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  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 9:09:50 AM

    I do not vote ???Present??? any more than any other IL Representative.???

    EVIDENCE ??? While ???Present??? votes may not be unusual in Illinois, the number of ???Present??? votes that Senator Obama placed ARE disproportionate. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2, NY Times 12/20/07 by Raymond Hernandez and Christopher Drew

    COUNTER CLAIM ??? ???Present??? votes are used to block portions of undesirable legislation and is a common tactic in Illinois.

    REBUTTAL ??? The issue at hand is not the purpose of the ???Present??? votes but rather their frequency. 129 ???Present??? votes is not a common number for any Representative in the Illinois State House, other than Senator Obama.

    VERDICT ??? SENATOR OBAMA, YOU ARE A LIAR

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 9:09:34 AM

    CHARGE 5 - ???President Kennedy rescued my father from Kenyan obscurity and airlifted him to the American Dream.???

    EVIDENCE ??? Senator Obama???s father came in September 1960, while EISENHOWER was President. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2

    COUNTER CLAIM ??? But his father did come to the U.S. so what is the big deal?

    REBUTTAL ??? Senator Obama misrepresents historical events. No speech by President John F. Kennedy brought Senator Obama???s father to the U.S. in 1960. John F. Kennedy was not President in 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower was President. The Senator is attempting to subtly equate himself with J.F.K., subconsciously implying he would be a similar President. Senator Obama, you are no Jack Kennedy.

    VERDICT - SENATOR OBAMA, YOU ARE A LIAR

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 9:09:09 AM

    CHARGE 1 ??? ???The March on Selma got me born.???

    EVIDENCE - Senator Obama was born August 4th, 1961. The march on Selma began March 7th, 1965. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2

    COUNTER CLAIM ??? Senator Obama was talking about the general movement, not specifically about Selma.

    REBUTTTAL ??? Senator Obama was in Selma, Alabama, before a mostly AA crowd at the Brown Chapel AME Church on March 4th, 2007. He clearly stated ???because some folks were willing to march across a bridge . . . they (his parents) got together, and Barack Obama, Jr. was born. So don???t tell me I don???t have a claim on Selma, Alabama!??? Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961. The first march on Selma, Alabama occurred on March 7, 1965.

    VERDICT ??? SENATOR OBAMA, YOU ARE A LIAR

  • Posted By: Nins @ 06/22/2008 1:46:31 PM

    WillNotVote, I just love it when you set yourself up to be schooled. You give a web address for the Obama's page on the Senate.gov website. Each Senator sets up their own pages there. You have directed the reader to Obama's page where he prints, for the world to see, his voting record on every bill that comes before the Senate. Here is that address:

    http://obama.senate.gov/votes/index.cfm?start=1

    You sent the reader to this page because it shows that Obama did not vote on many of the recent bills, and you want to make it look like Obama is asleep on the job. It must be mentioned, however, that Clinton, McCain and Obama have all missed many votes during the campaign season. However, if the reader will take the trouble to page through Obama's voting record, they will see that Obama has been present for all of the important votes. Obama has been present and voted on 62 of the 154 bills before Congress in the current session beginning January 2008. Clinton has voted on 56 of these 154 bills. And McCain, who had already won the primary and didn't have to start campaigning against Obama until three weeks ago, McCain voted on only 33 of 154 bills.

    As I have exposed in one of my earlier blogs, McCain missed more than half of his votes, even before he started running for President. In the First Session of the 110th Congress (2007), McCain missed a whopping 56% of his votes. McCain doesn't want you to know this, so when you go to his Senate web page, there is no tab to click to see his voting record (http://mccain.senate.gov). An American who wants to know how McCain votes has to look it up on the Library of Congress website (not user friendly) or go to the Washington Post website:

    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/

    While you are there, pay special attention to McCain's votes on March 13 and 14, 2008. On those days we know he was present, because he voted on 22 bills. But he refused to vote on 22 other bills. He failed to vote on bills concerning border security, alien removal and English in the workplace, even though he has set himself up as the candidate who wants immigration reform favorable to Hispanics. He also failed to vote on the bills regarding efficient energy production, even though he claims to be in favor of this. He must not be very much in favor of efficient energy and immigration reform since her refused to vote even though he was present. As for Obama and Clinton, they were both present those days, and they both voted on all 44 bills.

    McCain knows that public perception is all that matters, so he gives a news conference and says he supports certain issues, even though he refuses to vote in favor of them. He knows that most Americans never take the time to look up his voting record, and he makes sure that his Senate web page doesn't include this information.

    I find it ironic that your blogger name is "WillNotVote." Did you get that name from John McCain?

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 9:00:45 AM

      china is still a comunist country why don't you and obama move there ??

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 06/23/2008 8:57:20 AM

    Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."

    The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What???s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations...

  • Posted By: Nins @ 06/21/2008 11:53:59 PM

    Readers, be informed, and beware! Sam Bodman, US Energy Secretary, is a Bush appointed Yes-man. Bodman states that insufficient production is making oil prices soar. Bush wants you to think that the OPEC countries are responsible for high oil prices, but the truth is, OPEC has been significantly increasing production over the past several months. Where is all that oil going? It's being stockpiled by US investment banks, who are creating a fake shortage to drive up the price. Congress has already started to investigate this criminal practice. Bush, who has deregulated the banking industry, tries to blame it on OPEC. By now you should be familiar with Bush's MO: he says you should be very afraid of Muslims. But who you should really be afraid of are investment bankers at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Check this out:

    Michael Masters of Master Capital Management (a global investment manager) testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs a couple of weeks ago. Quotes from his testimony:

    "Today, Index Speculators are pouring billions of dollars into the commodities futures markets, speculating that commodity prices will increase. In the popular press the explanation given for rising oil prices is the increased demand from China. According to the DOE, China's demand for petroleum has increased in the last five years from 1.88 billion barrels to 2.8 billion barrels, an increase of 920 billion barrels. Over the same five year period, Index Speculators' demand for petroleum futures has increased by 848 million barrels. THE INCREASE IN DEMAND FROM INDEX SPECULATORS IS ALMOST EQUAL TO THE INCREASE IN DEMAND FROM CHINA. Index Speculators have now stockpiled, via the futures market, the equivalent of 1.1 billion barrels of petroleum, effectively adding EIGHT TIMES as much oil to their own stockpile as the US Government has added to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the last five years."

    "The Senate has asked the question "Are Institutional Investors contributing to food and energy price inflation?" And my unequivocal answer is "YES." In this testimony I will explain that investment banks are one of, if not the primary, factors affecting commodities prices today. Clearly, there are many factors that contribute to price determination in the commodities markets; I am here to expose a fast-growing yet virtually unnoticed factor, and one that presents a problem that can be expediently corrected through legislative policy action..."

    The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. They're supposed to be protecting us from these kinds of abuses, but Bush allowed loopholes in the CFTC regulations that you can drive a truck through. An oil truck, that is.

    Links to Masters' Senate testimony, and 2 articles:
    http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/052008Masters.pdf
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20011.htm
    http://globalresearch.ca

  • Posted By: PhilK @ 06/21/2008 5:19:37 PM

    Mr. Thomas's comparison of Eric Holder's role in the Marc Rich pardon and the work of Greg Craig on the behalf of private clients is inapt. Mr. Holder was functioning in a governmental role in regards to the pardon- he was presumably working with the best interests of the people in mind. Mr. Craig, on the other hand, was representing private clients and he therefore put the private clients' interests first, as he should. Mr. Holder's conduct in the Rich pardon is directly relevant as to his functioning in a such a quasi-public role in the vice presidential selection process or a later formal government position.

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