Election 2008: Let's Remove Another HUSSEIN From Power Anyone see the piece on Fox News yesterday where Carl Cameron called him Barack Hussein Obama? This has legs people. Legs.
BTW, as I was cruising news stations early this a.m., Fox News and MSNBC (I think) interviewees were talking about a Hilary-Barack ticket as being unbeatable. At this point, I truly don't know, but that ticket looks like it could be highly polarizing -- for good or ill. I don't yet see a counter GOP ticket without Rice on top.
Yup. Long, racist legs that will walk immigrant swing staters and culturally tolerant red-staters to the polls, where they will vote for Obama simply out of disgust and shame for their own party. From Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley opposing Civil Rights legislation, to conservatives opposing the Vietnam War Memorial design because it was made by an Asian woman, to Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan opposing Martin Luther King Day, to Trent Lott sucking Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat co*k, the most outspoken and prominent of conservatives will always be petty, ignorant and self-destructive when it comes to culture and race (just like us liberals when it comes to taxes). For the sake of Obama and the Democratic Party, please, please, please keep it up.
I think the Illinois Republican Party might advise against that, unless Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Mike Steele are available. Oops, Kay Bailey's pro-choice. How 'bout Lynne Cheney, Phylis Schlafly, Bay Buchanan, Mary Bono or Carly Fiorina? I'm sure there are some female televangelists who could make an interesting go of it, too, although the evangelist preachers, quite frankly, tend to be a little light on the book learnin'. Hell, while I'm off on a tangent, maybe Joel Osteen could run for president.
From what I hear, she is actively campaigning for vp. Pitiful if you ask me. But I think she has a decent shot.
love the guy. only thing better would be a gore/obama admin for the next 8 and an obama/woman? admin for 8 more.
Sixteen consecutive years of Oval Office? It would never happen. The Democratic Party would be so power drunk the whole country would be reeling. Of course, the same can be said for 16 years of the GOP.
If either party is going to be "power drunk," which certainly describes the GOP the last several years, forgive me if I'd rather it be the Democrats tipping up the bottle. D&D. Cataracts are a Bummer!
Concur. That's why 2008 will be time for a change in the White House. The question is whether the Democratic Party will push the envelope too far resulting in a backlash toward the GOP.
Meant to answer this yesterday and just forgot. I wasn't aware that Felix was a "cooked up" name; I thought it was his actual middle name. I was also unaware that there were semitic undertones suggested by it. I thought kos types and the rest were just using it to make him sound silly. But regardless of any of that, yes I did decry it, many times and to many people. I can't remember whether I did it here or not, but I did it for sure. I thought it was stupid and counter-productive and, in that case, made my side no better than the jackasses on your side. Suggesting that a name given someone at birth ought to have anything to do with who they are or what sort of elected official they'd be is beyond cynical and beyond stupid. I expect it from bozos like Jorge and Ed Rogers and I'm not the least bit surprised to see you doing it, but I was very disappointed by the kos crowd in that instance.
Not that it's all that important (I called him George Macaca Allen) but his middle name is Felix. And I don't think Felix is a particularly Jewish name. I could be wrong.
I really think this is a dead issue at this point, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician) Link doesn't work, but google it. His middle name is Felix. He was named after his (Jewish) grandfather Felix Allen.
