Sunday Morning Talk 6/15/08

Another Sunday morning to watch the talk going on in Washington. This Sunday will be different, Tom Brokaw will be hosting Meet the Press. You can offer your condolences to the Russert family here. Tom will be hosting a special show, it will be a full hour about Tim's life. At ABC George will have Edwards and Fred Thompson on This Week. On Face the Nation Bob Schieffer will have Gov. Bobby Jindal... Newt Gingrich... Jim Vandehei of Politico and they will be talking about...what else campaign '08. FNS with Chris Wallace will have Kay Bailey Hutchison... Byron Dorgan... Red Cavaney...they will be talking about the fuel prices. Karl Rove will be on with his campaign analysis for the GE so far. Then there is my favorite show to watch on Sunday.. Reliable Sources on CNN with host Howard Kurtz... on his show he takes a look at the media and what they have been up to. You can get a pod cast if you miss the show... give them some time to get it up. Just click on the picture below to pick your favorite poison. Have a great Sunday everyone and Happy Fathers Day to all you dads out there.



Little Update:Reliable Sources is covering Tim Russert, his career etc....

Will Barack Obama disown his half brother?...READ UPDATES>>>

Malik Obama confirms his half-brother Barack grew up a Muslim
by Israel staff June 13, 2008

Malik holds a photo of Obama and him in Muslim dress, reportedly when the two first met in 1985

Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.

As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."

The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.

In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."

Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.

Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).

Reuven Koret, Aaron Klein and Daniel Pipes have previously pointed to the attempts by Obama and his campaign to conceal the candidate's Muslim background. The well documented evidence draws upon the on-the-ground interviews by researchers in Indonesia and Kenya, published quotations of Obama's childhood friends and his school records, as well as the candidate's own autobiography.

It is not clear whether Barack Obama will now disown his half-brother Malik, or throw him under the campaign bus, for acknowledging that shared family background. In any case, some one should notify "Fight the Smear" tout de suite. Perhaps they can get him with the program.

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Yes the picture is 23 years old.....but Obama went to TUCC for 20 years...we know nothing about this man really and what we have learned makes me never want him in the oval office, not even for a vist..........

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Funny how they don't talk about the polls when Obama's lead shrinks.

Election 2008: Electoral College Update

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UPDATE:

Clinton delegate to vote for McCain

As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton's defeat.

She's not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.

And she's not entirely alone in saying she'll vote this fall for Republican John McCain instead.

But what makes her unusual is that she holds these views as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.

"I'm sure people are going to be upset with me. I don't want to lose my national delegate status," says Bartoshevich, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse who is a convention delegate, pledged to Clinton, from Waterford in Racine County.

Joe Wineke, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, reacted with disbelief when first told Friday afternoon that one of his state party delegates is now a McCain supporter. (more)

UPDATE:

Delegate’s reversal stuns party

Posted: June 14, 2008

Debate over McCain-backer spices up Dem convention

THEY ARE REMOVING HER!!!

....State Party chair Joe Wineke, an Edwards backer who is now enthusiastically for Obama, asked Friday night's opening session of the state party convention to suspend party rules and begin an immediate process of stripping Bartoshevich of her national convention delegate status.

Answering Wineke's call to "send the message that the Democrats of the state of Wisconsin will never support someone who supports John McCain," delegates approved a motion to raise the question of whether Bartoshevich, having declared her support for the Republican presidential candidate, meets the requirement that national convention delegates be "bona fide Democrats."

Wineke says the state party will file a formal challenge with the Democratic National Committee early next week. more

FOUND MORE-GO TO: NO QUARTER

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Students for Hillary, er, McCain (or McKinney)

Thu Jun 12, 9:47 PM ET

It is no secret that Barack Obama's campaign is on edge about the prospect of losing the support of Democrats who were enthusiastic about the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

A few here or there are not a concern.

But if leading Clinton backers start to join Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman's "Citizens for McCain" campaign to attract crossover votes for the Republican nominee, that could be a serious matter. (more ...please read the letter)

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Andy Martin says mainstream media slobber at Obama's "Fight Smears" web site

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This and That Saturday.....

The flooding in Iowa is not getting any better. I don't live in the state but I still like to know what is going on. With the levee problems it reminds me of New Orleans. Here are some Iowa links if you want to read about it. DesMoines Register, Around Des Moines and The city of Des Moines. They have some good maps to help you learn about the lay of the land and some pictures and video.

Levee Failure Prompts Iowa Evacuations

Want to help?
RedCross.org

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Obama wants payroll tax on incomes above $250,000

Dem convention panel faces $15 million shortfall

Today on the presidential campaign trail

Ron Paul declines to concede at rally, but his website says it's really over

2 Day old stuff...

Who Is Obama? Where Is The Press?

Obama Is No Joshua

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Sundays without Russert

Space shuttle Discovery prepares for landing

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AOL started a new straw poll on Friday.....vote here.

Now lets see what the day brings......have a great week end...

Lincoln Davis’s refusal to endorse Barack Obama

Tullahoma Terrorist Fistjab: Davis Chief Of Staff “Assumes” Obama Not Terrorist Connected, Can’t Be Sure

By Kleinheider Posted on June 13, 2008 at 9:49 am

Both Bill Hobbs and Sean Braisted note an interesting few graphs in an article about Congressman Lincoln Davis’s refusal to endorse Barack Obama, despite being a Edwards supporter earlier in the cycle:

Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of Davis’ district, said he understands why Davis is not endorsing Obama and is “skeptical” of the Illinois senator himself.

“Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Davis was not made available for comment.

His chief of staff, Beecher Frasier, said he doesn’t know for sure if Obama is “terrorist connected” but he assumes he’s not.

The Tennessee Democratic Party releases a statement in rebuke of their state Executive committee member:

“The Tennessee Democratic Party is united behind our party’s nominee, Senator Barack Obama. Mr. [Fred] Hobbs is obviously misinformed, and his statement highlights the perpetual efforts of the Republican Party, especially here in Tennessee, to turn internet smears and highly offensive gossip into their party’s message against Senator Barack Obama as we head into the General Election. Instead of debating the issues, the Tennessee Republican Party continues to rely upon slanderous and salacious tall tales. They are borrowing from the playbook first written by Richard Nixon and employed in the race against Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Tennesseans of every political persuasion are tired of these tactics.”

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Read more from The City Paper

Updated: Superdelegate Davis slow to endorse Obama
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Tim Russert Died.....

Jun 13, 4:04 PM EDT

NBC's Tim Russert dies of apparent heart attack

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tim Russert, who pointedly but politely questioned hundreds of the powerful and influential as moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," died Friday of an apparent heart attack. The network's Washington bureau chief was 58.

In addition to his weekly program, Russert made periodic appearances on the network's other news shows, was moderator for numerous political debates and wrote two best-selling boooks.

NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce Russert's death, and in the ensuing moments, familiar faces such as Tom Brokaw, Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams took turns mourning his loss.

Williams called him "aggressively unfancy."

Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the nation's most widely watched program of its type. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning that made some politicians reluctant to appear, yet confident that they could claim extra credibility if they survived his grilling intact.

He was also a senior vice president at NBC, and this year, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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More at the NYT

From: SubscribeToMe4More

From Steve Corbett.....

"We Will Kill You"

Friday, June 13, 2008

In the thousands of emails I’ve received in the year that “Corbett” has been on the air, I have not received a single death threat - until yesterday.

“We will kill you when Obama become PRESIDENT OF USA.,” the email reads. “You would see!!!”

Most death threats do not result in death.

But some do.

What makes this threat to kill me all the more mysterious is that it appears to have been sent through Barack Obama’s official campaign website – barackobama.com – the website that sends me official announcements of Obama’s campaign comings and goings.

To make matters worse, the email is signed “Michelle Michelle & Axelrod.”

I took Axelrod to be David Axelrod, Obama’s Chicago-based chief strategist.

Michelle Michelle was odd, but I had received an earlier email yesterday that I also read on the air. That one called me anti-American, added a four-letter flourish and advised me to shut up.

That one bore the name Michelle Obama, who is Barack’s wife.

Both emails came to me under the email heading of “Michelle Obama [michelle.obama@barackobama.com]. Both emails came to me under the subject line “Fight the smears against Barack Obama” and originated from barackobama.com.

I had received an earlier email from the campaign that was legitimate. Also sent from barackobama.com, it alerted me to Obama’s planned campaign stops in Philadelphia. That’s why I figured that the next email that seemingly originated from the same place was legit.

But how could I possibly get a death threat from the official Obama website?

With all the gushing news about how savvy the Obama campaign is in their high-tech internet ability, how could anybody send an email on the official website that threatens to kill somebody?

After asking this question on the air yesterday, I soon received an email of explanation – not from anybody associated with the Obama campaign, through, but from a listener who walked me through the process of sending any email from the official Obama site with any message and bearing any name – including Barack’s.

It’s so simple, the email explained, and so stupid.

It’s so dangerous, too.

I’ve received my share of threats over the years and took one seriously enough to alert Wilkes-Barre police as well as the FBI who launched an unsuccessful criminal investigation.

The idea that Obama’s website can be so easily compromised is troubling. That’s why I’m thinking about calling the cops and asking them to try to find out who threatened to kill me as soon as Obama becomes the president.

I could laugh and just say that I now have yet another reason to work against Obama winning the election.

But I’m not laughing.

The emails I’ve been receiving daily about my unwavering support for Hillary Clinton, including a particularly nasty one yesterday from an Obama volunteer in Wilkes-Barre, have become increasingly aggressive.

So have some of the calls to my show.

Now somebody has gone too far.

Obama needs to safeguard his website so this does not happen again to anybody.

If I sent the same message I got to the same email address from which it came, Secret Service agents would soon be looking for me – as they should.

I need to know who did this.

I need to know if she/he or they are serious.

I need the sender or senders to know something, as well.

I always do my best to protect myself – especially when you threaten to kill me.

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It is no fun getting death threats in comments or emails and I am glad Steve is speaking out about it. Steve has a radio show in PA. He is the one who started Operation Turn Down. You can listen to his radio show Monday through Friday on WILK from 3:00pm-7:00pm EST. online here.
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From hcsfjm.com

I will be on this radio station Friday from 3:00 to 3:30 pm Central time

They have a place to click on to get to G-Town Radio and it says to click on "Listen HI"

(I tuned in ....for a minute...just a minute....)

I have to use IE for their site to work( hcsfjm.com ) it does not work for me with Firefox.
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AOL Straw Poll started over today......check out all the red states on the map.

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What does Obama really believe on these issues?

On Issues, Obama Poetry Won't Rhyme

Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice — once for each side of an issue. The poetry reading on change and hope is over. Now that he has to talk about real policy, there's little rhyme in the rhythm.

Take James Johnson, who was Obama's adviser on picking a vice president until his resignation Wednesday. Nothing wrong with rich businessmen. They can be smart and help solve America's problems. But Johnson's chief specialty has been in helping himself.more

Obama Flunks Another Test

It wasn't exactly the news the Obama campaign hoped to make this week: "Obama Aide Quits Under Fire for His Business Ties." But that was the headline in The New York Times, with variations in other major papers. The aide in question was the head of Barack Obama's vice presidential search committee, Jim Johnson, described by the Washington Post as "a consummate Washington insider." But the insider is now out, and the flap raises new questions about Obama's judgment. Why is it that Obama surrounds himself with people who carry so much baggage? more

More than 10,000 people applied.....

Obama Campaign Dispatching Thousands

By Peter Slevin

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 13, 2008; Page A05

CHICAGO, June 12 -- Moving to harness the grass-roots energy that helped win the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will deploy 3,600 volunteers in 17 states this weekend, each committed to six consecutive weeks of full-time political work.

The project, launched two months before the senator from Illinois became the presumptive nominee, is a measure of his determination to out-organize Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in states that could swing a close election.

The campaign put out word in April about "Obama Organizing Fellowships," an approach that went well beyond the "y'all come" model of luring volunteers with free doughnuts for two-hour canvassing stints. Supporters were required to answer essay questions, supply references and go through a telephone interview with campaign staff members.

n return for a promise to give the campaign at least six weeks of their lives, they were promised training in community organizing techniques.

A cover letter from Obama, who spent three years in the 1980s working in impoverished Chicago neighborhoods, spoke of lessons in the "basic organizing principles that this campaign and our movement for change are built on."

Obama urged supporters to apply and to "put progressive values to work in the real world."

More than 10,000 people applied, said Obama strategist Jon Carson.

"They didn't have to have campaign experience before," said Buffy Wicks, the director of the campaign's national volunteer program. "The best organizers are people who are passionate about what they're doing. We were looking for folks who had really compelling stories."

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This has nothing to do with the election but it is interesting to read.

What Virginia’s Islamic Saudi Academy Doesn’t Want You to Know

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Encase you missed it....

If Michelle Obama Isn’t Racist, What Is She?

Obama's Clues to Wooing the Latino Vote

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Rising water forces evacuation of Iowa hospital

Inflation rate jumps 0.6 percent in May, reflecting higher energy prices

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Huckabee joining Fox News as political commentator

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.

"Gov. Huckabee's campaign experience and knowledge of politics makes him a great addition to our ongoing election coverage," Bill Shine, senior vice president of programming, said in a statement Thursday.

Huckabee, who served as governor of Arkansas for 10 1/2 years, dropped out of the race in March, after John McCain won enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination. Despite a financially strapped campaign, Huckabee won the leadoff caucuses in Iowa and seven other states.

"I hope to bring the unique perspective from `inside the dragon's belly' as well as to try and speak for the millions of hardworking middle-class Americans who really do feel that their voices are not being heard," Huckabee said in a statement released by his daughter, Sarah. "I saw that on the campaign trail and continue to see as I speak to groups of all kinds around the country as well as campaign for other candidates."

Financial terms of the agreement weren't released.

Huckabee, an ordained Baptist preacher, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for McCain. Since leaving the race, Huckabee has formed a political action committee that he says will help raise money for McCain and other Republicans.

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FROM JUST SAY NO DEAL..................

FROM: Clintons4McCain

FROM hcsfjm.com.......

On July 4, 2008, we want at least 1 million Hillary Clinton supporters to send John McCain $5.44. This is a small amount for all of us and we can send it easy. If we can get 1 million people to donate this amount, then we will have sent the Democrat Party a signal they cannot ignore.

With at least one million people doing this, the DNP will suddenly realize that they have to change or lose. Don't worry about the media, the McCain people will let them know that we have set a new 1 day record for the most money ever received.

Now get out there and blog to the whole world what we are doing. It is now up to us to make this happen and we can and we will,
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I found this comment yesterday:
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Lets start spreading the word. Over at hcsfjm.com we are starting “Make it Rain for McCain”. It is still in the works. We plan on making donations on the 4th and Aug 1st with the latter date being the one that we will be promoting.

More details to come

Want to learn more?
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McCain Calls for ‘Reform, Prosperity and Peace’ at Town Hall

John McCain kicked off the first of his so-called Presidential Town Halls Thursday evening by sounding a call for “reform, prosperity and peace.”

The presumptive GOP nominee, fighting charges that he wants to drag on a war in Iraq with no end, stressed that he is seeking long-term stability in the region and accused Democratic rivalBarack Obama of wanting to surrender “defeat.”

“We are succeeding, and Senator Obama wants to set a date for withdrawal and have that arbitrarily done,” McCain said. “We would be back and there would be genocide and chaos in the region (under Obama’s plan).”

McCain also repeated a pledge to fight pork-barrel spending and vilify the authors of wasteful earmarks.

The hour-long event, at Federal Hall in New York City, kicks off a series of town hall meetings McCain says he eventually hopes will include his Democratic rival.

Obama will not be joining him this time. But McCain re-issued his town hall challenge Thursday. The event is being carried live on FOX News Channel.

“I think this town hall meeting would have been a little more interesting if Senator Obama had accepted my request,” McCain said to applause Thursday. “I think Americans are tired of the spin rooms, they’re tired of the sound bites … that’s why I hope SenatorObama will agree.”

At the forum Thursday, McCain plans to take random questions from the audience of about 200 people.

Obama, speaking at his own town hall meeting in Wisconsin Thursday, swiped at McCain for allegedly flip-flopping to support the Bush tax cuts and for his recent comments on Iraq that drew heavy criticism from Democrats. McCain took heat for saying in an interview Wednesday that troop withdrawal timetables in Iraq are “not too important.”

“Obviously he’s not thinking about the extraordinary burden that families are under on two or three or four tours of duty,” Obama said Thursday.

As for McCain’s town hall challenge, Obama has said he’s interested but wants to switch up the format on occasion and wants to do fewer than the 10 joint appearances McCain had proposed.

“We are happy to do more than the three typical presidential debates in the fall,” Obama said Tuesday. “If I’m not mistaken we’ve gone back with a counterproposal to them and are in communication with them right now.”

The town hall meeting Thursday was hosted by FOX News’ Shepard Smith, who will anchor a post-event analysis with former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Democratic strategists BobBeckel and Kirsten Powers.

McCain has touted the format by saying that taking questions from the public is the antidote to partisan posturing and bickering.
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