10 - Obama Dressed Up
Obama's campaign accused Hillary Clinton's staff of circulating a picture of Obama in African dress, feeding into false claims on U.S. Web sites that he is a Muslim.
9 - Jesse and Bill 'Go Nuts'
Jesse Jackson goes "nuts" on Fox news and attacks Obama for "talking down to black people." Months earlier Bill Clinton caught some flack for downplaying Obama's primary wins in South Carolina by comparing him to Jesse Jackson,
8 - New Yorker Cover
Magazine publishes this cover called "The Politics of Fear," July 21, 2008. Obama's campaign called the cartoon "tasteless and offensive."
7 - Clinton Bosnian Sniper Fire
Hillary Clinton says she "misspoke" when claiming that she came "under sniper fire" in Bosnia during a March 1996 visit.
6 - No Flag Pin?
Weeks after coming under fire for his refusal to wear an American flag pin, Obama gets blasted for failing to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem.
5 - Barack The Magic Negro
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh airs the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro" -- in which an Al Sharpton impersonator sings to the tune of 'Puff the Magic Dragon' about how Obama isn't an authentic black.
4 - Joe The Plumber
This regular Joe spoke to Senator Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio then the GOP turned "Joe the Plumber," into a a national celebrity when Sen. John McCain made him a theme of the final presidential debate.
3 - The Terrorist Fist Bump
Barack Obama offers a hip alternative to scripted displays of affection by political couples by giving wife, Michelle, a hug, kiss - and quick fist bump. Some called it a "Fist bump of hope!" Fox news went on to call it a "Terrorist Fist Bump."
3 - Wardrobe Gate
After weeks of labeling herself as hockey mom fighting for Joe Sixpack, politico reveals that she is doing so while wearing $150,000 designer clothing from the likes of saks 5th Avenue and Neiman Marcus. The RNC scrambles and decides to auction them after the elections.
1 - Lipstick On a Pig
Sen. Barack Obama's reference to "lipstick on a pig" has Republicans demanding an apology. The remark came after Gov. Sarah Palin compared hockey moms to pit bulls without lipstick. A silly non issue over shadowed 9/11. The McCain camp continues to demand for an apology, the media supports the story until Wall Street crashes.
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Now Palin is being accused by McCain campaign staffers of not being able to find Africa on a world map, perhaps because she is looking for a country rather than a continent. She is also now being accused of spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $70,000 MORE than the initially-reported $150K on cosmetics (lots of lipstick needed for that pit bull) and clothes to make husband Todd more presentable.
Rush Limbaugh blames two down days in the stock market to Barack Obama. His predictions of doom have been validated before the man even actually does anything.
If the Democrats use this for patronage and pillage the treasury as many of them have done before, they will lose in the bi elections of 2010. Obama won by just 7 million votes. That is hardly a landslide.
Bush won in 2004 with just over 3,000,000 votes, and only 286 electoral votes...and the Republicans called it a mandate.
364 electoral college vote, by 8 million votes. That's more than the number of people who voted in Massachusetts and Georgia combined. Everything is relative, so let's compare apples with apples, shall we?
That entire argument of what is a landslide or what is not is silly. Bottom line, he won, and nobody is asking for a recount. By 11:30 PM EST McCain was on TV conceeding.
Yeah, Julie, isn't it funny Obama is not saying he has a mandate?
Yeah, it took a McCain campaign staffer 5 hours to make that thing and $700 in materials ;>)
1 - Because he is an intelligent person of deep thought. I'm delighted we have a president-elect who is willing to read books that will give him understandings which can only help him better serve the needs of his country, both diplomatically and at home. Have you actually read it, or a synopsis of it, or did you just see the word Muslim and your brain shut down?
From Amazon: "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination."
If we do not understand what we're facing, we can only fail.
2- Thank heavens the complexity of his reading material exceeds "The Pet Goat."
Your name lacks just one letter "y" (Luney).