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Alright, look, my mom is visiting. I need to take the day off, okay? I’m sorry. I will post if something major happens out at Camp David, where the G8 is meeting. For example, if they cut up their credit cards, I will let you know.
Have a nice weekend and I’ll be back Monday morning.
Keith
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Senate Democrats are accusing Republicans of racism, saying a proposed plan by an outside Super Pac to tie President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright amounted to “race-baiting” and “coded racism” for which Republicans are responsible.
The outside group’s proposed campaign, described Thursday in the New York Times, called for linking Obama to incendiary comments by Wright, a black preacher who was Obama’s Chicago church leader and who married the Obamas. The PAC said after the story appeared that it would not be running the campaign.
In an email sent Friday afternoon, Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Executive – the Senate Democrats’ political arm – made the charges of racism and invited recipients to sign a “petition” objecting to the plan
Here is the text of the email:
friend,
Yesterday, The New York Times exposed a massive Republican campaign full of race-baiting, fear-mongering, and outright lying against President Obama.
It’s disgusting, vile and a few other words I can’t print. I’m itching to fight back, hard.
Republicans have to learn that coded racism is out of bounds. Stand with us to show they can’t get away with it.
Tell the Republicans to stop – and take a stand against despicable race-baiting. Click here to add your name.
Republicans think they can cower us into submission and that we won’t fight back.
I know you’ll never back down. Stand with President Obama right away.
Guy Cecil
The email suggests that Democrats will throw charges of racism at any effort to bring Wright’s name into the campaign. Wright has made many inflammatory comments, including suggestions that the United States deserved to be attacked on 9/11. Democrats were greatly concerned in 2008 that Obama’s ties to Wright could derail his campaign.
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This is going to backfire.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has sent an email via the Obama campaign inviting Obama supporters to contribute “any amount” at all to be entered into a raffle for dinner with her and the Obamas June 14 at her home in New York.
“It should be fabulous,” she writes.
Obama, it seems to me, is in danger of being too fabulous.
Just days ago, he hosted the winners of a similar contest at the Hollywood home of George Clooney.
Obama's newest political ally
According to CNN, Eva Longoria has raised at least $200,000 for the president, and there have been $38,000-a-plate dinners with Will Smith, Spike Lee, Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell.
In one of the tackiest episodes of all, Obama last month deadpanned through an awful duet with Jimmy Fallon on the latter’s talk show. The Office of the President may not recover.
While it may raise money, it’s hard to imagine that Obama’s close association with the entertainment industry is going to win him many votes among average, sensible Americans, many of whom are suffering. Particularly, in this latest case, with a woman who goes by three names and who starred in a show that focused on the sex lives of neurotic New York City women.
And there’s something slightly pathetic about this. At first, the lottery prize offered in these contests was just the president. The addition of stars like Parker and Clooney seems to be an admission that a mere lunch with Obama is not quite enough to sell a lot of tickets.
There’s a lot of money in Hollywood, but not many votes. At some point, the disgust factor may come to outweigh all those piles of cash.
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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is threatening to keep President Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in November unless he receives confirmation from Hawaii that it has a valid birth certificate on file for him.
Bennett, who spoke to Arizona radio host Mike Broomhead Thursday, said he requested the confirmation eight weeks ago and has not gotten it. Hawaii, he said, does not have to supply a certified copy of the birth certificate, merely send him an email confirming that it has one.
Asked by Broomhead if he would remove Obama’s name from the ballot if Hawaii fails to comply, Bennett said: “That’s possible. Or the other option would be that I would ask all the candidates, including the president, to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate.”
Despite overwhelming evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii, the issue of his birth continues to dog him. Thursday, Breitbart Big Government reported on a promotional booklet by Obama’s own literary agency listing him as having been born in Kenya.
Bennett said Hawaii law permits government officials to request verification of possession of a birth certificate in lieu of a certified copy.
“They could say yes tomorrow and the whole thing goes away,” Bennett said. “If they can’t say yes to that simple question, then it makes me wonder if we have to take it to another level. One way or another, we have to have some simple verification that people are qualified for the office if they’re going to be on the ballot here in Arizona.”
Bennett asserted that he is not a “birther” and denied accusations that he is playing to the birther crowd in Arizona because he wants to run for governor. But Bennett also hedged in stating his belief that Obama was Hawwaii-born.
“I believe the president was born in Hawaii – or at least I hope he was,” Bennett said.
Arizona, with its 11 electoral votes, is an important 2012 presidential battleground state. A Real Clear Politics average of recent polling in the state has Mitt Romney ahead by only four points.
One thing I’d like to make clear. This blog believes Obama was born in Hawaii. But it also believes threats by the Arizona Secretary of State to exclude the president from the ballot are newsworthy.
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10:15 am ET || Delivers remarks at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security
11:00 am ET || Bilateral meeting with French President Francois Hollande
6:00 pm ET || Departs White House
6:30 pm ET || Arrives Camp David
7:30 pm ET || Greets G8 Leaders
7:50 pm ET || Begins reception and working dinner for G8 leaders
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I’m not particularly trying to be funny here. Vice President Biden, known as a gaffe machine, has converted himself into a gaffe production line.
Biden’s inability to keep his neurological circuitry running smoothly has escalated as of late, and if the wheels don’t start turning in a more assured manner, people are going to begin to question his fitness for office.
Biden, who turns 70 in November, went on Meet the Press 11 days ago and accidentally proclaimed his support for same-sex marriage, forcing President Obama to play some hasty catchup on the issue and ruining the rollout of Obama’s gay marriage conversion.
But that wasn’t his only gaffe on the program. Check out this:
And this:
In March, Biden suggested, with weird phrasing, that Irish were drunks.
In April, he reeled one off that is destined to be part of the Biden legend.
The same month, he dropped by for a visit to Florida’s famed Evergators.
And last week, he made the sign of a cross before 1,600 conservative rabbis.
And, as I noted below, during yesterday’s speech in Youngstown, Ohio, Biden seemed to be raving for no particular reason.
Biden has always been prone to odd statements and verbal miscues. But if this new, accelerated pattern becomes entrenched, how long can a presidential campaign tolerate a portion of the ticket blabbering out nonsense chatter before it has a serious problem on its hands?
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Um, what’s this guy so angry about? Look at the face. I mean, really, would even Democrats want him to become president at some point and have to listen to this?
At least he’s melting down in Ohio. Maybe someone will mistake him for bubbling molten steel and turn him into hubcap.
H/T to The Blaze.
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