At last, and open thread.

/Note what I did not say...

Chicago Combine and it's puppets are going to crash and burn all on their own.

Jimmy Carter thinks this thread has apartheid tendencies.

Yooper! how ya' doin'?

re: #2 ggt

Chicago Combine and it's puppets are going to crash and burn all on their own.

I sure as hell hope so. I'd love for the Rezko trial to break this wide open.

Uh Oh, more good news from Iraq:

Iraqis rescue CBS journalist

A CBS journalist kidnapped in Basra two months ago has been freed in a raid by Iraqi forces that also netted his kidnappers, CBS confirmed Monday.

Do ya suppose the Racist Reverend had something to do with it?

Nah. Couldn't be...

JAFLW

Obama is a long way from sunk. He still could be President come next January. Such is the number of adherents, and their refusal to be swayed. And on that note, I am off for a hike with a slobbering dog.

re: #4 ggt

Yooper! how ya' doin'?

None too bad. It's bright, it's sunny, and it's supposed to be warmer tomorrow. Might be able to open the windows well before the end of the week.

/Never thought I'd get the first comment in the open thread.

re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

CBS heads are going to explode.

re: #10 Sifty

CBS heads are going to explode.

..and we care, how? :)

JAFLW

re: #10 Sifty

CBS heads are going to explode.

You mean they haven't already?

I saw the adulatory profile of Chris Mathews in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.

Fortunately, I was on a plane, so an airsickness bag was ready to hand.

re: #5 Honorary Yooper

If a democrat is elected POTUS, it won't. Feds have only a few months left to make it blow-up before a possible change in administration.

Not a big enough hit yet!

I'm sooooo happy,
The good Lord I'm thankin'
Obama's numbers are tankin'
Soon his candidacy will be takin' a dirt nappy

re: #11 Just Another Four-letter Word

I suppose it won't be much of a mess after all.

Heads mostly empty anyway.

This is good to see!

I hope that Obama takes a very big hit in poll numbers and voters trust

Washington State has stupid Senators.

Cantwell calls for investigation of oil markets

It's been done 38 (IIRC) times, WA State AG just completed an investigation and found.....

Market pressure the cause.

*spit*

re: #13 buzzsawmonkey,

I first read that as "Adultery" and I thought "He's a Democrat. What'd you expect."

:-)

Obama will find you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

The question is, what is his fool-most-of-the-people-most-of-the-time timeline?

Please keep up the hitting. Till November, if necessary.

I'd like him to poll in the single digits when it's time to pull the lever.

Washington State has stupid Senators.

Just Washington?

re: #19 psaturn

I hope that Obama takes a very big hit in poll numbers and voters trust

What kind of bitter gun-toting overly religious xenophobe are you to wish such a thing?!

It is absolutely wonderful outside today. I have the smell of roses and blossoms from my tangerine tree coming through the window. Birds are singing, squirrels are chattering merrily in my garden as they eat my radishes...

Those are just frustrated, bitter poll numbers clinging to their ... well, whatever bitter, frustrated poll numbers cling to.

So who's up for a road trip to Denver?

/I've never witnessed an implosion first-hand.

Get a load of this:

I've been posting stuff about Nadhmi Auchi and Barack Obama all weekend, and it's finally come up in the Rezko trial.

Obama linked to 2004 party at Rezko's home

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's name came up again at the Antoin "Tony" Rezko corruption trial and in a way that earlier filings in the case did not telegraph.

Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said he and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development.

Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year after attempting to wire him more than $3 million. Upon learning of that attempt, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve declared Rezko a flight risk and ordered him held in a federal jail in the Loop.

The Rezko party in 2004 was designed to induce Auchi to pour money into the South Loop investment. Obama's presence at the party was not previously known. At the time, Obama was fresh off a surprise win in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and was riding a crest of national publicity.

This could be really bad news for Barry.

Talking with my moonbatty sister and brother-in-law yesterday I was surprised to find that both of them are really angry at Obama. They're long time Hillary supporters and they believe Obama is an amateur and a phoney, who's leading the Democratic off a cliff.

My sister said she has more respect for John McCain than for Obama!

I couldn't believe my ears.

re: #21 Iron Fist

,

I first read that as "Adultery" and I thought "He's a Democrat. What'd you expect."

:-)

There is less and less about the Democrats that is adult in any way--except perhaps that one.

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

Talking with my moonbatty sister and brother-in-law yesterday I was surprised to find that both of them are really angry at Obama. They're long time Hillary supporters and they believe Obama is an amateur and a phoney, who's leading the Democratic off a cliff.

My sister said she has more respect for John McCain than for Obama!

I couldn't believe my ears.

HOPE! CHANGE!

re: #14 ggt

Yep, ggt, that it will. If Hillary is POTUS, then maybe Fitzgerald stays. If it's Barack Hussein Obama, Fitzgerald is toast.

phoney = phony

Ugh.

re: #20 jcm

Well, it has to look like they are doing something. Same with health care and gun laws.

Rasmussen claims Obama's numbers haven't changed....
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Obama leads Clinton 48% to 44%. While statistical noise has created daily fluctuations, this race has remained quite stable for the past month or so. A look at the overall trends shows Obama enjoying a modest but consistent advantage.

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

Talking with my moonbatty sister and brother-in-law yesterday I was surprised to find that both of them are really angry at Obama. They're long time Hillary supporters and they believe Obama is an amateur and a phoney, who's leading the Democratic off a cliff.

My sister said she has more respect for John McCain than for Obama!

I couldn't believe my ears.

Just make sure you have a load of them absentee ballots on hand for them to fill out quickly next time before they change their minds!

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

Talking with my moonbatty sister and brother-in-law yesterday I was surprised to find that both of them are really angry at Obama. They're long time Hillary supporters and they believe Obama is an amateur and a phoney, who's leading the Democratic off a cliff.

My sister said she has more respect for John McCain than for Obama!

I couldn't believe my ears.

Wow! I can't believe it either!

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

McCain landslide.

Keith Jarrett was from Allentown (Bremen/Lausanne is my favorite, Expectations close behind), but his views on his hometown make Obama look like Will Rogers.

re: #39 godfrey,

Hopefully with coattails. We could witness a stunning turn-around. It'd be worth it just to watch the New York Times implode.

re: #39 godfrey

McCain landslide.

I hope so, but I suggest he shut his mouth, stop throwing good old conservatives under the bus, and just go on vacation till after November. Then I'd feel alot more confident.

re: #39 godfrey

McCain landslide.

I think you're right.

Of course Obama could still select al-Gore for his VP slot, and that might be enough to win my sister (and people like her) back.

re: #35 ggt

Well, it has to look like they are doing something. Same with health care and gun laws.

Well if they're gonna' do something, approve a few refineries, kill the regional formulations, and start drilling.

BTW Big oil makes an obscene 10 cents or so profit per gallon while in WA combined State and Federal tax is around 60 cents a gallon. Since people are driving less with the high cost and better average economy vehicles, gas tax revenues are down. They're talking tolls to regain the lost revenue.

*grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

Let me ask you this though... Who do you want running againsty John McCain? A dirty and questionable Barack Obama? Or a resurgent Hillary Clinton?

I'll take the soiled Obama...

I feel bad for the few conservatives in Denver

re: #39 godfrey

McCain landslide.

The (D)s have to go to the convention and have a floor fight which will split the party.

Dean (The Scream) sees the same thing that's way it wants it over by June 1.

But wait, there's more about Obama and Auchi:

From the SunTimes blog:

When Tony Rezko held a reception at his home for Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi on April 3, 2004, White House hopeful Barack Obama and his wife were also there, Stuart Levine testified just now at Rezko's trial.

Auchi is the man who provided Rezko a $3.5 million loan that Rezko did not disclose to the court -- resulting in his January arrest.
"Mr. and Mrs. Obama were there, were they not?" Rezko lawyer Joseph Duffy asked.
"Yes, sir," Levine said.
Obama and his aides have said Obama has no recollection of ever meeting Auchi.

Barry's getting in deeper.

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

Obama will find you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

The question is, what is his fool-most-of-the-people-most-of-the-time timeline?

From EC Marm in the previous thread.

Walyers also said her job as a cotton-picker was outsourced to Mexico recently, due to NAFTA and some climate issues that she failed to specify.

“And I tellz all my family,” Walyers said. “Just supposin’... just supposin’ Missuh Obama he do gets elected. Why we all be free to be unbittered and grow strong in the broken places.”

re: #46 LeftJustAintRight

I feel bad for the few conservatives in Denver

Stock up on food and water, board up your doors and windows and aim for the head.

re: #44 jcm

Yep, drill our own oil and use the revenues to find alternatives. The food riots in Haiti really have me steamed. Soooooooo Stupid. Not Necessary. H@ll, remove the tariffs from South American Ethanol, tell the corn lobby to take a hike -- it doesn't have to be this way.

Greetings to all you gap-toothed, gun-toting, religion-clinging hicks, from Montevideo, Uruguay. Lovely day today... while I sit in friggin' meetings... too bad the weekend was a washout. Why, God? Why?

re: #45 tfc3rid

Obama is a wild card. He's prone to these verbal mask slips and his policy statements are dangerously stupid but the press loves him and he's riding a charismatic popular wave I don't think I've ever seen in my lifetime. Anything can happen.

The (D)s see disaster if it goes to the convention....

Carter, Gore to Usher Clinton Out of the RaceDEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president.

Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race.

re: #46 LeftJustAintRight

I feel bad for the few conservatives in Denver

We left.

Anyone else find it very interesting that Obama may have gotten foreign funding via Rezko?

re: #49 MandyManners

Actually, the most embittered people I know are well-off white liberals. They also cling to their non-god-based belief system with a tenacious faith that would put many church- or synagogue-goers to shame.

re: #54 jcm

The (D)s see disaster if it goes to the convention....

Linky went poof.

re: #53 Killgore Trout

a charismatic popular wave I don't think I've ever seen in my lifetime

Have you forgotten the Dukakilanche so soon?

/

re: #52 Occasional Reader

Greetings to all you gap-toothed, gun-toting, religion-clinging hicks, from Montevideo, Uruguay. Lovely day today... while I sit in friggin' meetings... too bad the weekend was a washout. Why, God? Why?

Come down with a sudden case of Montevideo's Revenge?

re: #56 Honorary Yooper

Nothing causes me to stir on this subject anymore. I would be suprised if they found a Contract with the Devil written on parchment and signed in blood by these guys.

re: #50 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Stock up on food and water, board up your doors and windows and aim for the head.

What about ammo?

ammo?

*perks up*

Hey OR!

jcm has a link to an automatic revolver!

re: #59 Occasional Reader

I wonder how Obama would look with his big bobblehead sticking out of a tank turret?

re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

I won't be bitter if BHO wins. I'll be highly pissed off, though.

Obama's poll numbers take a hit? How can that be? The World Wants Obama!

Obamamania Extends Beyond U.S. Borders

Recently, Al Jazeera reported on a group of young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who took it upon themselves to get together and randomly cold-call Americans in the U.S., encouraging them to vote for Obama. In an interview on the English version of the Arabic news network, 23-year-old coordinator Abu Juyyab told the reporter that hearing Obama speak won him over.

“I thought, this was a man who is capable of change outside of America. ... I think he can also bring peace to the area — at least that this is what we hope,” Abu Juyyab said through an interpreter. Since January, he and 17 friends have called Americans randomly via the Internet before each primary. ...

here's the link:

Automatic Revolver

re: #60 MandyManners

Come down with a sudden case of Montevideo's Revenge?

Nah, the water's okay here. After many years of doing this stuff, I have a GI tract that's more resistant than most. Which is probably more information than you were looking for. But there it is anyway.

re: #66 Killgore Trout

I wonder how Obama would look with his big bobblehead sticking out of a tank turret?

He'll have to pin back his ears before he'll be able to get in.

re: #62 Nevergiveup

What about ammo?

Always have the ammo, but its nice to have fresh eats when the ravening hordes sweep in.

re: #68 Peter Verkooijen

Obama's poll numbers take a hit? How can that be?

re: #70 Occasional Reader

No problem.

re: #48 Honorary Yooper

But wait, there's more about Obama and Auchi:

From the SunTimes blog:

When Tony Rezko held a reception at his home for Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi on April 3, 2004, White House hopeful Barack Obama and his wife were also there, Stuart Levine testified just now at Rezko's trial.

Auchi is the man who provided Rezko a $3.5 million loan that Rezko did not disclose to the court -- resulting in his January arrest.
"Mr. and Mrs. Obama were there, were they not?" Rezko lawyer Joseph Duffy asked.
"Yes, sir," Levine said.
Obama and his aides have said Obama has no recollection of ever meeting Auchi.

Barry's getting in deeper.

I've got to tell you, Barry seems to have a really LOUSY memory for someone who claims to be so superior and brilliant and all that. And yet he cannot remember who he has met? Not much of a schmoozer, is he? Or is it that he is lying through his teeth?

re: #52 Occasional Reader
Ain't that where the Graf Spee was scuttled?

re: #36 Killgore Trout

Rasmussen claims Obama's numbers haven't changed....
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The same is true for the Gallup poll.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama, who has come under attack by his presidential rivals for describing small-town voters as "bitter," seems to be weathering the storm to this point as far as voters are concerned. He maintains a 10 percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, 50% to 40%, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

Was trying to find something about the reliability of ARG polls, as I've seen them questioned previously. Haven't found anything yet. Does anyone else have any info? They're not included in the Real Clear Politics summaries.

[Link: www.gigglesugar.com...]

Funny gymnastic routine.

re: #68 Peter Verkooijen

Obama's poll numbers take a hit? How can that be? The World Wants Obama!

Obamamania Extends Beyond U.S. Borders

Hello! Yes hello! You Satan bastard, you vote Obama or I KHEEEEL YOU!

re: #53 Killgore Trout

So the question is, "if the charismatic populist wave washes him ashore; can his campaign evolve legs fast enough to carry him to Nov.?"

re: #69 LanceKates

here's the link:

Automatic Revolver

The gun Miles Archer was shot with in The Maltese Falcon.

re: #69 LanceKates

here's the link:

re: #79 Nevergiveup

Hello! Yes hello! You Satan bastard, you vote Obama or I KHEEEEL YOU!

"Are you kidding me? I'd kill you for a klondike bar."
-Achmed the Dead Terrorist from Jeff Dunham.

re: #67 MandyManners

I won't be bitter if BHO wins. I'll be highly pissed off, though.

I won't be bitter either ,,,,,, it would be hard for me to be bitter whilste I spend those 4-8 years on some Carribean island !

re: #76 Peacekeeper

Ain't that where the Graf Spee was scuttled?

"Scuttled" is such an ugly word. We prefer "re-engineered".

re: #82 Occasional Reader

Montevideo?

I'm guessing you don't mean Montevideo MN...

re: #84 sattv4u2

I won't be bitter either ,,,,,, it would be hard for me to be bitter whilste I spend those 4-8 years on some Carribean island !

You can be my cabana boy!

re: #85 Occasional Reader

"Scuttled" is such an ugly word. We prefer "re-engineered".

Well, is it still there? Snorkeling destination perhaps.

re: #85 Occasional Reader

"Scuttled" is such an ugly word. We prefer "re-engineered".

Buoyancy readjusted

re: #81 buzzsawmonkey

The gun Miles Archer was shot with in The Maltese Falcon.

Really? It wasn't just a plain ol' Webley revolver?

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

If they're worried about falling numbers and blunders, why aren't they telling BHO to drop?

He's ahead in primary votes, delegates, and popularity.

Force BHO out now, lots of damage looks bad to force out the front runner for the insider Clinton machine.

Force out HRC, some damage hope to repair by Denver. Party unity, need to focus on McCain, HRC is behind can't catch up, time to move beyond Bush / Clinton / Bush / ....

All fight at the convention worst case for the (D) which every side wins core supports of the other side walk. Lots of folks turned off they loose another block, and McCain wins big.

They're looking to stop right the ship as soon as possible, the Jonah on board right now is HRC.

re: #36 Killgore Trout

Rasmussen claims Obama's numbers haven't changed....
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

I still believe despite everything Obama will probably win, the Presidency I mean. He's the perfect down-with-us candidate and the down-with-us forces are strong. Electing Obama will make the world like Americans again, take away the root causes of war and poverty and restore the cosmic balance.

re: #24 Prester John

Washington?....My Senators are Kennedy and Kerry BOTH OF THEM!
Try living with that! We would do better with the cast of Hee Haw than those two. And on top of it, Kerry is always trying to talk down the cost of any bill he gets,,,parking, dinner... and Kennedy just does not pay vendors. No local will do business with them any more.

re: #56 Honorary Yooper

Anyone else find it very interesting that Obama may have gotten foreign funding via Rezko?

I had assumed that right along. I think a huge chunk of his funding is coming from overseas. Note that anyone from anywhere in the world can go to his website and donate up to $200, which Barry does not have to track and does not have to report.

re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

Actually, the most embittered people I know are well-off white liberals. They also cling to their non-god-based belief system with a tenacious faith that would put many church- or synagogue-goers to shame.

isn't there a GK CHestertonm quote from in that soup you describe there? someting like "those who believe in nothing, will believe in anything.." something like that?

re: #88 Peacekeeper

Well, is it still there? Snorkeling destination perhaps.

Stand by, I'll go look.

...
...

I don't see it.

How the @�! should I know? GOOGLE IT, PEOPLE!

re: #93 CapeCoddah

I have Durbin and Obama --

ugh!

After listening to Barack Obama's various "Elitist" statements and reading excerpts from his books and listening to the teachings of hie spiritual leader, I've concluded that Barack Obama is either a racist-bigoted-socialist or a very forgetful-disconnected-doofuss. Either way, he is not qualified to be President of the United States of America.

NObama!

Power to the Correct People!

re: #91 jcm

not to mention the race riots that Wright and the other racists have suggested.

re: #79 Nevergiveup

LOL!

re: #13 buzzsawmonkey

I saw the adulatory profile of Chris Mathews in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.

Fortunately, I was on a plane, so an airsickness bag was ready to hand.

* * *
Chris Matthews' legs get tingly thinking of going to Damascus, where many Dems have gone before, to meet HAMAS & Saddam remnants.

re: #66 Killgore Trout

I wonder how Obama would look with his big bobblehead sticking out of a tank turret?

oh man, that would rock! a mikey dukkahkah moment!

re: #96 Occasional Reader

What is this google of which you speak?

/ dogpile

re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Buoyancy readjusted

resting comfortably at the bottom

re: #92 Peter Verkooijen

I still believe despite everything Obama will probably win, the Presidency I mean. He's the perfect down-with-us candidate and the down-with-us forces are strong.

Obviously he ain't down with no gun toting, racist, typical white Jaysus freaks.

re: #97 ggt

I have Durbin and Obama --

ugh!

If it makes you feel any better, I got Boxer and Feinstein.

re: #96 Occasional Reader

Stand by, I'll go look.

...
...

I don't see it.

How the @&#! should I know? GOOGLE IT, PEOPLE!

Elitist swine

re: #97 ggt

Damned close, But I win that one by a bloated, red, veins sticking out nose.

re: #92...
Oh, and fix global warming, I mean "climate change".

Forgot that one...

re: #90 Occasional Reader

Really? It wasn't just a plain ol' Webley revolver?

It's referred to as a Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver. "They don't make 'em anymore," says Sam Spade to Tom Polhaus. Spade (in the novel, set in 1929) tells Polhaus he'd seen Webley-Fosberys in England during "the war," i.e., WWI.

re: #75 galloping granny

I've got to tell you, Barry seems to have a really LOUSY memory for someone who claims to be so superior and brilliant and all that. And yet he cannot remember who he has met? Not much of a schmoozer, is he? Or is it that he is lying through his teeth?

That's been well established that he seems to either have a lousy memory or he lies through his teeth. I suspect the latter since Levine is under oath, and Obama has been known not to tell the truth in the past.

I'm just trying to get the conenctions between the Iraqi-born Auchi and Obama out in the open. Auchi was a supporter of Saddam Hussein's regime. He made quite a bit of money selling weapons to Saddam. Auchi was also involved in an assassination attempt (with Saddam) on the Iraqi president back in 1959.

re: #69 LanceKates

here's the link:

Automatic Revolver

I was told by a collector who had one, you need a very stiff arm for it work properly. Otherwise the recoil wouldn't complete cycling the cylinder.

re: #85 Occasional Reader

"Scuttled" is such an ugly word. We prefer "re-engineered".

I'd prefer redeployed until a more favorable condition presents itself.

Gotta go Lizards!

have a great day!

re: #97 ggt

I have Durbin and Obama --

ugh!

Yeah, that combo makes Teddy (D-Chivas) look good.

/I should know, Obama and Durbin are my Senators as well.

re: #107 Peacekeeper

Elitist swine

Why don't you go ask JESUS if the Graf Spee is still here? Eh? See what JESUS has to say on the subject. Or maybe there's some info on the subject printed on the inside of your Red Man chewing tobacco pouch.

re: #70 Occasional Reader

Nah, the water's okay here. After many years of doing this stuff, I have a GI tract that's more resistant than most. Which is probably more information than you were looking for. But there it is anyway.

Nosh on a chivito, a bistec and wash it down with a Norteno. (I also know where the cathouse is near Artigas square).

re: #108 CapeCoddah

Damned close, But I win that one by a bloated, red, veins sticking out nose.

TerAYZA Heinz let herself go after the 2004 elections, huh ?