AP Reports that Obama’s Aunt is in the U.S. Illegally

Im sure if our nation can adopt the McCains daughter Bridget who was brought here illegaly before being adopted by the McCains and our nation we can adopt an old lady who is the Aunty of the man who should and will be our next President.
Zeituni should be alowed to stay!
We the American people are good and generous people!
Obama 08 Powered by people not corporations.

If this woman gets to stay here, then the other immigrants should get to stay too. Is Obama going to send his aunt to the back of the line, as he always likes to say when he’s chastising illegal immigrants?
I will be watching this very closely!

If Sen McCain……can disclose all donations, why wouldn’t Sen Obama? This is a man who has preached ‘ change’, ‘ honesty’…….I’m not impressed nor surprised. As for his illegal alien aunt living in Boston housing, well, I’m not surprised at that either. What I am shocked at is…..the media actually printed that information about him. It’s been an all out ‘ hidden’ hands off coverage of Obama since he decided to run. Printing a story like this 3 days before the election….oh gee…….it’s a little late isn’t it?
I’ll vote for the War Hero, at least we know him well enough.

I cant believe the evilness in your guys posts!
The Cindy McCain brought Bridget here illegaly John McCain didnt even know she was going to! yes later they adopted her and got her to stay in a legal way!

Then the other immigrants should get to stay too.
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Yep!

Bridget McCain is not an illegal immigrant. Nice try.

We do not know the whole story, so why are we making judgements.

How many houses does McCain own? And how much are they worth again?

someone said Obama cannot be trusted, well can McCain be trusted? After all look at how he picked Palin.

Pit Bull,
It’s original enough, and if the American people really understood what “Class Struggle” is about, there will be hope, and the hope is not electing 0bama.
Do you understand what Class Struggle is?
If you do, ask yourself, honestly, what 0bama is.

To Jake Tapper:
Worst part is she was told not to say anything until after November 4th.
Same thing Obama campaign has told all his associates and even back to college friends.
Obama has never been vetted.
The media wants this country to go far left.
This is why Obama is for driver’s licenses for illegals and against any ICE raids.
Obama said ICE raids terrorize illegals.

After all look at how he picked Palin.
Posted by: Felton | Nov 1, 2008 3:55:43 AM
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We have more worries about a much less experienced Presidential Candidate than a VP candidate. It is the president that we are electing.

Skinny Dog, If Republicans win again we will have a Depression. Get a clue.
I’m NOT voting for any Republicans. They ruin the economy.

Why did Obama, a sitting US Senator, knew that his Aunt was in the country illegally and he assisted her in entering or staying in this country illegally? Obama also was complicit in accepting her illegal campaign contribution to his campaign. His own campaign have talked with the Aunt and told her not to talk to the press.
Obama is corrupt to his core, just like his criminal friends in Chicago!
Jake, stay on this. Obama has alot of explaining to do, and quite possibly, some federal charges by way of indictment to deal with.
The campaign contribution to Obama from the Aunt was AND is ILLEGAL!
Look up the code!
And Obama never returned the ILLEGAL campaign contribution from his Aunt!
Obama’s Auntie-Gate has come home to roost!

ACORN gets illegals to vote.
Obama gave ACORN 800 thousand and his donor list.
Obama has never been vetted.
Obama has been given a free ride to the presidency by the media.
Worst covered election in our nation’s history.
A hero like McCain is used as a punching bag while Obama the most liberal senator is glorified.
This election is unreal.

Another non-story on what used to be an interesting blog. Like the McCain campaign, it is all about attacks around the periphery of Obama’s person, but very, very little substance and virtually no discussion on policy and economic issues. What’s up with this blog? In McCain’s pocket?

Skinny Dog, If Republicans win again we will have a Depression. Get a clue.
Posted by: bubbles | Nov 1, 2008 4:01:24 AM
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Can you have afford to have a new president diverted to attend investigations of his illegal campaign contributions? It is happening already, and it will consume his entire 4 years, to check and validate every single contributions.
McCain is NO Bush, and he is adequate for 4 years.

Do you want Obama tearing down construction at the border. Do you want Obama stoping all raids on ICE. Do you want Obama giving illegals driver’s licenses.
Do you want hundreds of millions of illegals flooding this country. Do you want Obama appointing supreme court justices who support illegals. This country is about to make another terrible mistake. McCain is not Bush. McCain is his own man. Don’t punish this nation by voting for a far leftist.

FACT:McCaIN & Obama HAVE BEEN in violation of federal law by accepting an illegal campaign contribution form an illegal alien in the US!
IT HAS HAPPENED OVER AND OVER IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND THEY JUST HAVE TO RETURN THE FUNDS!
NO HARM NO FAUL

Then the other immigrants should get to stay too.
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Yep!
Posted by: Mike NC | Nov 1, 2008 3:46:47 AM
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unless you are a blood line of Mr. 0Bama’s.

Obama is not a Marxist. You guys are such idiots. Obama will raise taxes on people making over $250,000, back to the level it was under Bill Clinton.

To Nick,
Obama wins mean 6 far left supreme court justices for 30 years.
Obama wins mean permanent left wing laws. Dems have filibuster proof majority in the senate with 60 seats and those laws will never be overturned.
Obama wins means no border enforcement.
Obama wins mean run away spending with pelosi and reid.
An Obama win and we have a one party nation with his open borders and liberal media and his partisan justice department he wants to use to free JENNA 6.

The saddest thing is that it takes a foreign newspaper, The London Times, to investigate and expose Mr. 0bama’s illegal behaviors.

‘far left’ ‘left wing’ etc. – phrases made up and stuck in to attempt to make the Democrats look scary.
Give it up man, we can see through these obvious tactics.

Sorry Dan, but that’s false. He’s only raising taxes on people making over $250,000 a year.
Why don’t you get angry when Wall St gets a 750 billion dollar handout that still hasn’t fixed the economy?

Why doesn’t ABC news do an expose on the AIP, a sepratist organization that Sarah Palin belongs too? Why don’t they talk more about McCain, who claims to be a Christian, and how he committed adultry? Since they want to sling mud there is plenty to go around.
It is curious to me that the press doesn’t talk more about the Keating seven, which was made up of John McCains’s cronies, including the present President George Bush.
If this lady is like the older people in my family, they are very private. She may not have said anything to Obama about the situation. In case some have not noticed he has been extremely busy on the campaign trail.
We should wait and see if there is even any truth to this.

To pefros,
Obama’s senate voting record was ranked the most liberal in the whole senate by national journal.
He was ranked more liberal than bernie sanders the socialist in the senate.
These are his votes.
His votes show he is far far far left.
Hillary was far more in the middle and she got more votes and was cheated out.
As a republican I would have been fine with Hillary.

Re: “Obama’s senate voting record was ranked the most liberal in the whole senate by national journal.”
Have you ever looked up his record? Ted Kennedy is more liberal than Obama. So is Bernie Sanders, and so is Hillary. (She wants universal healthcare.)

Republicans=Great Depression

So we can expect the Republican shills in here to now endlessly repeat ‘far left’ since that’s what the McCain talking points became . .. what could we scare them with next? I know! Let’s call him ‘far left’ . . . we’ve tried everything else.

So we can expect the Republican shills in here to now endlessly repeat ‘far left’ I know! Let’s call him ‘far left’ . . . we’ve tried everything else.
Posted by: pefros | Nov 1, 2008 4:34:43 AM
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Mr. pefros,
You are too generous to the evil Republicans. This democrat, voting only not the demo pres candidate, has analyzed and concluded that Mr. 0bama is no far left. Mr. 0bama is a Socialist.

I THINK THAT POLITICIAN’S FAMILIES SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.

A Socialist
Explain how ?
Was Clinton a Socialist ?
Was Reagan a Socialist ?
Its so stupid!
Putting the tax rate back to where it was under Clinton and Reagan and giving the middle class a real tax cut doesnt make Obama a Socialist.
It makes people saying it STUPID!

I hope the Republicans right wing loses just for their sleazy Rove tactics . . . they give a slimy name to America.

Obama, yes powered by his own corruption
This is that family he cares so deeply about that lets one of its members LIVE IN A BOSTON SLUM! Don’t worry he’ll play dumb and make up an excuse and the media lapdogs will continually kiss his you know what! Just remember he will bring about change and that he constantly contradicts himself on all his own policies! Are people just so blindsided that he’s an eloquent speaker? His use of robin hood rhetoric is so popular that they are ignoring all his problems which include any experience of any form of governing! Its amazing how in 2 yrs how much “change” will go the other way when the democrats will be kicked out of office and he becomes a lame duck president!

Hat tip to Wes
from a former Republican now solid Obama supporter!

WHERE ARE PALINS MEDICAL RECORDS! I would like to know how many children she really had!

hat tip to pefros

Why doesn’t Sen. Obama :spread the wealth” around to his family? If it’s good enough for the country, why isn’t it good enough for his brother living on a dollar a day in Kenya and his aunt living in the projects in Boston? Doesn’t make much sense to me and I hope not to anyone else. He should take 3% of his money and give it to the people in his family living in poverty. How can a guy who gives less than half a percent of his income to charity preach about “spreading the wealth around”? Wait until the media gets a hold of this.

Lets see the history of McCain reaching out to the other half of his family “the Black McCains” who were descendants from slavery.
The politics of distraction ! We just need to ask ourselves does this story add any value to what’s going on in my life.
I see the truth about Obama in the interaction with his daughters and wife, he has shown what a great father he is, and that image does not measure up with any of the images that the adulturer and womanizer John McCain is trying to portray. Lets not forget that McCain’s daughter switched from being an independent to a republican only when it was made public, and her dad seemed to be winning. He focuses on his POW past, but as a Dad and husband he seems to have had some failures when he didn’t even know his wife was in pain.
That’s the true measure of a man.
Obama/Biden 08

This just shows how the Bush Presidency has failed.
Obama ’08

If Obama can’t even help his aunt, (or his Kenyan brother for that matter), why should anyone seriously hope to believe he will be a good POTUS.
Obama obviously has the means to help his aunt. For heavens sake he was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review, I’m sure he knows a couple of immigration attorneys that could’ve helped his aunt with her status.
Again and again Obama’s life deeds don’t live up to his words. Obama should not be elected president especially when America has a chance to vote for a real life hero like John McCain.

But please don’t use smears to try to influence others.
Posted by: Wes | Nov 1, 2008 5:16:35 AM
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What I said is fact and can be validated. It is my duty that I donate my valuable time to defeat an unfit presidential candidate. It is the my constitutional duty. You may disagree with me, but I respect what you decide. Just be honest to yourself. The republican party’s fault is not a pass for another unfit president.

This smears will work for Maccain leaners …. they will finally decide to vote for maccain.
But it’s not strong enough to sway Obama supporters a bit.

Mr. Obama is the most hypocritical candidate our history has ever known. He preached to others what he himself cannot do.

The is something wrong with this Obama Guy….. NOBAMA ’08…!

tom,
Exactly! And why would she be allowed to go over the $200 limit on contributions if they were trying to cover something up? It makes no logical sense.

oh, PAHLEEZE! Do you think for a minute, if this HALF aunt, was here illegal, your nuts! Especially since we are talking about the Presidency here!!!
This will have no bearing on voters. It should have NO bearing on voters.
Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Here is the October Surprise. Cheney is related to Obama. Oh, you knew that and nobody cared. . . .

Jake,
I thought Palin was going to release her medical records.

Wes,
Yes he’s a half brother but you are missing the point.
Full brother or half brother the point is that Obama professes to be a great healer of situations & problems and believes he is qualified to help those of lesser means.
But where’s the beef?
Obama has very little hard concrete accomplishments to point us to in this regard…doesn’t that bother you?
So when stories like his half-brother and now his aunt come up and he’s had so little postivie effect on their lives…..it makes his campaign promises ring hollow.
Obama should be proud for his coming this far in the campaign and should know that losing a race to an American hero like John McCain was a very good thing in the end.

How many of these McSanes are responsible for their Aunts…Hello people, I have aunts that I haven’t spoken to for years and lives in the same state…Aunts are Aunts just that…They live their own lives…Just something else to distract from the real issue…NOT THIS TIME
McSane will be blown out.

I have to agree with nicole: where’s the beef? While I find it odd that Obama’s aunt is living illegally in public housing, I know from a very good friend of mine who has lived in Chicago his whole life that Obama hasn’t done very much there. Obama has also run a very similar campaign to that of Rod Blagojevich, the democratic governor of Illinois whose about to be indicted on corruption charges and whose approval rating is the worst in the country: 13 percent. And Obama’s ties to this man are disturbing.

Ya know this is really such “small potatoes” as far as being newsworthy or even influential on anyone’s reasoning to change their vote. Just because someone has a multitude of dispersed relatives that are ‘half’ related by marriage, and these are having a hard time financially or legally doesn’t make it automatic for him to come to their aide, especially if they are not directly connected in his immediate life. I’m wondering how much aide and comfort McInsane gave his ex-wife during her illness and ordeal. MmmHmm?

Wow.. I am upset and I am angered… This is there Oct surprise? I don’t like it, but how the heck was HE suppose to know? She should have NOT donated. This upsets with me with HER not HIM!

Americans who want to deport an elderly old woman back to a war-torn country have lost their path.

Yes nicole . .. gossip and rumours about a candidate’s relatives. Go ahead make up your mind on that – fine with me.
And regarding your ‘race card’ comment:
I find it most often happens that right wingers come here and accuse the Democrats of throwing race in their face when the Democrats haven’t been mentioning race at all.
Just like you did now.
That’s the truth of the ploy.

You have got to be kidding me. LOL They are throwing everything they can. I am raising my cousin because his mother is on drugs does that make me an evil person. Good grief! Just handle the situation if she is going to be sent back then handle it. If only we had control over our extended family. LOL Who cares!!!!!!

nicole
Why are all you posts so hate filled ?

WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama on Friday won endorsements from two unlikely newspapers – the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
While the Tribune is the largest daily in Obama’s hometown, the publication hasn’t backed a Democrat in its 161-year history. And the Times hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate since 1972.

“Democrats haven’t been mentioning race at all.”
Thee biggest Democrat in the world right now, Barack Obama, used the race card on several occassions.
And don’t pretend you have no idea what I’m talking about. You know the famous line “They’re gonna tell you I don’t look like……” yada, yada, yada.
Hey does anyone else see Jim and Pefros for what they really are?
People who are only good at calling others names and obfuscating stories about Obama…..telling Americans don’t bother questioning or oh it’s just gossip or don’t believe your lyin eyes.
This is a constant tactic by the Obama campaign and his supporters.

Barack Obama has called americans who don’t want to support his aunt selfish. He is too good to support his own aunt with his 4M, but the taxpayer should feel good about sending their money to pay for housing and whatever else she is receiving or be called selfish. Obama make 4M a year thinks that americans making 42K a year should support his family in the country illegally.

Is this the lomg awaited October surprise? Ridiculous.

Obama doesn’t care about his own aunt, why do people think he care about them. I wonder if Obama’s aunt is a voter? We know that she is a non-citizen who contributed to his campaign. Obama will do to the country what he did to his aunt. Obama the picture of social responsibility.

If anyone has been through the immigration system they know it takes years. She may have been adjudged for deportation but with appeals etc. it could take years before she is deported due to “due process”. It is impossible to be a documented alien who has filed an asylum case, and been adjudged for deportation to still be in the US because immigration is efficient at deporting documented aliens yet so deficient in deporting those who are not documented. Anyone who files an asylum case has the legal right to do so and is immediately issues work documents and a social security card. It is clear to me that this woman is legally in the US depending final deportation orders. Typical republicans to misrepresent their own immigration republican judges and law enforcement just to win a point. it has been 19 years with respect to a friend of mine and no final decision has been reached on their immigration case. If one institution needs overhauling it is immigration.

I am livid that Obama has audacity to call americans who pay taxes from the time they get up in the morning until the time they go to sleep selfish.
Lights on – Utility Tax
Shower = Tax on Water & Sewage
Drive to Work – Gas Tax
Work – Payroll & Income Taxes
Clothes – Sales tax
Expressway = Tolls
Dividends = Taxes
Capital Gains = Taxes
House = Property Taxes
Obama looks at our taxes and thinks that we are not paying enough. At the end of the year after paying taxes on everything we touch, Obama thinks we are selfish.
I would think that a little graditude is in order from him rather than name calling.

If whomever released this story wsas trying to help McCain, big mistake. Americans do not take kindly to families of political candidates being harrased to score cheap political points. This only makes people feel sorry for Obama’s aunt. This is a disaster for McCain. It’s one thing if the woman was a young man in the United States illegally comitting crimes. She is a very old woman. Most NORMAL Americans will feel sorry for her and lament the fact that she has become a political football for Republicans.

I came to US when I was 18 and finished the MBA degree. I work and have a good life. Now back home on my father’s side I have so many relatives I can’t count. My grandfather had 2 marriages with 16 children. My direct grandmother which was his first wife remarried and had 6 more kids with another man (my half aunts a uncles) who all have like 20 children and 10 grandchildren. The uncles from another wife of my grandfather are scattered all around the world. Plus I have 4 first degree uncles who all have kids. My grandmother is poor, but she doesn’t even know my name. The last time I saw her I was 5 years old. Some of the uncles live in France, some in Germany and have children. I know that one of them is in prison. On my mother’s side I have 5 uncles and 12 nieces. The bottom line is they have pride and would never ask for charity. One niece has Down syndrome so I make sure to send some money for her from time to time. They know that I never asked for nothing when I was poor. They live the way all people live there and work. I take care of my disabled brother and my parents, plus my 3 kids. And that hasn’t been easy.
Anyway Obama’s aunt is not poor; she works and leads a nice life. So stop being hypocrites and leave them alone. You know nothing about other cultures.

3 days to go. McCain head fell of last week..It will take time for his body to recognize it. [Anyone wanting this country to go down the toilet should vote Republican and John McCain and let them finish off America like they being doing the last 8 years.]

So lets see I will mention my aunty in a million dollar making book but I dont really have much to do or know where she is. Things that make you go hmmmmm???

mona
Your assertion is not very bright. I have written about people who’s whereabout i have no idea. We write from memory, and memory runs deep and long. I know i have an aunt somewhere in NY. I used to be close to her but have not seen her in nearly 15 years. She might even be dead now, but i have no clue. If i wrote a biography, i’m sure she will make it into the pages on my book. So please, show some intelligence. I know you are Republican, but that’s not an excuse to be this daft.

Classy move, Bush/McCain.
You guys must be so proud – me first/country second.

Thank goodness there’s more than one source for getting the news. These excepts are from yesterday’s Boston Globe report.
“Onyango, who is paid a small stipend for working as a health advocate in her housing complex, has shunned attention.”
“For three years, she was a volunteer with Experience Corps, a nonprofit that trains adults over 55 to work with children in public schools, said Mary Gunn, the group’s executive director.”
“In a profile on the Experience Corps website, Onyango is described as a ‘former computer systems coordinator’ who says she wanted to volunteer in the schools because ‘I felt that I should help the children in my community.’”
Obama/Biden 08!

There will be a vicious backlash against the Republican party for this story. The problem with Republicans is that they think most Americans are as nuts as they are. They go and dig up this poor woman’s story and humiliate her publicly just to get at Obama. Most Americans will not look kindly on this mess. This is a disgrace. This has gone TOO far.

Common Sense,
The Globe article claims she works……..stop the presses, you need a Social Security number for that. Is she paying taxes…..?? Is she here Illegally OR NOT? If so, where is the INS??

Kevin
You hit the nail right on the head with Obama and the backlash. Joe the Plumber has seen the backlash; television stations that have asked Biden questions have seen the backlash and now newspaper reporters have seen the backlash. We can hardly wait for the backlash from the IRS and FBI and other federal agencies (funded by selfish taxpayers) if Obama is elected.

feminist50,
All those people you point out that Palin ‘pals around with’ are rich. The republicans don’t count them as bad associations for that simple fact. They believe all rich people are the same and rich people never do anything wrong. They support any and all welfare for rich people.
Obama/Biden 08!

If Obama’s half-aunt has been living illegally in the United States since 2004 then is it not the fault of the Bush Administration fro not enforcing their own immigration laws. If anything this shows the incompetence of the Bush government. They have an obligation to make sure that people who have been ordered deported are deported. Why do they blame their incomptence on Obama?

today
The last time i checked, Obama was taking care of his grandma. Isn’t that a member of his extended family? You are such a hypocrite with your selectivism. Obama meets your criteria, but you ignore that blatantly just to hurl stones. Nutjob.

It makes perfect sense, Obama believes in letting the government take care of the people, well this is a good example how he will take care of the welfare recipients, if we are waiting for our welfare check, we can live in luxury in a rundown government housing facilty, I don’t see the problem, today is the 1st Obama where is my check ???
Fellow Welfare Recipients Please Vote Obama/Biden 08

ubu1991
There are more than 100 members of Obama’s extended family. Are you suggesting that it was his responsibility to take care of 100 people? I think you have mental problems. In America, we rise or fall by our own efforts, not the efforts of our extended family members. You step on the heart of your own logic.

ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday poll.
He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all…
The AP reported today that 1 in 7 voters are still persuadable.
This is NOT good news for the Obama Campaign.

today
My point was that regarding the extended family, you do what you can. Grand parents are different. Most people do not consider them extended family. But i ask again: Do you expect Obama to take care of all 100 members of his extended family? it’s a simple question. Give me a yes or no answer.
Cindt McCain’s half sister just died on poverty. I don’t hear you complaining about that. But then aagin, aren’t Republicans the biggest of hypocrites?

Who cares? McCain is getting pretty desparate! Did anyone say scrapings! Is that all you got? Obama 08

today
Rev. Wright is not racist. Racism is “racial discrimination brought about by a feeling of racial superiority.” Rev. Wright said some incindiary things, but he never made racist comments. He complained about the racial attitudes of whites against blacks, but that was more victimization and not racism. Please get your understanding of the word, racism, right before humiliating yourself. By the way, i am not defending Rev. Wright. I think he is a moron. But idiocy is hardly racism.

How come no stories on Todd palin’s ties to the Alsaka Independance party and Sara palin speaking at their covention. Isn’t that TREASON?

Hero
Research 2000 just released their poll and they had Obama out-polling Mccain by 9 points last night. let’s wait for Rasmussen, Gallup, Abc News tracking poll, IBD/TIPP, and Hitline Diaego. Zogby is a sensationalist. After they called Ohio for Obama and Obama lost by near double digits, i concluded that they were nuts.

today said:
The democratic party has become the party of hate and name calling.
No, that would be the Republican party. Just listen to the right-wing radio lunatics such as Rush and Hannity nothing but hate.

today
Obama has more than 7 siblings (but i thought we were talking about his aunt, and thus his ENTIRE extended family?). His father had multiple wives. And as someone who has been to Africa for research, i can tell you that the average extended family in Africa is as a big as a little village. To expect Obama to take care of them is really naive.

already voted for Obama

today
I agree with your conclusion regarding his attitude towards Jews. Yes, i think Rev. Wright is an anti-semite. He thinks he is just anti-zionist, but his language was broad enough to trample of the entire Jewish state. So i agree. But Rev. Wright is not racist against whites. I was making a distinction. There was nothing he said against whites that was racist. Against Jews, yes, i agree with you on that one. Good point by the way.

Big time advertising agency and Obama have generated an image of Obama, a persona that is carefully constructed. Case in point was the writing of his personal memoirs before a substantive, national career. Crafting a self-image automatically means you leave out things like relatives who are illegal immigrants.

If she is here illegally then it is not his fault it is INS.
end of discussion

“John McCain has served this country longer in a POW camp than Obama has in the US Senate”
A.S. Gov. of California

Why is this news??? Even more to the point, why is this political news!!!

Hero said
“John McCain has served this country longer in a POW camp than Obama has in the US Senate”
A.S. Gov. of California
So???
That doesn’t make him qualified to be president.

Monk said
Why is this news??? Even more to the point, why is this political news!!!
Because it’s about Obama but the Republicans are desperately trying to make it more than what it is.
and I do stress desperately.

ZOGBY 10/31/08
OBAMA 49.1%
McCAIN 44.1%
You were saying McCain was ahead? It’s always nice to put the blinders on and read only the paragraphs you like isn’t it?

In 1993, McCain became chairman of the International Republican Institute. He still chairs that respected organization.
That same year, Khalidi helped found the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, self-described as “an independent academic research and policy analysis institution” created to meet “the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues related to Palestine.” (Its archived Web site is HERE.)
Khalidi was on the board of trustees through 1999.
According to tax returns, the McCain-chaired IRI funded the organization Khalidi founded and served on to the tune of $448,873 in 1998 (click HERE to see the tax return)* as first reported by Seth Couter Walls at HuffPo.
The IRI continued to give money to the CPRS after Khalidi left the group as well.

To Bud White:
Rashid Khalidi is no terrorist or a jew hater. Even the ADL say he is not an Anti-Semite. He has sympathy for the people of Palestine. That does not mean he is a terrorist or an Anti-Semite. Then according to you Bush is a mass murderer because he killed via his actions so many people in Iraq and our own soldiers due to the war he started with his LIES.
Mr. Khalidi is a respected Professor. PERIOD

So how mant prominent Republicans have now endorsed Obama?
So many, I’ve lost count.
How many prominent Dems have endorsed McCain?……That would be ZERO
It’s obvious there’s only one LEADER in this election.

ann said Mccain is hated almost as much as Bush and he really is stupider.
No, Mccain is not dumber than Bush (Mccain is actually smart) but Palin might actually be.

jmm,
That peoves the Government was not doing its job. INCOMPETENT REPUBLICANS

It’s very easy for us to judge why Obama doesn’t take care of his extended family, however we don’t know the whole story. I think this is silly to focus on. There are soooo many other issues that we need to focus on when it comes to Obama.
I’m a republican and frankly, the idea of him being the next president…..
scares the hell out of me. I like America, I like what we stand for, I like the freedom we have. Sure we have areas that we need to fix, we are not perfect. However, anyone that passes himself off as the only one who can “heal our souls”, we should be afraid of, unless it’s God. He talks a good game, but sorry, I need more than that. For me, it’s about security. It’s about keeping this country strong. It’s about making our people stronger by having to do for themselves, getting ahead in life by actual work, not handouts. I believe in tough love, not freebies. I am middle class, I don’t expect anything from the government. I have what I have because I work hard for it. I teach my children the same thing. Don’t expect handouts, stand up for yourselves. Have some self respect and if you want it you earn it. We have become so politically correct in this country, that if anything doesn’t go the way you want, then there is some one to blame. It’s pathetic. Have a back bone, do your own research on exactly the words that are being said, not the way they are being said. It makes a huge difference.
No matter what happens on Tuesday, I will still be proud of my country, maybe just a little afraid.

Truth,
“No, Mccain is not dumber than Bush (Mccain is actually smart) but Palin might actually be.”
It would be hard for anyone to be dumber than Dumbo himself. Still, Sarah’s giving it a real go.
McCain has more intelligence. Too bad he has so much anger and fear. I guess that came from his POW experience.
I pity him for that. Unfortunately, I think it disqualifies him from the presidency. He’s too quick to jump the gun.
We don’t need another war, let alone a nuclear holocaust.

Skinny dog,
If you so concerned about the donation made by Obama’s half aunt maybe you should check into the $70,000.00 made by a foriegn individual to McCain.

smith wrote:
“Oh My! This is bad. Who paid for the housing and the donation?”
Must have been some left-wing, socialist.
Quick, pick up the phone and call Joe the Plumber!
He has a hot-line to McCain, so this important story can be weaved into Sarah’s next speach.
Oh my! A real SCOOP!

“Gee, I wonder if she voted early”
Boy, da ya think she mailed an absentee ballot from Kenya?
Hmmm. This looks like a federal offense.
Quick, call Joe the Plumber back… This one could work!

If she is illegal she should be deported regardless of who she is related to. Poor woman, in this case it must really suck to be related to someone famous, otherwise she could have just kept living her life anonymously and illegally. Guess her 260 dollar donation won’t save her now. She can go back to Africa and then try and come back legally.

Linda Hepworth,
Boy Linda, this is REALLY BIG NEWS. Maybe the newspapers haven’t seen it yet. Quick, get on the phone and let them know…
Then again, maybe they have a minimum level of journalistic integrity and actually CHOSE not to publish this garbage.
Naw

From what it sounds, it seems Obama himself was unaware she had come to the United States- the last time he saw them was in Kenya, where he went to look for his father’s family. I certainly wouldn’t want to be the target of GOP robocalls because I donated to Obama . Previous elections, candidates didn’t disclose donors too.
What about Cindy McCain’s half-sister, who got cut out of her father’s will because her father met another woman who appealed more to him then his wife? I find it deplorable how Cindy does not even acknowledge her, even if she does not help her out financially. I do not want such a woman to be First Lady, I can just imagine how Kathleen Portalski must be feeling.

They should send Aunti Zeituni back to Kenya ASAP, I’m just shocked she was able to milk the system for this long, I bet she can really use her donation just about now, It’s unfortunate Obama will probably disown her just like he as done with anyone who has brought him any back lash !!! Ask Kevin if he could sponsor her ??? she’s still young I’m sure she could still work !!! or is she going to live off the government ???
Can one of the Obama supporters sponsor Aunti ???

Has anyone else wondered where Michelle Obama is? Why is she hiding from the press and the american people? Could it be that she has been muzzled by her husband for fear of saying something that might doom his well laid plans? Or does he know more than half of the American electorate can’t stand the sight of her? I think it is very telling that she doesn’t accompany him on the campaign trail and show the American people what we’ll be getting in a first couple. Or could the reason be Americans know what she thinks of this country and it’s people and her husband doesn’t want us reminded of that fact, lest we might wake up and finally “get it”.

Republicans would have you believe somehow it is wrong for Obama not to support his extended family, but at the same time see nothing wrong with Cindy McCain ignoring her half sister.
Was it is alright for McCain to dump his disfigured wife and abandon his children for a millionaire heiress, too?
What a double standard by those right-wing hypocrites.
Obama/Biden 08!

Grey Matter, you mean instability, and what you mean is good cousin Odinga, who lost his election and had Christians slaughtered. So if you think dear Aunty would be in danger, HA, it was a family member at the head of the trouble. But that was a nice try

So Obama’s aunt who lives in a slum in the famous Southie neighborhood of Boston not only lives in the US illegally, but is on the public dole in a housing project.
And Senator Obama not only has done nothing to help his auntie become a legal citizen, but he took $260 from her for his campaign.
While Americans are homeless and losing jobs and homes, Obama turns his back, living in his million dollar home, sitting with his big fat million dollar bank account and letting others “spread” THEIR WEALTH re: taxes support his illegal alien aunt.
The hypocrisy is beyond description.

The AP Headline is all wrong and ABC reporters are nor Reporters but just stupid stenographers. The Headline should have rightly said : INCOMPETENT BUSH ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT ENFORCE IT’S OWN IMMIGRATION LAWS.

romanesq,
I fing there nothing to fault about Bridget McCain.
But I DO wonder about Cindy McCain’s half-sister who got cut out of her father’s will who is kind of struggling financially. I DO wonder that Cindy hasn’t at the VERY LEAST acknowledged her existence, considering she grew up with her (I was a single child e.g), and at every interview she never even acknowledges her sister, even if she doesn’t help her out financially.

This is ridiculous!!! Sounds like she is a poor lady that is having problems!! Why would John McCain Campaign attack this poor lady just to try to win President. This is one of the many despicable acts he has done.
Everyone – you could be next. I Don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat. John McCain will attack anyone!!
I hope her case will be reviewed. She just wants to stay in America. Is that so wrong???
So what!!

“Republicans are shameless and pathetic. They are the lowest of the low, and they give me that creepy feeling that somehow they are on the lower rung of the evolution chain (not much higher than ordinary animals).”
Just another attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the hard working American, giving excuses for an illegal alien, and shifting blame away from the socialist wealth spreader. I sincerely hope that if Obama becomes president, he targets all the idiots who blindly followed him first, redistribute their wealth, give their homes to the illegal immigrants. Obviously they have no jobs so they’ll have lots of time to think about their mistake on a park bench just in time for winter.

momydoll,
Well, yes, maybe she is qualified to be a Governor, but not the Vice-President- or in an emergency- President of the United States.
She has limited knowledge on anything outside oil and ANWR and Alaskan stuff. For goodness’ sake, she thinks we can just label who is the “Good guy” and “bad guy” in the Arab-Israeli conflict. She thinks we should just stand and watch if Israel decides to invade Iran, to h e l l with regional stability and the innocent civilians who can’t control what their president says.

She’ll be safe with Bush and Juan McCain,they are both for pardons for illeagl’s. There is a rumor that Bush will pardon all 20 million illeagl’s on his way out.
Ex Republican

Kim,
Immigration is a federal issue. If she was here illegally why did the Bush Adminstartion not do its job and deport her. Also, how come you have no outrage about the $70,000 contribution to the McCain campaign by a foriegner.

Feminist 50- maybe because I did not hear about this, please provide the backup to this information. I go off of facts.

Obama took an illegal donation from his illegal AUNT!!!

Grey Matter, You know, when I vote for Pesident, that’s what i do, vote for the President and relagate the V.P. position to the status of “use as needed”. The V.P. position is really just a figured head position anyway. If we all made our Presidential choice based on who the President “may be”, then we have lost all sight of the choices we have before us to elect an acting current President. We can’t vote on the notion that, that candidates V.P. “could” be President. That’s making a choice based on a hypothetical.

A US senator does not intervene on his aunt’s behalf? Seems to me that is the story. He did not choose to use his power to help this woman. Perhaps that is because he doesn’t even know of her plight. Or that he trusts the immigration system. Certainly any Senator could make this happen with no blowback.

momydol,
The very fact that he chose Sara palin as a VP shows what a reckless, smitten, old fool he is. Who offers anyone the VP job after 1 interview. He is a doddering old man and upon seeing a marginally attractive middle aged lady offered her the job. We all lnow which head he was thinking with.

Thelma,
You only prove that right wingers are indeed monumentally deranged. Do you think Obama manually sifts through the millions of dollars he has received in small amounts. Also, why are you not outraged at the huge illegal donation that McCain received from a foriegn source.

Feminist 50
Blame Bush for the immigration mess all you want. Congress , mostly Democrats haven’t done much about that problem in these past 8 years, Sure Blame Bush.
I’m asking how a Mass democratic govt lead by a Democratic Governor who happens to be ‘ very good friends with Sen. Obama and will be a cabinet post receipiant….’ how would they allow this lady to get not only housing but a job? That’s all I asked….

Thelma hit it on the head.

Uh oh. Here is the big pre-election day scandal. Head for the hills. McCain’s gonna pull off the upset victory.

Says a lot about Obama’s character by how he treats his family.
But with our money Obama will take care of illegals by giving them welfare, driver’s licenses, and free health care.
It’s the patriotic and selfless thing to do.

Concerned in Ohio
Maybe you can help to answer my original question I asked this morning, Why isn’t Mrs.O on the campaign stage with her husband?

This shows you there is hope yet for people like Oyango making it here, and I am glad for them and our nation.
This is one of the few places one couldn’t help but acknowledge a humanitarian edge to the Bush Administration.
But why is the story of Oyango so singular?

Clearly the “crazies” have struck Femminist 50. Its 60 degrees and she has the air conditioning on.
Calm down and try to be rational

Who cares. Obama is not responsible for his father side, who did not raise him when he was growing up. To me, he has his mother’s look, her gentle heart, and his white grandparents’ values. And that is important.

Alexis,
“They found an alrming number of untraceable donations to the Obama campaign, they are supposed to investigate it, I hope the donations are not from Anti American sources…”
Oh, goodness me!
Give us a break!

I already voted for Obama, so it’s not going to change anything.

jmm,
In 2004 when she was denied asylum and living in Masachusssets Mitt Romney was the Governor.

I hope this is the reason that McCain and Palin are telling reporters they guarantee they are going to win the election and not because the Republicons have in place ways to steal the election like they did in 2000 and 2004.

Following the candidate’s visit to his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, there is an 11th-hour break in the Obama birth certificate story….
AP reports:
[Hawaii] State officials say there’s no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.
Fukino says that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama’s certificate be handled differently.
She says state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
Does this settle the matter?
No way, says blogger Michael Patrick Leahy.
Note the careful language from the State Department of Health officials in this press release:
“[we] have personally seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.”
They did not say we have the long form copy of his birth certificate signed by his attending physician at Kapiolani Hospital on August 4, 1961.
It’s an original birth certificate “in accordance with state policies and procedures.”
One of those state policies and procedures was the acceptance of “after the fact” birth certificates under the 1911 Hawaii Birth Certificate program. This program was for residents of Hawaii over the age of one who did not register their birth with the state originally. The state accepted some “alternate form of documentation.” This “alternate form of documentation”, once accepted under this program that was in existence until 1972, becomes “an original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.”
How convenient that this press conference is held on the eve of the Presidential election just a couple weeks after Barack Obama went to visit his sick grandmother.
Here’s the way Barack Obama can be straight forward and honest with the American people:
Authorize the release of this document that Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka both say they’ve seen and verified.
If it’s an August 4, 1961 long form birth certificate signed by an attending physician at a Honolulu hospital, then it’s case closed. You’ve met the burden of proof.
But if it’s some alternate document introduced later…depending on the contents of that document, we may still conclude you’ve not met the burden of proof.
But show us the document State of Hawaii and Barack Obama ! Let it see the light of day.
And by the way, while we’re at it, here’s a question for Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka:
Can you please explain to me why you are violating state law by showing us the document, but not violating state law by telling us you’ve seen the document ? Did you receive authorization from Barack Obama to (1) look at the document and (2) tell us you’ve looked at the document ?
Another question on the original birth certificate Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka verified:
Is it:
(1) A Certificate of Hawaiian Birth created under the 1911 “after the fact program ?
or
( 2) or is it a standard birth certificate created from the original document provided contemporaneously by the birth hospital ?
And yet another question on this carefully parsed statement:
“[we] have personally seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.”
What exactly does “original birth certificate on record” mean ?
Does it mean they physically viewed the hard copy of the original birth certificate ? Or does it mean they’ve reviewed the information technology procedures by which the abstracted data was placed into the State of Hawaii birth certificate data base?
And… why a released statement and not a press conference ?

momydoll,
When did he “disagree with it’s contents”?
Yes I know he’s for more gun regulations and stuff, but that’s generally the consensus on the left. I’ve read his stands and he says he’s not going to take away guns but to just have more regulations, especially in the city when people don’t exactly have the excuse of hunting to need to have guns (other then protection), considering the horrific murders of Jennifer Hudson’s family, I think that idea has some merit. Even if he wanted to revoke the Second Amendment, it will be almost impossible for him to. This will have to go through the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court.
Personally, I really think McCain degrades women. Other then the whole “using” Sarah Palin thing, he’s also been voting against the Equal Pay Act.

If you work for small business and vote for Obama I hope you will be the first one to get laid off.
Small business will be forced to scale back and you should pay the price.
If not you are selfish.

It’s kinda funny that they are trying to bring this up now. It’s three day’s before the biggest election of our lives and the press choice to bring this stupid story out now. I could see if Barack Obama was living in the United States illegally,but they choice to put this out. I think John McCain and his friends have something to do with this.
Obama/Biden”08″

moderate said -
———-/Oh, that’s priceless. Your logic escapes me. “Education” can come in many forms– formal education, life experience, vocational training, etc. The educated person never stops learning. But what has to do with whether one is Republican or Democrat? So you’ve decided we Republicans want to return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle? I thought we were the party of the fat-cat moguls from Wall Street who burned our excess money to light our illegal Cuban cigars?——/
So moderate recognizes the two extremes of the republican party, the rich and the poor. This election is about the middle. We don’t want to be further pushed into poordom by supporting welfare/socialism/tax breaks for the rich.
Obama/Biden 08!

This story shows utter desperation from the other side. Do you really think that “breaking” the story of a half-sister of a father he only met once, living as an illegal in the US, is gonna make people vote for McCain? That her being in that situation is somehow Obama’s fault or at the very least reflective on him? Get real.
I am in the very same boat. I have an aunt, the half-sister of my father who walked out when I was a child and died without me knowing him, who is currently an illegal in NY. I’ve met the woman a couple times in my life, but I don’t know her nor is she reflective of who I am as a person or my values. This story coming out now is utterly pathetic. How low have we sunk in this race?

With Obama’s $500.00 bribe we can make our mortgage payment, pay for food, gas.
Obama will save us. The government and Obama will take care of us so that we won’t have to become self-reliant!
Isn’t he wonderful?

I want a story by Jake Tapper connecting John McCain for Cindy McCain’s criminal behaviour in stealing drugs. he is after all married to her. Obama barely knows his haf-aunt.

Well, if you live in Ohio and you dare question Senator Government you get all your state records rummaged through by Senator Government’s surrogates.
Just ask Joe.
Posted by: Concerned in Ohio | Nov 1, 2008 10:29:17 AM
Where did it ever come out that Obama and his campaign were involved? Please quit spreading lies. I guess that is what you do when you have nothing.

Paul New Man,
“concerned in ohio” is exactly right. The Obama campaign did deliberately disable the security features on their website, which allows campaign finance fraud to run rampant. Why would they do that?
Neither Concerned nor I have seen the code. I get my information about this fraud from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Hardly sources anxious to cast aspersions on Sen. Obama, yet they have both done stories about how the security controls were deliberately disabled.
Oh, and on a related note, someone was suggesting that Obama doesn’t release the names of the small donors because it would be an onerous task to produce such a list. Funny, Slate (an online source seriously pro-Obama; a survey of Slate workers showed only 1 of 54 was a McCain supporter, and the rest plan to vote Obama) demonstrated that they could produce such a list in a matter of hours.

Why is this a story?
The woman is not a close relative and Obama probably keeps her at a distance. Many of us have relatives whom we keep at a distance, for whatever reason.
That’s just the way life is. The woman’s status is of no importance to the election issue.

Moderate,
“Oh, and on a related note, someone was suggesting that Obama doesn’t release the names of the small donors because it would be an onerous task to produce such a list. Funny, Slate (an online source seriously pro-Obama; a survey of Slate workers showed only 1 of 54 was a McCain supporter, and the rest plan to vote Obama) demonstrated that they could produce such a list in a matter of hours. ”
Yes, they could print a list with 3 million names and addresses on it and submit it for public scrutiny…
… then get sued for divulging confidential personal information. I, for one, would not want my name published, for fear of being spammed for the rest of my life!
Let’s let the federal election commission handle any investigation of suspected fraud. At this point in time, I believe they work for Bush, no?

This is the WORST non-story the media has EVER covered.
how the hell is this relevant?
this is ridiculous and offensive to me personally.
leave this woman alone.
where are the reports of palin’s AIP stories and Cindy’s sisters?
NONE.

Republicans – Nut jobs, war mongers and lovers of treasonous people like Sara Palin with her ties to the AIP.

momydoll,
Get a copy of the Constitution and read it. If I remember right, you’ll find the relevent information in Article 5.
The process of repealing an amendment is very complex and a simple majority in Congress is far from sufficient.
Besides, no elected politician’s going to try to repeal any amendments from the Bill of Rights and hope to survive in US politics.
Don’t worry about your guns.

Now I understand why Obama thinks Illegals should be eligible for Welfare, Soc Sec and SSI benefits,( along with drivers licenses). He would rather the government (aka, taxpayers) support his family than dig into his millions to do it.

Obama appears to have mulitiple relatives that live in slums. So much for his words on “taking care of my brothers” LOL Obama is a liar and a fraud who is not qualified to be a U.S. Senator let alone U.S. President.
BREAKING NEWS! McCain is now LEADING in the polls!
PUMAS will roar into the voting booths on Tuesday and let it be known to the nation, we say NOBAMA!
It’s McCain 08 and our Hillary 2012!
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
UNITY? HELL NO.
18 MILLION STRONG AND GROWING!
Country first, party second!
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex” Susan B. Anthony

as an person living in the UK, I have always looked up to america, and always wanted to visit. I have been reading your comments here, and I must say, I cannot understand why you americans treat and speak to each other the way you do. The whole world is watching, and listening.
And the bickering is not appealing.
Why do you think you should be the “SuperPower” in this world?
you are near the bottom in infant mortality
your holding in educating your young people is slipping
and your desire to war with people is getting old
a super power should set the GOOD example for the rest of the world
we British have always stood with the us. as you have with us.
We want to continue to see you as a Super Power-but you must realise that honor has to be earned and maintained.
you are not super-if you are the only ones calling yourselves so.

It came out that the agency head who approved of “researching” Joe’s records for potential dirt in the areas of child support, welfare, etc. was a Democratic elected official who had contributed the maximum 2300 to the Obama campaign.
Then when the information became part of the news reporting on Joe, both Obama and Biden made cracks about the man during their speeches. Biden talked about his concern for the “real Joe the Plumber, the one with a license,” for example. Run afoul of the Obamaniacs and suffer the consequences.
Posted by: moderate | Nov 1, 2008 10:45:39 AM
See that is how ridiculous people like you and Concerned are. Just because she gave money to Obama’s campaign does NOT mean that she did it with his knowledge. She is in NO way connected to his campaign except through donating her PERSONAL money. The other people acted on their own.
Joe the Plumber lied from day one.He doesn’t have a license. He is buying a business when he makes $40,000 a year?
If you think this guy is for real, you need your head examined. I don’t know if they ever found out for sure he is a relative of Keating or not. Nor do I care. They guy is being used and not very effectively.

BREAKING NEWS! McCain is now LEADING in the polls! (based on Zogby – Drudge Report)
________________________________________
There is a reason most legitimate pollsters don’t give Zogby much value. Zogby sets his party weightings based on the exit polls from the most recent election, meaning 2004.
In 2004 roughly an equal amount of Democrats and Republicans voted.
According to essentially every available poll, Democrats now have somewhere between a 5-point and a 10-point advantage in party ID.

I just don’t know…
Illegal aunt is just one of the latest negatives against Obama – whom we still don’t know well.
He kicks newspapaers off the plane that do nothing other than what they’re supposed to do, ask questions.
Past associations.
Reports of not making the one certain qualification outlined in the Constitution, born in the USA.
Obvious dislike towards Isreal. Evident by his mentor Jesse Jackson and now this interview with this radical that hates Isreal and the jewish.
His only record he has is what he did or didn’t do in Chicago. What’s the death toll in Chicago vs Iraq? What about violent crime or crime period?
How are his views of the Bill of Rights? He wouldn’t deny law abiding citizens of their rights would he? Can the law abiding of Chicago own guns?
Too many questions without any answers and there is only 3 days left.
Who’s going to get the answers when he kicks off newspapers that would possibly ask?
Wecome to State Media of Obamination.

Obama’s aunt is only important because the GOP has nothing else to run on. One needs no further proof of their utter desperation. The truly sad part is that they already have this lo-info dumb-ass voter in the tank.
They got him once they started defending the much maligned Joe the Plumber. Let’s forget that Obama did not launch poor joe into the national spotlight…That…er…um was John McCain and then he acts offended that anyone would research Joe whom he trots out on stage with him every chance he gets. I mean Jeez, John, you promote him as an “American Hero” (HUH?) and your “Role Model” (HUH?). And not to defy Gods of chance, Joe is ever the populist and opportunist. Let’s forget that Joe knows naught of which he speaks, let’s focus on his deals that have surplanted his dream of owning a plmubing business. First the book, then the run for Congress and now he has an agent for a music album. I also heard the skinheads were courting him.
McCain has been running a doomed campaign since he made a silk purse out of a moose ear in his Sarah Palin VP selection and Joe is just the latest rabbit he pulled out of the hat…and we’re siupposed to focus on Obama’s aunt? Sorry, the heri keri circus side show is much more entertaining.

It is okay to get Obama family involved and Palin and McCain is a no go. I thought family were off limits.
McCain supporters have lost all values. This is so low. There is no story here. Just the other day itr was that she was neglected and troday she is here illegally. How far can they go.
Obama/Biden 08

My, My that John McCain and his terrorist associates.
“During the late 1990s, the Senator supported and reportedly helped arm an organization that, while eventually tolerated by the U.S. foreign policy establishment, was accused of terrorist activities and allegedly had ties to al Qaeda.
During the late stages of the Balkan War, the Kosovo Liberation Army was known for committing incredible atrocities in its efforts to facilitate Kosovo’s independence from Yugoslavia. The guerrilla group often was responding to acts of violence committed against its own people. But its tactics were, nevertheless, viewed as condemnable: abductions and murders, systematic burning and looting of homes, and harassment and intimidation of Yugoslav officials. “

“Common sense”
Please.
The basic tenet of the Republican Party is that anyone, anywhere can be anything and be as successful as they want to be if they are smart, talented, and willing to work hard.
The notion that the rich elite are somehow oppressing the workers was the most powerful tool of the Bolsheviks fomenting revolution and murder on the grandest scale in history.
I hear people all the time saying “Well, well. The Repubs always SAY that, but SECRETLY, they’re controlling everything, and keeping all the money and keeping the working man down.”
Did you trade a fire helmet for a tin foil hat?
Obama thinks you have.

Well, we no longer have to work or do anything: Obama will solve all our problems.
Obama will pay our mortgage
Fill our gas tanks
and put food on the table
He will provide new closthes and cars for everyone.
The only problem that Obama has is that Obama can not help his own relatives living in huts and on welfare.

How are his views of the Bill of Rights? He wouldn’t deny law abiding citizens of their rights would he? Can the law abiding of Chicago own guns?
Too many questions without any answers and there is only 3 days left.
Who’s going to get the answers when he kicks off newspapers that would possibly ask?
Wecome to State Media of Obamination.
Posted by: Concerned in WI | Nov 1, 2008 11:04:47 AM
Go to his website and find out where he stands on guns. Here are the highlights:
REALITY: OBAMA HAS CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTED COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL, AS WELL AS THE RIGHTS OF LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNERS
Obama Supported A Package Of Legislation That Would Limit Handgun Sales To One A Month
Obama Voted To Prohibit Multiple Sales Of Handguns Within A 30-Day Period
Obama Disagreed With The NRA That “People Should Be Unimpeded And Unregulated On Gun Ownership;” In Favor Of Handgun Registration And Licensing Requirements
Obama: America Has A “Tradition Of Gun Ownership In This Country That Can Be Respected.”

It is not progressive taxation that makes 0bama a socialist.
It is the Class Struggle that makes 0bama a Socialist, Stupid!
Posted by: d0 | Nov 1, 2008 11:19:35 AM
I guess you missed Larry King when McCain was asked if Obama was a socialist and McCain said no.

I am against illegal immigration and am a McCain supporter. (Yes, I know that would have sounded like an oxymoron a year ago.) Having said that, I want to say that I agree families should be left out of the debate (except, perhaps, if a very close family member should denigate the USA).
Now lets see the Dems FINALLY put a hands-off the family campaign philososphy into practice. I won’t hold my breath.
(By the way, my previous post about Michelle and Barack the day after election day is a metaphorical interpretation of an Obama deafeat and not a personal attack on Michelle, or Barack Obama for that matter. Just to be clear on this.)

Hmmmmmm…….. A half sister to a father that spent one month with his child. Sounds like a lot of American families to me.
How is this relevant?

I don’t want to “spread the wealth around” as Obama plans to do.
It’s socialism & communism at it’s worst. No thanks. I’ll take capitalism. It’s what has made America great.
Let’s not forget that.
Be careful of what you wish for. Mr. hopey changey is bad news for America.
Far too many unanswered questions remain about Barack Hussein Obama. Yep, that’s his legal name, not a “smear”.
What do Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy (and ALL of the Kennedy family) have to say about the revelations of Obama pals domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn dedicating their book “Prarie Fire” their “communist manifesto” to Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of Bobby Kennedy?
I have something to say. Bobby Kennedy was a childhood hero of mine, and I am deeply offended.
Obama has far too many nefarious relationships, Ayers, Dorhrn, Rezko, Auchi, Khalidi, Farakaan, Black Liberation Theology, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Meeks, Emil Jones, Mayor Daley of Chicago, Raila Odinga, a radical Muslim Kenyan leader who claims to be Obama’s cousin, is he or isn’t he?
The media has failed to do their job. Obama’s had a free pass the entire campaign.
If there was any shred of credibility left in the media it died in 2008.
Put country first and party second.
McCain 08.

Paul New Man… you leave out one important fact regarding the europe. It is unable to defend itself in the face of a monolithic threat, e.g., a resurgent Russia, or an amorphous threat, such as Islamic extremism. The EU countries have been living under the benefits of NATO for as long as I can remember and one very big benefit has been economic.

H: “It’s socialism & communism at it’s worst. No thanks. I’ll take capitalism. It’s what has made America great.”
If you believe that Obama’s proposal to use the 90′s tax brackets and a capital gains tax lower than the one institute by Reagan in 1986 is “socialism and communism” then you are a poster child for the Republican Party of Ignorance.
EVERY first world, free nation on earth uses a progressive tax system to spread the wealth. (Or they are explicitly socialist, like Iceland with their 36% flat tax.) It is the only system ever seen that creates stable, prosperous societies which is why the wealthy put it in place. But I suppose facts and reality have no place in the fantasy land that the Republican base lives in.

Who cares.

Paul New man:
With three quarters of a billion dollars, it is not hard to have minions do your dirty work while keeping your hands “clean”. (See what high-up people in Ohio governmant are doing by accessing Joe the Plumber’s files in their databases.)

To jmm:
Why didn’t Cindy McCain help her sister? She IGNORED HER HER ENTIRE LIFE – she lived in poverty and john and cindy lived the lifestyle of the rich and famous. This is her SISTER!
HONESTLY, THEY PREACH THEY ARE THE TORCH BEARERS OF CHRISTIANITY AND SO DO ALL YOU SUPPORTERS AND YET YOU ARE SOOOO ZEALOUS YOU DO NOT PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH- HYPOCRITES IS NOT WHAT IS PREACHED IN THE BIBLE. SO MUCH HATE IN THESE POSTS IT’S SCARY. GLAD THIS IS NOT WE LEARNED IN MY CHURCH.

So where’s the story? What does Obama have to do with this?
What about McCain’s senile brother cursing at 911 operators?
That was another non story.
Here’s a story:
So much of the country’s wealth has been distributed upward.
If you go back to 1979, prior to the period when the growth in inequality really took off in the United States, the top 5 percent on average had 11 times the average income of the bottom 20 percent. If you fast forward to the year 2000, the most recent economic peak, you find that that ratio increased to 19 times. So over the course of those two decades, the gap between the wealthiest and the lowest income families grew from 11 times to 19 times.
If you divide the work force into quintiles, or fifths, based on their wages, in the bottom fifth, 18 percent of the workforce has pension coverage and one-third has health coverage. If you then look at the top fifth, you’ll find that 73 percent has pension coverage, and 81 percent has healthcare coverage.
Practically any variable that has to do with how economic growth is distributed — compensation, benefits, pensions, health insurance, quality of education, quality of housing, exposure to crime — will yield this kind of highly skewed result. Wealth disparity is far more concentrated than income disparity.
This was in 2000, now it’s even worse.
Bush, I mean McCain, wants to make permanent the capital gains tax cut which will remove needed tax funds from
the government just when it needs them for infrastructure and stimulus for the economy. Rich people do not spend their money, they make investments in banking, like the bad investments we are now rescuing.
Rather than making cuts in spending, why not increase taxes for those reaping the most from our economic system?
For years we have been borrowing from foreign powers to run the government while the rich keep growing richer off our debtor economy.
Without these needed funds our country will go the way of Mexico.
I say viva Obama!

Jwench,
“Most of the Kennedy family is backing him. I don’t get your point on this part.”
Don’t worry about this guy. I’ve seen his rants elsewhere. He’s trying to tie Obama with Sirhan Sirhan.
He’s a real nut case.

I had a father who abandoned us, and I have relatives on his side I don’t know or may have met once. This is the case with Obama. It is ridiculous to expect him to be responsible for the conduct of numerous relatives he did not even grow up with.

“Leave her be and spend your valuable time as a journalist poking and prodding the candidates.”
Hypocrite!
Now, you mean that only now you want to investigate the candidates only.
Three words for you to look into pal: Joe the plumber!
The double standard of the Bamabots is pathetic and obvious.

My Grandmother came to America illegally and lived here many years before finally getting her citizenship. She was born in Spain and was refused a resident visa as most people from the southern part of Europe were in the early part of the twentieth century.
She traveled to Mexico and crossed the border at Laredo to get a needed eye operation. She never left.
Grandmother settled in Los Angeles, taught music lessons, and raised five wonderful and talented children. She finally got her citizenship in 1936.
We are allowing thouands of Iraqis into the United States because we feel guilty about destroying their country.
We can afford to let this poor woman stay- and leave her alone.

Y: “It’s impossible with Obama because he’s accepting massive donations that are untraceable.”
This is a lie. Every donation over $200 is recorded and reported to the exact same degree as John McCain. What is your definition of massive? $200?

“Why didn’t Cindy McCain help her sister? She IGNORED HER HER ENTIRE LIFE – she lived in poverty and john and cindy lived the lifestyle of the rich and famous. This is her SISTER!”
“My friends, when elected I will treat all of you just like you are one of my family.”
JOHN MCCAIN
CORPORATIONS FIRST COUNTRY LAST

Fan of the 48: “Three words for you to look into pal: Joe the plumber!”
McCain put forward Joe the plumber as a “real world example” of an ordinary guy who would see increased taxes under Obama during the third debate. IT WAS A LIE – the fact, reality, is JOE WOULD GET A TAX CUT. MCCAIN’S OFT-REPEATED EXAMPLE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. The FACT that John McCain’s example was a fantasy based on a lie is VERY RELEVANT to the public understanding the reality of Obama’s tax plan and therefore it is reasonable it was reported.

I commend this news paper for reporting the truth about a man asking us to allow him to be the leader of the free world.
I am suprised that you can do it at all.
The Federal Court restraining order that Obama filed in PA.said that American citizens do not have the right to ask questions about the candidate.
It is a new Nation now. I just am trying to learn the correct lingo myself.

How is Obama responsible for a distant relative’s action – one whom he barely knows? Then is John McCain resposnsible for Cindy’s criminal behaviour.

Welcome to ObamaWorld.
If he can’t take care of his auntie, how can he possibly take care of all his Kool-Aid drinkers?
Yea, that’s it: hope and change, right?

jhw539
You can’t be that desperate to think that McCain planted Joe the plumber. That isn’t the issue here. Can’t you stay on topic?
The issue is Joe the plumber and Obama are on video and Joe made the One look bad. The media, in Obama’s hip pocket, illegally tore into this man’s records and life.
Now, some other poster wants the media to “leave this woman alone and focus only on the candidates”.
A little hypocritical, don’t you think?

Fan of the 48,
“You can’t be that desperate to think that McCain planted Joe the plumber. That isn’t the issue here. Can’t you stay on topic?”
He didn’t plant him but he sure scooped him up!
McCain’s campaign was so void of ideas that they latched onto Joe much too quickly.
Joe has recently been recorded making some pretty racist, facist remarks on TV.
He’s a loose canon. McCain better hope that November 4 comes quickly, before Joe turns into a real embarrassment, like Palin did.

seemstome,
“Why didn’t Cindy McCain help her sister? She IGNORED HER HER ENTIRE LIFE – she lived in poverty and john and cindy lived the lifestyle of the rich and famous. This is her SISTER!”
“My friends, when elected I will treat all of you just like you are one of my family.”
That was funny and I had forgotten about that McCain line. My favorite is “You’re all Joe the plumber”.
No. No. Say it ain’t so, Joe. I don’t want to be treated like McCain treats his family and I MOST CERTAINLY AM NOT Joe the Plumber.
I have a job, therefore, I pay taxes!
Obama/Biden 08!
P.S. Sarah Palin’s on CNN right now wearing a bad-arse blue outfit, but I don’t think they should have paid $150K for it.)

Fan of the 48:
“jhw539
You can’t be that desperate to think that McCain planted Joe the plumber. That isn’t the issue here. Can’t you stay on topic?”
I NEVER suggest that Joe was a plant. I claimed, based on REALITY and the FACTS that he was a liar, the situation he described (his buying a small plumbing business and being subjected to higher taxes) was a FANTASY, and that John McCain used this false story repeatedly to FALSELY attack Obama’s tax plan. Everyone can read what I post and make their own decision about just who is having trouble “staying on topic.” Do you deny that Joe’s claim was a LIE? Do you think many small plumbing business owners take how $250k+ a year in profit?
“The issue is Joe the plumber and Obama are on video and Joe made the One look bad.” BY LYING “The media, in Obama’s hip pocket,” LEGALLY FACTCHECKED JOE’S STATEMENTS AFTER THE DEBATE AND FOUND HE WAS LYING AND INCORRECT IN HIS FUNDAMENTAL ARGUMENT.
“illegally tore into this man’s records and life.”
I’m not big on reading the Enquirer, so please cite what details have been released illegally. I didn’t find it relevant to follow the story beyond the basic fact check showing JOE WAS LYING. The public fact he is violating licensing laws, the public fact that he has a lien filed against him – those are just trivialities to be expected of Republicans.
I guess the Republican Party of Ignorance gets annoyed when the media keeps pointing out reality.

Individuals in the federal government made sure AP had the story. Why, folks? Republican politics. Senator Obama cannot be expected to keep track of a very large half-family he did not grow up with. This has no reflection on him whatsover. I mean, please. As for discussions here about “Joe the Plumber”? Yes he was a plant: he is related to Charles Keating and Obama’s answer to him was thoughtful and thorough. As for poor Cindy McCain – yes, she’s totally blackballed her half-sister, referring to herself as an “only child.” This half-sister, from Cindy’s father’s first marriage, received nothing. Cindy inherited the fortune. It’s not Cindy’s fault – but referring to herself as an “only child” is cold indeed.

Maybe you are feeling some economic pain now. 0bama will keeps his one eye open – to fight his Class War on Americans – and another eye closed – to allow Illegal Aliens flood the country, pretending he does not know and thus excuse from upholding the Law. Besides, it will increase his base of the Poor Class against the dwindling Rich Class of 5%.

As a pathological liar, 0bama, claims knowing nothing about his aunt living in the US illegally, is practicing a Classic Marxist Class Struggle against its own people within.

Posted by: H | Nov 1, 2008 12:01:06 PM
I guess you missed that Ayers is a non issue. If they had anything of value don’t you think they would have used it.
Google McCain and KLA and report back to me.

You folks posting here must either be really young or hired to keep things stired up. I am part American Indian, notice I said American Indian and not Indian American. I am eligible for a handout, but I prefer to work for what I get. Some of you say you are ashamed of the way I think, well the feeling is mutual. This is supposed to be America (at least for a few more days) so therefore I am entitled to my opinion today. Hard earned money should not be given to the illegals in this country. If they want to be citizens of this country, work for it and become a citizen. Now if you disagree with that, that is ok, but you give them your money not mine. Barack Hussien Obama has got to be lying about his aunt, he wrote about her in the book, and bet you, there are more. Just wait.
The Lincoln bedroom won’t be big enough for all the bunk beds.

Factcheck,
Get a braincheck

Posted by: Molly | Nov 1, 2008 12:12:10 PM
Please go get a clue.

This is non-story. Same as McCain’s brother’s use of 911 to report a traffic jam though in that case McCain was actively involved in the campaign.

The question we need to ask is who voted for the war that sent 4,200 Americans to the deaths for a lie?
Was it Auntie Zeutumi?
Or was it John McCain?

to factcheck | Nov 1, 2008 12:05:04 PM
so this is what you say you checked:
“Maybe you are feeling some economic pain now. 0bama will keeps his one eye open – to fight his Class War on Americans – and another eye closed – to allow Illegal Aliens flood the country, pretending he does not know and thus excuse from upholding the Law. Besides, it will increase his base of the Poor Class against the dwindling Rich Class of 5%.”
Pretty good – for a sarcastic joke. Sounds like o-tone McCain

The really sad thing about this story is that it just stirs up more racial hatred.
It will probably give McCain at least a 1% boost in the polls.

Bust’em…Palin’s only running for VP. How come Obama hasn’t released ANY records? Wonder if he has any medical problems from his “early days”? Seems not much is actually know about him.

Wendy Button, the Obama speech writer that helped sell the shell game con man, left the entire Dem party and now plans to vote McCain /Palin said:
[quote] I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true.[quote]

This is the best the muckrakers on the right could come up with? The depths to which the Republican machinery will sink to sway voters is deplorable to the point of being sickening. What does a poor old woman who risked everything she had to come to America and try to make a better life for herself, who scrounged up all she could to support her nephew, a nephew whom she has every reason to be proud of… what does any of this have to do with Obama being elected president? If McCain seizes on this opportunity and somehow seeks to use it against his opponent, I will lose every single shred of the tiny bit of respect I have left for him.

Hey Jwench.. see you are still on Obama’s payroll! Do you happen to work for ACORN? Ayers is just one of the long list of “guys in his neighborhood”
Ayers / Drn/ Rezko / Rev.Wright / Khasildi / Farrakhan. Would you like me to list more?
Keep drinking his Koolaid!

Obama said all laws should be followed. Thus, this is a non-issue.
Obama Supporters: set the tone! We don’t need to answer negative posts with negatives. Obama’s campaign is about us all coming together. He proposes a government where we can all participate in our democracy again. It’s hard to read the attacks, but, they are a part of what a democracy is. People attack so viciously because they are afraid – just as our government has wanted them to be for the past eight years.
The US has big issues to face: we’re ranked 16th and 20th in things like math, science and technology; in a global economy countries like India and China have more honors-level kids than we have kids. The only way we’re going to solve these problems is if we all work together.
A new day is starting next week and there is room in it for everyone. I know we’ve all been taught that the ruling party will impart revenge and domination on the losing party, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Obama has said he does not want it to be that way.
Let’s change the tone now.

Just more fodder for the FOX News and Drudge types to hyperventilate over while the rest of America does the right thing and puts Obama-Biden in the White House.

Obama has not had contact with this distant relative for years and has only seen her about 5 times in his life.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 1, 2008 12:34:09 PM
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I understand you explanation, everything can be explained away, and I respect your thought process.
However, if his aunt indeed meant nothing to him, please tell me why he needs to vividly describe this very aunt in his “Dreams of his Father”? Such an inspirational book to so many, including Mr. 0bama by his stories. Yet, he knew nothing about her whereabouts, having no contacts, blind-eyed with her illegal immigration status, willingly and illegally accepts her illegal donations.
You may not like what you hear or see, but truths can be sad or hurt.

It’s November 1st.
Do you know where your half-aunts and quarter-uncles and second nieces and fifth cousins are?

‘Auntie Zeituni’ is simply about a flim flam man getting caught in his video lies about being the family she had to turn to.
Law is law, and Obama and family are not above the law.
In this Country, what is good enough for one, is good enough for all.
The poster who said it is about race is nuts!!!!
Early voters now have petitions out and being signed that block inauguration without opening the paperwork to prove he qualifies.
I saw another petition this morning passed around by an angry early voter, who said he is collecting signatures for Obama impeachment.
The man said” I was excited to see a man of my color get into the whitehouse, but I do not want a liar and a snake man of my color in there.”
‘Auntie Zeituni’ living here illegally made him mad. He was angry that Obama has a TV network, but no way to filed proper paperwork to bring her here legally, using a good immigration system in place .

I’m sure this will be a cute footnote in the campaign history of President Obama. Nice try GOP, and I’m really looking forward to watching you guys try to rebuild your party with Palin and all the religious nuts, the next 4 years are going to be fun!

The really sad thing about this story is that it just stirs up more racial hatred.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why is race always brought into issues? You should go post at Wonkette. I was just there reading some comments , about Trig, and because he wore a costum yesterday, he wanted to be aborted.
Many of the comments agree with that. One even went on to say, that he wanted to dress as an aborted fetus.
These are the members of the party of tolerance,and unity?

Im sure if our nation can adopt the McCains daughter Bridget who was brought here illegaly before being adopted by the McCains and our nation we can adopt an old lady who is the Aunty of the man who should and will be our next President.
Zeituni should be alowed to stay!
We the American people are good and generous people!
Obama 08 Powered by people not corporations.
Posted by: Mike NC
Your post caught my eye.
Every applicant into the immigration system that qualifys is allowed citizenship.
This talk that the system doesn’t work is just crap.
If you apply and get in the cue, you are not denied.
The ones who demand free money and break laws should not be allowed to mess it up for the last guy in the cue.
Do you shove everyone out of line at the airport and bank?
What do you think about anyone that would?
Try to use the grey matter before you speak.

d0: “The only thing you can do is to smear others, change topics, ignoring the lies from whom you support.”
Coming from a Republican this election cycle, that’s hilarious.
No, I don’t know where one of my aunts lives, but I could track her down quickly enough. It is none of my business what her immigration status is and it would be condescension beyond belief for me to arrogantly advise her that her lifestyle is poor and she needs money from me. Poor does not mean lacking dignity.

SACTO…oh Sacto….
Think again about President Obama.
People who were early voters are now livid that they have been scammed by a snake.
They will not see their Constitution destroyed by the first man of their color to run for office.
He has petitions floating around to block his inauguration, because he used the Courts and an idiot Judge to amend the Constitution stating by restraining order that you as a citizen cannot know a darn thing about him.
He refuses to show his birth certificate …which is required under the Constitution. His medicals and religious belief are not requirements.
A man breaking the Constitution cannot swear in to uphold it.DUH!!!

Obama has not bothered to change the lives of his own family members — which he could have very easily done.
How do you expect that he will change the lives of “middle-class” Americans. Who ever believes so and votes for him is just another sucker.

Yes we all know about our relatives – even those who live in our very households -much less the other side of the nation…we know all their intimate details of life.
Ask Sarah Palin in she knows what the daughter who lives under her very roof is doing when she goes out
Let us keep to the issues and purge our Republican Party of neo-Socialists..Those that -
Support farm subsidies,support the TVA(Tennessee Valey Authority) and state owned feed mills and banks as in North Dakota.
Our Republican brethren in North Dakota are even fighting for a state owned airline and insurance company !
The TVA and the electricity it produces is the basis of almost all industry in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. It hs been Fed operation since the 1930s-its staunchest supporters in congress are from the reddest parts of those states.
One parties Socialism is the other parties bread and butter
Georgia Redneck Farmer
Winterville GA

woman citizen,
It will be hate-based. Anybody who hates having to work for a living will be its primary members.
Additionally, anybody who hates another for any reason — be it religion, race or country of origin will be its secondary members. And it will be a voluntary membership.
Even now, its basically the people who believe in the philosophy of money-for-nothing that are backing and ushering Obama’s rise to power.

“living in Toledo”– still attacking your neighbor Joe and carrying the Obama water? You wrote of Joe the Plumber, “Joe the plumber may not have been a plant by the campaign, but he was there to confront Obama and try to make news and show off for his buddies.” Give me a break. Thankyou for acknowledging the man was not a “campaign plant” as many still insist. Then you spoil it all with “but he was there to confront…” The man was tossing a football in his own front yard. A national candidate showed up unannounced in his neighborhood, so he went over and asked the candidate a question. That’s how the system is supposed to work– we get to vet the candidates. You can ascribe whatever motives to Joe that you want, but #1, you have no evidence of his motives. I tend to believe his own version of why he asked the question, and #2, far more important, the question and its poser does not matter nearly so much as the answer. If Joe the Plumber had asked an innocuous question like “why are you so fabulous” and gotten a smarmy answer like “no, no, it’s you who are fabulous. You are the change you’ve been waiting for,” no one would have ever heard of Joe outside his neighborhood.
Then you continued, “Once the McCaign camp caught sight of Joe confronting Obama and listening to his crazy politics, they took advantage of the situation.” His politics are hardly crazy. Yes, the McCain camp capitalized, as they should have. They recognized that the message they had been trying to present was breaking through more effectively when it was linked with a common person who shared it, that Joe resonated for many who heard about the incident. McCain is a wealthy man, as is Obama. Obama’s side had effectively been focusing on mcCain’s multiple homes (see, both sides seize on the small moments–that’s how its done) to undercut the message by focusing on the messenger and implying that wealth made him insensitive to those who did not share his economic status (although we are to believe that Obama is somehow immune to this insensitivity). Joe the Plumber put a face to the differences between the Democrat and Republican tax plans.
” What they didn’t bargain for was the hate Joe would inspire.” No kidding! I am amazed at the hate spewed at Joe by folks like you, just because he holds different views than you did, questioned The One, and then would not back down from his views even in the face of an onslaught of abuse. Don’t worry about Joe, however. For every hater, there is a legion of supporters who relate to him and appreciate him.
Then you expand your vitriol to others who have campaigned in Ohio of late: “And the socialist ideals are falling short. Even Arnold looked lame during his speech in Columbus. I had to raise taxes to spread the wealth around, but Obama’s a socialist.Good God how low will they go?” Yes, social ideals will fall short. I don’t think that means what you think that means, as they say i the Princess Bride. Arnold hardly looked lame. There is a difference between having a progressive tax system, which we Republicans support completely, and having a philosophy of using the tax code to ‘spread the wealth.’ Remember when Obama acknowledged in a primary debate that his plan to raise capital gains taxes would not in fact raise more revenue, and he said that didn’t matter, because it would be “more fair.” Taxes should equitably raise revenue for the government– period. Rich should pay more than poor. That is not what Obama’s plan is all about. He feels as an add-on to that, the rich should pay much more, even if it cripples the economy, in order to allow him to send checks to those who pay nothing, in a transfer of wealth I find troubling and unnecessary. And Arnold, and the mcCain campaign generally, does not call Obama a socialist. They contend that his tax plan is based on a socialist idea. Not the same thing.
You conclude with a personal anecdote, claiming your Republican parents are “My republican parents are humiliated by the crapola spewed forth by the party they’ve supported their whole adult lives.” So I’ll match you with my true story that balances that out– my life-long Democrat parents, who despair to think they have raised a Republican child somehow, are ashamed of how Obama has risen to power with no accomplishments by making empty promises. They refuse to vote for an empty suit they consider a danger on the world stage (his tax plan? They have no problem with that. *G*) So they are debating whether they can vote for McCain or if they will simply not mark their ballots for a presidential candidate, for the first time in their lives.
“This is truly the sadist election I’ve ever seen.” Who you callin’ a sadist, Willis? *G*
Use your brain/Vote McCain

moderate,
The “vote McCain use your brain ” thing is one I haven’t heard before. Just curious, do you remember when the use of subliminals on National Television laws were put in place?
Some people have discussed the use of Subliminals in the Obama channels content on the net.
If the early voters who drank the koolaide,( not understanding that it may have content they were not aware it contained), can they recover and use the brain again?

Has anybody been listening to Sarah Palin and John McCain. They are promising everything but Fort Knox, all talk and NO ACTION!! they will lower the taxes, double the child tax deduction, cut the capital gains tax, give tax cuts to the small businesses, education, healthcare, save your homes from foreclosure, etc. people are falling for this line of baloney, where are they going to get their money from, sounds like double the Obama proposal, yet they stand there criticizing Sen. Obama for actually speaking truthfully to the people. Sen. Obama’s plan is socialism and welfare so says Palin and McCain. And their plan is spreading opportunity, they are spreading it alright if you believe this BS, it’s right up there with that bridge to nowhere because that is exactly what they are spreading, Lies to Nowhere. Also, please tell Palin and McCain that if we have won the war in Iraq, leave. What are you still there for. What kind of a war is a war almost won? Sounds like another lie. Enough……..

Elizabeth, Yes, I have listened to Palin and McCain– very carefully– as well as to Biden and Obama. You actually wrote: “They are promising everything but Fort Knox, all talk and NO ACTION!!” I swear, that line had me rolling with laughter. It is Obama who has absolutely no record of accomplishment to back up his promises. John McCain has delivered on his promises in the past and will do so this time as well. And it is the Democratic ticket who have promised voters the world– see, for example, Jake Tapper’s long list of promises compiled from Obama’s stump speech. Independent fact check groups have said that Obama has proposed more spending and has not demonstrated an ability to fund that spending, which will result in a much higher deficit than we already have.
You spell out those promises: “they will lower the taxes, double the child tax deduction, cut the capital gains tax, give tax cuts to the small businesses, education, healthcare, save your homes from foreclosure, etc. people are falling for this line of baloney, where are they going to get their money from, sounds like double the Obama proposal, yet they stand there criticizing Sen. Obama for actually speaking truthfully to the people.” These are not expensive promises, Elizabeth. The reduction in taxes, history has shown, usually results in an increase in tax revenue, esp. with capital gains tax cuts. The mortgage plan is already funded with the 700 billion rescue plan. And who on earth still believes that Obama speaks “truthfully” to the people? When he says he won’t raise taxes for those making less than 250,000? Or when he says he won’t raise taxes for those making less than 200,000 (his latest ad)? Or maybe the truth is when his running mate says less than 150,000?
In your opinion, “Sen. Obama’s plan is socialism and welfare so says Palin and McCain. And their plan is spreading opportunity, they are spreading it alright if you believe this BS, it’s right up there with that bridge to nowhere because that is exactly what they are spreading, Lies to Nowhere.”
What do you call taking money from the people who create jobs and giving it to people who do not pay income taxes? That’s not a progressive tax system (which Republicans support), that’s a wealth transfer system. It is not designed to stimulate business activity (as the McCain tax cuts are) or to raise government revenue. (And since you brought it up, did you see that Perspective piece in Newsweek this week by the mayor of the town involved in the “bridge to nowhere”? Gave me second thoughts. But McCain opposed the bridge, and all such earmarks, and will do so as president as well)
Then, in a complete nonsequitur, you added: “Also, please tell Palin and
McCain that if we have won the war in Iraq, leave. What are you still there for. What kind of a war is a war almost won?” We are still there because we are needed, according to both the american generals and the iraqi leaders, to provide stability. We will withdraw the rest of our troops when the Iraqi and Americans agree that they are ready for us to do so. We are planning for that contingency at the moment. But we must not withdraw precipitously, no matter what Sen. Obama thinks. As McCain says, we will come home but we will come home with victory, not prematurely.

It’s people like Obama and the commenter on this blog .. Siddat Madimbe.. who scare the crap out of me. He wrote “president of the world?” this is a preview of what Obama wants… To rule the world.
Obama, go find another planet to implement your socialist agenda. Not the United States of America.

Pretend our economy isn’t failin’, vote McCain/Palin!

Let me explain as clearly as I can: when a Republican lies, it is NOT A LIE. When the reporters don’t report Republican lies as FACT, they are BIASED. When the press calls a Republican’s lie a lie, that VIOLATES the Republican’s first amendment right to free speech. Anyone who disagrees with something a Republican says is a godless, anti-American socialist marxist freedom-hater who should be INVESTIGATED.

This story would not made news if the Republican’s were not afraid of losing. This is a desperate attempt to make something out of nothing. Zeituni donated $260 to Obama’s campaign that is less than the cost of the underwear Palin wears that tax payers paid for.
This story is pathetic. However, it makes me more determined to vote for Obama because he has shown in spite of all the stupid crap that narrow minded peole dish out that he can remain repectful, non-judgmental and still handle his business. You go Obama!

The most liberal member of the Senate will never be able to “find comon ground” with real Americans.
He will tear this country apart, if elected….and with
ACORN and the liberal media’s help, I think he will be.

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if McCain’s advisers themselves were behind this timed release. They are throwing everything they can. And isn’t it interesting that the same people who are up in arms about ILLEGAL aliens are the same people who lap up the ILLEGAL release of information like this, with the obvious intent of influencing, thus illicitly, a US presidential election. Reports say that “someone close to the case, who requested anonymity because no one is authorized to talk about it” is informing the press on this matter.