Obama Sets Fundraising Record in August, Thanks to Palin

500,000 NEW Donors in a month.
I think that’s more donors than McCain has total. Or at least its damn close.

As a former Democrat and now a Republican–I quit sending money to Democrats after Hillary dropped out.
There is no way I would ever support Obama–in my gut I have never trusted him and never will.
And the fact that Pelosi, Dean, DNC so willingly supported the weaker, less qualified candidate, with such shady associates–has turned me off of all Democrats.

“And money kept coming in through the end of August and beyond, Obama campaign officials say.”

People who get their news only from their tv or newspapers don’t know what is really going on. And often youth think they can change the world, make a difference, and are easily fooled. I read way back that the horrible Bush/Cheney Energy Bill of 2005 that was quietly passed (which Obama voted for and Clinton and McCain voted against because it was totally irresponsible and threw billions of taxpayer dollars at big oil and energy and is partly why we are suffering now) is key to this election. The ones who control MSM are the ones who profited from that legislation, and who stand to profit from putting bo in office. The DNC chose Obama because they thought he could bring in the youth to strengthen the party for the long-term, and they could control him while at the same time use the Chicago style politics for “winning” elections and ensuring a continuous money flow.

were scared of palin but not for the reason you think, were scared that there would be a chance she would be president… letting this person next to the presidency is the scariest thing i have ever seen.
we are giving money to keep her AWAY FROM DESTROYING AMERICA… and she would, she has no idea what she is doing, she has zero experience and john mccain is wrong for america as well

People who get their news only from their tv or newspapers don’t know what is really going on. And often youth think they can change the world, make a difference, and are easily fooled. I read way back that the horrible Bush/Cheney Energy Bill of 2005 that was quietly passed (which Obama voted for and Clinton and McCain voted against because it was totally irresponsible and threw billions of taxpayer dollars at big oil and energy and is partly why we are suffering now) is key to this election. The ones who control MSM are the ones who profited from that legislation, and who stand to profit from putting bo in office. The DNC chose Obama because they thought he could bring in the youth to strengthen the party for the long-term, and they could control him while at the same time use the Chicago style politics for “winning” elections and ensuring a continuous money flow.

Gov. Palin was announced Aug 29, so those panicked libs only had a couple of days to do their donating if it was her.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN EVEN BEFORE THE PALIN PICK.
Why won’t Obama agree to town hall meetings? McCain asks for them daily. Why does he run scared like he did with Hill over debates? MAN UP OBAMA!

500,000 new donors to Obama’s campaign, for a total of 2.5 million donors. Never before in history have so many people given to a campaign in small amounts of $10, $20.
After I heard Palin’s, speech I donated $25. Not because of her belittling of Obama but because the McCain/Palin ticket represents fear and hate while Obama represents change and hope.
I had never before given a dime to any campaign.

Let’s see we have some fake Democrats & some outright lies about Obama.
But you can tell this bothers them because of how much they howl.
Yes it hurts to find out that Obama took in a record $66M dollars with 500,000 NEW Donors.
It hurts that Obama is supported far more by small donations than any candidate has ever been. 75% of Obama’s donations are $200 or less while only 25% of McCain’s donation are $200 or less.
Its hurts knowing that your candidate has to rely upon big fat $20000 donations to the RNC.
That’s why poll numbers give you little comfort.
You know that over 2,500,000 people believed strongly enough Obama’s campaign to donate.
And that scare you.

“I read way back that the horrible Bush/Cheney Energy Bill of 2005 that was quietly passed (which Obama voted for and Clinton and McCain voted against because it was totally irresponsible and threw billions of taxpayer dollars at big oil and energy and is partly why we are suffering now) is key to this election.”

I think you give Palin too much credit Jake. She wasn’t in the race untill Sept. For months now you folks in the press have been commenting how his fund raising is slipping, but every month it it is as high as ever.

YES…. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC BASE IS ENERGIZED….
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ALSO, MCCAIN IS AT HIS PEAK… AND THE RESULT IS THAT HE IS ONLY A “TIE” WITH OBAMA !!!

“You know that over 2,500,000 people believed strongly enough Obama’s campaign to donate.”

HERO’s dont clain to be hero’s. the 55,000 real hero’s died in Vietnam!!!!

Money can not buy love. besides, with many people now feel the economic crunch, it is fairly interesting too see many people still have money to spare. Oh, right, it was the Hollywood bunch. $75,000 per person to attend a diner to admire Obama. The media is unwilling to talk about that.
McCain-Palin has a strong message out now: national security, fiscal conservative, fight corruption. They have proven records as reformers.
Where are Obama’s messages? — McCain is old, Palin is nobody. Not one that can convince people.
Obama’s true standing in polls is at least 5 points below what are reported because of the potential Bradley effects. He is losing for sure.

So Obama won over voters by saying he wanted an immediate withdrawal of troops.
Then he goes to Iraq in July and asks Iraqi officials to stall the withdrawal of troops until after the election.
He uses our troops as a pawn to make himself look like a hero.
Why is this race even close?

Let’s see…how does that go…
Who ever has the most toys wins?
WHERE IS THE CHANGE?
How much air time & fund raising events did Oprah give Obama? Is she a registered lobbist?
How does all that money count in the “I only take small donations”
CHANGE! Rep. and Dem. cannot even spell CHANGE!
If it is CHANGE you want, then vote for Ralph Nader!
There are pundits for the Dem. and pundits for the Rep., but where are the JOURNALIST for the people?
These have to be the DUMBest Democrats EVER, for this election to be so close.
They should NOT be allowed to direct our government!
Billy Bob, Florida Dem. for over 40 yrs.-but never again!

Obama’s top contributors (in terms of place of employment)
Goldman Sachs $691,930
University of California $611,207
Citigroup Inc $448,599
JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919
Harvard University $435,769
Google Inc $420,174
UBS AG $404,750
National Amusements Inc $389,140
Microsoft Corp $377,235
Lehman Brothers $370,524
Sidley Austin LLP $350,302
Moveon.org $347,463
Skadden, Arps et al $340,264
Time Warner $338,527
Wilmerhale Llp $335,398
Morgan Stanley $318,070
Latham & Watkins $297,400
Jones Day $289,476
University of Chicago $278,885
Stanford University $276,038
McCain’s top contributors (in terms of place of employment)
Merrill Lynch $298,413
Citigroup Inc $269,251
Morgan Stanley $233,272
Goldman Sachs $208,395
JPMorgan Chase & Co $179,975
AT&T Inc $174,487
Blank Rome LLP $150,426
Credit Suisse Group $150,025
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,787
UBS AG $140,165
PricewaterhouseCoopers $140,120
US Government $137,617
Bank of America $129,475
Wachovia Corp $122,846
Lehman Brothers $117,500
FedEx Corp $113,453
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $104,250
US Army $103,613
Bear Stearns $99,300
Pinnacle West Capital $97,700

riley…I don’t think Obama can tell anyone when to remove the troops…he isn’t president YET..
Plus, we need to remove those troops the safist way possible. We have already lost over 4000 men and women. I want my kid home standing, not in a body bag. If it takes a few months longer, so be it.

fvclark =======================
Thanks for the clarification! This campaign is a category 5 hurricane. Nothing can stand in its way.
This election will be decided by new voters who are not reflected in the polls. The Mccain campaign doesn’t seem to know what they are up against.
Just wait and see!!!

“How much air time & fund raising events did Oprah give Obama?’
She campaigned on the trail for him a couple of times and held a fundraiser.
He appeared on her show twice (in 2005 & 2006) before he declared his intention to run for President.
“Is she a registered lobbist?”
No that would be the McCain campaign which is fully lobbyist staffed.
“How does all that money count in the “I only take small donations”"
75% of Obama’s donors give less than $200. He has millions of donors.

Belle…don’t blame anyone but Edwards on what he did. He wasn’t the strong charactered man we all thought. He created the problem, not the female.
Check out how many GREAT presidents had long years of experience in Congress.
At least it is longer that one year as a Gov…

McCain and now Palin are good at making other people spend money….Didn’t help in the primaries – won’t help now. Especially now – these donors paid for Obama get mean and dirty and frankly leftist and or academic/Hollywood elitist, so he will – and turn off more of middle America. Good plan guys… proof – Obama put a team of experts to make an ad to prove at least one area where Obama is more qualified than McCain – their answer – TYPING!!!!1

“Money can not buy presidency.
We don’t want to see the ‘change’ is ‘to use the money to buy presidency’. ”
Exactly. Don’t let Hollywood decide this election. Just say no to Barry.

“So Obama won over voters by saying he wanted an immediate withdrawal of troops.
Then he goes to Iraq in July and asks Iraqi officials to stall the withdrawal of troops until after the election.”
LOL. I’m not sure what’s funniest about this lie.
That you give Obama such power over the Iraqis.
That you think Obama can delay troop withdraws as Senator.
Or that this is somehow an election ploy.
Do you guys just wake up and write down your nightmares and psychotic visions or did you get this from the Wurlizter?

Because Obama broke his word on public finance now he has to take time away from campaigning to go around hitting up donors.
But hey he’s got all those nutty elite Hollywood friends that will have a fundraising party for him.
Im sure Matt Damon will help BO out if he admits dinosaurs exist.

McCain can say anything he wants, but it is insulting of American people to make such naked statements about Palin. It is on public record and accessable to the public. She requested more than 250 millions earmark …. I wish he would talks about how he would do differently from Bush economic plan, health plan, etc … rather than focusing on Pig, Lipstick, Hilton, Spears etc ….

Interesting?
Jake what about McCains record intake for the RNC becasue of Palin – over 140million dollars for August!!

“The web has links to voter registration info for each state. Deadlines are coming soon in many states.”

Belle…here you are. Everything on the Anneberg Challenge. All you needed to do was google to get the REAL story:
At its founding, the Annenberg Challenge was made up of three constituent parts:
• The Chicago School Reform Collaborative, co-chaired by William C. Ayers;
• a Board of Directors initially recruited by the Collaborative, which was chaired from 1995 to 2000 by Barack Obama[4], at the time a practicing attorney.
• The Chicago Schools Research Consortium, a research arm of the Challenge.
Annenberg Challenge to Chicago) was a public-private partnership founded in 1995 to improve school performance by what it called “on the ground” investments in the form of professional development and technical assistance. Sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation, the CAC received a charter grant of $49.2 million in 1995.[1] The CAC
A key accomplishment of the reform movement was the passage in 1988 of a new state law that established local school councils in every school in Chicago as a competing center of power relative to the teachers union and the Chicago school administration.
The UIC says it now has legal authority to allow public access to the collection and made the records public starting Aug 26, 2008. No indescretion was found.
Stop with the lies…

Kerry lost because he didn’t connect with the same type of voters that Barry is now having problems connecting with.

“Jake what about McCains record intake for the RNC becasue of Palin – over 140million dollars for August!!”
Basically because that is not true.
McCain took in $47M in Aug. The RNC took in maybe $20M.

” The Chicago School Reform Collaborative, co-chaired by William C. Ayers;
• a Board of Directors initially recruited by the Collaborative, which was chaired from 1995 to 2000 by Barack Obama[4], at the time a practicing attorney. ”
Hey, I thought Barry just knew Ayers from the neighborhood? Another Barry lie.

FACT
Non-partisan fact-check 95% of Americans will see a tax break under Barack Obama’s economic plan!
89% Will see a tax break between $1500-$5500
This doesn’t include the cheaper cost of Health care giveing people the choice to buy into the same health care that senators get. Or the governments commitment to provide $4000 credit toward higher education in exchange for giving back to your community through community service.
Obama 08
Vote on the issues don’t reward McCain’s lies!

McCain said he believes any thing Greenspan says at the start of the years right? RIGHT
Greenspan: “America Can’t Afford McCain’s Tax Plan”
Greenspan:”Barack Obama plan will lead to economic recovery and growth”

”
FACT
Non-partisan fact-check 95% of Americans will see a tax break under Barack Obama’s economic plan!
89% Will see a tax break between $1500-$5500″
None of this is fact. There are many variables in play.

Interesting that the Obama campaign thinks it was the Palin pick, rather then the speech Sen. Obama gave the night before, that was the result of the donations.

“Then they wouldn’t be voting for Barry, because all he offers is talk, with no accomplishments to support his talk”
Vs the McCain “track record” of supporting Bush?
LOL
The American people are tired of Republican lies and policies.

“How many of them have graduated from college, let alone High School? Yes, you should keep listening to them.”
As opposed to Curt Schilling and Richard Petty?
I think everyone here can agree that ANYONE voting based solely on what a famous person said is a moron.

Debra, You are flushing your donation money down the toilet donating to Mcshame.

Jo…there are plenty of Liberal Dems, are you kidding?

When campaign rhetoric meets reality.
First we have the kneejerk reaction of the McCain campaign.
“Asked on Thursday for McCain’s views, Rogers initially was noncommittal. He said in an e-mail that Transportation Secretary Mary Peters’ request “for an immediate federal bailout of $8 billion is just another example of how Washington is broken. … The federal transportation must be redirected towards the nation’s true needs and away from pork-barrel projects.”
Then when informed of what the bill actually entails:
“Subsequently, he said McCain “did not object to the bill because we need to keep improving our nation’s infrastructure. … President McCain will fight for a pork-free highway bill where money is spent on real priorities and not on wasteful or non-urgent projects.”
Ladies and gentleman, this is the McCain admin in a nutshell, initial reaction based solely on ideology regardless of the facts only to have the statement mitigated at a later time.
We already went thru this crap with Bush.

Who cares about Sarah “I can see Russia from my house a” Palin or John McCain
One the issues Barack Obama is the change we need!
McCain is Bush on steroids!
When you have Greenspan say: America Can’t Afford McCain’s Tax Plan.
America should worry we cant do the same thing we have done for the last 8 years and hope for a different result!
Wake up people!
Its not about Obama, McCain or Palin its about our future!
Vote on the issues vote Obama 08

What a shock, yet another detail about Sarah Palin turns out to be a lie
arah Palin’s visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate’s campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.
Following her selection last month as John McCain’s running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard. During that trip she was said to have visited a “military outpost” inside Iraq. The campaign has since repeated that Palin’s foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone.
But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as “K-Crossing,” on July 25, 2007.

“Wake up people! ”
People are waking up. Have you seen the poll numbers. The Democrats need to go back to the drawing board and realize after their 3rd failed attempt at the White House that Most Americans fall closer to the center, not the far-left.

Why is there NOT ONE MENTION on ABC that Barack Obama tried to persuade the Iraqi’s to delay the agreement with the US government for troop withdrawl until after the presidential elections? This is the most disgusting and traitorious thing I have ever heard of. It is beyond the pale. I am disgusted beyond measure. Obama should be tried for interfering in the foreign policy of this country.

“People are waking up. Have you seen the poll numbers”
Yes it appears the McCain bounce is fading and we’re drawing even again.

I don’t want to hear Obama supporters cry “economy” anymore when they all dig so far down in their pockets for the suit. Clearly this country is not in financial crisis. There in political crisis if they think Barack Hussein Obama is Presidential material.

“I don’t want to hear Obama supporters cry “economy” anymore when they all dig so far down in their pockets for the suit. Clearly this country is not in financial crisis. There in political crisis if they think Barack Hussein Obama is Presidential material.”
Times are tough Debra, they had to choose between donating to Barry and buying a new i-phone. Oh the humanity!

Obama calls Mccain a warmonger and the MSM gives it wild coverage. Now why are Jake and the MSM silent on the fact that Obama is trying to scare the hell out of Americans with his economic-woe mongering?
It is a surprise, a big shame that it is Mccain and not the self-styled hope messenger that is spreading a positive message amidst concerns about the economy.
There is nothing basically wrong to assert that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But as if sensing an opportunity to play politics as usual Obama and his cohorts are jumping all over this. Mike Allen writing for POLITICO states: “Appearing from Wall Street afterward, CNBC’s Erin Burnett said on an NBC News Special report that the morning’s market action had been reassuring: “While you may have a cancer in one limb of the body — if you think of the U.S. economy as the body — the entire body is not necessarily going to have cancer, too.”
Will the so-called messenger of hope stop playing politics as usual and discontinue being a fear monger?

Obama, in Grand Junction, just referred to Richardson as “Bill Ritter.” No kidding.

mamabear…division and hatred = Obama pulling the race card ALL THE TIME. McCain has never ONCE been called or thought a racist….get over yourself.

“John McCain just like Bush! ”
I have one even worse:
Barry just like Jimmy Carter. That should send shivers down the spine.

Biden urged voters in NC to vote for Obama because it would be transformative since he is black.
Can you imagine Palin saying vote for McCain because he is white?
Is this supposed to inspire the AA voters to go from 95% to 99% for Obama?
If he thinks it will get whites to vote for BO out of guilt he is sadly mistaken.

What is sickenening is listenening to the McCain and Palin always talking about standing up to their party over and over again.Obviously they realize there is something wrong with their party.It should be obvious that not only will Obama and Biden stand up to the republican party, they will bring change to Washington.The McCain palin “change” spin is a load of crap.I don’t need a republican to clean up this mess. We need entirely new leadership.Obama Biden is an awesome ticket!

Belle…quit watching MSNBC – completely in the tank

Obama basically called the Prime Minister of Iraq a liar.
Of course if BO really did what the PM said Obama will lose whatever trust he has left among swing voters.
I would bet even his supporters would be furious if it is true.

Barack Obama privately tried to persuade Iraqi political leaders to stall an agreement on scaling back American troops in Iraq while publicly campaigning for a speedy withdrawal, The New York Post reported Monday.
Obama’s request for a delay was a major theme of his talks with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an interview with the Post.
Do you think that maybe this is a bit more important that whether Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant?
Do you think that maybe the “main stream media” might want to report it?
Do you think that maybe 0bama might want to wait until when/if he is president to negotiate on behalf of the United States?
Do you think that maybe George W. Bush wants to know that 0bama thinks he is currently co-president?
When do the American voters get to decide?

It is very possible that Obama did what he did during Iraq because he was so confident that he would be the next president. So essentially he was telling the Ira PM that: don’t do anything now, wait until I am in office.
Obama’s ego is the real reason that has undone him and the democratic party.

Obama’s arrogance has destoyed his chances with swing voters.
He went to Iraq thinking he was the next president. Telling them to hold off on troop withdrawals–as if he had the power to do that.
Of course he denies it. So it’s his word against the prime minister of Iraq.
From what I know about Barry–I believe the prime minister.

“Obama’s ego is the real reason that has undone him and the democratic party.”
I wonder if he handed them a card with his faux-presidential seal on it?

“Barack Obama privately tried to persuade Iraqi political leaders to stall an agreement on scaling back American troops in Iraq while publicly campaigning for a speedy withdrawal, The New York Post reported Monday.”

A vote for McCain/Palin is like dropping a quarter in a slot machine, no thanks I’m not into gambling when it comes to voting for Presidents.

The Palin pick was announced the day after the DNC. I think it’s slightly more reasonable to assume that Obama’s amazing speech the final night of the convention, and the overall success of the event, was the reason for the sudden increase in fund raising.
I have a hunch you are aware of this and were just being silly, or trying to stir up the pot. I just can’t imagine that this did not occur to you.

NY post
Obama said that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of American troops, excluding the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion,” according to the report.
Obama also reportedly tried to persuade the U.S. commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to offer a “realistic withdrawal date.” They declined, the Post said.

“Bill Ritter”! How could Obama, in Grand Junction, call Richardson “RITTER”?!
Maybe the many minutes of introductory bluster from Biden gave him another brain freeze?

for all of you who are watching bank stocks plummet and work in the industry … I have one question … PROUD of 0bama’s leadership on his “banking committee” … the one he doesn’t SERVE on that Jake and the rest of those in the MSM never called him on?

Lately Biden can’t think of a good reason to elect Obama so he urges people in nc to vote for BO because he is black.
No thanks…

McCain 2008
is ANYTHING but country first…
as we have seen by who he picks…Palin, Scheunneman, Gramm, Black…etc etc…
either they are morons or the y are the people who got ushere
all so McCain can get eleceted…none of them are “country first”
unless you think Rove and Cheney and the rest are “country first”
I guess by country you mean…rich neocon hawks… that got us here.

Bill Ritter IS the governor of Colorado. Richardson is governor of New Mexico!!
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Ooops. Wrong state.
The brain-freeze is mine. :^)
Listening to Biden DOES that.

Ryan:
I am NOT a “right wing” troll.
I am WORSE THAN THAT. I am an OHIO VOTER voting for McCain/Palin because the Main Stream Media campaigns day and night for 0bama. I am sick to death of this garbage. First we take back the Democratic party and then the media.
For all of the 0bama supporters who did so because of his judgment on the Iraq war … let me ask you this … he wants our soldiers to stay there until “he is elected president.” What if that is NEVER. How do you feel about his JUDGMENT now?

you all need to google Phil gramm the guy who wrote mccain’s platform for the economy…
one of the lobbyist leadership team that got us here…
he also received 750,000 last year alone for his lobbying and shepherding of the deregulation in the banking and mortgage center…
oh and the list of reasons why he is at the center of this fiasco is …long.
same team same tactics same results
throw these bums out.

“went after the only reporter who actually reported on its content”
You mean the guy who filed his story 1 minute after Obama finished speaking?
AP was so embarrassed by that deriliction of journalism they didn’t publish it!

re: post by: dl (the real one) | Sep 15, 2008 2:09:36 PM
“can’t wait to see what crawls out from all the rocks the neocons and cheney and rove and bush have been hiding once we get these bums out.”
The obamacons need to say they are voting against Bush when in fact he is not running.
They just can’t support their “solutions” to high gas prices, higher inflation and their ever changing tax policies. Their “solutions” end up hurting the middle class and the poor.

Palestinians Deny Obama Returned Illegal Contributions, Says Reporter Aaron Klein
Last update: 1:39 p.m. EDT Aug. 6, 2008
JERUSALEM, Aug 06, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Candidate’s staffers insist Gaza brothers refunded, but men say, ‘We did not receive any money back’
In response to a WND story, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign contends it returned $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, but the donors told Aaron Klein of WND today they have not received any money.

dl … sorry your word versus the NY Post just doesn’t do it for me. Your press credentials are pretty meagre … although you seem to have you head the same place as most media “giants.”

Davei in Iv
it is Mccain’s supporters that are on the same road they have been on for 8 years…dragging the rest of us with them as they follow the lies blindly
McCain does not have solutions
his solutions are the ones we have had for 8 years.
name one that isn’t.
how’d those 8 years of the exact same policies work for ya?
and the lies continue…Amir Taheri is just one of them…the guy from the Post who is about to be shown as one of the Bush.Cheney and now McCain supporters who lied about and pushed the lies about wmd etc… and now is lying still
same team same tactics same plans
no changes no answers…
just a 9th year.

matt,
I don’t know where you get your information regarding a diminished bounce. RealClearPolitics has Obama continuing to lose ground in key battleground states. McCain is now tied in Minnesota. Minnesota! States now within the margin of error include such Blue foundation states as Wisconsin, Michigan and, are you ready, New York! (Sienna poll O47-M42). The bleeding continues …

“I don’t know where you get your information regarding a diminished bounce. ”
From the dailykos, huffingtonpost, or Matt Damon.

Vanessa:
Actually, thinking about how the polls show McCain within 5 percentage points of 0bama today in New York, a close race in New Jersey, a toss up in New Hampshire and Minnesota purple, 0bama is probably regretting not picking HRC. Polls are not his friends. He needs to be raising north of $100 Million per month to maintain his status much less gain what he is losing. But the losing part …. he’s doing that all on his own. I guess you can put lipstick on a Chicago poll and its still a pig.

“Obama doesn’t serve on the banking committee.”

The rich have had 8 years of mega tax breaks Bill M and middle and lower America has worked there buts off and got no where. Im sure you are smart enough to understand that giving 95% of American’s a tax break will lead to economic growth, job growth and investment in America right ?
Giving the richest 5% tax breaks just makes the rich richer! That what happened the last 8 years!
Today being Black Monday and all you can see what and were that get us.

FACT
Non-partisan fact-check 95% of Americans will see a tax break under Barack Obama’s economic plan!
89% Will see a tax break between $1500-$5500
This doesn’t include the cheaper cost of Health care giveing people the choice to buy into the same health care that senators get. Or the governments commitment to provide $4000 credit toward higher education in exchange for giving back to your community through community service.
Obama 08
Vote on the issues don’t reward McCain’s lies!

Bush years are taking us straight to hell. I am scared that we borrowed so much money from nations that are turning into our enemies that if we continue a corrupt, hypocritically run government that tries to go take over other nations based on lies and deceit, that our lenderers like Russia, China, etc are going to want their money back.
Wall Streets is looking like October 1929 leading to the Great Depression.
America needs a new face and a regime change, and it shouldn’t matter if the person is white, black, or green because all of us will suffer. These nations are becoming Super Powers off the backs of the American taxpayers who were not aware that their money would be used to help make nations that can overthrow us become richer than the US itself.
The world is laughing at us, looking at our hypocrisy, racism, corruption, greed, and our allies are becoming disgusted and our enemies are overjoyed.
If we throw this election to McCain who will employ the same crooks that made the United States of America broke, then we deserve our fate. We are going tp be taken down, yes..but by whom?
Russia??
China???
Venuzeula??
Another rich enemy that the US tends to make every day???
Who will take us out, and who ae we going to get the money from to fight them?

dl:
I’m sorry you don’t like the ownership of the Post. MSNBC and NBC are owned by General Electric and I am not too fond of them. So I guess you and I agree to disagree. The story is also on realclearpolitics. I would mention Fox, but I am sure you don’t like them, either. Sorry, “sweetie,” the story is true even if the MSM would rather talk about Palin’s church.

“Can you imagine Palin debating foreign policy w/ Biden.”

This troop withdrawal report will blow into a big scandal.
If the Iraq PM has transcripts from his meeting with Obama, and if there were witness there can buttress his claims.
Obama is doomed.
The election is about trust — how much trust people have now in Obama after FISA, NAFTA, campaign Public finance, his NASA, the list is long.

“Obama doesn’t serve on the banking committee.”

Ricky … you probably don’t know that as a percentage of population hispanics serve in the military at a higher rate that any other group. Maybe you’d like to take the job of some “immigrant” serving in Afghanistan. Amazing how 0bama supporters — so fast to see a spectre of “racism” have not one problem when it is another ethnic group. Please spare me any future lectures on my moral failings. You are so caught. SNAP.

Deb:
If you elected 0bama you will be able to see Russians without living in Alaska.

We have had eight years of a mental midget in the white house; we do not need any more! The thought of Palin someday succeeding to the Presidency is enought to make many people donate to the Obama campaign. She seems to be even less informed on issues that GWB, if that is possible. A “D” in Macroeconomics and attended 5 or 6 different colleges?

Ryan:
Maybe if you actually READ news instead of merely commented on it …..
Maybe now we know why Barack Obama never called a meeting of his subcommittee on European relations to discuss the NATO effort in Afghanistan. Apparently, Obama is confused about his own committee assignments. In Israel, Obama tried to claim a little credit for work on a bill done by the Senate Banking Committee — on which he does not serve.

Amy, I see you are really into this story so why don’t you post everywhere the fact that Russia is blaming the US for the reason they had to go into Georgia? Russian officials claim the US instigated the situation in an effort to boost the appeal of their Republican presidential candidate.

Hedley Lamar:
hmmmmmm … and yet we haven’t been able to see 0bama’s grades from Columbia or Harvard, have we … or Occidental for that matter. He’s so proud of them that they aren’t allowed to be seen!

I wrote “I certainly hope McCain will reintroduce his immigration reform proposal as President. We need that immigrant labor now more than ever. It is what makes our economy fundamentally sound.” That prompts some person calling themselves Beebop to say I don’t know things about Hispanics. That would certainly amuse all my maternal ancestors. Apparently Beebop doesn’t agree with me that McCain’s immigration reforms are a good thing?

beebop
With Obama will have an army that we can use not one bogged down in Iraq!
Russia will be stronger under McCain then it would be under Barack Obama.
So I don’t get your statement!

“you will be able to see Russians without living in Alaska”
Depends on the area but if you’re in New York near little Odessa you can bet on seeing Russians, regardless of who is elected.

McPalin: The power of Positive Unthinking!

Deb:
I know that you think that 0bama is just the best. He can really turn out some great fiction, and when someone writes a speech for him and the telepromptr is working properly, he delivers a powerful story. But he knows CRAP about the military and they have no respect for him.

“Maybe now we know why Barack Obama never called a meeting of his subcommittee on European relations to discuss the NATO effort in Afghanistan. Apparently, Obama is confused about his own committee assignments. In Israel, Obama tried to claim a little credit for work on a bill done by the Senate Banking Committee — on which he does not serve.”

beebop
Agree Roves a monster but the point he even thinks that has to make you think a little ?
An honest question beebop what is it about McCain you like or believe ?
Forget about Barack for a second what is it about McCain that you think will be good for the nation ?

Let’s see beebop erroneously claims that Obama was on the banking committee.
Then beebop listens to another right winger and claims Obama claimed he was on the banking committee.
The truth is Obama sits on the subcommittee of finance for homeland security and deals with things like divestment from Iran and other such policies.
The funny thing is beebop claims I need to read the news.
Beebop, you can educate yourself by simply ignoring right wing news which lies to you.
Better to remain silent and be though a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt

Deb:
An honest answer: I believe that John McCain loves America and will work his butt off to make sure that this nation is returned to peace and prosperity.
I have never had a more negative reaction — except to Richard Nixon — than I do to 0bama. He is everything Chicago machine. If it works for them, fine. They should keep it.

We know you don’t like Governor Palin nor her candidacy, but don’t you want to at least try to display a “fair and balanced” posture as a “jouralist,”

For those who call the troop-withdrawal report a lie, your reaction already showed that you all understand that if this turns out to be true, this could be the most damning scandal exposed of any of the candidates seeking to be the next president or vice president.
At this point, more and more newpapers are picking up this story. Because this information came from Iraq PM’s recent interview with NY POST, it appears very credible.
The only thing that the media can do to help Obama is to interview the PM again, and let him retract his words. For the public, this story is very credible, because I think it is very plausible that Obama could do such a thing — everything he does is for political gains. McCain once scolded Obama when he worked with Obama.
Obama’s entire political career rested upon his ability to work for political gains while ignoring principles and ethics — just read reports about Alice Palmer, Emil Jones.

Woody says “Republicans for Obama,
Republicans for Obama? Hahahahaha. What’s your membership up to, three?
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There are countless and I am wondering how it affects the polling. I live in a die-hard Republican district and I am very sincere when I say SO many are going to be voting Dem. this time around – many for the first time in their lives. We agree with Reagan’s former economic advisor that our global situation is of most importance. It ties directly to the economy at home.

“We are all entitled to our own opinions but we are not entitled to our own facts.”
Exactly.
You claimed Obama was on the banking committee and had shirked his duties there.
You were wrong on several counts.
You then offered another “fact” which only appears in RNC new releases.
“Whether you like my sources or not, the statement made in Israel is correct.”
Out of context quotes from dubious sources are neither correct and nor are they facts.
Stop repeating right wing lies and you will suffer from less embrassment.

Sarah Palin turned on the Mayor who got her to run for the City Council and ran against him, not because he was alleged to be corrupt. She ran to be on the ticket with the Governor she later ran against. She doen’t fight corruption.
She uses any convenient issue when she turns on friends and mentors.

beebop
I believe McCain proved his love of this country when he sold it out!
The fact he voted for normal relations with Vietnam despite please not to from the familes of the 600 MIA’s still unaccounted for is of great worry.
The fact he wont release the records of his POW history is also of worry!
I myself hate how he milks his POW history many people where POWs that doesnt make them Presidential materiel.
I believe Barack loves this country and will lead it to better times. I believe he has the people best interest in mind.
Barack didn’t have a well connected father or mother like John McCain nor did he have a millionaire wife who’s father was well connected to help him get along as McCain did!
Barack came from a broken family and has built what seems like a loving family and made something of himself!
I feel he gets us!

Nickel Dude:
No one gives 2 cents about your mayoral comments … please share some of 0bama’s outstanding EXECUTIVE experience? I’m hear for an hour or so. No hurries. All afternoon. Please bring a link. No HuffyPoo.

beebop – and McCains executive experience is?

beebop,
I notice you cropped Obama’s response
An Obama spokesman tells CNN “it was his bill, not his committee,” referring to the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act that the Illinois senator sponsored and introduced in May 2007. The measure was then referred to the Banking Committee, and passed a vote of 19-2 on July 17.
Of course none of this changes the fact that you were WRONG when you claimed Obama had shirked his duty on the banking committee leading to the current banking mess. Or perhaps you were juts lying as opposed to innocently wrong.

I hope that Beebop will answer my question about whther he agrees with me that President McCain should eintroduce the comprehensive immigration proposal he sponsored in Congress before he leaves.

Deb:
I believe that there are a lot of people who have lived the story that 0bama is peddling. But he isn’t one of them. His grand parents sent him to the most exclusive of private schools. He has gotten every where on the same basis as George W. Bush … HIS FATHER WENT THERE and that’s why he got in (ps Michelle’s brother went to Princeton and that’s why she got in). That’s not necessarily a bad thing either. I have friends who have riddent the coat tails of their parents and they are perfectly nice people, but they don’t claim to have done it on their own. If BHO was such a fabulous student, why does he hide his grades? There is a reason. He wasn’t.
He said he would vote aginst NAFTA and he didn’t. There is nothing that demonstrated who he was — a typical politician — more than that. Again. If what you are running on is a RECORD as a typical politician (read years and years of experience), all well and good. But that’s not what he is running on.
He’s running on his story. Which is inauthentic (me being kind). He is running on hope and change. And he’s a typical politician who hasn’t been in any one job long enough to break in his shoes. He’s inexperienced. He’s not bright. And he’s surrounded himself with dangerous thinkers.
Sorry.

Woody – the key word you used is “traditionally”. In the 28 states that track party affiliation, Democrats have added over 2 million voters and the Republicans have lost over 350,000.

And he was still 106 million behind the RNC and McCain on Sept 1st. He has to raise a whole lot more than 66 million for the next two months to just keep up. He’s in trouble.

And when are you going to report that Obama urged the Iraqi Prime Minister to delay troop withdrawl and negotiations until after the elections in direct violation of the Logan Act and his own stated platform.
I know it’s so much less important than a 17 year old being pregnant but you might want to look into it.

Obama regains lead in Virginia from creditable poll
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportEmail.aspx?g=c3b77d5f-0d1a-4f6e-b195-ae05355e8eb8

Ryan C. – I know – I’m awful! Randall Scheunemann, top strategist and advisor for the Mccain campaign and long time Georgian lobbyist – not sure why I would make the connection. Kinda like the other Mccain lobbyist advisor, Gramm, responsible for so much of this banking deregulation or the other two top dogs in the McCain campaign that are lobbyist for Frannie and Fredie Mac…… Oh and Mccain/Palin are going to reform this? I can’t stop laughing.

beebop
NAFTA ? You mean FISA ?? Ill give you that one that made me look at McCain again and I didn’t like what I saw!
I think your a little off on your details.. beebop
I don’t believe he is running on his story I believe he is running on issues the story is just side fluff. But I believe and like Barack Obama I trust he has us at heart. His campaign is paid for by us he doesn’t owe big companies or corporations the RNC does.
McCain’s proved himself to America in Vietnam and his actions after it and he did it again when he rigged the tender for the Air force tanker replacement for AIRBUS he sold out American workers to give 5 Billion dollars and US jobs to a french company that’s lobbyist is the head of McCain’s election campaign. thankfully the democrats and the GAO stopped the scam and the Air Force now has to re tender the contract!

Ryan C
Polls are not a worry now see where its at after the first debate till then polls are boring!

Paige,
Adding registered voters to your party’s rolls and voting across party lines are two entirely different things. If you’re a FORMER Republican for Obama then I say good luck to you. But the idea that active Republicans will be voting for Obama in droves is pure fantasy. He’s even farther to the left than Kerry was. It doesn’t pass the smell test.
I will say however that the Democrats’ best chance for victory will be with turnout. Not since Kennedy have young voters actually turned out in numbers such that they made an impact. We shall see.

“asked of 732 likely voters. Are you kidding me? That survey is trash.”
FoxNews & Rasmussen use 500 likely voters.

Deb:
Yes. Sorry. The FISA vote, but the two versions of how he felt about NAFTA.
Deb, you seem like a very nice person. I really think you should take a serious look at where 0bama’s money comes from. It is not the “little” people. He gets money from bundlers in the housing, banking and insurance industries. It is there for anyone to look at. You just have to be willing to open your eyes.

“I looked at the polls today. How is that working for ya?”
McCain bounce shrinking. Race a near statistical dead heat.
With Obama’s donor pool and ground organization, I feel very good about this race.

I can’t wait until we have Phil Gra mm as Sec of Treasury under a McCain administration!! Yippee, I feel so honored that he calls us a nation of whiners and that the economic condition of America is only in our heads, a mental recession. What a great guy! I wonder how many other of McCain’s lobbyist will be in his cabinet. Charlie Black, the instigator of the Iraq War??? Or what about the lobbyist who lobby for the oil companies accused of corruption with the Department of Interior? It is going to be fun. We are going to be so much better off.
Go Phil, Charlie Black, McCain, Bush, Cheney, and Palin…Yeah!

” . . .McCain/Pailin are going to fix this? I cant stop laughing.”
The problem is other people are listening straight faced and hopeful to that kind of verbiage. Today on CNN Palin announced she and McCain were going to “reform” the crisis.

FoxNews & Rasmussen use 500 likely voters.
I don’t follow those either. Obama will probably under perform the poll numbers- being realistic.
All I am saying is your guys need to approach this election differently that is all.

Who is the king of special interest? Truth in Numbers Below.
Now Mrs Palin may have helped Oprah and Obamas campaign get a $10million infusion at the beginning of the she scares the hell out of me hurricane, but the McCain campaign got maybe 10 million votes or more for free. ANd that my friends, is fiscal responsibility.
Look who’s getting the biggest bribes, er, uh donaitions.
Source: Center for Responsive Politics
Date. Setember 2, 2008
Obamas Top Donors So Far.
Goldman Sachs $691,930
University of California $611,207
Citigroup Inc $448,599
JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919
Harvard University $435,769
Google Inc $420,174
UBS AG $404,750
National Amusements Inc $389,140
Microsoft Corp $377,235
Lehman Brothers $370,524
Sidley Austin LLP $350,302
Moveon.org $347,463
Skadden, Arps et al $340,264
Time Warner $338,527
Wilmerhale Llp $335,398
Morgan Stanley $318,070
Latham & Watkins $297,400
Jones Day $289,476
University of Chicago $278,885
Stanford University $276,038
Total Donations $204,204,516
McCains Top Donors So Far.
Merrill Lynch $298,413
Citigroup Inc $269,251
Morgan Stanley $233,272
Goldman Sachs $208,395
JPMorgan Chase & Co $179,975
AT&T Inc $174,487
Blank Rome LLP $150,426
Credit Suisse Group $150,025
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,787
UBS AG $140,165
PricewaterhouseCoopers $140,120
US Government $137,617
Bank of America $129,475
Wachovia Corp $122,846
Lehman Brothers $117,500
FedEx Corp $113,453
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $104,250
US Army $103,613
Bear Stearns $99,300
Pinnacle West Capital $97,700
Total Donors $124,870,306

“I really think you should take a serious look at where 0bama’s money comes from. It is not the “little” people.”
75% of Obama’s donations are for $200 or less. His whole fundraising operation is built on “little people”
“He gets money from bundlers in the housing, banking and insurance industries.”
As does John McCain who has to rely far more on bundlers than invidual donors.
Only 25% of McCain donations are for $200 or less.
Opensecrets has complied various industry donations via FEC records(by looking at stated employer)
For Commercial Banks
Obama: nearly $2.1M
McCain: over $1.8M
Insurance:
Obama: nearly $1.3M
McCain over $1.6M
Real Estate:
Obama: over $6.4M
McCain: nearly $6.8M

Beebop, what’s up with the latest attack? Don’t believe I used any of the words you accused me of, and I am certainly closer to your age than you might expect and I have lived and voted in Texas a lot longer than you claim to have.
Given the mistaken nature of your two attacks on me, I wouldn’t go making accusations about others on blogs, my friend.

“All I am saying is your guys need to approach this election differently that is all. ”
Which is why the 50 state solution and ground apparatus was so important.
VA & CO are not up for grabs otherwise and IA doesn’t flip to blue.

Would someone explain to Factoid that those “contributors” he is listing are simply the employers of contributors.
A keypunch operator for Exxon who gives $10 to Obama is not Exxon. The CEO who gives the max to McCain is another matter, but it is still misleading to attribute a donation from an employee to the employer.

Obama tries out a few new lines in Colorado, Carrie Budoff Brown reports:
“But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants ‘to turn the page.’ He had an ad today that he started running that he and Gov. Palin would bring the change that we need. He had this in an advertisement. Sound familiar? Let me tell you something, instead of borrowing my lines he needs to borrow our ideas,” Obama said.
He followed up with a dig at lobbyists, saying “if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well, then, I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.”

Barack new ad brilliant!

As Mother Jones reported in June, eight years ago, Gramm, then a Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a 262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm’s legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists, essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any regulation. Credit default swaps are basically insurance policies that cover the losses on investments, and they have been at the heart of the subprime meltdown because they have enabled large financial institutions to turn risky loans into risky securities that could be packaged and sold to other institutions.

Obama tries out a few new lines etc..
Bidens kid was a lobbiest until two days ago. Go figure.
Obama is sounding like a regular pol these days. the only “real change” I’ve seen, other than his stance on issues every other day. He should change his motto to:
Real Change You Can Count On! Everyday other Day.
Lets see how long it takes to change his VP selection? If he dont, hes doomed. If he does, hes doomed.
Ya getting that?

Phil Gramm helped bring Wall Stret to it’s knees. And Phil Gramm was a McCain advisor.

Be Afraid:
I have an IRA with money in the stock market. I would rather it in the hands of free traders than people who want to take it from me and give it to people not working …..

So people gave to Obama, not because of Obama himself but rather because they dislike Palin?
Seems to me something similar happened to Kerry when he was running…correct me if I am wrong, but that didn’t work out too well for him…did it?

“I have an IRA with money in the stock market. I would rather it in the hands of free traders than people who want to take it from me and give it to people not working”
Based on your understanding of economics, I would definitely leave your IRA to the professionals.

FactOid
I cant answer for what happened when Obama ran for the senate. the figures for his running for president are their open and honest for you to see!

According to McCain’s assesment today, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” I watched a segment of the video and I was impressed. Because McCain managed not to grin while saying it. He’s gradually projecting himself better.

“Bidens kid was a lobbiest until two days ago. ”
Biden’s kid was not part of the Obama campaign.
The discussion was dealing with the lobbyists running McCain’s campaign.
If you want to discuss wayward children, we can discuss Biden’s kid lobbying efforts and McCain’s kid who is going to cost taxpayers billions with his inept management of an S&L.

McCain’s campaign is run by lobbyists and they are writing his policies.
Let me repeat that:
LOBBYISTS FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE RUNNING MCCAIN’S CAMPAIGN AND WRITING HIS POLICIES
It’s time to wake up, America.
Obama does not have lobbyists in his campaign. Lobbyists and Karl Rove acolytes are in complete control of McCain’s campaign and they will control his presidency if he is elected.

Ryan C
In 2008 John McCain has voted with Bush 100% pf the time. Something that must be mentioned again and again!
In the last 7 years McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time.
In the last year he has voted with Bush 100%
and McCain is going to fix Washington ?
And bring the change we need ?
Yeah right GIVE ME A BREAK!
Do you believe people believe McCain is and agent of change ?

And yet he is still tanking in the polls.

The fundamentals are strong. Its the politicians, both sides by the way, that have jacked it up. Look, certain things do need to be regulated. Giving 125% loans is not such a good idea. Interest only loans, not so smart. Allows people to gamble that property will appreciate and when it didn’t the banks get left holding the bag. Then the taxpayers bail out the banks, so the taxpayers get left holding the bag. In the mean time, the staff at all those banks appear to be donating large amounts of cash to not McCain, but OBAMA. What a mess. Welfare wont fix anything. You can not tax a society into prosperity. People and corporations have got to be held resposible for their actions. That includes shareholders. An IRA invested in the stck market is a gamble. Dont cry if you lose. Im sick of that bs. If you let somebody else mange your money, your begging for a letdown. Especially politicians. 40% or 33% dont pay taxes? I think that is BS but ok. I paid over 40k in taxes last year. I have done well because I busted my a$$,and I dont mind helping keep the neighborhood up, educating my neighbors five kids, and feeding a homeless guy. But giving somebody $2500 for nothing but an I want your vote thank you very much is sinister. That is Peter Pan my friends. ANd dont think it is going to work. Business will have to raise prices on everything to compensate, or go out of business, or move more jobs over seas.

How come no one is reporting on the story in the Post about Obama asking the Iraqi’s to delay any timetables until after the election? I believe they said he asked Gen Petraeus as well. Can a US SEnator do that outside the scope of negotiations that are on-going?

FACT
Non-partisan fact-check 95% of Americans will see a tax break under Barack Obama’s economic plan!
89% Will see a tax break between $1500-$5500
This doesn’t include the cheaper cost of Health care giveing people the choice to buy into the same health care that senators get. Or the governments commitment to provide $4000 credit toward higher education in exchange for giving back to your community through community service.
Obama 08
Vote on the issues don’t reward McCain’s lies!

Debbie
An Obama aide accused Taheri of confusing the Status of Forces agreement with a Strategic Framework Agreement, for which Obama has pushed for congressional review.
“This article bears as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial. Barack Obama has consistently called for any Strategic Framework Agreement to be submitted to the U.S. Congress so that the American people have the same opportunity for review as the Iraqi Parliament,” said Obama spokeswoman Wendy Morigi. “Unlike John McCain, he supports a clear timetable to redeploy our troops that has the support of the Iraqi government. Barack Obama has never urged a delay in negotiations, nor has he urged a delay in immediately beginning a responsible drawdown of our combat brigades

So as our financial crisis worsens, McCain debates exactly what to call it.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Speaking before a group of about 500 mostly Hispanic voters at the Asociacin Borinquea de Florida Central today, McCain said that the “American worker” is being “threatened today because of the greed and corruption that some engaged in [on] Wall Street.”
Responding to criticism over his comment from earlier in the day that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong,” this afternoon McCain defined those fundamentals.
“My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals, the American worker and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business, those are the fundamentals of America and I think they’re strong,” McCain said.
Today’s clarification however, adds to a somewhat muddled message coming from McCain on the state of the economy. At last week’s forum on national service, McCain said, “our economy is broken,” but today he seemed to imply that it’s not broken yet.
This afternoon McCain said, “our economy is at risk today,” and specifically “the fundamentals of our economy are at risk.” Based on his earlier definition of “the fundamentals,” McCain asserted that “the American worker and their innovation” are at risk due to lack of sufficient regulation.
This man is clueless about the economy.

eyes wide open,
Why is it every right winger suffer amnesia for the last 8 years but suddenly KNOWS that this mess started during the Clinton years.
Let’s take a look at Bush’s Home Ownership Society. ++
# Expanding Homeownership. The President believes that homeownership is the cornerstone of America’s vibrant communities and benefits individual families by building stability and long-term financial security. In June 2002, President Bush issued America’s Homeownership Challenge to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to encourage them to join the effort to close the gap that exists between the homeownership rates of minorities and non-minorities. The President also announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. Under his leadership, the overall U.S. homeownership rate in the second quarter of 2004 was at an all time high of 69.2 percent. Minority homeownership set a new record of 51 percent in the second quarter, up 0.2 percentage point from the first quarter and up 2.1 percentage points from a year ago. President Bush’s initiative to dismantle the barriers to homeownership includes:
* American Dream Downpayment Initiative, which provides down payment assistance to approximately 40,000 low-income families;
* Affordable Housing. The President has proposed the Single-Family Affordable Housing Tax Credit, which would increase the supply of affordable homes;
* Helping Families Help Themselves. The President has proposed increasing support for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunities Program; and
* Simplifying Homebuying and Increasing Education. The President and HUD want to empower homebuyers by simplifying the home buying process so consumers can better understand and benefit from cost savings. The President also wants to expand financial education efforts so that families can understand what they need to do to become homeowners.

“Barry, why you try to delay the troops to come home? I want to see my son. Why Barry why?”
This is the craven nature of the right wing.
Forget who sent your son to war.
Forget who wants to keep your son there indefinitely.
Instead let’s rely upon a known liar and pretend that we actually care about the troops.

Ryan_C,
Here’s a news flash for you – no one running for office is a change agent. Palin’s dirty, Obama’s dirty, McCain and Biden. They all wink and nod to get each other’s earmarks through and every governor in the union says “thank you”. None of that will change in the next four years no matter who wins. Surely you know that. If you’re so outraged by this practice then please email your Congressional delegation and demand they cease and decist with all earmark requests.
Regarding the Washington Times, facts are facts regardless of where they are drawn from and can be corroborated. As usual when someone doesn’t like the message they attack the messenger. Let the record show that Obama is clearly a party-line guy and always has been at all levels of government. Over the last four years McCain has co-sponsored more bills with Democrats than Republicans much to the consternation of his own party’s leadership, hence the “Maverick” reputation. It’s verifiable, go look it up.

Deb, sure BHO will become Pres., and the next day the economy will recover, there will be nobody out of jobs, everyone will be prosperous, there will be world peace, the Heavens will open and there will be celestial singing! Get a grip, sweetie! The Dems have been in control of Congress for the last couple of years and BHO has been a Senator for a couple of years (I know he was hardly there to work for the people), and this is where we are today! The man has no experience or integrity – and I am not messing with ya!

“If you’re so outraged by this practice then please email your Congressional delegation and demand they cease and decist with all earmark requests.”
This is the problem when you argue from a strawman perspective.
I am not against earmarks.
I think the Obama-Coburn solution of sunshine vs bans work better in the long run.
What I do see as a problem is Palin’s repeated (even after she’s been factchecked) lying on the stump regarding the bridge to nowhere. Its the disregard for the truth by the McCain campaign that is the most disturbing including McCain bizarrely insisting Palin had not requested any earmarks.
Its the fundamental dishonesty of his whole campaign message, not earmarks.
Facts are facts but analysis can certainly be biased.
That hurts you alot more than me because you tend to rely on biased right wing sources that delight in fudging numbers and just all around dishonesty.
Over and over again right wingers wonder when the msm is going to cover something based on what the right wing media tells them.
One would think at some point you guys would question those lying to you over and over again.

“Now, with the only national-ticket candidate who’s from OUTside the Congress (whose corruption has finally crashed the economy) McCain looks way better.”
Yes, by putting on the ticket someone even more incompetent in economics than he is, McCain looks better by comparison.
Saying the fundamentals of our economy are good as tow major financial institutions go under and the Dow dfrops 500 pts undercuts the message of “not as dumb as Palin”.

for me it’s gop numbers never add up, which with most americans having a hard time balancing a checkbook or saving, it probably doesn’t matter until it does, then we overreact sideways.
we’ve a 1 trillion hole right now after 2 tax cuts during 2 wars all borrowed with interest from china. mccain wants to double-down on the tax cuts so we’ve anothe… Read Morer 3.3 trillion piled on. and so far he’s found 17 billion of earmarks to cut.
nobody will be able to escape the basic arithmetic. folks can dogmatically assert that tax cuts solve all economic problems big or small but the evidence say otherwise. in 7 years wages have fallen net inflation. that’s never happened before.
lop-sided tax cuts for rich spurred markets/investments that flow overseas for best returns as rich don’t spend (thus rich). and now we’ve a gluttony of financial and credit assets going through a firesale w/ prices tanking. and consumer demand, 2/3 of economic activity, has dried up w/ no wage growth or bubble credit left.

…WALL STREET CRISIS HITS CAMPAIGN…
Obama: ‘I Fault The McCain/Bush Economic Philosophy’…
McCain: ‘Fundamentals Of Economy Strong’…
Bush: We “Can Deal With These Adjustments”…
Leaders Blame McCain-Bush Economic Policies… Reid: ‘Legacy Of The Bush-McCain Economic Policies’… Speaker Pelosi: ‘Eight Years Of Weakened Regulation’… Senator Biden: ‘Bush, McCain In The Corner Of The Wealthy And Well-Connected’… Secretary Paulson: “I’m Playing The Hand That Was Dealt”…
…What’s Next… Who’s Next…

Deb…
What would you EXPECT them to say?

“What she is being attacked for is her lying about her position on earmarks.”
… and what OBAMA is being attacked for is all that golden pork clinging to him and his family, friends and associates.

Ryan_C,
No, I rely on many sources for facts and formulate my own analysis. I agree that Palin is lying about requesting funds for the bridge to nowhere. It’s indefensible. But how is it any better or worse than the $750 million in earmarks that Obama procured for Illinois over the past four years? It’s all pork. You seem to intelligent to believe otherwise.
All politicians lie and then lie about not lying. For example, originally Obama claimed he hardly knew Bill Ayers, then he worked with him for 6 years organizing the community, and then Obama told O’Reilly that Ayers was “a guy in my neighborhood.” Really, that’s all? I won’t go through the litany of lies on both sides, they’re well documented. If you want to get high and mighty and say they lie on the right worse than they lie on the left then knock yourself out. In the end people make their decision not on who they’re most comfortable with but who they’re least comfortable with.
When McCain’s slime machine gets cranked up and introduces Obama’s associates to America in painful detail it won’t matter what Obama says or how much money he raises. Step 1: expose Obama as just another politician, not “new politics hope and change” agent. Check. Step 2: convince America he is too radical. Ongoing. I’m not saying it’s right or admirable but that’s what’s coming down the line.

I guess Obama is using some of those campaign dollars to make some new banners, COUNTRY FIRST (McCain’s slogan). He was miffed that McCain and Palin are using the Change mantra, as they are really change….Biden will really be the POTUS, and he IS politics as usual…Obama is just poster boy….script reader with loud yelling delivery. He is a fraud…lacking in experience and judgement.

Which is ancient and from which McCain emerged clean as a new born babe…. as opposed to a couple or three Democrats!
McCain and Palin

kat,
Obama’s past is still very much a mystery to much of the country. He was pretty much given a pass by the MSM during the primary season and the other Democratic candidates certainly couldn’t stir the pot too much against one of their own lest he win the nomination.
Many people, in particular registered independents, don’t even start paying attention to the election until after the convention. Those people know little to nothing about Ayers, Wright, Uncle Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and how its language subtlely finds its way into some of Obama’s speeches. The subject of Obama’s mentoring in his years when he was forming his political philosophy is absolutely fair game. Change is certainly coming to this election.

“They brag about the fund raising amounts but they sure don’t report how much of that money is going out the door.”
FEC reports include all expenditures as well as donations.
“In twelve months of campaigning the Obama team has spent more than $200 million and continues to spend more.”
Actually the number is over $325M with about $400M taken in.
“His glamorous Hollywood style acceptance ceremony cost more than $5 million.”
The RNC convention in 2004 cost $150 million.

“I agree that Palin is lying about requesting funds for the bridge to nowhere. It’s indefensible. But how is it any better or worse than the $750 million in earmarks that Obama procured for Illinois over the past four years? It’s all pork. You seem to intelligent to believe otherwise.”
Because Obama did not lie about his earmarks. That is the difference.
In fact Obama disclosed every earmark he requested during his campaign and has made earmark transparency HIS issue during his time in the US Senate. Obama is not against earmarks. He is against wasteful earmarks and he feels transparency(coupled with public outcry) will make it hard for wasteful earmarks to survive.
It’s not as if I think politicians are honest or Obama is singularly ethical.
I am voting based on issue positions (some ideological, some philosophical) as I am sure you are.
But the comfort with outright lies shown by the McCain campaign should give anyone pause who is tired of Rove politics.
I know you don’t excuse that or endorse it and your vote for McCain will be based on the issues because you think he’s the better candidate.
But it doesn’t make it right.
And when we fail to speak up against such things, we all implicitly condone it.

Ryan—
“Because Obama did not lie about his earmarks. That is the difference”
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I don’t know whether he lied or not about his earmarks B U T:
I DO know that he lied or disremembered to mention all the PORK which came his way through those earmarks!

This is hilarious now right wingers are upset that Obama is spending money his supporters donated vs the $150 million McCain blew in the primaries and now the $85 million in TAXPAYER money he will spend in the general.