A play on names

The images are from DailyKos. Right wing hating on Obama and Clinton. Is anyone surprised by this?

Obama Is Given a Code Name by the Secret Service

Sen. Barack Obama has a new tag: "Renegade."

That's what Secret Service agents are calling the Illinois Democrat, in the time-honored tradition of giving "secret" code names to presidential candidates and other protected dignitaries. As is custom, the Obama moniker reflects something of the man himself (though he might prefer "progressive" or "independent").

Why are they calling Obama a "Renegade"?

Merriam Webster defines renegade as

1) A deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
2) An individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior

What faith has he deserted? What allegiances have been broken? Who has he turned his back on? And what laws has been broken? This sounds like a tactic to distract and cause confusion of the weak minded.

FOX ATTACKS OBAMA

Right Wing Bullshyt!

Obama Behind Closed Doors

The current video presents the erroneous and slanted stories Fox recently ran about Barack Obama. In response, Obama refused to appear on Fox.

Is Hillary coming unraveled?

I have just one thing to say to Hillary don't make this personal. Americans still have the rights to the freedom of choice. How small minded of Hillary. Is this what we can expect from the first woman's president. She may be too emotional for the oval office. I got one eye on Mrs. Clinton.

The battle to be the 2008 Democratic candidate for president went negative Wednesday, as leading contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got into a virtual shouting match. This is a spin by Fox!

The campaigns exchanged heated words after Clinton suggested Obama return funds to Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, who insulted Clinton in a newspaper article.

The Obama Illusion

If anyone thinks Obama is progressive or liberal, it is definitely an illusion.

If the Democrats’ candidate in 2008 is Obama, we can be sure that the right-wing Republican noise machine will denounce the nation’s potential first non-white male president as a dangerous “leftist.” The charge will be absurd, something that will hardly stop numerous people on the portside of the narrow U.S. political spectrum from claiming Obama as a fellow “progressive.” Certain to be encouraged by Obama and his handlers, this confusion will reflect the desperation and myopia that shaky thinking and the limited choices of the U.S. electoral system regularly instill in liberals and some squishy near leftists.

So what sorts of policies and values could one expect from an imagined Obama presidency? There is quite a bit already in Obama’s short national career that has to be placed in the “never mind” category if one is to seriously to believe his claim (cautiously advanced in The Audacity of Hope) to be a “progressive” concerned with “social and economic justice” and global peace.