Cybernauts ho!
A superdelegate Member of Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee (whose vote counts 10,000 times more than yours) says that Barack I don’t need all of you to believe me, just twelve Obama may have ties to terrorists. I shit you not:
Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of Davis’ district, said he understands why Davis is not endorsing Obama and is “skeptical” of the Illinois senator himself.
“Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”
Update: Our local Cybernaut chimes in.
Update 2: Sean says not a superdelegate.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Fred Hobbs isn’t a super-delegate, he’s a member of the Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee, one of 70 or so.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”
There is Ayers, to start with.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Chas – Yeah he announced his campaign from the Ayers house.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Has anyone ever seen a photograph of Barack Obama and Carlos The Jackal standing next to each other?
No?
See.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
No one’s updated me on whether Cybernauts get super-cool helmets or not.
Sean?
June 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Wow.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
ATLien,
I wish…all I get is a pink cowboy hat.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I remember back in ’72 when I was young, politically stupid and a McGovern supporter. There were many Democrats who openly repudiated him…at their convention. There was a group around these parts who called themselves “Democrats for Nixon”. I think good Democrats should now support someone other than Obama….and McCain.
I think it was JFK who said, “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”
June 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ron,
Fun fact, Beverly Briley, David Briley’s Grandfather, was the head of Democrats for Nixon in Nashville.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Sean,
Yes, I do remember that about Mayor Beverly Briley.
Still there are some Democrats who are about as far you can get from Barack Obama politically. From what I know about Lincoln Davis, he’s a prime example: pro-life, pro-gun rights, supports securing our borders and enforcement only for illegal immigration, supports prayer in schools, etc. all totally opposite of Obama. And I think he opposes the internationalist trade agreements (like NAFTA) that supposed “conservatives” like McCain and Bush use to sell us out to globalism and make us dependent on foreign manufacturing.
Democrats like him need to join me in supporting Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.
Confining the political spectrum and discourse to the Democratic and Republican parties is absurd.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
From what I know about Lincoln Davis, he’s a prime example: pro-life, pro-gun rights, supports securing our borders and enforcement only for illegal immigration, supports prayer in schools, etc.
We have a name for that: It’s called “a Republican.”
Confining the political spectrum and discourse to the Democratic and Republican parties is absurd.
Unless and until you replace our current plurality-winner-takes-all electoral system with something more like a parliamentary system, third party support will almost always be futile.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Ho?
June 13th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
You know, like the Thundercats!
June 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
So, Uncle … will you be getting a Sabre Defense lower?
It will make your Thundercats ensemble complete.
June 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
tgirsch,
No, there are also Republicans who do not support defending the right to life for ALL including “our posterity” (Preamble of the Constitution), nor the right to armed self-defense, and like Bush and McCain, they support allowing open borders and forcing the appeasement and accommodation of the invaders on us and many of them (Bush and McCain, like Clinton before) support handing over our national economic sovereignity to international tribunals like NAFTA. And the two parties conspired to go to war in yet another unconstitutional, undeclared war and responded to a terror attack by attacking our rights (Patriot Act) and going toward a more centralized police-state (Homeland Security)
Which makes my point that political things are NOT neatly confined and defined between Republicans and Democrats.
I am increasingly finding myself totally unrepesented by the two party system (except for Ron Paul ) and their accomplices in the corporate media which controls the flow of information and opinion to maintain the false left-right paradigm.