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WH, Democrats Prep for War Funding Debate
Apr 24th 2008 8:00AM
Filed Under:eBush Administration, House, Democrats, Featured Stories, Iraq
The Bush Administration has requested $108 billion in supplemental funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of this fiscal year. Democratic leaders in Congress are trying to decide how to proceed on the measure. President Bush has threatened to veto any war spending measure that exceeds his funding request or that contains added provisions. Democrats are considering both strategies to make the funding request more palatable to some in their caucus. It's a reprise of a battle fought between the Administration and Congress last year, one the Democrats eventually lost, and the experience has made them just a little more wary of this year's exercise.Earlier this week, reports indicated that House Democrats were considering adding withdrawal language to the supplemental. That's a tactic that failed them last year, as a series of vetoes and failed override attempts led to Democrats caving in to the Administration and passing a bill containing no restrictions on troops and every dollar requested by the White House. Their strategy this year strategy may be to try and add favorite Democratic economic measures to the bill like food stamp assistance and extended unemployment benefits. Democrats may still try to make a stand on withdrawal language as well. But the fact that the leadership in Congress is already considering inducements to get its more stridently ant-war members to vote for the bill shows that Democrats realize the politics of using the supplemental request to make a point of their opposition to the war are not on their side.
The Democrats' uneasiness about the upcoming debate is driven not only by their recent bad experience; there are political considerations as well. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the man charged with making the Democrats' campaign message match Congressional actions, admitted on Monday that the upcoming debate was at least partly about positioning Democrats for the November elections.
There are some people who would say, 'OK, why are you going through this exercise again, if the president is going to veto this?' We have a responsibility to do everything we can to follow through on the changes we say we want made. I think it is a question of demonstrating where you stand, and what you will do, and continue to push to do, if you are elected in November."One way that Democrats are considering insulating themselves and the war funding debate from the election season is adding an additional $70 billion to the Administration' request for the next fiscal year. This would prevent Congress from having to vote on another supplemental request after the fiscal year ends on September 30th, right in the middle of the fall campaign. Republicans in Congress and the Administration will oppose such an effort in their own exercise of political strategizing with the war funding measure.
Last year, before the troop surge took full effect, Democrats could argue that the war in Iraq was going badly and that the Iraqi government was hopelessly deadlocked over sectarian issues. But with the dramatic success of the surge, and with growing indications that the Baghdad government is resolving its sectarian differences, those arguments have been largely neutralized. Since Democrats opposed the surge strategy so vigorously when it was proposed and throughout the year, there is no way they can try now with any legitimacy to get on the bandwagon. Democrats are left with a choice of trying to appease their anti-war base with an empty effort to make a political point, which they know will fail; or pushing the supplemental off the calendar as quickly as possible by passing it unchanged. Either option could have consequences for them in the general election. Republicans will make every effort to insure that whatever option the Democrat's choose, they pay a political price for it.
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(Page 1 of 2)PROUDAMERICAN11:48AMApr 24th 2008
OBAMA’S PHILOSOPHY IS: “DENY AND DESTROY”. Don't pay for your mistakes. Deny ever hearing or seeing anything. If you don't want to pay for your mistakes, just get rid of them … or blame someone else!
In 2004, when the Democrats took over, they promised to “unite” our country. Pelosi, Dean and Reid, among others, have done everything in their power to 'divide' our country. THEIR MOTTO IS: "DIVIDE AND CONQUER". They are only interested in their power.
The Democratic Party is destroying our country. We have 48 states ... not 50!
UNITED WE STAND --- DIVIDED WE FALL!
OBAMA-BIN-LIAR12:53PMApr 24th 2008
ONE 'RACE CARD' SPEECH IN FRONT OF EIGHT OF OUR AMERICAN FLAGS...WILL NOT EXPLAIN AWAY THE TRINITY CHURCH, AND REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, AND WHY BARACK KEPT HIMSELF, AND HIS FAMILY IN THAT CHURCH...
Why Obama's Speech Was Unconvincing
By Ed Koch
Barack Obama's speech addressing his 20-year relationship with his radical pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was very well done, yet unconvincing.
Obama sought to explain that relationship and why he could not end this close association, despite the minister's hate-filled rhetoric. He said, "There will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Why associate myself with Rev. Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church?"
Yes, those are the questions that people are asking.
Many of Rev. Wright's incendiary statements are on videos sold by his church. Minister Louis Farrakhan, a friend of Rev. Wright with whom he traveled to visit Muammar Khadaffi in Libya, also makes his sermons and those of others associated with the Nation of Islam available for sale. Their attacks on the U.S. and Israel often coincide with those of Rev. Wright.
Rev. Wright's sermons charge that the U.S. government gives African-Americans drugs, created AIDS and is deliberately infecting blacks with that disease. His sermons claim that the U.S. unjustifiably nuclear bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, and that 9/11 and the deaths of 3,000 Americans were caused by U.S. foreign policy. He alleges Israeli state terrorism against the Palestinians; calling Israel a "dirty word" and "racist country." He blames Israel for 9/11 and supports the divestment campaign against it, denouncing "Zionism." His venomous thoughts are summed up in his most discussed sermon in which he says the U.S. government "wants us to sing God Bless America. No, no, not God Bless America. God damn America. God damn America for killing innocent people."
Senator Obama in his speech acknowledged that the rantings of his minister are "inexcusable," but stated, "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Before we discuss his grandmother, let's examine the impact of Rev. Wright's statements on the Senator's two daughters. Nothing says it better than a song from the musical "South Pacific," to wit, "You have to be taught to hate and fear...You've got to be carefully taught." Few dispute that Rev. Wright's sermons are filled with hate.
WHY DIDN'T SENATOR OBAMA STAND UP IN THE CHURCH AND DENOUNCE HIS HATEFUL STATEMENTS OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, ARGUE PRIVATELY WITH HIS MINISTER? IT WAS HORRIFYING TO SEE ON A VIDEO NOW VIEWED ACROSS AMERICA THE CONGREGATION RISE FROM THE PEWS TO APPLAUD THEIR MINISTER'S RANTS.
Now to Obama's grandmother. There was a time spanning the 70's to the mid-90's when many blacks and whites in large American cities expressed the same feelings on street crime held by Obama's grandmother. Indeed, Reverend Jesse Jackson made similar comments in 1993 at a meeting of his organization, Operation Push, devoted to street crime. According to a November 29, 1993, article in the Chicago Sun-Times, he said, "'We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular.' Then Jackson told the audience, 'There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved....After all we have been through,' he said. 'Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.'"
Isn't that exactly what Obama's grandmother was referring to? To equate her fears, similar to Jesse Jackson's, with Wright's anti-American, anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-Israel rantings is despicable coming from a grandson. In today's vernacular, he threw her under the wheels of the bus to keep his presidential campaign rolling. For shame.
What is it that I and others expected Obama to do? A great leader with conscience and courage would have stood up and faced down anyone who engages in such conduct. I expect a President of the United States to have the strength of character to denounce and disown enemies of America - foreign and domestic -- and yes, even his friends and confidants when they get seriously out of line.
What if a minister in a church attended primarily by white congregants or a rabbi in a synagogue attended primarily by Jews made comparable statements that were hostile to African-Americans? I have no doubt that the congregants would have immediately stood up and openly denounced the offending cleric. Others would have criticized that cleric in private. Some would surely have ended their relationships with their congregation. Obama didn't do any of these things. His recent condemnations of Wright's hate-filled speech are, in my opinion, a case of too little, too late.
It is also disturbing to me that Obama's wife, Michelle, during a speech in Wisconsin, said, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
Strange. This is a woman who has had a good life, with opportunities few whites or blacks have been given. When she entered Princeton and Harvard and later became a partner in a prestigious law firm, didn't she feel proud to be an American? When she and the Senator bought their new home, was there no feeling of accomplishment and pride in being a U.S. citizen? When her husband was elected to the state legislature and subsequently to the United States Senate, didn't she feel proud of her country?
I DON’T THINK YOU CAN ASSOCIATES WITH ANYONE FOR 20 YEARS AND NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY PREACH. WRIGHT’S “GOD DAMN AMERICA” RANTS OF HATRED FOR AMERICA, WHITE MEN, JEWS, ETC. HAD TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON BARACH HUSSEIN OBAMA.
MAY GOD HELP US ALL IF OBAMA IS ELECTED!
CAROLINA1:25PMApr 24th 2008
I am a rural, small-town American. I’m not bitter. I don’t carry a gun but I do believe in the Holy Bible and God.
Hillary won in Pennsylvania, despite being outspent by Obama's “mega bucks” and bombardment on TV, radio, internet ads, phone calls, etc., etc., because we believe Hillary to be the better candidate --- pure and simple. True Americans cannot be bought!
Hillary was GREAT in the Pennsylvania debate --- Obama did quite poorly.
OBAMA HAS REFUSED TO DEBATE IN NORTH CAROLINA. He apparently can only read a pretty scripted speech from a teleprompter --- And he wants to run our country??? NO WAY!
Does he plan to have Jeremiah Wright spewing “God Damn America” from the White House? Are Obama’s frequent visitors going to be their anti-American, terrorist friends: bomber Ayers, Farrakhan, Rezko, among others?
We need someone to show respect to ALL Americans, regardless of where they live.
HILLARY 2008!
OBAMA=SERIAL LIAR2:12PMApr 24th 2008
HAD THE BIASED MEDIA NOT PROTECTED OBAMA AND ALL HIS LIES, HE WOULD NOT BE AHEAD. JOHN EDWARDS WOULD BE!
NOW --- AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS --- THE MEDIA IS BEING FAIR AND BALANCED; HOWEVER, IT’S TOO LATE --- HALF OF AMERICA HAS VOTED. HAD THEY KNOWN THE TRUTH IN DECEMBER/JANUARY, OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE HAD A CHANCE!
IF THE CITIZENS WHO VOTED IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY HAD KNOWN THE TRUTH, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR THE LYING HYPOCRITE.
THE MEDIA AND THE DNC HAVE DESTROYED AMERICA.
NO-OBAMBI2:40PMApr 24th 2008
One of our problems in America is not taking responsibility for our own actions. Hillary is not destroying Obama's electability perception --- HE is.
She is just bringing it to light because the biased press won't. Actually, we should thank her for doing the press's job.
I'm sick to death of this patronizing, pandering and anti-American wimp Obama. When are people ever going to wake up? He is absolutely the slick, Chicago-style politician he appears to be. He is not something different, something new or something better.
Hillary is the better candidate. She does have more experience. Obama is experienced in constantly sticking his ‘media golden boy’ foot in his mouth and lying to the American people.
We have 50 states --- not 48! Count all Americans!
THINKABOUTIT3:26PMApr 24th 2008
I understand that, in some cases, black voters vote blindly because they think Obama is black.
They need to know he is:
50% White American, 43% Arab Muslim and only 7% Black African!
WONDER IF THEY WOULD VOTE DIFFERENTLY IF THEY THOUGHT SENATOR OBAMA WAS PORTRAYING HIMSELF TO BE BLACK --- JUST FOR THEIR VOTES?
He is a typical politician who will say and do anything to get what he wants.
HILLARY 2008!
Goldbraid3:30PMApr 24th 2008
MESSAGE TO THE DNC
As per James Carville (political consultant) on the Larry King show last night, HE OFFERD TO PAY for the re-vote in Michigan and Florida, while Obama was on vacation in the Virgin Islands and his people DECLINED !!!! OBAMA also decline to debate in Indiana.
There is 4 months left till the DNC Nomination Convention in Denver. We have time to count the Michigan and Florida votes. This is USA of 50 states and if THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS made a mistake, WE CAN NOT DISENFRANCHISE MILLIONS OF DEMOCRAT VOTERS. These states are part of USA. We can count the votes as it stands, OR they can RE-VOTE before August 23. Those STATES are USA citizens, MILLIONS of them who WILL BE VOTING IN NOVEMBER.
Obama is against counting votes, and he is against re-voting. There is only one reason for that. He will lose and he knows it. But OBAMA would lose anyway in November because ONLY HILLARY CAN WIN against the Bush Republicans. She knows how to deal with them.
HillarySucks5:19PMApr 24th 2008
Hillary Clitnon is a turd..a big one and her husband suffers from dementia. It was a '9′ not '10′ point spread. Clinton's "crash & burn" tactics are becoming increasingly desparate & toxic - like the same old Clinton strategy. Why couldn't 'she' seal the deal on Super Tuesday? Because she's not what we're looking for. She would rather crucify Barack if 'she' can't be the nominee. Shame on you Hillary Clinton. Shame on you.
THINK5:52PMApr 24th 2008
What deception and pretext will Obama now employ with his restricted "INNER CIRCLE OF THE ELITE" to clarify why he couldn't fool all those alleged "bitter-rural-small-town-blue-collar hicks" --- THOSE "HONKIES" OF PENNSYLVANIA --- into voting for him.
Surely to God he won't admit that his speeches failed to mesmerize those folks of alleged "limited-mental-capacity"! That would be the unimaginable!
Instead of "walking on water", is Obama now "SINKING"?! Obama refuses to debate in Indiana and North Carolina. He’s only good reading pretty speeches from a teleprompter --- he can’t “debate” anyone.
HILLARY IS THE BETTER CANDIDATE --- OTHERWISE, GET READY FOR THOSE SWIFT BOAT BELLS!
Goldbraid6:33PMApr 24th 2008
BLACKS vote for Obama because he looks black. Thats it. All their racist feelings come out, hey don't think they "react". They don't even care this guys is Arab muslim anti-American anti-semitic racist who wants to change the American way of life without a SINGLE plan.
Educated people vote for Obama, because they are wealthy, they want to keep things the way they are, all the tax breaks for the super rich Bush put in place. They know Obama can't win the election - it will be EASY for McCain to beat him. They also KNOW they can't beat Hillary. McCain will continue the Bush Republican legacy thus proteting their enormous wealth.
And third, wealthy educated white men would NOT VOTE for an intelligent woman, they generally hate women (any color) in any leadership role, thus the glass ceiling. They don't want a competent smart woman to be in a leadership position. They are afraid of intelligent women.
THE HARD WORKING AMERICANS VOTE HILLARY THEY KNOW SHE WILL GET THINGS DONE.
RURAL-SMALL-TOWN6:41PMApr 24th 2008
The audacity of Obamaniacs suggesting that Florida and Michigan do not deserve a vote really gets on my last nerve. Only an Obama supporter would suggest that two states full of rural, small-town people aren’t entitled to their fair share of the Democratic vote.
It’s amazing how the arrogant and cynical Obama supporters have a strange slant on politics.
Hillary / Edwards 2008!
OURCOUNTRY7:06PMApr 24th 2008
HAD THE BIASED MEDIA NOT PROTECTED “GOLDEN BOY” OBAMA AND ALL HIS LIES --- HE WOULD NOT BE AHEAD --- JOHN EDWARDS WOULD BE!
NOW --- AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS --- THE MEDIA IS BEING FAIR AND BALANCED; HOWEVER, IT’S TOO LATE --- HALF OF AMERICA HAS ALREADY VOTED. HAD THEY KNOWN THE TRUTH IN DECEMBER OR JANUARY --- OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE HAD A CHANCE!
IF THE CITIZENS WHO VOTED IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY HAD KNOWN THE TRUTH --- THEY WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR THE LYING HYPOCRITE.
THE MEDIA AND THE DNC HAVE DESTROYED AMERICA.
HILLARY IS THE BETTER CANDIDATE.
OURCOUNTRY8:35PMApr 24th 2008
WHY WON'T OBAMA DEBATE? BECAUSE HE HAS TO "READ" A SCRIPTED SPEECH! HE CAN'T HANDLE THE PRESSURE --- HE CERTAINLY CAN'T LEAD OUR COUNTRY!
OBAMA’S LIES ARE ADDING UP ...
50 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 Canadian 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 - YOU WERE ON THE FLORIDA TICKET --- 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 Lobbyists - 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 cite 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 vain of Wright and Farrakhan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America. Read her college thesis.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
OBAMA HAS CONVINCED THE DNC THAT WE HAVE 48 STATES --- NOT 50!
HE HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES!
splash9:03PMApr 24th 2008
Liberals hung their hats on their, anti-Iraq, anti-surge failure-based stance. It won them the congress. Now the hat rack has disappeared and all their hats have fallen on the floor and are being trampled by success. They didn't plan on one thing: the brilliance of General Petreaus.
They fought for the ousting of Rumsfeld, but, in reality, his resignation was the worst thing that could have happened to the libs. They now have egg on their faces that have ruined the paint job of failure with which they tried to coat our efforts.
Too bad Bush didn't listen to the Mav 2 years earlier and deploy the surge then. Then we wouldn't be listening to Pelosi's excuses for why they haven't kept their promise (which they had no power to keep) to end the Iraq war and withdraw our troops or withhold their funding.
OURCOUNTRY10:49PMApr 24th 2008
USE YOUR SEARCH ENGINE TO LOOK UP:
CODE PINK
AND
JODIE EVANS
Obama's Greenbacks from Code Pink
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=267BD5BC-D03F-4E3E-B4B0-F69814393142
IF THE MEDIA WERE COMPETENT, THE NAME JODIE EVANS would be as well-known as Jeremiah Wright.
According to Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen, Evans has bundled “at least $50,000” in donations for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Bundling” is a process in which people turn over a large number of “individual” political contributions as a group, in the hope of exerting greater influence if their candidate is elected.
According to Human Events reporter Catherine Moy, “Evans and her son, a student who lives at her Southern California address, each also gave the maximum individual allowable donation of $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.”
And who is Jodie Evans? A former political appointee of Jerry Brown during his tenure as governor of California and his presidential campaigns, Evans briefly made headlines in 2003 by arranging for women to claim Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them. However, she has kept lower company for the last few years. Her official biography states “her life has been consumed with Codepink: Women for Peace since September of 2002.”
In fact, Evans is a co-founder of the antiwar radical group Code Pink with Medea Benjamin. As I reported at the time, Evans and Code Pink delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies to “the other side” in Fallujah in December 2004. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, signed the letter to get them to that city, a recent battlefield and stronghold for terrorists killing American soldiers.
In August 2006, she joined 11 other far-leftists in a Code Pink-sponsored trip to meet Iraqi “political leaders” with Benjamin, Cindy Sheehan, and Tom Hayden. Team member Geoffrey Millard referred to this trip as “diplomatic communication,” making such a trip potentially illegal, violating the prohibition for private citizens to conduct their own foreign policy. Among Iraqi parliamentarians, they met:
Sheikh Ahmad al-Kubaysi, who once declared foreign-born jihadists killing U.S. soldiers “very brave.” He added, “These Mujahideen are guaranteed Paradise.” He is said to have given militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr $50 million.
Saleh al-Mutlaq, the trip’s prime sponsor, who chided Americans for trying “to brand as terrorists the honorable national resistance movements,” adding, “We cannot give peace.”
Code Pink announced after this trip, “We left this historic meeting with a commitment to make sure that the voices of these Iraqi parliamentarians are heard here in the U.S.” Indeed, one delegation member, a DailyKos blogger who ran for Congress in 2006, blogged, “if justice is to ever come to the people of Iraq, the people we call insurgents will have to be recognized as the ones who are actually defending their homeland.”
Evans took the opportunity to praise Iraq…under Saddam Hussein:
Let’s go back to the Iraq before we invaded, there was a good education and health care system, food for everyone. That system didn’t belong to Saddam it belonged to the Iraqi, it belonged to years of creating what a civilization needed. If your parents didn’t send you to school they could be put in jail.
That Evans could write such words about a regime that often forced parents to watch their children being raped and tortured – even if they were favorable to Saddam’s government – strains credulity, but not more than anonymous allegations that American soldiers were plundering murderers.
Evans related that one nameless source told her, “We witnessed with our own experience how American tanks used to break Universities and asked people to loot them.”
Such operations were part of her long-term plan to sap American soldiers in Iraq of their will to fight. I also reported in July 2003, Jodie Evans sits on the Advisory Board of Iraq Occupation Watch (IOW), a group formed by Castroites Medea Benjamin and Leslie Cagan to convince American soldiers in Iraq to declare themselves “conscientious objectors” and get sent home. IOW similarly spread propaganda stories about American “atrocities” and emphasize stories of antiwar demonstrations at home to demoralize U.S. troops in battle.
Not limited to fawning over Middle Eastern dictators, Evans joined with Cindy Sheehan and Medea Benjamin to meet Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez in January 2006. Chavez, Sheehan claimed, was “a democratically elected leader who is very popular in his country.” (He is popular. Or else.) She and her fellow Code Pink radicals met with Chavez during the visit and even praised his singing voice.
As Jean Pearce has noted on FrontPage, Evans is also institutionally tied to Mike Roselle through as a Director of the Rainforest Action Network. Roselle is the founder of the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF), “which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996.”
Now she has found a new champion: Barack Obama. If he has any sense of decency, Obama should repudiate Evans. At a minimum, he should return her bundled contributions.
It is significant that Obama, his lapel stripped of any American flag pin, is a magnet for anti-American radicals like Evans, Wright, and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama’s platform for near-instantaneous withdrawal from Iraq has increased his stock with Code Pink volunteers and, undoubtedly, their Iraqi counterparts. When those who hate this country need a domestic political front, they know who to call on: the Party of Defeat. Following Obama’s instructions, Jodie Evans has placed her “hope” in him. She longs for Americans to buy into his vapid elocutions and meaningless platitudes. And she is willing to put their money where her mouth is.
WHAT ELSE IS OBAMA HIDING?
GO HILLARY11:14PMApr 24th 2008
Can fox news fire Dick Morris? He knows absolutely nothing --- acts like an imbecile --- has no integrity and does not get his facts right.
It appears his life goal is to bash Hillary Clinton all the time. Apparently, he has a personal vendetta against her. He comes across as a moron and should be fired. I can’t believe anyone wants to listen to him. He constantly slams Hilllary Clinton for something she did as an exercise for law school at the age of 20 years. Somebody needs to tie this guy up, lock him away and throw away the key.
GO HILLARY 2008!
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SusanM3:16AMApr 25th 2008
Hey life...get one.
Splash8:13AMApr 25th 2008
SusanM - I don't think life is a real person.
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OBAMA=SERIAL LIAR11:47AMApr 24th 2008
OBAMA'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS ARE:
1) Barack Hussein Obama (and all his lies).
2) Michelle Obama (anti-American wife).
3) See #1 and #2.
4) Being surrounded with dangerous anti-American people like the violent bomber Ayers, or the "God Damn America" Jeremiah Wright, or his Kenyan half brother Islamic Jihad terrorist Abongo “Roy” Obama, or his Jewish/Israeli hating best friend Rashid Khalidi, or his close advisor Robert Malley who advocates supporting and helping the terrorist group Hamas, or Mr. McPeaks, Obama’s military advisor who open believes American Jews are the "problem." and “Christian Zionists were driving America's policy in Iraq to benefit Israel,” or Obama’s super delegate and major long term supporter Senator Meeks who openly hates and distrust all whites and gays or Obama’s most dangerous affiliation to Mr. Auchi who was Saddam Hussein’s right hand man and made billions in Iraq and has been a important supporter and behind the scene man throughout Obama’s rise to power.
FINALLY, THE MEDIA IS BEING FAIR AND BALANCED.
OBOZO'S FREE RIDE MAY BE OVER --- IT’S JUST TOO SAD THAT HALF THE COUNTRY HAS ALREADY VOTED!
His anti-American wife doesn’t qualify as a first lady.
Obama can’t make up his mind who he is --- and we don’t need him pushing the “button”!
Obama has convinced the DNC we only have 48 states --- not 50! This is wrong!
HAD THE BIASED MEDIA TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLDEN BOY OBAMA --- BEFORE HALF OF AMERICA HAD VOTED --- HE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS RACE --- JOHN EDWARDS WOULD BE!
IT'S SAD THAT AN ANTI-AMERICAN IS HEADING UP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THERE IS STILL HOPE: CLINTON / EDWARDS 2008!
IF WE DON'T VOTE FOR HILLARY --- McCAIN WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER!