Obama’s $5 million Olympic-sized political ad buy: Sen. Obama’s campaign joins McDonald’s and Anheuser-Busch as early TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage from Beijing beginning August 8.
President Obama: MSNBC’s Howard Fineman wrote July 22, 2008:
[The] American people may be repelled at the sight of a man touring the planet in presidential style who has yet to even be nominated by his own party. There is something a little off about Obamapalooza, even if it is not entirely the... Read Full Story
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, wrote the following advance copy July 23, 2008:
RAMALLAH—In a meeting here today, Sen. Barack Obama assured the Palestinians he supports a “negotiated settlement” that may grant the Palestinian Authority control over sections of Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian Authority official who took part in the meeting told WND.
“He assured us there was a misunderstanding when he said in [June] he... Read Full Story
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) gaffed again today.
RBO blogger Katmandu reports that Obama told people in Israel that he was on the Senate Banking Committee. Watch.
Problem? Sen. Obama is NOT on the Senate Banking Committee.
Clueless or just a common pathological liar?
Updates:
#1: Jim Geraghty at NRO’s The Campaign Spot writes:
I was going to say that Obama’s statement that the Senate Banking Committee is “my committee” wasn’t that big a deal, and not that surprising from a man who told... Read Full Story
Beethovenqueen has translated another article from that definitely-not-in-the-tank German website TAZ especially for RBO readers:
Berlin dreht sich um Obama (Berlin revolves around Obama)
von (by) Sebastian Heiser and Martin Kaul.
Wenn US-Präsidentschaftsanwärter Barack Obama am Donnerstag vor der Siegessäule seine lang erwartete Rede hält, ist Kritik unerwünscht.
Innerhalb der USA garantiert der erste Verfassungszusatz nahezu uneingeschränkte Redefreiheit. Dort dürfen etwa Neonazis mit... Read Full Story
Remember the brouhaha that ensued in January 2008 after former President Bill Clinton pointed out “there was ‘no difference’ between Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s voting records on Iraq. ‘Give me a break,’ he said. ‘This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen’”?
Too bad President Clinton didn’t include Afghanistan in the “fairy tale” scenario.
The Atantic’s Marc Ambinder provides a partial transcript of last night’s interview by CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric with Sen... Read Full Story
Obama arrived in Israel on July 22, 2008. Today, he “moved through a busy day of meetings” with Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
Samson Altman-Schevitz, the head of the Israel for Obama campaign, “moved to Israel two years ago from Chicago, where Obama’s wife, Michelle, was his adviser at the University of Chicago.”
Obama visits... Read Full Story
RBO guest blogger Katmandu writes:
ABC’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he had learned anything on the trip that would change his mind, and the answer basically was “no.”
But listen to this stunner:
“In terms of — look, there are all kinds of things that I learned,” Obama said. “I think one of the things that was most eye-opening was the extent to which the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan makes it very difficult for our troops, as good as they are, to... Read Full Story
Just call us paranoid here at RBO, but there ARE things that grab our attention—like, for instance, the mention of Kurdistan and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the same sentence.
Gulf News‘ Basil Adas reported July 22, 2008, that, according to Kurdish political sources, U.S. forces “could be stationed permanently in Kurdistan as part of a long-term security agreement.”
The Iraqi government and head of northern Iraq’s regional Kurdish administration, Massoud Barzani, along with the leadership... Read Full Story
The media “love affair” with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) should have evolved past the infatuation stage long, long ago.
Even the least mature of MSM’s political pundits, reporters and bloggers should have figured out by now that sooner or later they have to move beyond the puppy love and dating phase of the relationship and demand something deeper and more meaningful.
In this recent political ad—”The media is in LOVE with Barack”—the John McCain campaign—warning! total ick factor—the MSM... Read Full Story
