Jay leno on barry's blackberry

January 23, 2009
Jay Leno

Barack Obama will be allowed to keep his Blackberry.
But his use of it will be limited...
Guess it's going to be on Verizon.

Actually, it's a special Blackberry they built it just for him.
They're calling it a Barackberry.

It doesn't even have a battery...
It runs entirely on hope.

They say Caroline Kennedy dropped out because of marital problems...
How bad is your marriage when you're replacing Hillary?

Quote of the day: "Isn't that what I do?"

January 23, 2009

Morning Joe

Mika "Mommy" Brzezinski cannot decide whether she's the boys' Mommy, equal, co-host, coffee getter, breakfast maker or pretty host with a famous dad. This morning it's breakfast maker.

MIKA: Well, I've got two gentlemen here, I've got to serve them breakfast. Willie Geist and Mark Halperin.

Isn't that what I do?

JOE: Uhmm. You're gonna have to answer that question for yourself.

It doesn't appear that she has.

Later they're about Gov Paterson and Caroline Kennedy and the crazy rumors.

JOE: Mark Halperin, what's a euphemisms for saying one thing in a public statement like that, and then trashing her behind the scenes saying, 'hey, dig through all of her personal garbage'.

MIKA (off camera): Like you should talk!

Then they started in on Gitmo. Joe ranted on about how they can't be released and that Mika can go down there and figure out which ones are innocent and send them to her neighborhood.

MIKA: Either I will go down and do that or you'll go down there and shoot them all.

He continues and she shakes her head rolls her eyes and crosses her arms.

Then comes the politifact.com dude with the "obameter" (a high tech pinocchio's nose) and they discussed barry's stump promises. It's good somebody has the time to follow them all. I'll bet he keeps less than 20%. But he's changed so many times already. The stuff he said in the primaires he changed as soon as he started the general and then the transition...Anyway they have sound effects to go with the categories. "Stalled" came up which sounds like you would imagine and Mika says "Sounds like my car." And the dude said "Yeah, I think that's the idea."

They make fun of her and she says nothing. At least on air. And yet she was happy to pontificate about how Madame Secretary and Gov Palin were not treated in a sexist fashion. She hasn't settled on Caroline Kennedy. Whatever is happening with her is wrong. Doesn't her uncle have any pull left?

Caroline Kennedy withdraws name

January 22, 2009

Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn herself for consideration to replace Senator Clinton. She likely wasn't going to get it and her uncle having a seizure yesterday had to figure into it.

KENNEDY: I informed Governor Paterson today that for personal reasons I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate.

It was all very sad how it went down. The idea was grand but the actuality impossible.

Blagojevich's impeachment not a witch hunt?

January 14, 2009

You don't think the Blagojevich's discrediting and subsequent vote for impeachment was not politically motivated?

That it wasn't rushed through to save face for barry?

Of course it was.

Blagojevich has been under investigation for years - even before his reelection in 2006. The Democrats voted him into power, so how corrupt was he then and why didn't they care? blago has always been blago - just as governor he got more power and was dealing in more cash.

But when Fitzgerald has blago on the cusp of actually committing an offense - something he could have gotten on tape and on video - he abruptly pulls the plug.

Why?

Because it involved barry. Only logical explanation.

Why wait years and not catch blago in the act? He didn't actually DO anything on those tapes and the conspiracy rests on senate candidate #5 - Jesse Jackson, Jr. Heard about him lately?

blagojevich talked and swore and stuck it to his impeachers by appointing Burris, but he is innocent of any wrongdoing in the eyes of the law. Not so in the court of public opinion, the proobamedia, and most definitely not in Illinois.

Patrick Fitzgerald comes out with this eye-popping press conference and releases documents with f--- this and f--- that and dramatically states that "Lincoln would be rolling over in his grave!" and then what happens? He covers for barry by saying he doesn't want information released when he really wanted to interview barry and his top aides: Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel. And of course it was convenient for both of them to wait till right before the holidays to release it because barry would be out of commenting range and Fitzgerald wouldn't have to admit he wasn't ready to charge Blago.

When was the last time you saw Emanuel or Jarrett?

Who should be speaking for barry - axelrod or Emanuel? It is the transition not the campaign - even if barry is still giving speeches instead of press conferences.

Instead, they focus on Mr Burris - probably the least corrupt politician in the state - as being tainted because blago did his constitutional duty as a governor. It was legal appointment that pist everyone off because they didn't think blago would do it and they were positive he couldn't find someone who would accept it. But he called their bluff. That is what is driving all this frenetic urgency. Not the appointment itself or his choice of appointee. They're pist because he said f- you one last time. And not on tape, but in front of the whole world.

But his biggest sin was taking the press from barry. That's what finally made barry act.

Senator-elect Burris, if one is honest, is more qualified on every front to be senator than Caroline Kennedy. And what will Gov Patterson's appointment be based on? Is the pressure on him to pick Kennedy any less "tainted"? Who knows what has been offered behind the scenes that has not (as far as I know) been documented?

Lost in the blago rush to judgment farce is the fact that Fitzgerald has asked for at least three more months to indict or do whatever with Blagojevich. So why the rush in the first place? Why show his hand when blago the day before his arrest was telling people to go ahead and tape him. He clearly wasn't aware he was under surveillance and he clearly hadn't DONE anything and the appointment was clearly not yet made.

And after spending The People of Illinois' taxes out of one-sided spite, they all agreed that Burris was a legal appointment - as he always was. And today, Governor Blagojevich will swear in the members of the Illinois legislature as the legal governor. He will swear in the very people who will impeach him. That's legal. The Bills he has signed since his premature arrest are legal. And yet his appointment of Burris wasn't?

How can he be tainted in one regard, but not when it suits the Illinois legislators?

And why is anyone listening to Pat Quinn who will be taking over the job?

It was a circus manufactured to take the heat off barry's people. Blagojevich was arrested because barry's people were involved in his scheme. Jesse Jackson Jr was co-chair of barry's presidential campaign and still acting in official capacity. Valerie Jarret was barry's main choice for senator and was appointed White House advisor after she abruptly "decided" she didn't want to be senator. Who gave her a heads up? Rahm Emanuel was/is barry's White House Chief of Staff. And lest we forget - Harry Reid made his own phone calls to the tainted, crooked and corrupt governor to broker a deal or at the very least impact Blagojevich's appointment.

So if Burris is tainted - why isn't Reid, who is the head of the Senate?

Where is the mention of the (at least) three month delay in charging Blagojevich?

Where is the investigation and demanding of information from Jarrett, Emanuel, Reid, barry and Fitzgerald?

Instead, it's on Mr Burris whose appointment was always legal. And on blagojevich, who is still acting as governor, who is still signing bills, who is swearing in the members if Illinois legislature, and whose appointee will indeed be seated in the US senate. And incidental to all this, he is still innocent of any wrongdoing. He has not been indicted anywhere except in the court of public opinion and he now has absolutely no chance of getting a fair trial.

But he has served as a wonderful distraction for barry and his top aides Jarrett and Emanuel and barry's ex campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson Jr. And then there's Reid, who was hoping Blago would go peacefully into the night by resigning.

Not a witch hunt?

New York Times got punked!

December 23, 2008

New York Times got punked!

Dear Pro-Obama Media Members:

barry tries to make himself look noble by picking Sen Clinton for Secretary of State and you applaud him for his Lincolnesque "team of rivals" crap and go on to compare him to our truly great presidents (as in actions) and other world leaders. A gentle reminder: barry has not even clocked in yet and we all know how his first executive decision of Joe Biden turned out. What was picked for? Foreign policy? Is the loquacious gaffer ever going to get a word in edgewise? He's going to be a Dan Quayle - not a Chaney. And was he referring to Mumbai? Or will it be Georgia and Russia again?

Nothing - as in not one thing - has barry done of consequence. He has never made a unilateral decision resulting in consequences solely to him and the first time he does will be as President of the United States.

Besides the fact that Sen Clinton is perfectly suited and capable of the job and the fact that he needs the very finest minds around him to teach him things (and to throw under the bus as needed) - he had a politically expedient motive.

Everything he has done in his political career has been politically expedient and a hollow chant of CHANGE! is not going to change that.

It's who he is. The only thing he has revealed himself to be.

He picked Sen Clinton to vacate her senate seat. Period. It was part of the Kennedy deal. Along with the in your face dis of Sen Clinton by appointing Caroline Kennedy the head of the VP search and snatching up Patti Solis Doyle. He appoints Clinton to a cabinet position and a Kennedy takes back Bobby Kennedy's senate seat to keep the Kennedy line going. Caroline Kennedy would be the obvious choice and after that RFK Jr. Whoever it will be - it will be a Kennedy.

barry is not in any way noble. He is doing what he always does. He is doing what he was told and what he agreed to do so he could take the next step up and that is never going to change.

ps. Give Mr Bill a rest. Why in the hell would a globe-trotting president beloved by the world become a senator? Especially under a man who refused to call him and allowed him to be painted a racist - even still? The same man who detests his wife, won the nomination by fraud and tried to destroy his presidential legacy.

Hello.

And the Kennedy women?

November 22, 2008

Politicians are very small transparent people. I have witnessed it over the last nine months - how frightened and threatened men are of Senator Clinton and to what degree they will go to deny it. The proobamedia is one thing, her colleagues another and the Kennedys another altogether. The loyalists to her husband running the other way when it was time to back a woman. Cowards in broad daylight giggling in the back rooms and heartily clapping barry - someone they don't know - on the back simply because he's an alternative to a pantsuit.

Ted Kennedy - your legacy may be set in American Politics but you have left me with a bitter taste. A bitter taste from a family I had always looked on as tolerant. A family my large Irish Catholic family had revered. I see now it was all a mirage. And it's very, very sad.

Sadder still were the few Kennedy's backing Senator Clinton who never stood forward and said so. Why? What impact does it have on the Kennedy legacy that some stood silent and did not let their dissent be seen because it was a conflict of interest within their own family? And what of the ones who did not encourage them to do so even though they were on barry's side?

Women in the Kennedy family have stood silent and let the most powerful politician, who just happens to be a woman, be trashed. One cannot hold them responsible for the decades of abuse - justified or not - heaped on Senator Clinton, but they have stood silent while the Kennedy name was used to promote barry. Plenty of them sticking up and saying how proud their father, uncle or whatever relation would be. Plenty doing their part to get barry elected. Plenty so happy about the resurrected pride and popularity that they have come forward to get their 15 minutes of name-related fame.

Do they all believe in their hearts and souls that barry is more qualified? That if he weren't a black man he would be president? That if it didn't make a nice tidy package for the Kennedy legacy, he'd still be The One?

And in regards to themselves - are they delusional enough to believe they have gotten to where they are because of their own intrinsic worth? That their family name had nothing to do with it? That they weren't given the benefit of the doubt because of it and have not been attacked in the media because of it?

And Senator Clinton's name? How has that impacted her political career? How scandalous would a female Kennedy have to be before the media went after her? Would a Clinton have survived Chappaquiddick? Any politician save a Kennedy?

How enlightening would it have been for one Kennedy woman to step forward, especially one obviously pro-barry - Caroline Kennedy even - to say that the misogyny and sexism is way out of control and should be no more tolerated than barry's own race baiting.

It is what I now associate with the Kennedy Legacy: silence.

Even if the Kennedy women hate Senator Clinton, even if they think barry is the second coming of Jesus or JFK or RFK - they have stood silent while a female politician of considerable political worth was attacked on everything from cleavage to thick ankles. They of the nasal Boston accent stood silent while Sen Clinton was attacked because of her Chicago cackle. They of the Democratic party stood silent while their fellow Democrat was attacked--through no fault of her own--because of men's irrelevance, impotence and castration anxiety.

Most disappointing (and most heinous) they have stood silent while Chelsea's mother was attacked on a fundamentally feminine level.

They have made their stops on Morning Joe talking about Catholicism in America and never once said, you know, Love They Neighbor includes Senator Clinton. Maria Shriver, First Lady of California and most visible female supporter of barry has said nothing about the misogyny and obvious sexism. Caroline Kennedy became head of the VP search and said nothing when her uncle said Senator Clinton was not noble or leader enough to become vice president. And yet, Senator Clinton took the initiative to shake Senator Kennedy's hand after he had endorsed barry.

What is Ms Shriver conveying to all the young girls of California? Of America? Of the world? How is she inspiring the young girls of any anything who aspire to be president one day? How is her silence reassuring young black girls that they have as much of a chance of becoming president as their little brothers? And that if they were to try their hair, makeup, body size, voice and clothing wouldn't matter?

Will any of the Kennedy women develop a conscience once Senator Clinton is working for barry? Will that be enough for them to become women first and Kennedys--who have never been discriminated against nor will they ever--second?

They have all seen what has been happening and none have said a word or raised an objection.

Nothing anymore exists to make me feel proud of the Kennedy legacy.

Same with Oprah - the supposed champion of women everywhere. It was the premise behind her academy: that women leaders will effect change in the world, that they are the ones who will bring peace and that they just need education and an opportunity to do so. Empty words it seems. Who could effect more change in the world RIGHT NOW while those young girls are still aspiring? Who could bring that dream to reality? To prove to them that it really and truly is attainable? Can they really believe what Oprah says? Can anyone?

It seems the tolerance JFK spoke of referred only to black male Americans. That it had nothing to do with their wives, mothers, sisters, nieces, grandmothers, neighbors, coworkers and rare bosses. Would Senator Clinton had been treated differently had she been a Kennedy? A black women?

Although the odds are against it, I hope I live long enough to hear someone admit that Sen Clinton she should have won. (Did win.) That barry cheated with the full knowledge and cooperation of the DNC, the Kennedys and proobamedia. That the daily attack on Senator Clinton and her supporters was a sanctioned, malicious, planned assault carried out with the knowledge and assistance of barry's camp, which included the Kennedys, DNC and proobamedia.

Something that has still not been made right even as barry mimes "Team of Rivals". If you knew barry at all, you would know he is assembling a team of political expedience. He is selecting people he can easily cut away and throw under the bus. Go through each one yourselves and check them off. Find one who doesn't fit affirmative action, Chicago payback and/or political expedience.

When you find one let me know.

What would our forefathers and forebears think? Would they believe barry's engineered election was one step closer to a More Perfect Union? Would they be proud of how barry race baited?

I think Abraham Lincoln would be sickened by the repeated references to him, his words and his accomplishments by someone who has accomplished absolutely nothing. Someone who stood silent even as he professed unity while his opponent - a woman no less - was destroyed in the media so that he could win. Thomas Jefferson would be chuckling at the hypocrisy of it all. And Martha Washington would sit quietly and cry having known in her heart that it was going to take more than 232 years to make things right.

Oprah & Caroline Kennedy stump for Obama

February 4, 2008
UCLA

Oprah disses her white audience because someone asked her in Iowa, "How could you?"
Oprah: "She was surprised by that comment and insulted....I am not a traitor."

"We are free to be led by our hearts. We are free from the prescriptions of gender and race."

Affected voice: "Trouble with your mens."

(Mind you, this was before her audience had begun to boycott her show and her ratings. And when that happened she suddenly disappeared from the scene. Integrity.)

She quotes Tony Bill is the first black president Morrison saying that Barry has "creative imagination". True. But does he know how to use it in reality? Here's her full letter of endorsement.