April 30, 2008
Courtesy of Willamette Week
Portland, Oregon
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Whether you choose to proudly wear it in your vest pocket as a display of candidate preference, or carry it with you while jogging to scare off muggers and stray dogs...More on voice
...Hillary look-alike/laugh-alike pen plays a medley of the New York senator's actual chortles, snorts, and guffaws digitally recorded from her recent appearances on TV interview programs.
Sticklers for anatomical correctness in their writing utensils will be pleased to know that the face on the Hillary Laughing Pen features a hinged mouth which opens and closes in synchronization with each Hillary chuckle and giggle.
Sena Hannity: "Isn't that frightening?
Jeannie Moos: "Some think it is as overdone as Al Gore's kiss."
Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, once told me: "She's never going to get out of our faces. ... She's like some hellish housewife who has seen something that she really, really wants and won't stop nagging you about it until finally you say, fine, take it, be the damn president, just leave me alone."
OBAMA: My objections to the war in Iraq were not simply a speech. I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high-stakes campaign. I was one of the most vocal opponents of the war.OUTRIGHT LIE.
BARRY: ..."Senator Clinton (scratches face...arrogant anger) looked in her element. SHE was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there.Twist the knife motion with the right hand and laughing. Messiah smile.
You know - that's all right. That's HER right, that's HER right (twisting). That's why...SHE's only airing negative attacks on TV IN Pennsylvania and other places. I understand because it's the textbook Washington game. That's how our politics has been taught to be played. That's the lesson that SHE learned when the republicans were doing the same thing to HER back in the 1990's.
So I understand it. When you're running for the presidency, then you gotta expect it and you know, you kind gotta...Shrugs his shoulders and then dusts them off dismissively. Crowd loves it. He can say all he wants he didn't intend what he clearly does - but he is just as much responsible for the crowd's reaction. He knows what they're thinking and he doesn't disavow them of the notion.
...let, you know. You know.(Messiah smile.)
It's what ya gotta do.Chanting standing O by the obamerized crowd. He dusts off his pant and wipes his shoes...and the tell tale cheek scratch. Messiah smile.
That's what ya gotta do.But understand this - that is also why, precisely why I am running for president. To change that kind of politics.......fill in the blank"
September 5-7, 1997 USA Weekend.
GUMBEL: "It's hard to be defined as a conservative if you're a black man and care about black people. I think it's very difficult. Basically...'conservative' says the status quo is good. I mean, how can you look out there at the vast majority of people of color and say, 'Oh, yes. This is something I can applaud. It's a situation I'd like to keep. This is obviously working.' I don't see that. There are some conservatives of great character and some conservatives with great caring who would argue that proper conservatism says, 'Oh, no, we do want to change the status quo, but we want to do it in a different fashion than liberals want to do it'; i.e., Jack Kemp. I don't have a problem with that."
GUMBEL: To James Carville, January 28, 1998 Public Eye on CBS – "Where does Lewinsky fit into this conspiracy theory? Is she victimizing the President or is she too a victim?"
April 11, 2008
ABC Interview
Jake Tapper:
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
Obama said he appeared once on Imus' show two years ago, and "I have no intention of returning."
"He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women -- who I hope will be athletes -- that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting."
"What we've been seeing around this country is this constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have to think about," Obama said.
"Insults, humor that degrades women, humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn't fun," the senator told ABC News.
"And the notion that somehow it's cute or amusing, or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids," he concluded.'Nappy headed hos" is worse than having his fellow presidential candidate, former first lady and US Senator called a monster, a whore, a bitch, a fucking bitch, a frigid bitch, a cunt, a trapped animal, a drunk party guest, someone in need of a good fuck...? Race will always trump gender.
[Obama] posed for report pictures with the staff when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate in his pocket on his right thigh – against which one woman was closely pressed.
"Now that's my phone buzzing there," he said, drawing a laugh. "I don't want you to think I'm getting fresh or anything."