DISQUS

Obama and FISA: My opinion: He's got to get elected before he can work on FISA and he doesn't want to be seen as soft on terrorism (and you know that's how the Republicans and the media will play it).
I'm not happy about it, but IMHO it's strategy; anyhoo, that's my two cents.



Short term: Obama "needs" Hillary Clinton because of votes he will need in November, 2008.

Rendell: NO.
Edwards: NO. He says he's not interested, and he wasn't that much of an attack dog for Kerry and I don't see him being an attack dog for Obama.



I like Claire McCaskill & Kathleen Sebelius.



About Kathleen Sebelius allegedly being "boring": So what?



She would be the Vice-President of the United States of America, not a contestant on American Idol.

TruthSeeker said:
"I think he shouldn't reach out to them any more. Once is enough...he's the winner goddamit!"



"From now on, I think he should give them the silent treatment and let their constituents deal with them."



-Word.

�I bit my tongue many times. Many times. I bit my tongue many times during this campaign,� Obama told his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus.


"And NOW you trifling mofo's still need MORE time to heal?



"O.K."



"Take as much time as you need."



"But understand this, I have a job to do:

winning the Presidency of the United States of America."



"I am focused on that, so I can't wait...and neither can the American people."



"So...take as much time as you need."



"And if I become President of the United States, I will be using my time to ensure domestic tranquility, and to protect this country from enemies, foreign and domestic."



"So, as you can see, I plan to be busy...and I won't be on CBC time."

June 13, 2008 - 1:15am
By H. JOSEF HEBERT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba's behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast.

In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Cheney said on Wednesday that waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, long off limits to oil companies, should be opened to drilling because China is already there pumping oil.

"Oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida," the vice president said. "We're not doing it, the Chinese are, in cooperation with the Cuban government. Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more supply."

He cited his source as columnist George Will, who last week wrote: "Drilling is under way 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are."

Congressional Democrats pounced on the vice president's remarks and were backed up by independent energy experts, who called the assertion hyperbole at best and a falsehood at worst.

Cheney's office said in a statement to The Associated Press that the vice president had erred.

"It is our understanding that, although Cuba has leased out exploration blocks 60 miles off the coast of southern Florida, which is closer than American firms are allowed to operate in that area, no Chinese firm is drilling there," according to the statement.

Cuba clearly is interested in developing its deep-water oil resources, estimated at more than 5 billion barrel, including areas within 60 miles of Key West, Fla., energy experts said.

Jorge Pinon, a senior energy fellow at the University of Miami specializing in Latin America, said Cuba has awarded offshore oil leases, or concessionary blocs, in its offshore waters to six oil companies _ none of them Chinese _ and soon may announce an agreement with Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras.

"But no one is currently drilling in any of those concessions," said Pinon in a telephone interview. Pinon, who supports drilling in the eastern Gulf and believes it can be done without hurting the environment, said China is being raised as an unnecessary "boogeyman" by drilling proponents.

"There is no actual drilling yet. ... There is exploration," said Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior fellow on energy and Latin America at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

She said China's oil company, Sinopac, has conducted exploratory drilling on a lease on land in western Cuba, but is not involved in the offshore development.

But talk of China drilling in waters within 50 miles to 60 miles of Key West has been a common theme among Republicans. They are clamoring to open more of the country's offshore waters to energy development, including the eastern Gulf where drilling is strongly opposed by Florida officials.

"China, thanks to a lease issued by Cuba, is drilling for oil just 50 miles from Florida's coast," Rep. George Radanovich, R-Calif., recently wrote in The Modesto Bee in California, arguing for opening waters that have been off limits for 25 years to U.S. companies.

Radanovich's office said the congressman was in transit and not immediately available Thursday.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, calling for more domestic oil production, declared, "right at this moment some 60 miles or less off the coast of Key West, Fla., China has the green light to drill for oil."

"Even China recognizes that oil and natural gas is readily available off our shores, thanks to Fidel Castro," complained Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a leader of a GOP energy task force.

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., accused the Republicans of pushing oil development by "scaring up the ghosts of communism and xenophobia" and "perpetuating a myth that China is drilling off the coast of Florida."



http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116&sid;=1421167#

b. said:


"d."

"China and other countries are drilling on our coasts, really? Where you getting that from?"



-Dick Cheney.

It's the oxycontin talking...

Ralph Nader: clueless fuck.

nita said:


TruthSeeker said...



"Are these awards solely for our amusement, or is something sent to the recipient? Maybe make up an official looking diploma and send it off via email. Really, you ought to share the love."



Tue Jun 24, 11:36:00 AM 2008







"I agree. These fools are not going to get it unless it's in their faces. That was very offensive. And no, dws, he won't be a 'tragic mulatto' when he does something they don't like --"



"he'll just be coal BLACK."



-Nita:



You're nicer than I am (refering to your comment).



"he won't be a 'tragic mulatto' when he does something they don't like"



He'll be a "damn nigger"

Someone, please call the waaaaambulance for Bill Clinton!

"So if Barack Obama was a murderous gangbanger in Chicago raised by a white mother he would be still be considered 'more white than black, beyond skin color'?"


-Nope.

He'd be considered a thug.

I have just come from Tennessee Guerilla Women; I pasted some of the post and a link to the post there.

"and he speaks so well"
Dumb-ass.

"One last thing . . . I don’t care what anyone else says, but. . . when it comes to films, Coming to America is the BEST movie of all time."


-One of my favorites is "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan"



...just saying...

In 1988, inspired by a vacation visit to substandard medical facilities on Truk Lagoon,[11] Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT).[1] It was a non-profit organization that organized trips for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to provide MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas such as Micronesia, Vietnam (before relations were normalized between them and the U.S.[11]), Kuwait (arriving five days after the conclusion of the Gulf War[11]), Iraq, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh and El Salvador.[7][26][27][28][29] She led 55 of these missions over the next seven years,[10] with each being of at least two weeks' duration.[29] AVMT also supplied treatment to poor sick children around the world.[30]


While at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1991 — as part of AVMT's assistance team following the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone[27] — she met two infant girls she decided needed to be brought to the United States for medical treatment.[16] She decided to adopt one of the girls (her husband readily agreeing), later named Bridget[7] (who became the McCains' fourth child together), and helped coordinate the adoption of the other little girl, named Mickey, for Wes Gullett, a family friend.[7] In 1993, Cindy McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley
<... 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to opioid painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin,[31] which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs[32][33] and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five scandal,[31] which involved her as a bookkeeper who had difficulty finding receipts.[14] The addiction progressed to where she resorted to stealing drugs from her own AVMT.[32] During 1992, Tom Gosinski, the director of government and international affairs for AVMT, discovered her drug theft.[34] Subsequently in 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help;[14] she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of active addiction.[31] A hysterectomy in 1993 resolved her back pain.[31][33]"



"In January 1993, McCain terminated Gosinski's employment on grounds of budgetary reasons.[34] In spring 1993, Gosinski tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate McCain's drug theft,[34] and a federal investigation ensued. McCain's defense team, led by Washington lawyer John Dowd,[34] secured an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office that limited her punishment to financial restitution and enrollment in a diversion program, [7][34] without any public disclosure."



"Meanwhile, in early 1994 Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, which he told her he would settle for $250,000.[34] In April 1994, Dowd requested that Maricopa County officials investigate Gosinski for extortion.[34] The Phoenix New Times was about to publish a negatively-cast article about the whole affair.[34][31] Cindy McCain pre-empted this[31] by publicly revealing her past addiction, stating she hoped it would give fellow drug addicts courage in their struggles: "Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them."[7] A flurry of press attention followed, including charges by Gosinski that she had asked him to lie concerning her drug use when the McCains were applying to adopt their baby from Bangladesh[31] and statements by past AVMT employees that Gosinski had once threatened to blackmail her. The Arizona Republic published an editorial cartoon ridiculing the motivations for her AVMT work[35] and an award dinner in her honor was canceled citing poor ticket sales.[7] In the end, both Gosinski's lawsuit and the extortion investigation against him were dropped.[31]"



"AVMT concluded its activities in 1995.[26] That year, McCain founded a new organization, the Hensley Family Foundation, which donates monies towards children's programs in Arizona and nationally,[7] and she was largely a stay-at-home mom during the balance of the 1990s.[14] She also held positions as vice president, director, and vice chair of Hensley & Co.[23][22]"

"Tough shit. If Michelle is going to run around the country campaigning for hubby for months on end, her words are fair game. Period."


-And talking about Cindy McCain as a pill-popping, thieving junkie (not to mention that her husband called her a "trollop" and a "cunt"-oops, I did mention it) is also fair game, wouldn't you agree?

...and what about Bill O'Reilly...


"We'll do it live!"

"A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign's eventual vice presidential nominee is the biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics."


-I guess AL Gore's endorsing Obama ranks as # 2 then.

I guess this is change you can believe in.

David Gregory: He was pissed when Imus got canned (and let it show)and his question on Imus being fired "Does the punishment fit the crime" still pisses me off (Yes it does, David). Fuck him.


Gwen is a lot prettier than Joe "Whatever Happended To That Intern" Scarborough. Fuck Joe.



Chris Matthews: A sexist asshole who likes to hear the sound of his own voice. Fuck him.



I think MSNBC will put a shill in the MTP spot.

D. said...
I'm telling y'all: Obama/Hagel vs. McCain/Lieberman.





-C'mon, d!

McCain/Lieberman?



If "Short Ride Joe" does that, the Democrats WILL kick him out of the party...you know, that's not a bad idea.



McCain/Lieberman...yeah, I like it.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"I'm counting down the moments it takes for someone to demand that Obama reject and denounce R. Kelly, being that they're both from Chicago."


-...and after that, Al Capone.

Then Mrs. O'Leary's cow for starting the Great Chicago Fire...

I was surprised to hear of Tim Russert's death.


My condolences to his family.

If Obama had done this before securing the Democratic nomination there would have been those that would have thought him arrogant and uppity for doing this before winning and this would also be seen as a slap against Hillary.