Don't Do It

Please don't drop out. There's still plenty of time for the SuperDelegates to come to our side. This amateur is gonna slip up big time. You have to be there with your delegates ready to lead this nation.

Who Said It?

1) "Whoever wins the elections, I'm sure that the United States will change, it will have a different approach. The United States will have a reduced sphere of influence in the world. The new president will have to respond to the real demands of the American people.”
2) “Change is realizing that meeting today’s threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy.”
3) “40 million American citizens do not have health insurance.”
4) “45 million Americans who don't have health insurance.”
5) “47 million Americans — including nearly 9 million children — lack health insurance.” -
6) “The victims of the New Orleans hurricane still have no homes."
7) "The lack of affordable housing in New Orleans has prevented many Katrina victims fromreturning to the city."
7) “The United States will have to withdraw the soldiers from Iraq (since) the American people will not tolerate continued spending of billions of dollars on weapons."
8) “…a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq, while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn’t making the American people any safer.”
9) "It is they who cut off the links with us, hoping to suffocate us. Today Iran is an advanced country. We are ready for dialogue with anyone in relations based on mutual respect and fairness.”

Statements #1, 3, 6, 9 were made by Mahmoud Ahmadenijad in an interview published June 4 in the Italian daily La Repubblica. He was in Rome to attend the UN food agency's summit on food security. The full quote for #6 is "It is they who cut off the links with us, hoping to suffocate us. Today Iran is an advanced country. We are ready for dialogue with anyone except with the Zionist regime, in relations based on mutual respect and fairness."
Statements #2, 4 was made by Barack Obama, Speech in Iowa City, IA, May 29, 2007
Statements #4 and 5 are from http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/ June 4, 2008
Statement #7 is on http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/KatrinaFactSheetFinal.pdf June5, 2008
Statement #8 is again Barack Obama, Speech in St. Paul MN,, June 3, 2008

Take It To The Floor

Be Sure To Go To HillaryClinton.com and leave a message urging Hillary to stay in this race. We must remind everyone that our Party cannot win if she’s not on the ticket.

Remind Hillary that she wins the battlegrounds and the big states:

Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Florida, Michigan

Ask what Barry states Barry will take from McCain:

South Carolina, Alaska, Kansas, Utah, Alabama, Georgia, Texas?

He needs her or we have another Michael Dukakis on our hands.

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

Earlier this month [May] in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps.

Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”

Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

Earlier this month [May] in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”