I am usually not one to pay much attention to the news media manufactured controversies over a remark made by a politician and exploited by opponents. But I feel compelled to comment on the latest episode because the issue at the center of the controversial remarks can be construed, in some ways, as the most important issue in the entire campaign (as unbelievable as that sounds.)
Last week when Barack Obama said that people who have come up against hard times in their communities "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Hillary Clinton, still pursuing the Democratic nomination against Obama, pounced on this remark to claim that Obama is elitist, out-of-touch and unelectable in small town America. In response, Obama delivered a terrific rebuttal explaining what he meant. (Click here to read a concise summary of the entire affair.)
Elitist, condescending, out of touch - who cares? That's all the dumb rhetorical part of the controversy. Much more importantly, Obama is RIGHT. In 2004 many Americans voted to continue a senseless war in Iraq that is killing people for no reason and draining our country of resources. They voted for policies that have brought America to the brink of economic and fiscal crisis. They voted to allow unsafe mines to operate and lead-contaminated children's' toys to reach market. The voted to torture innocent people, to spy on Americans, and to ignore environmental destruction. Why did Americans vote for these policies? Three reasons: 1) because "the other guy was godless, 2) so that no Democrat would take away their guns, and 3) to insure that gay people could not get married.
We need to get people to direct their focus away from the wedge issues that do not affect our health, happiness and well-being and get the voters to consider the important, substantive issues of the day. And not just the voters of course, the major news outlets also need to emphasize important issues and get away from the red meat. Obama may have been a little off target by seeming to put the blame entirely on the people rather than on the politicians who exploit them (what I really mean is the Republican campaign apparatus), but on the core of the issue, he's right. And as important as the economy, Iraq, health care, education and the environment are, the US will not move forward in addressing these problems until more voters make their choices based on them instead of God, guns and gays.
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16. what has the republican party done TO you lately ?...angry white people have been the context of american politics since the revolutionary war anyone remember the boston teaparty? MOBS ...the electoral college was formulated to placate angry white people...modern party strategies are designed to humor the concerns of these folk...the left behinds ...angry whites killed lincoln, mckinley,the kennedys, and anyone else who doesn't align themselves with white supremist ideals...Obama is correct...witness the inflammed rhetoric at obama or any "colored" person who dares to tell the truth about america!
w.o.tilton at 12:42PM on Apr 14th 2008
17. Obama is not electable.
Obama's comments were condescending, elitist and racist.
Obama's comments confirm his lies to the American people about his NAFTA intentions, he is pro illegal immigration, open borders, north american union, free trade that reaps huge riches for "the elite" while leaving regular folk to hand out to dry.
This guy is a real piece of work.
He is running on personality.... and lies.. Just like Bush did, with his I am a uniter, not a divider.
Obama has proved he is Bush redux.
cdnbirch at 6:08PM on Apr 13th 2008
18. The American ruling class has been very successful at redirecting working class angst into dead ends like religion, gun fetishism, flag-waving, xenophobia. It was refreshing to hear a politician bring the subject up; a little out-and-out class struggle would be interesting, to say the least.
Joe Bob at 6:24PM on Apr 13th 2008
19. You are obviously an Obama groupie, who will look to justify, anything and everything that Obama or his surrogates say or do that may adversely affect the American voters perception of him. Let's face it we do not know enough about this man to have allowed him to come this far in the nomination process. It is individuals such as you, who will at any cost continue to believe the packaging of Obama. His background in Chicago has been carefully shielded as as his familial background. He himself (in his writings) portrays an ambivalent character. So is it that he himself has such personal battles regarding who he is and what he truly stands for. Well, it is not for you or anyone else to take on the task of interpreting what he has meant to say, nor is it your responsibility to justify his relationship with individuals that readily and publicly profess their despise for our society. Let Obama get himself out of the hole. He is a big boy, if he happens to get the nomination, the Republicans will keep the likes of you pretty busy.
wanda at 6:45PM on Apr 13th 2008
20. Steve- Being an elitist has less to do with intellect than it does with thinking that you have all the answers and the rules that you try and apply to everybody else don't apply to you.
Al Gore is a liberal elitist, not because he's brilliant, but because he talks down to people as is if they were in the third grade, as he presumptuously lectures everybody on reducing their carbon footprint, while his is enormous, as he jets around the country, drives a big, honkin SUV and lives in a 20,000 square foot house that uses as much electricity as some third world countries.
Obama also seems to be a similarly snobby elitist. While he is smart, that's not the problem. The problem is he thinks he can lecture everybody on racial reconciliation while many of the people around him, like his wife and pastor, are madder than hornets about race, and don't seem to have gotten the memo that Obama is bringing us all together. (In peace and harmony.)
Dave at 6:51PM on Apr 13th 2008
21. Obama Lies1:55PMApr 6th 2008 - from another blog
Is this who we need to be the leader of the free world????
Obama Lies - Quick Glance
OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES as of April 03, 2008 (68 lies and
counting)
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have
you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in
1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well
educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of
the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin
Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread
violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to
mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14
wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and
‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that
language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school,
where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31
years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered
as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could
speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience -
LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even
speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and
watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been
anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our
closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were
quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya
and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you
were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet
to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never
did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t,
and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you
are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for
YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and
democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer
ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t
write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by
your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly
because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008,
state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were
part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You
failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even
YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not
YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian
Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your
campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution
vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the
destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a
dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter
stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC
recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads
to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates
decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that
limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only
operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26,
most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is
threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped
saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to
eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists,
and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started
MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with
other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A
BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office
to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time,
unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem
to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan
leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR,
both companies you site as having sent you letters about this
conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or
sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin
and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country -
LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and
Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has
received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse,
which
is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last
year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public
records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s
pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital
is
a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years.
They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge
everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known
him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him
during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite
this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before
the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot
beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave
back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K,
then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN
OBAMA, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their
involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church
is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done
blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the
year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have
yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still
donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its
message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to
the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500
PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only
connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC
supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi
Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems
Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long
before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi
expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special
interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in
videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa
BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat
in that church? Yes I did.”
59.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! -
LIAR. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the
company that looked into your records. PS - You had them look into
yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s
more than a year before!
60.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - LIAR. Rev.
Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and
helped raise money, then AND NOW. PS - He also seems to despise
America.
61.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a
phrase - LIAR. Again, MicHELLe’s comments perfectly sync with
Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and
direction.
62.) I am very Anti-Terror - LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals
is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have
been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed
khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the
University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against
Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you
weren’t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.
63.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - LIAR.
[03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddy Penny SubPrime Bank Collapse
Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama
has
taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama
received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit
Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington
Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from
Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST -
Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all
came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?
64) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control,
the death penalty and abortion - LIAR - [03/31/2008] It was found
that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an
amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain
Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had
greater role on liberal survey
65) I did NOT play the race card: - LIAR - [03/31/2008] Obama was the
first to play the race card. According to Phialdelphia Inquirer,
Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack
Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most
insidious myth of the Democratic primary campaign. Obama and his
surrogates have charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has
deliberately and cleverly played the race card in order to label
Obama the “black” candidate. Read more here
66) I did not take money from oil companies: - LIAR - [03/31/2008]
THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies.
No candidate does. It is illegal for corporations to give money to
politicians. Corporations, however, do have political action
committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then
donate them to candidates. Obama doesn’t take money from PACs. He
also doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil
companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives. As
of Feb. 29, Obama’s presidential campaign had received nearly
$214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families,
according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics. Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers
and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP
presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the
center’s totals.
Two of Obama’s fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and
chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George
Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.
Source: Associated press via Yahoo News
67) “I don’t think my church is actually particularly
controversial,” Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville,
Ohio, earlier this month. - LIAR - But yesterday, he told a different
story. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered
controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said in his speech
yesterday in Philadelphia.
68) Look at my education record in Illinois - LIAR - In reality,
Obama never really championed the local councils. He supported them
behind the scenes and only eventually came out publicly on their
behalf. When he did weigh in, he came down on the wrong side of the
debate—against protecting principals from unwarranted dismissals
and in favor of keeping councils independent, no matter what. In the
end, the resolution of the conflict between the two sides didn’t
alleviate anyone’s concerns. Instead, it prolonged a turf battle
that seems to have dragged down academic progress in the years since.
Read more here http://www.slate.com/id/2188010?wpisrc=newsletter
Source: slate.com
Source: ABC News: Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About
Pastor
Go to http://savagepolitics.com/ for more information on Obama
geriramsier at 6:53PM on Apr 13th 2008
22. Obama Lies1:55PMApr 6th 2008 - from another blog
Is this who we need to be the leader of the free world????
Obama Lies - Quick Glance
OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES as of April 03, 2008 (68 lies and
counting)
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have
you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in
1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well
educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of
the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin
Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread
violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to
mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14
wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and
‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that
language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school,
where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31
years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered
as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could
speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience -
LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even
speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and
watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been
anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our
closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were
quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya
and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you
were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet
to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never
did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t,
and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you
are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for
YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and
democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer
ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t
write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by
your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly
because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008,
state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were
part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You
failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even
YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not
YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian
Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your
campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution
vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the
destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a
dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter
stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC
recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads
to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates
decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that
limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only
operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26,
most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is
threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped
saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to
eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists,
and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started
MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with
other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A
BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office
to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time,
unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem
to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan
leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR,
both companies you site as having sent you letters about this
conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or
sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin
and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country -
LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and
Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has
received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse,
which
is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last
year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public
records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s
pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital
is
a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years.
They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge
everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known
him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him
during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite
this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before
the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot
beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave
back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K,
then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN
OBAMA, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their
involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church
is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done
blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the
year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have
yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still
donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its
message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to
the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500
PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only
connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC
supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi
Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems
Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long
before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi
expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special
interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in
videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa
BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat
in that church? Yes I did.”
59.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! -
LIAR. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the
company that looked into your records. PS - You had them look into
yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s
more than a year before!
60.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - LIAR. Rev.
Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and
helped raise money, then AND NOW. PS - He also seems to despise
America.
61.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a
phrase - LIAR. Again, MicHELLe’s comments perfectly sync with
Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and
direction.
62.) I am very Anti-Terror - LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals
is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have
been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed
khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the
University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against
Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you
weren’t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.
63.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - LIAR.
[03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddy Penny SubPrime Bank Collapse
Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama
has
taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama
received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit
Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington
Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from
Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST -
Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all
came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?
64) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control,
the death penalty and abortion - LIAR - [03/31/2008] It was found
that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an
amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain
Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had
greater role on liberal survey
65) I did NOT play the race card: - LIAR - [03/31/2008] Obama was the
first to play the race card. According to Phialdelphia Inquirer,
Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack
Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most
insidious myth of the Democratic primary campaign. Obama and his
surrogates have charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has
deliberately and cleverly played the race card in order to label
Obama the “black” candidate. Read more here
66) I did not take money from oil companies: - LIAR - [03/31/2008]
THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies.
No candidate does. It is illegal for corporations to give money to
politicians. Corporations, however, do have political action
committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then
donate them to candidates. Obama doesn’t take money from PACs. He
also doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil
companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives. As
of Feb. 29, Obama’s presidential campaign had received nearly
$214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families,
according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics. Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers
and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP
presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the
center’s totals.
Two of Obama’s fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and
chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George
Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.
Source: Associated press via Yahoo News
67) “I don’t think my church is actually particularly
controversial,” Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville,
Ohio, earlier this month. - LIAR - But yesterday, he told a different
story. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered
controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said in his speech
yesterday in Philadelphia.
68) Look at my education record in Illinois - LIAR - In reality,
Obama never really championed the local councils. He supported them
behind the scenes and only eventually came out publicly on their
behalf. When he did weigh in, he came down on the wrong side of the
debate—against protecting principals from unwarranted dismissals
and in favor of keeping councils independent, no matter what. In the
end, the resolution of the conflict between the two sides didn’t
alleviate anyone’s concerns. Instead, it prolonged a turf battle
that seems to have dragged down academic progress in the years since.
Read more here http://www.slate.com/id/2188010?wpisrc=newsletter
Source: slate.com
Source: ABC News: Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About
Pastor
Go to http://savagepolitics.com/ for more information on Obama
geriramsier at 6:54PM on Apr 13th 2008
23. Obama Lies1:55PMApr 6th 2008 - from another blog
Is this who we need to be the leader of the free world????
Obama Lies - Quick Glance
OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES as of April 03, 2008 (68 lies and
counting)
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have
you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in
1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well
educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of
the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin
Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread
violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to
mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14
wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and
‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that
language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school,
where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31
years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered
as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could
speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience -
LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even
speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and
watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been
anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our
closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were
quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya
and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you
were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet
to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never
did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t,
and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you
are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for
YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and
democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer
ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t
write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by
your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly
because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008,
state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were
part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You
failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even
YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not
YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian
Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your
campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution
vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the
destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a
dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter
stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC
recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads
to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates
decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that
limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only
operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26,
most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is
threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped
saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to
eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists,
and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started
MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with
other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A
BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office
to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time,
unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem
to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan
leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR,
both companies you site as having sent you letters about this
conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or
sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin
and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country -
LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and
Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has
received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse,
which
is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last
year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public
records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s
pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital
is
a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years.
They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge
everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known
him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him
during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite
this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before
the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot
beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave
back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K,
then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN
OBAMA, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their
involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church
is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done
blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the
year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have
yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still
donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its
message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to
the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500
PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only
connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC
supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi
Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems
Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long
before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi
expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special
interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in
videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa
BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat
in that church? Yes I did.”
59.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! -
LIAR. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the
company that looked into your records. PS - You had them look into
yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s
more than a year before!
60.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - LIAR. Rev.
Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and
helped raise money, then AND NOW. PS - He also seems to despise
America.
61.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a
phrase - LIAR. Again, MicHELLe’s comments perfectly sync with
Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and
direction.
62.) I am very Anti-Terror - LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals
is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have
been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed
khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the
University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against
Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you
weren’t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.
63.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - LIAR.
[03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddy Penny SubPrime Bank Collapse
Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama
has
taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama
received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit
Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington
Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from
Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST -
Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all
came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?
64) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control,
the death penalty and abortion - LIAR - [03/31/2008] It was found
that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an
amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain
Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had
greater role on liberal survey
65) I did NOT play the race card: - LIAR - [03/31/2008] Obama was the
first to play the race card. According to Phialdelphia Inquirer,
Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack
Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most
insidious myth of the Democratic primary campaign. Obama and his
surrogates have charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has
deliberately and cleverly played the race card in order to label
Obama the “black” candidate. Read more here
66) I did not take money from oil companies: - LIAR - [03/31/2008]
THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies.
No candidate does. It is illegal for corporations to give money to
politicians. Corporations, however, do have political action
committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then
donate them to candidates. Obama doesn’t take money from PACs. He
also doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil
companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives. As
of Feb. 29, Obama’s presidential campaign had received nearly
$214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families,
according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics. Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers
and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP
presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the
center’s totals.
Two of Obama’s fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and
chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George
Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.
Source: Associated press via Yahoo News
67) “I don’t think my church is actually particularly
controversial,” Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville,
Ohio, earlier this month. - LIAR - But yesterday, he told a different
story. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered
controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said in his speech
yesterday in Philadelphia.
68) Look at my education record in Illinois - LIAR - In reality,
Obama never really championed the local councils. He supported them
behind the scenes and only eventually came out publicly on their
behalf. When he did weigh in, he came down on the wrong side of the
debate—against protecting principals from unwarranted dismissals
and in favor of keeping councils independent, no matter what. In the
end, the resolution of the conflict between the two sides didn’t
alleviate anyone’s concerns. Instead, it prolonged a turf battle
that seems to have dragged down academic progress in the years since.
Read more here http://www.slate.com/id/2188010?wpisrc=newsletter
Source: slate.com
Source: ABC News: Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About
Pastor
Go to http://savagepolitics.com/ for more information on Obama
geriramsier at 6:55PM on Apr 13th 2008
24. TURK MAN> Reading many of your recent rants.. I have concluded you stand for NOTHING...
You represent almost everything which is wrong in this conuntry..
Please move some where else and take your liberal buddies with you.
jim at 6:56PM on Apr 13th 2008
25. Joe Bob - Class struggle? How's that Marxist thing working out for you anyways? About 80 million folks executed and counting. Great idea. Talk about "dead ends". (And I just luv those Chinese thugs in blue sweat suits at the Olympics.)
Dave at 7:03PM on Apr 13th 2008
26. You treat Obama as some sort of untouchable guru and you are his most devoted follower. I think you would come to his defense no matter what he did.
Skylar at 7:28PM on Apr 13th 2008
27. The "Bitter" remark was an opportunity, but the Clinton camp proved they needed a "Dirty" consultant to take advantage of the slip. Labeling Obama as an "Elitist" is a harmless charge because it takes money to even enter the political game. It's like saying, "I know you are, but what am I?" The "Bitter" response will play well with Republicans and Hillary's base; but it won't last. All it amounts to is someone saying, "Obama is Black." We know he's rich and we know he's Black. We know that Republicans are offering us an new version of "Bob Dole" in a Third Bush term. We know that Hillary is trying to count the Bush strategy with a Third Clinton term. How can Democrats get fully behind a strategy that denies a Third term while offering one? Clinton dropped his pants in the White House. McCain was a prisoner of war. If it's a race between these two, then what each did for their country matters. McCain wins on experience and he passes the laugh test. Hillary has essentially joined forces with McCain to offer this failed strategy. She says, "She's not bitter." Isn't the Clinton re-emergence all about undoing the impeachment? Why would America take a risk on letting this corruption return? I'm bitter that it took Democrats over 400 million dollars to see the flawed strategy. Nobody talked about it because the media gets paid from Two Party stupidity. All Obama had to do was pledge to support and defend the Constitution. He's not running for President of "Small Town America." We need a President of the United States of America. Hillary seems like she wants to continue being "Two Americas." That's an instant disqualification. In fact, if you look deeper at the argument that's a wink and a nod to bigots and racists using reverse psychology or Clinton speak.
Cecil Jones at 7:31PM on Apr 13th 2008
28. I would like to add that the reason lead was in children's toys was China. It is not a capatalist conspiracy or whatever you left wing socalists wish to believe that did that. Another thing. 58% of democrats voted for the war back in 2003. It is not just the republican party that is "killing troops for no reason." I would like to add that the country asked for the president to run the war as he knew best, and what resulted was the war we are in today. It is the byproduct of a tough enemy and a president who believes that the solution is to not back down and allow Iraq to fall back in the hands of insurgents. You can't blame him for exercising judgement like that. You can blame the democrats who still haven't gotten the troops out of Iraq like they promised only two years ago. In conclusion, I must state that it is VERY easy to sit there and acuse right wing policies for our problems and push your own political agenda, which I can't see being any better for our country. I mean, if we are running on defecit now, how can we afford healthcare? How can we afford to save the home market? Here's an idea. Capatalism. The idea has saved us before, *cough*Great Depression*cough* and is also the foundation of our countries policies. By the way, capatalism did not cause the Great Depression, irresponsible margin buying and over-extension did.
By The People, For The People at 8:09PM on Apr 13th 2008
29.
GEE, last week I was a typical White American. Now,to my horror, I discover that as a Pennsylvanian I am bitter,evil because I own guns,too involved with religion because I am pro-life, and anti-immigrant(please don't tell my Irish born grandparents). This is total nonsense.
I am not surprised that Cenk would appear as an apologist for Obama,just one liberal elitist helping another. But let's try to figure out what really happened here. Obama went to give what he thought would be a private dancing bear act for a bunch of wealthy liberals(a roomful of Cenks) in San Francisco. One of them told on him and now, once again, we're hearing what he meant to say
IRONBLUEEYES at 9:49PM on Apr 13th 2008
30. "Case in point. Al Gore. Smart guy. In 2000 over 78% of the voters agreed with him on the issues. He was experienced, good looking, spoke well, had pioneered legislation that resulted in the internet and was Vice President under an administration that left America with a good economic future. Shoo in, yes?
Steve Seivers at 4:04PM on Apr 13th 2008"
Yes. Gore won that election. It's been proven over, and over, and over. Wake the fuck up.
brandon at 10:02PM on Apr 13th 2008