Barney and Chris are making political hay out of hearings with the Lehman and AIG CEO. It must be a lot of fun fooling the voting public which pays little attention to economic fundamentals. All the public knows is that they're losing money. Understandably angry, it is easy for politicians to dissemble and deceive the voters.
Senate Banking Bigwigs like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd have resisted a stepped up hearing schedules on Fanny and Freddie. FAnny and Freddie hearings should be a priority on the hearing agenda. As it is, they're using AIG and Lehman hearings as a smokescreen so people can cluck, point the finger, get angry and not learn what and who caused the problems in the economy. It's a no-brainer--no money down "creative" mortgage financing to people who couldn't pay. This is the real red meat of the economic problems. But the Democratic pols want to postpone the real hearings and protect Democratic politicians.
Fanny and Freddie account for Six Trillion of the Twelve Trillion dollars in bad loans. Barney and Chris are protecting Obama's cronies and campaign advisors like Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, and Jame Gorelick, all of whom walked away with millions as they ran the GSEs into the ground.
Barney and Chris need to resign from the House Banking Committees and be censured by the Senate and House. The rest of the CEOs, who got jobs through nepotism, need to be put in jail.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Barack Obama Bailout Plan for CBS
Yes, that's right. Not satisfied with spending the millions of dollars in foreign and U.S. contributions to his campaign coffers on typical advertisements, Obama has now bought an entire program for himself.
So now that voters are choking on the millions of dollars in scurrilous, deceptive, and uninformative Obama ads, they can now watch an tightly focused Obama Documentary about?...you guessed it...Obama! Word is that Obama is also considering dumping millions into NBC. I only mention it to indicate the kind of audiences Obama is aiming for--presuming demographics data is right about the education levels of the average television viewer.
But hey, Obama.... You don't have to buy the programming--the MSM has been giving you the coverage for free for two years. And with people like Letitia Goins getting paid for registering and voting six or seven times, how can you lose?
You'd just be handing money to the corporations for nothing...er, for almost nothing...err...for continued support.
So now that voters are choking on the millions of dollars in scurrilous, deceptive, and uninformative Obama ads, they can now watch an tightly focused Obama Documentary about?...you guessed it...Obama! Word is that Obama is also considering dumping millions into NBC. I only mention it to indicate the kind of audiences Obama is aiming for--presuming demographics data is right about the education levels of the average television viewer.
But hey, Obama.... You don't have to buy the programming--the MSM has been giving you the coverage for free for two years. And with people like Letitia Goins getting paid for registering and voting six or seven times, how can you lose?
You'd just be handing money to the corporations for nothing...er, for almost nothing...err...for continued support.
Obama Dumps Homeowners in Favor of Big Business
Just another example of Barack Obama's willingness to say anything to get votes. One day he exhibits sympathy for homeowners in trouble with their mortgages and the next day he blasts John McCAin on a real plan to help out those in need.
McCain's plan is geared toward those who are behind on their mortgage but who are responsible and working their butts off to stay in their homes. It's better planning than to give the money to Corporate Lawyers on Vacation in California luxury spas.
Oh, wait..that's not unusual.... Obama is a lawyer. He can be for things at the same time he is against them. He'll probably come up with something academic and philosophical to explain that, his campaign cronies will re-state what he really meant to say, and ACORN will be at work creating a fraudulent landslide.
Unless America wakes up to this pending disaster.
McCain's plan is geared toward those who are behind on their mortgage but who are responsible and working their butts off to stay in their homes. It's better planning than to give the money to Corporate Lawyers on Vacation in California luxury spas.
Oh, wait..that's not unusual.... Obama is a lawyer. He can be for things at the same time he is against them. He'll probably come up with something academic and philosophical to explain that, his campaign cronies will re-state what he really meant to say, and ACORN will be at work creating a fraudulent landslide.
Unless America wakes up to this pending disaster.
The Meaning of Negative Ads: Obama Objects!
There seems to be some confusion in the MSM about "negative ads." Negative ads are the ones that criticize Barack Obama. Obama campaign ads are never "negative." Just watch MSNBC for about 5 minutes. Every burp from the McCain campaign is amplified and interpreted as an oupouring of hatred. Muffled audio audience utterances are "translated" into attack machine vitriol. If you boo Obama, the MSNBC "translators" will say you threatened his life. Among Obama supporters across the media, there is no distinction between truthful criticism and "negative ads."
Telling the truth about your opponent, if you're a Republican or a Democrat supporting McCain-Palin, is a negative ad. Saying that Barack Obama is a friend of acknowledged bomber Bill Ayers is a negative ad. Saying that Obama got his political booster shots at Ayer's house is a negative ad. Saying that Barack Obama sat in the hate-spewing Rev. Wright's church for 20 years is a negative ad. Saying that Obama received support from Antoin Rezko in politics and in the purchase of his Chicago mansion is a "negative ad." To say that Obama can't possibly keep his campaign promises is a "negative ad." To criticize ACORN's pervasive voter fraud campaign is to be guilty of "negative ads." To say that Obama jettisoned Hillary Clinton for reasons of ego and because it played to his male-centered supporters is a "negative ad." Saying that "character" is an issue is a "negative ad." Saying that Obama is lying when he's lying is a "negative ad."
Just face it, McCain-Palin supporters. Breathing, speaking, and particularly voting for Republicans is a negative ad. I hope you are clear about your transgressions now.
ACORN is for Squirrels
If the authorities won't do anything about ACORN voter fraud, then the only reason could be that it is a condoned and acceptable practice. I would urge that every Republican register under at least ten different names. There are as yet thousands of unused names. Just think of all the Disney characters you can register. Scour world literature for names that liberals never heard of. Don't ignore the phone book--there are plenty of unused names in there. Vote early and vote often.
Oh, and a word of caution. Don't register the Dallas Cowboys football team. The team has been registered by the left-wing ACORN organization. Hey, didn't they hire Obama?
Oh, and a word of caution. Don't register the Dallas Cowboys football team. The team has been registered by the left-wing ACORN organization. Hey, didn't they hire Obama?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Joe "Baloney" Biden Eats at Katie's Restaurant
Joe Baloney wants to connect with Joe Six-Pack. The problem is that he's lying about his ostensible salt of the earth roots. He told voters to meet him at the local "Katie's Restaurant" in Delaware so that they could discuss matters of concern to 'average Americans." Getting down with Joe Baloney. His staff forgot to tell him that Katie's Restaurant, a place where the common people used to hang out, had closed in the 1980s. Harmless poltical b.s, it's true, but some of the mistakes that Biden makes are dangerous considering that Obamanites are touting Joe Baloney's experience.
Here's a list of Joe Baloney Biden's intentional misleading statements during the VP debate with Sarah Palin:
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted "the exact same way" as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, "Drill we must." But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to "raping" the Outer Continental Shelf."
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it's passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he's always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain's record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10.REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11.IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was "dead wrong on Iraq", because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12.TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn't see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13.BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn't meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of "part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20."
14.REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
Here's a list of Joe Baloney Biden's intentional misleading statements during the VP debate with Sarah Palin:
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted "the exact same way" as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, "Drill we must." But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to "raping" the Outer Continental Shelf."
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it's passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he's always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain's record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10.REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11.IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was "dead wrong on Iraq", because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12.TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn't see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13.BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn't meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of "part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20."
14.REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
Bob Gibbs: Obama Campaign Advisor on Fox News
Obama wrote the forward for Bill Ayers' book yet Gibbs says that Obama didn't know Ayers. If ever there was a more brazen flunky and Obama apologist, it is Mr. Gibbs. Of course, Gibbs launched into a discussion of the fuzz on his navel rather than deal with the questions put to him. Gibbs would be understandably loathe to admit of Obama's left-wing imprimatur, reflected in his assocation with mad bomber and America hater William Ayers in several contexts. Obama was hired by Ayers as an attorney and director of an Annenberg Fund. It was in Ayers house that Obama kicked off his campaign for the state senate of Illinois. They fraternize within the same neighborhood. That's wonderful but why lie about it?
Obama's as left as America's leaders have ever gone. Yet, why would the campaign spend millions on advertising to convince voters that he's mainstream? All one has to do is peruse the Kos and other bulletin boards and the internet forums to see that Obama could admit of his socialist agenda, run on a Socialist ticket, and still get plenty of votes. Why the charade?
Obama's as left as America's leaders have ever gone. Yet, why would the campaign spend millions on advertising to convince voters that he's mainstream? All one has to do is peruse the Kos and other bulletin boards and the internet forums to see that Obama could admit of his socialist agenda, run on a Socialist ticket, and still get plenty of votes. Why the charade?
Monday, October 6, 2008
Obama: President of World Internationale
Barack Obama is getting a lot of financial support from outside the country. The RNC is filing a complaint with the election commission to counteract the flood of money. Obama did return several thousand dollars to two Palestinian men raising money for Obama by selling Obama Tee Shirts in the West Bank. Discuss amongst yourselves…..
Of course, some of the people contributing to the Obama campaign from inside the country are kind of acting like they live outside the country. The “internationalist” philosophy of Obama, Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright and others who live in Obama’s neighborhood represents the interests of a narrow band of countries who see the creation of the state of Israel as the root of all the world’s problems. The other Great Enemy of “internationalism” is capitalism—for the other guy. All the aforementioned persons live well outside the means of most people in America and, like Obama, have compromised themselves (Rezko) to gain traction.
Just as the commissars of the old Soviet Union lived the high life while demagoguing the issues among the less fortunate, so do Obama and his radical socialist-left policies try to manipulate an electorate which suffers from a mainstream media propaganda drenching.
Of course, some of the people contributing to the Obama campaign from inside the country are kind of acting like they live outside the country. The “internationalist” philosophy of Obama, Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright and others who live in Obama’s neighborhood represents the interests of a narrow band of countries who see the creation of the state of Israel as the root of all the world’s problems. The other Great Enemy of “internationalism” is capitalism—for the other guy. All the aforementioned persons live well outside the means of most people in America and, like Obama, have compromised themselves (Rezko) to gain traction.
Just as the commissars of the old Soviet Union lived the high life while demagoguing the issues among the less fortunate, so do Obama and his radical socialist-left policies try to manipulate an electorate which suffers from a mainstream media propaganda drenching.
Madeleine Albright's Message from Starbucks
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women."
The message may have been Madeleine Albright's but it was conveyed by Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a rally. Where did she get the message? Well, she found it on her coffeecup. You know...one of those deals like reading the cereal box before your eyes have opened in the morning.
Madeleine Albright was Bill Clinton's Secretary of State and often remarked about the difficulties of being a woman on the American political scene. She was a champion of women's rights, calling attention to the oppression of women not only in America, but in other male-dominant countries.
Funny that you mentioned it, Sarah. Many Hillary supporters, both men and women, noticed the subtle anti-women signals sent by the Obama campaign. Those who weren't getting it couldn't fail to get it when Obama rejected Hillary with her very solid 18 million votes and victories in important swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Granted there were a few people who preferred Obama to Hillary for other reasons, but the choice of a 65 year old 30-year Beltway Boy was a bit grating--even more when you hear the rote verbiage coming out of Biden's mouth. Oh, and Biden was born in that "bitter" state which is "clinging to guns and religion.
Of course, there were four people in Chicago and three in San Francisco who just loved Biden's plan to break Iraq into three separate countries.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists | Reuters
WRAPUP 1-Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists | Reuters It's better that the mainstream media state secret about Obama's affection for the enemies of America gets out now rather than later. The Obama camp has run one of the dirtiest campaigns in modern history and now they're whining because Sarah Palin is too far away from the sophistry and politics of Washington that she would sugar-coat the truth.
A Reuters news service reports on Palin's mention of Obama's affiliations with the unrepentant America hater William Ayers, a member of the Chicago political mob which arranged Obama's rise in politics.
Leave it to Sarah.... and to Reuters...for reporting what the mainstream,slipshod media has tried to hide from voters.
A Reuters news service reports on Palin's mention of Obama's affiliations with the unrepentant America hater William Ayers, a member of the Chicago political mob which arranged Obama's rise in politics.
Leave it to Sarah.... and to Reuters...for reporting what the mainstream,slipshod media has tried to hide from voters.
Does Hillary Support Transfer to McCain-Palin?
A Previous Report by Laura Conway detailed the McCain – Palin message of a campaign rally in Lebanon, Ohio. Afterward, Laura interviewed some of her business associates and friends to see what they thought about McCain-Palin. Interestingly, one of Laura’s friends is a Democrat and a previous supporter of Hillary Clinton. As with many women in the business world, the “glass ceiling” message advanced by Hillary Clinton got through to her, but will it transfer now to Sarah Palin, now that this previously unknown dynamo may be fast-tracked to be America’s 1st woman president? Here’s what Laura found out:
After the throngs of people slowly filed out of the grand stand stage, I went into the “Golden Lame” restaurant to sit down for lunch and discuss with some of my Cincinnati friends what they thought about the rally. Here's an excerpted view of my Q and A with some McCain-Palin campaign event attendees:
First, I asked Carol Greene, a registered Democrat, why she decided to go to the McCain-Palin campaign event today.
“Because of the enthusiasm about the ticket and having never attended a live political rally before," said Carol.
I next asked Carol what she found most important in terms of the content of the McCain-Palin speeches.
“Palin's experience and her accomplishments with the oil industry. McCain’s smile and authenticity," Carol told me.
She felt that now she has seen a softer, personal side of the McCain persona. Carol implied she was won over somewhat by the McCain Palin reform message. She was disappointed, however, that neither McCain nor Palin had mentioned their policies toward Israel, an important issue to her.
“How do you think you are going to vote in November”? I asked Carol.
Carol told me she was still undecided but leaning strongly now towards McCain.
Next, I interviewed Karen Cheyne, a registered Republican, asking the same questions I'd put to Greenberg. Karen also said she was responding to the historical moment of the occasion.
"I wanted to see McCain and Palin together," said Karen.
For Karen, it was the first time she had attended a live political rally. She found it exciting and interesting, different from watching a campaign appearance as a television viewer.
I next asked Karen what she felt was most important in the content of the McCain and Palin talks with the audience. An astute political observer, Karen was quick with her answer:
“Pork barrel spending and ear marks were the most important hot buttons for me. I'm very much against the pork which is embedded in many bills."
Karen told me she was very disappointed to hear how many ear marks Barack Obama had signed off on.
"Obama signed off on over $900 million dollars in ear marks during his short tenure as Senator--almost $1 million dollars for every day he has been in office!“ Karen said with apparent disgust.
Karen was impressed with how both McCain and Palin came across in-person live, rather than on TV. They seemed to really compliment each other. She was impressed with Sarah’s husband, a manly figure who seemed at ease with the process and supportive of Governor Palin, a possible future vice-president of the United States.
“I was intent on voting for McCain already but the rally strongly reinforced my decision. I am really excited about my choice. McCain’s pick of Sarah and their dynamics added life to the ticket”.
I wasn't alone in interviewing the McCain Palin campaign attendees. The atmosphere inside the restaurant was humming with activity. Broadcast media and newspaper people were running around conducting interviews and feeding off the frenzy. I just sat back with a big smile on my face soaking up the whole experience and looking outside as the sun finally broke through the gray sky. What a fine day it had turned out to be! I felt lucky in being able to participate in such a historical moment and felt renewed confidence in America's future. Most importantly, I felt very proud to be an American!
McCain - Palin Looking Strong in Ohio
Since Day One of the 2008 Presidential Primary Campaign, all you heard in the tanked media was that McCain was going to lose. For a time, the conventional wisdom was that he had lost already. So much for the conventional wisdom.
McCain's still standing, and while he's behind in the polls, he's not so far behind that the Obamanites can breathe easy. First of all, the Obama camp knows they've got a slight lead based not so much on the strength of their candidate, but simply because of the economy and because the mainstream media is in the tank with Obama. The economy also is in the tank with Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, irresponsible engineers of the Fanny Mae-Freddy Mac disaster. It's really a hoot to hear Democrats criticizing McCain on the economy. Obama advisors Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, and Franklin Raines walked away with millions of no-money-down-pay-what-if-and-when mortgage debt bonuses while they ran the GSEs into the ground.
Anyway, if there's ever been an election year when things may not be what they seem or are said to be, this is it. Don't trust the polls this year unless you understand you may be looking at the part of an iceberg which rises out of the ocean. John McCain is still there, still strong, and stronger yet with his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Consider the barrage of smears aimed at the Barracuda by the mainstream press before she rolled up on Biden in the VP debate and took a good slice out of his hide. But it's the same old story. Should the mainstream media find some good news about McCain-Palin, they ignore it and bury it.
But don't forget that there's more to the iceberg than the part sticking out of the sea. If you're tired of hearing it from me, you can read the report filed by crack reporter Laura Conway as she attended a McCain-Palin rally in Lebanon Ohio. This is not how CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times feels about the race--this story is about how real people see McCain-Palin.
Laura is not only a writer-reporter--she's also served in executive positions with some of America's leading corporations. This is Laura's account of the McCain-Palin rally in Lebanon, Ohio.... :
<Lebanon, Ohio, Tuesday, September 9th, 2008. It is an unseasonably cool, overcast, and humid day in Southwest Ohio but it does not matter, everyone is anticipating the opportunity to witness history. No matter what happens in the general election in November, I want to say that I was here and took part in the political process among average citizens.
My neighbor and I decided to make the drive from Cincinnati north to Lebanon, OH, historically a farm community and a Republican stronghold. Lebanon has developed and grown over the years but still represents small town Americana with history intertwined all around you. The “Golden Lame” restaurant has played an integral role in history with 12 Republican Presidents making an appearance at this very spot; the likes of Garfield, McKinley, Adams, Harding, Taft, Grant, and Reagan to new a few.
After finding a parking place, we walked what seemed like a mile to the end of the very long line which wound around the main town square. Everyone was ready to face the elements; equipped with rain gear, umbrellas, parkas, (you get the general idea). Citizens followed the rules, despite the crowds and elements, people quietly and systematically waited patiently and moved through the process. There was quiet conversation and occasional jokes shared by complete strangers.
Amidst the rain and wind, there were people selling tee shirts and campaign pins with slogans from “No Bama” to “Making History, McCain & Palin”, “Moms for Palin” and people were buying pins and shirts by the dozen. There were also some bright local business owners selling warm bread, cinnamon rolls, and hot coffee while intermittent rain fell hard at times splashing off thousands of umbrellas, trees, and rooftops.
Outside of the “Golden Lame” restaurant and hotel, the grand stand stage was set up. Looking across and down the wide main street, buildings had a small American flag sitting in each window sill with local townspeople looking out and watching the event unfold. The band is playing background music that flows through the streets of Lebanon and the rain periodically pelts down but it does not matter. Everyone is focused on the final goal; getting through security and into the main stage area to witness history, to be part of it. And before passing through security, everyone had to surrender their umbrellas. What happens if there is a downpour? Oh well, it was worth it to the crowd to get cold and soaking wet. It was all worth it. These same umbrellas would be stacked up on the side of the streets creating a “ sea of umbrellas” like I have never seen before.
Anticipation:
Downtown Lebanon was completely overtaken by the rally. All businesses and schools were closed for the day in anticipation of this historic event. Security was on high alert with sharp shooters on every rooftop, right in front of you. The keynote speakers were scheduled to start talking @ 10:00 AM, however, they were running late. The band played several Ohio state fight songs to keep the crowd going. Everyone really got into the music and was shooting, singing, and dancing in whatever space they could find to move. They were expecting 5,000 people and 10,000 showed up.
You could sense and feel the excitement in the air, it was flowing out of the music, movement, and psychic of the crowd. What really struck me about the people in attendance was the number of youth; there were so many young children, teens, 20’s, 30’s, etc. They were so excited to witness the same history. At different points, the crowd would just start chanting, “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah” and “USA, USA, USA”.
There were several guest speakers that did a very good job, however, when Sarah Palin and John McCain finally took the stage, the air was electrifying. In-person, Sarah is “lightening in a bottle”. She has something that is very rare with a politician, the ability to come across as “real and accessible”. Right away, you feel and sense that you know her, who she is, what she stands for, and people automatically are drawn to her because they can relate to her on some many different levels. I personally was pleased that she spent 5-7 minutes talking specifically about her record of executive experience in Alaska which built her credibility as a leader. She discussed that she “lowered property taxes, income taxes, and cut unnecessary expenses which resulted in budget surplus. She gave the excess money back to the good people of Alaska”. The crowd went crazy.
John McCain was right on stage with Palin the whole time she was speaking and the dynamics and synergy of them together really works well. McCain is comfortable with the star charisma of Palin but he holds himself as the strong Commander and Chief. The two mavericks set the audience on their feet. There is true excitement and energy behind this Republican ticket. They talked a lot about what they will do as change agents and fighting pork-barrel spending and not allowing ear marks was strongly communicated.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Wall Street Journal Photo Journal : Pictures of the Day
Photo Journal : Pictures of the DayCheck out the photo-journalistic tour. The old WSJ took some interesting photos--whaddaya think?
Barack Obama and the ACORN Connection
Another story hidden in the Obama Media Tank is the story of Obama’s connections with ACORN, a “community organization” convicted of voter fraud in 2006 currently being investigated for election fraud in six states.
ACORN endorses Obama and works primarily in the inner cities to line up Obama supporters/voters. The love affair between Obama and ACORN goes back a long way, even to the era when he joined with convicted bomber William Ayers to channel public money to the ACORN organization.
What role did Obama play for ACORN. Who knows the whole story since the media is so much in the tank for far-left Democrat Barack Obama? But Obama served in double roles for the ACORN organization:
• Obama was the lawyer representing ACORN’s political interest. (Political interests seem mainly to have been in registering non-existent or deceased voters to defraud the electoral system).
• Obama served as a trainer for ACORN, teaching its new members how to circumvent and deal with local governing bodies in obtaining money for the organization.
In just one example, ACORN registered 1800 new voters in Washington. When fraud investigators looked into the matter, they found that, of the 1800 newly register voters, only six were legitimate. There is much reason to worry about ACORN voter fraud in this coming election. ACORN is busy in Ohio and other states, trying to rack up easy votes in the big cities by registering the homeless and other unfortunates, oftentimes by paying them with money or small favors.
Even more cause for worry is that fact that Obama’s Democrats put a 20 billion “paycheck” for ACORN and similar far-left organizations into the House Bailout Plan. I don’t want to pay for that with my tax money and neither did 95 Democrats who didn’t want to be associated with it. Insofar as that goes, Republicans who were sympathetic to the need for a rescue plan were put in a very bad position by the addition of the ACORN bailout-handout and voted largely against it.
Following is a list of past ACORN voter activity across several states:
2005 - Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver, Colorado of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2005 - Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque, New Mexico ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2005 - the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
2004 - An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times on Colorado.
2004 - A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
2004 - In Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
2004 - North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
2004 - An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
2004 - In Ohio, a grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
2004 - In Minnesota, during a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
2004 - In Pennsylvania, Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
2004 - In Texas, ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
2004 - In Wisconsin, the district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
2003 - In Missouri, of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
1998 - In Arkansas, a contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
ACORN endorses Obama and works primarily in the inner cities to line up Obama supporters/voters. The love affair between Obama and ACORN goes back a long way, even to the era when he joined with convicted bomber William Ayers to channel public money to the ACORN organization.
What role did Obama play for ACORN. Who knows the whole story since the media is so much in the tank for far-left Democrat Barack Obama? But Obama served in double roles for the ACORN organization:
• Obama was the lawyer representing ACORN’s political interest. (Political interests seem mainly to have been in registering non-existent or deceased voters to defraud the electoral system).
• Obama served as a trainer for ACORN, teaching its new members how to circumvent and deal with local governing bodies in obtaining money for the organization.
In just one example, ACORN registered 1800 new voters in Washington. When fraud investigators looked into the matter, they found that, of the 1800 newly register voters, only six were legitimate. There is much reason to worry about ACORN voter fraud in this coming election. ACORN is busy in Ohio and other states, trying to rack up easy votes in the big cities by registering the homeless and other unfortunates, oftentimes by paying them with money or small favors.
Even more cause for worry is that fact that Obama’s Democrats put a 20 billion “paycheck” for ACORN and similar far-left organizations into the House Bailout Plan. I don’t want to pay for that with my tax money and neither did 95 Democrats who didn’t want to be associated with it. Insofar as that goes, Republicans who were sympathetic to the need for a rescue plan were put in a very bad position by the addition of the ACORN bailout-handout and voted largely against it.
Following is a list of past ACORN voter activity across several states:
2005 - Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver, Colorado of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2005 - Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque, New Mexico ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2005 - the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
2004 - An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times on Colorado.
2004 - A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
2004 - In Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
2004 - North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
2004 - An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
2004 - In Ohio, a grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
2004 - In Minnesota, during a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
2004 - In Pennsylvania, Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
2004 - In Texas, ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
2004 - In Wisconsin, the district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
2003 - In Missouri, of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
1998 - In Arkansas, a contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
Say It Ain't So, Joe: Palin Barracuda Slices Biden
What was funny about the VP debate was that Sarah Palin showed she was the equal (if not the better) of a 30 year Washington Senator. Biden demonstrated his usual excess of verbiage. Biden believes the number of words he uses is equal to the quality of what he says. What verbiage! It was clever of Sarah Palin to point out Biden’s condemnation of Barack Obama’s foreign policy during the primary. That criticism is all too true. And what could be more idiotic than Biden’s plan to partition Iraq into three separate countries?
Biden fits well with Obama in that they are both political chameleons, changing sides to reflect the needs of professional pollsters. Sarah Palin was fresh, positive, and plain speaking. There is a great deal of difference between the plain-speaking wide sweeping opinions of Westerners like Sarah Palin and the narrow, pinched, lawyerly and often peripatetic rhetoric of the East Coast Washington-Boston-New York-Chicago Mob.
And Palin pointed out the obvious, too, when she told Biden Americans didn’t need Obama’s planned trillion dollar tax increase. There’s no amount of rhetoric or posturing which can hide that boondoggle from American voters.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Waiting for the Bailout--Why I'm voting Obama 2008
Oh, boy.... The Congress is working on bailing out the homeowner and I heard someone complaining about the plan. The guy said he didn't see the point of the government's buying out all those "defective mortgages." I had the same thought but then I thought about it a lot more deeply. I decided it made a lot of sense to get on board with my "defective" mortgage. I'm not behind in my payments, mind you, but we have struggled for many years to achieve the dream of home ownership. And now I find out we didn't have to struggle at all!
We haven't had any help until the Democrats came to the rescue with that Rescue Bill. I know the Democrats will keep trying to help me out though, and I'm sure they'll tack something onto it that will allow me to renege on my defective mortgage. Once the bill is passed, I'll stop paying. Then I'll go to the bank and tell them exactly how much I can afford to pay. Emboldened by the Chris Dodd/Barney Frank Bailout Bill, I might even tell the bank how much my house is really worth. I think that's called something like "mark-to-market." I'd like to "mark to market" by about 50 percent--I could afford that amount comfortably. Screw the bank, you know? What has the bank done for me lately?
Of course, I might then change my political party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. Who knows, perhaps I'll get some kind of political post, something like...say....Chairman of the Board at Fanny Mae. Don't laugh. Jamie Gorelick got the job without any experience in finance. And Obama advisor Frank Raines knew only enough about it to collect $200 million bucks from his adventure with the quasi-governmental private housing agency. What more is there to know? Ya' wanna' make the big bucks? Have an affordable mortgage? Vote Obama 2008.
We haven't had any help until the Democrats came to the rescue with that Rescue Bill. I know the Democrats will keep trying to help me out though, and I'm sure they'll tack something onto it that will allow me to renege on my defective mortgage. Once the bill is passed, I'll stop paying. Then I'll go to the bank and tell them exactly how much I can afford to pay. Emboldened by the Chris Dodd/Barney Frank Bailout Bill, I might even tell the bank how much my house is really worth. I think that's called something like "mark-to-market." I'd like to "mark to market" by about 50 percent--I could afford that amount comfortably. Screw the bank, you know? What has the bank done for me lately?
Of course, I might then change my political party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. Who knows, perhaps I'll get some kind of political post, something like...say....Chairman of the Board at Fanny Mae. Don't laugh. Jamie Gorelick got the job without any experience in finance. And Obama advisor Frank Raines knew only enough about it to collect $200 million bucks from his adventure with the quasi-governmental private housing agency. What more is there to know? Ya' wanna' make the big bucks? Have an affordable mortgage? Vote Obama 2008.
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