Nah.
So, I dont know whether you all picked up on this story about how McCain's campaign asked former Solicitor General Ted Olson for a legal interpretation about whether McCain could face any problem seeking the Presidency because he was being born in the Panama Canal Zone - you know, considering the constitutional requirement of the President being a "natural-born citizen". Bit of a nonsense issue really, and perhaps his campaign should have just asked McCain first, cause he seems to be pretty
informed about the precedences.
But anyway, by that time an Obama angle had already entered the story too:
Quote:Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a prominent backer of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, introduced legislation Thursday that would define a "natural-born citizen" as anyone born to any U.S. citizen while serving in the active or reserve components of the U.S. armed forces. Obama's campaign announced late Thursday that he will co-sponsor the bill.
"Those who serve and sacrifice for their country, like John McCain and his father, deserve every honor and privilege that our nation can possibly provide, and that includes the ability to run for the highest office in the land," Obama said in a statement.
Right on.
That whole kerfluffle with Drudge publishing an embarassing photo of Obama in Somali get-up, which he said he got from the Hillary campaign (which the Hillary people never quite denied), has at least one unexpected follow-up.
This press agency story is pretty incompetently written up, so the exact who-what-why is not entirely clear, but basically, Hillary may be fined a number of goats or camels by a traditional Somali court of Wajir elders:
Clinton faces Kenya cattle fine over Obama photo
nimh wrote:
Quote:"Those who serve and sacrifice for their country, like John McCain and his father, deserve every honor and privilege that our nation can possibly provide, and that includes the ability to run for the highest office in the land," Obama said in a statement.
Right on.
Wow, isn't that nice of Obama to state that McCain has the right to run for president......even though we already knew that.
McCain should thank Our Holy Father Barak Obama for granting him permission to run.
Maporche - exactly what I was thinking. What a guy, huh?
maporsch, The way I see it, it's not about Obama giving McCain the right to run, but to kill any thought of making it an issue by anyone. It was a good move on Obama's part. I'd personally like to see more of this kind of move by both sides to eliminate unnecessary BS from the campaign.
Quote:McCain should thank Our Holy Father Barak Obama for granting him permission to run.
I think it is likely he will. McCain doesn't much discriminate when it comes to ass-kissing these days.
RE:McCain should thank Our Holy Father Barak Obama for grant
blatham wrote:Quote:McCain should thank Our Holy Father Barak Obama for granting him permission to run.
I think it is likely he will. McCain doesn't much discriminate when it comes to ass-kissing these days.
LMAO....... I just discovered this thread, 1121 pages of Obama worship??
Is that a record?
http://obamarevival.blogspot.com/
Hi, Magginkat, long time no see.
Well, I started the thread two years ago. At the time it didn't seem very possible that he'd even run. So it went through "should he run" to "will he run" to "he's running" to "he's the front-runner" and all points in between.
Re: Good for Mrs. Cocerone
Magginkat wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:maporsch, I look at more than one issue when considering who I vote for. It's still too early to call, but Hillary is definitely out of the running for me! But you can rest assured, my wife is voting for Hillary.
Bravo for Mrs. Cicerone Imposter! There's a lady with a mind of her own.
Frankly, I find the Obama Revival to be one of the more disgusting things I have seen since the repugs in this forum started singing the praises of Chicken George.
There's still plenty of time for you to get on the bus.
Cycloptichorn
Re: Good for Mrs. Cocerone
Magginkat wrote:
Frankly, I find the Obama Revival to be one of the more disgusting things I have seen since the repugs in this forum started singing the praises of Chicken George.[/b]
WELCOME!!! Another sane poster.
cicerone imposter wrote:maporsch, The way I see it, it's not about Obama giving McCain the right to run, but to kill any thought of making it an issue by anyone. It was a good move on Obama's part. I'd personally like to see more of this kind of move by both sides to eliminate unnecessary BS from the campaign.
Cheers to that.
I think about how some americans think Obama is a muslim (like the lady who cut my hair last week), and how this irrelavant and false informaiton is used to try and hurt Obama.
I think about that and then I see how Obama decides that thi should be a non-issue for McCain and distances himself from such low tactics.
If some americans are dumb enough to believe that Obama is a muslim, then there are plenty that are dumb enough to think that McCain is not an american if they were told that.
It's sad how many americans will still believe this kind of stupid thing come November.
Serenity Now!
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Re: Good for Mrs. Cocerone
Cycloptichorn wrote:Magginkat wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:maporsch, I look at more than one issue when considering who I vote for. It's still too early to call, but Hillary is definitely out of the running for me! But you can rest assured, my wife is voting for Hillary.
Bravo for Mrs. Cicerone Imposter! There's a lady with a mind of her own.
Frankly, I find the Obama Revival to be one of the more disgusting things I have seen since the repugs in this forum started singing the praises of Chicken George.
There's still plenty of time for you to get on the bus.
Cycloptichorn
Yes, just drink the Kool-Aid and step aboard.
Maggs, I don't find the Obama bandwagon to be disgusting at all! After all, more and more Americans are hopping on, and they're free to vote any way they please. I don't jump on the bandwagon only because it's still too early to call; anything can happen between now and November.
I see Obama with more plusses than minuses at this point in the game; I find him to be more gracious and gentlemanly than all the rest combined. He doesn't say one thing nice about Hillary (at the end of a debate to win votes), than stab her in the back the very next day. I trust his ethics more than any top running candidate today, but as I've said many times, there's plenty of space between now and November for many things to come out we haven't anticipated or know about today.
Patience seems the practical way to go.
cicerone imposter wrote:maporsch, The way I see it, it's not about Obama giving McCain the right to run, but to kill any thought of making it an issue by anyone. It was a good move on Obama's part. I'd personally like to see more of this kind of move by both sides to eliminate unnecessary BS from the campaign.
Right, exactly.
I mean, consider that a blogger like Marc Ambinder
was already ruminating that:
"Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton (and the Democratic Party) won't make a fuss about whether John McCain was "natural born" and thus constitutionally eligible to serve as president... but nothing prevents some mischievous group... Democrats.com? MoveOn? Judicial Watch? someone else? ... from making a federal case out of it."
By explicitly driving home the point that any questioning of McCain's standing to run should be out of bounds, Obama has made any such schemes a lot harder. So kudos to him.
Two "poll of polls" calculated by CNN show competitive races in both Texas and Ohio. The Texas "poll of polls" of likely primary voters shows Obama at 48 percent, Clinton at 44 percent, and 8 percent unsure. In Ohio, Clinton has 47 percent, Obama has 40 percent, and 13 percent are unsure.
The Texas "poll of polls" is an average of five surveys conducted February 22-28: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, Reuters/CSPAN/Houston Chronicle/Zogby, Belo/Public Strategies, American Research Group, and CNN/Opinion Research Corporation.
The Ohio "poll of polls" is also an average of five surveys conducted February 18-28: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, Reuters/CSPAN/Houston Chronicle/Zogby, American Research Group, University of Cincinnati "Ohio Poll" and Quinnipiac Poll.
okie, Why should I be nervous? I'm not running for anything, and I'm only one voter out of millions.
