Betcha this is a picture we see over and over again in campaign literature come November. Democratic campaign literature that is.
“Everything I know tells me we need to change course… I am going to defeat Dave Reichert because he will never stop George Bush. But together, we will.”
— Darcy Burner, Westlake Center rally, 6/16/2006
How much did Bush raise for Reichert?
Hey – that’s my title (almost)! Democrats couldn’t have hoped for a better photo op, and this one didn’t cost us $10,000 but Reichert will need many times that much to try to offset the damage such a photo does for him.
Reichert: “Hey, Mr. President, how about one of those presidential reach arounds?”
George:
“only if you come visit my cockpit”
Yes, I see your point, Goldy, but this is the 8th District, not the 7th. How many of those folks at Westlake today actually live (and more importantly) vote in the 8th? I’ll certainly grant you that the 8th has been trending blue, but it’s very much a blueish-redish (middle) district.
I’m saying Burner doesn’t have a shot; but ‘not Reichert’ or ‘not Bush’ gets you 20-25%. The middle 60% that actually decides elections needs and deserves more concrete ideas.
Whoops… me @ 5. I should have said “I’m NOT saying Burner can’t win…far from it”.
Kyle Broflovski – I live and vote in the 8th but work downtown and so I, for one, was a constituent in attendence.
“Heckuva Job Reichy.”
“You too Mr. President, Heckuva job.”
Great fodder for the commercials!
I think some copies of this photo could have a “ghost” image of the flooding in New Orleans in the background. That would say it all.
Here’s one possible caption: “Is this the new version of Texas Hold’Em?”
Well another blow to the cowards, cunts and crooks on the right. MCKINNEY will NOT be indicted. MSNBC is reporting that the DA said no criminal conduct occured. So much for the KKK-loving right wing racists who had hoped to mirror MCKINNEY against a convicted felon like the Dekester serving eight years sucking dick in the big house. NEXT?
the 8th STILL isn’t ready to elect someone from a party who BOOS when told by one of their own that they should support the troops.
(great photo, BTW)
I noticed that Cantwell and Murray voted NOT to have a specific withdrawal date from Iraq, a la what your hero John Kerry wanted. In fact, almost NO senate democrats wanted that. ????????????? I guess this was put up or shut up day in the U.S. Senate.
8th – Huh? What you said implies that a candidate booed when someone told the candidate to support the troops. Firstly Darcy does support the troops, and she didn’t boo anyone. I don’t know any other candidates running that the 8th hasn’t already elected. So basically what you wrote makes no sense.
is THE Rubberstamp Reichert photo that shows him for what he is exactly
Hi Karl !!!
“The first lesson of democracy is not to hold the public in contempt.” – Ronnie Earle
Rubberstamp Reichert (try it again)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” – Robert Capa
the 8th STILL isn’t ready to elect someone from a party who BOOS when told by one of their own that they should support the troops.
(great photo, BTW)
Commentby 8th— 6/16/06@ 5:12 pm
Sounds like you’ve been parroting the Michelle Malkin talking points on Hillary. Read the actual transcript, idiot. They didn’t boo when Hillary said to support the troops, they booed when she said we shouldn’t have a timetable for withdrawal. Don’t be just another right-wing idiot who doesn’t care about facts.
Facts? Facts? We don’t need no steenkin’ facts! .
Re: #14…so ya want a schedule for getting out of Iraq? How about “NOW”? The Bushistas seem to be finally admitting that theirs is “Never”.
They don’t want out of Iraq yet. They haven’t stolen their fill yet!
22
In 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that Iraq has about 78 billion bbls. of oil (http://www.brookings.edu/views.....030512.htm ), in which case we’ve already paid about $4 a barrel for it — without seeing a drop.
23
Stealing another country’s oil by military force is one of the most expensive ways to get it.
24 – Halliburton needs the money to give to Cheney. Right?
I saw the video. Hillary got booed when she told the Take Back folks they ought to support the troops. When they weren’t booing they were just plain very quiet. Where was the wild cheering when Hillary said they should support the troops? Why was everyone so quiet or just plain disgusted when she said this?? THERE WAS NO CHEERING WHEN SHE SAID THAT. This is the party of Darcy Burner. That kind of thing doesn’t play well with mainstrett USA.
..and for that matter, the 8th isn’t ready to vote for a candidate from a party that sells christian fish car magnets with sick-looking eyes, enveloped in flames with the word “HYPOCRITE” splashed across it. This too is the party of Darcy Burner. I know this could come as a shock to you all, but that sort of car magnet put-down scares and turns off Mainstreet USA, too.
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“I noticed that Cantwell and Murray voted NOT to have a specific withdrawal date from Iraq, a la what your hero John Kerry wanted. In fact, almost NO senate democrats wanted that. ?????????????” Commentby 8th— 6/16/06@ 5:13 pm
What it really means is our Senators (and Senate Democrats in general) have more sense than you’ve been giving them credit for.
As I stated in a previous post, a withdrawal timetable is a bad idea for a couple of reasons: One, it tells the enemy what your plans are, and two, it hamstrings military commanders’ tactical flexibility.
The solution to the Iraq quagmire is not an arbitrary withdrawal timetable, but a new commander in chief and defense secretary.
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There are other reasons why our government might try to steal Iraq’s oil — e.g., stupidity.
Mainstreet USA is gonna kick your sorry butt, fella!
I saw the video. Hillary got booed when she told the Take Back folks they ought to support the troops.
Wrong. You saw a doctored clip. You’ve been duped.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/arc.....p?id=24150
31: I see, so you mean to say that not only did they not boo, but the wild cheering for the troops was edited out?????? Did they in fact give a wild whoop for the troops they claim to support??
…or was it in fact the stone-cold silence that we saw when she told them to support the troops??
Most normal people.when asked to support the troops, break out in wild cherring and applause. There was NONE OF THAT at that moment, now, was there?
WHY IS THAT??
@23 Hell, they don’t have to steal the oil. . .they just send suitcases full of money to Iraq and then ‘lose track’ of it. Why screw with drilling, pumping, refining, selling when the re-thugs can just wholesale transfer trunks of money to their own pockets. . . .
“ “What we have to do is define ourselves so that Republicans do not define us. This is a define-or-be-defined business that we’re in, so you can’t leave it out in the open,” Pelosi said.
And what is that vision?
She outlined three areas where Democrats would seek to differentiate themselves from Republicans: integrity, civility and accountability. If Democrats were to take control of the House in November, their first actions would focus on promoting those values, she said.
“These are not full-blown initiatives,” she cautioned.
She also said, “I’m even hard put to say what our agenda will be when we win.”
Not exactly the Contract With America, is it? “
Senator Clinton was never booed for supporting that troops. That’s just a right wing lie by cowardly traitors on the right.
The truth is Bush hates the troops. That’s why he won’t give them body armor. That’s why he cut veteran’s benefits. That’s why he sends them to die for his oil and Cheney’s Halliburton profits.
8th must be Ms. Cynical’s new name. I recognize the pattern of lies. There is no such video. The right is in such bad shape they must lie to try to win but this time it won’t work.
Why is the Democrat candidate for the 8th US Congressional distirct campaigning in Jim McD’s district? Maybe she thinks she could win in that district.
A vote for Dave is a vote for Bush – and a vote against democracy and the U.S. constitution!
I’d like to see Burner stand in the middle of Sammamish with radical leftist Dwight Pelz and all the far-left echo chamber KOS readers, and see how many votes in gets her in THAT part of the 8th district. C’mon, girl, let’s try it.
So, if they’re ‘dying for oil’, why isn’t oil $4 a barrel instead of the $60-$70 range it’s been hovering in?
Please, educate us…
Regarding Halliburton… what OTHER company in this country… or in any country… does exactly what they do and does it as well as they do?
Please educate us…
or maybe your moron.org only gives you salacious tidbits with substantiation.
or maybe your moron.org only gives you salacious tidbits withOUT substantiation.
YOOHOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT… name a direct competitor to Halliburton???
YOOHOOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT…. what’s a barrel of OIL cost today??
So which is hotter, these days—Moveon.org or KOS?
YOOHOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT… name a direct competitor to Halliburton???
YOOHOOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT…. what’s a barrel of OIL cost today??
Iraq is now the site of an “occupation,” not a war. The president and his friends are planning for a long stay.
c’mon, which is hotter–moveon.org or KOS?
Nice photo~
Hey 8th
when ya gonna quit jackin off in the basement & get out into the real world ? Had that 12th birthday yet ?
plain or peanut?
8th,
Did you even read the link I posted? Go listen to the actual audio, and your questions will be answered.
13, 16, 31, 37, 38
It is truly amazing that this person with the screen name “8th” comes here to spread Michelle Malkin’s lies about Hillary Clinton at the “Take Back America” conference, then keeps applying the manure when they get called on it.
8th is the cynical, irrelevant, BOZO for sure.
Sorry, that was 13, 15, 31, 37, 38
Another TJ is absolutely right. Malkin’s altered video filters out everything except a few voices in the crowd whose words are misstated in her text.
A hatchet job right up there with the one done on Howard Dean.
The audio clearly has audience clapping at the time Clinton says to support the troops, with a few people calling out “bring them home.”
After listening to the audio, go back to the torturously cut video and see what absolute liars the bullshit spreader are.
YOOHOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT… name a direct competitor to Halliburton???
YOOHOOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT…. what’s a barrel of OIL cost today??
@5 I live in South Africa, but I vote in both the 7th and 8th districts.
huh?
What that picture say to me is that reichert is for killing terrorists like Zarcawi, he is FOR defending America from terrorists, his is FOR allowing people to keep the money they make, he is FOR a strong economy, he is FOR America.
What liberals show in their sniping remarks is that they are AGAINST the troops, they are AGAINST defending America, they are AGAINST people keeping what they earn, they are AGAINST America.
“Regarding Halliburton… what OTHER company in this country… or in any country… does exactly what they do and does it as well as they do?”
Uhhh….you mean, steal?
You folks need to read Greg Palast’s article about how hard the US has worked for several decades to PREVENT any country from pumping enough oil to threaten the market dominence of the Bush family’s oh-so-dear friends, the Saudis.
We’re no more trying to resuscitate the Iraqui oil industry than we are “spreading democracy” there.
Still waiting for the competitive alternative that performs the job Halliburton does….
YOOHOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT… name a direct competitor to Halliburton???
YOOHOOO… missing-his-LEFTNUT…. what’s a barrel of OIL cost today??
Has anyone asked Darcy what her platform is on pulling the troops out of Iraq? We should be bringing them home right away. And while we are at it, let’s get them out of Afghanistan as well. Everyone knows we are losing against the terrorists wherever we try to fight them. Did we lose our troops in Afghanistan only to see them implement Sharia Law?
I am disgusted at the Democrats that went along with the Rethugs and voted for that stupid resolution.
This insane war has to stop and I will not vote for anyone, even if they are a Democrat unless they pubicly pledge to vote always to bring the troops home. As a progressive, I am really sick and tired of having to defend those Democrats that voted for this war. This election is a good time to force our hand with wishy washy Demcrats who won’t pull the troops out of this costly mistake.
I frankly don’t care anymore if it is a Democrat or not. I am tired of Rethugs in Democrat’s clothing. If our own representatives will not carry our ideas to congress, then what good does it do use to vote Democrat? At least if you vote for Rethugs and are a warmonger, you know what you’re getting. How many of those that voted for all those Democrats who went along with Iraq got what they thought they were voting for?
The only alternative for disaffected progressives is to boycott the scam of an election. Unless our candidate such as Darct are willing to stand up to Bush as she claims and vote for immediate withdrawal, then what’s the point? If jellyfish “Democrats” get elected, how is that different from a Rethug? It is actually worse in many ways because then the stain of this illegal war is on our hands.
I will have no part of it.
Yes, this is exactly the message the Democrats need to have heading into Election 2006. :)
Absolutely! Hope we see it on billboards! Let’s just blow up that pres big time!
RUBBER STAMP REICHERT GETS SLIMED IN PICTURE WITH:
PRESIDENT PROFITS
PRESIDENT PROFITS DISAPPROVAL RATING AT 65%
PHOTO OPS WITH PRESIDENT PROFITS: “PRICELESS” :)
(1) – According to the AP, $800K. That might be enough to pay the lawyers defending him from the Abermoff investigation.
I still haven’t heard quat from Burner on pulling the troops out. Why would we bother going to all this trouble to put another war monger in congress? I mean, if she won’t vote to pull the troops out, then exactly how is she anything other than a rethug in progressive clothing?
I am so damn tired of Democrats who talk the progressive talk but when it comes time to vote, they vote with rethugs for corporate greed, oil grabs and imperialistic wars of agression.
I see no reason a true progressive would vote for Darcy Burner. If I want a corporate shill whose main experience is working for the biggest software company on the planet, I could vote for a Rethug.
Voting for her just because she is not a rethug isn’t good enough for me. Any true progressive would feel the same.
Don’t they both look just precious on this field trip? And the presidential seal is much cuter than the little yellow bus they both were driven up in!