Seeing How the Other Half Lives
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Dean Reynolds, CBS News, October 7, 2008
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Behind the scenes, where the public is not allowed, there are other differences.
Obama’s campaign schedule is fuller, more hectic and seemingly improvisational. The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about. Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it’s all for security reasons.
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The national headquarters in Chicago airily dismisses complaints from journalists wondering why a schedule cannot be printed up or at least e-mailed in time to make coverage plans. Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. {snip}
The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who’ve been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama’s past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.
Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he’s just said. It’s made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
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(Posted on October 9, 2008)
Comments
Three words: no executive experience. Obama hasn’t run so much as a Boy Scout Troop.
If he were white one of his mentors would have taken him aside and told him to talk a little less, and do a lot more.
I may be a dopey liberal, but I’m not brain dead.
Posted by Guilty Liberal at 5:20 PM on October 9
His airplane smells? This is supposed to be unusual? Brings to mind the line from the South African consulate employee in Lethal Weapon 2, when he meets Danny Glover’s character for the first time —— “But, but,…..he’s black!” You can usually tell how a man will run the country by how his airplane smells.
Posted by gemalo at 5:40 PM on October 9
Could the condition of Obamas charter flights be a glimpse into how the nation will be run if he is elected? This isn’t meant to be a deep question, just a result of free association.
Posted by Bobby at 5:52 PM on October 9
“The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time”
The Whitehouse is probably going to smell soon too.
It will end up being the off-Whitehouse.
On a side note, on the news last night there was a piece showing Obama campaign workers going door to door in Pennsylvania soliciting support and I couldn’t help but notice it was a natural looking red haired woman and an African-American male.
The NWO is knocking on the door.
Posted by Gen X in Oz at 6:01 PM on October 9
It comes down to respect for others.
Clinton was the same as Obama when it came to being less than punctual, helpful, and hygienic. For those who have lambasted Barry boy for being nothing more than a third term for Bubba, the comparisons are striking.
Many used to refer to Clinton’s White House staff as “the children” and it sounds as if this bunch wouldn’t be any different albeit of a different hue.
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 6:09 PM on October 9
When you celebrate an ideology that leads to substandard performance and undesirable results then you get what we have here.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 6:35 PM on October 9
We see this type of planning, organization and future-time-orientation wherever Africans are, be it Africa, Jamaica, Brazil, Detroit, or with the Obama retinue. Expect to see similar results in Washington D.C. after Obama is elected.
Have you been frustrated by government inefficiency in the past? Ha, Ha! just wait. You haven’t seen anything, my boy.
Posted by at 6:43 PM on October 9
“The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.”
Well, it’s no surprise. It seems that black areas and assets always turn out to be in need of severe maintenance, and, yes, there’s usually an odor also.
Posted by ice at 7:41 PM on October 9
I recall that when Obama and Hillary were campaigning in Northwest Indiana and making appearances at local restaurants, the local newspaper, which normally fawns over Obama, complained that they were shunted off into back room and not allowed contact with the candidate. However, even if Obama continues to tick off the MSM, I don’t expect that to affect their normal fawning coverage of him. With any other candidate it might, but not Obama.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 8:00 PM on October 9
So here we go. The truth is starting to drip out.
We all know someone who has a black friend and use that to justify the black mentality and culture. My reply: How many times have you ate dinner at your black friend’s house? Have you lived with your black friend and his family for a month?
We all have faces. When you LIVE with or in a different culture, you learn there are HUGE differences that cannot be seen, heard, or felt watching TV or reading a PC book. THAT is the failure of the White Man, he does NOT know that there are HUGE differences between Blacks, Chinese, and other races and cultures. Thanks to American education.
All White Men should be required to live in Africa or China for one year, not in an expat enviroment, but in the middle class. THEN they will appreciate White Culture, White History, and White thinking.
Sherwood Smith
GuangZhou, China
Posted by Sherwood Smith at 8:24 PM on October 9
Geez, if that is how BHO threats the fawning media, I hate to see how he treats people he cannot stand- like white people.
Posted by flyingtiger at 9:30 PM on October 9
This is simply a portend of what’s to come if that black wins. America will become like Rhodesia or South Africa, a dysfunctional hellhole that’s as chaotic and disorganized as Obama’s campaign. The first black president is the first step toward our doom. They just don’t have the intelligence or ability to lead and maintain any large organization.
George Manuelian
Atherton, CA
Posted by at 10:07 PM on October 9
C.P.T. baby (thats colored peoples time) for those not in the know.
Here in aztlan capital, once known as L.A. I have been working with blacks for over 30 years in the trucking industry.
As part owner of a small trucking company it was my privilage
to interview many blacks. Some of them I hired.
One person was supposed to show up for work. His start time was at 8:00 am on a wednesday, he showed up at 7;00 trying to make a good impression. The problem was that he showed up the wrong day,tuesday the day before. The next day on he didn’t show up at all. No show no call. Never heard from him again.
This coupled with constant lateness, drugs, theft and bad attitude made it seem like a anthropological study gone completely awry.
Before all the White folks left we could get decent employees.
After the exodus the employee pool consisted of blacks and hispanics. We soon sold the business. Too much trouble.
I just wanted to share this little slice of heaven with my fellow amren readers.
Posted by lost in aztlan at 10:45 PM on October 9
Funny that the mainstream press doesn’t say any of this. Rather there is some whining about how McCain can be rude when lazy reporters ask him to repeat what he wrote in his books.
Posted by at 12:49 AM on October 10
If I didn’t know better I would swear this was a satire piece. Once again we see those nasty old stereotypes are based more in truth than any “right thinking” American would dare admit. The terrible smell of the plane just puts the whole story over the top…
Posted by HH at 1:53 AM on October 10
This is very peculiar, since we’ve read regularly (and I’ve believed it) that the media lavishly favors and indulges their pet, Obama. And yet, according to this, Obama treats the media like dirt. It just doesn’t figure.
Posted by voter at 2:24 AM on October 10
I worked at a black run business. Figured how bad could it be. Boy, did I get an education. And how.
Posted by at 3:38 AM on October 10
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until Obama, Michelle and their 2 kids move into the White House.
Posted by Gayle Sollenberger at 9:27 AM on October 10
You realize we’re looking at a democratic president, congress, senate, judicial system, and media all acting in unison to bring state sponsored authoritarian modern liberal persecution madness down upon our heads if Obama gets elected right? Everone gets that right?
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 11:16 AM on October 10
The first Jim Jones presidency, racial paranoia, fear and hatred will be its methodology. Even our economy will be declared a victim of “racism”, and Comrade Obama will punish the wreckers.
Posted by Simmons at 11:46 AM on October 10
It isn’t just the plane that smells bad… The whole Obama campaign stinks! WHO is backing him and for what agenda of their own? Where are those torrents of money coming from?
Obama was suddenly pushed onto the stage by the media. His speeches carefully crafted and written for him by teams of highly paid professionals. Obama is going to be the Savior of Our Nation? Somehow I find that more than a bit hard to believe.
Common sense will tell you the Prez and Congress TOGETHER can only do so much. The current financial nightmare proves that point. You are told to VOTE FOR OBAMA TO SHOW YOU’RE NOT A RACIST! Blacks will vote against McCain because of race. WAKE UP AMERICANS! Regurgitate the p.c. slop you’ve been pumped up with and vote for ONLY FOR THE ISSUES. NOT for Obama because he’s Black.
His plans are laughable. Taxes WILL be boosted. The blunder of the Iraq War can’t be halted simply by bringing the troops home. Yeah, you could. But the final price in that part of the world will be an entirely different matter.
Posted by Fed Up at 12:56 PM on October 10
It may be that BHO doesn’t think he’s treating the media badly. I once had to deliver some items to the house of a Black man, a Methodist minister. If you don’t know, Methodists are a very middle class “mainstream” church. But the inside of this man’s house, which was provided by the church, was exactly what you’d expect of a low class Black. Dirty laundry piled 3 feet deep, stuff scattered about, a grand desk in the middle of the living room facing the door so all who entered through the could see what an important man he was. I entered through the back door because rap was playing so loud that he couldn’t hear me knocking. His daughter, busy with complaining about the laundry, did not invite me in, nor did she go to tell her father that he had a visitor. She just yelled out to him that someone was at the back door. Some cultures are simply more comfortable with a degree of chaos and sloth that repels more advanced peoples.
Posted by Schoolteacher at 1:01 PM on October 10
I can’t believe this story is coming from a main stream news source. The writer of this story, with its undercurrent of disgust with the subject, has made a very serious decision to tell it like it is. I wouldn’t be suprised if he ends up in hot water with his liberal employer over his honest reporting.
Regardless of who wins next month, eyes are already being opened.
Posted by at 3:27 PM on October 10
I own a construction business; when I estimate a residential job the nastiest, dirtiest homes are invariably those of 1) blacks 2) Hispanics.
That’s not to say that all of them are that way; most of the time, they are no different then most.
but when the house is really filthy, it’s either a rental, the homeowners are of Afro or latin heritage, or both.
Posted by Tidy-Whitey at 3:35 PM on October 10
It’s been pointed out many times that Obama is/was a media creation. Okay, so a good question or two to ask would be:
WHO owns the media (majority stockholders, outright ownership of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations? The owners apparently giving orders to top management media personnel to boost and glorify Obama at every opportunity.
Next question: WHY did these owners wish to boost Obama, an obscure Illinois state legislator with nothing in particular to recommend him — into the presidential race? For what specific agenda, we might wonder.
Posted by Fed Up at 4:55 PM on October 10
Solomon once wrote that “the little foxes spoil the vines”. The gross lack of attention to detail Obama’s politburo is displaying here aside, it’s important to know the values of the people around you and whether or not they actually live them. Unfortunately, it’s worse than that because we are talking about someone who is supposed to provide leadership and model values and if they can’t keep their own crib clean and their paperwork in order, how are they going to run a country?
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 7:10 PM on October 10
Wow, two good ones in a row from the LA Times. Go figure. The other one is “The American Secessionist Streak.”
Anyway, I have to say, the article reminded me of when the one fairly big business I worked for in NY got its first Black manager. In no time flat he had “family” members running in and out, and around, the place the whole time he was on the property. The bosses asked him to ask his family to leave; after a while, they asked him to leave.
The reason?
Well, there was the glaring incompetence; no organizational skills, a tendency to blame others for his mistakes, and a readiness to solve the more difficult conflicts with fellow management and us Union members by asking us to “step outside.” These were present from the beginning and were, surprise, surprise, overlooked. But the straw that broke the camels back?
Theft.
Oh, and the part about smelly airplanes reminds me of one of Richard Pryor’s stand up routines. This one was when he went to Africa with a small group of people and they had an African guide. He could not get over how bad the African smelled. At one point while in a jeep that had the windows up because of the wild animals, Pryor couldn’t resist and stuck his head out anyway saying “I know you a brotha, but Gah Dam!”
Posted by Dedalus at 12:11 AM on October 11
The trouble is mainly the false sense of (white) guilt foisted onto the general U.S. population, a large section of which will believe ANYTHING thet the Hollywood propiganda machine rolls out, no matter how it lacks a foothold in reality or common sense. The assult on American family values… or all family values for that matter, the destruction of the traditional “family unit”, which, suprise, does work. The advancement and notion that EVERYONE needs a degree, why??? Not all of the baby sea turtles make it back to the water off of the beach. It is not too late to stand up and to really begin to fight for what is right. Come on McCain… really, best we could do??? he managed to get nominated to represent the GOP agaist the young , looks great on TV, and surfs the web, messiah Barak Hussien Obama how does this happen. An older gentelman VS youth and “CHANGE” its like a bad movie where the protagonist has to stand up against the big bad country club, yacht club, police chief etc most of whom are old traditonal and white. They (entertainment types) have been conditioning the masses for YEARS for this. I have imploring all of my close assocites to stand up and push aside the venom spewed by liberals and their attacks, Whats right is right, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…guess what, probably a duck. It may be a difficult and unpleasant road ahead, but the TRUE numbers are for tradition and for FREEDOM, less federal interference and “Big Brother in your community, Fight for you children fight for your rights, stand with your friends and brothers, shed the yoke of the politcally correct left wing agenda. Stand up, tell five right minded souls we will do this together. The founding fathers pleged their lives, fortunes and SACRED HONOR. There is honor left in us. Find it, stand up. Don’t let the few dictate to the many. Save one or two “confused souls” put the people first.. we ARE the government.
Posted by USAcan-do at 8:44 AM on October 11
”..Everyone gets that right?…”
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 11:16 AM on October 10
Yes, I think everyone here gets it. But there aren’t enough of us left and our prospects for future elections appear grim.
The problem is we’re becoming out-numbered and therefore out-voted by a changing demographic.
As Peter Bradley writes on Vdare.com:
“…The simple fact is that the Republican base (White people) is getting relatively smaller every four years, while the Democratic base grows relentlessly…”
And from Brimlowe and Rubenstein:
“….[The Republicans are] being drowned—as a direct result of the 1965 Immigration Act.. Nine-tenths of the immigrant influx is from groups with significant—sometimes overwhelming—Democratic propensities. After thirty years, their numbers are reaching critical mass. And there is no end in sight…”
http://vdare.com/bradley/081007_party.htm
If an amnesty is passed and I believe with a Democratically-controlled Congress and a Democratic president it will be, we are truly doomed—out-voted by those who will vote themselves services and perks at the expense of Whites.
We will have to separate ourselves to save ourselves—or we will be the next SA or Zim, taxed to support a hateful, resentful Third World population, our land wrenched from us, our history erased, and nowhere to flee or turn. We must find a way to band together as every other ethnic/racial group is allowed.
Was the destruction of Whites not the plan all along?
Bon
Posted by BonBon at 1:42 PM on October 12
If an amnesty is passed — and I believe with a Democratically-controlled Congress and a Democratic president it will be — we are truly doomed …. out-voted by those who will vote themselves services and perks at the expense of Whites.
We will have to separate ourselves to save ourselves — or we will be the next SA or Zim, taxed to support a hatefilled, resentful Third World population, our land wrenched from us, our history erased, and nowhere to flee or turn.
We must find a way to band together, as every other ethnic/racial group is allowed.
Posted by BonBon
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With a Republican presidency, we are “doomed” too. Either way, an amnesty will be passed. They are both determined. After Congress’ flagrant display of contempt for the public that we saw recently, regarding their determination to push through an amnesty by hook or by crook, we just saw again last week another example of the same contempt when they passed a bailout for their Wall St. buddies, overriding massive public disapproval.
Yes, we must find a way. Perhaps another way .
Maybe we need a radical change in our fundamental political thinking. We may need to come to face the fact that there are other forms of governance than majority rule. We are so accustomed to the notion of one person, one vote, that the concept of majority rule is unconditionally accepted by Americans, as if some fundamental law of nature. No one questions it. But in fact, this notion is something quite new — a historical novelty.
Until two centuries ago, majority rule was considered a radical, whacky notion that wouldn’t work. Perhaps, in the long run, they were right? I don’t know. Throughout history, rule has ALWAYS been by small minorities. The great unwashed majority just went along and did as they were told. Perhaps, to save whites, we may have to return to that concept. Who knows? I’m not proposing it. I’m just saying that we should be prepared to look at ALL possibilities. Maybe the time for majority rule is past. As a minority, surrounded by hostile and demanding majorities filled with with resentment and notions of entitlement and restitution, it will not be in our interest. This great experiment called democracy has worked thus far for whites, but as most of the rest of the world demonstrates flagrantly before our eyes, it isn’t respected and doesn’t work for everyone.
Posted by ghw at 11:17 AM on October 13