Rupert Murdoch: Obama is a "rock star", McCain has a lot of problems

[jefferson_dem]

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[democracy1st]

1. jefferson_dem thanks for the post K & R

[sui generis]

2. fucking brilliant. And Turd Blossom agrees.

Does anyone who is not too starry eyed and still wet in the diapers naive wonder why? Oh why would he say that?

Even if all the white haired white guys who actually DO vote choose not to vote for the white haired white guy, I'm not looking forward to a third consecutive administration of and by the politically naive. It's worked so well for us in the past.

No matter who wins, I'm still all about the oh no not another god damn lawyer.

[liberalcanuck]

3. He said McSame's been in Congress a long time... small gaffe there.

[BayjanDem]

4. Rock Star?

Why did the crowd applaud that. That's not a compliment. It implies all style and no substance. Maybe it's just me.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Dude! Rock stars have substance.

To me, this implies charisma...a "larger than life" persona.

I'm not a Murdoch fan but i'm cool with the label.

[EnviroBat]

5. Fuck off and Die Murdock.

You've been at the helm of the biggest RW propaganda machine the world has ever known. You and your fucking shitty network are an embarrassment, and only now you're seeing the writing on the wall.

[eagertolearn]

7. Did he say he had something to do with the NY Post endorsing Obama?

Does that mean he like's Obama? It's hard to know whether he thinks a rock star is a good thing or bad at his age. Though I don't if I believe Obama is a rock star.

[anonymeme]

8. Arch-Conservative Murdoch Heaping Praise on a Supposed Liberal Should Be a Red Light About Obama...

Arch-Conservative Murdoch Heaping Praise on a Supposed Liberal Should Be a Red Light About Obama Right There.

Why do Right Wingers want Obama in there so badly?

[eagertolearn]

11. I thought they wanted Clinton in there badly. n/t

[anonymeme]

12. No. They Didn't that Was Obama Camp Propagnda & Untrue See Info In Post Text Body:

There is an entire Republican organization pushing Obama for President:

Republicans for Obama http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=homepage

Republicans for Obama Spreading Senator Barack Obama's message... supporting his presidential campaign, and providing a forum to debate and discuss.

www.republicansforobama.org/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Visit and then as yourselves why the Right-Wing is supporting an Obama presidency?

There is no organized Republican support for Hillary.

So the Obama camp using the same tactics against Hillaary that the Right-Wing has used against the Dems and the Left for decades, spreading the big lie by saying that the opposite of what is true, is true, and then repeating it until people believe it.

Goebbels would be so proud of the job they have done.

Here's an article from the Sunday Times, TimesOnline about how major Republicans were defecting to the Obama camp in 2007:

From The Sunday Times
May 6, 2007

Republicans defect to the Obama camp

Sarah Baxter, Washington

DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation.

Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing.

Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist in 2004, announced last month that he was disillusioned with the war in Iraq and the president’s “my way or the highway” style of leadership – the first member of Bush’s inner circle to denounce the leader’s performance in office.

Although Dowd has yet to endorse a candidate, he said the only one he liked was Obama.

Bernstein is a champion of human rights, who admires Obama’s call for action on Darfur, while Dowd’s opposition to the war has been sharpened by the expected deployment to Iraq of his son, an Arabic-speaking Army intelligence specialist.

But last week a surprising new name joined the chorus of praise for the antiwar Obama – that of Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century in the late 1990s, which called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Kagan is an informal foreign policy adviser to the Republican senator John McCain, who remains the favoured neoconservative choice for the White House because of his backing for the troops in Iraq.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1752381.ece

[democracy1st]

13. here in Texas they are having Republicans for Obama parties, not Operation Chaos

[eagertolearn]

18. I can't believe how many republicans have changed parties

to vote for Obama in my town (even very conservative old military type families). But it is for real that they prefer Obama.

[democracy1st]

15. just turn on the radio and listen to rightwing radio and you'll see that they favor Clinton

[Selatius]

17. I think Rush Limbaugh and everybody to the right like him wanted Hillary.

Then again, you don't have to take my word for it. Listen to his radio show.

[democracy1st]

14. Fox has been and still as of today pushing Clinton have you checked them out lately

[eagertolearn]

16. I agree with you fox has always been pushing Hillary.

I believe because they think she would be easier to beat. i know a lot of republicans who are voting for Obama because they really like him vs operation caos which want people to vote for Hillary to keep this fight going. Where that really became apparent was in Indiana where 80,000 repugs voted for Clinton who said they wouldn't vote for her in the GE. i guess 20,000 voted for Obama who said they wouldn't vote for him in th GE.

[graywarrior]

9. Too bad I despise Murcdoch

[hisownpetard]

10. Murdoch = A sharpei, with eyeglasses.