‘Ask Not What You Can Do For Barack Obama, Ask What Barack Obama Can Do For You’

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  • Posted By: TruthBhad @ 09/30/2008 6:50:14 PM

    "Choose McCain and continue on the same oil-dependent, gas-guzzling, planet-fouling, sabre-rattling, economically lopsided, corrupt and unaccountable course that we've been on for the past 8 years."

    WRONG. Clinton, and the Democrats set all of this up (the crisis).. PROOF? Look below......See what Obama Received in contributions????????????.. #2 Recipient of Campaign contributions from Fannie???

    GO HERE:
    FOX NEWS:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnZMGDG4k4

    McCain does not even come close to Obama???NOT EVEN CLOSE???


    WHAT CAUSED THIS MESS? THE FINANCIAL CRISIS:
    What Caused this Crisis???it was Democratic polices NOT Republicans???:

    GO HERE:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?


    GO HERE:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMouthPeace

    or

    http://pl.youtube.com/user/TheMouthPeace


    Play the following videos:

    ???Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? V3???

    and

    ???Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? V2???

    and

    "Covering Your Fannie, Who Really Caused Our Economic Crisis?"

    These videos speak to for themselves.
    The DEMOCRATS are GUILTY in starting this sub-prime mortgage mess.

    WHY ISN'T THE ABOVE BEING REPORTED ?????????????????????

    McCain tried to stop it and was blocked by the DEMOCRATS

    STILL DON???T BELIEVE?

    GO HERE:
    http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&artnum=1&issue=20080918

    then

    GO HERE:
    http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/mortgages/20070420-hagerty.html

    then

    GO HERE:
    http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&artnum=1&issue=20080918
    then

    GO HERE:

    http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080924145932.aspx

    then

    GO HERE:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

    then

    GO HERE:
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63

    then

    GO HERE:

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260

    then

    GO HERE:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

    By the way??? 95 voted against the Bail-Out??????.
    See:
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml

    ???and what proof do you have? Obama???s ???good??? word?


    TBH

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 09/30/2008 8:44:57 PM

      You are sooo right, and Barney Frank blocked repeated Republican attempts at reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And guess who was receiving campaign money from Fannie and Freddie? Democrats dominate that list.

      God forbid that the MSM would report any of this....

      • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/02/2008 10:21:58 PM

        Your attempt to tell these idiots the truth won't work... sadly.

    • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 09/30/2008 8:42:19 PM

      Clinton isn't on the ballot, Barack Obama is. Senator Obama is his own man, and can't be held accountable for the decisions of every Democrat who ever served. He didn't join the Senate til after the Nov. 2006 election. The Senate hasn't had a chance to vote on the bailout.

      Leadership takes vision and conviction and the ability to inspire others to work collaboratively toward constructive goals. Obama's got it. McCain does not. McCain is having a hard enough time just trying to figure out what he's supposed to stand for, much less where he's supposed to want to lead the country.

      Not that anyone who watches Fox would have any way of knowing it, but Obama does have a track record of ethics reform, creating working family tax credits, creating transparency in government, veterans' rights and civil rights advocacy, and international diplomacy with regard to non-poliferation and the securing of deadly weapons around the world.

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/02/2008 7:34:34 AM

        "the ability to inspire others to work collaboratively " he got that from saul alinsky to work his hidden agenda .......... which is socialisium

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/02/2008 7:32:07 AM

        the only thing transparent for obama is his record ! you can see right through it because there is nothing there !

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/02/2008 3:49:36 PM

    ''The mainstream media has showered you with adulation''.

    Congratulations. You are a standout in a world of NEWSWEAK bovines.

    ''Obama Will Lead Us,

    ''And We Will Follow''

    Lyrics from the Venice,California elementary-schoolaged ''sing along'' staged last week,which brings to mind two things.

    Jim Jones.

    The HitlerJugend.

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/02/2008 8:54:50 PM

      It's amazing that the libs here won't just accept the fact that the MSM (CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, NPR, and just about every paper in America is in their corner without even having to pay them for it... they want to eliminate Fox as well! Even the NBA Officials had to paid off....

      Quit whining libs... you got it very good as it is!

      • Posted By: Pallisor @ 10/02/2008 8:57:29 PM

        I forgot to add Newweak and Time....

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:09:46 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: TheHieb @ 10/02/2008 11:10:38 AM

    Hey, tell you what: You stop calling us "Millenials" and stop perpetuating the stereotype that we get rewarded for doing the more basic things, and I'll start putting Mr. Obama to task. Or, better yet, how about I continue to solicit my congressmen and senators about legislation, and continue to talk to my friends and explain to them issues that are affecting us and that need change. How about the conversation starting between the youth and progressing up to everyone else? It's the people you've directed this article to that will make changes, not ask someone to do it for them.

  • Posted By: TheHieb @ 10/02/2008 11:01:33 AM

    Hey, tell you what: You stop calling us "Millenials" and stop perpetuating the stereotype that we get rewarded for doing the more basic things, and I'll start putting Mr. Obama to task. Or, better yet, how about I continue to solicit my congressmen and senators about legislation, and continue to talk to my friends and explain to them issues that are affecting us and that need change. How about the conversation starting between the youth and progressing up to everyone else? Obama's a figurehead. It's the people you've directed this article to that will make changes,not him.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/02/2008 8:14:06 AM

    Some October surprises that can happen! Obama gets named by resko in his federal deal and is ordered to appear before a federal court to face charges! Or Larry Sinclair videotape emerges with proof that Obama did have a homosexual affair! Or the Michelle Obama whitey tape comes out or a terrorist attack in an u.s. city (god help us) or Iran attacks Israel and makes an announcement that they have a nuclear Wepons! Or Pakistan breaks into two different factions and one is a terrorist regime! So many things can happen!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:30:45 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 9:39:46 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 8:58:07 PM

    A man of great wisdom:
    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

  • Posted By: Love LA @ 10/01/2008 6:31:28 PM

    A taxpayer voting for B. Hussein Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders! Here's a few more things about the Muslim that, according to his words was a Muslim until he went into politics, then all of sudden he's african american.

  • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 09/30/2008 5:42:54 PM

    And you subscribe to the "plantation owner" philosophy of "the haves enriching themselves on the labors of the powerless have nots?" The system is rigged with well-funded lobbyists and a workforce pressured into remaining in take-it-or-leave-it jobs in order to provide their families with healthcare benefits.

    How much more obscene can it get when $10 million (as designated in the economic bailout plan) is considered a punitive salary for a Wall St. executive, then on top of that he gets to keep his Bush tax cut?

    • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 09/30/2008 6:29:06 PM

      This comment was meant to be a reply to an earlier post. See below.

      • Posted By: mtgmother@comcast.net @ 10/01/2008 3:49:19 PM

        To say that a person's vote is a cop out unless it for a major party would go over very well in a number of countries, of course they all are Dictatorships of one sort or another. Let me explain something about Democracy; we are free to make our own choices without fear that we HAVE to vote for a certain candidate. You seem to want to take that away from me, and everyone else who fdoes not think the same as you. I think you better go back and take a second look at the Bill of Rights, and see how wrong you are.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/01/2008 7:33:37 AM

    The top 1% of earners earns 22% of the income and pays 40% of the taxes. So, that leaves 60% of the taxes to be paid by 99% of the people. Please, tell me what is fair in this equation. How much more does Obama want them to do? And, when Obama says 95% of the American people will get a tax cut, he forgets to say that 40% pay NO tax. So, while some do get a tax cut, he'll be sending a new "welfare" check to those that never paid in the first place. That's socialism, folks!

  • Posted By: msk91949 @ 09/30/2008 10:00:04 PM

    i would like obama to actually say something succint and stick to it, that boy chances his mind more than aunt jemima did syrup

  • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/29/2008 1:24:46 PM

    Quote: "Ask what Barack Obama can do for you".

    Okay. Just make sure he doesn't let his own brother ask that question. He's the guy that lives on twelve dollars a year.

    • Posted By: not-fooled-by-slick-talking-charlatans @ 09/30/2008 2:50:13 PM

      Twelve dollars a year? AMAZING! I would love to learn how to live on twelve dollars a year! Where do I sign up?

      • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/30/2008 7:29:36 PM

        LoL! Talk to Obama's brother... he'll let you know.

  • Posted By: forceflow @ 09/29/2008 10:57:09 PM

    Wow, you may be as old as I am but I've accomplished quite a bit. Your self-serving, naive article really falls short of any mediocre standard for journalism. I volunteered for Mr. Obama's campaingn in 2004 while attending the University of Chicago and I'll tell you, his focus is on the future. He sees our generation as the one that can be shaped into a societally-focused, green, sustainable generation. We are malleable because of our "migration to HTML." Mr. Obama has offered tuition credits for community service, expanding and refunding pell grants so that we can afford college again. He has offered numerous programs that make our generation better off. Get off your high horse and do some reading. You are embarrassing us all with your vapid ignorance.

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/30/2008 9:28:10 AM

      Well of course you're all for Obama and "his future". It's clearly evident by your post that you adore his 'take it from those who have it, and give to those who don't' philosophy.

      If he get's in office, we'll see how much he will actually "do for you". Remember, this is the same guy that let's his own brother live on less than twelve dollars a year.

      • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 09/30/2008 5:43:39 PM

        And you subscribe to the "plantation owner" philosophy of "the haves enriching themselves on the labors of the powerless have nots?" The system is rigged with well-funded lobbyists and a workforce pressured into remaining in take-it-or-leave-it jobs in order to provide their families with healthcare benefits.

        How much more obscene can it get when $10 million (as designated in the economic bailout plan) is considered a punitive salary for a Wall St. executive, then on top of that he gets to keep his Bush tax cut?

        • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/30/2008 7:23:50 PM

          Plantation owner? That's about what I would expect from a lib. You can spin my post any way you want, but the fact is, Obama touts his "we are our brother's keeper" mantra, but allows his own brother to live in 12 dollar a year squalor. I wouldn't do that to my own brother, even if I hated him.

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 09/30/2008 1:13:53 PM

    With less than two months before the election, Republicans and Democrats are driving it home: This is the election of the century.

    And they're right: There is a lot at stake this year. This could be the year we change the lives of million Americans by providing them with decent health care and millions more with a living wage. It could be the year that we listen to the many Americans and Iraqis and withdraw occupying forces. It could be the year that we cut the near-trillion dollar defense budget, repeal NAFTA, revoke the Patriot Act and the illegal wiretapping FISA bill, build a green energy infrastructure, discipline runaway corporations and reign in the manic speculation driving the current food and housing crises.

    That is Ralph Nader's plan, anyway-to offer Americans what the polls show they want.

    So, while John McCain sings about bombing Iran and Barack Obama uses rhetoric about "smart" and "dumb" wars to stay in dumb wars and start new "smart" ones, Nader stands for strongly negotiated peace in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. While Obama dismisses his earlier commitments to fair trade as "overheated," Nader would replace NAFTA with uniform environmental and labor standards. And while McCain chants "drill, baby, drill," and Obama prepares to replace Big Oil with Big Corn or Big Nukes, Nader calls for a renewable infrastructure.

    But the Democrats tell us that we cannot vote for Nader because there is too much at stake this year. After eight years of George W. Bush, the argument goes, we cannot afford another Republican. We must rally behind the change party. And for the most part, students are buying it. Emphatically anybody-but-Bush and unfamiliar with the Democrats' duplicity, these students mistakenly believe that ousting the current administration will exorcise the demons of war, jingoism and economic imperialism they represent.

    http://www.dailycal.org/article/102803/considering_the_third_option

    www.votenader.org

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 09/30/2008 6:46:21 PM

      Nadar is a complete and total moonbat who would oversee the complete destruction of the USA...and you would like cheer as it happened...

  • Posted By: ChicagoGirl1973 @ 09/30/2008 9:43:01 AM

    I live in Chicago. We have the highest taxes in the country. We have one of the worst school systems in the country. We don't have a functioning recycling program in place within the city (due to corrupt practices and kickbacks). We are among the states with the highest unemployment in the country. I would not wish my life here on the entire country.
    Please watch this video on the economic meltdown and the bailout
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/30/2008 10:18:23 AM

      ChicagoGirl,

      Thank you. I looked the majority of this up months ago, and what is on the video is fact. Obama has absolutely no grounds to be ridiculing McCain on this mess.

      A McCain quote (posted at youtube)

      "I join as a co-sponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole."

      John McCain, Senate Floor, 5/25/2006

      Meanwhile, Obama was writing his 2nd Memoir.

      • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 09/30/2008 6:41:03 PM

        I think that you and ChicagoGirl just about said it all, and said it very well. Right on!

  • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 09/30/2008 6:23:27 PM

    No, it's time to stop asking what's in it for me, and time to start asking what's in it for the future of humanity.

    At this juncture, there's a clear choice. Choose McCain and continue on the same oil-dependent, gas-guzzling, planet-fouling, sabre-rattling, economically lopsided, corrupt and unaccountable course that we've been on for the past 8 years. Or choose Obama and start to create a more sustainable future of energy independence, new jobs in industries built on innovative green technologies, a reduction in carbon emissions, cleaner air and water, a world made safer and friendlier through diplomacy, more transparency and accountability in government, and a stronger middle class. Of course, it can't all be accomplished in the first 4 years, but we can begin to reverse the gears.

    And a vote for third-party candidate is not a choice; it's a statement and a cop-out.

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 09/30/2008 6:33:30 PM

      Whoville, you should call yourself "hootville" because what you post is a hoot.

      Do you really believe all of this nonsense? Really? I find it amazing that anyone can have such a Messiah-complex...but then again, based on many of the other posts, you are not alone in your delusions. What I find amazing is that your delusions are so unfounded. What the heck has Obama done? Not much of anything. He gives a good speech and he looks good in a suit. And almost nothing else....

      How can you be so slack-jawed in awe of someone who has accomplished almost nothing?

  • Posted By: mtgmother@comcast.net @ 09/30/2008 5:20:07 PM

    As a member of the "radicalized" 60s, I fought the good fight for Civil Rights, the end of the War in Viet Nam, and of course, the ERA. I was dewy eyed, naive and believed we had changed the world. However, the war dragged on, Civil Rights did not eliminate prejudice and racism (from both Black and White) and of course, the ERA amendment for Women was trahsed byt the Democrates (of course they promised almost 30 years ago they would not abandon it). What have I learned??? A politician will say just about anything to get elected.
    Since I am from Illinois, I had a chance to vote for Obama's "Hope & Change" promises. Only, he was running for Senator at the time, with a committment to serve his term, and not run for President. Well... we all know how that turned out.
    I won't be voting for him again in Novemeber. He has not lived up to his promise to serve this state, and as mentioned in another post, the State of Illinois is suffering from his lack of concern. I won't take the chance that he will be as unaccomplished President as he is Senator.
    Who will I vote for?? I don't know yet. I can't see myself voting for McCain/Palin, their policies are not mine. I have voted Democrat for 40 years, but I don't see myself doing that again either. The current Congress is the most "do nothing" Congress since the one they replaced. Quite frankly, I am disgusted with BOTH parties, as I haven't seen either being concerned with the people, only Special Interest, and of course, their own pockets!
    I'm glad to see both Blacks and the Youth envigored by this election, but unless you demand from Obama, he will not deliever.

  • Posted By: Dylan Rossi @ 09/30/2008 3:51:31 PM

    Obama will change the way the U.S. relates to the rest of the world and how the rest of the world relates to us. That alone has the potential for dramatic savings and opportunities.

    If McCain wins, "bomb, bomb, bomb" will be our view towards others and their view of us. Put that in your morning coffee.

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