NEWS: Sweet, Sweet Politics by Fear The Reaper: Fuck Barack Obama

POLITICS: Fuck Barack Obama

Volume 11 of the FTR series in which he puts the word "fuck" in front of a presidential candidate's name.

The Iowa primaries begin today and I have yet to give Barack Obama the lashing he deserves. Obama is a slick political operative who wants to desperately portray himself as anything but part of the Washington machine. But once you pull way the curtains, you see the same bullshit backing Obama that he supposedly fights against every day. He is, quite simply, full of shit.

The best place to start with Obama is his constant false battle against lobbyists. Obama would have you believe he does not take money from lobbyists but that is a complete lie. He does. What he is doing is splitting hairs. Turns out Barack only refuses to take money from those who are “registered as lobbyists of the federal government.” What an incredible load of shit – and a huge liability for the general election, when he will have to explain in a debate why state lobbyists, wealthy donors and wives of lobbyists are not lobbyists. Did I say wives? Fuck yes, I did.

Sounds like exactly the type of ethical government I’m looking for at this time. Obama is building a campaign on something that is going to destroy him in a general election. Right now he is the media golden boy, rarely having to experience the negative press of Clinton. When it comes his way, he will have given reporters a massive amount of spin and bullshit to throw back in his face. But, that is what happens when you lie.

Obama is also using the same tactics as Scientology. If you want to be part of that wonderful “religion,” you can give them money. But you can also work instead of giving money and that is exactly what the lobbyists are doing for Obama.

Clean as a whistle, that Barack. The K Street crowd knows Obama won’t take money, so they are doing other favors for him. I fail to see the difference. While telling supporters that he won’t take money from lobbyists, his campaign is contacting lobbyists to tap into their “networks of business clients and acquaintances.”

Here are just a few of the heavy hitters working for Barack

Former Sen. Tom Daschle, a consultant for Alston & Bird
Broderick Johnson, president of Bryan Cave Strategies LLC
Mark Keam, the lead Democratic lobbyist at Verizon
Jimmy Williams, VP of government affairs for the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America
Thomas Walls, VP of federal public affairs at McGuireWoods Consulting
Francis Grab, senior manager at Washington Council Ernst & Young

Oh, yeah, but those are just guys helping him. They are not giving him money.

He’s not taking money from lobbyists; he’s just taking money from lobbyists.

A couple of weeks ago, Obama started attacking 527s. 527s are independent groups that can support candidates but are barred from coordinating with the campaign. They often run their own ads for candidates. Now Obama doesn’t like them either.

He was taking a swipe at John Edwards, who is getting help from two 527s that represent unions. I guess we can assume Barack now won’t take money from the unions when he is nominated. Or, if he does, the Republicans can use his own words against him. Another brilliant move from Mr. Clean. And someone should tell Obama that one of the two unions backing Edwards is the Service Employees International Union. It seems Obama got a little help from the SEIU when he was campaigning here in California. But he didn’t take money, so it’s cool.

Just another day of work for our favorite non-special interests politician. After he was done accepting the help of the SEIU, he took a trip up to Sacramento, where we Californians keep our State Capitol. While he was there, state Democrat heavy hitter Steve Westley threw him a federal lobbyist free lunch for state lobbyists.

Sweet. And don’t forget that Obama does not take money from lobbyists . Or the "stranglehold that lobbyists and special interests have on our democracy.” Because Obama only takes money from state lobbyists. And there is no way Obama will get the shit kicked out of him in a general election for being a lying scumbag.

And please ignore the fact that Obama has three political aides working on his campaign while they received payments for being…lobbyists.

And he has even more ways around his bullshit lobbyist rule.

And let’s not forget about his little wifey rule, which seems to not be an isolated incident.

So, next time an Obama supporter tells you he doesn’t take money from lobbyists, tell them to fuck off because they are full of shit. Obama is no different than any other politician out there, or is he worse? Just three years ago he let a corrupt businessman buy him a backyard. Yes, I said a backyard.

Obama later issued an apology for allowing a businessman who was being investigated for corruption to buy him a backyard. I mean, it’s a mistake any of us clean, non-corrupt guys could make, right?

"To believe.” Nice non-apology apology, asshole.

Obama also likes to whip out his Iraq card whenever possible. Turns out he was the only one out of the three major Democratic candidates who did not vote for the war, mostly because he was not in the Senate at the time. But that does not stop Barack from proudly spelling out that he would have made the correct decision on Iraq and Clinton always makes the wrong ones. Just don’t pay attention to the fact that Obama has always voted exactly the same way as Hillary. Someone actually made a nice comparison for us on their Iraq votes.

So, that is how Barack made himself stand out from the pack on Iraq during his time in the Senate, by voting exactly the same. Except that one time, when he voted the way Bush wanted him to and Hillary didn’t. If Barack had been in the Senate, one could actually make the claim that he wouldn’t have even shown up for the vote. Because that is what he did for the very important Lieberman-Kyl amendment.

The bill was extremely fucked up because it classified the Iranian Republican Guard as a terrorist organization. That leaves a pretty big loophole for Bush to attack Iran. Hillary voted for the bill and Obama continues to bring it up, even though he did not show up to vote. His position cowardly and pathetic. You know the guy who never votes but complains about Bush? His name is Obama.

But even worse than that, Obama actually co-sponsored a similar bill earlier in the year, which would have also labeled the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.

But now Hillary’s vote is bad and his co-sponsorship of the same bill is forgotten. Somebody smells like a political opportunist and an asshole. Actions speak louder than words, Barack. But then again, what else would one expect from a slick politician?

The more you look into Obama, the more you will see a slick political operative who condemns the game that he uses to his benefit.

Nice work, Mr. Clean. You are truly bringing the “politics of hope.”

Obama would also like us to believe he is some great liberal hope, while he takes positions and campaigns further to the right than Hillary. And it is a track he has been laying for years. One only needs to look at his days back in the Illinois State Legislature.

I’m sure that is what his constituents in the incredibly liberal Hyde Park district were hoping he would do. But Obama will say or do anything to get ahead. That is probably why he has been using Right wing talking points to attack Edwards and Clinton. If either of those two win, expect a shitload of “Even Barack Obama said...” questions for the Democrats. He is undermining his own party in a fantastic way.

Obama adopts and repeats ugly right-wing framing of liberal positions so often that I am amazed he is a Democrat. Many liberals were horrified to hear the political opportunist pick up the issue of Social Security during the past couple of months. That is straight out of the Republican handbook and an issue that is far from pressing. Or at least that is what a guy named Barack Obama said in his book, The Audacity of Hope.

But when the opportunist needs something to use against Clinton, why not pick up one of the right wing’s favorite straw men? The reason we do not hear about Social Security being a problem anymore is because privatization of Social Security is a dead issue. It will not happen, so Republicans have moved on. It was never really in peril as they claimed; they just wanted to turn it over to the stock market.

Thank God an idiot Democrat named Obama is around to pick it back up. The right wing, of course immediately started to use it as an issue again.

But that is Obama. Whatever it takes to get ahead, even if it does your supposed side harm. In the past couple of months he has claimed John Kerry was divisive (Really? Ever heard of Karl Rove?), that Al Gore alienated half the country, started attacking Edwards for being a trial lawyer, began using religion as a political tool,

and attacking Hillary’s health care mandates. Please let me know which one of these is not a right wing talking point. What Obama is doing is attempting to run a cautious centrist campaign and in doing so pushing away his base. It’s idiotic and it feels really, really familiar.

And it is a strange way to demonstrate the Politics of Hope. I’m no fan of Hillary’s mandates, but not because of the insane position Obama has taken in ads.

Smell that anyone? That is fear. That is the Politics of Hope using the Karl Rove playbook, instead of pointing out why his plan kicks ass. Unfortunately, his health care plan does not kick ass because it defines centrist caution. It is just enough to the right of the other candidates to be completely useless. And when the most important liberal columnist in the country called Obama on his weak plan, Obama distorted Krugman’s own words , in another example of bullshit right wing tactics.

Yeah, something is very wrong. The guy liberals believe is their champion is looking like a prick. Obama recently hired Robert Gibbs as his communications director. You are probably saying, “Who gives a shit?” Well, Howard Dean probably does. See, Gibbs was one of three people who created this ad.



Mmmm, yummy, Politics of Hope. Even Karl Rove would blush at that one. As this campaign heats up expect some pretty amazingly awful shit from Obama’s communications director.

But, hey, at least Gibbs is not as bad as Obama’s spokesman, David Axelrod, who tried to lay some blame for Bhutto’s assassination at Hillary Clinton’s feet in a bizarre statement.

Really? Obama, of course, defended the comments.

Got that? Not directly, just indirectly, which is totally cool. But, it’s not like Obama has ever had his shit together when it comes to Pakistan.

Right on, George Bush. Oh, wait, I don’t even think George Bush would do that – because it is fucking crazy. (That is not actually a good reason, Bush just hasn’t done it) Either way, this is one of those liberal positions I just find perplexing. But maybe I just don’t understand the progressive movement like I thought I did. For instance, I didn’t know they were against gays.

A couple of months ago Obama sponsored a three date Gospel tour in South Carolina. He invited a popular gospel singer who believes gays can be changed by religious intervention.Oddly, that did not go over well with the majority of gay members of the Democratic Party. Maybe it didn’t go over well because it was something a Republican would do. Wait, it was something the Republicans did do.

Sweet. Obama dismissed the controversy and calls for McClurkin to be removed from the concert. Turns out everybody has the right to speak.

But he can totally sing at the concert I sponsored. I suppose if Edwards sponsored a spoken word concert and had David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK and Prussian Blue sing, it would be cool. No harm, right? Just some people he disagreed with saying some stuff at a concert he put on.

Before the concert, Obama made sure to appear in a video to tell the audience that these were some of his favorite artists. Nice touch. This was a pretty despicable move for a “progressive” running for president. Actually, I would say it is quite simply not something a liberal would do. It is something a Republican would do, however. It is a clear attempt to appeal to southern Black voters, many of whom are supporting Clinton. It is no different than Reagan’s famous wink to Southern racists in 1980.

Obama says he supports gay rights but in the south, he gives an entirely different message with his actions. But what else would one expect from the Politics of Hope?

Barack Obama is a political opportunist who will do whatever it takes to get elected. His entire campaign is built on lies and distortions to such an extent that they will be used brutally against him if he wins the Democratic nomination. Hopefully that does not happen.

Fucking brilliant

Barack Obama appears to be the democratic party's analog of Mitt Romney.

Well, good effort, but this is weaker than I expected. It is sort of boring actually.



BUT facts are still tragically lacking. Gosh I wish I had time to reply to it all, but that would take so much time and effort.

1)In October of 2002 as it became clear that Bush and his cronies would drag us into IRAQ based on false information and no plan, OBAMA held a press conference to
speak out against the movement toward war in Iraq, A brave move and also a prescient one which has garnered him most of his support.

2) YOu said

Not quite right. The real story? Barack and his fmaily lived in a 2 bedroom condo when he was an IL state senator. His 2004 democratic national convention address vaulted him into the spotlight, and when he won the Senate seat a few months later, it was determined that he and his family could not be kept secure in their small condo adjoined to many on the south side of chicago.

SO dude had to buy a house he could not afford, like many americans. He bought one and the yard was huge and so he sold 1/2 of the property to a businessman to alleviate some of the debt they were incurring.

ANd the dude who helped out turned out to have some corrupt dealings. Hard to avoid in real estate.

And how do you define progressive? Progressive in wanting to redesign how our political system works? yes.

Is he "a progressive" in the field of politics? Seems the most progressive democrat running thinks so, as Dennis Kucinich says his supporters should endorse OBAMA should he himself fail to make it, as

Oh by the way? Barack launched his presidential campaign because many prominent private citizens begged him to run, progressives, moderates, republicans alike. By and large they do not want Hilary or Edwards.... and want him.

ALSO: most important?

This is the first presidential contest since 1928 where a sitting president or vice president is not running. This is the most open election in US history.

+infinity

Another *real story* you missed?

Thousands of Iowans who are republicans are skipping their own caucas so that they can caucas for Barack.

Thousands whom have disdained and avoided the caucas process their whole lives are coming out to caucas for Barack.

WHY?

They must see how different and compelling he is.

But really, thank you for garnering him more support than I ever could alone.

Hehe, I love you, Lucy!

I hope you guys got equally as upset when FTR did the 10 other "Fuck _____" articles.

Fear the Limbaugh. just sayin'.

You're actually quoting from H.R. 1400, the House version of the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, which Barack Obama couldn't have co-sponsored because he's, you know, in the Senate.

The bill that Obama, along with Hilary Clinton and Chris Dodd (and Larry Craig!) co-sponsored was S.9700, which didn't mention weapons of mass destruction and specifically limited the definition to apply to freezing any assets the Revolutionary Guard may have in U.S. banks and prohibiting U.S. citizens from donating money to them:

S.9700, Section 3, Paragraph 8:

Much more importantly, both H.R. 1400 and S.9700 include language specifically stating that they were not authorizing the use of military force against Iran.

From H.R. 1400:

From S.9700, Section 2, Line 8:

The Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which Clinton voted for and Obama did not, not only didn't include that very important disclaimer, but in its original form actually authorized the "prudent and calibrated" use of "military instruments" against Iran.

While that blank war check was thankfully removed from the version that Congress actually passed, at this point the lack of a specific prohibition against the use of military force does give the Bush Administration a loophole big enough to drive a tank through.

That's the difference, at least to me, between Clinton's yes vote on Kyl-Lieberman and Obama's co-sponsorship of S.9700.

I wasn't expecting the flame war to start till page two. I mean, I'm going to vote for the guy, but that doesn't mean I think he's above criticism.

Why does everyone insist on ignoring the fact that he's written these about candidates from both parties. Pointing out some of Obama's flaws doesn't make you a Republican at all.

I knew this one would start right away.

I should have. He's like SG's Ron Paul.

OMGHESNOTHINLIKERONPAULRONPAULDOESNTWANTTOTAXATALl
ANDHESNOTARCISTANDHELOVESKITTENSANDBUNNIESAND
POOPSRAINBOWANDCANDY!

Personally, my fingers are crossed for a "Fuck John Edwards" article between now and next Tuesday, just to complete the set.

I'm waiting for the "Fuck Mike Bloomberg" in about three weeks.

Wait wait wait...aren't you one of the champions of harping on Ronpauloompas for not being able to see through his web of shit?

I would like to say thank you, FTR for bringing what I couldn't put my finger on out into the light of day.

You guys expect an FTR wire post to be intellectually honest? How long have you been reading the news wire, noob?

But pointing them out with inaccurate BS and here-say makes you a fucking idiot and a hack writer.

This just in: Politics are corrupt! Obama actually wants to win!

This whole thing was as boring as it was speculative. Is it any surprise that the newswire has been marginalized and pushed to the side?

Why are these stupid articles on the front page everyday???

where did these people who are commenting come from??

...something brought them out of the wood work

I do think it's important to look closely at a presidential candidate... but I'm sure a similar list could be made for every single major presidential candidate and winner for the past 100 years. No one gets to office without a laundry list of supposed misdeeds. Bill Clinton had a bunch of shady stuff going on, but I'm still glad he got elected, especially when looking at the opposition. I'd say the same about Obama if he's elected.

Yes. Something brought us out, called taking part in the process of trying to elect someone as President of the USA.

I've been posting on CE boards and annoying people for 11 months now. Not a 'noob', tho some think I'm maybe a 'boob'.

Does it make you want to stop watching cable TV for a minute and think about what is happening in the world around you

Thank you, thank you, thank you Uncognitive for providing some FACTS