Obama Hammers McCain on Lobbyists; McCain Fires Back on Ayers

Obama can’t afford to play this game. Does the Obama campaign really want us to judge the candidates by the company they keep???

This is a joke. McCain has so much garbage in his past and his henchmen point to Ayers? Ayers in not on Barack Obama’s payroll, nor was he ever an advisor. He has fully disclosed his relationship with Ayers and that was to attend a farewell fundraising event at Ayers house for the woman whose State Senate seat he ran for, and he served on a board of directors for a non-profit charitable (the Republicans don’t understand non-profit charitable) organization that developed programs for the poor communities of Chicago. Give me a break.

John McCain’s website tells visitors “Too often the special interest lobbyists with the fattest wallets and best access carry the day.” It sounds like a compelling sentiment from a one-time reformer, and might even be impressive, just so long as you don’t peek behind the curtain”
Yet he surrounds himself with lobbyist. At least two of McCain’s top advisers lobby; Ex-Texas Representative Tom Loeffler and Sen. Slade Gorton.
Loeffler’s client list includes PhRMA, the drug industry association; Southwest Airlines; Toyota; and Martin Marietta. Gorton represents, among others, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Weyerhaeuser and Fidelity National Financial.
David Crane, now the campaign’s senior policy advisor, was a senior executive at The Washington Group, a firm with 2006 billings of $10.4 million and 52 clients, including Delta Airlines, the Association of American Railroads, and the governments of Panama and Bangladesh.
Charlie Black, who is now a campaign spokesman appearing on McCain’s behalf on radio, television, and as a “spin-doctor” after debates, is chairman of BKSH & Associates, with lobbying billings of $7.6 million in 2006, representing J.P. Morgan, Occidental and General Motors.
11 current or former lobbyists working for or advising McCain.
Among the current and former lobbyists working for McCain are: Campaign CEO Rick Davis, a partner at Davis Manafort, where his clients have included SBC Communications and Verizon; and former Davis Manafort associate, National eCampaign Director Christian Ferry. At the end of 2006, Mike Dennehy, who founded The Dennehy Group, a New Hampshire lobbying firm, was appointed McCain’s national political director. He gave up that post in May to become a senior campaign advisor

Obama- an Antichrist We Can Believe In
Consider his sexual rockstar status among young voters, his ability to continuously lie without impunity, his connections to mob members and terrorist both real and wannabes. His strong and unscrupulous desire for raw power, at any cost, regardless what it does to others, (he became senator simply by disqualifying his opponents). His empty words and changing promises, his desire to be friends with those who wish to destroy us. His wife Michele has expressed her hatred for this country and has publicly announced her husband as the messiah.
The voodoo of this all is that Teflon Obama remains unscathed by all his nefarious connections and thug like history. He is worshiped not only blindly by the mindless masses, but by the fearful media.
I am not very religious, but I think Nostradamus got it right again. What is God going to think of all the lemmings that follow a man of darkness?

Peter Carlton,
in any nuthouse they’ll lend you an ear.
But not here.

Obviously, the McCain camp is comparing apples to oranges in an effort to cloud people’s mind. Let’s keep the focus on the here and now. The crooks working for him is in the present and that is a HUGE conflict of interest. The straight talk express has definitely lost it’s “bearing”.

Its an evident fact that Democratic Voters did not give him a clear victory. As a matter of fact Hillary won almost all Democratic states, but by sheer luck he muscled enough delegates from Red states. Hence he is ahead.
So its a fact that Obama is going to win because of the Super Delegates, all of whom are “Creatures of Washington”
All of them have taken support of the lobyists in their past. And will take in the future.
So whom is he going to change in his own supporters and backers. Would he be willing to call all his super delegates the “Creatures of Washington”?
And what he would do if in one of the debates he is asked this question? As far as I am concerned I am going to send this to News channels.

Lobbyist working on your campaign and representing dictators, as apposed to working on a board for a charitable organization that Ayers happens to be on too.
It doesn’t add up.

The GOP is as toast as never before.
After Obama’s 75,000 rally in Portland:
‘Audience members — including some Republicans — said afterward Obama had scored points with them in his Saturday address.
Mike Croning, 54, a registered Republican, said he is “strongly leaning” toward backing Obama in November.
“He’s a Kennedy-esque type of person. He’s a thoughtful person,” said Croning, a financial planner. “I don’t think he’s the old-style partisan politics.”
Roseburg dentist Bill Schuyler, 62, said he’s been a Republican all his life but now is backing Obama.
“He’s the most honest candidate we’ve had. He speaks what he believes,” Schuyler said.
What about Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee?
“He’s a little too old. I’d like to see someone younger in there,” Schuyler said of the 71-year-old senator. ‘

harley peyton,
the 75thousand showed up because of what they heard he had done for the
5thousand.
and i would not believe anything msnbc had to say if they were standing out in my front yard reporting it.

Well, well, well.
There will be a lot of immigration come November ’08…Clintonians who are just too sore at their loses will be too bitter to live under President Obama.

Jake, what about the illuminating new Washington Post article about Hillary’s radical ties?
Here’s a fragment -
” “She’s a hypocrite,” Doris B. Walker, 89, who was a member of the American Communist Party, said in an interview last week. “She had to know who we were and what kinds of cases we were handling. We had a very left-wing reputation, including civil rights, constitutional law, racist problems.”
Malcolm Burnstein, 74, a partner at the firm who worked closely with Clinton during her internship, said he was traveling in Pennsylvania in April when Clinton attacked Obama for his past interactions with William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, members of Students for a Democratic Society who went on to found the bomb-making Weather Underground.
“Given her background, it was quite hypocritical,” Burnstein said. “I almost called the Philadelphia Inquirer. I saw what she and her campaign were saying about Ayers and I thought, ‘Well, if you’re going to talk about that totally bit of irrelevant nonsense, I’ll talk about your career with us.’ ”
In her campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Clinton has said little about her experiences in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, including her involvement with student protests and her brief internship at the law firm, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. She has said she worked on a child custody case, although former partners recall her likely involvement in conscientious objector cases and a legal challenge to a university loyalty oath.
But her decision to target Obama’s radical connections has spurred criticism from some former protest movement leaders who say she has opened her own associations to scrutiny.
“The very things she’s accusing Barack of could be said of her with much greater evidence,” said Tom Hayden, a leading anti-Vietnam War activist, author and self-described friend of the Clintons. “

rattle,
The firm Hillary worked at, short term, would be more apt to be described as a civil liberties/criminal defense law firm. Note, she was defending the constitutional rights of those accused of crimes. In so doing, she was protecting the constitutional rights of all citizens.
Do you understand that the criminal defense attorney keeps the system honest and stands between democracy and due process and tyranny?
There is a huge difference between being a lawyer who defendds those charged with crimes and someone, like Obama, who consulted with, socialized with, sat on boards with a known, home grown terrorist who to this day states “we did not do enough.”

Bertha,
I am not worried at all and will not be going anywhere. If Hillary is no the nominee, many of her supporters will be lining up to work for McCain.
Watch it happen!

Grass, I just had to return once more to copy your post and email it to my sister.
It is a gem.

“Concerned’s” rants, myths and smears without evidence about Obama suitably end with a quotation from Nostradamus. A nutter.

Obama’s association with Ayres will be definite and consistent target for McCain. This will not go away. It is very personal. While McCain was a POW for those 5 years, Ayres was the ringleader of the Weathermen, planning the bombing of police stations, the Pentagon, banks, and even a military dance with Army servicemen present.
Ironic that Obama would not denounce and reject Ayres especially after the statement “I don’t regret setting bombs… I feel we should have done more.”
Does Obama have this same tolerence and understanding for young black kids charged with drug offenses in Illinois? No way. Here is a list of the legislation he supported while in the IL senate, all mandating increased sentences for drug offenses:
In an August 19, 2004 entry on Obama’s website he bragged about being tough on drugs:
During 8 years in the state senate, Senator Obama has repeatedly voted for tougher penalties for drug offenders. [HB 3387, 5/13/03; P.A. 93-0546; SB 1793, 3/21/03; P.A. 93-0223; HB 2347, 5/6/99; P.A. 91-0336; HB 3170, 5/7/98; P.A. 90-0674; HB 1278, 5/14/99; P.A. 91-0403; SB 0105, 3/23/99; P.A. 91-0263; HB 2843, 5/20/03; P.A. 93-0596; 93rd GA, SB 2447, 3/25/04; P.A. 93-0884; SB 1578, 3/24/03; P.A. 93-0297; SB1028, 4/2/98; SB 1028, 5/19/98, SC HA1,4; P.A. 90-0775; HB 0070, 5/16/97; P.A. 90-0382; HB 2844, 5/13/03; P.A. 93-0340; HB 3073, 4/4/00; P.A. 91-0802; HB 0252, 5/7/99; P.A. 91-0366; HB 5652, 5/9/02; SB 1332, 2/24/00; P.A. 91-0899; HB 4245, 5/7/02; P.A. 92-0698; SB 0014, 5/20/97, SC HA1; P.A. 90-0397; SB 0003, 4/6/01; HB 2015, 5/9/97; P.A. 90-0164; SB 1011, 4/5/01; SB 1224, 3/24/98; HB 2030, 5/15/97; P.A. 90-0557]
Ayres is definitely fodder for the Republican attack machine and will not play well with most Americans. It feeds into Wright’s anti-American ravings and also Obama’s communist mentor back in Hawaii.
Does Obama like or respect anyone “normal”? Why does his coterie of friends look like a political freak show??
He is a hypocrit; he consistently voted to increase drug sentences in IL and also voted to try children as adults there. I guess in his warped view, political crimes get a free pass, but if you are a kid and commit a crime you go to adult prison and if you use drugs, you should do hard time, except, of course, he is the drug user.

Nothing is more hilarious than a guy who comes from the cesspool of dirty politics like Chicago, saying he’ll clean up DC.
And only fools would buy it.
Posted by: No’bama | May 18, 2008 10:15:17 PM
It’s even funnier to see fools advocating rewarding any republican for ruining America with high gas, food and various other prices. In fact the Iraq war is the republican tax that will have us all paying high prices for ecerything for decades to come.

As a supporter of McCain’s, I am getting a little weary of what seems to be some amount of pompousness on his part. Why do you need a policy announcement on May 15. For a person who is high integrity this is something he should have started with when he started his Presidential Campaign, not now.
It seems he is always playing catch up on things he should not be. And then he adopts a holier than thou attitude. For such a seasoned campaigner such as him, it is little solace to say that on May 15 he has a most restrictive policy.
C’mon this is your strength McCain. Show it.

Speaking of Chicago:
And McCain is well prepared:
“The Republican National Committee has amassed a 1,000-page dossier on Mr Obama, with researchers spending weeks in Chicago seeking fresh material.”

Martha,
The real problem I see is that Obama got less than 50% of the votes thus far in the primaries, and in many states that will be red in the fall. Without Clinton supporters, he is nowhere. Do you realize that? It is not enough to carry the AA and “creative class” and youngsters.
Sorry.

Count: Red, Blue whatever…Repubs are already losing rabidly red states in special elections.
PS: Remember to send a memo to the DP reminding them to exclude “red” states from the primaries next time.

Quotes from wise women:
“When people look at the arc of the campaign, it will be seen that being a woman, in the end, was not a detriment and if anything it was a help to her,” the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said in an interview. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is faltering, she added, because of “strategic, tactical things that have nothing to do with her being a woman.”
“As a former first lady whose political career evolved from her husband’s, Mrs. Clinton was always an imperfect test case for female achievement. “Somebody’s wife,” as Elaine Kamarck, a professor of government at Harvard and a Clinton supporter, described her.”
- I am fed up of men thinking women are too emotionally distraught to vote for Obama in Nov.

A guy who married into the same Arizona mob that blew up an Arizona Republic reporter wants to talk about association because he had to fire his fifth staff lobbyist in one week? I’ve never said McCain was too old. I’ve always said he’s just not the person anyone could want as president.

Ayers has NOTHING to do with the Obama campaign but lobbyists have EVERYTHING to do with the McCain campaign.

I saw that McCain’s chief strategist is Charles Black, who started out as a Nixon Dirty Trickster in 1972. Roger Ailes at Fox was also part of that slimy class of ’72. Now those once young slimebags are distinguished old slimebags in GOP ranks. Looks like they will preside over the demise of the GOP. How fitting.

It’s time to take a scrutiny of BO’s career before the consideration of him for the top post in the country.
His scandals in his short career of being a national senator tells us that he is dangerously obscure. There are lots of things undercover that the liberal media is hiding from us.
Posted by: John_Lai | May 18, 2008 9:03:45 PM
Tell us how you feel about the scandals perpetrated by bush? They include but are not limited to the Iraq war, high fuel prices, firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons, prosecuting the democratic govenor of alabama for political reasons etc. And let me guess you want us to reward the republicans by voting for them, right?

All politicians have connections with, and in some cases, long standing relationships with paid lobbyists. Unless there is evidence that the relationship affects the public in a negative fashion, it should not be an issue. Raising the spector of misconduct, where none exists, is dishonorable.

I had always been opposed to lobbyists. For the past three years I have been a Board member of a professional, non-profit group. We were very much wooed by unions hoping we would affiliate. Their main pitch to us is that they have hundreds of paid lobbyists!!! That is primarily what they talked about. So funny to see Obama who is so opposed to lobbyists then turn around and seek and accept the support and endorsement of unions. Where does he think the lion’s share of union dues go?
As it turned out we did not affiliate with any union. We found them to be heavy handed and did not want to loose our autonomy as professionals. The organization was just too new. Instead, we hired our own lobbyist. It has been the best investment we ever made. The lobbyist is our eyes and ears at the legislature and really knows what bills, if any, would impact our professional lives. He also, of course, has opened doors for us as to meetings and hearings we could not obtain on our own.
Upshot, you cannot paint all lobbyists with such a broad brush. Most are true professionals and have a developed expertise. As I said, we are a professional organization and we did try to go it alone. We found that we were spinning our wheels showing up at sessions that were totally unrelated to our interests and through our ineptitude probably causing more damage than anything else.

AARP has a lobbying arm, environmental grops have them… even many church denominations have them. So what’s the big deal?
If you go to your local pol and say that if you vote for this bill I will not vote for you – it may have little impact unless you go as a group. Lobbyists represent groups… all sorts of them (pro/anti gun, pro/anti abortion, minority interests, seniors, industrial/business interests, unions, etc. That’s what they do. Even the Armed forces have “liaisons” which are like lobbyists.
I’s only wrong when lobbyists change a pol’s mind or vote by using monitary or other illegal influences.
What’s the alternative? Polling? Shall each pol not think independently and hire Zogby to find out how he/she should vote?

John McCain is a war hero and a patriot.
I’m a Clinton supporter, but I will vote for McCain if she is not the nominee. Obamanuts don’t seem to realize that he was Kerry’s first choice for VP in 2004. I am getting to
like the idea of a Republicam POTUS with aa Democrat Congress. The checks and balance may keep us safe from the corruption of both parties.

BR, feel free to vote for your appeasing McCain who voted to allow the bombing of abortion clinics. And is connected to the murder of a guy who was reporting on them, by way of association. And it seems you will feel very good about doing so.

“Once emotions and tempers are calmed, Hillary supporters will come around and vote Obama.”
“So you want us to reward the republicans for ruining Amerca by staying home or voting for McCain? Sure that’s the smart thing to do!” LG and Vanessa, We will rise up and fight against disgustingly bigoted and insulting Obama supporters like you!!! Equality means fighting for everyone’s rights and not resorting to the sick bigoted, condescending remarks of Obama Supporters!! How could you subject children to 20 years of sick racist sermons like Obama did in his church? I would never allow children to hear these disgusting, bigoted remarks from scare mongering, hate mongering Obama supporters like you!!! It’s time to rise up and fight against this harassment from bigoted Obama supporters!! NO MEANS NO!!!
Posted by: former dem in chicago | May 19, 2008 1:05:40 AM
You were never a democrat if you advocate voting republican after 8 years of bush. Btw Illinois will go for Obama but of course you knew that didn’t you?

The Republicans’ primary problem is that the American people have figured out that their tactics of “divide and conquer”…of sowing dissension and fear…are all meant to distract America so that America’s middle class and poor don’t notice as the Republicans – and their puppetmasters – steal from their pocketbooks, plunder the nation’s treasury and destroy the future of their children.
Pretty simple, the Republicans do not wish to lead America – they wish to prey upon it.

I want to correct this notion that some bloggers have on here that if a Clinton supporter says they won’t vote Obama if he is the nominee, that they are Republicans masquerading as Democrats.
There are many people who vote the party line all the time and their are many people who vote the candidate.
I identify myself as a Democrat because I have predominantly voted Democrat over the years. If on the ballot I have two candidates to choose from that I am not all that familiar with I always vote Democrat. In fact I would have to say in the local and State elections it is rare that I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat. Having said that, over the years I have on occasion voted Republican and have certainly voted 3rd party on a number of occasions. If I am not happy with the candidate of my identified party then I will not vote for them. Many will, but I choose to be not quite as dogmatic about party affiliation as others may be. For those of you under 25, perhaps you just haven’t had the opportunity to vote as many times yet to have encountered situations where you would potentially consider voting for someone other than a Democrat. When I have jumped ship or voted 3rd candidate it has almost always been a candidate I see as more centrist/moderate. While my views probably fit more into the far left than the right, I have a healthy disdain for both the far left and right . Right now I see the Democratic party as being hijacked by the far left, again. I don’t necessarily feel Obama is far left but right now I am totally turned off by the Democratic party for a variety of reasons. The Dems have reason to be concerned because I have no doubt there are many out there like myself who see McCain as a centrist/moderate and do not see McCain as George W. I am not entirely comfortable with McCain but there is just something that rubs me the wrong way about Obama and more importantly I am not impressed by his record nor his experience and/or lack of. I am college educated and race is not the issue for me because I have voted for black candidates within my own State when the opportunity has been there and I did not support Clinton because she was female. I am not a blue collar voter but I grew up in a blue collar family and my sensibilities lie there which is in part why I support Clinton and why I have a difficult time supporting Obama. His lofty rhetoric and his telling us everything wrong about the other candidates positions and yet never telling us what he would do other than in the most lofty or general of ways, just doesn’t cut it. I don’t think we still have a really good sense of who he is, what he stands for and what he would fight for, at least I don’t and judging from some of his supporters I don’t get the impression they care that much rather they project on him all this other stuff. I like Obama’s message of change coming from the bottom up but when he gives this message he’s not advocating that young people go out and stand on their convictions around issues that concern them but rather that they support him and he will implement that change but he needs them to elect him to do so. I believe that change does come from the bottom up and we’ve seen it in women’s rights, civil rights, gay rights, protesting the Vietnam war and so on but the focus has been on an issue of concern that a collective of like-minded people had the courage of conviction to stand up and fight for it at times with great risk. It was not about voting a Republican or Democrat into office. I suppose the closest we’ve seen and that was McGovern and look what happened with that. So I don’t trust Obama’s message of hope and change because it’s about him. I don’t trust his new politics because he’s old politics but who has learned to use the new resources at hand, such as internet communities, in a manner old politics hasn’t.

If the DNC and the Obama camp think Democrats will “come home” en masse to vote for Obama, they are very sadly mistaken. I live in Alabama and let me tell you, he is in for a rude awakening if he and his fans think his primary “win” here will mean a hill of beans in the general election. Obama will not carry a single state in the Old South. And don’t trust any “polls” that say otherwise.

Obama has become totally predictable. Opponent points at Obama corruption – Obama says Washington as usual. Opponent points at Obama hypocrisy with Wright – Obama says my grandmother was the rascist – Opponent points at Obama’s naivete and stupidity when it comes to foreign affairs – Obama says I spoke out agains the war before I voted and voted and voted and voted and voted for it – so I’d love to have that debate.
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Obama, basically a joke!
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Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | May 19, 2008 12:35:42 AM
Your tactic was tried and failed in the recent election in missisippi. So give it a break.

Carlasue — things always come out in campaigns. That was one of Clinton’s arguments early on. Her “dirt” is already out there….his just keeps coming. There’s more on the way…trust.

Kravitz – you really shouldnt post stuff from Daily Kos. Unlike other sites like ABC and Politico, Daily Kos bans people who speak out against Obama. I have seen it over and over and over again. Any site that flushes out dissent is not trustworthy. Period.

Anyone actually take the time to research for yourself about the SDS, the Weathermen and Ayers’ life since? Start with Wikipedia, go from there and you will clearly understand what spin is. Classic case from McCain and Clinton (and media editorialists). Classic oldtime election tactics we all must use education to be able to normalize if not outright ignore.

poster: “…republican reduced to masquerading as a Hillary supporter to promote division in democratic ranks. It won’t work, the republicans have screwed over all too many demographics of this country…”
It amazes me that you Dems are so steeped in identity politics. It may cost you the Whitehouse. Your so-called “demographics” is a neat code for women, blacks, working class whites and Latinos.
Once Obama clinches the nomination, he will have to contend with the “sweetie” vote… the “bitter, gun toting religeous” white vote and the virtually ignored Latino vote.
You Dems have been playin these “demographics” against each other for so long now… what will you do when your candidate is seen as the candidate of only one of those groups? Will the other groups believe him when he says “I’m one of you”?
Or…
Trot out Bill Richardson to stump for the Latino vote? Que es Bill Richarsdon? He wasn’t even recognized as Hispanic in CA or AZ. Many Hispanics are already thinking that he’ll go for a hard immigration stance to blunt McCain and to get the “working class vote”.
Trot out Hillary to get the women’s vote? Women will just see the “old boys” network makin’ sure that women are in their place. And all his “present” votes when it came to vote on women’s issues will haunt him.
It will be an interesting tightrope walk… with angry “demographics” ready to turn on him should he fall.

Go get him John, that pussycat Barry BO can’t take a fruitpunch. I think I saw him crying and whining AGAIN!!

Barry can not afford to play “who were you with”? Now you are ALMOST against…playing the flip flopper!

How anyone can honestly believe Obama is a change from the same old political games is beyond me. He said his association with Rezko was a ‘dumb’ decision, that he didn’t know Wright was a rascist, that he wasn’t putting down small town workers, that he wants a bipartisan administration.He was voted “Most Liberal Senator” title last year, he wants gun controls, made a deal with Rezko even while knowing Rezko was under investigation for corruption,lied about not knowing Wright’s agenda, and told a liberal San Francisco audience what they wanted to hear about rural ‘hicks’. He told Judicial Watch he had no records from his term in the Illinois legislature and is using a Madison Avenue slogan ‘Change We Can believe In’ to try to get in the White House. He comes from a wealthy Hawaiian family even though he tries to portray himself as one of the downtrodden. 100 years ago he would have been called a snake oil salesman.

think is not thinking again,
How can obama become POTUS without
mi
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typical white people
the clinton supporters
the rural clinging to guns and god crowd
sweeties
obama supporters coming off the obama-grog
i listened to the second 30min of cspan this am. over 50% of the calls were people saying things such as-if sen. clinton is not on the ticket-will vote for mccain.
and what was encouraging to me there were several black men who called in.
and a couple of 80year olds.
it maybe late in the day but this country
might still have a chance of recovery after the bush years-but that will only
happen if sen. clinton wins.
obama will not be potus.
he and his handlers went about it the wrong way.
a real fact is if people had known jan. what is known now about obama-he would not be in the lead.
people were not even paying attention to the issues then-they were voting based on sen. clintons neg and knowing zero about obama. and assumed obama must be better that sen. clinton.
now people have gotten to really know a lot more about sen. clinton-her negs. have gone down. and they know a lot more about obama-and his negs. have gone up. and all the while sen. clinton is and has stayed strong on being able to plainly tell people what she will do about the issues that face us. sen clinton has consistently laid out her plan first about what she will do. she is the one who has been driving the issues conversation-(the signs of a true leader) how? when sen. clinton started with the 3am ad-(and people made fun of it, etc.BUT it got us talking about national security, when before her 3am ad. we were not talking about it. now why do i say obama only copies-prime example-instead of coming back with some other catchy ad-to explain his point.-what did we get sen.clintons 3am ad regurgated.
when sen. clinton talks about healthcare the national conversation changes again. she is the true leader here.
because obama is such an unknown and the media has not done its job, obama has spent much of his time explaining and making excuses.
when sen. clinton gives a speech or talk whatever you want to call it-we all learn something new.
when obama gives a speech-i have listened to him-he spends most of the time telling you what you already know
and then he starts talking about what his opponents have said about him-which you already known.
so, no wonder you have so many people still asking-(in the spirit of w. mondale) WHERE IS THE BEEF?
OBAMA WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT because
OBAMA SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT.

and welcome back jake,
and tell your sub just because we are glad you are back, does not mean we do not like him.we liked him, we really liked him.
or what i meant to say is..oh well
stay tuned, i will be giving a speech about it soon.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
Says a lot about his world view….and view of the US and its people.
Obama is not who he says he is.

Lezident….
But isn’t he right? Obesity is an epidemic in this country, we need to buy smaller cars to reduce consumption, smaller homes, eat better, exercise more. Why do people find common sense so offensive?

I’d rather have a candidate with an advisor who’s a lobbyist than one with an advisor who’s talking secretly with Hamas.

Lobbying includes all attempts to influence legislators and officials, whether by other legislators, constituents or organized groups. Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying.
So the Dems do not constituents to determine policy, they think the People work for the Government not the Government for the People!!
McCain may have Lobbyist working on his campaign but he never took from them, on the other hand Obama get a million dollar house from one!! Obama funeeled 1 million dollars to his wife over 4 five years (1 million tax payers money to hospital his wife worked for and then his wife got a 250,000 dollar raise).
Obama talks with a terrorist to organize his campaign!
Yes Obama you are above politics!!

Dear Really? Did you also know that Republican fundraisers raised $100 million for Obama in 2007 to try to knock off Hillary Clinton? Do you think they regret that now?

If having lobbyists run your campaign is less fearful to you than being friendly with someone like Ayres, no matter how personal the relationship you deserve the same kind of mismanaged goverment you’ve got.
Gimme a break. The lobbyists were patsies for our good friends in Saudi Arabia and Myanmar.
Every time I go to a gas station I’m being victimized by Domestic Terrorism far worse than anything Ayres could ever have possibly dreamed!

The reckoning is coming for OBAMA…..
He is not ready to be a President and honestly he will never be ready to be..
He has too many flaws, too many mistakes, too many bad issues and too many don’t knows. Too bad the democrats are heading to another GORE and KERRY soap opera..Democrats just never learned…What else can i say?!!

Janice and fondh,
I attended the Democratic Convention in Reno NV. Hundreds of Hillary delegates were disenfranchised and not allowed to be seated. The Excuses: They were not on the computer print outs at registration time. When 2 days earlier they were on the computer print outs go figure. 98% of the people who hold office in DNC in Nevada and 100% percent of the credential committee were Obama supporters. Hundreds of Delegates were promised bus transportation from Las Vegas. At the last minute the Obama people in charge of getting transportation on those busses for Obama delegates and Hillary delegates claimed to get a better deal with the airlines at the last minute and didn’t bother informing the Hillary delegates and alternate delegates. They also missed a few of the Obama delegates not very many though. As a reporter when I submitted this infomation to my paper it was edited out because my editor is an Obama supporter. The Hillary campaign is aware of the problems in Nevada and many other caucus states I have covered. At this late stage in the game the cheating the Obama campaign has been doing is really a mute point unless you have integrity and believe in principles as I do. I strongly dislike cheating of any kind. I’m sure not all of the Obama supporters are cheaters. All of the Nevada Obama Delegates and alternate delegates “Received Money” to attend the convention from the Obama campaign. None of the Hillary delegates or alternate delegates received any money from the Hillary campaign. Just proves that Obama who has the money can buy the election, the pledged delegates and the super-delegates.

I personally don’t think Obama can win the GE with the Electoral College. The majority of the states he has taken in the primary will go Republican and the important swing states will have moderate independents throw the election to the Republicans too. Obama is too far left for many and they will choose McCain, known to at least be a Republican who does not always vote the party line in the Senate. I am disappointed that as a Democrat I will have to endure another four years of Republican executive leadership. I’ll be campaigning hard for the Democratic candidates for House and Senate in my state in the hopes that we at least can keep a balance of power to keep stupid policies to a minimum.