Finger-stabbing Endorsement

"I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November."

-- Bill Clinton, endorsing Obama while jabbing a finger at the liberal Democrat convention delegates at the Pepsi Center earlier tonight.

The last time Bill Clinton jabbed a finger, he was telling the nation he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."

Rewind to last fall, when Bubba said:

"I mean, when is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?"

"Unity" at ANY Cost

"He's sort of like us. He comes from a middle-class background, went to school on scholarships. He and his wife had to figure out child care and how to start a college fund for their kids.'"

- Barack Obama describing himself as he tries to woo blue-collar, read "White," voters.



Obama aims convention at blue-collar voters

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

DENVER - On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama said Sunday he hoped a week of political speechmaking would persuade reluctant middle-class voters to swing behind his bid for the White House, while Republicans sought to stir discontent among Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters.

Clinton was having none of it. Obama's rival in a bruising battle for the nomination was expected to release her delegates at midweek in a unity gesture.

Obama, bidding to become the first black president, campaigned through swing-state Wisconsin, then flew home to Chicago to work on the acceptance speech he will deliver before 75,000 partisans on the convention's closing night.

Previewing the week ahead, he said he hoped convention viewers would conclude, "He's sort of like us. He comes from a middle-class background, went to school on scholarships. He and his wife had to figure out child care and how to start a college fund for their kids.'"

Clinton outpolled Obama among working-class voters in many states through the winter and spring, and Sen. John McCain and the Republicans have worked relentlessly in more recent weeks to depict the Illinois senator as an elitist who is out of touch with blue-collar concerns.

Obama is in trouble with White blue-collar voters and he knows it. Saying that he is "sort of like" middle class, blue-collar, Whites is beyond a Freudian slip. He has absolutely nothing in common with them.

Not many folk in Ohio and Pennsylvania were educated in private schools in Hawaii and Indonesia.

Or went to Harvard.

Or live in a $3 million + mansion.

Or have been friends with domestic terrorists and Black supremacists.

Or ridicule people's faith and gun possession.

Here's more hypocrisy from the left in the name of "unity."

Dems give Michigan and Florida full voting rights

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer

Sun Aug 24, 3:25 PM ET

DENVER - Democratic delegates from Michigan and Florida were awarded full voting rights at the national convention Sunday, despite holding early primaries against party rules.

The convention credentials committee voted unanimously to restore the voting privileges at the behest of Barack Obama, the party's presumptive nominee for president. The states were initially stripped of delegates for holding primaries before Feb. 5. The party's rules committee restored the delegates in May, but gave them only half votes.

Democrats hope the gesture will strengthen their standing in two important battleground states while ending a contentious chapter of the nominating process.

"The only way we will be successful is if we are unified as a party and all Democrats know we are full partners," said Chris Edley Jr., a committee member from California who introduced the resolution to restore Florida's votes.

The party's move raises questions about whether it will be able to control its primary calendar in the future. A commission will work on the issue over the next two years.

Representatives from Florida and Michigan said they were penalized enough. None of the major candidates campaigned in the states before the primaries, and the delegates' votes weren't restored until after the nomination was decided.

"We realize that mistakes have been made, but we're excited in Florida," said Scott Maddox, a former Florida Democratic chairman and a member of the credentials committee. "We have suffered enough."

Is anyone surprised? Rules mean nothing to Democrats.

Doom

Clinton delegates back Obama, but poll show concern
By John M. Broder and Dalia Sussman
Published: August 25, 2008

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrive in Denver having largely put aside the deep divisions of the primary fight between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, although some hold lingering concerns about Obama's level of experience, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.

More than half of the delegates that Clinton won in the primaries now say they are enthusiastic supporters of Obama, and they also believe he will win the presidential election in November, the poll found. Three in 10 say they support Obama but have reservations about him or they support him only because he is the party's nominee. Five percent say they do not support him yet.

The poll, which was taken before Obama selected Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware as his running mate, also suggests that Clinton's 1,640 pledged delegates are evenly split over whom they plan to vote for on the floor of the convention during the roll call vote on Wednesday evening.

There will be blood. The PUMAs are on the prowl, though. Obama didn't ingratiate himself any by dissing Hillary yet again when he picked Joe "The Mouth" Biden to be his running mate.

Hell than no fury, Barry.

Biden Courts the Indian-American Vote

I don't think this can be justified in any way. It's not only "racially insensitive," it's plain stupid.

To be fair, Biden may have been plagiarizing Hillary Clinton at the time.

Biden Banter Online

There's a lot of cyberspace chatter on the Obamafraud's running mate pick. This is from the Rochester Post-Bulletin online comments on the news of Biden's pick. I invite you to join the fray. You can join for free after you create a profile HERE.

MINNshoot
er
SE, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 12:00:56 AM

So what, he’s still a flip-flopping canidate who wishes for a a communist United States. Barak Obama is the worst thing that can happen to the United States. Period.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 12:18:29 AM

It’s Christmas in August for Republicans.

Biden voted to give President George W. Bush authority to go to war with Saddam Hussein and just last year opposed the surge of troops in Iraq.

So, basically, Biden is Hillary with hair plugs.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 12:22:11 AM

“The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden is one of the most influential foreign policy voices in Congress. An internationalist and strong supporter of the United Nations, he is a leading critic of what he sees as the vague, unilateralist approach of President Bush.

“Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. Since then, he’s become a firm critic of the conflict and pushed through a resolution last year declaring that Bush’s troop increase—now considered a military success—was ‘not in the national interest.’”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92NPG8G0&show;_article=1

Joe “I’m Not the Guy” Biden, man of questionable judgment.

stormchas
er27
Claremont, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 12:53:19 AM

If Obama gets elected, this country is going to suffer big time. Not that McCain is much better, but anything is better than a Democrat.

Thorstein
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 12:55:17 AM

Senator Biden brings to the table a wealth of foreign policy experience, knowledge and legislative ability. He is one of a few senators and representatives who have published well thought out plans for ending Bush’s fiasco in Iraq. Whether one agrees with the plan or not, it is a plan not a bumper sticker.

In contrast to Biden’s plan, John McCain wants to duke it out to the end with any Iraqi’s who want the American occupying army out.

Senator McCain, by the way, has not quite come to grips with the fact that even our friend Mr Maliki wants the US out within the time line suggested by Mr Obama. Mr McCain’s vision of indefinite occupation apparently does not sit well with the Iraqis.

Mr McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser is a dedicated neocon who was an early pusher for invading Iraq and, until recently, was a paid lobbyist for the government of Georgia, the country Russian just invaded. I wonder what the neocon adviser is not suggesting to Mr McCain?

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 1:09:13 AM

Biden is a gift to McCain. Start counting the minutes until the his first verbal gaffe as running mate.

Thorstein
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 1:30:52 AM

Paleocon - McCain needs a few gifts. Perhaps a course in anger management, how to control your temper, maybe a course in polite ways to express yourself without swear words would be a good Christmas gifts for the guy.

Some kind, loving conservative patron, perhaps an oil company, might want to gift Mr McCain a course in memory development so that he can remember which countries no longer exist, who Sunni and Shittes are and how they interact in Iraq. And while I do not like to delve into personal information, I do think a presidential candidate should at least be able to remember how many houses he and his spouse own. I don’t care how many he owns, but it does bother me that McCain doesn’t know.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 1:46:42 AM

McCain doesn’t “know” how many house he owns.

Obama said he would visit all 57 states.

I wonder how many of John McCain’s homes were financed by Tony Rezko.

ThereIsNo
God
Rochester, Mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 2:25:14 AM

A fantastic pick for Veep that provides even more evidence of Obama’s superb judgment. Time for Johnny “I don’t know how many houses I own” McClueless to wave bye bye.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 4:06:43 AM

Wrong as usual, grasshopper.

Biden is a joke. I’m counting the seconds until Biden’s first bout with diarrhea of the mouth as the Obamafraud’s running mate. I was thinking that Obama couldn’t have made a worse pick for running mate than Biden but then I remembered the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Obama’s choice of Biden for running mate is an admission of weakness. It’s like the Obamafraud’s campaign is telling the American electorate that it’s alright to vote for the inexperienced, clueless George Soros puppet Obama because the “seasoned” Biden has been a “fixture” in Washington for 30 years and wouldn’t let the Obamafraud screw up.

Don’t worry, America. Biden will hold Obama’s hand during the day and answer that 3:00 a.m. crisis phone call Hillary talked about during the Democratic primary after he tucks the Obamachild into bed at night.

Time for the Lord Barack “Slum King Rezko Financed My Obamamansion” Obama the Divine to pack it in. I wonder if his “community organizer” job is still open.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 4:08:24 AM

“When the news broke shortly before midnight, Wilson was still waiting for her cell phone to beep with a text message from the Obama campaign about his choice of running mate. But word that Biden had been tapped was already being reported on television news.”

Ha ha ha. Suckers.

Thorstein
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 5:27:19 AM

Speaking of “diarrhea of the mouth,” I wonder if Paleocon reads his own dribble.

There are pros and cons to the selection of Senator Biden as a running mate, and even now that Barak Obama has made his choice many will chime in with their opinions.

Unfortunately, there are some who would reduce discussion to inflammatory nonsense, nasty, mean spirited words with no intellectual content.

anonymous
too
rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 6:43:21 AM

It seems strange that there is no mention of the severe brain damage Biden suffered not to long ago.
Will this affect his decision making?
Is this what causes him to make sometimes strange statements?
Is this the reason he said osama is not ready to serve?
Is biden another Eagleton?
Just wondering why this was not mentioned by the PB.

artista
rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 7:26:02 AM

Oh please...Biden’s aneurysm was in 1988, twenty years ago. Wonder what McCain’s reason is for not being able to remember how many houses he owns, or his uncontrollable potty mouth and temper. He’s just a walking time bomb disguised behind a fake milquetoast exterior of “my friends”.

Rochester
_Gadfly
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 8:04:03 AM

“Obama’s superb judgment?” Ha. I love it. Obama and Co. pounced on Biden’s “clean” comment calling him a racist and running him out of the race, now when he needs someone to balance his ticket everything’s hunky-dory? Yea, give the right one more thing to use against Obama, that’s good judgment ...

rvnsea
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 8:33:45 AM

Didn’t Biden say that Obama was articulate, spoke well and clean? Also there are 57 Islamic states in the world.

larryboy
West End Town, DE

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 8:57:08 AM

Oh boy, what was he thinking..Game Over

sbintn
Murfreesboro, TN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 9:21:11 AM

I’m just guessing but I think the republicans are going to have to open the flaps of their “Big Tent” for the Hillary supporters that are heading toward the McCain camp.

What’s the saying about “A woman scorned”?

anonymous
too
rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 9:24:51 AM

Just write in Hilary.

Mrs_C
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 9:40:19 AM

The selection of Sen. Joe Biden as BArack Obama’s VP choice is an excellent.

Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have a good relationship in the Senate working together. She is already on board for the Obama campaign and her supporters will be also.

Nor will Biden be any push over for whomever McCain selects.

Presidential Debates, VP Debates...Bring it on!!!

irishman
Rochester, Mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 9:54:55 AM

So much for the theme of “Change you can believe in”. A running mate working in the senate since 1972 sounds like the same old politics to me.

But then, if you tell the gullible something often enough they believe it. Politics as usual.

Patriot
Mazeppa, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 9:59:56 AM

http://preview.ethanspaperproducts.com/george/

pcwerk
rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 10:18:53 AM

A great pick! The only choice for the working stiffs of this country!!
pc

sbintn
Murfreesboro, TN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 10:26:37 AM

I think a governor from the south or west such as Kathleen Sebelius from Kansas might have been a better choice.

Biden does bring foreign policy experience but Obama now has problems with the whole “Change” theme. Biden is a Washington and Democrat insider. In addition, Biden voted for the war in Iraq and against the surge. The problem with voting against the surge, is that most voters are feeling like it worked.

Biden also has a history of saying things that are not politically helpful. In particular, during the last parimary season and directed against Obama.

Finally is the “Clinton” factor. This choice really seems to cut the Clintons out of the Democrat power structure. In addition, if Obama is elected this year he will be the nominee in 2012. This will mean Hillary and her supporters will have to look forward to 2016 for her next chance to run and she would probably be to old. I really don’t think Bill and Hillary are ready to give up on her quest for the White House. Her best chance at the oval office is for McCain to be elected this year. I don’t think her efforts to support McCain and sabotage Obama will be obvious but It will be there. I suspect that it might have been better if the Obama people would have at least given the appearance that they were considering Hillary. I know they have said that they “vetted” her during the primary but that came out so late that now it sounds like an excuse to cover up the fact that they never did consider her.

larryboy
West End Town, DE

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 10:39:33 AM

Mrs C something you and I finally agree on. It is a great pick for the GOP. Like an post said..a woman scorned like Hilary is only bad news for osama er Obmama

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 10:50:34 AM

“A great pick! The only choice for the working stiffs of this country!!”

Hey! Don’t forget John “Baby Daddy” Edwards. There’s a pro-union guy. When he is not cheating on his terminally ill wife, that is.

Face it, libs. Biden is there to shore up the Obamafraud’s experience bona fides, of which there are none. Biden’s selection is actually an admission by the Obamessiah’s puppet masters that their political Buddha has no political experience whatsoever to justify a run for the presidency of the United States of America.

So the candidate of “change” is reduced to selecting a running mate who has been a “fixture” in Washington for 30 years.

How pathetic.

sinbob
Rochester, Mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 10:58:24 AM

Good choice, this virtually guarentee’s McCain to win in November.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:07:14 AM

“I think a governor from the south or west such as Kathleen Sebelius from Kansas might have been a better choice.”

I’m with you on this one, sbintn. As I chronicled early this morning at http://paleoconstrikes.blogspot.com/2008/08/christmas-in-august-msm-reporting-obama.html:

“A smart Democratic nominee-in-waiting would have picked Kansas Governor Kathleen Sibelius, a “moderate” by liberal standards, as his running mate. But then again, the Obamessiah may have figured he would alienate Saint Hillary’s supporters if he chose a female running mate other than the megalomaniacal former First Lady.”

Undermining Obama has become trickier for Hillary now that Biden is his running mate, however. She will need to be stealthier than ever to take over Jesse Jackson’s job of cutting Obama’s you-know-whats out.
You say,

“I suspect that it might have been better if the Obama people would have at least given the appearance that they were considering Hillary.”

Hillary, more than anyone in politics, understands the difference between symbolism and substance. I actually think that it would have been more offensive and more disrespectful to pretend to vet her while having no intention of picking her as running mate.

And I think that Obama’s puppet masters knew that vetting Hillary would “obligate” them to choose her in the eyes of the MSM and her fanatical supporters.

Bob R
Rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:08:07 AM

Biden is perfect for VEEP! The best attack dog in the democratic kennels. He is a big mouth that will tear McSame apart in novel and gorgeous ways.

McCain is a billionaire elitist who thinks no American would pick lettuce for $50/hr - he said this in 2006. McBush thinks that only someone who makes $5 million a year is wealthy. McOilshill does not remember the last time he pumped his own gas. All this and more will flow from Joe Biden with fitting derision and outrage.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:14:50 AM

True. Biden is a loud mouth and a bully. Maybe it has to do with his brain aneurysms, I don’t know.

Brain damage seem to be a perfect explanation for Biden’s irrational temper and verbal incontinence.

Bob R
Rochester, mn

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:21:47 AM

I can’t wait for McInsane to have a PTSD episode in a debate with Obama. It seems when tumors are being removed from McInsane every couple of months, they remove his brain bits that contain facts about the difference between Shia and Sunni, or where exactly Iraq is with relation to Pakistan, or how many houses he has, or that he was against the Jim Webb GI Bill, or that it is the most vile thing a human can do to cheat on your wife as she’s dying of cancer - all the stuff we will be hearing Joe Biden talking about in the coming days.

sbintn
Murfreesboro, TN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:24:02 AM

Lies, nothing but right wing neocon lies, Paleocon.

You said So the candidate of “change” is reduced to selecting a running mate who has been a “fixture” in Washington for 30 years.

He was elected in ‘72 and took office January 3, 1973. It looks like he has been a fixture for pretty close to 36 years.

C’mon let’s give the guy all the credit we can.....

Thelen
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:24:35 AM

The selection of Senator Biden as his running mate just illustrates how desperate Obama is to find some foreign policy credibility for his ticket.

It is an interesting mix of “credibility”, however. Voting for the war in Iraq and then voting against the surge, which has proven to be the most successful strategy of the war, doesn’t do much to qualify you as a foreign policy expert.

I guess his years of sitting at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings and mugging for the cameras is enough to qualify you as a Democratic foreign policy expert.

You do have to give the guy credit for his honesty, however.

As Biden has noted: “I would say, quite frankly, its awfully hard not to be qualified on foreign policy and be president in this environment.”

Little wonder Biden found Obama unqualified to be president, at least until he scored the vice presidential nod.

The other interesting point about the Biden selection is the total lack of ideological diversity he brings to the ticket.

Both he and Obama cling to the extreme left of the political spectrum. He’ll appeal to exactly the same political demographic as Obama already does.

You can find evidence of that by which bloggers on this site are praising his selection. Their need for ideological purity has been satisfied.

paleocon
Rochester, MN

Posted on 8/23/2008 at 11:31:36 AM

36 years in Washington equals change in the liberal mind. It would seem that brain damage is a common occurrence in the liberal camp.

“Both he and Obama cling to the extreme left of the political spectrum. He’ll appeal to exactly the same political demographic as Obama already does.

“You can find evidence of that by which bloggers on this site are praising his selection. Their need for ideological purity has been satisfied.”

Welcome back, Thelen. Biden’s selection as the Obamafraud’s running mate seems to have finally pushed liberals over the ideological precipice.

What's a Limousine Liberal Delegate to the Denver Dem Convention to Do?

Limo Shortage for Denver Dems

Posted: 3:59 am
August 13, 2008

Limousine liberals may be forced to take the bus at the Democratic National Convention this month because Denver simply does not have enough limos and black cars to go around.

"We just don't have the cars - Denver just isn't really big on chauffeurs," said Barbara Curtis, of Two Step Limousine. "I am totally booked, and have been for six weeks."

The city has 271 limousine companies, but most have fleets of only two or three cars, Curtis said. She expects there will be no shortage of price-gouging opportunists.

"A lot of the companies put in reservations for black SUVs, and apparently the Secret Service had all of those canceled because they needed the vehicles instead," she said.

On average, black cars cost $4,000 for the four-day convention and limos twice that.

“A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

-- NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, suggesting an alternative to the statement that "media sexism" derailed Hillary's candidacy and "dampens the dreams of our daughters," that Hill's supporters managed to insert into the national Democratic Party platform.