Former DNC Chairman Joe Andrew endorses Obama...

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and says he's rooting for an Obama-Bayh ticket. :wtf:

There is much more coming out about Obama. You don't see Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi, Reid or even Donna Brazile in support of their candidate do you?

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Where are Obama's friends now?

Remember way back on January 10, 2008, when Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at a campaign rally in Charleston, S.C.? Remember when, during that endorsement, Sen. Kerry "argued that Obama had the experience to lead the country," that Obama "'brings the lessons of the neighborhood, the lessons of the legislature and the lessons of his own life to that awesome challenge' of filling the Oval Office."

Does anyone wonder now if, when Sen. Kerry brought up those "lessons" that Sen. Obama would bring with him to the White House, was he thinking at all about the unsavory, un-American, hate-filled baggage that Sen. Obama was going to bring with him?

Back in January 2008, other than Fox News cable talk show hosts Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly, who was paying attention to the likes of Sen. Obama's favorite pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Or to Father Michael Pfleger? Who out there on the television networks had even heard of the neighborhood and political connections between Sen. Obama and former domestic terrorist, Weather Underground leader William Ayers, and his companion in crime, Bernadine Dohrn? Or that Sen. Obama attended political events with Rashid Khalidi or Edward Said?

Who besides Chicago newspapers and local television stations was fully aware of the city's penchant for dirty politics, backroom dealing, and the power of the "Chicago Combine"? Who else was so fully aware of indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko's behind-the-scenes involvement in Illinois pay-to-play with the state's governor, Rod Blagojevich? Who else knew that there was a questionable real estate transaction in 2005 somehow hammered out between Tony Rezko, his wife, Rita Rezko, and Sen. Obama?

Who besides Illinois political insiders knew that Sen. Obama had supported Tony Rezko, his friend and political benefactor, in his efforts to lure Iraqi-British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi into a multi-million dollar investment in a 62-acre downtown Chicago development? Or wined and dined with Aiham Alsammarae, Rezko friend and fellow businessman wanted by the Iraqi government for the theft of $650 million of Iraqi reconstruction funds?

Who was paying attention besides a handful of bloggers to the fact that Sen. Obama's church, Trinity United Church of Christ, had honored Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan or that Sen. Obama's official campaign website hosted a page for the New Black Panther Party and other hate-filled posters?

Now that the real Sen. Barack Obama is being revealed nightly on the news, daily in both the print and online newspapers, and on blogs 24/7, who is paying attention?

And, should all this diversified media coverage have actually grabbed the attention of Sen. Obama's supporters, either voters or superdelegates or members of the Democratic Party elite, where are they now? Why are they not coming to his aid now that all the bad news is spreading like a wildfire?

http://www.rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/rezkowatch-rant-where-are-obamas.html

doing heavy PR in California to try to get electoral vote-rich California to adopt Diebold voting machines in advance of the fall election.

Be afraid.

"MorphismGate," "3amGate," "TravelGate," "MonicaGate," "Norman HsuGate," "Rose Law FirmGate,"
"WhiteWaterGate," "I'm in bed with PACs, Lobbyists, and EarmarksGate," "Kitchen SinkGate," and every single other "gate" that can nip at her ass from here to kingdomcome. The day Hillary is nominated is the day the R's dance for joy in the streets because they'll be so louded down with ammunition to fule the pure and utter hatred they have for Hillary. Think long and hard about going down the Hillary road.

"I'm a preacher, I am accountable to God".. Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Edwards, Kucinich, Feingold, Boxer, etc.

against being labeled a Judas..fat chance.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/on_my_switch_from_clinton_to_o.html

"My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign. If the campaign's surrogates called Governor Bill Richardson, a respected former member of President Clinton's cabinet, a "Judas" for endorsing Senator Obama, we can all imagine how they will treat somebody like me. They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite. I will be branded as disloyal, power-hungry, but most importantly, they will use the exact words that Republicans used to attack me when I was defending President Clinton.

When they use the same attacks made on me when I was defending them, they prove the callow hypocrisy of the old politics first perfected by Republicans. I am an expert on this because these were the exact tools that I mastered as a campaign volunteer, a campaign manager, a State Party Chair and the National Chair of our Party. I learned the lessons of the tough, right-wing Republicans all too well. I can speak with authority on how to spar with everyone from Lee Atwater to Karl Rove. I understand that, while wrong and pernicious, shallow victory can be achieved through division by semantics and obfuscation. Like many, I succumbed to the addiction of old politics because they are so easy.

Innuendo is easy. The truth is hard.

Sound bites are easy. Solutions are hard.

Spin is simple and easy. Struggling with facts is complicated and hard.

I have learned the hard way that you can love the candidate and hate the campaign. My stomach churns when I think how my old friends in the Clinton campaign will just pick up the old silly Republican play book and call in the same old artificial attacks and bombardments we have all heard before."

endorsement..talking ahead of time about what the clintons are capable of coming up with in the smear department..it's almost as important as the glowing words he had for Obama.

Thank you, Joe Andrews from Indiana

From the video: "We have an embarrassment of riches - two candidates with much to offer."

He's absolutely right and I think it's good of him to say. Great, great news for Obama.

was "POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT". I knew that one!

Did you catch the "Barama" in the beginning?:)

Did he not look scared when he spoke?

Just the sad truth of her lunacy.