Let alone killing US citizens for self-gains.

reading some comments on news blogs, evidently the group -
International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement -
are backed by republicans…

whodduthunkit…

August 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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The group is probably backed by Repubs any time they oppose Obama, but it’s unlikely conservatives back them otherwise.

“InPDUM is a grassroots organization, led by the black working-class community. It was founded in 1991 in Chicago by the African People’s Socialist Party.”

http://www.inpdum.org/about.html

No, we don’t live in a police state.

And a group of Republicans lingered after the House closed session, using new media to soapbox on the issue. They’re calling for Bush to call Congress back for a special session on energy.

The problem is market data throws cold water on their assumptions. “Drill Now, Pay Less” has been “Drive Less, Pay More” for the second quarter of 2008.

http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2008/08/shifting-sand-in-oil-markets-knocks.html

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/booz-allen-hamilton-completes-separation/story.aspx?guid=%7B3952B54A-00E7-4950-A4DC-87FEF5EBBA96%7D&dist=hppr

The Carlyle Group can now manufacture “intelligence” to start the next war, from which it can also profit.

Daryl amazing that you can take the scene and twist it to your viewpoint, but you and The View’s Elisabeth are just too blind. How sad.

whodduthunkit…

Obama, adopting what has become most political figures’ response to such interruptions, turned at the podium inside the high school gym and bantered with the protesters for several seconds as the crowd booed. Finally, Obama said, “Just be courteous, that’s all.” The protesters quieted and turned their banner over to a an Obama staffer, but later in the speech again began to chant, only to be drowned out by the Obama crowd.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/hecklers-greet.html

video there also… doesn’t look at all like “an Obama staffer quickly swiped the sign out of the protester’s hands and the protesters got quiet when surrounded by Obama’s security.”…

LIAR.

By Jonathan Weisman
ST.PETERSBURG, Fla. — A day after John McCain’s campaign accused Barack Obama of having “played the race card,” the senator from Illinois was confronted by self-described members of the “International African Revolution” concerned he doesn’t talk enough about race.

A boisterous town hall meeting in the Gibbs High School gym here was repeatedly interrupted by activists from the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, a pan-African socialist group, who accused Obama of ignoring the plight of poor blacks targeted by predatory lenders, police brutality and racist attacks. Obama tried to calm the situation, with assists from a supportive crowd that shouted the hecklers down.

Handing the activists the microphone did little to assuage them.

“All these attacks are clearly being made on the African community,” one of the hecklers, St. Petersburg resident Diop Olugbulu, 31, said, when Obama recognized him and directed the microphone to him. “Why is it that that you have not spoken to the issues or spoken on behalf of the African community?”

Obama defended his record, saying he had spoken out on every issue the hecklers raised, from the shooting of Sean Bell in New York to the prosecution of the Jena Six in Louisiana to predatory lending targeted at blacks and Hispanics.

“That doesn’t mean I’m always going to satisfy the way you guys want me to talk, which gives you the option of voting for someone else, which gives you the option of running for office yourself,” Obama replied as the young man stood stony-faced, arms crossed, amid deafening cheers. “But the one thing that is important is that we’re respectful toward each other.”

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McCain will address the Urban League today in Orlando, and Obama will address the Urban League tomorrow on the second day of his swing through the I-4 corridor of Central Florida.
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i’m hopeful those demonstrators will question mcWHINE also…

“The only way that we’re going to solve our problems in this country is if all of us come together, black, white, Hispanic, Asians and native American, young, old, disabled, gay, straight.”
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gCxGgPRNvgcPdBMrtMuTbLmwsndA

another, similar, version:
Obama Engages With Heckler
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/obama_engages_with_heckler.php

House REPUBLICANS How pathetic is that? The Democrats have been sheepishly bowing to whatever this administration wants in his drive to destroy the Constitution but representatives of his own party walk out to object to disrespect for oversight.

And what were the arguments against gays serving openly in the military? I seem to remember something about arousal, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We wouldn’t want the gays to bring that type of behavior to the military now would we?

It usually gets the point across.

Yeah, well, I wish I had the nerve to do that, but I’m an old guy and was raised not to make a scene in public and not to be rude, so I suffer in silence. I’ve certainly done it in my imagination, though.

that radio spot just called up one of those gut instinct reactions and i wanted to put in my call…

in your case it woulda been something like “There’s a weird woman on the plane that thinks her fender bender is interesting. Wow, she must not be very bright, and from the sounds of it, it must be her fault! I hope her insurance goes up!”

It usually gets the point across.

And if the woman talking on the cell phone about her sex life were talking to the passenger next to her about the same thing, would the committee decide to ban all talking on the plane?

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you and Misshusseinmolly and a few others. People’s behavior on cell phones is simply not the same as when they’re in conversation with someone sitting next to them. I have to put up with this crap on my daily bus commute but being trapped for hours with someone on a flight? No way.

Many cell phone users seem to believe they’re in a magical bubble which allows them to have a long, intimate phone call with someone else at peak volume without annoying people around them – or, more likely, they don’t care about annoying other people – or, potentially, they think they’re entertaining all the people around them. I figure it’s one of those, or else they don’t really trust the technology and think they need to holler into the phone like a long distance caller in the 1930s.

And, face it, the people who make these calls, whether on the bus or in the airport lounge or wherever they’ve trapped you, are doing it because they are incapable of entertaining themselves in any way except calling everyone they know to engage them in completely trivial and stupid conversations. What they’re sharing with everyone around them is always (at least in my experience) devoid of real content. I had to listen to one woman while we waited for the plane to load, go on for 20 minutes about a fender bender she had been in earlier. Nothing happened! No one got hurt, the car was only scratched, and yet the entire jet got to hear about it as though it was the most traumatic event of the year.

Sorry, this is a pet peeve. /rant