Hucka-blunder? Obama joke raises eyebrows
(NECN: Louisville, Kentucky) - John McCain may get the headlines for his strong stance on continuing the war in Iraq, but it might be Mike Huckabee who gets the most soundbite plays.
Huckabee was speaking at the NRA convention Friday when there was a noise backstage. Huckabee turned, then ad libbed, “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair. He’s getting ready to speak - someone aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
The comment drew a few laughs from the crowd, but nothing from the Obama campaign. It declined to comment.
Tags: huckabee, obama
Friday 16 May 2008 | Sissy | Uncategorized
It’s not that elaborate, really.
a laffo?
The Obama supporters can’t have their cake and eat it too. They stated the 5$ million (later 1$ million) goal, not anyone else. If their effort was fruitful, they would have received positive publicity. When the effort fails, face the music…
The point is that no one expects these non-endorsed fundraisers to be wildly successful in the first place. If one happens to be (like in Dr. Paul’s case), then it makes the news. If it doesn’t (like in Obama’s case), then… nobody’s really supposed to give a damn. The fact that tuber went out of his way to formulate such an underhanded, gimmicky plot to discredit Obama speaks plainly about his operating ethics.Whoever it is you’re rooting for tuber… you do him or her a disservice.
In case you missed it, I was mocking the original post, including the condescending tone of his post.”This Ron Paul aggression toward Obama seems premature” Are you serious? Again, see the original post I was responding to and tell me how you justify your double standard. He took jabs at both Ron and Hillary regarding an article that mentioned neither of them, and you take offence when I reciprocate the criticism back at your favored candidate?So I’m no more “holier” than the OP, but of course that’s unimportant to you. It’s not that you didn’t like HOW I said it, it’s that you didn’t like WHAT I said. If this wasn’t true you would have aimed your counter-argument against the OP as well, whose comment was equally aggressive against other candidates.
After posted I realized that I may have offended the Phish fans (and possibly their Dead Head parents, and also maybe anyone who likes Cherry Garcia ice cream). Please accept my apologies.
I send money for a Pres candidate, not a Vice Pres candidate. I can’t see this happening, it’s just a Mrs Clinton ploy to try to move voters over to her.
While that $2300 amount may look suspiciously uniform, you do know that, by law, the cap on personal donations to any political candidate is….. $2300, right? Also, JP Morgan has 174,360 employees, so 92 is statistically insignificant.There is nothing even remotely suspicious about this.http://www.hoovers.com/jpmorgan-chase/–ID__10322–/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
Sounds like Ron Paul on steroids.
The headline is accurate in the sense that “A few Ron Paul supporters manage to raise 4.3$ million in a single day” would have been an accurate title for Nov. 5th.
Email from former Democratic AG Peg Lautenschlager’s deputy Dan Bach about the Georgia Thompson case and the charge that US Atty Steve Biskupic engaged in a political prosecution.”The recent appellate court decision overturning the conviction of Georgia Thompson has prompted a spate of criticism directed at the prosecution, including allegations that the case was engineered for political reasons and that the evidence of guilt was hopelessly thin. Critics of the case also point to the civil service status of the defendant, and her apparent lack of motive to steer the travel contract to Adelman, as evidence of prosecutorial overreaching.I participated in several meetings with prosecutors and investigators both before and after the Thompson trial. Having spent more than a dozen years as a federal prosecutor and four more as the state deputy attorney general, I will attest that this case was handled by professional, career prosecutors and investigators in as fair, thoughtful, and apolitical fashion as any I have witnessed. In contrast, the one-sided, self-interested criticisms of the decision to prosecute stand apart in their rush to judgment.As to the appellate decision, I echo the comments of other former prosecutors who pointed out the anomalous nature of the swift pronouncement from the bench. Appellate decisions overturning the considered judgment of a jury and veteran trial judge, based on the strength of the evidence, are exceedingly rare. We await a written decision to better understand the appellate court’s reasoning.In the interim, those relying on an unclear motive to affirm Thompson’s innocence are lost in the headlights of television drama—proof of motive in criminal cases is not required. And to those who contend that state civil service status stands as a bar to politically based pressure, real or imagined, there are many in Madison who would scoff at your naiveté. This state cannot afford to proceed any longer without meaningful campaign finance reform, and it will not be restored to its former “clean government” status without prosecutors willing to bring tough public corruption cases.”