RNC Misrepresents Obama Quote

Jake,
Could this so called financial melt-down be nothing more that the RNC doing two things:
1. Recap of Keaton 5, failure, but this time being a success
2. Preparing the country to move to a republican control in 2012 election,,(handing Obama such a mess he will most definitely fail to resolve).
Just my thoughts.

When asked about the potential for a nationwide depression, Palin responded, “In Alaska, many people are depressed during the cold winters. That’s experience I have that our opponents don’t. I think Prosac works well for many.” Please tell me this is a misquote.

lies lies and more lies
8 years
have we not had enough of this cra#
throw these bums out…now.

Like the Obama media networks and his campaign have never misrepresented a single thing in the past year and a half!
Kettle calling the pot black.

Does the Republican Party have any credibility left?

Obama is just another politician running for president. He is no change and no messiah. although a lot of his supporters think he is the second coming.
Obama lies every chance he gets because he knows the media never check a damn thing he says.
oh well. he will lose and i will laugh

Apparently the economic crisis is so great that Congress took a few days off and 0bama couldn’t be bothered to make a single phone call to sway his party members.
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I am sure you are right there and know. Your credibility is as high as the Republican Party. Game is over.

How many civics lessons did you people miss? Obama didn’t have to call anyone…the Dems had all the votes they agreed to deliver for this BIpartisan bill!
The Dems provide “X” amount of votes, and the Repubs provide “Y” amount.
Bush and McCain were the ones who had to bring people on board! The Dems made good on their end of the DEAL!
Remember that the parties were supposed to be working together on this???
Learn a little about how government works and then you can bitch and moan.

Greg, you do know that the dems have the majority. All They needed to do was convince their own people, which they did not do.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday—the first update with results based entirely upon interviews conducted following the first Presidential Debate–shows Barack Obama attracting 51% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. Obama opened a five-point lead heading into Friday’s debate and has retained a five or six point edge every day since.

Obama could not call Demo. House Reps. and encourage them to pass the bail out bill. Obama is a SENATOR!!!!! The House Reps. are beneath him. They should call him if needed.

Ohio – Regardless of how bad a job Obama/Biden could do, it can never come close to the mess Bush/Cheney have gotten us into. This has to be the worse in history. Grow up and face reality.

The though of 4 more years of the Bush/McCain economic mess should scare the hell out of anyone.
Not to mention, failed wars, lack of response to Katrina, and the pick of Sarah Palin! That was the last straw.
In an effort to placate Rush Limbaugh, McCain picked someone so totally unqualified for VP that it staggers the mind. And McCain wants to discuss judgment?
McCain has lost his honor.

Concerned – what was he supposed to do hover? He served on no pertinate commities and would have been in the way as MCCain was.

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.
Long the director of Chicago ACORN, Talbott is a specialist in “direct action” – organizers’ term for their militant tactics of intimidation and disruption. Perhaps her most famous stunt was leading a group of ACORN protesters breaking into a meeting of the Chicago City Council to push for a “living wage” law, shouting in defiance as she was arrested for mob action and disorderly conduct. But her real legacy may be her drive to push banks into making risky mortgage loans.

Obama: As I have said before. As I have said before. As I have said before. As I have said before. As I have said before. POLLY WANT A CRACKER? After a year and a half it’s getting old. Could he a least change that to As I have stated before.

Getreal,
Obama:
Fundamentals=his economic plan
McCain:
Fundamentals=”American worker”
Read the whole story and you’ll see the misrepresentation.

“The DNC has turned into something I no longer recognize and it is disgraceful.”
Sad but so. To defeat evil, they became evil and so lost the very prize that was their’s to take.
As a lifelong Democrat, it is hard to watch, but during the Hillary – Obama contest, the Obama supporters said they needed to get rid of ilk like you and me, so at least they’ve done that.
Idiocracy? People should see the movie. It has ‘electrolytes’. The funny thing is people believe it is about what happens when smart people quit trying to lead. It is actually about the fact that an average person can lead if they do the right thing and they usually do. Looking at the financial mess, I think it time we quit selecting the slicks from the Big Ten schools and start electing someone who has built a life by their own determination and not their breeders.
Go Palin. We’re rooting for you because we’re not clinging to bitterness but a belief in the greatness of the American people who when ably and honestly led have always achieved what they set out to achieve.

I would really like to see a complete investigative report regarding EXACTLY what Obama did during his “Community Organizer” days.
The MSM has been right on top of every move Sarah Palin made while Mayor of Wasilla and Governor of Alaska, but has been sorely lacking in coverage of the “experience” Obama claims from these days.
Many reports have come out over the last couple of days regarding his work for ACORN in Chicago, where he was trained as a militant activist in applying pressure on banks and lending agencies in the interest of acquiring home loans for people who could not really afford them.
Could the MSM please check into this so the American public knows exactly how much of a role that Obama’s Community Organizing has played in the present economic crisis?

Len – Could care less about ACORN. Sounds like a slimmy operation anyway. As someone who in her job relys on community organizers to help her clients I am very protective of the people that volunteer their time, talent,donate their monies etc to help those who are less fortunate. Community organizers are the back bone of this country. They are the churches, the civic organizations, the only source of help and support some people get. They are the little league teams, the poll workers, the homeless shelters, the abuse shelters for women and cildren. Theya re Toys for Tots and Boy and Girl Scouts. the list goes on and on. ACORN is just a nut on the tree. Do not sut down the whole tree because of a nut or two. Bushes yes Trees no.

I just read a comment on RCP and the ACORN “donation” may not have been taken out of the Bailout Bill, only the percentages. Here’s the comment:
“The set-aside for ACORN was NOT removed from the revised bill that was rejected. The name and % were removed, but the support was not:
Sec 103: (6) providing financial assistance to financial
21 institutions, including those serving low- and mod
22erate-income populations and other underserved
23 communities, and that have assets less than
24 $1,000,000,000, that were well or adequately cap25
italized as of June 30, 2008.”
Just like Prego “It’s In There”!!!

“Well, I think there are a whole host of areas where Republicans in some cases may have a better idea. Well, on issues of regulation. I think that back in the ’60s and ’70s a lot of the way we regulated industry was top-down command and control, we’re going to tell businesses exactly how to do things. . . And you know, I think that the Republican Party and people who thought about the markets came up with the notion that, “You know what? If you simply set some guidelines, some rules and incentives, for businesses — let them figure out how they’re going to, for example, reduce pollution.”
Mmmm WHO SAID THAT???

What are these “fundamentals” going to cost? Where is Obama going to get the funds to pay for them? TAXES.
Yeah, great way to grow the economy.
You are parsing Jake. Using the term fundamentals the way he has in this quote is an incorrect usage. The RNC was not wrong.

Yes, I want to make a comment, first why di we not go after the Ems with this true comment:
TO ALL FRIENDS…. LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE—-FYI.
george bush has been office for
7.5 years. the first six the economy was fine.
A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO:
(1) CONSUMER CONFIDENCE STOOD AT A 2.5 YEAR HIGH;
(2) REGULAR GASOLINE SOLD FOR $2.19 A GALLON;
(3) THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 4.5 %
(4) THE DOW JONES HIT A RECORD HIGH –14,000+
(5) AMERICAN’S WERE BUYING NEW CARS,
TAKING CRUISES, VACATIONS OVERSEAS, LIVING LARGE!….
BUT AMERICAN’S WANTED ‘CHANGE’! SO, IN 2006 THEY VOTED IN A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS AND YES–WE GOT ‘CHANGE’ ALL RIGHT. IN THE PAST YEAR:
(1) CONSUMER CONFIDENCE HAS PLUMMETED;
(2) GASOLINE IS NOW OVER $4.00 A GALLON & CLIMBING;
(3) UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP TO 5.5 % ( 10% INCREASE);
(4) AMERICANS HAVE SEEN THEIR HOME EQUITY DROP BY $12 TRILLION DOLLARS AND PRICES STILL DROPPING;
(5) 1% OF AMERICAN HOMES ARE IN FORECLOSURE.
(6) AS I WRITE, THE DOW IS PROBING ANOTHER LOW—$2.5 TRILLON DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
YES, IN 2006 AMERICAVVOTED FOR CHANGE… AND WE SURE GOT IT!…
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CONTROL OVER ANY OF THESE ISSUES, ONLY CONGRESS.
AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
NOW THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT CLAIMS HE IS GOING TO REALLY GIVE US CHANGE ALONG WITH A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS!!!!!
JUST HOW MUCH MORE ‘CHANGE’ DO WE THINK YOU CAN STAND?
NOW WHY DON’T WE TELL THIS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
THANK YOU, RONALD JONES

Like Donald Trump said and he is a very smart man, WHY do we have to buy the failed mortgages? THOSE that have already failed are FAILURES, buying them out is not going to change that! I am SICK and TIRED of OBAMA not TAKING a position and only referring to this in his stump speeches, and again I heard he will ONLY vote PRESENT? WTF? WE will have a President that can not take a stance? Then McCain gets castigated for doing his job as a Senator! HOW DARE these PEOPLE! AND CHRIS DODD and NANCY PELOSI make me wanna hurl! SHE is an utter FOOL! HOW did they EXPECT MCCAIN to MAKE the REPUBLICANS vote like he wanted anymore than OBAMA could make the DEMOCRATS VOTE like him, except he is gonna vote PRESENT! I am sick of the division caused by the Democrats I thought they were the PARTY of UNITY? THIS is a DISGRACE, now I KNOW why BILL CLINTON keeps tooting McCain’s horn!

One part of Obama’s resume from his “community organizing” days is somehow always omitted from his campaign rhetoric.
In 1995, Obama, as ACORN’s attorney, filed a lawsuit on their behalf to have the “Motor Voter” laws in Illinois implemented.
The “Motor Voter” laws permitted “mail-in” voter registrations, which means people could simply “mail in” their voter registration cards without having any in-person contact with an election official or voter registrar. Critics of these laws have argued that such practices have lead to extensive voter fraud.
Obama won his lawsuit, and went on to further employment with ACORN as a staff “trainer.”

The question to almighty Obama remains. Just HOW do you plan to pay for all of this?

Underdog, you are SO cynical. No, the financial meltdown is NOT an RNC plot. Be serious. Do you really think the Republicans are capable of that level of Machiavellian stategery– destroying the economy in 2008 in order to hand the mess to the Democrats who they assume will win this fall as a result, all in order to get control in 2012? I know the Republican leadership is less than thrilled to have McCain as their standard bearer but don’t get silly.
Now, to address Jake’s report about Obama. Funny, when McCain said the fundamentals of the economy were strong, he was trying to be reassuring. That’s what leaders do in times of crisis– you can find quotes from financial and political leaders saying basically the same thing going back for generations. He also said the fundamentals are strong , but that the economy is suffering and people are struggling. That was ignored by the Democrats and their supporters in the media who allowed them to openly mock him and quote only the first part of his sentence and crow that he does not understand the economic reality. Now the same thing is being done to Obama, or so Tapper claims, and I think that’s okay. Obama basically said the same thing McCain said, but when he does, folks scream “look at the context.” McCain was not given that courtesy. Just more childishness from the political folks. THis must stop.

“Gambling in Casablanca? I’m shocked.”

Barack Obama spent Monday night in Reno, Nevada talking with officials in Washington and advisors on the failure of the economic bailout plan in Congress. -CNN
This while McCain was attacking Obama and Democrats publicly, politicizing the bailout. What you do when your alone with the cameras off really tells you about the candidate.

“The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms.”

Obama proposes raising the FDIC to 250,000 before McCain proposes it. McCain following Obama’s lead on the economy.

Barack Obama warned that John Mccain going to Washington would be interjecting presidential politics in to the bail out negotiations! He goes and he interjects partisan politics! This crisis has been covered up on purpose! Held to create a sense of urgency! Now, John Mccain wants to show leadership! He has been in Washingto for 26 years, and his leadership in deregulation and a free market without oversight is now fortelling. John Mccain suddenly wants to go to Washington D C, where he has been an deregulator for 20 yrs! He has a unique situation, his policies and lobbyist friends are responsible for this mess in the first place! He had an opportunity for over 20 years, to fight for regulation, oversight and less lobbyist influence in Washinton, but he chose to go with his republican party 90% of the time, which is a major reason for this debacle! This is just another political stunt by John Mccain to grab a spotlight! He and his party was for the Iraq War! Which has cost Americans taxpayers1 trillion dollars! He wants credit for a surge that is incomplete, but no credit for costing taxpayers 1 trillion dollars or for supporting going after Sadamm Hussein instead using the full might of our military, to go after Bin Laden!
His hindsight like the surge and stopping his campaign after the fact to fix his judgment errors in policy illuminates his inadequacies and ignorance! We need a proactive president who forsees major problems and have the wisdom to safeguard America’s interest! We have seen this urgent demand for congress to move and the people of America to follow this president’s judgement quickly without inspection, oversight and scrutiny! Remember the Iraq resolution to go to War, the Patriot Act that took away many civilian rights and violated the privacy of ordinary Americans! I do not TRUST THE REPUBLICANS AND GEORGE BUSH AND THAT INCLUDES JOHN MCCAIN! REMEMBER MCCAIN AND BUSH HAS BEEN SAYING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THIS ECONOMY IS STRONG! I AM TIRED OF REPUBLICAN’S ONLY INTEREST IS IF BARACK OBAMA WILL ADMIT THE SURGE WORKED OR NOT! WELL, WHEN WILL THE REPUBLICANS ADMIT THEIR POLICY OF DEREGULATION, NO OVERSIGHT, TAXCUTS FOR WALL STREET AND COWBOY DIPLOMACY HAS NOT WORKED, THAT HAS COST TAXPAYERS. IRAQ WAR COST 7OO BILLION SO FAR, BAILOUT 700 BILLION, AIG 80 BILLION, 2.3 TRILLION IN SURPLUS DRIED UP, AND NOW UNDER THEIR WATCH OUR COUNTRY HAS A DEFICIT OF OVER 9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN EIGHT YEARS! JOHN MCCAIN APPROVED AND SIGNED HIS APPROVAL FOR THESE BILLS AND POLICY DECISIONS 95% OF THE TIME! SO THE WAY I SEE IT HE AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE RESONSIBLE FOR THIS FINANCIAL MESS ON WALL STREET AND MAIN STREET!

Cultural Amnesia
Obama told voters at a campaign event in Denver, Colorado, that it’s important to “stay calm, because things are never smooth in Congress.”
“There are going to be some bumps and trials and tribulations and ups and downs before we get this rescue package done,” he said. “I’m confident that we are going to get there, but it’s going to be a little rocky.”
Who is really politicizing the bailout failure? Hint it’s not Obama.

“Andrea Mitchell, NBC Reporter”
You lost me after NBC reporter. Do they still have “reporters” over there?

Republicans: A Divided Party?
Republicans egged on this economic crisis and applied every lever of the Shock Doctrine in an effort to turn it to their advantage. They created it, they stoked it, they owned it, and they desperately tried to make it work for them, but this time the flames of fear got out of their control. Unable to game out their next move, and facing an electorate that sees them as worse than useless, House Republicans scattered in all directions. Yesterday, in a self-confessed fit of snit, they walked away from the table because that mean lady hurt their feelings. And where is the republican leadership?
What will they do today?
Stay tuned…..

“Andrea Mitchell said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe … “

Funny how right wingers want to talk about ACORN.
Shall we discuss the dozens of Republican Congressmen and staff caught in the Abramoff scandal?
Or how about Tom Delay?
Or Duke Cunningham?
Or Jim Doolittle?
Or Duncan Hunter?

“The Democrats killed any regulation of Fannie Mae. So what to Obama supporters say to that?”
That was different! Fannie, Freddie and Obama.

“I get that, CO, but ACORN is under investigation and indictment across the country.”
So are a dozen members of the Republican party that served in the Senate or House to say nothing of the score of aides also under indictment.

sandy what if your are old or sick and shut in. Shouldn’t you still have the right to vote?

“We totally believe you’re a Democrat, Cultural Amnesia.”

“a disillusioned Democrat offers steadfast defense of FoxNews?”

McCain is going up with a new national 60 second ad. It is excellent! And perfect timing!
Will Obama throw Bill Clinton under the bus, again? Bill Clinton tells it like it is in this ad.
A vote for McCain-Palin is a vote for Hillary Clinton in 2012!
NOBAMA!!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary 2012

“FoxNews has gotten better, while most MSNBC and CNN programs are so far into campaigning for Obama that it’s embarrassing to watch. ”
Avid defenses of FoxNews while claiming to be a Democrat strains credulity.
Not that you guys had credibility but its always funny to see you claims to be Democrats while shoveling the latest right wing talking point.

In other news:
Rasmussen Tracking National Poll
Obama 51%, McCain 45%
Poor McCain.

What is all this nonsense about Acorn? CBS says this viral stuff is “organically and institutionally driven.” In other words, the Republicans have embarked on another distract and distort mission.
Rep. Frank says that there is absolutely no “earmark” for Acorn in this legislation.

Look at the crowd Obama has in Nevada.
Another red state going BLUE

Obama can give a tax cut to 95% of Americans….funny thing is, 62% of Americans actually pay taxes…that’s called redistribution of wealth!

So Palin’s debate is on Thursday.
Who thinks there will be some major disaster/event to cause a distraction away from the debate on Thursday or Friday by the McCain camp?

ryan sez: “So are a dozen members of the Republican party that served in the Senate or House to say nothing of the score of aides also under indictment.”
For voter fraud, Ryan? It isn’t simply the criminality, it is THE crime. You are not stupid. You know full well the results of having to challenge votes all over the country in November.
If you want chaos, that can do it. If chaos erupts into violence given all of the bad feelings pumping into this election, we get marshall law. Then a suspended election. Bush stays where he is at. People get arrested. Habeus corpus gets suspended. The US Army is already preparing and the ability to suspend posse commitatus is already on the books.
See 1968. It can turn very bad. Will it? I don’t know but it is well within the possible outcomes of this process if we keep playing mau mau with each other.
Wake up, fellow, and quit trying to play apples and oranges for the sake of politics. There are worse things than recession, and you and yours are marching us straight toward them.

“For voter fraud, Ryan? It isn’t simply the criminality, it is THE crime”
So what’s the worse crime len?
Submitting fraudulent voter registration forms or taking bribes as a public official?
“You are not stupid. You know full well the results of having to challenge votes all over the country in November.”
I am fully aware of the Republicans henious plan to try and deny people their right to vote.
I can’t believe that you admit it.

Look at the crowd Obama has in Nevada.
Another red state going BLUE
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What rock concert preceeded his speech?

“the party of uber patriots who like to start wars for oil…. “

“Look at the crowd Obama has in Nevada.
Another red state going BLUE
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What rock concert preceeded his speech?”
Barry has attack ad after attack ad playing on TV and Radio Nevada. I think in one he even blames McCain for causing Black Holes. McCain had better start responding.

Republicans are embarking on another divide the nation through race and conquer tactic:
they have distributed millions of cd’s touting the scaremongering DVD “Obsession” that the Clarion Fund (McCain supporter) paid for distribution to dozens of newspapers across the country. Instances of anti-muslim violent acts have been reported.
Now they want to jump on ACORN, and push it using the race card. What about the predatory lenders that “steered” consumers into these bad sub-prime loans?
“It looks like we still have two separate and very unequal financial systems. One for the rich and one for the poor. One for whites, and one for everyone else. The banks created this situation when they abandoned our neighborhoods and opened the door for the loan sharks. Now we’re finding that these same banks are profiting from us through their financing or even ownership of these predatory lenders,” said ACORN National President Maude Hurd. “We know that many of the people who got subprime loans could have qualified for a lower cost mortgage, but instead they were pushed into a higher cost loan because the mortgage company saw an opportunity to make more money.”
When I drive through the suburbs, I see jplenty of foreclosed homes (350K and up) bought by folks who couldn’t afford them, and those folks aren’t minorities. Plus you have the flip and get rich crowd that flipped out when housing prices tanked.
And let’s not forget the derivative and Credit swap instruments created on mortagages that are now worthless ( trillions of dollars worth). Can’t blame that mess on minorities,
Why must republicans resort to race-baiting, divisive measures to win an election? That is just evil.

“So what’s the worse crime len?
Submitting fraudulent voter registration forms or taking bribes as a public official?”
The worse crime in my opinion is voter fraud in a landslide. We already have legalized bribery in the form of lobbying and campaign contributions. The ones who really flaunt it and break the rules eventually get caught and prosecuted.
A lack of faith in the electoral process signals an end of democracy as we know it. The vote must be sacrosanct. Widespread voter fraud on a national scale perpetrated by a well funded organization isn’t just a crime, it’s treason. The people who commit such crimes are domestic enemies of the constitution, in my opinion.

Electoral Vote Predictions (no toss-ups):
RealClearPolitics: Obama 301, McCain 237
Ouch.

“Obama seems to have 60% of the Jewish vote according to polls. Kerry polled at around 69% right before his election.”

“RealClearPolitics: Obama 301, McCain 237′
It seems that there are mainly 2 reasons to vote for Barry; He’s not white and he’s not Republican.

“A lack of faith in the electoral process signals an end of democracy as we know it.”
So why are Republicans doing everything they can to undermine the faith in the election because they are losing?
“The vote must be sacrosanct.”
Its a great ideal but the vote has been sullied in recent years with problems with touchscreen voting and people having their right to vote interfered with by Republican caging efforts.
“Widespread voter fraud on a national scale perpetrated by a well funded organization isn’t just a crime, it’s treason”
A few thousand fraudlent registrations with no proof that anyone actually voted?
You really consider that worse than a dozen Congressmen selling favors and contracts to the highest bidder?
Let me ask you this Woody,
Do you consider it more important for people to be able to exercise their right to vote as easily as possible or do you think restrictions on the voters should be in place to make sure voter fraud does not occur?

If McCain had shown good judgment when picking a VP, if he had not picked a mess of lobbyists to run his campaign, if he wasn’t so gungho to start wars and if he was smart, I may have voted for him.
I’ve voted for Republicans (not for President, but for other offices). I just think McCain is dumb. I mean, not as much of dumb as Bush, but nowhere near the sharpest tool in the shed.
The man sees so focused on earmark reform, he has ignored the idea of real budget reform. Earmarks make up less than a percent of our budget. McCain could have saved far more money if he had redirected his energy from focusing on earmarks and put it on looking at the budget as a whole. But that’s his focus. That’s his niche. The big picture is outside of his purview.
Obama may have less experience, but the man has shown excellent judgment. I do not worry about an Obama administration. I know that his economic advisers will be top notch. I know that his foreign policy adviser will not be blinded by ideology and will be a top notch negotiator. I know that the people he appoints will be smart people who aren’t lobbyists.

That’s easy, Ryan: voter fraud. An official indicted for corruption goes to jail. A kid killed in a riot goes to the morgue.”
Racist republicans challenging the voting rights of minorities do so at their own peril.
I can’t believe you actually blame Democrats for conditions the Republicans are actively fostering.
“You don’t remember the cities on fire. Some of us do.”
So the riots during the 60′s were over voter fraud?
Not police brutality against minorities.
Not the assasination of Dr. King.
But voter fraud?
“Take some advice seriously. If the worst happens, sit down. As long as the SNCC was non-violent, they were winning. As soon as Abbie Hoffman convinced ten people to convince 100 people in 1000 people to throw rocks, heads rolled and Nixon was elected then reelected. King was killed. Bobby was killed. It wasn’t all flower power and music. It was murder.”
You’re blaming King and JFK being killed for the Chicago riots at the Dem convention?

ryan, you are being deliberately misleading. Obama is, according to independent organizations that keep track of the money, the second-highest (or maybe it was third?) recipient of Fannie and Freddie money in Congress, even though he’s only been there a few years and the number one fellow, our pal Chris Dodd, has been taking Fannie/Freddie money for as long as there has been Fannie/Freddie money to be taken. PUlling out the current year, when most of his disgraced F/F cronies have been working on his campaign and he’s been actively trying to avoid the APPEARANCE of taking money from folks he is simultaneously pretending to be against (like having lobbyists’ wives contribute but not the lobbyists themselves), is the height of hypocrisy.
Those same independent groups credit McCain with being far down the list of recipients despite his years in Congress– not even in the top 50, as I recall, and definitely not in the top 25. And stop trying to pull that “Rick Davis’s firm” crap — Davis does not lobby or take money from lobbying and has not collected money from the company this year at all. So that fact that former colleagues may have taken money to lobby on behalf of Fannie/Freddie is completely unrelated to the issue at hand. AFter all, we’re not supposed to be concerned about Biden’s brother and son being ACTIVE lobbyists for banking/credit card firms. Let’s be consistent and honest in our criticism.

“ryan, you are being deliberately misleading. Obama is, according to independent organizations that keep track of the money, the second-highest (or maybe it was third?) recipient of Fannie and Freddie money in Congress, even though he’s only been there a few years”
Who’s misleading?
The McCain campaign thru joint fundraising has taken in $189,000 from Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae this year alone.
Obama campaign has taken in $16K this year and throughout Obama’s entire time in public service has gotten about $120K in donations.
Rick Davis was bought & paid for his access to McCain. His firm got $15K a month this year. And He collected over $2,000,000 from them from 2001 to 2006.
That went in his and his company’s POCKETS. Not to the campaign but directly funding his life.
And that says nothing about the millions Charlie Black made lobbying for them or the 24 other McCain staffers who lobbied or worked for them.

more ‘Country First’… fraud
“Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.
Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.
“I’ve never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I’m not going to stop now,” McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio. “Sen. Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn’t want to get involved. Then he was monitoring the situation.”
McCain, grinning, flashed a sarcastic thumbs up.
“That’s not leadership. That’s watching from the sidelines,” he added to cheers and applause.
John McCain, a few hours later when the bailout failed:
“Sen. Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process. Now is not the time to fix the blame. It’s time to fix the problem,” McCain said in a hastily called statement to the press here today.”
Mission Accomplished

So when will ABC get around to the RNC ad attacking Obama and Democrats for passing the bail out plan while their leaders said they were trying to pass it? Funny how it was produced before the vote was taken.

Come with me here and let us take a trip through time…
Ok, Jimmy Carter and the democrats passed the Sub-Prime Mortgage loans in the 70′s to help low-income familys get houses. It was called the (CRA) Community Reinvestment Act (google it) which wasn’t a bad idea if done right. It helped alittle but in 1995 Bill Clinton expanded the CRA by placing more requirements on it that forced banks to offer $1 Trillion in “Sub-Prime” loans or face penalties (Goverment Sponsored Security).
Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae would guarantee mortgages then sale that debt to Banks and investors. So, the more mortgages issued the more money Fannie Mae makes. They would tell the banks to issue the “guaranteed” loans with ‘no money down’ ‘no credit’ or even ‘bad credit’, as long as they paid the interest.
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So, home owners started to grow and so did the price of housing. BIG PROBLEM!! Between 2004-2005 interest rates shot up and so did gas prices so paychecks got squeezed. Borrowers stopped paying so banks stopped lending and the sub-prime market collapsed in 2007. Foreclosures piled up, no buyers, only sellers. Home prices started falling and even more borrowers stopped paying and Fannie Mae “guarantees’ became worthless because they kept over stating their assests.
Banks collapsed due to worthless Government Sponsored Securities issued by Fannie Mae. So, here we are today….
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Why is the Community Reinvestment Act to Blame? Before CRA expansion home prices increase with inflation but, after the CRA, home prices became unhinged from inflation. CRA caused home prices to rise too fast which caused this ‘bubble’ everyone was talking about.
Did this have to happen? NO! Someone tried to stop it in 2003 and you will never guess who….The Bush Administration wanted “…regulatory overhaul of the housing finance industry which would create a new agency withen the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.” But, the Democrats stopped it, siting “…it would diminish their ability to finance loans for lower-income families.”
Someone else tried to stop it in 2005 and you will never guess who…John McCain …LOL!!! He co-sponsored a bill called “The Housing Enterprise Regulatory Act of 2005″ (google it please http://www.govtrack.us Bill S-190). The bill would regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yet once again, the Democrats blocked it. It came back in 2007 but still no luck, because Fannie Mae had Friends in the Senate….
Chriss Dodd (D-CT) and Barack Obama (D-IL) covered Fannie Mae’s backside and you will never believe who Obama selected to help choose his VP running mate, Jim Johnson – [CEO of Fannie Mae (1991-1998) etc...] who quit Obama’s campign in June 2008 after he came under-fire. And you will never guess who Obama gets economic advice from, Franklin Raines – [Carter Administration (1977-1979 when CRA was first enacted) Vice Chairman Fannie Mae (1991-1996 when CRA was first expanded) CEO of Fannie Mae (1999-2004)] who resigned due to accounting irregularities.
Obama recieved FOUR-TIMES more money from Fannie Mae per year than any other senator over the last 20 years (49 Times less than John McCain). And you will never guess who worked at a law firm (Miner, Barnhill & Galland) that sued banks for not issueing enough Sub-Prime loans….Yes, Barack Obama.

I don’t see what you’re seeing Jake.
McCain is right. We do have a strong economy, it’s just facing tough times. Down 7%? We’ll rebound 4%.
It’s like Michael Phelps getting sick. boo hoo.
Obama knew what McCain meant.
McCain Palin 2008

“Obama recieved FOUR-TIMES more money from Fannie Mae per year than any other senator over the last 20 years”
Obama received about $120K in donations from Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac over his 12 year career.
He was # 2 on that list for the last 10 years. So how could he get 4 times as much as any other Senator?
Also McCain thru joint fundraising has taken in $189K this year alone from 8 Fannie Mae bigwigs. Obama has taken in $16K.
And one last thing, Rick Davis’s firm has taken twice as much money from Fannie Mae this year alone as Obama has received from employees over a 12 year public career.

It’s strange how Obama, Pelosi, Biden and other Dems receive political cover from the “mainstream media” yet Republicans never do. There’s nothing at all mainstream about the media this election year. They’ve clearly put the fix in for Obama.

Honestly,
McCain, stop with this blame game thing. You yourself also accused Obama of “politicising” the bailout. WHO made a big show of charging into Washington to save the day (he was in such a hurry he had to cancel Letterman, but had time to interview with Couric and only left the next morning)? Obama said that since neither one of them were on the relevant committees, they might be doing more harm then good.
It certainly shows from how the bill exploded even when McCain was there to “save” the day. He couldn’t even get any members of his Arizona delegation to support the bill-the Illinois delegation, had 9 out of the nineteen supporting the bill.
Stop saying Obama couldn’t be bothered about it. He also had said that if he’s informed that’s he needed there, he’d fly back immediately. McCain keeps on pulling so many stunts and making a big show of things-but in reality, he isn’t doing much. People said he didn’t contribute anything at the WH meeting and declined to take a stand when asked.
He was waving the soldier’s bracelet at every campaign stop, while Obama has been quietly wearing his-you can check his previous speeches.
The smallest dogs bark the loudest, I guess.

‘The fundamentals of his economic plan’. You mean trillion dollar deficits, the takeover of private industry, the payoffs to the unions and George Soros, soaring unemployment, more loans to those who can’t afford to pay them, stimulus graft, ACORN as a partner, having marxists as advisors and ‘czars’, and new green taxes for all? That’s sure some Obama ‘fundamentals’ to be proud of ABC. How could anyone think these fundamental Obama truths could affect them in a negative way?
Its been said that Obama speaks for the moment and that it sometimes leads to ‘confliciting statements’ between audiences. That’s only true in the nuanced world of progressives, in the real world its called lying. This man is the most massive fraud ever elected but many Americans don’t know it because the media has had their lips firmly planted on BO’s butt from the beginning.