Mrs. Obama Crosses Pond for Cash

I wonder how the Pakistani community will welcome Obama. The future invader of their country.

Poor little Drudgies. By the time Nov 08 rolls around, there won’t be a single Republican who hasn’t been caught in lewd behavior, taking bribes, or abused children. For a party that screams so loudly about values, you sure are lacking in them. Some example you set for our children.

Another smart move by the Obama’s. The enthusiam he generates worldwide is refreshing. Senator Obama will be a great president. Being affable is a good thing.

Is it possible that Mrs. Oboma will be selling some missle secrets for campaign cash like Clinton did with the Chinese army. It would be a terrible tragedy if she gave some American secret to the Pakistani rebels for campaign cash. Is that possible? Selling secrets happened once before. She and her husband are democrats like Clinton. I think we better watch out.

Jake, I think you meant to whine to me, not your fellow Drudgie, Austin. And I think you meant Barney Frank, not Rangel. So besides being all confused, all your whining doesn’t change the fact that your party is lost. You can bring up the ONE corruption investigation against the Democrats, or decades old sex scandals all you want. The fact is, your Party’s major campaign slogan revolves around Republicans having higher values than Democrats. Now your voters are seeing that is untrue and will stay home on election day. Our voters are being energized watching the GOP provide so much material for Leno/Letterman. Pretty soon, the GOP will have less power than the Green Party.

To:
Posted by: Chris | Aug 31, 2007 10:46:40 AM
Chris, what you really have is a bunch of crooked people and gay people who are hiding behind the Republican face. I, for one am starting to wonder if they
are plants to take down the Republican party???
Also, if there is a gay in the Democrat party he or she is lauded. If there is a gay HIDING in the Republican party the person is a hack, a criminal, a pervert. Why the double standard for gays??????
The Republican party has the Log Cabin Repulicans (if I remember right), so why would a gay hide? And don’t give me that crap about discrimination. Barney Frank is the poster boy for how far the envelope can get pushed.
p.s. I am anticipating harsh words coming my way through cyberspace!

why are there so many idiots posting on this site? THEY CAN ONLY ACCEPT MONEY FROM AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD. They can’t take money from people who are not American Citizens. So Pakistanis and Saudis and anyone else you want to talk about won’t be handing Michelle Obama a check.If you give these idiots half a reason to post something ignorant and hateful they will always jump on the opportunity. If we can keep the conversation to people who actually have something of value to offer we would all be better off.

Bridget, I don’t care if a Republican is gay. That won’t make me more or less likely to vote for him. It’s not the Democrats that brand homosexuals as criminals or perverts. The reason Republicans get hurt is because their hypocrisy gets exposed, and a gay Republican damages their image in the minds of the GOP base. The Log Cabin Republicans are an extreme minority. A gay Republican has the same effect as a Pro-Bush Democrat, it makes the respective base less likely to turn out for them. If Republicans supported gay rights, being a gay Republican wouldn’t be scandalous.

Maybe this will clear things up for you folks out there who are enraged that an American citizen living abroad wants to donate money:
These are the same people who have the right to VOTE absentee. These might be people who are STATIONED overseas in our fine military! They can be celebrities who have a second home.
Stop fretting about November 2008 in August 2007. I say all these politicians should slow down. This election cycle started too early. By the time the election rolls around everyone will be so dam tired of all the mud slinging and corruption, both parties might stay home and give up on voting.

There will always be idiots, stupids, jealousies, no matter what. Too bad they get to post. Michelle Obama’s doing the right thing, it’s fantastic she’s going abroad to fundraise. You go girl, keep it up!!!

I applaud Mrs. Obama for having a global mindset. For example, she sent jobs to Mexico as an executive of a pickle company. Don’t we all wish we could “gain business experience” by starting out as a corporate executive?

So we have Clinton raising money from an Indian fundraiser who is no where to be found and also a Chinese fundraiser who is wanted by California’s police.
Now, we have Obama’s wife going abroad to raise money.
Apparently the foreigners have learned how to influence American election.

That is, Unless we can find some new revenue streams.
Record Yields of Poppy in the world, primarily in Afghanistan… Largest amount of opium EVER HARVESTED/PRODUCED IN THE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD.
The CIA has been breaking records the past 3 years in a row.
Funny, I thought we were going to “Burn the Poppy Fields” – Former PM Tony Blair
DRUG MONEY FLOATS OUR ECONOMY.
OIL RUNS IT
WAR = GOLD
IRAQ/IRAN/SYRIA = OIL
AFGHANISTAN = DRUGS
So it IS about GOD

The Chinese bought the Clinton Administration and look what that has done to our economy. I wonder who Obama is going to sell us out to. Anyone that thinks this idiot would make a good president needs to give up sniffing glue and seek professional help.

THERE IS A LARGE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND……!!!!

It doesn’t matter who goes overseas. The fact of the matter is that most of us Republicans are ecstatic about the prospect of a Shrillary Democratic candidacy (which undoubtedly will be the case), no matter what the hospital administrator wife of Osama does. Clinton will save the GOP. All the bitter, whiny, paranoid, pseudointellectual hypocrites on the loony left know this, and they are scared to death. Hence all the idiotic braying and insults from the lefties on this sight. Whining, sour grapes, and insults is all the adle-brained crybaby “Victimcrats” know how to do. That won’t win them the presidency in 08 when they have a known corrupt candidate as thier choice.

It will never cease to amaze me how so-called “adults” can display such ignorance! Anyone with an IQ of a two-year old should know that foreigners cannot contribute to the American political system. However, Americans living abroad have every bit as much right (and responsibilty) to participate in our political process as do those of you who are obvilously playing with something less than a full deck. People such as Jack Carter who, in a previous post mentioned something about “Negroes”. I wonder if he’s racist or simply more ignorant than the rest of you who seem not to know the meaning of “American National”.

Lots of good entertainment from the Ron Paul led, tinfoil hat wearing, North American Union scare-mongering, right wing isolationist paranoids today! And bringing back Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations….wow, there’s an 70′s throwback!
I bet some of you still have copies of “None Dare Call it Treason” signed by John Birch himself!

Anyone who thinks that one party is less corrupt or less anti-American-people than the other must be high on the drugs they give us. Remember, you do not have to take these drugs simply because they are on your tv and your internet and newspaper.

Are some of you really as dense as you portray…she is not raising money from “foreigners”, she is raising money from AMERICANS living abroad–that is, citizens of the United States that live in foreign countries. Get it?

FYI: Giuliani’s doing the same thing. He’ll be in London on Sept. 19th.

the American government is actively involved in foreign elections with money going to either support a candidate in line with the US or to bash an opposition candidate.
crusty, power-hungry has-been machine democrats will support Hillary despite their disdain of her. Independent, forward-thinking & democracy believing people will cast a vote for Obama.

The whole election is scary. Obama is rumored to have muslin ties, this country is facing continuous reign by the Bush/Clinton families (28 years if Hilary wins) and a lackluster list of posibilities from both parties. There are many good people who would make a great President but they won’t run because they don’t want their personal lives as well as their families dredged through the mud. I can’t blame them. So that leaves us with only those who have spent a lifetime preparing to hold a political office to pick from…that thought is depressing. We need someone in office who understands the people who live in this great nation…not someone who lives to run this nation.

Let’s stop with the name calling, ok? We did read the article. We are skeptical that all the money that is donated will have been contributed by Americans with a legal right to do so.
If you wonder why we are skeptical, look at the current news on the Hillary fundraising imbroglio in California. Tell me, do you believe those people living in that house donated their own money to Hillary?
Some say Bush is tail to the Saudi’s dog. Could be, I don’t think any of these people are really looking out for my interests ahead of their own. It helps to keep them under close scrutiny and on a short leash.

thank you Jon. it’s very comforting knowing you have just as much the right to vote as me. wow.

Jay do you think that that woman won’t take money from anybody who would give it ?

I think it should be noted that corruption doesn’t affiliate with a party… it’s all over the place.
Ron Paul for President (take a look Drommm… there still may be hope)

Regardless of whether it is the Obama, Clinton, Gulliani, Thompson or whatever campaign, I find this highly disturbing.
It is simply too easy to disguise these off-shore contributions.
As we have seen with Hsu and with Tony Rezko (a major early Obama supporter who helped fund the Obama family’s home purchase as well as possibly helping Mrs. Obama obtain a lucrative Board seat at TreeHouse Foods, is a naturalized citizen born in Syria and now under Federal indictment for loan fraud) as well as with several GOP’rs in the past, there are terrible temptations and fertile ground to generate divided loyalites and incentives to engage in corrupt deals with corrupt people.

Harsh words for a guy with an indelible character. Many of these other politicians would like to be Barrack. But guess what they can’t. So please save the bad rhetoric for another day. Mrs Obama have a nice trip to LONDON and say hello to the Queen GOD BLESS AMERICA

Another DEMOCRAT looking for foreign
money to help them get power in “..our.”
country. Michelle would do well to stay
at home and take note on how other well
known and loved Democrat wives acted.
Mrs. Truman was really loved by all.
Mrs. John Kennedy was a real lady.
Then too we have the FLOOZY DEMOCRAT
WIVES LIKE HILLARY OR ROSILAND CARTER
WHO WANTED AND NEEDED THAT LITTLE SPURT
OF POWER AND THEIR WEAK HUSBANDS WERE
WILLING TO GIVE IT TO THEM

Remember people, The USA is not alone in the world. Other countries have a right to help decide who will be the leader of the only superpower. And since most people in the world are smarter than Americans, they will certainly pick either Hillary or Obama or both. The only two real leaders in the Western hemisphere are already endorsing them. And with Chavez’ oil money and Castro’s political wisdom, there is no way the republicans will win again. Get over it people. Your nationalistic xenophobia is pointless. It’s one world.

I have always thought that most Americans irrestpective of their up-bringing, childhood, orientation and education are fairly rational in their thinking and understanding of the life around them, but that appear to be an illusion.
When I read comments from people here called human beings, I usually wonder the sort of brain they have inside their skull. But, I have come to understand that it’s people like these who lack basic common-sense and rational reasoning that keep drawing America backward.
I think it does not require an explanation to know that a child who sits on top of his father’s baloon and claim to be taller than him is in for a very hard time.

Ron Paul Supporter:
I actually would really, really like to see violence avoided. However, if folks don’t wake up to how much the major parties have put us against each other to short circuit all of our own well intended efforts, I fear that an American Revolution 2.0 will have to be the ultimate outcome. The reality is that the common American doesn’t have single ally from either national party at this point.
As an example, the Republicans screwed up just about everything that they could do in the last 12 years of their and the the Democrats came in, swept by a popular revolt and have failed to do anything that they promised, including fix anything at all in Iraq. Even their own folks rate them with a terrible approval rating, yet they continue to be in power, doing nothing at all for the regular guy. In a company, if us regular folks behaved that way, we’d be fired, downsized, outsourced, even if we had the strongest union in the world protecting our redundant position int eh company What does it take to wake the electorate up?!?! The folks that run our country don’t give a hoot about any of us. Do we want to continue to visit Drudge Report and DailyKOS and hope for the best or do we want to take our unlimited collective energy and make a real, lasting change?
I’m sure that the founding fathers didn’t think that it would take the American Revolution (1.0) to get the results they were seeking back in the day in Boston. But when the time came and they knew that there were no further options, they did what had to be done.
However, we’re dangerously close to the same kind of flashpoint that they experienced in the 1770s. If the national lawmakers don’t have some sort of epiphany, they will only continue to fuel the fire and bring an end to America as it should be.
It’s not about being a Republican or being a Democrat like they’d like to define the discussion, it’s about being a True American.
And if the major parties continue to focus all their efforts on opinion polls that drive the next elections rather than the long run future of our republic, I hope the end will be very swift and painful for them.
For the rest of us, we MUST quickly find common ground and decide that we’re done with being polarized and pandered to by the parties that once served our very needs. Common ground WILL NOT be found be any of our modern political candidates, no matter what they claim. They’ve abandoned us by the side of the road, do we want to accept that or decide to take back power and shape our own future?
Politics in the modern era can indeed be different but if we continue to let the talking points (ie, the worthless time wasting minutiae) of the major parties drive the discussion and waste all of our efforts, we deserve the outcome that’s they’ve already destined for all of us.
Time to choose folks, do we want to make a real difference or be “comfortable” one upping each other in the blogosphere?!?! If you decide blogging is your only outlet, then you deserve what you get. It’s High Time to hold all their feet to the fire and build the future of America before it’s all taken away from us.

Hahaha,
Jim is just more cannon fodder for the major political parties.
Well done Jim!

If Sen. Obama was white he would be a second tier candidate with people questioning his lack of experience, his puzzling statements (attack Pakistan anyone?) and his general lack of gravitas. His skin color gives him a pass on all of that because Democrats need to pander but the country at large doesn’t have that same obligation and as the camapign heats up the Senator’s deficits will also continue to rise.

My father worked for the State Department and the CIA, and we spent quite a bit of my childhood overseas. Just because we didn’t live in the US didn’t make us any less of a citizen. Good for Mrs. Obama.
And the rest of you??

DJH
I totally agree with you. “Throw all the bums out” is the only way to go. And it’s certainly a great rallying call. Either that works or things continue to fester until the point at which Revolution (2.0) is the only other choice.
Admittedly, I’d rather not have to even think about Revolution(2.0) but the current state of political affairs leaves the American electorate completely unrepresented. I only hope that something changes quickly so we can get to the path to a solution rather than continue to fester until Revolution (2.0) is the only options. The clock is ticking for all patriotic Americans…..

yea obama:….group. listen, if brain-dead bush can be president, then anyone can.
dont forget that bush didnt even have experience when he lived in texass. everthing he did there was like everything else they do in tijuana-mexico (taco/burrito/etc) so far, he hasn’t had any pain from what he has caused the american people, because he doesnt have a brain to have pain.
anyone can be president, expecially if they have good men like rumsfield/cheny/rove. they do all the thinking for the white house…….

Ron Paul Supporter:
I actually would really, really like to see violence avoided. However, if folks don’t wake up to how much the major parties have put us against each other to short circuit all of our own well intended efforts, I fear that an American Revolution 2.0 will have to be the ultimate outcome. The reality is that the common American doesn’t have single ally from either national party at this point.
As an example, the Republicans screwed up just about everything that they could do in the last 12 years of their and the the Democrats came in, swept by a popular revolt and have failed to do anything that they promised, including fix anything at all in Iraq. Even their own folks rate them with a terrible approval rating, yet they continue to be in power, doing nothing at all for the regular guy. In a company, if us regular folks behaved that way, we’d be fired, downsized, outsourced, even if we had the strongest union in the world protecting our redundant position int eh company What does it take to wake the electorate up?!?! The folks that run our country don’t give a hoot about any of us. Do we want to continue to visit Drudge Report and DailyKOS and hope for the best or do we want to take our unlimited collective energy and make a real, lasting change?
I’m sure that the founding fathers didn’t think that it would take the American Revolution (1.0) to get the results they were seeking back in the day in Boston. But when the time came and they knew that there were no further options, they did what had to be done.
However, we’re dangerously close to the same kind of flashpoint that they experienced in the 1770s. If the national lawmakers don’t have some sort of epiphany, they will only continue to fuel the fire and bring an end to America as it should be.
It’s not about being a Republican or being a Democrat like they’d like to define the discussion, it’s about being a True American.
And if the major parties continue to focus all their efforts on opinion polls that drive the next elections rather than the long run future of our republic, I hope the end will be very swift and painful for them.
For the rest of us, we MUST quickly find common ground and decide that we’re done with being polarized and pandered to by the parties that once served our very needs. Common ground WILL NOT be found be any of our modern political candidates, no matter what they claim. They’ve abandoned us by the side of the road, do we want to accept that or decide to take back power and shape our own future?
Politics in the modern era can indeed be different but if we continue to let the talking points (ie, the worthless time wasting minutiae) of the major parties drive the discussion and waste all of our efforts, we deserve the outcome that’s they’ve already destined for all of us.
Time to choose folks, do we want to make a real difference or be “comfortable” one upping each other in the blogosphere?!?! If you decide blogging is your only outlet, then you deserve what you get. It’s High Time to hold all their feet to the fire and build the future of America before it’s all taken away from us.

Jesus, I cant believe I’m reading this. There are so many reasons to be afraid of Obama in the White House. Its unbelievable that the American people would give this guy the time of day. Just listen to the things he says about national security issues. Look at where he comes from and the people he has been influenced by. Why are they hiding the white woman that raised him?
Just look at his name, “Hussein”. After 9-11, anyone I think is even remotely related to an Arab has to be looked at carefully. Call me a racist if you want, I have eyes and ears, and I have been watching closely for 50 years. I can see where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we are headed.
God help us.

On the one hand Austin Travis (above) is right, the GOP does seem to be double minded, but I think everyone now knows by now that the Libertarian Republicans have hijacked the party (the Libertarians are those Republicans who think that anything goes when it comes to morality and ethics) If this keeps up The GOP will lose the Social Conservatives (no, they won’t be going to the Dems, they are worse) the SC’s will be going to the Constitution Party or a party of their own making. On the other hand the Dems are in full melt down their leadership hasn’t got a kernel of sense between the lot of them. They can create a lot of drama for the TV, but they can’t run a small state, much less the whole country. They are the party of government corruption as an institution. The GOP is only a third as corrupt as they are because there are still people in the GOP who are fighting it. The Dems have embraced corruption and made it a plank in their party’s platform. The corruption in the GOP tends to be personal in nature, not systemic as in the Democrat’s example.

Borris, your comment has nothing to do with this discussion. To slam a woman just because she does not want to paint her face is very shallow. I will not be voting for any Democrats, but let’s keep this discussion on point. It makes me nervous when people go overseas to get money because I don’t trust most Democrat politicians to follow the rules. Sure, only Americans are allowed to give money, but who is checking where all money comes from? If you are running for an office, and someone hands you $1000 are you going to ask them where they got it? I highly doubt it. I just don’t trust the party that wants to cut-and-run in the war on terrorism.

Hillery’s campaign funds are alot dirtier than O’Bama’s. How about her personal investment turning $1K investment into $100K overnight by investing in Tyson’s Chicken who’s headquarters is in Arkansas. I won’t talk about Monica.

Jeez!! Folks, I need to complain to Microsoft. My spell-checker seems to be missing a lot of words that others use to post; also I need to see if they have some mind software that will filter out the asinine comments. Glad to see a candidate paying attention to the American citizens who work or are in the military overseas.

I too am shocked that so many can’t conceive of the idea that real Americans live abroad.
But it should surprise me. After accepting an assignment in London with the American company that I work for, I was surprised to find that I cannot open a bank account, mutual fund or get a credit card with a US bank…the only reason is that I live overseas. Strange that an illegal in the US can get a CC and bank account from Bank of America but a full US citizen (born there with no other citizenships, social security number, US passport, perfect credit rating, etc) cannot open an account with Bank of America or any other bank.

If a full report with names and US addresses is included no problem. The clintons received money from the red chinesse army with out leaving the continental US. I can’t imagine why she would use a subtrifuge. She could receive money from who knows who without leaving the country. The press would not question or follow up. If any tie to alqaida donates for sure Obama and his wife would have hell to pay and dive like a ROCK in all aspects in the US. If according to the liberals I am being watch as a nobody citizen just think how much closer a wife of a certain barack HUSSEIN obama would be scrutinized by homeland security. The Obama’s do not strick me as ignorant people. The only downfall I can see for them would be the arrogant lust for power of the Clintons. I think we can relax and trust them for now. This coming from a conservative democrat who does not wish any of my party any success. McGovern and the communist minority has taken over my party.

To Jack:
Let me add my comments to the many you’ve probably already received informing you that Sen. Obama also took money from the same criminal, Hsu, as did Sen. Clinton. A little logic and consistency, please.

I think what this lady she is doing is right because she has to get money to support her husbands presidential campaigns next year because what we know is that the obamas has to wint these elections according to wat iam seeing thesedays,obama has the capacity and ability to do so.I don’t want those Hillary supporters to criticis her because they are already affraid of what obama is likely to do them.They speak this because of they know that they can’t manage obama,go ahead mrs obama the struggle continues until you see victory.Let these racists not discourage you in all what you are doing you have the support to win the elections.
Lwanga

The point is not raise the money the message is to tell people oversea what Obama he is stand for.People like stupid view……….

What wrong with fundraising from American’s living aboard? Are we now going to say those living overseas cant vote or participate in the election. People read before spewing nonsense.

I am an African American, a traditional democract; I am voting for Obama. He can run this country just as well as any WHITE MAN or WHITE WOMAN. Don’t you haters forget that this country was built by slaves. I am the great, great grandaughter of a slave. I am sure that her labor helped to build this country. Tell me what qualifications that any of the other candidates have that would make them a better candidate than Obama.Mrs. Obama is a Beautiful Black woman, and she is free to travel and do funraisers for Mr. Obama, what’s wrong with that? I have never read so much hate in posting like the ones I am reading tonight. All those haters for Senate Obama, you are evil people. The very same GOD that made Senate Obama made YOU, and he made nothing Ugly.
Obama 2008!

Obama is the hope of America; he will unite the USA like no president can do.
His mother was white and his father brown “black”, yet they classified him as a brown “black”, I do not know for what.
if elected he will be a bridge that will make the USA a better place and he will automatically change the current of image of the USA abroad as a terrorist nation to a friendly and human one.
Mrs. Obama will actually in my opinion make the greatest first lady the USA as never had. She is dynamic, she is extremely intelligent, and she is just what the USA need. And her raising money for the campaign of her husband just shows that the USA is lucky to have such a potential first lady.
Obama is the person that the USA need currently.