Obama’s ‘Good Will’ Hunting

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  • Posted By: izme @ 10/04/2008 11:14:19 PM

    You will notice that as soon as "Obambi" got security clearance to see our nation's top secrets, we end up with a near stock market crash. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Can this guy be trusted with our nation's top secrets? I think he is America's worst nightmare.....wake up America before it is too late!!!

    • Posted By: USAGal @ 10/05/2008 5:28:14 PM

      All I notice is that once the impact of George Bush's economic policies began to be understood, the stock market began to decine, and that when George Bush's request rescue plan failed (becuse of his terrible mismanagent ofthe financial crisis), the stock market crashed to a lower level than it was at when he first became president.

      • Posted By: netteo @ 10/05/2008 10:31:36 PM

        USAGal - PLEASE before you vote EDUCATE yourself. The Fannie/Freddie mess started with FDR (new deal) then got worse under Lyndon Johnson (privatized Fannie/Freddie), then Carter passed the CRA (community reinvestment act) in 1977 which made it mandatory that banks lend to "ALL" in the community - even those who could NOT pay it back, under Clinton Freddie/Fannie were pressed to expand lower-income loans to 50% of their books. Did you notice that all of those presidents are DEMOCRATS!!! You also should know that several REPUBLICANS - including Bush tried to prevent this but were stopped by Barney Franks, Chrsi Dodd, Charles Schumer and other democrats. Go to youtube and type: Democrats Defend Fannie/Freddie from Regulation - 2004 Video . You will be very surprised at exactly WHO tried to stop it and WHO wanted it to continue. At least then you won't go onto boards and spout the idiotic rhetoric/kool-aid that Obama puts out. Oh - while you are at it - why not spend a few minutes investigating Obama & his ties to ACORN. ACORN is a community organizer group that intimidated & even SUED to get banks to lend to unqualified borrowers. Do you want to know who their lawyer was? BARACK OBAMA!!! So please, take some time to actually LEARN what really happened. Otherwise you are just a sheep & that is very sad.

    • Posted By: chump @ 10/05/2008 5:25:20 PM

      Take your meds.

  • Posted By: rikratt99 @ 10/05/2008 7:38:15 PM

    The only thing Obama "HOPEs" to "CHANGE" is the CONSTITUTION. In fact, he wants to put something else in its place altogether. His book reveals him as somebody who hates America and everything it stands for, make no mistake about this. Behind the phony facade, is the dangerous, vile agenda of the '60's radicals, no wonder he likes Ayers. His supporters can't see it because half of them are too young to think for themselves, the other half can't think their way out of a p**s-soaked paper bag no matter what their age, and ALL of them are (a) wandering around totally lost in the pea-soup thick velvet fog of Obama's schmarmy rhetoric and (b) still living in their parent's basement (when they're not locked in the attic, that is).

    • Posted By: whoputsamericafirst @ 10/05/2008 10:25:19 PM

      I support Obama because it is clear to me he knows and cares more about U.S. Constitution than 95% of the U.S. population. Stop already with the politics of fear! The scariest thing to me is learning through this and other blogs how many really nutty paranoid people live here in the U.S.

    • Posted By: Your Conscience @ 10/05/2008 7:48:40 PM

      Constitution? Thats your drivel smear? Oh thats rich ! Where were you when your monkey shredded the Constistution these past 8 years.

      * Illegal wiretapping
      * Suspension of Habeas Corpus
      * Torture

      You clowns garner no credence and no credibility. Do not go away mad....just go away clown.

      • Posted By: RockRibbedConservative @ 10/05/2008 8:49:30 PM

        What illegal wiretapping? Oh yeah, listening in on your phone calls to Damascus and Beirut.
        Habeus Corpus? You mean you were held without a trial?
        Torture? You mean they shot you full of Botox and made you debate Sarah Cuda?

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/05/2008 10:22:45 PM

    n a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?




    Mccains spokesperson just said they dont want to talk about the economy anymore. Instead they would rather make up lies and
    and half truths and try a smear campaign .

    Hold them accountable NOW!
    Elect Obama Biden 2008




    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: JHinIowa @ 10/05/2008 10:18:41 PM

    OurAmerica - you are an idiot.... do you ever hit factcheck.org? You spout racist lies... nice try lets go through your list:

    #1 - NO PROOF - he gets more money from Catholics than islamists
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html
    #2 - Obama studied in a non denominational school in Indonesia
    QUOTE: This article, citing anonymous sources, claimed that "Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four years in a so-called madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia." But this allegation was quickly shown to be false. Days after the article appeared, CNN sent reporter John Vause to Jakarta, Indonesia, to visit the school. He reported:

    CNN: I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. ??? I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that.
    #3 even the National Review has refuted Ayers connection - Let's hear about McCain's close association with G. Gordon Lbby and David Ifshin who went to Hanoi and broadcast propaganda while McCain was a POW...
    #4 - His desire to cut defense spending? NO - his desire to lower the defense budget is to get it the hell out of Iraq.... I wish you folks would do some research.
    #5 PLEASE visit his website - read his tax plan... he plans on doing it by taxing the top 5% of the wealth population, closing tax loopholes for the largest companies, not tax senior citizens on their first $55,000 and lastly by giving a tax break to anyone who makes less than $200K per year..... or in other words helping the middle class!

    SO PLEASE - for our countries sake and the sake of our children and our grandchildren - set aside your stupidity bias and look at the facts and not what you hear on Rush Limbaugh's radio show. And VOTE for Obama!

  • Posted By: Toby3438 @ 10/05/2008 8:28:36 PM

    Where did you think he got his mega-millions, of course they came from Arab states and terrorist organizations. This is old news that nobody cares about.

    • Posted By: cittykat2 @ 10/05/2008 8:41:40 PM

      Where do you think McCain got his millions, from his drug pill poppin wife, Cindy.

      • Posted By: OurAmerica @ 10/05/2008 10:10:20 PM

        But Cindy is all American!

  • Posted By: contactibs @ 10/05/2008 8:12:29 PM

    What if the money trail went back to Arab states? would that maybe open some eyes as to who Barak Husaine Obama really is??????? it is very frightning!!!

    • Posted By: mattie against MSM bias @ 10/05/2008 10:10:00 PM

      Didn't you read the article? Barry had to return $33K to Palestinians. (how many more that weren't discovered by the RNC...yet?) And he already had to return $2300 donated by an Iraqi businessman Aiham Alsammarae with ties to barry's pal of 20 years, convicted felon, former campaign advisor in his 2004 US Senate race, I made a "boneheaded mistake", Syrian born Tony Rezko. You know that slumlord that Sen Clinton was bashed for mentioning? Barry's has a long history of shady fundraising starting with Ayers hosting barry's inaugural campaign fundraiser with rezko at his side. But now McCain' ad is wrong too. And it took mister man of transparency,integrity, change and no washignton politics a year to come clean (3-14-08). And guess what? More donor problems. Good judgment or another "boneheaded mistake"? Or maybe the bitter racists made him do it. And at the sitdown Mr I should run the country because of my superior judgment based on a speech and not backed by a single action said it wasn't $60K or $80K or $100K but a whoa I had no idea whopping $250K! Mr judgment knows Wright & Rezko for 20yrs and then says that was not the wright/rezko I knew at the same time he shouts to memserized masses that he "WILL NEVER LIE TO THEM!" I guess we know what CHANGE! means. And that pal of rezko's? Bailed Rezko out of jail....a mere $2.7m collateral. And you know what? That same pal is wanted by Interpol for defrauding the Iraqi people. And you know what? mr man of judgment knew all that and still accepted funds from him over the internet. Internet fraud? barry's got mr facebook working for him. and any online vendor can flag a name and rezko's wanted by interpol's pal used his own name.

      The RNC has just been waiting to use all the facts that are already out there that barry's propaganda machine refused to print. Compare the amount of articles Newsweek has written on Rezko vs Sen Clinton's appearance, voice, laugh, tears and pantsuits. The tears outnumber them alone. Think Jesse Jr wants to " investigate" and "analyze" Biden's tears? The truth about barry is all over cyberspace. And the proof compiled on blogs and ignored by the messiah's mancrushers is now being cherry picked by the RNC. You reap what you sow.

  • Posted By: OurAmerica @ 10/05/2008 10:00:19 PM

    1. He is getting unbelievable amounts of campaign contributions from followers of Islam. Fundamentalists in that religion hate America.
    2. Obama has studied in Madrassa where kids as young as 4 years are brainwashed and taught to hate America.
    3. His radical connections with people who hate America. Doesn???t matter how old he was when Ayers bombed federal buildings, or if he was in the church the day Rev. Wright said ???*** damn America??? or Rezko did him a favor without expecting anything in return. His judgment is questionable. Do you just sit down or be associates with anyone without knowing the person???s background? It???s hard to believe.
    4. His desire to cut defense spending will make America militarily weak.
    5. He plans to saddle already fragile economy with more social programs, on the backs of Americans. How will we bear that, it is already so hard to make ends meet.

    Please as an American, please set aside your liberal bias, but please for our country???s sake ??? think and if you could ??? please speak out ??? are you seeing a Mohammad Atta hiding in plain sight? What if he turns against us? What if he is a mole, a sleeper cell? If elected, he will control the most powerful office in the whole world; he will have access to the most privileged, highly secretive information on America???s national security.

    God Bless the USA.

  • Posted By: sheikwil @ 10/05/2008 7:15:59 PM

    gee, the McCain and his loser supporters will think of anything to latch onto, but it won't work, McCain is going to lose because he picked an idiot for vp. I bet the people who sent the money with fake names are Republicans that don't want their friends to know that they are supporting a Democrat. I hope they resend the money and use their name. It's probably a relative of McCain who said they are voting for Obama. There is also a website with the name of people who last name is McCain called McCain's for Obama. Now that Obama gave back some money, I will go donate again.

    • Posted By: Devvie1961 @ 10/05/2008 7:27:00 PM

      The truth hurts huh?

      • Posted By: Human Race @ 10/05/2008 9:58:00 PM

        Yes, Devvie1961, RACISM will always hurt America and Americans.

  • Posted By: neda @ 10/05/2008 9:55:39 PM

    I questioned obama's small donors contribution months ago. It is interesting as a lay person I was concerned while all the experts appeared clueless. It is so obvious with so much money coming in the paper trail will be thin.

  • Posted By: Your Conscience @ 10/05/2008 7:25:04 PM

    GOP CLOWNS

    Rank your favorite failure.

    The Hunt for Osama bin Forgotten.
    The hunt for WMD's.
    Social Security reform.
    Harriet Miers nomination.
    Healthcare reform.
    Iraqi civil war.
    Stage II of Pre-war intelligence.
    Katrina rebuilding.
    Restoring integrity to the office.
    Reducing the debt.
    Ports deal.
    Susan Ralston.
    Philip A. Cooney, the chief of staff to President Bush???s Council on Environmental Quality.
    Grand Moff Baker.
    Gonzogate.
    Tobias.
    David Safavian.
    Scooter Libby.
    Claude A. Allen.
    Tom Delay's Money laundering trial.
    Ney Conviction.
    Foleygate.
    Larry E. Craig
    David Vitter
    Ted Stevens
    Rick Renzi Ariz.
    Thomas Ravenel S.C.
    Bob Allen Fl.
    Cunningham Conviction.
    State of Denial.
    Abramoff.
    Missing 8 billion Iraq funds.
    Extended tours for military.
    Record bankruptcy???s.
    1.3 TRILLION tax give away while waging two wars.
    Increasing National debt to 9 TRILLION.
    The UN's irrelevancy.
    Yellowcake uranium from Niger .
    Tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.
    Skyrocketing energy prices.
    Stagnant wages.
    Iraq Clusterf***.
    Taliban resurgence
    Oil at $29 a barrel before the war.
    Gas was $1.76 a gallon.
    700+ BILLION boondoggle under bush admin.

    See why the GOP garner no credence nor credibility. You cannot govern and TRUE Americans are not afraid. We are MAD and you will be CRUSHED.

    • Posted By: RockRibbedConservative @ 10/05/2008 9:54:21 PM

      There is too much stuff, but here goes.
      Gas was 1.76 or so in Nov 06? After pelosi-Reid got through it ws $4,00 or so.
      the UN's irrelevancy? Thank goodness for small favors.
      Yellowcake from Niger? It was there, but Saddam could not close the deal.
      Tax cuts for the top 1%? they pay 40% of every tax dollar.Record bankruptcies? Too many people took on too much debt and expected to walk away.
      This is fun, but I've got to go and get kittylitter.

  • Posted By: Florida Rez @ 10/05/2008 9:45:17 PM

    Hey, has anyone noted that Ayers was also Obama's neighbor when Obama attended Columbia University? Then suddenly they're neighbors, board members, project headers in Chicago with Ayers hosting fundraisers for Obama IN AYERS' HOME!!!! Ayers is a proven, avowed terrorist with no regrets. Because of these associations Obama would not be able to get a security clearance to be in the military. Why in the world should he be allowed to be our Commander in Chief? Frighteningly dangerous!!!!

    • Posted By: jstnorv@gmail.com @ 10/05/2008 9:51:35 PM

      It looks like you live in Florida which had 1,200+ murders and 11,000+ forcible sex crimes last year. So i suppose you are and murderer and rapist?

  • Posted By: Devvie1961 @ 10/05/2008 9:51:29 PM

    kojipham, I am mutlracial and proud of it! Do you really think using the race card will help Senator Obama. The truth shall set him free. I am also a democrat and always have been since 18 years old. You have nothing but calling people racist to back Obama. who is the half wit? Moron.

  • Posted By: iopine @ 10/05/2008 8:10:59 PM

    Is it just me, or does Palin sound like a 2012 presidential candidate?

    • Posted By: wowbagger @ 10/05/2008 8:54:22 PM

      I don't know about the current election, but I would say that she has a better chance of being the first female President than Hilary Clinton. If Slick Barry O wins he will be run out after a single miserable term for not living up to his promise (even if he does OK it won't be good enough). If McCain wins he might well retire after one term clearing the way.

      • Posted By: RockRibbedConservative @ 10/05/2008 9:42:56 PM

        That's true, 1976 set the stage for 1980and two terms of Reagan.
        2008 will bring two terms of Sarah Palin

  • Posted By: Human Race @ 10/05/2008 7:33:51 PM

    How dare you jmarzkw and Devvie1961. You obviously do not like Obama, so do not vote for him; it is just that simple. Do you think for one minute that John McCain is not "dirty" with lobbyist? Get the facts and then speak up. I am willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt until it is proven otherwise. The Federal Election Commission posted several months back that it had to prepare and design another data base because Obama had so many millions of small donors. I do not believe they refused to cooperate. There is 30 days to go until the election and the GOP and John McCain/Sarah Palin are getting DANGEROUSLY RACIAL with their attacks. This is not good. One must always be careful what they wish for. And btw, find another channel to watch besides Fox News, the George W. Bush & Co. and McCain/Palin operation of "lying spin".How do I know? Because at each blog site, you all have the same "talking points". When are you goint to start thinking for yourselves. You have been used all these years for "dumb down votes". That is why you do not get ahead in society; the republicans don't want you to. They "need those votes".

    • Posted By: Devvie1961 @ 10/05/2008 8:30:56 PM

      I'm a democrat and personally I like Tom Brokaw. How did I upset you. Let me know okay. I don't know Obama, just heard about his associations. I do find it strange he attended Rev. Wrights church for 20 years and his associations with Ayers, Rezko and Odingo, etc. So I have questions, it doesn't mean I hate the guy. I just want the Press to stop treating him like a messiah and start clearing up all of this. The same thing happened to Nelson Mandela, and it's impossible to live up to the messiah image.

      • Posted By: Human Race @ 10/05/2008 9:41:57 PM

        Devvie1961, you upset me because these stories have been debunked and stated as lies and slander back in March, 2008 during the primaries when Hillary Clinton tried to do the same thing to Obama. This is recycled raw, racial, slander. It upsets me because as democrats, you do not need an excuse to hide your "bigotry". You have a choice; vote for the other ticket, period. America is about to fall off of a cliff and no one is listening. It's not about the "best man" for the job, it's about "I need to protect my whiteness", and to hell with the rest of AMERICA. That is why I am upset. Just stop all of your excuses and bashing Obama. No one said he was the "messiah". No one is that ignorant except the republicans that do not want you to vote for him. Stay broke, but damn, do you always have to take the rest of us with you? Please stop being ignorant and find a library. As for staying in Wright's church, unlike the "dumbed down" voters, Obama has a mind of his own. He does not condone or believe that garbage. Republicans want you to. It's all about winning and they will tear up America if they have to. So, may GOD help us all.

    • Posted By: Devvie1961 @ 10/05/2008 8:23:08 PM

      How dare I? How dare I do what want questions answered? Get a grip. I would rather be an informed voter than just vote based on what the "Press" says. They never write articles explaining who Obama is. I might like the guy. I'm a democrat, I know Biden and would vote for him in a heart beat. I just don't know Obama, and the little I do based on his judgment and friends raise questions. There may be very good answers, but I'd like to know them.

  • Posted By: kojiPham @ 10/05/2008 9:32:01 PM

    Hey mustread, maybe I should run a background check on you as I do not want to be implicated in any of your past crimes. This faulty line of thinking (yours and others of low intelligence) has no end in sight.

  • Posted By: Devvie1961 @ 10/05/2008 9:11:56 PM

    Ripleydoesn'tbelieve, I never heard of the Logan Act. Thanks for the information. One of my qualms with Obama was his going to Kenya and campaigning for Odinga. When Odinga lost he and his thugs killed Christians in their church. The Kenyan government complained to our State Department. During the New Hampshire primary Condi Rice called and asked Obama to straigten this out, he failed. I am not sure this is against the law, ignoring the State Departments attempts to work things out, but it does show a lack of judgement.

    As a democrat, I am finding things like this very hard to support Obama. I'd support Biden anytime, but Obama? What we do know about him isn't very positive. He even went from giving Kumbaya speehes to very negative American ones. Did he learn this under Rev. Wright, Black Theology, Ayers, or because he is whipped by Michelle and her hatred and racism? Get over the race thing already, it's 2008. The race card is what will bring him down if he doesn't stop. Oh and what exactly is a "typical white person" ? We don't call ourselves white, we call ourselves Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, German-American, Norwiegian-Americans...you get my point. Only black people refer to us as "white". Grow up and get rid of the racism and anger, that goes for the Nazi groups too and other bigots.

    • Posted By: snoozyq @ 10/05/2008 9:26:18 PM

      debunked ages ago. check snopes.com and stop spreading lies.

      "thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." God.

  • Posted By: snoozyq @ 10/05/2008 9:24:58 PM

    devvie1961
    debunked ages ago. check snopes.com and stop spreading lies.

    "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor". God

  • Posted By: mustread @ 10/05/2008 9:22:10 PM

    Barack Obama was much older than 8 when William Ayers was photographed stepping on a US flag in 2001, for an article in which Ayers said he had ???No Regrets??? for his violent actions in the Weather Underground.

    In fact, at the same time Ayers was in a Chicago alley desecrating the flag, he and Barack Obama were serving on the board of the Woods Fund together:

  • Posted By: mustread @ 10/05/2008 9:21:44 PM

    Barack Obama was much older than 8 when William Ayers was photographed stepping on a US flag in 2001, for an article in which Ayers said he had ???No Regrets??? for his violent actions in the Weather Underground.

    In fact, at the same time Ayers was in a Chicago alley desecrating the flag, he and Barack Obama were serving on the board of the Woods Fund together:

  • Posted By: jstnorv@gmail.com @ 10/05/2008 9:11:54 PM

    Jim Hensley

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