Obama Waffles - It's Racism for Sale

It's just incredible.

By denny_crane

By denny_crane

Republicans really have no shame at all. They don't even bother to hide their racist beliefs -  they're proud of it and intend to make a profit from it.

From the AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.

Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed "offensive material." The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.

The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.

I'm nearly speechless. We need to win this election big and keep these people as far from decision making roles as we can. Get out there and do something for a local candidate, folks.

Financial Market Update

I'm tracking the news on the financial crisis, and here are the latest updates:

- The major indeces are off their lows, but overall the market's still sharply lower. The Dow's down 2% now while the Nasdaq's off just over 1%.

- Bank of America & Merrill Lynch are describing their deal as a "merger", but the reality seems to be that BofA will be taking over the $50 billion of Merrill's assets and "merging" them into BofA.

- AIG's stock is off over 40% as investors wonder whether there's a future for them.

- Lehman Brothers stock has fallen 90% JUST TODAY to spare change as they go bankrupt.

- Bush hardly had anything to say on today's news... Just something on "having confidence in the market".

Stay tuned here at C4O for more as we track today's big news on the financial crisis.

First Two Tracking Polls of the Day

Rasmussen has Obama a point closer today to McCain than he was yesterday:

McCain 49%
Obama 47

(It was 50-47 yesterday and 49-46 on Saturday.)

Research 2000/Daily Kos also has a one point change in the race, though it's to extend the lead that Obama had yesterday:

Obama 48
McCain 45

(It was 47-45 in yesterday's poll, and 47-47 the day before.)

Here's a load of crap

from the same people who brought you Sarah "Lying Sack of Shit" Palin:



But guess what, McCain said this morning that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. So there you have it: reform without a problem to start with--that's the McCain analysis:



The Obama campaign has responded to McCain's absurd suggestion that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said"

Today of all days, John McCain’s stubborn insistence that the ‘fundamentals of the economy are strong’ shows that he is disturbingly out of touch with what’s going in the lives of ordinary Americans. Even as his own ads try to convince him that the economy is in crisis, apparently his 26 years in Washington have left him incapable of understanding that the policies he supports have created an historic economic crisis.

Joe Biden Is Coming Out Slugging While Palin Panned on Sunday

The Democratic nominee for vice president has come out slugging in recent days. A report on Politico suggests that our vice presidential nominee will deliver a major and hard-hitting address today in Michigan. According to Politico:

While the lines of attack have long been drawn, Biden will assert . . . that a McCain presidency would amount to a third Bush term and will focus, in a detailed, comprehensive and aggressive way, on John McCain's domestic policies and harsh campaign tactics.

If his speech hammers at away at a point he made the other day in Saint Louis, I think it may have some impact. The St. Louis Dispatch the other day reported that Biden in a Missouri stop hammered away at McCain's proposal to tax your healthcare benefits:

Taxing American workers' health care is not the answer, he said. Under McCain's plan, Biden said, a person earning $50,000 a year, with employer-provided health care worth $12,000 a year, would be subject to income taxes on all $62,000. Now, no taxes are levied on (workers') health care benefits.

McCain has been highlighting his proposed $5,000 a year tax credit to offset some of that tax hike, but Biden said that at least $7,000 would still be subject to the tax.

Yeah, that's change we can believe in, Senator McCain.



Meanwhile, Sarah "Lying Sack of Shit" Palin was widely panned on the Sunday talk shows:

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said on CBS’s "Face The Nation": “She doesn’t know anything, and she is not ready to be vice president."

New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson said on Wolf Blitzer's "Late Edition": “Here’s the issue with Gov. Palin. She’s a governor. … That’s good executive experience. She’s telegenic. She’s smart. But there are just a lot of distortions about her record that are coming out."

Senator Claire McCaskill said on ABC's "This Week": "Sarah Palin this summer called Hillary Clinton a whiner. And now it’s oh, you know, they are being disrespectful to Hillary. I didn’t hear her say that when she was asked that before she was the vice presidential pick."

Updated: TPM has put together this montage of Sunday talkshows:

Thank You, Herbert Hoover...

Oops, I mean George Bush & John McCain. Sorry, but news like this causes me to forget this is 2008, and not 1929...

Wall Street was in turmoil on Sunday as Merrill Lynch rushed to find shelter in a $35bn-plus takeover by Bank of America and Lehman Brothers headed towards filing for bankruptcy.

BofA's bold bid for Merrill came as the world's top banks appeared close to abandoning efforts to save Lehman and set out to build a firewall against further financial chaos with a $50bn liquidity pool to support other vulnerable institutions.

There was speculation late on Sunday that the Federal Reserve might announce additional liquidity support, possibly by easing the terms on its borrowing windows, to reduce the risk of a disorderly unwinding of Lehman's positions. The Fed meets to decide on interest rates on Monday. The moves capped a weekend of high drama that could lead to one of the most radical reshapings in Wall Street's history.

Thanks to the Bush-McCain GOP "laissez-faire" policies that actually privatized reward while socializing risk for these financial industry oligarchs, they allowed for a deregulated market that led to all these risky investments that are now collapsing all around us. I hear that McCain says this reinforces his call for "reform" on Wall Street. Excuse me... But what "reform"??!! Sorry, but his & Bush's "reform" is what f**ked us up in the first place. Why the hell would we want more?

Anchorage Women Rally against Palin

A White House Run by Lobbyists? You Decide.

Lazy Sunday Open Thread

I'm done calling Nevada today. How's your day been? Let's talk about what you've been up to. ;-)

No, It's Not a "Partisan Attack"

Apparently, the Rethuglicans are trying to spin away the recent McCain-Palin scandals as "partisan Democrat trickery"... Especially the continued revelations of Sarah Palin's abuses of power in Alaska. But apparently, a quick review of the facts says otherwise. Believe it or not, even REPUBLICANS in Alaska were horrified enough by the abuse of power to call on investigations.

No matter how much "McMaverick McBush McCain" tries to spin away all his problems, they're all catching up to him & his running mate now. ;-)

Diageo/Hotline Sez: Calm Down, We'll Be OK

This just in from The Hotline... Hot new tracking poll numbers!

Obama-Biden 45%
McCain-Palin 43%

This is a 3% jump from yesterday, when McCain was up 1. While it still may be too soon to call this a trend, it seems like most of the polls now show at least some fading of the "McSurge" we saw a week ago as we began to discover the aftermath of the GOP Convention. Again, it's too soon to declare a new trend... But as the steady "drip-drip" of McCain-Palin scandals becomes more visible, this may not be where the GOP wants to be. ;-)

Daily Tracking Polls for September 14

Here are numbers for September 14; I'll go in alphabetical order:

Gallup Daily:

McCain 47
Obama 45

There is no change from yesterday.

Rasmussen:

McCain 50
Obama 47

It is the same spread as yesterday, but it's the first time Rasmussen has shown McCain at 50 percent.

Research 2000/Daily Kos:

Obama 47
McCain 45

This poll shows Obama steady where he was yesterday and McCain down two points; yesterday's results were 47-47.

$66 MILLION??!! Yes. We. Can!

Yes, it's true. Barack Obama raised just over $66 million last month! Think about that. We're making a HUGE difference! Something like this has never been seen before.

If we keep up this great work, we can win this election! :-)

A Must Read

In case you haven't yet picked up your morning New York Times, please do so today. They give us some more insight on John McBush's running mate. And oh my, if you think Bush & Cheney were bad...

Obama Campaign Takes the Offense against McCain

The Obama Campaign has published a memo that takes on the McCain campaign on a couple of scores but focuses on dismantling the Palin myth:

1. They point out that the McCain campaign has been doing a fancy show with smoke and mirrors to try and make Sarah Palin look like she has the qualifications to be president of the United States. The memo takes on the lies that Palin visited Iraq, something she has not done, and her repeated claim that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere, when she actually supported it. They mock her claim to have visited Ireland when her plane merely stopped there to refuel. They challenge the claim that Sarah Palin is a fiscal conservative. They cite sources that document her out-of-control spending behaviors.

2. The fabrications about the numbers of people who have been attending the McCain-Palin rallies. In fact, the campaign appears to have been reporting vastly inflated numbers.

On a day when The Washington Post essentially called McCain a liar for his performance on The View and The New York Times noted that McCain's most recent ad "is the latest in a number that resort to a dubious disregard for the facts," it seems to me we should keep beating home that the Republicans have put forward a mirage.