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Obama Girl Blasts Hillary
In this new video she tells Hillary, "I know deep down you're an Obama Girl," and pleads with her to stop the attacks on Barack's campaign.
It's a lot like David Brooks's savage "audacity of hopelessness" column today, except you can dance to it.
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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.
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16. I SAW THIS "..OBAMA GIRL" BEING INTERVIWED ON FOX NEWS. THE WORD "..BIMBO" LEAPED TO MIND. SHE TOO MUST HAVE ONE OF THOSE WORTHLESS IVY LEAGUE DEGREES LIKE HER "SAINT OBAMA"-2; MICHELLE ".I'M ALWAYS ANGRY" OBAMA-2; ".I'M A STEAM ROLLER" SPITZER-2; SLICK WILLIE ".I INVENTED A NEW PHRASE--TO BE LEWINSKIED" CLINTON-2; HILLARY "..I WAS NAMED 5 YEARS BEFORE ANYONE EVER HEARD OF HILLARY THAT GUY FROM TIBET" CLINTON-2; SILDA ".I'M A CLASSY ENABLER" SPITZER-2; SAMANTHA "HILLARY IS A MONSTER BUT I HAVE OFT ADMIRED HER" POWERS-2. GET THE PICTURE.
DID THIS BIMBO TELL YOU THAT MOST AMERICANS AGREE WITH JEREMIAH WRIGHT WHEN HE SAID "..GOD DAMN AMERICA?" OR DID SHE FORGET TO ADD THE LAST PART OF THE COMMENT "..IF IT ELECTS OBAMA AS PRESIDENT?"
gonefishin at 9:34PM on Mar 25th 2008
17. If this is the kind of tail Barack gets...sign me on.
mac at 9:48PM on Mar 25th 2008
18. Hey Ore-Obama Girl: Sing some lyrics about No-Bama's racist statements.
Posted by... Jane Chastain: Obama's words as troubling as Pastor's
Posted: March 20, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
Barack Obama wants us to believe that he slept through 20 years of angry venom spewed out by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from the pulpit of his church. Obama's larger task will be to convince us that he was asleep while writing parts of his first book, "Dreams from My Father."
Now that this media darling is getting a closer look, it is time for thoughtful reporters to ask themselves this question: Why was it necessary for someone in his 40s to have written – not one – but two books on his extremely short life?
The answer is quite simple: He wrote the second book to take the focus off the first book – the one he wrote 13 years ago before entering politics. "Dreams from My Father" holds the key to understanding why Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ, with its focus on Africa and a mission statement that reads like a Communist manifesto, with a racist pastor like Wright who constantly ran down the country and blamed "whites" for most problems here and abroad. Wright recently retired, but the mission of the church remains unchanged.
Certainly, it was not always easy for a biracial child growing up in the '60s. However, the problems for Obama and his white mother were compounded when his black Kenyan father left them in Hawaii to fend for themselves, just two years after Barack was born, to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard.
(Column continues below)
In this atmosphere, it is surprising that Obama chose to associate more closely with the absent parent. While in school, he voluntarily segregated himself and chose the most radical and racially divisive black students he could find as friends. In college, he gave up the name "Barry," by which he had been identified since childhood, in favor of Barack, his African given name.
The following statements by Obama from "Dreams from My Father" give us a glimpse as to why he chose the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as his pastor, mentor and friend.
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
"It was my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd package all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela."
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students, the foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out, many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs."
"(I)t remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
Obama wrote frankly about how he blamed "white people – some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
"Dreams from My Father," which initially bombed, was republished in 2004,when Obama ran for the Senate. It is, in fact, his "inconvenient truth."
Obama sought to distance himself from some of Wright's statements by saying he often disagreed with his pastor's controversial political remarks. However, he said he was not in attendance when Wright made the remarks that caused the recent firestorm, remarks that in Obama's words, "expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America."
"Dreams" tells a different story.
In this book, Obama writes about Wright's sermon "The Audacity of Hope," which Obama borrowed and used as the title for his second book.
Obama quotes Wright as describing the world "where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere. ... That's the world! On which hope sits."
Obama continued:
"Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policymakers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate."
In the interest of political expediency, Wright stepped down from a formal role in Obama's campaign, but Obama was in attendance when Wright delivered this diatribes against the country in general and "white folks" specifically – which was his pattern. Obama not only heard it, he wrote about it in "Dreams from My Father."
Perhaps these remarks didn't bother Obama at the time because Wright's position was not all that different from his own. In his economy, only "whites" could be racist. Now that he is running for president, he would like us to believe all that has changed.
Paul Sparcello at 11:43PM on Mar 25th 2008
19. PLEASE SPARE ME MY GOD THIS GIRL IS THE PRIME EXAMPLE AS TO WHY THE EU CALLS AMERICANS STUPID FOR HER TO KEEP THIS B.S. UP FOR A RACIST JUST SHOWS HOW MANY BRAINCELLS WERE DESTROYED BY DRUG USE OBAMA DOESNT EVEN RECOGNIZE HER
GO MADAME PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON
ron at 12:09AM on Mar 26th 2008
20. Talk about dysfunctional who are you Ada Calhoun… what is up with nerve.com. Nothing to be proud of…Ada not all of us grew up twisted… It is obvious you have no respect for yourself, family values, or morals for that matter... and will go to any materialistic means to get there. Let’s hope your readers are smarter than you are…. Who done this to you. You have some serious psychological problems and I say this with kindness you should seek help… Life is not only about you Ada…look at how you are affecting others... Take a good look at yourself….
Well her fame is over...Obama bimbo… all the way….
Most of you do not have a clue how congress works... Do you honestly know the HISTORY OF THE PARTIES THAT YOU THINK YOU ARE VOTING FOR? The history of the Republican Party, the History of the Democratic Party? What bills in congrss have these parties supported or denied. YOU MIGHT SURPRISE YOURSELF - MAYBE the party you think you stand for is not at all your beliefs. Running for President is nothing to take lightly. OUR COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT! We have major issues that must be stopped NOW - Immigration, securing our borders, Out-Sourcing, Healthcare, the War is just the tip of the iceberg. There are over 12 Million illegal immigrants living in our country without legal documentation. We do not know who these people are we have no records..The borders are not secured, are immigration system is broken and must be reformed...Abusive Lending, Out-sourcing...what jobs are left and what is American made.. Everything is out of control... I am sick of paying taxes to a broken government system... Our government has done NOTHING ON THESE IMPORTANT ISSUES... THESE ISSUES WERE HERE LONG BEFORE THE 2008 elections. ALL THE PARTIES, DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICANS ARE GUILY! Big Business paid congress off, to look the other way... Millions of dollars are wasted on Presidential campaigns. While Millions of hard-working American Citizen's have lost their homes...OBAMA IS NOT CHANGE HE IS SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ON HIS CAMPAIGN.. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU...HE OWES A TON OF FLAVORS OUT... CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO THEIR JOBS OR GET OUT! STATE UNION MEMBERS ALL 535 YOUR GREED AS DESTROYED AMERICA. Obama's latest press coverage, where he said he does not accept money form lobbyists or PAC's is a LIE...THERE ARE WEBSITES FOR TRACKING THIS... OBAMA is lying and he is not even in office.. they all except contributions from lobbyists or pac's. Obama is toy boy to Oprah..toy boy to Ted Kennedy.. and toy boy to kerry...who claimed he would stop out-sourcing when he was running against Mr. President Bush..Yet the majority of all Kerry's Heinz Ketchup plants were out-sourced to other foreign countries Liars... WE NEED REAL CHANGE -SUPPORT PUBLICLY FINANCED CAMPAIGNS. SUPPORT REFORM TO INCREASE CONGRESSIONAL TRANSPARENCY.. SUPPORT VOTE TO END EARMARKS.. SUPPORT NO MORE DIRTY MONEY FROM LOBBYISTS OR PAC'S... THE GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSE TO WORK FOR US THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND...THE TIME AS COME FOR US TO TAKE BACK OUR GREAT COUNTRY...JOIN THE MARCH FOR A CLEAN AMERICA....
Ann Thompson at 2:32AM on Mar 26th 2008
21. This is news?
What about Rashid Khalidi? Nadhmi Auchi? Tony Rezko? The New Black Panthers? NOI minister Louis Farrakhan? Pastor Wright? Reverend Meeks? Raila Odinga? Bill Ayers? How about Kwame Kilpatrick, Obama's superdelaget facing prison, and how he was also on the cover of Trinity's Trumpet magazine, and attended Rezko fundraisers with Nadhmi Auchi? What about passport breach and Obama's people behind it?
Katherine at 2:46AM on Mar 26th 2008
22. IT SEEMS THAT ALL OBAMA BOYS AND GIRLS ARE REALY THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-ETHNIC, ANTI-AMERICAN PASTOR COMPANY AND THE BLACK-MUSLIM FARRAKHAN COMPANY. THEY WANT HILLARY CLINTON TO JOIN THEM FOR THE NEW CHANGE AND UNITY.
PT TEITEL at 3:09AM on Mar 26th 2008
23. Hey mr I WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPS. do us all a favor and shut it. Thank you !!
trevelmike at 1:49PM on Mar 26th 2008
24. Wait. You're entire blog was a link to a video made by somebody else? Where can I get a job like this?
Bill at 2:22PM on Mar 26th 2008
25. With tenths of THOUSANDS of baby turtles
being killed daily on our nations highways,
why is this even a topic of discussion!
Alert your local Postmaster,
Something Must Be Done!
NOW and Very Soon!
Poor Baby Turtles.
Hurting Sadness,
Suffering and
Endless Pain
or Squish.
tomtrifik at 3:02PM on Oct 22nd 2009
26. Remember, a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama!
ny11418 at 4:18PM on Mar 26th 2008
27. i think that Obama Girl is definitely getting some of the less involved people to think about the world and politics. Have you heard the song she did with Leah Kauffman called "I Like A Boy" about supporting the troops? Sure, she's often scantily clad, but she's making people think, and that's what i like about her.
Kimberly at 4:11PM on Mar 30th 2008