Obama to Give a “Very Vigorous” Response to Bush Today - Watertown, SD, 11:00 ET.

[jefferson_dem]

Aide: Obama to Give a “Very Vigorous” Response to Bush Friday
Friday, May 16th, 2008



Top foreign policy adviser Susan Rice tells MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Obama intends to strongly rebuke the President’s suggestion he and other Democrats support “appeasement” of terrorists.

Also calls Bush’s remarks an “outrageous, unprecedented, divisive attack.”

Obama is scheduled to hold a town hall in Watertown, South Dakota at 11 am ET and a rally in Sioux Falls at 7 pm ET.

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/16/nbc-obama-to-respond-to-bush-appeasement-remark-in-south-dakota/

[tekisui]

1. I wnat to hear a call for Impeachment of the War Criminals!

[boobooday]

3. This is the only way for the GOP to redeem itself now

Is for the congressional GOP to stand up, impeach and prosecute Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld at least.

They can sign on to articles already proposed.

That could start their rebuilding process.

[K Gardner]

33. Update to top of thread: Was just advertised as being at Noon on MSNBC.

[goclark]

45. Just set the DVR nt

[beachmom]

2. Excellent. Nice two step. Day One, ALL Dems unite in condemning Bush.

Now Day Two, Obama can own the news cycle to respond.

[Inuca]

37. Exactly, very nice pattern

I hope it will continue.

[rurallib]

4. I see Bushie's remarks as a twofer

1) He smears the Dems
2) Dems respond by being more like the repugs - or at least that is what Bushie wants. I hope O doesn't respond by being more like the repugs.

[VWolf]

5. I doubt that will happen

I predict Obama's speech will be passionate and direct, but not inflammatory. This guy's good.

[rurallib]

8. I believe Obama will not budge

but no doubt the repugs are trying to push him. They have a lot of money at stake.

[formercia]

24. The GOP attack plan:

As soon as they were sure Obama is the Candidate to beat, they use Junior as an attack dog to keep the heat off of mcCain, that way they can be as outrageous as they want without it sticking to their nominee.

I'm sure that Obama is wise to this.

[yodermon]

34. excep mccain came out and *agreed* with junior that same day.

hmmm

[formercia]

44. That's part of the plan too.

The constituency they are talking to need the reassurance.

McCain is such a toadie.

[K Gardner]

6. I LOVE it when someTHING or someBODY or whatever gives Obama the chance to...

RESPOND. Oh hell yeah. I must learn to sit back, relax, and understand that our candidate most certainly knows what he is doing.

Cool as a cucumber.

[DemVet]

7. Obama is fucking up...big time.

He wasn't even mentioned yet he's whining like a neglected puppy.

Pitiful.

Bush's speechwriters (not the twerp himself) OWNED Obama on this one.

[K Gardner]

9. Twerp yourself. Haven't read the op eds in papers across the country, or listened to all

the news channels or the reporters who got the info from Bush's people, have you?

Still listening to and spewing your hate from Hillaryis44 or Free Republic? Pathetic.

[tekisui]

10. If you think chimpy wasn't hitting Obama, you're delusional.

McDubya's response was the most obvious tip.

[jefferson_dem]

15. Funny thing is the WH didn't deny they were referring to Obama early on yesterday.

Mid-day they changed their tune.

The fact that the Repuke slimeballs and this poster are playing dumb says we are winning this debate.

[DU9598]

12. Whining?

Huh ... where did you come up with that thought? I have heard nothing close to a whine.

This cycle of news is great for Obama since McCain refused to condemn the outrageous remarks it allows Obama to run against Bush (perhaps the most unpopular politician ever).

[jefferson_dem]

14. Congrats! You're the first "Democrat" i've heard criticize our nominee and defend Chimp on this one

Shame.

[K Gardner]

16. You must've missed the threads last night that made me regret my donation. This place

is truly unrecognizable as Democratic.

[jefferson_dem]

17. I did miss those.

No worries. The trolls and posers will be forced out before too long.

:hi:

[sniffa]

18. I miss the majority of them myself

Ignore is a wonderful thing. :hi:

[K Gardner]

30. I guess I'm going to have to reimplement the feature. Sadly. I thought common sense

and decency might prevail here, but again I'm proven wrong.

:hi:

[DemVet]

19. By "unrecognizable", you mean everyone doesn't bow down to Obama?

He isn't the Nominee yet.

[Colobo]

Yes he is. Deal with it.

[DemVet]

26. I'll deal with it...

...when he reaches 2025 confirmed (by vote) delegates.

He hasn't yet.

[quantass]

46. .

[Renew Deal]

48. Don't worry

The pests will be squashed soon enough.

[Colobo]

21. You're pathetic.

[DemVet]

27. Drunk on that Obama Kool-Aid, I see.

Go practice your cheers:

"Yes we Can!" :puke:

[chascarrillo]

28. Congratulations! Newt Gingrich agrees with you!

You're in fine company!

Anyways. You do realize that Bush staffers told the press that the remarks were directed toward Obama, don't you? Or do you keep up with newspapers?

[Thrill]

29. WRONG. All he did was fire up Democrats in Congress behind Obama

And allowed this McCain video to come out.

[Tatiana]

43. You must be living on Planet Dixiecrat. n/t

[IsItJustMe]

11. K&R This will be important in the over all scheem of things.

[graywarrior]

13. I hope someone starts hammering Dimson hard.

So hard it makes him cry.

[jefferson_dem]

20. VIDEO of the wonderful Susan Rice here -

http://thepage.time.com/video-obama-aide-previews-his-bush-response/

[flpoljunkie]

22. Thanks for the heads up, jefferson_dem!

[symbolman]

23. Here's a Vigorous Response

http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/2398/vesting.html

Here is the Federal Register, PROOF that Congress went after Prescott Bush for TRADING WITH THE ENEMY, Nazis, During WW2..

Sent THAT to Olbermann, Pass THAT around, let's HELP Obama get word out there that he won't touch because HE is too CLASSY..

But I ain't :)

Here's my answer in the Form of a Classic Flash I created years ago that lays it all out, with entertaining music by Spike Jones.. called,

"Bush is Not a Nazi, So Stop Saying That.."

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

Turn Up those Speakers!

[workinclasszero]

25. Obama needs to drop the hammer on the war criminal *

This is why the republican party is doomed. They don't have the balls to stand up to Bush on any of his outrageous statements and actions.

The republican party is a party of traitors, they have sold the entire country out to Saudi oil sheiks and chinese slave labor factories.

Republican TRAITORS: You DO NOT go to a foreign country and give a speech attacking your fellow americans!

Thats the problems with the damned republican party. They think they alone ARE america!

I got news for them. The real america is going to come ROARING BACK this fall assholes!

Barrack Obama and all of us will take back OUR country and make her a great place for all the people!

The stench of rotting flesh hangs low over the zombie republican party. Lets all gather together this fall and bury it once and for all!

[ericgtr]

31. It was a bad call for Bush to lob this one to Obama

the timing couldn't have been better to give Obama the spotlight for the Dems. Way to hand it over, Bush this is Obama's specialty especially when he has a little time to formulate an answer.

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[Carrieyazel]

35. Responding to something that wasn't even directed at him?

What are they doing? So when "some people" are referred to by a clown who cannot run anymore and is basically an irrelevant pariah, Obama "just knows" its directed at him and feels the need to respond?

He's sounding really defensive. Will not help him.

[ericgtr]

36. If it wasn't directed at him then who was it?

Who is the last person who said we should talk to our enemies? I can't believe there are Dems here actually siding with Bush.

[Inuca]

39. Come on! You sound like Dana Perrino n/t

[jefferson_dem]

42. Literally EVERYONE other than loyal repukes disagree with you. Bush’s gift to Obama!

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** Bush’s gift to Obama: When President Bush -- thousands of miles away in Israel -- decided to fire his thinly veiled shot at Obama yesterday, it was a giant gift to the Illinois senator and his campaign. Why? One, it essentially kept Clinton on the sidelines just two days after her big West Virginia victory. Two, Obama’s opponent was no longer Clinton or McCain, but the man with the 27% job-approval rating. And three, it rallied Democrats to Obama’s side. Even neutral Dems, like Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel and Harry Reid, quickly leapt to Obama’s defense. Some Democrats might be deeply divided right now. Pro-choice women are angry at NARAL’s endorsement of Obama; Clinton supporters are upset that Obama is looking like the eventual nominee; and some African Americans are unhappy with the Clintons. But what’s the best way to unify them all? Give them an excuse to turn their attention to Bush. And this will all play out another day -- and will likely extend into the weekend -- as Obama will respond this afternoon to Bush at his rally with Tom Daschle in South Dakota, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports. Obama will react to both what he considers Bush's politicization of foreign policy and the substance of Bush's attack.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

[npincus]

38. MSNBC said it's at 12:00 noon EST

[Inuca]

41. Thanks n/t

[Renaissance Man]

40. Go Obama!

Today, you will see the difference between comments that were made by a petulant C student that was only able to enter an MBA program at Harvard on the coattails of his father...

... and the brilliance of someone who was an A student and president of the Harvard Law Review.

Strap in for the ride, ladies and gentleman! It's smackdown time.

[livetohike]

47. Well said Renaissance Man

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

49. IS THIS THE OFFICIAL SPEECH THREAD?

Or does someone want to start one?

I think it will be a good one like normal, with Obama using
the whole board and all the chess pieces.

[K Gardner]

51. Update: CNN Banner - Awaiting Obama Response

[Fleshdancer]

50. I'm REALLY looking foward to this

I hope he hits hard and often and I hope this response is the main focus on the Sunday morning shows.

[Zachstar]

52. CNN has a camera there now. Check their website for live feed.

Hopefully this will be one hell of a speech.

[Eurobabe]

53. Watching it now, he handing Asshat his head on a platter

[Scurrilous]

54. K & R

:thumbsup: