Politicians Category
Politicans and world leaders making news and in the news, and spouting hot air
Obama And The International Get Whitey Bump
FEAR of a black planet:
Michelle and I actually had a conversation about getting whitey at the first annual International Black Get Whitey Conference. It was a wonderful event. All the help was white and everyone treated them really, really badly. There were cupcakes with an image of Farrakhan dribbled on the icing. Delicious!..
After Jeremiah Wright’s invocation damning white people to hell and a complimentary screening of “Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song,” we got down to business…
Of course, there were embarrassing choruses of “Kill Whitey” from the gallery, but in the spirit of Martin Luther King, they were quickly silenced. “After all,” an afro-sporting Condoleeza Rice admonished, “we are not Republicans, for God’s sake.” (Oh yes; she’s been pretending all along. It IS a wig.)
The Jews do the catering…
Posted: 15th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Michelle Obamaa In A White World
THE Boston Globe says Michelle Obama learned to navigate “a white world” while an undergraduate at Princeton…
Posted: 15th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Who The Rest Of The World Wants To Be US President
JOHN McCain is big in Jordan but they want mixed-race Obama in – get this – France:
The survey also finds a widespread belief that U.S. foreign policy “will change for the better” after the inauguration of a new American president next year. Among people who have been following the election, large majorities in France (68%), Spain (67%) and Germany (64%) say that they believe that U.S. foreign policy will improve after the election. This sentiment is also common in the African countries included in the survey – Nigeria (67%), South Africa (66%) and Tanzania (65%).
Yet this belief is far from universal. In Jordan and Egypt, more people who are following the election say they expect new leadership to change U.S. foreign policy for the worse than say they expect a change for the better. Two-thirds of the Japanese (67%) who are following the election say it will not bring about much change in U.S. foreign policy. That is the plurality opinion in Russia and Turkey as well.
Posted: 14th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Newspaper Reaction To David Davis
HOW the newspapers view David Davis’ stance on 42 days, by The Croydonian:
The Sun – “HAS David Davis gone stark raving mad? How else can we explain his silly act of self-styled martyrdom?…This was no noble cause. It was a shabby act of treachery. Mr Davis, a second-rate but ferociously ambitious politician, has not forgiven his rival for thrashing him in the Tory leadership race two years ago“. So the hotline from No 10 to Nws Group still works.
The Mirror – “This brave gamble by a popular politician from a humble background will make him a hero to many and establish him as rival for the Tory crown“. They must really hate / fear Cameron.
Express – No leader comment that I can find. Doubtless there are some micro celebrities in need of attention
Mail – No leader comment that I can find. Quentin Letts likes DD though.
Guardian – “He is right on ID cards, but only on the basis of an excessively sweeping mistrust of the state. The liberty he is concerned with is, almost exclusively, liberty from official interference. There is little place in this conception for freedom from destitution, for example, which only the state can provide“. (C sticks his tongue into his lower lip and makes ‘stupid’ noises)
Independent – “we agree wholeheartedly with the trenchant opposition of the MP for Haltemprice and Howden to “the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms” that has taken place in recent years“. Crikey.
Times – No leader comment. A dull item by Riddell I could not face.
Telegraph – Mixed, but finishes ‘Mr Davis’s resignation may have been reckless, misguided and highly disconcerting for the political establishment – but, driven by principle, it is none the less laudable for that’. If they had got it wrong I would be cancelling it today.
FT.com – “On the substance of these issues Mr Davis has right on his side. Pre-charge detention of up to 42 days remains unjustified: this was apparent all over again in Wednesday’s debate. Similarly, the case for curtailing personal freedoms to introduce ID cards has simply not been made. Too many civil liberties have already been taken away“.
David Davis – at last someone is doing something interesting in politics…
Posted: 14th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2)
Learning To Hate Big Brother’s Alexandra de Gale
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
WHAT does it matter that Osama bin Laden has not been caught and the Germans are playing football without us when we can all rally round and learn to hate Big Brother’s Alex De Gale?
Today’s chance to loathe Alex comes once again in the Mirror, where we lean that she “bullied girls at her old job”.
Talking about Alex’s time in Thomson Directories telesales in Purley, Surrey, Jake Homatas tells the paper: “She made a lot of enemies. She bullied girls or people who can’t carry themselves in conversation. She thrives on intimidation and ran over them verbally.”
Alex’s conversation technique is to affect an air of extreme touchiness and then bang on and on that you breaving her air is a violaytion of her personable spayce. Anyone seeking a right to reply or run is brought up short by Alex’s verbal tic of creating new words.
She is less the product of , as she claims, than someone who has been preparing for Big Brother by listening to the collected thoughts of John Prescott.
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Posted: 14th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
42 Days To Save Lee McQueen, Murdoch’s Sun And Kelvin MacKenzie
MR Gordon Brown, prime minister, is considering the burning issues of the day in the Sun:
Gordon Brown yesterday broke off from the oil crisis and 42-day detention row to speak on Britain’s most hotly debated issue – should Lee McQueen have really won the Apprentice? He took a pause from international politics to share his thoughts on the show…
More on the Brentwood office boy here.
(Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
Is there anything else on Gordon’s mind, like, say, David Davis’ grandstanding on civil liberties? Say Gordon, whose Labour Party might not, er, dignify Davis’ call for a by-election on 42 days detention by fielding a candidate:
Everyone now recognises this is a stunt that has become a farce. At the first test of what their policy is on the big central issue of national security, the Conservative Party are totally divided.”
Yeah, everyone, Like Diane Abbott, Labour MP. But if Labour won’t stand, who will? Why, it’s former Sun editor and current Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie, that man with his finger on the cabbie’s raised pulse. But political campaigns are expensive. How will he pay for his?
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Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Malik Obama Of The Muslim Obamas
THE Obama haters will just love this:
Someone forgot to send Malik Obama the memo. Not to worry, I cannot imagine Barack would disown his brother any more than he would disown his own grandmother, pastor, fellow home buyer, Chicago political mentor or VP search committee chairman (via The Campain Spot at NRO).
Barack Obama’s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.
In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
I Should Cocaine: Carla Bruni Shocks Colombians
THE Colombian cabinet puts much value on popular culture.
Having heard the country’s vice president Francisco Santos opine that Amy Winehouse should be “sent to rehab”, and that Kate Moss should apologise for taking cocaine, the country’s foreign minister says a new song by the wife of the French president is “very painful for Colombia”.
Carla Bruni has recorded her third album on which she is heard to croon: “You are my drug / More deadly than Afghan heroin / More dangerous than white Colombian.”
Colombia’s foreign minister Fernando Araujo says that “coming from the mouth of the wife of the President of France, this type of statement is very painful for Colombia”.
Araujo may choose to call his opposite number in Afghanistan and create an axis of complaint, and a CD file sharing hot line.
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Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (8)
Labour Party To Field Terror Victim Against David Davis
DAVID Davis wants to make 42 days a big issue. And one Labour activist wonders:
Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate – preferably a recently retired senior police officer, or a survivor or relative of a victim of a terrorist attack, to run under the following 5 word candidate description: “Independent – for detaining terrorism suspects”.
– Luck Akehurst Location: Labour Party activist since 1988 – firmly on the moderate wing of the party. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6.
File under beyond parody
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
David Davis Speech For Freedom And Liberty
DAVID Davis is right to say
Now the counter terrorism bill will in all probability be rejected by the House of Lords very firmly. After all, what should they be there for if not to defend Magna Carta.
But because the impetus behind this is essentially political – not security – the government will be tempted to use the Parliament Act to over-rule the Lords. It has no democratic mandate to do this since 42 days was not in its manifesto.
Its legal basis is uncertain to say the least. But purely for political reasons, this government’s going to do that. And because the generic security arguments relied on will never go away – technology, development and complexity and so on, we’ll next see 56 days, 70 days, 90 days.
But in truth, 42 days is just one – perhaps the most salient example – of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms.
And we will have shortly, the most intrusive identity card system in the world.
A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictatorship has, with 1000s of innocent children and a million innocent citizens on it.
We have witnessed an assault on jury trials – that bulwark against bad law and its arbitrary use by the state. Short cuts with our justice system that make our system neither firm not fair.
And the creation of a database state opening up our private lives to the prying eyes of official snoopers and exposing our personal data to careless civil servants and criminal hackers.
The state has security powers to clamp down on peaceful protest and so-called hate laws that stifle legitimate debate – while those who incite violence get off scot-free.
This cannot go on, it must be stopped. And for that reason, I feel that today it’s incumbent on me to take a stand.
I will be resigning my membership of the House and I intend to force a by-election in Haltemprice and Howden.
– David Davis MP
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (12)
Diane Abott On 42 Days And Liberty
DIANE Abott is right:
I do not believe, as Ministers continue to insist, that there is some trade-off between our liberties and the safety of the realm. What makes us free is what makes us safe, and what makes us safe is what will make us free.
They are taking away our liberties…
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
What We Know About Barack Obama
HEREUNDER is what we have come to know about Barack Obama:
Thanks to them, we now know that Obama is a Muslim and a radical leftist — more specifically, a Marxist who idolizes Che Guevara. But we’ve also found out that he’s a fascist who’s like Hitler with a Messiah complex and cult-like supporters.
Additionally, we’ve discovered that Obama’s a racist, elitist snob who is blatantly unpatriotic and hates America and, not surprisingly, is married to someone who hates America even more.
But most disturbingly, it appears that Senator Obama might not be American citizen and is a Manchurian Candidate who’s quite possibly a terrorist.
Oh, and he’s a blood-drinking Jew puppy killer, too…
Posted: 12th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
David Davis Resigns Over 42 Days
WOW: Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP.
He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit.
Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a “noble endeavour” to stop the erosion of British civil liberties.
The 59-year-old is one of the best known Tory MPs and his resignation came as a complete surprise in Westminster.
Vote Davis out or give Brown a boost – Hobson’s Choice…
Posted: 12th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (9)
Madeleine McCann: Why Gordon Brown Did It
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
The Madeleine McCann case is not making much news. But you can still find the missing child being used as a point of reference for lazy hacks looking for context:
DAILY MIRROR: “If I hadn’t been found I would have had a different life –
EXCLUSIVE 20 YEARS ON ..KIDNAP BABY NATALIE”
When she was cruelly snatched aged five months by a woman posing as a store detective, Natalie became Britain’s most famous baby.
That’s Natalie Horrell, in case you’ve forgotten.
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Posted: 12th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (207)
REASONS to like Barack Obama: He Smokes
BARACK Obama smokes, and has smoked cigarettes
ABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama told reporters in St. Louis today that he has fallen off the wagon and smoked cigarettes in the last few months…
Obama has been smoking for years, and his lifetime habit has stunted his growth making him only visible through a magnifying lens.
When needed in public, the real Obama employs a leggy former basketball player, one Nigel Hitler, to repeat his lines word for word and grab the lectern and nod in moments of quiet reflection.
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Posted: 11th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Kevin Maguire And UK Politics Fear Of A Black Man
“WE’RE still a long way from a British Obama?” says the Mirror’s Kevin Maguire, Gordon Brown’s media vessel.
That must be disappointing news for Lord Levy, the former Labour fundraiser, who in reply to the question “Who would you like to see as the next Labour leader?” offers “Barack Obama”.
Says Maguire: “The Democratic US Presidential hopeful [Surely Democrat Party hopeful?] has bypassed rich vested interests by mobilising people, filling his war chest with thousands of small donations from ordinary citizens instead of a few megagifts tied to personal strings.”
He’s no Hillary Rodham Clinton, who lent her own campaign $10,000,000.
True enough that many “ordinary people” have backed Obama with small amounts. Obama’s state Senate campaign received $2,000 from companies controlled by Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the “politically influential Chicago businessman indicted last year on state government kickback charges”. As reported, “Rezko’s additional fundraising helped the rookie candidate set up shop.”
But if it’s not the money – it’s the skin colour that intersts Maguire (white). Maguire wonders if Britain will ever have a black leader.
“Yet the big question is whether Britain will follow suit and [should Obama win the presidential election] and vote a visible ethnic minority Briton into number 10.”
You mean an efnic like Michael Howard, the Jew, the son of a Romanian, who led the Conservative Party at the last election, the man the Mirror compared to Dracular and the Labour Party compared to Fagin?
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Posted: 11th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (10)
Ashley Dupre’s Tutela Valui
ASHLEY Dupre’s – his her – has a new tattoo that reads, in faux Latin: “tutela valui.”
Tutela, which is related to tutor, has to do with a protector or guardian. Valui appears to be a past form of the word strong.
“So I guess you would say it means, ‘I have a strong patron’ or ‘I have a strong keeper,'” said Doug Machle, assistant to the chairman in the classics department at the University of Washington.
“Or, actually, it’s more like, ‘My guardian was strong.'”…
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Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Dennis Kucinich Moves To Impeach Bush
Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles: Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 Democratic candidate for the White House, abandoned a prior attempt to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush in January of this year. In April of 2007, Kucinich presented impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney, but the effort went nowhere. Kucinich exclaimed that “impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran.”
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich defied his party leadership on Monday by calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war — but his move was not expected to go anywhere.
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Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
The McCain Girls Return With McCainiac
THE US Presidential campaign has thrown up some memorable songs. This from the McCain Girls – the McCainiac…
More McCain Girls after the jump:
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Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Clinton’s Women: Gennifer Flower And Paula Jones Talk Cock And Bull
FORMER President Bill Clinton’s alleged former mistresses Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers have gone into business together.
The two started a site callled GenniferandPaula.com. Interested parties can go and pay to watch videos of them talking about their sexual misfortunes with Clinton. Here’s just some of the names of the videos you can purchase:
“Hillary Running For President”
“Paula and the Presidential Penis”
“Gennifer’s Story and the Presidential Penis”
Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Newspapers Investigate Labour And Conservative Sleaze
SLEAZY POLITICAL debate and in the papers:
DAILY MIRROR: Watchdog to look at Spelman expenses”
“The Tory sleaze crisis deepened yesterday,” says the paper. The apparent crisis is that Caroline Spelman, Tory Party secretary, used her child’s nanny to answer calls made to her constituency phone line.
You want more? Can you handle more?
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Posted: 10th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (10)
Stephen Fry Writes Michelle Obama Conspiracy Tape
MICHELLE Obama is on a tape, they say. She makes bad comments, they say. She says bad things, they say.
Only:
In Stephen Frey’s 2006 political thriller The Power Broker, there’s a similar storyline about a certain videotape that could ruin a candidacy. “But behind the scenes, I’ll f*** Whitey, and I’ll f*** him good, I really will.”
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Posted: 9th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Political Quote Of The Day: Jacqui Smith On ID Cards
SAYS the Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP, the Home Secretary, on the matter of Id cards:
I know that ID cards will help me to prove more easily who I am
It’s that incredible…
Spotter: Ed
Posted: 9th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
GMTV Celebrities On Tony Blair
FORMER EastEnders’ actor Joe Absolom tells Teltext that he ducked out of giving Tony Blair a piece of his mind.
The actor said had planned to challenge the former Prime Minister when they appeared together on GMTV. Says he:
“I planned to say to Tony, ‘Why are we in the war?’ But when I met him in the studio I just said, ‘Wotcha, Tony!'”
It’s the wotcha on terror…
Posted: 9th, June 2008 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
