Sexist quote of the day: "Those tears have to be analyzed"

This is the most insane thing I have ever heard and it's from Jesse Jackson Jr - Obama's Co-chair. Watch his body language and is emphasis on certain words...appearance & emotional.

"The Media Hates Hillary"

January 9, 2008
The Young Turks' video about how the Media hates Hillary Clinton. Prompted by the mo dowdy crap article that I've commented on previous. Who did she sleep with the get a Pulitzer Prize because it sure ain't her writing?

Breaking News meets lipstick!

January 9, 2008
MSNBC
Contessa Brewer listens closely to the field reporter's account of Breaking News!

Video Courtesy of Insidedcablenews

Blog of note: NewsBusters

Serious professional blog devoted to proobama media bias and general MSM madness. Many different contributors. Have their own and You Tube videos and many times transcripts to link to. An ally in the fight.

Reid: three hoops for Burris

January 8, 2009

harry reid sure is patronizing. And an egomaniac who has something to prove. Must must have grown up poor or lacking and is trying to show he's just as good if not better than the people he thinks he rules. What is Nanci Pelosi's job? He is not going to like having a Columbia-Harvard "articulate" president looking down on him - especially if he some race issues. Not wanting Emil Jones or Jesse Jackson, jr cannot be entirely explained by race. Plenty of reasons supersede skin color.

So he had his photo op with Mr Burris and Dick Durbin. Had his lieutenant stand behind him while he presided and then he spoke. It was shocking. He sounded like a guy talking in a bar. He didn't even have the common respect for a fellow democrat (who has not been indicted on anything) to address him by his first name or title - just "Blagojevich". He has a personal vendetta. Perfectly clear. Maybe those conversations happened and maybe he did say some "racially insensitive" things. It would explain his blago venom. I bet he holds a mean grudge.

Excuses and concessions:

Jesse White's signature absolute necessity - rule has never been circumvented.

Testify before the impeachment committee.

And then he threw it back to Lisa Madigan just like barry would have. Illinois Supreme Court to rule on whether Jesse White's signature can be circumvented.

Jesse White is just keeping his word. Didn't expect blago to call their bluff. Never saw it coming. Noe of them did.

Clears all three - he can be reconsidered. But then Senate can refuse to seat him:

Article 1, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution: "Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members.

I had no idea all these things were included in The Constitution. Anyway it will never happen.

How can a secretary of state veto a governor who has been found guilty of nothing?

Wasn't President Clinton signing and appointing during his impeachment proceedings?

And then there's race. Bobby Rush has never shied away from it.

Sexist quote of the day: "You're likable enough, Hilary."

January 5, 2008
Democratic Debate

OBAMA:"You're likable enough, Hillary."


January 10, 2008, NY Times article by JODI CANTOR :

For many women, these moments are deeply personal. Though Sarah Kreps, 31, who is moving to New York, said she would vote for Mr. Obama, seeing Mrs. Clinton debate was a reminder of her time in the Air Force, and the discomfort of being the sole woman in a group of men. The criticisms of Mrs. Clinton's voice took Ms. Rees back to the time her boss pushed the mute button on a conference call to tell her that her voice was too shrill.

Obama NH lobbyist

Jan 5, 2008
New Hampshire Democratic Debate

SEN CLINTON: Obama's chair in New Hampshire lobbies for drug companies. We should all be held accountable.

BARRY: That's not true.
Yet another lie.

MPP: Presidential Candidates view on Marijuana

January 5, 2008

2008 Presidential Candidates on Marijuana

MPP: Marijuana Policy Project

Personal THC (10-17-07)

LENO: Did you inhale?

Barry obamanated: That was the point!

Medical THC (11-24-07)

BARRY: My attitude is that if the science science and doctor suggest that the best palliative care, the best way to relieve pan and suffering is through medical THC, then that’s something I’m open to. Because there’s no difference between that and morphine [Yes, there is - a big difference. As there is between THC and cocaine] when it comes to giving people relief from pain. But I want to do it under strict guidelines. I want to make sure it is prescribed in the same way that other painkillers or palliative drugs would be prescribed.”

Re: Arresting medical THC patients.

BARRY: I would not have the Justice Department prosecute anyone for use of medical THC. That’s not a good use of our resources.

5-12-2008

barry spokesman BEN LABOLT (San Francisco Chronicle):

Obama supports the rights of states and local governments to make this choice - though he believes medical marijuana should be subject to the (US Food and Drug Administration) regulation like other drugs.

Previous political controversies re: marijuana use:

1987 Ginsberg disqualified from Supreme Court
1991 Clarence Thomas admits to use and voila! no problem.
1992 Clinton: I experimented with marijuana a time or two and I didn’t like. I didn’t inhale and didn’t try it again.

2003 Presidential Debate

ANDERSON COOPER: Which of you are ready to admit tonight to using drugs in the past?

JOHN KERRY: Yes

AL SHARPTON: Yes

JOHN EDWARDS: Yes

JOE LIEBERMAN: I never used marijuana, sorry.

2006

BARRY: I inhaled, frequently. That was the point.

Ok for Thomas and Obama but not Ginsberg and Clinton. Clear double standard. This campaign has shown how race will always triumph gender and white guilt.

SHRC on Civil Rights

Women's Rights are Civil Rights
Beijing China 1995
"She hoped 'to push the envelope as far as I can on behalf of women and girls,' and her speech was a loud call for women's rights to be equated with human rights."

Sexist quote of the day: "Hillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well."

December 13, 2007
Iowa Democratic Debate
Video from Pundital

Obama gets ask about his "change" with President Clinton advisors. Laughter including Sen Clinton's and then a whiny: "Hillary, I look forward to you advising me as well." Make sure you pause to see the faces of Richardson, Biden & Edwards. Edwards standing there knowing full well what a whore he is. Talk about a pig. And if Edwards wasn't there and didn't get 30% of the vote? Barry's 38% wouldn't have won anything - as it won't in November.

New word of the day: Recruiterments

December 1, 2007

PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH:

The best way to defeat this enemy in the long run is to deny them the recruiting tools, that are and-and recruiterments made possible by resentment.

Ignorant quote of the day: "I love that he voted against the war."

November 29, 2007
The Apollo

Chris Rock: "I love that he voted against the war. He really voted against the war." Informed voter? Identity politics? "Anything would be better than Mr Bush." Bet he didn't realize what he said.

video courtesy of FortHardKnox
Barry before his patriotism was challenged. Red screen like McCain's green screen and no teleprompter. He had a little more energy back then.

Barry: "I'm tired about reading about Jena" He pronounced it "Gina" so he must really know alot about it. "I'm tired about reading about nooses."

How many nooses did he see hanging from a tree in Hawaii? Wasn't ever in the south until stumping and the first time he say his mother's birthplace was on a stump.

The president of the United States will believe in the justice and equality for all Americans. And by the way, your next president will actually believe in The Constitution of the United States of America. And will uphold that Constitution. That's why I'm in this race.

I'm in this race because I'm tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is to act and vote and talk like a George Bush Republican.

Wonder what his VP thinks about this. He didn't seem to care at the 2004 Convention.

When I am president -- whe-when I'm this party's nominee, when I'm the democratic nominee for president -- my opponent will not be able to say I voted for the war - because I didn't.

True, you didn't have a vote and all your followers don't care enough to ask and when a non-mesmerized tries to tell them they start their personal attacks as a way of endorsing their above the fray candidate.

They won't be able to say I gave George Bush the benefit of a doubt in Iran - because I haven't.

True. You didn't know when the vote was and couldn't make it back from NH. Political expediency all the way. Why change something that has been proven to work?

The won't be able to say that I support the Bush-Chaney policies of not talking to leaders that we don't like - because that's not what I believe in.

True. His beliefs are counted down as politically expedient decisions and no one challenges him on them. He believes in what ever will make him president. And when he is? Nobody knows what he will do - not even him.

barry laughs dismissively about Sen Clinton's experience

November 7, 2007
Hardball

This what they called "inevitability". Sen Clinton was showing her confidence. She doesn't allow herself to think about losing. Is there a single winner on this planet that thinks about losing as they compete? If they do, they're not focused on winning. This is not inevitability. It's confidence. And you have to have alot if you're running for president. Pro-obama media bias started early. They were going to do anything to destroy her chances.

Schuster says Clinton thinks voters will vote for her because she has White House experience and because she contributed to her husband's achievements. It's an argument that obama ridicules.

BARRY: Sen Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out (laughs dismissively) in which case she says she had nothing to do with. (laugh)

She picked up the support of 60 black ministers.

CLINTON: There are lots of ways in which what I did was the face of American when I was there, when I was representing not only my husband but the country.

SCHUSTER: Obama then pounced.

BARRY: If she wants to tout her experience by having visited countries - that's fine. I-I-I don't think that Madeline Albright would think that Hillary Clinton was the face of foreign policy during the Clinton administration - but maybe she'll disagree with that.

ALBRIGHT statement: Hillary Clinton represented American interests and values in her visits to more than 80 countries with presidents, prime ministers and leaders of civil societies...her seven years as US Senator has further deepened her experience...she will be ready from the very first day to lead our nation in a very difficult and dangerous world.

Gaffe of the day: "How Do We Beat the Bitch"

What I find offensive is the woman who asked the question. McCain wasn't sanctioning it - he was caught unawares. He didn't go on and say yeah she is a bitch. He proceeded to answer it. I don't know how SHRC would see it, but this does not even come close to the things barry or the MSM on his behalf have said. Not even close.

LADY: How do we beat the bitch?"

(crowd laughs)

MCCAIN: "May I give, gotta give the translation. (embarrassed chuckle) The way that, the way-"

MAN: "John, I thought she was talking about my ex-wife!"

Then McCain laughs with the rest of them. That line was funny I a generic bah-dum-pah sort of way.

MCCAIN: (Composed.) "But, no, that's an excellent question. (Not meant as the way the question was phrased.) There was a poll out yesterday, a Rasmussen poll that shows me 3 points ahead of Sen Clinton in a head-to-head match-up." Applause. I respect Senator Clinton. I respect anyone who gets the nomination of the Democratic Party."

Alma (Campbell) Brown's husband

According to Huffpo, Alma's hubby Dan Senor was a former adviser for the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and is now reportedly serving as an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. So she loves barry and is pissed because hubby didn't get a job with Mitt as VP. Love the MSM. Has she ever disclosed this?

Quote of the day: "A noun, a verb and 9-11"

October 30, 2007
Sen Joe Biden: Guiliani has three words: a noun a verb and 911.

video courtesy of joebidendot.com

New word of the day: Obamanation

Root word: Obama
Origin: The Daley Machine, Chicago, Illinois
Popularized by Senator Barack Obama, (D-IL)
10-1-07

OBAMABOT: barryfan who makes personal attacks on other bloggers and barry's opponents.

ROBAMABOTS: Mindless O-baaa-ma & Yes! We! Can! chanters.

OBAMANATION: phrasing or view that covers both sides of the issue used as a matter of political expedience so as not to have to make a stand and be held accountable; act of political expediency.

Not to be confused with abomination: a thing that causes disgust or hatred.

OBAMANATED: What Obama has done since his entire political career.

"I think we need to decriminalize our marijuana laws. But I'm not someone who believes in legalization of marijuana."

OBAMANATING: How Obama secured the nomination and how he will run the White House.

Unclear if this is what he means by both sides of the aisle.

OBAMERISM: A pathological condition characterized by irrational manlove and glazed-eye devotion to the messiah. Side effects include: ignorance, intentional disrespect; violent outbursts using racist and/or sexist comments; complete disregard for human decency.

Herr Olberman, Chris Matthews and Lee Cowan have textbook cases.

OBAMERIZED: Under the spell of the Obamessiah; incapable of hearing/speaking the truth; beyond reason.

the proobamedia and feinting fainters.

OBAMERITES: Cult followers of the obamessiah who know nothing about him except Change!

Robamabots; obamabots; bots; 99% barry voters.

PROOBAMEDIA: the proobama biased MSM.

Most notably MSNBC and NEWSWEEK: the pro-barry propaganda newsletter.

The next President of the United States?

Inexcusable. A man running for resident can't honor the flag? How more in your face can you be? Perhaps because his church recognizes the Pan African flag instead.

Quote of the day: "If that's his baby - he needs help."

July 23, 2007
Debate

BIDEN: I don't know if he's mentally qualified to own that gun.

Video courtesy of pundital

Ignorant comment of the day: Obama would sit down with rogue leaders.

July 7, 2007
CNN/You Tube South Carolina Democratic Debate
Stephen Sorta: "Would you be willing to meet separately, without preconditions, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria [He could stay at Tony Rezko's house], Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea in order to bridge the gap that divides our country?"

Obama: "I would!"

Biden standing right next to him. And the fat jerk--an obvious liberal professor looking dude--who asked the question is smirking like BO I got your back: "I'd be interested to hear what, uh, (affected tone) "Hillary" has to say to that question."

And I would like to ask you why you have no respect for a US Senator who has more power in her little pinky than you do in your shriveled little nuts and pinky-finger penis that you haven't seen in a 20 years and probably haven't used in 30.

Senator Clinton: "Well, I will NOT promise to meet with these leaders of these countries during my first year. I will promise a very vigorous diplomatic effort. Because I think that it IS not that you promise a meeting at that high a level before you know what the intentions are. I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes. I don't want to make a situation even worse. but I certainly agree that we need to get back to diplomacy, which has been turned into a bad word in this administration and I will pursue very vigorous diplomacy and I will a lot of high level presidential envoys to test the waters, to feel the way. But, certainly, we're not going to have our president meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be.

Look at bo's typical messiah look with his nose up in the air (2:40). He did the same when Biden said he didn't have enough experience in the debate.

Poll: proobama media bias

July 13 & 22, 2007

Rasmussen Poll
CBS, NBC, ABC
39% liberal bias
10% of liberals
62% of conservatives
38% of I

20% conservative bias
49% of liberals
19% of I

25% unbiased

CNN
33% liberal bias
55% of conservatives

16% conservative bias

32% unbiased
43% of Liberals

NPR
27% liberal
14% conservative
37% unbiased
50% of liberals

FOX
31% conservative bias
21% of conservatives

15% liberal bias
18% of conservatives

36% unbiased
49% of R
45% of conservatives

AP
30% liberal bias
12% conservative bias
36% unbiased

MSNBC
33% liberal
13% conservative

CNBC
29% liberal
14% conservative

Local news
30% liberal
17% conservative

New York Times, Washington Post and local newspapers liberal
Equally divided as to whether or not the "Fairness Doctrine" should be restored

New word of the day: Misunderestimate

Nov. 6, 2000

Bentonville, Arkansas

PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH:

They misunderestimate me.

Joke of the day: "Yes."

April 26, 2007
Democratic Debate
Joe Biden stays mum...for once.

Disgusting quote of the day: "Are you going to apologize for being a political whore?"

April 15, 2007
FOX TV Michelle Malkin & Malik Shabazz discussion of the wrongly accused Duke men.

Malik Shabazz, New Black Panther Party (who endorsed Obama on Obama's official website and who provided protection for Wright) protesting against the Duke Lacrosse team and when they are exonerated Shabazz refuses to apology and says something is still wrong, implying they are guilty but got away with it because it was a rich white university and rich white men. The DNA from multiple men in her underwear - none of the three suspects - and her subsequent pregnancy and delivery 9 months later proves they were not guilty - reinforced by the DA Nifong. Shabazz instead rants about the "over 1,600,000 black women have been sexually assaulted and raped by white men since we came here on slaves ships. None of them have been prosecuted. I will not apologize for defending black women." Where does this number come from? And how is his disgusting treatment of these men related to slave ships? They had nothing to do with that woman or slavery.

Malkin: You’re not going to apologize the Duke Lacrosse team that you smeared – you convicted. Didn't you hear the North Carolina Attorney General’s statement? Did you hear that they say—

Shabazz: Did I hear—

Malkin: That the evidence is that there is no attack? What exactly--

Shabazz: No I didn’t hear that…

[Blah blah blah He says he is a criminal defense attorney. Rich white people against the poor black women. Same old same old.]

Shabazz: “All women who will bring sexual assault charges in the future will be adversely affected by this. So the victim-the accuser is a victim here as well. No, I will not apologize.”

Yes because she lied. It is her fault. She is not the victim – as least as far as this goes. She destroyed these men for life over a complete and utter lie and when she had the chance to make it right – she didn’t. She should go to jail. What other restitution is there? And then he tries to justify his smear by saying the accused were guilty of crimes of another nature. How evil is this man? In the face of irrefutable evidence of their innocence he refuses to apologize. How can this man’s word ever be worth something?
[…]

Malkin: "Mr Shabazz, you and your so-called party--how many members do you have? Fifteen? Have made a career out of stoking racial demagoguery.

Shabazz: Let me say this, let me say this. I would much rather be a member--

Malkin: Can I ask a question first, sir?

Shabazz: Go right ahead.

Malkin: And last May of your members said to Reade Seligmann one of the Duke lacrosse player, 'that he was a dead man walking'. You're not going to apologize for that?"

Shabazz: First of all, I can't confirm that's true. Will you apologize for being a political prostitute for Bill O'Reilly, a white male chauvinist racist of a woman of color?

Malkin: You’re calling me - you want to call me a whore on national TV?

Shabazz: Yes. A political--

Malkin: There's only one whore on this split screen and it's you, Mr Shabazz.

Shabazz: --as a woman of color you should be ashamed of yourself for being a mouthpiece--

Malkin: You should be ashamed of yourself for profiting off of your racial poison--

Shabazz: --for a male chauvinist racist Bill O'Reilly. You should be ashamed of yourself for defending and being a spokesman for Bill O'Reilly.

Malkin: You still supporting OJ Simpson, Mr Shabazz?

Shabazz: Do you support the acquittal?

Malkin: Are you?

Shabazz: Do you stand by or does Bill O'Reilly apologize when a jury verdict--

Malkin: Do you want to say some of your anti-Semitic propaganda that you’ve made your whole career about?

Shabazz : What is your point, Ma'am?

Malkin: What is you point is that you are calling me a political prostitute, when that is your entire life. And you will not apologize to these young men who have been exonerated. Uh, when was the last time you talked to the accuser in this case? [Crystal Gail Mangum]

Shabazz: I have…that’s between me and that family. Bit there are sources--

Malkin: Aha. Are you still providing security and protection for this woman?

Shabazz: Well…

Malkin: For this women who has been completely debunked and exposed?

Shabazz: This woman is a victim. Like many other women who will now be in fear - and you should sympathize with them who are afraid to go forth with serious charges because of prosecutors like Nifong-Neefong whatever it is.

Malkin: You've done treacherous harm not only to your own community [his beeper beeps] Mr. Shabazz but to every true and bona fide rape victim woman in this country.

Shabazz: "I am a defender of women, of black women, and I will not apologize UNTIL WHITE AMERICA DOES JUSTICE FOR THE MANY BLACK WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN RAPED BY SLAVE TRADERS.

Malkin: No, it’s clear you will not apologize--

Shabazz: -- AND YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A MOUTHPIECE FOR A WHITE RACIST CHAUVINIST BILL O'REILLY.

Malkin: Hmm-mm. Good-

How is that a defender of woman? It’s clear he is not capable of respect. Calling her a prostitute – that’s what the accused admitted to being -- but he will defend her honor. He spews hate. Skin color doesn't change that.

Gaffe of the day:" He's articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy"

January 31, 2007

Senator Joe Biden announces his presidential bid and shows the nation what they will be getting. Not a bad guy just a guy who speaks his mind that can be interpreted as not PC.
courtesy of StevenLoneWolf

BIDEN: I mean you've got the first sorta mainstream African American who's articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy. I mean that's a storybook, man.

OBAMA: You'd have to ask Senator Clinton I mean Senator Biden what he was thinking. I don't worry too much about what folks are talking about during the campaign season.

OBAMA: He called me. I told him it wasn't necessary. We have got more important things to worry about. We have got Iraq. We have got health care. We have got energy. This is low on the list. He was very gracious and I have no problem with Joe Biden.

OBAMA statement: I didn't take Sen Biden's comments personally, but they are historically inaccurate. African American candidates like Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm, carol Mosley Brown and Al Sharpton gave voice to many important issues through their camoaign, and no one would call them inarticulate.

JESSE JACKSON: Knowing Joe Biden the way I do, I'm sure he didn't mean it as off-color, but it is certainly highly suggestive.

BIDEN: Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. Ask Obama what I thought. He knows what I meant by it. The idea was straightforward and simple. This guy is brand new and something no one has seen before. My mother has an expression, clean as a whistle and sharp as a tack. That is the context. He is crisp and clear. He was not intending to take a shot at his opponent and colleague.

BIDEN statement: I deeply regret any offense my remark in the New York Observer might have caused anyone. That was not my intent and I expressed that to Senator Obama.

AL SHARPTON: I told him I take a bath every day.

'Women's Right are Human Rights"

September 5, 1995
United Nations 4th World Conference on Women Speech
Beijing, China

#35 of Top 100 Speeches of the 21st Century

"Women's Rights are Human Rights"

(mp3)

Sean Michael Leonard

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

Her mission: "to push the envelope as far as I can on behalf of women and girls."

Thank you very much, Gertrude Mongella, for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point, distinguished delegates, and guests:

I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration, a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in the community, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers, citizens, and leaders.

It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every day in every country. We come together in fields and factories, in village markets and supermarkets, in living rooms and board rooms. Whether it is while playing with our children in the park, or washing clothes in a river, or taking a break at the office water cooler, we come together and talk about our aspirations and concern. And time and again, our talk turns to our children and our families. However different we may appear, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We share a common future, and we are here to find common ground so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world, and in so doing bring new strength and stability to families as well.

By gathering in Beijing, we are focusing world attention on issues that matter most in our lives -- the lives of women and their families: access to education, health care, jobs and credit, the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and to participate fully in the political life of our countries.

There are some who question the reason for this conference. Let them listen to the voices of women in their homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to economic and political progress around the globe. Let them look at the women gathered here and at Huairou -- the homemakers and nurses, the teachers and lawyers, the policymakers and women who run their own businesses. It is conferences like this that compel governments and peoples everywhere to listen, look, and face the world's most pressing problems. Wasn't it after all -- after the women's conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence?

Earlier today, I participated in a World Health Organization forum. In that forum, we talked about ways that government officials, NGOs, and individual citizens are working to address the health problems of women and girls. Tomorrow, I will attend a gathering of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. There, the discussion will focus on local -- and highly successful -- programs that give hard-working women access to credit so they can improve their own lives and the lives of their families.

What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well. That is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation on this planet does have a stake in the discussion that takes place here.

Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two-and-a half years, I've had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.

I have met new mothers in Indonesia, who come together regularly in their village to discuss nutrition, family planning, and baby care. I have met working parents in Denmark who talk about the comfort they feel in knowing that their children can be cared for in safe, and nurturing after-school centers. I have met women in South Africa who helped lead the struggle to end apartheid and are now helping to build a new democracy. I have met with the leading women of the Western Hemisphere who are working every day to promote literacy and better health care for children in their countries. I have met women in India and Bangladesh who are taking out small loans to buy milk cows, or rickshaws, or thread in order to create a livelihood for themselves and their families. I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl.

The great challenge of this conference is to give voice to women everywhere whose experiences go unnoticed, whose words go unheard. Women comprise more than half the word's population, 70% of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. We are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued -- not by economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government leaders.

At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies, and running countries. Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated. They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation. They are being denied the right to go to school by their own fathers and brothers. They are being forced into prostitution, and they are being barred from the bank lending offices and banned from the ballot box.

Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not. As an American, I want to speak for those women in my own country, women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can't afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes.

I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools, safe neighborhoods, clean air, and clean airwaves; for older women, some of them widows, who find that, after raising their families, their skills and life experiences are not valued in the marketplace; for women who are working all night as nurses, hotel clerks, or fast food chefs so that they can be at home during the day with their children; and for women everywhere who simply don't have time to do everything they are called upon to do each and every day.

Speaking to you today, I speak for them, just as each of us speaks for women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school, or see a doctor, or own property, or have a say about the direction of their lives, simply because they are women. The truth is that most women around the world work both inside and outside the home, usually by necessity.

We need to understand there is no one formula for how women should lead our lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her own God-given potential. But we must recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected.

Our goals for this conference, to strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take greater control over their own destinies, cannot be fully achieved unless all governments -- here and around the world -- accept their responsibility to protect and promote internationally recognized human rights. The -- The international community has long acknowledged and recently reaffirmed at Vienna that both women and men are entitled to a range of protections and personal freedoms, from the right of personal security to the right to determine freely the number and spacing of the children they bear. No one -- No one should be forced to remain silent for fear of religious or political persecution, arrest, abuse, or torture.

Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even now, in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict. Women and children make up a large majority of the world's refugees. And when women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to abuse. I believe that now, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break the silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:

It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.

It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.

Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries, if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure. It is indefensible that many women in nongovernmental organizations who wished to participate in this conference have not been able to attend -- or have been prohibited from fully taking part.

Let me be clear. Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means respecting the views of those who may disagree with the views of their governments. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.

In my country, we recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. It took 150 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence for women to win the right to vote. It took 72 years of organized struggle, before that happened, on the part of many courageous women and men. It was one of America's most divisive philosophical wars. But it was a bloodless war. Suffrage was achieved without a shot being fired.

But we have also been reminded, in V-J Day observances last weekend, of the good that comes when men and women join together to combat the forces of tyranny and to build a better world. We have seen peace prevail in most places for a half century. We have avoided another world war. But we have not solved older, deeply-rooted problems that continue to diminish the potential of half the world's population.

Now it is the time to act on behalf of women everywhere. If we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families too. Families rely on mothers and wives for emotional support and care. Families rely on women for labor in the home. And increasingly, everywhere, families rely on women for income needed to raise healthy children and care for other relatives.

As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes -- the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.

Let -- Let this conference be our -- and the world's -- call to action. Let us heed that call so we can create a world in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity, every boy and girl is loved and cared for equally, and every family has the hope of a strong and stable future. That is the work before you. That is the work before all of us who have a vision of the world we want to see -- for our children and our grandchildren.

The time is now. We must move beyond rhetoric. We must move beyond recognition of problems to working together, to have the comment efforts to build that common ground we hope to see.

God's blessing on you, your work, and all who will benefit from it.

Godspeed and thank you very much.

MLK: "I have a dream."

August 28, 1963
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
Rev Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹


I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³

Obama hecklers: pro-lifers

January 17, 2007
Dover, Hew Hampshire
Obama dealing with pro-lifers. He doesn't do so well with hecklers. Can see why no townhalls.

CNN CHRIS WELCH
(Emphasis added)

A group of about a dozen anti-abortion protestors interrupted one of Barack Obama's New Hampshire rallies Monday night.

The group shouted in unison, 'Abortion is abomination,' forcing Obama to pause in the middle of his speech. When the noise erupted, Obama first paused and looked up into the balcony where they were standing.

"Alright," Obama said, attempting to squelch the commotion. "Alright."

The rest of the crowd soon got angry with the protestors.

"No need to boo. We appreciate [their] point," Obama said, adding that he'd be happy to talk to them afterwards but that shouting "isn't going to solve anything."

The whole incident lasted about two minutes before they were escorted out by police.

Before leaving the room, one protestor yelled, "True change is ending abortion!" Change has been a major theme of Obama's campaign. Once the audience calmed down again, Obama said,"Let me just say this, though… Some people got organized to do that. That's part of the American tradition we are proud of."

"That's hard, too, standing in the midst of people who don't agree with you."

That last line says it all. What's he going to do at a White House briefing? Or the UN? The adoring press won;t be so adoring once they've gotten him elected.

Nina Totenberg, 64

I have grown to hate the MSM because of their obvious pro-Obama propaganda and corruption and this lady pisses me off. She snitched on Douglas Ginsberg so he couldn't be a Supreme Court judge and now we have a presidential candidate who admits to that and cocaine. She plagiarized members of Congress and then said: "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."

And for Ginsberg what did that mean?

On Senator Jesse Helms: "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will."

On General William Boykin: "I hope he's not long for this world." After a rebuke, corrected herself: "No, no. I mean, in his job. In his job, in his job, please, in his job."

Don't get me started on the hatemonger, Keith Boykin. For a gay man one would think he would be more sensitive to hateful things and the effect it has on both the speaker and the on spoken to.

Anything that gets followed by 'I mean, I meant, that wasn't what I meant, I meant it a different way, I didn't mean to' is more of the lie. You mean what you say and mean = mean in both senses of the word. You are just sorry other people heard it and called you out.

Bill Maher outs gay man on Larry King

I was looking for more sexist comments from Bill Maher and ran across this article by Elron Steele. Bill Maher was on Larry King and outed an alleged gay man, RNC Chairman, Ken Mehlman., who ran Bush's 2004 campaign. On top of that, CNN altered the original transcript covering the scumbag and themselves. And when they reaired it, the discussion was completely edited out. See video at AlterNet.org.

VIEW FROM THE EDGE
ELRON STEELE
November 10, 2006
Original Version

Partial transcript of Bill Maher's Live appearance on Larry King Live:

BM: A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay. I don't want to mention names, but I will Friday night…

LK:You will Friday night?

BM: Well, there's a couple of big people who I think everyone in Washington knows who run the Republican…

LK: You will name them?

BM: Well, I wouldn't be the first. I'd get sued if I was the first. Ken Mehlman. Ok, there's one I think people have talked about. I don't think he's denied it when he's been, people have suggested, he doesn't say…

LK: I never heard that. I'm walking around in a fog. I never…Ken Mehlman? I never heard that. But the question is…

BM: Maybe you don't go to the same bathhouse I do, Larry.

LK: Why would someone who is gay take public anti-gay positions.

BM: hating yourself is the greatest love of all...self-loathing.

Altered Version:

Partial transcript of Bill Maher's re-aired appearance on Larry King Live:

BM: A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay. I don't want to mention names, but I will Friday night…

LK:You will Friday night?

BM: Well, there's a couple of big people who I think everyone in Washington knows who run the Republican…

LK: You will name them?

BM: Well, I wouldn't be the first. I'd get sued if I was the first.

LK: But the question is…

BM: Maybe you don't go to the same bathhouse I do, Larry.

How is anything he says "funny"? How easy is it to play on stereotypes? It's like Bob Herbert and his refrain: HE'S BLACK! HE'S BLACK!

Mehlman then stepped down as RNC Chairman.

Questions initially arose in GQ article in March 2004. When asked if he was gay by a reporter, he answered, "(You) have asked a question people shouldn't have to answer. And that is 100% true.

Karl Rove's non-biological step dad turned adoptive father was gay. He outed himself in 1969. Why do I keep going on these google searches? I find out things I really don't want to know.

[I wasn't aware of politics till February 2008. These posts are filed under the original dates which is why they have current information.]

Mehlman is now serving as an unpaid outside advisor to McCain 3/2008.