Andrea Mitchell is on Morning Joe (the daily Obama bashing fest on MSNBC) explaining how Obama being greeted so warmly by the people in Europe could be a negative for Obama back home in America.  

Obviously you see, being greeted in a positive manner around the world is a lot less desirable back home with Americans than what George Bush received by people around the world over the last 8 years.

The question become then, will BHO be more like JFK or GWB? And which is better for America?

Well I have decided I do not like Mike after this weeks yucked it up at the NRA where the Reverend Huckabee joked about the assination of Sen Obama.

I know there is an audiance for this type of Ann Coulter shock comments. So I guess that this was the Reverends audition to get on the gravy train of right wing shock that fill the books stores and air waves.  He then followed wit a MTP appearance and boy he looks to be on his way now that he has a agent that is guiding the latest star in the industry of poluting the public discourse with hate speech and shock for shock sake.

His lame non-apology apology is so Imus transparant. Well this is what the media cannot not get enough of.. and the public has gotten enough of to the level of outrage abuse. But rest assured the media like MSNBC and MTP and FOX will be looking for the next Democracy shocker to say something outrageous and offensive to some minority group or weaker non media access bunch of people so as to give voice to the haters in our society. You know Obama had it comming to him, winning the nomination and all.

I, as I think many others, do not believe for one minute that Hillary or Bill or any of her surrogates are racist. However, I do believe that she is as Keith O has eloquently stated, is allowing her camp to play the race as well as other low blow cards (playing into various fear mongering stereotypes) about Sen. Obama.

This is where I think many in the stupid punditry class are missing the real reason for the overwhelming support of African Americans for Obama at the polls. It is not because he is Black because if that were true Al Sharpton would have done better at the polls by about 50 percentage points. The reason is that the Democratic base, African Americans, see the Clinton camp, with the outrage that Keith describes, as hitting Obama like a Republican, and this is the most offensive and unforgivable.

I had alluded to this in a previous diary and was shouted out of the room. But it appears that my concerns were merited. Security for Barack Obama is not what is should be at these rallies and that is now substantiated with facts about the recent rally in Dallas.

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I am concerned that these crowds that Obama is drawing are not screened like we are at the airport.

Many now carry concealed guns in America now and bigotted crazies are not scrutinized like hip hoppers are in the nation. We all know that profiling has not been something done to whites, males or female.

The fear mongering that has been circulating in emails and the hate speech that is going on now on talk radio has intensified and will intensify even more about Obama.

Here is Texas (DFW and Houston) we have BizRadio and on the Del Walmsley show today a mortgage company president (Texas Loan Star) reported that approximately 2 million Americans have adjustable rate mortgages that are coming due to be adjusted up, probably 40% in the next 6 months.

Most if not all of these Americans will not be able to keep up with their mortgages given the current economic conditions. So think about 2 million foreclosures and how that will affect the markets and the real estate markets across America.

He also reported that 20-30 lenders have gone belly up during the past six months; so the lenders that would be bailing out these people with refinances are gone too.

I think that it way past time for the media to beat the drum on what will John McCain do as President.
It appears he is like Karl Rove and do not think that Americans repudiated the current stay the course policy.

Right now the CW is that McCain is strong on national Security. How can this be! He is clueless on raising troop levels in the military and what should be done on Iran and North Korea.

In responding to a question What if the Republicans win.. I made the point but I want Dems and Kossacks understand that the right is very closer to having a fascist government masking as a Democratic Republic.

The Democrats always get it right according to polls on what the issues are that the voters care about, but what never seem to get right are the sentiments that voters are feeling at the time of an election. The Dems are good at list the litany of things that they will do when they come onto office but what they never seem to understand and convey are their understanding of what the voters actually want. Americans may have an issue or two that they would like to see addressed but most Americans are not up on issues with any detail, but, they know what they like and dislike in their government. Americans do not know the details but they when something is right in the country and when it is wrong in the country. This is the focus/point that Dems should be communicating. Is that we get it, whatever that it is.

Do they think people without an address can cash a check and get direct deposit!

Just like the Poll tax of the Jim Crow days FEMA is using the same tactics to block desperate people for getting the true help they need.

Call the White House at

202-456-1111 and just wait for an operator to take your comments.

He equated the fight to end abortion with the fight to end segregation based on a person's skin color. When Chris Matthews asked what happen if you out law abortion what happens to a person who wants an abortion; Brain Lamb replied "the same thing that would happen is what happen to the people who want to segregate based on the color of a person's skin"  

So to him this is about a tit for tat. The segregationist that wanted to keep segregation the law of the land felt and feels today that they had the right to segregate and by ending that practice they felt and still feel that they were denied their "right" to impose their moral value views on the policies of this government.

Do not tell me it is because of the liberals and the liberal media!

Why do you knwo whee he is and not captured him?

Where is the outrage at this BS!!

Dems had better get crazy about this.

The democrats have not touted this at all in the news. I would like to push for hearings into this because the so called religious right that is concerned about abortions do not seems to care about what is causing the rise in abortions under this administration. So I believe that we should make more efforts to expose the Right for what they are even on this issue as hypocrites, with an agenda that really is too worried about reducing abortion but controlling all of government to their narrow agenda.

This is going to play well for the upcoming Supreme Court fight. Is the right really concerned about abortions or what is the real agenda? This should be the question in every newsroom.

I have been hopeful at the signs for Democratic gains but there have also been real signs that Republicans gains could very well happen too.

Bush low approval ratings, Social Security privatization debacle, Terri Shiavo case, the Tom Delay corruption gift/s and the nuclear option all seem to point to a time of possible enlightenment of the public to the extreme out of touch positions of the current GOP majority.  But right along side these developments I want the Dems to also see the real signs that the Dems will not be politically savvy enough to turn these events into positive outcomes.

Josh

I was astonished at the dance that Rep Ferguson was doing in not giving his support for Bush's private accounts and his parroting of Bush's description of the Social Security problem word for word. He even said that he has been contact red by the white house a number of times on this issue and been over to the White House and on Air Force one and Bush has even come to his district; but he has not move one inch toward supporting the president's plan.

But to add insult to injury, he then goes on to criticize democrats that they have been obstructionist on this issue and are now seeing the the light politically and are moving toward the President's position. I am just aghast at this level of hypocrisy! Ferguson offers no solutions and says he will not support any thing that resembles a tax increase, so who is obstructionist now! He says the Democrats should not be so knee jerk and not discuss all of the ideas on the table then why is he not willing to discuss a raising of the wage cap!

As Bush seems to be increasing loosing popularity in what was suppose to be a victory cake walk to a great legacy being created in his second term, the media has actually expedited his irrelevancy in the eyes of the public.

Take this last week for example. Bush embarks on a great European tour after his public European eye poking two years ago in invading Iraq. This was to be a real moment of high drama, right? Well, as things unfolded Bush's appearances were highlighted with him making jokes with nervous laughter, with leaders that had gravitas. And in the end he was basically told to go and mind your own business when Putin told him that he too has had "problems with democracy" in referring to his Supreme Court appointment of him as President in 2000.

This is just a great barometer for the true support for Bush's policies. Bob Herbert at the NYT has an op-ed that I think raises the question that really makes the case for not supporting this Iraq war policy. And this is obviously being born out in the lack of recruits going into the Army.

Where are all of these young conservatives that graced the halls of the Reagan building last weekend? Why there was not Army recruiters in the back takings recruit's names in the back of the room of Karl Rove's speech?  I know Ann Coulter could fire up a crowd that supports the Bush war effort and entice them to join the military.

As I have always known that Bush supporters are total phonies and in their core do not support the notion of "freedom" and "democracy" but the notion of crusading for Christianity or the erroneous perception that invading Iraq put distance between America and "the terrorist" because we are "fight them over there."