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Title: Obama: 'I will win'
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URL Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_I_will_win.html
Published: Aug 18, 2008
Author: Ben Smith
Post Date: 2008-08-18 09:53:53 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 226
Comments: 20

A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most if it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.

“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described Pennsylvanians as "bitter" and stoked controversy three months ago, but did so much more adroitly.

"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so," he told the crowd. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. This is not working."

“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple," he said.

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept," he said.

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#1. To: christine (#0)

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

As long as God is now on Obummers side, or so some state, I think it fair and prudent for the O'Piles to ask Obummer for a walking on water demonstration.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:06:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Cynicom (#1)

We all walk on water Cyni. Though sometime when we do, we wear ice skates to better navigate the service of the frozen lake we might be visiting during a cold Winter day. There is no trick to walking on water, as long as you do it the right time of year. ;-)


"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ferret Mike  posted on  2008-08-18   10:10:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Cynicom (#1)

As long as God is now on Obummers side, or so some state, I think it fair and prudent for the O'Piles to ask Obummer for a walking on water demonstration.

This guy has already done it, now if we can only get him to run for president. :)

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-08-18   10:11:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Ferret Mike (#2)

Mike...

As a trained Cynic, I must confess I have never met any other human that I thought God had sent to be among us. Most of those that were inclined to elevate themselves turned out to have clay feet, much like my own.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:14:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom, Ferret Mike (#1)

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

i believe the same was said of bush back in 2k. good lord. the cult of the presidency.

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christine  posted on  2008-08-18   10:17:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: christine (#0) (Edited)

“I will win...

And saying it doesn’t make it so,"

Yeah Obama, saying it doesn't make it so. Can this guy be any more retarded than he already is?

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2008-08-18   10:19:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: RickyJ (#3)

I must admit that when God starts shilling for any partisan politician, I do feel inadequate.

Of course, just perhaps God did NOT impart any such thing to Pelosi. Maybe she made it up???

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:19:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: christine (#5)

Political hyperbole has always been with us and always will. For example, you are spinning here that all major candidates are useless demons and all puppets.

What is or isn't political hyperbole to someone depends on whether or not their ox is being gored by the rhetoric in question.


"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ferret Mike  posted on  2008-08-18   10:24:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: christine (#5)

i believe the same was said of bush back in 2k. good lord. the cult of the presidency.

Are you trying to say that once any person has been anointed by the elite that God automatically is on their side???? Regardless of "party".

Preposterous, I cannot believe that. Such would mean we have only ONE party and it would destroy the sheep should they find out.

This is akin to telling them there is no Santa Claus.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:24:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Cynicom (#7)

Of course, just perhaps God did NOT impart any such thing to Pelosi. Maybe she made it up???

Shame on you for even thinking such a thing!

"Government is God! Submit citizens!" Romans 13

Esso  posted on  2008-08-18   10:25:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: RickyJ (#6)

The point is confidence. Get a grip, goober. Stop drooling on yourself here.


"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ferret Mike  posted on  2008-08-18   10:26:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Cynicom (#7) (Edited)

Pelosi, of late, has been trying to pass herself off as a street smart kid from Baltimore. These arrogant oafs keep shoveling the crapola because dopes keep buying it. It must be heady times for those who ascribe to the D-wing of the National Party. Pelosi should be entrusted with nothing more important than selling braziers at Macy's.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-08-18   10:26:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Esso, christine (#10)

Shame on you for even thinking such a thing!

I was living in Baltimore at about the time Ms. Peelosely was born.

Her Father and his off springs, along with his political machine, was so corrupt that it was outrageous. The entire family were criminals, that is why you rarely see her family mentioned or her background.

The entire family were corrupt slime.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:31:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Jethro Tull (#12)

Pelosi, of late, has been trying to pass herself off as a street smart kid from Baltimore.

Tom D' Alessandro passed himself off as Italian Catholic.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:38:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Cynicom (#14)

Does the name Mario Cuomo ring a bell?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-08-18   10:42:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Jethro Tull (#15)

Not in any good context.

The D' Alessandro "tribe" immigrated here from South America, I forget where.

Beyond that their pedigree becomes rather murky, by intent.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-08-18   10:46:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Cynicom (#9)

Preposterous, I cannot believe that. Such would mean we have only ONE party and it would destroy the sheep should they find out.

Well, you have to wonder about why it is that the two parties seem to be in step with one another on important issues whereas they are both out of step with the public they are supposed to serve.

For example, as it relates to public opinion: approx 70% are for closed borders, 70% are against the Iraq War, more than 70% are against outsourcing of jobs and against off-shoring of industries. But both the R and D parties are pro all of the above. How odd.

I think we are not at seamless one party totalitarianism - there are a few odd differences, and of course there's always the jostling for absolute power -winning elections at the party apparatchik level to push forward one's own party to be closer to the flame- but aside from those minor things, the 2 parties have alot more in common with one another, once elected, than they do with the people who elected them.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-08-18   11:20:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Jethro Tull (#12)

Pelosi, of late, has been trying to pass herself off as a street smart kid from Baltimore.

How funny.

I just read an article about a month ago that named Pelosi the richest person in Congress - I think she and her husband have a net worth of $35 Million or more.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-08-18   11:23:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Ferret Mike (#8) (Edited)

Political hyperbole has always been with us and always will. For example, you are spinning here that all major candidates are useless demons and all puppets.

Except for the demons part, that's not hyperbole, it's just facing reality.

Personally, I find talk about candidates being blessed or chosen by God to by downright disturbing, especially when that's the image being spun and reinforced by the TV networks. You can't possibly be blind to the cult of personality that many Obama supporters have created.

I'm not just saying that because I think Obama is a fraud, I'd find cult of personality politics almost as off-putting if people went around saying that about Ron Paul or any other candidate that I support.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2008-08-18   11:34:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: christine (#0)

a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

Gag, Barf, Puke.

Why isn't he breaking out ahead of McCain in the battleground states.

swarthyguy  posted on  2008-08-18   13:57:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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