Obama to Support $700B Bailout If …

I’m not sure we can handle a thinking man who is capable of really analyzing a situation and coming out with some common sense solutions. We sure aren’t accustomed to it.

“Obama –- who is huddling with his advisors in Tampa for three days of debate preparation — said that he will only come back to Washington to vote for the bill if it’s a close vote.”
Will Obma vote “PRESENT” (even though it is not allowed) this time?

NO-NO-NO!!! This proves Obama is a fake! Bankrupting our country to bailout billionaires while we get deniied benefits from our own Democrat congress!!! Forget it! This PROVES Obama is a tool, and McCain is a FOOL!!! You will NOT have my vote if you make ME pay for this Barack!!!

That’s how Obama voted “Present”.
The theme has not changed: I will not make any decision Not now Not anytime.

He’s so smart. I wish we had had a smart man like this in office over the last 8 years. We wouldn’t have to be worrying about the state of our finances. When I think back on the misery the Republicans have dumped on us over the last 8 years, I could just puke.

Obama: Great leadership and responsible behaviour. McCain has not answered yet to the congress which is waiting for his vote since yesterday, it has to come and American people are waiting for it. Now is not the time to hide behind Palin’s lipstick but to decide. May God bless America and May God bless Obama. OBAMA/BIDEN08.

adopted mccains plan?
i like how mccain went from a deregulator to a populist democrat over night
he went from teh economy is strong to this is the worst crisis since the last crisis i was involved in
cmon you people are just being silly, mccains plan is just a bunch of bs that he is having ot say so he can make it through this week… he doesnt believe it anymore then i believe that mccain should be president

ALL I KNOW IS OBAMA IS A FAKE AND PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR HIM ARE SUCKERS!!! THEY HAVE NO MORALS OR SENSE WHATSOEVER!!! THAT IS THE TRUTH AND IF YOU THINK YOUR GOD OBAMA WILL SAVE THE WORLD THINK AGAIN!!! I HOPE RACE DOES OBAMA IN ANYTHING FOR HIM TO LOSE.

LOL….obama is “huddling” to prepare for the debate…ie, cramming for the big exam, but poor poor Obama will be in for a surprise when he finds that the Presidency doesn’t come in Cliff notes.
Meanwhile, Lawmakers are waiting for McCain to stand by or against this bill. Isn’t it interesting that they care what mcCain thinks, but could care less what Obama thinks?
And now Obama says that he would rather spend time with the people having a “tough” time, like he has any sympathy for them! Yep, these are the people he called “bitter”, in private, while sipping champagne with rich elite folks in san Fran on Nob Hill.
Obama….BAD for America

the fundamentals of our economy are strong!
we need a commission like the 911 commission to help us figure out whats wrong
(a commission??? lol in the time of crisis this guy wants a study group to figure out the crisis WTF)
no we shouldnt bail out aig
oh yes we should bail out aig
i support the 700 billion
i dont support the 700 billion
i might support the 700 billion
i am a deregulator
phil gramm may or may not be my treasure secretary
i was involved completely in the market deregulation during the keating five scandal which was the last massive financial termoil and here i am again
i was saying we shoudl have more deregulation
but my adivsors tell me i shouldnt say that until you morons vote for me

I will be voting Obama… it will be quite sometime before I ever think of putting a Republican back in office.

mccain hasnt been around to vote for anything in congress since january
he probably wont be there to vote for this
obama will vote if the vote is needed, there is no reason for him or mccain to cast their votes
it essentially wastes a day of their 42 days left

There’s a huge difference between what Mccain proposed and what Obama proposed, starting with the independent commissions.
Mccain wanted a 911 style commission to come in, investigate and provide its findings to the government. Obama criticized this by saying, and I paraphrase, “We know how we got into this mess. This isn’t at all like 911.”
Obama was opposed to a lengthy investigation commission because he knew what caused this. Mccain didn’t. Mccain thought the economy was strong until he was advised otherwise. Obama wants a commission not to investigate but to ensure that the tax payer money given in the bail out is properly utilized.
Obama’s conditions are thoughtful and help the situation. Mccain’s were old catch phrases.

McCain is so scrooed.

Sorry, but I am still waiting for McCain to say whether he supports this bail-out or not. His testicles must be going numb from riding the fence so long.

I have to agree with many others. Obama again has chosen to hide out and see how it played out instead of taking an immediate stand. To me, the Senator from Illinois is consistently afraid of what people think of him rather than grow a backbone. Neither he or Mc Cain know what they are talking about, but Mc Cain at least takes a stand whether it ends up being loved by the media or not. Obama decides based on what he think the media will love him for.

Do you GOP’ers seriously think that Obama is copying McCain’s “plan?” They’ve both been echoing what Congress has been saying since minute one. Man, the “moral majority” seriously can’t stop lying . . . and molesting children . . . and having airport gay sex . . . and smoking meth with gay prostitutes . . . and hitting on underage congressional pages (same sex of course). . . and embezzelling money on literally more than 50 occasions over the past 4 years . . . and . . .

I guess Obama doesn’t care about the poor people in Texas loosing everything from hurricane Ike. Or the thousand of people without homes, insurance, or electric. But please take time to visit the states that might elect you to the white house.
I think that several individuals have great points….lets divide the 700 billion to legal US citizens and not the citizens that were born here from illegal immigrants and let us decide what we want to do with OUR money. I am tired of the Gov’t spending my money on wastefull things like bailing out companies that over spend, loan money to people that had no credit and heavily in debt…credit cards and car pmts and only had 200 in the bank account for emergencies. Please give me a break…There is plenty of blame to spread around..gov’t, repeal of Glass-Steagall Act in 1998, subprime lending companies and CEO’s who saw the loophole. I am a responsible US citizen and I don’t want any more of my taxes going to bailouts. Give me my share of the bail out money and let me decide if I want to invest it, spend it, save it for my childrens college education or spend it on future health care needs. I think I am very qualified to decide on my own on how to spend my share of the bail out money not the former CEO of failed companies or anyone in Washington. Washington has already made a mess of things starting 30 years ago. It has taken this long for all of their mistakes, kick back to catch up with the citizens of the US. Impeach them all………Kick out the special interest groups and lobbist make all Presidental candiates donate all their campaign funds to the failed companies.
It is about time WE, the American working middle class take back OUR country.

ahh republicans … like wine that was never any good to begin with ,that just tastes worse the more you drink and gives you a terrible hangover .
STICK A FORK IN THE REPUBLICANS ,CAUSE THEY ARE DONE!!!

Thank you, George Bush. Thank you, John McCain. Thank you, Sarah Palin. I’m sick to my stomach after reading the following:
“We are now at a tipping point, with about half of the country now penetrated by a range of Sunni militant groups including the Taliban and al Queida,” Jones said. Jones said there is growing concern that Dutch and Canadian forces in Afghanistan would “call it quits.”
“The US military would then need six, eight, maybe ten brigades but we just don’t have that money,” Jones said.
Last week, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress “we’re running out of time” in Afghanistan. “I’m not convinced we’re winning it in Afghanistan,” Adm. Mullen testified.

Another decision that’s above his paygrade.

theres not going to be any depression Suzie. BOOO!

its obvious a lot of people posting here didnt finish 2nd grade.read the article again and really slow with a dictionary if you need to.
obama is CLEARLY on the fence on this bailout legislation AS THE REPUBLICANS AND BUSH HAVE PROPOSED , he has stated a position that sounds fairly intelligent and has also said he will NOT rubber stamp this bill for any reason without the appropriate measures included that will safeguard the american taxpayer , a call FIRST made by the DEMOCRATS and since then the republican have jumped on their coattails trying to ride along as ” conservatives” .
thank whoever that there was not a republican majority in the house of representatives, that $800,000,000,000.00 would already be in swiss bank accounts and who knows where else.
this is another booga booga republican SHAM ,trying to scare the american public again . just in time for halloween too… BOOO!!

Obama is on the fence b/c McCain has has expressed his doubts and concerns about the bill and has not endorsed it. Obama takes his cues from McCain b/c Obama literally has no idea what to do. He recycled almost verbatim what McCain had said. Which is what he ended up doing on the Georgia crisis after his first two statements were shown to be weak and cowardly. I am scared to death for this country if Obama is elected. The man cannot take a stand on any issue.

Big corporate greed knows no limits or ethics. Conservatives barred regulations to big corporations for years in the name of free market, with their favorite motto THE MARKET WILL SELF ADJUST or REGULATIONS WILL ONLY HURT THE MARKET. Now that their free market is heading for a free fall from the insatiable greed, they want a socialist solution so they can keep lining their own pockets with tax payers’ money. Neat tricks for stupid people who keep voting for conservatives, thinking we are not being screwed enough and their experience can really SAVE us.

Obama needs many miracles to be president of this great nation.
McCain/Palin does not need any miracles.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74783
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74635

Only he could come up with a vision of “popping champagne” in such a dire situation. He just can’t relate to the dangerous times we are in. He just doesn’t get it.

finnally somebody who talks with common sens and is not naive to discoverthat greed is a human behavior.

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools (Media Yawns)
“Mr. Ayers is the founder of the “small schools” movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to “confront issues of inequity, war, and violence.” He believes teacher education programs should serve as “sites of resistance” to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his “Teaching Toward Freedom,” is to “teach against oppression,” against America’s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html

I think we better Get Ron Paul on the line – Neither Obama nor McCain have the guts to stand up for us.

You all are obviously too young to remember reality.
The rules that the markets have fallen apart on – deregulating financial institutions and forcing mortgage companies to stop red-lining and start writing questionable mortgages to make home ownership possible for people who just didn’t qualify – were put into place by Bill Clinton.
That’s why the Democratic Congress is busy falling all over itself to emphasize how we’re all in this together.
You are swallowing the line that the GOP is the party of the rich – yet who is holding multi-million dollar fundraisers in NY and LA?
It is your blind refusal to see the obvious that has allowed the Congress, over the past 50 years, under both parties, to dig us a horrendous hole called Socialism. Didn’t work in Europe, didn’t work in Asia, isn’t working here, because guess what – some pigs are more equal than others.

BUSH-LOVERS WANT A THIRD CHANCE?
THEY WANT US TO DO WHAT THEY SAY… AGAIN??
WHY?
REALLY… WHY? WHY SHOULD WE DO WHAT BUSH-VOTING-REPUBLICANS TELL US TO DO??
BECAUSE IT WORKED SO WELL THE LAST TIME?
RIGHT…
BUSH-LOVERS, YOUR TIME IS UP.

Hi,
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
“Impeach Senator Barack Obama”
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/obamaimpeachment?e ………
I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes less than a minute of your time.
Thanks!
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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/obamaimpeachment?e

A PETITION for
The IMPEACHMENT of Senator Barack Obama
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
Whereas: Senator Barack Obama is an admitted Illegal drug user and is believed to have used illegal drugs as recently as November 1999 or more recently. Mr. Obama has maintained contact with other admitted illegal drug users.
Whereas: Senator Barack Obama used the office of IL Senator to facilitate the vote rigging in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Mr. Obama pushed legislation in Senate Bill 1332 to reduce the number of members of the Health Facilities Planning Board from 15 to 9. Mr. Obama did conspire with Stuart Levine, Tony Rezko and Rod
Blogojevich to rig the committee and was rewarded with campaign contributions. The new members appointed included 3 doctors who contributed to Mr. Obama. On April 21, 2004, Stuart Levine explicitly advised Dr. Robert Weinstein, who is now indicted, of Tony Rezko’s role in manipulating the Planning Board’s vote.
Whereas: Senator Barack Obama has invoked the FOIA in Illinois when it was politically expedient and ignored or violated the FOIA at other times. In the Illinois Senate proceedings regarding Senate Bill 1416, Mr. Obama pleads the importance of
businesses bidding on state contracts having improved access to FOIA data. When later questioned about his records during his term in the IL Senate, Mr. Obama gave evasive answers or refused to supply records.

God CAN NOT bless Obama or America at this time in history. God is a god of Life, not pro choice. Partial birth abortion (100% supported by Obama) AND the denial of medical treatment for babies who do survive is the shedding of innocent blood.
We are fortunate we have not condemned ourselves for our actions.

He can pop that champagne cork up his a$$.

What is even funnier (or actually sadder, depending on how you look at it) is how many have fallen on Obama band wagon!

TO Lillij: I do not even know how to respond to except to say. YOU ARE COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL. I am not a McCain supporter, but I would not even go that low. Impeach Obama petition???- WTF. How about we impeach McCain/Bush for lying to the American people, killing and not supporting American soliders, bankrupting our system and spitting on the constitution, how about that!!!! I am going to pray for you because you obviously have some issues. Please see somebody before it is too late.
FYI, FOR ALL YOU BRAINWASHED CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WINGNUTS RUSH LIMBAUGH SHEEPS, OBAMA HAD A PLAN WELL BEFORE MCCAIN, (CNN,MSNBC) HE WAS ALREADY ON TOP THIS, WHILE MCCAIN WAS SCRATCHING HIS DUMB ASS. EVEN MCCAIN’S REPUBLICAN BUDDIES, GEORGE WILL, SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS SAYING OR DOING. HENCE, WHY OBAMA IS AHEAD IN THE POLLS. OUCH.

DOUBLE STANDARDS – 2008 PRESIDENTAL ELECTION
·
· If a black Democratic presidential candidate graduated 894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy, Fox News and the conservative right would push this story as the basis for his disqualification for the nation’s highest office. The rest of the media would then be forced to report on it, giving the story wide exposure. (McCain graduated 894 out of 899)
· If a white Republican presidential candidate graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, he would be celebrated as an intellectual giant ready to lead the country in bold new directions. (Obama graduated top of his class at Harvard)
· If you’re a (M. Obama) Harvard and Princeton-educated black woman married for years before having your first child, Fox labels you a “Baby Mama.”
· If you (Palin) are a white woman who eloped and had a baby eight months later, you are every-woman and a hero for “doing the right thing” and getting married at all.
· If you have studied international affairs for several decades, you’re “inexperienced at foreign affairs.”
· If you live in a state that is geographically near a foreign country, you have “foreign policy expertise.” (Palin, “I have FPE because Alaska is next to Russia”
· If a white republican president (Reagan) speaks among thousands of admiring Europeans, he is deemed a respected world leader.
· If a black democratic presidential candidate speaks among thousands of admiring Europeans, he is deemed the ant-christ and presumptuous.
· A white presidential candidate is perceived as being confident,
· A black presidential candidate is perceived as being arrogant.
· A white republican candidate with 7 houses, 13 cars, wears $500 dollars shoes is seen as being a regular/average guy.
· A black presidential candidate with 1 house, 1 car, who recently paid off student loans is seen as an Elitist.
· If you (Obama) both write and present your own words, you just “give good speeches.” (But after all, it’s only words, right?)
· If you (Palin) read someone else’s words from the teleprompter -— a “superstar is born.”
If you are a white presidential candidate who sought the endorsement of a known anti-semetic and racist, or a VP candidate who attend churches over the years whose pastors say that the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian.
If you are black presidential candidate and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.
A republican candidate whose husband was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family.
A democrat presidential spouse words can be taken out of context and labeled an unpatriotic radical or your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.
· If you (Obama) attend two of the top Ivy League schools in the country, you are surprisingly “articulate.”
· If you graduate from the 5th or 6th college you attend and you deliver a speech with the phonetic “new-clear” on the teleprompter, you’re a poised and eloquent speaker, (Palin)
· If your (McCain) staff is so dumb they mix up Walter Reed Middle School for Walter Reed Medical Center in your convention’s big night, it’s because you wanted to focus on education & it would have been political to use the soldiers in that format.
· If your staff (Obama) coordinates a disciplined convention where attention is paid to every detail and all the trains run on time, you are dinged as “presumptuous” for using Greek columns in your backdrop.
· A white woman talking tough is an advocate of women’s rights; a black woman is angry and bitter.
· A white man talking tough is a straight shooter and a conservative; a black man is an angry gangsta rapper.
· If you’re a Republican and you talk to America’s enemies, it’s diplomacy.
· If you’re a Democrat and you talk to America’s enemies, it’s appeasement.
· If you are a black person supporting Obama, it is because “he is black.”
If you are white person supporting McCain, it is because he is “the best candidate”
· If you’re a Republican and you wind up on the cover of People magazine, it’s because you’re a “regular American.”
· If you’re a Democrat and you wind up on the cover of People magazine, it’s because you’re a “celebrity.”
· If you’re (Paliin) white, win a beauty contest, attend 5-6 colleges before finally graduating, join the PTA, are voted to be mayor by 1000 people, govern a sparsely populated state for less than two years, and get chosen at the last minute to be VP… you’ve lived the American dream.
· But if you’re black, raised by a single mother, live on food stamps, help the community, graduate from Columbia and Harvard Law School, become the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, serve in both a state senate and the U.S. Senate, build a great campaign organization from scratch, and are voted to be the presidential nominee by millions of people, you are uppity.
· If you’re a GOP’er right wingnut conservative, you naturally would NOT see what the problem with any of this was, even if you slept for 20 years on a dictionary opened to the word ‘HYPOCRISY’.

$222,689,884,457 is the cost of the military-industrial complex. Democrat President Johnson expanded the Vietnam conflict and the military-industrial complex grew.
Republican President Eisenhower’s farewell speech warned the American public about the military-industrial complex. Democrat President Kennedy wanted to withdraw all the troops from Vietnam. There is always a question about the timing of President Kennedy’s assassination. President Johnson assumed the Presidency.
Obama in a recent speech stated he would send troops to Pakistan. Can this be just another Democrat that talks like President Johnson? President Johnson said he will bring the troops home from Vietnam and later decided to expand the Vietnam War killing Americans and Vietnamese. Obama stated I would return the troops from Iraq. Later he states he would send troops to Pakistan.
I do not trust Obama’s double talk. I voted for President Johnson and that was the last time I voted Democrat. President Johnson was unpopular because of his doubled standards and lies about Vietnam. Joe Biden finds it difficult to keep up with the changing rhetoric of Obama. It is NO Obama.
http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/

The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who cannot afford to live anywhere else. However, it is not safe to live here. It is an Obama failure of the worse kind. This is an Obama program.
Obama cannot properly represent voters in his Illinois district. Here is a sample of the representation Obama will give all American voters.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1

The sub-prime lending is like Affirmative action even though you are not qualified we well give you the loan anyway wow.Who would come up with something like that sound pretty risky to me

Obama in an earlier statement blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the “trickle-down” economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.
The untold story in this whole national crisis is that of the Carter/Clinton administrations, passed legislation that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions. In 1977, a Democrat Congress passed and President Jimmy Carter signed, perhaps a well-intended piece of legislature at the time designed to encourage minority homeownership; The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC). The U.S. Congress through the CRA compelled banks and lending institutions to make loans to “communities of color” disregarding sound economic and risk guidelines. . . . In short, a Democrat Congress and President demanded that banks change the rules of good banking and open the Pandora’s Box of mortgage defaults and foreclosures now coming to a head. This home-parity concept of the radical left was mobilized by ACORN. . . . resulting in a purchase of a property without any credit, income, employment, and zero down payment. . . .
President Clinton then put on steroids the same ACT (Community Reinvestment Act) and in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but “predatory.” Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties. Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ’70/90s by Carter/Clinton and their social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck

http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/12/1993-12-08-briefing-by-bentsen-and-rubin.text.html The truth must be read for one self

NoBama doesnt give a $hit about people having a tough time. This election is about HIM. THE ONE. We just had devastating floods here in Illinois and one of our leadrs is MIA. WHy, cause he has this stae locked up. Why? Because of the color of his skin, i.e. Chicago. I just love the fact that he has now shown that he wont vote, unless its close. Wow, thats new. Well, WHICH WAY WILL YOU VOTE Mr MESSIAH? THATS THE QUESTION. Everybody asking where McCain stands, and OBama gets a pass. WTF?

Its time for the american people to FLUSH you out of control, and bring back true american values.

Wow, mcnuts is scared to death to debate on Friday. He is such a loser. Obama should hold his feet to the fire and watch him burn on Friday nite.

I sure feel sorry for Bernanke and Paulson. They have to clean up Greenspan’s mess (aided by Blowjob Clinton).
I’ve started hoarding food and water. Soon I’ll clean my guns and hunker down for what’s to come.

I for one will be voting for the candidate that is going to do the best for the USA and the citizens of the USA not Iraq or any other foreign country.