Obama’s Answer on the Johnson Conundrum

This is what we’re going to get for 4-8 years. Rhetoric of changing the “old politics” firmly rooted in business as usual. Brilliant marketing.

Jim Johnson, the disciplined, discreet and obsessively meticulous vice presidential vetter for Barack Obama, is a stalwart of the Washington establishment.
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Obama and the INSIDERS….a movie coming to a theater near you.

this is going to be fun to watch

This is silly. Vet the vetter? Must be a slow news day.

I Bet
Keith/Chris at MSNBC will not cover this news at all. You know they are in this Cult too.
Jack , You are doing a good Job at ABC

NoMcSAME ,
your qouting the huffington post, please , taht garbage is so one sided Obamism that I hurl just thinking of the editor. get some unbiased information please!
Yeah Obama taking it, Oh did you see the front page of ABC at least 2-3 Obama articles with the words Obama Attacks. oh but wait he never attacks it is always the other side. ROFL. Where’s my guns , I have to go to church.

“Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”, “Um”, “Look”, “I mean”, “you know”…..this guy cannot think off the top of his head. He needs a prepared script 24/7. You don’t see this inane filler in his speeches do you? Speak volumes about this guy.

um..um…well…look…um…well…
OMG!

And the vetting begins. Too bad the media was too scared to do it during the primary. I hope Obama is ready, it’s only going to get worse.

what and mccains sleeping with phil gramm
please this is the most ridiculous and boring accusation ever…
hillarys not in the race anymore what do we report on???? WAHHHHHHH
i love that mccain is attacking this because hes going to get slammed for all of his dirty dealings with big business…
lol cmon …. yawwwwnnn
OH NO A FIST BUMP TERRORISTS!!!
OH NO A LOAN TERRORISTS
OH NO Hes AN EMPTY SUIT
and mccain is just dust in the wind my friends

Mack
Oh, why don’t we hire people to vett the people vetting the people vetting the vetters? This is the highest level of lunacy. I don’t even know why Obama is answering these stupid questions. What is wrong with a man getting a good deal on his mortgage loan? Is that a crime now in this country?

Get Obama a teleprompter and a written speech, he cannot think or talk without one.

The SDs in dem. party should re-think their endorsement on Obama.
Obama will make bring shame to the whole party.
If Obama does something wrong, later, people will blame the whole dem. party.
SDs can and should switch their vote, to avoid future regret.
If the judge himself is not clean, how can he make clean judgement on VP?

Who would have thought in a billion Barry years that a politician from Chicago would be sleazy?
What a shocker that one…
Slick Barry…

“I will veto every beer.”
- Sen. John McCain
What an idiot!

Lou
Obama never slammed McCain for having someoene on his staff that got a good deal from Countrywide. Obama slammed McCain for having LOBBYISTS running his campaign, including some LOBBYISTS that worked for Countrywide. There is a CLEAR difference. If you cannot see it, then you are stupid. I got a good deal from Countrywide. I got a good deal because i make good money and have perfect credit. There is NOTHING wrong with that. The problem here is that Obama’s campaign is wasting time responding to this idiocy. They should have ignored it.

Obama’s hired hand, inherited from Ted Kennedy, has never picked a Winner President – ever.
If Obama fires them, it should be for the bad job they did starting out the task of discrete searching for VP. Already on the first day their work was in the papers.
Obama keeps this charade going, which is why he should be prepared for the consequences of lying when they aim to explain why not Clinton. Clinton won the popular vote, and if situation was reverse this would not be a question. Obama, stop horsing around!
Obama/Clinton 08!

Tucker Bounds just pounced on this, saying “…. Barack Obama has castigated Countrywide Financial, but now that Jim Johnson has been exposed for taking sweetheart deals from Countrywide’s CEO – Obama is in a state of denial. ”
As has been reported, Johnson received a mortgage loan with a rate higher than the market rate. So how is it exactly a sweetheart deal?

I SMELL HILLARY IN DENVER CONVENTION THIS AUGUST. THE MORE OBAMA SPEAKS ON ECONOMY, NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY, THE MORE HE FALTERS ON THESE SUBJECTS. HE NEEDS TO FIND MORE CHEAT WAYS TO TRICK DNC INTO BELIEVING THAT HE REALLY IS THE ONE THAT WILL TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE.

I don’t which is worse a bunch of idiots defending obama or another bunch defending macaine. THEY BOTH SUCK. Wake up folks, soros has bought both of these losers.

No one wants change here. It’s quite obvious.

At least senator Obama can pronounce NUCLEAR and can spell POTATO for all you dummies out there mocking his response to a question.
Senator Obama is brilliant!!!!
And he will be the 44th president of the USA. wow!!!

“Politics as usual” delivered to America in a pretty package labeled “Change”.
Obama’s campaign from it’s core is hypocrisy……in his book he railed against an IL company that was shipping jobs overseas….his fundraisers were the owners of the compay.
Just say NO!
PUMA

nnitwh:
don’t be so hard on youself, dude…..Are you now having voter’s remorse?
Senator Obama cannot save you by your vote….You have to get up and do something beyong a vote, bud…..
Relax; and stop beating yourself down because of your voting choice..

I feel dumber for having watched that. The man is a moron. Where’s the MSM. Bush is a great speaker compared to Barack “ah… er… um… I mean… they work for me, but they don’t work for me” Obama.
I mean every week we have this guy talking out his butt. A new you tube clip almost every day. At this rate the google servers are going to need a lot more gigs of storage for you tube.
I can see google’s next quarterly report. Earning down 20% because we have buy more servers every time Obama opens his mouth we get more gaffe clips.

Kevin
I think you don’t understand what is my problem. Obama said Johnson isn’t working for him. Really? So, what is he doing?

Clinton suspended her campaign for a reason – and it wasn’t all about campaign debt.
I hope she doesn’t campaign for him at all. Let him hang himself. She needs to stay far away from this guy. I thought I could hold my nose and vote for him if Clinton was on the ticket, but no more. Even Hillary won’t be able to save this guy. AND if Hillary can’t no one else will either.

You all want to just jump on every glittery thing…
don’t look at the issues…look at this thing over here…he got a good mortgage rate (but don’t look at the fact that he has numbers that would give him that rate)
just keep looking at the glittery sparkly distraction…c’mon you’re all smart…you know you want to look at this …no no…don’t look at my lack of a plan …or the similarities between me and bush…keep looking at this sparkly thing over here….
that’s a good voter…there there…just keep focusing on this…
a lot of people who fall for the stupid stuff all the time…
this is a non-issue …not only is this not real…but it falls into distraction …and then wait two months and everyone will say…oh I guess that was a non-issue… there is no correlation. Find the correlation first reporters and then make it a story.
but atleast you got to play with the sparkly little glittery thing you were shown.
duh.

Very one is just talking. This Country is for the PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE, SO THE PEOPLE SHOULD STAND UP FOR THIS COUNTRY, and till the GOVERMENT WHAT WE WANT.Not what they want. Little by little they take are rights away,and we do nothing except be self centerd insteaed of I it should be WE THE PEOPLE.Don’t want to be tax over and over again.the working people of this Country keep this country going Why should we stand by while they make a fool of it.MEN ARE STILL DIEING FOR ARE FREEDOM AS THEY DIED BEFORE ARE THEY ALL GOING TO DIE INVAIN. For this.

Lou: Thank you I am a member of Pump Pac.

Yet another “guilt by association” story… complete with fake disbelief by the author.
Here is how this connection would matter… If Countrywide Financial exercised some sort of influence over Johnson and Johnson is later appointed by Obama to a position where he exercises decision-making powers. Even then, you have to buy that where this guy gets his mortages directly speaks to his ability to do his job.
As it is, Johnson is gathering information and reporting to the campaign. He is not making any decisions. He is not a paid employee speaking on behalf of the campaign.
I didn’t agree with the way the Obama campaign used “guilt by association” to link Clinton staffers with ties to Countrywide to Clinton herself. And I don’t agree with how its being used now.
And what is it with Tucker Bounds? Does he sit in a room all day, just waiting to be outraged? Pathetic.

My god Obama, just admit you are wrong.
What is wrong with this man??????

I’m sure multi-millionaires mccain and his wife got some good loan deals. why don’t we criticize them too! and all the other wealthy people who got good deals on their home and personal loans, as a matter of fact.

Oh now I get it. Now that Obama’s campaign has been exposed as having questionable ties, it’s not ok to vet these people.
But when McCain voluntarily had people resign from his campaign for questionable ties the Obamamaniacs pounced on him. Never mind the fact McCain basically made them resign.
So why isn’t Obama making these people resign?
Weak leader. Hypocrite. Arrogance to the ponit of destruction.
JUST ADMIT THESE PEOPLE ARE NOW SUSPECT AND TAKE THEM OFF YOUR CAMPAIGN

aaaah. uh huh.

I’m not pressuming, I just have no trust or faith in Hillary aside for what she will do for herself.

PJ – nicely put…

The scary thing about Obama is he continues to lie and deny….this is a campaign strategy. So in one respect this is not politics as usual….he doesn’t bother to distance himself from corruption of people that are at odds with his speechmaking and policies until he is absolutely backed into a corner….
Hypocrisy in “plain site” depends on a media that cooperates with Obama’s campaign rather than operates outside his marketing and PR machine.

I SMELL HILLARY IN DENVER CONVENTION THIS AUGUST. THE MORE OBAMA SPEAKS ON ECONOMY, NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY, THE MORE HE FALTERS ON THESE SUBJECTS. HE NEEDS TO FIND MORE CHEAT WAYS TO TRICK DNC INTO BELIEVING THAT HE REALLY IS THE ONE THAT WILL TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE.
SUPERDELEGATES CAN STILL CHANGE THEIR MINDS BETWEEN NOW AND DENVER. THE MORE OBAMA PRETENDS HE KNOWS ECONOMY, THE MORE HE FALTERS. THE MORE PEOPLE GET DISGUSTED WITH HIS INCOMPETENCE, THE MORE DNC WILL REALIZE, THEY MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE OF CHOOSING THE WRONG CANDIDATE.

Oh yeah, I’m sorry. I forgot Hillary doesn’t lie, and never did.

Obama is fast becoming “The King Of DoubleTalk”. Racist Wright. Terrorist Ayers, Criminal Rezko…… and Obama will make a judgement based on these 2 new questionable characters – one with obvious ties to traitor Marc Rich? I hope people who read this story realize that Obama is not to be trusted.

I SMELL HILLARY IN DENVER CONVENTION THIS AUGUST. THE MORE OBAMA SPEAKS ON ECONOMY, NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY, THE MORE HE FALTERS ON THESE SUBJECTS. HE NEEDS TO FIND MORE CHEAT WAYS TO TRICK DNC INTO BELIEVING THAT HE REALLY IS THE ONE THAT WILL TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE.
SUPERDELEGATES CAN STILL CHANGE THEIR MINDS BETWEEN NOW AND DENVER. THE MORE OBAMA PRETENDS HE KNOWS ECONOMY, THE MORE HE FALTERS. THE MORE PEOPLE GET DISGUSTED WITH HIS INCOMPETENCE, THE MORE DNC WILL REALIZE, THEY MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE OF CHOOSING THE WRONG CANDIDATE.

Why when I’m reading Obama’s response to a question do I get confused as to the content of it?
Between the uhms, uhs, and more uhms, and the express contradictions between sentences–
Leaves me to believe that Obama really does think Americans are dumb.
To say that someone at the head of his committee does not work for him??
The man talks in lawyerly riddles. Yeah, this is change I can, uhm, uhm, believe in. Right.

There are many curious clues within Hillary Clinton’s latest speeches that should be pointed oout to her supporters in an attempt to help them understand what she really NEEDS from them.
First, Hillary has continued to make the case the 18,000,000 voters, that “magic number” which constanly underscores the fact that she won the popular vote against Obama.
Second, Hillary DID NOT mention John McCain during her entire concession speech, a very strange fact when you consider that the whole strategy of the Democratic party is based on the fictional contrast between Obama and John McCain, via Bush.
Third, Hillary has made sure to constantly state that she will continue to fight for her supporters and that one day they will actually “Break the highest of all glass ceilings’together, a term that she has continuously used to make the case that she will bevome the first female President. What is her underlying message? What important piece of the overall strategy does her wide range of supporters play into this political stratefy?
There is NO DOUBT that if any of HIllary Clinton supporter wants to see her (or any woman for that matter) become President of the United States within their lifetime, Barack Obama HAS to lose the general election, and by a wide range.
On the practical level, think about this, IF Obama wins in November, it would push her possiblity of running for the Presidency by more than 8 years into the future, since she would not be able to run against him after the first term(even if he was a certified loser) because the Party would simply not allow her to challenge ther incumbent candidate.
By the year 2016, the possiblity of a Republican candidate taking back the White House from the Democrates will be basically guaranteed, even if we only base it in the dynmaics of houw our system tends to work. Thus this sequence of events would basically push her candidacy even further ahead for another 4 to 8 years (this amounts to 16 years into the future). In other words by voting for OBAMA you are LITERALLY barring her election FOR ALL TIME. Based on this measure, her candidacy entirely depends on OBAMA’S defeat.

Lou:
You are either a teenager or too silly to realize I mention that senator Obama can spell “POTATO” as a reference to Dan Qualye…..Do you remember Dan Qualye? Do you recall Bush pronoucing the word NUCLEAR? What about Bush and other idiots saying: Democrat Party, instead of Democratic Party.
My point is this: LAY OFF OBAMA BECAUSE HE SAID “UM” AND WHATEVER….
The man is brilliant!!! Why don’t you and some other dummies out there go to Columbia University and get a law degree from Harvard? Dummies!!! out there…..bunch of idiots…….
So hard for folks to accept the fact that an African American is brilliant…
Bunch of dummies….out there…

mikey
highly questionable past???? lol what?
heres a quote from fox news in their article about this
“In its reporting, The Wall Street Journal said it found nothing illegal about the loan terms, and an attorney for Johnson said the loans were in the bounds for those to people with credit backgrounds like Johnson’s.”
soooooo lets make a bigger mountain out of a mole hill
meanwhile in reality
republicans stopped us from taxing big oil so they d.ick cheney could continue to be rich, so bush could continue to gain support and wealth for him and his ties to the saudi royals, and who knows how many lobbyists mccain has that are reaping the rewards
NOT TO MENTION
phil gramm and the whole slew of economic advisors on mccain camp that had their hand in ACTUALLY causing this housing crisis
UBS stated that their employees shoudl refrain from venturing to the US because of possible arrests and prosecutions
LOL
please
vet my home morgage, meanwhile, mccain continues to F us right in the ol poo hole while you peopel cry that obamas some radical terrorist with some crazy hand signal for whatever it is
oh yea vote for mcdole enjoy the economy
oh and while were at it lets talk about how obama is going ot be bad for businesses
LOL
are you kidding me… unless those businesses are the 5% wealthiest businesses taht mccain is tryign to protect
PLEASE you guys are so pathetic its making me vomit

Hillary Not VP Material
Hillary has trouble coming to terms with reality. This is not only evident in the sniper fire clam but also in how she handled losing the bid for President.
If she cannot come to terms with losing a campaign and give timely concession speech to allow the democrat party and nominee move on quickly and capitalize on the moment, thereby acting like a spoiled brat and demonstrating she thinks it is all about her, she would not be fit to take on the roll of Commander in Chief in a crisis. We can not afford that in this day and age of global conflict where there are those who are bent on destroying the United States.
Hillary is a spoiled, brat, poor sport, pouting loser, who rather then gracefully conceding has to put her party and the nominee through as much as possible first. And as VP she would contently be at odds with Barack Obama, also trying to push her self importance above his.
Not the sort of character desirable in a VP.
Some may think it would be a dream ticket, and they are right, but it would be a dream ticket for the Republicans, not the Democrats.

SEEMS TO ME THE REAL TRAITORS TO THE JFK DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRINCIPLES ARE THE OLD DIXIE-CRATS AND THE NEW
“BUSH-O-CRATS.”
QUOTE:
I’LL JUST VOTE FOR McCAIN… AND IF YOU SEND ME SOME PREPARATION H, WHY I’LL EVEN KISS UNCLE JOE LIEBERMAN.
UNQUOTE.
UNQUOTE.

Senator Obama is so brilliant. So is FOOL’S GOLD AND ALSO ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS.

Not so easy now that Obama cannot blame Hillary.
His illusion of “hope and change” is quickly going to fade into reality–
Obama is just another dirty politician.
He was the perfect choice for the current DNC.
McCain08 Hillary2012

This is important as is the other garbage coming out…it defines Obama’s character…it provides you the voter with the way he really conducts business..it exposes the lies that Obama presents as an image that people believe him to be…it demostrates that he is old politics..he pays back all those political favors defined as old politics he owes and will continue to pay them off..this is his priority not the issues…his rise to power is his priority and hiring lobbist to raise his funds is old politics and then paying them off the favor..comes before the needs of the people …THIS IS OBAMA …power…payoffs and then maybe the issue..check his nuclear stance as a State Sentator…no Obama in 08…

The premise of this story begins with “How could he…?”
In the next few months, this will be typical of the questions which will arise about BHO.
At one time it didn’t matter who the Republicans nominated, because they were bound to lose in November… to Hillary Clinton.
Now the Republicans find themselves saddled with a weak candidate when someone like Romney (or others) could defeat Obama.
For the next five months, Democrats (especially the DNC) will be wondering “What have we done?!”

The Democratic Party has become the Obamacratic Party.
It is too far left for me.
At least, Maverick Republican U.S. Senator John McCain is a moderate.
He is far closer to Mainstream America, than Obama, who spent the last 20 years absorbing the radical left-wing rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright.

“This is not the Jim Johnson that I knew…I am shocked, shocked by this…”

JA:
I’m not brilliant but doesn’t auditing mean that you weren’t smart enough to get in to the program?
By auditing, you have a peripheral relationship to the course so how can you judge his intelligence?
BTW: Please name one US politician currently in office you consider brilliant.

JA:
The initial response to what you said reminds me of a donkey…..Not the democratic symbol…..more like the initials in your name: JA…..get my drift?
Senator Obama is not a case for affirmative action……I don’t care what you said you audited….Are you a case for affirmative action?
Your comments about the senator are nonsensical and stupid….

Prerequisite for all would be politicians: Speech 101

I have a feeling Mr. Johnson will find himself under the bus. He will have plenty of company. Soon Obama will need a VERY large bus to accommodate all those he has thrown under it.

Well look…Obama said.” the,the,I mean-first of all I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages, so you’re going to have to direct…..
direct,,,TO GO UNDER THE BUS…soon!
He meant : It’s none of my business?
I’m busy looking for my VP.
Pls let me finish my waffle first.

US Marine- you could not be more right. (meant to say correct) I totally agree.

Obama clearly has a judgement problem.
Over and over he does this-with his church, pastors, Ayers, Rezko and now this.
And the scary thing is Obama thinks it’s no big deal until the media starts questioning him…then he stutters and stumbles to defend himself.
It’s either a very stupid decision or an arrogant one–thinking he is above any criticism.

Obama is an idiot and perhaps the most unqualified man ever selected as a nominee. Hopefully democrats will come around and elect HRC as the nominee at the convention, so we can have a real leader who is brilliant on the economy and who will get us out of Iraq.
McCain should adopt HRC’s UHC plan…he’d win over HRC supporters so easily if he did that.

Why do we expect Obama to vet people around him? The media outlets or the DNC party never vetted him.

Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States, and all you rich and powerful Republicans can take that to the bank. Oh, that’s right, you won’t be going to the bank quite so often, will you? The rich and powerful had their chance to let their wealth ‘trickle down’ to the middle class and poor but decided against doing that, so the American people are going to do that for you. Be afraid, be VERY afraid.

Hopefully people are starting to realize that the Democratic party says what they think the public wants to hear to get elected and then does as it pleases. Um, Change, dont elect McCain, thats just 4 more years of Bush, we will give hand outs to everybody and socialize the health care system(dont mention you will have to wait weeks if not months to see a specialist, unless your Ted Kennedy of course)…Change, McCain is 4 more years of Bush etc., etc. Its such BS and people are buying into it. Saying your going to Change things and actually doing it are two different things, isn’t that how the Democrats took over congress and the senate? has anything “CHANGED”?

People say MCCain talks stuttering but I see Obama does too.

I am glad Hillary suspends your campaign so the media outlets can put more attention on Obama. Now, Obama cannot push the focus on Hillary whenever he says some things that worry and shows is lack of experience.

Correction:
I am glad Hillary suspends her campaign so the media outlets can put more attention on Obama. Now, Obama cannot push the focus on Hillary whenever he says some things that worry and shows is lack of experience.

Sam…
At least you provide some variety to criticism of Obama’s critics. Usually, we are told if we criticize ANYTHING about Obama it makes us a racist. But according to you, we MIGHT just be undercover Republicans! That’s a relief!

and you all have seen obama’s numbers in the polls are still growing…
and most now have the odds at 2 to 1
he wins.
because when America wants to be she can be very smart.

dl
what polls are you reading, you have to look at swing states with polls , not gimme states, and the swing states are all within 5 pts of deviation from eachother. with the majority giving Mc Cain the upper hand.

Why don’t we see such fillers in his speeches? But in every interview and debates he gets more fillers then essense. But his speeches are no less crowd cheering then his pastor. Is it possible that his pastor wrote all these speeches where he was named the master orator? was it the reason he did not want to distance with him, unless pastor chose him to do that? Ponder…

It is clear that Sen Obama meant that Jim Johnson and the others arent “going to be working” in his administration when their task is over. Read the full statements that follow.

Excellent job, Jake, This is what professional journalism is all about.
Keep asking the questions Americans need to hear.

WHY IS NO ONE HERE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEXT ARTICLE ON McCAIN VETTERS?
WILLFUL BLIND IGNORANCE DEVALUES YOUR OPINIONS!!

Without a script fed to him via a TelePrompTer, Obama sounds and looks like an idiot.
Every question directed toward Obama is “games” or “distractions”. The guy is a big fraud.
No record. No experience. Poor Judgement.
Obama/Carter ’08

the..umm…the…umm…you know…look…i mean…ummm….the…the…ummm…I haven’t no idea that’s what going on…umm…they don’t work for me…umm…it’s not like they speak for me…umm…you know…i’ll make a speech tomorrow…so umm..don’t ask me anymore questions…just wait for my speech…ummm…that issues is not relevant to the high gas prices so don’t ask anymore…THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!

Somebody help me understand … is it just me? Why is this guy praised to high heaven for his “soaring, gifted oratory skills” when he’s reading from a script to a rock concert size audience but so utterly terrible when he has to talk like a normal person. In debates and interviews, he’s just horrible … all the “um … uh … you know … I mean … look” … It’s painful!!

John Doe:
Here’s the problem- Obama ran on his superior JUDGMENT and we continually see he has NONE. You never got to see his policies because he CAN’T talk about them intelligently. See the town hall videos from VA last week. The man’s a joke.

Obviously you don’t know what REAL is. Even Dean recognizes Hillary won the popular vote. The sanctions were against delegates not votes so sorry to dampen your enthusiasm but you do not speak the truth.

Obama 08. Obama will wallup McCain. People always getting hung up on the small stuff. So some guy gathering information for him made a loan with aparently a misfit company called Countrywide. What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?

So why was no attention paid to the fact that Mark Penn – who was paid $10 million by Clinton – also represented Blackwater and Colombia with regard to NAFTA (as did Bill Clinton)? The bottom line is most people involved in D.C. are interrelated and conduct business the same – which is the point of Obama’s campaign. If any of these guys did something illegal then go after them. But that should be across the aboard (starting with McCain’s involvement in the Keating S&L scandal. . . ) – I mean McCain is running for President!

It seems as if Obama’s intelligence
is inversely proportional to his
distance from a teleprompter.

Why are people still talking about Hillary this and Hillary that? Hillary has suspended her campaign and thrown her support to Obama. Whatever happens she’ll get taken care of. Let’s move on and make a change in this country already. Let’s quit getting hung up on Hillary who most of us only know because she’s the wife of Bill. Her ideas weren’t all that great or even realistic. She was saying a lot of things that people like to hear instead of being realistic. That’s why I didn’t vote for her. Nice lady but Obama’s ideas are much much better. Obama 08

Obama has a problem with tough questions. He is going to fold under the pressure. There are no teleprompters at press conferences. There are also none in the Oval Office, and for the good of this country, hopefully he won’t get that far.

And Obama is presidential material? My God – he can’t give a response without a speech writer or a teleprompter or having someone else figuring out the answer for him. And he wants to meet with heads of state to sit and chat? HAHAHA! What else can you expect from someone who doesn’t have a clue what he might get himself into.

obama is now mis talking,
we want him to win now he has won nomination. But i think many errors will come it has started from double talk to hwish lobby group to those working for him are not his workers, haba BHO

all i can say to the update.
is right on mccain.

My favorite Obama word is “look”. He says it over and over again. Look at what? He cannot express himself. He portends that he is brilliant man. Brilliant men to not speak the way he does. He is in above his head but he just doesn’t know it yet. Dumb or dumber…which is he?

Hillary speaks for me: You are correct. One of my friends told me that he does not expect anything from Obama while he is in office. Puzzle….

Well nothing new here on Obama, there will be plenty of this denial and scattered thinking in the future. I
‘m a HRC supporter and I think the situation is playing out nicely. Hillary is having a much deserved rest from all the unwarrented negative media coverage and Obama is not basking in the sunlight of a presumptive nominee,but more like a rabbit caught in the headlights of the media and the GOP. I don’t think he has enough substance to survive.
When it all blows over Hillary can become the real nominee and ultimately the next president. A brilliant ending to a sorry mess.

I bet we see that on a bumper sticker soon!! LOL

Carter vs Reagan:
Carter did pave the way by his bold stance against the Soviet Union….

How is it possible this is the man the DNC wants to run our government.
There is no way that I would ever vote for him, but I get just a little more disgusted and discouraged everyday.
This is who our “leaders” selected?
What is up with this whole thing? It stinks to high heaven, and why are no ivestigative reporters, investigating or reporting????
I um, he um, not mine….
PLEASE

Questioner; Correction: Good bumper sticker ‘Country Before Party”

Mr Coffee,
You are uninformed. I had full access to the lecturer (Barack Obama), and I was a UC Law student. The reason why I audited it is because it was a fluff course, on race and politics/law, not part of the core curriculum.

A non-issue! A rich man gets favorable loan deals that any other rich person would get as well. How does that constitute “questionable loans.” I wish reporters had more sense than they are demonstrating in this election cycle. How about doing some work for a change and do some investigating? I’m sick of this gotcha about nothing reporting.

BHO is a leftist liberal product of corrupt Chicago politics who hypocritically preaches all kinds of platitudes for others but in his public life has failed to demonstrate with his own actions. What happened to his “Old Uncle Wright”- dumped! – His church of 20 years – dumped! A real steady guy. He will do and say whatever it takes to get the prize. The history of his political rise in Chicago is ugly. His record in the Illinois legislature and later in the US Senate contains absolutely nothing but a record of doing what is politically expedient. BHO is a product of “Old Line Politics”. :”Change”:- into what? . Judge a man by his actions not his words

Jeremy:
do you really think folks wanna read that book you posted?
Short expressions, bud,…..short ones.

Well as an Obama supporter I think that it would be great to have a vetting team that did not need vetting themselves… however I also think these people are not running for office or holding office and they are going to perform an information gathering task and present that to Senator Obama. Since Graham from McCain’s camp is at the top of the mortgage crisis debacle cleary benefiting from the deregulation that caused it… I can see why the McCain camp wants to try to diminish that by using this association but its just too minimal.

Unbelievable! Do they have no shame, and to think they call us racist. I think I know where racism is alive and well. Sad state.

Whether McCain wins or Obama wins, the citizens of our country LOSE either way.
Posted by: Marla30 | Jun 10, 2008 2:38:57 PM
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Couldn’t agree with you more, Marla30.
As for McCain and his lobbyist connections: OMG! A politician with lobbyist connections? Never heard of that before! At least McCain is a known entity.

The Veep vetters are not working for him in the same way the lobbyists who are advising Senator Obama are not making donations to his campaign.

“Well, you know, like it’s uh great to be here in uh Washington, ah, oh this …January day, with um, uh Michelle, my belle, And so, I say to Americans and the world that, like you know, uh, um, what I mean is that uh (sotto voce-what happened to the goddamn teleprompter) like what uh, you know, I pledge hope and I pledge change, and you know the end of right wing wars and, you know, capitalist oil prices and crusades against Muslims and, you know um…”
We can hardly wait.

OH JUST SHUT UP – Fcae the facts you stupid Hillary supporters…she didn’t win!! Ha Ha. Now your stuck with the choice of an old white man and a young black man. It’s time to quit your whining and get with one or the other. Just stop your complaining…she didn’t have a chance from the beginning. Finally we have stopped the BUSH/CLINTON/BUSH/CLINTON monarchy. Thank God.

It is difficult to tell with Obama whether his declared non-issues are issues or not. We have the fellow he talked to once in a great while, Tony Rezko, and just the guy who lives in his neighborhood.. William Ayers.
So it may indeed be nothing, but I am more concerned about how Obama handled “nothing”. If he does this well with “nothing”..what is he going to do when it is “something”?
I trust this man to assist in picking a VP candidate, but that doesn’t mean he works for me or even know him really. I actually just met him a few days ago on the street corner that I sometimes pass by on my bicycle.

Least we forget, Obama is related to Cheney. How perfect.
I’ll take the old, experienced guy over the foolish, inexperienced 1/2 term senator any day, thanks.
No need to bring race/age into this, there are plenty of white kids and old black people to go around.
McCain will be our next president. It was ours to lose and lose we will. Enjoy your Obama moment.

Ohhh here comes some breaking news for ya, Obama is not eligible to be president of the USA!!!! They said he was born in Hawaii, when in fact they have no birth certificate, but Mobassa, Kenya does have a birth certificate for one Barack Obama, born in 1961 on the exact day this Barack Obama was born, that makes him ineligible to be President of the USA!!! You have to be born on US Soil to be eligible to be a US President, Obama’s resignation will be coming soon.. WATCH FOR THIS STORY COMING SOON TO ALL NETWORKS!!!!

I’m a loyal Hillary supporter who will probably vote for Obama as I could never be upset enough to vote Republican and get more of what we’ve had the past eight years. If he chooses Hillary as his running mate it’s a sure win for him. There may be a few of her supporters voting for McCain, but not enough for him to win. I hope Obama is wise enough not to be influenced by The White Male Sexist Club of Politicians that did everything in their power to ensure a woman did not win the nomination. I really think she could be a great asset to his campaign and his Presidency (he WILL be President if he chooses her). If she would be willing to be VP her supporters will not let her down.

cindy in nc:
You hit the nail on the head!
Due to his thin resume and lack of
experience Obama has chosen to run
on his “judgement”!
Well even if you concede him his position on the Iraq War, his
judgement is poor to say the least!
McCain is the only rational and sane choice in November!

Obama only leads McCain by 2 points in Massachusetts.
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Obama is up by 13 in Mass.
Stick to reliable pollsters..Rasmussen, Gallup, CNN

OK lets see McCain’s advisers have a history of using their connections to the senator to win lucrative contracts, raising questions about the independence of their work now. McCain, similarly, has pushed for positions that have benefited his advisers’ past and current clients. Some examples of the lobbyist ties of McCain’s senior staff: So lets see who needs vetting
– Rick Davis, Campaign Manager: Between 2002 and 2005, Verizon paid Davis $640,000 to lobby on its behalf. Davis signed Verizon up as a client in 2001, just a year after he managed McCain’s first presidential campaign. McCain served as Senate Commerce Committee chairman for most of that time. Verizon and Davis terminated their contract after 2005, when McCain gave up the chairmanship. [Senate Lobbying Database; USA Today, 3/23/08]
– Christian Ferry, Deputy Campaign Manager: Ferry “partnered with Davis in representing SBC and Verizon from 2003 to 2005.” [USA Today, 3/23/08]
– David Crane, Senior Policy Adviser: Crane is a lobbyist and president of Quadripoint Strategies and “served as a senior policy advisor” to McCain on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. “He previously worked as a lobbyist and senior vice president for Global USA and The Washington Group. His clients have included Bank of America, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.” [Media Matters, 2/26/08]
– John Green, Congressional Liaison: Green is co-founder and managing director of Ogilvy Government Relations, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying firms. Recently, McCain pushed the Pentagon to open the bidding process for new Air Force tankers to EADS — a European company — “a move loudly objected to…by numerous members of Congress.” Green received $1,080,000 to lobby for EADS, although he is now on a “leave of absence” from Ogilvy. [AP, 3/11/08]
– Thomas Loeffler, Campaign Co-Chairman: Loeffler is founder, chairman, and senior partner at the Loeffler Group. While serving as McCain’s national finance chairman, Loeffler also lobbied for EADS in the Air Force deal. [AP, 3/11/08]

Without Hillary to point a finger at, Obama does look pretty stupid doesn’t he?
Strickland and Boren refused to kiss his ring today. Just the beginning of a 5 month reality session that is going to end in his defeat.

jpt writes:
“Did I read that correctly? Did Obama claim that Johnson and Holder — two of the three people heading up his VP search committee — aren’t “work”ing for him?
I suppose that’s because they’re unpaid, but my stars, that’s a lot of high-level, time-consuming sensitive effort to not be considered “working” for Sen. Obama.”
“Sensitive” effort? Yeah, right: “sensitive”.
Read all about it (from Reuters Canada):
“Obama shrugs off attacks on head of VP search”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080610/us/politics_usa_politics_johnson_dc

I have lately been quite disappointed in Obama.
I suppose I wanted him to be “different” and not “just another politician” who taps into the the Democratic power establishment without regard to the person’s ethical record.
I have supported Obama and understand that he may feel he needs to play the game like everyone else. But this one supporter did not vote for him for that reason or donate to him to be like everyone else.

Stammer, stammer, stammer… how many times did he say “you know?” I counted 6 times in the one response to the question. Don’t they teach you in Introduction to Speach” that you don’t use “you know” or “ummm” or any other space saver. Just pause, decide what you want to say, then say it. And he’s “The Great Orator?”

Obama is the anti-Christ spoken of in the New Testament of the bible. He certainly fits all the criteria, including fooling the fools.

How have we nominated such weak, egotistical and ignorant people to lead this great country…both are nothing more than crony politicians with no record of any achievements. How did the 3 candidates become millionaires when these Professional Politicians can’t even run a decent campaign and have never in their lives produced anything of value nor had to work for a real paycheck. None of these candidates could succeed outside of being on the Government Dole and that goes double for the crooked millionaire Public Servants like the Clintons.

The entire 2 party system is BROKEN. Stop perpetuating it. Voters should take DEMs to the cleaners in 2008 like they did to GOP in 2006. Here’s the list of corrupt DEMs – Jim McGrevey – Former NJ GOV, Elliott Spitzer – former NY Gov, Acevado – Puerto Rico Gov, Kilpatrick – Det Mayor, Jefferson – LA congressamn, Blagojevich – IL Gov. Obama should be proud. Where’s all the media reports claiming a Culture of Corruption in Democrativ Party? Hmmm? Seems like we had endless stories in 2006 when it was GOP turn. The media is truly disgraceful. VOTE NADER.

Yeah, so what were you all expecting? I think too many were believing the headlines that Obama was a different sort of politician. Give me a break! Those that believe that have never looked into his Chicago politics as usual background. Chicago politics are the most corrupt in the nation by far. The Chicago political machine is deeply flawed to put it mildly and deeply ingrained. Chicago politics make Zimbabwean politics look tame and honest. There are those that believe Obama isn’t tainted with special interest money. Wrong again! It only the manner that Obama takes money that is different. He takes his money from the wives and family members of those that are labeled as special interest people. So I guess that means he isn’t taking special interest money. Yeah, right! Special interests are also helping by rounding up their contributors and packaging it as individual donor contributions what would have been called special interest money in past elections. This is a farce!

Thank you for covering this, Jake Tapper. Obama and his dirty cronies are hypocrites.
I hear a giant bus rumbling down the road.

Whats preposterous is Tucker Bounds also saying that John McCains “Its not important when the troops leave Iraq” didn’t mean that John McCain doesn’t think thats its important when the troops leave Iraq. And by the way, whos vetting Sen McCains staff of Lobbyists these days? Tucker “out of ” Bounds?

All who supported Hillary and also donated to the DNC, ask for your money back, they have to give it back to you within a certain window of time. Get it back and donate it to Hillary.

Anne: Right you are. And some of those speeches he made are from RFK’s book of speeches given to him to study. His close friend Richard had to give him his speech so he would know what to say on the platform. Someone said he was a Law Professor. Is that in title only? I understand he was a salesman at one time and learned how to sell himself to the public. I can’t believe the people of this country can be so fooled by him.
I am voting McCain because a vote for McCain makes lesser votes for Obama.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves. This is a non-story about nothing. And if it is a story, let’s please put the same sort of petty klieg light gotcha machine on everyone of McCain’s employees.
Oh yeah and ever heard of the S&L scandal.

Obama fix your situation about the V.P. vetting team. Pick Hillary ASAP so she can start helping you raise money and campaign hard against McCain nationally.
Obama will face a difficult ugly election against the G.O.P. elite. If elected, Obama will need experienced advisors that advise him, due to his great lack of national and international experience. Considering how screwed up the nation is under the Bush administration, economically, war on two fronts, Iran threat, terrible international relations, energy crisis, private contractors stealing from the government, etc. It is apparent Hillary Clinton whom is now the most popular national female leader in the country with 18 million voters, can campaign stronger nationally than any other potential V.P. Hillary is a tough experienced leader able to help Obama avoid the pitfalls of Washington during his first term. The Clinton’s can provide needed presidential experience unlike any other single state governor or senator. Half the Democratic Party voted they like Hillary. What other V.P. could get 18 million votes campaigning alone?
It is Obama’s turn to unite the Democratic Party and win over Hillary’s supporter’s and then make Hillary the V.P. to support Obama in fixing our country’s major problems.

First of all, thanks, Jake and Sunlen, for providing the exact quotes of Obama addressing the problem. It is so ironic that this man, whose speechifying in 2004 I and many others found so riveting, cannot, in fact, speak well extemporaneously.
Second, for the person who just posted that Obama should pick Hillary as VP: Senator Clinton should stay as far away from this empty suit conman as she possibly can. Obama is political kryptonite. Gov. Strickland was very wise to vehemently state he has absolutely and unequivocally NO INTEREST in being Barack’s VP.
I actually think BO’s campaign is supposedly keeping their options open for choosing her, just so people think that his candidacy might eventually have SOME value by adding her to it. She will surely refuse any such offer. If Obama’s campaign had any guts, they’d just state now that they aren’t going to offer it, or make the offer and have it refused. But fake, future “hopey-changey” promises are all they have.
Bring back the actual, qualified, dignified, America-LOVING candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton! She will bring our country back to where it belongs!