Friday, October 31, 2008

Obama: DE PLANE! DE PLANE!

Do you feel that chill wind?

Barack Obama thinks it's a "rightgeous wind."

"I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here."

I don't think so.

It's not righteous at all.

There's a chill wind blowing around Obama. It's a wind of intimidation.

No voices of dissent allowed.

The latest example:

Journalists from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain -- the Washington Times, the New York Post and the Dallas Morning News -- have been booted from Barack Obama's campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential race.

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign's decision Thursday evening -- even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.

Executive Editor John Solomon told FOXNews.com that the Obama campaign said it didn't have enough seats on the plane, but "I don't think the explanation makes sense to us."

"We've been traveling since 2007 with him. ... We're a relevant newspaper -- every day we break news," Solomon said. "And to suddenly be kicked off the plane for people who haven't covered it as aggressively or thoroughly as we are ... it sort of feels unfair."

He said the newspaper protested but was turned down again by the campaign.

"I can only hope that the candidate who describes himself as wanting to unite the nation doesn't have some sort of litmus test for who he decides gets to cover the campaign," Solomon said, noting that the Obama campaign's decision came just two days after the paper endorsed McCain.

According to the Web site The Drudge Report, the three newspapers' reporters were told to find alternative transportation by Sunday so that the plane could accommodate "network bigwigs" and reporters from two black magazines, Essence and Jet.

Also joining up with the Obama campaign are the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. According to the campaign, the decision to shuffle around reporters was made because they did not want to add a second plane.

Obama the Healer.

No.


Obama vows to heal US divide after Republican rule
Democrat Barack Obama said Friday next week's presidential election would dismantle Republican politics of divide and rule "once and for all" and chart a new course of national unity.

Obama told a 25,000-strong crowd here in Iowa, which catapulted him to a shock win in the very first contest of the Democratic primary race, that his Republican rival John McCain had served the nation with honor.

The Illinois senator, bidding to be America's first black president, said that in a new advertisement, the Republican highlights Obama's praise of McCain's legislative attempts to combat global warming.

"As if there's something wrong with acknowledging when an opponent has said something that makes sense. I do that all the time. I think we need more of that attitude in Washington," Obama said.

He said he had admired McCain in 2000, when the Republican had decried "low road" politics after going down to a vicious smear campaign in his bid for the Republican nomination that year.

"But the high road didn't lead him to the White House then, so this time, he decided to take a different route," Obama said.

"But Iowa, at this moment, in this election, we have the chance to do more than just beat back this kind of politics -- we have the chance to end it once and for all," he said.

"We have the chance to prove that the one thing more powerful than the politics of anything-goes -- the one thing the cynics don't count on -- is the will of the American people.

"That's how we'll steer ourselves out of this (economic) crisis -- with a new politics for a new time. That's how we'll build the future we know is possible -- as one people, as one nation."

Yeah, right.

"One people" = Obama supporters only

"One nation" = Obama supporters only

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe the media will begin to figure out that there is no freedom of the press in Obama world. It's not how radicals do business. Most of the MSM has become useful idiots much to the joy and amusement of Obama and his machine. They're being used and they don't even know it. The press used to be run by intelligent, mature people. Not any more.

It is incredible, and fun for that matter, to watch the MSM implode. WAPO's revenue was down 82% last 1/4 and the NYT is barely getting by. It will be good to see many of these entities go out of business and get replaced with something more fair, balanced and intelligent.