Quotes

What gets me is how stupid the Democratic party bosses are to promote someone like Obama without seriously vetting him first.
 - 'twc'

The 2008 Obama presidential run may be the most slickly orchestrated marketing machine in memory. That's not a good thing. Marketing is not even distantly related to democracy or civic empowerment. Marketing is about creating emotional, even irrational bonds between your product and your target audience.
 - Black Agenda Report

The Wall Street plan for the Obama bubble presidency is that of the cleanup crew for the housing bubble: sweep all the corruption and losses, would be indictments, perp walks and prosecutions under the rug and get on with an unprecedented taxpayer bailout of Wall Street. (The corporate law firms have piled on to funding the plan because most were up to their eyeballs in writing prospectuses or providing legal opinions for what have turned out to be bogus AAA securities. Lawsuits naming the Wall Street firms will shortly begin adding the law firms that rendered the legal guidance to issue the securities.) Who better to sell this agenda to the millions of duped mortgage holders and foreclosed homeowners in minority communities across America than our first beloved black president of hope and change?
 - Pam Martens

The giant insurance companies, the airlines, oil companies, Wall Street, military contractors, and others had closely examined and vetted Barack Obama and found him pleasing. That vetting included his remarkable 'yes' vote on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, a five year effort by 475 lobbyists, despite appeals from the NAACP and every other major civil rights group. Thanks to the passage of that legislation when defrauded homeowners of the housing bubble and defrauded investors of the bundled mortgages try to fight back through the class action vehicle they will find a new layer of corporate friendly hurdles.
 - Pam Martens

We are being asked to accept at face value the notion that after more than two centuries of entrenched racism in this country which saw only five black members of the US Senate it's all being eradicated with some rousing stump speeches. We are asked to believe those white executives at all the biggest Wall Street firms, which rank in the top 20 donors to the Obama presidential campaign, after failing to achieve more than 3.5 per cent black stockbrokers over 30 years, now want a black populist president because they crave a level playing field for the American people. The number one industry supporting the Obama presidential bid according to the widely respected nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics is 'lawyers/law firms' (most on Wall Street's payroll) giving a total of $11,246,596. Other leading presidential candidates are taking money from lawyers/law firms/lobbyists but Senator Obama is the only one rallying with the populist cry he isn't.
 - Pam Martens

The total sum raised 16-29 February 2008 by bundlers for Obama from 27 law firms that engage in lobbying: $2,650,000.
 - Pam Martens

Nasdaq transferred over $4 trillion from the pockets of small mania-gripped investors to the wealthy and elite market manipulators.
 - Pam Martens

We know when a politician is trying to pull a fast one. We can see it a mile away.
 - Taylor Marsh

I know a core of the younger ones are just the foaming at the mouth radicals who would push obamalamadingdong even if he were to be found in bed with a dead goat and a live chicken, so long as they both were FEMALE anyway. But what about the mass of folks swept up in the frenzy and hard sell? Wake up folks. The clock is ticking.
 - secularhumanizinevoluter

There is no UN. The UN's a building into which states come to advance their national interest.
 - Samantha Power

She's a monster too! THAT'S OFF THE RECORD! She's stooping to ANYTHING!
 - Samantha Power

We fucked up!
 - Samantha Power

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 brutalised 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.
 - Hillary Rodham

Obama's a bubble. Who do you want to pop it - Clinton or McCain?
 - NPR

I wouldn't mind a one week simple bank robbery.
 - Amy St Eve

Buried in a footnote in the motion for an arrest warrant we learn that Auchi was denied a visa to the United States because of his conviction in France on fraud charges. Auchi's buddy Rezko sent a request to the US Department of State in November 2005 for a visa waiver and asked unidentified 'Illinois government officials' to ask for clearance as well. How much you want to bet one of those officials was Barack Hussein Obama? I don't begrudge Obama trying to help out a buddy. I just wish he'd cut the holier than thou act. He's playing the Washington game like many others. In this case however he may get dirtied up. And in that case he could take the Democrats with him.
 - Larry Johnson

We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned; we are really talking about humanism.
 - Gloria Steinem

Thank you so much for this. I love it. My daughter lives in Houston and she couldn't even get in the door at her caucus because African Americans were blocking the door. When fighting broke out she left. I am so happy for all the Texans who voted for Hillary. I love Texas.
 - All Progressives reader

I'm supporting Senator Clinton because like Senator Obama she has community organizing experience but she also has more years in the Senate, an unprecedented eight years of on the job training in the White House, no masculinity to prove, the potential to tap a huge reservoir of this country's talent by her example, and now even the courage to break the no-tears rule.
 - Gloria Steinem

On another occasion - the revelation of a real estate deal in which you were involved inappropriately by your own admission - you said you made a 'boneheaded' mistake. Your words - not mine. Surely you cannot seriously think what you've done with the UCC so far does not qualify as another 'boneheaded' mistake? May I make a professional suggestion? If these kinds of incidents repeat themselves you have suggested for yourself a nickname your opponents will seize with gusto. It will require considerable amounts of church attendance on your part to pray for forgiveness - both of yourself for giving them the tip and for those who may substitute the word for this dopey business of using your middle name.
 - Jeffrey Lord

If she wins Texas and Ohio she'll be the nominee.
 - Bill Clinton

We have a sick political culture and that's the environment Barack Obama comes from.
 - Jay Stewart Chicago Better Government Association

They wanted another FDR yet feel they're getting an oratorically upgraded version of Michael Bloomberg instead.
 - Paul Krugman

He's a very shallow and flakey candidate. It's beginning to show. The trial of his friend Rezko and the shady Iraqi backers: extreme flakiness. What is there to this besides charm?
 - Christopher Hitchens

You are telling me with my lifetime of politics I'm captured by something amorphous and silly. It is childish and nasty.
 - Obot 'mady'

Why didn't Barack Obama bring this up knowing it might become an issue later on? He should concentrate on his own image instead of attacking Hillary Clinton's. He tries to give voters the impression he has no skeletons in the closet. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. He denies associations with certain individuals and tries to squirm away from any negative publicity. Yes this country is ready for a change - just not this kind. We are already putting up with a president who makes a career out of dishonesty and yet is loyal to those who surround him.
 - 'Louis'

I'm expecting too much from American reporters who can't see beyond their agendas, their sloth, and their many neuroses over not being invited to cool cocktail parties.
 - Nibras Kazimi

It's one thing to receive someone at your house and a whole different thing to receive your house from someone.
 - Nibras Kazimi

The fraudulent mansion shenanigan though unseemly and possibly illegal is less potentially politically damaging than Obama's other entanglements with Rezko. Obama's relationship with Rezko includes the ugly picture of the politician hobnobbing with the 'slumlord' whilst his constituents in 'inner city Chicago' were enduring squalid conditions in housing projects Obama helped facilitate. One would have difficulty envisioning a scenario where Obama was not at least somewhat aware of these circumstances.
 - Roger Williams

There is nothing on this earth sexier - believe me gentlemen - than a woman you have to salute in the morning.
 - Jack Nicholson

I am writing in support of the New Kenwood LLC's proposal to build a ninety seven unit apartment building at 48th and Cottage Grove for senior citizens. This project will provide much needed housing for Fourth Ward citizens.
 - Barack Hussein Obama

As for speculation he could be the country's first black president Obama says he will not run for anything in 2008. He is quick to temper high expectations with quips about how he doesn't yet know where the Senate bathrooms are and how he'll be sharpening pencils and scrubbing floors for the first few years.
 - Columbia Today Magazine January 2005

She's like an incumbent and the longer the race goes on the more she benefits just by surviving.
 - Michael Goodwin

For everyone here in Ohio and across America who has been counted out but refused to be knocked out and for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up and for everyone who works hard and never gives up: this one is for you.
 - Hillary Clinton

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