How's That "Righteous Wind" Working For You, Barry?

Before Obama left to visit his Grandmother he told his supporters "we've got a righteous wind on our backs."

That might be a good thing for Republicans. The last time he felt it, it blew John Kerry's Swift Boat ashore. heh! Or maybe it's more like that tingle Chris Matthews feels running up his leg?

transcript: Obama's 2004 DNC speech

I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs, and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.

America, tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion that I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do, if we do what we must do, then I have no doubt that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president.

Comments

[BobinStamford]

Um, that old man is flat out pathetic. He's having a Joe the Plumber bus tour - without Joe.

[mark l.]

hotline just ran a a generic poll...

43 dem, 39 gop.
murtha has dropped within margin of error.
pennsylvania is burning and the messiah has yet to make his 'rush' visit to his grandma, let alone return. My guess is that he was planning some r&r to freshen up for his cbs infomerical and the home stretch (or recieve a complete blood transfusion for his sickle cell anemia.)

curiousity:
does either candidate have the guts to make a 'historic speech' at gettysburg?
(it's a last ditch play...the candidate who goes there first, if at all, loses the state.)

[mark l.]

right/wrong direction is now 9%, or 1/3 of where it was when the democrats took over in 2006.

why, with the air of inevitabilty of the election of the messiah in the press is the country at the bottom of national direction?

democrats are in big trouble-there is no escaping the responsiblity of the last two years. Blame bush? His approval rating is twice that of congress, and he has been a fixture for the past 7 years.

I'm smelling 1994.

[BobinStamford]

Sickle cell anemia? Its backward folk like you that will make this victory all the better. Speculating about your future PRESIDENT having such a terrible disease is pretty terrible.

Better grab your guns and your bible clownboy - it's all you'll have left.

Oh, and I think that the smell is the meth cooking in your trailer.

[mary]

in the context o this election these words just jump out at you:

"the people will rise up

[ET]

Here is a lengthy and thorough appeal to undecided voters...It is almost 7000 words, many of which are too big for our trolls. But, I found it entertaining and insightful.

Read the whole thing...it's worth it. If you have an undecided friend, I encourage you to pass this sensible analysis along.

http://boortz.com/nuze/undecided.html

[mark l.]

"Speculating about your future PRESIDENT having such a terrible disease is pretty terrible."

not like you haven't been doing it for eight years. It is the entire premise of olbermann's show.

any chance your king has weighed in on murtha calling western pa redneck and racist? i guess it would sound hollow coming from a guy who referred to them as bitter clingers. best remain silent.

I'm hearing the internal polling on murtha has him trailing 45-38. If the resentment spreads, we are talking about a 50k vote swing, which would net a 100k for mccain from murthas district alone. significant bleeding in surrounding districts could make western pa a referendum on murtha-up to 400k net advantage over 04.

I wrote a little ditty for you bob,
to the tune of No Woman, No Cry
-sing it on election eve:

Nobama, no cry;
Nobama, no cry;
Nobama, no cry;
Nobama, no cry.

Said - said - said: I remember when we used to sit
In the Rezko's yard in Chi-town,
Oba - acting like hypocrites
As we would mingle with the Bill Ayer's elites.
Good preachers we have, oh, good preachers weve lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you can forget my past;
So dry your tears, I seh.

Nobama, no cry;
Nobama, no cry.
ere, little Nancy, dont shed no tears:
Nobama, no cry.

Said - said - said: I remember when-a we used to sit
In the Ayer's house in Chi-town.
....

[mark l.]

biden and pelosi could chime in on the chorus:

everything's gonna be alright,
does my botux look alright?

[mark l.]

"Speculating about your future PRESIDENT having such a terrible disease is pretty terrible."

Trey Palin ring a bell?

Which brings us back to Pa...

the democratic senator, casey...isn't he pro-life?

palin helps, riduclously(exclsuively) in Pa. Please more national smear campaigns about her faith. You'd be doing the lord's work.

[mark l.]

think you know your candidate?

there's a little latin phrase:

facta non verba,

deeds not words(which would actually make a good campaign slogan for mccain/palin)

McCain: his deed was service to our country and chosing to remain a pow, when offerred release.
Palin: held true to her faith and chose to deliver a child with down's syndrome. Interesting that under the law he is as much a human being as you. It appears obvious that democrats do not share the view.

two seperate people, two seperate deeds that showed me the character within in them.

can you offer anything that comes close from EITHER Obama or Biden?

[BobinStamford]

Time's running out for the redneck racists. But I guess I'd be angry and bitter too if I lived in a tin box on wheels. Oh well. Should have stayed in school like John Kerry suggested.

Semper Fi!

Thank your for your service!!

[seekeronos]

Those high-fallutin' pee-sy-kol-o'jist types with the pointy Van Dyke goatees and the thick glasses always tell us that menfolks with "adequacy" problems of some kind or another, can only get satisfaction by picking on other people.

While I'd rather not speculate as to Mr. Bob's prowess behind closed doors, as that would conjure up unseemly imaginations unfit for the many lady-folk and small children that visit here, I'll point out to another sort of "inadequacy":

Could it be, that Mr. Bob's very own domicile (however nice and negro-free and Latino-free it may be, aside of course, from the hired help) was purchased at such a time when the market was near its peak for housing values?

Could it be, that Mr. Bob is now rooted in Stamford for the foreseeable future, not so much out of desire, but necessity - and an inability to short-sell his house if he had to leave suddenly?

For all of Mr. Bob's derision against our fello Americans who live in manufactured homes, or trailers, or even the "tin box on wheels", as he calls it... could that simply be projected anger at a housing situation he is otherwise powerless to turn around?

Could Mr. Bob's many tiresome attacks against our esteemed colleague and fellow RWV commenter SacTownMan, long proven to be entirely without substance, be stemmed from Mr. Bob's housing impotency?

Only Mr. Bob knows for certain... and it's either that, or the impotency might truly stem from Mr. Bob's more unseemly bits not being able to adequately live up the family desires after all.

[mark l.]

"can you offer anything that comes close from EITHER Obama or Biden?"

c'mon bob, you have to have something to demonstrate their character.

over a hundred years between them, and they have nothing that shows they have character?

almost as sad as the democrats who believe in them.

[JMarra]

THIS, unlike the Ashley Todd, Poster Girl For McCain, story, is REAL.

Man arrested in slashing of Obama campaigner
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, August 29, 2008
(08-28) 21:51 PDT San Francisco --

A man was arrested Thursday after he verbally abused and then allegedly slashed the face of a Barack Obama campaigner in downtown San Francisco, police said.

The 6 p.m. attack on the unidentified 35-year-old male campaign activist occurred as he was working at Fifth and Market streets, police said. The campaigner had a permit, and officers nearby witnessed what happened next.

According to police, the unidentified suspect approached and began to shout slurs and insults at the campaigner, who listened, thanked the man for his views and asked him to leave.

The angry man complied, but quickly returned and pulled out a knife and slashed the victim in the face. The two officers who witnessed the attack responded, one arresting the suspect and the other driving the victim to the hospital. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/BAJO12KNGU.DTL

This article appeared on page B - 12 of the San Francisco Chronicle

AIN'T NO MORON LIKE A MCCAIN MORON. THEY'RE A WHOLE NEW BREED OF MORON--PERHAPS DELIBERATELY SELF-INFLICTED, LIKE ASHLEY TODD.

[JMarra]

JOHN MCCAIN SUPPORTS---AAIIEEEE!--SOCIALISM!

Outbreaks of what were thought to be exploded pumpkins turned out to be, upon investigation, the heads of McCain Morons exploding.

Authorities say it's a horrible stinky mess.

Flashback: In 2000, McCain said there is ‘nothing wrong’ with the wealthy paying ’somewhat more’ taxes.»

At an October 2000 town hall on MSNBC’s Hardball, an audience member asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about why the rich pay higher taxes than the middle class. McCain defended progressive taxation, stating, “I think it’s to some degree because we feel, obviously, that wealthy people can afford more”:

"[T]he very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don’t pay nearly as much as you think they do when you just look at the percentages. […]

So, look, here’s what I really believe, that when you are — reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more. … And frankly, I think the first people who deserve a tax cut are working Americans with children that need to educate their children, and they’re the ones that I would support tax cuts for first."

No, no, OBAMA'S supposed to being saying that! We're supposed to be able to hate OBAMA for being a SOCIALIST, what the hell's McCain DOING?

Why does John McCain hate rich people?