Archive for May, 2008:
Ickes: Clinton Reserves Right to Bring This to the Convention
Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee.
Ace says supporters began chanting “Denver! Denver! Denver!”
Update: Statement from Ickes:
The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party.
We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.
Update: Mark Halperin writes:
Vote prompts loud protests of “Denver!” and “Count our votes!” from many raucous observers.
Breaking: Obama Leaves His Church
Just across on CNN.
Update: Michelle Malkin finds a web-based source:
CNN is reporting this afternoon that Sen. Barack Obama is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ, his longtime religious home on Chicago’s South Side and a place that has triggered repeated controversies during his presidential bid.
This is, of course, the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s moral guidance counselor of 20 years.
McAuliffe: If McClellan Was Upset, He Should’ve Quit
Former DNC chief Terry McAuliffe gave his own opinion on Scott McClellan’s book. He says (as many of us have) that if McClellan was really upset, he should’ve quit.
“I never like it when someone works for someone and then comes out and writes a book trashing them,” quoth the Macker. “I don’t care if it is politics or life. If he was that upset about everything, he should have quit. Remember, Gerald Ford’s press secretary quit when he disagreed with pardoning, Ford pardoning Nixon. If you don’t agree, then get out. And I just, I find it abhorrent the way these people come out and write books about their boss. It made ‘em money, it made ‘em prestige, it gave them all this power, and then they turn around and slap ‘em. I just, I gotta tell you, I just uh, I don’t care who it is — Democrat, Republican — it’s wrong.”
Correct. If Scott knew the president was misleading the nation into war, why did he stay around voluntarily for another 3 years? Why did he only mention any of this when he decided to write a book?
Pfleger Praises Farrakhan, Pushes Government/Drugs Conspiracy
I’m sure Barack Obama will be shocked — shocked — to find yet another one of his close supporters peddling theories about the government conspiring against the black community. I’m sure our nation’s Savior would never have associated with Wright and Pfleger for years if he knew this is what they’re preaching about. Right? I said, right?
Quite a few interesting friends Mr. Hope and Change has, huh?
Obama Adviser: Make Israel Give Up Its Nuke Program
As Ace says, hey, why not have us give up ours first, too? That’ll surely be a goodwill gesture that will persuade the Iranians to stop their program. Right? Right? I mean, surely the Iranians would follow suit.
Israel should give up its nuclear weapons to ensure Iran halts its illicit nuclear program, argues an adviser on nuclear issues to Sen. Barack Obama.
Joseph Cirincione, director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, also previously dismissed reports Israel’s Sept. 6 airstrike targeted a Syrian nuclear reactor as “nonsense” and called Damascus’ nuclear program “miniscule.”
Immediately following Israel’s air raid, Cirincione listed “Israelis [who] want to thwart any dialogue between the U.S. and Syria” as among those spreading rumors Syria was constructing a nuclear facility.
Brilliant! In order to persuade a rogue, psychotic regime to give up its search for nuclear weapons, let’s have our allies the regime wishes to wipe off the map disarm first. What could possibly go wrong?
CNN Covers for Obama
This time in regards to his Memorial Day flub. Obama had this to say at the event in question:
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
He claims to see many of our “fallen heroes” in the crowd. That would, of course, indicate he sees dead people. But never you fret, Barry, CNN’s here to save the day. Here’s the newscast.
It shows up to the “its unbroken line of fallen heroes”, cuts out his flub without explanation, then picks up again at “our patriotism is particularly strong”.