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Barack Obama Watch: The Small Town “Bitter” Flap
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Keith Olbermann and MSNBC segment on the “Small Town” Obama comment flap, April 11, 2008.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire on Friday for saying that small-town Pennsylvania residents were “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” in comments that his rivals said showed an elitist view of the middle class.
Obama’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain both pounced on the comments that Obama made last weekend at a fund-raiser in San Francisco.
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
“As I travel around Pennsylvania, I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive… Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them, they need a president who stands up for them.â€
The John McCain Response (Steve Schmidt, Spokesman):
“It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking,” Schmidt said. “It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.”
And, Barack Obama pushes back against the Clinton and McCain criticism in Terre Haute Indiana this afternoon (video below)
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Well, there goes Pennsylvania for Obama and a quick apology will be forthcoming in the morning, Flap believes. Another flap on the order of Jeremiah Wright is probably enough to sink Obama’s candidacy.
Anti-tax crusader and conservative activist Grover Norquist thinks Obama’s campaign is already irreparably harmed.
“That sentence will lose him the election,” Norquist told ABC News. “He just announced to rural America: ‘I don’t like you.'”
“Now you can vote against that guy not because you don’t like him,” Norquist added. “You can vote against him because he doesn’t like you.”
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s campaign guru agrees with Flap that this dooms Obama’s chances in Pennsylvania.
Power Line blog thinks Obama’s campaign is done.
Barack Obama’s arrogance has been evident for some time, and it’s no shock, perhaps, to learn that that he shares this bigoted opinion, common among urban liberals, of people who live in “small towns.” But to actually express it, in public, at a campaign event, is stunningly stupid. Nevertheless, Obama did it:….
It sounds like Obama is scaling back on his effort to appeal to religious voters. And what’s this about the yahoos’ “anti-trade sentiment”? Would that be like opposing the Colombia trade agreement? Hypocrisy is not unknown among politicians, but Obama seems determined to set a new standard.
Flap says wait for the apology tomorrow morning and then watch the Pennsylvania polls early next week. American voters have already endured weeks of Jeremiah Wright. This may be the straw that breaks Obama’s campaign’s back.
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Hillary Tells Bill to BACK OFF Sniper-Gate
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 “Hillary called me and said ‘You don’t remember this. You weren’t there, let me handle it.’ I said, ‘Yes ma’am.’â€
This campaign gets better and better with each day.
Obama must be laughing his ass off……..
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Iran Speed Boats Test United States in Persian Gulf
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This January 8, 2008 video shows Iranian speedboats swarming around three American warships going through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.Iran is testing its asymmetric war plans again in the Persian Gulf. This time it was a United States Coast Guard patrol boat.
Three speed boats of unidentified origin approached a US patrol boat as it transited the Gulf but stopped after a warning flare was fired, a US Navy spokesman said.
The USS Typhoon, a Coast Guard patrol boat, was heading from the central to the northern Gulf when it was approached by the high-speed boats, said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet.
“Typhoon issued the standard query to the incoming small boards via bridge-to-bridge,” he said by telephone from Bahrain. “Upon receiving no response, Typhoon activated a flare. Small boats stopped and Typhoon continued on its way.”
Christensen said the small boats were of “unidentified origin.”
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Navy operate speed boats in the northern Gulf, and have played cat-and-mouse games in the past with US warships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
In January, tensions between the two countries escalated after Iranian speed boats swarmed around three US warships transiting the Strait.
The latest incident comes amid stepped US accusations against Iran of stoking violence on another front, Iraq.
Flap bets any open hostilities between Iran and the United States will result from a miscalculation by Iran on United States will and resolve in the Gulf.
So, Iran will test and poke attempting to provoke the Great Satan – like in January of this year.
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Shocker: Secret Launch Site for Iranian Long Range Missiles
New spy photographs reveal the “SHOCKING” truth.
The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket†on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.
Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles).
A previously unknown missile location, the site, about 230km southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran’s long-range programme, was revealed by Jane’s Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector. A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea, pursuing a space programme that enables Tehran to acquire expertise in long-range missile technology.
Have to unload all of those uranium enrichment centrifuges somewhere, right?
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Bill Clinton Defends Hillary’s Lies on Sniper-Gate
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CBS news exposes the real story of Hillary Clinton’s 1996 trip to Bosnia.
Bill Clinton defends wife Hillary’s
LIESmisstatements on undergoing sniper fire in Bosnia.Former President Bill Clinton gave a passionate defense Thursday of his wife’s claim about “landing under sniper fire†– just as the damaging controversy was dying down.
Bill Clinton said the news media treated her like she’d “robbed a bank†and claimed she was experiencing end-of-day fatigue, even though she had made the claim in morning speeches.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) acknowledged two weeks ago that she “misspoke†and “made a mistake†in her overly vivid account of the 1996 landing in Tuzla, Bosnia, during a goodwill mission as first lady.
Is Bill trying to “SINK” Hillary’s campaign, or what?
Here is the video of Bill:
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Instead of firing Mark Penn, Flap can think of another to go……..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 11,2008
Reminder – Battlestar Galactica tonight…….
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She will have an audience in San Francisco and will be syndicated again albeit not nationally