And the Obama brown shirts deal with the opposition

Pumapac has a running list of women who received death threats from Obama&cult:

• Riverdaughter
• Digby
• Diane at JSND
• Murphy at Puma PAC
• Paula Abeles

Adding Sheila Jackson Lee – per her statement at the Tavis Smiley event this year.

They put up a challenger for John Lewis whom they pressured into changing his support from Hillary to Obama – this wasn’t good enough for the Oborg.

Happily, that one went down in flames as Alegre reports

			Hutchins 7,374	Lewis 32,097	Thomas 6,989	Totals 46,460
			15.9%	69.1%	15.0%	100.0%

The B0bots did get 15% of the vote in his precinct in their pathetic show of power and vindictiveness.

And then there’s the part that really got me: they demanded that Hillary throw Ricky Lieberman under the bus – and …she did.

Oh, I know this is not new. Republicans demaded Paul Wellstone to theow democrats.com under the bus – and he also did it. I guess it was easier to take when it came from the other side – knives in the back are worse.

I have endured and seen up close cyber-abuse from the Oborg - and know that it was directed by the campaign. But it seems now it’s escalating.

I am more determined than ever to do whatever it takes to stop these dangerous people to get any actual power to abuse.

Contraception=abortion – did B0 know it?

Update

Hillary and off the table Pelosi issued statements on this

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Hillary Clinton have already issued blistering statements warning that the definition of abortion would extend to birth control that is regularly covered.

B0 is still thinking about it….

First the news of Jr’s government pulling all the stops:

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman’s access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion.

That is bad and underhanded enough – but makes me think that only 2 days ago B0 was deciding to also “underplay abortion”

By shifting his focus toward pay issues and away from abortion, Obama places himself in a far less polarized environment, and steers clear of the “ick factor” that many Americans, regardless of their political views, associate with the practice of abortion.

which seems to be just what this guy wanted

“Abortion reduction should be a central Democratic Party plank in this election,”

let’s see, flip-flop boy, will you issue a statement on that one, or stick with equal pay in spite of the fact that your own female staffers are paid less than men?

Redrawing the Map – in red!

Updating this with an excellent essay from Savage Politics

Looking at all the polling data available on Obama versus McCain on Real Clear Politics website, 147 polls in all since November 2007, a very interesting pattern emerges. I pulled the data provided at that site into a spreadsheet, and within a few minutes, saw some things I did not expect to see.

When all the polls are averaged, Obama averages 46%. When you look at February to present, to analyze what happened when he really was gaining momentum, Obama averages 46%. And when you just look at the polls from June 3rd forward, when Obama ‘cinched’ the nomination, Obama averages 47% of the vote. This pattern is much more flat that I would have anticipated, and indicates that Obama is having a very difficult time in getting more than 50% of the vote.

and on that fundraising for June

Obama, whose campaign has been so proud to taught his 1.5 million donors during the months of February, March & April, changed it’s tone in yesterday’s campaign release. In yesterday’s release, David Plouffe stated, “Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people contributed…”. Naturally, I pulled out the calculator only to grin at the reality that Obama, while raising a record $52 million, saw his donor base cut in half in June. That’s right, just 764,000 donors compared to the 1.5 million who donated to his campaign in April.

remember when B0 said he is the only candidate who can redraw the map?

Now that his campaign manager begs for pennies, he does so in a video where he carelessly allowed a map to show behind him:

Do you see the blue South there? very little blue indeed! Give B0bots, give! those caucus states are as good as in the bag. Not Obama’s.

Happy now?

update with John Stewart’s take on this which HAS to be the last word ( a video is included at the link)

here’s Jon’s proposed  statement for B0:

Barack Obama is in no way upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist. Because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists! Of which Barack Obama is not. It’s just a fucking cartoon!“

Update

yes, I did say Stewart was the ultimate – but this only confirms it:

the cartoonist was on Charlie Rose last night all defensive. Charlie played Jon’s clip and the guy lit up and said “I just sent him a keg of beer”

Duh! B0 run isn’t closing racial divide

Irony overload today:

New York Times made this startling discovery – and they needed a poll for this

he results of the poll, conducted against the backdrop of a campaign in which race has been a constant if not always overt issue, suggested that Mr. Obama’s candidacy, while generating high levels of enthusiasm among black voters, is not seen by them as evidence of significant improvement in race relations.

No shit, Sherlock! It wouldn’t have anything with this by any chance?

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.

or could it have anything to do with calling entire states of Democrats racist and pretty much anyone who doesn’t worship Obama?

Finds the poll:

More than 80 percent of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30 percent of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him.

And in the B0 campaign lingo that means 70% of whites are racist. because worshiping B0 is in the prescribed order of things – any deviation from that and foul play is suspected (remember “the Bradley effect” in New Hampshire?)

Poll goes on to M0

There was even racial dissension over Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle: She was viewed favorably by 58 percent of black voters, compared with 24 percent of white voters.

I think it’s time for NOW, which stood silent while Hillary was called a bitch and worse to jump into action an condemn those 76% “sexist” whites…

The B0 campaign was never designed to close racial divide – lame “post-racial” slogans nothwithstanding.

The race card is being used constantly to silence critics into submission.

When Hillary once said that working class voters go for her according to a poll, Donna cried race: “Blacks are working class too!” So Hillary said “white working class” and the calls of racism reached biblical proportions.

On a forum that used to be once progressive, someone posted:

“they weren’t real B0 supporters. They just wanted to get street creds that they were not racist”

So, NYT, your poll misses one point: this run is setting racial relations back about 50 years.

W warns B0 on politicking on Iraq

Another source of entertainment – Politico reports:

The guy who launched the new product – the war – in September – to help the congressional elections, telling his soul mate : do what I say, not what I do”. And knowing  BO, he won’t!

“I would ask him to listen to Ryan Crocker [U.S. ambassador to Iraq] and General [David] Petraeus,” Bush said. “There’s a temptation to let the politics at home to get in the way [of] the considered judgment of the commanders. That’s why I strongly rejected an arbitrary timetable of withdrawal.”

Bush said he recognized the pressure on politicians – “MoveOn.org, banging away on these candidates – it’s hard to kind of divorce yourself from the politics.”

Oh, W, give Jr.Jr some credit – he already kicked Moveon in the teeth and already promised Zebari the same Mccain did: staying put.

But thanks for the advice, W – you threw B0 in an inescapable loop – damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.And the levels of irony in this story are nearly toxic.

“Hey, Nutroots, you lost” – part 2

This is a sequel to the better titled original victory dance by the DLC . More gloating over Obama betraying those who brung him to the dance:

The breakup of the Netroots and Obama began with his decision last month to support a bill granting immunity to phone companies that provided records to the federal government in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. This is an issue about which the vast majority of the American people couldn’t care less, but it’s of monumental importance to the Netroots, who see it as confirmation of their deepest and darkest fears that Vice President Cheney is out to get them.

Days later, to add insult to injury, Obama shifted his position on the signature cause of the Netroots — indeed, nothing less than its raison d’être: America’s presence in Iraq.

It’s kind of fun to watch the food fight as I now loathe and disagree both sides of this.

DLC  for saying “the vast majority of Americans couldn’t care less about FISA” and how great the war is, the “netroots” (as seen by the author) for picking the opportunistic candidate over the Democrat – whom they vilified and stole the primary from.

DLC is now bolder, and brings the Joementum ax to grind:

Netroots vitriol against Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) is the most latent example of their irrationality. Lieberman, who has an impeccably liberal voting record, barring his stance on the Iraq war, is a prime target of the Netroots, which brooks no deviation from leftist orthodoxy.

Well, I’m with the “leftists” on this one.

I am also a blogger – a progressive one. One that posted this comment to the article:

Only some netroots were stumped. The New Republic is happy too see them ALL losing. But it’s only the kool-aide drinking section of the “progressive” blogosphere – the ones who, followed republicans like Moulitsas, Huffington and Avrosis and merged with the main stream media. Those of us who kept our integrity during these primaries are in an “We told you so” mode. Only not gloating, like the DLC

I am entertained

SF PUMA rally – Donna opined

Update:

videos here

This was posted at the Confluence:

Hey — just got back from the San Francisco rally — we had a GREAT time. I am downloading the video now – then the photo’s.

Donna Brazilenut came walking down the street and had to walk right through us !!! She didn’t agree with “Donna you promised to resign” sign — she did agree to our “women aren’t HOs” sign. Like we give a shit what she thinks.

Can’t wait for the rest of the stuff on the rally – I’ll update with a link to it.