These Things Are Not Coincidental
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Promoted by Erick.
When some organizers for the Primary Campaign of Barak Obama in Oregon dropped several rented Porta-Potties in the middle of a memorial for fallen police officers, they made a statement. They deny this to the hilt, but I am convinced just as vehemently that these Porta-Potties didn’t get put where they were put as a result of unfortunate random number generation. Barak Obama’s political movement discourages deep and profound respect for decency, patriotism and all accepted social norms.
If this Porta-Potty incident were to have happened to Democratic Congressman Skelton of Missouri, who has been on the House Armed Services Committee for as long as I’ve been alive, it would be asynchronous. Thus, probably not the deliberate smuttiness that it truly was; coming from the likes of Barak Obama. Given that it happened in the campaign of the guy whose campaign staff in Texas had the giant Che Guevara banner on their wall, it becomes part of a trend.
This trend should not surprise anyone who remembers his stated views on why he stopped wearing a US flag pin on his lapel.
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"The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin," Obama said. "Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.
"I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest," he said in the interview. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."
On Thursday, his campaign issued a statement: "We all revere the flag, but Senator Obama believes that being a patriot is about more than a symbol. It's about fighting for our veterans when they get home and speaking honestly with the American people about this disastrous war." - AP, 3 OCT 2007
None of this makes Barak Obama a guy who personally agrees with Che Guevara about America. Che expounds on how he feels about flag pin-wearing Yankee Hyenas below.
"The solutions to the world's problems lie behind the Iron Curtain," stressed Ernesto Che Guevara who often signed his correspondence with the moniker "Stalin II." "If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City," he boasted. "The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims."
However, the Che Guevara flag, and the deliberate desecration of the police memorial, are what the American people can expect from a Barack Obama-led organization for two reasons. Obama gave the impression that symbols of The United States were not important to him personally. Also, he did nothing to discourage the deliberate disrespect for these symbols when his supporters engaged in it with the press cameras rolling.
This has attracted a large number of people to Barak Obama’s campaign and political movement who genuinely dislike the United States of America, but who do not wish to give up any of the benefits that accrue to them from living here. The deliberate refusal to wear the flag pin, the Che Guevara flags and the Porta-Potties deliberately dropped on the memorial to fallen police officers are forms of symbolic speech.
They offer Barak Obama and his supporters a symbolic way to say the following.
“I love the nice toys and fancy lifestyle I get from being an American, instead of a Ugandan, but I profoundly disrespect all of the stupid yokels that I actually have to share these items with.”
“I fully expect the police officers in Oregon, and in every other state, to stand there and take a bullet for me when I am in danger. However, they had better not enforce any laws that I choose to violate because I am better than any of them as a human being.”
This is the true meaning of Barak Obama’s refusal to wear the American Flag Pin. This is what the Che Guevara banner hanging in Barak Obama campaign headquarters truly represents. Average, middle class Americans, and everything that we “cling to” are what Barak Obama supporters dump their crap upon when they park their Porta-Potties on a memorial to fallen police officers in The Great State of Oregon. This is another vital reason why Barak Obama should never be nominated for, or elected to, the office of US President.
We're the Manchurian Electorate, and the trigger card is the Jack of Diamonds himself...a colossal, glittering jewel of ignorance.
"ma deuce says no dealing from the bottom"
What a load of crap (pun absolutely intended).
"This is what the Che Guevara banner hanging in Barak Obama campaign headquarters truly represents."
This guilt by association nonsense is ridiculous. That office had nothing to do with Obama's official campaign and you know it. The KKK set up volunteer offices campaigning for Reagan as well, but the same comparison would be just as stupid.
Keep up with the flag lapel pin stories- they're almost to the point of being comical.
It's not our fault that Obama attracts these people.
Also not our fault that he's just a man.
Lastly, your attempt to insinuate via comparison that Ronald Reagan deliberately set out to use the Klan to get elected has been noted, and you will now apologize to the board for collectively wasting our valuable time with such a childish smear. Next post, or last post: your call.
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"The KKK set up volunteer offices campaigning for Reagan as well, but the same comparison would be just as stupid."
If you feel this insinuates Reagan's 'deliberate' involvement with the KKK then I guess I'm done here.
Good luck with the lapel pin attacks.
Yeah, we knew. More fun to let you think that you got away with it, Sparky.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Then I'll expect to hear nothing from you and your lefty troll buddies when McCain gets endorsed by people like, uh, Rod Parsley. After all, that would be guilt by association, wouldn't it?
Buh bye, pinhead.
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hating the U.S. flag and everything it stands for,demeaning better men than you.
Heaven help us if you ever get in charge.
My hope and prayer is that the folks in this country see you for what you are
then there goes Obama's entire "Third Bush Term" campaign. I can live with that.
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
"Barak Obama’s political movement discourages deep and profound respect for decency, patriotism and all accepted social norms."
this is the most insane, out of touch, and irrational blog post i've ever read. i'm tired of political campaigns that rely on the pure demonization of candidates in order to win. i'm no big fan of obama's policies, but i do know many people who support the man, and don't think that they hate their country or despise accepted social norms...
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
who--unfortunately--support the fantasy that is Obama. They're good people who just don't pay attention. The people who run Obama's machine are every bit as subversive as that quote suggests. We're onto him, taking him off his game, and he's wilting.
"ma deuce says no truce"
Just like there are decent people who vote Democrat despite everything that party has ever done to or said about the US military in the last 40 years. Just like there are decent Christians who support the Dems despite everything that party has done to or said about Christianity. Just like there are decent Jews who support the Dems despite everything that party has said about and tried to do to Israel.
Unfortunately, he isn't one of those decent people, and neither is anyone closely associated to him and neither is anyone on his campaign staff. And the same can be said of the entire Dem leadership (minus Lieberman, oh, wait. They threw him out for being a decent man...).
"Always be honest with yourself. Even if you are honest with no one else."
--me
There may be a grain of truth in this premise, or the porta-potties may have just been a stupid mistake by a campaign flunky. It's enough work engaging folks in a conversation about real issues facing the country right now. Stuff like this is just s distraction that drives more legitimate conversations off track.
Very disappointing to see this promoted to the front page.
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We would also like to know your advice for somebody like my daughter, who's going to graduate in two years, advice that you would give a young person.
SEC. RUMSFELD: Advice for a young person. Study history.
And it's from there that I look at the various things being said by this campaign about that campaign.
One of the best examples from recent memory involves a contrast between George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.
Remember "Bring It On!"? This was one of those phrases that did two things. It resulted in the heads of Bush Opponents exploding. I mean, whoa. "CAN YOU BELIEVE HE SAID THAT I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT HE IS SAYING ATTACK US HE WANTS MORE AMERICANS TO DIE" and so on and so forth. It also did another thing: It made Bush supporters stand up a little bit taller and say "Heck yeah! Someone gets it! Andrew Jackson, baby! Yeah! YEAH! BRING IT ON!!!!!" The folks on the fence saw this and looked at the underlying attitudes of this side saying this thing and that side saying that thing and, while not overwhelmingly but still fairly decisively, decided that "Bring It On!" was *NOT*, in fact, Bush saying that he wanted Americans to die but that America was more than ready to stand up to those who wished to do us harm.
John F. Kerry, on the other hand, (while in the middle of dealing with charges of flip-flopping) said stuff like "I voted for it before I voted against it." This resulted in the folks on opposite sides doing two different things. The anti-Kerry folks said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "lolololololololol". The pro-Kerry folks said, and this is another paraphrase, "no you see you have to look at the bigger picture and the fuller context of what he said!" They would then go into a two minute discussion of arcane Senate rules and talk about how it was possible to support a good bill before it goes into the committee and have it come out of the committee as a bad bill. Perhaps not overwhelmingly, but still pretty decisively, people on the fence looked at the two positions and decided that the pro-Kerry folks had a significantly less persuasive argument.
I'm imagining myself on the fence now and reading this article about port-a-potty placement and how such is indicative of Obama's true philosophies.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
A representative with the Obama campaign responded Wednesday morning and said the Porta-Potties were placed at the memorial because of a safety issue for wheelchair access.
Teri Sorenson said there was no disrespect intended and the campaign had not responded because local offices have shut down until Obama becomes the official democratic candidate.
I think we should reserve judgment on this one.
It may be that the Porta-Potties had to be placed there in order to be easily wheelchair-accessible for disabled persons attending the rally nearby. So I think we should wait and see before condemning Obama over this one.
If their campaign had placed the Porta-Potties in a more remote location, where disabled people couldn't easily access them, then a whole bunch of other folks would have been criticizing Obama for his "insensitivity." Welcome to the modern world of business regulation, where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
that the campaign event was not held next to Arlington Cemetery.
"A man does what he can and endures what he must."
who can vote and find the cheapest, most convenient solution. There had to be a better place. I wonder if Obama saw any fallen policemen out there in the audience that day.
"ma deuce says no, he can't"
The part about no comment coming from the local Obama office smells of, well, fecal matter, from bulls specifically. Really, they're shut down until Obama becomes the "official candidate".
So when and for how long were they open ? Do we take it that they have an office but have done nothing while awaiting Obama's nomination? Is it just possible they are shut down rather than come up with a decent explanation? Dodging the bullet as it were?
Obama's supporters are fair game, just as the "extra chromosome" Christians were who Gore so brightly noticed, just as reverend Wright is. Who a man attracts and who he associates with are indicators of what he is, not confirmation necessarily but when coupled with his policies and practices a fair picture of this increasingly distasteful man unfortunately emerges.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
The more of a joke he becomes.
I am in Arkansas and have been for a long time. I NEVER thought I would meet a candidate that I would dislike more than Hillary. GREAT job Obama, I eat crow-you actually have me feeling sorry for that woman. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING about this man makes sense.
He is not qualified to run for POTUS and it is a joke that he has made it this far. I am honestly beginning to think brainwashing has been going on at his rallies, because NO American can be so stupid as to vote for him.
MelZ