It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons (Hillary and Bill) are still determined to see Barack Obama fail.

Devious Clinton surrogates are busy leaking “strategy” to McCain and his supporters. For example — Hillary’s former aide Howard Wolfson fanned the divisive flames last Monday on ABC News, arguing that Hillary would have beaten Obama in Iowa and become the nominee if John Edwards’s love child scandal had come out last year — an assertion contradicted by a University of Iowa survey showing that far more Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice.

Also, the week before last Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention — and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama’s.

In a noble gesture, and to appease the insatiable Clintons, Obama has acquiesced citing “party unity,” essentially ceding half of the upcoming Democratic convention to Bill, Hillary, cohorts and many angry “white women,“….some so angry that they have become delusional enough to contemplate voting for John McCain — a moderate man by nature, but with one foot stuck in a predatory nativist “snake-pit,” the far-right of the Republican party, to whom McCain must throw “rat-bones” before and after the November elections, if he is elected.

Time Magazine reports that while in public Clinton is doing everything she’s been asked to help Obama, behind the scenes she secretly wishes Obama should lose.

Old man McCain must be rolling in his bed over and over, salivating at the thought of Hillary ruining it all for Obama, and he has actually been cashing in — implementing the Clinton “tid-bits” (that were never used in the Democratic primary) in his ads(eg. the Paris Hilton Ad), and his incessant townhall declarations — that Obama “is not ready lead.”

An anonymous “smear” publication appeared last Tuesday in the Daily Mail, a notorious British tabloid, falsely professing that Obama has been exchanging e-mails, phone calls and text messages with George Clooney the actor, who has supposedly been advising Obama on everything from body language to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. George Clooney promptly denied the allegations, but not before the malicious email had spread worldwide like a virus, and was quickly picked up by the Drudge Report and television networks ranging from Fox News to NBC. The overall result served to bolster Republican candidate John McCain’s dubious contention that his rival Obama is a vapid “celebrity.” This conforms with McCain’s most recent juvenile and subliminal sexual fear-Mongering attacks on Obama. — [READ MORE]

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The “Clinton Strategy” has been sold to John McCain, in the hope that he wins this fall for a one term presidency, followed by a Clinton presidency in 2012. [ Remember what Clinton said during the Democratic primaries: "I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." ]

Central to the negative tactics which the Clintons barely used, for fear of a backlash (even though they were urged to do so repeatedly by Mark Penn, Hillary’s egotistical “chief-strategist,“) was to target Obama’s “lack of American roots” — insinuations that his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are “exotic and un-American.”

According to Penn, Obama’s basic American values and culture are at best limited, and America will not elect a president during a time of war who is not at his center “fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values” “….That Obama told the people of New Hampshire that he has a Kansas accent because his mother was from there, is nonsense and a cover-up,” — because his mother lived in many different states….added Penn.

Joshua Glenn of “The Atlantic” approached a number of current and former Clinton staffers and outside consultants and asked them to share memos, e-mails, meeting minutes, diaries — anything that would offer a contemporaneous account. Almost all gleefully acquiesced. Glenn says: “The result demonstrates that paranoid dysfunction breeds the impulse to hoard. Everything from major strategic plans to bitchy staff e-mail feuds was handed over.” (Much of it is posted online at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808u/clinton-memos). Mr. Glenn also sums up the Clinton mess blow by blow here — The Front-Runner’s Fall.

The Clintons will not accept that they lost to Obama due to poor strategy, racism, toxic dis-organization worsened by a clash of personalities — feuding and bickering all the way to defeat. “Experts generally agree that Clinton’s campaign was not prepared for a lengthy fight; it had an insufficient delegate operation; it squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a paralyzing schizophrenia,” says Glenn.

Ma Clinton ran a deeply flawed campaign — run haphazardly by a “Junta” of discombobulated advisors and an uncontrollable Bill Clinton — who stuck his foot into his big mouth too often.

That they have not accepted the fact that the Obama machine beat them fair and square, and by the rules in place, is testimony to the arrogance and the selfish sense of entitlement of the Clintons.

And now, their last shot is to mess up Obama’s up-coming Denver convention, amidst calls to GOD from the far-right lunatics, for a heavy downpour to ruin Barack Obama’s outdoor nomination-acceptance speech at Invesco Field (Capacity 75,000), at Mile High, in Denver, scheduled to be held later this month.

By speaking on two consecutive days, Hillary on Tuesday and Bill on Wednesday, these two intend to dominate the convention, and will try their best to make it a “Clinton convention.”

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times sums up the Democratic dysfunction most eloquently: “Hillary’s orchestrating a play within the play in Denver. Just as Hamlet used the device to show that his stepfather murdered his father, Hillary will try to show the Democrats they chose the wrong savior.” “Hillary Clinton feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Barack Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain.” “You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps.” “Like taking candy from a baby, except Bean pole Guy doesn’t eat candy.” “In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama.”

“Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction and revisionism and barely disguised desire to see him fail. Whatever insincere words of support the Clintons muster, their primal scream gets louder: He can’t win! He can’t close the deal! We told you so! Yes she can!” …[ Read More >> ]

…and E.J Dionne of the Washington Post adds: “Clinton must know that she could have won the Democratic nomination with a more coherent strategy. And her own campaigning for Obama suggests she understands that the actual nominee should not have to inherit her campaign’s circular firing squads. Much depends upon whether she can now persuade her followers to grant Obama’s nomination a legitimacy that her own campaign worked so hard to deny him.” — [ Read More >> ]

That’s how selfish and devious these two are — Bill and Hillary!

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1. A right-wing “GOD Goon” prays for torrential at the DNC convention
What a colossal waste of GOD’s time!

2. 1. GOP: Here’s to Hillary’s big party! — Nothing would delight Republicans more than for the Clintons to upstage Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention….Writes Walter Shapiro

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In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying

On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to hear the truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track record of public service. But on the Internet, in his grocery store, at his neighbor’s house, at his son’s auto shop, Peterman has also absorbed another version of the Democratic candidate’s background, one that is entirely false: Barack Obama, born in Africa, is a possibly gay Muslim racist who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

“It’s like you’re hearing about two different men with nothing in common,” Peterman said. “It makes it impossible to figure out what’s true, or what you can believe.”

“I think Obama would be a disaster, and there’s a lot of reasons,” said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. “I understand he’s from Africa, and that the first thing he’s going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He’s got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there’s the Muslim thing. He’s just not presidential!” …..[MORE >>]

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly: Feagin’s voluminous, relentless book testifies to both the strengths and the flaws of applying a sociological approach to the intricate issues of racism in America. Most social scientists, according to this sociologist at the University of Florida (White Racism, etc.) and president of the American Sociological Association, see racism “as something tacked on to an otherwise healthy American society.”

But Feagin contends that the system embeds racism at the core, from the Constitution to the legacy of slavery and segregation in retarding black economic advancement. He argues aptly that color-blind ideology “provides a veneer of liberality” for those unwilling to recognize how race has shaped America, while those who lump blacks with white immigrant groups ignore the effects of racial discrimination. But Feagin’s approach surely sacrifices complexity.

Are “racist pressures against interracial marriage” solely the product of white racism? If achievement tests are so biased toward the white middle class, then why do some Asian immigrants do well on them? Feagin calls for a large-scale educational campaign to move whites to confront “the reality of the pain that their system of racism has caused” and a new constitutional convention to incorporate “the group interests and rights of all Americans of color.”

He also calls for individual and group reparations for blacks. (But how exactly would a “black community” be determined?) Feagin doesn’t engage those who argue that class-based remedies may be better than race-based onesAanother flaw in a book full of strong yet poorly articulated arguments.

From Kirkus Reviews: A sometimes searing indictment of American racial practices.

Sociologist Feagin (White Racism, not reviewed) traces the development of American racism to its roots in Europe.

Ideologically, race was not a major consideration in human endeavors until the beginning of the European slave trade in the 1400s, Feagin tells us. But some 300 years later, it had grown full-blown and become a major cornerstone of intellectual thought–dominated by such thinkers as Locke, Kant, and Hegel, and by the Frenchman Joseph Arthur de Gobineau. All of these harbored anti-black views to varying degrees, including the curious natural-law notion that blacks somehow were born to be slaves.

Much of this 18th-century twaddle was absorbed by our Founding Fathers, especially by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. Feagin also examines Reconstruction, the lynchings of the late–19th and early–20th centuries, the Civil Rights era, and the post–Civil Rights period.

As we enter a point in the new millennium where the white population is beginning to shrink, Feagin points out that less than half the population of America’s four largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago) is white.

This and other factors lead Feagin to call for an international view of civil rights (i.e., one in which all are entitled to equal concern because all are human beings and not members of this or that state or tribe). Feagin, who is avowedly influenced by Franz Fanon and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), is at his overwrought best when he is in historical pursuit of the roots of racism.

Perhaps because it is something not readily fresh on the mind, it is a matter of more than idle curiosity what Benjamin Franklin and James Madison thought about whiteness.

On the other hand, matters such as affirmative action and reparations are too widely discussed and familiar to make Feagin’s discussion of them very interesting or fresh.

A useful study, even for those who are not guilt-ridden.

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Barack Obama’s maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, grew up in El Dorado, Kansas. Obama was raised by his mother and his grandparents in Hawaii; his father left the family when Obama was just 2 years old and then returned to his native Kenya.

Stanley Dunham served in World War II and was educated on the GI Bill, while his grandmother stayed in Wichita with their baby — Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham — and worked on a bomber assembly line. The family eventually moved to Hawaii, where Obama was born and raised.

Obama’s upbringing in a white household contributed to some questioning early in his campaign about whether he is “black enough” to win over black voters. That is no longer the case, as he now draws support from blacks at a 90+% clip — The ‘Clinton Goons’ helped that come about….when they unleased blatant Racial Politics in South Carolina.

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Stanley Dunham died in 1992 and Obama’s mother, Ann died in 1995. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, follows the campaign closely, even though severe osteoporosis keeps her from traveling out of Hawaii.

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Who is Barack Obama — Part 1

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In his book: ‘Dreams From My Father,’ Obama pays tribute to his mother Ann

The “skinny kid with a funny name” is now a political ‘Rock’ star, the golden child of the Democratic party — Who has systematically clobbered the Clinton THUGS into “Racist ‘We Hope You Are Assassinated’ Submission,” and is on the verge of grabbing the highest office in the world…..from the ‘Hyena Jaws‘ of McSame and McDumb Bush — the dumbest and the most unqualified man ever, to lead the United States of America.

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Smooth and confident, Obama has hoops game — Presidential candidate using his love of basketball as a campaign weapon

Last Friday, he scored four baskets — including a 3-pointer — in a Kokomo, Ind., game tied to his voter registration drive. With cameras trained on his every 46-year-old move, Obama scrimmaged Tuesday with the North Carolina Tar Heels.

“Playing ball makes you accessible in a way that neither of them are — Obama and Bradley,” said Eric Hauser, a Democratic strategist who worked for Bradley. “They both deal with the reputation of being distant and cool, and basketball transcends race.”

Growing up in Hawaii, Obama considered basketball as a way to find his racial identity in a diverse community.

“I do think you can tell something about people by the way they play basketball,” he told HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” this month. “Here is a place,” Obama told HBO, “where black was not a disadvantage.”

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