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Obama: 'Don't Underestimate Our Ability to Screw it Up'
October 17, 2008 12:13 AM
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- At 11:25 pm ET this evening, at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., thanked Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, John Legend and India Arie for participating in a fundraising concert benefiting the Obama Victory Fund.
"What a magical evening," Obama said, "which I will not spoil with a long speech."
After speaking for a bit to the crowd about issues, Obama urged his supporters to get to work for his election.
"Don't underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," Obama said. "Don't underestimate our ability to screw it up."
"I want everybody running scared. Over the next 18 days, other than your family and your job, I want you to make a decision that there is nothing more important than bringing about this change that we need."
- jpt
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This should be really good....You can not obtain a stafford loan, grants or any other federal aid for college (which by the way is all subsidized by the federal government) if you are an illegal alien or cannot produce proof of citizenship documentation. Why would Michelle Obama talk to API about anything? A phone call?? Ever heard of a prank calls?
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: Sike | Nov 3, 2008 2:33:39 PM
Tomorrow's the big day! WOOOOOHOOOOOO
The chickens have finally come home to roost - as Jeremiah Wright would say. ROFLMAO
API is going to release the audio of Michelle Obama's recent phone call to API. Can't wait. She's apparently totally UNHINGED & confirms the fact that Obama is in fact an illegal alien. This ought to be good.
Stay tuned! Listen up AMERICA! The truth will set you free!
Posted by: Jake | Oct 18, 2008 5:55:54 PM
What frightens me the most is that, based on countless comments such as these posted all over the Internet, it would seem this "great" country of ours is predominantly populated by illiterate, ignorant, aggressive bigots who have no hope of comprehending politics, or much of anything else for that matter, and adamantly maintain that their opinions count only because they're supposed to out of some misguided sense of "fairness"... and, these people vote. It scares the hell out of me that such narrow-minded morons hold sway on our political system. Voter application forms should be accompanied by tests to verify prospective voters have some rudimentary understanding of reality that's not tainted by extreme bias. Of course, that's about as likely as getting everyone online to behave like civilized human beings.
Posted by: David | Oct 18, 2008 8:24:15 AM
The McCain/Palin campaign is truly grasping at straws. They don't have any real plans for America, except to continue the policies of George Bush, so they pick any untruth they can find to play with. It's sure easier than talking about the real issues. Obama/Biden 08!
Posted by: Katy | Oct 17, 2008 11:44:35 PM
"It's ridiculous that someone that's running for President CANNOT produce a legal birth certificate. Get a clue. "
It's even MORE ridiculous that despite proof of Obama's long term associations with ACORN and his recent payment to them of over $800,000 and that group's current involvement with tons of fraudulent voter registration records...
THAT YOU'RE GOING TO LET HIM B U Y THE OFFICE OF POTUS!
e g a d s @
shame on you!
Posted by: egads@ | Oct 17, 2008 8:57:07 PM
3 words: DEWEY defeats TRUMAN
The polls, the pundits, the press and even the candidates got it wrong. It's not like these guys are infallible (or even unbiased).
It ain't over 'til it's over. And a lot of basketball games have been lost when the team with the lead goes into their four-corners-run-the-clock-out stall.
Nixon had plumbers to help impact the outcome in 1972. Appears that McCain has his own plumber to make a run at a momentum shift this year.
Posted by: OneObservation | Oct 17, 2008 6:40:55 PM
Paul, ever hear of student loans and scholarships? I guess not.
Obama and his wife were actually still paying on their student loans until he wrote his second book which sold a lot of copies. You should read it. He is really a very intelligent, kind but tough man. Obama will make an excellent leader.
Posted by: Lydia | Oct 17, 2008 6:21:14 PM
Bob Voss,
Are you for real?
Just because it "looks real to you" doesn't make it so. Are you an expert like the people who have already concluded that it's a forgery? ROFLMAO
John McCain Shirts,
Yes, anyone can file a lawsuit. Berg did & the Obama camp WILL NOT & CANNOT produce the necessary documentation. Something's rotten in Denmark! It's ridiculous that someone that's running for President CANNOT produce a legal birth certificate. Get a clue.
Posted by: Jake | Oct 17, 2008 4:53:33 PM
Barry Goldwater was challenged also, seems he was born in Arizona before it was a state...
I've seen Obama's birth certificate, looks real to me. How about discussing the real issues... this one is put to rest.
I wonder what the media would make of it if Michele Obama was member of an organization that refused to be called americans but alaskans. An organization that professes to hate America and all it stands for. When Palin was elected mayor, she tried to appoint an Alaskan Independenc Party member to her vacant seat. This guy has high powered assault rifles buried in his front yard for when the black helicopters come to take away everyone's firearms.... Wingnuttery at it's best. Don't get me started on the fundamentalist whackos that elected her. They took over the board at the hospital and banned abortions while Palin was charging rape victims for supplies needed to get evidence of the rapes... she knew about it and did nothing.
Posted by: bob voso | Oct 17, 2008 4:13:03 PM
Okay lets look at Pailn-
Dropped out of multiple colleges before getting a degree.
She uses improper English. Even though alot of idiots think it cute, "I'll betcha" and "Gosh Darn it" are not proper English speaking words. Try going on an interview talking like this and see what happends to you.
Okay lets look at McCain- graduated five from the bottom of his class. Barely made it through flight school, only made it because of his father's status. Crashed three planes early in his flying career. And was actually the co-pilot in the plane that went down in Vietnam. He takls about killing earmarks! He killed an earmark that would have brought a Veterans Hospital to a small town. He killed an earmark for a Cancer treament center. He's a follower and that why he picked Palin. Someone in his campaign told him to pick her (to get Hillary voters). He was going to pick Romney or one of those those other rock heads. Instead he chose the role of follower and listen to the looney idiots on his team. He should have asked himself " Who can I pick that would be ready to serve as President if something happens to me? Instead he asked "Who can I pick that will help me when?". As a result he ended up picking a dumb bag of rocks for a VP..And the rest is history.
Posted by: McShame/Failin Palin | Oct 17, 2008 4:09:49 PM
Bob Vosco....what's up with you?
Don't want to look it up. I'm looking at Obama's birth certificate on line. Born in Honolulu 7:42 pm August 4, 1961.
You do know Hawaii is in the United States, don't you?
Posted by: Roxie in Texas | Oct 17, 2008 3:52:57 PM
Jake,
If you Google "Barack Obama" and "birth certificate", you'll come up an article in a blog from the LA Times that shows a picture of it. Can we finally put that tired canard to rest?
Eric S.
Posted by: Eric S. | Oct 17, 2008 3:48:37 PM
Hey Bob Voso,
Yep, I know that he wasn't born in the US. He was born in Panama while his father served in the military on a US base. Both his parents are US citizens & so is McCain. Natural born. By the way, McCain has already provided his US birth certificate long with all his other records.
Where's Obama's? No US birth certificate, no college records & no medical records?
Hmmmmmmmm?
Posted by: Jake | Oct 17, 2008 3:38:16 PM
Hey Jake,
How about McCain's birth certificate? Do you know he was not born in the United States?
Posted by: bob voso | Oct 17, 2008 2:49:55 PM
Folks, are you reading what you are writing? Are you listening to yourselves?
You are so quick to talk about McCain's credentials working across the the aisle, and yet attacking anything and everything in your own lives.
No one on this board is even talking about the policies and actions of either candidate. This isn't discourse about hard decisions, its character assasignation.
Here's one to get you started. Why is is McCain claims he wants Joe to hang onto his own money and spread the wealth himself, and yet he talks about buying out mortgages with Tax dollars....something that would surely cost Billions of Dollars?
That seems to take Joes money as well.
Let's try and focus on what they are saying and doing, rather than all this hateful nonsense.
Posted by: Rational | Oct 17, 2008 2:07:07 PM
Jazz Singer, sorry, but the McCain camp is NOT out of ideas. Each and every day, McCain (and Palin) outline their positive plans to help our nation move forward. He has laid out a mortgage plan that will bring stability to housing values. He has proposed excellent ideas related to the financial crisis-- including allowing seniors to skip withdrawals from their retirement funds without penalty and freezing government spending. He has outlined the ways to energy independence--- read his Lexington Project proposals-- including building nuclear plants and drilling off-shore. You mean he has no ideas with which you can agree-- or more likely, you mean you want people to believe he has no ideas and is busy practicing "character assassination" instead. But we know better. We know that the press, and folks like you, don't pay much attention when McCain addresses the pressing issues of the day. Your ears only perk up when he has the audacity to mention the Ayers questions or to ask why Obama won't repudiate ACORN and agree to work with the Republicans on an effort to reduce voter fraud. Then you don't take the issues seriously, you just start to froth about how this is an unwarranted attack on Obama.
Posted by: moderate | Oct 17, 2008 12:54:12 PM
Oh, Sen. Obama, don't you worry. I never underestimate the ability of Democrats to screw things up. I hope you are right, and that your minions can still blow this. Your own actions in recent days have given me a glimmer of hope. You have gone after Joe the Plumber, voice dripping sarcasm as you intone, "Anybody know any plumbers makin' a quarter of a million dollars a year?" You demonstrated yet again that you have no conception of how small businesses in this country, like my own and like the one Joe yearns to buy and grow, actually operate and how those small businesspeople feel about the tax system. You try to stir up class envy, thinking that by promising to help the 95% at the expense of the top 5%, you can get those 95% on your side, but most of us are savvier than that. You and your followers are howling that Joe wouldn't even be one of the 5% who would pay higher taxes, totally ignoring the words of this good man when he points out that he doesn't think the taxes should be raised even on folks making $5 million. He is against Obama's tax plan on principle, not just because of the specific way it would affect him. That is not to say he does not care how it would directly affect him, but that his understanding is greater than that and he does not like the philosophy behind the plan or the way that it would hurt people who depend on that much-maligned top 5% for jobs and spending.
Sen. Obama then goes on to say, "I want everybody running scared. Over the next 18 days, other than your family and your job, I want you to make a decision that there is nothing more important than bringing about this change that we need." Yes, nothing is more important than getting Obama elected, so if that means you have to pry into every nook and cranny of the life of an ordinary citizen who ran into Sen. Obama and made the fatal mistake of not falling for the Senator's charm and of speaking his own mind and having a difference of opinion with the senator, so be it. IF that means you feel the need to flash the man's home address on your website, so be it. If that means you feel the need to publicize details of his economic and marital history to the entire world, as though that somehow disqualified him from having an opinion or expressing it, so be it. Remember, it's for a great cause, the election of The One.
Sorry, I am not moved by the exhortations of The One.
Posted by: moderate | Oct 17, 2008 12:47:59 PM
The McCain campaign can't run on issues anymore (even national defense) so all they've got is character assassination. It would be a compliment to call some of the posters here "gutter snipes". These are misrepresentations, distortions, or outright lies. Stop the fear mongering and talk about how McCain will fix the economy and improve our lot in the world - if you can.
Attempts to raise these kinds of doubts about Obama aren't going anywhere with swing voters; in fact, they're hurting McCain daily. Most voters are too smart for that. They also have too many concerns about what the previous eight years have done to the state of the US economy and our position in the world.
The fact is that Barack Obama is a patriotic American who just happens to have a different opinion than John McCain about what will serve our country best. John McCain has acknowledged this. Even arch-conservatives like David Brooks and Christopher Buckley are in support of Barack Obama. Obama has made the most of what America has offered him and he is grateful for it.
Obama's supporters are thoughtful Americans who are inspired by his life experience, his education, his writings, and his work in government. They share his opinion that the US is a great country that can be made even greater by changing the direction from that of the Bush administration and empowering the middle class instead of only the super rich top five percent.
Obama has been thoroughly vetted by the American free press, as a prerequisite to getting elected, and for serving on various committees in the Senate. We still have the finest and most free press in the world. If there was a leak in Obama's story, the press would have dished it out with great joy and great ratings. You can't serve on many senate committees (like foreign relations) if you haven't been cleared for very high levels of government security. At this point, he's been fully vetted for President.
If any McCain supporters actually believe half the lies they are posting in these comments, they might consider seeking assistance from a mental health professional. You're just wallowing in self serving delusions and hoping that if you repeat these fantasies enough, they might somehow come true.
Posted by: jazz changes | Oct 17, 2008 12:39:31 PM
Anti-Palin,
You've got it wrong. Obamessiah is the liar. He's the illegal alien fraud that won't hand over his birth certificate.
Posted by: Jake | Oct 17, 2008 12:06:24 PM
So unless Palin is for abortion she's stupid?
palin is a serious embarrassment to intelligent women. i refuse to let someone like that represent me in the white house. she is a joke. i'm trying so hard to remain level headed about it. she is an american after all
Hey that's intelligent and even handed!
Supports abortion = smart
Against aprotion = stupid!
very clear now!
Posted by: richard | Oct 17, 2008 11:06:54 AM
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