In 2004 America
saw, for the first time, how effective an individual can be
in influencing the political process. In response to the
lies of John Kerry, one man in Washington, DC, put up a
personal display that clearly demonstrated that Kerry had
made a career out of lying.
How effective
was this man (Tony Snesko by name)? I personally watched
him change the minds of two Kerry voters as he engaged
passers-by in conversation. Tony led the way; Vietnam Vets
for the Truth (VVT) implemented the concept with
unprecedented success.
Stand by;
Operation Street Corner (OSC) is going to operate the same
program against Barack Hussein Obama. Already a number of
2004 OSC’ers have asked if we are going to do it again, and
I never was one to say “No!” to dedicated patriots.
So here we
go. What follows is a brief description of the program,
along with a few hints about setting up your own display.
"Barack Obama has found his people. But, unfortunately
for his election prospects, they're German, not American."
-James Sturcke
"Obama finally found a Muslim with whom he’s willing to be
photographed."
-Maureen Dowd
“See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith
based...I want to cut his nuts out.”
-Jesse Jackson
"I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a
qualification to be president."
-Wesley Clark
"Bill said Obama would have to
quote kiss my ass close quote,
if he wants his support."
- Bill Clinton aide
"[Obama] is dragging biblical
understanding through the gutter."
-Dr. James Dobson
"He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a
martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide
comments about everyone who passes by."
-Karl Rove
"Michelle’s story is a lot more mainstream American than Cindy McCain
inheriting a brewery.”
-Obama supporter
“I think that in retrospect I could have
used a different tone, a different rhetoric.”
-George W. Bush
"...they cling to guns or religion
or antipathy to people who aren't
like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
or anti-trade sentiment..."
-Barack Obama on small town voters
"It proves I'm human, which you know, for
some people, is a revelation."
-Hillary Clinton
Clinton didn't seem angry or betrayed or entitled or any
of the things that critics have attributed to her -- she
seemed merely unenthused, and so did the audience.
Senator Clinton ran her presidential campaign making
clear that Barack Obama is not prepared to lead as
commander in chief. Nowhere tonight did she alter that
assessment. Nowhere tonight did she say that Barack
Obama is ready to lead.
...on first read of Hillary's
speech text I see no clear, flat assertion that Obama is
qualified and prepared to be commander in chief from day
one, which of course was always her central critique of
him. That was something I had expected to see.
Clinton seemed to say, even
if Obama is everything she said during the campaign,
he's still a better candidate than McCain.
... She took the high road
Tuesday night because it was also her best road
politically; if Obama wins, she still emerges as a
central voice in American liberalism, replacing the
ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy. And if Obama loses, as
Hillary said he would during the campaign, she is
blameless and the party can turn back to her without
guilt in four years.
Tuesday night she said some of the right words. But
between now and November, Hillary Clinton can go out and
work to heal the wounds or sit back and keep them open.
The choice is hers, and it will determine her future.
...when Clinton stepped off the stage and the standing
ovation faded into silence, many of her supporters were
left with a sobering realization: Even a tremendous
speech couldn't erase their frustrations.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, accepting defeat with grace and
generosity, moved to close the divide among fellow
Democrats on Tuesday night by offering a forceful and
unequivocal endorsement of her fierce rival, Barack
Obama.
when the first female also-ran at a convention merits
such hoopla and hosannas, then it is harder for viewers
to understand why the Democrats seem intent on
soft-pedaling their presumptive nominee’s arguably more
remarkable breakthrough.
The 25-minute speech focused on policy and warned of the
risks of four more years of GOP rule, and she mentioned
Obama's name more than a dozen times.
But Clinton didn't talk about Obama in personal terms. She didn't
address criticisms she made during the primaries that he lacked the
experience to handle the demands of the presidency.
Hillary Clinton -- her words scrutinized for every
nuance, her voice for every inflection -- delivered a
speech tonight seeking to strike a precarious balance.
She is simultaneously honoring her supporters and her own 18 million
votes, but imploring them to transfer their allegiance to her one-time
rival Barack Obama.
While Mrs. Clinton is in the midst of a “catharsis,”
friends say, Mr. Clinton remains angrier than people
realize about the Obama campaign’s portrayal of his wife
as deceitful and of his administration as middling and
his political tactics as, at times, racially charged.
...according
to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he
will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not
join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.
John
McCain will spend this week reminding people of the
fundamental unreadiness of Barack Obama to lead the
nation in perilous times. Yesterday, he used Hillary
Clinton as his unwitting spokesperson, but today he uses
… Barack Obama. His extemporaneous comments on the lack
of threat from “tiny” Iran in May get featured in
“Tiny”.
watch it
Republican
John McCain's campaign released a TV ad Tuesday that
uses part of an ad that Hillary Rodham Clinton deployed
against Barack Obama during the Democratic primaries. It
reprises a question Clinton posed: "Who do you want
answering the phone" in the White House at 3 a.m.?
watch it
"Is this from the Onion?" quipped a McCain adviser.
The reference to the satirical newspaper came after
Reuters reported that Obama is planning an elaborate rock concert
set-up complete with post-speech fireworks.
...The celebrity-like trappings of Obama's Thursday's speech may have
given the Republicans new ammo...
Speaking to reporters at a lunch sponsored by the
Christian Science Monitor, Romney said that while McCain
deserved his houses because of the "hard work" of
himself and his family, "Barack Obama got a special deal
from a convicted felon."
"I think it was a strange thing for Barack Obama to seize upon,"
Romney said. "If homes is going to be the topic of discussion that
Barack Obama is going to end up on the short end of that one."
John McCain is planning to rollout his vice-presidential
nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with
large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Missouri, according to aides and advisers.
The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately
change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s
football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new
Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday
rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and
his running mate will then travel by bus to
Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a
minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just
southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to
suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a
minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Mo.
McCain suggested Obama had failed to express confidence
in America as "the greatest force for good on this
earth" when he gave a speech in Berlin last month before
more than 100,000 people.
"He was the picture of confidence. But in some ways confidence itself
and confidence in one's country are not the same," McCain said...
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts
Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be
delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a
miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set
up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium
where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood
columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol
building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for
president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised
from beneath the floor.
RE:
plans for Obama to deliver his acceptance speech in
front of a fake Greek temple... That this scales heights
of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted. What genius
thought of this motif? Probably the same one
that concocted
Vero Possumusand the
Fleeing Eagle. It’s a paean to an ego run amuck —
and if American voters wondered about the cult of
personality that Obama has inspired, this settles the
question and explicitly makes Obama the cult leader.
Barack Obama said he plans to focus on the struggles of
middle-class Americans, including their tax burden, in
his Thursday night speech accepting the Democratic
nomination for president...
During his first full day of solo campaigning, newly
minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden
showed some of the flashes of the hyperbole,
exaggerations and quips that Republicans are hoping to
use to paint him as a loose cannon.
... None of his assertions, in and of themselves, is
likely to cause problems for the Democratic vice
presidential candidate.
But the comments offer a harbinger of what to expect
from Biden, a Delaware senator whose freewheeling stream
of consciousness has gotten him into trouble.
Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and
swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to
demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry
did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.
Obama not only aired a response ad to the
spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the
commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice
Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel
advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama
commercial...
"What
would possess the Obama camp to go down this road? Obama’s lame
defense of the relationship–that he was eight when Ayers committed his
crimes–is, of course, entirely irrelevant. His association with Ayers,
as Hillary Clinton pointed out in the Philadelphia debate, ran deeper
than he has tried to present it and it began and continued when both
men were adults, long after Obama had become acquainted with Ayers’s
past.
Soon enough everyone will learn that Ayers donated money to
Obama, held a fundraiser to launch his first political race in his
home, served on the board of the Woods Foundation with Obama, and
headed the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge (the records of which Stanley Kurtz
will gain access to tomorrow), an organization which Obama supported
and for which he may have approved grant money. We are off to the
races on this. It’s unclear why Obama opened the door..." watch
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With
most of the eight
Marines charged in
the Haditha, Iraq, incident now exonerated, the
highest-ranking officer among the accused is considering a
lawsuit against Democratic Rep.
John Murtha, who fueled the case by declaring the men
cold-blooded killers.
>>> read it
"To
Set the Record Straight:
How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs
and the New Media
Defeated John Kerry,"
Authors Scott Swett's and Tim Ziegler's heavily researched 400 page
work provides the first historical assessment of the 2004 presidential
campaign.... foreword by John E. O'Neill, lead spokesman for the Swift
Vets and POWs for Truth in 2004.
RE:
plans for Obama to deliver his acceptance speech in
front of a fake Greek temple... That this scales heights
of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted. What genius
thought of this motif? Probably the same one
that concocted
With
most of the eight
