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November 1, 2008 By Fausta

Obama campaign tactics: Intimidation…

Obama campaign tactics: Intimidation… and Obfuscation. First, intimidation:

Imagine if you may, that you’re in your front yard and the media celebrity of the day stops to talk to you, surrounded by cameras and microphones. Imagine if you will, that you say something that disagrees with them, by which you, too get propelled into the public eye.

And yes, you assert your belief in free enterprise.

What next?

The celebrity sics the dogs on you:
State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber

Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.

Niekamp didn’t know she just had checked on “Joe the Plumber,” who was elevated the night before to presidential politics prominence as Republican John McCain’s example in a debate of an average American.
…
Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.

Niekamp didn’t know she just had checked on “Joe the Plumber,” who was elevated the night before to presidential politics prominence as Republican John McCain’s example in a debate of an average American.
…
checked on “Joe the Plumber.” Thompson “literally demanded” that she write an e-mail to the agency’s chief privacy officer stating she checked the case for child-support purposes, she said.

Thompson told her that Jones-Kelley said Wurzelbacher might buy a plumbing business and could owe support. Thompson said he replied that he “would check him out.”

Check him out indeed.

Speak out against The One, and your entire life will be nit-picked through and through and laid out for all the world to see: intimidation through violation of privacy. The non-compliant will be banished.

Any requests for transparency from The One will be brushed aside and dismissed as “racism.”

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  1. Calvin Spealman says

    November 1, 2008 at 8:42 am

    And point me to where Obama has anything to do with this? Also, explain why he shouldn’t be checked for owing child-support if he owes it?

    Read the link carefully:
    1. “She has seen employees fired, and dismissed one herself, for illegally accessing personal information in support cases.”
    2. Wurzelbacher is NOT involved in a child support case.
    Right to privacy

  2. skeptical says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:31 am

    I just love watching the right wing adopt and twist all the liberal language of generations past. Throw in sexism, too, you betcha.

    “Intimidation” is when you send the police to block the streets and surround the few polling places in the poor sections of inner cities. “Intimidation” is when party goons stand around polling places demanding poll workers demand voter registration of anyone who looks suspicious, you know, black–but we can now add Hispanic. Intimidation doesn’t of course include purging voter rolls based on similarity between the registered voter and some convict sitting in prison.

    Obfuscation? Oh puh-leeze!

    I’ve been enjoying watching the right wing party purge of intellectuals, pragmatists, conservatives with actual spines, blacks, Hispanics, and anyone who actually cares about dealing with twelves million illegal immigrants. What I haven’t enjoyed has been watching the utter destruction of the country almost since the day Bush took office with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress. I’ve enjoyed watching the phrase “life-long Republican” pop up in the press for all the ordinary citizens disgusted and leaving the party. But I haven’t enjoyed vicious hatred and lies of the remnant.

    Maybe Jindahl can save you, but I doubt it.

    Republican majority in both houses of Congress, Skeptical??
    Last time I checked Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are still Democrats.

  3. Fausta says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:37 am

    “Intimidation” is when party goons stand around polling places demanding poll workers demand voter registration of anyone who looks suspicious, you know, black–but we can now add Hispanic.

    Skeptical, I am Puerto Rican, and I firmly believe that people should show photo ID when voting.

    Do you find that intimidating? I certainly don’t.

  4. Pat Patterson says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    There was an unremarked press conference given at Antioch College in Ohio before a rally of 10,000 enthused Obama supporters who were disguised as middle-aged SEIU members. After a brief hesitation Sen. Obama came to the microphone to give a prepared address concerning rumors of Democratic involvement in using Ohio data banks to impeach the comments and character of Joe the Plumber.

    “Good afternoon people of Columbus, Ohio! What, Yellow Springs, you’ve got to be kidding.” The senator began his remarks. Slight wisp of smoke from teleprompter observed by Maureen Dowd who immediately throws herself on the equipment to douse the embers.

    “Thank you Maureen for that courageous act in an evenhanded manner. But I am hear to denounce some of these reports that some of my supporters had anything to do with the charges.” Wink, wink!

    “No aide of my campaign, either in Ohio or the national office, had anything to do with trying to expose that tax shirking, pseudonym using and unlicensed apostate.” Wink, wink!

    “No one even marginally connected to the campaign was involved in trying to ferret out the truth about this Republican plant.” Wink, wink! Though some reporters were becoming concerned and several were seen crying and trying to wipe the sweat off of the forehead of Obama.

    “No matter what provocation or racist tactic these Roger Aisles or Karl Rove trained acolytes come up with I shall not allow my campaign to use such methods.” Wink, wink!

    The teleprompter is starting to smoke again and the reporters lamentations and cries of warning are heard more often. Maureen Dowd tries to throw herself on the equipment but was restrained by friends when they realize that she was not glowing in the reflected glory of The One, nor by the mere presence of The One, but that she had left her medroxyprogesterone on that genuine Shaker tv stand in her pied-a-terre back in civilization, NYC.

    “In closing, before I take only eight questions, I would like to say that we, my wife Michele and my cute daughters, someone hold them up by the ears please, had nothing to do with causing Joe the Plumber any problems. I can say in all honesty that we didn’t even flush while campaigning here to protect the crystal clear waters of the Cuyahoga River or Lake Erie.” Wink, wink, wink, etc. The senator now has begun to wink uncontrollably and suddenly falls to the ground. Unfortunately just then the teleprompter burst into flames and set Maureen Dowd ablaze because she again tried to catch The One and had escaped the grasp of both her friends and the Secret Service. Before anyone could even check to see if the senator was ok cries could be heard throughout the hall, “It’s the Republicans.” “No, its Joe the Plumber. Let’s lynch him! But only in a state that is backward enough to still have the death penalty.”

    Wink, wink, wink, wink!

  5. Dan S says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    This just goes to show that union members have nothing to fear when they no longer have the right to a secret ballot! Kinda remindes me of the good ole USSR.

  6. WeeneboozyFob says

    November 21, 2008 at 9:58 am

    My wife and I took out life insurance policies on each other — so now it’s just a waiting game. (Bill Dwyer) 😀

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