Why Do Dems Like Political Suicide So Much?

This is just what Obama needed linked to his fund raising efforts - not. There's even more ugliness at the link. And I'd wager that many of Obama's so-called accomplishments are dubious, at best.

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

Turn-off the majority of the American people, Barry - way to go. If this gets linked to you, you're toast. Put some cheese on it and enjoy it with your whine.

Comments

[seekeronos]

"--- Put some cheese on it and enjoy it with your whine. ---"

Goes good with arugula too, from what I hear.

[Lala]

"Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 136 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 122 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. "

Which two, I wonder? Maybe one was the Rosa Parks stamp?

[SacTownMan]

It just goes on and on. The same aimless drivel.

Liar, Liar pants on fire!! It's like talking to a bunch of two year olds!

Here's to hoping that Babs' chokes on a chicken bone before she takes the stage for Xerxes!

You know the god king is for the "little guy". And if you have an extra $28,500 (you know a years wages for those poor fools in PA) maybe we'll let ya in for the show, peon!

[dm60462]

As chairman of the state senate's Health and Human Services Committee he killed a bill that would have made it illegal to continue the practice of leaving unwanted babies that were born alive to die without medical attention or care of any kind in Illinois hospitals and abortion mills.

[mary lamb]

I thought he was breaking ranks with the "Hollywood elite"? I guess he can't because the little $5 and $10 donations are drying up?

Can't wait to hear the comments he makes to his worshipers. Who knows maybe we will be fortunate enough to hear a comment denigrating the average wage earner.

I am neither republican or democrat, but, is it just me or are the democrats starting to look like the old republican party 8 years ago? You know the republican party that has morphed into the party that has added a woman to their ticket and seems to have cleaned up their act.

Sometimes when I look at the democrats I feel like we are in a parallel universe and the word hypocrite keeps coming to mind.

[Lala]

One bill of his that passed was to give the Republic of the Congo some money.

The other, hahaha, is to make lobbyists stand when they eat lunch.

[seekeronos]

Both parties are pretty useless when it comes right down to it, Ms. Lamb.

[Andrew Sullivan]

If you all do not appreciate what a marvelous, humble, brilliant man Obama is then I must conclude that you are all a bunch of racists. The one time that I was blessed by being in his presence, however briefly, was an experience unlike any that I have ever had in my life. I would willingly give up my life, as well as yours, for OBAMA!

[Anna]

They're really touting his legislative record at the Senate? Really? Here's a summary.

Looking at bills he actually wrote and not take into account the ones he "co-sponsored" or amendments he either sponsored or co-sponsored (from here http://tinyurl.com/6nzbg4):

From 2005-2006: 66 bills sponsored
From 2007-2008: 70 bills sponsored

Of these, only 5 were actually passed by the Senate, and 5 made it out of committee and has not been taken up by the Senate.

Bills passed:

1. To congratulate the Chicago White Sox on winning the 2005 World Series Championship.

2. Recognizing the historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day and expressing the sense of the Senate that history should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and...

3. Designating July 13, 2006, as 'National Summer Learning Day.'

4. Whereas Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson was born in 1939 to Bishop W.A. and Mrs. Mary Patterson, Sr., in Humboldt, Tennessee;

5. Designating July 12, 2007, as `National Summer Learning Day'.

Among his failed-to-get-out-of-committee bills:

1. To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks. (Note: he proposed this same "legislation" 3 or 4 times)

2. In 15 separate bills, he proposed "To suspend temporarily the duty on" RSD 1235, N6-Benzyladenine, MCPB acid and MCPB sodium salt, 2-Methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, salts, and esters, gibberellic acid, triphenyltin hydroxide, sebacic acid, bromoxynil octonoate, epoxy molding compounds, metsulfuron-methyl, dichlorprop-p acid, dichlorprop-p dimethylamine salt, and dichlorprop-p 2-ethylhexyl ester, 2,4-DB Acid and 2,4-DB Dimethylamine Salt, metsulfuron-methyl, 2,4-DB Acid and 2,4-DB Dimethylamine Salt, dichlorprop-p acid, dichlorprop-p dimethylamine salt, and dichlorprop-p 2-ethylhexyl ester.

3. To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the `Katherine Dunham Post Office Building'. (Note: Wasn't Katherine Dunham his mom?)

4. Condemning the recent violent actions of the Government of Zimbabwe against peaceful opposition party activists and members of civil society.

5. Honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in the field of organic chemistry and the first and only African-American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

6. Honoring and recognizing the achievements of Carl Stokes, the first African-American mayor of a major American city, in the 40th year since his election as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

[jaime]

"Goes good with arugula too, from what I hear."

Yeah, that fancy lettuce that they grow in Iowa and sell at McDonalds.

[Scrapiron]

Hussein, his campaign staff and his lackies in the Lame Stream Media are in a panic so they throw crap on the wall to see what sticks. The lamest 'putdown' of the century has to be 'Palin has a tanning bed in the capital'. So, she bought it, and I wish I had had access to one during the 11 months I spent in Alaska. Democrats are so dumb, and momma kept them under her skirt for so long, they don't know it stays dark most of the day for long periods of time in Alaska. Now I believe I'll load another 9MM clip with 15 rounds.

[Lala]

This is a really interesting article. The more one looks the more one learns.

http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/if-you-think-barack-obama-is-so-smart-prove-it/

excerpt

"Here’s how editors are chosen for the Harvard Law Review. Fourteen editors (two from each 1L section) are selected based on a combination of their first-year grades and their competition scores. Twenty editors are selected based solely on their competition scores. The remaining editors are selected on a discretionary basis. Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the Review’s affirmative action policy."

[seekeronos]

Welllll, that explains a few things.

Ever since they signed on to that Gay Marriage Equality movement, it seems that McD's was upgrading their menu.

"--- McDonald's donated $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, in exchange for membership and a seat on the group's board of directors. ---"

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=174678

But since our local network of churches is boycotting McD's for supporting immorality and perversion... I'll won't find out anytime soon if your claim is true.

http://www.afa.net/Petitions/Issuedetail.asp?id=314

[redherkey]

This is a disastrous. He wouldn't get his resume past the HR filter, let alone make it to a first or second interview at a fortune 500 firm. Folks, here's how we look at this stuff to screen out the unaccomplished, resume-puffing poseurs:

"If you spend 3 years as a community organizer"... spent achieving what?

"become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review"... to which you leveraged this notable privilege entrusted in you to accomplis what?

"create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters"... to achieve what electoral victory?

"spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor"... teaching who and what to what end? researching what to what end? what published research? what contributions to the educational community?

"spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people"... facilitating what change? what results? what measurable improvement?

"become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee"... using this chairmanship to achieve what major legislation? what change? what measurable impact?

"spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people"... again while accomplishing WHAT measurable return?

"while sponsoring 131 bills"... to what end? and as any junior high school student who studies civics and learns that sponsorship on a bill takes three minutes and is something several dozen Senators do as well, to what significance? to an educated citizen, sponsoring a bill is akin to voting present. yes, you were there for five minutes.

"and serving on the Foreign Affairs".. achieving what result?

"Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees"... achieving what change?

"you don't have any real leadership experience."... I have to agree completely.

Sitting on third base doing nothing. What a remarkable failure Obama is, having done absolutely nothing measurable and significant with all of those gifts influential people gave him. When measured as a ratio of OPPORTUNITY / RESULT, Obama appears to be the least successful Senator in the great body's history.

[jaime]

"Hussein"

What's with that? You people say Obama's middle name with such derision.

Is it because you hate muslims?

Or you don't like calling him nigger in polite company?

[BobInStamford]

Scrapiron is one of millions of semi-literate, increasingly obsolete rednecks that serve as a blight on America. This particular old loser is happy to be some sort of 'volunteer' and collect THREE welfare checks.

The necks are beginning to realize that they aren't really needed any more and they are none too happy about it. I say let them vent, watch nascar and leave trash in their yards. Since we're stuck supporting them (for now) we can at least enjoy their stupidity.

[M. Simon]

We like calling him Zero in not so polite company.

[Philip McDaniel]

"Hussein"

What's with that? You people say Obama's middle name with such derision.

Is it because you hate muslims?

Or you don't like calling him nigger in polite company?

None of the above...it's that we love the sound of "ss" tripping off our tongues

[seekeronos]

"--- 'Hussein'

What's with that? You people say Obama's middle name with such derision.

Blah, blah, blah, muslim, mumble, n-bomb, mumble, mumble, mumble...? ---"

(Posted by: jaime | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 03:52 AM)

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It's always about race or some other feature of "identity politics" with liberals.

Why can't we just enjoying enunciating the double-ess sound like adults? Heh.

[seekeronos]

And for what it is worth, two of his three names "Barack", "Hussein", and "Obama" are of Muslim origin:

"Barack" from al-Buraq, the mythic horse-demon which carried the detestable false prophet to see his demonic moon-god... alternatively, it is from "Baraka", meaning "blessed one", related to "Mubarak" - a name used by the one-time president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak.

"Hussein" means "good; small handsome one", and is a common name and surname in Arabic.

"Obama" is from the Luo language, and is most likely derived from the Luo word for "zig-zag", or flip-flop, or "crooked":

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kovach/080723

If anything, saying "Barack Hussein Obama" in no way denigrates "the blessed (by the false god of this world, Lucifer, a.k.a. Allah the false moon god), small handsome crooked One".

It tells it exactly like it is.

[jaime]

If anything, saying "Barack Hussein Obama" in no way denigrates "the blessed (by the false god of this world, Lucifer, a.k.a. Allah the false moon god), small handsome crooked One".

Would Jesus recognize you as part of his flock? A spiteful, judgemental, arrogant, greedy, bigot such as yourself?

Such piety, and yet you carry a deep hateful secret within you. I wonder what it is? Are you a pedophile? Wife beater? Into gay porn? Or maybe you just dig on too many Xanax. What nasty secret hides behind the holy man's front door? You wouldn't work so hard to prove your religiosity if you were comfortable with yourself.

I truly pity you.

[Lala]

I don't think Jesus would like hymie very much.

[templar knight]

OMG, there is nothing so fetching as a liberal white guy coming to the defense of a Muslim or African-American, but put the two together, and he becomes truly terrible in his ferocity. LOL.

Hey, watch out where you're swinging that limp wrist, jaime. You might sprain it.

[Uncle Fester]

"Since we're stuck supporting them (for now) we can at least enjoy their stupidity." - BIS

Heh, good one Bob. Say, how will you get your argula without us to grow it?

[Uncle Fester]

I don't know Jaime, seems I recall the Zero is half honky. Wouldn't that mean a black person voting for him is a racist? Or, say, a race traitor?

[seekeronos]

"--- Would Jesus recognize you as part of his flock? A spiteful, judgemental, arrogant, greedy, bigot such as yourself? ---"

Wow! Quite the roll call of sin there, mate!

"spiteful" - not too much. Although I don't have much tolerance for willfully stupid people.

"arrogant" - Before I repented and turned to Christ, yeah, I'd say I was pretty full of myself. Not so much now, though every now and then the Lord takes care to remind that I'm not all that and a bag of chips.

"greedy" - my, I hope not. I prefer the term "frugal", as I've been told that I am a notorious penny-pincher. I have a modest stock portfolio, I hope that doesn't make me "greedy". On the other hand, I am not afraid to give of my resources and time to help bring others to the saving knowledge of Christ, and also to meet their physical needs.

"bigot" - well, we all have our prejudices about one thing or another. To say otherwise would make me a liar. I have a bias against willfully stupid people, abusive people, and also against particularly evil people. On the other hand, I do not hate gays (I admit I do crack jokes about them) - I just don't care for their ceaseless politicization of their chosen lifestyle to the degree that it erodes the fabric of our society. As for race, I'm half of a bi-racial marriage. I have strong friendships with blacks, whites, Latinos, and other sons and daughters of ADAM's race. I have little sympathy though, for race-baiters and "identity politickers" i.e. race-card players though, who try to pin their misery upon me or my ancestors who largely had nothing to do with slavery or hurting populations if indigenous "First Nations" people.

Muslims? I do not at all hate them. I *LOVE* Muslims, but I am disgusted that the Devil has them so utterly trapped in a lie, worshiping a false (moon god) idol. I would have liked nothing more than for us to have sent 10,000 fundamentalist Baptist missionaries to Iraq (as long as we are there, we might as well have used that as an opportunity for the gospel) to do church- and community-building.

Can you imagine the impact of an Iraq largely evangelized for Christ? Wow, and what a testimony that could have been!!

"--- Such piety, and yet you carry a deep hateful secret within you. I wonder what it is? Are you a pedophile? Wife beater? Into gay porn? Or maybe you just dig on too many Xanax. What nasty secret hides behind the holy man's front door? You wouldn't work so hard to prove your religiosity if you were comfortable with yourself. ---"

Deep dark secret? I like to watch "Family Guy" on Cartoon Network sometimes. Twisted and crass, but I can find it amusing. Not the best thing for me to let my eyes wander to, I confess, and certainly it doesn't edify me unto godliness. The other one is I like to watch "Battlestar Galactica" and "Dr. Who" on Sci-Fi when they are in season.

Nothing too scary for you, I hope. :) Beyond that, I am no more or less a sinner than anyone else here (in God's eyes) having been quite the wretch before I cried out to God for Him to save me.

Do I struggle with the world, the flesh, and the devil like anyone else?

I sure do. If anything, the devil likes to try to beat on Christians especially, since he's quite angry that we have chosen to accept God's grace through Jesus Christ to be translated out of his (the devil's) kingdom into the Kingdom of Christ.

So, yeah, I am just as tempted to cuss out the bonehead who cuts me off at the traffic light as I was "before Christ"; only now, I have the Holy Spirit to poke me in the conscience, letting me know that God wouldn't be honoured by my running my mouth off at said bonehead.

"--- I truly pity you. ---"

I'd rather you didn't pity me... I have no need of it. Repent, and be ye converted by the Words of Christ.... then show pity for those who need Christ, and preach the Gospel - the good news of salvation to them.

[seekeronos]

Oh, forgot to review your charge of "judgmental".

Up to a point I suppose I do judge people - but hopefully, it is with the standard of mercy of God's love, more so than with a legalistic justice of the sort a Pharisee would hold.

I pray that God will help me to judge righteously - for we Christians are called to be "fruit inspectors", that is, to see whether or not our lives are bearing fruit for Christ, as well as testing those other who name the Name of Christ to see if they are of the same faith.

Judging outsiders (i.e. unrepentant sinners) is of little value, since they are not accountable to me anyway. They are already judged of God, and they are in a state of spiritual death, just as we all are born into - without hope, without Christ.

[seekeronos]

And lastly, my dig on Obama's names?

I see no problem with doing that, especially as the man claims to be a Christian. I'm just examining his fruit and his works, which do not seem to be of the same Spirit whom I know.

[Math_Mage]

Obama's resume seems to consist mostly of positions held rather than achievements accomplished. One wonders how he managed to get all those positions without accomplishing much of anything. Then one remembers that he's won two elections by default, which helps.

[Math_Mage]

"Muslims? I do not at all hate them. I *LOVE* Muslims, but I am disgusted that the Devil has them so utterly trapped in a lie, worshiping a false (moon god) idol. I would have liked nothing more than for us to have sent 10,000 fundamentalist Baptist missionaries to Iraq (as long as we are there, we might as well have used that as an opportunity for the gospel) to do church- and community-building.

Can you imagine the impact of an Iraq largely evangelized for Christ? Wow, and what a testimony that could have been!!"

seekeronos, I agree with much of what you post. But this comment is somewhat scary.

[seekeronos]

Math Mage, I'd love to see *this* country evangelized for Christ. I mean the real deal, Biblically honest, Biblical faithful, obedient to God's Word, daily dying-to-self Christians who daily take up their cross to follow Him.

As for Iraq, or Muslims in general, I'd love to see them come to the saving knowledge of Christ - and by their own recognition of the fact that they are hopelessly lost, convicted of their sins by the same Holy Spirit that proved me a hopelessly lost sinner, to be saved only by the precious Blood of the Perfect, Unblemished Lamb of God - the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is not done at gunpoint, or by force of the occupation, r through some other subversion of the separation of Church and State: I only was thinking that we missed a grand opportunity to spread the gospel by not sending as many missionaries to Iraq as possible during the rebuilding phase following 2003.

Iraq is not the only place we need labourers for the sake of the Gospel: Red China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico - and much of our own Republic is in dire need of a revival - complete with broken hearts crying out to their Saviour to show them that He is indeed the Resurrection and the Life: for He is the Hope (Hebrews 6:19) which does not disappoint (Romans 5:5).

He is the only Hope we have, and He is the only one who can Change us into sons and daughters of the Kingdom of God. (Colossians 1:13-14, Romans 12:1-2)

[cindy]

It's a very sad day in America when individuals strive to accomplish the American dream and jealousy, insecurity and deceipt rears its ugly head.

May God Bless your hearts and God Bless America!