I too am just stunned at Obama wanting to raise the corporate tax rate to 45%. It’s outrageous! How in the world can businesses hire more people when their taxes are going to go up from an already much too high 35% corporate tax rate? Ireland is at 11% and their economy has become one of the top 3 in the world at job production!
Under Obama the United States would be nearly communistic, taking half the profits of a business. Unbelievable!! Terrible!
I heard this tonight, and thought it was very funny! This guy put Colmes to shame. He made his points very clearly and too the point. I thought it was a great interview.
anyone that links Obama to chevez and castro is ok in my book. he gets it. Americians do not understand how easy it is to lose your freedom. Ask the cubans or Chevez subjects. We were fighting a war less than 150 years ago over freedom and rights. It could happen again. The socialists can not take over until the 2nd amendment is destroyed. That will be Obama’s first attack.
Hey, somebody please start a blog drafting Tito for Congress just like Joe The Plumber. We need these people to clean up the politics. Tito is fantastic!
Sarah The Hockey Mom, Joe The Plumber and Tito The Builder, what a lineup of stars!
Isn’t it intersting that the Republicans have turned into a party for small people and the Democrats the party of foul-mouthed Hollywood celebrities and hare-brained ivory tower academics?
Hey, have ya’ll seen that vid on Fox News?
It’s had 11 million hits and it’s amazing.
God Bless that young man – it is short and powerful! A strong support for McCain and what America stands for. I loved it!
Proud to be an American.
Pumas thank you for your great American spirt!
Who Is Barack Obama?? [[And would he even qualify for an FBI security clearance if he were to apply for a routine federal government job??]]
Now that we know every possible detail of Joe the Plumber, maybe it’s time to reflect on the aspects of Obama’s personal and private live that continue to be sheilded from the public, with the assistance of the main-stream media.
Many people are under the mistaken belief that Presidential candidates have gone through an FBI check or some other verification of their background prior to the election process. That is not the case.
The “vetting” is done solely by the electorate, and so far the voters have received only minimal information on Obama, his financial backers, and formative years.
Would OBAMA even qualify for an FBI security clearance if he were to apply for a routine government job (as opposed to running for President)? Now that would be a very interesting story for the media to report. Much more relevant than Joe the Plumber’s tax bill.
Putting aside documents showing his ties to Ayers, ACORN, Frank Marshall Davis (his communist mentor), etc., here are some examples of the information Obama continues to withhold:
* Obama has released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hands, released what he said was his complete medical file totaling more than 1500 pages. After criticism on the matter, last week the Obama campaign also released some routine lab-test results and electrocardiograms for Obama. All test results appeared normal, but many details about his health remain a mystery.
* Obama has refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois, and has been unable to produce correspondence, such as letters from lobbyists and other correspondence from his days in the Illinois state senate. There are also no appointment calendars available of his official activities. “It could have been thrown out,” Obama said while on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary. “I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.”
* Obama has not released his client list as an attorney or his billing records. Obama has maintained that he only performed a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June. But he has not released billing records that would prove this assertion.
* Obama won’t release his college records from Occidental College where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia.
* Obama’s campaign refuses to give Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Such transcripts would list the courses Obama took, and his grades. President George W. Bush, and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry, all released their college transcripts. (McCain has refused to release his Naval Academy transcript.)
* Obama’s college dissertation has simply disappeared from Columbia Universities archives. In July, in response to a flurry of requests to review Obama’s senior thesis at the Ivy League school, reportedly titled “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told NBC News “We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University.”
* The senator has not agreed to the release of his application to the Illinois state bar, which would clear up intermittent allegations that his application to the bar may have been inaccurate.
* Jim Geraghty of the National Review has written extensively about Obama’s unwillingness to release records related to clients he represented while he was an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Gallard. Obama was required to list his clients during his years in the Illinois senate. “Obama listed every client of the firm,” Geraghty reported, making it impossible to discern which clients he represented.
* Obama has never released records from his time at Harvard Law School.
* Obama also has not disclosed the names of small donors giving $200 or less to his campaign. An exception to the finance-reporting laws exempts the campaign from reporting those who donate less than $200, but that law never envisioned the more than $300 million that has been raised by Obama in small amounts. The Republican National Committee has released its small donors, as well as McCain’s, on a public database.
* International travel records, including those showing why he was able to travel into Pakistan during a time when U.S. Passport holders were not admitted.
Somebody send this Tito video to Rush! In three hours of broadcast time, he could play it over and over again. Our latinos/latinas REALLY need to hear Tito out here in California! I loved it when he said Obama thinks working people are stupid! Yeah, they are stupid like a fox!
Tito was terrific-on point and he demolished Kool Aide Colmes. It was a thing of beauty. He gets it, it’s easy for those of us born here to take our freedoms for granted.
Friday, October 31, 2008
A Hillary Staffer Comes Clean ….. it’s wild
What we are in for …………… read every word:
What you were never intended to know in this election Redstate via Israpundit
After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided into the right direction. First, a little personal background… I am a female grad student in my 20’s, and a registered Democrat. During the primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy. I believed in her and still do, staying all the way to the bitter end. And believe me, it was bitter. The snippets you’ve heard from various media outlets only grazed the surface. There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival. As a part of his overall effort to extend an olive branch to the Clinton camp and her supporters, Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign. I was one such worker. Though I was still bitterly loyal to Hillary, I still held out hope that he would choose her as VP. In fact, there was a consensus among us transplants that in the end, he HAD to choose her. It was the only logical choice. I also was committed to the Democratic cause and without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator Obama.
I’m going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I’m doing this because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama. Another reason for my doing this is that I am lost faith in this campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in this country. Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other side, not hope. I’ve come to the realization (as the campaign already has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn’t have a chance. His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and this scares us more than anything. Being in a position to know these things, I will rate what the Obama campaign already knows are their weak links from the most important on down.
1 – Hillary voters. Internal polling suggests that at best, we are taking 70-75% of these voters. Other estimates are as low as 60% in some areas – particularly Ohio and western PA. My biggest problem with this campaign’s strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have campaigned enthusiastically for it. This selection would have also brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold, and the Obama campaign knew it. Though I have no way of knowing this for certain, and I do admit that I am relying on internal gossip, Senator Obama actually went against the advice of his top advisors. They wanted him to choose her, but the only significant opposition to this within the campaign came from Barack and Michelle Obama. In short, he let personal feelings take precedence over what was the most logical thing to do. Biden, by the way, has been a disaster inside the campaign. Everyone cringes whenever he gives an interview, and he creates so many headaches as the campaign has to stay on their toes in order to disseminate information and spin whatever it was he was trying to say.
2 – Sarah Palin. Don’t believe what the media is telling you about how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggest that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the base for McCain. Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the “Quayle treatment”, or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of them. Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Though through our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle. She has singlehanded solidified “soft” Republican support, mobilized the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.
3 – Obama’s radical connections. Standards operating procedure has been to cry “racism” whenever one of these has been brought up. We even have a detailed strategy ready to go should McCain ever bring Rev. Wright up. Though by themselves they are of minimal worth, taken together, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfelger, and now, Rashid Khalili, are exactly what the campaign does not need. The more focus on them, the more this election becomes a referendum on Obama. The campaign strategy from the very beginning was to make this election a referendum on Bush. Strategists have been banging their head on how successfully McCain has distanced himself from Bush. This has worked, and right now the tide is in his favor. People are taking a new look at Barack Obama, and our experience when this happens tells us this is not good news at all. When they take a look at him, one or more of these names are bound to be brought up. McCain has wisely not harped on this in recent weeks and let voters decide for themselves. This was a trap we set for him, and he never fully took the bait. Senator Obama openly dared him to bring up Ayers. This was not due to machismo on the part of Obama, but actually due to campaign strategy. Though McCain’s reference to Ayers fell flat in the last debate, people in the Obama campaign were actually disappointed that he didn’t follow through on it more and getting into it. Our focus groups found this out: When McCain brings these connections up, voters are turned off to him. They’d rather take this into consideration themselves, and when this happens, our numbers begin to tank.
4 – The Bradley Effect. Don’t believe these polls for a second. I just went over our numbers and found that we have next to no chance in the following states: Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada. Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but is too close to call it for him. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa are the true “toss up states”. The only two of these the campaign feels “confident” in are Iowa and New Mexico. The reason for such polling discrepancy is the Bradley Effect, and this is a subject of much discussion in the campaign. In general, we tend to take a -10 point percentage in allowing for this, and are not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark. This is why we are still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania! This is why Ohio is such a desperate hope for us! What truly bothers this campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% “refuse to respond” result. You can’t possibly include these into the polls. The truth is, people are afraid to let people know who they are voting for. The vast majority of these respondents are McCain supporters. Obama is the “hip” choice, and we all know it.
As part of my research duties, I scour right wing blogs and websites to get somewhat of a “feel” as to what is being talked about on the other side. Much of it is nonsense, but there are some exceptions which give the campaign jitters. A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com. Don’t you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign’s sole strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all of this. If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book. How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all starts with the media “buzz” which has been generated over the campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game, and how many new voters were registered. None of this happens by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.
Go read it. I am telling it folks, it is ours …………… no normal person is going to elect the Mansorian candidate. Obama is a plant. Now get out the vote — we have massive voter fraud to overrcome.
Viva Tito! Not only do I want this man drafted to run for Congress, I want him to be Speaker of the House. Press conferences with those shades and that iron logic? Too cool. :D
(Especially if the video catches Pelosi pushing a broom in the background…)
j.w. can you provide a link to where this article came from? I looked at redstate and instapundit and could not find. This all sounds so real and exactly right.
As a conservative Christian, I am with the PUMAs and Hillary supporters urging everyone to do as hillbuzz says..ignore the media and get out and VOTE!
After Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder I am changing my name from TerryV to Terry the Fireman. After 30 years as a FF, I want to join the Avg. Joes turn this country around.
Hey HillBuzz, got any hot photos of Fire Fighters in your file?
J.W. you are so correct! I was speaking to a person in Canada yesterday about a business issue. That person, a resident in a “Liberal” country, suggested perhaps, its not a bad thing that some Americans can’t come back across the border without special ID. Maybe we would want to stay up there come Wednesday morning.
mmm, I thought. Maybe I will. This is not the America I love anymore. I will not live in a socialist country.
It is so encouraging to read the posts of people who have always fought for candidates on the other side of the isle saying things I agree with. Thank you for sharing your site with us.
[...] On that note, I want to end it with Tito the Builder, who’s gave a very memorable interview last night on Hannity & Colmes. What I love about Tito is that he is a Latino that echoes everything I’ve heard Latinos in Tampa, Orlando and Miami say about Obama throught the months of the primaries and during the GE (remember last SUSA poll said 52% of Floridian Latinos are voting for McCain). So grab your tacita of Café Bustelo and enjoy (h/t HillBuzz) [...]
God bless Tito! This is going to have a HUGE impact on this race if it can spread quickly. I live in Florida, and there was a fairly large Cuban representation at a recent Palin rally. Obama is making the false assumption that he’s got that voter group wrapped up.
People always say that elections can turn on a dime…who would have ever thought that Joe and Tito would carry the McCain – Palin ticket over the finish line first?
Now, get out there and VOTE!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE MEDIA DRIBBLE THIS LAST WEEKEND. TELL OBAMA AND HIS TEAM THAT THIS COUNTRY IS NOT FOR SALE:)
{{There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival.}}
Once Obama did not choose Hillary for VP is when I think her endorsement and support should have stopped and she should have begun showing Obama for who he truly is. I think if she truly believes he is a danger to the safety of this nation she should be helping to expose it. I think if she has evidence that he has run a corrupt, dirty handed campaign she should expose it. When she runs in 2012 the voters will remember. Did she help elect a candidate that could be the biggest harm this country has ever seen or did she show integrity and stand up to The One, the media, and the people in her own party in the interest of this country? I’m afraid her endorsement of Obama, in hopes of furthering her political career, will come back to bite her in the butt.
Wow! A guy who does sit down media interviews in sunglasses. Hmmm. That’s not odd at all. Is it?
It’s so sad to see how far pumas have fallen. Democrats will deal a crushing blow to the Bush politics that have taken this country down a dark dark path. It will be forever remembered that the PUMAS went down with them.
#1, Friendly FYI, Shades are for an eye affliction; involuntarily blinks in bright light. His heart and soul are shining tho’. Agreed? Joe the Vet, Teacher, Granpa (6). McPalin ‘08.
This is the most incomprehensible argument that I have ever heard. Tito has no idea what he is talking about. McCain is the one that brought Joe into the limelight by mentioning him a gazillion times (despite that the fact that Joe owes back taxes, is not a real plumber, and lied about how much money he would earn).
Any Hillary supporting turning against Obama is just a sore loser. Get over it. She lost fair and square. More people voted for Obama. Hillary is over it, stop being babies and do the same. After Obama stomps McCain on Tuesday, you will realize that the American people have spoken — and you crazed, bitter fanatics will see that we have elected the best candidate to erase the tragedy of the last 8 years. hope you guys wake up.
this clip is ridiculous. Tito is an idiot. Wake up, hillary voters. don’t be bitter cause your candidate lost a fair election. Had Hillary won, I would have supported her. But she lost. More people voted for Obama. Get over it.
The natural second choice for a true Hillary voter is McCain, Palin, who share their values. THERE’S NOTHING TO ‘GET OVER,’ You seem to have a hard time understanding this. Too much kool-aid?
October 30, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Rockin! I love those shades.
I too am just stunned at Obama wanting to raise the corporate tax rate to 45%. It’s outrageous! How in the world can businesses hire more people when their taxes are going to go up from an already much too high 35% corporate tax rate? Ireland is at 11% and their economy has become one of the top 3 in the world at job production!
Under Obama the United States would be nearly communistic, taking half the profits of a business. Unbelievable!! Terrible!
October 30, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Man, Tito the Builder has got some fire in his soul. He is a fighter. God Bless this working class Populist movement that Palin has ignited.
Go PUMAS
Sarah, you Go girl.
Nice work HillBuzz.
I am sending you some money.
October 30, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I heard this tonight, and thought it was very funny! This guy put Colmes to shame. He made his points very clearly and too the point. I thought it was a great interview.
October 30, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Yeah for the working man! They have changed this race!
October 30, 2008 at 11:16 pm
anyone that links Obama to chevez and castro is ok in my book. he gets it. Americians do not understand how easy it is to lose your freedom. Ask the cubans or Chevez subjects. We were fighting a war less than 150 years ago over freedom and rights. It could happen again. The socialists can not take over until the 2nd amendment is destroyed. That will be Obama’s first attack.
October 30, 2008 at 11:17 pm
How can we get this clip out to the fine Latino community that is being scammed by Obama’s thugs? Tito was just perfect, what a clip.
October 30, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Hey, somebody please start a blog drafting Tito for Congress just like Joe The Plumber. We need these people to clean up the politics. Tito is fantastic!
Sarah The Hockey Mom, Joe The Plumber and Tito The Builder, what a lineup of stars!
Isn’t it intersting that the Republicans have turned into a party for small people and the Democrats the party of foul-mouthed Hollywood celebrities and hare-brained ivory tower academics?
October 30, 2008 at 11:24 pm
He made Colmes look like a bigger fool then he already is. Allen, do is all a favor and shut the hell up, your not fooling anyone
October 30, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Hey, have ya’ll seen that vid on Fox News?
It’s had 11 million hits and it’s amazing.
God Bless that young man – it is short and powerful! A strong support for McCain and what America stands for. I loved it!
Proud to be an American.
Pumas thank you for your great American spirt!
October 30, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Tito did great. Who is that Allan guy?
October 30, 2008 at 11:38 pm
“…raise the corporate tax rate to 45%.”
Now who do think will ending up paying that?
A. Consumers
B. Consumers
C. Consumers
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October 30, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Amo a Tito! XOXOXO
I love Tito!
October 30, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Viva Tito!
October 30, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Go, Tito, Go! Well said, man.
I love how these working men (and women — we need some of them to represent, too!) are harangued and asked about policy.
Tito was fine on policy, but he called out the media on their pro-Obama bias. Not on the policy.
But let’s stone Tito! Let’s see if he can know the ivory tower academia of the “Bush Doctrine,” too! Talk POLICY, you “builder!”
They adroitly avoid the elephant in the room: media bias, and the cover-ups for Obama.
Americans are sick of it. And this is why McCain-Palin will win.
PUMA POWER! AMERICANS for AMERICA UNITE, regardless of party!
October 31, 2008 at 12:16 am
Who Is Barack Obama?? [[And would he even qualify for an FBI security clearance if he were to apply for a routine federal government job??]]
Now that we know every possible detail of Joe the Plumber, maybe it’s time to reflect on the aspects of Obama’s personal and private live that continue to be sheilded from the public, with the assistance of the main-stream media.
Many people are under the mistaken belief that Presidential candidates have gone through an FBI check or some other verification of their background prior to the election process. That is not the case.
The “vetting” is done solely by the electorate, and so far the voters have received only minimal information on Obama, his financial backers, and formative years.
Would OBAMA even qualify for an FBI security clearance if he were to apply for a routine government job (as opposed to running for President)? Now that would be a very interesting story for the media to report. Much more relevant than Joe the Plumber’s tax bill.
Putting aside documents showing his ties to Ayers, ACORN, Frank Marshall Davis (his communist mentor), etc., here are some examples of the information Obama continues to withhold:
* Obama has released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hands, released what he said was his complete medical file totaling more than 1500 pages. After criticism on the matter, last week the Obama campaign also released some routine lab-test results and electrocardiograms for Obama. All test results appeared normal, but many details about his health remain a mystery.
* Obama has refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois, and has been unable to produce correspondence, such as letters from lobbyists and other correspondence from his days in the Illinois state senate. There are also no appointment calendars available of his official activities. “It could have been thrown out,” Obama said while on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary. “I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.”
* Obama has not released his client list as an attorney or his billing records. Obama has maintained that he only performed a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June. But he has not released billing records that would prove this assertion.
* Obama won’t release his college records from Occidental College where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia.
* Obama’s campaign refuses to give Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Such transcripts would list the courses Obama took, and his grades. President George W. Bush, and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry, all released their college transcripts. (McCain has refused to release his Naval Academy transcript.)
* Obama’s college dissertation has simply disappeared from Columbia Universities archives. In July, in response to a flurry of requests to review Obama’s senior thesis at the Ivy League school, reportedly titled “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told NBC News “We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University.”
* The senator has not agreed to the release of his application to the Illinois state bar, which would clear up intermittent allegations that his application to the bar may have been inaccurate.
* Jim Geraghty of the National Review has written extensively about Obama’s unwillingness to release records related to clients he represented while he was an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Gallard. Obama was required to list his clients during his years in the Illinois senate. “Obama listed every client of the firm,” Geraghty reported, making it impossible to discern which clients he represented.
* Obama has never released records from his time at Harvard Law School.
* Obama also has not disclosed the names of small donors giving $200 or less to his campaign. An exception to the finance-reporting laws exempts the campaign from reporting those who donate less than $200, but that law never envisioned the more than $300 million that has been raised by Obama in small amounts. The Republican National Committee has released its small donors, as well as McCain’s, on a public database.
* International travel records, including those showing why he was able to travel into Pakistan during a time when U.S. Passport holders were not admitted.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_secrecy/2008/10/22/143157.html
October 31, 2008 at 12:19 am
Tito the Media Bitch Slapper in the house.
October 31, 2008 at 12:23 am
Somebody send this Tito video to Rush! In three hours of broadcast time, he could play it over and over again. Our latinos/latinas REALLY need to hear Tito out here in California! I loved it when he said Obama thinks working people are stupid! Yeah, they are stupid like a fox!
You GO, Tito! Mucho gracias!
October 31, 2008 at 12:28 am
Why is Alan Colmes such an idiot? I cannot watch that show because I cannot stand that man. He comes off as someone having an IQ of nothing.
Go Tito! Go McCain and Palin.
October 31, 2008 at 12:52 am
Tito was terrific-on point and he demolished Kool Aide Colmes. It was a thing of beauty. He gets it, it’s easy for those of us born here to take our freedoms for granted.
October 31, 2008 at 12:59 am
Friday, October 31, 2008
A Hillary Staffer Comes Clean ….. it’s wild
What we are in for …………… read every word:
What you were never intended to know in this election Redstate via Israpundit
After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided into the right direction. First, a little personal background… I am a female grad student in my 20’s, and a registered Democrat. During the primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy. I believed in her and still do, staying all the way to the bitter end. And believe me, it was bitter. The snippets you’ve heard from various media outlets only grazed the surface. There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival. As a part of his overall effort to extend an olive branch to the Clinton camp and her supporters, Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign. I was one such worker. Though I was still bitterly loyal to Hillary, I still held out hope that he would choose her as VP. In fact, there was a consensus among us transplants that in the end, he HAD to choose her. It was the only logical choice. I also was committed to the Democratic cause and without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator Obama.
I’m going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I’m doing this because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama. Another reason for my doing this is that I am lost faith in this campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in this country. Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other side, not hope. I’ve come to the realization (as the campaign already has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn’t have a chance. His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and this scares us more than anything. Being in a position to know these things, I will rate what the Obama campaign already knows are their weak links from the most important on down.
1 – Hillary voters. Internal polling suggests that at best, we are taking 70-75% of these voters. Other estimates are as low as 60% in some areas – particularly Ohio and western PA. My biggest problem with this campaign’s strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have campaigned enthusiastically for it. This selection would have also brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold, and the Obama campaign knew it. Though I have no way of knowing this for certain, and I do admit that I am relying on internal gossip, Senator Obama actually went against the advice of his top advisors. They wanted him to choose her, but the only significant opposition to this within the campaign came from Barack and Michelle Obama. In short, he let personal feelings take precedence over what was the most logical thing to do. Biden, by the way, has been a disaster inside the campaign. Everyone cringes whenever he gives an interview, and he creates so many headaches as the campaign has to stay on their toes in order to disseminate information and spin whatever it was he was trying to say.
2 – Sarah Palin. Don’t believe what the media is telling you about how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggest that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the base for McCain. Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the “Quayle treatment”, or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of them. Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Though through our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle. She has singlehanded solidified “soft” Republican support, mobilized the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.
3 – Obama’s radical connections. Standards operating procedure has been to cry “racism” whenever one of these has been brought up. We even have a detailed strategy ready to go should McCain ever bring Rev. Wright up. Though by themselves they are of minimal worth, taken together, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfelger, and now, Rashid Khalili, are exactly what the campaign does not need. The more focus on them, the more this election becomes a referendum on Obama. The campaign strategy from the very beginning was to make this election a referendum on Bush. Strategists have been banging their head on how successfully McCain has distanced himself from Bush. This has worked, and right now the tide is in his favor. People are taking a new look at Barack Obama, and our experience when this happens tells us this is not good news at all. When they take a look at him, one or more of these names are bound to be brought up. McCain has wisely not harped on this in recent weeks and let voters decide for themselves. This was a trap we set for him, and he never fully took the bait. Senator Obama openly dared him to bring up Ayers. This was not due to machismo on the part of Obama, but actually due to campaign strategy. Though McCain’s reference to Ayers fell flat in the last debate, people in the Obama campaign were actually disappointed that he didn’t follow through on it more and getting into it. Our focus groups found this out: When McCain brings these connections up, voters are turned off to him. They’d rather take this into consideration themselves, and when this happens, our numbers begin to tank.
4 – The Bradley Effect. Don’t believe these polls for a second. I just went over our numbers and found that we have next to no chance in the following states: Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada. Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but is too close to call it for him. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa are the true “toss up states”. The only two of these the campaign feels “confident” in are Iowa and New Mexico. The reason for such polling discrepancy is the Bradley Effect, and this is a subject of much discussion in the campaign. In general, we tend to take a -10 point percentage in allowing for this, and are not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark. This is why we are still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania! This is why Ohio is such a desperate hope for us! What truly bothers this campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% “refuse to respond” result. You can’t possibly include these into the polls. The truth is, people are afraid to let people know who they are voting for. The vast majority of these respondents are McCain supporters. Obama is the “hip” choice, and we all know it.
As part of my research duties, I scour right wing blogs and websites to get somewhat of a “feel” as to what is being talked about on the other side. Much of it is nonsense, but there are some exceptions which give the campaign jitters. A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com. Don’t you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign’s sole strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all of this. If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book. How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all starts with the media “buzz” which has been generated over the campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game, and how many new voters were registered. None of this happens by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.
Go read it. I am telling it folks, it is ours …………… no normal person is going to elect the Mansorian candidate. Obama is a plant. Now get out the vote — we have massive voter fraud to overrcome.
October 31, 2008 at 1:10 am
Viva Tito! Not only do I want this man drafted to run for Congress, I want him to be Speaker of the House. Press conferences with those shades and that iron logic? Too cool. :D
(Especially if the video catches Pelosi pushing a broom in the background…)
McCain-Palin ‘08!
October 31, 2008 at 1:47 am
Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder, Sarah the Hockey Mom. I love them all. They sound like a “straight” version of “The Villiage People”.
October 31, 2008 at 2:43 am
“Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder, Sarah the Hockey Mom. I love them all. They sound like a “straight” version of “The Villiage People”.”
Haha…They are REAL Americans, not manufactured politicians, built to order by foreigners and domestic terrorists, like O!
The groundswell is coming, and it is trampling obama and his enablers
October 31, 2008 at 7:15 am
j.w Says:
October 31, 2008 at 12:59 am
j.w. can you provide a link to where this article came from? I looked at redstate and instapundit and could not find. This all sounds so real and exactly right.
As a conservative Christian, I am with the PUMAs and Hillary supporters urging everyone to do as hillbuzz says..ignore the media and get out and VOTE!
Just love you guys [gals?] site!
October 31, 2008 at 7:46 am
After Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder I am changing my name from TerryV to Terry the Fireman. After 30 years as a FF, I want to join the Avg. Joes turn this country around.
Hey HillBuzz, got any hot photos of Fire Fighters in your file?
October 31, 2008 at 7:48 am
Yo Soy Tito!
October 31, 2008 at 8:03 am
J.W. you are so correct! I was speaking to a person in Canada yesterday about a business issue. That person, a resident in a “Liberal” country, suggested perhaps, its not a bad thing that some Americans can’t come back across the border without special ID. Maybe we would want to stay up there come Wednesday morning.
mmm, I thought. Maybe I will. This is not the America I love anymore. I will not live in a socialist country.
Fast and pray people. Fast and pray!
October 31, 2008 at 8:26 am
It is so encouraging to read the posts of people who have always fought for candidates on the other side of the isle saying things I agree with. Thank you for sharing your site with us.
October 31, 2008 at 9:15 am
[...] On that note, I want to end it with Tito the Builder, who’s gave a very memorable interview last night on Hannity & Colmes. What I love about Tito is that he is a Latino that echoes everything I’ve heard Latinos in Tampa, Orlando and Miami say about Obama throught the months of the primaries and during the GE (remember last SUSA poll said 52% of Floridian Latinos are voting for McCain). So grab your tacita of Café Bustelo and enjoy (h/t HillBuzz) [...]
October 31, 2008 at 9:24 am
God bless Tito! This is going to have a HUGE impact on this race if it can spread quickly. I live in Florida, and there was a fairly large Cuban representation at a recent Palin rally. Obama is making the false assumption that he’s got that voter group wrapped up.
People always say that elections can turn on a dime…who would have ever thought that Joe and Tito would carry the McCain – Palin ticket over the finish line first?
Now, get out there and VOTE!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE MEDIA DRIBBLE THIS LAST WEEKEND. TELL OBAMA AND HIS TEAM THAT THIS COUNTRY IS NOT FOR SALE:)
October 31, 2008 at 10:50 am
{{There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival.}}
Once Obama did not choose Hillary for VP is when I think her endorsement and support should have stopped and she should have begun showing Obama for who he truly is. I think if she truly believes he is a danger to the safety of this nation she should be helping to expose it. I think if she has evidence that he has run a corrupt, dirty handed campaign she should expose it. When she runs in 2012 the voters will remember. Did she help elect a candidate that could be the biggest harm this country has ever seen or did she show integrity and stand up to The One, the media, and the people in her own party in the interest of this country? I’m afraid her endorsement of Obama, in hopes of furthering her political career, will come back to bite her in the butt.
October 31, 2008 at 11:07 am
Wow! A guy who does sit down media interviews in sunglasses. Hmmm. That’s not odd at all. Is it?
It’s so sad to see how far pumas have fallen. Democrats will deal a crushing blow to the Bush politics that have taken this country down a dark dark path. It will be forever remembered that the PUMAS went down with them.
October 31, 2008 at 12:20 pm
#1, Friendly FYI, Shades are for an eye affliction; involuntarily blinks in bright light. His heart and soul are shining tho’. Agreed? Joe the Vet, Teacher, Granpa (6). McPalin ‘08.
October 31, 2008 at 1:11 pm
If you think Obama is a socialist I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
October 31, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Go Joe
Go Tito
Go Sarah
John – try to keep up! (all due respect)
November 1, 2008 at 10:30 am
“Please don’t pretend Americans are stupid.” Amen , brother! What a joke Colmes was as he tried to make the case the MSM has been unbiased.
November 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm
This is the most incomprehensible argument that I have ever heard. Tito has no idea what he is talking about. McCain is the one that brought Joe into the limelight by mentioning him a gazillion times (despite that the fact that Joe owes back taxes, is not a real plumber, and lied about how much money he would earn).
Any Hillary supporting turning against Obama is just a sore loser. Get over it. She lost fair and square. More people voted for Obama. Hillary is over it, stop being babies and do the same. After Obama stomps McCain on Tuesday, you will realize that the American people have spoken — and you crazed, bitter fanatics will see that we have elected the best candidate to erase the tragedy of the last 8 years. hope you guys wake up.
November 1, 2008 at 3:46 pm
this clip is ridiculous. Tito is an idiot. Wake up, hillary voters. don’t be bitter cause your candidate lost a fair election. Had Hillary won, I would have supported her. But she lost. More people voted for Obama. Get over it.
November 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Silly,
The natural second choice for a true Hillary voter is McCain, Palin, who share their values. THERE’S NOTHING TO ‘GET OVER,’ You seem to have a hard time understanding this. Too much kool-aid?