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Maureen Dowd: Obama Should Take A Page From Christine O’Donnell

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The country may have finally produced a political candidate that can not be made more ridiculous by Maureen Dowd. In fact, one wonders if the over-the-topness factor of this year’s midterm candidate roster might not turn Dowd away from her reliable zingers into some sort of staid and snoozy columnist. Today Dowd jumps into the Christine O’Donnell fracas.

As the witchcraft metaphor has already been handily provided for her, all that’s left for Dowd to do is reflect that perhaps President Obama could use a little more passionate fantasy in his presidency (though thankfully she refrains from any Gandalf comparisons).

We the People in the Ruling Class Elites do think O’Donnell comes across as alarmingly loopy. But maybe she’s smart as a fox in doing a Single-White-Female, Fox anchor makeover to look more like her queen-maker, Sarah Palin.

She’s also smart to think of politics in terms of passion and myth — two elements Barack Obama was able to summon during his campaign that are sorely missing from his presidency.

She might have gone a broom too far, though, when she once told Bill Maher that she had “dabbled into witchcraft” and went on a date with a witch that included “a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”

Obama’s bloodless rationality has helped spawn the right’s bloodletting of irrationality. His ivory tower approach to the nation’s fears and anxieties about the economy gave rise to a tower of angry babble. Tea Party is basically a big tent for anger…The president seems put upon and impatient with reality while his foes seem happy to embrace fantasy.

Interestingly, MoDo also seems to think that the departure of Rahm Emanuel spells passionate doom for the White House: “All the blood will drain out of the White House. And Obama can go to Ben’s Chili Bowl for lunch every day and it won’t matter.”

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  • Big Eddie

    Christine’s activities when she was young don’t matter . She said what she was thinking at the time . ” …Innocent act without thinking. Guilty always make plan “.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    *see also…
    stupid acts without thinking or stupid is as stupid acts

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    So, at the same time Christine was having these thoughts, Obama was snorting cocaine….and al franken too.

    Now what were you liberals saying?

  • notsofast

    MoDo also seems to think that the departure of Rahm Emanuel spells passionate doom for the White House: “All the blood will drain out of the White House. And Obama can go to Ben’s Chili Bowl for lunch every day and it won’t matter.”

    MoDo, just don’t get near Rahmbo when he is near a shower!

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    stupid is as stupid acts

    You certainly would be a subject expert on that.

  • felixw

    The fact that the leftwing media is putting all its energy into helping a Democrat hold on to Joe Biden’s old Senate seat tells you how bad off they are. Another 600 seats are at stake, and they need to put all their firepower in securing a safe seat in a safe state against a supposedly unelectable candidate? Very revealing, no?

  • Pablo

    Not Your Typical New Yorker said:
    So, at the same time Christine was having these thoughts, Obama was snorting cocaine….and al franken too.

    Right, but he outgrew the cocaine habit and then spent half his life in Rev. Hatey’s Faux-Christian Grievance Circus.

  • notsofast

    Our Marxist President can’t talk about the Creator:

    Government Revisionist Recitation: Obama Omits ‘Creator’ While Quoting Declaration

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revisionist-recitation-obama-omits-creator-while-quoting-declaration/

  • writer

    If Obama was a ‘real’ black man, like Bill Maher said, then he could use the gun in his pants to take that page by force.

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    Pablo said:
    Right, but he outgrew the cocaine habit and then spent half his life in Rev. Hatey’s Faux-Christian Grievance Circus.

    Completely agree but I didn’t want to overburden the liberal capacity to understand…

  • felixw

    Dowd and the rest of the leftwing media are afraid — there is no other word for it — of addressing the real issues behind O’Donnell’s candidacy. This election is about government accountability and fiscal responsibility. Dowd would want you to believe that voters will be voting about witchcraft. Maddow would have you believe that masturbation is the big issue. Who looks ridiculous in this situation? Not O’Donnell, that’s for sure. The real jokes here are the pundits who offer character attacks because they lack the courage to defend their own big government, high taxes and big spending agenda.

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    notsofast said:
    Our Marxist President can’t talk about the Creator:

    Government Revisionist Recitation: Obama Omits ‘Creator’ While Quoting Declaration

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revisionist-recitation-obama-omits-creator-while-quoting-declaration/

    That’s only because Obama thinks that HE is the creator.

  • Moderate

    Obama went to church today. He has been listening to Dowd. Let the makeover, into a human, begin. People have seen the raw product and all the lipstick in the world will never cover that up.

  • mexwine

    CPF

    Are you referring to The RHCP, (phenomenal) or, the picante vegetable used for heating up food in your AKA? Love them both………good choice of pseudonym ….. Now, please, pull your head out of your nether regions. Life IS like a box of chocolates. But it takes a little discernment to tell them from little blobs of caca………………

  • Not Your Typical New Yorker

    Moderate said:
    Obama went to church today. He has been listening to Dowd. Let the makeover, into a human, begin. People have seen the raw product and all the lipstick in the world will never cover that up.

    Obama went to church today!…Damn funny that, eh? The condemned always turn to God before the end.

  • musiccityvic

    Funny, I went back in the archives and can’t find one column from a lib “pundit” on how ridiculous a public servant Barney Frank was for running a male prostitution ring out of his house. Shocking. It is fun watching the rats scatter in the light

  • felixw

    musiccityvic said:
    Funny, I went back in the archives and can’t find one column from a lib “pundit” on how ridiculous a public servant Barney Frank was for running a male prostitution ring out of his house. Shocking. It is fun watching the rats scatter in the light

    You’re absolutely right. The left attacks tea party candidates with inconsequential minutiae, while avoiding debate on all the key issues of the day. Yet their own heroes have huge scandals in their past that the media will never mention. It’s hard to take these folks seriously. Especially since we have seen them perform this whole circus so many times in the past.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    The Mododo projects onto C O’D her own deranged hallucinations, generated in that Upper West Side cocoon she rarely leaves. O’Donnell may be a bit loopy, but Castle amassed $8 million in forty-five years of public service and gets shirty when he’s ditched. Coons is a serial tax-increase addict who espouses Marxism, proudly.

    I’m a bitter clinger and thank God, it looks like The Won is a one-termer.

    And MUSICCITYVIC, ain’t it strange how Bawny Fwank walks from his FanFred collapse & blames GWB, who was trying to STOP sub-primes? Doncha wonder how Fwank got that lisp sometimes?

  • JimBob

    There is about a 95% percent chance, when Maureen Dowd writes a column
    about another woman, any woman, THAT woman is so much better looking and classier
    than Maureen. She cannot get away from that fact. Just the odds….
    I wonder if that clouds her prose ?

  • murf

    MoDo needs to realize Obama is a amateur surrounded by amateurs . Seriously how naive and ignorant do you have to be to get a job at the NYT ?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    mexwine…although i love spicy food, my reference is to the band
    as for my post, i was commenting on the saying that “innocent act without thinking” by saying so does stupidity, which i believe is the case of christine oddell when she says that she unknowingly went on a date to a satanic alter with blood on the ground…what gave it away? the dark capes and sharpened teeth?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    writer says:
    September 19, 2010 at 11:06 am writer(Quote)
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    If Obama was a ‘real’ black man, like Bill Maher said, then he could use the gun in his pants to take that page by force

    and people on the right are constantly saying they are being accused of racism with no justification…
    so writer, a ‘real’ black man carries a gun?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    and so far there is only one person who disagrees with writer?

  • writer

    Chili, I didn’t say it. I was quoting Maher.

    “I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — ‘we’ve got a m*therf*cking problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.”

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    my apologies writer, i didn’t see bill maher…not a big fan of his

  • writer

    Not many are.

  • puck30

    ChiliPeppersFan says:
    September 19, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    “what gave it away? the dark capes and sharpened teeth?”

    You’ve been to one?

  • dcmediasux

    “The country may have finally produced a political candidate that can not be made more ridiculous by Maureen Dowd.”

    oh how catty !

    seems glyniss here wants to BE Maureen Dowd.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    musiccityvic said:
    Barney Frank was for running a male prostitution ring

    Like I hear all the time about Mediaite – NICE SPIN

    from Larry J. Sabato while bashing Clinton
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/frank.htm
    Though Frank was apparently ignorant of some of the prostitute’s activities, his indiscretion was so great that his standing in Congress was greatly damaged and a House reprimand passed overwhelmingly in July 1990.

    although, I would take it one step farther and say toss the bum out same as Charley Rangel

    but, mudslinging sure is fun,
    no?

  • no-touchy-touchy

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    my apologies writer, i didn’t see bill maher…not a big fan of his

    xcept when under EVERY story it then becomes a theme

  • jukin3

    More FANTASY???!!!???

    His entire economic plan is fantasy, unicorn farts, and folly. Of course Nancy Pelosi has burned trillions too.

  • notsofast

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    no-touchy-touchy says:
    September 19, 2010 at 2:52 pm no-touchy-touchy(Quote)

    Wow , you must be in a race with the King and Chili for the most down thumbs on this site.

  • CarmanK

    Felix W says: “it’s about govt accountability and resposibility”. BS, the repugs have been spewing those lies for 30 years . The repugs were never held accountable or responsible for their actions and the state of nation especially under the Bushies is evident. Can’t change the facts, no matter how much money the Kochs and Murdoch empires try. Fiscal irresponsibility-lets re-elect Bush while the deficit grew, tax cuts for the wealthy only made the rich richer while the middles class was devastated by irresponsible corporate policies and deregulation, but re-elect Bush. Repugs promised to run govt like a business and produce more for less. They ran government into the ground by defanging enforcement, no bid contracts and excessive govt waste and of course lets not forget the repug drive to Privatize govt services and SS. The repugs produced NOTHING worthwhile for the nation and its people. Trickle down was a BIG LIE AND A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The real ZOMBIES are in the repug party .. While the masses are drowning, the repugs are sailing their yachts. What is worse, the tparty anger is so misguided and poisonous, that they are willing to put the loudest most irresponsible people is positions of POWER just for spite. Tparty has no solutions, no ideas escept destructive ones that will set the nation backward even farther than the repugs. The repugs declared class war , when Reagan’s VOODODD economics scourged the earth 30 years ago. There is a CLASS WAR in the country, and the repugs declared that unjust WAR on the American people, that’s why it had no trouble lying its was into Iraq.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    notsofast said:
    Wow , you must be in a race with the King and Chili for the most down thumbs on this site.

    thats what I’m here for
    YOUR approval

  • no-touchy-touchy

    notsofast said:
    Wow , you must be in a race with the King and Chili for the most down thumbs on this site.

    Where can I pick up my toaster?

  • musiccityvic

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    Like I hear all the time about Mediaite – NICE SPIN from Larry J. Sabato while bashing Clintonhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/frank.htmThough Frank was apparently ignorant of some of the prostitute’s activities, his indiscretion was so great that his standing in Congress was greatly damaged and a House reprimand passed overwhelmingly in July 1990. although, I would take it one step farther and say toss the bum out same as Charley Rangel but, mudslinging sure is fun,no?

    funny, i never once mentioned Congress, i mentioned the media. go ahead and show us all of the frenzy and call for resignations about Barney Frank. How about after he was made Chairman of his committee. I don’t recall seeing even one article regarding his judgement on a personal level effecting his performance in Congress, and his scandel was while he was IN congress. Even the first line of the post shows that he was “Ignorant of some of the prostitute’s activities”. He gets a pass.

  • musiccityvic

    CarmanK said:
    Felix W says: “it’s about govt accountability and resposibility”. BS, the repugs have been spewing those lies for 30 years . The repugs were never held accountable or responsible for their actions and the state of nation especially under the Bushies is evident. Can’t change the facts, no matter how much money the Kochs and Murdoch empires try. Fiscal irresponsibility-lets re-elect Bush while the deficit grew, tax cuts for the wealthy only made the rich richer while the middles class was devastated by irresponsible corporate policies and deregulation, but re-elect Bush. Repugs promised to run govt like a business and produce more for less. They ran government into the ground by defanging enforcement, no bid contracts and excessive govt waste and of course lets not forget the repug drive to Privatize govt services and SS. The repugs produced NOTHING worthwhile for the nation and its people. Trickle down was a BIG LIE AND A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The real ZOMBIES are in the repug party .. While the masses are drowning, the repugs are sailing their yachts. What is worse, the tparty anger is so misguided and poisonous, that they are willing to put the loudest most irresponsible people is positions of POWER just for spite. Tparty has no solutions, no ideas escept destructive ones that will set the nation backward even farther than the repugs. The repugs declared class war , when Reagan’s VOODODD economics scourged the earth 30 years ago. There is a CLASS WAR in the country, and the repugs declared that unjust WAR on the American people, that’s why it had no trouble lying its was into Iraq.

    Those horrible days of Republican rule when tax revenues were at all time highs and unemployment was at 4-6 percent. People were working and jobs were being created. How terrible that profits were being made. Damn those businesses. Bush cut taxes for the middle class and those damn rich people. The same tax cuts that the dems are talking about continuing now, though they want to continue to kill business by eliminating those horrible cuts for people who actually employ people. The Dems said oh that only effect 2% of the population while railing since they were put in place that allt he cuts were for the rich and what do you know, they were for the other 98% of the people.

    The Democrats were all railroaded into going into Iraq. They saw all the same intelligence reports that Bush did and if i remember it was a near 100% vote. If the Dems thought it was a bad idea they should have stuck to their convictions and voted against it, but no they did not.

    Now the Dems have been in charge for 4 years. We villify all business and profit is a bad thing. I guess this is trickle up economics at work. 2 years of record deficits and wasted union payoffs disquised as union payoffs and we have 18% real unemployment with no end in sight. Your President is the leader of the Class Warfare movement because that is all he knows. His experiment will be neutralized in November and he will be driven out of office in 2012, because people like the opportunity to work and to build business and a 25% increase in the size of Government during a recession, while attacking the Oil, Electric, Insurance, and Tobacco Industries has been rejected by the public in large numbers. When Pelosi speaks about how Unemployment and Food Stamps are a great stimulus for the economy than in it time to put them all out to pasture. The Tea Party people are in the process of cleaning out the RINO’s but the Democrats are being choked out by the Progressives. I guess the 40 year of rule for the Dems will end after 20 months. Get used to it.

  • glenn113

    As long as O’bama doesn’t use the new Christine O’Donnell campaign song,” TheTea Party Hymn of the Republic”..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8ZoWrUrCs

  • no-touchy-touchy

    musiccityvic said:
    I would take it one step farther and say toss the bum out same as Charley Rangel but, mudslinging sure is fun,no?

    guess you missed
    I would take it one step farther and say toss the bum out same as Charley Rangel but, mudslinging sure is fun,no?

  • musiccityvic

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    guess you missedI would take it one step farther and say toss the bum out same as Charley Rangel but, mudslinging sure is fun,no?

    I agree with that. If we don’t expect members of BOTH parties to act ethically than we get what we have now. I don’t just blame Democrats, the major beef I have with them is if you are a Progressive, then run as one. Don’t run as some sort of small government conservative. The same goes for the Repubs but in reverse. We can argue back and forth about which way is more effective, but right now it isn’t working for anyone.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    musiccityvic said:
    I agree with that. If we don’t expect members of BOTH parties to act ethically than we get what we have now. I don’t just blame Democrats, the major beef I have with them is if you are a Progressive, then run as one. Don’t run as some sort of small government conservative. The same goes for the Repubs but in reverse. We can argue back and forth about which way is more effective, but right now it isn’t working for anyone.

    I got you and agree totally

    Give me Ron Paul – got my vote
    Ron Paul in a dress – fine with me
    just not whats being presented to me now

    thanks for a (real) reply
    just like to poke at the yours sucks worse guys

  • felixw

    CarmanK said:
    Felix W says: “it’s about govt accountability and resposibility”. BS, the repugs have been spewing those lies for 30 years . The repugs were never held accountable or responsible for their actions and the state of nation especially under the Bushies is evident. Can’t change the facts, no matter how much money the Kochs and Murdoch empires try. Fiscal irresponsibility-lets re-elect Bush while the deficit grew, tax cuts for the wealthy only made the rich richer while the middles class was devastated by irresponsible corporate policies and deregulation, but re-elect Bush. Repugs promised to run govt like a business and produce more for less. They ran government into the ground by defanging enforcement, no bid contracts and excessive govt waste and of course lets not forget the repug drive to Privatize govt services and SS. The repugs produced NOTHING worthwhile for the nation and its people. Trickle down was a BIG LIE AND A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The real ZOMBIES are in the repug party .. While the masses are drowning, the repugs are sailing their yachts. What is worse, the tparty anger is so misguided and poisonous, that they are willing to put the loudest most irresponsible people is positions of POWER just for spite. Tparty has no solutions, no ideas escept destructive ones that will set the nation backward even farther than the repugs. The repugs declared class war , when Reagan’s VOODODD economics scourged the earth 30 years ago. There is a CLASS WAR in the country, and the repugs declared that unjust WAR on the American people, that’s why it had no trouble lying its was into Iraq.

    Glad to know that everything is Bush — and even Reagan’s(!) — fault. Maybe you should blame Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln while you are at it.

    Strange that you aren’t interested in dealing with the issues of government accountability and fiscal responsibility today or in the future. But, all of sudden, you are concerned about the size of the budget from thirty years ago. Of course, back then, Reagan was restricted in cutting spending because of the intense opposition of the Democrats in the Congress. But it’s convenient for Leftists to forget all that……

    Try again, buddy. This spin of your won’t convince anyone.

  • kentucky boy

    When will this ‘still wet behind the ears’ reporterette stop masquerading as a journalist ? Ms Dowd would not make a pimple on a journalist’s rear end.

  • kentucky boy

    No, Mr. Maher, it is not the ‘Teaparty’ folks who are racists. It is the Bill Mahers, Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Jeremiah Wrights and Maureen Dowds and Barack Hussein Obamas of the world….those who label others as ‘racist’ when they don’t agree with your far left wing vision for America. YOU are the true RACIST ! We do not measure any man by the color of their skin or their race. What we do care about is CHARACTER, INTEGRITY, PRINCIPLE, AND HONOR. So far , we aren’t seeing much of those in our currnent President and Democrat controlled congress. And come to think of it , not many of these attributes among left wing talk show hosts and ‘journalists’ either.

  • kentucky boy

    Consider this:
    1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he “fibbed” on his bar application.
    2. Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993.
    3. So, we have the President and First Lady – who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. Facts.
    4. A senior lecturer is one thing. A fully ranked law professor is another. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, “Obama did NOT ‘hold the title’ of a University of Chicago law school professor”. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago.
    5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March, 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “served as a professor” in the law school, but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.
    6. “He did not hold the title of professor of law,” said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.
    7. The former Constitutional senior lecturer cited the U.S. Constitution recently during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
    8. In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal.”
    9. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
    10. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech?
    11. Obama has made sure that all of his records are sealed tight. And apart from the courageous souls at the various educational institutions who dared to speak the truth, the schools Obama claimed to attend unanimously refuse to release transcripts, records, or other bits of evidence concerning Obama’s presence in their institutions.
    12. These disturbing facts come to light about Barack Obama, the White House is busy making deals with numerous ‘journalists,’ promising unprecedented access to the President in exchange for refraining from reporting certain information ‘they may discover.’
    When you are a phony it’s hard to keep facts straight.

  • kentucky boy

    The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
    Mr. Maher, you might be interested in this since you believe the Teapartiers are ‘extreme racists’…….
    .
    Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it. “–The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.–”
    .
    The Democrats
    .
    * Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
    .
    * Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
    .
    * Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
    .
    * Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery & away from the polls, & they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them.
    .
    * Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Keagle” in the KKK.
    .
    * Democrat Sen. Byrd, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
    .
    * Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
    .
    * Democrats declared they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
    .
    * Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
    .
    * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Democrat Sen. Hugo Black of Alabama.
    .
    * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
    .
    * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
    .
    * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
    .
    * Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
    .
    * Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs & turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
    .
    * Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & the other protestors were fighting.

    * Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
    .
    * Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
    .
    * Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
    .
    * Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
    .
    * Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
    .
    * Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
    .
    * Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat & a supporter of racial segregation.
    .
    * Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
    .
    * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
    .
    * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
    .
    * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
    .
    Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks.

    Now, Mr. Maher, why will you not try to respond to these facts ?? Hmmmmmmm?

  • kentucky boy

    Mr. Maher, you and Ms. Dowd remind me of little children who peek around the corner of the house and throw rocks at other children and then duck back in hiding, too cowardly to show themselves. I don’t want to embarass you by asking, but I assume you might know the meaning of the word ‘logic’. If you do and are not afraid to ‘come out in the open’, how about debating openly the real issues ? I wont hold my breath because I do not believe you will do that. You show a deep dark abyssmal ignorance in your assessment of mainstream
    Americans. You know nothing , sir ! (unless it is written on a cue card).

  • Snidely

    President Obama as Gandolph? Nah. Grima Wormtongue, maybe.

  • Carolina Don

    KENTUCKY BOY…..Great facts, but let me add one or two. Abraham Lincoln was a republican who passed the Emencipation Proclamation which abolished slavery in the North. In the South, the Confederate States of America had in their constitution a BAN against slavery. The War of Northern aggression was fought ( some say Civil War ) over states rights, NOT over Slavery as the democrats would have you believe.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    kentucky boy said:
    .
    * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
    .
    Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks.

    Now, Mr. Maher, why will you not try to respond to these facts ?? Hmmmmmmm?

    uh, what happened then?

  • Hugo Daun

    kentucky boy said:
    1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he “fibbed” on his bar application.
    2. Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993.

    I’m sure you will find fault with this source, but what the hell….

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp

  • TCinAZ

    “Tea Party is basically a big tent for anger…The president seems put upon and impatient with reality while his foes seem happy to embrace fantasy.”

    Hiya, MoDo. Listen, I heard that Gekko came out w/a Sequel, but that you Weren’t Invited to the Premier – and that you probably Won’t be invited to anything Else that has to do with Him ever Again Either. Ever. So let go of the ANGER, MoDo…just Let, It, Go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1gWmvzINY&feature=related : )

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