Best Bet1:08PMMay 5th 2008

North Carolina - Patriotism Trumps Race
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
.............. - Obama can never defeat McCain.
ONLY HILLARY CAN DEFEAT McCAIN, END WAR & SAVE ECONOMY
.............. - Save our Troops - Bring'em Home!!
.............. - God Bless America - God Bless Hillary!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Best Bet1:12PMMay 5th 2008

--Pathetic Biased Reporting-- MSNBC & CNN --

MSNBC and CNN....should be ashamed of their pathetic biased reporting that slams Clinton & idolizes Obama.. Nothing Uncomplimentary is reported
on Obama http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008_03_09_archive.html. Media just hits on Hillary 24/7 on Bosnia, etc and ignores Obama's 70 LIES.
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/04/obamas-list-of-lies-70-and-counting.html#links Why? Why? Why?
FOX may now really be more "Fair & Balanced."
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Best Bet1:14PMMay 5th 2008

-- 20 years "Yes We Can" Obama Leadership --
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Violence in Chicago--- Nine people died in 36 shootings over the past weekend.----The recent violence followed a six-month period during which more than 20 Chicago public school students were shot to death. Neighbors gather at a home where five people were found dead on Chicago's South Side Wednesday. 4/24/08 Nations News---
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"Change You Can Believe In"??? Obama can NOT even clean up his own 20 year neighborhood, the South Side of Chicago. More killed in Chicago than Iraq?. http://election.newsmax.com/ncf_obama/

zzep1:14PMMay 5th 2008

I HAVE A QUESTION,,,,,,,,WHY DO OUR ENEMYS ALWAYS WANT A DEMOCRAT TO WIN THE WHITEHOUSE...........OBAMA ENDORSED BY HAMMAS........THE LAST ELECTION OSAMA SENT US A TAPE TELLING ALL AMERICANS TO VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY.........LETS GO BACK A FEW YEARS TO THAT BUMBLING FOOL JIMMY CARTER..IRAN AT THAT TIME WAS AN ALLY OF THE U.S. AND THA SHA ASKED HIM FOR HELP AGAINST THE IATOLLA AND CARTER REFUSED..THAT GAVE US THE PRESENT DAY IRAN THE LARGEST STATE SPONSER OF TERROR AND NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF THE U.S.......THE LIST OF HIS STUPIDITY WOULD TAKE ALL NIGHT SO LETS FAST FORWARD TO A RECENT TRIP WHERE HE LAYS A WREATH ON THE GRAVE OF YASSIR ARAFAT ONE OF THE BIBBEST TERRORIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY...THEN HE DISRESPECTS OUR ALLY ISREAL AND MEETS WITH HAMMAS...WITCH ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING........ NOW LETS TALK ABOUT BILLY B.J. CLINTON HE ALOWED BIN LADEN TO ATTACK US SEVERAL TIMES AND DID NOTHING...BIN LADEN WAS OFFERED TO US 3 TIMES AND CLINTON REFUSED..THIS ACT ALONE COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9-11 AND SAVED 3000 AMERICAN LIVES..THEN BEFORE THE 9-11 HEARINGS HE SENT SANDY BURGER TO STEAL CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD HAVE PROOVED HIS ROLE IN LETTING BIN LADEN GO..... THEN HE GIVES N.KOREA OUR NUMGER 2 ENEMY NUKE MATERIAL [FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES] WHEN THEY STARTED MAKING BOMBS HIS EXCUSE...THEY LIED TO US..DUHHHH.........WHEN CLINTON WANTED TO DISTACT THE PUBLIC DURING THE LEWINSKI AFFAIR..HE DECIDED TO GET TOUGH ON BIN LADEN AND BOMB AN ASPRIN FACTORY I HOPE BEN LADEN DIN`T HAVE A HEADACH THAT DAY AND NEEDED ONE...WAY TO GO TUFF GUY.......AND HOW ABOUT 4.00 GAS PRICES YOU ARE TRYING TO BLAME BUSH FOR...LETS SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT...CLINTON VETOED A BILL THAT WOULD HAVE LET US DRILL IN ANWAR ALASKA....IT WOULD WAVE BEEN PUMPING AN ESTIMATED 5 MILLION BARRELS A DAY THAT AMERICAN OIL WE DON`T HAVE TO BY FROM ARABS........HEY WAIT A MINUTE I THINK I JUST ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION................NEVER..MIND.....I THINK YOU GET IT

Best Bet1:17PMMay 5th 2008

-- --- Allegiance is to AFRICA!!!! ---
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-- CBS NEWS 4/13/08 ...THE BAD COMPANY OF BARRACK OBAMA --
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/opinion/main4009369.shtml?source=search_story#ccmm
Excerpts..."Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates
in the DESTRUCTION OF THE WHITE ENEMY". ..."We are an African people, and remain
‘true to our native land,’ the mother continent, the cradle of civilization."
(TRINITY CHURCH... http://www.tucc.org/ ...Allegiance is to AFRICA!!!!)
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Best Bet1:20PMMay 5th 2008

Change - Change - Change - Change - Change - Change - Change!!!!
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Uniter - Uniter - Uniter - Uniter - Uniter - Uniter - Uniter - Uniter!!
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CHEERLEADER GEORGE BUSH - gave us this Campaign Rhetoric
CHEERLEADER BARACK OBAMA - now gives us MORE OF SAME
CHEERLEADER TALK IS CHEAP - ACTION & RESULTS ARE NOT.
--- Results of Obams's 20 years work in South Chicago is very
questionable http://election.newsmax.com/ncf_obama/
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When Republican owned biased media finishes hanging Hillary,
media will stop praising & protecting Obama, and start vetting 70 LIES
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/04/obamas-list-of-lies-70-and-counting.html#links

Repugs will Swiftboat Obama and his favorable polls will crash.
-McCain, will then easily beat Obama & keep Repug control of WH
Patroit, War-Hero McCAIN was commanding a Navy fleet & HILLARY was
pioneering US Gov.Child Care Programs -- when OBAMA was 10 year old
kid growing up in Muslim country with Muslim stepfather & Atheist
mother http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec06/obama_muslim.htm -
- - - SAVE AMERICA -- SUPPORT HILLARY --
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ONLY HILLARY CAN BEAT McCAIN, END WAR & SAVE ECONOMY.
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rangerbrackens1:23PMMay 5th 2008

Think something is very wrong here?

Officials Say Recount Is 'Imminent'
Pacific News Center Staff Reporter 04.MAY.08
9:30 a.m. Guam -
The Democrat Party Nominating Committee said officials will look over the large amount of "spoiled ballots" in the coming days.

At issue is the small margin of victory of Senator Barack Obama. He beat his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton by 7 votes, but well over 500 ballots were deemed invalid during the tabulation process.

Herbie Perez, chairman of the nominating committee, said she will not certify the results because the Committee needs to ensure that all the uncounted ballots were properly identified as "spoiled."

She said officials from the Party and representatives from both candidates will meet probably Monday or Tuesday to address that issue.

Perez revealed she is also looking into the missing ballots.

More than 8,100 were printed in response to reports of shortages at precinct sites. But when the final tally came in, only a little over 4,500 ballots were used.

1/2 the Ballots were "MISSING"

WON BY 7 VOTES?

A Caucus?

How many states were won by CAUCUS in the US?

How many were "WON" by Obama?

WHERE THERES SMOKE THERES FIRE?
Do some thinking on this and think "CHICAGO POLITICS"

Mary B1:25PMMay 5th 2008

Who is Nadhmi Auchi and why is he important to Barack Obama? Let's take a look.

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Contrary to Obama's persistent claims, he indeed did favors for Tony Rezko, including this one:

"While Mr. Obama was running for the Senate, Mr. Rezko was also raising money for a huge development in the South Loop of Chicago, often playing host to dinners in a private room at the Four Seasons Hotel here.

"Former Rezko associates said that Governor Blagojevich attended one of the dinners, and that at Mr. Rezko's request, Mr. Obama dropped in at one for Middle Eastern bankers in early 2004, just as he was starting to pull ahead in the Senate primary. The visits, Mr. Rezko's partners said, helped impress foreign guests.

"'I remember that he had been on the campaign trail, and he was completely wiped out and exhausted,' said Anthony Licata, a lawyer who represented Mr. Rezko on real estate deals. 'My recollection is that he drank ice tea, and he talked about how he was really making progress, and we were all excited to see him.'"

Last March, I asked: Was Nadhmi Auchi there?

Stuart Levine's testimony on Monday didn't answer that question, but no matter. Levine testified that both Barack and Michelle Obama attended a reception Rezko held at his Wilmette home for Auchi. "News reports from the courtroom said Mr. Rezko wanted to impress Mr. Auchi, who ultimately poured nearly $170 million into the real estate venture," the New York Times reports.

"Mr. Rezko's lawyers have raised questions about Mr. Levine's credibility on other issues, and Mr. Levine offered few details on Monday about the party at Mr. Rezko's house. Mr. Levine said Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, was there. Mr. Obama's campaign said she had no recollection of the event. Mr. Auchi's lawyer, Alasdair Pepper, has said that his client does not remember meeting Mr. Obama."

The Sun-Times, however, reports that "according to two sources familiar with the gathering, the Obamas attended the Wilmette reception, which came less than a month after Obama's Democratic primary win for his U.S. Senate seat."

Let's be clear then: The Obamas attended the Rezko party, and it's not like Auchi was just another guest. He was the guest of honor. The party was for him, as part of Rezko's effort to get him to invest in a real estate venture in the South Loop. Surely Obama would know the purpose of a party and why the guest of honor was the guest of honor (even as he somehow didn't know that Rezko had slum properties in his state senate district at the same time).

So that is established. Now, why does it matter?

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First, who is Nadhmi Auchi?

A lot of folks have been asking that question.

Short story: He's a controversial Iraqi-born, British billionaire who, according to one report, "set up a variety of deals with Saddam Hussein's regime prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and was one of the largest private shareholders in BNP Paribas, the bank that trafficked most of the funds involved in the UN Oil-For-Food scandal. He also admitted taking kickbacks from the French petroleum company TotalFinaElf in the 1990s (Auchi later sued Elf for entangling him in their criminal activities, according to Forbes)."

Auchi is apparently still appealing a 2003 fraud conviction in France. He visited Chicago and Detroit in 2004, but wasn't allowed back in the country in 2005.

"Prosecutors in Mr. Rezko's case have said that Mr. Rezko asked Illinois officials to help obtain a visa for Mr. Auchi's visit to Chicago," the Times says. "The officials have not been identified, and Mr. Obama's campaign has said he was not involved in that effort."

Let me ask you a question: You're Tony Rezko and you've bankrolled Barack Obama's entire political career. You helped him buy his house and you and your wife socialize with him and his wife. You've held a reception for a potential investor in which you invited Obama, who had just been elected to the United States Senate, to impress your business partner. And you appeal to Illinois officials to help him get a visa. Are you telling me you do not ask for Obama's help?

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Obama's campaign says the senator "does not recall" meeting Auchi. There's a lot he didn't "recall" about Rezko either for quite awhile. You know, like actually knowing him.

*

Via RezkoWatch:

"Rick Moran of Pajamas Media reminds us that, during his March 14, 2008, exclusive interview with the editorial board and reporters of the Chicago Sun-Times, "Obama denies helping Auchi in any way with his visa [in 2005] but can't vouch for his staff":

Q: Did you ever help Auchi enter the country?

A: No.

Q: Or your office?

A: Not that I know of.

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Here's the way the Trib put it:

"Just weeks after winning the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in 2004, Barack Obama was the guest of developer Antoin 'Tony' Rezko at a party for a controversial British billionaire whom Rezko was trying to lure into an investment, a witness testified Monday at Rezko's corruption trial.

"Stuart Levine, the government's star witness, said Obama and his wife, Michelle, were among the guests at Rezko's home on April 3, 2004, for the party honoring Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born tycoon currently appealing a fraud conviction in France.

"As he campaigns for president, Obama has acknowledged social and political ties to Rezko, as well as a real estate deal between the two that involved Obama's South Side home. But Obama has not disclosed his presence at the Auchi party, which Rezko threw as part of a campaign to persuade Auchi to pour money into a financially troubled 62-acre development in the South Loop."

And:

"Auchi came to the rescue as Rezko's business ventures began to crumble and his legal troubles mounted in recent years. Auchi, who heads General Mediterranean Holding SA, bought about 15 Wisconsin pizzerias from Rezko, court records show. He also took a stake in Rezko's South Loop development at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street.

"But help from Auchi ultimately landed Rezko in jail. Rezko had remained free on bond after his indictment in 2006 by convincing U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve that he was nearly broke and had no access to overseas funds.

"Then $3.5 million from an Auchi-related company was wired from Beirut to Rezko's lawyers, who argued it was a loan to pay legal fees and family expenses. St. Eve didn't buy it and in January revoked Rezko's bond."

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And now it gets interesting. Via MyDD:

"The [London] Times has, however, discovered state documents in Illinois recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to Mr. Obama's fundraiser in May 2005. Fintrade's directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr Auchi's wife. Mr Auchi's spokespeople declined to respond to a question about whether he was linked to this business."

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"In what appears to be a clumsy 'cleanup' operation, evidence of Auchi's visit to Illinois has now been deleted from two websites linked to his company, General Mediterranean Holding," Raw Story reports.

"After rumors began circulating that Auchi may have met with Obama, information was deleted from two websites connected to Auchi's company about a spring 2004 visit to the United States that occurred as Obama was campaigning to be Illinois' junior senator.

"On Tuesday, ABC News first reported the existence of photos showing Auchi meeting with Gov. Blagojevich on the website Middle East Online. The link on the website that the report pointed to, which said that 'businessmen, and congressmen' also met with Auchi, is now gone.

"Auchi had extensive commercial ties with Rezko, including the $130 million purchase of a property development near downtown Chicago from the indicted businessman. In 2004, according to Crain's Chicago Business, Rezko brought Auchi to Illinois for the aforementioned meeting with Blagojevich and other government officials in Illinois. Blagojevich promised at the time that he was "ready to provide the necessary means for [GMH's investments] to succeed."

From Crain's, Sept 29, 2005:

"Chicago businessman Antoin S. 'Tony' Rezko, a controversial figure in local political circles, has agreed to sell his massive real estate development in the South Loop to an Iraqi-born British billionaire with a similar knack for generating controversy on the international stage.

"General Mediterranean Holding SA, a Luxembourg-based conglomerate headed by Nadhmi Auchi, is buying Riverside Park, a yet-to-be-built development on a prime 62-acre parcel on Roosevelt Road, says Michael Rumman, a consultant on the project. He declines to disclose a price, another person familiar with the deal pegged it at $130.5 million.

[Who is Michael Rumman? "Michael Rumman, former director of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, the state's internal operations real estate agency. Mr. Rumman, the former president of Peoples Energy Services, has been hired as a consultant.He announced his resignation in April after a draft audit of CMS found problems at the agency."]

"A partnership headed by Mr. Rezko, chairman of development firm Rezmar Corp., had planned to build 4,600 residential units and about 670,000-square-feet of retail space on the site. But a city minority contracting scandal involving Mr. Rezko imperiled the project's chances of getting as much as $140 million in tax subsidies to help cover infrastructure costs."

And:

"Mr. Rezko, a close confidante and fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, arranged for Mr. Auchi to meet the Governor and State Senate President Emil Jones on a visit to the U.S. last year.

"The odds that Mr. Rezko's partnership would be able to pull off the project fell this year, when city officials determined that he set up a minority front to obtain a concession for two Panda Express restaurants at O'Hare International Airport. The Daley Administration would have had difficulty explaining $140 million in tax increment financing (TIF) - the most ever requested by a developer in Chicago - to someone who skirted city rules, especially with corruption allegations sweeping through City Hall."

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Wow! The only one untouched is Todd Stroger!

Let's see if I can summarize, because I know this is confusing. Tony Rezko pimped out Barack Obama to impress Nadhmi Auchi, a bad operator who found the political culture in Chicago and Illinois amenable to his kind of investment acumen. The only problem was that Rezko's deal was in trouble, and Rezko himself was caught up in, among other scandals, a minority-contracting scam with the Dalely administration. At the same time, Rezko was wheeling and dealing with the Blagojevich administration and everyone in the political universe knew he was under federal investigation for it but Obama asked for his help buying a $1.6 million mansion and appeared at a couple of events to help Rezko impress Auchi and others.

Now Obama's memory is faulty because there's that pesky question of judgement, as well as the stain on his meticulously burnished image as a beacon of hope and reform because his relationship with both Rezko and the Machine and politics-as-usual is deeper than he's ever cared to admit. Have I missed anything? Does that make sense now? Do you get the feeling there's still more to the story that we don't know about?

Another editorial board meeting!

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Further resources on Auchi.

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Karen1:26PMMay 5th 2008

RON PAUL WILL SPEAK AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE TONIGHT @ 7PM. HE IS ON THE BALLOT TOMORROW IN INDIANA!! VOTE FOR LESS GOVERNMENT!! VOTE FOR MARCHING OUT OF IRAQ!! VOTE FOR HOLDING UP OUR CONSTITUTION!! VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!

Best Bet1:29PMMay 5th 2008

--- "YES WE CAN" OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP RECORD --
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Violence in Chicago--- Nine people died in 36 shootings over the past weekend.----The recent violence followed a six-month period during which more than 20 Chicago public school students were shot to death. Neighbors gather at a home where five people were found dead on Chicago's South Side Wednesday. 4/24/08 Nations News---
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"Change You Can Believe In"??? Obama can NOT even clean up his own 20 year neighborhood, the South Side of Chicago. More killed in Chicago than Iraq?. http://election.newsmax.com/ncf_obama/
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Joyce1:31PMMay 5th 2008

VOTE FOR HILLARY! SHE'S BY FAR THE MOST INTELLIGENT & CAPABLE CANDIDATE WE HAVE & WE NEED HER EXPERTISE. SHE'S A VISIONARY WITH SOLUTIONS & A CAN-DO PERSONNA. HOW CAN WE TAKE A RISK ON OBAMA WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY UNCERTAINTIES AS TO WHAT HIS CAPABILITIES & PLANS ARE? WE CANNOT AFFORD A "GREEN MACHINE" WHEN SO MANY PROBLEMS (FOREIGN & DOMESTIC) EXIST CAUSING ANGUISH FOR ALL OF US. THE DNC & DELEGATES HAD BETTER OPEN THEIR EYES TO THAT FACT OR THE OUTCOME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE LESS THAN "SUPER." HILLARY HAS KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A STRONG LEADER. HER STRENGTH GROWS WHEN FACED WITH ADVERSITY; THAT'S SOMETHING SHE HAS PROVEN DURING THIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN. HAVING ANYONE OTHER THAN HILLARY AS OUR NOMINEE & PRESIDENT IS A DREADFUL THOUGHT. OBAMA IS LACKING IN TOO MANY AREAS & IS TOTALLY UNPREPARED TO EVEN BE THE NOMINEE AS HE DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL OF BEATING MCCAIN. HE'S THE CANDIDATE WHO SHOULD STEP ASIDE & TRY AGAIN IN A FEW YEARS WHEN HE'S NOT SO NAIVE. VOTE FOR HILLARY AS SHE IS THE BEST FOR THE COUNTRY!

Cheryl1:32PMMay 5th 2008

If Obama would win. I will either vote McCain or Ron Paul. Unles I write in Hillary

Best Bet1:35PMMay 5th 2008

----- DUMB DEMS ARE BEING DUPED AGAIN!!! ----
http://thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html < read! Excellent!!.
BIG BUSINESS REPUBLICANS OWN THE MEDIA & CONTROL ELECTIONS
------ CLEVER REPUGS USE REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY ------
-- REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT TO RUN AGAINST HILLARY --
- Proof is- the way media now praises Obama & hangs Hillary.
- Proof is- Republican operatives are funding Obama campaign.
- Proof is- big business Repugs prevent Health care for 47 million Americans
- Proof is- McCain supporter are urged to vote for Obama in open primaries.

Except for elections, the Bush administration is a failure and has a dismal record at about everything they handle. Karl Rove's expertise at winning elections is unquestionable; lots of distortions, lies, dirty tricks and control of media is used. All the slime stuff stinks but it wins the elections; ask Gore, Kerry, etc., etc, etc.!!!! . Now to advoid a landslide loss this year, GOP has very cleverly financed, sponsored & voted for Dem candidate Obama so as to split the Dem party and knockout Hillary. Dumb Dems are dumbfounded and seem helpless and the Florida vote count is a big problem again.

To knock out Hillary -Rove & Limbaugh teams urge McCain supporters to vote for Obama in open primaries; crossover Repug pimp voters know they can easily VET & BEAT Obama on 11/4. Media now praises Obama & hangs Hillary. Limbaugh,Coulter,Carlson,Drudge,Hannity, Matthews & Rove -- pander to and indulge the Obama bandwagon now, but they see raw red meat for the butchering when the time comes.

. Protective media now tries to shame Hillary if anyone anywhere is critical of Obama. Media also protects & shields Obama by inserting RACE IN RACE and labeling any & all criticism of Obama as racist; this divides & hurts America and may cause BLOOD in the STREETS when McCane is put in White House. Many Obama voters do not understand that all their votes for Obama -- may be WORTHLESS on 11/4 in all the Red states. The swing state votes like in Ohio & Florida remain critical.

Legendary All American patriot war hero McCain was commanding a Navy fleet and HILLARY was pioneering US Gov.Child Care Programs at the time when Obama was 10 year old kid growing up in Muslim country with Muslim stepfather & Atheist mother. http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec06/obama_muslim.htm

Just Words?? Obama two books speak more of division than uniting; much is very scary - like - "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/02/i-will-stand-wi.html Obama may get Dem nomination but Dems will go down with him.

A Repug Vetted Obama will surely LOSE to McCain
Young, inexperienced, unproven, Rezko trial - http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4365942&page=1,
Rezko house, Muslim ties & relatives, Minister Louis Farrakhan, special segregated church, drug use, etc.etc.
ONLY HILLARY CAN BEAT McCAIN, END WAR & END REPUG RULE
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War costs estimate has now increased to $5 Trillion; debt gift for our grandkids to pay!!!. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acXcm.yk56Ko&refer=home
-- SAVE AMERICA -- SUPPORT HILLARY --
Hillary has stood up to 20 years of gotcha media attacks, investigations & distortions, plus the 24/7 Limbaugh lies & jokes on Talk radio. It is very very unfair & wrong for Obama & Media to now blaim Hillary for all the wrongs in Washington & for Bush's war.
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dan1:36PMMay 5th 2008

Obama makes Hillary look honest

swamp1:36PMMay 5th 2008

Obama–>Rezko–>Nadhmi Auchi–>Saddam Hussein & Muammar al-Gaddafi–>(Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Raila Odinga–>Sheik Abdullahi Abdi)–>Raila Odinga–>Obama–>Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorhn–>Obama–>Rashid Khalidi–>Obama–>Rezko–>Jabir Herbert Muhammad–>Farrakhan–>Obama

Follow the money … see the ties

With Americans like Obama, who needs Al Qaeda?

Ann Jones1:37PMMay 5th 2008

one media station is owned by Republicans the others by very liberal democrats so if you have a problem with obama worship i suggest you call cnn abc cbs nbc and msnbc and tell them...plus watch thisbefore its yanked http://www.geneclark.net/BarackHusseinObama.html

Best Bet1:38PMMay 5th 2008

--- OBAMA'S LIST OF LIES - 70 & COUNTING ---
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1.) "Selma Got Me Born" - LIE, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. Source: hotair.com

2.) "My Father Was A Goat Herder" - LIE, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government. Source: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message504435/pg1

3.) "My Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter" - LIE, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had Source:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-oginga-o.html

4.) "My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom" - LIE, 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. Source:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-oginga-o.html

5.) "My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian" - LIE, 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. Source: According to NYTimes story of April of last year, Sarah Hussein Obama told the New York Times she is a devout Muslim.

6.) "My Name is African Swahili" - LIE, 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" - LIE, you practiced it daily at public school in Indonesia, where you were registered as a Muslim in your school records.

8.) "My School In Indonesia Was Christian" - LIE, you were registered as Muslim in Indonesian public school and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).

9.) "I Was Fluent In Indonesian" - LIE, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10.) "Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience" - LIE, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language.

11.) "I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs" - LIE, except for Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Middle East, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then.

16.) "Present Votes Are Common In Illinois" - LIE, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 "PRESENT" votes.

17.) "Oops, I Misvoted" - LIE, you claim you could not tell which button was YES or NO when they are clearly labeled and no other elected officials would back you up that the voting system is hard to understand.

18.) "I Was A Professor Of Law" - LIE, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. Lynne Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times has vociferously insisted you were not a law professor.

19.) "I Was A Constitutional Lawyer" - LIE, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20.) "Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill" - LIE, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.

21.) "The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass" - LIE, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

22.) "I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill" - LIE, 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" - LIE, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released.

24.) "I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess" - LIE, 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" - LIE, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill because it is impossible to fund and dangerous to th economy.

26.) "I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois" - LIE, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part. Your own supporters can't name anything you have done for the state of Illinois.

27.) "I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year" - LIE, 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. Emile Jones took good care of you.

28.) "No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA" - LIE, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them. You stated emphatically on Ohio television that your campaign did not wink and nod to the Canadian government, when you knew this was completely untrue.
29.) "I Am Tough On Terrorism" - LIE, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel. You also sought out a relationship with William Ayers, self-proclaimed terrorist of the Weather Underground, who plotted to blow up Congress.

30.) "I Am Not Acting As President Yet" - LIE, 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" - LIE, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.

32.) "I Won Michigan" - LIE, 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, allow your supporters to bully others, and only operate during small windows of time that only your supporters can afford to go to.

36.) "I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate" - LIE, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.

37.) "I won Texas" - No, you didn't.

38.) "I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics" - LIE, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you by challenging her petition signatures.
39.) "I Don’t Take PAC Money" - LIE, you take millions in PAC money.

40.) "I Don’t Have Lobbysists" - LIE, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

41.) "My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad" - LIE, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

42.) "My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace" - LIE, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.

43.) "I Inspire People With My Words" - LIE, you inspire people with other people’s words, like Deval Patrick's.

44.) "I Have Passed Many Bills In The U.S. Senate" - LIE, you have passed two bills in the U.S. Senate - one calling for friendship with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the other naming a post office for someone in Illinois.

45.) "I Have Always Been Against Iraq" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the National Anthem.

49.) "My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country" - LIE, 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" - LIE 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, your wife’s pay raise after you became a US Senator was nearly 150% and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years.

53.) "I Barely Know Rezko" - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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" - LIE, 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 of 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.

57.) "I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko" - LIE, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to 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.

58.) "I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube" - LIE! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa 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!" - LIE. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the company that looked into your records.

60.) "Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning" - LIE. Rev. Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and helped raise money, then AND NOW.

61.) "My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a phrase" - LIE. Again, Michelle’s comments perfectly sync with Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and direction.

62.) "I am very Anti-Terror" - LIE. [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" - LIE. [03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddies 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" - LIE - [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": - LIE - [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": - LIE - [03/31/2008]
THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies. No candidate does. It is illegal, since 1907, 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 says he doesn’t take money from PACs. He also says he 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, in March 2008. - LIE - But he told a different story in his Philadelphia race speech. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said.

68) "Look at my education record in Illinois" - LIE - 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=newsletterSource: slate.com


69) “I stopped smoking. I stopped smoking. I haven’t had a cigarette since I quit" - LIE - But in his own words, here is what Obama said. Except….last night on MSNBC’s Hardball, Obama admitted that his attempt to wean himself from the vile tobacco weed had not been entirely successful. I fell off the wagon a couple times during the course of it, and then was able to get back on,” he said. “But it is a struggle like everything else.”


70) I did not campaign in Florida, (so Florida vote shouldn’t count) - LIE -According to Boston Globe, HeraldTribune and other sites, Obama airs “ads” on Cable stations in Florida. Even with the Florida cable ads, Obama still lost. From heraldtribune.com Obama’s Florida ads bust pledge
See the Video here http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/obama_airs_nati.html
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swamp1:39PMMay 5th 2008

Barack Obama's cousin Raila Odinga is accused of ethnic cleansing while battling for power in Kenya.
Obama has stated his support for Luo Opposition Leader, Raila Odinga.

Barack Obama's brother Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture."

Robyn1:39PMMay 5th 2008

Barbara! What a wonderful idea....believe what you read on Obama's website. Uh, don't they all post their best rhetoric on there?

swamp1:43PMMay 5th 2008

Check out some of the groups/individuals who endorse Obama

Racist Louis Farrakhan backs Obama at Nation of Islam convention in Chicago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-farrakhan25feb25,0,6391391.story

New Black Panther Party endorses Obama
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59326

Hamas top political advisor likes Obama
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Hamas_Endorses_Obama/2008/04/17/88754.html

muslimsforobama08.com

And he has jujuans' support as well
jujuan10:19AMApr 19th 2008
wait all you bigoted white crackers................we are going to take over soon...............soon you will feel what we have felt................i will be so happy to see all of you living in the ghettos...................on medicaid and getting your foodstamps so us black folk can make fun of you when you buy brand names with your foodstamps......your day is coming .....black will rule the country finally.......our dream come true by the name of Barack hussein Obama......

As well as irannyes'
irannye12:09PMApr 20th 2008
You people need to get real (susan) He will be president more black people are voting more then any election in history just to get obama in so get over it you red neck racist mother fuckers because he will be running our country and you racist white people will be calling him master just like yall made us do it in the 1800's so get over his religion and who he is friends with

And swaggafresh
swaggafresh7185:09PMApr 30th 2008
you motherfuckers really need to stop hating on obama seriously.....and fuck all you guys whose supporting hillary chinton and john mackain