‘I Don’t Believe in Coming in Second,’ Obama Tells Bon Jovi Fundraiser

Are you guys fired up?” bellowed Gov. Jon Corzine to the $2,300-per-person crowd. “You better be, because I think you’re liquored up”
Governor Corzine, did any of these “liquored up” people drive that night?

It is wonderful that Senator Obama continues to raise funds and fight this tough fight all the way to the whitehouse. The republican party and republicans show a real character flaw when they love to see a vice presidential candidate and all their speakers belittle Senator Obama and spew hatefulness and vitriol in a sarcastic way. They make themselves very small this way.

Why won’t any rock bands allow McCain to use their music – or better yet, why won’t McCain ASK PERMISSION first?
McCain carries the flag of a party whose policies he claims he’ll change, once he’s elected. WHY NOT CHANGE THOSE POLICIES FIRST, AND THEN RUN FOR OFFICE?
WHAT A DISHONORABLE LIAR.

Wow, on CNN the trooper told them that the Obama campaign contacted him about his divorce and stuff. He was offered money. I feel sorry for this guy. He is obviously close to the edge. He screwed up and deserved to be fired. The guy who didn’t do his job, got fired, which is appropriate and he tried to contact CNN to get an interview. They are using the tooper and don’t care how it will really affect him. I think that poor guy needs to be left alone. I don’t think this DIVORCE should be very important. Tha man obviously has problems, he needs to be left alone. Come on BO….decency.

“We’re not going to resort to the same tactics” – Obama
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Apparently Obama doesn’t watch those commercials of his that he says he approves of, where he takes some comments of McCain’s and totally twists the meaning around in a mocking tone.

He’s seen a million faces, and he’s Barack-ed them all!

Blow off Obama…..please spare me the lines as you put your hand out for more money. The Hollywood celebrity candidate is just about up with his 15 minutes of fame….there’s a new darling in town, and this time, sexism from the party of tolerance (ask Hillary) won’t be tolerated by the women in this country…..all 54% of us.
HILL SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

Uncle Joe Biden was right. Ohbama is
clean and ….umm, y’know, articulate.
But Uncle Joe ALSO said that Barry
wasn’t ready for prime time. This guy
Biden is a wise old codger…he should
run for president someday.

Obama voted 85% the same as Bush on matters regarding Iraq….despite his saying he was always against the war…he wasn’t a U.S. Senator and had no vote. Monday morning quarterbacking is always 20/20.

Ed from MA,
The saddest thing is McCain actually talks about intellectual property rights on his campaign website even as he violates them right and left.

Looks like Barry is morphing into
an old style political hack right
before our adoring eyes. Who’d a
thunk it?!

This from a guy who says “I am Barack Obama and I approve this ad”, while they twist McCain’s words or image. I’ve seen it so many times and am so sick of the Bush comparisons. This guy and Bush have had notorious fights and disagreements. McCain is ASKING FOR BIPARTISAN UNITY TO GET THINGS DONE IN WASHINGTON, RAT OUT THE BAD GUYS EVEN IF THEY’RE ON YOUR TEAM. Gov. Palin too…they BOTH have done this. WHAT, pray tell has B. done for anyone but himself? Really now, think. Oh, that’s right…got some asbestos removed from a building when he was a community organizer.

I did hear today he sent out e-mails to ask for more donations to HIM.
True. and today I got an email from Joe Biden asking for money.

I guess I’ll be tossing any Bon Jovi Cd’s around the house.

While Barry is doing the celebrity circuit, Hillary is sitting in a rock- ing chair on her Chappaqua porch…
wauting for that 3 AM call from Bill…

Naturally Jake doesn’t call Obama out to tell us one lie the GOP told about him.

On whether he would run for president or vice president before his term ends in 2011. “I’ve never worked in Washington,” he said. “I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois.”
Obama is a liar.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
YEP, TIME TO CHANGE OUR GOVERNMENT! And McCain/Palin ARE NOT the ones to do it!
OBAMA 08!

“John McCain you are a true hero and patriot. Let’s make this race about the issues. ”
Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 6, 2008 12:07:03 AM
____________________________
OH B U L L !!!!
RYAN c: YOU, along with Rdney and Mr. Tangerine and Melissa and Samantha and BLuto…. are strident B O supporters.
And that’s fine!
But cut to the chase…. You don’t need to add YOUR BS to BO’s!
Hillary was the best
B U T
McCain and Palin!
COOUNTRY before broken down DNC!

“Looks like Barry is morphing into
an old style political hack right
before our adoring eyes. Who’d a
thunk it?!”
He’s been a hack all along. The only ones that can’t see it are his clueless cult-like followers.

We checked the accuracy of McCain’s speech accepting the Republican nomination and noted the following:
McCain claimed that Obama’s health care plan would “force small businesses to cut jobs” and would put “a bureaucrat … between you and your doctor.” In fact, the plan exempts small businesses, and those who have insurance now could keep the coverage they have.
McCain attacked Obama for voting for “corporate welfare” for oil companies. In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $300 million over 11 years while providing $5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
McCain said oil imports send “$700 billion a year to countries that don’t like us very much.” But the U.S. is on track to import a total of only $536 billion worth of oil at current prices, and close to a third of that comes from Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
He promised to increase use of “wind, tide [and] solar” energy, though his actual energy plan contains no new money for renewable energy. He has said elsewhere that renewable sources won’t produce as much as people think.
He called for “reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs,” but as in the past failed to cite a single program that he would eliminate or reduce.
He said Obama would “close” markets to trade. In fact, Obama, though he once said he wanted to “renegotiate” the North American Free Trade Agreement, now says he simply wants to try to strengthen environmental and labor provisions in it.

“I’ve never done any favors for Tony Rezko.’’ – Obama
As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.
The deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama’s former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama’s state Senate district.
Obama’s letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko — a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked — who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.
The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he’s known Rezko, “I’ve never done any favors for him.’’

Great information Samantha. Whenever someone brings up Rezko, his supporters get awfully quiet.

Now if only he had that fighting spirit about the war in Iraq. He doesn’t mind coming in second in Iraq, but he won’t accept coming in second in his own campaign.
Sarah Palin’s speech hit the nail on the head. Obama only refers to victory when he is talking about his campaign. Now this talk from him is only going to reinforce the McCain’s campaign’s point. He should have kept his mouth shut. I see an ad coming his way.

1. On 2008 Friday, the 14th, presidential candidate Barack Obama repudiated what he called “inflammatory and appalling remarks” made by his Chicago pastor.
2. Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.

“1. On 2008 Friday, the 14th, presidential candidate Barack Obama repudiated what he called “inflammatory and appalling remarks” made by his Chicago pastor.
2. Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.”
3. Mainstream media gives him a pass once again.

“The polls show the two candidates even. Obama has to be troubled.”
That’s why his paid bloggers are working overtime attacking Palin.

1. Obama on Guns – when Obama ran for the Illinois state senate the political group, Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), asked him if he supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns” and he responded “yes.”
he lied
2. But in what will probably be the most improbable change, it was reported on that Barack Obama was making a big play for gun votes in Pennsylvania. In 1998, another questionnaire administered by IL State Legislative National Political Awareness Test didn’t ask about banning all handguns, but it did find that Obama wanted to “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.”

Palin is a last distraction of this Campaign.
But Don’t worry, this distraction will be gone when she has to talk on her own to the media.

Obama is a liar. As an African American female who supported Hillary Clinton, I will not listen to her and will instead vote for John S. McCain. I would trust my future with McCain before Obama any day.
Principles before race.

” But in what will probably be the most improbable change, it was reported on that Barack Obama was making a big play for gun votes in Pennsylvania.”
So, he wants the gun clinger vote?

I smell fear,..and it’s not coming from me.
Take a look at the electoral map.
You guys better buy John a house in every
disputed state and clone him so he can live there for the next 2 months.

Unemployment hits a 5 year high today.
Oh yes my little plebian friends, McBushonomics is so clearly working for the people. Finally, the GOP had the good sense do drive our economy straight into the ditch. Drill baby drill! 2nd world here we come!
And meanwhile, these GOP dupes want to talk about mooseburgers, professional snow machine racing, and all that garbage.
Just please answer whether we was a maverick back in the keating 5 scandal? I bet his first wife thinks he’s a maverick. Or maybe flip-flopper is more like it.
WAKE UP.

Samantha,
yeah,…okay.

“I smell fear,..and it’s not coming from me.
Take a look at the electoral map.
You guys better buy John a house in every
disputed state and clone him so he can live there for the next 2 months.”
I feel for you Leonard. I was hoping that Clinton would commute your sentence.

Chicago reported yesterday that the murder rate for this summer was 125. Barack’s community organizer efforts have not helped at all I guess. Perhaps he can go back and finish the job after the election. By the way why doesn’t he send his brother in Africa a few bucks a month? I guess he is not his “brother’s keeper”?. We can not let this guy become POTUS, he is a socialist of the first order.

Thanks Mack,
I’m here in support of a fellow freedom
fighter and the millions of Hillary supporters who are marching with her.

Albert
yeah right after the desperate attempt at thwarting the democratic process in the democratic party… Hillary was closer to Obama than Kennedy was to Carter in 1980 and she couldve taken over the convention but didnt… Obama got another week grace period because Hillary and Bill were magnanimous… Obama doesnt know the concept!

Obama votes 95% with George Bush, McCain has voted 90% of the time. Obama voted to give oil companies hugh tax break. And yes, Obama one bill passed was to name a post office. Was it in Africa????

I really think the Obama people are worried. Sarah Palin fought back and said what nobody else was allowed to say. They can’t accuse her of racism because they’ve already played that card. She called a spade a spade. He is a manufactured candidate who believes his own press. Chris Matthews was just now on the Tonight Show campaigning for him. It never ends. Sarah Palin told the truth about Obama and the media so now they’ll try to destroy her. Kick all their b#tts, Sarah. This Hillary supporter loves it and is way past caring about reproductive rights. The young Obama supporters are on their own.

“Thanks Mack,
I’m here in support of a fellow freedom
fighter and the millions of Hillary supporters who are marching with her.”
Take care and stay strong.

Making fun of someone’s college education sure sounds elitist.

RL in Illinois
but did you see the look on CHris Matthews face last night andthis morning on morning Joe hes petrified of Palin and knows whats going to happen looks liek ol matthews isnt running for senate in pa LOL

forget the press – I’m waiting for Palin to take questions from average people in their famous town hall meetings. I would be an idiot to ask less.
anybody can say look at me make scripted attacks

Debra
you can bet that Hillary cant negate Palin which makes me worry about 2012 but we will cross that bridge….

Staniam,
I think that would be a most exciting presidential race! Clinton VS Palin. Two women at the top!
I bet they would both do it with style and substance.

Ryan:
What concept? We are talking about a woman who junketed from one school to another. Six different schools is unbelievable. I think we deserve to know how well she did in college. We need to know how intelligent our future leaders are. Her selection is deeply troubling. The only reason this election is in anyway close is simply because Obama is black period.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition. In his second year he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review’s staff of 80 editors.

asking….What McCain would do..how about keep us safe and not raise our taxes (as BO would do to pay for all his socialistic proposals).
I want an American hero with a history of character witnesses and not a Rootless cosmopolitan with only his wife and Indonesian half sister…or his terriorist, racist, criminal friends and associates to tell us who he is. Where the hell is granny, by the way?

KB
they are already talking about it.. even editorials by left leaning people are saying they took a second look at Mccains speech last night the people saying its more of the same are party machinists that have been stuck in a rut for 40 yrs!

staniam,
What are you babbling on about?
Affirmative action? Entitlement?
Go to school, work hard and get a
job that you like.

Obama: “I passed 900 Bills in the Illinois State Senate”
LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
Obama: ” My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend” -
LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.”
Obama: “I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics”
LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.”

Hillary and a couple of other high profile Dem women trudging out Monday on behalf of the fraud….God, I hate that my Hill has to do this. After what I witnessed since January and cried over silently or otherwise. She actually has paved the way for Gov. Palin, because we women are not going to sit on the sidelines and watch it happen again so soon. Ferraro was 24 YEARS AGO. I’m not waiting another 24 and you can say “oh you’re just voting for her because she’s a woman”…well there are 98% of blacks doing just that for B. Hussein. (saw no AA’s in the Republican convention the other night).
night….way below normal)

Why did Obama use an Indonesian passport when you travelled to Pakistan more than twenty years ago?
And how did he GET one… since Indonesia does NOT honor dual citizenship!
This is a troubling question which comes up time after time….. but which has NEVER.. to my knowledge… been answered.
Since there currently is a law suit looking into Obama’s cititzenship…. perhaps it it needs to be addressed and answered one way or the other..before this election goes any further.

catleya,
I agree. The RNC convention was much more fiscally responsible. Throwing money at things, whether its campaigns or government programs, isn’t always the answer.

Wow,
I love the stories here, “you people” have some creativity after all.
Have Fun!!!

All the money in the world wouldn’t help elect Hussein at this point in time. Showering these egomaniacs with money to promote their lavish style is plain ignorant. A vote for Hussein is unamerican. Vote McCain 2008.

Obama: “I passed 900 Bills in the Illinois State Senate”
LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
Samantha
you just made Obamas case.
Palin is lying saying ove & over Obama never passed one

Snap, I think Palin meant on a Federal level. As a US Senator. You know, bills that affect the whole country.
The lie about the state senate is still a lie.

Palin is lying saying ove & over Obama never passed one:
She said he never passed a “major law or reform”.
She did not lie. Because her definition of “major” can be “something which every person in America knows about”

Albert
Hello… Bush graduated from Harvard Business school with an MBA… Obama is the mirror of Bush…that is undesputed at this point!

Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully had crafted the speech and message even before Palin was picked. With minor changes to match Palins biography, A match made in heaven.

debra
yea thats true…so the obamamaniacs claim that Obama was never a citizen of a another country is an out and out lie not to mention Hawaii had just become a state when he was born lol

Palin Surge … Palin Effect … YEAH !
Dems are in a denial mode. They forgot that they have been riding on Obama KoolAid for a little while…. I think they are beginning to realize that there is little fine-print at the end of the label to that bottle. It reads :
“Expiry date : Sep 3, 2008″

Obama “I Disagree With My Church All The Time” -
The truth is that Obama has not yet to repudiate Wright, who married him and his wife, and he still donates large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message – hatred and revenge. Obama donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that he so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK – that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.

Better milk the Obama cash cow while you still can …
I think the label also says :
“Best used before Aug 31, 2008″

Albert,
spoken like a true elitist.

Stanaim:
Check your facts. Bush graduated from Yale with an MBA. Bush also graduated at the bottom of his class (Bene Probatus- Third Class). Obama made a name out of nothing. Obama graduated in the top five percentile of his class with a (magna cum laudae- Second Class Upper Davison). No one get’s into Harvard law by chance, only the best attend Harvard Law. Bush rode on his father’s saddle. I don’t know who the mirror of the other here, you be the judge.

How can Hillary campaign for BO, when there was so much mud slinging at her. One of my memories of the Wright clip fest on cable news, was when he was in the pulpit simulating sex and taling about Bill Clinton “ridin us”, or Pfleger screaming as if he’s Hillary and saying “this wasn’t supposed to happen, I’m a white woman” or some kind of garbage. I hate this whole campaign, in truth, because it seems to have created more racism. I have a few black friends, not enough to be sure, but now I feel like every one of them is for him as polls indicate, and it makes me less open to making friends….I don’t know if I’m explaining myself right…but I don’t like the way I feel about a group of people my heart was open to a year ago.

Staniam, what organization did Bush lead at Wharton? I’m not getting the comparison here. Attending a college means that you got in, it’s got nothing to do with your achievements there. Editor of the Law Review means you worked damn hard while there.
But while we’re in the zone of political ironies: Obama, born 1961 — Hawaii statehood 1959. Palin, born 1964 — Alaska statehood, 1959.
I mean, seriously. Grasping at straws with the “Obama is a scary foreigner” line.

staniam, long time no talk…good to see you on. i just wish hillary was the prime dem…i think we have a problem here…

“why in the heck didnt vigilant african americans put a stop to this train when they had a chance? ”
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Because of this:
Alice Palmer served the district in the Illinois Senate for much of the 1990s. Decades earlier, she was working as a community organizer in the area when Obama was growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia. She risked her safe seat to run for Congress and touted Obama as a suitable successor, according to news accounts and interviews.
But when Palmer got clobbered in that November 1995 special congressional race, her supporters asked Obama to fold his campaign so she could easily retain her state Senate seat.
Obama not only refused to step aside, he filed challenges that nullified Palmer’s hastily gathered nominating petitions, forcing her to withdraw.
“I liked Alice Palmer a lot. I thought she was a good public servant,” Obama said. “It was very awkward. That part of it I wish had played out entirely differently.”
Suddenly anyone who was for Palmer and worked for the city of Chicago…mysteriously lost their jobs.

Mr. Hopey Dopey Uniter is not so much. When will Americans wake up? If
B. Hussein is elected on Nov. 4, I will tune out, turn off news for 4 years, and offically start taking prozak.

debra, i understand completely.

Grace:
Palin was born in IDAHO ;-);
It was brought into the union a long time before Sarah was born.

Staniam:
I AM suggesting that Obama might not be a citizen of the United States.
But if he is, then how did he get that Indonesian passport?

“I think all he wants to do is get to the presidency to live out his military legacy before he leaves this earth. ”
As someone whose grandfather will be 97 next week I would like to say that you Obamabots that go on about Mccain dying and asking him who will be president in a heartbeat, that is rude. I had a friend that dropped dead at 42. Actually when you look at it both of Obama’s parents are dead and he is not 50 years old yet. so much for longevity in his genes.
Also as a counterpoint, Obama just wants to be president to live out his dream of being the first black president.

America:
You lumped a host of individuals together. Raila Odinga is actually a good man and a reformer. Do some research about him He actually won the elections that were rigged in Kenya. Obama’s candidacy is a true test for white America. It is high time white Americans wash their hands off the sins of their fathers by elevating blacks. Electing Obama will be a beginning of that cleansing. It will also signal to everyone in the world that this country is not only powerful and friendly but racially blind.

Grace:
There are lots of countries which permit dual citizenship.
Indonesia is NOT one of them
I’m sure YOUR dual citizenship is not with Indonesia!
Obama could have a dual citizenship too….BUT NOT WITH INDONESIA!
… and that’s the story!

Hmmm: a child can sometimes get a passport if their parent is of a different nationality. But before we delve into all of this crap, where is the proof (and I mean proof, not rumour) that Obama had an Indonesian passport? It’s not worth ripping the whole thing apart without that — the guy filing the lawsuit isn’t even hyping that, he’s relying on the claim that Anne Dunham travelled to Kenya to give birth. Yeah. Left the US to give birth in a Kenyan hospital instead. Mmm, credible…
And I know Palin was born in Idaho, I’m just pointing out it’s ludicrous to somehow judge states as less valid due to their age — if Hawaii’s not legit, then neither is Alaska. Regardless, the Dunhams moved to Hawaii post-statehood; it’s not like Obama’s mom meant to have him in a foreign country, and then accidentally ended up in the US despite her secret secessionist wishes.

“the name should be clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: carlasue | Sep 6, 2008 2:18:02 AM
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YES IT SHOULD!
Damn straight!

McCain has 169 lobbyists working for him.
Obama has zero.
McCain is more of the same.

voteobama
again NOT TRUE… the lobbyists working for Mccain are of a lesser capacity than Obamas they are entertwined in obamas campaign they make contributions through a fales storefront company like a cia deal… thats the truth get ovr it concede this election now!

Palin is the the talk of the town.
Dem faithfuls should be asking when
Ohbama should pull the plugs on Biden.

OBAMA OUTFOXED BY MCCAIN … IN HIS WILDEST DREAM (NIGHTMARE)
McCain outfoxed the Obama camp … stole the march on Obama right after his coronation with a brilliant announcement of a relatively unknown VP.
1. Media went into a frenzy trying to covering that news less than 12 hours after the DNC Convention; firing up GOP base, Palin’s hockey / soccer mums and all.
2. Media went into another feeding frenzy trying to uncover scandals, mudsligging; firing up GOP’s social conservative base rising up to the defence of Palin’s daugther.
3. Media had a pleasant surprise on DAY 3 of Convention: Palin is really no push-over, she bites back with vengeance and lipstick !!!
Vintage McCain ~ this will be a new textbook benchmark on how you can outgun an opponent who is outspending you in campaign dollar.

Thanks carlasue,
I wish people would understand that as an African American, my not backing Obama was a decision that I did not treat lightly.
Principles before race. Obama lies. A lot. I am from Illinois and can tell you first hand. I was for Clinton but now I am for Mc Cain and I feel better about it with Palin on the ticket.

Obama is the next president, period. There is no two ways about it.

Thanks carlasue,
I wish people would understand that as an White American, my not backing McCain Palin was a decision that I did not treat lightly.
Principles before sex. Palin lies. A lot. I am from Alaska and can tell you first hand. I was for Huckabee but now I am for Obama and I feel better about it with Biden on the ticket.

Obama won’t come in second.He will be last.

I guess the new communists want to win no matter what.Do you think they will try and hurt people.The leftists are walking the edge of being insane.

… and I am very sure he will vote “PRESENT” on all the important decison while he is at it.

samantha
right its like a bad dream of the 60s all over again… how did the kids become clones of the flower children their parents were while sayhing they dont know anything about it!

Albert at 2:17…WHY PREY TELL do we need to elect BO as first black Prez. I would have voted for Colin but NEVER BO, just cuz he’s black? His CHARACTER, JUDGEMENT AND EXPERIENCE are being called into question before receiving the keys to the WH. And as Gov. Palin said the other night, “the journey to the WH, is not meant to be one of personal discovery”. McCain knows who he is and what he stands for.
Screw Obama.

Grace:
“Obama WAS born in the US, as his Hawaiian birth certificate clearly shows. His US nationality has been intact from the start… ”
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Actually, there is question about Obama’s birth place…. and rules in place at that time about the citizenship of a child born outside the US to a mother who is only 18 years of age.
There are those who say he was actually born in Indonesia (which would explain his Indonesian passport) rather than Hawaii; his hawaian certificate of live birth, it is being said, was actually the “doctored” certificate of Obama’s half sister Maia.
Not to worry; there is a case about this in the courts even as we blog.
The questions still remain however, as to where Obama, if he had NOT been born in Indonesia, got that passport…..
and WHY would he have been travelling to Pakistan under ANY passport other than one from the United States of America!
Seems fishy to me.
And yes, I am aware of how one becomes a naturalized citizen.
a

Thanks Debra,
I did not know that his father committed suicide. Sad story.
When I see Obama, I can tell that he is very ambitious and wants this badly,and is fight some personal demons but I also see a lack of judgment and maturity. This is shown in his sketchy associations in Chicago and his willingness to do anything at all cost to get what he wants. He also lies a lot. Th lies about his parents and Selma. I don’t know why he feels the need to authenticate himself by faking dates and details. I also sense a degree of anger in him. A sort of Anakin Skywalker. I running for Illinois Seantor, he was never there for us and just seems disingenuous.

america*centric, Maya was born in Jakarta, so I don’t see how doctoring that will do anything. Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii was confirmed as genuine. I have no idea what the other cryptic stuff you mention is supposed to mean — Dunham was 18 when Obama was born, and Hawaii had already been a state for 2 years. It makes no sense for her to have been in Indonesia at that time, she had no connection there.
It’s possible that Obama got a passport due to being the stepson of an Indonesian. It is sometimes easier to travel on a passport other than your US one — I travel through Africa on my non-US one, for instance, because the turnaround on visa times is much much quicker.
The stuff about Obama’s mother is absurd. She died at home in her apartment in Hawaii, with her daughter Maya by her side, down the hall from Obama’s grandmother. There is absolutely no evidence Barack and his mother were not on speaking terms.

I just read all these posts, good debate going back and forth and no one is getting nasty which is good. But I have my favorites here and have to say Samantha you go girl!! I am a staunch conservative and my family never thought they would hear this from me. But I know we would be better of if Hillary was the Dem nominee (if I have to be stuck with a Dem!!) because there are to many secrets about Obama, to many unanswered questions and that makes me very leery of him. Talk about vetting? This guy HAS NOT been because the media is protecting him. This is even more evident this week because the media is trying to destroy Palin, (like they did the Clintons) I can’t believe this, its the most vicious thing I have seen in politics!
Good night to you all!!
Ruth

Grace…then why won’t granny talk, show her face, radio interview, something? McCain’s 96 year old mom rocks. She’s sharp, gives interviews and a perspective to help her son. Why won’t granny help? Only Michelle and Indonesian step sis can speak for him, as I saw on the FOX bio on Obama (or the CNN bio, can’t remember).

staniam, good post at 3:05 am. we cannot afford the late 60′s again in that way. being of the baby boomer age like a lot of us here are on tonite, i am a supporter of peace, and love, not war. go democrats. and as i said earlier, i was in denver before the dnc, and all they could talk about was hillary. i want hillary to run in ’12, i will cross the country for her, hand, leg arm and foot, whatever it takes, to get her in the white house…

Thanks Ruth! The board has calmed down a bit ;-)
There is no reason why we can’t have friendly discussion. I have been called the nastiest things on here especially by other black people. I don’t get it. Sometimes these Obama supporters seem crazed. Like there was a drug given out that I forgot to get in line for.
I was in Los Angeles last week and say this Obama poster on a bus station that looked like a mid 20th century Lenin propaganda poster. And it just said “CHANGE”
Such symbolism but in a creepy populist way.

Leonard, I respect McCain and wanted a Hillary – McCain race as it was a win/win for me. I just cannot stand what Obama represents…unity? Not much. Judgement..not much. Sorry, not this black candidate.
I hate that Leno tonight jabbed several times at McCain and even Palin (with his jokes), BUT NOT ONCE OBAMA. My god, the black double standard crap. I am going to email Leno show. Quit showing g.d. favoritism.

Debra,
I;m sorry to say this but I really think that if you are honest with yourself, even if Condi was running at the top of the ticket there would be a reason not to vote for her.

Debra, Obama’s grandmother is in declining health and doesn’t get out much — she’s 85 and not up for plane travel anymore, though if you go looking for photos of her, you’ll find loads. She was also part of a video tribute, which I can’t link to because of spam filters.
Besides which, maybe she just likes her privacy! She’s done her part, his uncle Charlie has done his part, and his sister Maya has been a constant presence.

leonard peltier
well thats just it Obama saw how he could gain advantage yearsago by being an organizer for a salary of less than than half what I make now thats pretty sad… its not on the up and up but cinsider the source of chicago!

staniam,
Really, can you explain what ‘organiser’
means that is at odds with your values?

Debra, seriously! Do you only vote for Christians, and Christians with impeccable Christian lineage at that?! Since when has someone’s absentee father’s religion mattered?

Grace…even someone in declining health can give a phone interview, a shout out from her balcony, SOMETHING…why hide granny?

Samantha,
The ‘questions’ about Obama don’t really seem to have much to do with his record.
Again, I think there would be ‘questions’
about Condi wouldn’t there?

wow,
Race really does seem to be at the core of things here.
I hope your party gets that worked out.
laterz

samantha
yea it was his great uncle to which he said liberated Auchwitz in WWII which was the wrong death camp!

leonard
the point is its admirable but can only be seen as an oprtunistic move given the other details or shoes that have dropped in the last few months! we arent racist just skeptical of someone that thinks race is the best thing he has… even hard working african americans dont support him…. thats no different from Biden saying back in January that Obama was a nice clean articulate black man.. we have the facts on our side and we were right back then and now!

What is it with republicans with blinders on. How can they buy McCain’s blatant lies and his attempt to not allow us access to Palin. This is crap. They are either filled with hate, ignorant, or of the top 1% that would benefit from McCain’s corporate lobbyist interests.

samantha
yup he said that about the time he said that Hillary was “up there in duckblind like Annie Oackley”…Hrm?

Palin = Rising Star
Obama = Fallen Star

What McCain lies. If ever I believed that a man/candidate wants to UNITE Americans and work across party isles (and has a record OF DOING JUST THAT)…it’s JOHN SYDNEY McCAIN. I loved his speech at the end last night and am so glad it had the highest ratings of all 4 candidates…with Obama and Palin coming in second with a near tie. I trust McCain (and Leiberman, who Dems are now wanting to kick out of the club, but stands up for McCain in his pursuit to UNIFY).

Vote Obama….news flash…BO voted 85% same as Bush on issues pertaining to Iraq war.

My mother in law voted for Edwards in the caucus and was on the fence about the general election. She is a lifelong democrat and was struggling with casting a republican ballad but after Palin’s speech she is now voting for McCain.

Grace
its the character and competence thing… if you want to be a democratic president you better damn well know as much as Bill Clinton and have a photographic memory such as he did! nothing else is acceptable!

Grace good for you, dear for having all your candidates talking points and life details, but the liberal MSM isn’t doing their job with BO and questions Americans still have. Rezko’s trial, was that covered, Ayers Annenberg papers, birth certificate questions, why not a follow up on Wright…no one believes these two were like “uncle”/nephew and yet BO didn’t know Wright’s views and beliefs, yet donates $25,000 a year to Trinity. (The Obama’s only charity I believe).
I appreciate you working hard on his behalf on these blogs, but we Americans still have so many questions, more in fact than we do of Gov. Palin.

Staniam, our choices are Obama — who miffed the name of a concentration camp in the retelling of a family story — and McCain, who didn’t know the difference between Shia and Sunni. Or insurgents and Al-Quaeda. Or the borders of Pakistan.
I’m sure the Clintons are very able politicians. Neither of them are running in this election — one because his term limit’s up, and one because she lost the primary to Obama in a way that the majority of the Democratic party recognized as legit (no matter what claims the zealots make).

How about these for starters:
His lies about Obama’s tax plan which yields a net tax cut, not increase.
His lies about supporting vets when he has voted against nearly every bill designed to provide them with health and education benefits.
His lies about Iraq and claiming responsibility for ‘victory’ when he can’t even define victory.
His lie that Obama thinks Iran doesn’t pose a threat because its a ‘tiny’.
His lie that the FBI did a check on Palin before being given the nod as the FBI has subsequently called him out on this.
His lie that Obama opposes nuclear power.
His lie that Obama suggested bombing Pakistan.
His lie in blaming Obama for rising gas costs.
His lie (debunked by energy experts) that drilling will have any real effect in the long run and the short run will take 8-10 years to get there.
His lie that he never secured earmarks for his state.
His lie about Obama canceling a visit to a vets hospital to play basketball.
His lie that we’ve drawn down to pre-surge levels.
The man is full of BS. Palin is the same.
As for being filled with hate: no, but I will admit that I’m frustrated that my fellow Americans are so gullible. Obama: rather him than McCain, but undecided as to whether it’ll be him or Nader. I’d just like to see these guys tell the truth for once.

Debra,
Instead of wondering why Obama’s grandmother won’t interview, wouldn’t it make more sense to wonder why Palin isn’t allowed to interview? She is after all running for VP and we’ve only known her 10 days.

Debra, Madelyn Dunham has taped a segment for the campaign. Look around for stories about her and you’ll find that she doesn’t give interviews to media, but when a local Honolulu station rung her up, she talked to them briefly. Good lord, you’d think you’d never been around an ailing old person before — sometimes, the lady just doesn’t want to have to deal with all the crap, and she doesn’t have to. Did you know that McCain’s first wife, the mother of three of his kids, similarly doesn’t interview with media other than to say she and John are friends? Everyone’s happy to accept that, and she’s not even ill.
So his wife doesn’t count, his sister doesn’t count, his Kenyan siblings don’t count, his sister’s husband doesn’t count, none of these people cut it with you. How many McCain siblings have we seen running around? Does he have to go dig up more people to testify for him? We are getting perilously close, Debra, to saying that the sole people in Obama’s life who are acceptable to you are the white ones.

One other thing, not being as fully in support of Maytag workers as he may have claimed to be doesn’t equate to McCain saying that he’s for vets while he votes against them.

Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.
On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.
“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”
“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”
Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.
Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.
Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.
“People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,” states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.
For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he “intimidated” her.

CNN had an extensive Alaskan interview on tonight with many town leaders, neighbors, etc. and all favorable (except one Dem guy was luke warm). They love her in Alaska, and 80% approval rating is the highest of any Gov. in this country…dufus.

Wrong Grace and you have a good point about McCain’s ex, Carol. But I bet Condi could get her family to all speak on her behalf.

I’m outta here….accusing Gov. Palin of wacko race talk is boring me. I can’t stand when the bots start the smears, like Gov. Palins infant son was not hers, but daughters..
Good thing our candidates don’t have to put up websites such as Obama’s STOP THE SMEARS…..because he is one flawed, questionable candidate, even after 18 months.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN
Good night.

Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.
Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.

A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist.
On Wednesday night the Times published a story suggesting that McCain might have done legislative favors for the clients of the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, who worked for the firm of Alcalde & Fay. One example it cited were two letters McCain wrote in late 1999 demanding that the Federal Communications Commission act on a long-stalled bid by one of Iseman’s clients, Florida-based Paxson Communications, to purchase a Pittsburgh television station.
Just hours after the Times’s story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff–and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. “No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC,” the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. “I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,” McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. “He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.”

The political interests of the Floridian McCain fundraiser who bundled money from a strange cast of characters extends far deeper into the federal government than previously known.
Harry Sargeant, who has raised more than $500,000 for the McCain from a host of unlikely donors, owns a refinery and fuel supply company that has spent large sums of money lobbying the government since 2000. Moreover, in 2006 the company, Trigeant Petroleum, brought on board a lobbyist with strong connections to McCain in an effort to win congressional support in its fight over a terminated contract with the Department of Defense.
It could not be immediately determined whether McCain or any other member of Congress intervened on Trigeant’s behalf. The Arizona Republican’s office did not return request for comment. The company ultimately succeeded in settling its suit with DoD for several million dollars. But the widening extent of Sargeant’s business interests adds another layer of intrigue to concerns that he was bundling cash for the presumptive Republican nominee in hopes of future political favors.
“This bundler certainly is someone who wants to have a president on his side,” said David Donnelly of Campaign Money Watch. “He has a significant contract with the Department of Defense and the Pentagon and needs elected officials to listen to him. That’s why he hires lobbyists and raises money for politicians like John McCain.”
Started by Sargeant in 1985, Trigeant Petroleum quickly became a player in the energy supply industry. In April 2004, the company was contracted by the Department of Defense to provide diesel and motor fuel to the Iraqi populace after a Jordanian company failed in the task. The deal was worth $76,956,988 over the course of a year. Several months into the contract, however, the Iraqi government asked for the arrangement to be terminated.
“The war was over and it was time for Iraq to start running its own business,” said Ron Uscher, who represented Trigeant for the firm Peckar & Abramson. “They said we don’t need the aid. And so the decision came that the Iraqis were now going to assume sovereignty and this contract was no longer needed.”
When the Department of Defense acquiesced to the Iraqi government’s wishes, Trigeant was left with fuel literally in transit. Not willing to simply take the hit, the company filed a suit saying that as part of their contract, the U.S. government had to cover the costs of the material they had already lifted.

If the Republican VP candidate won’t do even one interview since her historic nomination, I think something is rotten in the State of Alaska.

Having run Senator John McCain’s campaign for president, I can recount a textbook example of a smear made against McCain in South Carolina during the 2000 presidential primary. We had just swept into the state from New Hampshire, where we had racked up a shocking, 19-point win over the heavily favored George W. Bush. What followed was a primary campaign that would make history for its negativity.
In South Carolina, Bush Republicans were facing an opponent who was popular for his straight talk and Vietnam war record. They knew that if McCain won in South Carolina, he would likely win the nomination. With few substantive differences between Bush and McCain, the campaign was bound to turn personal. The situation was ripe for a smear.
It didn’t take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.
Anonymous opponents used “push polling” to suggest that McCain’s Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the “pollster” determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.
Thus, the “pollsters” asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that’s not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign.
So what is McCain’s reaction
Former officials of Sen. John McCain’s 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.
Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush’s South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.

Hillary got slightly more than 18 million votes most of which you will not have! We are merely pointing out the Obama charade! and if you truly thought Biden was the right choice you wouldnt be protesting … we arent gonna help you sink yourselves!

The messiah does not believe in coming in second, but he does believe in second coming.

Why I’m voting for Obama, because of the issues:
Pro-Choice – I want my daughters to beable to make their own decision about their bodys, not the Gov’t for them.
Voted against the war.
Stem Cells – Obama is for all stem cells. We are trully behind in the race to cure many diseases and stem cells hold the key to many things. I want a President who isn’t going to veto a stem cell bill.
Health Care – I want universal health care. Obama has a plan for this. McCain just wants to write us some checks with the taxes we’ve already paid the gov’t and call it good.
The Republicans have been in the office for 8 years; I want to try something new. He has new, fresh ideas for the country, and I’m willing to give him 4 years to try it out. McCain tries to say he’s different from Bush, but he’s not. His record shows he will flip on any issue aslong as it benefits him in the end or to make his party happy. McCain is 72 and that is just too old, that’d be like voting my grandpa in and even though he’s a very sharp guy, he’s out of touch with what the world has become.
Another thing that bothers me is McCain has never used the internet or e-mail and refuses to do so. I want our country to be at the forefront of technology and if our President can’t even use e-mail..that really bothers me.
Personal experience throughout 8 years of the Republicans… I’ve had to fire employees, I have much less money now, the big house I moved into when I had money 10 years ago I cannot afford now. I had over 1 million dollars invested in the markets, and it’s all gone now with the stock market crash.
So, for me, I want to try something new for atleast 4 years. These are my reasons of course… jJust time for a change of scenery.
And all the fear mongering with his middle name and that horse crap is just sad. What kind of American are you that you’d vote against someone because of a name he didn’t even choose himself….

I’m a moderate Republican but won’t vote McCain/Palin. There is a cover up in Alaska that the McCain campaign is trying to influence and cover up. That tells me enough about Ms Palin and her ethics and morals. I’m sick to death of all the lies, deceit, and cover ups of the last 8 years. I certainly will not vote for 4 more years of the SOS.

Palin and McCain are the real deal. They are the change that Obama pretends to be.
“Some people like Obama use change to further their carrier, but McCain uses his carrier to make change.”
A democrat who is proudly voting for Palin/McCain 08

And that stupid saluting the flag thing has been debunked so many times, a child could find the proof with a simple google search
debunked? no it is true
and a simple search will show video of the entire the Anthem being played with Obama refusing to honor it like everyone else including Clinton.

Obama is grossly under-qualified and disgustingly arrogant and has never done anything except run for president.
I’m so glad to have Sarah Palin as a choice in this election because she is a real person who actually gets things done.
I’m a democrat voting for Palin/McCain

Conservatives and Repulicans!
I am genuinely interested in your honest answer to this question…
How far would Sarah Palin have come if she had gone through the Republican Party’s primaries?

Did anyone read about this:
“ELECTION 2008
Democrat sues Sen. Obama over ‘fraudulent candidacy’Lawsuit disputing U.S. citizenship based in part on discredited claims “

Dopey Dems. Their sexist hatefest has come back to bite them in the rear. Everyone gets what they deserve.
That goes for dOprah, too. Sorry about your losses.

Pathetic put downs and sarcasm always builds unity and helps get things done. Lets hear it for the republicans and their friends.
Most of us would prefer civil, intelligent debate on the issues that impact us. Senator Obama is right we have had enough and we will prevail.

Obamas has a plan that would pay for all the programs he is proposing.
He will just put a few dollars in a basket…waive his hands over it… and multiply them like he did the fishes and loaves.

Boy the pro-Obama media really stepped in it didn’t they?
By attacking Palin it has pointed out her qualifications and Obama’s lack of qualifications.
I think the media has shown how dirty they will go to get Obama elected. And now the whole world sees it.
But I thing the MSM underestimated one huge fact–most Americans are decent people and care about fairness.

Senator Obama is MORE than qualified to be president. Executive does not trump Legislative.
He has the education, he has the knowledge, and most important, he has the temperment and judgement needed for President.

But I thing the MSM underestimated one huge fact–most Americans are decent people and care about fairness.
Posted by: riley | Sep 6, 2008 9:00:54 AM
I agree, and I see the tide of the American voter turing to McCain/Palin. Obama and his followers think they have it made witht he media, when in all actuality, its backfiring. Look at the polls, the electoral projections. America is sick and tired of Obama’s lies and flip flops. He has shown that his campaign is all about him, not the American public. Thats why this Democrat is voting for McCain/Palin. They have proven to be here for America…they put America first…unlike Obama.
McCain/Palin 08!
“Country First!”

Instead of lying to the people, the republicans need to try to get Caribou Barbie up to speed on whats going on in this country. She has no knowledge of foreign policy, no knowledge of domestic policy, and she doesn’t have a clue whats important for this country.
pitbull, hockeymom, lipstick?
She needs to come with a lot more than that to be Vice President of this country.

Sally J,
What are the policies proposed by McCain that are going to be the big change from the last 8 years of George Bush?

Vanessa….
Democratic candidates usually have at least a double digit bounce after a convention. Obama could barely get an 8 pt bounce. He is only 13 projected electoral votes ahead of McCain. Obama continues to fall in the polls while McCain is climbing. Your argument is lame, as usual.

I see the Democrats squirming and whining now. The reason….they know that their “golden” boy, Obama, has let them down and is losing. America is waking up to the fact that Obama is all talk and nothing else. Thank God, America has her senses and will vote this clown out in November!
McCain/Palin 08!

Prove Obama wrong:
Outline McCain’s policies on:
Healthcare
The Economy
The Environment
Jobs
Unemployment
Trade
American jobs going overseas
Immigration
Education

bc46,
You’re absolutely correct, and this proves it:
“A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won’t submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she’s ready — and until she’s comfortable — which might not be for a long while — the media will have to wait. The campaign believes it can effectively deal with the media’s complaints, and their on-the-record response to all this will be: “Sarah Palin needs to spend time with the voters.”
Not out of the question are appearances on lighter, fluffier television shows. But — not for a while.”
Just imagine the Republican’s response if Obama had pulled a stunt like this.

Kick booty Obama and camp!
Obama 08!!!

We have our work cut out for us.
If the republicans can do nothing but lie and distort the issues at this point, imagine how much more they would do just to win.
At this point, Ms Palin isn’t even qualified to teach a class in this country. Well, maybe she could teach pottery or snowmobiling. But she is NOT qualified to be Vice President, and those with common sense know this.

Sssshhhhh Lou, don’t give away the secrets! lol
The republicans will continue to belittle Senators Obama and Biden, because they have nothing but lies and innuendo. They do the same thing every 4 yrs.
Not. This. Time.

McCain is going to win in November for one and only one reason. Nasty, dirty, negative ads win elections in the United States and the Republicans are much better at that than the Democrats. Americans are swayed by dirty lies and negative ads..The Republicans are very,very good at that. So get ready for Mclies as president. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

That’s false.
Kerry recieved no bounce in 2004. Gore recieved a 10 point bounce in 2000. Clinton in 1996 recieved a 5 point bounce and in 1992 a 13-16 point bounce.
The fact is the losing candidate held their convention early (Kerry and Gore).
Obama held his convention around the same time Clinton held his convention; late August.
Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and Kerry held their convention in mid-late July… losing the election by late august to early september.
Obama’s on the right track to winning this election. He’s going through the Reagan phase of 1980 and McCain just made it easier by chosing Palin.

I went to a Hannity Colmbes fundraiser and the only people there were white. I went to a Herman Kane fundraiser and the only people there were white and one of the guest radio jokeys made the contrast between the RNC and the DNC saying how something looked wrong whereas the RNC was packed with us, the DNC was a show of diverse races. I am joining the Dems because I want my children to live in an inclusive society. I want to see the fulfillmet of the dream.

You smart Republicans on this blog(wink,wink). Can you tell me one speaker at your so called convention who spoke about the economy and what the Republicans are gonna do to fix the slumping economy? I’ll answer for you! None!. All they talked about was how bad obama is, and McCain’s vietnam service. Its the economy stupid..How much are you Republicans paying for gas? How many jobs left America? How many homes have been forclosed? What is the unemployment rate? How much money are we spending each month to keep the troops in Iraq? Is there a connect between the war and the slumping economy? How did your party(Republicans)did with the economy? Great right! McCain said the other day that he does not know much about the economy..that did not phase you guys..that is okay..as long as Obama don’t win..What about health care..are you satisfied that healthcare is a privilege and not a right in this country that proclaims itself the richest country in the world!(You know that’s a joke right?) We owe China,Japan and other countries trillions of dollars. Yet with all destruction that the Republicans have done to the economy..you guys have the nerve to hold up signs in your so called convention that reads “COUNTRY FIRST”. Give me a break! Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

I will repeat, Sarah Palin doesn’t have the knowledge OR the education to be Vice President of this country.
bc46 wrote: “Sarah Palin knows nothing about foreign or domestic policy.
Is Ms Beauty Pageant supposed to dazzle foreign leaders with her smile? She won’t understand the complexity of the issues. ANY of the issues.”
I agreed. But does Mr. Obama have the experience and the knowledge of foreign policy and domestic policy?
They match very well in age and experience. The only different is Palin is running for VP while Obama is running for President. In fact, they will rock the theaters if they would run the show together as “Beauty and the Beast”.

The fact is that there are quite of lot voters still un-decided which way to vote … but for those who are supporting Obama and worried that Palin is eclipsing his popularity, then this sets of polls, pre-PALIN effect is something for you all to chew on :
“In its three-day rolling survey conducted Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Rasmussen Reports finds Barack Obama with only a one-point advantage over John McCain (with leaners included, two points). Two-thirds of this survey was done before Sarah Palin’s speech Wednesday night, and all of it before John McCain’s speech last night. It seems likely that when the full impact of the Republican convention has been absorbed, McCain will be ahead.
Gallup, based on interviews conducted the same three days, finds the same effect, but from a different starting point. Obama was up eight points in the Gallup poll when the Republican convention began on Tuesday; now his lead is down to four points. It seems likely that over the next few days, as the impact of the last two days of the convention is felt, the race will draw even.
So the McCain campaign is coming out of the conventions in good shape and with an energized party.”
… and this before PALIN SURGE kicking in

BewareoftheDeceit,
The low ratings for Congress are due directly to not ending the Iraq war.
As far as the economy is concerned, you need to look at the bills that have made it to the floor and have made it to a vote.
The Republicans have used the filibuster in the last two years to prevent bills from coming to a vote more than any other time in history.
And don’t forget, for the past eight years, six of them were with a Republican president, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House of Representatives.
What did they accomplish?

What are the duties of Obama. He wrote a book named after his racist pastor. and being paid by tax payers to look for another job for almost 2 years of his 2 years of experience. Palin is hot

Why would I want to switch my vote from the Republican to the Democratic party when the Republicans are responsible for the strong economy we currently enjoy and we have won the war in Iraq..the unemployment rate is 1% and gas is $1 a gallon..homes are affordable and so is college education. Healthcare is a right in this country now and not a privilege. If you are a regular listener to Rush (the comedian)Limbaugh, Sean(the joker)Hannity and the little naive lady on the View television show..you may just believe all of the formentioned. You Republicans who are going to vote for McCain..you do not care about your country..you just care about winning..the economy can go down the drain as long as your Man McSame wins..YOu have no shame and is unpatriotic..people always tie patriotism to singing of the anthem, or putting your hand on your chest when the anthem is played..but patriotism is giving community service..helping a child or children in after school learning programs.. giving back to your community,supporting a Government that shows interest in investing in people and by extension the economy..the Republicans have failed in that area..it time to change and try the Dems if they fail then change them..that is called commonsense..Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Palin eats Moose burgers. That is so cool. Get ready for a Moose head hanging over the White House fire place. Who really wants the Seal of Obama near the white house

I repeat Obama has selective hearing, he always listen “little bit” and blah blah on it:
In Palin’s speech a reference was made to eBay – McCain regularly asserts that 1.3 million people worldwide “make a living off eBay.” He holds up the figure as evidence the world’s largest Internet auctioneer is a model for job and economic growth.
In Palin speech, there were reference to Green Jobs, Nuclear Energy, Drilling
and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal and other alternative sources.

I see here a reflection of what happened at the Republican’s convention:
Big on accusations name calling; Nothing on substance and policies.

stock_craft, YES, YES, YES!!!
Senator Obama has the knowledge, the education, and the experience to be President of this country.
Tell me why the current administration slyly uses Senator Obama’s proposals about a month or two after he states them? Because they make sense! The man knows what he is talking about.
They accused Senator Obama of wanting to ‘bomb’ Pakistan, which was not true. But they DID end up going into Pakistan, just as Senator Obama proposed.
I plan to vote for Jill Long Thompson for Governor here in Indiana. She’s a white, powerhouse female that knows what she’s talking about. In other words, she has the knowledge, the education, the experience, and the guts to fight for the people in this state.
Does voting for her make me racist?

Lou…
In 2004, right after the DNC onvention Kerry was polling 50% of all registered voters, compared with 44% for Bush, with independent Ralph Nader 2%.
The story then was not that different either with Kerry showing very strong support from independents who were growing weary of the war.
Kerry camp UNDERESTIMATED the conservative groundswell: much like Obama SCORNING people in smalls towns, who cling on to their religions and guns.
Besides, these gun carrying folks less likely to BLOG and respond to polls … and there is another wildcard, WOMEN. You still cannot fathom how this bloc will lean this seasons.
There is going to be a lot states in play than you think.

Lou do not pay attention to what scab is telling you. scab is a republican. All they talk about is the Iraq war. They cannot talk about any other important issue because they cannot. The last 8 years have been a waste of time with the Republicans in the White House. It is time to remove them from the White House and send them to the “bridge to nowhere.”

Obama voted 98% of the time with Pelosi, Dean, Reid and their 9% approval rating.
More evidence of Obama’s poor judgement.

Patty,
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I cannot feed my family with McSame did 40 years ago! Since then he is as corrupt Politician as any other!
America cannot live on McSame’s Biography, she needs to write her own Biography for future generation!!
OBAMA08!! YES WE CAN!!

Lou, that’s what they do when they have no argument, they co-opt your name and make stupid comments.
They can’t defend Palin’s record or lack of education or lack of knowledge, so they resort to childish tactics.
I’m with Hillary.
No way, no how, no McSame/Failin

As Palins qualifications are questioned it only reveals how totally unqualified Obama is to be president.
It brings everything about him front and center.
It’s time to vet Obama.

Obama offers nothing to those who believe in the principles of liberty and freedom and independence, those ideals our country was founded upon. I’d vote for a gun-toting, hockey mom over a harvard (not capitalized on purpose) educated lawyer any day. One represents individual responsibility and the other represents the mass of people who need their community to be “organized”.

Senator Obama said we need to talk with our enemies, as we do with our friends.
What did this administration do? Send someone to talk with Iran. But only after they belittled Senator Obama for saying we should do so.
They keep saying the surge worked, and that Senator Obama should say he was wrong. Senator Obama has agreed the surge was successful, thanks to our mighty military, but quelling the violence was only half the battle. The Iraqi’s still have not been successful in their political resolutions, that in which the surge was initiated to do.
Senator Obama has the knowledge, the education, and the experience to be President.
Sarah Palin has a 4 yr degree in journalism. Sarah Palin does not have the knowledge, education, or qualifications to be Vice President.
And thats not being elitist, that is reality.

Obama’s FAULT!!!!!It was his choice and he put EGO BEFORE COUNTRY.

And the accusations from the McCain side, were any of them true? Some were and some were stretching a bit but Obama isn’t exactly coming forth with all his dirty laundry whereas the press has went dumpster diving in trying to find a bit of gossip on Mrs. Palin. All of us probably know more about Palin than we do Obama and if we are counting on knowing him with the book he wrote, dream on, cause there is more to him than that.
By the way, who has said that the republican party was all about rich people? Seems you had a pile of the rich at this fund raiser for Mr. Obama.

The race is really still wide open …
The American public DO take a very serious interest in this next year’s GE (I mean with viewership more than American IDOL, Olympics ~ that’s something).
It is all going to come down to numbers over the next few weeks, and so far there are evidence that the tide is turning and it is going to be a DEAD HEAT :
1. McCain topping 40.2 millions viewers (most people who have written him off long ago)
2. Obama setting a record of 40.2 million, arguably equaled by McCain.
3. Palin a very close third in 39 million region.
4. Biden … well I do not know and do not want to speculate. As far as I know, there was no Gustav, Ike or Hanna competing for attention but his viewership is tepid at best.
DO NOT RULE OUT THE WOMENFOLKS, SMALL TOWNS, GUNNING-CARRYING SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES … this BLOC can still swift both ways but lets look at the dynamics propelling them over the last couple of days :
The ludicrous media feeding frenzy about the Palin family hyped interest in her speech, enabling her to win a huge audience for her smashing success Wednesday night at the convention. Indeed, it even renewed interest in McCain, who seems to have gotten still more viewers for his less smashing–but well-received–presentation the following evening.
Something to think about ..

I like Palin but that’s not enough to vote for her. Her standards are low. I can’t identify with her as a role model. Now, the inquirer is claiming she had an extra marital affair like John Edwards; apart from being member of a party that has brought economic ruin, which McCain is an active member of also.

Robert Hewson
Obama wrote a book and named it after a sermon presched by a pastor who served in Vietnam. Just like McCain.
What dont you talk about Hagee and Parsly who will not serve America but preach hatred.

Economic strength and power makes more sense than military power..ask Japan! So by extension..Obama makes more sense than McCain..Obama talks about strengthening the economy and investing in people to make America strong again…What does McCain talk about? War! War and more War!..when he’s tired talking about the war in Iraq..he talks about Vietnam..I’m sick of it! Its the economy Stupid! Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Palin is not qualified to be Vice President, period.
She did great at negative attacks and lies and innuendo. She fits right in with the republican agenda, no plans. But she does not have the knowledge or the education or the experience to run this country.

The republicans are good at using code words to get people to vote against their own interests.
That congressman from Georgia tried to claim he had no idea the word ‘uppity’ was used to belittle people of color.
Typical republican tactics.

According to the lastest polls Obama is either leading or tied in these RED states.
North Carolina, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Virginia, and Ohio. These are states that typically goes Republican. Yet Obama is leading or either tied.
There’s not ONE blue state McCain leads in. And even after Palin he still trails Obama by 12 in the womens vote. sad sad sad.

copy/paste from one of the posters” “People are losing their homes”
Bush/McCain/Palin followers seated in the Republican convention don’t give a hoot about Americans losing their homes.
They were glittered up with Cindy’s $300,000 outfit. They’re rich, white, and follow the GOP god looking down their noses at community workers.
They’re looking for another four years of King George II.

Its all about issues , has nothing to do what senator Obama look like ,they could have put a parrot under the democrat platform .
I would be voting for the parrot. when its all said and done.. the parrot would be signing off on bills that fix and help everyday problems and folks.
Unlike bush who vetos a childcare health bill not so long ago.
Never seen a more USELESS president in BUSH.
he is quick to sign bills to help billionare companies and the rich also to go to war , but to heck with regular folks.

I have used “uppity” all my life and never heard it “used to belittle people of color”. That’s BS, another way for the Democrats to put more race issues into this election.
You DEMS out there…if you had written a book about yourself, would you tell the truth? If you would tell the truth read Obama’s book with a totaly open mind and then tell me you could vote for him.

bc46
As I have been in the workforce for 35 years I can tell you we have ups and we have downs, the current downturn is worldwide not just here. I do not pretend to be an expert only to say that no matter who is elected somewhere there will be problems,of some sort. We live in a remarkable country and I firmly believe that less intrusion by the government and growing the economy is the answer. Since the national debt has grown by leaps and bounds not one candidate has addressed it but both are promising, with their pleges, to make it worse. Everyone who lives here,works here,from the rich guy to the sanitation worker has an obligation to help “pull the cart”.

And I agree with you david, we all have a stake in this country.
Unemployment has now soared to 6.1% in this country. When we have no jobs and no way to support our families, what do you think will happen?
The people in Michigan and Ohio deserve to have jobs available like all other states. These people are suffering right now more than any place else. What is the remedy for this problem?
It certainly isn’t to place someone in the number 2 position that doesn’t have the education or the knowledge or the experience to make a difference in peoples lives. Banning books in librarys will help these folks get jobs?
The people of this country need more than a religious extremist. The United States is not a Theocracy.

Hmm.. Palin and McCain have gotten under Obama’s skin. Wonder why? Is it because Palin has proven that she can read the teleprompter better than Obama? Or that celebrity, even Obama’s, becomes fatigueing after awhile, and people turn off. Time to turn in the styrofoam Greek columns.

bc46
We are lucky that we don’t have higher numbers of unemployment. Our society pays the cost of education for every person k-12, some community colleges are so cheap that most can afford it and some cases they are free, most states pay about half the cost of a state ran college or university yet we have an huge population of people without a high school diploma.
My only comment-question would then be how can those who do not think enough of themselves to get their education expect to be able to afford homes, healthcare and a good paying job?
The better trained and educated employee automatically brings about equality in pay which can result in a better life and one more person who can pay his share of taxes. There is no company or business that believes holding others back is a smart way to do business and all of us have to bring good talent to the table. Education and training will always be the answer to our problems-not government intervention.

Sam, “uppity”
Uppity has nothing to do with the color of your skin!!!!
Uppity is used to describe a person that you think perceives himself better than you.

how am I confusing meanings MEW?

Why am I having trouble posting now?
The term uppity was used against the candidate that is considered african american. Whether he is half black and half white, he is acknowledged as black. And most people are pushing the impression because he is highly educated he somehow thinks he’s better than others. Bill Clinton as a Rhodes Scholar is also highly educated, have you heard anyone refer to him as uppity?

Obama coming in first is more important than anything and even more important than America coming back on its feet. There is a good candidate for ya’!

But his running mate may believe in comming second …
The last thing Obama needs now is a scandal on his VP … very Rezko-like
Already the poll numbers are not looking good …
AND ..
On the international front …
With a Resurgent Russia and the likes of Medvedev today reported to be saying “THAT RUSSIA MUST BE RECKONED WITH”, AND a SURGE STRATEGY is that succeeding in IRAQ; there appears to be an unfortunate conspiracy of events that is working against OBAMA and his game plan.
On a domestic front …
On Palin. even his campaign strategist, Axelrod admitted “I can honestly say that we weren’t prepared for that,”. Obama camp is in a little disarray. Biden, a loose cannon, is relatively mute, threading carefully and hoping for surrogates to do the attack dog these days.
A New Game Plan / Plane is in order to stop this slide

Statement of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer on the McCain Acceptance Speech:
Last night at the Republican National Convention, John McCain used the word “fight” more than 40 times in his speech.
In the 16 years that we have served together in the Senate, I have seen John McCain fight.
I have seen him fight against raising the federal minimum wage 14 times.
I have seen him fight against making sure that women earn equal pay for equal work.
I have seen him fight against a women’s right to choose so consistently that he received a zero percent vote rating from pro-choice organizations.
I have seen him fight against helping families gain access to birth control.
I have seen him fight against Social Security, even going so far as to call its current funding system “an absolute disgrace.”
And I saw him fight against the new GI Bill of Rights until it became politically untenable for him to do so.
John McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in 2007 and 100 percent of the time in 2008 — that’s no maverick.
We do have two real fighters for change in this election — their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Stop the drama, Vote Obama , want the same vote mccain
Stop the drama, Vote Obama , want the same vote mccain

Post it or not……….
Obama is still “uppity”. I don’t
care if he white, black or orange!!!

bc46, Bill Clinton’s campaign never suggested that his voters were more educated. Obama’s campaign pushed that motto. You reap what you sow.

Is everyone deaf and blind on this blog? I have not seen one comment on Obama’s extremely elitist remark about having to “put up with airplane and hotel food and missing his kids and wife” ????
He is SO OUT OF TOUCH with what ALL Americans have to do every morning when they wake up. They go to work, miss so many things in life in order to provide $$ for their loved ones (at great sacrifice).
What is the proof that he is oblivious to “real” life? He actually made the statement….that’s the only proof you need. He is actually flying on his own private jet, being catered to like a king and he’s complaining??
That complaint can go down in the history books.
He’s lost me entirely.

Barack Obama comes off as a great big whiner who feels entitled to the presidency because he’s actually had to put some real effort into it. Average Americans who work hard without a guarantee that things will always go their way are becoming pretty tired of this poor me rhetoric.
The candidate who deserves to win this campaign is the one who has the best plans for the country and the greatest ability to carry them out, not the one who has supposedly “sacrificed” the most to run.
Please, call the whaaambulance for this fragile and overextended candidate – before he succumbs to the stress.

If he ever carried Indonesian Passport, it means he was Indonesian Citizen?
How’d come nobody ever try to check on this case?

Although Sarah Palin is allowing an interview under scrutiny, she may carefully negotiate which questions are deemed off the table, therefore crafting her manufactured popular image, and withholding valuable answers to some serious ethical and judgment issues. We need to do something. We need to collectively send an email to ABC news. I believe I heard that Charlie Gibson may do the interview. We need to make sure that they place Palin under the same scrutiny as they did Obama, especially during that ill-fated debate when they invoked flag pins, and Wright, and Ayers, and questioned his patriotism. We need them to ask the tough questions voters need answered. I will write a letter and email it to ABC. If you wish to be included in this email, please email me at montherea@aol.com asap, and I will include your name in this email to make sure we a real interview regarding her record and judgment from ABC and the press. This same email will also circulate to NBC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, etc. Please join me and take action. Our comments on blogs are nice, but we need to understand what we are dealing with, and if we don’t take a tangible stand, our futures are at risk. Send your email to me and let’s get the ball rolling. There is strength in numbers. Come on, guys, let’s DO SOMETHING!

The Palin selection is the most hypocritical thing McCain could have done. While saying he wants to unite the US, he deliberately chooses to reignite the cultural wars by choosing the most divisive candidate possible as a way of keeping voters’ eyes away from any and all issues.
McCain would rather divide America than lose an election. Some patriot.

Hey Patriot (Sep 6, 2008 1:08:37 PM)
You said about McCain -That IS NOT CHARACTER in a man!
Such a man CANNOT be trusted, and SHOULD NOT be trusted!
My question to you – ever heard of Larry Sinclair – ask him about Obama’s character.

Obama is a very good at making speeches, but that does not mean he will be a good president. Absolutely no experience. I wish him well in whatever he decides to do next.

“I hope you guys are game,” he said, “because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife –- I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.
THIS GUY FEELS THAT HE’S ENTITLED TO THE PRESIDENCY. John McCain endured almost 6 years of daily torture as a POW and Zerobama can’t endure 19 months of planes and hotel food????
He is NOT presidential material.
NO WAY. NO HOW. NOBAMA.

Some interesting statements made by some concerned citizens in this email I received about Obama
Please read on and pray and think, before you vote for your kids future if not your own!
—To All My Friends, this is long, but very important, please take the time to read it.
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During! the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. My que stion – Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, M iner, Barnhill & Galland. ! Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi -born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he make a mistake’. Some mistake! Oh yeah! not a mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – ‘Beware of the enemy from within’.

Everyone thinks Obama is such a gifted speaker but what happened when is teleprompter went down?