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President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour

by: NewHampster

Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:04:53 AM EDT

Washington Post finally starts to get it and big props to bambi for making things clear.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, July 30, 2008; Page A03
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him. His schedule for the day, announced Monday night, would have made Dick Cheney envious

The best Line. One which really shows his true arrogance.

"This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

Read the whole article http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I'd be laughing like crazy if it wasn't so sad. Here's hoping Hillary's people haven't turned in the volunteers yet.

NewHampster :: President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour

UPDATE: I have to add this since the photo caption was pointed out to me.

Congress offers adulation to the self-elected president. (By Linda Davidson -- The Washington Post)

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oh noes! dana said the "presumptuous" word!! (0.00 / 0)

that means he's racist!!!

actually, ANYTHING critical of obama is racist. it's just a matter of arbitrarily designating one of the words you used to describe him as indicative of a lingering racist streak.

is "streak" racist? probably so, by now.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

by: campskunk @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:20:31 AM CDT

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Yup. Wait'll Digby Reads This. n/t (0.00 / 0)

by: creeper @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:07:30 AM CDT

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If Obama's the symbol of the possibility of America returning (0.00 / 0)

to our best traditions? Which tradition Obama? Please answer the question Obama? which friggin' tradition, Obama??

I don't want the tradition of Lies, Cheating, Stealing, Racism,corruption, 'low class', rude,insulting misogyny, division which are the only things I've seen in Mr. Obama's campaign which represents so many other polititians running America into the ground.

God I feel sick.

by: roseeriter @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:25:51 AM CDT

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maybe he means hoop skirts and bustles. (0.00 / 0)

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

by: campskunk @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:27:58 AM CDT

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Well it wouldn't be so bad (0.00 / 0)

but I'm old enough to remember trying to fight my way into a 60's girdle. With permission mind you.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:33:32 AM CDT

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LOL! Yeah but you didn't have to wear it. (0.00 / 0)

by: roseeriter @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:35:30 AM CDT

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Neither did she (0.00 / 0)

But times dictated it I guess. Funny how we all remember the Bra burnings but nobody mentions that the girdle was the first thing to go, and no loss.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:37:42 AM CDT

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I never wore one either, but my mom did (0.00 / 0)

and she still had 8 kids. (My dad was a jock..LOL!)

by: roseeriter @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:43:25 AM CDT

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I can do hoopskirts and a bustle, see? (0.00 / 0)

This is me, in Second Life, riding sidesaddle through Africa. Of course, I get to sit here in shorts and a tee while my avatar wears the fun clothes..which beats actually wearing a corset by a mile and a half.

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by: FlaDemFem @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 12:19:21 PM CDT

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I haven't logged in since (0.00 / 0)

2006 and it looks like it's come along way. I wonder if my avatar is still sitting on the bench where I left myself.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 12:23:34 PM CDT

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Oh it has, and Hillary has/had a presence there.. (0.00 / 0)

her campaign had an area for distributing information and virtual election stuff..also you could donate in Lindens, which I did. We should start a PUMA presence there..I have a nice garden and little house that I will offer up for a meeting place. It's next to the Avery Inn so we can go hang there too. We can do virtual meetings around the clock if we want to. Anyone up for it? If so, and you aren't a resident already, go to http://secondlife.com and sign up. It's free. Enjoy!!

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by: FlaDemFem @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 12:38:06 PM CDT

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I'll be there this weekend (0.00 / 0)

if not sooner

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 12:42:31 PM CDT

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Oooooooooohhhhh..just had a (0.00 / 0)

scathingly brilliant idea..!!!! How about doing a parallel dinner under the stars, which in SL can be anytime of day since you can set the time of day to midnight, in SL for a fundraiser? Perhaps Hillary's offices can do something to facilitate it since they are already there? Or we can do a series of them at my place, I have a huge inventory and can do a big party complete with interactive food. Seriously, you wear it to eat it..LOL But it would be a good way to do a continuous fundraising effort for Hillary. Sort of expand the "dinner under the stars" to an ongoing party. I am right on the water, and can provide boats and whatnot for sailing and yachting. And there would be tons of SL freebies, I am a chair hopper, remember, for all comers to have fun with. Oh yeah, we can do some fun fundraising on SL. Oh, by the way, my SL name is Enticing Dancer. And yeah, I live up to it. Heh.

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by: FlaDemFem @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 14:01:14 PM CDT

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Will you dance on the table for all (0.00 / 0)

us racist sexist republocrat pumas?

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 14:07:57 PM CDT

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LOL, sure.. (0.00 / 0)

and they have some really cool dances now. Someone attached laser reflectors on actual dancers and they transferred the data to dance scripts in SL. Great stuff..I have lots of them. Will be happy to show them to you....at a fund-raising party. Heh.

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by: FlaDemFem @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 14:50:54 PM CDT

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You are Funny (0.00 / 0)

You made me laugh, and I really think your angry, it just read funny.

Here we go, barfing again, or is it FlaDemFem, or Sharyn

Anyway, we do alot of barfing on this site.

by: sammorg @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 15:00:29 PM CDT

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Dana Milbank wakes up...did he get permission from Olbermann???? (0.00 / 0)

Seriously, where was the critical gaze when we really needed it?????

I've dashed this off which expresses my frustration over "uninformed, conforming voters"...many who are in this state because of the lack of serious journalism in this country!!

"Let's Face It, PUMAs-Uninformed, Conforming Voters are Our Worst Enemy....No Matter How Smart They Are"

http://tinyurl.com/6ogf6n

http://insightanalytical.wordp...

"If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked"--Charlie Chan

by: GRL @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:46:09 AM CDT

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From another board I got this quote (0.00 / 0)

over at http://capitalhillforum.com I was offered this bible quote which I might know if I wasn't a heathen Jew.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:54:04 AM CDT

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I'd Like To See (0.00 / 0)

a dozen stories like this in major newspapers all over the country.

This is a good start, though. The major paper in Washington, DC wields enormous influence.

Superdelegates, can you hear us now?

by: creeper @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:12:57 AM CDT

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A problem with your logic (0.00 / 0)

Only the elites read the "major" papers. No real voters do.

And lordy knows the O'bots don't

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:15:12 AM CDT

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Well, I Read It (0.00 / 0)

and I'm certainly not "elite". I'm bubba.

Seriously, do you see no benefit to this article?

by: creeper @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:23:09 AM CDT

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The only benefit is that people like Morning Joe (0.00 / 0)

Pick it up and run with it. Of course as you say in the next post, Milbank is just a racist calling Obama uppity.

This will be used by Axelrod to increase support rather than demean it. Stop picking on Barack you meanies.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:37:38 AM CDT

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Never Mind. (0.00 / 0)

I just figured out what is wrong with this article. Its central theme is Obama's presumption. It never even mentions his greatest flaw...lack of experience.

Millbank will be dismissed as another racist and his words will be forgotten tomorrow.

It's almost as if they planned it that way. Does this give the Post cover to claim they're reporting Obama evenhandedly? Can they now go back to polishing his crown without being labeled biased?

by: creeper @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:30:44 AM CDT

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Fox take on the same meeting (0.00 / 0)

http://elections.foxnews.com/2...

Call him the presumptuous Democratic presidential nominee.
Barack Obama met with House Democrats in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening where he reportedly described his recent trip to Europe at length and concluded, "this is the moment, as (House Speaker) Nancy (Pelosi) noted, that the world is waiting for."
Referencing the crowd of 200,000 who attended his speech in Berlin, the presumptive Democratic nominee , according to The Washington Post, told the standing-room only audience of Democratic House representatives, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
His confidence is no doubt bolstered by his supporters.
"There wasn't a question he didn't knock out of the park," Rep. John Larson of Connecticut told FOX News. "His speech was soaring. But also down to Earth."
"He indicated that when he stood before nearly 200,000 people in Germany...it wasn't about him. It was about Germany and Europe. And he said that he was a symbol of that hope," said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina.

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:17:33 AM CDT

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Oh right....It "wasn't about him". (0.00 / 0)

The world has too many arrogant leaders as it is. We don't need Barrack Obama.

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by: masslib @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:11:25 AM CDT

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He does that I-am-not-a-crook thing a lot (0.00 / 0)

When he says "It's not about me" he's thinking it's about him.

He says "I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear." Uh-huh. Then just tell us! Enough with the preoration already.

by: catfish @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 10:21:04 AM CDT

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Who the hell is he to tell me (0.00 / 0)

what I need to hear? He is going to educate me about what? Racism? I think I probably know more about it than he does. Being helpful to my neighbors? I have been doing that for as long has BO has been alive. Who the hell does this little man think he is?

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by: FlaDemFem @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 10:31:54 AM CDT

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Holy Cow (0.00 / 0)

You should see some of the comments over there. Many, many exploding heads this a.m. Too funny.

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See my update above re the (0.00 / 0)

Photo and caption I had missed

Congress offers adulation to the self-elected president.
(By Linda Davidson -- The Washington Post)

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:27:30 AM CDT

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Blech! (0.00 / 0)

by: roseeriter @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:34:10 AM CDT

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Notice the symbolism over his shoulder (0.00 / 0)

reminds me of Huckster and the cross only this time we see the Eagle of the 3rd. Reich. See http://www.adl.org/hate_symbol...

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:36:51 AM CDT

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hee! (0.00 / 0)

Didn't notice that either.

by: soupcity @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:39:35 AM CDT

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If he actually won (which he will not) what would he do? (0.00 / 0)

Imagine once he actually had to start working. He would be lost - he'd say well let me make a speech first. Making Big Speeches is his procrastination tactic.

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I forgot to mention that he got in some blessings too (0.00 / 0)

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by: NewHampster @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:41:54 AM CDT

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The pope puts his hand on children's heads (0.00 / 0)

it's some religious thing.

by: catfish @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:46:59 AM CDT

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Nice looking kid (0.00 / 0)

Obama should lead youth groups (and drop out of this race to do it.)

by: catfish @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 09:47:39 AM CDT

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We've reached one of those moments (0.00 / 0)

when reality defies parody.

by: Politica @ Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 11:34:37 AM CDT

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Personally, the article was a joke (0.00 / 0)

How do you admonish someone, then support it with adoring remarks and praise, quoting others.

I think it was campskunk above, they're just doing some leveling off

maybe their sales are down or something.

Roseeriter: I feel the stomach gurgling

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