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Obama's presidential pandering increasing
OK, I think it's official now: I no longer can support Barack Obama without holding my nose. Or at least without holding one nostril shut.
I don't expect a "perfect" presidential candidate, one whose every public utterance is in line with my own belief system, but when in the fuck is enough enough?
I received an e-mail a while back that the local Obama campaign wanted folks to volunteer at an Obama campaign booth at Sacramento's recent gay pride gathering. The thought of volunteering quickly dissipated when I envisioned myself trying to explain to visitors to the booth why, exactly, they should wholeheartedly support Obama when his public position on same-sex marriage is that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left up to each state.
Gee, why don't we just let each state decide whether or not to have slavery? Or to let non-whites vote? Or hell, to let women vote? Or to decide whether or not to allow mixed-raced couples to marry? (You get the idea...)
OK, so that I could not, in good conscience, volunteer at a candidate's booth probably isn't such a great thing.
But then we recently had Obama pandering to the war-and-terrorists, proclaiming that Osama bin Laden must not be made into a martyr. Well, before we could make him into a martyr, we'd have to, um, find him first, wouldn't we?
But that's not the point. The point is that we already have Repugnican presidential wannabe John Fossil Fool McCain singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." More than five years into the Vietraq War, do we really need Barack Obama to join in the chorus? Please put what I am sure is your huge dick (and impressive balls) back into your pants, Barack. The stupid white male act doesn't suit you.
And now we have Obama pandering to Billary Cunton, who, like Freddy or Jason, just won't go the fuck away. Now we have Billary asking us to pay off her multi-million-dollar gambling debts for her.
Gambling debts? you ask.
Yes.
Billary gambled in October 2002 that her vote in the U.S. Senate for the unelected Bush regime's Vietraq War would help her politically. It did not.
More recently, Billary gambled upon returning to the White House, which she clearly misses dearly.
She lost that gamble, too (in no small part because of the gamble she'd lost in October 2002), although it took her months to finally fucking admit it.
But now, Billary wants us to bail her out. Reports The Associated Press today:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is sharing one his most valuable assets -- his top fundraisers -- with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton to help her pay off her debt, the latest effort to heal the wounds of a bruising primary campaign.
Obama [yesterday] asked his finance team to help Clinton pay back at least $10 million from her failed presidential campaign, setting the stage for joint appearances by the two former rivals later in the week. In a teleconference with his top fundraisers, Obama asked them to do what they could to help Clinton.
"What I said was to my large donors who are in a position to write large checks, to help Senator Clinton retire her debt, or at least a portion of it. And I think they're going to be those who are willing to do so," Obama told reporters at a news conference in Chicago.
A large chunk of Obama's cash has come from small donors, but he said he was not making the same appeal to them.
"I'm not going to be individually contacting $15 donors, because frankly, it probably wouldn't be that effective in terms of making a big dent in Senator Clinton's debt," Obama said.
Obama's green light to his money bundlers came before he and Clinton were scheduled to meet in Washington [tomorrow] with some of her top fundraisers in a show of unity after their bruising contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday, the two planned to campaign together in New Hampshire.
Obama clinched the nomination earlier this month; Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed him.
The former first lady and New York senator reported a $22.5 million debt at the end of May, more than half of which was a personal loan to her presidential campaign. Clinton, in a call to her top fundraisers last week, said she would concentrate on paying off money owed to vendors, not her personal loans.
She made the same pitch in a fundraising e-mail to supporters [today], saying she wouldn't use their money to repay herself.
"As you know, I had to loan money to my campaign at critical moments," Clinton wrote. "I'm not asking anyone's help paying that back. That was my investment and my commitment because I believe so deeply in our cause." ...
In urging his top fundraisers to help Clinton, Obama was counting on them to seek out their pool of donors to raise the money in large increments. Donors who have not contributed to Clinton's campaign could give up to $2,300 to help her pay off her debts.
It remained to be seen whether Obama would make a similar appeal to his Internet donors, a vast network of small-dollar contributors who helped Obama shatter fundraising records during the primary contests. As of the end of May, Obama had raised more than $287 million.
Clinton donors had been making a clear case to Obama that he needed to use his fundraising resources to help her get out of the red. Her national finance co-chair, Hassan Nemazee, told The Associated Press last week that Clinton would be freer to campaign for Obama and raise money for him if she did not have to concentrate on retiring her debt.
Moreover, Nemazee said, it would be easier for Clinton fundraisers who wanted to help Obama to be able to tell former Clinton donors, "Look what Senator Obama has done for Senator Clinton." ...
Jesus Fuck. Can you say "extortion"?
Billary Cunton is a typical baby boomer: She gambled for the prize of incredible political power, lost her gamble, and now she expects others to cover the cost of her gamble. Her baby boomerian sense of entitlement is stunning.
"As you know, I had to loan money to my campaign at critical moments," Clinton wrote in her e-mail. "I'm not asking anyone's help paying that back. That was my investment and my commitment because I believe so deeply in our cause."
Bullshit. Cunton had to loan her campaign money because she is so disliked by so many Democrats and Democratic-leaners that Obama outraised her ridiculously -- people voted with their dollars -- and because she refused to acknowledge the reality that all along the people wanted Obama, not her. That's why she racked up a huge campaign debt -- her incredible lust for power, no matter what the consequences to her own party and to her own nation, and her incredibly egotistical denial that she is so widely unpopular -- not because she "[believes] so deeply in our cause." The only cause that Billary Cunton believes in is Billary Cunton.
You know, if paying Billary Cunton off really would make her go the fuck away already, I'd say, Hell yes, let's pay the bitch off. But who in the hell really thinks that she'll ever go away? I had thought that we finally exorcised the Billary demon when earlier this month Obama finally won the number of delegates that he needs to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. I had thought that Obama dropped that house on Billary then. But I hear the rhymes-with-witch Cunton still cackling.
Team Cunton claims that "Clinton would be freer to campaign for Obama and raise money for him if she did not have to concentrate on retiring her debt"?
Gee, I'm thinking that Obama would be freer to campaign for himself and to raise money for his campaign for the White House if he didn't have to concentrate on badgering his donors to bail out the extorting sore loser Billary Cunton.
I have supported Barack Obama in no small part so that we finally can be done with the Cuntonistas, a.k.a. the DINOs (Democrats in name only). Now here he is helping to keep Billary Cunton's colossal ego in the spotlight even though the curtain already fell on her. Gee, thanks a million, Barack!
ObamaPanderFest 2008 apparently is just beginning, though, because today Obama assured us that he's for the execution of those who rape children.
Remarking on a U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the court found that executing those who rape (but don't kill) a child is unconstitutional, Obama said: "I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes. I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime, and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution."
The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with Barack "States' Rights!" Obama, 5-4; the court ruled that executing an individual for rape (and not murder), even for the rape of a child, violates the Constitution's ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
I certainly don't disagree that the rape of a child -- or that the rape of anyone of any age -- is heinous.
But to kill someone because killing (or, in this case, harming but not killing) people is wrong -- gee, what's wrong with that "logic"? No one in his or her right mind could support the death penalty.
And whom would Jesus execute? Jesus stated that the Old Testament "an eye for an eye" was no longer valid law. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, Jesus overturned "an eye for an eye" for "turn the other cheek." (Look it up.) Jesus -- himself a victim of the death penalty -- inarguably opposed it (duh). Yet Barack Obama claims to be a Christian, and a Christian, as I understand it, is one who actually follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Someone rapes a child? Lock him (or her -- let's be equal opportunist) up for life so that he (or she) no longer can hurt anyone else. Duh. We can imprison someone for life, and the legal costs of executing someone exceed the costs of keeping someone alive in prison for life.
And the rape of children, while certainly a visceral issue, hardly is the United States of America's most pressing issue.
Global warming, anyone? A U.S. poverty rate that has gone up every year since the Bush regime stole office in late 2000, anyone? The neverending Vietraq War, anyone? The record federal budget deficit, anyone? Aging baby boomers who are going to swallow up every last penny of Social Security and Medicare, anyone? Hello!? Hellooooo?!?!?
Guess how many child rapists the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling applies to?
A whopping two. Notes The Associated Press: "The ruling spares the only people in the U.S. under sentence of death for that crime: two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8."
I fully expect the Repugnicans to exploit issues that are visceral but that don't affect most of us Americans on a daily basis, such as abortion and same-sex marriage and the rape of children, to distract American voters from the nation's real problems.
And I understand that Barck Obama doesn't want to get Michael Dukakissed. (Notes the AP: "In 1988, a question about rape and capital punishment tripped up Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis. Dukakis was asked during a nationally televised debate with Republican George H. W. Bush whether he'd still oppose the death penalty if his wife were raped and murdered. His unemotional, dispassionate answer was ridiculed, and gave Republicans more material to paint him as an emotionless liberal." The AP also helpfully notes, "Obama has two daughters, ages 7 and 9.")
But did Obama really need to comment on the Supreme Court's decision? If so, did he really need to comment on it like he did?
Barack Obama promised us, over and over and over again, that with him it would no longer be politics as usual.
Obama, with his increasing pandering, has broken that promise.
(Here's a promise that I won't break: If I receive a single e-mail from the Obama campaign asking me to help Billary Cunton out with her campaign debt, I won't give the Obama campaign another fucking penny.)
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