toward. And even if “hopey-dopey-happy-crappy” really was a governing strategy, how on earth could a dour, humorless theoretician who’s natural reaction to anything is “Umm, uh, let me think about it and consult with some smart people” lead us skipping trippingly to NeverLand? But anyway, like I said, good luck with that. Because where we once could limit repercussions-suffering to Obots, what happens from now on is on all our heads.
And, oh, are we in for some fun, fun, fun. While everybody was busy watching the Obamessiah’s “happy-changey” right hand, nobody was paying attention to what his (dominant) left hand was doing; which is basically flexing for the screwing we’re going to get. If Obama has his way, we’re all about to get “volunteered.” Media Matters quibbles that Obama’s “we need a Civilian National Security force” statements refer to expanding existing programs:
Summary: On Bob Grant’s radio show, Ann Coulter suggested that President-elect Barack Obama’s “civilian national security force” would lead to “a lot more Waco raids, Elian Gonzalez snatchings.” In fact, Obama’s comments about the necessity of a “civilian national security force” referred to expanding the Foreign Service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps.
Their point is that Obama’s comments were taken out of context. Hmmm, where have I heard that before? Anyway, here’s the whole July 2, Colorado Springs, “Call To Service” speech, with the money quote coming at about 16:42, judge for yourself.
Whatever it means, Examiner.com says Obama’s new Chief of Staff agrees with it. Quoting from Rahm Emanuel’s book, “The Plan: Big Ideas For America:”
It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. …
Here’s how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we’re hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities’ most pressing needs.
Obama and his running mate, now veep-elect, Jo(k)e Biden, believe in community service, too. For college students:
Obama and Biden will make college affordable for all Americans by creating a new American Opportunity Tax Credit. This universal and fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans, and will cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or university and make community college tuition completely free for most students. Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service.
Retired Americans have a wide range of skills and knowledge to contribute to local and national public service efforts. Obama and Biden will engage more interested seniors into public service opportunities by expanding and improving programs like Senior Corps to connect seniors with quality volunteer opportunities.
Obama and Biden will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year. They will develop national guidelines for service- learning and will give schools better tools both to develop programs and to document student experience. Green Job Corps: Obama and Biden will create an energy-focused youth jobs program to provide disadvantaged youth with service opportunities weatherizing buildings and getting practical experience in fast-growing career fields.
Just about everybody. Now, I’m all for doing my part, but “volunteering” for government stuff is spooky. Especially when you remember Michelle Obama saying this:
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual – uninvolved, uninformed.”
Oh, happy, happy, joy, joy. Bring on the freakin’ prancing unicorns, will ya?
Yep, that’s African Press International, alright, and then some. The wonderfully melodramatic website that claims to have in it’s possession “explosive” audiotapes of a Michelle Obama rant, as well as an agreement with FOX News to air them, (which has been flat out denied by Greta van Susteren, one of the anchors API names in it’s “agreement) is now saying that since FOX has ignored their ultimatum to air the tapes immediately, they’re just going to have to go ahead and cancel the deal. Oh, boy, that’s…audacity, maybe?
There is no exaggeration when we�say we�struck a deal with Fox N.N�in good faith and that was done due to information we had at the time causing us to believe that the network was serious to air the tape.
API has waited this long for the release of the tape, while at the same time giving hope to many who wanted to listen to the contents of the tape.
We will not drop the idea to release the tape to the public because we are well aware API�s credibility has been put on the line.
There’s more, you can go there and read it, if you wish, I’m tired of…the whole thing really, but of providing links, specifically. The above’s cheeky enough, don’t you think, but the “chutzpah” comes into play with their posted “cancellation” letter, sent as an attachment to a “pre-cancellation” email:
Re: Our contract: anticipatory repudiation
We have to face the fact that you have decided not to comply with the letter and spirit of our agreement entered in good faith insofar as we are concerned.
We hereby anticipatorily repudiate our agreement with you and hold you responsible for all the damages we have incurred and will incur by your breach of the agreement.
It is clear that, with the repudiation of the contract, we are no longer by its confidentiality provisions and its terms and conditions.
We will publish the substance of this letter so as to�inform the public and interested organizations of the legitimacy and reasonableness of your actions to perform your obligation to broadcast the tapes as well as any other of the obligations you had agreed to perform.
The genuineness of the tapes has been verified by your organization and we trust that you will advise any interested party accordingly, In any event, this is now a largely theoretical question, since a fair number of independent�persons will be able to make their own opinion on the matter.
We wish to thank you for the courtesy you have shown to us at the personal level.
As to the actual damages, our counsel will contact you after we have performed your obligations and reviewed the whole situation.
It’s all deliciously complicated, given that API has always had the option to simply post the transcript, if not the actual tapes, on their website at any time they saw fit. Obviously, “fit” they never saw. Anyway, that’s the Michelle Obama/API Drama update for today. I keep thinking each one will be the last, but API manages to come up with something new on a pretty regular basis, so we’ll see how it goes. Like my mother never said, keep smiling, it can only get worse. And if it does, people will leave you alone if you’re standing there grinning like a fool.
Whether you consider the African Press International Michelle Obama Adoption Drama to be soap opera, mystery, spy thriller or high camp, ya gotta admit, it’s been rollicking good fun. I must have gained twenty pounds over the last couple of weeks from the amount of popcorn I’ve consumed following this fiction. In keeping with my recent tradition of bringing you the twists and turns as they develop, I offer you API’s “ultimatum” to FOX News to release the doggone tapes immediately or…or, I’m not sure what. Seems to me, API could have released a printed transcript weeks ago, which probably would have even gotten MSNBC into the act. Anyway, here goes:
API chose Fox News Network as a partner in Michelle Obama tapes’ deal, due to the advise received from all the readers who informed API that the News outlet was one we could trust to air the tape unedited.
Now that the Network has not done as agreed on the 28th of last month, API remains with only one choice in order to force the issue to be resolved immediately. The choice API has now chosen is to give an ultimatum to Fox News Network and hope the situation will be resolved in a few hours to come.
Today afternoon, API took a bold step to give Fox News Network a six hours ultimatum to decide on an immediate release of�the tape�- “that the tape be aired as soon as possible,�latest tomorrow the 3rd of November if it has to have any value in connection with the US Presidential elections taking place on Tuesday the 4th of this month.
In a strong worded letter dictated by API’s Canadian Counsel, Fox News Network has been given the ultimatum to come to its senses and respect the agreement reached in New York on the 28th of October.
API has reminded Fox News Network of the responsibilities that the News outlet took upon themselves in connection with the Michelle Obama tape.
API is not ready to give up on this. The tape must be aired as agreed by the parties. This tape has caused a lot of headache to many people. Demands to release the tape has been enormous and some people have gone as far as getting angered because they do not think the deal is there, and have resorted to the assumption that API is pulling their legs.
Any denials by any one in Fox News Network that seeks to embarrass API will not be taken lightly. Any such denials will be treated as a breach of contract and API will not hesitate taking legal action against the Network. We view the tape as a very important instrument that will serve to enlighten a number of people whose total interest is to have a leadership that earns their trust and will serve them diligently no matter what their beliefs are in today’s America.
The ultimatum has been necessitated by the News outlet’s laxity in taking a decision favourable to the political�environment that many voters finds themselves in, after discovering that there is a taped conversation bearing the voice of�their “probably incoming First Lady.”
We still hope that our readers and the American people who are interested to listen to Michelle Obama’s voice will not be deprived of that opportunity and we are hopeful that the tape will be aired latest tomorrow the 3rd of November., unless Fox News Network chooses to remain arrogant and deny the American people the right to listen to the tape and interpret the meaning of the contents themselves before the main election day on the following day.
He likes to be called African Press International’s Chief Editor Korir; that is, when he’s not being called “officer.” Is he either? Apparently not. Mountain Sage has done a tremendous amount of research on the guy, rather than do it any injustice, I recommend you go over there and take a look see for yourself. In case you don’t know, African Press International is a website making claims of being in possession of “soon-to-be-released” audiotapes of Michelle Obama ranting, complete with CIA and FOX News involvement, as well as threats and bribes from the Obama camp. Again, rather than regurgitating their words ad nauseum, as I have been doing, just for the fun of it, I suggest you head over there and take a look see for yourself.
I have personally read 2 articles from the Norwegian newspaper site, Dagbladet.no, that accuse Korir of being a major nogoodnik. This one, dated today, examines this year’s campaign “smears” and links back to an earlier Dagbladet.no story re: Sammy Korir’s claims of being an undercover Norwegian police agent, that I posted a few days ago, here. The translations are kinda rough, but the meaning is pretty clear.
I also recieved a report in my comment section of an email solicitation alledgedly tied to Korir’s API, supposedly posted originally on the API website. Don’t know anything about it, but I’ll pass it on.
It’s an email harvesting operation folks…
Just opened my comcast account… I’ve had this email account for five years.. no spam…. tonight I had several… Anyone else getting email from ‘Shopper’s Discount’? I’ve never heard of them.
Did you verify an email from one sent to you by Mr Korir (I don’t address semi-literates as ‘Editor.’)
I did get an unsolicited email from Mr Korir the other day…with a request to verify receipt…
Guess I know now why he uses the verification system.. he wants to sell his email lists as verified…
Say it isn’t so ‘Sammy’….
‘Clowd’.. try finding two brain cells to rub together… you’re pathetic. Same goes for Meg, Hope, W00sh, Kathy etc, etc…
Anyone who believes that tripe at the the top of the page about FOX being worried about how their employee’s will find jobs in government must be delusional.
This man has a documented history from news sources.. REAL News sources, like the BBC and the local media there in Norway..showing a clear pattern of extortion and deceits.. He fits the typical pattern of the anti-social personality… he has no concious…
He only has attention seeking games and promises he can’t deliver on, because ultimately he is a big zero. He belongs in jail in Kenya for the crimes he comited against those kids, but you ‘god-fearting’ people just wink at extorting money from impoverished kids like it was mere jay-walking..
You are emotionally stunted and intellectually vulgar. You’d have an excuse if you were just a casual passerby, but you have become colluders with this snake.You have earned my distain.
I hope a pleasant time was had by all.
Spelling errors aside, the email is credible in the sense that, to be fair, Korir has not asked for money in relation to his “bombshell” story, as far as I know, and every scam needs a payoff. To this point, however, it’s unclear whether any API readers have actually been fleeced; so far, it seems they’ve just been played for the hell of it. As far as the other scams are concerned, I know nothing about them. If I find out more, I’ll pass it on, too.
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.
API would like to inform the readers that the denials by some people that there is no agreement to air the tape has no basis in truth.
API has a valid agreement with Fox News Network. The negotiation was done secretly between API’s 3 representatives and Fox News Network�represented by two people. If any one comes out there and denies that we have a deal, such denials must be ignored.
The parties involved in the negotiations exchanged many emails in a 8 days period and that resulted in a written agreement. API is pleased to have Fox News Network as a partner on the Michelle Obama tape issue.
Despite denials by some people, we assure the readers that the tape, according to the agreement, is supposed to be aired by 2 Fox News Network shows, namely: The Sean Hannity Show and On the Record show by Greta Van Susteren.
We assure the readers that if Fox News Network does not do as stipulated in the�agreement, API will breach the secrecy deal stating that – there shall be no publicity of the details in the agreement page, by any of the parties involved in the deal. If that happens, API will make public all the email correspondences and the whole agreement with Fox News Network.
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
Some obviously visually impaired, or possibly extremely over-caffeinated, or otherwise unrealistically imaginative, and/or artificially stimulated people have put forth the notion that Michelle Obama is somehow reminiscent of Jacqueline Kennedy. However, I cannot imagine surviving the ingestion of a sufficient amount of hallucinogenics required to seriously entertain such a thought. Jackie O? Why not Mamie Eisenhower? Rosalynn Carter? I can get there from here, but Jackie Kennedy, uh uh.
He does have some suggestions for Michelle Obama: He’s thinking Carolina Herrera or Oscar de la Renta. “Michelle, call me!” he yelled into our tape recorder. “I will hook you up, girl. I will not charge.” He’s even got a slightly off-color nickname for his First Lady pick. “Forrest Whitaker’s wife and I always joke about this,” he said. “We were at the convention and I said, ‘Oh, girl, you’re looking like Jackie O!’ And she said, ‘Hell no, baby, I’m looking like Blackie O.’ When I say this, I don’t want this to come out as I’m making a derogatory remark, but Blackie O: in the White House!’”
Bloch also defended Sarah Palin against the media’s unfair Wardrobe-gate attacks:
“Image is everything,” he opined at the Central Park Conservancy’s Halloween Ball at the park’s Naumburg Bandshell last night. “To give her a hard time about spending $150,000 on the wardrobe — she didn’t make up the prices, she didn’t hire a big stylist and say get me the most expensive things.” Although he approves of her look — “chic and elegant; age appropriate” — he said he wasn’t sure the RNC absolutely had to blow that much money on it. “Her stylist should’ve asked for a discount,” he said. “If she were working with me, I would’ve gotten her a discount.”
Yeah, Phil, and coupled with your (I assume) standard no-charge offer, Sarah probably could have come in way under a hundred and fifty grand with you as her stylist. Then again, maybe SP should call Star Jones for “how to get free stuff” tips.
In other news, protesters did what protesters do, that is, protested the L.A. Times today, demanding the release of tapes showing Michelle and Barack Obama at a dinner honoring Rashid Khalidi. For all the good it apparently did.
READ BELOW: THIS IS SIMPLY A LIE ABOUT ME AND I HAVE NO IDEA IF A LIE ABOUT FOX AND / OR SEAN HANNITY BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS STUFF BELOW IS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHO API (AFRICAN PRESS) IS…this is the first I have heard about them….BUT I DO WANT TO “KILL THE VIRUS” LYING ABOUT ME.(Note that I lifted only part of the quote below because I just wanted to correct the lie about me..the website goes on and on.)
Greta left this in the comment section.
i wonder how they even come up with this stuff…if you don’t confront it as a lie, it goes all over the internet and people think it true..so, when i see this stuff, i fight back
I don’t know how they come up with this stuff, either, but maybe next time, you could check the nifty links I provided and deny the source.
African Press International says they have tapes of Michelle Obama having a hissy fit about them and their coverage of her husband’s campaign, where she lets it slip that he was adopted by his stepfather, and so what? Supposedly, she said lots of other things Camp O would rather not have people hear, and according to API, they’ve gone to great lengths to see that these tapes never see the light of day. Also according to API, they are just as determined to see that the tapes are released, and have entered into an agreement with FOX News, the terms of which apparently include a clause that FOX will not confirm the deal until 15 minutes before airtime. Now, API says, due to phenomenal pressure, they’re revealing the names of the FOX reporters involved: Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren. You now know what I know and here’s how I know it, straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak:
Many have been wondering about what will happen to the Michelle Obama tape, now that API has received death threats for planning to have the tape aired. Death threats mounted after API refused an offer of 3 million US dollars by Senator Obama’s Campaign manager.
There has been speculations that Fox News may deny that there is an agreement already reached that gives the them permission to air the tape. The public who are aware of the existence of a tape should be aware that some elements in our society would not like the message in the tape to come out.
The agreement stipulates that any information on the day and hour the tape will be aired will only be announce 15 minutes to the airing time. This was agreed upon to avoid any pressure being directed to Fox News Network by individuals who would want to get the details about the tape in question.
The airing of the tape can take place any time from this day and due to its sensitivity, people who will inquire from Fox News and API for details will either get a no comment answer or that there is no agreement on the table.
We are aware of the fact that some people made inquiries today by emailing or telephoning Fox News and may have been disappointed with the answers they got. API is not here to mislead anyone and takes the responsibility to inform�its loyal readers�that the tape will be aired unless pressure wins over�any of the parties involved, of which case that will amount to a�breach of contract. �Such a thing�is unacceptable because API is committed to let the American people get the information in the tape and judge for themselves what value it may have in their political lives.
Although the parties had agreed that the particular shows going to air the tapes should not be made public before�15 minutes to airing of the tapes, public pressure has forced us to make this revelation earlier than we should.� Both parties, API and Fox are in agreement that no further details will be released on the subject.
�While we struggle to have the Michelle Obama tape, the McCain camp is struggling to have another tape that has information relevant to the campaign. The taped conversation has Mr obama when he was dining with friends considered radicals and supporters of terrorism.
The second tape in question is of a dinner for Rashid Khalidi, attended by the Obamas and possibly by William Ayers and Bernadine/Bernadette Dohrn, among others. The Los Angeles Times reported on the dinner in April, and have confirmed possession of a videotape of the evening’s event, which they refuse to release to the public.
Da daaaa da dum… or nuh nuh nuhnuhnuhnuh…pick the dumdum music of your choice, you need something to lead in to the latest development in the Michelle Obama Audiotape Drama. African Press International says that there are some really unhappy people willing to do them grave bodily harm over releasing tapes they claim to possess of Michelle O ranting about this and that, and these people have made their displeasure known. Therefore, the API guy might have to delay his departure for a trip to New York for a “few hours” while authorities investigate. Whether that means that the airing of the tapes will also be delayed is unclear. Anyway, the drama continues:
The Obama camp is not saying anything publicly now, but have chosen to work behind the scenes in their efforts to influence the release of Michelle Obama tape. The impact the tape is expected to have on National Security�when finally released will be huge.
Peaceful approach to have the tapes not to be released has now turned into direct threats directed against API.
API on the other hand does not want to surrender to the pressure being mounted, even though faced with danger for ignoring the warnings not to allow the release of the tape. API is being bombarded with death threats from people who say have been�hired to silence API and those involved in the plan to have the tapes released.
The US embassy in Norway together with the Norwegian Security Service has been duly informed of the situation and has promised to give the matter the priority it deserves.
Due to the situation that has arisen, and security considerations, API reprentative’s trip to New York today to participate in a� planned live interview�will be temporarily delayed for some hours while the Embassy�looks into the matter.
Now that the situation has become so dangerous because some people are afraid to let the American people know the truth about Michelle Obama’s stand exhibited by her in the tape, API will thread carefully and will classify details on what is going on, especially details on when the API representative�will fly to New York, which flight�and where he will be housed while in the US. This will be done to avoid exposing him to any danger while on US soil
API will not rest until the tape is aired so that the American people may judge for themselves whether the contents of the tape is of relevance to the elections taking place�November the 4th.
Oh, baby, bay-bay! It’s getting hot in herre! African Press International claims they’ve been offered 3 million dollars for tapes they swear to possess of Michelle Obama spilling the beans about her husband’s adoptive status during a far-ranging general rant at them and the world. Angered that a black site would question Barack about anything, Ms. O supposedly strongly implied that if they played nicer, she’d hook ‘em up once hubby became prez. Now that API has reported a deal in place with FOX News to air the tapes, they say the O Team is in a panic:
Six hours after the release of information by API on the planned broadcast by Fox News Network of�the Michelle Obama tape, in accordance with an agreement that has been reached between API and Fox News Network, API� was contacted by Obama’s Campaign Manager.
Those who are close to the democratic presidential candidate must be�desperate to win the elections no matter what, otherwise they would not have taken such bold step to contact API with an offer of a bribe in order to stop the airing of the tape.
�Obama’s campaign manager�contacted API by telephone and�email offering 3 million US dollars followed with a request to�API to�cancel the deal with Fox News Network.
Ten days ago API�received the first request�to accept 2 million US dollars�by Mr Ed Hale, President�of Plains Radio, Texas -�USA, in an effort to suppress the information from reaching the public before the coming US Presidential elections.
�API has now taken a decision to contact the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway as soon as possible in order to report the matter and hand over the�evidence�for investigative purposes.
API’s Canadian lawyer is expected to fly�to Oslo shortly in order to assist in the legal matters that arise from the bribery attempt.
API’s Chief editor is expected to travel to New York, together with the Canadian lawyer, where he will appear live in one of the shows that� will air the Michelle Obama tape.
Okaaaaay? Wonder if they’ve got a tape of that?
Gotta hand it to API, though. If this is a hoax, it’s a damned good one.
Earlier today, I said the whole African Press International “we got Michelle Obama tapes, nyah, nanna, na na” thing appeared to be a dead issue, and it well may be. Then again, maybe not. API has a new post up, claiming they have entered into an agreement with FOX News to air a significant portion of a 54 minute tape of Michelle His Belle talking politics she shouldn’t have been talking. Hey, I’m just the messenger:
A final�agreement has been�reached between African Press International�(API) and Fox News Network (USA) on the dates to air the Michelle Obama tape arising from a discussion Mrs Obama had with the API�two weeks ago. The show will take place any day/time from now, with a 15 minutes alert�on when it is to take place. Other programmes will be interrupted. This is a precaution taken to avoid interference from any quarter.
In the agreement, Fox News Network will broadcast 39 minutes�of the �54 minutes long tape. The whole tape cannot be aired unedited due to security reasons and especially due to the explosive political temperature in the country because of the�Presidential elections that is just around the corner, November 4th.
The tape will be aired in two portions by two�separate units in the Network. API’s representative will appear live in one of the shows.
The parties have agreed that the information to be released to the public on the agreement will not include the naming of the units at Fox News Network that will air the tapes in order to avoid outside pressure and influence of any kind before the show has taken place. Nondisclosure of the name of the shows that will air the tapes has become necessary due to pressure�from�groups interested to block the release of the contents to the public.
Due to a huge interest in the tapes�shown by some private individuals, groups belonging to some political camp(s) and persons connected to a section of�an intelligence network, it has been decided that the 54 minutes long unedited tape is to be kept outside the United States�in safe custody of one of API’s�Lawyers based in Ontario, Canada.
The day and time schedules of the�broadcast will only be announced 15 minutes before the Show begins in order to avoid attempts to block the Show from airing the tapes.
Any pressure from any outside forces that may want to know the exact day and�time schedule of the Show before-hand or any other details in the agreement will get no answers to their requests either�from API or Fox News Network.
The decision to have the above information public was a difficult one due to the�sensitivity of the case and huge interest against, and for, the release of the�contents of the tape for public consumption.
So far, there’s nothing about any of this on FOX News’ website, and we can’t ask them about it, we’ve been warned. But, look, if API’s got ‘em, I wanna hear ‘em. If they don’t, they should quit screwing around. Whether they do or not, I’m still not voting for Barack Obama. But, either way, this whole thing is a hoot and a lot of fun to watch.
Every time you turn around there’s a new “Obama Tape Drama.” A couple of weeks ago now, African Press International claimed to have tapes of Michelle Obama reading them the riot act for questioning her husband’s citizenship eligibility, especially with them being black and all. It’s pretty obvious by now to even the most ardent Obama hater that these potentially explosive tapes do not exist, since API’s self-imposed deadline, Oct. 27, has come and gone all over the world. Unless I hear differently, that’s a dead issue.
But there are potentially explosive tapes that do exist, or rather one tape, of Obama in the company of Palestinian University of Chicago/Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, said to be in the possession of an L.A. Times reporter, Peter Wallsten, who says he said all he’s gonna say about the matter in April:
CHICAGO — It was a celebration of Palestinian culture — a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
Now, since John McCain’s camp has a thing about who Obama “pals around with,” they’re demanding that a videotape of the evening’s events be released immediately. So says Politico’s Ben Smith:
John McCain’s campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003.
The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian.
“A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, citing Obama’s friendship with Khalidi, who is now a professor at Columbia University.
He said the video could, among other things, show how Obama responded to a poem recited at the party accusing Israel of “terrorism” and warning of consequences for U.S. support for Israel, which Goldfarb described as “hate speech.”
“The election is one week away, and it’s unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job — make information public,” he said.
The campaign hadn’t previously demanded the video, though conservative bloggers have, and neither other reporters nor McCain’s researchers have been able to dig up a copy.
Khalidi is a controversial figure, reviled by pro-Israel activists, though not a marginal one. A former professor at the University of Chicago, he’s now Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and respected by many in academia. He’s been criticized most for saying that Palestinians have a right to resist Israeli occupation and has been described as a former P.L.O. spokesman, a label he has denied.
Wallsten basically says, “bite me,” in an email response to requests to release the video, but won’t say why:
“Over six months ago the Los Angeles Times published a detailed account of the events shown on the videotape. The Times is not suppressing anything. Just the opposite — the L.A. Times brought the matter to light,” wrote the readers’ representative, Jamie Gold.
L.A. Times spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan wouldn’t discuss the decision not to release the tape in detail.
Whatever the reason for Wallsten’s reticence, you gotta wonder why so much Obama info is kept so assiduously under wraps. Why not show the original birth certificate, college transcripts and Illinois Senate records? What’s in there? Who or what’s on the tapes that Wallsten doesn’t want people to see? Whos’ he protecting, if anyone, and at whose direction? Obama wants to be president; it’s only natural that people want to know exactly who he is. If papers, records and tapes can help shed some light, it makes people suspicious when he seems so determined not to allow people access to them.
Is this him? The picture on the left is from a Dagbladet.no newspaper article referred to me by a commenter identifying him(her?)self as “umm yeah” in the comment section of my post, entitled African Press International Conference Call. “Chief Editor Sammy Korir” is the supposed editor of African Press International, a WordPress website claiming to be based in Norway and in possession of potentially explosive audio tapes of Michelle Obama. API now claims to have reached an agreement with an American cable news company for the release of these tapes:
We hope our readers understand how difficult some negotiations can be especially when there are considerations to be taken into acount�as a result of wishes of the people involved. However, things have moved very fast and we can now confirm that API is in agreement with A US Cable TV Network and the Michelle Obama tapes will be aired without unnecessary delay.
However, the Norwegian news report seems to indicate that Mr. Korir has a history of misrepresenting himself. The translated-into-English article is rather difficult to follow, but as near as I can figure, Dagbladet says that Korir’s claims of being some sort of agent for some kind of police agency, are untrue. Mr. Korir has asserted on his website that he has been in contact with the CIA regarding the Michelle Obama tapes. The Dagbladet story calls all that into question, though:
Sammy Korir will not talk to Dagbladet, but in a letter to several chief says he openly that he has been with the Police Immigration Unit (PU) from February 2007, and until he said the job and ended as police agent at the end of April this year.
While police servants in the PU failed to identify the African asylum seekers in Norway, will Korir soon identified many of the African men – and got them out of the country.
Korir has traveled around in Norway and abroad with its own police ID issued by the Immigration Police unit.This has happened without the senior leadership team of PU have been aware that Korir operated for the police.
It is entirely possible that I have misinterpreted the translated article; I encourage anyone interested in the story to follow this link and read it for themselves. I have chronicled events from the beginning, anyone who wants to can search my archives for African Press International or follow the link I’ve provided to their website for more information. Or, you can just kick back with a beer and watch TV.
The editor of The African Press International website, known as Chief Editor Korir, is inviting any and all to join him in an “online discussion” (whatever that is) at 16:15 Norwegian time (whenever that is) to discuss the Michelle Obama “leave my husband the hell alone” tapes he claims to possess. In case you’re interested (still) here’s the info:
We have noted your concern as readers. It is important that you understand�we are doing our best and our interest is to ensure that we do the right thing so that nobody handling or who has handled the tapes gets hurt. It serves no purpose to continue speculating whether we have the tapes or not, or whether we are genuine or not.
The answer is simple: The tapes exists and will be aired. We also�want you to know that we are genuine in all this and API has had not intention to mislead anyone. The truth of the matter is that there has been a delay, yes we understand, but there is nothing wrong being careful in situations like this one.
There is no question in our minds that you as a reader understand why it is important to� be careful when dealing with information that touches on the security situation of any nation.
There has been a lot of pressure from the readers and the same from those who represent Nations in question. API has to way and balance its act so that nobody is put into an embarrassing situation and for that matter danger to any ones life.
We are not about to drop airing the tapes. It will be done even if some continue to place obstacles on our way.
If you want to join in our short discussion at 16.15 Norwegian time, please email us on africanpress@getmail.no and place your number so that we can call you. Your number and name will not be made public in any way.
�If you join, it cost you nothing at all to participate!
African Press International is either in possession of some highly explosive tapes of a phone call with Michelle Obama, or they’re the best pranksters in the history of journalism. According to API, Mrs. Obama called them about ten days ago, railing about the “unfairness” of their coverage regarding her husband. In the call, she supposedly admitted that Barack Obama was adopted. Now, API says she also discussed foreign policy with them, specifically matters concerning Kenya’s election and Raila Odinga:
The Michelle Obama tapes lasting for 54 minutes discusses many important issues. The tape will most probably be released to the American people and the world at large, before the US Presidential elections because many people are pushing for that to happen and API does not want to disappoint the majority in the name of democracy and being transparent. The tape is expected to be aired by a reputable US network who will determine the best time for the public to get the information and if it should be aired unedited or partly edited.
Although the contents in the tape is sensitive, API is of the opinion that the US people have a right to know their leaders and what to expect from them once they get to the highest office in the land. The tape, when made public, will reveal the immediate tasks and where the new administration will give priority. Africa, Iran and Venezuela will end up in the priority list of the “chosen” to be attended to and Kenya will play a very important role through Kenya’s Prime Minister Mr Raila Odinga who is said to be a distant cousin of Obama.
Kenya has very good trade relationship with Iran and Obama’s first priority is to have high level discussions in the Kenyan capital. The first meeting will be chaired by Raila Odinga. The US is said to be represented in such a meeting by the US Ambassador in Nairobi. Iran is one of those to attend the meeting, but as an observer so that Obama will not be accused by his opponents for dramatically changing US Foreign policy.
To work with the Kenyans, the Obama administration will have Colin Powell, the former US Secretary for State as Obama’s Special envoy to Africa and the Middle East.
The first meeting will take place in central Nairobi in the newly Libyan purchased Hotel, that has now changed the name from Kenya Regency Hotel to a new name proposed by the new owners., Libya.
The tape further reveals why the meeting should take place in the Libyan owned hotel. By doing it this way, the outside world will not view Raila’s engagement negatively as a move to connect Kenya, Iran and the US.
The Kenyans and the Libyans (Now US friends) will not be accused of initiating relationship between the US and Iran in any way.
API challenges Mrs Obama to personally deny the information if she believes that she has not been quoted by us in a correct manner.
The information has for sometime now caused headache within the intelligence circles fearing that if Obama really got the presidency, will totally change the US foreign policy by having US-Iran trade relationship.
Adjust your tinfoil hats, kiddies, you might want to get a face mask, too. ‘Cuz, either something is about to hit the fan, or we’re all going to end up with egg on our face. Either way, best to cover your…face.
Now that the Ashley Todd story has been disproved, Obama supporters seem to be celebrating anew, curiously rationalizing not only that, since this story about a mythical Obama supporter is false, all stories about Obama must be similarly false, and that if any blame is to be assigned, it’s to John McCain. On some planet, in some universe far, far away, that might make sense, but where I sit, it’s pretty ridiculous, so I’ll leave that alone.
Instead, I’ll ask the question that has intrigued me for a long time, but doesn’t seem to bother people who follow Barack Obama at all. What if all, or any, of the allegations that have been made against the Senator turn out to be true? It’s possible, none of them have actually been factually proven to be wrong, rather, the available facts have been spun to Obama’s advantage. This, in itself, is curious.
It seems that nowadays “rumor” and “conspiracy theory” are negative characterizations about anything potentially affecting Barack Obama. Yet, the truth is, all conspiracy theories are based on rumor until they’re proven. Watergate was a rumor, Monica Lewinski was a rumor, John Edwards’ affair was a rumor. Once the facts were revealed, a conspiracy to cover-up the truth became obvious. That’s where the word “cover-up” came from.
But, all rumors about Barack Obama are “evil lies” designed to derail the noble aspirations of a near-saintly, yet, simultaneously, traditionally oppressed, black man. What the fuck? We know for a fact that he is a liar. Every step of the Rev. Wright way, Obama lied. He never told any more truth than he needed to to get away with his lie, in fact, he even gave a forty-five minute national speech designed to make every American citizen complicit in his lies; but those devoted to him still see no problem. And that wasn’t the end of his lying. It wasn’t until Rev. Wright told one unforgivably inconvenient truth about him that Obama stopped lying and admitted that Rev. Wright didn’t mean that much to him, after all. Because you see, the biggest lie, and the one Rev. Wright objected to, was that Jeremiah Wright was ever really important to Obama.
“He’s a politician.”
That was Jeremiah Wright’s sin; telling the world that Obama was not “more than a politician” to him. Did Wright ever refer to Obama as a “devout Christian” or a “cherished member” of his “flock”? Why did he make such a big deal about classifying him by his job description and not by his status in Wright’s church? On March 27, 2008, Huffington Post did post a March 11, 2007, letter from Wright to the New York Times claiming that he had indeed said those things about Obama in an interview, but the NYT writer chose not to use those quotes. You would think that by that time, Wright’s support of Obama would be so well established, HuffPo wouldn’t need to post a year-old letter to illustrate it.
“Ya better watch him.”
Every black person who has spent any time in a black church has heard a black preacher utter those words as a warning against everything from Mr. High Cholesterol Foods, to Mr. Street-Slick Hustler, to the Devil himself. “He’s gon’ getcha, if ya don’t wach out. Watch ‘im.” That’s what Rev. Wright’s comments to the National Press Club sounded like to me:
Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. They have a different person to whom they’re accountable.
As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th and January 21st. That’s what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do.
“Watch ‘im.”
But this isn’t about Jeremiah Wright, or about the persistent “Muslim” rumors, this is about Barack Obama being a liar. Who cares if he is a Muslim, but why would he lie about it? There’s no record of his being baptized, since leaving his church in return for Hillary Clinton’s Michigan votes he hasn’t joined another, there’s enough evidence of his being enrolled in Indonesian schools as “Muslim,” he’s the one who said the Muslim call to prayer was “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth,” and his Freudian, “my Muslim faith” slip is enough to give one pause. Given that he is a liar, why is the media so reluctant to investigate any of this fully? On Oct. 20, Newsmax reported that their investigation indicates the “smears” Camp O is so dedicated to fighting, are largely based on fact. Of course, the Obots will dismiss such an article out of hand since it’s Newsmax, and unflattering. However, if you’re convinced there’s nothing to the “smears” why object to having them fully, instead of superficially, investigated, and thus, exposed as the lies you believe them to be?
What accounts for the media’s reluctance to investigate Obama fairly? Journalist Michael S. Malone admits to being “ashamed” to even call himself a journalist anymore due to the one-sided, biased coverage of this year’s election:
The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate.
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer”, because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.
Many people will attribute everything to race. Some will chalk it up to the partisanship of the “liberal media.” I think the Obama campaign’s successful “Messiah-zation” of the candidate is the more likely reason.
A Light Will Shine Down
A website called Obamamessiah chronicles the many times early in the primaries that Obama used a variation of the “light will shine down” “joke” in his stump speech. Every time he made the statement, it was reported, sometimes mockingly, sometimes admiringly, but always reinforcing the “Messiah” narrative. On January 9, 2008, The Washington Post ran this quote:
“I am going to try to be so persuasive, so that those of you who are still wavering…will suddenly come to the conclusion — a light beam will shine through — will light you up — and you will experience an epiphany — I have to vote for Barack!”
“A light will shine”…”epiphany?” Can anyone argue that this was not deliberately messianic? “If you believe,” “this is the moment,” “yes we can,” “hope,” deliberately oft-repeated in sermons disguised as speeches, these phrases plant specific seeds in the minds of those receptive to serving as vessels. They’re even more scary if the candidate really believes them, himself. At a fundraiser in May, 2007, MensVogue reported this quote:
When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: “This guy was God before I was.” (Okay, more than a little ahead.)
Once the “messiah” seed takes root, criticism becomes unacceptable. “Don’t Swiftboat me,” becomes “Don’t Swiftboat Jesus.” While some dismiss such observations as over-reactions to what they consider to be obvious jokes, the reality is a little more complex.
“Many a true word spoken in a joke.”
My mother liked to speak in homespun, old school idioms like that. Though she was very young when I was born, she embraced the traditions passed down from generation-to-generation of African American women known as “mother wit,” kind of a cross between common sense and women’s intuition. Another favorite saying of hers was, “Child, don’t be no fool.” When acolytes are commonly described as “KoolAid drinkers,” the messianic, cult-like status of the one being served is no longer in question. Believers were so convinced of Jim Jones’ godliness, they followed him to a foreign country to their deaths. No amount of pleading admonitions by fearful loved ones deterred these true believers, true faith trumps common sense.
In the case of Barack Obama, his god-like, rock star (same thing) status has insulated him from scrutiny. That is the purpose. Dubious associations, legitimate criticisms, in-your-face flaws and weaknesses are not only forgiven, but defended, due to the flat out refusal of the faithful worshippers to entertain such heresy against their god. “There are none so blind as those who will not see,” is a particularly apt description of Obama followers; it’s not really Biblical, either.
Therefore, when it comes to Tony Rezko and Obama’s proven lies about their “boneheaded” realtionship, and William Ayers, and Obama’s obvious lies about their relationship, Obots don’t see. Videos like this one, might as well not exist:
When it comes to the fact that Obama refuses to show his true birth certificate, even to a judge, preferring to offer the less official Certification of Live Birth, which contains much less information and may be forged, devout Obamabots question the legitimacy of those making the request. Why? Why not show the original document, easily obtainable from the State of Hawaii Bureau of Vital Statistics, and be done with it? If he is indeed the son of Frank Marshall Davis, why not say so. What difference does it make if Andy Martin is a kook? And how does attacking a website like African Press International’s claims of a phone call from Michelle Obama alluding to her husband’s adoptive status mitigate against the truth? Even if it’s a hoax, that doesn’t answer the basic citizenship questions at the heart of all the allegations.
The bottom line is, if Barack Obama is elected November 4, he will not get a record contract, he will become President of the United States. Any of the allegations against, and questions surrounding, Senator Obama would be enough to get him kicked off American Idol; should our standards for the highest office in the land be less? This is not a reality show, this is reality. If any or all of the “smears” turn out to be facts, how will those who blindly vote for him justify their devotion? Maybe before we cast our votes in “solidarity” to “the brother,” or in “hope” for a “better future,” maybe we should honestly assess who Barack Obama is today, and was yesterday. Because if any of the “smears” are true, what happens after he is elected will be on your heads.
Alright! Earlier today I was lamenting the lack of drama coming from African Press International re: the bitchy tapes they supposedly have of Michelle Obama ranting and raving about evil white people and her husband’s “adoption.” Well, the drama has arrived, straight from the clouds. Or, at least, one cloud. Really, from somebody calling themselves “Cloud,” but, I digress. Whatever. Here’s the skinny, straight from the source:
The tape is less than an hour. That’s new news for you all. I can validate that the tapes arrived 2 hours ago plus which would be about 4-6pm EST. I was not able to get how or where when asked. His lawyer has restrictions on what he can and can’t say and how I can talk about this to others.
He is a gentleman and a caring and considerate man based on our discussions concerning his site. His language is definitely not American. His terminology was such that I had to verify what he was saying and express them in my terms so he could agree.
We could not discuss anything about the tape content. I understand and did NOT force the issue.
He is concerned about the abuse between the visitors on this site and wishes that folks would treat each other better.
He is confident about this issue and therefore isn’t necessarily concerned about the doubters. Also, he absolutely doesn’t want censorship on this site.
There is a contract/deal in place with a media source. I was not given the details of that. I don’t think that he will mind me telling you that the eagle has landed.
From what I can understand and perceive from the CIA contact story, he is comfortable with CIA folks.� That’s all I can remark about that.
I will be at a meeting for a couple of hours and will not be able to respond if you ask a question until I return.
Okay, who else has mental images of somebody in tinted Groucho glasses and a Bogie-style Fedora, with the collar turned up on his trenchcoat, whispering, “the eagle has landed” to a shadow figure who answers back, “but the tree has no ACORNs” before the tapes are surreptitiously exchanged?
First of all, Andrea Mitchell was wrong. Surprise! Joe Biden has not been muzzled and sent to a neutral corner after his, “vote for my guy and you’ll be sorry” comments this weekend. Nope, no how, no way, baby. Joey’s still talking, and nobody’s yet sure about what. Campaigning in Charlotte, N.C., Joe took aim at “John McClain,”
“John McClain. John McClain. Excuse me, John McCain. John McCain — I don’t recognize him anymore,” Biden said to laughter from several hundred supporters in attendance.
Biden also said this:
“What worries me most is the McCain campaign seems to have gotten a little loose,” Biden said. “John’s getting a little loose. He doesn’t have much of a steady hand these days. Now’s the time we most need a steady hand.”
Wonder what’s got Joe talking double? Anyway, with Barack Obama heading out of Indianapolis lickety-split to run and see his gravely ill “Toot,” Biden and Michelle Obama are left to do all the heavy campaign lifting. Look for a couple of “this country sucks, so elect my husband,” and “if I wasn’t scared to death my guy would win, I could remember my lines,” comments from the Dynamic Duo over the next two days.
Moving on, I don’t believe Alan Greenspan is “shocked” about shit. The “Bankers are greedy? Say it ain’t so!” routine sucks, and is about as believable as Joe Biden’s teeth. And whether you’re “shocked” or not, Al, it’s still partially your fault.
African Press International is pissing me off. Not because they haven’t released any tapes of Michelle Obama yelling at them about being black and oppressed, like they promised, I didn’t expect them to really do that. What I’m pissed about is, they’re letting the story get stale. Where’s today’s “twist”? I was all ready for a juicy development and…nothing. And the “Chief Editor Korir’s going to be on MommaE’s radio show” report hardly counts. Bummer. I need drama, dammit!
And lastly, Andy Martin, a bit of a professional yahoo, is claiming that Barack Obama is really the son of Frank Marshall Davis, based upon the fact that he (Martin) is in Hawaii, and…well, it really, really makes sense. Whatever. But, in his bugle-blowing statement Martin says a lot of things that don’t make sense. (Okay, that’s redundant. Andy Martin, don’t make sense. I know. It’s the residual Biden influence from above.) Anyway:
“Ironically, what I have to say today dilutes the ‘Muslim’ theory that has propagated. Davis was not a Muslim.
There’s other stuff about Martin’s “investigation” to nitpick, but enough about him, and that. I want to talk about the current media narrative of Barack Obama’s “inevitability.” They can write and report all the “McCain sucks” stories they want, Obama’s not inevitable in my house. Unlike the unseen “great unwashed” the media selectively depicts, through their creative coverage, of a nation of seemingly hypnotized, if not lobotomized, Obots determinedly clomping to the polls, chanting, “Must vote Obama, must vote Obama,” the members of my household are far more likely to throw something at any television screen showing such reports, and if asked about voting for Obama, are likely to respond by throwing the question back in the infidel’s face. “Me, vote Obama? You must be joking. I know you’re not talking to me!” This is only the beginning, the opening strains of a litany of incredulity and rejection of an objectionable, unacceptable premise, unworthy of consideration. “What time was it when you lost your mind? And who let you in?” Those are typical of the sort of questions one who bespake the unthinkable might be asked in return.
And we’re black. Democrats, until this year. So, I don’t know what kind of polls they’re taking, but they sure haven’t asked me.
Will the now famous Michelle Obama “I’ve got a bug up my butt about the way my husband’s been portrayed in the media” phone call to African Press International soon be available via Fox News? That’s what API says:
API has an ongoing discussion with FOX NEWS on the best way forward in the process of releasing Michelle Obama tapes to the American people.
API hopes the negotiation will be completed as soon as possible so that the tapes can be made available to FOX NEWS in the next few days and specifically before the voting day – the 4th of November.
API will make use of Legal Representation in the US when finalising the hand-over of the tapes and on any�legal matters that may arise after the contents of the tapes become public.
Man, oh, man, “As The World Turns” has got nothing on this story. After promising to release audio tapes of Michelle Obama going off on white people at 16:00 hours Norway time, now African Press International (API) is giving her an unspecified amount of time to come clean, or they’re going to spill the beans all over her. Baby, bay-bay! In their “Open Letter to Michelle Obama,” someone who I assume is Cheif Editor Korir, says they’ve talked to a CIA official in Norway:
The intention of writing to you this open letter is to appeal to you to confirm that we had a talk because it is the only right thing to do now, so that we avoid any embarrassment should the whole tape be aired unedited. You are well aware of our discussions touching on thorny issues like Iran’s good trade relationship with Kenya and the fact�Kenya may play a role in mending the relationship between Iran and the US so that healthy trade relationship may be achieved if your husband gets the presidency. Remember the length and the depth of our talk on�other issues of importance in this hotly contested election where as you have stated – is an opportunity for the black people to start being proud of America and to be patriotic.
API was disappointed that one of your husband’s spokespersons rushed to the press to deny that you had called API. It is best that they check with you first before jumping to conclusions as if they control your private calls everyday.
Heh, heh, heh.
We have decided to write to you after our discussion today with a US CIA official�in Oslo.
African Press International, the news site that swears they have audio tapes of Michelle Obama ranting and raving about her husband being adopted and evil white people, now swears (again) that they’re going to release those tapes to the public, just as soon as they find the right venue. To prove it, they’ve even retained counsel, attorney Phillip Berg, the guy with a bug up his butt about Obama’s birth certificate. They claim to have been forced to do so by unscrupulous people acting on their behalf, against their wishes, as evidenced by this email:
Hi Will: I have been in contact with the African Press International, who ran the Michelle Obama story. I have talked to them about releasing the audio tape they have of her. It would appear that this is going to happen. The format will be, I will bring the reporter on and let them tell us how they obtained the tape, and then I will run the audio tape, and bring the reporter back on to verify that it is the real thing. Once I have this done, I will place it on my web site, file for and get a copyright on it. Once I have this done, I will contact you with the link. What I would like for you, since you live in Washington DC,�to do is contact CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC and MSNBC. Let them listen to the audio tape. I will then take bid on this tape. The starting bid will be 2 million dollars. Once you have received the high bid, we will break the money down this way, 45% to Bar H Farms Inc, parent copy of Plains Radio network, 45% to African Press International and 10% for yourself. If you can do this, please call me at 806-447-0010. Thanks Ed
The editors categorically deny that they are selling the tapes, and continue to stand by their story.
API wants the readers to know that we are for the truth and such�email being circulated in the US makes us look bad. This serves to further delay the release of the tapes because we�do not know who we can trust to air the tapes unedited and without cashing in on them.
The same group of people we thought we could trust have gone ahead and signed�unilateral agreements binding them and API, agreements stating that API surrenders all the rights to the tapes to them and that the tapes will belong to them and they are the one to decide who should listen to the tapes on cost. This is against API’s principles.
Now that we have an agreement for representation with a US law firm, we think things will move faster in the direction of releasing the tapes. The Law firm will help us get out of the unilateral agreements not signed by us.
We ask the readers to bear with us. We owe you the truth and the tapes being released.
Well, for whatever it’s worth, you gotta admire one thing, they’re still not backing down:
The tapes are there and the truth must be told. If some people want to continue imagining that this may be an hoax or something connected with Nigerian scam, then let them continue believing so because we cannot force any one to believe in us.
Once again, African Press International promises to release tapes it claims to have of Michelle Obama screaming at them about the lack of significance attached to her husband’s adoptive status on his citizenship qualifications. Once again, they do not actually do so. Now, they want us, the American public, to advise them as to which news outlet would best showcase their wares. Heh, heh, heh.
The legal hurdles that API feared in connection with the release of the tape has now been settled. The American people has soon to be treated to the truth about the true personality of their (probably) incoming first Lady.
API is soon to conclude an agreement on which of the media channels in the US is to air the Michelle Obama tapes. This has come about because many news channels have shown great interest in getting the tapes so that they air to the American people before the elections.
Many Americans are waiting and we promise to satisfy their desire very soon. The delay in releasing the tapes is due to two things:
1. The legal issues that may arise after we release the tapes.
This one has now been cleared and API feels safe and is no longer in fear when it comes to a legal battle that may come when the information gets out.
2. Choosing one media channel to air the tapes in the USA.
When we wrote the story, many people contacted us asking for the verification. At the same time, many media outlets have contacted API and would like to be the sole network to air the tapes. What we are finalising now is to come to an agreement with one channel that will have to air the tapes unedited.
After noticing the desire that has been exhibited – to have the tapes out, may be you Americans would like API to air the tape through a particular news channel. Your advice will be appreciated.
Chief Editor Korir, just go with the one with the biggest checkbook. Heh, heh, heh.
African Press International, or API, the news site that claims to have tapes of Michelle Obama admitting her husband was adopted, is promising an “update” on the story on October 19th. Due to time differences and nuances in language, it is unclear exactly when this will occur or whether the tapes will be released at that time. At any rate, here’s their story:
We would like to inform all our readers that update on Michelle Obama story will be released tomorrow.
We have understood the importance that the American people put into electing the right candidate for the Presidency.
It is important that the tapes be released and all can judge for themselves what Mrs Obama meant and why it has come at the near-end of electioneering. The fact that the mainstream American media has been reluctant to reveal what they know about Obama is very unfortunate.
The American mainstream media seems to be interested in excitement and we all know that the only excitement at present is for some to say they witnessed history of some kind – the election of a black man to govern the only powerful nation in the world.
All the readers should exercise patience. We in API promise that you will get to know the truth when the recordings are finally released.
Well, while not exactly forthcoming, they’re not exactly backing off, either. Oh, well, we shall see what we shall see, shan’t we?
The editors at a website called African Press International have claimed to be the recipients of a phone call from Michelle Obama stating that her husband’s adoptive status does not make him ineligible for the presidency, that many Americans find difficult to believe. Not only do people express skepticism that Mrs. Obama would make the statements reported by API, they find it impossible to believe that she would share such sentiments with the staff of a small blogsite they’ve never heard of. Being typically arrogant Americans, such attitudes are not surprising at all.
What is surprising is the defiant way API is standing by it’s story. Claiming to have audio recordings of the original call, API is being bombarded from all sides to release them immediately. Instead, today, Chief Editor Korir released this statement:
API is disturbed by the way many have reacted to the story on Mrs Obama’s call. Many have shown us by the way they have behaved towards API that they only think of their own interests because they have demanded that the audio recordings should be released immediately. We understand that the tapes should be released, but those who have demanded the release of the tapes seem not take into account that API may become a suing target.
Predictably, folks both pro- and anti-Obama are making all kinds of threats and offers of support and/or encouragement/derision. While pushing back against those attacking them for their own selfish reasons, API continues to hold it’s ground, basically saying they will release the tapes when they’ve sufficiently covered their behinds. They also claim not to care one way or the other how things play out:
When the legal concerns are cleared, which is happening in a short while, API will make public all the recordings available. This will also include comments, not yet published, which will most certainly put the Obama Campaign spokesperson who had dismissed the story off balance.
Even if our recordings or any other recordings had surfaced after the elections�and� if the contents were damaging to the elected person that still could have�caused any�elected president�to vacate the White House. We all know that the tapes released in the US in 1974 forced President Richard Nixon out of office. The truth is the truth. The tapes during Nixon time did not lie.
The same here. The recordings that API will release soon will not lie to the American people. Most probably, it will change the political landscape, something the Americans should start getting prepared to face.
API has also posted contact info for anyone wishing to verify their story.
Verification of the story:
We have found it necessary to publish a telephone number that can be used to reach us should anyone doubt the story. We are doing this because of many requests by many people who want to know more abouth the story.
We are able to receive calls tomorrow the 16th of October through to the 18th October. We find it important that our readers get the truth and not be misled in any way. This is a true story and we stand by everyone written.
NB: For verification, we can be reached on 004793299739
My take? Who knows whether there’s any truth to the story until the tapes come out? However, for those who say, why would Michelle Obama call an obscure website and say anything, I say, why wouldn’t she? Besides, the real question is, is Barack Obama adopted or not? And, does it matter?
African Press International stands by it’s original story of receiving an angry phone call from Michelle Obama berating them for their negative coverage of her husband, and revealing his adopted status in the process.
1. API had a telephone call from Mrs Obama after consultations with Nairobi. We will avail all the details and what transpired so that all interested parties may understand that the story is not fake.
2. API has no interest in the outcome of the US elections and we do not partner with any group in the promotion of any candidate for the presidency.
3. Our recordings will be released when we are satisfied it is not intended to be misused in any way or for any gains by an group.
The Obama Campaign, via ABC News’ Jake Tapper, contends that the story is a bald-faced lie:
Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs says the interview is a complete and utter fabrication. “It’s bogus, she didn’t call, it’s all a lie,” he says.
Tapper (surprise, surprise) buys the Obama Team’s position. Others are content to wait and see. I, for one, don’t really care. I just think it’s funny.
According to African Press International, headquartered in Norway, the wife of the Democratic nominee for president had a few choice words for them regarding their coverage of her husband. Railing about “racists” and “internet bloggers” and saying Obama was born in Hawaii and adopted by his stepfather, Michelle Obama insisted that fact did not make him “unpatriotic.”
“African press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view,” and she went to state that, “it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by His step father. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that My husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner; says Michelle Obama on telefon to API.”
So, is the only “news” associated with this story Mrs. Obama’s personal phone call, or is the adoption admission a bombshell, of sorts? After all, Barack’s “Fight the Smears” site has already admitted his Kenyan dual citizenship. What’s up with all that? How does Phillip Berg’s lawsuit demanding proof of citizenship fit into all this? And why did M.O. call API? No offense, but how many Americans use API as their primary news source? Anyway, they don’t seem to be afraid to ask questions, that’s for sure. Inquiring about Dr. Jerome Corsi’s recent detainment in Kenya, Michelle Obama had this to say:
When API asked Mrs Obama to comment on why Dr Corsi was arrested by the Kenyan government and whether she thought Kenya’s Prime Minister Mr Raila Odinga was involved in Dr Corsi’s arrest, she got irritated and and simply told API not to dig that which will support evil people who are out to stop her husband from getting the presidency.
When asked who she was referring to as the evil people, she stated that she was not going to elaborate much on that but that many conservative white people and even some African Americans were against her husband, but that this group of blacks were simply doing so because of envy.
Michelle O also had something to say about the persistent Muslim rumors surrounding her husband:
On Farakhan and his ministry, Mrs Obama told API that it was unfortunate that Mr Farakhan came out the way he did supporting her husband openly before the elections was over. That was not wholehearted support but one that was calculated to convince the American people that my husband will support the growth of muslim faith if he became the president, adding “even if my husband was able to prove that he is not a Muslim, he will not be believed by those who have come out strongly to destroy his chances of being the next President. Do real people expect someone to deny a religion when 80 percent of his relatives are Muslims?; Mrs Obama asked.
I have pretty much left this Odinga/Obama story alone until now, not really knowing what to make of it. Besides, whether or not all, or any, of the dirt currently being thrown at Obama sticks, my reasons for rejecting his candidacy have more to do with what I’ve personally witnessed that he has said and done. But since Michelle has so graciously opened the door…
*NOTE: I knew something about this story was tickling my brain! Remember when Michelle Obama “let it slip” that Barack’s mother was unwed when he was born? Now this. What’s up with the “accidentally on purpose” dribbling out of personal information by the candidate’s wife? Curiouser and curiouser, hmmmm? From MSNBC, July 10, 2008:
His own mother, she said at the beginning of her remarks, was “very young and very single when she had him.”
Even John Grisham would have a hard time selling the events of the 2008 Democratic election as a novel, but if anybody could, it would probably be him. Lord knows, he’d have a lot to work with. Think about it, a political thriller about an African American candidate coming up out of nowhere, with the mega-buck backing of unknown benefactors hidden by the illusion of unprecedented internet support, to secure the nomination even though he was resoundingly rejected by more than half of his party. Wow! Add the element of a shady Chicago cabal of disparate entities hellbent on remaking the American government and moving the seat of power from Washington D.C. to their home city, through the restructuring of the banking industry, bringing down the global economy in the process. Exploiting a rift in the party, a coup of sorts could be executed, resulting in the overthrow of the party’s ruling family with help from the candidate vanquished early in the last election. Throw in a little organized crime, a few ‘60’s radicals, some local machine politics and the greed and corruption of a major political party, and you’ve got a best-seller on your hands. Wrap the whole thing around a civil court case, and let Mr. Grisham loose. The fictional consequences would present no real-life repercussions and it would be a whole lot more entertaining than what we’re experiencing now.
Who might the cast of characters in this fictional drama be?
Barack Obama – Charismatic, up-and-coming, Harvard educated, junior senator from Illinois; this character would overwhelmingly appeal to the under-represented black community, who could then easily be manipulated into supporting “one of their own.” Hiding a radical socialist agenda under a glib persona, he would be slickly packaged and sold as a messianic redeemer of the underclasses. Coupled with the support of the far-left academic intellectual community, the appearance of a “base” could be built, allowing the candidate to be skillfully marketed, through the use of the internet. Preaching a “non-partisan” platform, unlimited corporate funding could then be funneled to the candidate’s campaign under the guise of massive small donor, across-the-board, grassroots support.
Michelle Obama – First Lady wannabe wife of the candidate, more radical than even her husband, this politically ambitious mother of two, often mistaken as the power-behind-the-throne, relishes the opportunity to further her extremist ideas that her husband’s candidacy presents, though less successful at masking them than he. Fashioning herself a modern-day Jacqueline Kennedy, she would become as well known for her more than occasional public lapses into radicalism as for her sense of style.
David Axelrod – Well-known political kingmaker, the reigning “king of Astroturfing” as he is known, this PR man extraordinaire would spectacularly succeed in his effort to “make a president” out of whole cloth. Known for shaping public opinion by creating the illusion of grassroot support (astroturfing) for his public- and private-sector clients through his two separate firms, Axelrod would plot the course of the candidate’s campaign, writing his TelePrompTer-read speeches, designing campaign strategy exploiting loopholes in existing party rules, and creating a Beatlemania-like atmosphere through the use of artfully stage-managed public appearances. Staying primarily in the background, Axelrod would only appear publicly to explain what Obama really meant (WORM) in order to extinguish one of numerous fires inevitably resulting from trying to pull off the daunting prospect of deluding the country and the world.
William Ayers – unrepentant ’60’s radical bomber turned respected university professor, the combination terrorist/academic/fat cat provides a bridge to the candidates multiple bases of support. Hiding his unreleased radicalism in plain sight, this son of privilege and original architect of the grand scheme to overthrow the government provides entree into the right circles for his hand-picked Manchurian candidate. He also ghost-writes the candidate’s bestselling first memoir which later serves as the basis for the candidate’s legitimacy.
Bernadine/Bernadette Dorhn – even more radical wife of subversive Ayers, this frustrated still mad bomber serves as marriage broker for the candidate by introducing him to her law firm protege before re-entering academia.
Jamie Dimon – CEO JP Morgan Chase, member of candidate’s finance committee, said to be on the short list for Treasury Secretary in candidate’s administration, Dimon turns public humiliation for being unceremoniously dumped by his mentor at Citigroup into a triumph of revenge by heading up Chicago’s BankOne through a merger with JPM after a sixteen month layoff to plot and sulk. The resulting pissing contest between the two firms leads to Dimon’s apparent victory in the market restructuring game.
This motley crew of characters, plotting to move the government’s base of operations to Chicago, could consolidate their political and financial power once Wall Street and the global market has been destroyed, and their candidate has been elected. Though I’m not at all knowledgeable about economics, maybe a Dow Jones/Chicago Mercantile Exchange power shift might be an interesting plot twist.
Many have wondered exactly when race was first injected into Barack Obama’s campaign. Was it the “race memo,” that whiny release sent to the Huffington Post complaining that the Clintons and their surrogates were deliberately using racially insensitive language against him? No. Was it when Jesse Jackson, Jr. asked “how does an African American candidate attack a white woman,” on January 4, 2008? Uh-uh. How about when Jesse Jackson, Jr. (same guy) four days later questioned Hillary Clinton’s motivations for crying at an appearance before the New Hampshire primary? As reported at the time:
…there were tears that melted the Granite State. And those are tears that Mrs. Clinton cried on that day, clearly moved voters. She somehow connected with those voters.
But those tears also have to be analyzed. They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs. Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head to South Carolina where 45% of African-Americans who participate in the Democratic contest, and they see real hope in Barack Obama.
While that certainly is an example of intentionally, and inappropriately, bringing race into a situation where it doesn’t belong, it is not the first one either. Nor was Michell Obama’s “black people will wake up and get it” statement during a MSNBC interview in November of 07. Neither was Roland Martin’s CNN on-air entreaty for Obama to blacken up in October of that year.
The date was May 03, 2007, the day it was announced that Barack Obama would be placed under Secret Service protection, though no credible threat had been received. CNN quoted Dick Durbin:
Illinois’ senior senator, Democrat Dick Durbin, told reporters Thursday night that he relayed concerns about the size of the crowds Obama was drawing and other issues to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Reid decided to take the matter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff as an issue for a congressional advisory board, Durbin said.
“I knew the crowds were large … but some of the other information given to us, unfortunately I think, raised a concern among many of [Obama's] friends,” Durbin said.
“Unfortunately, some of the information we found was racially motivated. It is a sad reality in this day and age that Mr. Obama’s African-American heritage is a cause for very violent and hatred, hated reactions among some people.”
Durbin would not elaborate. “I’ve been advised not to talk about any specific security problems or any threats,” he said. He also would not say how he received the information, only that it was from “credible sources.”
This dispicable plan has been woven into the fabric of Obama’s presidential campaign since it’s inception. Unfortunately, it worked against his Democratic rival, which is unsurprising given the degree of Democratic complicity in the plot. Campaign memos and stupid statements by surrogates is one thing, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin enlisting an unwitting government agency is something altogether different. Hopefully, the Republican party will continue to thwart Obama’s similar attempts against them. However, they will have to be ever-vigilant against his “I don’t look like all the other candidates” statements, his surrogates, like Joe Biden’s “he will be transformational for America because he’s black” comments, as well as all the willing co-conspirators in the press.
Imagine that Martin Luther King had stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial forty-five years ago today, demanding justice for African Americans from their non-representative government, without having accomplished a single Civil Rights victory.
Now, imagine Barack Obama today.
“But, but, but, Obama’s blaaaaaack! ( stomping feet ) You gotta vote for the black guy! Ya don’t want the whole world to think were, like, racist, or something, do ya? Huh? Huh?”
This has been the subtext of the Obama campaign since the earliest days. First, he had to convince black America he was really black; white America always thought he was more than black enough, thank you very much.
Perhaps what the nation has liked most is not what Obama has said or done but what he is. In short, Obama is a black man who does not scare white people. This is mostly not Obama’s fault. He is who he is. He has a life to live, a job to do and a book to promote. He cannot be held responsible for a white paranoia that–outside the music, sports and entertainment industries–demands: If you have to be black, then please don’t be too black.
No, it was black people who needed convincing, thus the “I am too, black!” phase of the contest. Obama himself shared the heartwarming fairy tale of his conception, “Selma Got Me Born” with an audience in South Carolina, and by extension, the world. Michelle Obama told black people to stop with the Jemimah mentality and, “wake up and get it,” Later, Oprah, safely black enough for all America, actually made an appearance for somebody other than herself, breaking a long-standing tradition, to stump for him.
Of course, this script was not written by an anxious Obama, motivated to legitimize himself in the eyes of his brethren, the architect of much of this racial bridge was CNN’s Roland Martin, who insinuated himself into the Obama orbit in much the same way Johnny Cochran took over the Dream Team in the O. J. Simpson case; he volunteered his advice based upon his observation of perceived impending disaster if the racial dynamic wasn’t altered.
Obama had no built-in advantages with the black community, he was foreign to it. Even in Chicago, though he had been involved in voter registration campaigns, community organizing and efforts to mobilize and coordinate black chuch out reach efforts, Bobby Rush had no trouble painting him as an out-of-touch, uppity snob, and ultimately crushed him when Obama had the temerity to challenge the incumbent for his seat in the House.
Mr. Rush told The Chicago Reader, “He went to Harvard and became an educated fool. We’re not impressed with these folks with these Eastern elite degrees.”
He complained that for Rush to continually invoke his Harvard background as though it were a slur sent the wrong message to his young constituents. In a striking Martin Luther King Day op-ed in the Chicago Defender, he drew attention to tension among African Americans of Rush’s own generation, arguing that black disunity was part of what made King’s courage important: “A sizable percentage of the black elite in the pre-Civil Rights south,” Obama noted, “had vested interests in maintaining the racial status quo, and vilified protesters within the community.” (This year, Obama’s longstanding willingness to “call out” the black community has impressed many whites, and made some blacks ambivalent.)
Obama’s subsequent Senate races seem not to have relied on overwhelming black support, it is said he re-drew the map of his district to include more whites, negating the necessity of depending primarily upon blacks.
The idea was to create enough Democratic-leaning districts so that the Party could take control of the state legislature. That goal was fine with Obama; his new district offered promising, untapped constituencies for him as he considered his next political move. “The exposure he would get to some of the folks that were on boards of the museums and C.E.O.s of some of the companies that he would represent would certainly help him in the long run,” Corrigan said.
In the end, Obama’s North Side fund-raising base and his South Side political base were united in one district. He now represented Hyde Park operators like Lois Friedberg-Dobry as well as Gold Coast doyennes like Bettylu Saltzman, and his old South Side street operative Al Kindle as well as his future consultant David Axelrod. In an article in the Hyde Park Herald about how “partisan” and “undemocratic” Illinois redistricting had become, Obama was asked for his views. As usual, he was candid. “There is a conflict of interest built into the process,” he said. “Incumbents drawing their own maps will inevitably try to advantage themselves.”
For many black activists in Obama’s adopted home state, who might be expected to form the core of his political base, a central question still looms about the man who has risen speedily over 11 years from state lawmaker to U.S. senator to a sensation in the 2008 presidential campaign: As he works to appeal to voters across the nation, will Obama stand firm for black people and black causes?
We still don’t know the answer to that question. Obama has, throughout his career, been critical of African Americans. The New York Times relates a story from Obama’s early days as a community organizer, when a planned meeting between the tenants of the Altgeld Gardens Housing Project and the housing authority got a little out of hand.
The crowd of about 700 residents grew irritable in the stifling heat and booed the director when he arrived an hour and 15 minutes late, according to people who were there, as well as newspaper accounts.
The meeting became even more raucous after the director indicated that the agency still did not have a plan to remove the asbestos. The director abruptly left 15 minutes into the meeting after a resident wrestled with him for the microphone. Angry tenants followed him out the door, chanting, “No more rent!”
Later, relating the incident to a friend, Obama criticized the residents.
“Barack basically talked about how tough it was to generate real results through organizing and that it was embarrassing to him to have the residents out of control,” he recounted.
Who was in charge of the meeting? Why was he embarrassed? Because he failed, or the residents didn’t behave the way he wanted them to?
Obama’s views on issues important to black Americans are hard to pin down. In the Chicago Reader article from 1995, he said:
Let’s talk about creating a society, not just individual families, based on these values. Right now we have a society that talks about the irresponsibility of teens getting pregnant, not the irresponsibility of a society that fails to educate them to aspire for more.”
In 2008, he wants to legislate the problem:
Obama said he would co-sponsor a bill, with Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, that his campaign said would address the “national epidemic of absentee fathers.” If passed, the legislation would increase enforcement of child support payments and strengthen services for domestic violence prevention.
“They were spirited, good-humored women [the women he worked
with at Developing Communities], those three, women who—without husbands to help—somehow
managed to raise sons and daughters, juggle an assortment of part-time jobs and small business schemes,
and organize Girl Scout troops, fashion shows, and summer camps for the parade of children that wandered
through the church every day.” [Dreams of My Father, p.167]
It seems clear that Obama’s relationship with the black community is complicated at best; often divisive, in his campaign against Alice Palmer, who recommended that Obama run for her vacant Senate seat when she mounted an ultimately unsuccessful run for Congress, Obama refused to step aside when she lost:
Obama not only refused to step aside, he filed challenges that nullified Palmer’s hastily gathered nominating petitions, forcing her to withdraw.
“I liked Alice Palmer a lot. I thought she was a good public servant,” Obama said. “It was very awkward. That part of it I wish had played out entirely differently.”
His choice divided veteran Chicago political activists.
Right or wrong, the question is open as to whether the greater good was served. Rarely is any large accomplishment touted in Obama’s favor as a result of any of his actions. This is not limited to Obama’s relationship with black Americans, his record is equally thin in the national arena. Other than his criticisms of past politicians and activists and his willingness to shift the onus of responsibility from the government and place it on the overburdened shoulders of the victims, what does he offer? Is the tokenism represented by putting a black face on government indifference enough? Can the ideal of grassroots mobilization co-exist with the reality of corporate sponsorship? To whose benefit?
Barack Obama is both black and white, but when one researches his record, a case can be made that he can just as easily be considered neither. His lack of discernible core beliefs reflect questionable integrity and form a sharp contrast with the man whose legacy he now co-opts for his benefit. Martin Luther King was willing to risk his life, his freedom and his reputation, if proven necessary to advance the goals attendant to his firmly held beliefs. What will Obama risk? For what? The illusion of inclusion is relatively easy to attain, real equality is much more difficult to achieve. Yes, forty-five years ago today, Martin Luther King demanded that America make good the bad check it had issued to its’ black citizens. On this anniversary, Barack Obama will accept the nomination for president from the Democratic Party. Yet, he did not win it outright, his claim to the nomination is tainted and tenuous at best. He has been coddled, protected and assisted over the line like William “Refrigerator” Perry tried to carry Walter Payton across the goal line en route the Super Bowl. Only in the case of Obama, it will count as a victory.
The Democrats have nominated The First Official Affirmative Action African American Token Presidential Candidate.
I can’t tell you how relieved I am to read so many articles going to such extraordinary lengths to reassure me, and the rest of the world, that Barack Obama is still black. Who knew? Now, I know that I have, on occasion, told him to cut it out. I mean, how far can you go with the black thing? How much of this “vote for me because I’m black, y’all” or “prove you’re not a racist, vote for my black half,” are we all supposed to endure? Well it seems that a lot of the media don’t agree with me. They seem to think you can never have too much of a good thing.
Barack Obama’s quest for the White House, which began some 18 months ago on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., reaches a historic milestone this week, when he becomes the first African American to accept a major party’s nomination for president.
Eight years into a new millennium and nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the nation is poised to make a historic leap with its first African American at the top of a major political party’s ticket.
It is historic, isn’t it? Doesn’t matter how he got there, right? Even if there are allegations of caucus fraud, lackluster performance during the bulk of the primaries, thug-like tactics by surrogates, or any of that stuff, at least he’s black. The mayor of Trenton, N.J. , Doug Palmer, ( a black man ) is all choked up about it, too. He never thought he’d see a black man nominated for president.
Every American with some basic understanding of our nation’s development must contemplate this week how the 2008 Democratic Party nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as our candidate for president is truly historic.
Obama must really be black, and that must really be historic, huh? Even though, ABC News wants you to know he’s not too black:
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, Obama spent formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia, worked his way through college and began his political career as a community organizer in Chicago.
But Bloomberg News reminds us that a little black is historic, too.
He is the first to have such an exotic biography, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia and has relatives on four continents.
Of course, being black comes with risks, as the Wall Street Journal points out:
Barack Obama’s rise is driving a sometimes uncomfortable debate in the black community: What does it mean to be black in America?
Sen. Obama embodies contradictions in the community that are starting to bubble to the surface — largely out of the earshot of whites. He is the biracial son of an African father and a white mother in a community where most people are descended from slavery or whose ancestors had direct experience with segregation. He is the married father of two in a community in which more than 60% of children grow up in a single-parent household. He’s a politician who isn’t steeped in the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s and didn’t grow up in the inner city or in a black neighborhood.
Barack Obama is in a situation similar to Jackie Robinson, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said Monday at a Politico panel on race and the presidential election in Denver. Just as Robinson had to perform well on the field while ignoring racial taunts and refusing to hit back, Obama must do the same, he said.
“No one wants an angry African-American man in the White House,” he said.
Even the British press gets it. The Telegraph thinks Camp O is just making excuses, though:
The Left is preparing its excuse in advance for Barack Obama losing the presidential election. All together now, let’s hear it: It’s All About Race. However few Americans there may be who are actually prepared to utter the words, “I wouldn’t vote for a black man”, the truth, it is said, is that racial bigotry is at the heart of Obama’s failure to take a convincing lead.
This week’s events in Denver are fast turning into a critical moment in Obama’s bid to be America’s first black President. What was once seen as an anointing of his candidacy is becoming a chance to right a campaign facing a series of unexpected crises.
Some black people in this country are conflicted about Obama being black, believe it or not. From the New York Times:
Mr. Harrison, a demographer who is black, says he expects to feel chills when Mr. Obama becomes the first black presidential candidate to lead a major party ticket. But as the Democratic convention gets under way, Mr. Harrison’s anticipation is tempered by uneasiness as he wonders: Will Mr. Obama’s success further the notion that the long struggle for racial equality has finally been won?
Never fear, Barack is here! He knows what the deal is and has plans to handle this biz. From Yahoo News:
Obama, 47, who will become the first black presidential nominee, said Sunday he will try to convince voters he is just a normal middle class American despite his exotic upbringing and Republican claims he is an elitist.
Then Barry’s gonna get his wife to help everybody chill on the black thing. Again, from Yahoo:
“You will have a sense of who she is and what our values are and how we are raising our kids, and I think what you will conclude is `gee, he’s sort of like us,”’ Obama told voters yesterday in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Barack Obama’s campaign plans to relaunch his “urban agenda” Monday in what people close to the strategy say is an effort to assure urban leaders and voters of the Democratic nominee’s commitment to cities and minorities without alienating skeptical white voters.
Boy, this being black thing can be hard work, can’t it? But CNN assures us that the black guy remembers that we’re all in this together:
The delegates will make history this week by officially nominating Sen. Barack Obama, the first African-American presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.
Monday’s kickoff — which features the theme of “One Nation” — has a lineup of heavy hitters guaranteed to sing the praises of Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, while also tearing into McCain.
Before we get too giddy, however, the New York Times reminds us that it always comes down to race:
LIKE so much in his presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s search for a running mate was shadowed by the specter of race.
I feel for Barry O. It’s hard to be black all the time. Compared to that, being president is a piece of cake. And as B. I. Conway says in a TriCities.com article, since both Jesus and Obama are dark liberals, why should we let our prejudices prevail?
So, Virginia, please see that you need not fear Mr. Barack Obama because of his color or his liberalism and progressive thinking. He is less liberal than Jesus. Mr. Obama has already told us that he does not want our guns and will enforce the death penalty.
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I think it not a coincidence that Mr. Barack Obama, a Christian and a man of mixed black and white blood, has risen up to us as he has with such a strong belief that we can come together.
Say what you will about Mr. Conway’s theory of Jesus’ dark skin and liberalism, he’s right about one thing. We do have to come together. I’m just not sure we have to do it as one nation under a Barack Obama groove.
…and for some reason, they want to give it to Barack Obama. At a fundraiser in San Francisco tonight he raised 7.8 million dollars selling the same spoiled soup warmed over.
“John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me. They know they can’t win on the issues. So what they’ll do is they’ll try to scare people. He’s risky. He’s risky. We’re not sure.”
Haven’t we heard this before? I guess it makes a difference who you try to sell your fictitious projections to, because in Chicago on June 13, 2008, it only netted him 1.7 million.
“They’re going to try to make me into a scary guy. They’re even trying to make Michelle into a scary person.”
Maybe it was the reference to Michelle that did him in, or maybe, since it was Chicago, they just knew better.
Orrrrrrrrr, it could have been his new, formerly neutral, rah-rah gal Nancy Pelosi who did the trick. They were on her stomping grounds, ya know.
The hometown gal was neutral during the primary, but wasn’t shy about her Obama affection tonight, calling him “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.”
Black America will wake up and get it, but what we’re dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility, ok and when I look at my life, you know the stuff that we see in these polls has played out my whole life and I’ve always been told by someone that I’m not ready that I can’t do something, my scores weren’t high enough, you know there’s always that doubt in the back of the minds of people of color, people who have been oppressed, who have never been given the real opportunities that you never really believe, that you believe somehow that somehow someone is better than you, you know deep down inside you doubt that you can really do this cause that’s all you’ve been told is no, wait, that’s all you hear and you hear it from people who love you not because they don’t care about you but because they’re afraid. They’re afraid something might happen to you.
What did she mean, her “scores weren’t high enough?” Was she under-qualified to be admitted to Princeton? Did she get in through Affirmative Action? (After reading the sentence structure of the above quote, I’d guess, yes, if indeed she went at all.) In the same article, she mentions that her father put her through college, but at the end of her schooling she and her husband had a combined loan debt greater than their mortgage. Now, I could not care less about the Obama’s finances, but it seems clear that they did not rely on scholarships. So the question is, how did a working class black couple qualify for admittance to the toniest schools in the country when at least one of them admits she didn’t have the scores?
Barack Obama’s grades and scores are a bit of a mystery. Though I have looked online for definitive answers, none were found. How did he get into college?
“Basically, on every racial issue Barack Obama is walking the tightrope,” Davis says. “The more he supports traditional black issues like affirmative action, the more that will eat into his white base of support.”
That may or may not be true, but how can a man, who has exploited a program for his own benefit, argue against it for political purposes? Doesn’t this turn a simple balancing act into a combat-boot clad, attempted floor exercise on a tightrope, over a minefield?
Much has been made of race in this election, the race card, who played it and what it means are discussed ad nauseum in the press, throughout the blogosphere, in barbershops, beauty shops, restaurants and everywhere else people gather and talk about current events. But, does anybody have an answer? Probably, but first, you have to ask the right question.
Black voter apathy has been a reality since we won the right to vote. While Civil Rights leaders and black politicians fully understood the power of the ballot, they also realized that people need somebody to vote for. This is not as simplistic as it seems. For most of the past forty-four years black voters were pretty much limited to voting for white politicians, with few exceptions. Barack Obama is the only black sitting United States Senator, and only the third since Reconstruction, out of a total of five. He is the second, in my opinion, Jesse Jackson being the first in 1988, viable black candidate for President in this nation’s entire history. Unquestionably, this is huge. But is it enough? For many blacks, the answer is, no.
The Democrats and Obama have pinned their hopes on grassroots efforts to energize the black base, but haven’t always found the going easy as Amanda Bass, an Obama volunteer found out:
“It’s a monumental challenge,” she said. “You see how mentally shackled and jaded people are, because they’ve seen politicians let them down in the past.”
For many of these disengaged people, racial solidarity with Obama does not automatically trump apathy or despair. Even if volunteers manage to get them registered, it will require intensive follow-up to make sure they know where to vote, have the necessary identification and then turn out.
Obama has never been assured of support from the black community, most black people didn’t know him any better than any other color people did before he burst onto the national scene, and certainly felt no particular allegiance to him as ABC News pointed out in February, 2007:
One might assume that the only person of African descent currently in the race for the White House would automatically get the black vote.
Quick! Somebody get Pat and Vanna on the phone, stat! The Obamaniacs desperately need to buy a clue!
Bah!Rock Whoosayin’ YoMama’s pretendidentin’ style is the exact opposite of Follow the Leader. Rather than setting off on a bold course and expecting everybody to either walk by his side or follow along behind him, our Celebritician in Chief is far more apt to send everybody out in different directions and then try to follow all of them simultaneously. Then, he and the AxelRocket Science Crew would stand around with one finger of one hand up their butts, and a finger of the other up their nose, wishing they could scratch their heads ar the same time, while looking around lost and confused about how come they’re lost and confused, seriously clueless about where everybody went, and how they ended up right where they started, in the middle of nowhere, all alone.
eyes and count to a million. Like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, Everybody’s 3rd Cousin Clem never seems to tire of finding himself facing a tree at midnight, halfway through the count, hours after everyone else has not only gone home, but finished dinner and homework, gone to bed, and been deep in REM sleep for at least an hour, convinced that one of these days he’s gonna find everybody before daylight. 
The insidious danger of AstroTurfing as a political/public relations/advertising/marketing/propaganda tool lies in its seductive, yet simplistic beauty. Once successfully planted, it has the power to take root and behave as if organic. Artificially created out of whole cloth, if blanketed and aggressively enough tended and cultivated, it becomes sod-like and grows like wildfire. Were this not true, Barack Obama would not be president today.
Uh-oh. Seems like the Place Putters of the Patriarchy have run into a snag in their well-coordinated Chick March to Cleaverville. Their duly appointed, previously compliant mascot, First Lady of the Ebony Arms, Michelle Obama, has apparently realized she has a pair, and that hers are not only bigger than theirs, they’re up front, where they count.
I am not a bandwagoneer. It takes a lot to get me to go along with anything, or anyone, at any time. Given the way perceptions can be radically shifted by agents employing fairly subtle techniques, I have a hard time accepting things that are reported as “prevailing wisdom,” or “common knowledge,” or anything suggesting that whatever being discussed is something “everybody knows.” Everybody knows shit. Nobody knows squat. However you want to say it, unless you’re under the age of 17 and trying to cajole a parent into granting permission for something you want, but know good and well you shouldn’t have, “everybody knows” has no place in anybody’s vocabulary. Everybody knows that.
And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
There seems to be a movement afoot to send women back to the kitchen, happy, barefoot and maybe, unwillingly pregnant. Now, I could be seeing bogeymen in the bushes, so to speak, but, this “women need permission to make decisions, men don’t” developing theme bears watching. Between the Barackulator’s backtracking on selecting a 
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that so many people entrusted to run our country are as dumb as they are. Sometimes it’s harder to imagine that the people entrusted to bring us information about the dumb shit the dummies in charge do in our collective name are even dumber than the dummies they’re reporting on. But, if reading the news reports of the past week can be trusted at all to contain any smidgen of a hint of a scintilla of anything resembling truth, we are being governed by a plethora of Keystone Kop wannabes, and we know that because Spanky and Our Gang, Jr. told us so.
Okay, President Bam-Bam Bamboozle hasn’t exactly left the building, but he has somehow morphed into this strange, zombie-like reincarnation of an Elvis clone, complete with legions of impersonators who look and sound nothing like him, and only qualify as “impersonators” because they say so. That, and, they wear clothes like the ones he usually dons. That’s it. Obelvis Pressein Fauxbama. Uh-uh-huh.
here first, step right up, come one come all, sold out in ten minutes Inaugurationapalooza, when Omygod was being featured on the cover of a special-edition Spiderman comic book cuz, ya know, he always liked Spidey as a kid in Blue Hawaii, and well, people who read the chronicles of Peter Parker love them some Obestillmyheart, right back at him, cuz he’s…brown? I dunno, but it moves product, and, that’s the American Way.
phone booth to have his picture taken changing into his “my hero,” Ms. Magazine-as-Polly Purebred, face of feminism persona. Somehow, the twisted irony of a man whose actions make him more resemble the Denzel Washington, 
ain’t got nuttin’ on me!” character than a tan Gloria Steinhem with a 
President (Can’t I Just BE My) Waffles Obama is going to subject us to yet another boring Reading of the TelePrompTers From On High on his unremarkable 100th day of equivocating, even though his spawn of Tom Arnold Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs claims the day has no special significance. Yep, typical ObaLogic. None.
Soooo, the bestest, most groovalicious, hippest hipster of a Pretendident to ev-ah don a pair of RayBans and hightail it to Hawaii on vacation, says he sees “
Enough, is e-flippin’-nuff, where’s the gosh darned dog President Perfect promised his daughters, huh? He’s been putting it off long enough. What could be more important than keeping a promise to your kids? Especially when you’re the Freakin’ Waters-Parting, Lightbringing, Mystical Magical Obamessiah, Politidol, Celebritician, Hero of the Entire Fluckin’ World and All-Around Good Guy? Haven’t those poor children suffered enough?
No, it’s not “The Barackian.” It’s worse. Much, much worse. See, a Chicago-based comic book company, 
This is the original, pre-Fabreau-ized, pre-Axelrod-approved draft of President Black Obama’s “give up da nukes” 
Ever since that time between the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries over a year ago, when Barack Obama wrested the support of the black community from Hillary Clinton, without making promises or concessions, I’ve been trying to imagine what could account for the continued support of a man more likely to scold, belittle or stereotype a group of people (when he can be so bothered as to even acknowledge them) than to embrace or champion them. What is it that inspires such irrational devotion from people who’ve been repeatedly characterized as lazy, shiftless ne’er-do-wells, unworthy of special attention by the object of their affection, lest any perceived association with them taint his relationship with others whose support he deems more valuable and desirable? A man whose every contact with black people includes spouting right wing talking points while he admonishes his mythical Cousin Pookie and Brother Ray-Ray to get their lazy Popeye’s Chicken-eating, Sports Center-watching asses up off the couch and get a job so their trifling, baby-popping, Welfare Queen Women can stop gaming the system long enough to make their stupid children a proper breakfast and help them with their homework, is no “brother” of mine, and in no way inspires me to vote for him. As hard-fought battles and hard won victories 
By now, we all know that Just Barely President, Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail, Ceasar!) and his wife and left tackle for the Chicago Bears, Michelle, (okay, that was mean, but she’s not exactly graceful, ya know?) 
While conspiracy theorists and other befuddled Americans are searching for hidden agendas to justify, or at least, explain, the media-driven election of an inexperienced junior Senator who can’t form complete sentences without the use of a TelePrompTer, they’re missing the 
What if the Obama family dog isn’t a moose? That’s what Michelle Obama wants to know. What I’d like to know is, wtf does that mean? Doesn’t the First Lady have multiple degrees? Even if she did have to prove she was 
Looks like Obama the Candidate was really serious about “
With the country in a headlong freefall to economic hell in a borrowed handbasket, the continued Obama obsession of some in the media is just a little too scary to be as funny as it should be. There are actually people printing their intimate fantasies of Dumbo Ears and his 
Michelle Obama will soon join her husband, President Black Obama, in Washington D.C.’s Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum, says the 
As black Americans 
You can’t surf the news sites without reading a superfluity of stupidity as it regards our first black president-elect. Like this nugget from 
When you’ve got an ace in the hole, or a wild card, or an abundance of trumps, you can play with confidence. If you’ve tucked the only Joker in the deck up your sleeve, only allowing it to magically appear when needed, you can wipe out your opposition without breaking a sweat. But when another player, seemingly low on chips and on his way out the game, suddenly not only goes all in, but produces an even bigger Joker than yours, showing yours to have been a rather poor imitation of the real thing all along, your ass is punked.
It’s obvious that the curiously-funded, political science lab-created 
After refraining from commentary about the mischief-making Kenyan-in-Norway, “Chief Editor” Sammy Korir’s African Press International and it’s wickedly outlandish claims of possessing audio tapes of a scandalous Michelle Obama telephone call for a few days, I decided to check in and see what was going on. Well, honey, let me tell you, a whole helluva lot seems to be happening with ol’ Sammy and Co. Looks like November 7, was a particularly busy day, what with API’s call for a 
I can’t tell you how relieved I am to read so many articles going to such extraordinary lengths to reassure me, and the rest of the world, that Barack Obama is still black. Who knew? Now, I know that I have, on occasion, told him to cut it out. I mean, how far can you go with the black thing? How much of this “vote for me because I’m black, y’all” or “prove you’re not a racist, vote for my black half,” are we all supposed to endure? Well it seems that a lot of the media don’t agree with me. They seem to think you can never have too much of a good thing.
