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There seems to be another Obama half- or step- brother or sister surfacing every few days. At the suggestion of MSMediacritics comment on the "Brobama" piece about George Obama, I have taken it upon myself to begin a foundation to "Save the Obamas".
The comment [attached to Barack Obama: Brother George Lives on $1 a Day]:
"I was thinking of taking up a collection for George. Anybody want to contribute $12 to sponsor an Obama for a year?"
How about it readers? Open up your hearts, open up your wallets.
Save the Obamas.
by RidesAPaleHorse
notes: mondoreb
images: RAPH
Obama: All Foreplay, No Finale
Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com
The last two days of foreplay leading up to Obama's announcement of Joe Biden as his VP pick have left me exhausted. I, along with millions of other Americans, got suckered into the Obama campaign's carefully orchestrated media orgy surrounding his choice of Vice-president.
First, the news that Obama, The One, has decided on a VP. But he's not saying, just yet. The media reacts as anticipated. "You'll just have to wait!", Obama says. Then, right on cue, a full day media watch, with cameras set up outside the homes of those on the short list. Cameras, beaming out to the world, the picture of four houses. No action, just speculation. The tension builds, the world awaits.
Then, in the waning hours of Friday, select bits of information are released to an anxious nation. No, its not Kaine...oh. No, its not Hillary either. And did you know she wasn't even on the list? Each announcement is timed for maximum media exposure.
Then the biggy. Headlines on Drudge breathlessly report that Obama - Bayh bumper stickers are being manufactured. The firm refuses to confirm. Could it be? Or is it just another fake-out? Speculation swirls.
Millions of Americans have been whipped into a frenzy of anticipation. Who will Obama pick? More leaks tantalize the eager public. Talking heads claiming the inside scoop are interviewed ad naseum. Finally, finally, a News Flash: Secret service agents are heading to Sen. Joe Biden's home. Could it be??
Millions of eager Obama acolytes check their Blackberries every few minutes, relying on Obama's promise that they would be the first to know his VP pick. Alas, they waited in vain.
AP jumped ahead with a carefully worded announcement with built-in deniability, just in case they've been suckered again. They were willing to risk a replay of the infamous Truman headlines in order to be "the first to report." They lucked out.
Around 3 am Saturday morning, it became official. Sen. Joe Biden is THE GUY. Whoosh. After all that foreplay, I was left flat. Biden? Mr. logorrhea himself? Mr. political expedience with hair plugs? Say it ain't so.
Michelle needs to give Barack a good talking to. She needs to tell him that its not good policy to engage in extended foreplay unless he can actually deliver the goods. Joe Biden? Aargh. It was for this I waited up two hours past my regular bedtime? It's not fair. I feel used and abused.
Once again, I fell for honeyed promises from the lips of a master wordsmith. Once again, the actions didn't match the rhetoric. I have only myself to blame. Once again, I realize the truth of the statement, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. I should have known.
Obama should have known also. His political handlers should have known. When you tease and tantalize, you better have the goods to back it up. This, every woman knows. Apparently, Obama doesn't.
Obama has used up his share of the headlines, his last quotient of goodwill from a fickle media. From now on, the headlines will focus on Bill and Hill. Obama has just proved, once again, that he doesn't know how to pick his wars. He doesn't know that big promises require, uh, lets say, culmination. And Joe Biden is not a 'culminator.' Sigh.
This morning, I don't respect Obama. I feel used and abused. And if I were a liberal woman, I would exact my revenge in the voting booth.
by Nancy Morgan
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina
Article may be reprinted, with attribution
The Larry Sinclair story has been filled with accusations and allegations but interspersed between the innuendo and claims of illicit sex, illegal drugs, now murder, are some cold, hard facts that Sinclair hasn't been eager to share, the February 25th ruling made by Judge Raymond L. Erickson in the District of Minnesota Federal Court.
Sinclair has upped the ante by personally attacking Michelle Obama referring to her today in a post entitled: Michelle Obama: The Reason She Is A Bitter, Evil Bitch; She Just Can't Toss Barack's Tea Bags!"
The website Overlawyered.com has posted an update on the status of the first Federal lawsuit filed by Sinclair in the District Court of Minneapolis versus Senator Obama, David Axelrod, and the DNC. A direct link to the magistrate's thorough report and recommendations can be found at Overlawyered.
The final judgment was rendered on March 19 where Judge James M. Rosenbaum dismissed Sinclair's case. Ted Frank at Overlawyered points out that the judge dismissed the "plainly frivolous case sua sponte without requiring the victimized defendants to expend legal fees in responding".
Here's a summary of Judge Raymond L. Erickson's decision rendered back on February 25, 2008:
Calling Sinclair's allegations "scant", the Judge wrote that Sinclair was attempting to sue the three defendants, Obama, Axelrod, and the DNC, for "allegedly violating his (Sinclair) right to free speech".
Sinclair seeks an injunction that would:
1. Compel "defendants to cease any investigation and turn over any fruits from said investigation".
2. Compel "defendants to cease all acts of intimidation and instruct their staff and supporters to cease with intimidation and threats".
3. Compel "defendant Democratic National Committee to remove all attack statements, smear and slanderous claims made against (Sinclair) on any and all of its sections of its official website".
Sinclair's IFP application was denied and the action dismissed because he (Sinclair) filed a pleading that failed to "state a claim on which relief may be granted".
To state an actionable claim for relief, a Complaint must allege a set of
historical facts which, if proven true, would entitle the complainant to some legal
redress against the named defendants, based upon some recognized legal principle or
doctrine. While Federal Courts must “view pro se pleadings liberally, such pleadings
may not be merely conclusory: the complaint must allege facts, which if true, state
a claim as a matter of law.” Excerpt from Judge Erickson's Decision
Sinclair, who's claimed on previous websites that he has extensive "legal" knowledge and that he has a "degree in law" was shot down by the judge who wrote that Sinclair had resorted to making his Youtube video after his allegations against "Obama did not receive the publicity that Sinclair intended, by all appearances, to generate".
The judge found that Sinclair's allegations were "scant" and that he had "failed to state a claim on which relief may be granted".
Read More Larry Sinclair -Obama Lawsuit Dismissed: Sinclair Attacks Michelle Obama
By LBG
Source - Overlawyered - Larry Sinclair Versus Barack Obama
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I Take Umbrage. Umbrage!
Fashion & Politics from Cripes! Suzette
Despite the fact that I have only a handful regular readers, my influence on the mainstream media continues. I don't know how it happens, but the MSM copies me.
And they've been doing it for quite a while.
I won't bore you ( or give them more ideas) by listing the tedious details of the many instances when it has happened, but things are at a crisis point now.
Take this (40 Years Later, Still Mocking Spiro Agnew's Trail Talk), for instance. Last week, I made a bunch of new taglines to go beneath the blog title, including the one on display now.
The thing that makes this different from previous instances is that I didn't even publish it and yet the big news outlets knew what I was thinking! So that's what it's come to: All I have to do is think of some good blog material, and boom! - the next thing I know, it's all over the news.
I can't prove anything in a legal sense, but believe you me, I'm putting a moratorium on thinking around here for a while to throw "them" off.
But big deal - you want Spiro T. Agnew? You can have Spiro T. Agnew. I'll even throw in the Agnew file I started from my forays into the Time Magazine archives and the image of his headstone from Find-A-Grave.
There's something more important we need to talk about.
Have you seen the Guardian article comparing the fashion statements of Michelle O and Cindy Lou? Ok, that's all well and good - all they do here is semi -seriously list a few points like hairdos and accessories in a boring presentation. I suppose it's all fair game. But, people - check out this Jezebel piece IN WHICH THEY INTERPRET FASHION SIGNALS BY MAKING POP CULTURE REFERENCES.
Future First Ladies Should Be Judged Solely On Fashion
Uh huh.
Now I ask you: is this not a direct poaching of my "Cankles" concept?
Don't bother answering - res ipsa loquitur!
See how I have to resort to Latin to express myself now? That should throw them off my trail for a while.
Further, I am withdrawing myself from the internet for a period of four days, starting immediately*.
I can only hope that will be a sufficient time span to let my trail go cold and I can get back to blogging without the responsibility of carrying the on-line press.
Just in case I should mysteriously disappear as punishment for this whistle-blowing, I am forced to play my trump card months ahead of its time:
Our next president is Barack Obama. Not only is he the new JFK, but Michell O is the new Jackie O. I base my prediction solely on the striking similarity in the size of their enormous feet.
You try finding an image of Jackie's feet - it's not that easy! I think she must have used a four-pronged approach to keeping the public unaware of just how colossal those things were:
1. The First Lady period: the contemporary press were in on that whole Camelot thing and never published anything unflattering to the couple. The only time you see a full body shot of JBKO from that time period is when her toes are peeping out from under an Oleg Cassini original.
2.The Post-First Lady period: She must have leveraged her close attachment to RFK and asked him to wield that Kennedy power over the media to expunge all podatric images.
3. Mrs. Onassis - feet always hidden from long-range lenses behind the deck rail of The Christina.
4. Jackie O - In that pre-Photoshop era, she used Ari's money to hire former CIA document experts to doctor all photos of her feet and crop images at the knees.
Well, it's a new day and Michelle O and her big mouth are getting a pass from the critical press, and not just her big mouth but her big feet, too. Look long and hard at this photo taken before she was anointed as the new First Lady. ( Sorry, Hill. Really, really sorry to see you go.) That was before it was decided that she's be the next First Lady. Look at the flood of photos of her since her husband's star started to rise - see any feet anywhere? No! The media protects her from harsh foot-related comments from an uncensored public.
I further predict that during the Inaugural Parade down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the White House, the Os will be riding in a car, not walking and providing and opportunity for the world to look at her feet in action.
Bookmark this page and refer back to it in the months to come. You know I'm right and now I have it on the record before the MSM tries to co-opt it. I would also like the record to show that I am the originator of the moniker "Michelle Three Feet" because each of those gunboats is 18 inches long.
* Coincidentally, that is the exact length of time that I will be gone to Florida for a professional conference.
Want to read more Suzette? Here's some recent offerings for Cripes! Suzette: Pop star Prince to have secret hip replacement: * I don't want to discuss my personal life but you know I have bad knees, don't you? Very Bad Knees. The Joys of the Martini: * I Wonder if Queen Victoria Ever Had One of These? |
by Suzette
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* 1 - comedy
* 2,3 -Cripes! Suzette
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