Obama Pushes Rescue Plan … Lays Off McCain

It is not a time for politicians to concern themselves with the next election,” Obama told the crowd
The guy who studied for a debate instead of doing his job is lecturing people now?

“to punish those who set this fire…”
And what punishment does he recommend for himself, for all of the high-risk home loans he managed to shake banks and other lending agencies down for in Chicago during his days as a “community organizer” for ACORN?

angie:
HE’S ALL YOURS…………..

This man deserves to be our President. It was an inspiring speech. He was telling Pelosi and those crazy Newt-followers to come back to reality and do what’s best for our country. I don’t know what America did to deserve this man but I’m glad we have him.

This is the bill we need!!! thanks to whomever posted this!
Found this while on a blog.
I received this in my email today and this would be the best way to initiate economic recovery country wide. I wish I would have thought of it.
I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.
To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child.
So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage – housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans – what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college – it’ll be there
Save in a bank – create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car – create jobs
Invest in the market – capital drives growth
Pay for your parent’s medical insurance – health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean – or else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.
If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!
As for AIG – liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.
Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.”
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
How do you spell Economic Boom?
I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion
We Deserve It Dividend more than I do, the geniuses at AIG, or in Washington DC.
And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5
Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
Best regards,
Birk
T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic
PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it’s either good for a laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought
on how to best use $85 Billion!!”

Typical Obama.
Solving all of the world’s problems with a speech and no action………

Ken Blackwell should be in jail. He was the WORST secretary of state of Ohio and he was voted out of office because he was horrible.
Obama has NO relationship with Raines.
McCain has MUCH MORE ties to Fannie and Freddie than Obama does including McCain’s chief adviser getting thousands of dollars per month to lobby on behalf of Freddie Mac.

Adult supervision??
He reminds me of the PowerPuff Girls.
Out to save the world before bedtime..

Obama should let Biden handle the economic issues – Joe reminded us all how President FDR went on TV in 1929 to face the American people – but, FDR wasn’t president in 1929 and TV wasn’t invented

YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG (BAILOUT) AND IT IS STILL A PIG!!

First he give in to gutting FISA, now this. Barack Obama, the only change is what’s gonna be stolen from you to be given to the wealthy… He just lost my vote, I don’t care what my friends and family say. I can’t forgive a man who sells out the privacy of Americans and blows up the savings of the middle class and the poor to subsidize the bankers on Wall St. AFTER they have been exposed for criminal acts. Sorry Barack, you just lost me. 3rd party all the way.

jamescbuilder, palin can see a bank from her office. she’s virtually an economic expert.

Why dont mccain let sara take over the economic situation like like that we are concerned with healthcare reform like we have to have job creation like like realing in spending lololol

I read somewhere that electing Obama to handle this economic mess would be like hiring an arsonist to put out a fire. Kind of summed it all up for me.

This is a step in the right direction even if you don’t like Obama, but the country is so polarized right now the spirit gets lost.

SUPER PALIN TO THE RESCUE remember the economic situation according to sara palin is HEALTH CARE REFORM what a joke

beck, just like the last time that joke was posted. 85 billion divided by 200 million is 425 not 425,000.
This is why we are a democratic republic and not a pure democracy, the american people are not well educated enough or well informed enough to make good decisions.
BTW McCain, this is how you make a speech about not laying blame when your intent is to actually not lay blame. McCain, how about you suspend your campaign until Nov. 5th? Spare us the embarrassment of the debate on thursday.

THIS BILL HAS INSUFFICIENT OVERSIGHT, CHECKS AND BALANCES, AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
ANSWER: ADD REAL CHECKS AND BALANCES, AND FULL ACCOUNTABILITY.
APPOINT A REPUBLICAN AND A DEMOCRAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS AS CO-SIGNERS ON ALL TTRANSACTIONS.
HAVE THE CO-SIGNERS SIT ON THE REVIEW BBOARD AND REPORT TO CONGRESS FOR TRANSPARENCY.
GIVE THE REVIEW BOARD THE POWER TO FREEZE THE PROGRAM IF IT IS NOT WORKING AAND TO SEND IT BACK TO CONGRESS FOR ADJUSTMENTS.
ALL MEMBERS ARE FULLY ACCOUNTABLE UNDER TTHE LAW.
WE HAVE NO TRUST SO WE MUST HAVE CHECKS AND BALANCES AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
I FEEL CERTAIN THE BILL WOULD PASS IF THESE MEASURES WERE IN PLACE.

There is no question that Obama is much more presidential than McCain is … in demeanor and action. The country is tired of all the gimmicks that the angry McCain pulls and want to get back to the serious business of electing a President who is intelligent, thoughtful, calm and well, presidential. The polls reflect the people’s wishes … Obama/Biden ’08.

KP: No, he said the soldiers name
after going uh, uh, then reading the name off the bracelet!!!!!!!!

John: Obama is the one coming up with the protection plan of the bill. To protect the american citizens from being totally ripped off again. There is only so much he can do because the Republicans only want so much.
McCain today praised Obama on how right on Obamas plans are.
That is what Obama is doing for you today and the past 10 days.

Obama is brilliant. He will make a great President.

Roger,
do you want a president who respects the vows he made to his wife, or one who leaves a woman who is ill to chase after an heiress? Are you interested in voting for a man whose poor knowledge of the economy was not an issue when he spent time lobbying banks for his politcal supporters? what about a president whose son earned “windfall” profits after his bank closed it’s doors to the community that depended on it? have you forgotten why you are a democrat in the first place? have you turned your back on a woman’s right to choose what is best for her body and her life? hiliary supporters don’t vote for republicans. hiliary is a democrat… and i doubt you ever were

Obama continues to bs the American voters.

Looks like they have stopped the blame game for now.
You McCain supporters are the only ones on this blog who makes the comment saying, it’s about time, then continue slamming and attacking.
It’s obvious you’re nervous.
Get ready for the next President of the United States of America.
BARACK OBAMA….Wooooooooe hooooooo!!
You may continue on with repeating everything you have been watching on FOX…. If you run out of LIES, ahh, just make more up… It’s a McCain thang. LOL

Wow some of the morons on here today Let me ask you a question back what was it 3-4 yrs ago the President good ‘ol W and his bestest buddie John “I’m a maverick just ask anybody”McCain were pushing a privitizing of SS letting people put $ into wallstreet and having their own SS acounts imagine where those poor people would be if things keep going and puuting some of the gov money in the market so taxpayers would be on the hook for that too. Now thats sound Judgement .

geevil, the President should listen to others. His job will be to make decisions based on input and dissent. I know it’s confusing given the Decider you probably voted for in the last two elections.

As usual, Sen. Obama is parroting what others have already proposed, he is not a leader but a follower/thief trying to get political points any way he can. The liberal media upholds his hypocrisy. My suggestion is to not listen to the economical advisors/experts instead of politicians. Try CNBC’s network for market news. The Democrats jumped all over John McCain when he tried to help so why is the media not faulting Barack Obama for his intervention/stolen ideas?

You guys are hell bent on the media campiagning for Obama. SO WHAT?
who are you supporting? the media or McCain?
Why do you care whether the media’s rooting for Obama or McCain?
I say this election is all but done. Obama has a 6 point lead in most polls, Opening a wider lead in blue states and taking the lead in several critical red states.

You guys dwelling on ACORN are hilarious, and geevil’s redicule of inflating tires to save oil shows ignorance of an extreme magnitude. There seems to be a few people (an one comment that seems to be copied by a number of groupies) whose only goal is to tear down. They offer no positive suggestions or potential solutions. That is exactly why McCain is going down in the polls and Obama is going up. Personally, I like Senator Bernie Sanders solution… a surtax on everyone making over $1 million and a harsh cap on golden parachute rewards to CEOs of failed companies.
Now, for those naysayers, do you have a possible solution, or are you going to keep whining.

richard head,
Retirement accounts are already insured up to $250,000. Of course it is yet another thing Obama doesn’t understand.

I have a question for you..Will you punish yourself and all your fellow Democrats who have allowed this to happen? The republicans told us this would happen as far back as 2004-2005 and Democrats said everthing was fine and working great..They said the Leadership of Franklin Rains was just great and any attempt to say otherwise was a “political lynching” Obama admit on this one the Democrats were dead wrong! Then maybe I might have some respect for your pathetic lying party of all promise and no action. You expect us Americans to believe you really give a damn about us average Americans all any of you politicians care about is our tax dollars.

Got this from FOXNEWS: McCain Skips Spending Bill Vote, But Accepts Earmarks in It

if only people had thought about the best interests of our children, our troops and America, we would have another President Clinton in January

/sigh
geevil, he’s not talking about the FDIC protecting retirement funds.
he’s talking about the FDIC insuring all bank funds up to $250,000. this would allow small businesses a cushion, not pidgeon-holing them into thinking they cannot spend money.
jobs could be saved, money could be injected into the economy.
it would help.
as would inflating your tires fully. do some research and you’ll find that this is a legitimate method of increasing gas mileage (by around 3%). if people did this overall, the US would save a lot of gas.
i’m sorry you seem to misunderstand these things… hopefully this helped.

batesba74:
I have one word for you too:
unexceptional

John is asking
Please in all seirousness. What can Obama do right now? What can he do right now that McCain is doing to help this out?
please just help me understand.
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He can do the following
1. Shutup his mounth and stop blaming McCain for this mess
2.Go to Washington DC and work with Black Cacus to work with Republicans
3. Accept the fact that ACORN & affordable housing plan were main culprit for this mess

geevil:
just rest for a while…….your words reveal something about you….

Maryland women You don’t have a clue the dem controled congress you speak of has no real control not enough of a majority to threaten a veto override or push any agenda how with so little a majority could they do any of the things you say they did . Hell it takes 18-24 months for any laws or legistlature to come to have an effect so again how is it the dems fault if they did anything the president didn’t like VETO with no chance for override they even had help across the isle a couple of times the new GI bill ands a few others got thru but nothing that says we wanted this and got it thru and the consumer confidence thing being at an 2 1/2 yr high that wasn’t to hard to do after 9/11 when it went in the tank it had no where to go but up and do you really want to tout the DOW being at 14,000 and americans buying yachts and living large esp. now when we see how (GOP pushed de reg) and why do you really want to claim that as a good thing ?

As always Obama doesn’t come up with his own ideas he steals the ideas. He stole McCain’s idea on increasing the FDIC insurance. Obama stole McCain on offshore drilling. Now obama is for it? HE did say in debate we need offshore drilling. CHANGES his view on every position.

Palin’s a non-factor.
McCain choose Palin for the women vote. Obama leads by 14+ amongst women and 1 amongst white women.
Bush 2004 won white women by a 11 point margin.
I laugh at it now after hearing the media spec about Palin the game changer.
Game changer in favor of Obama.

President OBAMA is the guy who will save us from the mess President Bush-chainey and Mccain did, like President bill Clinton did in 1992, Remember?? Bush-Chainey and their friend spend 700 billion Dollars in Bhogus Iraq war,what should not happened in first place. Bush ,chainey & his heliberton are rich in taxpayer Dollar.These GOP are bad people.now it is time for OBAMA .

Tom dont let the sun set on you in this country on that day…leave ASAP!!!! by the way
1 I want a president who i can relate to one who does not consider the fundamentals of the economy to be sound on one day and suspened his campaign a week later claming we are in a crisis
2 I want a president who remains clam and collected even when the situation call for panic and not one who runs about like a headless chicken
3I want a leader who does not use his service to the country to blackmail voters to vote for him
4 I want a leader who does not just say country first but actually puts country first by choosing someone who can actually take over as president if anything should happen to him
5 I want a leader who runs a campagin where homemade signs are actually homemade and not handed out by the campaign
6 I want a leader who is committed to his family through thick and thin because that gives an idea of the kind of leader he will be…not one who leaves his wife when the going gets though.
7 I want a leader who does not just respect himself but his opponent eg. Obama does not understand….Obama does not understand. Seriously speaking how placed 893 out of 899 students and who was president of the havard law review?
8 I want a leader who will restore the faith of not only Americans but the rest of the world in America and not a warmongering leader Sentor McCain: bomb,bomb.bomb iraq
9 I want a leader who rescue america from our may debts by not spending 10 billion dollers a month on a war in a country where we are hated and in a country with an 80billion budget surplus
10 I want a leader who understands that when one policy fails it is better to try a new one than stick to the same old failing policy. Trickle down economics where huge tax cuts are given to only the wealthly has done everything except held improve the lifes of Americans. Only the rich have benefited from it. The poor have just gotten poorer and yet McCain still wants to continue with this failed policy
AND ABOVE IT ALL I WANT A LEADER WHO DOES NOT REMAINED ME TOOO MUCH OF GEORGE W. BUSH!!!!!!!

Tom,
Ok I see what you ar saying. but what is he really gonna solve?
And what isnt he doing that mccain is? Fine, he can stop blaming McCain but Mccain is also blaming Obama.
He can go to Washington and work with the Black Caucaus…but McCain went to DC and tried working with Repubs and still the bill failed.
and the ACORN thing, i dont know much about it but since it was numbr 3 behind these two i figured isnt that much of a concern.
So again i ask. What specifically can Obama and McCain do to help?? SPECIFICS.
And i do not mean to belabor the point.

Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle Obama will bring class –and some Black Power– to the White House. Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be officiating at Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration while Jim Ayers reads a short bio of the new president. YES!! CHANGE WE NEED!!

To whoever posted “The Birk Plan”
A friend of mine did the math–$85B divided by 200M equals 425, not 425,000!

Obama has a plan alright, but its not in his speech, if he gets in God help us, yes I said “God”

So, you know, we’re getting stampeded here to vote for something that doesn’t help homeowners, that doesn’t do anything about foreclosures, that doesn’t help those people who have been in bankruptcy and are looking for a way out. As a matter of fact, it made sure they can’t get out. So, who’s this for? It’s for speculators. It’s to play a game that provides some temporary help in the market, and, you know, you might see an uptick today if this passes the House. On the other hand, if it doesn’t, we need to be ready to find a way for Wall Street to address its problems without having to tap the increasingly diminishing resources of the federal taxpayers.
Full Transcript
Though there is bi-partisan support for a bailout, who are we actually trying to help.
John McCain calls for more oversight and wishes for a plan to allow homeowners to stay in there homes, but it was Hillary Clinton that put forth proposals that may have actually had a chance at easing the financial crisis on Wall Street and Main Street.
In response, Senator Clinton outlined a series of proposals to address the crisis:
Create a new entity to buy up and quarantine toxic mortgage securities that are dragging down the markets which would allow the markets to stabilize. Last spring Senator Clinton was among the first to call for a new entity modeled after the successful Depression-era Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) or the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) created after the Savings and Loan crisis.
Place a temporary moratorium on the most abusive stock transactions, many of which involve the “short-selling” of stocks. Yesterday, Senator Clinton wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging such a moratorium, saying it would provide breathing room for the markets to recover, for investors to make accurate assessments of companies and for regulators to assess what trading practices should be permanently banned.
Convene an emergency economic summit to show the American people their government is working together. Bringing together leaders in the administration and Congress with lenders, consumer advocates, non profits, financial institutions, and all stakeholders will allow a coordinated response to the crisis.
Aggressively pursue and encourage mortgage modifications. Senator Clinton has introduced legislation to remove barriers to mortgage modification and to encourage lenders to voluntarily work with borrowers to keep them current on payments and in their homes.
Restore competent federal oversight of the increasingly complicated financial markets. The rapid evolution of the securities and banking industry overwhelmed the current regulatory framework, resulting in a “shadow banking system” that operates outside of oversight and without accountability.
Require transparency and accountability on executive pay. Senator Clinton has proposed the Corporate Executive Compensation Accountability and Transparency Act to impose new transparency rules on executive pay, end the accounting techniques that hide compensation, and provide shareholders a say in executive compensation packages.
Ensure the accountability of financial institutions borrowing money from the Federal Reserve’s new lending facilities. Taxpayers deserve to know that the companies they are bailing out are on the road to recovery and aren’t throwing more good money after bad.

Nothing can be done about the sick posters who keep putting their own positions ahead of the needs of our country.
This is truly a time to work together and stop the stupid blame games.
For once, put our country first!

TC asked: “When are people going to see through this imposter. All rhetoric, no substance, no experience.” The bad news, TC, it took about seven years. The good news, he only has four and a half months left on his last term.

Finally, a man to step up to the plate instead of pretending to step up. McCain lied last week to put off the Palin debate. Barack will get it done. McCain had his turn grandstanding – now watch the big dog work.
Barack will be the best POTUS this country has ever seen.

It is long past time for some of these wind bags who take forever to say nothing or next to nothing, to stop boring everyone.
A time for unity to save our country!!
Put he USA first for once!!

I am dying to hear the “maverick” Sarah Palin debate Biden. This will be a good comic relief, better than Saturday Night Live.

fact is over 60% of democrats voted for it, the less than30% ofrepublicans. Had McCain delivered the same percentage that democrats had it would have passed. Rpeublicans are not votingfor it so they can then throw back on that democrats are socialists. Republicans are playing politics while democrats are trying to help t he country. WE obviously STILL have too many republcians in office. Why do democrats have to deliver 99% percent ofthe votes and republicans deliver none? Republicans are like those slacker kids you had to do group projects in school who never did anything but say “that’s not a good idea’ yet they do nothing but put their name on the paper in the end and leach their grade off everyone else’s effort.

Sen. John McCain suspended his political campaign in order to work with fellow republicans on capital hill prior to the failed vote. He may not have succeeded but at least HE TRIED. On the other hand, Sen. Barack Obama choose to focus on his debate prep and political campaign, admitting today to calling NO ONE on capital hill. YET, the MSM & “political pundits” [whatever the heck that means] decided to MOCK John McCain’ s good faith effort to help solve this financial crisis. Gee, I wonder who to vote for come November? McCain 2008/Hillary 2012!!!

So ACRORN caused the Wall Street financial crisis?
Hahahahahaha
My God the lemmings are so gullible.
Seriously, are you really that stupid or just trying to salvage anything you can for your weak candidates?

John McCain travels to Washington to help.
Dem: “We have an ageement” (announced just as McCain arrives, therefore McCain had nothing to do with it and cannot take credit for it)
Obama: “call me if you need me, I’m over here being cool.” “McCain is projecting presidential politics into the debate.” (I guess we’ll forget that they’re both senators.)
McCain & Obama meet with Congress and the president.( oh, so Obama did show up – they must have needed him) Obama is appointed the spokesman by the democrats. McCain listens and encourages the flow of ideas. Two minutes into Obama’s pompous diatribe the meeting collapses. Obama leaves town.
The first agreement falls through.
Dems: “It was all McCain’s fault.”
Another deal is struck the Democrats announce.
Obama: “John McCain cannot take credit for this deal. The ideas in this agreement were MINE, Me Me Me, Mine, mine mine.”
McCain: “It is my hope that though not ideal a bipartisan agreement of ideas can be struck.”
The deal is defeated in the House after 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans vote against it.
Dems/Obama: “It was McCains’s and the Republican’s fault”
Oh by the way – the media got their marching orders from the DNC>

Oh Now after a week we need to put our election concerns aside and work on the bailout OH PLEASE call me if you need me didnt get it done geeeeez who would of thunk it

Since it becomes increasingly clear that most of the bigots and racists who hate Obama with such venom will not stop and join together for the sake of our country, the best thing to do is ignore them.
PUT THE USA FIRST FOR A CHANGE

Philly Paul, who admits he does not know what “political pundit” means, but included it as intructed in his trance induced message, syas the MSM “decided to MOCK” McCain. He got the word MOCK from MSM political pundit Katie Couric, when she used it to rescue Sarah Palin when she was groping for a word to describe public reaction to her claim that the geography of Alaska was a source of foreign policy expertise.

I don’t want a hero that will swoop in and save the day…I want a hero who has the forthsight and vision to save tomorrow.

MCCAIN = BUSH
PLAIN AND SIMPLE

I don’t believe it was Mccain’s fault that the bail out failed…but his party was willing and able to give him all the credit had it passed.

Tw
Why are you upset?
Isn’t Obama’s full name Barack Hussein Obama? Isn’t he a follower of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Isn’t Obama a close associate of Jim Ayers? With Wright, Ayers, and the angry Michelle, we can truly CHANGE America into something else. YOU’RE RIGHT! Anti-Americanism seems to be the norm in the Obama camp.
Don’t get angry if this democrat votes for McCain. I will.

AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
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And so how did they “cause” all the problems you listed?
Face it, economic cycles do not occur in a matter of months. They take years. And eight years of Republican economics has done nothing but cause disaster for middle class Americans. Bush/McCain economic policy does not work!
Close your eyes and cover your ears all you want. The majority knows the truth.
The original patriots were not soldiers, they were ordinary citizens in revolt against an oppresive government.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

Way to go, Sen. Barack Obama. This is brilliant!! Is America listening? Obama shows leadership and looks to the future. Contrast this with Sen. John McCain.
Just this morning, I heard Sen. McCain say what can be summarised in three sentences. In the first sentence, Sen. McCain said: “Barack Obama is to blame for the breakdown of the $700 billion bailout plan.” In the second sentence, Sen. McCain said: ” Let us not trade blame.” In the third sentence, Sen. McCain said: “Obama is to blame.” So what is Sen. McCain saying?

tescondo, why don’t you also ask McCain about members in his inner circle about thier involvement with Freddy. I mean to be fair you should ask both sides to come clean. Ask Sen. Gram about his involvement with the deregulation of this industry way back when. All of the politicians have skeletons in thier closets, all the parties do. At least be honest about your attacks.

Most people don’t have over $100,000 in the bank. More likely to have that in 401k and retirement accounts. Obama has no plan

mmmmmmmmmm…. Obama wants to raise the FDIC insurance from 100k to 250K, gee that is really nice for us small business owners, to which he has said that he would raise the taxes for people who earn over 250K. As a small businees owner, we may earn 250K, but it doesn’t mean we bring it home. You have to have cash to run a business, and he wants to take it away via taxes.

Rush, Lieberman and that PUG x-mayor of New York. (So insignificant his name escapes me.) They’re all CROOKS! Lieberman is a trader to his own party.
Lieberman thought he was gonna be the next nominee for V.P. of the United States. LOL…Lieberman got “punked”
Heck no they don’t want CHANGE. Obama will have their crooked azzes out the door first thing.
No more Tea parties with BUSH and well, McCain has already LOST!

i don’t understand why congress won’t
pass a simple law restricting mortgage.
rates to a maximum rate 30 per cent of household income. judges should be able
to reset mortgages and banks should not have given loans out that borrowers could not back. the kiss principle works most of time –keep it simple
stupid.

Phyllis Dee, you forgot the Witch Doctor affect………. Just a reminder

The conservative AM radio crowd is definitely in an echo chamber in regard to ACORN. Trying to paint ACORN as the cause of the housing mess is beyond ridiculous. The central plank of ACORN is fighting predatory lending practices and guiding lower income, first-time home buyers through the process. They actively work AGAINST the predatory lending that led to the crisis, which was almost exclusively done by the lending industry itself. The industry aggressively pursued short-term profits to the long-term detriment of the entire economy. ACORN doesn’t make a lender lend anything it doesn’t want to. This is a transparent conservative attempt to try and blame poor people for a problem caused by unregulated bankers. But hey nice try. Maybe no one is covering this story, because it doesn’t remotely hold any water.

McCain was hospitalized today to have an acorn surgically removed from his lower colon. His doctor, “Bull” Winkle said the operation was a success.

beck?
85 billion divided by 200 million equals
425$ not 425,000$
Youre an Obama supporter, arn’t you?
He does make good speeches!!!

Can’t help but agree with good ole Lou Dobbs on this one…”And those House Republicans and House Democrats who voted against this bailout deserve a great, great expression of thanks from the American people.”

OK, All of you ACORN nuts (no pun intended, of course!!!), why don’t you get out there like the little squirrel brained nut jobs you are and bury your nuts for the winter – its that time of year.
Execellent leaders perform much the way Barack Obama does.

Any way you care to slice it, it’s ‘evening’ here in America. I guess this is what it’s like to circle a drain.

GK, the stock market has nothing to do with the problem with the banks. That only shows the investor confidence that things will work out ok. The banks still can’t lend money and the bad debts they hold keep growing. Basically, it would be like you loaning out money to family and friends. Them not paying you back, and suddenly another person asks for a loan, but you have no money to loan them.
Banks make money on the interest on loans. Some of that is paid to people with money in the bank, but because of debt problems most people do not have a lot of money sitting in accounts in the banks. So, there is no money to use for loans, and money is not coming in as it should from loans already made.
The stock market is a reaction to what is happening with the mortgage and bank bail out, not a sign there is not still a problem. However, a crash on the market would amplify the banking problem because people would lose their long-term stability.

This article shows that Obama is not a candidate of change: he would perpetuate the same crony capitalism of the Bush Administration. Obama even opposed adding to the bill any bankruptcy relief for homeowners. We need a homeowner aid package such as http://www.berry2008.org/issues/rescue.html .

To all those who keep saying Hilary 2012
First and foremost it only under these conditions that this is possible:
1 That McCain screws up this country soo bad that after four years everyone has had enough. I f this is what you are hoping for then it goes to show how much you care about this country, seeing as you would rather have it totally destroyed just so Hilary has shot in 2012
Because if the country should improve she would not even stand half a chance, given that after 8 years of such a failed government people would still vote republican they will defiantly not vote a democrat in if the economy is doing well.
Also it is under the assumption that Obama supporters will be able to forgive what they see us a defeat caused by Hilary supporters and just like you will be too bitter to vote for her in the primaries or even the general election.
Now given all these conditions if you still think that there will be a Hilary 2012(meaning you are hoping for the country’s situation to worsen), the chances of that happening is very, very slim
So instead of using your bitterness to destroy this country, take sometime out to put your country first and not yourself.
If you are however supporting McCain because you feel that your views and hopes for this country is closer to his then go ahead.
I f you are doing this only out of spite, then remember that just like Obama needs all democrats to succeed, so will Hilary. What goes around comes around!!!!!!

shalom:
Yes I would, the guy took prbly 30 min to write a long winded novel about a plan revolving around this astonishing number of $435,000 per person. When in fact he could have taken out a calculator and found our that the basis of his lengthy narrative was wrong, so yes I would have called him dumb to his face. I am also tempted to call you dumb for not proof reading your text, I believe you mean “sense” not “since”
… dumb a$$

THE FIX IS IN… A typical LIE from the McCain campaign. Started this roomer way back when Obama numbers went up.
McCain is a very old man with the mentality of a 12 year old. What, Daddy didn’t pay attention to him? He’s has “NO CLASS” as one can get. What a mouse he is.
McCain can’t take it. Fight, fight, fight. Win, win, win. When that fails scream “You cheated”
I question the real McCoy on McCain.

Both candidates are not the best the country has to offer. I cannot vote for Obama. This democrat is voting for less of the 2, McCain. If the nation falls, let McCain take it down, not the radical who will sell us out from the inside.

Obviously we have a problem.It is a flat out lie to say McCain led this bailout effort.A deal was already in the works.He was just running from and trying to take focus off the debate.If anything Obama was the one all along talking about how our markets would come to this and the republican party so defiantly ignored it.
Bottom line is this.Like Obama and so many democrats have been saying FOREVER! We need better regulation that would prevent things like this from happening.Whether republicans like it or not Nancy Pelosi was dead right.To reject the plan because of something she said is a poor and childish excuse.The global market knows America needs to pass this legislation, the stock market, economists, experts you name it know we need to pass this bill, buta large sum of republicans and some democrats are stalling this progress.Typical and sad.

Interesting article:
September 30, 1999
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans.. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called sub prime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates — anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.
”Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990′s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.”
Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980′s.
”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
Under Fannie Mae’s pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 — a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.
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Does anyone know what the name Obama, means?

See the Palin impersonator Joe Biden is using to practice with http://www.theveep.com

Thomas Sowell, Sen. Obama cannot cite one accomplishment? You are brain dead truly.

Obama has spent little time serving the people of Illinois in his current elected position working on the most serious issue facing America. Instead, Obama has campaigned and slung mud. So now Obama decides to act in a bipartisan manner for once and ABC News acts like he’s a hero?! How ridiculous!

The name – Obama — means — Low Life Camel thief —- I think

Mccain is an angry old man! I couldn’t imagine him in a meeting with other foreign leaders negotiating on behalf of the US. Rolling his eyes, pointing his fingers and blowing off useless steam.
I’ll take the level headed guy.

John McCain phoned in his VP pick!!

“Obama” is a Kenyan word that means the same thing as “Track” means in Alaskan.
I learned that in Trigg.

I’m impressed with Obama, McCain, Pelosi, Reid and all who voted for the bailout. I wonder what these so called leaders will do when they thrown so much money at everything the rest of the world realizes U.S. money is worthless.
Some leaders.

essentially, this is the same thing McCain was trying to say last week when he asked Obama to stop campaigning and go to Washington to try and get this squared away and then start campaigning but this was a bigger more important issue that our country needed to address. All McCain got was heckling for that and criticized and mocked. Now Obama says it and he’s a God. Seriously now. The double standard is getting really hard to swallow.

Good Leadership Skills: noun. roots in Obamanation.
“That’s above my pay-grade”
“Call me if you need me”
“I agree with John on that”
“John is absolutely right”
“Uh….uh…..uh………”
“His name is Sgt…uh…uh…”

Don of Tampa,
The country going down is not an option….that’s why we’re voting for Obama/Biden

harry – if all you got is the “funny sounding” name of the next president of the united states then you really should put away your crayons and take nap. Try some warm ACORN flavored milk.

ivan12356, you can not get anything done unless you have 2/3 of the vote. So guess what you need both Republicans and Democrats to get a bill passed. So just to I spell it out for you if you have 51% Democrats and 49% Republicans you would need a total of 60 percent of all members to pass a bill. I hope this helps you

Who do we need to run the country?Let me think.Hmm. One one hand we have a Harvard graduate and Constitutional Law Professor at the very least and on the other hand we have a veteran who graduated at the bottom of his class. Hmm.We have a guy that the rest of the world was eager to see when he visited cross seas and we have a guy that wants to target Iran and Russia.Hmm.Our problems are economical and our standing in the world.Hard decision.Not really.
Obama/Biden08

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION! A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats. Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster. ONE key pioneer of ACORN’s subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott – an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae’s mortgage policies. – It would be tough to find an “on the ground” community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama. When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago, Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff. He returned to Chicago in the early ’90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN’s up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott’s drive against Chicago’s banks.

Hey ACORN scapegoaters….Change the channel to real news channels once and a while and then you will find out the real problem that Bush admitted to is DEREGULATION….NOT ALL THESE FACELESS BOGEYMEN YOU KEEP MAKING UP.

During Obama’s time on the Woods Funds ACORN received grants of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), and $40,000 (2002) from the Woods Fund. (Obama in the early 1990’s helped train ACORN organizers and later served as counsel in 1995 for ACORN in a “motor voter” registration lawsuit.) And ACORN certainly appreciated whatever assistance Obama afforded the radical organization over the years. No doubt Obama is very proud of his role as a “community activist” for ACORN.
If ACORN were merely another whiny left-wing group that never did anything, it might be something we could all laugh off as cute. But alas, ACORN is neither cute nor laughable; it is a very determined, very powerful outfit which believes in implementing socialism, and works hard to create the right conditions to make socialism inevitable, and ineradicable.

The pattern of funneling money to political allies and their allies is evident throughout Obama’s tenure at the Woods Fund. Tens and tens of thousands of dollars were granted to organizations including the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPPPI), the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Centers for New Horizons, the Chicago Jobs Council, the Chicago Education Fund, the Chicago Institute on Urban Poverty, the Chicago Urban League, The Gamaliel Foundation. Dozens of the board members and officials from these organizations in turn would donate money, in many instances up to the legal limit, for Obama’s Senate and Presidential races between 2004 and 2008.
For example the Woods Fund between 1999 and 2002 granted $60,000 to BPPPI. Board member and executives donated at least $16,950 to Obama’s political campaigns. The Woods Fund granted the Center of Neighborhood Technology $150,000 between 1999 and 2002. Obama received over $24,000 in campaign donations from its officials. And in turn Obama made sure to seek earmarks on their behalf once he reached the U.S. Senate.

Mr. Blackwell knows all about falling.
From favor with Ohio voters.

I love how people keep talking about how Obama make good speeches but is doing nothing. I fail to see what John McCain has done,which is nothing also because what can they do at this time? It takes all of congress to get the bill passed through as I remember. Also heaven forbid if McCain gets in and something happens to him, I don’t think Palin has any experience and we would be in trouble with this ditzy brainless wonder.

I cannot believe Sarah Palin actually said Bono was the King of Ireland. Everyone knows St. Patrick is.

Batesbaaa – You are wrong wrong wrong. You’ve been brainwashed by Fox News. It happens to a lot of people…it’s not your fault. To undo the brainwash try this: go the nearest cow pasture and find 12 acorns. Boil the acorns until they turn to mush that is the same consistency of refried beans. Then fill a turkey baster with the mush. Then go to Larry Craig’s cabin in Idaho. Pull down your pants and hand the bastesber to Senator Larry Craig. He’ll take care of the rest.

Well, if this keeps up, I won’t vote for either candidate. Americans are saying NO to the bailout, so why continue to try and pass it? We will weather the storm, it is the only way to purge the system of all these toxic business deals. LET THEM FALL !!

All these people who charge McCain is hiding Sarah Palin from the press are the same people who did not believe it when McCain said Saddam was hiding WMD in Iraq.

You know, if McCain had hemmoroids, he’d be blaming OBama for that $hitty mess too. He is a man in denial that he could possibly be our next president.

I say let the people who are for the bailout, pay for the bailout.

My conspiracy theory is better than your conspiracy theory: John McCain was abducted by a space ship and replaced with a midget alien from Planet Acorn. That’s why he can no longer look someone in the eye during a debate. ABC News needs to review the McCain medical records for further proof. To learn more about the McCain Transplant… stay tuned.

You can always tell what talking points that the right-wing noise machine is obsessing about, because they all start showing up here at once.
Apparently ACORN is the new “Ayers.”

So Phyliss Dee is going to vote because of a person’s name. What an idiot. Would you vote for him if his name was Bruce Bartholmew from Beaumont, TX, even though he was a pastor from a fundementalist church who spoke in tongues and worshiped snakes, and who proposed exterminating all non-Christians, was a card-carrying member of the NRA, and was a slumlord who owned 1,000 rat infested apartments?
From what I’ve read, you probably would, and that is what is wrong with America. I could care less what a candidates name is, or the color of his/her skin, or their religion. I want someone who believes in America and Americans…something we haven’t had for the last seven years.

Obama cannot win without cheating. See Ohio. Wow, a change we can be fooled in. Noobama. Wake up, America to this con man.

This is hilarious watching McCain supporters pan Obama’s speech here. It’s as if your guy has done anything other than goofball his way around this crisis for his own political gain only to have it boomerang back in his face. What a joke.

Obama supporters blast Palin when Barack thinks we have 57 states in America. LOL. Whoa, where’s SNL on this one??? The far leftists’ supporters need to get on their mother ship and go away.

sandy – I don’t really care about McCain’s adultery, just hate the hypocrisy of whiny little weasels like Graham. His performance at the impeachment hearings was for one purpose only, to upgrade from Congressman Graham to Senator Graham. History will show the true freakiness of Lindsay Graham, eventually.

Christie, how is Obama cheating in Ohio?

SandyB, No McCain cheated on his first wife with his mistress Cindy, after his first wife waited for him and have a bad car accident. I guess McCain wanted a young model type again, I mean his first wife was disfigured in the accident and gained waight. Common people you know how good military medical care is (LOL) no red tape and wonderful care, no waits why not get his wife to see a speicalist to get fixed. But no he had Cindy in his sites, pretty woman, nice figure, and a big time plus daddy has big time money. McCain lied to Cindy about how old he was.

Yes, in order to win, Obama must pick up busloads of people in Ohio to register and receive absentee ballots the same day; he must have his former colleagues at ACORN registering every dead body, convicted felon, and names pulled out of phone books to vote; and must use law enforcement and prosecutors in Missouri to intimidate anyone who calls him a bad name…..

Looking forward to Obama as President. McCain is only making a mockery of himself by stating Obama doesn’t understand.
Future is now vote Obama

Democrats tout Barack Obama’s experience as a community organizer at the same time they’re complaining about the state of the economy. Well it’s important to connect the dots between these two topics.
As a community organizer, Obama worked directly for and with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). In 1992, he was hired to run a voter registration effort. He later became a trainer for the group, as well as its lawyer in election law cases.
ACORN has not only been involved in numerous instances of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation and vote-for-pay scams, the organization also took a lead role in pushing for and getting the underwriting standards for mortgages loosened with the support of liberal politicians in Congress. This was in spite of warnings that looser standards could lead to wide-scale defaults.
Once the standards were loosened, liberal politicians like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd pushed financial institutions to make more and more loans to homeowners who had little ability to repay them.
The result: the current economic crises.
So this raises a couple of important questions.
• What has Obama done to clean up the corruption in ACORN or has he just been complicit?
• Why is he so vocal about the weakness in our economy when the organization he worked for and his colleagues have been primary contributors to the current downturn that coincided with the Democrats gaining control of Congress?

Hey did anyone see the Picture of Sarah in a Red, White and Blue bikini holding a AK47? It is on the stands of Grocery stores Now, I wonder if that is what she was using to kill wolfs from a helicopter.

Remember we cannot say his real name. shhh, Hussein. Maybe that we be one of his new orders as the nation’s ruler. Obama is real bad news folks. We can joke around but he is scary to the nation’s ideals of love of country, free speech and the belief of God.

Will Obama pay back the $126,000 that Fannie and Freddie gave him? What about the other democrat, Dodd and his $166,000 he was given. What about Raines and Johnson, Obama’s buds?
This is just like Resko and the money Obama received from that convicted muslim criminal.
I now understand why Obama changed his tune.
Next time listen to McCain and this country wouldn’t be in this mess!!!
Liberals – can’t trust them!!!!!

Never mind I found out it is faked

USCITIZEN_04: Why is this an issue? Last I checked McCains first wife still supports him, and McCain has taken the blame for this. But I guess bringing this up will fix the crisis we are know in and was started by the Democrats. And Becky as for your post that is my point Republicans called for more regulations on Freddie and Fannie in 2004-2005 and the Democrats blocked it saying everything was fine and there would be no problems.

Not all are in belief of God. Religion has proven to be the reason of wars not peace. and I’m no hippie but This country doesn’t need more religion and we have free speech.
McCain’s Insane vote Obama

ACORN blah blah blah blah blah blah Acorn blah blah
I forgot how perfect Mccain and Bush were for just a second.

FINALLY, HERE COMES THE MESSIAH..
I THOUGHT HE RAN AWAY.. HE FEELS COMFORTABLE ENOUGH IN THE POLLS TO HELP?
OBAMA SHOULD SIMPLY CONVINCE THE DEMO CONGRESS TO PASS THE BILL WITH REPUBLICANS..
NO, THEY WANT REPUBS ON THE DEAL SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BLAME MCCAIN..
THEY ARE MAJORITY AND ITS THEIR BUSINESS.
PELOSI , DODD, REID, FRANK–BUNCH OF CLOWNS.

FINALLY, HERE COMES THE MESSIAH..
I THOUGHT HE RAN AWAY.. HE FEELS COMFORTABLE ENOUGH IN THE POLLS TO HELP?
OBAMA SHOULD SIMPLY CONVINCE THE DEMO CONGRESS TO PASS THE BILL WITH REPUBLICANS..
NO, THEY WANT REPUBS ON THE DEAL SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BLAME MCCAIN..
THEY ARE MAJORITY AND ITS THEIR BUSINESS.
PELOSI , DODD, REID, FRANK–BUNCH OF CLOWNS.

Use the name Hussein all you want. Some of us don’t judge others by their names or color of their skin.

Shalom:
Correct, you spelled it correctly however you did not proof read! Would you be able to call me an idiot to my face? Or do you feel fine calling me that because of the SENSE of security that you have, see that proper grammar?… Hypocrite

Keating and his cronies were a bunch of crooks and oh, look who was one of their closest allies, McCain. MCCAIN = KEATING = ECONOMIC TERRORISM = CROOKS.

Rezko

Keating

– If the $700 billion price tag attached to the bailout plan that failed sounds like a lot, well, it is.
You can spend $700 billion in a lot of different ways. For instance, you could buy a war — the U.S. has spent $648 billion on the war in Iraq so far.
That much money could ensure universal health care coverage for six years or upgrade the country’s most deficient bridges four times over. Or you could build 1,750 bridges to nowhere. Surely all of those would eventually take you somewhere.
With $700 billion you could easily run Denmark, which had a paltry gross domestic product of $312 billion last year.
That much money could also pay back every single outstanding student loan, fund the national intelligence budget beyond 2020, or help the Gulf Coast recover from five Hurricane Katrinas.

christie – The fact that she could remotely become the President of the United States.. That is what bothers me about Sarah Palin. That and the rent a uterus plan that was obviously flawed from the begining.

19 lobbyists for freddie/fannie involved in McCain campaign

Perhaps Obama can get Resko to buy the bad debt like he got him to buy the land for the Obama family. Since Obama was able to get a $520,000 gift from the indicted influence-peddler Resko in six months, the nation should be make out like the Bandit Obama!

Carly Fiorina, McCain advisor: McCain not qualified to run a company

Phil Gramm, McCain advisor on the economy: Economy is fundamentally strong. The US is a nation of whiners

Obama’s buddies including Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi, Auchi (Batcher, 2008) and his pastor the Rev Jeremiah Wright who tells his congregation to sing “God damn America” (ABCNews, 2008)

There are too many wolves .. who cares! Shoot em from a helicopter, a boat, an ATV, a moped .. for all I care! I’m an animal lover too – not swayed by the “ahhh d*mn – that’s wrong” commercial! Grow up ..

Hawaii is a state, moron. Obama born in HI. Therefor Obama is a citizen. Go back to Jr. High Civics.

william, Obama was born in Kenya.

Keating five and charity pills 08

I find it quite funny that racists think we’re as simple minded as them and therefore throwing Hussein out is supposed to garner some support or fear. I guess you all think being named Hussein is an insult.
The name means “good; small handsome one”. The name of a prominent person.
Do you all even attempt to pick up a book?
Wait, you probably didn’t even know names had meanings.

Julie – voted what bill down by majority?

Harry, factcheck.org researched the original, raised-seal birth certificate. HAWAII

I’m a rpeublican of the fiscal conservative, socially more liberal. I was a big ROmney supporter, then a Hillary supporter, now I’m very much a Barak supporter. I think he is the best guy to take over after this mess. Besides ROmney, who I would have felt best about, I think he’s the second best choice. This is very much like Herbert Hoover’s republican deregulationa fiasco with FDR wiht the young guy coming up with the Harvard educated northern new guy all the southerners hate with new ‘crazy’ ideas that end up turning things around no matter how much it irks them to admit. I am anxious about this fiscal crises, but confident we will, hopefully, most likely have Obama being president in 5 months time who has a good big picture prospective and can turn things around.

McCain’s pastor, Rev. Haage: God sent Hitler to force the Jews to Israel

>>This country doesn’t need more religion and we have free speech
Maybe you should make some time and go to the State of Missouri’s, The Governor’s web site, to read his message to the Obama campaign about free speech in that state. The governor says Obama’s strong arm tactics are intimidating the free markets by forcing them to pull down ads which are crucial of Obama’s voting record or face being sued. There are other incidences of this strong arm tactics in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan from Obama’s campaign. A leader for all. A new change.

William, Obama said it himself on Friday night. He was born in Kenya.

The Birk Plan for economic recovery
> THINK ABOUT THIS ONE…WOW!!!
> : The Birk Plan for economic recovery
>
> This is a different take on a bailout plan!! Thought provoking,
> even though it would never, ever happen.
>
>
> I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
>
> Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a
> We Deserve It Dividend.
>
> To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000
> bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
>
> Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman
> and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and
> up.
>
> So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals
> $425,000.00.
>
> My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve
> It Dividend.
>
> Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate
> of 30%.
>
> Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
>
> That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
>
> But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
>
> A husband and wife have $595,000.00.
>
> What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
>
> Pay off your mortgage – housing crisis solved.
>
> Repay college loans&nb sp;- what a great boost to new grads
>
> Put away money for college – it’ll be there
>
> Save in a bank – create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
>
> Buy a new car – create jobs
>
> Invest in the market – capital drives growth
>
> Pay for your parent’s medical insurance – health care improves
>
> Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean – or else
>
> Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks
> who lost their jobs at Lehmann Brothers and every other
> company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in
> our Armed Forces.
>
> If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do
> it…instead of trickling out a puny
> $1000.00 (vote buy) economic incentive that is being proposed by
> one of our candidates for President.
>
> If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every
> adult U S Citizen 18+!
>
> As for AIG – liquidate it.
>
> Sell off its parts.
>
> Let American General go back to being American General.
>
> Sell off the real estate.
>
> Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
>
> Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.
>
> Sure it’s a crazy idea that can never work.
>
> But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you
> spell Economic Boom?!
>
> I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85
> Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than the geniuses at AIG or
> in Washington DC.
>
> And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion
> because 25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
>
> Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
>
> Kindest personal regar ds,
>
> Birk
> T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic
>
> &n bsp;
> PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it’s either
> good for a laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to
> best use $85 Billion!!
>
>

I am very surprised to see such racism still around. does it really matter what race Obama is? NO is he the best choice for office now? YES
vote for Obama

Jim Johnson

Nixson

As for those who blame the “Bush administration” what they forget is they are ALL part of the Bush admiration ….they are just as much to blame for whats going on….they have fought Bush from the beginning and the lady that is speaker of the house from the beginning has been again Bush. They were elected to do a job for the people but instead they are for themselves.(..there are a small few that does work for the people and do their job.) Some have been in congress so along they don;t remember what its like to live from paycheck to paycheck and some that has no idea about the people they work for. We pay their bills, give them vacations wherever, whenever and spending money to boot. So, Obama stop blaming the Bush administration when YOU are part of it….its like telling your hand you are mad at it and no longer consider it part of you. Get real!!

Julie you do know McCain is a Senator and this vote was in the House right?

AND FOR ALL THE HATERS, BARACK MEANS PRAISE, THIS MAN IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE OUT HERE MAKING SENSE, AND TO TRY TO MINIMIZE HIS IMPACT ON THE WORLD, DOES NOT MAKE HIM ANY LESS EFFECTIVE, KNOW THIS!

dashark, I guess that makes you a recist for not voting for McCain, or maybe you are agist?

HE WAS BORN IN KENYA

To all republicans (especially the “Gee Evil” type), I think I speak for all logical and rational “thinking” people in this country and abroad. It pains me to listen to anything you have to say. Your type would vote for SATAN himself if he had an “R” or a “GOP” on his/her chest. Let me ask you a simple question b/c you’re all obviously too close-minded and stupid to understand something too complex. This is intended for those which make less than $250K/year, otherwise I understand why you embrace the republican ideology. Why do you vote republican? What does the Republican Party offer you? Seriously, take a few minutes to think about this question before you go bananas on me.
Although, I doubt the answers will make much sense, it should be entertaining to hear your responses. I occasionally tune to FoxNews and AM talk radio, so I can almost predict each of your answers. You’re all so predictable. Rush and Hannity and the rest of the posse have been lecturing everyone for eight years. More deregulations, less government programs, less spending (except for the treasonous 2 trillion dollar war), more morals and ethical principles instilled in our government (Ha! What a joke), cutting taxes for the middle class (and a lot more for Mr. Corporate and wide open tax write-offs/corporate loop holes – wink, wink), our right to bear semi-automatic weapons to hunt deer, pheasant, etc., and also for our personal protection (a simple handgun won’t do the trick?), teaching abstinence, no-child left behind, how global warming isn’t human induced and is just a left wing conspiracy, etc, etc, etc, bla, bla, bla.
Who are the nuts, again, Gee Evil? You’ve now had eight years for republican politicians to prove that your ideology is wrong, wrong, and wrong on all these issues. So Clinton got a BJ… big deal. God, I only wish that was our country’s major problem today. What a bunch of morons… and the sad thing is at least half of our country (give or take a few %) are exactly this. Morons. It’s pretty depressing when I let myself go here.
Let me give you an analogy as to why I sway more on the democratic side. Imagine Wall Street is a class of about 60- 5th graders and the rest of the school is the bulk of the middle class. The teacher (i.e. “President”) and school board (“i.e. congress) decide this class is so smart and exceptional that they are going to “create” new, “exceptional“conditions for this class. The school board decides that there needs to be NO after school or special programs to help kids learn the material that is taught in class. The teacher even decides to allow the 5th graders take their tests with the answers on the back. She says there is no need to worry about cheating because they’re an exceptionally honest group of kids. She also decides to leave the room while the kids take the test. Her rational: It’s just too stressful for these kids if she’s in the room while they take their test. To no one’s surprise, the 5th graders of this school are at the top. They win awards and are praised by the school board. Obviously, this system works, so they continue to allow these kids the same set of conditions all the way through high school. Incredibly, these kids never make any B’s. They’re all A students. THEN THEY ALL GO TO COLLEGE AND FLUNK OUT THEIR FIRST SEMESTER.
I ask you republicans, are you surprised that this group of kids flunked out of college? Although this scenario was applied to the current financial crisis, it can be applied to everything. Energy, education, environmental, defense, healthcare, etc, etc, etc.
To my fellow “rational and logical thinkers”, how do we help such ignorance? Please, don’t tell me to be more respectful than what I am being right now. This is a real epidemic. I think stupidity might have the edge over obesity in this country.

At last count, Obamaclaus has promised to share
the wealth of every industrialized nation with
the people of all the poor countries in the world.
He didn’t say how he was going to get the money
past the tin horn generals and dictators who run
and rob those countries; presumably he still has
some magic dust from his college days. Then
Obamaclaus is going to stop global warming, and end
our dependence on oil. Well, he said foreign oil, but
seeing as the North Slope is drying up, and he ain’t
going to allow no new drilling, that pretty much
leaves out All oil. And, He ain’t going to build no
new nuke plants, either. That pretty much leaves us
with biodeisel, beanie powered noggin top generators,
and his magic dust, this I gotta see. Then,
he’s going to balance the budget, give us all a
three thousand dollar tax cut, give everybody
universal health care, increase troops and spending
in Afghanistan, stop the Russians from overrunning
Europe and stop the Iranians from building nukes,
while solving the world wide financial crisis
and balancing a running chain saw on his nose. If
Obamaclaus can do all that, we ought to forget
electing him president and make the SOB Pope. Lay
his hands on the Whole World and solve All our
problems.
Setting aside the daily playbook of Obama’s Presidential
Fantasy League; nearly every notable Democrat from Nancy
Pelosi to Hillary Clinton; from his running mate Joe
Biden to Jesse Jackson; from Bill Clinton to Chuck Schumer,
has said that Barack Obama ain’t qualified to be president.
Well, every notable Democrat except the Kennedys, and Teddy
has to be forgiven, seeing as he was under the influence of
an inoperable brain tumor when he endorsed Obama, and
all them other Kennedy endorsements don’t count, ’cause Teddy
still has the keys to the vault, and, you do what you’re told.
How Obama went from the least able candidate for president in
July to the most able candidate in September truly is a wonder.
Maybe it was Obama’s (a) kissing tour of Europe.
Or his (b) slapping of every registered Democrat in Michigan
and Florida.
Or his (c) two hundred million dollars in campaign contributions
from the drug addled Hollywood and music industry.
Or the (d) wild enthusiasm of the teenagers in the crowds at the
colleges Obama likes to haunt. Of course, you can get the same
reaction from a college crowd with a wet T shirt and a keg of beer,
and those ain’t qualified to be president, neither. Although
I Have seen some wet T shirts that come pretty close.

OBAMA & DEMOCRATS = “Corruption You Can Believe In” Failed Sub Primes and Mortgage Fraud Lenders Funneled Money to Dodd & Obama the Most. Fannie & Freddie Gave $200 Million to Partisans-Most Went to Democrats! Dodd, Obama Among Top Recipients. Republicans Attempted to Pass Reforms-Blocked by Democrat Leadership!

“Obama’s” plan is actually one that was put forth last week by Dr Galbraith, the well known economist, in the Washington Post, titled No BailOut.
The only thing bipartisan about politics is that every party shares a piece of the blame for 30 YEARS of fiscal malfeasance!

Look at the date of this article!
Forewarning of a ‘Train wreck’. The fall of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was predictable.
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September 30, 1999
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profi ts.
In addit ion, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates — anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.
”Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990′s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.”
Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime marke t went to black b orrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980′s.
”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up a nd bailed out the thrift industry.”
Under Fannie Mae’s pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 — a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings

Now something will get done. The republicans have zero creditability on the matter and rightly so. Obama has been setting the tone for quite sometime on the economy. He along with Senator Clinton has been asking for a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures, which McCain rejected as helping the speculator. Now many Noble Prize economists and prominent politicians are saying the same thing as Obama, including McCain. McCain’s grandstanding backfired and failed to deliver any republicans on the bailout. New York Times has McCain gambling at Indian Casino’s all night paid for by lobbyists while he sits on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The conservative commentators are calling Palin “embarrassing”. Palin made the cover of National Enquire twice. If we do not get this election right, than there is something deeply wrong with our democracy.

In a 2005 video Daniel Mudd, at the time the interim CEO of the catastrophically failed mortgage lender Fannie Mae, affirmed his fealty and that of Fannie Mae to the Congressional Black Caucus. The top three campaign donation recipients were Democrats, number two of which was Barack Obama, yet the media is laying mum on these facts. The three top campaign donation recipients from Fannie Mae were all Democrats. Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) got $165,000, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) was given $126,349, and failed presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) took $111,000 from the folks at Fannie Mae The three top campaign donation recipients from Fannie Mae were all Democrats. Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) got $165,000, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) was given $126,349, and failed presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) took $111,000 from the folks at Fannie Mae. Democrats protected these rotten lending practices and the Fannie Mae executives knew who were the sugar daddies that needed greasing.

I don’t hate Obama. I know the man is corrupt and cannot be trusted to put his people/their ideas of socialism in the control of this country. Kerry was bad enough. Now, you guys went even further left away from the main street America with this guy.

Latisha Malone: The majority of Democrats voted against the bill too. If you actually read the bill itself, you’d notice that it contained stipulations that would have royally screwed you out of much more than $700 Billion. Get your facts straight before uttering nonsense. You’re being had by both sides. Both candidates are actively engaged in economic terrorism by trying to scare you…and you people are falling for it AGAIN.

nixon and agnew – let’s hear your explanation, because I’m sure I can say a few things about other political figures which you don’t seem to understand with this crisis were in, and I can start with President Johnson if you would like.

The mother ship is close to the area of Rome Ga.

Obama’s spiritual advisor, Mr. God d- America must be thinking he would have to relocate to D.C. for all those rallies, you know.

Jenny Rome Ga : you tell em Jenny Obama was born in our 57th or 58th state I think!!

Since the banks have so many houses and there are so many people who need houses to live in, why don’t each bank have a house lottery on their web site. The banks could show the house on their website with an accepted target price. People could register and pay the banks maybe $2.00 to $5.00 a chance, either over the computer or by mail. With some kind of official oversight, their names would enter a computer pool and once the target price was met, the computer would choose a name and notify the winner. The banks would have the money for the house and one by one, the empty houses would become occupied. If the winner didn’t want to live there, they could rent it out or sell it at the current market price.

Fannie and Freddie brought this crisis to ahead with poor judgement(or so they say)involving from Aig, Countrywide etc… Who were the one’s in control of fan and fred? Who are the one’s that are now advisers to the Obama campaign? I would like a liberal to answer that!

Obama was prudent NOT to inject presidentail politics into the discussion of bailout plans, while hot-tempered McCain rushed to meddle the pot without thinking. Now the situation is severe, Obama steps up to the voters to explain how the bailout works. It’s a prudent and insightful move — understanding the issues and the failed communication/trust between the administration and the people.
One can imagine that we divide up the $700B among all Americans and give us an instantaneous boost to our wallet.
Is that really a good move? There is a lot more to our wallet. No man is an island. We need a functional economy and society to maintain our living standard. By pure financial analysis, the loss in your retirement and social security can potentially off-set any gain in your wallet, if the government gives this money to you now.
If our economy goes down the drain and you lose the job and house for MANY YEARS to come, how long do you think that 1/2 million dollars is going to sustain you and your family? This is a short-sighted view without fundamental understanding of how the economy of the whole entire system works. The impact goes far beyond the U.S., but globally!
That’s why WE, the people, need to support this bailout plan for all of us, our children, and the future of U.S., when it’s not too late.

It is awesome to watch all the consevatives starting to flip out. Obama had opened up an 8% lead nationally and McCain is in a free fall. Palin only stands a chance to make it worse on Thursday. All the conservative morons on this post are clamoring to tie Obama to Frannie and Freddie by citing 9 year old articles. Throwing blame out instead of offering solutions sounds about par for the course as far as Republicans are concerned during this campaign. I don’t mind and I respect Conservative republicans even though I am not one. The ones I attempt to rip on are the ones who are stupid enough to throw their brain excrement on this particular post as if they actually know what they are talking about. You, like your leadership, are only concerned about two things 1)making people afraid of what is going on and 2)trying to tell you who to blame for it. I say NO MORE! It’s is time for solutions and, George Bush, your 8 years are up.
Obama/Biden 08′

I ask one republican/conservative on this post to offer a solution instead of assigning the blame. Or should I wait till hell freezes over.
Obama/Biden 08′

Lord Obama the most merciful messiah will rescue the economy with hope alone. All we need to do is call him.

vote2count, McCain went to do his job, what is so bad about that, he’s still a Senator, and the Presidential race and the bail-out is all political. What in the world is your point! Hot Temper, I’m from Illinois and saw Obama in the State Senate race, now you wanna talk about hot temper and arrogance at it’s finest. It’s all getting ready to roll down hill with Obama, the Governor of Illinois has just been charged with an indictment of fraud by the FBI. Now, the last I knew, Obama Has ties to the Gov. and the Gov. has ties to REZKO, hmmm. Have you heard of the name Otto? Probably not is my guess. You liberals are morons and lying to the rest of the Democrats for the corruption in politics to continue.

Good point
vote for Obama/Biden ’08

FYI, “Barack” is a Kiswahili word, related to both the Hebrew “Baruch” and the Arabic “Baraka” and means “Blessing.”

Vote for the maverick:
Are you having a good time? Fulfilling a void in your life with useless rants against Obama, hey? Face it, the people on this post have already made up their minds. Your erratic anti-Obama rants is not going to change one iota. Here’s a thought, do something constructive with your time. Hatred is a disease of the heart that must be cured.
Smooches ;)

It has been advised this morning on talk radio (yes, I am an Obama supporter that listens to right-wing talk radio…it’s good to hear what the other side has to say). It was advised that trying to connect Obama/ACORN/Economic Crisis is a “far stretch and makes you look desperate.” Listen to your leaders, right wingers. It’s a far stretch and you look desperate. But hey, desperate times calls for desperate measures. More anti-Obama chants in 5..4..3..2

beck- now that i a sound plan that I could vote for.

Beck, not to screw you over because I was thinking about that too but 85 billion divided by 200 million is not 425,000.00. It’s 425.00. That is what the families would receive. In order to do your plan, you need 85 trillion.

To all Democrats in response to “Rational thought for GOP. “ You are voting for Satan himself well at least Karl Marx. And for every Rush and Hannity there is a Ed Schultz and Keith Olberman. Democrats want a Socialist form of Government where they can control all basic decisions. Is it our fault some Americans cannot make decisions for themselves? They want to spend and tax. You are naïve enough to believe putting a ban on weapons will keep these more powerful weapons out of the hands of Criminal? Wake up they are criminals and will get them legal or not last I checked drugs were Illegal and there are a lot of drug addicts in America. You car more about the rights of criminals than you do about the protection of the innocent. You are anti-death penalty and Pro-Abortion if this is not a huge contradiction. A criminal does not deserve death for a crime they commit but an unborn child does not deserve the right to live? You want to put health care in the control of the government after they earned your trust with the latest banking crisis. Good Idea tell me how that turns out. And in the spirit of the 5th grader analogy you used let me use the following analogy on taxes and the way it really works in the real world. Tax reduction talk in Washington has produced the usual outcry of how the rich will be favored. What follows here is a synopsis of a hypothetical situation that puts tax cuts into simple terms. Its author is unknown, but it has been used in at least one university’s accounting classes.
Every evening, the same 10 friends eat dinner together, family style, at the same restaurant. The bill for all 10 comes to $100. They always pay it the way we pay taxes:
• the first four are poor and pay nothing. • The fifth pays $1. • The sixth pays $3. • The seventh, $7 • The eighth, $12. • The ninth, $18. • The 10th, (the most well-to-do) pays $59. One night the restaurant owner announces that because they’re such good customers, he’s dropping their group dinner bill to $80. Let’s call that a tax cut. They want to continue paying their bill as we pay taxes. So the four poorest men still eat free. But if the other six split the $20 tax cut evenly, each would save $3.33. That means the fifth and sixth men would end up being paid to eat. The restaurant owner works out a plan: The fifth man eats free; the sixth pays $2; the seventh, $5; the eighth, $9; the ninth, $12; and the 10th guy pays $52. All six are better off than before, and the four poor guys still eat for nothing. The trouble starts when they leave the restaurant and begin to compare what they reaped from the $20 cut. “I only got a dollar of it,” says the sixth man, “but he (pointing at No. 10) got $7.” The fifth guy, who also saved a dollar by getting his meal free, agrees that it’s not fair for the richest to get seven times the savings as he. No. 7, grousing that the wealthy get all the breaks, points out that he only got two bucks. “Wait a minute,” the first four poor guys yell in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!” The nine men jump the 10th and administer a severe beating. The next night he doesn’t come for dinner. They shrug it off and eat without him. The customary $80 bill comes. Surprise! They’re $52 short.
All this is perhaps an oversimplification of how the tax system works, but the lesson is there, in the taxing of corporate operations as well as people. Yes, those who pay the most taxes get the most back from tax reductions. But tax them too much — punish them for the wealth they may have — and they just might stop bringing their money to the table.

Nik, what in the world are you talking about? I can’t have a voice hear? You actually think I’m the only McCain supporter here? And you and your leftist liberal buddies aren’t showing hate and ignorance in their statements here about the other side, LOL. Rants, please do explain why you think I’m ranting in hate! I’m just talking about the issues, you’re the one attacking. This just shows the double standard from the left. It also sounds to me you’re filling the void in your life and wasting time with bray rants yourself. Let’s here more 1,2,3 were morons rants for Obama you DYKE!

Bates, you’re doing a great job but you’ve got to quit confusing them with the facts. Afterall, there is a reason for the one word campaign slogan.

Obama’s connections is recent, present, and riding up his short he-haw of a tail. Keating was investigated and is over with McCain not being Charged. Indictments is coming Obama’s way, you just be patient.

Talk Rezko and save yourself.

Maybe liberalism is a mental disorder after all. They shout and march for tolerace but oppose all those who disagree with them. What’s that say? I am thinking of those kids’ on the video singing to their leader. Uniforms, anyone?

The smell of desperation wafting off the McCain supporters on this board is OVERWHELMING.

Sandra: Please don’t forget that Rick Davis’s Company was getting $15,000 a month from Fannie till the Feds to Fannie over. Just because he had a close relations with McCain. Don’t forget McCain’s ties to gambling either.
I love reading the blogs on here (except for the really long ones. Most of them make me laugh.

“…McCain is superficial at best…”
Excuse me, who was it that had their own presidential seal created six months prior to the election?

ABC’s reminder of the 1999 entry of Fannie and Freddie into “affirmative action” insuring of mortgage loans was enlightening. I hadn’t realized that blacks were responsible for this devastating blow to the world’s economy until now.
“Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime marke t went to black b orrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk.”
It would appear that the authors, and consequently those who use the material to prove their point of blaming “affirmative action” for Wall Street’s rape of Backyard America, seriously consider the black population to be at fault for wanting to own their own homes without having to secure “pay day loans” at exorbitant interest to do so. Code words and phrases are being used to substitute for “affirmative action,” of course. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, “pushing banks,” etc., are simply euphemisms for “it’s the fault of blacks.” This is clearly a racist argument that deserves to be ignored… no, not ignored… condemned. There is NO evidence that these people are the ones in default! There is evidence that 90% of the foreclosures are in four states: the lalaland of California, Harry Reid’s Nevada, John McCain’s Arizona and Disney’s Florida. Last time I checked neither Arizona or Nevada erupted with black home owners. With 1/3 of all foreclosures taking place in California, there is greater emphasis upon the Hispanic influences on the market than the black. But, of course, you can quickly enshroud the chameleon’s curtain to encompass that small discrepancy. It’s just a different shade, right? There is NO evidence that receiving an interest rate 1% above the conventional 30 year fixed mortgage rate is even germane to the current crisis. More to the point would be ARMS, balloon payments, automatic interest adjustments and no principal reductions, while employment declines, health insurance premiums skyrocket, taxes and utilities and energy and transportation costs break new records daily. Blaming blacks for these conditions is infantile. I would challenge any reputable firm to produce statistics demonstrating that the 25% of subprime mortgage loans that are at risk have a greater percentage of blacks than the general population. In the meantime, put the blame where it belongs: Wall Street manipulators, Bankers without conscience, Politicians who don’t know economics and are proud of it, and greedy citizens looking for the easy buck, the “something for nothing,” the use of other people’s money without paying “the grease.” But you go right ahead and hate whomever you wish; it’s a free country. It was made that way by thousands of young men and women (all better people than the rest of us) whose sacrifices protected your right to spew your venom across cyberspace. They did not shame the day; you have.

>>Christie–the children on the video remind me of terrorist countries who have their indoctinated kids singing for their communist leader.
I agree and isn’t that a scary vision.

Christie: Haven’t you heard of the “Universal Voluntary Public Service” program. If those kids in uniforms scare you, check this out. Incidentally, this program is expected to cost the taxpayers $500 billion.

help Sarah Palin clean up Washington, isit http://www.sarahpalinhasaposse.com

Anyone remember the prosperous 90′s? The only reason a boom in jobs happened was because of the computer/Internet boom that was not at it’s time regulated. Then the big bang happened during the Bush/Gore elections with the collapse of Internet businesses, anyone remember! While all of that was going on, Clinton was shipping jobs to China and other companies followed suit due to high taxes. It’s funny how liberals forget about the last to years of Clinton, which were not prosperous. Then 9/11 happened which made everything from creation of jobs to another financial crisis worse, and yes a lot of money(revenue)was lost due to jobs lost. Wake up you liberal nuts, this is reality, not a fantasy dream of change from Obama. What is his change? Just taxation, handouts to the
lazy, and more control over one’s life. You libs say all we talk about is hating you, well, you do the same right back you arrogant idiot, but usually first, HYPOCRITES!

Gestapo police out in full force in Missouri. You can be arrested for slandering Obama to the media.
Mmmm, what comes to mind when I hear this? IRAN!

My my nik, a bit of an elitist comment wouldn’t you say. No surprise though, coming from an obama supporter.

This bailout is not a bailout for the strugling American – it’s a plan by the fat cats for the fat cats. Obama involvement w. ACORN is not even mentioned in the news yet the special 20% funds the democrats wanted to ‘donate’ to ACORN is the main reason the bailout failed. We the people must ask for transparency – we want to know who gets the mony – no more hidden special interests – no more hidden ‘friends’ we the taxpayers will be forced to save. The Congress with the Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank are the mains culpits – they and the laweyrs from ACORN who took to court banks who were not giving ‘preferential tratment’ to minorities for loans they coud not afford. Did I metion Obama was one of them??

I understand the seriousness of the economy, and the current crisis all to well. My husband and I own a residential framing business and were told today by our main contractor that he would not be starting any more houses until something is decided on the bail out plan…. so I get it. My point is this, McCain and Obama share a lot of thoughts on the situation and have said many of the same things. And lets be honest, no matter who wins the election, we will have about the same outcome either way on that subject. So, I will vote for the person who most mirrors my own beliefs. Someone who wants us out of Iraq. Someone who believes it is my right to choose to keep or abort a baby if I am raped. Someone who believes that I deserve health insurance even though I do not have an employer who will help me offset the cost. Someone who is not married to an oil company. Someone who respects me, a woman, enough to not select an inexperienced person as vice president, just to win votes.
OBAMA/ BIDEN 2008!!!!!

Nik, talk about others ranting, listen to your arrogant A**. I don’t care what color you are! You should have been aborted just like your other liberal freaks believe in. Catholic college eh? And you support Choice right. So you’re so smart you go against GOD’s word, what bs you are.

What qualifies Sarah Palin to be vice president, and possibly, the president? Does that concern any of the republicans on here?

Christi, What qualifies Obama to be President, you moron’s just don’t get it.

That is one of the reasons I will be doing her a favor and not voting for McCain which would only prolong her public embarassment

Obama the magic negro is going to prison

Your right Jane. Maybe I should just be won over by McCain, who picked a woman, ANY woman, to run with him.

Obama continues to look calm, in control, responsible, rational and – above all – presidential. I wish I could say the same about the way McCain has acted over the last two weeks, but I can’t. He’s been all over the map: not a source of calm, but a source of uncertainty, flailing anger and immaturity. Sad to say, but this campaign (and “handlers”) either ruined a man once respected by all, or revealed him as a fraud he’s always been.

>>>CHRISTI, well Yipeee, go vote for Barry, Mr. 57 states.

And I would say the same about your candidate for the #1 spot. You guys picked obama but the only thing he’s got going is, in the words of Biden himself, “he’s clean”.

>>>Your right Jane. Maybe I should just be won over by McCain, who picked a woman, ANY woman, to run with him.
Talk about the hate.

Obama-bots remind me of Mao’s Red Guards. It’s a cult of personality. Ready to mindlessly act on anything the great helmsman says, with no regard to logic, reason or morals

>>>Obama-bots remind me of Mao’s Red Guards. It’s a cult of personality. Ready to mindlessly act on anything the great helmsman says, with no regard to logic, reason or morals
Right on!

You koolaid drinkers are so ready to claim Palin is too inexperienced to be Vice President. I challenge any obama voter anywhere in these great 57 states exactly what qualifies obama to hold the POTUS position (other than he’s clean).

Just because he was a prisoner of war and has been in the government for 20 something years does not necessarily mean he is the best person to run the country.

50 states, 6 territories and DC = 57
Isn’t that what he was referring to

Ack, that hate shows it’s ugly head, CHRISTI.

Obama, No Bailout! we will not longer fund your pocket or interest groups…..i.e criminals that you have aligned yourself with.

S Adams, it’s all a cover-up. The information and connections is there, the news media which is controlled by liberal bias and not the truth, will only attack the other candidates and not the one they support. Just remember the Gore and Kerry tactics, the same. The only difference is this time around the candidate is black, which now brings out the race factor when he grew up in Hawaii which is not a state that does not have a history of racism. And why did he leave opportunities in law firms to go to Chicago? Ayers, they were at the same school, then Ayers left to Chicago to go to that committee board, then Obama followed. The only reason Obama had a connection to Rezko, was because of Ayers had connections to the corrupt political machine in Chicago. It’s all business connections. Ayers was building Obama up to run in politics, just to bring Ayers view of government, which is SOCIALISM, Obama’s same plan for change. Obama will go down for corruption just like the Illinois Governor is, and they are both tied together in this state. All of the $900 million in earmarks he got for Illinois, went straight to Chicago and Acorn. The rest of my state didn’t get sh**, which is exactly what the Governor has done. You wanna know about lies of change, google Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and research that corrupt f***. He said the same thing Obama is saying about change, but our taxes went higher on everybody and thing when he said he wouldn’t(Illinois is the heaviest taxed state in the Country). 100′s of trucking companies moved to neighboring states due to taxes on corporations and additional taxes on fuel, which is not good with the prices right now. Big and small companies have moved out of state due to taxes. Mom and Pop companies went out of business due to taxes. Our budget is now higher than it was when he came into office, when he said he would fix it. These are the same polices that Obama is running on, just research it and you will find it.

VOTE FOR THE MAVERICK
Thank you for posting that. I will do research on it.
Much better than when you called me a goon for being a democrat and an Obama supporter.

Funny TOM.

Christi, I don’t mean to call Democrats goons, just liberal’s. But there is also slams of judgement coming from your side to, right, can you aleast agree with me on that one?

Of course I can. But most are from idiots who dont look at the issues on either side. I have looked at the issues and am most definately a democrat as far as beliefs go. But I will say this, I like John McCain, personally, I just dont agree with him on some major stuff.

Please, someone tell us what qualifies obama to be president. At least give us a hint.

Christi, LOL!

And, Maverick, let me say this. I did lose some respect for McCain, because I think he listened to wrong people, and picked Palin. I think there are much better republican in the SENATE that he could have and should have picked. I think it was strictly a ploy to get women voters who were distraught over Clinton. And I think he insults his own itelligence when he says thst she is the best for the job.

Oh, no, not mr I invented the internet.

So, Maverick, can I take it that you apologized for calling me a goon, and we can now be friends? :)

Do you, republicans, honesly think that Sarah was the best choice?

No, I would not like to go point by point. No matter what you say or I say, neither of us are going to change our votes. Am I correct?

And her executive experience came from a town of, what, 5000 people. And is part of her executive experience trying to get her ex brother-in-law fired?

Top four liberals in the Senate – 1)Obama, 2)Kerry, 3)Kennedy, 4)Clinton. And who was the most liberal in political power in 2000, Al Gore. Does anyone know who brought Al Gore to President Clinton’s VP list, Hillary Clinton. This tells you just how much power liberals of taken from the Democratic Party. The only reason Clinton won the first time, was that he showed a view of moderate on the economy, and a conservative on the military and kept his liberal views out of the equation which got him elected. Hillary did the same, but was now overrode by her own party because of the liberal power within it. When Bill ran, liberals were a small majority in the Democratic Party. Now they are in Power. The only reason the Dems put Obama in the race was because of the race vote that Gore and Kerry had problem’s with. Hillary was just like Bill, liberal, but with moderate views on the economy and conservative on the military, which angered the liberals and which is why they called her to hawkish. Liberals had power now, which is why they elected Obama as their candidate. Hillary made her choice on her own with no support other than mods. and cons. Democrats and women voters. Did you notice how Obama mainly just got the liberal and race vote, and Hillary got the mod. and con. Democrat vote included with a huge vote from the women. That is why liberals were scared of losing the women vote, because there are still alot of women not liberal. Did you see how close that race was. Obama took away the race votes from Hillary which is what Bill won with. Pelosi(liberal) and Reid(liberal)were the one’s that asked Hillary to step down and give the nomination to Obama. Does anyone understand what I’m getting at. The liberals want full power of this Country to change(Obama)it into a socialist society. Women being liberals(personal reasons) with me is fine, but a liberal man(just for power and control)is dangerous. Just look at Castro and Chavez and their history. His redistribution plan is just like theirs. Does anyone know what is next after liberalism on the Democrat side, Socialism(Chavez) and then Communism(Castro-socialist communist)

Christi, You won’t be my first liberal friend, but just like I say to my liberal friends, I still have hope for and you’re in my prayers. LOL.

So, as a conservative, do you think it was God’s will to go into Iraq? Again, not condescendingly, I just feel like we have becaome friends and as someone who loves all people, I would love to find out your thoughts.

THE WALL STREET BAILOUT IS A TRAP:
YOU DID THE RIGHT THING people by stopping this 700 billion dollar bailout of Wall Street with your money. It’s a trap set by the Bush McCain administration years ago to spring on you, and the World just before the November elections. It will cripple our economy for years to come by taking away money from important social programs like health care reform, education, and social security.
What ever congress does to try and fix our stunning economic catastrophe needs to be done very carefully. Congress needs to take their time, and be sure of what they are doing. Whatever is done needs to be sharply focused at helping, and protecting the best interest of the ordinary Americans. In particular the vast American middle class. 700 billion dollars is a lot of the peoples money to spend to bail out a bunch of corrupt Bush loan sharks.
When have you ever known any government plan, or project to only cost what the government said it would. Remember the war in Iraq. Bush and his so-called advisers said it would only cost you about 80 billion dollars. But we now know that the war in Iraq will cost you, and your children, and your grand children over a trillion dollars, and still counting.
So if 80 billion can end up costing you over a trillion dollars. How much could 700 billion end up costing you. Any math wizards out there. I come up with 9 trillion…:-(
My fellow human beings, just as I warned you ahead of this catastrophic economic meltdown, I must now warn you that what is ahead has the potential to be even more catastrophic than what we are going through now. The worlds geopolitical landscape has been booby trapped by the Bush McCain administration and their republican allies in congress. These booby traps are poised to spring at any time.
Fortunately the Worlds Nations have been blessed with many excellent leaders (except the US) who have been careful, wise, strong, and self-restrained in dealing with the provocations, and antagonism’s of the Bush, McCain administration.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best you can, and vote for them like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of Bush McCain.
JACK SMITH – WORKING CLASS…

Christi, If you wanna know what a true liberal is, research FDR. He was a true liberal with christian principles. The problem with liberals now day’s is that they perverted that meaning in definition you just expressed with socialist Idea’s. Do you notice how liberals now days are in large against Christians and GOD as a whole. Even FDR worried of certain matters pertaining to liberalism being taken out of context by a mixture of socialism, he feared that would lead to to much power and control over Americans lives. The main culprits of perverting liberalism were brought on by the protesters in the Vietnam era. The so-called protesters that call themselves 3rd. party(or green)are those extremists that started the protesting in the 60′s, then started calling themselves liberals or socialist. When in fact that actually caused the split between the two and now have the same views but different agenda’s. The liberals believe in the socialist concept of help by converting by power and control of the less fortunate and redistribution of another’s wealth due to the thought of, the can afford it, it’s the right thing to do. The socialist sector then became radicals of free anarchy due to the no change policy(meaning nothing was changing, so we will it by force). These people are the angry and forceful one’s by physical and mental fear of another. My Point is this, liberalism today means socialism/liberalism. Socialism means socialism/on the verge of communism. Liberalism today is not liberalism in FDR’s time. If you want to be a true liberal, be FDR. If you want extreme liberalism, be like Obama. That is not a slam against Obama, just a fact. Look at the differences of FDR’s and Obama’s tax polices and redistribution liberalism and you will see a big difference.

Mr. Maverick Man. Let me get in on this. A little history check. Thomas Jefferson, principle author of the Declaration of Independence, was a Deist. I’m not going to define this for you. Look it up smarty pants. An don’t go acting as if FDR would be your best friend. He would be ashamed of you. He was our first true conservationist of the land and environmental steward. You republicans have set us back decade when comes to environmental conservation of our natural resources. Yes I am a liberal and your an idiot. Yes, I am agnostic. But I could still run cirles around you when it comes to scripture.
“Religion is for the weak minded”.
Jesse Ventura

Christi, to really understand the Iraq situation, you have to understand GOD’s principles. GOD hates war just like us, understanding that GOD said himself to the angels(Christi, lol)let’s create man in our image. Now, GOD said it is the duty of the blessed to help the less fortunate, burden, oppressed, and in-slaved. Now, the Iraq situation is a political gesture to that reason with GOD and political polices involved. Bush said anyone who helps or harbors terrorist and their activities, will also be considered terrorist themselves. Iraq did not cooperate with us on that situation, Pakistan did, Libia did, Iran and North Korea has not. Saddam had no understand of the fact his two sons were helping Al Qaeda and other terrorist factions in the region. Which means that was Al Qaeda’s second highest base of it’s group of member’s were in Iraq. Remember, Saddam was a Muslim tyrant, not a terrorist, but his son’s were more on the side of Islamic terrorist. Bush said we were going to chase down Al Qaeda where ever they are, well, they were in Iraq causing problems for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and others in the region due to American presence being on their holy land. Bin Laden’s war is not just with us, but anyone who goes against the Koran’s principles. GOD, I bet is happy about the new freedom Iraqi’s have, but the next step for them is a personal relationship with him. Hating the Jewish people and Christians is not that next step. Islam was created 200yrs after Jesus crucifixion, which was when the creation of Christianity. Muslim’s look at Jesus as a prophet and no more. Jesus was about freedom from one’s sin and reconciliation with a relationship with GOD. Muhammad was a person of war, which is where Bin Laden gets his views of Islam. Now, we are a Christian nation freeing a Muslim nation from tyranny. Christians are people of love and peace, Muslim’s are people of war. Now, you will have Muslim’s say we are peaceful people, but those are the one’s that look past the actual teaching of Muhammad. Understand, we were attacked and are now taking the fight to them wherever Al Qaeda may be. The only reason we went to the U.N. was to gain more military support so are forces would not be strained with such a large force of presence, so we would be able to do other operations against Al Qaeda. If we did have the U.N.’s support, you would have seen us go into Indonesia with a larger presence, because Al Qaeda was there also. I’m going to stop there for now, because I’m probably going to anger you with these comments and other liberals. I’m going to take a break for now, leave another post if you have another questions.

Rational Thought, I think you may have finally given me the word I have been looking for. I knew I wasnt atheist…yet. Thanks, from one agnostic (maybe) to another.

Christi is politely stepping out of this one…..
Nice to have met you Maverick.
Calm down, Rational. To each his own.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008
and
Go Georgia DAWGS!!

Where are you from, and please dont say Alabama. :) damn crimson tide

Maverick, I understand and I see what You are getting at, and I try not to judge on any basis.

Christi, GOD works through his children to help others in protection and defense of truth. That is the basis and nature of the Jewish and Christians.

Little thoughts I have heard and thought I would share. I have enjoyed laughing at the banter back and forth on this site over ACORN references.
If abortion is murder…what do you call war?
Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Rational thought for GOP had a good analogy by the way.
I have a hard time voting for a old man who couldn’t even pick out a decent VP candidate. This is the man making decisions for the future of my children…it is a very scary thought. I would much rather have a Harvard graduate that graduated at the top of his class that has more business sense in his little pinky than a man who isn’t playing with a full deck (Agent Orange is what Bush brought up during his run against him and won). McCain has one foot in the grave about to give control over to a beauty queen broadcast graduate who has no idea what foreign policy is all about. She must have missed that class in school. I can’t even fathom what would happen to our country if he should die and she would take over our country.
I would respect McCain a lot more if he could think for himself and stop riding the coat tails of others…he is even riding the media train bragging about Palin. I want a person who can think for themselves and not depend on others to make bad decisions for them…McCain is another Bush…I don’t know how anyone can’t see that.

Rational, judgement through arrogance and hatred is your nature. Did I ever say I’m voting for McCain based on him being a Christian, No! One’s sin’s is between them and GOD, if that was my basis, I would not like McCain either or even Obama with his other views and actions, but it’s not. It’s not my job to forgive people for their shortcomings other than personal attacks on me, which with you I will turn my cheek but not back down from your angered attacks. Obama’s mistake If you really want to is keeping his family in a church of hatred. If it were not so, he would not have left, which I believe it was just a political move and not protecting his family. A wife and kids is a gift from GOD and the responsability of the husband and father to protect them from any harm. Obama finally agreed Rev. Wrights comments were wrong within the Christian faith, at least if not a politcal move, he understood that principle if that’s the reason for his actions. Rev. Wright and you would get along just find i bet. And here’s some info for you’re brain, Genesis 1:1-2, 1:27, Psalm 33:6, 89:11, Revelation 4:11. Enjoy, GOD Bless, and you’re in my prayers.

Until the last day or so I was not clear on what was going on in D.C. and bought the line that the MSM (and yes, many on Faux News) were putting out.
Now it is clear that it was Democrats (Socialists) who ignored the mortgage situation 4 years ago including good ‘ol Barney, and it was McCain and other Republcians who at that time worked to reform the GSE regulations to insure better oversight-but the Dems blocked it.
Also clear is that the Democrats are blaming the Republicans for not passing the bail out legislation (trash that it is) while 90 some of their own in the House wouldn’t support it. Pelosi’s tirade made it clear that this is something that the Dems see as beneficial for them and Obama, Country and taxpayer be damned!
Bush should fire Paulson and Cox (and, yes, McCain was right, the SEC chief serves at the pleasure of the President-look it up).
Barry better hope that the MSM keeps muddying the waters or many voters are going to start seeing where most of this mess came from and it wasn’t from Republicans trying to bully banks into giving mortgages to minorities, but rather Dems and their Social engineering, and the greed of those who were entrusted to oversee the GSEs.
It’s also coming out that McCain did indeed show leadership and was instrumental in getting something done rather than throwing money at the problem, something that I’m not happy with the President about.

It amuses me how how little you right wing nuts have on Obama that you keep recycling the same old debunked arguments, and copying and pasting Steve Schmidt’s deceitful and manipulative diatribes like it was the gospel. It’s time for a change people, you’ll come to appreciate it later, it’s going to be hard for you guys to accept it in the beginning, but it will all be for the better.

ConcernedMilf: Excellent and thoughtful points! Thank you.

Presidents come and go – we’ve had 47 or 48 of them. Some good, some bad. Everybody shut the hell up.

Tell your friends, and show them the proof.
Adolf Hitler was well-known to have used hypnosis on crowds to gain power in Germany. (Just Google it if you doubt it.) So why cant this happen in America? It is happening.
Now, this document, An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches is really spreading. Many people, including young people, are starting to wake up.
Young people have come up with a saying, “Don’t drink the kool-aid Obama is pushing on you.”
Obama has no accomplishments, we don’t know him, he wrote a memoir, he has racist connections, he is using hypnosis, and he thinks he’s the Messiah and that he should be in control of the world. We’ve seen this story before in Germany in the 1930′s, haven’t we? We know what happened there.
Obama’s use of hypnosis in speeches is why:
-nothing sticks to him
-the huge crowds
-the huge money contributions
-the mesmerized effect, especially in young people, who, because of their imaginations are more susceptible to hypnosis (read the document)
-the exorbitant election fraud, rule-breaking and bias in the media
-he gets away with changing every position
-people are calling him the “greatest leader of a generation” with no accomplishments
You have to read this document to understand how his hypnosis works. Logically and rationally, why not get to know this guy a little more before handing the world over to him? Why not wait?
An Examination of Obama’s use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches can be found at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7470439/Obamas-Use-of-Hidden-Hypnosis-Techniques-in-His-Speeches
PS – “Dont drink Obama’s Kool-Aid”