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Is Barack Obama little more than a self-serving, angry wench, just like Hillary Clinton? A reporter who covered Obama for a small Chicago paper during his state senate career writes in a new feature for the Houston Press that “vanilla” Obama’s ambition during those days may have led to some… back room deals? Ignoring his black constituents and their black issues? Yelling at reporters, who then go on to write negative first-person tell-alls for the Houston Press during his presidential campaign? Barack Obama has the dirtiest record of any politician except John McCain.
About 70% of this million-word feature centers on the writer’s start in the journalism business, so let’s summarize the parts anyone will give a shit about:
- Barack’s entire record of state legislation that he touts now was done in his first year as a state senator, so that he could have some record when he wanted to run for higher office, immediately. But he lost a Congressional run in 2000 because he was like four years old.
- Then, in 2002, black Democrats took over the state legislature and were led by the powerful Majority Leader Emil Jones Jr. (“a gravel-voiced, dark-skinned African-American known for chain-smoking cigarettes on the Senate floor”). Since Jones was powerful and black, Barack — and this has been reported before — asked Jones to make him a U.S. Senator. “I’m gonna make me a U.S. Senator,” Jones said to a friend.
- Jones “appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.” And then Jones “further helped raise Obama’s profile by having him craft legislation addressing the day-to-day tragedies that dominated local news headlines.” What didn’t Jones do? Is Barack Obama just a hologram of this “Jones”?
- Then Obama ignored black community issues in his district, to avoid being the black candidate, which some Clintons still think he is. “Obama’s aloofness on key community issues for years frustrated Lucas and many other South Siders. Now they believe he was just afraid of making political enemies or being pigeonholed as a black candidate.”
- Barack only won his Senate seat in 1996 by finding petty flaws in the other candidates petitions — HE PULLED A HARVARD ON THE COMMON FOLKS.
- In 2004, the article’s author profiled Barack Obama and included many complaints from other black politicians in the state legislature, about Barack’s cheating record.
- Then, the climax: Obama YELLED AT THIS REPORTER ON THE PHONE, ANGRILY. Because of this, we have an article today that Wonkette can nicely summarize in bullet points.
Barack Obama and Me [Houston Press]
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Tony/Xenu/Papi/Wolverine/Babe?
he actually said obama sounded "vanilla"
...and i dont even know where to go with that.
I would note that the author's name (Todd Spivak) is an anagram of Vast Kid Pod. Clearly, that means... something. Probably that I am an English langauge geek.
Notice how the title of the article, "Barack Obama and Me" was changed from its original, as evidenced by the url, "Barack Obama Screamed At Me."
Yawn.
I read "Boss" by Mike Royko. When did Chicago politics get all pussified?
Don't bother with this shit until there is some at least thinly sourced innuendo that he was dinking some white girls in the hallway in seventh grade, or something equally relevant. OKTHNXBYE.
are we really going to nominate a yelling, smarty-pants, cigarette smoking, 8 year old boy?
i'll tell you what we really need. what we really need is a screeching, cackling, harpy with helmet hair and bad clothes.
"I submitted two formal requests to interview Obama for this story through his Web site, but have not heard back."
Nice work!
Just how much money are the Clinton's flinging around to get back into the White House?
Just so you all know, the Houston Press is the New Times weekly give-away with the 30 pages of ads for titty-bars and massage parlors in the back--not that there's anything wrong with that! Not to be confused with the daily broadsheet, the Houston Chronicle.
I was going to be totally outraged or something, but then that picture loaded. I, for one, welcome our distractingly attractive Kenyan overlords.
Black. He's black.
Black.
I am sure Mr. Spivack will win a Pulitzer for this fine piece of work.
thanks for wasting our time, Wonkette. I want the last 334 seconds of my life back
@evolutionista: and who cries when the boys beat up on her by asking her the first question. But who has been vetted and is tough.
and @m_supercomputer: that old Luo magic has me in its spell....that old Luo magic that he weaves so well...
@brokeback-romney: and black babies!!! He has TWO of them!
Wait wait wait... does he really smoke or am I just very gullible?
@BL Ride: Really! That's really chasing the story down, no matter where it leads. This guy's a regular Woodstein!
I couldn't get past the Forrest Gump reference, the life story tangents, and the name-dropping. Thank you for reading that for me.
This just in: politician may have gone through political machine to get where he is today.
The gist and the jest of this shocking expose: Barack Obama is a politician. A Pulitzer for Spivak!
this obama guy can't catch a break from the press.
@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: Camels.
@baxterthepug: Re: Pulitzer.
Great minds, etc.
None of this seems too bad. After all, I doubt the Illinois State Legislature would be a viable Presidential candidate.
@brokeback_romney:
Cuz I'm black y'all/
And I'm black y'all/
And I'm black-than-black and I'm black y'all
/CB4
@belltolls: Haaa!
@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: If you are asking a serious question, and I am not missing wry wit, then yes, the Luo King did indeed smoke, but now is a Nicorette man. Michelle apparently did not like the cigs.
So he outsmarted his competitors, wrote auspicious legislation to get some good press, and cleverly used the system in order to move on to higher office. Clearly the man has no idea how to be a politician.
@Doglessliberal: you would cry too if you were busy trying to get those elusive tax returns together, and answering those pesky questions, and trying to make your hair stay down, and learning to tell jokes, and trying to make people not hate you, and slapping your staff, AND hungover.
now i'm tired, and i want to cry. thanks, hillary.
Anyone named Todd deserves to get yelled at. [bp3.blogger.com]
@Doglessliberal: Yes, it was a serious question, and thank you for the serious answer.
@evolutionista: But wait! She has the Pantsuits Of Power(TM) that make her Strong (TM) and Ready on Day One (TM). Be like her! Do not falter! Even in the face of the bloody carcass that was your campaign! (it's not dead yet...it's blood sleepin'...)
@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: Thanks. One never knows...or at least I don't, being a tad gullible my own self.
They are all the same, all of those black politicians that lead in the National Polls for the Office of President of the United States. He's just like the last guy that did it. Same old same old.
@Doglessliberal: P.S.: I love your name, even though I have 2 Schnauzers. (hee.)
Barry Hussain is a heartless, raging, immature lunatic from hell whose only interest is world domination. In mathematical terms this would be:
Hillary+Bill*Cheney= black babies
sigh, I mean "bloody sleepin'". Can't even type stupid Monty Python reference without a typo...
@sluggo:
Carlin also has a great bit about how much he hates the name Todd. He just keeps pronouncing it in the most nasally, weaselly way possible. Hilarous.
@nhunter: ...you all...
Like you'd know. You're no Texan. Texans don't know that those are two separate words.
Ah, to travel back in time and relive the simpler, bygone days of 2000. Kudos to this fine reporter for giving us insight into what it was like to be a journalist then. Those were the days, by gum.
@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: I have one cat that likely outweighs your two Schnauzers. But he has a thin cat inside waiting to get out.
@Doglessliberal: it is true that day-glo yellow highlights her superior people skills and formidable incisors. you give me hope doglessliberal.
wait, i forgot, hope is bad. you give me something else that is good, similar to hope, but not hope.
@Doglessliberal: bring out your dead!
And he did all this while secretly plotting with Muslim terrorists to destroy the U.S. from within? Impressive time management skills.
Damn, that Obama is smoking. Figuratively, I mean.
@evolutionista: Or a 1,000-year-old crazy man who bangs lobbyists three at a time.
@TJBeck. Think we don't know a you from an all? Here's an old Texas saying for you...Bite.me. j/k
"I'm Gonna Make Me A U.S. Senator"
The new reality sensation starts this Wednesday after American Idol, only on FOX.
I am shocked and appalled... at the idea that anyone other than Hillary's most die-hard minions will give a fat rat's patoot about any of this.
Gosh, the Houston Press? That's the weekly whose owner fired their veteran city hall/political columnist a few years back so that his mistress could have a job closer to their trysting places...
see, its so hard to tell whether or not wonkette is fellating hillary or trying to be sarcastic or not. i've clearly lost my edge and should start writing for the voice.
facepalm.
Obama's vanillaness is a big ruse. You know as soon as he gets into office he's going to go all Putney Swope on us.
People should check out what this web site WhiteHouse.com is reporting. Not saying it's true or anything, but it sure makes for some entertaining reading...
@Kurtz:
Let's hope so. "Truth & Soul" are in short supply.
"Putney says the Nerdlinger account has GOT to have SOUL."
If Obama smokes Newports or Kools then he's definitely not vanilla.
Concerning that photo I have to say it's a damn good debating look.
OK Wonkette, Inc., you haters. I've finally decided that the Barrytards are worse than the Paultards. You see, with the Paultards, you pretty much knew there was a finite number of them, and they would eventually die out. The Barrytards are more like a George Romero movie - just after you've finished your last brain extraction of the day, showered up, and are cooking dinner, you look out the kitchen window and there are 15 more Barrytards out in the backyard trying to bite your miniature poodles. It just never stops.
Damn! There's no mention of his Madressa, his anti-Soviet insurgent activities in Afghanistan, nor his involvement in the Great Train Robbery. What the hell? Where's the beef.
You show obvious partisanship by running a picture of Obama smoking a cigarette. I will expect the Clinton campaign to disavow it tomorrow.
He stopped smoking because of a WOMAN? Hes obviously not a real man like Bush. We dont want leaders that listen to advice.
Nothing in that bullet list amounts to "corruption." That word should not appear in the headline of this piece (even ironically).
In fact, nothing in that bullet list amounts to anything. It is amazingly empty of anything truly, substantively negative at all. Those are all just a bunch of subjectively negative descriptions of things that likely amount, in objective reality, to perfectly innonent, bland political behavior.
He's ambitious. Big shock. Who runs for president who isn't ambitious? Running for president pretty much defines ambition, don't you think?
He "ignored black community issues." So say the people who were pushing those "issues" (whatever they were) as part of their own agendas, more likely. And maybe what they were pushing was not in the best interests of the pubic at large. Which probably indicates that Obama is objective and independent when he needs to be.
Really, I don't know why you even printed this. There's nothing here. People are so desperate to dig up some dirt on Obama - some people are trying so hard - and they're coming up with nothing but piddly-ass shit that amounts to nothing. It's kind of amazing, really.
Uh ... I meant "public at large," not "pubic at large." Ha.
I went to read the original in all its glory .. and IT'S GONE
Unless my stolen-from-neighbors-therefore-socialist wireless has gone out again
Another day and a really amusing funny article.
I am impressed that there stupid psuedo jounalist writing hack pieces about the dah chosen one also. This is the first time in my adult life I have felt REALLY proud....
It's a New Times paper. Anyone who has one in their town knows what they're like. I'm surprised they didn't add that Barack perambulated a baby and was seen publicly masticating at a restaurant.
@evolutionista: Other than their aesthetic, they're pretty much the same anyway.
I don't think the point of the article is that he's corrupt, I think it demonstrates that he's no different than any other politician even though he tries to make everyone think he is.
Another take on the Houston article can be found here:
[www.mydd.com]
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