Democrats Lead in Early Battleground Voting

Not really. Cult members are more likely to vote in advance.

Two swing states: Florida and Penn. lean to McCain.
I voted for McCain in Texas. Lots of my neighbors voted for McCain.
SO?? Who is leading??

Wonder if Palin will try to mooch more expensive clothes before heading back to Alasks? humm.. I suspect she’ll do just that.

Just another drive-by media voting suppressing tactic.

It is amazing how much petty stuff these blogs focus on as people become more bitter and upset as “their” side may not win. No concern for America, no concern for law, and no concern that the real people responsible for our mess is congress- not the President. Congress makes and passes the law and no one will pay attention after they cast their little vote. Pay attention to the real issue people.

Richard ,
I am with you congress which by the way is Democratic controlled has a lower approval rating than BUSH

jim try to keep up with the news, that was proven to be a lie
she never stayed at the waldorf astoria
someone made it up
moron

Okay golfgirlusa,
Duhhhh, what is that 4 people that voted for McCain in your State? And that makes him leading? Come on! Stop stretching and reaching because all you’ll keep grabbing is defeat and a few golf balls. LOL!

republicans are silly little animals almost cute in there innocent ignorance

I’m just curious as to how anyone can believe the polls. seriously I dont know of anyone who has ever been polled.I’m not saying they aren’t accurate, but it seems that with how polarizing this election is, who can really grasp how anything will go

My mother and several of her friends in Collinsville and Maryville, Illinois, voted early because they wanted to beat the crowds. They all voted for McCain. Not every Democrat is voting Obama.

This year whoever sits in the Dems party is considered to be lucky.
Because of Bush, people just blind folded vote for any Dems.
My friends, my family and I myself don’t think it that way.

This year whoever sits in the Dems party is considered to be lucky.
Because of Bush, people just blind folded vote for any Dems.
My friends, my family and I myself don’t think it that way.

this is a rally cry for all McCain supporters in Pennsylvania! Barack Obama is trying to STEAL our election using ACORN. He is not our daddy’s Democrat. Gov. Rendell? he’s cool, good administrator… turned Philly around (not as good as Rudy Giuliani, though) but he’s not bad. Bob Casey? he’s not anti-gun, and he’s not pro-abortion. Barack Obama is none of the above! Barack Obama is a big-town elitist. He is filled with contempt for us. I don’t even think he likes us. He writes off our values as “bitter, cling to guns and religions, and bigotry.” I think he thinks he’s better than us! and in the second debate, he said a bunch of government scientists invented the first computer… the ENIAC was invented by our University of Pennsylvani scientists! a friend of Pennsylvania would never steal the credit rightfully due to our universities for the Federal Government.

This year whoever sits in the Dems party is considered to be lucky.
Because of Bush, people just blind folded vote for any Dems.
My friends, my family and I myself don’t think it that way.

Susan, rural Illinois white women claiming to be democrats voting for McCain….can you say race is a factor for them? Or are they just examples of one issue “Reagan democrats”? Either way big surprise.

I wonder how they got the polls and is it accurate?
I’m asking this because I’m afraid this will influence voters’ minds.
I met some (idiot) people they said they are going to vote for Obama because he is leading and they think he is going to win anyway.

I just can’t believe that people are actually supporting a McCain/Palin ticket. Aren’t they embarrassed?

PennsylMcCainia for McCain, the ENIAC was developed at the University of Pennsylvania but funded by, and in cooperation with the government, spurred by WWII.

WooooHooooo! Obamas gonna win this one handily. I guess all you repug crybabies will have to cry for 4 years about the socialistic President Barack H. Obama. It has a nice ring to it. I cant wait for his birthday to be a national holiday!! We NEED another holiday! His face will supplant Washingtons on our currency. Obama/Biden Time!!

Steve NJ:
Again read my post to Cyndap..

They shouldn’t be allowed to release early voting figures before election day. As a matter of fact, they shouldn’t be allowed to release any election information until all 50 states have voted.

This is the man you Republicans are standing by…ummm…. maybe not! Only the ones who write in on this site.
New info out today:
The timing of the financial crisis couldn’t have been worse for Republicans. When Lehman Brothers went under on September 15, McCain was tied or in the margin of error in national polls. But when his poll numbers fell along with the stock market, wealthy conservatives saw little reason to invest their shrunken holdings on what was far from a sure thing.
“Republican donors at the end of day aren’t stupid,” said another Republican familiar with third-party activities this cycle. “They’re not going to throw good money after bad news.”
And it wasn’t just the economic bad news – McCain did little to help his own cause.

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October 22, 2008, 4:15 PM
‘Round And ‘Round Go The Polls
Posted by Vaughn Ververs| 3
A new Associated Press-GfK poll is sure to hearten Republicans who have been exposed to one bit of bad news after another in recent days. The poll shows the race in a dead-heat nationally, with Obama clinging to a 44 percent to 43 percent lead among likely voters, a much tighter race than almost any just about any other survey has shown in the past ten days or so.
In fact, Obama appeared to have been broadening in lead in most polls. Last week’s CBS News/New York Times poll showed Obama with a 14-point lead. A Fox News poll out today has Obama up nine points. The Democrat leads by ten points in the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll and is up ten points and 9 points respectively in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and the ABC News/Washington Post poll. On the other hand, a new GWU/Battleground poll has Obama up just two points.
So what are we to think of some of these wildly fluctuating poll numbers? Well, first, it’s important to remember that every poll is simply a snapshot in time and that each poll measures voter intent slightly differently – whether it’s how they identify likely voters, how they “weight” the results or how some questions are asked (although the “horserace” question is pretty straightforward.
In its write-up of the poll today, the AP put it this way: “Polls are snapshots of highly fluid campaigns. In this case, there is a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; that means Obama could be ahead by as many as 8 points or down by as many as 6. There are many reasons why polls differ, including methods of estimating likely voters and the wording of questions.” Statistically speaking, a very small percentage of polls will simply be wrong.

Just funnin’ ya’ll !

Becky, Yes I think so, and maybe tanks and guys with bazookas at the ready just in case. Military helicoptors swooping overhead, and snipers on the rooftops. Then it would all be in order.

JJ: Sounds good, just as long as the people’s right to vote can do it in peace.

my contention stands. Sen. Obama’s analytical skills are flawed. He has said the surge hasn’t worked. It has. Not only are Americans killing terrorist, Sunni “Awakening Councils” are killing Al Quaeda terrorists who claim to be Sunni, and the Shiite government is killing Iranian militias who claim to be Shia. That’s political reconciliation! you see, Sen. McCain was right. In the war against terror, the distinction between Shia and Sunni is immaterrial. What is material, and Sen. Obama failed to grasp in the Russia-Georgia conflict, is the difference between a beligerant aggressor and an unprovoked invasion.
ENIAC was commissioned by the US government, but it was not government scientists. the government can buy anything it wants. Humvees from AM General, planes from Lockheed Martin, roads from local constructors, and in this case, a balistics calculating machine from the University of Pennsylvania. The idea that the government can turn out the same results at the same efficiency by administering the production itself, like Sen. Obama wants to do for healthcare and retirement savings, is a flawed analysis.
Furthermore, Sen. Obama is showing us contempt when he tries to explain why us small town Pennsylvanians feel the way we feel. Even if his analysis of why we feel the way we feel is right, I don’t want him making it. And given the fact that his analysis on why I feel the way I feel is flat out wrong, I would rather he not make public policy that affects me based on that analysis.

PennsylMcCainia for McCain, I hope you are considering, concerning the georgia/russia conflict, that Georgia was the aggressor, and provoked Russia into action. That IS what happened. Georgia was the invader, but it got turned around on them because they were foolish enough to attack Russian citizens. We cannot support nations who do this sort of radical thing. This is just the sort of thing that starts world wars. This is the problem, when we attack unilaterally we set the bad example for our little allies to follow.

Georgia was the aggressor, and provoked Russia into action. That IS what happened. Georgia was the invader
Posted by: SemperFi | Oct 22, 2008 6:09:45 PM
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very well, Mr. SemperFi, we’ll take it to the American people:
1) Vote McCain if you think Russia was the aggressor.
2) Vote Obama if you think Georgia was the provocateur.
this is how campaigns should be run. No spin, no make-belief. We report, you decide.

chuck…
very well said: FORGET ABOUT WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS SAYING PEOPLE!!! this is GOING to be a close election. without a doubt. there are a couple different reasons (in my humble opinion) that the media is “sealing the deal” for obama. first, the obvious answer: the mainstream media is overwhelmingly liberal. so, in doing this, they are trying to convice the “mindless” viewers, that obama has it won, and thus swaying voters to “follow” the mainstream. the second reason, is to create ultimate chaos and outrage if mccain wins narrowly like bush did in 2000. at this point, with soooo much riding on the election, can you imagine if mccain wins on election day?! after the mainstream has already “told us” the winner?! ABSOLUTE CHAOS.

Simple Voter:
Whether the trend continues or not, depends on if Mickey and Donald, and the Dallas Cowboys all show up to vote.

chuck,
If you have such little faith in polls, why don’t we have a bet.
I will bet $1,000.00 to your $100.00 that Obama will win.
This is open to any Repug who doubts the state-by-state polls.

Nothing against Obama…it may work out better for me. I can quit my job and apply for food-stamps. Four years of supply of foods-stamps …Hooray! long live socialism or communism whichever the case it will be. America, here it comes, plenty of foods stamps.

steve nj…
if you are confident obama will win for your OWN reasons, then more power to you. but it sounds to me like you have been putting just a lil too much faith in the polls. read my post above on the reasons why the mainstream is blowing this all out of proportion.

Yes, so 3,000 liberal professors from college academia across the country signed a petition for Ayers.
Guess that will have to work for the millions of the rest of us out here who still think he’s an unrepentant terrorist……………NOT!!
By the way, new information coming out indicates that Obama and Ayers shared the same office space in Chicago for at least three years about ten years ago. They both listed their offices of their various positions at 115 S. Sangamon in Chicago.
Looks like Obama’s been lying again about “just a guy in my neighborhood,” as they obviously would have run into each other on a fairly regular basis sharing the same business address.

I’ve just about decided to turn my TV OFF TILL AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER. I can’t stand the sight of Obama and he is on (with all his illegal money paying for all the ads) every five minutes….lieing to the American people. The weak minded believe. LOL
What a disgrace he is to this country. He should be in jail.
Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson
and Raela Odinga all are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga
and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of
them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama.
Obama campaign suspended normal credit card security features allowing for massive donation fraud

nottheone…
oh cmon now, socialism will never really happen here!!!!! will it??? all the obama supporters dont even seem to think socialism really exists!!!

For those who talk crap about Obama, be careful. Be very careful, since the community organizers will report you to the new re-educational concentration camps around the USA. Now, be polite to THE ONE even when HE lies thru his teeth.

What specifics do we know about Barack Obama’s track record that might give us some clue as to what kinds of “changes” to expect if he is elected?
We know that he opposed the practice of putting violent young felons on trial as adults. We know that he was against a law forbidding physicians to kill a baby that was born alive despite an attempt to abort it.
We know that Obama opposed attempts to put stricter regulations on Fannie Mae — and that he was the second largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae. We know that this very year his campaign sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines.
Fannie Mae and Raines were at the heart of “the mess in Washington” that Barack Obama claims he is going to clean up under the banner of “change.”
The public has been told very little about what this man with the wonderful rhetoric has actually done. What we know is enough to make us wonder about what we don’t know. Or it ought to. For the true believers — which includes so many in the media and movie stars — it is just a question of whether you like him or not. THAT IS DANGEROUS REASONING.

What about McCains health care tax credits which will also be sent to people who do not pay tax.
I have yet heard any argument from a republican why this is a good idea.
Is McCain a closet socialist? Or is he just a ‘moderate’ socialist? Or maybe ‘right leaning’ socialist?

Good one JR!

I voted early and I voted for Obama, why would anyone vote for McCain?

Obama knows NOTHING bout being President. He is only reciting the transcript that was prepared for him by his advisors and it changes periodically to suit their purposes.
Campaign finance records. Nearly half of the $600 million raised by Obama to date has come from wealthy donors and special interests. Obama had taken far more money from Exxon-Mobil than McCain.
SUCH A NICE FELLOW…..NOT!!
Obama has a 100 percent pro-choice voting record according to NARAL Pro-Choice America; his rating from the National Right to Life Committee is zero. “Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” Obama has said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

I thought about voting for McCain, but it seemed so un-American. Maybe next time the GOP will run a real candidate and not an old idiot like McCain and the fool.

unfortunately neither is qualified. neither cares about the middle class. with all the resentment between each of followers of their respective party, yours is worse than mine attitudes and no real specifics on each side. what a disappointment each of the candidates is

Well, to be frank, after reading the posts of radical people like geevil and his friends made me not want to be part of any group that accepted them.

Merry, His 100% pro choice voting record is one of the reasons I am voting for him. You act as if this is a bad thing!! He is supporting womens rights! Palin and McCain want to take away the rights of women to choose. McCain and Palin believe women should be second class citizens and their health rights should come last, even in the case of rape and incest! Palin even chose to charge poor rape victims thousands of dollars for a rape investigation.

O’bama lies all the time. McCain didn’t vote 90% times with Bush. (By the way, the President DOESN’T EVEN VOTE) McCain only voted Republican 70% some times in all those years he’s been a Senator (and that was when he needed to).
Taxes?
By letting the Bush cuts expire, Obama would produce a $2 trillion tax increase that some economists predict will rumble through the already weakened economy like an earthquake
Obama has promised to raise various taxes that will fall on most economic classes, including the dividend tax, the FICA tax cap, the capital gains tax, the estate tax, and new taxes on gasoline/ Obama will tax businesses and capital gains more heavily, even though America already has the world’s second-highest business taxes! So unless you buy something from a business, like groceries or clothes or gasoline . . . or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small business, don’t worry. It’s not going to affect you.”
Talk about being POOR folks.

lisa,
may be you did not see the video where McKlan himself told that he is proud to vote 90% of the time with Bush. BTW,everybody knows Bush doesn’t vote but McKlan voted yes to Bush policies 90% of the time.
Moron.

McCain represents the worse of America:
Old ideas.
Old concepts on foreign policy.
Old concepts on the economy.
Old ways of governing.
Palin represents the dumbest of America:
Global warming does NOT exist.
Environmental protection is unnecessary and should be stopped.
All natural resources are to be exploited fully without regard to environmental damage.
The US is the world’s attack dog and is free to invade any country it wants.
The war in Iraq is a “holy war” against the Muslims.
The war in the middle east should be expanded to include Iran.
Evolution does NOT exist.
Creationism should be taught in public schools.
There should not be a seperation between church and state.
Abortion should be banned including after rape or incest.
Homosexuality is a sin against God and should be banned.
Supreme Court Judges should be picked according to agreeing with the items above.

Voted for McCain today and it felt GREAT!

Yeah, sure Donoke, and your truth is anything spouted by a neo-con and your lies are anything said negative to republicans.
Well, just maybe there is NO bias, the media just tells the truth, not YOUR truth but the REAL truth and you get upset because it doesn’t favor your party.

Voted for Obama today because I’m not an idiot!

Posted by: RJ2008 | Oct 22, 2008 6:55:00 PM
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RJ2008,
I do not waste my time reading unintelligent liberal rags. The only people more clueless than Ariana Huffington are the people who read and believe her radical leftist comments.

This MUST be a clean election.
Posted by: TR | Oct 22, 2008 7:00:55 PM
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TR,
Is this sarcasm directed at ACORN and the millions of invalid voter registration cards floating around paid for with $832,000 of Obama money?

If the liar wins (Obama) (heaven help us all), it won’t be because of all this illegal money he has come up with, and all the misleading information he has fabricated about McCain, it will be due to the Dow Jones and the last years in Washington which were mostly caused by the Democratic Congress/Senate.
Obama’s lingering problem is that with all his money, he does not have anything new to say. He has been repeating the same mantra for his campaign over and over again ever since the spring. By now, we all know that he wants to extend health insurance to “47 million Americans” (never mind that 10 million are here illegally) and cut taxes for “95 percent of the population” (never mind that half don’t pay any taxes to begin with and the “tax cut” is really just a welfare check).

“Does anyone talk about the Champagne and caviar that Michelle Obama has been ordering?”
you mean the stuff SHE pays for, unlike your woman of year, Sarah (money grubber) Failin?

Here’s a little about Acord. The list of questionable things about this man are many and disturbing.
ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg acknowledges in the Oct. 11, 2008, New York Times that Obama trained ACORN leaders. And Obama worked as a lawyer for ACORN
Over the years, ACORN and its front groups, like the one Obama ran in Illinois, have registered more than 4 million voters. When authorities in Virginia checked ACORN registrations, it found that 83 percent were fraudulent or had problems. This, in theory, could mean ACORN may have created the opportunity for stealing more than 3.3 million votes in this November’s election, a margin far wider than that by which Obama is likely to win.

Anyone who would vote for McCain/Palin needs to have their heads examined! I am a 67 year old white female retired from the Banking Industry after 31 years and cannot believe anyone would vote for them! McCain is too old (I should know!) and shows how hostile he is, lieing like he has, saying things he knows are not true, the type of campaign he has ran and most of all–choosing Sarah Palin for VP!! What is the matter with him!! She can’t even do a decent interview and never answers questions asked her! Her language is terrible-with her ‘you betcha! wink! Wink!–do you want your children to have her as a roll model!!!Think about that when you go to the polls–she may end up running our country if they are elected!! She, who has abused her power in her role as Governor of Alaska, and now being found out she billed the state for her children’s travel! If she wants to see her children, then she should have choosen a differnt career! That poor little baby is tossed around like a rag doll!! Obama/Biden for Pres/VP–two people we can look up to and respect and be proud of to call our leaders!

Reasons Blackjack is a moron:
1. He’s a neo-con.

I think your stuck in a rut there Blackjack, maybe suicide will help?

You republicans don’t scare me, I’m voting Obama no matter what lies you spread.

I like Sarah Palin’s tax program:
On Aug. 7, 2008, the Alaska Legislature approved a measure she promoted. The administration of Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin now gives $1,200 to every single Alaskan. This comes to about $741-million for state residents. In addition, each resident will receive an annual dividend of $2,000 from an oil-wealth savings account. That comes to about $741-million for state residents
For a family of 7 (Gov. Palin has 7 members in her family) that means an additional $22,400.00 in income sent from the state of Alaska. WOW, who needs a job! Back to the trailer, Billy Bob!
Sarah Palin is more ready for the Washington, D.C. crowd than Obama. Obama has proven he cannot even take care of a simple housing project. How can YOU expect Obama to run the country?
Obama wants to tax the oil companies and waste the collected taxes with federal government spending. The same spending waste used for his housing projects in Illinois. Where did the tax dollars go?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
Obama gave the people in Illinois broken down housing and dangerous living conditions. Where did the money go? What pockets were filled with tax payers’ money from Washington, D.C.? We know where Governor Sarah Palin’s tax money is. The tax money is in the pockets of the residents of Alaska. Sarah Palin is a great role model.
Anyone that votes for Obama is corrupt.
Sarah Palin is four times the better candidate when comparing to Obama. Obama who could not even run a housing project in Illinois. Obama has no idea how to run a country when Obama cannot run a housing project program.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
No to Obama……..BOOOOOO to Obama

Steve in NJ:
This is not about money it is about country! I think everybody needs to take a step back either left or right side and realize that this election is heading in the wrong direction for all America! The mainstream media and the extrem left are going to cause hell if Obama does not win, you can see the writing on the wall with all the hate I am seeing posted. This is America not Kenya, and if you look at what trnaspired there last year we are heading in the same direction. It is a shame reguardless of what side you are for, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Like I said before it is the extrem left and the Dems fueling this hate. I know that as as Rebulican I will live with the results one way or the other, but I am afraid that I can not say the same for the left. The seeds of hate have been planted by the Mainstream media and the extrem left, and if Obama does lose I have a feeling the streets all across american will be shed with Blood! It makes me sick to read some of the hate that is coming out in these post, and to be honest it is a scary thing!

Just one more thing the biased media won’t mention about their chosen one.
Former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, Philip J. Berg, a Democrat has filed a lawsuit to force Obama to produce a CERTIFIED copy of his birth certificate. According to Berg, Obama’s paternal grandmother has said she was present at his birth in Kenya, after which his mother promptly returned with her baby to the United States.
If that is true, Obama could be constitutionally ineligible to be president.
His campaign has produced a “certificate of live birth” from Hawaii indicating that Barack Hussein Obama II was born Aug. 4, 1961. Critics, however say the document could have easily been forged and is not a substitute for a CERTIFIED birth certificate.
No reporter has been allowed to see the original certificate of live birth or its certificate number, which is blacked out on copies of it on the Obama site.
Skeptics note that Obama’s “Father’s Race” is identified on this document as “African,” a geographic and modern politically correct term rather than a 1961 racial designation. The standard term used on American birth certificates until the U.S. Census changed it in 1980 would have been listed as “Negro” and not African

Welcome back Natasha (and all your other personalities)..

Posted by: lisa | Oct 22, 2008 7:28:15 PM
Take a minute to think about this. Even at the lowest levels of the Federal Government they do background and security checks. Do you really think that he would have been allowed to enter the Senate if they had not checked him out?
Secondly, with all the money and connections the Clinton’s have and the GOP, you would think that if there were anything not right it would have come out before now.

Who in the world is answering all these so-called polls. No one has polled me, my family or friends thus far, and we are all intelligent and don’t think there is any choice but to vote MCCAIN. I’m certain the polls are misleading. There IS NO OTHER CANDIDATE QUALIFIED THIS TIME other than McCain.

Chuck:
I am ex-military and if people want to shed there blood because of there misconceptions as to that which is right, then let it be. Sometimes that is the only way to settle a right from a wrong.

Jwench – waste of electrons dude.. it’s the same poster who gets on every night and posts the same stuff, verbatim, over and over again..
Just wait until the Natasha personality shows up, she is the most fun to play with!
Posted by: willy | Oct 22, 2008 7:35:48 PM
I know. Pathetic little troll. Wonder why she doesn’t use the name Cybil with all those personalities…lol

lisa you are PATHETIC. Pulling out the old birth certificate slight of hand..focus on the issues dumbass, not the minute details to try and sway people towards a doomed administration of McCain/Failin’

Posted by: BlackJack | Oct 22, 2008 7:39:02 PM
There have been previous lawsuits on the same thing. If you care to go look it up and nothing came of them.

“I think if history is our guide, we’ve had stronger economies, more wealth creation, under Democratic presidents than we have under Republican presidents.”
– Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Since you republicans only repeat the same old lies over and over again, it really isn’t worth the effort to try and keep you seperate. I think from now on I’ll just refer to you ALL as “neo-con nitwit”.
That includes you geevil, Blackjack, Jwench, Jim or whatever you neo-con trolls are calling yourself today.

OOOOooooo BlackJack your scaring me. Im exmilitary as well and anytime you want some just bring it. OoooRahhhh! Your probably airforce anyway. Blueboy.

han:
The real issue is Constitutional. If Obama does not recognize the Constitution then you will lose all your rights and be drafted into the National Work Program headed by Colin Powell.

That includes you geevil, Blackjack, Jwench, Jim or whatever you neo-con trolls are calling yourself today.
Posted by: JR | Oct 22, 2008 7:48:15 PM
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JR–I’ll just call you and Jwench a leftwing nutjob socialist or LNS for short.

Oh my!! So many personalities I think my head is going to explode!
Wait — I think it already did!

BlackJack, Obama knows more about the constitution than you, Im quite sure. Hes mastered constitutional law. Your boy W. is the one who is quite adept at ignoring the constitution. Warrantless wiretaps are just the tip of the iceberg.

Polls are weighted. They are only indicators, and subject to the inherent weaknesses (it’s only as good as the pool of responders). Obama supporters are so anxious to get their guy in, so it’s to be expected they’re the ones going out the gates in a rush to cast their vote… That won’t decide the race…the race will be decided once the rest of the populace votes on election day…just like the race between the tortoise and the hare… :)

SemperFi:
I was trained at Camp Rogers, Harmony Church, Fort Benning, Ga.

It is a shame that our armed forces have not been used to defend our freedoms for many, many years now, and has simply been turned into a means of intimidation against those who the president wants coerce for whatever political reason he has at the moment. So many American lives lost for nothing. Such a waste.

han:
The real issue is Constitutional. If Obama does not recognize the Constitution then you will lose all your rights and be drafted into the National Work Program headed by Colin Powell.
Posted by: BlackJack | Oct 22, 2008 7:50:18 PM
How can any of you GOP nuts say anything about the Constitution, Bushie Boy has trampled all over it.

The same Joe Biden said he would be honored to run on the ticket with John McCain because, quote, “the country would be better off.” And here we have some common ground. I want a president who spent 22 years in uniform defending our country. I want a president who isn’t afraid to use the word “victory” when he talks about the wars we are fighting. I want a president who’s ready on Day One. I want a president with the experience and the judgment and the wisdom to meet the next international crisis – or better yet to avoid it. I want John McCain as our commander-in-chief.
Thank you Joe Biden for telling the truth.

So true.. I’m about to the point where I believe Bush and Co. have never even read the Constitution. And apparently, given the recent interview by Palin, she hasn’t either. Thats the kind of smarts you get when you scrape the bottom of the barrel unfortunately.

If Democrat Berg is a nut job, that must be a good representation on the entire party.

If Democrat Berg is a nut job, that must be a good representation on the entire party.
Posted by: BlackJack | Oct 22, 2008 8:09:35 PM
There are nuts on both sides. You are a shining example of the GOP’s. Now go get Natasha.

Natasha is not a Democrat chairperson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis.

S Adams, you said:
That was in 2006, you twit. And it was one person who jammed up the phones to the Democratic party in New Hampshire.
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I’d be careful about calling people twits. The case she was referring to was the case in CA that involved the company that the state Repubs hired to register voters. That was just this month.
Here’s the link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story

Natasha is not a Democrat chairperson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis.
Posted by: BlackJack | Oct 22, 2008 8:14:52 PM
Like I said you have your nuts we have ours. Who cares about Berg, I certainly don’t. Where is Pennsylvanis?

Americans will be voting for Obama and the future of the country.
neocons and other intolerant fools will be voting against America and for McCain.

Show me proof where Obama is involved. Until then put a cork in it. John McCain had also had dealings with ACORN, does that make him guilty of things that a few people did, No. Get off the ACORN bs. Those registrations are checked over.
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Jwench–You can not possibly be that clueless. ACORN has provided proof that Obama is connected with them and it is a mater of fact that Obama has given $832,000 to them. There are tapes of ACORN organizers saying that they are stumping for Obama.
One guy who changed his address to register to vote cannot compare to ACORN who is under investigation by FBI for largest voter fraud in history.

ACORN = fear and ignorance for those who are a few crayons short of a full pack. There do appear to be many of them about tonight!

Posted by: S Adams | Oct 22, 2008 8:23:03 PM
In case you need me to break that down for you, the guy referenced in the article owns YPM. DOhhhhh

Jwench:
You fell into it. I did a typo to show everyone just how mundane the Obama supporters truly are. Of course, it is Pennsylvania, where I was born with a complete hospital record and real birth certificates with a Pennsylvania seal.
Posted by: BlackJack | Oct 22, 2008 8:31:43 PM
I didn’t know vets had to keep birth certificates in PA. BTW I live there also.

The allegations can also help cover up actual election fraud undertaken on behalf of McCain. This is the tactic Karl Rove learned so well from his right-wing predecessors: accuse your opponent of your own unethical or illegal acts.
These are a tried and true – and grossly undemocratic – tactics. And they are often accomplished with the complicity of the press.
http://www.acorn.org/
GOP did the same in 2000, 2004 and 2006.. why should 2008 be any different?

It’s no just CA, either. Which I forgot to mention.
“Several dozen voters recently told The Times that YPM workers said they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Other voters said they had no idea their registration was being changed.
YPM has been accused of using bait-and-switch tactics across the country. Election officials and lawmakers have launched investigations into the activities of YPM workers in Florida and Massachusetts. In Arizona, the firm was recently a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit.” LA Times

Jwench:
You are so naïve to think Acorn gave the money to the poor. Look at Obama’s housing project that was for the underprivileged.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
Now look at Sarah Palin’s housing project for Alaskans:
http://www.akhousingtrust.org/
No To Obama’s way to supply housing for residents anywhere in the world.

Jwench:
I am ex-military and I returned to my home state. A person needs proof of residency when requesting a passport, driver’s license, etc. Also, it is a requirement of foreign countries where I travel and assume foreign residency that exceeds visitation in certain countries. It is all because of the terrorists and they have made life a pain in the butt.

Is that why palin couldn’t get a passport until last year? pretty sad then.

willy:
Not true willy, because Sarah Palin did not have to travel out of the country prior to receiving a passport. Obama has so many passports that a person must think about how many citizenships does Obama have. A USA citizen only needs ONE passport.

BlackJack – you claim you are ex-military, and yet seem to have no problem using our forces simply as a pawn against those who the administration would like to bully into compliance. That is not defending our freedoms and serving our country, it is sending men and woman in to die for nothing and a disgrace on the part of our leaders who are responsible for such actions.

Janice:
Thank you for showing the true colors of an Obama supporter. You cannot use a proper defense for Obama so you turn to meaningless rhetoric.

Planting Seeds of Disaster
ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party.
By Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute
‘You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.” So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness.
Militant ACORN
At the time, however, that 1995 Chicago newspaper article represented something of a triumph for Barack Obama. That same year, as a director at Chicago’s Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN’s way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we’ve recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis.
I’ve already told the story of Obama’s close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN’s campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN’s coffers to finance “counseling” operations like the one touted in that Sun-Times article. This much we’ve known. Yet these local, CRA-based pressure-campaigns fit into a broader, more disturbing, and still under-appreciated national picture. Far more than we’ve recognized, ACORN’s local, CRA-enabled pressure tactics served to entangle the financial system as a whole in the subprime mess. ACORN was no side-show. On the contrary, using CRA and ties to sympathetic congressional Democrats, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster.
In one of the first book-length scholarly studies of ACORN, Organizing Urban America, Rutgers University political scientist Heidi Swarts describes this group, so dear to Barack Obama, as “oppositional outlaws.” Swarts, a strong supporter of ACORN, has no qualms about stating that its members think of themselves as “militants unafraid to confront the powers that be.” “This identity as a uniquely militant organization,” says Swarts, “is reinforced by contentious action.” ACORN protesters will break into private offices, show up at a banker’s home to intimidate his family, or pour protesters into bank lobbies to scare away customers, all in an effort to force a lowering of credit standards for poor and minority customers. According to Swarts, long-term ACORN organizers “tend to see the organization as a solitary vanguard of principled leftists…the only truly radical community organization.”
ACORN’s Inside Strategy
Yet ACORN’s entirely deserved reputation for militance is balanced by its less-well-known “inside strategy.” ACORN has long employed Washington-based lobbyists who understand very well how the legislative game is played. ACORN’s national lobbyists may encourage and benefit from the militant tactics of their base, but in the halls of congress they play the game with smooth sophistication. The untold story of ACORN’s central role in the financial meltdown is about the one-two punch to the banking system administered by this outside/inside strategy.
Critics of the notion that CRA had a major impact on the subprime crisis ask how a law passed in 1977 could have caused a crisis in 2008? The answer has a lot to do with ACORN — and the critical years of 1990-1995. While the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act did call on banks to increase lending in poor and minority neighborhoods, its exact requirements were vague, and therefore open to a good deal of regulatory interpretation. Banks merger or expansion plans were rarely held up under CRA until the late 1980s, when ACORN perfected its technique of filing CRA complaints in tandem with the sort of intimidation tactics perfected by that original “community organizer” (and Obama idol), Saul Alinsky.
At first, ACORN’s anti-bank actions were relatively few in number. However, under a provision of the 1989 savings and loan bailout pushed by liberal Democratic legislators, like Massachusetts Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, lenders were required to compile public records of mortgage applicants by race, gender, and income. Although the statistics produced by these studies were presented in highly misleading ways, groups like ACORN were able to use them to embarrass banks into lowering credit standards. At the same time, a wave of banking mergers in the early 1990′s provided an opening for ACORN to use CRA to force lending changes. Any merger could be blocked under CRA, and once ACORN began systematically filing protests over minority lending, a formerly toothless set of regulations began to bite.
ACORN’s efforts to undermine credit standards in the late 1980s taught it a valuable lesson. However much pressure ACORN put on banks to lower credit standards, tough requirements in the “secondary market” run by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac served as a barrier to change. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy up mortgages en masse, bundle them, and sell them to investors on the world market. Back then, Fannie and Freddie refused to buy loans that failed to meet high credit standards. If, for example, a local bank buckled to ACORN pressure and agreed to offer poor or minority applicants a 5-percent down-payment rate, instead of the normal 10-20 percent, Fannie and Freddie would refuse to buy up those mortgages. That would leave all the risk of these shaky loans with the local bank. So again and again, local banks would tell ACORN that, because of standards imposed by Fannie and Freddie, they could lower their credit standards by only a little.
So the eighties taught ACORN that a high-pressure, Alinskyite outside strategy wouldn’t be enough. Their Washington lobbyists would have to bring inside pressure on the government to undercut credit standards at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Only then would local banks consider making loans available to customers with bad credit histories, low wages, virtually nothing in the bank, and even bankruptcies on record.
Democrats and ACORN
As early as 1987, ACORN began pressuring Fannie and Freddie to review their standards, with modest results. By 1989, ACORN had lured Fannie Mae into the first of many “pilot projects” designed to help local banks lower credit standards. But it was all small potatoes until the serious pressure began in early 1991. At that point, Democratic Senator Allan Dixon convened a Senate subcommittee hearing at which an ACORN representative gave key testimony. It’s probably not a coincidence that Dixon, like Obama, was an Illinois Democrat, since Chicago has long been a stronghold of ACORN influence.
Dixon gave credibility to ACORN’s accusations of loan bias, although these claims of racism were disputed by Missouri Republican, Christopher Bond. ACORN’s spokesman strenuously complained that his organization’s efforts to relax local credit standards were being blocked by requirements set by the secondary market. Dixon responded by pressing Fannie and Freddie to do more to relax those standards — and by promising to introduce legislation that would ensure it. At this early stage, Fannie and Freddie walked a fine line between promising to do more, while protesting any wholesale reduction of credit requirements.
By July of 1991, ACORN’s legislative campaign began to bear fruit. As the Chicago Tribune put it, “Housing activists have been pushing hard to improve housing for the poor by extracting greater financial support from the country’s two highly profitable secondary mortgage-market companies. Thanks to the help of sympathetic lawmakers, it appeared…that they may succeed.” The Tribune went on to explain that House Democrat Henry Gonzales had announced that Fannie and Freddie had agreed to commit $3.5 billion to low-income housing in 1992 and 1993, in addition to a just-announced $10 billion “affordable housing loan program” by Fannie Mae. The article emphasizes ACORN pressure and notes that Fannie and Freddie had been fighting against the plan as recently as a week before agreement was reached. Fannie and Freddie gave in only to stave off even more restrictive legislation floated by congressional Democrats.
A mere month later, ACORN Housing Corporation president, George Butts made news by complaining to a House Banking subcommittee that ACORN’s efforts to pressure banks using CRA were still being hamstrung by Fannie and Freddie. Butts also demanded still more data on the race, gender, and income of loan applicants. Many news reports over the ensuing months point to ACORN as the key source of pressure on congress for a further reduction of credit standards at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a result of this pressure, ACORN was eventually permitted to redraft many of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s loan guideline.
Clinton and ACORN
ACORN’s progress through 1992 depended on its Democratic allies. Whatever ACORN managed to squeeze out of the George H. W. Bush administration came under congressional pressure. With the advent of the Clinton administration, however, ACORN’s fortunes took a positive turn. Clinton Housing Secretary Henry Cisnersos pledged to meet monthly with ACORN representatives. For ACORN, those meetings bore fruit.
Another factor working in ACORN’s favor was that its increasing success with local banks turned those banks into allies in the battle with Fannie and Freddie. Precisely because ACORN’s local pressure tactics were working, banks themselves now wanted Fannie and Freddie to loosen their standards still further, so as to buy up still more of the high-risk loans they’d made at ACORN’s insistence. So by the 1993, a grand alliance of ACORN, national Democrats, and local bankers looking for someone to lessen the risks imposed on them by CRA and ACORN were uniting to pressure Fannie and Freddie to loosen credit standards still further.
At this point, both ACORN and the Clinton administration were working together to impose large numerical targets or “set asides” (really a sort of poor and minority loan quota system) on Fannie and Freddie. ACORN called for at least half of Fannie and Freddie loans to go to low-income customers. At first the Clinton administration offered a set-aside of 30 percent. But eventually ACORN got what it wanted. In early 1994, the Clinton administration floated plans for committing $1 trillion in loans to low- and moderate-income home-buyers, which would amount to about half of Fannie Mae’s business by the end of the decade. Wall Street Analysts attributed Fannie Mae’s willingness to go along with the change to the need to protect itself against still more severe “congressional attack.” News reports also highlighted praise for the change from ACORN’s head lobbyist, Deepak Bhargava.
This sweeping debasement of credit standards was touted by Fannie Mae’s chairman, chief executive officer, and now prominent Obama adviser James A. Johnson. This is also the period when Fannie Mae ramped up its pilot programs and local partnerships with ACORN, all of which became precedents and models for the pattern of risky subprime mortgages at the root of today’s crisis. During these years, Obama’s Chicago ACORN ally, Madeline Talbott, was at the forefront of participation in those pilot programs, and her activities were consistently supported by Obama through both foundation funding and personal leadership training for her top organizers.
Finally, in June of 1995, President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Secretary Cisneros announced the administration’s comprehensive new strategy for raising home-ownership in America to an all-time high. Representatives from ACORN were guests of honor at the ceremony. In his remarks, Clinton emphasized that: “Out homeownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent. It will not require legislation.” Clinton meant that informal partnerships between Fannie and Freddie and groups like ACORN would make mortgages available to customers “who have historically been excluded from homeownership.”
Disaster
In the end of course, Clinton’s plan cost taxpayers an almost unimaginable amount of money. And it was just around the time of his 1995 announcement that the Chicago papers started encouraging bad-credit customers with “dog-food” wages, little money in the bank, and even histories of bankruptcy to apply for home loans with the help of ACORN. At both the local and national levels, then, ACORN served as the critical catalyst, levering pressure created by the Community Reinvestment Act and pull with Democratic politicians to force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a pattern of high-risk loans.
Up to now, conventional wisdom on the financial meltdown has relegated ACORN and the CRA to bit parts. The real problem, we’ve been told, lay with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, however, ACORN is at the base of the whole mess. ACORN used CRA and Democratic sympathizers to entangle Fannie and Freddie and the entire financial system in a disastrous disregard of the most basic financial standards. And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN’s economic madness every step of the way.

Oh how flattering coming from the poster child of mental illness and master of spewing meaningless rhetoric!

semperfi, Military..I think not..You have demonstrated disrespect at every level for you fellow comrade in arms, blackjack. Your lack of discipline is apparent, as in your just can’t keep your childish rants at a minimum..BTW.the Air Force and Navy have higher standards thus only take the cream of the crop…the best of the ASVAB test scores..sounds like you are a wanna be, just too stupid or were dishonorable discharged….

Don’t waste your breath Janice.. BlackJack and his other personalities are unable to come up with an original thought.. continued pasting of long articles seem to be their only defense when confronted. Although they are fun to watch squirm and twitch more and more as McCains numbers continue to tank.

Palin Says Vice President “In Charge Of” Senate
And you right-wing Neocons think she is qualified to be President…. BBBWWWWAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA.
Open your eyes. The ONLY reason McLame chose her was to try to seize on Hillary Clintons’ popularity after she was left off of Obamas’ ticket. A pathetic last gasp for air at BEST.
OBAMA/BIDEN ’08… Get ready neocons… it’s time!

We are looking for a leader like Sidney Poitier in the movie “To Sir With Love.” We do not need a heavier hand wielding the same old tactics – we need refreshing leadership that empathizes with those in need. ………………….
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/21/senator-obama-to-sir-with-love-2/

Hey Jim,
The caviar and champagne story was debunked days ago. Michelle Obama was not even staying at that hotel. The NY Post admitted it was not true. She was not even in the that hotel.
How about Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe, paid for by donations to the RNC or the $21,000 for travel expenses for her daughters, charged to the Alaskan government or the $50,000 to redo her office in Wasilla. Oh an lets see, the investigation into how she got her house built for free by awarding contracts to certain contractors, who have a connection to Ted Stevens or her altered expense report where she charged the state $17,000+/- for the nights she spent in her home.

Anyone who thinks that the Good-Old-Boys in Washington, D.C. will let a junior senator run the United States of America is in for a rude awakening. It will be new alright, but I do not think you will find it so refreshing.
In many ways I hope Obama does win the presidency so you can all see the real Obama. I do not really care who wins. I am set for the rest of my life and I can live any where in the world. I have my funds secured in the best banks of the world with plenty of solid assets. Obama talks a good story about sharing the wealth. The wealth that Obama claims in sharing is the earnings of the ordinary workers and the entrepreneurs that have an idea for business and succeed. You will never touch the wealth of the very rich. There can be no sharing the wealth of a Walton, a Bill Gates, a DuPont, a Rockefeller, a Mellon or the more than 400 rich in the United States. You all have been conned by one of the best.
It is now time for me to go to a sunny pristine beach touched by the cool blue waters of the Pacific. You want to share my wealth? You must earn it the way I did by using my God given intellect. I was born poor; I slept on the floor as a child and at times my stomach burned with hunger for there was little or no food.
Now I live in extravagant comfort and I do give generously to the deserving poor, but I will share anything with those I do not know. Many of you only deserve that which you have and nothing more.
Good-bye to all and have a nice life.

ml—
stop dreaming, you gun toting, Bible thumping fool

Look, we’ve been through this bail-out business before with the S&Ls back
in the ’80s and ’90s.
The Feds spent BILLIONS (under the Financial Institutions Reform and Recovery Act) in trying to stabilize that sector. The Federal Housing Authority subsidized the S&Ls to encourage the same thing as the Freddie/Fannie GSEs-subprime interest rates and low down-payments. Sound familiar? Clinton himself called for something like $45 billion in bail out money in the ’90s.
Look at the FDIC…under Carter it went from 40K-100K coverage. Why? The
average bank account is under $10,000. Now it went up again. To protect
the average citizen? Suuuuure.
The point is that this mess was caused by government regulations over the very
monsters they had created to put a home on every lot in keeping with socialist
principals. You can’t regulate severely on one hand, and ignore the realities
of the market on the other. It’s not about regulating Wall Street. That’s
a cop out. Government simply needs to get out of this continuing cycle
of dabbling in capitalism in order to advance early 20th Century New Deal and
Marxist ideologies.

BlackJack:
It wasn’t just Biden who exposed
Obama’s lack of experience, Hillary
did too.
She said that “John McCain and I have
a world of experience and Barack Obama
has a speech he gave in 2002″!
Nuff Said. Game Over!
McCain/Palin 08!

Nastyasha,
Here’s the part you need to read about that poll, then read it again, again and again;
“The AP-GfK survey included interviews with a large sample of adults including 800 deemed likely to vote. Among all 1,101 adults interviewed, the survey showed Obama ahead 47 percent to 37 percent. He was up by five points among registered voters.”
PS – YOU LOSE!!!LOL!!!

Obama is the new Teflon President. Anything the republicans say does not stick!
President Obama! Get used to it!

“The AP-GfK survey included interviews with a large sample of adults including 800 deemed likely to vote. Among all 1,101 adults interviewed, the survey showed Obama ahead 47 percent to 37 percent. He was up by five points among registered voters.”
Okay, so more than 25% of your sample was NOT likely voters. That there already wrecks any chance of accuracy.
The confession that the lead is half when they toss out that portion shows how foolish it is to include them in the first place.
what they haven’t told you is WEIGHTING. All over the country there are weighted polls, and most of them are heavily weighted toward democrats. 39-33, generally.
But hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of newer Dem registrations are “operation chaos” driven. Those people will NEVER vote for His O-liness.
I suspect the polls are enough wrong that election night is going to be quite tense. Even dem threats of riots won’t make the big O a shoe in.

How ’bout them barladies in Pattaya? And the drugs from the Triangle are kind of nice, too, nice and cheap.
you can get anything you want in Thailand.
Bet that’s why you’re there, and an expert on the seven deadlies.
If you think Christians are voting ‘for McCain’, you’ve been hanging out with hookers too long. The primary, only a few months ago, established that Christians are the LAST people ‘in favor of’ McCain. But he won because liberal states with open primaries gave him the momentum, and because HuckaWeasel did some dirtbag stuff in the carolinas to change the outcomes of caucuses.
It’s not McCain I’m for, it’s Lenin and Marx I’m against. Those guys are just like jesus, they don’t seem to stay dead.

FAKE STORY being pushed by desperate McCain supporter. Pathetic.
****
Does anyone talk about the Champagne and caviar that Michelle Obama has been ordering?
http://www. obamaunveiled. com

McCain needs to WIN all the swing states. He’s done for.

This kind of “Report” is egregiously, terribly bad. NO VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED AND WILL NOT BE COUNTED UNTIL NOV. To write a report that more registered democrats have voted early says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the state of the race. in no state does your voter registration prevent you from voting for the opposite party in the general election!

Barack Obama has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim?
In this series, we examine Senator Obama’s past, his voting record and the people who’ve served as his advisers and mentors over the years. We’ll show how the facts of Obama’s actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.
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Part Twenty
Ayers Has Not Left Radicalism Behind
Election ’08: Bill Ayers isn’t out bombing anymore, but he’s never stopped being a radical. His ties to hostile Marxist regimes remain, raising more questions about Barack Obama’s refusal to fully repudiate him.
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Part Ninteen
If Bailout Plan Is Too Socialistic, Just Wait For Obama Leviathan
Election ’08: Have Americans been so lulled by Barack Obama’s smooth talk that they don’t realize his plans would expand government into a massive socialist behemoth? His is a soft-spoken, hard-left agenda.
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Part Eighteen
Obama’s McKnight In Shining Armor
Election ’08: Obama needed help getting into Harvard Law School. He got it from a disciple of Saul Alinsky who shared the socialist agitator’s belief in the radical change the young community organizer could embrace.
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Part Seventeen
Chicago Commune
Election ’08: Barack Obama summed up well the perversity of Democratic Party thinking when he told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that it is “neighborliness” for Washington to hike taxes on those who are “sitting pretty.”
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Part Sixteen
How Obama Applies Alinsky’s Rules
Election ’08: Barack Obama’s mocking of John McCain, while urging his followers to “get in their face,” are tactics right out of his radical hero Saul Alinsky’s playbook: ridicule and agitation.
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Part Fifteen
Community Organizer In Chief
Election ’08: Barack Obama claims he worked for a “small group of churches” as a community organizer. In fact, he was hired by a radical Alinskyite group, and Saul Alinsky’s own son has outed him.
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Part Fourteen
Sojourning Socialists
Election ’08: Barack Obama has joined forces with a white socialist he calls a “good friend” — the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of “Sojourners.” He too believes in “liberation theology,” sans the black nationalism. In fact, Wallis is the white version of Jeremiah Wright, sans the black rage.
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Part Thirteen
Michelle’s Boot Camps For Radicals
Election ’08: Democrats’ reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies.
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Part Twelve
Alice In Obamaland
Election ’08: One of the “lies” Barack Obama says are being told about him is quite true. It involves a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union and its communist society who helped launch Obama’s political career.
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Part Eleven
Finding Friends On Far, Far Left
Election ’08: The saying that a man is known by the company he keeps is true of political relationships. In Barack Obama’s case, some of the groups that support him are an indictment of his political orientation.
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Part Ten
Like Father, Like Son
Election ’08: Barack Obama’s economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as “investments.”
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Part Nine
Obama’s Radical Roots And Rules
Election ’08: Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama’s poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He’s a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.
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Part Eight
Obama’s Little Red Schoolhouse
Schools: While Obama’s children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.
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Part Seven
Reparations By Another Name
Election ’08: Barack Obama says Washington shouldn’t just offer apologies for slavery, but also “deeds.” Don’t worry, he says, he’s not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don’t be.
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Part Six
Obama Finds An ACORN
Election ’08: The man who includes being a community organizer on his short resume has a long association with a far-left group that would organize our communities into socialist gulags.
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Part Five
Young Obama’s Red Mentor
Election ’08: The mainstream media have finally gotten around to revealing Barack Obama’s early mentor. But they’ve downplayed the mystery man’s communist background.
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Part Four
Obamanomics Flunks The Test
Election ’08: Barack Obama the lawyer-organizer could use a crash course in economics. His economic plan’s assumptions, based on long-discredited Marxist theories, are wildly wrongheaded.
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Part Three
Obama Wants You
Election ’08: Barack Obama calls it “Universal Voluntary Public Service.” We call it a plan for national involuntary servitude. Kennedy asked us what we could do for our country. Obama has ways to make us volunteer.
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Part Two
Obama’s Global Tax
Election ’08: A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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Part One
Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism
Election ’08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called “economic justice.” He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.
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