Barack Obama declines to comment on McCain

That's right Obama, stay above the fray. Let the McCain's and the NY Times have at it with each other. There's enough to concentrate on, like the debate tonight in Texas.

"OBAMA THWARTS MEDIA SPIN"

ON A DAY OF CONVICTIONS, CONDI RICE, ADMITS TO RENDERING AND TORTURE ACTIVITIES OVER OUR PARTNERS AIRSPACE OR AIRPORTS. THAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF TODAY.

JOHN MCCAIN, IS JOHN MCCAIN, JOHN MCCAIN DIDN'T HAVE TO UPHOLD OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND RESPECT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR ALLIES. CONDI RICE DID.

JOHN MCCAIN DIDN'T STAND BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND SAY "WE ARE NOT DOING THAT OR ENGAGED IN ANYTHING LIKE THAT"

SO WHY ENGAGE IN MEDIA SPIN ON BEHALF OF THE REPUBLICANS. WHY DO THEIR BIDDING, WHEN AMERICA IS LOOKING FOR "CHANGE"

SO FORGET THE MEDIA SPIN, SPIN ON THE SPIN SPIN.

STICK TO THE ISSUES.

GOOD SHOT OBAMA! GOOD SHOT!
NEXT.

"Barack Obama declines to comment on McCain"

Well done Senator Obama, very classy!

-Democratic Manifesto

Dems believe in clean air, diplomacy, stem cells, living wages, body armor for our troops, government accountability, and that exercising the right to dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Dems believe in reading actual books, going to war as a last resort, separating church and hate, and doing what Jesus would actually do, instead of lobbying for upper-class tax cuts and fantasizing about the apocalypse.

Dems believe in civil rights, the right to privacy, and that evolution and global warming aren’t just theories but incontrovertible scientific facts.

Dems believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment that (1) prohibits another Bush from ever occupying the White House, and (2) prevents George W. Bush from ever becoming baseball commissioner before he does to our national pastime what he did for America.

Dems believe in rescuing people from flooded streets and rooftops, even if they’re too poor to vote Republican.

Dems believe that supporting our troops means treating our wounded vets like the heroes they are, and not leaving them to languish in rat-infested military hospitals under the outsourced management of incompetent cronies who think they’re running a Taco Bell franchise.

Dems believe in pheromones, sex ed, solar panels, voting paper trails, the common good, and that, no matter how fascinating a story it may be, a president should never sit around in a state of total paralysis reading "My Pet Goat" while America is under attack.

And above all, Democrats believe that it’s time to come together as a country and put a collective boot in the ass of shameless Republican fearmongers, hate merchants, and scapegoaters who are sucking the freedom out of all our souls.
Laced up! Ready to go!

OBAMA 08!

It's too bad that you've been given the authority to write "blockbuster story" in regard to the NYT piece. There is no merit to it, and you are perpetuating a lie and a fraud. Frankly, you suck.

McCain blockbuster story, John McCormick? Is that like the RYAN DIVORCE BOMBSHELL!!!! headline in the Joke-une a few years ago? A NY Times story with NO attributable sources?

Nice to see a candidate who doesnt jump at every red meat scrap of scandal just to win an election.

Obama - classy as always

More bad news for John McStraighttalker:

I know the big McCain story for today is the one covering McCain's inappropriate and intimate friendship with influential lobbiest Vicki Iseman.

BUT there's another story with possibly BIGGER implications: the Republican Chair of the FEC is demanding McCain prove he did not mislead them to get a loan from them - or the FEC will force McCain to take public financing!!

This can't possibly happen. No waaay!

Again, I know the big McCain story for today - but check out this story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_fec;_ylt=Ah57Qoob8s1LeFaAS8EOCu1h24cA

-On the Isman story:

Yes, it would certainly be sensational if Iseman, 30 years younger than McCain, did in fact have more than a professional relationship with McCain. However, the real story in that story IMHO opinion is not any innuendo of an affair but that once again it exposes John "Do as I say not as I do" McCain ethical problems.

You would think that after being implicated the Savings & Loans scandal which cost US taxpayer dollars billions, ala the Keating 5, that McCain would really smarten up about conflict of interests and obvious influence peddling relationships.

As a married man, McCain had no real reason to be so close to Iseman and as the chairman of the Senate commerce committee with whom Iseman's clients had business, McCain must have known better. You cannot cavort with lobbiests in private while publicly admonishing them. It's called duplicity and hypocrisy.

McCain is either unable to see such an obvious conflict of interest -- or worse, he's unwilling to acknowledge it. And that is very troubling.

BUT that's not the subject of this story though coupled with the Iseman story, "straight talking" McCain's ethical take on himself seems to be self-righteous and another well-fabricated political spin machine in operation.

Ok, already, what are we talking about? The FEC is investigating John McCain for possibly misleading (diplomatic speak for "lying") them so that he could get a loan from them back when his candidacy was struggling at the beginning of the campaign.

And get this: They are threatening to FORCE John McCain to take public financing if he doesn't testify before them about the conditions he accepted for his loan. In other words, John McCain may get stuck with the $85 million limitation that public financing places on him!

And what "librul" at the FEC is challenging McCain to prove his integrity? Why none other than the REPUBLICAN chairman of the FEC, David Mason, in a letter directed to McCain.

Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason, in a letter to McCain this week, said the all-but-certain Republican nominee needs to assure the commission that he did not use the promise of public money to help secure a $4 million line of credit he obtained in November.

Citing the loan agreement, Mason wrote: "We note that in your letter, you state that neither you nor your (presidential campaign) committee has pledged the certification of matching payment funds as security for private financing. In preparation for commission consideration of your request upon establishment of a quorum, we invite you to expand on the rationale for that conclusion."
This couldn't come at a worse time for McCain. We've already heard about the Iseman-lobbiest story. Now this story, where the FEC is investigating John McCain for possibly misleading the FEC to get a loan to keep his campaign afloat. At least, McCain looks like he's backing out of a legal contract -- not exactly an ethical or fiscally responsible thing to do.

But here's a more pragmatic problem: if McCain is forced to his pledge, he can't spend more than $54 million for the Republican primaries -- and he's almost approached that number! If McCain suddenly goes dark, it will help Huckabee. It probably won't be enough to give Huckabee the win given McCain big lead - but it will make it that much more difficult for McCain to connect with voters who may not see as much of him.

I personally can't believe that it's going to happen. The Chair is Republican and he'll get all kinds of pressure to back off. But this does embarrass McCain again - on top of the Iseman-lobbiest-affair story.

Now here's a final teaser: FEC Chair Mason said he needs the votes of 4 commissioners to accept McCain's withdrawal from public financing. Unfortunately, the commission only has 2 members because Republicans are fighting Democrats on who should fill the final four spots.

And if the commission is unable to meet to resolve the matter, then the Democratically controlled Senate has to give McCain permission to back out of public financing.

Actually, I belive that the supporters of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee should be po'd at John McCain right now, if the Times had done this story after Iowa as they were planing to do until McCain got them to hold off on it, one of those two guys would be the GOP nominee right now, NOT McCain.

What could Barack Obama say. Obama may have own problems with the Tony Rezko scandal.

Let the straight talker deal with this himself. Even though he wants to make an issue out your remark to take out Bin Laden if they knew we had direct knowledge of where he is. The same thing the parrots on the right always complains about Clinton not doing. This coming from mister bomb bomb bomb Iran. What stones.

What did Nedra expect? ... For Barack to say, "Yes"? Really, this is a question best answered by the Clinton camp which has EXPERIENCE in these matters.

This speaks volumes about the man and his principles.

He could've let lose on McCain and kick the man while he's down. Because as any Republican can tell you, is there a better a time to kick a man?

Anyone believe anything the FEC says? Their rulings will come late and they have been ignored with impunity by politicians of every stripe.

And to Bushwacked - Jesus wouldn't write your last paragraph, so save me the lecture.

I thought the dems were going to win this election and McCain does not thrill me, but Obama is the most liberal democratic candidate for President since McGovern. I actully see the GOP winning it. Hillary has policy plans, but even the democrat faithful don't like her. Obama has managed to stand for nothing and win, but if his tax pledge is anything like what he will campaign on in other areas he hasn't got a prayer either. So we will have a dem congress and a GOP president. A great oportunity for nothing to get done, which is a good thing.

This has Obama's fingerprints all over it.

Similar smear.

Similar m.o.

Immediate Motive: Convince Democratic superdelegates that Obama can win.

Long Term Motive:
Weaken a moderate that could beat him in November.

Rise above it Barack and stay above the fray. McCains' history has nothing to do with the goal you seek.

McCain to Obama: Stick to your promise to take FEC money.

McCain to FEC: I don't want to play by those rules anymore.

McCain to Congress: Don't mess with lobsters.

McCain to Lobsters: I can control myself. I will "listen" to you but I won't be "influenced" by the cash you put in my desk drawer.

McCain blockbuster story, John McCormick? Is that like the RYAN DIVORCE BOMBSHELL!!!! headline in the Joke-une a few years ago? A NY Times story with NO attributable sources?

Posted by: John D | February 21, 2008 3:06 PM

The GOP Titanic is sinking and this "lefty loon" has grabbed a front row seat to watch the action, pass the popcorn.

KKKarl Rove and Prez Chimpy created me in 2004. I'm the ant-swiftboat guy, the guy from the parrallel universe that Fox News told you about, little Johnny.

I'm your worst nightmare little Johnny, I'm the reason you wake you in the middle of the night in a cold sweat wondering what happened to your Grand Old White Guy Party.

Good. A promising sign of the campaign to come. And also politically astute, as so far this story has almost no substance.

Bu$hWacked says:
"Dems believe in doing what Jesus would actually do ..stem cells.. evolution "
??
I say:
Pretty sure Jesus was not "for" these things, and certainly against the one thing Dems are most for:
Murdering Babies in the Womb,{and Obama is even for killing them just outta the womb!}

I applaud Obama's behavior. He sets the standard for this election.

Obama couldn't really answer that question properly, had he accepted it. He may only know as much of the details of the mccain-iseman affair as the reporters who broke it, did. In that case, the reporter who asked that question should look to the new york times article for her answer

Obama didn't have to say anything at all when his friends in the media took down Blair Hull and Jack Ryan, too. Why be "unclassy" when you have a media horde practically in your campaign?

This non-story will backfire on the Times and its DNC friends. They have united the republican base against their own shoddy reporting. This will be tantamount to the wave that carried Arnold Schwarzenegger to the governor's mansion after the LA Times' non-story on his supposed bad behavior on movie sets.

Thank you New York Times and the DNC. You have energized the republican and non-crazy liberal democrat base behind John McCain. The Reagan coalition will punish the democrat nominee for the smear campaign their house organ tried to start.

Can you imagine what Mitt could have done with this?

"This non-story will backfire on the Times and its DNC friends."

Oh really? Like how the Republics turned an affair between 2 people into a presidential crisis?!?!

Sorry ding dong. Paybacks are a bitch. John Corrupt Bimbo Eruption McCain...a true Republic.

Thank you New York Times and the DNC. You have energized the republican and non-crazy liberal democrat base behind John McCain. The Reagan coalition will punish the democrat nominee for the smear campaign their house organ tried to start.

Posted by: Jeff | February 21, 2008 7:31 PM

Hey Jeffy,

You might want to call up Matt Drudge and tell him that the Repulican knuckledragging mouthbreathing crime family is at war with him....afterall, it was Matty boy who broke the story in Dec.

Pass the popcorn, Paulo!

Of course Obama had no comment. There is nothing to comment on.

The NYT & WP story was about McCain's advisers telling a lobbyist to back off out of concern about how it may look. But for some reason, republicans are the ones claiming the media is saying there is some sex scandal here.

The first evidence that the articles talked about an affair can be posted on this blog. I'll become a conservative for a day if anyone can prove it.

You're the idiots that are nominating McCain. This reverse swift boat tactic is one Americans will easily pick-up on.

Republicans were hoping Clinton would be nominated for the anti-Clinton vote, but Obama is going to be the bigger anti-republican vote.

Yes, a class act for sure.

But where in John D? I would be interested in what the French mime has to say on this subject.

He must still be breaking in 'Bushman'.

Old Creaky,

And if you think I need broken in you are crazy. And don't think for a minute that being a nice guy will be getting Obama of the hook.

Dream on Librtarians.

Old Creaky,

And if you think I need broken in you are crazy. And don't think for a minute that being a nice guy will be getting Obama of the hook.

Dream on Librtarians.

Obama refuses to comment and that makes him a "class act." But the rest of you Lib's continue to spew your hatred....what does that make you?

I believe Maverick McCain when he says he didn't have an affair with that lobbyist. The GOP guys usually stick with hookers or restroom foot-tapping.

Obama is truly a class act.

Also demonstrated by the way he handled Clinton's attacks.

The man has grace and intelligence. America, you haven't seen this combination running for the White House in many decades.

Sorry but "Bemused" sounds like an escapee from a psychiatric hospital who's watched too many police shows.

John D, I am afraid to report, apparently died of an over-active spleen.

Nicely put, Bushwacked! As for the comment that Jesus would not have written the last paragraph, I'm not so sure.
Didn't He turn over the moneychanger's tables in the Temple?

conservative chris,
How many survive abortion procedures? I'm assuming you have statistics since you claim to know what you are talking about.

Ladies and gentlemen,
Do not let Jeff or the so-called liberal media deceive you. The NYT story and the WASHINGTON POST story (which Jeff and the media ignore) was about McCain's EXTREMELY cozy relationship with lobbyists. He was being flown around the country on corporate private jets discussing issues that would come up in committee's he chaired and was not reimbursing the expenses for these trips around the country. I don't believe he cheated on a wife AGAIN. I think he was getting TOO close to a lobbyist who happened to be a woman and staffers were concerned. Once such staffer spoke to the Washington Post and allowed his identity to be revealed. This is about a man who says he can't be bought(after he was snared in the Keating Five) and is taking favors and gifts from lobbyists and private companies. Is this how you want elected officials to behave??

Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain keep saying that they've got more experience than Obama. However, they both voted for the Iraqi war and Obama with no experience was intelligent enough to vote against the war.

So this is not about having more experience or being much older. It is about having a good sense of judgment to be able to make the right decision when it matters.

I believe Maverick McCain when he says he didn't have an affair with that lobbyist. The GOP guys usually stick with hookers or restroom foot-tapping.

Posted by: Tom O | February 22, 2008 2:28 AM

Tom O i giveup : I just got an e-mail from Barney Frank and he said there might be some "gay" sex charges coming out soon about your " Homie"

Don B, Barney sends you emails? You two must be close. I wouldn't have thought you were his type, but I guess politics does make strange bedfellows as the saying goes. (Hillary supporters please note: I wasn't the originator of that saying. I copied it from someone else.)

Why in the heck should Obama comment on McCain's personal life? Give me a break. You media hounds will do anything for a story. How in the world anyway would Obama know if McCain had relationship with a lobbyist? Was Obama there?

Actually Obama missed a great opportunity. What he should've/could've said was, "I haven't seen the article, I've heard about it, not read it, but this is why I'm running,this is what we are trying to CHANGE. The top half of the front page of the NYT's is quoting anonymous sources, now that's the CHANGE we don't want to see, especially being a lawyer".

JUST MY OPINION!!!!!!!

I cant believe as AMERICANS that we are even considering the idea of having BARACK OBAMA as leader of our country. Did we not learn our lesson with 9-11. Have we no heart or soul that we forget so easily all we lost on that day to allow this person to run our country. This is AMERICA not the republic of KENYA.

Do you people not think that if the BIN LADEN and all his followers went to so much trouble to seek out all the planes in which they would need to carry out their plans of torture on our great land, all the time and money spent, all the people involved to carry it out that they would not set the wheels in motion to have one of their own come into our office and destroy our country.

I am sorry but if the people of AMERICA think thats its ok to have a Represenative with a foreign SOIL background rule our country that we are no longer the LAND OF THE FREE. We are no longer the LEADING COUNTRY of the world. Do you think that KENYA OR IRAQ OR SAUDI ARABIA would allow an AMERICAN family to move there, give birth to a child and then let that child become their LEADER. I THINK NOT.

Do you people not remember all the talk of a man in a TURBAN who will be the one to start a NUCLEAR WAR. Well BARACK in that TURBAN does not make me want to invite him to lead our country. If we thought having the BUSHES run our country was bad enough I think we are in big trouble inviting BARACK OBAMA which to me OBAMA sounds a little to close for comfort to OSAMA, to run our country.

HAVE WE ALL GIVEN UP SO EASILY.

WE ARE AMERICANS AND AN AMERICAN SHOULD RUN OUR GREAT LAND.

B-Born
A-A
R-Rebel
A-American
C-Citizen
K-Killer

O-Observe
B-By
A-Assassinating
M-Most
A-Americans

IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE COME TO.

Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Chaney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Chaney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.

The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.

Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.

Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.

Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming tax fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --

OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --

"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.

Michelle Obama should be ashamed.

"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

THE SPEECH --

The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama's speech takes credit for Ashley's dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. In Obama's speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama's grandmother share; represents Obama's self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama's Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn -- a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama's speech is a brilliant failure.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/