Because the real reason you don't like him is that he's smarter than you.
Sept. 5, 2008 New Rule: Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don't like him because of something he can't help, something that's a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you're not voting for him because he's smarter than you.
In her acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of using his run for the White House as a "journey of personal discovery" -- this from the lady who just spent 10 minutes of her speech introducing her family -- Track, Trig, Bristol, Piper -- for a minute there I thought she was calling in an airstrike.
Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who's the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous ass, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear. One of McCain's ads casts Obama as "the one," implying he thinks he's the Messiah. Good, maybe he can raise McCain from the dead.
It doesn't matter to Karl Rove that his country club characterization is fictitious, it's the role that Obama must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy. Over and over at this convention we heard about the new put-upon victim in our society, the person in America, like Sarah Palin, who's constantly mocked because they're from a ... small town! Governor Yup Yup's got 'em all riled up about being disrespected.
Barack Obama can't help it if he's a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us. That's why George Bush is president. And that's where the McCain camp gets its campaign strategy: Paint Obama as cocky and arrogant and wait for America to vote him off, like the black guy in every reality show. A black president? Half of Pennsylvania isn't ready for black quarterbacks. Forget Obama, they think Will Smith needs to be taken down a peg.
And finally: As for "country first," you know who's putting country first? I am, by supporting Obama, because a victory this fall for the McCain-Mooseburger ticket would make my job in the next four years very, very easy.
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SaveOurselves said..
You're on the wrong blog, Loser!!!
If Bill wants us gone, so be it. He has the Power...not you!
This is an open forum.
Wilbur and geniemaker, just reda my post about what Maher the supporter of terrorism said about the 9/11 hijackers.
I pray I never see a liberal in when I go. I can't imagine heaven allows terrorist appeasors up there afterall terrorist murder innocent people. The libs don't seem to have a problem with that.
Because if they do, I sure haven't one post denouncing Mahers comments on the 9/11 terrorists.
jmp said...
Wilbur and geniemaker, just reda my post about what Maher the supporter of terrorism said about the 9/11 hijackers.
I was watching that night, that's when I "was" a fan but, he lost it when he moved to HBO by going way over the top!
jmp
First of all McCain wrote about it in his book. Secondly, my parents were friends with Admiral John S. McCain Jr and his wife Roberta, so JMP I probably know a lot more about him than you would ever know.
Oh, and by the way, Sen John S. McCain III, divorced his first wife who was disfigured in a car accident; So much for in Sickness and in Health. Even his children did not attend his wedding with Cindy McCain.
I am not talking about Clinton, I am talking about someone running as the Republican Presidential candidate courting the Christian Right.
Christianity is like History. You look back and see the mistakes that were made, correct them and ask forgiveness for them.
That's what Jesus does with a person who truly faltered on their faith.
Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!
Name me one person who is without sin and I will, well, do nothing.
I see it's been busy since the last time I checked in. Good to see you're practicing your typing, JMP. Now if we could only do something about your logic. Lump everyone democrat into your liberals never make any sense pot, stir, add your venom, and everything will come out tasty. I really want to love you, but "Weavah, You so Stupid!" It's hard to love people who see things under such a low voltage bulb. Read, write, then think. Maybe, just maybe you'll sell something. But I'll decide if I want any of your money. A lot of things will need to change for that to happen,
Holy Cow!
Did Michael Moore just eat one?
He got really fat.
For those of you who may be undecided or truly think that Obama is your man, please read about him.
It's a little lenghthy but you might learn something.
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE
The Audacity of Deception
By Mark Alexander
If you are perplexed, even bewildered, by the number of Americans who normally make logical and rational decisions but now support Barack Obama, I refer you to a lucid explanation for this phenomenon in the opening pages of the candidate’s political autobiography, The Audacity of Hope. He writes, “I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views... I am bound to disappoint some... of them.”
Beyond the projection and deception, however, elections have consequences. Some of Obama’s supporters, the formerly logical and rational, will be first in the soup line of deceived disappointees expressing buyer’s remorse. They will awaken from the stupor of all the good feelings that attracted them to Obama and face the hard realities of the Socialist agenda they enabled.
In this, the final week of the ‘08 presidential campaign, Obama bought 30 minutes of prime time on several networks to air an infomercial in which he endeavored to pass as something other than the ideological Socialist he is. Feigning the fiscal conservatism of Ronald Reagan, Obama claimed he would review the budget, line by line, and cut waste. He even made taxing and spending, a.k.a. “the collectivist redistribution of wealth,” sound like a noble democratic gesture.
At one point he said, “Just because I want to spread the wealth around, they call me a socialist. The next thing you know, they will call me a communist because I shared my peanut butter sandwich in kindergarten!”
Cute. Of course, Barack Obama isn’t proposing to “share” his sandwich. Instead, he’s proposing to take your sandwich and share it with someone else. He’s assuming that you aren’t charitable enough to share it yourself.
Truth is, it is unlikely Obama ever shared a sandwich with anyone. With an average annual income of more than $500,000 between 2000 and 2006, Barack and Michelle only gave two percent—two percent—of their income to charity. Obama’s running mate is even more miserly. The Bidens’ income averaged $260,000 over the last 10 years, but they averaged just $650 a year in charitable giving.
So much for “spreading the wealth around.”
Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain centered his soapbox message on Obama’s penchant to redistribute wealth, even uttering the word “socialist” in several interviews—and not a minute too soon.
Of course, Socialist policies are now the centerpiece of the once great Democratic Party, packaged under the aegis of “fairness and equality” or “investments in our infrastructure and people.”
Obama uses code words such as “political and economic justice” and “coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.” In the last two months, however, given the crisis of confidence in our economy, Obama’s Socialist rhetoric has become bolder. Perhaps he’s heeding the counsel of his mentors’ mentor, Karl Marx, who wrote, “A new revolution is possible only in consequence of a new crisis.”
The fingerprints of Obama’s radical Socialist mentors are all over his “vision for America” —from his early childhood tutor, Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis, to his black radical spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, to the benefactors who launched his political career, radical terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
These are the Leftists who fed Obama’s unmitigated narcissism and shaped his warped worldview, which he now seeks to inflict upon the entire nation. Even his campaign icon implies “Obama over America.”
Of course, when asked about his relationship with these radicals, Obama responds, “[These people] are not advisors or donors to my campaign,” at which point an adoring press corps dutifully moves on to the next question.
Despite having spent 20 years as a disciple of Wright, the man who officiated at Obama’s marriage and baptized his children, the man whom Obama describes as “a father figure,” he claims he never inhaled any of his spiritual mentor’s racial hatred—never even heard any of it.
Obama claims that Bill Ayers was “just a guy in my neighborhood,” and “I was just eight years old when he was a terrorist.” However, Obama was 34 when Ayers used his radical celebrity to launch Obama’s political career, and he was 40 when this unrepentant terrorist was featured in a New York Times article (on the morning of September 11, 2001) and quoted in the opening paragraph proclaiming, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Ayers added, “America makes me want to puke.” Obama was working on his second major “philanthropic” project with Ayers at that time.
In addition, there are Obama’s ties to the Socialist New Party, the ACORN crowd, Father Michael Pfleger, Khalid al-Mansour, Kwame Kilpatrick, Louis Farrakhan, Tony Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, Raila Odinga and other haters, hard Leftists and convicted felons.
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” All committed Socialists understand this principle.
For example, when Obama asserts, “We’ll ensure that economic justice is served—that’s what this election is about... I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” that is tantamount to buying votes.
Michelle Obama echoes her husband’s redistributionist philosophy: “The truth is, in order to get things like universal healthcare and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
In 1916, a minister and outspoken advocate for liberty, William J. H. Boetcker, published a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots . “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.”
A century later, Democrats are utterly ignorant of these principles. In fact, Barack Obama’s campaign is built around their antithesis—“The Ten Cans.”
I was speaking with a friend recently, a man who lived most of his life under the Communist regime in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. He has spent several years and continues to incur many legal expenses in his endeavor to become a U.S. citizen, but he has since lost his enthusiasm.
“The prospect of an Obama presidency is like dèja vu for me,” he explained. “The socialist goal back home was that everyone had equal wealth. They met that goal—eventually no one had anything. Any attempt to work harder to achieve a better standard of living for your family was considered contrary to the welfare of the state, and dutifully discouraged. Socialism is a big hole, easy to fall into and hard to climb out of.”
He lamented, “The American dream is not something I want to wake up from—but too many Americans have no idea what they have, and are about to lose it. Socialism seems an appealing ideal, collective ownership, equal society, ‘sharing the wealth,’ et cetera. But it has a downside: It doesn’t work.”
Indeed it doesn’t work. It creates wards of the state—slaves, if you will.
In the 1980s, I spent enough time in Socialist countries, including the old USSR, to know that we want to avoid, at all costs, a USSA. If we could gather up all Americans who, knowingly or unknowingly, support collectivist policies like those espoused by Barack Obama and transport them to the old USSR for a week, they could see the terminus of such policies—the walking dead—and the wisest among them would rethink their support for statist concepts such as “sharing the wealth.”
It is no small irony that as the younger generations of former Communist countries around the world are moving rapidly toward liberty and free enterprise, our nation is moving rapidly toward Socialism and a tyranny of the few.
Barack Obama recently said, “I don’t find myself particularly scary or particularly risky.” It was a weak attempt at self-effacing humor, but make no mistake: Barack Hussein Obama’s Socialist policies are both scary and risky.
“Hope” and “change” may be pleasant catchall bromides, but as Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard’s Almanac, “He that lives upon Hope will die fasting.”
On change, John Adams wrote, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
To that end, in 1787, the year our Constitution was adopted, Thomas Jefferson, wrote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Let’s not go there—yet.
(For more information on the character of the presidential candidates, see The McCain record and The Obama record.)
Quote of the week
“We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” —Ronald Reagan
(PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Please join our staff and their families and pray for our nation. Pray for our uniformed Patriots defending our nation in accordance with their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States... so help me God.” Pray that our civilian leadership would honor their oaths accordingly, especially our next president. Pray that he would uphold, without reservation, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Pray for all the families who are suffering fear and adversity as a result of the current economic decline. And finally, thank God for all His provision.)
On cross-examination
“You have to pinch yourself—a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising of black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.” —columnist Melanie Phillips
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Should Barack Obama succeed in deceiving a majority of voters next Tuesday, our readers have suggested two methods of protest: Either displaying your flag upside down [a sign of distress] or flying it at half mast -- or both, for seven days, and doing the same on inauguration day, 20 January 2009.)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Campaign watch: Fundraising shenanigans continue
The Obama campaign has shattered records by raising more than $600 million this election cycle, an effort that will certainly change the way future presidential candidates run their campaigns. Then again, Obama’s is not a shining example to emulate. A provision of federal election law that has been craftily exploited by the Obama campaign states that it is not necessary to collect vital information from donors who contribute $200 or less to a political campaign. The Obama campaign has bragged endlessly about how a large portion of its donations come from these low-dollar donors, average Americans who are supposedly so passionate about change that they are giving money to a political cause for the first time in their lives. New donors to the change train even include Doodad Pro, Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler. Obama’s campaign refuses to make public their low-dollar donor list, though rival John McCain has done so. If their practices are legal and ethical, why not prove it by releasing the questionable information?
The Obama campaign maintains that they are doing their best to alleviate problems with fraudulent donations, but, like most of his campaign, that too is a lie. Intrepid bloggers at Gateway Pundit have tested Obama’s donor site by submitting obviously fake names that any Address Verification System (AVS) would flag, but these donations invariably go through, and the fake donors receive heartfelt electronic thank-you messages from the Obama team. As Gateway Pundit pointed out, AVS is a fully automated system that any novice Webmaster could operate, yet the Obama technical team can’t seem to get its own working. Or, more likely, it has deliberately disabled the system (it’s not easily done by accident) in order to keep the money machine rolling. Donations are no doubt coming in over the legal individual limits, not to mention from foreign nationals.
Since the Leftmedia won’t report on the Obama fundraising machine’s widespread fraud, and the Federal Elections Commission won’t investigate the complaints filed by the Republican National Committee—at least not until it’s too late—the burden on bringing the issue to America’s attention has fallen to the blogosphere. Unfortunately, the Obama campaign has already cashed in on its thievery.
Biden doesn’t like tough questions
Democrat vice-presidential Candidate Joe Biden sat down for an interview with WFTV-Orlando news anchor Barbara West this week with the expectation of fielding some of the same softball questions he and running mate Barack Obama have grown so accustomed to getting from Leftmedia talkers. Instead, what Biden got was a dose of what “hardball” used to mean before MSNBC’s Chris Matthews diluted the term. West jumped right in with tough questions about Obama’s plan to “spread the wealth around” being Marxism, the campaign’s ties to ACORN, and Biden’s own comment that Obama will be tested by a foreign policy crisis within his first six months in office. Biden tried to laugh off the questions, falling back to the Democrats’ well-trodden script. West was not rattled, however, and pressed on.
As a result, the Obama campaign blackballed the Orlando station for engaging in the sort of old-fashioned investigative journalism that just won’t work if Obama is to be elected president. West and the station’s news director stand by their work, and, for the record, they didn’t give John McCain an easier time during his interview. (McCain began his interview by joking, “Now don’t say anything mean or I am going to be angry.”) The Ministry of Truth at Obama headquarters still claims that the station is part of the fabled right-wing conspiracy.
LA Times of Obama
Speaking of the Leftmedia, The Los Angeles Times is aiding the Obama campaign this week by refusing to release a 2003 video of then-Illinois state senator Obama at a farewell banquet for Rashid Khalidi, whom the Times calls “an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights.” Khalidi, also a former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman, was leaving Chicago for New York. He had been a neighbor, friend and dinner guest of the Obamas in Chicago’s upscale and ultra-liberal Hyde Park neighborhood.
In April, the Times ran an article titled, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama.” It mentioned the banquet and the video, which the Times will not release—unless Obama loses Tuesday. One of many anti-Israel moments that voters might just be interested in hearing was a young Palestinian’s recitation of a poem accusing Israel of terrorism and criticizing the U.S. for allying with Israel. Obama has publicly declared his support for Israel, but many Palestinians think he’s really on their side based on things he has said in private. In light of his relationship with Khalidi, that’s a safe bet. No doubt the events of the evening would hurt Obama’s case, providing the Times more than enough cause to withhold the evidence.
John McCain, however, didn’t let the opportunity slip by, saying, “I’m not in the business of talking about media bias, but what if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet? I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has ousted three major newspapers—The Washington Times, Dallas Morning News and The New York Post—from its campaign plane. What do all three have in common? They endorsed John McCain.
Court Jesters: Berg’s suit thrown out
Last Friday, Judge R. Barclay Surrick dismissed Philadelphia attorney Philip Berg’s lawsuit, which had challenged Barack Obama’s eligibility for the presidency. Berg contended Obama was born into his father’s Kenyan citizenship and thus was not a natural-born citizen of the United States, within the meaning of the Constitution’s Article II, section 1 requirement, and he requested full disclosure of pertinent documents by the Obama campaign.
The objectionable aspect of the court’s decision is not so much its result as its reasoning. Berg’s claim seems weak; even if Obama had been born abroad, he could still be a natural-born citizen based on his mother’s U.S. citizenship. (8 U.S. Code, sec. 1401.) But the dismissal rested not on the suit’s weakness but a citizen/voter’s lack of standing to object. The court found a citizen’s interest “too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any [voter].” In other words, although a citizen has standing to challenge the government any time she is “disturbed” by the sight of a public park accommodating a Christmas tree or a Boy Scouts picnic, no such standing exists where a voter objects to a man’s assuming the presidency of the United States in violation of the Constitution.
Other campaign tidbits
Several weeks ago we reported that Barack Obama’s half brother George is currently living in a hut in Kenya. This week, it was discovered that Obama’s beloved aunt Zeituni is living in a rundown public housing project in Boston. Obama has not shared his peanut butter sandwich with George or Zeituni yet.
In Hollywood, a homeowner displayed an effigy of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin hung by a noose from his house for Halloween. The Secret Service determined there was no threat, and the homeowner later removed the display. At the University of Kentucky, however, a student and another man were arrested Thursday for hanging an effigy of Barack Obama from a tree on campus.
Another Obama crony on his way to the Big House
Government does not get much more corrupt than in Obama’s home state of Illinois. Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich, a close ally of Obama, was elected on a promise to clean up the corruption, but how does one get rid of corruption when Democrats have control of the Illinois House, Senate and all but one statewide office?
Blagojevich is under investigation for a number of, shall we say, suspect campaign and business dealings. The most notable of these is Blagojevich’s close association with one Antonin “Tony” Rezko, who has been indicted for his part in a scheme to obtain kickbacks from the state. Blagojevich’s wife, Patricia, was a real estate business partner with Rezko for more than a decade. In Rezko’s trial, it was revealed that 75 percent of those who gave more than $25,000 to Blagojevich’s campaign received state contracts or appointments to state boards. Rezko was also indicted in January on charges of money laundering for an Iraqi billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, whom military analysts describe as one of Saddam’s bagmen.
Rezko’s fingerprints are all over Obama’s political campaigns. He was Obama’s Chicago fundraising patriarch, a “fixer.” Rezko and his bagmen donated more than $225,000 to Obama’s campaigns.
Rezko’s fingerprints also adorn Obama’s 2005 purchase of his swanky Georgian mansion on Chicago’s south side—right down the street from where Obama’s new neighbor, terrorist William Ayers, launched Obama’s political career. (We know, given Obama’s rhetoric, he must have lived in a government housing project and commuted by mass transit.) That mansion and the adjacent lot were originally one parcel, but the owner divided it into two, and the adjacent lot was purchased by Rezko for the full $625,000 asking price—far above market value. On the same day, Obama purchased his mansion on the first lot for well under market value. One might conclude that Rezko subsidized Obama’s discount with the purchase of the adjacent lot but Rezko conveniently holds a receipt for a “loan” from his Iraqi friend, Auchi.
(but then again, if we really believed everything the Leftmedia reported, Obama won the presidential race long ago).
The only item omitted in the foregoing article was Obama's consistent voting for late-term born-alive babies abortion.
He is truly a monster who has sold his soul to the devil.
May God have mercy on us all.
jmp and clydene:
Not only did Clinton have sex with Lewinsky in the OVAL OFFICE , he put the move on a passle of others (ie, Gennifer Flowers, what's-her-name that had her nose fixed, ad nausem).
And those are just the ones who came forward.
jmp: For all of Obama's "smarts", he is nothing but a puppet who has been groomed from years to do the bidding of his Marxist masters.
It's one thing to be intelligent, it's another to be smart. He may have intelligence, but he gravely lacks smarts for letting himself be tainted so terribly tainted with anti-American spin. On top of that, he's a dam good liar.
jmp: I don't know who first said it, but it's a terrible thing to waste a brain.
Maher has one, but it's stuck so far up the liberal/leftists buttucks, they can taste his hair tonic.
clydene: don't flatter yourself ~ you're a legend in your own mind.
McCain's life is an open book and if you read his book you'd know there are no skeletons left to expose.
If there were, the liberal media would never let us hear the end of it and McCain would've been nailed to the cross.
Was it Wilbur or mike who said something to the effect that let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
About courting the Christian Right ~ we know Obama isn't because he's the Senator who has consistently voted for abortion, even of late-term, born alive babies.
Murderer.
Wilburt, the name alone scares me. Weren't you one of those guys in Deliverance who said, "You sure do have a perty mouth"? Genie, I'll bet you even remember which way Clinton's dick curved. And Bush hasn't lied, has he? As if four years of somone who cares even a little for those getting hosed by the rich will spell doom and the end of the American dream. Even eight, which would be a testimony to success, couldn't do all the damage your fearsome rhetoric implies. Finally, God won't have mercy on us all, and doesn't bless countries, unless of course, it's Israel. But they have nukes, so they don't need God, and Jesus isn't their savior. Maybe you are. Abortion again, you sure have a one track mind with respect to that. Judge is at the bench, and when we get to the bench, it will either be warm or cold. Earth is for choice. Make yours and live with it, and stop telling us what judgments you would make if you were on the bench. We all know that you and Wilburt think you have God on your side. You're here to teach Bill a lesson and lead him to righteousness. By the way, Wilburt, Bill told me to give you the heave ho, so bugger off!
If Bill tells me to bugger off, will do!
In the meantime, I'm here.
Oh, and it's "WILBER" not Wilburt.
You'd be surprised about Wilber!
geniemaker, it was me who said the statement about sin.
Who the hell is Bill?
jmp: Obama's plan to re-distribute the wealth is stealing from people who have worked for their money, and giving it to those who are going to vote for him. I heard him say so on national TV, eveybody will get $1K ~ where in the hell is he going to get the money? Surely not from his $600M political chest he wants us to believe he raised from poor stiffs. This money is coming from our oil-rich enemies overseas. I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.
saveourselves: jmp makes a hell of a lot more sense than you do.
Sorry about the name, Willabort. You sure do know your scripture. I am Bill. Bugger Off!
SaveOurselves said...
Sorry about the name, Willabort. You sure do know your scripture. I am Bill. Bugger Off!
lmao
Say you, Genie, who simply find stuff somewhere in the ether and print it. What do you have to say that hasn't been said by someone else? I hereby accuse you of copyright infringement.
jmp: I think Bill Maher is drinking too much Obama Kool-Aid. He's a jerk and he knows it. We are sort of drinking his Kool-aid by dignifying this site with our remarks.
Bill used to be funny until he thought he knew something about politics, poor dumb b-----d.
This is to BILL MAHER or his staff!
IF YOU WANT ME, WILBER AND ANY OTHER PERSON YOU DISAGREE WITH OFF YOUR SITE.....
PLEASE REMOVE ME/THEM!
ONLY "YOU" HAVE THE POWER!
saveourselves,
At least Bill Maher can spell! I think.
saveourselves: accuse away. I showed the article's title and the author. Since I've been writing about the very same things for the past two months I was delighted to see my facts and opinions in actual print.
wilber ~ maher wont ban you or any one else from this site. After all, isn't he "the father of free speech"? He probably doesn't even bother to read these blogs.
You guys are funny. The blog is yours. Good luck with the ministry.
SaveOurselves said...
You guys are funny. The blog is yours. Good luck with the ministry.
Oh, don't be a poop! You're what makes it fun!
Genie
The discussion was that JMP did not know how anyone would know about McCain's adultery. I merely pointed out that he had admited to the adultery he committed not only with Cindy McCain before their marriage when he was still married to his wife who was disfigured in a car accident, but also many other women.
Again, lack of character.
jmp
lets see you don't think that seeing russia gives her insight into foreign policy.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
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Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, "Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
That shows what kind of Category 5 Moron she really is. Just waiting for her to take up the 21 million dollars for her Playboy spread after the election.
Guess you are waiting for her Playboy spread too, so you can masterbate to her naked pictures, because that is her real appeal to you. You and all your low iq kind want to fuck her it is obviously not for her scintillating and brilliant speaches.
Common admit it, you just want to have sex with the beauty queen that Caribou Barbie. If you really think she is intelligent enough to be Vice President, or for that matter Govenor of Alaska, then you are a a Category 6 Moron.
MORON!
One Reason, Or The Other
They don’t care about Women’s Rights
Or even, a Woman’s, “health”
Seems all they want to talk about
Is, “Obama wants to spread the wealth!”
All honor has been displaced
By the fear, that they might lose
Cheap shots, lies, and innuendo
To try to sway, the way, we choose.
It’s been the same old rhetoric
Repeated, time and time again
The same stories and the “Mavericks”
And, “Joe, the plumber”, wearing thin!
Not the same as George Bush?
Well, maybe that could be true
But, there is the real potential
For it to be worse, with those two!
Palin is just an embarrassment
What was he thinking about?
To think she could be President
Places his judgment, in doubt.
And where are his health records?
Don’t we have the right to know?
If there is nothing to hide from us
Let us see what those records show.
There’s no doubt he means well
And, maybe, thinks he is the best
But, I’m afraid he’s gone off course
With the old, “Straight Talk Express”.
I know some folks won’t vote Barack
For one reason or for the other
And sadly, too many won’t admit
It’s just because, of his color.
Well, I’ve already voted early
And I’ll just let you take a guess
As to who I think, will bring change
And straighten our Country’s mess.
Del “Abe” Jones
11.01.2008
clydene: re McCain's lack of character. Please, dear, review the facts again. Your Obama has gone beyond the pale with his lack of judgment over matters concerning the welfare of this country.
His background is littered with anti-American entities and he will bring this country to it's knees to please these entities who have engineered his meteroic rise. He is a puppet of forces who want this great country's freedoms to be destroyed.
Adultery will be the least of any one's worries when our liberties are taken from us.
He kicked out from his campaign-trail jet those innocent reporters from newspapers who have endorsed McCain. It was in the newspapers on Thursday. Freedom of speech ~ going, going, gone. What does that speak of his character?
And that's just the beginning.
My family were lifelong Democrats, but sadly that party has been infiltrated with extreme liberal-leftists. It is no longer the Party of my favorite President of all time ~ Harry Truman, a simple haberdasher before he ran for and won the Presidency in the early 50's. He was an HONEST and PATRIOTIC American. I am sad to say this cannot be said about Obama. His choice of friends and backers include American terrorists, Black-supremacy ministers, Nation of Islam leader, Palistinian and Saudi advisors, Marxist multi-billionaire and Marxist teachers, convicted Federal felon, and, to boot, he went to Kenya to campaign for his cousin, Raila Odinga, butcher of Kenya. He made these choices in his adult years.
Can you, in your heart of hearts, believe he is not a puppet for those who want to bring this great nation to it's knees? It's always about his Blackness. What about his Whiteness? I have never in my life been a bigot as I am in a true minority.
If you know any thing about the State of Illinois you would know it is the hotbed of corrupt politics and he chose to move there, leaving a lucrative position with an elite law firm in New York.
Sadly, he took the wrong turn to further his own socialistic ambitions.
Do you actually believe his campaign has raised $600 MILLION from ordinary working people in this country?
My sister, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat (like I once was), a highly intelligent post-college graduate, hates President Bush so much she is voting for Obama as a PROTEST against Bush! But that's OK, I negated her vote by early-voting for McCain. At the very least, I know he has this country's best interests at heart. He is not going to penalize success by taxing (stealing) their assets to give to those who choose not to contribute any thing to this economy or to society in general,but, rather, expect productive citizens to continue to contribute to those life-long, generation after generation, way of life people on welfare.
Obama's tax records, which he was obliged to disclose, shows he and Michelle contributed 2% - yes, 2%, of his income to charity. He has stated he wants to spread the wealth, but not his wealth.
Does that show character and caring? He is a farce and a danger to this country.
save ourselves, who in the hell are you to tell anyone to bugger off. Why don't you leave you stinking socialist?
By the way, damn if I'll give anyone my money I don't wish to give it to. Since Obama is so willing to do spread the wealth, maybe you, Maher and you liberal idiot friends can advise Obama to spread his wealth from his campaign. I would love to see his reaction to that.
housebird,
Liberals are basically socialists since they believe in big government who thinks the government should run our lives.
save ourselves is on the wrong blog
Lilith, if you think Obama is capable of running this country then you category 10 moron, you stupid liberal bitch....MORON
Clydene questions McCain's character.
Let's Obama connections:
William Ayers
Rev. Wright
Louis Farrahkan
Tony Rezko
Khalidi (former spoksman for the PLO a terroist organization bent on destroying Israel)
If I were you Clydene asshole, I would keep my mouth shut when it comes to questioning ANY candidate's character.
The Pot calling the Kettle Black are we? Talk about your avergae liberal idiot.
For all you libs out there wanting to blame this administraton for the financial crisis, read on:
And as Card accurately states, there is hardly any honest journalism in today's media. It is called yellow journalism.
By Orson Scott Card October 5, 2008
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor -- which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house -- along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefitting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled Do Facts Matter? "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let's follow the money ... right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Franklin Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an "adviser" to the Obama campaign -- because that campaign had sought his advice -- you actually let Obama's people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn't listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension -- so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie -- that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad -- even bad weather -- on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth -- even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means. That's how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time -- and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter -- while you ignored the story of John Edwards's own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.
That's where you are right now.
It's not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation's prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama's door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe --and vote as if -- President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats -- including Barack Obama -- and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans -- then you are not journalists by any standard.
You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.
For all you libs out there wanting to blame this administraton for the financial crisis, read on:
And as Card accurately states, there is hardly any honest journalism in today's media. It is called yellow journalism.
By Orson Scott Card October 5, 2008
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor -- which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house -- along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefitting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled Do Facts Matter? "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let's follow the money ... right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Franklin Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an "adviser" to the Obama campaign -- because that campaign had sought his advice -- you actually let Obama's people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn't listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension -- so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie -- that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad -- even bad weather -- on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth -- even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means. That's how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time -- and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter -- while you ignored the story of John Edwards's own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.
That's where you are right now.
It's not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation's prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama's door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe --and vote as if -- President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats -- including Barack Obama -- and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans -- then you are not journalists by any standard.
You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.
JMP
I am answering your questions about the ADULTERY that Sen John S. McCain committed, not only with Cindy McCain, but A LOT of other women, that was your question. The question has been asked and answered. You asked me how I knew about it. I gave you the facts about your question.
Beyond this, you have called me a name, thus showing how you engage in intellectual discussion.
You remind me of a child, when questioned and told no, the say all their friends are doing it or bring up other questions.
Once again, BIG Republicans in my family, raised in the inner sanctum of the Republican party, and I will NOT VOTE for Sen John S. McCain III because of his selection of Sarah Palin for Vice President. But in case you were worried, it isn't just little old me doing this, none of my friends, who are also registered Republicans will be voting for the McCain/Palin ticket.
jmp: Respectable journalism, with few exceptions, is an oxymoron these days.
Wasn't it "Hardball" Chris Matthews who said a chill ran up/or down his leg when he heard Obama speak.
Factual reporting from the mainstream media? Forget about it. I did.
Del_Abe_Jones: In your cutesy Obama style rhetoric you ask where are John McCain's medical records.
Shouldn't you be more concerned with Barack Obama's refusal to release his campaign records? Just released a copy of his "birth certificate" ~ look closely, no creases or folds, because it was freshly printed. He was forced to show his tax returns from 2000 to date which show no interest paid on any school loans for himself or is wife ~ could that be because their educations were funded by one Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, financial advisor to Saudi (hypocrite) royalty?
This is going no where fast, because you are all blinded by him whom Louis Farrakhan, Supreme Leader of the Nation of Islam, has called The Messiah.
Who is Obama The Messiah for? What is his plan for change? Why don't you ask him yourself;on second thought, don't bother because whatever he says is what you'll want to hear and you can bet it'll be a big, fat lie.
jmp
Wow. My, you have been a busy boy. Just when I thought this blog was getting boring.
I never said Joe the plumber didn't have a right to buy his bosses business. I said he's an idiot if he does. It would be much SMARTER of him to sub contract the work from his retiring boss for a nominal 12-15% fee, and build his own business.
First rule of business:
Never use your own money!!! Especially when you buy an established business. Once you put all your money into buying it, you usually have very little left for working capital. If you don't have working capital, you don't have a business.
Any questions, or just more, uninformed rude comments?
jmp,
You still think this financial crisis was caused by Fannie and Freddie? Do you know what derivatives or credit default swaps are? Try watching Bloomberg or CNBC.
Who's to blame? Clinton pushed through the "deregulation" of these things at the end of his term at the behest of Allan Greenspan. I guess you didn't see his testimony before congress last week.
Like I said before, Fannie and Freddie were just backing the loans that were being written by banks and mortgage companies. Fannie and Freddie represent those FDR, New Deal policies that conservatives fight to destroy everyday. What conservatives like to call "welfare state", or "big government". By the way, McCain's own campaign manager was taking money from F&F.
Terrorists? How about when McCain was dropping napalm on innocent women and children? Just kidding.
As far as electing Bush/Cheyney:
Are you kidding me? You must work for Exxon/Mobile or Haliburton. I doubt you've got the balls to work for Blackwater. You're much too scared of terrorists. If I saw bin Laden on the street, I blow his balls off with my 12 gauge. You'd probably run and hide like the coward you are. You're too afraid to try to solve the issues that confront this great nation of ours because it might cost too much money. The richest of Americans might have to pay the same taxes they did in the '90s. Boo Hoo. Get a grip or get the fuck out of the way.
Bush/Cheyney have run this country into the ground. If you can't see how much better off this country was under Clinton, you need to move from that shotgun shack and try living in the big city, or along the northeast corridor, where all this country's business is handled. Not Texas.
Genie,
Do you really want to know where Obama's money is coming from? I'll tell you. It's coming from the trial lawyers. Where else? They are using their client lists to donate money the same way Enron used their employee list to donate to "W". It's disgusting. We NEED TO TAKE THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!!!
Genie,
Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Hence, cronyism is contrary in practice and principle to meritocracy. Cronyism exists when the appointer and the beneficiary are in social contact; often, the appointer is inadequate to hold his or her own job or position of authority, and for this reason the appointer appoints individuals who will not try to weaken him or her, or express views contrary to those of the appointer. Politically, "cronyism" is derogatorily used.
Governments are particularly susceptible to accusations of cronyism, as they spend public money. Many democratic governments are encouraged to practice administrative transparency in accounting and contracting, however, there often is no clear delineation of when an appointment to government office is "cronyism". It is not unusual for a politician to surround him- or herself with highly-qualified subordinates, and to develop social, business, or political friendships leading to the appointment to office of friends, likewise in granting government contracts. In fact, the counsel of such friends is why the officeholder successfully obtained his or her powerful position — therefore, cronyism usually is easier to perceive than to demonstrate and prove.
In the private sector, cronyism exists in organizations, often termed 'the old boys club' or 'the golden circle', again the boundary between cronyism and 'networking' is difficult to delineate.
Moreover, cronyism describes relationships existing among mutual acquaintances private organizations where business, business information, and social interaction are exchanged among influential personnel. This is termed crony capitalism, and is an ethical breach of the principles of the market economy; in advanced societies, crony capitalism is a breach of market regulations, e.g. the Enron fraud is an extreme example of crony capitalism.
Given crony capitalism's nature, these dishonest business practices are frequently (yet not exclusively) found in societies with ineffective legal systems. Resultantly, there is an impetus upon the legislative branch of a government to ensure enforcement of the legal code capable of addressing and redressing private party manipulation of the economy by the involved businessmen and their government cronies.
The economic and social costs of cronyism are paid by society. In the form of reduced business opportunity for the majority of the population, reduced competition in the market place, inflated consumer goods prices, decreased economic performance, inefficient business investment cycles, reduced motivation in affected organizations, and the diminution of economically productive activity. A practical cost of cronyism is manifest in the bad workmanship of public and private community projects. Cronyism is self-generating, cronyism then begets a culture of cronyism. This can only be apprehended by a comprehensive, effective, and enforced legal code, and empowered government agencies who can effect prosecutions in the courts.
All appointments that are suspected of being cronyism are controversial. The appointed party may choose to either suppress disquiet or ignore it, depending upon the society's level of freedom of expression and individual personal liberty.
Some instances of cronyism are readily transparent. As to others, it is only in hindsight that the qualifications of the alleged "crony" must be evaluated.
--from Wiki--
Unfortunately, I think it was my state's government that invented that word. I know all about it. The frustrating thing about it, is that both parties are equally guilty of it. And, all types of government are guilty of it. Bush's first term was VERY guilty of it. Luckily, in his second term, we saw people like Gates and Paulson. Speaking of Gates, I heard the Obama people were considering keeping him on. Clinton's administration tried to provide some transparency. He did try to go for the "best and the brightest", regardless of party affiliation.
I received this email from the wife of a friend of mine from work. If you liberals still believe Obama is right for this country as president, then you people must be high on drugs, or living in a dream world.
FACTS.....JUST THE FACTS!!!
From Dreams of My Father:
'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13,
when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself
to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father :
'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father:
'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too
sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father:
'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show
your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father:
'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't
speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man,
son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself ,
the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
And FINALLY the most damning statement of ALL....
From Audacity of Hope:
'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an
ugly direction.'
* If you have never shared an e-mail, now is the time to do so!
We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!
I don't care whether you are a Democrat or a Republican.
We CANNOT turn ourselves over to this type of character in a President.
I think the title of this blog Republicans, stop calling Obama elitist is quite amuzing considering liberals have no problem calling Bush or Palin "Hitler" or McCain a "Nazi"
That's perfectly okay though isn't it. Like I said you liberals are elitests, just like Obama. You never go by the same standards you apply to us conservatives.
jmp
I don't call Bush, Palin or McCain Nazi or Hitler. But I call you Joe McCarthy!!! People like you, closed minded and brainwashed, are the real threat to freedom in this country.
Oh, JMP, your lips are made of fear, and your initials must stand for junior mental peon. Let's see, SOCIAList....uh, social, yeah, that's one thing we fake a great deal. One Society under the rich, one under the poor. Who makes the rich richer, just the rich? You're hopelessly lost in the rhetoric of republican money worship. I'll wait and see whose wealth is spread to whom, and if people who don't pay taxes and don't work get ahead from it, I'll be the first to decry it; but I won't get my info from Genie, whose bottle is made from fear. Don't you have some wealth to garner. How do you have time to argue with us "socialists"? You lack motivation, young man! But you've got plenty of venom.
JMP, you forget because the capacity of your one brain cell has been zapped! Try Lutein.
J(i)mp, you don't have a conservative bone in your body. In fact, I'll bet you're made of cartilage, or an even flabbier gelatinous fluid. You worm!
Jerry or jmp
YOU MUST be some kind of PATHETIC DUMB-ASS who quotes Orson Scott Card, A SCI FI WRITER who is a MORMON, who wears MAGIC UNDERWEAR, WHO believes his wife(s) will get their OWN PLANET to rule when they die. Who sat in a pool of water and let the elders of the LDS Church touch his body and that of his wife all over when they were "MARRIED." FOR CHRIST SAKES HE WRITES SCI FI, making things up.
You must be the most MORONIC person alive.
No one except those with an IQ below 75 would quote Orson Scott Card, MR. MORMON.
Jerry jmp
Do you touch your small pathetic cock each time you see Sarah Palin? You Betcha!
Bet you haven't been with a real woman for years, but you can masterbate your cock which doesn't even hold an errection for ONE Minute at pictures of your Sarah Palin. You Betcha!
I bet your are the uglest man in the US, FAT, and have BAD BREATH, with the SMALLEST COCK and that you're IMPOTENT with real women, and that is why you have to masterbate in front of pictures of the winking woman from Alaska, Sarah Palin. You Betcha!
SCREW YOU!
Oh I forgot, you are a Republican and probably like to take it up the ASS or give men BLOW JOBS in Men's Bathrooms in Airports. You probably can't even achieve an errection with a REAL WOMAN, just your Fantasy Sarah Palin. You Betcha!
Damn, Girl! Not Lilywhite, Lilith, but holy shit, you told him. I agree, he likes to beat up on women he doesn't know are hot. Jery the Imp, he's a mean, mad dude, scared to death of something. But...I digress. I sure wish Bill would interview musicians like this Legend guy before he puts them on his show. There must be a big can he draws names out of. I don't know, but this is what happens when kids become musicians before they get an education, or at least take a public speaking course. And as for this Connie Schultz gal, don't quote the Bible, or declare what God loves if you're making it up. It isn't as simple as "God loves everyone."
I just saw a commercial run by letfreedomring.org. I guess it was their take on Joe the plumber. Instead, it was Fred the farmer, I guess, because there was a tractor in the background. He said he has an opportunity to grow his small business by 20 or 30 employees but, if Obama is president he won't. I guess he's afraid of paying more taxes.
Here's the thing. Yeah, he'll probably be in a higher tax bracket and have to pay a higher percentage but, HE'LL STILL BE MAKING MORE MONEY. If I had a chance to grow my business by 20 or 30, I'd do it even if Forest Gump was president.
When I estimate a job or bill out a time/material job, I figure about $30/man hour. I pay an employee $15/hr. After payroll taxes and business insurance it costs me about $20/hr., so I make about $10/hr for each employee. Multiply that by 30 employees, and I'm making $300/hr.
Of course I wouldn't really be making quite that much, because I'd have to hire more support staff for bookkeeping, estimating, supervisors, etc. and buy more equipment. Not only that, I would probably have to incorporate my business at that point. I'd probably get a better rate on worker's comp and liability insurance. As I said before, taxes would very low on my list of concerns for growing my business. Higher tax rates can be taken care by increased deductions and credits.
Lilith
C'mon now. Not all of us "men" were blessed like the late great John Holmes.
I checked out your web page. Is that a picture of you with the snake? Nice tits.
I just read this on the internet.
WASHINGTON – A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. signed an order Friday requiring the department to produce the memos by the White House legal counsel's office by Nov. 17. He said he will review the memos in private to determine if any information can be released publicly without violating attorney-client privilege or jeopardizing national security.
Kennedy issued his order in response to lawsuits by civil liberties groups in 2005 after news reports disclosed the wiretapping.
The department had argued that the memos were protected attorney-client communications and contain classified information.
But Kennedy said that the attorney-client argument was "too vague" and that he would have to look at the documents himself to determine if that argument is valid and also to see if there is information that can be released without endangering national security.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said Saturday the department is reviewing the opinion and will "respond appropriately in court."
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on calls between people in the U.S. and suspected terrorists abroad without obtaining court warrants. The administration said it needed to act more quickly than the court could and that the president had inherent authority under the Constitution to order warrantless domestic spying.
After the program was challenged in court, Bush last year put it under the supervision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, established in 1978 after the domestic spying scandals of the 1970s.
"We think just as a common sense matter the legal theories for the president's wiretap programs cannot be classified and should be available to the public," said Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, one of the groups seeking the memos.
"It's an important decision because up to this point the judge has relied on the government's assertion that it has done everything properly under the law and that it has disclosed everything it needs to disclose," Rotenberg said Saturday.
My question is how come a judge never ordered the wiretapping memos to be relased during the Clinton administration when he did the exact same thing to Aldrich Ames in 1995, an American citizen weho was convicted of selling secrets to the Russians. These damn libs in Congress never asked for an investigation in to this like they did with George Bush. Another reason I despise liberals. they are northing but two-faced assholes who think they so much better than us conservatives.
lilith,
I seldom say this to woman, but you no woman. Screw yourself in the ass...BITCH
yes you mike m,
You said Joe the Pluumber had no right buying his boss' business by refrring to you that you built your business from the ground up. Bully for you, but this what you said.
mike m said...
jmp
I don't call Bush, Palin or McCain Nazi or Hitler. But I call you Joe McCarthy!!! People like you, closed minded and brainwashed, are the real threat to freedom in this country
I never said you did asshole, it is people of your ilk that say. It is your asshole, socialist liberals who are the biggest threat to this nation through appeasement of terrorism, socialism, so get your fucking story straight. You have been brainwashed by the liberal bias media for years and you have shown it you stupid jackass.
Lilith said...
Jerry or jmp
YOU MUST be some kind of PATHETIC DUMB-ASS who quotes Orson Scott Card, A SCI FI WRITER who is a MORMON, who wears MAGIC UNDERWEAR, WHO believes his wife(s) will get their OWN PLANET to rule when they die. Who sat in a pool of water and let the elders of the LDS Church touch his body and that of his wife all over when they were "MARRIED." FOR CHRIST SAKES HE WRITES SCI FI, making things up.
You must be the most MORONIC person alive.
No one except those with an IQ below 75 would quote Orson Scott Card, MR. MORMON.
I have an IQ better than 75 moron. I geuss your IQ is been lowere below 10. You certainly are one of the biggest morons to ever walk the face of the earth along with your stupud liberal cohorts on this site. I have concluded liltih you rank as one of the Biggest and one of the most pathetic Dumbasses to walk the earth. What Card said is what everyone else has said on Fox News, even Dick Morris. Lilith, I k now you must have had ahrd time getting a good education growing up, but you do know who Dick Morris is don't you. Let me help that brainwasjed pathetic brain of yours. He was Bill Clinton's politcal advisor for 25 years from governorship through 8 years in the White House. He even said this financial crisis started with Clinton. Pat Cadeell, a democrat has said the same thing. Does that mean some republicans are not to take the blame? Sure they are. But is it mostly the democrats since they blocked every attemept by Mr. Bus and Mr. NcCain to get bills through Congres to oversee and regulate the banmking system since they predicted this would happen as far back as 2001. Read about it, as Mark Levin would say, you will be better educated because apparently you have no education when it come this issue or any other issue for that matter.
Let me also sya this to lilith,
Through Obama's spreading the worth philosophy, if I were to make $250,000 on my books, does that means he has the right to tax me more and distribute it to other people who didn't earn it? $300,000$250,000, $200,000, $150,000, this are the different figures Obama and Biden have come with to spread the wealth. Answer my question. Does Obama have the right to tax me more in that instance and give it to other people? If you agree with that, then you are not a socialist, but a communitst like all liberals are.
Jerry jmp
Oh, did I hit too close to home on my post? You male Republicans are sure fire interested in who is taking it up the ASS.
No sane-rational person would choose Sarah Palin to be one heart beat away from the Presidency. Guess the men in white coats at the Looney Bin where you are currently staying are on their coffee break and you are once again posting from the computer, next time they pass the medication cups make sure you take all your pills.
Yes, but it is Saturday, you have the whole day to masterbate in front of pictures of Sarah Palin. The Sarah Palin picture is the only woman you will ever have sex with again, a picture of a moose killing category 5 moron.
Common admit it, you can't get it up for a REAL woman because your small flacid cock can't get hard anymore, and if it did you have a problem with premature ejaculation.
Or maybe it is you need the fettish of screwing other men in airport bathrooms to make you hard or is it really that you think about Sarah Palin field dressing a moose that makes you hard, all those blood and guts flowing around making you hard.
But you are the type of LOW GRADE MORON who posts letters that they read on the internet before they find out the back ground of a person. Yeah, laughed so hard when I saw your Orson Scott Card post. Didn't even know he was a Mormon did you Moron?
UGLY, FAT, BAD BREATH, SMALL COCK AND IMPOTENT. Would say that sums up the current state of affairs for jmp.
Have fun jerking off to your pictures of Sarah Palin, cause that is the only woman you will ever have again.
jerry jmp
hard to believe that you are an author with so many misspellings in your postings.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA You making $250,000 on a book. Vanity Press doesn't count you low grade Moron, for getting a book published. When the come around with your medication tray take more Ativan it will calm your nerves.
jmp
You're right I apologize about Joe the plumber. When I said he has no right, I didn't mean it literally. I meant he has no business buying his bosses business because he knows nothing about running a business. See how wordy that is?
My mistake. Thanks for catching that. Next time I'll check my thesaurus for a synonym.
You do know what that is.
Thanks mike, yes I have great tits.
Well, my comments werent' for all men, just Jerry jmp, but he really isnt' a REAL man as we all can see, he can only get off by jerking off to pictures of Sarah Palin.
mike
don't apologise I think that Joe the Plumber was right, his boss probably is making 250,000 a year but is only claiming 110,000 on his taxes.
When they came out with the real figures that is what I thought that he and his boss probably do a lot of deals for cash that they are not reporting to the IRS.
lilith,
Hey now, if it weren't for the occasional cash job, we contractors would actually have to show up on jobs when we say we are going to.
Did you read my post about the inflatable Sarah Palin love doll I found on an adult web site? jmp probably already has one. And he had to buy the repair kit, twice.
Oh, and I'm not apologizing for all my comments on "Joe the plumber". Just that one word. Some people love to take things out of context.
jmp
oh GREAT Author, let me diagram this sentince for you.
I seldom say this to woman, but you no woman.
I seldom say this to "a" woman, but you "are" no woman.
I seldome say this to "any" woman, but you (you're) no woman.
Again, HA HA HA HA HA that you wrote a book, only in your mind you LOW GRADE MORON.
Did your keepers come back and find you on their computer or are you jerking off to your picture of Sarah Palin.
mike
yes I saw your posting about the Palin blow up doll. you are right jmp is probably using her right now, but probably not the hole you expect.
HA HA HA HA HA that he is an author, which is just too funny.
jmp
You're absolutely right. We should keep cutting taxes for the wealthy until they pay NO taxes. Hell, we should just give them money for being wealthy. They earned it. Under Bush/Cheyney, the top 1% has seen their taxes go from over 40% to about 20% while the middle class pays about 30-35%. We didn't earn that. I can agree that 40% is high, but 20% is ridiculous, don't you think? Maybe we should consider a flat tax like liberal Jerry Brown of California did.
jmp
Joe McCarthy was the biggest threat to freedom and democracy in modern history. More than bin laden. He tried to do an end around the constitution by "blacklisting" certain journalists, authors, movie producers and politicians that didn't agree with his point of view. He even had the audacity of accusing the great American composer Aaron Copland of being a communist. But, he was gay and Jewish, right? He decried the lack of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union and in his 1954 Norton lecture, asserted that loss of freedom under Soviet Communism deprived artists of "the immemorial right of the artist to be wrong". He began to vote Democratic, first for Stevenson and then Kennedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
Sorry for my grammar mistake. I should have started a new paragraph when writing about Aaron Copeland. Don't want to confuse anyone, or be taken out of context, again.
jmp
I have no great love of the far left liberal. They are just as fucked up as the far right conservative. Anyone who would spike a tree is just as fucked up as someone who bombs an abortion clinic or a federal building in Oklahoma City, and just as fucked up as someone who flies a plane into a building. Killing innocents is the way of the coward.
lilith
I like your attitude. Not afraid to stand up for yourself. Fifty years ago, you would have been locked up in a mental institution.
In the '50s my grandmother was divorced. She became a bookkeeper. The reason she's still a bookkeeper is she wasn't allowed to be an accountant.
In college I had an older female physics professor who had a master's degree. The reason she had a masters degree is because she wasn't allowed to get her PhD.
Women like Sarah Palin really bug the hell out me. It was only because of progressive liberal ideas that she was able to become Gov. of Alaska.
Lilith,
Orson Scott Card is a great science fiction writer and a nice person. His misguided views of the news media are just that, misgudied. And While Mr. JMP did act you, well perhaps you have gone a bit to far.
Mike,
I agree with you about the bombings, that they were done by sad people. But, I think it is much more sad that an "American" was responsible for the Federal Building in Oklahoma.
I am also reminded that American Indian citizen who was a Sihk wearing a turbin was dragged out of a gas/convenience store and murdered after 9/11. I think that this type of racism that is an underlying current in our country.
Because it is different we assume it is Muslim, and Muslim equates to Anti American.
Why can't we all just get a long.
"Balbir Singh Sodhi, killed in front of his Mesa, Ariz. gas station on Sept. 15, 2001, was the first fatality of a post-9/11 hate crime. His turban and beard, the religious uniform for Sikh men, marked him as 'Muslim-looking' to his killer Frank Roque, who was convicted in 2004"
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050909005740&newsLang=en
clydene
I am sorry!
I am sorry that Jerry JMP has such a small pathetic cock that he has to materbate to pictures of Sarah Palin to get off. I am sorry he is so stupid that he believes he will make $250,000 on the book he is authoring.
And your sentence should read, it would be "too far", not "to far".
DUH!
clydene
Yes, it is sad. He probably came to this country partly because Sikhs are persecuted by both the Indian Hindus and the Pakistani Muslims. God Bless the USA. Kill them all and let God sort it out. We've got to keep good ol' St. Peter busy. Lord knows, he needs the work.
lilith
If a small business is showing over 250,000, they are probably laundering drug money for the mob. Seriously.
A part of lilith's comments.
Common admit it, you just want to have sex with the beauty queen that Caribou Barbie. If you really think she is intelligent enough to be Vice President, or for that matter Govenor of Alaska, then you are a a Category 6 Moron.
MORON!
Does that mean you want to have sex with Obama, Bitchin Moron. Go to hell asshole.
mike m said...
lilith
If a small business is showing over 250,000, they are probably laundering drug money for the mob. Seriously.
Prove your point, you f****** moron. You probably sue ths tuff right mike. That's why your brain and that of lilith are so out of touch with reality. What makes you think a small busienss can't make 250,00 without laundrying in drugs. Prove it or shut the f*** up.
saveourselves: Your comment concerning my "bottle of fear" ~ you're durn tooting I'm afraid. This article is a bit lenghty, but necessary to read in it's entirety. It proves Obama hates the "White Man's society" and is determined to bring it down.
Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says
Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:59 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.
The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a “hate group.”
Farrakhan has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.” In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: “These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"
Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments – but not the man -- during the Democratic primary season earlier this year, but only after Hillary Clinton called him out for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.
He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.” See Video: Farrakhan Endorses Obama, Calls Him Messiah.
Once the news media and the Clinton campaign got hold of those comments from Farrakhan, demands mounted from all sides that Obama “renounce” Farrakhan.
But as he has done repeatedly throughout this campaign, Obama was careful to parse his words.
“You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments,” he said during one appearance on “Meet the Press.” “I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible.”
Obama hastened to point out that Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
But Obama, once again, was less than candid.
In 1995, according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader newspaper, Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.”
At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side, a seat he won after getting surrogates to challenge the signatures on nominating petitions for his chief rival, the incumbent Alice Palmer.
The march, which fell far short of attracting the million men it advertised, was organized by Farrakhan and by Obama’s then-pastor, the anti-white black nationalist Wright.
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago Reader upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said.
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
“Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."
“Black nationalism” is a current of thought and political action in the African-American community that has been championed by the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Khalid al-Mansour. Obama discussed his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”
Obama further parsed his words in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, where he insisted that Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.”
And yet, just months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”
That award was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men, White told Newsmax. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States.
Wright also accompanied Farrakhan and Jackson to Syria in 1986, where they successfully negotiated with Syrian strongman for the release of downed American pilot Robert O. Goodman.
Obama’s Speaking Style
In addition to the ideological affinity Obama expressed for the black nationalist movement, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and exploited for years to great success.
“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like,” White said.
Any American who has listened to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear how dramatically Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator.
In clips dating from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly and in long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and dense pseudo-academic rhetoric. But not today.
“As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak,” White told Newsmax. “I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style.”
White began in the late 1970s as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the military branch of Farrakhan’s Black Muslim group, then rose to become a minister of the Nation of Islam and a top deputy to Farrakhan himself.
Known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad, he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization.
White’s 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” prompted death threats by Farrakhan loyalists, so he left Illinois and moved to Florida to teach at the University of Central Florida.
He told Newsmax that Obama’s remarkable speaking style, even his manner of standing at a podium to appear larger than life, is directly copied from Farrakhan.
“If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister,” he said.
Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.
Newsmax queried Obama’s U.S. Senate office, his Chicago office and his campaign press office about his ties to Farrakhan, but did not receive a reply.
Ever since he appeared before the annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in June, Obama has attempted to convince the Jewish community that he is pro-Israel.
But his longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many Jewish community leaders.
Sen. John McCain publicly chastised The Los Angeles Times on Thursday for not releasing a videotape the newspaper said it possessed of a 2003 dinner for Khalidi, where Obama reportedly accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.
saveourselves: more from genie's bottle of fear:
The public outcry of real Americans like you and Joe the Plumber is finally getting some light shed on Mr. Obama's wealth redistribution agenda supported by Socialist Democrats in Congress. The corrupt media can't hide it any longer. The plan is to bring an end to the America we know and love; to bring an end to freedom and liberty.
They want total control of what you see, hear, think, and do. They will stop at nothing. NOW, they are aiming at your 401k retirement plan and they are going for the kill.
Yes that's right, Liberals in government want to seize these assets for their own. Just look at what James Pethokoukis, the money and politics blogger for U.S. News & World Report has said,
In place of 401(k) plans, she would have workers transfer their dough into government-created "guaranteed retirement accounts" for every worker. The government would deposit $600 (inflation indexed) every year into the GRAs. Each worker would also have to save 5 percent of pay into the accounts, to which the government would pay a measly 3 percent return. Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, said that since "the savings rate isn't going up for the investment of $80 billion [in 401(k) tax breaks], we have to start to think about whether or not we want to continue to invest that $80 billion for a policy that's not generating what we now say it should."
Straight from the jackasses mouth, the Democratic plan is to SIEZE your 401k and take $80 billion that is currently the property of American citizens. Effectively, this plan will end all of the incentives that the majority of Americans not only enjoy but rely on. I am sure you or someone you know takes advantage of their employer matching their 401k contribution. Under the iron fist of the Democratic empire your employer would no longer receive a tax benefit for matching your contribution, so they won't do it. And you will lose half of your retirement contributions. And don't forget, that you will lose your tax breaks from the 401k plan also, so you'd be paying the government to let you retire. Sounds like fun?
Don't let the tyrannical rule of socialists take hold, put a stop to the unholy trinity of the Democrat controlled Senate and House and potential president Obama. Do not let Barrack Obama bring an end to this great country!
SaveOurselves said...
Oh, JMP, your lips are made of fear, and your initials must stand for junior mental peon. Let's see, SOCIAList....uh, social, yeah, that's one thing we fake a great deal. One Society under the rich, one under the poor. Who makes the rich richer, just the rich? You're hopelessly lost in the rhetoric of republican money worship. I'll wait and see whose wealth is spread to whom, and if people who don't pay taxes and don't work get ahead from it, I'll be the first to decry it; but I won't get my info from Genie, whose bottle is made from fear. Don't you have some wealth to garner. How do you have time to argue with us "socialists"? You lack motivation, young man! But you've got plenty of venom.
you're damn right saveourselves, I have plenty of vnom for liberals who speak nothing but garbage. As for my initals. They stand for a common name unlike your username which means what you liberals are...socialist, communist pigs.
If yuo want this country to become a socialist society, wy not live in Cuba, China, Venzuela, North Korea, you live under a socilaist government all you want. But not here. COMMUNIST.
Hey lilith,
I am too a writing science fiction/horror. I could write about the horrors that goes through the far left liberal mind like yours that would scared the hell out of anyone. Speaking of underwear, why don't you wear your underwear over your head because that's where it belongs so it can cover that liberal face and shut that stupid liberal mouth of yours up. One good insult deserves another.
Jerry jmp
Your keepers in the white coats must be on their evening break at the Looney Bin.
Only interested in Obama as President because he is he best educated of the bunch and I know he can do the job of getting this country back on track.
Unlike your Caribou Barbie Bimbo, who took 5 universities to get a journalism degree, and who could not NAME ONE newspaper or ONE magazine when she was asked what she reads and that she knows all about Russia because she can see it from her house. Yeah, she is SO QUALIFIED to take over as presidenet if Grandpa Munster dies. NOT!
So continue masterbating to her picture with your pathetic small flacid cock and writing your multi million dollar grammatically correct prose. Of course your next material to beat off to will be of BIMBO PALIN when takes the 21 million for her Playboy centerfold.
Bet you are just as UGLY as you are STUPID.
By the way, I haven't heard anylib commenting on those quotes by Obama from his book Dreams of My Father. Obama also shows he is a racist. And you libs still want him as president. God help us.
Again, HA HA HA HA HA that you wrote a book, only in your mind you LOW GRADE MORON.
Did your keepers come back and find you on their computer or are you jerking off to your picture of Sarah Palin.
Yes,
lilith I wrote three books and not only in my mind, you lowest form a human life, that of a liberal. Only in your mind do you exist as adecent person when in reality yuo live as a piece human garbage. You want to keep trading insults, keep it up bitch. I have plenty where those came from. So keep shooting your dumb liberal mouth off.
I think you people picked the perfect animal to symbolize the democratic party-The Stupid Jackass. How fitting?
So lilith is that what you dream of masterbating Obama. How sickening. You have already prove you are ugly wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz, probably moreso as stupid.
jmp
Again Vanity Press does not an author make. Dude there is no way you wrote two or three or four books as your prose is so gramatically flawed no real editor would touch the garbage you write.
Maybe you could get a job working with Joe the Plumber writing about snaking the sewers of Ohio. That would be the best place for you to show off you style FULL OF SHIT writing style.
AGAIN HA HA HA HA HA HA HA that YOU would make a living as an Author.
mike m says Joe McCarthy was more of threat to nationalk security than Bin Laden. Snorting more odf that cocaine are we mike. bin Laden murdered 3000 inncoent people on 9/11, I don't rec all mcCarthy doing that. Bin Laden has threatened kill more Americans and countries who ally with us because we either convert to Islam or we die. I guess you consider that in your pea-sized and mentally challeged brain a threat. Yes, both you and lilith deserve to be a mental institution along with the rest of the damn liberals in this country and far away from this great nation as we can get you.
jmp
So scared of your words. But I must have hit a true nerve with you and your Bull Shit.
You are UGLY, HAVE A SMALL FLACID PENIS, YOU ARE FAT and HAVE BAD BREATH. All reason why REAL women won't have sex with you. On top of this you are and AUTHOR, FAMOUS the next DEAN KOOTZ, but only in your mind. FANTASY LAND, the same place you FXXK Caribou Barbie, Sarah Palin.
AGAIN YOU! WRITE BOOKS! NO WAY BUDDY. HA HA HA HA HA you are such a JOKE go work with Joe because you are both FULL OF SHIT.
I doubt it will do any good because far too many people are focused on the presidential campaign to deal with the real problem in this country, but here goes my bit for democracy:
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security."
-- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
A plea for your vote
Within the history of our nation, we as individuals have come together in a
common goal in support of our country. This was done at the birth of our
democracy. Again, we worked in concert during World War II whether on the
battlefield or at home. I believe the present crisis our country is facing is
another time in our history, a time when we, as individuals need to act in a
concerted effort to keep the democratic republic our founding fathers envisioned
alive.
This act is one that will require us all to set aside partisan politics.
Distance ourselves from whichever political party we affiliate with and divorce
ourselves from the typical "hot button" issues that divide us within the
political arena. We can even set aside our choice of president in this action.
The president may be the leader of this country, but each one has but a short
time to impact our lives and the long term course of our nation.
Like any act for the common good, it won't be easy. It never is to deny the
innate desire to act in one's self interest. But this will be required to keep
the sanctity of the constitution intact. The enormity of what Congress has done
has been culminated in the legislation that obligated nearly one trillion
dollars of our tax dollars to nationalize what we have always referred to as the
"Free Market". Our Congress has taken the single greatest step yet toward
creating a Socialist Republic of America. Before such comments make you stop
reading, consider that the Federal Reserve Bank now owns a significant stake in
many banks whose stocks are trading on the world's market.
We need to remove every member of Congress that is up for re-election on
November 4th. Anything less will not send the message to OUR representatives
that is necessary to take back the control of our country.
Which of us has not been grievously impacted by this legislation or the
legislation that caused the current crisis. To dispel the notion that the
mortgage and banking industry was all to blame for this, keep in mind that
our free market operates within the laws that Congress enacts. After our
representatives assured us that this action was needed to insure stability in
the market, we have all watched helplessly as our 401K, SEP, IRA and annuities
have been cut by half or more. Those of us still working have had years added to
our careers in order to recoup our retirement. Those in retirement now have to
worry if there will be enough money to keep them from going back to work.
Whether Democrat or Republican, Libertarian or Liberal, we must act in unison to
achieve the impact to the career politician's way of life in the same manner
that the politician has impacted ours. To remove such a number of those in
Congress in a coordinated manner would remind them of the responsibilities they
have shirked. Those remaining would see the resolve of the people whom they
swore an oath to serve. Such an act would give the individual voter the same
clout in Washington the lobbyists have too long enjoyed. We would be the special
interest. We, once again, would be the force behind our democracy.
All that is required is to vote against the incumbent in next month's election.
To do this together, talk to your family and friends. Convince them to do the
same. Join a non-partisan act to send a message to our government that we wish
to live in the democracy envisioned by the first patriots and won by all those
that have fought and died to keep our nation a democracy.
Vote for our country. Vote the incumbent out of office.
librarianconan:
“Primo vivere” says the Roman adage. You’ve got to survive first and you’ve got to be free too. Hence in this 2008 Presidential election, I will
vote on national security, that is national survival. All other issues are linked to our ability as a nation to make it through these very critical years. After having reviewed the two platforms from that perspective, and short of discovering what can change in the next few days, I wish Senator Obama good luck and, as an independent, I will vote for Senator McCain for the President of the United States.
Honesty is a virtue that has eluded Senator Obama, and without honesty we have nothing.
Ultimately Americans will decide about their future and whatever it will be, we will
continue to try to make it better for our children.
jmp
I said, "Joe McCarthy was the biggest threat to freedom and democracy in modern history." Not national security.
bin laden murdered innocent people. Anybody can do that. McCarthy tried to poison the minds of normally decent Americans by spreading fear and lies for his own personal gains. Much like you are doing, but not very well. He also tried to gut the constitution, the very fabric of our freedom and democracy. I guess you don't care about the constitution so long as we're safe from terrorists. The pen IS mightier than the sword. Please go back and hide in your little hole you fucking coward. You're pen is out of ink, and your sword is broken.
Fucking McCarthyist. You can't handle freedom. You belong in China or North Korea where people aren't burdened with having to think for themselves. It's all done for them.
I don't need to prove the laundering accusation, I've seen it first hand. I'm Italian, and at one time dated the daughter of the president of the local chapter of an outlaw biker club with ties to organized crime. I've seen more than you can fabricate. Wake up. You have no idea what is really going on out there.
Genie
Rule of thumb. Never use the word honesty and any politicians name in the same sentence.
lilith
I'd much rather read about your tits than jmp's penis. Must be a guy thing. I don't mean to sound degrading.
That Rod Stewart song just popped up in my head. "In the morning, Don't say you love me, Cause I'll only kick you out of the door... You won't too much persuading, I don't mean to sound degrading, But with a face like that you've got nothing to laugh about... Let's go upstairs and read my Tarot cards... Hey what's your name again..."
Sorry, I digress.
Bill clinton gets blow jobs in the white house, in the limo and anywhere he can get it. Hilary puts up with it and you liberals say if it feels good, do it. Religion tries to set good morals for their children, hopefully they won't need an abortion. We have an energy in our body, without it we die, can't kill energy, it goes somewhere. A baby is alive at conception, it lives off it's mother and when it is born the dr. cuts the cord which is where the baby gets it's food and oxygen, it cries cause it's struggling to breathe, at this time, it breathes in it's own energy, it was just floating out there. There is afterlife, but no one knows what is going on out there. Scientist say we possess 6millions years of memory in our brain, maybe they know what they are talking about.
I don't know if I believe in God, I want too because of the miracle of life of any and all kinds.
At some point in time, humans advanced/developed their brain and thought processes. The humans were given the choice of doing bad or good things. If we were all born from Eve, then we were all from other family members. Creating not so normal people, that is why we have so many crazies today, we still have it going on in our society. Pretty sick.
This may piss you off and I don't mean too do that. The Jews wrote the old testament and the new testament. They set the standards for all mankind. They don't believe in Christ the messiah, but the Christians support the jews in fear God will punish them. What a come on, brilliant. They have all the control. Wars forever and forever. Obama and his muslim associates hate the jews, the jews are voting for him, I have to laugh.
Farrahkan believes Obama is the Messiah, Opra calls Obama “The One” he is muslim blood, his father is from Kenya for heaven sakes. Obama scares the hell out of many people, it isn't because he is black, but he and his cronies(clinton buddies) are sure trying to call this all racial if we don't vote for him. I don't want some muslim knocking on my door asking if I am Christian, if I say yes they kill me on the spot.
If you want to try and educate someone about bad religion, talk to Obama's buddy Farrakhan, straighten him up first, you would be helping society in the best way.
Yeah, religion has killed trillions of people on this earth, I hate what it has done for 1000's of years. Remember the jews wrote the bible, they started all this crap. Lets put the blame where it belongs. Abraham, had two boys, one was the king of jews and one was a muslim, and we have had pure hell every since.
If people are happy believing in God, let them be happy. We need something good going on and most of the religious people have good morals, unlike the Clintons. Oh maybe a man is judged by the notches on his bed post...Leave the religious people alone, let them enjoy life, they don't want to kill others, but the muslims sure as hell want to kill the jews and anyone who isn't a muslims, that means me and I don't take to kindly to the idea that a big muslim supporter is going to be running our white house, now I do pray to God because we are going to need it. You liberals just want someone to hear you, that is your job that is how you make money. I don't know why you want to destroy so many peoples happiness. Let the religious people alone, they do so many good things in our society.
As for me, my Christmas will never be the same. I would put up a tree, buy gifts for all my family and friends there was great spirit everywhere, we needed this time of the year to share love and laughter and the appreciation of Christ saving our souls. What is wrong with this? As you said tonight on Huckabees show, no one knows about the after life, but we sure know about life today. I believe so much about what you say, but I don't try to destroy someone else's beliefs or happiness. What's the point. You liberals and the aclu are destroying our country. Shame on you all. Who cares if the gays want to get married, but why set the other rules that are going to go along with it, like, discrimination. We are going to have to change all our text books and the churches are going to be considered hate organizations, what is the problem, why can't you leave well enough alone, if you are guy, get married, but don't try to destroy everybody else’s lives. The gays gets some rights and then they want even more. I think the bible does talk about the gays coming out of the closet. Oh oh. You movie stars should keep to entertaining us, we make you rich and you hate us, you get rich and then you think you are above everyone else, oh is that an elitist, I am sorry. I doubt it if you will post this, you can have your opinion and tell the world about it, but I doubt it if you will let my opinion be shown anywhere. I feel so sorry for you and the rest of your movie star liberals. If you want more socialism, why don't you pay for all the health benefits for the American people? You are much richer than these $40K yr earners, or even $250K earners. I tried to find your email, I wonder why you keep it from everyone, fox news loves emails.
scorpio
first of all you are an IDIOT. You Betcha!
You are the reason we have separation of church and state. You Betcha!
You are so scared of people who are different, Muslims. Barack Obama is NOT A MUSLIM. YOU BELIEVE THE ENUENDO of that LYING SACK OF SHIT SARAH PALIN, who is Breaking the 10 Commandments, THOU SHALT NOT BARE FALSE WITNESS. BUT IT IS OKAY FOR HER TO LIE because she is a CHRISTIAN, NOT. Do Christians do the things she has done, like try to fire her ex brother in law, by bareling FALSE WITNESS? WHAT KIND OF CHRISTIAN IS SHE? A BAD AND EVIL ONE. A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. You should beware of those who come in the GUISE of being a CHRISTIAN and by their ACTIONS are not a CHRISTIAN, if you are a TRUE CHRISTIAN! You Betcha!
Babies do not come out of the womb breathing on their own. They have to be stimulated, and the mucus must be cleared from their lungs and mouth. You obviously have never been to a neonatology unit and no nothing about human repoduction. You Betcha!
If people are HAPPY BELIEVING IN GOD that is GREAT, but IT IS NOT GREAT when they THRUST and FORCE OTHERS TO BELIEVE your WAY is the only way. Why not look at the Catholics and Protestents in IRELAND. YOU IDIOT You Betcha!
WHY DON'T YOU LEARN SOME HISORY you RACIST BIGGOT. WE GO THERE AND KILL THEIR PEOPLE TELL THEM WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR OIL - LOOK WHO OWNS THE LEASES - LOOK WHO STARTS THE PUPPET GOVERNMENTS. WE ARE RESPOSIBLE. WE INVADE OTHER COUNTRIES AND KILL THEIR PEOPLE. TELL THEM HOW TO RUN THEIR COUNTRY! WE DON'T OWN THEM! THEIR LAND DOES NOT BELONG TO US! Yes, let Christians be happy, be happy NOT FORCING THIER BELIEFS ON OTHERS or STEALING THEIR RESOURCES and forcing them to beleive the way WE DO!
Yeah Gay people are DIFFERENT only because YOU Say so, what you say is GAY AMERICANS don't have the same rights as other AMERICANS. YOU SHOULD KNOW THERE ARE A LOT MORE GAY MEN IN THE MILITARY THAN YOU WOULD SUSPSECT. So YOUR Amerrica is being defended by GAYS. YOU BIGGOT!
YOU RACISTS WHITE SUPPREMIST NATZI PIG.
Stupid ignorant people like you are why WE are known as UGLY AMERICANS.
Your opinion is less than 20% of this country. THANK GOD!
Bill, on the last episode of your show you were asking how it came to be that Obama was being called "Socialist." You assumed it was a racist jab in disguise and while true, its origin is this:
Ever since Rove came on the scene, anytime the Republican Party has been accused of something they immediately turn it around. And so, if you'll recall, ooooooh not a week before, there was a growing voice attacking the Wall Street bailout as socialism. So they (successfully!) made people forget that by stealing the term "socialist," saying it loudly and often and making it about Obama.
It's just what they do. Stop falling for it.
Last chance to save America:
Ex-CIA Expert: Obama Took Millions in Illegal Foreign Donations
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:27 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
A Newsmax investigation of Obama/Biden campaign contributors, undertaken in conjunction with a private investigative firm headed by a former CIA operations officer, has identified 118 donors who appear to lack U.S. citizenship.
Some of these “red flag” donors work for foreign governments; others have made public statements declaring that they are citizens of Cameroun, Nigeria, Pakistan, Canada, and other countries.
A Newsmax sampling of about 3,400 donors also found hundreds more who showed “yellow flags” such as not having used a Social Security number or a known U.S. address. Most U.S.-born citizens are issued Social Security numbers at birth or by the time they enter kindergarten.
Under federal law, only U.S. citizens or permanent residents may donate to federal political campaigns. It is illegal for the campaigns to accept money knowingly from foreign donors.
The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill of 2002 placed new restrictions on political fundraising after the scandals of 1996, when the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign was exposed for having taken millions of dollars of unregulated soft money from donors with ties to Chinese military intelligence.
But even with the new laws, it remains very difficult to identify with any precision foreign money if a campaign itself does not cooperate with the Federal Election Commission and perform its own due diligence.
Until very recently, the Obama campaign had no safeguards in its online fundraising Web site designed to weed out foreign donors. Instead, its operations appeared to be designed specifically to enhance the flow of illegal money.
The Newsmax investigation focused only on donors whose names the Obama campaign disclosed, which are available to public scrutiny through the Federal Election Commission Web site.
In addition to the donations the campaign has disclosed, however, it has taken an unprecedented $218 million from donors whose names it is keeping secret, according to FEC spokesman Robert Biersack.
That money came from individuals who in theory never passed the threshold of $200, the limit the FEC set for public disclosure of a donor’s name and place of residence, so there is no way of knowing how much foreign money could be included in that amount.
For example, hidden away amidst the unprecedented $150 million Obama claims to have raised from individual donors in September was more than $42 million raised from secret donors. These donations appear in the records as a single entry under the heading, “Donors, Unitemized.”
Newsmax retained the services of former CIA operations officer Frederick W. Rustmann Jr. and a team of international forensic accounting experts to comb through Obama’s donor list to identify those who apparently aren’t U.S. citizens or residents. Rustmann, a 24 year veteran field officer, operates CTC International Group Ltd., a West Palm Beach, Fla., firm that provides business intelligence services and analysis.
Using sophisticated Internet search tools, fee-based data bases, and other public records, CTC attempted to identify Social Security numbers and U.S. addresses connected to the Obama donors. Most of these donors gave obvious overseas addresses when they made their donations, but the Obama campaign had no security screen to detect them.
“Hillary and McCain demanded proof of citizenship of all their donors,” Rustmann said. “Obama did not, so he benefitted by receiving an enormous amount of money from foreign donors who wanted to influence the U.S. election process.”
Rustmann and his investigative team expressed “high suspicions” that 118 donors flagged as “red” were not U.S. citizens.
“That’s all we can say for certain, because it’s difficult to prove citizenship with no database that lists citizens,” Rustmann said.
Typical is Victor A. of Lagos, Nigeria, who gave $500 to the campaign in May. In the FEC database, his address is listed as Ikoyi, NA. But a closer look at the actual itemized receipts filed by the campaign shows that he declared his address as 9e Awori Street Dolphin Estate, Lagos, Nigeria.
That apparently slipped by the eagle eyes of the Obama campaign’s finance team.
A survey of the Obama donor base returns 8,794 donations from individuals who gave their state as “NA.” They included donors from Bangalore, India; London; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Lagos, Nigeria; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Thousands more gave state abbreviations that, combined with the city addresses they listed, clearly referred to foreign countries. Examples include IT (Italy), FR (France), GR (Greece), NZ (New Zealand), JP (Japan), GA (Gaza).
Another 2,372 donors gave their state of residence as “ZZ,” with cities including Moscow, Barcelona, Beirut, London, Lausanne, Singapore, Hagatna, Gunma-Ken, Buelach, Shanghai, Geneva, Prague, Aichi-Gun, Kiev, Hong Kong, and others.
The Obama campaign claims that these donors with overseas addresses are Americans living abroad, but there is no way of knowing that for certain because the campaign has not systematically required proof of citizenship from overseas donors.
The pace of foreign donations and other questionable fundraising practices has increased during the past few weeks, even as Obama campaign spokesmen say they have closed loopholes on their Web site and changed the credit-card authorization procedures that have allowed such donations. The Federal Election Commission had flagged 16,639 potential foreign donations as of Oct. 21 that brought in $5,249,263.96 to the campaign.
Take the case of Jo Jacquet, who gave $23,065 to Obama in 23 separate contributions last month. CTC found three people with variations of the name “Jo Anna Jacquet” who had U.S. addresses and Social Security numbers. It is not clear whether this specific Obama donor is a U.S. citizen.
“Jo Jacquet” made all of her contributions on two days, alternating between $5 and $2,300 charges to a credit card.
On all of the donations, she gave her employer as “DFDFGDFG,” and her profession as “DFGDFGDFGHFGH.” None of this attracted the suspicions of the Obama campaign or of Chase Paymentech, the company that processes the Obama campaign’s credit card donations.
The FEC requested that the Obama campaign re-attribute or re-designate all of the money from “Jo Jacquet” that went beyond the $4,600 limit but did not require that it be refunded. Under campaign finance rules, the campaign can shift this money into the “Obama Victory” account, a joint fundraising committee with much higher individual limits that it operates with the Democratic National Committee.
One apparent reason for the unusual number of foreign donors who may not hold U.S. citizenship is the fact the Obama campaign turned off the security features most merchants demand for customers when doing online transactions, such as verifying the card number against the cardholder’s name and billing address.
Another major loophole is the apparent widespread use of gift cards, which notoriously have been used for money-laundering purposes, especially in places such as Russia and Ukraine, industry security analysts tell Newsmax.
Newsmax asked James Wester, a spokesman for Chase Paymentech, who was responsible for taking the unusual step of deactivating the Address Verification Service recommended by VISA USA on the Obama Web site. Such security features can be deactivated by the processing company, or at the request of the merchant, in this case, Obama for America.
Wester said that Paymentech was “not going to be issuing a statement at this time.”
VISA USA has a series of verification tools it recommends to online merchants to prevent online credit card fraud and to guarantee the security of personal credit-card information.
“Fraudsters have been known to test credit card numbers by making online donations to charitable organizations,” a credit-card industry insider told Newsmax, on condition of anonymity.
In fact, by operating as a “high-risk merchant,” the Obama campaign could put both its donors and Chase Paymentech at risk, he said.
“A legitimate online merchant or charity would call in the Secret Service or the FBI” if it saw the high fraud rates that have appeared on the Obama campaign Web site.
“If they are not taking basic security safeguards to prevent such obvious online fraud as you have found, then how can any donor have confidence that they will protect credit card information? But if cash flow is the name of the game, it doesn’t matter as long as they get the money up-front and get the job done. They can pay the fines later,” he added.
Following are a few of the individuals the Newsmax/CTC International investigation found of overseas donors. To demonstrate its compliance with FEC regulations, the Obama campaign should request proof that these individuals are, indeed, U.S. citizens;
Nasser Z. of 187 Blvd Bineau in Paris-France, “NA,” made seven donations totaling $785. CTC found no record indicating U.S. citizenship. But on Nasser’s personal blog, he states that he is of Algerian origin and lives between Paris and Dubai. He also notes that he is not registered to vote in the United States and hints that he may be an adviser to the Obama campaign on Arab relations.
Salem H. gave $200 to the campaign in March 2008, listing a London address. He said he worked as a salesman for “Anaka,” No information was found either on Haffar or his company indicating U.S. citizenship.
Essomba H. made 11 donations totaling $265. Essomba gave an address in Lyon, “NA,” and said he was unemployed but working for “Association,” the French equivalent of a community organizer. CTC found that Essomba actually worked for PDT Associates Afrikespace et Oyenga, which showed him as living in Lyon, France. His personal blog states, "I'm a Cameroonian living in France” and notes that he is not registered to vote.
Gedewon (or Gideon) G. made 32 donations totaling $1,095. Although he lists his employer as “Filtom Design Services” and his residence as Toronto, Canada, CTC could find no company with that name. Gedewon frequently posts blogs to a Web site for expatriate Eritreans, where he often promotes Obama.
Mahamane M. gave $500 to the campaign and listed his address as Niamey, the capitol of the central African state of Niger. He listed his occupation as managing director of C.N.U.T. Niger. The Public Transport Users Council, CNUT is affiliated with the prime minister’s office. In an interview, Mahamane said he is particularly interested in developing transportation resources that will help bring Niger’s extensive uranium resources to market.
Gilles M. lives in Zurich and claims to be “founder and senior consultant” of 4?ME (sic) Image Consulting. Gilles made three donations to the campaign for a total of $240.39. The campaign found him suspicious enough to return one of them in July, but kept the rest. Under FEC rules, that will bring Gilles back into the shadows, since his aggregate contributions now total less than $200.
Stamen S. of Sofia, Bulgaria, lists his profession as “Mployer” and his employer as "Employer." He has made ten donations totaling $170. CTC found no record indicating U.S. citizenship.
Francis B. . of La Creche, France, made three donations totaling $200. He is reported as being a medicine physician at Hospital-Niort and is listed. CTC found no verifiable record of U.S. citizenship.
Pedro M.,. who said he was a salesman for Intermundo in Prague, made two donations for a total of $900. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
Sandeep M., . an investment manager at Clariden Leu, Kuesnacht, in Zurich, Switzerland, gave the maximum $2,300 allowed per election. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
Marissa M., . a nurse living in Guatemala City, gave eight $25 donations. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
Somine L. . declared that she worked at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and donated $100. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
Although CTC had no way of accurately evaluating the real amount of foreign donations based on the survey they did for Newsmax, Rustmann said he believe that the anecdotal evidence was clear.
“In my opinion, from what I have seen here, millions of dollars came from illegal donations, because the Obama campaign did little to vet the donors,” Rustmann said.
An earlier Newsmax estimate, based on the unusual occurrence of unrounded contributions, which fundraising experts attributed to foreign currency donations, concluded that as much as $63 million could have come from foreign sources.
A veteran investigator with the Criminal Investigative Division of the U.S. Secret Service told Newsmax on Monday that most of the donor fraud Newsmax has identified could fly under the radar of federal investigators, unless the feds received a complaint from a victim of identify fraud.
Identify fraud certainly appeared to be the case when it came to the $174,800 donated in September in the name of Manchester, Mo., resident, Mary T. Biskup. A retired insurance manager, Biksup told The Washington Post that she never gave the money to the Obama campaign, and had checked her credit-card statements and couldn’t find any trace of a charge to her account.
“We're not out a penny," Biskup said. "I gather that someone has hacked into something using other people's credit cards and putting my name on it."
The credit-card industry often covers up identify fraud, such as apparently occurred with Biskup. Credit-card companies would rather swallow losses and chargebacks than admit to consumers that criminals have cracked their security systems, insiders tell Newsmax.
It seems I was correct. Joe the Plumber has NO RIGHT to buy his bosses business, for the simple fact that HE DOESN'T HAVE A FUCKING LICENSE!!! Laws vary from state to state but, I think most states frown on operating a plumbing business without a plumber's license. Plus, the reason he's so concerned with taxes is because he OWES back taxes.
How pathetic. Joe the Plumber is a loser and a bum. Whoever in the McCain camp that is responsible for this should be bleeding out their asshole.
Genie
That's funny. I found nothing on Newsmax website about any of this credit card fraud. Just a lot of right wing selective reporting on issues that don't really matter.
I find it very unlikely someone would "turn off" these security features on purpose. I would think the transactions incurred would not be insured by Visa's insurance, leaving Visa open for huge lawsuits.
Banks, credit card companies and their insurance companies pay out billions of dollars due to credit card fraud. I can't see how anyone would actually encourage or allow this. Some websites may be more "secure" than others, but no one would actually "turn off" all security features. Every web site on the planet has safeguards in place. Even this one.
I'm sorry but your accusations are totally insane and make no sense whatsoever.
Now, if you told me people were donating through untraceable proxy servers, I might have believed you.
Genie
Credit card companies, banks, and retail sites are required, by law, to notify people, of possible, not actually, credit card fraud and/or loss of personal info. They can't cover it up. NOT POSSIBLE! Not only would they leave themselves open to civil litigation, but also criminal. If that were not the case, nobody, and I mean nobody, would ever pay a bill or buy anything online.
In fact, you are so off base, you can't be mistaken, you must be flat out lying!!!
mike ~ I'm just the messenger. This info was found on the Internet. I should have such an imagination as to make this stuff up.
All the info I have gathered has shown Obama has, indeed, accepted illegal donations from abroad, and as I've noted before, NOT from Americans.
There have been several very small articles in the newspapers bringing up this same thing.
I'll bet the Federal Elections Commission will end up investigating.
mike ~ please don't accuse me of lying.
Unlike many of you, I was taught at an early age that lying is a really bad thing.
Always tell the truth, esp. if you have nothing to hide.
Genie
Don't believe everything you find on the internet. Maybe Obama did take some questionable donations. But this stuff of anonymous internet donations is a new phenomenon. Unprecedented, in fact. So, yes there will be a need for concern and some investigation. Safeguards may or may not be necessary. But to accuse the Obama people of knowingly doing this is both premature and unfair.
Rush
"Witch Hunt"
The night is black, without a moon.
The air is thick and still.
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill.
Features distorted in the flickering light,
Faces are twisted and grotesque.
Silent and stern in the sweltering night,
The mob moves like demons possesed.
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
Confident their ways are best.
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill.
They say there are strangers who threaten us,
Our immigrants and infidels.
They say there is strangeness to danger us
In our theatres and bookstore shelves,
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves.
Quick to judge,
Quick to anger,
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand
From my friend Rick
Regardless of your political leanings, please read the following to contemplate how race may have played a subtle role in today's election.
It's worth pondering.
In any event, this is my last email on the election. Let's all hope that whichever the way it goes, we can move in a better direction. GO VOTE!!
WHAT IF?
Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....Think about it.
Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit? Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former President of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife at a party and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger Management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
mikie: I lend credence to the fact that $600M in one month did not come from Joe Schmoo. I understand where you're coming from, but stop and think for a minute ~ he early on refused to take the election government money and instead opted to go for the "open market" of contributions. There had to be a reason for that.
This campaign has been long and dirty. It's been dirty because people have blamed McCain for not bringing to light his opponet's background and therefore decided to do it themselves.
I do not want as my President, the POTUS, some one so blatantly complicit in associating with and sympathizing with anti-American, anti-semitic, anti-military, Black Supremacy, punish-the-successful, hypocritical demagogues.
As I've stated in the past, when Louis Farrakhan, Supreme Leader of the Nation of Islam calls Backack Obama "The Messiah", we are in very deep doo-doo.
The MSM has convinced the masses that Obama's election is a far-gone conclusion. I really don't like that kind of pap.
Josef Stalin once said he would defeat America without firing a shot. Little did we know how prophetic his words were. It seems to be happening now.
I have no quarrel with you. Every one is entitled to their own opinion, but I have researched, read, and examined Senator Obama's background and, not only is he not ready to lead us in the right path, by all accounts he is leading this great country down the road to destruction.
I just hated it when Senator McCain called him an honorable man. What is honorable about listening for 20 years to his spiritual advisor damning America and stating that America caused Blacks to have Aids and other such nonsense. It has been proven beyond any doubt his close association with terrorists. His wife, Michelle, said on national TV, that in order for this country to become "fair to every one" some people are going to have to "give up a piece of their pie". What's with that? Could that be a hint of socialism?
People hear but they don't listen. Change we can believe in is his mantra; spread the wealth around, another mantra (from one who gave a whopping 2% to charity per his and his wife's tax returns). People hear what they want to hear, what makes them feel good.
Yes, Senator Obama, using your words, I am going to "cling to my guns and to my religion" because that's all I'll have left when you and your leftist/socialistic friends get done taking this great country down the drain.
Genie,
Kind of tired of the associating with Terriorist issue because Barack Obama sat on board and had coffee with William Ayers. HE did not build bombs with him when he was 8 years old.
I don't know if you have noticed that the country is already down the drain or have you looked at your 401K lately. I blame the Greedy people who are running this country, not the politicans but Wallstreet.
I guess you hate John McCain now because he told the truth; Barack Obama is an Honorable Man.
He has a huge job to undertake and a lot of problems to solve, none of them easy.
Josef Stalin was a monster, and I am not sure you understand is role in the Soviet Union and Georgia.
Ponder this:
Everyone get their head out of their judgmental butt and go vote!
Then, "accept" whatever happens!
Which will "NEVER" happen!
Wilber - that makes no sense. How do you vote without being judgmental? Does what you're voting for matter or is it just the act of voting that counts?
Jeremy said...
Wilber - that makes no sense. How do you vote without being judgmental? Does what you're voting for matter or is it just the act of voting that counts?
Only an idiot wouldn't understand that point!
"Experience" concerning Obama has never been an issue on this board by the left, only how pathetic John and Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin + her entire family are.
Genie
Let me start with Farrakhan. The Nation of Islam is not the same as al Qaeda. Except they all believe in Allah and read the Koran and don't eat pork. I hope you at least understand that. If you are worried Farrakhan may have some back room deal with Obama, you need not worry. Many people believe it was Farrakhan who killed Malcolm X. I do not. What I believe, is that the CIA killed Malcolm, but not before they had a deal in place with Farrakhan to take over The Nation of Islam afterward. Malcolm struck a nerve, a very big nerve, when he accused the CIA of pouring drugs into the inner cities for appeasement of the minorities. We all know the CIA had no involvement with drug smuggling in Vietnam, right? (And we never bombed Cambodia or Laos). So, I believe Farrakhan already has an ongoing back room deal with the government. He's just a pawn and is of no concern to me. The CIA has him under their wing. That however, is a little worrisome.
The whole Rev Wright thing was staged to get all those right wingers to finally realize that Obama is not a Muslim. Although, some still do.
If any of this stuff you believe had even a scintilla of truth, and McCain didn't do anything about it, then he's really not the honest patriotic American you believe him to be.
If Socialism is when the wealthy are taxed to support the country and middle class, what is it when the middle class is taxed and not given proper services to make the wealthy wealthier? Trickle down? Sounds like a bladder problem. It sure as hell isn't democracy, by the people for the people.
Well gosh, Wilber, call me an idiot if you like but "inexperience" isn't an issue because we just went through 8 years of hell with a man whose only previous experience was in failure. That's what he brought to the White House. Well, that and malice. Were you whining then or just now?
As for McCain's "experience," what is he experienced in exactly besides beinga corporate shill?
Never whined and never will regarding Bush.
I, unlike many cowardly Americans, respect the office that he fills, just like I will the next one, no matter who it is. I don't respect Congress!
But, I do trust a man who gave 5 1/2 years of torture, while Hanoi Jane was smoozing it up with the enemy, more than I trust a man I know nothing about.
Well, Wilber, relax. Ease into it, buddy. Cuz you've got 8 years to get to know him :)
I didn't say I was tense!
But don't pop that cork just yet!
Well, I guess you can, thanks to ACORN!
Hey everybody, I just voted. Hooray for me, and the rest of the civilized world. No, world civilization, as we know it, is not going to come to a grinding halt!
Do you want to know who I voted for? You might think you know the answer. It wasn't easy. Since my state is already a very deep shade of blue, I was seriously considering voting for Nader or Barr as a protest vote. But, I didn't feel right about it. So, I voted for Obama. The son of a bitch better not make me sorry.
I also voted for Frank Lautenberg, because he's a damn good senator.
As for US Rep. I didn't vote for Frank LoBiondo. It's not because he's a republican. I voted for him the last election. He's a friend of the family. My grandfather was good friends with his father and uncles who owned a trucking company. My mother went to school with him before they shipped him off to that fancy smancy private boarding school.
Two reasons. First, he said he was only going to do it for a few years. That was 20 years ago. Second, he supports off shore drilling. He owns a house down the shore for Christ's sake. Anybody who has fished for stripers in the canyons, and eaten fresh caught striper and supports off shore drilling has something seriously wrong with them. Fishing in the canyons is awesome. About the most fun I've ever had without a woman. As far as eating fresh caught striped bass. One of the best things I ever put in my mouth, without a woman. One small accident could put an to that for a very long time.
It's not looking good for McCain. Yesterday there was some sort of rally in Fla. Four years ago, "W" drew 15,000 people. McCain was expecting 10,000. only 1,000 showed up. Sad. Almost as sad as Obama's grandmother not being able to see her grandson become president.
Here's something for all you paranoid people to really worry about.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Black_Panther_Voter_Intimidation.html#l4A4zbAwMD
In case you didn't get that, try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
"Some of the big talk around the country is about voter intimidation at polling places.
In Philadelphia , there was a claim of members of the Black Panther Party intimating voters by standing out front of a polling place at 1221 Fairmount Ave. holding batons and intimidating voters entering the polling location.
Media Lizzy, a local poll watcher blog, mentioned billy-club wielding "security" guards standing out front of this location.
Philadelphia police later showed up to tell these men that they aren't allowed to stop people from voting. In a video posted on the Youtube the two men are seen leaving the front of the building with the police officers.
There is no connection between these men and the Black Panther party, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
The Philly DA also said as of 2:30 p.m. that overall voting problems in Philadelphia were down from 2004 when there were 49 incidents reported.
Here is video of the guards out front of the polling place so that you can decide for yourself."
They were just the local crack dealers trying to drum up business. So much for the war on drugs.
mike m said...
They were just the local crack dealers trying to drum up business. So much for the war on drugs.
And I'm Santa Claus!
mikie: I believe what I read on the internet more than I believe in what MSNBC, CNN, and other mainstream media say. I read a lot of newspapers as well.
I have sources on the internet where I can read/see both sides of every story I'm interested in ranging from Moveon.org to Huffington Post to fact.org, google, newsbusters, newsmeat,fivethirtyeight, geekscribe, Foratv, about.com, Politico.com, pranks.com,VerticalBlue, SharpRightTurn,onenewsnow, discoverthenetworks.org,
twincities, NYT,WSJ, WP,LAT, ad infinitum.
It's only through these various sources, some partisan, some bipartison, some academia, and researching, when available, authors, that you can draw your own conclusions. Oh yes, Youtube because you actually see/hear the individuals talking. Wikipedia is fairly good.
Please know that when I post I have researched a subject quite thoroughy before I open my big mouth (lol).
My, how I'll miss this blog when the election is over. I never knew how little I knew until I became a knowledge-seeking geek.
mike: I forgot to tell you how I first became suspicious of Senator Obama.
When he broke his word and refjected public financing and it's $84M spending limit. Shortly thereafter, someone sent me the youtube piece about the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright. I thought to myself, self, this guy needs to back to wherever he came from and quit preaching damnation to America. I couldn't believe he was a reverend because I've heard fire and brimstone before, but this was totally anti-American out-of-the-ballfield. What bothered me then was that Wright was Obama's preacher and spiritual mentor for 20 years, and Obama exposed his precious children to this hate-spewing man.
Then came Obama's community organizing years which were based on the teachings of acknowledged communist, Saul Alinsky. You topple leadership by appealing to not-so-smart masses (there are more of them) who are dissatisfied with their lot in life, but make no effort to improve it because there were too few role models.
It almost took an act of congress for Obama to come up with his birth certificate. He may be a brilliant man, but unfortunately he took a wrong turn some where to even become associated with the people who have shaped his thinking and political career.
Yes, as "saveourselves" or whatever his name is, said I am filled with fear. Fear that Senator Obama was not thoroughly vetted to become a state senator much less a US senator and then President of the United States of America?
Mark my words, President Obama will not be good for this country. I sincerely hope he proves me wrong.
wilbur
They were. Either that or they were looking for someone in particular. I know the area. It's all black. There are no white people that would be voting there to begin with.
Then I guess a few of the people in the video use bleaching cream.
Very naive!
Wilbur
I live in Philadelphia!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I know the good and bad neighborhoods.
Wilbur
Anything north of Spring Garden Street is 98% black/Latino.
From Spring Garden south to Market is Chinatown.
In fact, Spring Garden St. is where all the full service Chinese massage parlors are. Come up to Philly some time and I'll take you to one. Bring at least $500. Probably more like $1,000 now.
If you say so. Okay, on election day they decide to sell drugs in front of the voting station with a baton.
Got it!
Obama 102
McCain 34
I know one thing for sure, there is going to be a lot of jacking off to Obama when he gives his Victory speech.
I have never witnessed such longing for a man from other men, Olberman, Matthews, Maher etc.
This cracks me up!
Pass out the lube!
Plus, turning the tables? Going to be so much fun!!!
Genie
C'mon now. He went to Columbia and Harvard Law. I know those ivy league schools are always turning out left wing radicals. Although, there are certain rogue nations that are sending young men to schools like Columbia, MIT and Cal Tech, to try to get a back door to our science and technology.
As for all the research you do, I don't doubt it. But, I bet if looked, I could find recent pictures of Jimmy Hoffa alive and well in South America.
Wherever you got that shit about Visa trying to cover up fraud, cross them off your list. All you need to do is read the law to disprove that. They are not a college trying to cover up the number of rapes on campus.
Look, Obama has run about the best campaign in modern history. The internet was a huge part of that. Not just for raising money, but organizing supporters. Howard Dean only scratched the surface. Plus he's a natural politician. I'm much less concerned with some of associations than I am with his ability to make decisions. Every decision a president makes, hurts some people, and helps others. What makes a good leader is being able to make the right decisions for the country as a whole. It killed Johnson. You may see Louis Farrakhan in him, but I see more Bobby Kennedy. Let's both hope I'm right. I think that's what is really driving people towards him. When people look at McCain they see Dick Cheyney. Wrong or right, that's the way things are. That's the way people are. That's what elects presidents. Persona.
Wilbur
Yea, that's North Philly alright. They'll sell drugs in front of a police mini station.
What I have learned being on this site.
Even if "Obama himself" stood in front of you and said, Bill Ayres is my best friend, Rhashid Kahlidi is my hero, "I am the Messiah", I am going to tax you thru the wazzoo, yes, coal miners will be jobless, your utilities are going to skyrocket and Rev. Wright was damn right on everything he said.
You would still say it wasn't true.
Get out the Lube!
Oh, the fun is just beginning!
Whenever we do an editorial chastising America for not living up to its potential, there are complaints. Complaints that I blame America first.Which is silly - I'm not "blaming" America in any particular order. I'm simply of the belief that nothing gets better until you see the problem for what it really is. Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First. For those who disapproved of Friday's editorial about Europe and America, here are two others of similar ilk to choke on
No Maher, that's all you left wing liberals idiots do blame this cuntry for everything that goes wrong in this world. Do I thing the left hate this country, I most certainly do.
Furthermore, never in a million years did I ever think the American people could actually be STUPID and DUMB enough to come this close to electing a goddamn socialist into the White House. If that truly does happen, then I lost all faith and confidence in the citizens of this great nation to do something really good for themsleves and this country. I say to you poeple, want to live in a socialist society, go live in Venezule, Cuba, China or any of those countries. Our founding fathers could never have envisioned something like this could happen. They must be turning over in their graves if they heard the nation they founded could be turned into a Marixt nation.
How disastrous?
jmp,
You reap what you soe!
But, I guarantee you, when Obama screws everything up?
THEY WILL STILL BLAME BUSH!
Get out the Lube!
Oprah must be weeping like a little baby and Hanoi Jane's back must be better!
Get out the Lube! Chris Matthews is already on that.
Obama 174
McCain 76
Senate Seats Democrats +4
Only 5 more to break the magic 60 number to break a filibuster.
Welcome to Germany, no Cuba, no Germany! Well hell, how about both?
Get out the Lube!
Oh yeah, illegals probably got to vote too!
Cheewaawaa...we get driver's licenses now and all the money we want!
Lube Fest!
ACORN was a success!
OHIO going to OBAMA!
clydene said...
OHIO going to OBAMA!
Well of course, didn't you hear me?
ACORN was a success!
Yes, Wilber I read what you wrote.
I am sure that they let Mickey Mouse with is 4 fingered hand vote with his driver's license. :)
So much for the power of Joe the Plumber. He really delivered Ohio for McCain.
Hey, all's we heard for 8 years!
This election was stolen!
Well, this one definitely was!
And it's our turn now to be on "every little" detail.
Get out the Lube!
Wilber
We love Mikey Mouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPAxNEvLxk
3 fingers and 1 thumb.
:)
Hey wilbur
News flash. Germany isn't 10 trillion dollars in debt to China and Saudi Arabia, and they are the world's second largest exporter. Damn, I'd hate to live in that country. That damn socialism. It just doesn't work does it? You wait and see. Germany is going to take over the world. They've managed to find the perfect balance between Government, finance and business. The only real problem they have is all the eastern European immigrants. If you want to call it socialism, fine. Karl Marx was wrong. Very wrong. Socialism is not the stepping stone to communism. And communism is a severely flawed system of government. The people of Germany have most of the freedoms we do. Plus they have economic prosperity across the board. You haven't heard of any German banks needing to be bailed out. Poverty has almost disappeared. They are not going to let the US drive them into another Great Depression. Watch out for them, we all may be speaking German sooner than you think.
wilbur
By the way, I don't actually live in Philly, I live across the river in South Jersey.
I'm cool about this whole thing. I knew Obama was going to win but, the truth will come out and I am going to sit back and enjoy!
With Obama, Pelosi, Reid and all Democrats in charge? Be prepared, be very prepared.
Get out the Lube! Bill probably has 5 left of 10 tubes by now!
Obama 207
McCain 138
thought I would beat you to it clydene!
Get that Lube! Time's a wasting!
Yessiree, Murtha, your Rednecks and racist voted fer you agin!
Lord help us all. It looks like Al Franken is going to be a US Senator.
wilbur
Seriously, do you really think the democrats can do any worse than the republicans have in the past 8 years? If you want to blame anyone, blame the republicans. They had it all and blew it. Big time. You should have elected McCain in 2000.
Sorry, I should be more gracious.
mikey, mikey, mikey,
You seem to forget that the Democrats took control in 2006. Democrats were in charge of "everything"!
I don't know about you but, I was doing a hell of alot better before then.
I don't care what anyone says, we are in big, big trouble!
But, you will never admit that.
Again, You Reap what You Sow! Now you get Al Franken!
Welcome to Hell!
I wish to God it was Hillary!
Contrary to what anyone thinks, I liked Bill Clinton!
BUT NOT OBAMA, PELOSI AND REID!
wilbur
C'mon. The republicans still had a filibuster majority in the Senate. Is the country as a whole better off? How do figure democrats were in charge of everything in 2006? Bush was still in the white house. Cheney was still running the war. Look, at least Clinton paid the bills. Yes, the country as a whole was much better off then than we are now.
Now's the time for you to tell your republicans they fucked up. Don't worry they already know it. They were like kids in a candy store. It was you republicans that did this by running this country into the ground. Who' s going to pay back China and Saudi Arabia? Do you pay your bills with a credit card month after month after month? Yes, it's time to pay the bills. But trust me, in the long run we'll be better off.
Look, most of Clinton's economic people are on board with Obama. That's really why I voted for him. Don't expect economic policy to be much different than Clinton's. They will move Obama to the center, where he should be. I just couldn't trust a republican to clean up a mess left by republicans. Would you expect your buddies to clean up the house after the party before your parents got home?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream"
Delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³
The Government today announced that it is changing its National Symbol to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the governments political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense on insecurity while you're actually being screwed.
Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that!
mikey, mikey, mikey,
You just have so much hatred for George Bush but, that's over now.
Democrats took complete control in 2006 and they own your ass now!
This election came down to only one thing - race.
And don't even come back with the "you're a racist" crap.
Better hide your white women!!!
OMG, they're already "soaking it" on MSNBC.
Gross!!!
Get the Lube! Handjobs have started!
Does my hatred of "W" really show that much? Actually, somewhere between the election coverage, there was a report on negotiations between The White House and Iraq to start drawing down troops and turning control over to Iraqi troops within 3 years. It's long overdue. The troops are tired, the Iraqi people are tired, the American people are tired, and al qaeda is sufficiently weakened, for the time being. In all honesty, I'd like to see Bush get bin Laden before his term is over.
I, unlike many cowardly Americans, am going to say this one more time.
I support George Bush and thank him for keeping me safe for the past 7 years. For never backing down to critics or polls. For having the courage to continue amidst all the ridicule and hate (very extreme hate) and for being the man I knew he was when he was my Governor of Texas and the man that my husbands cousin (yes, Wilber is female) has protected under the secret veil.
Many have kicked him to the curb, but not me! He was my President and my protector and I thank him for that.
I can't stand Michelle Obama, if not for her, I might like him more! She is "no" first lady.
wilber
I really feel sorry for you because your ignorance for what African Americans still endure in terms of racisim, you don't understand Michele Obama's statement; and never will.
Having grown up in the South I have experienced racism, even from my relatives, white southern Christians who called a child a half breed. You have no idea what it is like to experience racism.
I feel sorry for you because you truly are ignorant and a product of poor education and experience with the rest of the world.
Fortunately, your kind is obviously not able to elect a president again.
Perphaps you should move to Alaska so you can be with someone who likes guns and has your similar religious views.
Oh, and by the way, we are going to mobilize people to move to Alaska and establish residency 90 days before Sarah Palin has a new term election in 2010.
mikey, mikey, mikey,
I don't think so. I was raised in a strict Baptist home, color was never an issue. My best friends were black, my best friend now is black. My parents did not raise me to judge a person by the color of their skin.
Don't go telling me how you "think" I am. I AM IN THE SOUTH and grew up here. Racism was never a factor because my parents didn't teach me to be racist.
Don't lecture me about me when you "know nothing" about me!
Wilber
You do have a problem with race, you have called Barack Obama, questioned his birth, and called him a Muslim, said he was supported by Bin Laddin, and said touted the same racist garbage that your "poster" Christian girl Sarah Palin vomited over the other ignorant people who attended her campaign. So please, don't tell me you aren't a RACIST, because my dear your separate but equal bathrooms and dinner counters. Please, I am sure you and other family members would love to ride through the woods with your guns wearing your white sheets again.
You are so transparent. The oh, not me, I am not a racist is not believable. Just the fact that you supported that stupid "whore" from Alaska is proof enough. Yeah, she was pregnant with her first child when she was first married, that is why they don't want to release the birthdates of her first son. Oh Yeah, and her daughter is a "whore" too for opening her legs to the Hockey player Levi and getting pregnat at 17 years of age.
Again, I would call Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol Trailor Park White Trash Whores, but that would be insulting to Trailor Park White Trash Whores.
Yes, and I am a BIGGOT, I am biggoted against STUPID Christians who hide behind their religion and Lie, and Whore afound while claiming to be "good" Christians.
I AM NOT MIKE he lives in New Jersey you stupid person.
clydene said...
Again, I would call Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol Trailor Park White Trash Whores, but that would be insulting to Trailor Park White Trash Whores.
Real class act!
I have "NEVER" called anyone on this board or Obama and anyone in his family a name. Oh, if you think Muslim is a bad word I guess that counts.
Classy broad you are!
clydene,
I apologize for thinking you were mikey.
We were just banting back and forth and I didn't pay attention to the name.
mikey,
I apologize to you for thinking clydene was you.
Wilber
Look at this honestly from the Baptist women gossip in your church. You know exactly how those in your community in the South and in the Prayer Meetings on Wedneday Night would call Sarah Palin and her Daugther Bristol Trailor Park White Trash Whores.
Please, you forget I grew up in the South too. It changes nothing because she claims to be a Christian because her actions speak louder than words. She and her daugther are whores in the eyes of the church goers.
Common, the people in your Baptist Church would call Sarah Palin and Briston Palin Whores, because they had sex outside of marriage.
Been to those Prayer Meetings on Wednesday at the Baptist Church were all the ladies gossiping about who was Screwing Who.
Excuse me clydene, but you didn't go to my church.
Our main focus was learning Mathew 5-12 for G.A.s.
Race and all the crap your spewing?
I never knew until now!
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"!
Wilber
I can cast the first stone baby because I am without sin. I have never done the things that "Christian" Sarah Palin has.
She is more Scary because she is a type I have ecountered before in church who I call the Convenient Christian. Do Christian things and talk about the Bible when it is convenient, but they lie, cheat, and steal, which is what Sarah Palin has done.
But I think of Sarah Palin as a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. She seems to be really good at Lying, which doesn't seem very Christian to me. That is why I feared her more than Barack Obama, because she knows the WORD, and yet she was willing to LIE to get elected, that is the most dangerous Christian of all. I suggest you really look at what she said to the crowds.
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
Sarah Palin is out of the picture so you don't have to worry anymore. So I think you can leave her and her family alone.
And, you without sin?
OMG, just cracked a rib.......lmao
What's in your backyard?
Elitist is a euphemism for uppity negro. It means you graduated at the top of your class (including making President of Harvard Law Review)and you are brightm progressive, intelligent and classy.
Non-elitist must mean you graduated at the bottom of your class at the US. Naval Academy (McCain) or Harvard Business School/Yale (George Bush Jr.).
I'll take real somebody over a fake somebody anyday!
Wilber
You know what, I am not going to let Sarah Palin or her family alone. Because she is dangerous for our country. You are so blinded by the fact that she is a "Christian" that you can't see the truth, which is much more dangerous. Look at who you are defending. Just because she is a woman and supposedly a "Christian" does not make her someone who should be running our country. People like you and Sarah Palin actually believe that you can Lie, Cheat and Steal under the guise of some wacked out Fake Christian belief system.
Your ignorance and biggoted supidity continue to flurish in the South.
I am glad that Elizabeth Dole was not reelected to the Senate. I am Glad she lost. What kind of "Christian" tells lies and bears false witness about other Christians, well that would be you Republican Christians, you "Christians" from the South.
So put a little more starch in the wash so that when you iron the sheets and hoods you wear on your nightly rounds will stand up a little straighter.
You Ignorant Biggot.
Wilber
I will not let this go because she wants to run again in 2012. Sarah Palin needs to be outted for the stupid evil two faced person she really is, and not be allowed to seek public office again.
I know it's a little late for this, but if you want to talk about race, ponder this.
How many white people voted for Obama due to white liberal guilt? How many white people wanted a black man to be president, just so black people would stop complaining about racism?
What becomes of the state of race relations now that we have a black president? Is the playing field finally level? If a black man can become president, a black man or woman can be just about anything, right?
Malcolm X said, if you stick a knife in someone's back, and pull it out a little bit, you're not doing him a favor. Is the knife finally out? If not, how much did it move, if any?
A black man did not get elected without a hell of a lot of white votes. But many of those white folk were voting for a democrat regardless.
Can the "n" word now be used in mixed company? Has the word taken on a new meaning? Now, you're not just racist, you're unpatriotic. Will the word eventually become a term of endearment?
Don't attack me, tell me, and tell me why. I'm just playing college professor. There are no wrong or right answers. But please, THINK first.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/04/1635579.aspx
"Mr. Nader has served this country well as a crusading consumer advocate and environmentalist. That good service ended in 2000 when, because of his stubborn will to enter the race as a third party candidate, he unwittingly (or was it?) gave us two terms of George W. Bush and the most corrupt, inept, partisan, and mean administration in the history of America. Sadly, I think he's on an ego-trip, knowing he can't win but can possibly affect the outcome. America's respect for this senile old man has all but evaporated. He would do well to spend the rest of his life rebuilding his good name and re-earning our respect"
--Taken from comments--
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/franken-not-conceding/
Close, but no guitar.
wilbur
You tricky bitch. I guess you don't want to go to the massage parlor with me. Is your favorite book "Black Like Me"? Next thing you're going to tell me is that Obama is wearing shoe polish.
What's this about a secret veil. Are you related to Jeffrey Skilling? That son of a bitch and Enron is a big part of the reason why I dislike Bush so much. My state's economy is still in shambles from that bullshit. Some asshole decided to invest a large chunk of the state worker's pension fund in Enron. It was all lost. And don't tell me Bush had nothing to do with it. Enron was his largest contributor in 2000. I don't think Ken Lay is really dead, and I don't think Skilling will ever serve a day in prison. So much for Texas justice. But keep supporting Bush and all the energy companies, because there's nothing else in Texas except steers and queers. And poor ol' Ann Richards. Lovely what Bush and Rove did to her, isn't it?
Another thing "wilbur". The oil companies are responsible for the war in Iraq. Just like they were responsible for the escalation of the Vietnam War. Say what you want about Johnson the civil rights leader. But he caved in to the big oil companies, so they could get rich selling napalm to the US.
And what Bush did to Richards, he did to the entire country when he became president. His entire political career, the only way he could get elected, was by stealing the election with lies and deception. I know that's a quality I look for in a president.
We're going to be bleeding out our assholes longer than Richards.
Mike M… In response to your question… No, racism it’s far from over. I have listened to the commentary before and after the elections and people have made the comment that it helped him win because he was African American. I think this is very presumptuous because it’s impossible to know. How do we know by how much he would have won by if all else was equal, but he was white? Maybe the better statement would be that he took what might have been a negative and learned how “get around it” to the point that he could still win in spite of it. This is a lesson we all learn in one way or another or we become very bitter and think the world is “out to get us” or “I’ve had a raw deal”. I’ve lived enough to know that no one gets off this planet without some problem to overcome. Some learn to deal, some don’t.
We as human beings live with a dichotomy that is going to be hard to fix. We want to belong to a family… a group of like minded people… a group to feel safe and comfortable around. In order to do this, we separate ourselves into subgroups and find ways of living and working with “like minded” individuals. And then, we bitch because others are being prejudice against us. We have yet to figure out how to critique ourselves, laugh at our faults and then let others in on the joke. I hate to say it, but based on how much anger I’ve read just on this blog over the last couple weeks, we’re not there yet.
Yes We can, And, Yes We Did, And Now, We Must……
Stand together as one Nation
Join our hands in harmony
Show the World what is possible
In this, Land of Liberty.
Realize the great importance
Of, the real history of this day
And know, the passing of this torch
Has forever, changed our way.
Demand, those promises be kept
Now that the campaign is done
Put the lobbyists in their place
And make the People, number one.
Take better care of our young
Raise the bar of their education
Make health care affordable to all
Control the cost of medication.
Keep promises made to Veterans
Take care, of those back from war
Strive for World peace and security
Because, that’s what we stand for.
Secure our wide-open borders
Stop illegal people and the drugs
We must enforce our Rule of Law
To stop the traffickers and thugs.
Protect our worker’s livelihoods
Quit sending their jobs, overseas
Make all those goods we buy, safe
Not let them sell us, what they please.
Provide for our senior citizens
And, help them live with dignity
Remember, when we are younger
That one day, that’s who, we’ll be.
Make sure no one goes hungry
Or, lives homeless on the street
To pass from this life unnoticed
From winter’s cold or summer heat.
Take on our global warming
Be a leader for a sensible cure
End our fossil fuel dependence
Or, it might be the end, for sure.
Make sure all, pay their fair share
Put an end to Wall Street greed
Quit bailing out white collar thieves
For, jail time is what, they need.
Find a simple way to vote that works
So we can trust it will be counted
And you must vote to have a say
Or your complaints will be discounted.
Return to, “By and for the People”
We must get back, Freedoms lost
For, when our Rights slip away
That is by far, too high a cost.
Yes, we can and yes, we will
But each must do, our part in the cause
Change this Country back once more
To the greatness, that, once was.
Del "Abe" Jones
11.05.2008
bs detective
Thank you for that.
Mikey, Wilbur (I spell your name correctly now) takes things real seriously, like....you know a woman in PMS. Don't upset him too much more. We dopn't want him to have a heart attack, or bleed all over his keyboard. Everyone know the south is racist to the hilt. Look at all of theose red states like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Red because they are redneck. Even my hometown of New Orleans is in a state I know is racist, not to mention STUPID. Do they remember Katrina??? How in the ehll coudl they vote Republican in this election? Absolutely fargn amazing...But STUPID. They get what they deserve.
Palin blamed the media for the reason why some female voters didn't fully embrace her.
"You have to consider that there has been the constant barrage, a kind of spin on my record or my positions," she said on ABC's 20/20 last week.
Constant Barrage, I think not.
What News Papers and Magazines do you READ?
You can See Russia from Alaska.
We didn't embrace her because she IS an Ignorant Idiot.
Sarah Palin couldn't think of or even make up (would have been a sin to lie, aw)a few newspapers or books she knows of, but instead says to say.."oh, all of them, any of them." Maybe a book about a supreme court case she would have insight on. I know she had abortiion on her mind a the time, but GAWD Y'ALL. Give me a runner up in a beauty pageant, and I'll tell you straight up, she has little to no chance of being a success at a level where you at least have to have some smarts. What a MAROON!
SaveOurselves
I think wilber admitted to being female, unless I misunderstood.
"I support George Bush and thank him for keeping me safe for the past 7 years. For never backing down to critics or polls. For having the courage to continue amidst all the ridicule and hate (very extreme hate) and for being the man I knew he was when he was my Governor of Texas and the man that my husbands cousin (yes, Wilber is female) has protected under the secret veil."
This gender blender stuff confuses me. Maybe wilber is androgynous.
clydene
Be careful what you say about Palin. She may decide to switch parties. I wonder if she's related to Michael Palin. There's a penguin on the tele... Lovely plumage... Spam, spam, spam... I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...
Wilber needs to print out all her postings, and agreements with Geniemaker and JMP, and those postings she agreeded with them and show everything to her "black friend" and the "black people" in her church. Let them read all this stuff and then they can see that deep down she is a racist.
Yes
"Release, Release"
Have you heard before, hit it out, don't look back
Rock is the medium of our generation
Stand for every right, kick it out, hear you shout
For the right of all of creation
We've heard before, but we just don't seem to move
The pressure's on is there lack of concentration
Power defy our needs, lift us up, show us now
Show us how amid the rack of confusion
Drive in thoughts of high, satisfy, in a plan
Set it out for all to understand it
We've heard before, but we just don't seem to move
The pressure's on is there lack of concentration
Lost and wondering, maybe, how it is
Seems to me, it's as simple as this
No matter, where you go, you're going to find
You won't see me in front, but you can't leave me behind
Power at first to the needs of each others days
Simple to lose in the void sounds of anarchy's calling ways
All unaccounted for in the craziness of power
In the craziness
Release all, release all, or abandon your hope for your brother
Release all, release all, or abandon your hope for your sister
Release, release, enough controllers
Show some signs of appreciated loyalties
Release, release, enough controllers
Show some signs of appreciated loyalties
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Straight jacket, freedom's march, is it all, far beyond
Our reason of understanding
Campaign everything, anti-right, anti-left
Anticipate the love of creation
Stand for every right
Kick it out, hear you shout
Further the right
Further the right
Further the light
Of all of creation
We are all ANDROGYNOUS!!!!
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