As I wrote in my previous post the political bloggers have been widely discussing whether Hillary's campaign has reached the end of the line. Slate and The New York Times have a handy trawl through some of the better blogs that I didn't mention:
According to the conservative Michelle Malkin:
"She gave it her all, found her voice, lost her voice, smiled through her lies, lied through her cries, schemed, clawed, and cackled. But alas, it was not enough."
While Richelieu at the right wing Weekly Standard predicts:
"I think she's out in a week or less."
On Liberal Values, Ron Chusid agrees with Thomas Edsall and says:
"At this point she might remain in the race a little longer only to attempt to raise a little money to offset her debts, or perhaps to make a deal with Obama to assume her campaign debts."
Hot Air's conservative Allahpundit thinks:
"She has nothing left to commend her to the supers except an electabilty argument unsupported by a single key metric or even circumstantial evidence that Pastorgate has done Obama grievous damage at the polls. Are they going to take the nomination from the first serious black candidate for president without any compelling data to hang their decision on? Not a chance. It's over. Let's move on."
Kyle E. Moore at Comments From Left Field compares the Clinton campaign to the Iraq war, while Slate's Emily Bazelon compares Democratic voters to King Solomon.
And at Commentary's "Contentions", Jennifer Rubin compares Obama to a domestic appliance:
"Like a vacuum cleaner, he is sucking up the Clintonian message to blue collar voters and absorbing the rhetoric which has successfully lured a coalition of working class whites, seniors and women. Don't expect any more Snobgate slip-ups."
Jerome Armstrong on liberal MyDD says:
"On the allowing for the full seating of MI and FL, if Obama gets to the point where he has enough delegates to win the nomination despite MI & FL being seated, then ultimately, that would be the best route for Obama to go through, even though it seems unlikely."
Outside the Beltway prophecies:
"We'll be hearing murmurs from the Clinton camp for years to come about how this was stolen from her and that, if only Florida and Michigan had counted, it would have been hers. That's doubly true if Obama loses to John McCain in November."
The Moderate Voice says:
"If Clinton plays out her campaign based on issues and makes a graceful exit, the Democrats have a chance at unity. If her campaign remains an aggressive negative campaign, complete with eleventh hour negative campaign ads, it could... negate any possibility of a 'Dream Ticket' which more and more seems like an In Your Dreams Ticket."
Steve Kornacki of the New York Observer:
"Clinton's strategy since February 5 never stood much chance of working and allowed room for absolutely no slip-ups. Now it’s over."
John Aravosis of AmericaBlog:
"There is no longer any reason for Hillary to continue in this race other than a desire to destroy Obama and make him lost in the fall so she can run again in four years. This farce needs to be ended now."
Even Mitt Romney, the former Republican contender, had his say. "I applaud the ongoing battle among the Democrats and hope it
continues," he told the National Review.
The National Review's Jim Geraghty offers a history lesson in advising Hillary to stay in the race:
"In 1980, Ted Kennedy came into the Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City with 1,225 delegates to President Carter's 1,981 and 122 uncommitted.
If Kennedy could take it to the convention when he trailed by 756 delegates, Hillary can go to the convention trailing by her current 150 or so."
Did Obama write that he would "stand with the Muslims" and that he nurses a "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity" toward whites?
No. A widely circulated e-mail fabricates some quotes from Obama's books and twists others
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html
Just another reason why patriotic Americans hate the Republican party so much.
Posted by: Tammy Stickers | 05 June 2008 at 04:10 PM
You copied and pasted that crap from the propoganda machine. QUOTE THE PAGE NUMBER, YOU CANNOT CAN YOU?
your crap is DEBUNKED! http://www.able2know.org/forums/about116584-0.html
Talk about taking things OUT of context. Stir up those propoganda machines, its the weekend and people are online. Lets get am all riled up with it, they'll spread it like wildfire when they go back to work, to their churches, talk to their friends..yeah haa..except...your comments can be easily disputed with a few clicks of a mouse and typing in the actual quotes at google in a matter of minutes you can have a CLEAR picture of what your intentions are by posting such inflammatory statements.
I'd bet dollars to donuts you dont even HAVE a library card and never read those books because CLEARLY you took out a whole paragraph that explained CLEARLY what he said and put it into context.
I can make anybody sound like anything with one sentence taken out of context. The rest of the bs is just that.
You should also get your quote correct if you're going to spread this kind of stuff.
The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is
as follows: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant
communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings
with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent
quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard
stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and
belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in
this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances
that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned
the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II,
and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an
ugly direction."
Misquoted and out of context from Dreams of My Father: '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'
In the paragraph prior to this quote (Introduction: pp. xiv-xv), Obama talks of his mother's 6 year old cousin who had "already lost" his innocence after reporting to his parents that some of his first grade "classmates had refused to play with him because of his dark skin". As you read further you can see the implications of this on Obama's life growing up and why he felt compelled to bring up his mother's race until "the age of 12 or 13":
Actual quote:"When people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for 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) I see the the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign." (Introduction: Page xv)
Nowhere to be found in Dreams from My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'
I cannot locate this anywherein "Dreams of My Father" after searching on each key word through an unabridged copy downloaded from ebooks.com. We can simply shoot this one quote down and rightfully attack the credibility of the entire post.
Misquoted and taken out of context from Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
When Obama was still in New York (after graduating Columbia) and at the point of almost giving up on organizing, he gets a call from Marty Kaufman who had "started an organizing drive in Chicago and was looking to hire a trainee." (Story begin on page 140). After talking about Chicago, the Cubs, his organizing efforts, Harold Washington, the South Side community, etc... he offers Obama the job with a small salary and travel expense. When Marty leaves, Obama walks home and thinks about this man and the offer (starting his community organizing days in Chicago):
Actual quote: "He was smart, I decided. He seemed committed to his work. Still, there was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white - he'd said himself that was a problem." (Page 142).
Later, Obama sits down on a bench to consider his options. A "black woman and her young son approach" and the boy asks him why the East River goes one way and the other. Obama explains the tides. "The answer seemed to satisfy the boy..." "As I watched the two of them disappear into dusk, I realized I had never noticed which way the river ran. A week later, I loaded up my car and drove to Chicago." (Page 143). Obama quickly recognizes that his back and forth on Marty, the situation, etc... is like the East River - it's going to go back and forth no matter what - it's time to act and he does.
Taken out of context from Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names'
(Page 101). Obama is IN COLLEGE. He is posing, finding his identity.
Prior to this quote he explains the early pressure of fitting in with the so-called campus "radicals" to "avoid being mistaken for a sellout." (page 100). Starting on page 101 right after the quote, he goes through an incident where he is "called out" on this attitude. Thinking back, he realizes that "the whole year seemed like one big lie..." as he then matures beyond this perspective (Page 102).
I am sure none of us copped similar attitudes while in college or in our late teens/early twenties.
Altered quote and completely taken out of context from Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
Actual quote: (in context, is addressing his earlier attitude towards his step dad and grandfather): "...men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela." (Page 220).
In the very next paragraph Obama writes, "Now...that image had suddenly vanished." " To think all my life I had been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost!" as Obama comes to terms with the image versus the reality of his father.
Anyone out there not go through a similar process with their father? "
http://www.able2know.org/forums/about116584-0.html
Posted by: REDHEAD | 25 May 2008 at 04:02 PM
THE TRUTH ABOUT SEN. OBAMA --IN HIS OWN WORDS AS WRITTEN IN HIS BOOKS!!
AMERICA WAKE UP and DECIDE WHO YOU FEEL IS THE BETTER CHOICE TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY !!
AMERICA !!! ARE YOU SERIOUS ??
Below are a few lines from Obama's books ' in his own words:
Does is appear he wants to unify our country as he has been saying.
Pay close attention to the last statement from his book.
From 'Dreams of My Father': '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.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From 'Dreams of My Father ': ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'
From 'Audacity of Hope' : 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
Posted by: Saab Mian | 09 May 2008 at 11:16 PM