Obama's Lame Claim About McCain's Money

hey RDOMINGUEZ, GO BACK TO WHATEVER 3RD WORLD COUNTRY YOU CAME FROM. IF YOU ARE NOT PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, YOU SHOULD GO AWAY. We Americans who were Born here, take pride in our country and do not want to see the REPUBS continue to suck our resources dry and put us in further danger around the globe. WAKE UP YOU DOOFUS!

obama folks are truly blind. is hiws campaign not fueled by Moveon.org and the soros organization? he will be beholden to these people as all politicians are to some extent. the obamanians need to study history and government and put the crayons and coloring books away.

It's amazing looking at all the comments here. All anyone does on these posts is bash the opponent, either praise the article or call it a "non-issue" depending on who the poster is behind, and bring in anything that has nothing to do with the article to spin their comment. This is why America is so divided. Each side wants to blame the other for all the woes, and in reality, it's both sides. We have a Republican President with a 29% approval rating and a Democratic-controlled Congress with a 19% approval rating. Both sides should be so proud. If there had never been a reason to add the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, one of these men would be the other's Vice-President after the November election. How would you all deal with that?

Is there any truth to this:It seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president after all
for the following reason:
Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. natural-born citizen according to
the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between
'December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? Presidential office requires a
natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. citizen
parents, which of course is what exempts John McCain though he was born
in the Panama Canal . US Law very clearly stipulates: '.If only one
parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must
have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five
of which had to be after the age of 16.' Barack Obama's father was not
a U.S. citizen and Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born,
which means though she had been a U.S. citizen for 10 years, (or
citizen perhaps because of Hawaii being a territory) the mother fails
the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama's
birth, but *after* age 16. It doesn't matter *after*. In essence, she
was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. citizenship.
At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at
the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18 in Hawaii. His mother
would have needed to have been 16+5= 21 years old, at the time of
Barack Obama's birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen. As
aforementioned, she was a young college student at the time and was
not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time his mother would
have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Citizen parent.
Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would
still disqualify him from holding the office.

*** Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of Pre
sident. *** Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, all
the other info does not matter because his mother is the one who needed
to have been a U.S. citizen for 10 years prior to his birth on August
4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16. Further, Obama may
have had to have remained in the country for some time to protect any
citizenship he would have had, rather than living in Indonesia. Now you
can see why Obama's aides stopped his speech about how we technically
have more than 50 states, because it would have led to this discovery.
This is very clear cut and a blaring violation of U.S. election law. I
think the Gov. of California would be very interested in knowing this
if Obama were elected President without being a natural-born U.S.
citizen, and it would set precedence. Stay tuned to your TV sets
because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over
the next several days. Presidentcy
Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

Means and ends. When the ends we seek become means we use to achieve that end we will know that person not only will deliver on their promises, we know they already have.
It shouldn't matter whether it is a democrat or republican concerning all these issues. It should matter who is the one reaching across the isle, who is the one able to work with people of different parties to accomplish our shared goals.
It should also matter that they have actual plans, not just promises about how this done.
This is our best chance as a people to get real change and we have to hold Obama's feet to the fire as much as we would any other politicians. We have to know he will deliver, not just promise, and he is struggling mightly right now with the difference between what he says and what he does.
I like what he says better than I like what he does.
I like what McCain does better than what he says, he actually appears to be far more non-partisan and to have an established base of trust with democrats, so much so that the talk of him becoming a vice-presidential candidate with Kerry was taken seriously.
Barack Obama hasn't shown that ability, though I would very much prefer a democrat. Perhaps it is his supporters that attack so fiercly that makes me doubt him coupled with his actions speaking louder than his words.

i find if very funny that the Republicans cant seem to win a fight unless their opponent has their hands tied behind their back. Dirty pieces of you know what. I am with Obama...you GOP pricks hate it when they get beat at their own game. Get ready for some more, because you unpatriotic, greedy, incompetent, butholes are going to "reap the whirlwind." PS. Hope you like getting kicked when your down!

Boo hoo...too bad, so sad for you GOP haters.

and this is the man of change--just another greedy Chicago politician

Newsweek shows their true sentiments as Republican supporters with this one!

Notice at the end of my Text here, the comment about poor judegement. This is the man you want as your Presidnet.

In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the meetings between the senators and the regulators. McCain, Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, and Riegle became known as the Keating Five.

(Keating himself was convicted in January 1993 of 73 counts of wire and bankruptcy fraud and served more than four years in prison before his conviction was overturned. Last year, he pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and was sentenced to time served.)

McCain defended his attendance at the meetings by saying Keating was a constituent and that Keating's development company, American Continental Corporation, was a major Arizona employer. McCain said he wanted to know only whether Keating was being treated fairly and that he had not tried to influence the regulators. At the second meeting, McCain told the regulators, "I wouldn't want any special favors for them," and "I don't want any part of our conversation to be improper."

But Keating was more than a constituent to McCain--he was a longtime friend and associate. McCain met Keating in 1981 at a Navy League dinner in Arizona where McCain was the speaker. Keating was a former naval aviator himself, and the two men became friends. Keating raised money for McCain's two congressional campaigns in 1982 and 1984, and for McCain's 1986 Senate bid. By 1987, McCain campaigns had received $112,000 from Keating, his relatives, and his employees--the most received by any of the Keating Five. (Keating raised a total of $300,000 for the five senators.)

After McCain's election to the House in 1982, he and his family made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, three of which were to Keating's Bahamas retreat. McCain did not disclose the trips (as he was required to under House rules) until the scandal broke in 1989. At that point, he paid Keating $13,433 for the flights.

And in April 1986, one year before the meeting with the regulators, McCain's wife, Cindy, and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating strip mall.

The Senate Ethics Committee probe of the Keating Five began in November 1990, and committee Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommended that McCain and Glenn be dropped from the investigation. They were not. McCain believes Democrats on the committee blocked Bennett's recommendation because he was the lone Keating Five Republican.

In February 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee found McCain and Glenn to be the least blameworthy of the five senators. (McCain and Glenn attended the meetings but did nothing else to influence the regulators.) McCain was guilty of nothing more than "poor judgment," the committee said, and declared his actions were not "improper nor attended with gross negligence." McCain considered the committee's judgment to be "full exoneration," and he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keat

Newsweek shows their true colors as Republican sympathizers with this one!

Yo people, why even bother to retort to those brain dead morons. At best they're trailer park trash. Accept the fact that they are mentally deprived as is their leader--George W. Idiot.

The people who are sending Barack Obama money are hoping he will do-good and help people, especially people in trouble. But the small donations would be better sent to the American Red Cross National Disaster Fund, which is out of money to help the thousands of people affected by the unprecedented floods, tornadoes and fires of recent days and weeks. The hurricane season has just started! The local food banks are also in big trouble - the number of people who need food is increasing because of the declining economy, but the cost of food is rising dramatically and the number of donations are going down. Your donations would also be better sent to the Salvation Army and other charities who provide disaster, food and medical relief. Obama should have taken the $85 million in government funds, but since he didn't, that money needs to go the American Red Cross right now. http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main

OK, pleasaveamerica, I SAW Obama on ABC nightly news LAST NIGHT being interviewed months ago and the words came out of his mouth, I WILL ACCEPT PUBLIC FINANCE*** PERIOD

Second, SUEAdams, Bush was never a proven liar until after he got into office, HERE, you want to a throw a man who hasn't even made it into office who's already lying. And finally, a man who bases his campaign on "PROMISES" he "ASKS YOU TO BELIEVE" it's a bunch of bull!

And again, you want to talk about McCain and Bush this is about OBAMA you're not staying on the subject

To say that either the McCain campaign or the RNC are "fueled" by money from lobbyists and PACs is an overstatement, to say the least. Such funds make up less than 1.7 percent of McCain's presidential campaign receipts and 1.1 percent of the RNC's income.

That is a nice way for Obama to say what is really the truth that the GOP Army surrounded around ties to the Bush family in works for the past 100 years are McCain's funding sources. Well the American people at large are ready to take back control we fund it, we benefit FINALLY versus these elite behind closed doors transactions of dark money ruling our lives.

Obama for president!!!! November can't come soon enough!

TYLER - The price of oil swelled to another record high Monday morning - before dropping back. It almost hit $140 a barrel - but then fell 25 cents. It appears - a recent increase in oil output from Saudi Arabia -- is not driving down crude prices. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who started a bipartisan group called "American Solutions for Winning the Future" held little back at the Texas Republican Convention. He wants to use American solutions to change to the U.S. energy policy.

Simply put - he's fed up with Congress: "The problem is not big oil or the foreigners," said Speaker Gingrich. "The problem is not the Saudis. The problem is getting Congress to do it's job." And that job, he says, is to start using the energy we have. "Congress outlaws every conceivable energy source," said Speaker Gingrich. Gingrich is making his case for domestic drilling by launching a campaign with Actor Chuck Norris, with the slogan: "Drill here, Drill now, Pay less." The campaign is urging Congress to do something now to bring down gas prices. Speaker Gingrich also has thoughts on speculators. "It's people who are betting the U.S. is too dumb to produce (its own oil)."


He sides with East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert -- when it comes to speculators and drilling. "If you began selling off two million barrels a day...we can pump out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It would immediately bring down the price of oil." Speaker Gingrich proposes selling off half of the reserve - now. "Do it suddenly..without telling anybody in advance and punish every speculator."The very speculators, he says, that are betting against America."

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