OBAMA

Shivs You Can Believe In

The real test for any strategist: calibrating positive and negative. How David Axelrod will maintain the 'brand.'

By Richard Wolffe and Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Oct 11, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Oct 20, 2008

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  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:14:37 PM

    Comment: The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:37:38 PM

    Comment: What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 11:05:43 PM

    Comment: How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

    1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
    2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
    3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
    4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
    5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
    6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
    7. Law enforcement and government personnel are used to spy on, control and break dissent 7. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
    8. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
    9. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
    10. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

    Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war.

    Of course, theyve skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if theyre allowed to remain in power, because it will be the only way for them to retain power.

    The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy parallels 9/11 and the loss of American civil liberties

    http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

    THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR

  • Posted By: bammer @ 10/30/2008 3:21:39 PM

    Comment: WILL AMERICA PUNISH ITSELF ON NOV 4TH WHILE TRYING TO PUNISH BUSH

    Surely the Bush Administration needs to be punished in the woodshed, but I fear that the America electorate will only PUNISH ITSELF on Nov 4th by a MAJOR OVER-REACTION.

    WILL AMERICA BE SMART ON NOV 4TH OR WILL IT PUNISH ITSELF WITH NEW LEVEL OF 15 "DARWIN AWARDS"?

    1) A President and Congress that will want to dramatically raise taxes $2-4 Trillion to 2) Pay for a major new welfare state for 40% of US through 3) Extremely expensive new goverment health care programs like in Europe 4) New government education programs like in Chicago 5) Major cuts in defense spending 6) New taxes for 401(k)s, capital gains, death taxes, payroll taxes that would 7) Drive businesses to offshore 8) Reduced employment due to higher business costs 9) Surrender around the world as a military power to be more like Europe 10) Invite rough nations and leaders to test/attack America or America interests and allies around the world 11) Loss of the war on terror 12) negotiations, increased weakness, and capitulation with countries like Iran, N. Korea, and Russia 13) new social engineering laws and Supreme Court Justices for 14) Dramatically increased abortions 15) Dramatically increased gay marriages

  • Posted By: Joeeveryday @ 10/28/2008 12:38:55 PM

    Comment: The depth of some people???s stupidity is unbelievable! Socialism is???. Public schools, elementary through college level, Medicare, medicade, welfare, police department, fire department, and all social services are all baseline socialism, in a capitalistic society. All tax based programs takes wealth from the public, currently more from the middle class and gives it to someone, somewhere. ???Spread the wealth???, do you really believe that ???corporate welfare??? is not spreading the wealth. My taxes as well as yours are the wealth that is being spread in the form of a $70 billion dollar bailout! He said that he wanted to ???make everyone equal???, yes equal under the law for a change. Should the disenfranchised be a little less equal than the Wall Street giant? I say Hell no ???..

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/27/2008 10:34:07 PM

    Comment: C-SPAN THIRD PARTY DEBATE

    http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=281952-1&clipStart=&clipStop=

    C-SPAN THIRD PARTY VP DEBATED NOVEMBER 2

  • Posted By: shianne55555 @ 10/27/2008 2:09:26 PM

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  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:40:55 AM

    Comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

    2001 Chicago Public Citizen Radio Interview criticizing the Warren Court as not radical enough for not pursuing redistribution of wealth.

    Says that community organizing is for the purpose of assembling the political power to force redistribution of wealth.

  • Posted By: eldejota @ 10/24/2008 1:49:02 PM

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  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/24/2008 1:14:22 AM

    Comment: Spread the wealth how.? Look at his past. Obama in this video, addressing his work with ACORN litigation against the banks and relating to the Community Reinvestment Act and the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as they relate to the current real estate and financial crisis, states that, and I quote:

    "Subprime lending started out as a good idea, helping Americans buy homes who previously could not afford to. Financial institutions created new financial instruments that could securitize these loans, slice them into finer and finer risk categories, and spread them out among investors and around the country, as well as around the world. In theory, this should have allowed mortgage lending to be less risky, and more diversified."

    "The original idea was a good one, which was, lets see if we can distribute risk more broadly, and make it easier to provide loans to people who otherwise might not be able to get one."

    Listen for yourself. You cannot dispute the mans on words recorded live:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related


    Obama in this second video is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other ???Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President, Obama says, quote:

    "Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."

    See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU
    Below is a link to C-SPAN video clips of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie. See for yourself who said what.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
    See also
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732 from this web site. (oops!) stating that Freddie Mac was spending tax payer money to target Republicans in 2005 who were trying to regulate Fannie and Freddies fraud. Democrats were not targeted, as the were all in the tank with Fannie and Freddie to kill the regulations. Hear that, the article admits that Republicans were trying to regulate Freddie and Fannie, and Democrats were trying to stop it from happening as a means to facilitate the Community Reinvestment Act.

    See also: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
    Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 5:03:04 PM

    Comment: FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/21/2008 10:55:10 PM

    Comment: See: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
    Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/21/2008 10:54:25 PM

    Comment: See: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
    Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been."

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:20:29 AM

    Comment: This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:51:02 PM

    Comment: Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

  • Posted By: jericho4119 @ 10/18/2008 6:23:04 PM

    Comment: Newsweek: why was Steve Schmidt given three pages of, "you know, he is really a nice guy and not at all a disciple of Karl Rove", whereas David Axelrod was given one page of, "you know - no one knows the value of going negative more than David Axelrod".

    It is almost as though you live in an alternate universe as well, one wherein it is at the Obama rallies where people call McCain a terrorist and shout out expletives and "Kill Him" and it is the McCain rallies that conclude with an uplifting Stevie Wonder tune.

  • Posted By: jericho4119 @ 10/18/2008 6:20:09 PM

    Comment: I have no idea why this has become my lot in life, but here goes - once more, with feeling: the name of the book is Dreams from My Father.

    Not 'of' - that is a different book, one that only exists in the alternate universe in which your hatred is deemed appropriate.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 2:12:59 PM

    Comment: Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate WHITE men and BROWN men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

    And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

    From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 2:12:29 PM

    Comment: Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!! He admitted to Joe the Plumber than he wanted to spread the wealth! He said that he wanted to make everyone equal! Is America ready for Socialism? The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, said today that he is glad to see the end to capitalism in America!! Are you glad?????
    ====================================================================================================


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­ being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    • Posted By: Joeeveryday @ 10/28/2008 12:38:40 PM

      Comment: The depth of some people???s stupidity is unbelievable! Socialism is???. Public schools, elementary through college level, Medicare, medicade, welfare, police department, fire department, and all social services are all baseline socialism, in a capitalistic society. All tax based programs takes wealth from the public, currently more from the middle class and gives it to someone, somewhere. ???Spread the wealth???, do you really believe that ???corporate welfare??? is not spreading the wealth. My taxes as well as yours are the wealth that is being spread in the form of a $70 billion dollar bailout! He said that he wanted to ???make everyone equal???, yes equal under the law for a change. Should the disenfranchised be a little less equal than the Wall Street giant? I say Hell no ???..

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 1:54:41 AM

    Comment: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    The Free and Equal Elections Coalition (FREE) and the Columbia Political Union are pleased to announce that a Presidential debate will be held this coming Sunday, October 19th, 2008, on the campus of Columbia University.

    ALL SIX of the Presidential candidates who appear on enough state ballots to acquire the 270 Electoral Votes needed to become President are invited. They are as follows (listed in alphabetical order by affiliation):

    Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin
    Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama
    Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney
    Independent Candidate: Ralph Nader
    Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr
    Republican Party Can John McCain

    The Columbia Political Union will present the debate from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the Altschul Auditorium, located at 417 International Affairs Building. The debate will be moderated by Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now!". CSPAN will cover the debate, and live radio broadcasts are expected.

    "The Columbia Political Union is committed to energizing political discourse on Columbia's campus," said Allon Brann, Columbia Political Union Publisher. "As a non-partisan organization, we work to provide students with opportunities to encounter and engage with political ideas across a wide ideological spectrum, and on a wide range of issues."

    "It is with these goals in mind that we have organized this Presidential Debate: to give all candidates-- either within or outside of the political "mainstream"-- the opportunity to speak directly to students about their goals on the issues they deem critical for this country."

    "We have invited all eligible candidates, and it is our sincere hope that all will participate, to ensure the substance and rigor of the dialogue which we believe is crucial at this time."

    Certified letters officially inviting each candidate have been sent to the respective campaigns.

    The Free and Equal Elections Coalition and the Columbia Political Union await the response from the candidates. All candidates' supporters are encouraged to contact the Presidential campaigns and urge them to attend.

    The Columbia Political Union seeks to enhance involvement in the political process, domestic and international, and draw every member of the campus community into an ongoing discussion of political ideas.

    FREE is a coalition of political parties, independent citizens and civic organizations formed to promote free and equal elections in the United States.

    http://www.freeandequal.org/events.php?id=7

  • Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 1:32:01 AM

    Comment: Comment: by Ralph Nader
    October 10. 2008
    Rolling the Dice on Derivatives - The Nader Page

    The derivatives markets of today have become a high stakes casino of unimaginable magnitude. Wall Street???s bets have gone bad, and now the whole financial system is in peril. In a best-case scenario, it appears, the taxpayers will be required to rescue the system from itself. This is why Warren Buffett labeled derivatives ???weapons of financial mass destruction.???

    Amazingly, there seems to be some lingering sense that current-day derivatives properly perform an insurance function.

    Case in point: Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan says the world is facing ???the type of wrenching financial crisis that comes along only once in a century,??? but, reports the New York Times, ???his faith in derivatives remains unshaken.??? Greenspan believes that the problem is not with derivatives, but that the people using them got greedy, according to the Times.

    This is quite a view. Is it a surprise to Alan Greenspan that the people on Wall Street ??? said to be ruled only by the opposing instincts of greed and fear ??? ???got greedy????


    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/rolling-the-dice-on-derivatives-by-ralph-nader/

    www.votenader.org


  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/17/2008 8:05:30 PM

    Comment: McCain is connected to Nazi supporters and Central American death squads.. so says
    FoxNews and Washington Post (two Republican news publishers)

    http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/attention-ayers-renew-focus-mccains-iran-contra-connection/

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100700025.html

    The old guy has a long infamous past.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/17/2008 1:29:12 AM

    Comment: Whether McCain won or lost is not relevant. He succeeded in the first half hour to plant the seeds of a Reagan style wipeout. Reputable historians and economists overwhelmingly agree that the taxation imposed by and the "stimulus" spending and public works programs of FDR actually deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. See e.g. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx. It was the production demands of WWII that got the economy going again. And when the war was over, the economy promptly went into recession.

    Point is, Obama's programs are tax and spend, and it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

    Similarly, who ???Joe the plumber??? is is not the issue. The issue is what Obama???s comments to him revealed. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive without and effective restraint, and you have something that should be something that causes concern even among moderate Democrats. Don't think so? Watch and listen to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCain's attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 8:12:27 PM

    Comment: Baby I'll be there to take your hand,
    Baby I'll be there to share the land
    That they'll be giving away, when we all live together.

    So, in the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, and is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Yahoo, back to the 70's we go! So now we know that an Obama presidency really would be as if it were Carter's lost second term after all.

    • Posted By: Joeeveryday @ 10/28/2008 1:16:32 PM

      Comment: EntI agree, we should keep the current redistribution of wealth going to the top dogs! What is the redistribution of $70 billion amongst friends?

      Do John McCain???s true American friends like is G. Gordon Liddy, who got a 20-year prison sentence for multiple felonies in the Watergate scandal???including burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping mean anything to you.
      Does Charles Keating anti-Catholic, anti-American televangelist have any bearing on the matter? You know Keating of the Confederate nostalgia magazine who described Nelson Mandela winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace prize as a "terrorist."
      Or McCain himself who serves on the board of the extremist U.S. Council for World Freedom, where he worked alongside Iran-Contra figures and a eugenics researcher studies on "white superiority."

      Is this the current distribution you so much love, and are these the qualities you look for in a ???real American????
      er Your Comment

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/16/2008 8:50:17 PM

      Comment: nowforthetruth

      It still pales in comparison to another 8 years of Bush/ Cheney.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 7:49:29 PM

    Comment: Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/16/2008 9:42:47 PM

      Comment: You are only scaring yourself, I understand you want to wish for the best but prepare for the worse but you are getting yourself sick for nothing. The only thing you didn't add was that the world was ending in Jan 2009 if Barack wins.

      Calvin Coolidge once said that ???the chief business of the American people is business,??? and indeed, it would be hard to find a country on earth that???s been more consistently hospitable to the logic of the marketplace.

      Our Constitution places the ownership of private property at the very heart of our system of liberty.

      Our religious traditions celebrate the value of hard work and express the conviction that a virtuous life will result in material rewards. Rather than vilify the rich, we hold them up as role models???As Ted Turner famously said, in America money is how we keep score.

      The result of this business culture has been a prosperity that???s unmatched in human history.

      It takes a trip overseas to fully appreciate just how good Americans have it.

      Even our poor take for granted goods and services ??? electricity, clean water, indoor plumbing, telephones, televisions, and household appliances ??? that are still unattainable for most of the world.

      America may have been blessed with some of the planet???s best real estate, but clearly it???s not just our natural resources that account for our economic success.

      Our greatest asset has been our system of social organization, a system that for generations has encouraged constant innovation, individual initiative and efficient allocation of resources???our free market system. Barack Obama

      Barack really appealed to the socialists there...likely

  • Posted By: Cantabrigian @ 10/16/2008 6:47:50 PM

    Comment: IS Axlerod Obama's CHENEY!

    In a normal election year, Obama's link to Wright's "black values system" would disqualify him from the presidency in the eyes of most Americans.

    1. Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nevada,"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and neighbors. I want you to argue with them and get in their face." IS THIS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? DIRTY POLITICS!

    2. When Stanley Kurtz began researching Obama's ties with terrorist William Ayers, the papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago were at first closed off to him for several days, apparently at the bequest of Nobama supporters. When Kurtz was appearing as a guest of Milt Rosenberg's radio show, Obama's supporters were ALERTED by campaign email and jammed the radio station (WGN) phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails.IS THIS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? What happened to free speech? DIRTY POLITICS!

    3. Last month, St.Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring libel prosecution against anyone who made "false" statements against Obama. What happened to free speech? DIRTY POLITICS!


    4. Similarly, the Obama camp called for a criminal probe of the American Issues Project when it linked Obama to Ayers. DIRTY POLITICS!

    5. Saturday Night Live ran a spoof of the fininacial crisis that skewered Democratics like House Chairman Barney Frank. The tape disappeared from NBC's Web site and was replaced with another that omitted the reference to Frank.

    6. Obama sent 31 of his hired employees to Alaska to ASSIST in the Troopergate investigation? WHAT WAS HE THINKING? Just more dirty politics to try and dig up dirt on Sarah Pallin? DIRTY POLITICS!

    IS AMERICA NO LONGER THE LAND OF THE FREE?

    THE LACK OF INTEREST IN KNOWING JUST WHO NOBAMA IS IS STUNNING!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 6:29:15 PM

    Comment: Do absentee ballots facilitate fraud?
    Lessons from East Chicago ??? could a statewide election be subverted?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27166150/

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/16/2008 10:20:12 PM

      Comment: nowforthetruth

      Good plan, make sure everyone only votes on Novemeber 4th, so republicans can send faulty voter machines to known pro-Barack areas, or intimidate people so they will turn away and not vote.

      Democrats and voting rights groups insist that hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters, many of them poor, black or Hispanic, could lose the chance to cast a ballot.

      They say those groups will be the main victims of massive and improper purges of voting lists in many states, as part of a Republican campaign to challenge Democratic voters on Election Day.

      Things are getting especially ugly in the key swing states.

      Meanwhile, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, has been locked in several court battles with that state's Republican Party over her interpretation of election law.

      In an interview Thursday, Brunner praised ACORN's leaders in her state and said the warnings by local Republicans of significant voter fraud were simply "unfounded."

      During the past four years, Brunner said, Ohio has had only "four individual cases [of voter fraud], with nearly 8 million registered voters, and one of those was a husband and wife."

      http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/10/09/2008-10-09_gop_in_push_to_erase_voters_purges_acorn.html

      Both Democratic and Republican political activists have traditionally assisted elderly or homebound voters who need help in voting, said attorney J. Gerald Hebert, executive director of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, who plans to file the lawsuit on behalf of Democrats.

      "Now, merely possessing the mail-in ballot of another person is a misdemeanor. If you do it for several voters, it becomes a felony. It is my view that this is unconstitutional," said Hebert, who headed the Justice Department's voting section of the civil rights division until 1994.

      Democrats also complain that of the 13 indicted individuals, 12 are minority women and only one is an Anglo male. Moreover, Abbott's voter fraud indictments include zero Republicans.

      "I think it's evident that Abbott's practice of singling out minorities and seniors is a shallow political effort to suppress the votes," said Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Amber Moon. "It's being done disingenuously. The majority of these cases are well-meaning folks who are simply trying to help their neighbors to vote."

      http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/MYSA091806_01B_voterfraud_2c76b68_html3136.html

      • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/17/2008 1:33:44 AM

        Comment: Brunner is a Democrate, the the Federal Court of Appeals for the 6th circuit, sitting in bank, disagrees with her. We'll have to wait and see if the FBI does as well.

  • Posted By: ADELFAPINEDA @ 10/16/2008 10:53:43 AM

    Comment: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30122043&l=0510b&id=1130236838
    OBAMA PROXIMO PRESIDENTE NORTEAMERICANO. , TRANSFORMACIÓN SOCIAL-CULTURAL. Su gobierno se implementara políticas en los valores: del respeto a la vida, la libertad, la solidaridad, la tolerancia, los derechos humanos. su programa de gobierno EL DESARROLLO, el desarrollo económico, industrial, empresarial- Energético, y el desarrollo aplicado a la reducción de LA POBREZA, Desarrollo Agrario-rural-cultural, entramado de medidas, tecnologías para la sostenibilidad con educación para la sostenibilidad. DESARROLLO CULTURAL, REFORMA IMIGRGATORIA 1ADELFA PINEDA TRANSPARENCIA Y ÉTICA: Por el Desarrollo del País; Dignidad Publica, 1

  • Posted By: ADELFAPINEDA @ 10/16/2008 10:52:23 AM

    Comment: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30122043&l=0510b&id=1130236838
    OBAMA PROXIMO PRESIDENTE NORTEAMERICANO. , TRANSFORMACIÓN SOCIAL-CULTURAL. Su gobierno se implementara políticas en los valores: del respeto a la vida, la libertad, la solidaridad, la tolerancia, los derechos humanos. su programa de gobierno EL DESARROLLO, el desarrollo económico, industrial, empresarial- Energético, y el desarrollo aplicado a la reducción de LA POBREZA, Desarrollo Agrario-rural-cultural, entramado de medidas, tecnologías para la sostenibilidad con educación para la sostenibilidad. DESARROLLO CULTURAL, REFORMA IMIGRGATORIA 1ADELFA PINEDA TRANSPARENCIA Y ÉTICA: Por el Desarrollo del País; Dignidad Publica, 1

  • Posted By: ADELFAPINEDA @ 10/16/2008 10:51:08 AM

    Comment: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30122043&l=0510b&id=1130236838
    OBAMA PROXIMO PRESIDENTE NORTEAMERICANO. , TRANSFORMACIÓN SOCIAL-CULTURAL. Su gobierno se implementara políticas en los valores: del respeto a la vida, la libertad, la solidaridad, la tolerancia, los derechos humanos. su programa de gobierno EL DESARROLLO, el desarrollo económico, industrial, empresarial- Energético, y el desarrollo aplicado a la reducción de LA POBREZA, Desarrollo Agrario-rural-cultural, entramado de medidas, tecnologías para la sostenibilidad con educación para la sostenibilidad. DESARROLLO CULTURAL, REFORMA IMIGRGATORIA 1ADELFA PINEDA TRANSPARENCIA Y ÉTICA: Por el Desarrollo del País; Dignidad Publica, 1

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/15/2008 7:58:44 PM

    Comment: Meanwhile, Rep. John Murtha (D. Pa.) calls his own constituents "racist" but says Obama will win anyway.
    What a great way to campaign.

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/164058

  • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/15/2008 8:54:37 AM

    Comment: nowforthetruth

    Jesse also wanted to castrate Barack, if you are going to use the words of anybody who supports Barack to smear well, your in for a long night.

    "I think Barack Obama would be able to do to John McCain exactly what he was able to do to the other senators who are running on the Democratic side," Romney said at the time, describing McCain as "not the best match-up" against Obama.

    "I frankly don't think that Senator McCain, despite his service and his length of experience, that that's going to be able to stand up to the message that Barack Obama has brought forward," Romney argued.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/did-romney-pred.html

    In recent weeks, Democrats including Harry Reid, Dick Durbin and Barbara Boxer have all sounded the alarm about John McCain's decidedly unpresidential temperament. But it was Mitt Romney, the man who almost became the Republican vice presidential nominee, who offered the most ominous warnings to Americans that John McCain's dangerously out-of-control temper made him unfit for command.

    As his make-or-break Florida primary contest against John McCain approached in January, Mitt Romney abandoned his pledge that "I'm not going to talk about the character of the people I'm running against." Instead, the Romney campaign produced a memo titled, "The McCain Way: Attack Republicans - A Top 10 List."

    Romney's top 10 includes some of McCain's greatest hits - literally. In addition to the Cornyn, Grassley and Domenici episodes, the Romney list features some comparatively minor McCain blow-ups towards Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell and other leading lights of the GOP. Amazingly, the Romney camp claimed that in 1995, John McCain "had a scuffle" with then 92-year old Strom Thurmond. (The complete "McCain Way" memo is available at the Boston Herald.)

    Mitt Romney isn't the only Republican who's fretting about John McCain's finger being on the nuclear button. As Jon Hinz, the Arizona Republican Party executive director during McCain's 1986 Senate run, put it:

    "It seems the only way to deal with John McCain is to think the way he does. If he gets more power, what's going to make him suddenly become a fuzzy, nice guy?"

    http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001222.htm

    • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/15/2008 3:55:41 PM

      Comment: Yes and it was Bill and Hillary Clinton, and who else. . . Oh yea, his running mate Joe Biden, who said Obama was unprepared to be President.

      • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/16/2008 11:23:58 PM

        Comment: nowforthetruth

        Yet the public feels Barack soundly defeated the 26 year experienced senator in EVERY presidential debate, when (because he owns an American Hearts Express POW card) should have defeated him.

        Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney???s campaign accused Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of ???a backroom deal??? that gave the early Super Tuesday win in West Virginia to Huckabee.

        Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain???s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney???s campaign of conservative change,??? Beth Myers, Romney???s campaign manager, said in a statement.

        http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/romney-camp-accuses-mccain-huckabee-of-shady-w.-va.-deal-2008-02-05.html

        Then he dumps Huckabee, after Huckabee defeats Romney. to pick a more experienced governor from Alaska. If that's not manipulation at its best, I don't know what is.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/14/2008 9:31:03 PM

    Comment: "Press Releases

    AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jackson's Comment on American Jews
    October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about 'Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.'
    "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. 'This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.'

    Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."


    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743

    And people are upset about raciest comments some in the crowd are allegedly saying at Palin events? Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown"?

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 12:46:07 PM

    Comment: A famous study by The Institute of Racial Behavior shows that people that are prejudiced like Holy Roler are nine times out of ten, very SHORT in the MEAT Department. This accounts for their Fear of anyone who is not Short in that area. Erectile Dysfunction accounts for the more aggressive Bigot. These are Facts you can look up. . They do have 4 inch extensions for people like this.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 10/14/2008 12:12:23 PM

    Comment: A teacher in Elmira , New York , who is a McCain supporter, asked her 4th grade class, "How many of you are McCain fans?" Not really knowing what a McCain fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands, except for Little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different.

    Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not a McCain fan." The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a McCain fan?" Johnny said, "Because I'm a Democrat. "The teacher asked him why he's a Democrat. Little Johnny answered, "Well, my Mom's a Democrat and my Dad's a Democrat, so I'm a Democrat." Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?" With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me a McCain fan."

    • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 12:39:54 PM

      Comment: Jack999, LOL LOL Thanks. Have any More?

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 10/14/2008 12:11:44 PM

    Comment: A teacher in Elmira , New York , who is a McCain supporter, asked her 4th grade class, "How many of you are McCain fans?" Not really knowing what a McCain fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands, except for Little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different.

    Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not a McCain fan." The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a McCain fan?" Johnny said, "Because I'm a Democrat. "The teacher asked him why he's a Democrat. Little Johnny answered, "Well, my Mom's a Democrat and my Dad's a Democrat, so I'm a Democrat." Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?" With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me a McCain fan."

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 10/14/2008 12:01:35 PM

    Comment: I love the quote Obama use the other day "if you are going to tell lies about me I'm going to tell the true about you"

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/14/2008 11:36:47 AM

    Comment: Red Diaper Baby hits mainstream. Axlerod and Hussein...both...born and raised as full-blooded communists....and some people "trust" them with the economy??? Oh, I forgot...LOTS of people prefer being dependent "slaves" and have no resposibility for anything....Well...these two will get that for ya.

    Allah Akbar Ya'll fo shizzle...

    NOBAMA!!!.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: billtill @ 10/14/2008 9:45:34 AM

    Comment: About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

    'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
    'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
    'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

    'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

    'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

    1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
    2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
    3. from courage to liberty;
    4. from liberty to abundance;
    5. from abundance to complacency;
    6. from complacency to apathy;
    7. from apathy to dependence;
    8. from dependence back into bondage'

    Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

    Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
    Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
    Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
    Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

    Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

    If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

    If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

    WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
    ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 2:01:53 AM

    Comment: For all of you Stinking Corpse Repiglicans. President Barack Obama is going to be a truly Great President, So we understand that after reading the Poll Numbers that you can not help from Frothing and Foaming at the Mouth, (Literally), An Xtra, Xtra Large glass of Maalox , chased down with Jim Jones Kool-Aid will help you sleep tonight, please try it.

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/14/2008 1:54:34 AM

    Comment: Thanks Mr. Axelrod; I am happy to have someone who can give the Repig's some of their own medicine. I begged John Kerry to retaliate quite a few times with my mail and E-Mail . The Wimpy Lib's have cost us to many Elections by trying to be nice. That is something the Pig's do not understand. I say give it all you have. They are going to do a Blitzkreig of Nastiness the last two weeks, I emplore you to have some ready, I do not want to go on defense , I would like to go on the attack but, you are doing great.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/13/2008 2:57:05 PM

    Comment: It is ''soiled''by alot more than that. For The Center for Responsive Politics [www.opensecrets.org] finds that when Obamas earmarks for the University of Chicago hospital where his wife worked consequently garnered Michelle a rather fat raise [105%],the money also rolled into a consulting firm owned by.....David Axelrod. The means by which this high priest of the Expected One,did his duty for the unwashed common clay,was to get them kicked out of the more advanced U/Chicago Medical Center and send them packing to the more inferior Cook County Hospital, and southside clinics, in order to free up beds and space for paying customers. Ignoring these revelations [amply covered by the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times and the CFRP], comes as absolutely no suprise as this is Dick Wolffe and Mike Isikoff we are talking here.

  • Posted By: honestpolitician1 @ 10/13/2008 12:02:26 PM

    Comment: Axelrod is my hero.

    http://politicaladattacks.blogspot.com/

  • Posted By: melandmike @ 10/13/2008 11:22:12 AM

    Comment: Angry convervative posters: Do me, yourself and the GOP Party a favor: Put just half the effort that you put into bashing Obama and the Democrats into praising the real values of the Republican Party and it's ticket if you want to get McCain elected. All of this peurile and acrimonious name calling and outright antagonization is not helping our cause, makes the conservative base look childish, unintelligent, frightened and self serving. It turns off Independent voters and so basically serves the Dem's interests. I'm sure you are venting, but it's NOT helping us.

  • Posted By: newsweekthisweek @ 10/13/2008 3:27:50 AM

    Comment: Let truth be told. I am a Christian Arab who immigrated to Canada at the age of 9 with my parents and my brothers and sisters. I speak Arabic and am definitely not a terrorist. Those who believe that everyone who comes from the Middle East and speaks Arabic is a terrorist and a non-believer in God is out of touch with the truth.

    In respect to Barack Hussein Obama, I want to clarify the meaning of his name. Many people have little knowledge on name interpretations and meanings; this is not just a fantasy or a fairy tale. This is the truth. All languages, names and wordings are derived from a root word; this is how languages are formed and upon which they are expanded.

    So much is being said in the negative in regards to all elections and candidates, 99% of it is rubbish. It is part of the competitive political process, which has its positives. It allows the people who read and listen to all that is being said the opportunity to see how such candidates can deal and withstand pressure, upon which the public makes its final decision as for whom they wish to vote.

    First of all, let me be clear on the the word "madrassa", which in Arabic, means "school", an "educational facility" or "educational institution", for people of all ages; and, not necessarily a place to learn what terrorists do, as some imply.

    In the Arabic language, the name "Barack" means "blessing". A blessing, as you are aware, is plenty of goodness and is always most appreciated.

    Also in the Arabic language, the name "Hussein" means "horse", which is interpreted as a strong, hard-working and strong-willed individual.

    "Obama" is a traditional African tribal name for which I do not have a meaning; however, the name comes from some derivative of African culture and belief. All names are positive in nature regardless of where they come from.

    So, America is blessed with a strong, hard-working, strong-willed individual as a presidential candidate.

    Barack Hussein Obama is willing, able and desires to serve his country. He is within his rights to do so in this democratic society of ours. His positive views have captured a large percentage of people's attention from all countries and all ages, colour and creed. His rhetoric and organizational skills and voter appeal has far surpassed any election preparation in history to date.

    So what is the problem? The problem is ignorance. If you check the dictionary in the English language, the word "ignorance" means "lack of knowledge". This is why I say that much is construed due to different people's understanding, from various levels of intelligence, levels of knowledge and comprehension of individuals.

    I sincerely hope that Barack Hussein Obama is elected as President of the United States of America. It is time for a change; it is high time not only for Americans but for the whole world to experience what we deserve, w

  • Posted By: agnstheflow @ 10/13/2008 2:19:03 AM

    Comment: Obama's true colors......if this were anyone affilliated with McCain it would be plastered all over the place..but no. I adimire the brave boys who actually tried to question Obama in front of his adoring public. You won't believe Obama's attitude!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5XzITj75Cw&feature=related

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/13/2008 1:36:05 AM

    Comment: Bill Clinton points to liberal Congressional Democrats' protection of Fannie and Freddie from scrutiny as a primary cause of the current economic meltdown.

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

    To prove Bill Clinton's point, this is a link to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

    "Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

    The link below describes how some of those Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN. See: Wall Street Journal

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

    And here is Lou Dobbs reporting on ACORN corruption and ties to Obama, including Obama Campaign paying ACORN $800,000 for voter registration activities, and Obama representing them when he was a practicing attorney.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/10/09/ldt.tucker.acorn.under.fire.cnn


    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/17/2008 12:31:21 AM

      Comment: nowforthetruth

      Consider the fact that, as the Brennan Center reported recently, "[E]lection officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation." Consider the recent New York Times review of state records and Social Security records, which concluded that "[t]ens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law." Consider the case, now on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, in which 200,000 new Ohio voters stand to be bounced off the rolls because, through no fault of their own, their names don't match error-riddled state databases. Consider the indictment this week of former Republican official James Tobin for his 2002 role in jamming Democratic get-out-the-vote calls. Consider the much-ballyhooed Republican challenge to the eligibility of 6,000 Native American and student voters in Montana that backfired first in court, then with the abrupt resignation this week of the official who spearheaded the effort.

      http://www.slate.com/id/2202428/?from=rss

  • Posted By: mtsosie @ 10/13/2008 1:06:42 AM

    Comment: Ok everyone is up in arms about the Ayers guy, but has anyone taken notice that these were either charity organizations or community service affiliations they served in? And this is what everyone is mad about Obama being a part of? Can anyone point to either McCain or Palin even participating in anything that gives to the community.

    Obama won my vote with his ingenious idea of community service to help pay for college. I was a starving college kid with absolutely no help from my family and dependant solely on my minimum wage on-campus janitorial job, pel grant and student loans. If this kind of self-help visionary program was available then, you can rest assured I would have jumped on it.

    McCain can try and paint Obama however he wants but one thing is clear: McCain will only serve himself and every other rich admiral's kid he knows. Palin is a liar and a fanatical. She wants to pretend she's like your regular American but I can tell you every regular American isn't making $1 million a year, not to mention all the perks she has abused while in office.

    I'm not buying this McCain campaign turn. And any last chances of me switching my vote were gone watching all those ill bred racist chanting KKK garbage while Palin just relished he 30 second spotlight. How degenerate. We didn't fight the civil rights movement so that some ignorant Republicans can undo what took us generations to overcome.

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/15/2008 9:14:01 AM

      Comment: mtsosie

      Yes McCain was a guest speaker at ACORN rallies
      Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer of ACORN, said, "It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans. Maybe it is out of desperation that Senator McCain has forgotten that he was for ACORN before he was against ACORN; he was for immigration reform before he was against immigration reform; and he was a maverick before he became erratic. We were thrilled to partner with him to help reform the outdated immigration laws in this country, and were pleased to work closely with him on this issue."

      Lewis continued, "We expected Senator McCain to support our efforts to give voice to millions of Americans who have never participated in an election before. We are surprised at his efforts to vilify an organization that, until recently, he saw as an ally. Maybe this surprise attack and change of heart is indicative of his state of mind, and the way he would govern."

      Senator McCain and his campaign have recently launched a series of coordinated attacks on ACORN, the nation???s largest community organization of low-and moderate-income families.

      Ms. Lewis went on to say that, "We are sure that the extremists he is trying to get into a froth will be even more excited to learn that John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with ACORN, at an ACORN co-sponsored event, to promote immigration reform."

      Senator McCain was joined at the rally by Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), leaders from both political parties, immigrant communities, and members of labor, business, and religious organizations.




      http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22386&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&cHash=5706e23a2f

    • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/13/2008 1:35:46 AM

      Comment: Can anyone point to either McCain or Palin even participating in anything that gives to the community.

      THE NAVY!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/13/2008 12:32:53 AM

    Comment: : just released....truth about lawsuit to determine Hussein eligibility......

    http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: jk33l @ 10/12/2008 11:48:30 PM

    Comment: @trazer222 - Please stop making stuff up.

  • Posted By: grej @ 10/12/2008 11:46:37 PM

    Comment: Go to a search engine and type in Fitna, and watch the video, should remove any doubt about who to vote for.


    Obama First Met Ayers At A 1995 Meeting Of Local Liberal Activists That Took Place In Ayers' Home.

    The Meeting Launched Obama's Illinois State Senate Candidacy And Allowed Ayers To Introduce Him "To The Hyde Park Community As The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread."

    From 1999 To 2002, Obama Served With Ayers On The Board Of Directors For The Woods Fund Of Chicago.

    "[Obama And Ayers] Have Also Appeared Jointly On Two Academic Panels, One In 1997 And Another In 2001."

    In 1997, Obama Reviewed Ayers' Book, A Kind And Just Parent: The Children Of Juvenile Court, In The Chicago Tribune, Calling It "A Searing And Timely Account Of The Juvenile Court System."

    "From 1995 To 1999, [Barack Obama] Led An Education Foundation Called The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), And Remained On The Board Until 2001. ??? The CAC Was The Brainchild Of Bill Ayers???"

    "Ayers And Obama Were Also Part Of A Group Of Four Instructed To Draft The Bylaws That Would Govern CAC. Surely That Endeavor Would Have Involved Significant Interaction Between Them. Then There's The Question Of Unrecorded Meetings Of Both The Board And The Collaborative."

    "As CAC Board Chair, Obama Was Essentially Authorizing The Funding Of Ayers's Own Educational Projects, And The Projects Of Ayers's Radical Allies."

    "Ayers And Obama Guided CAC Money To Community Organizers, Like ACORN (The Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now) And The Developing Communities Project (Part Of The Gamaliel Foundation Network), Groups Self-Consciously Working In The Radical Tradition Of Saul Alinsky."

    "The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Stands As Barack Obama's Most Important Executive Experience To Date. By Its Own Account, CAC Was A Largely A Failure."

    "The Failure Of CAC Thus Raises Entirely Legitimate Questions, Both About Obama's Competence, His Alliances With Radical Community Organizers, And About Ayers's Continuing Influence Over CAC And Its Board, Headed By Obama."

    "The Obama Campaign Has Struggled To Downplay That Association. ??? Yet Documents In The CAC Archives Make Clear That Mr. Ayers And Mr. Obama Were Partners In The CAC."



    Ayers Is "Flatly Unrepentant About The Bombings." (Ben Smith, "Obama Once Visited '60s Radicals," The Politico, 2/22/08)

    In 2001, Ayers Did Not Express Regret For His Past Conduct And Even Claimed The Weather Underground "Didn't Do Enough" Bombings. (Russell Berman, "Obama's Ties To Left Come Under Scrutiny," The New York Sun, 2/19/08)

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/16/2008 11:45:56 PM

      Comment: grej

      Chicago Sun Times: Obama's Connection To Ayers Is A "Phony Flap". The Chicago Sun-Times wrote in an editorial, "But Ayers, it is also true to say, has since followed in the footsteps of the great Chicago social worker Jane Addams, crusading for education and juvenile justice reform. His 1997 book, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, has been praised for exposing how Cook County's juvenile justice system all but eliminates a child's chance for redemption. Is Barack Obama consorting with a radical? Hardly. Ayers is nothing more than an aging lefty with a foolish past who is doing good. And while, yes, Obama is friendly with Ayers, it appears to be only in the way of two community activists whose circles overlap. Obama's middle name is Hussein. That doesn't make him an Islamic terrorist. He stopped wearing a flag pin. That doesn't make him unpatriotic. And he's friendly with UIC Professor William Ayers. That doesn't make him a bomb thrower. Time to move on to Phony Flap 6,537,204." [Chicago Sun-Times, 3/3/08]

      Ayers Is A Professor Of Education At UIC. According to his website at UIC, "William Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches courses in interpretive research, urban school change, and youth and the modern predicament. He is the founder of the Center for Youth and Society and founder and co-director of the Small Schools Workshop. A graduate of the Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, he has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families." [Ayers UIC Site, Ayers Personal Site, Accessed 5/31/07]

      1979: Charges Against Ayers Were Dropped Because "The Government's Case Was Based On Illegal Wiretaps." The New York Times reported, "William Ayers was a fugitive, too, for nine of those years, but the Federal charges against him, Miss Dohrn and other members of the revolutionary organization were dropped in 1979, when it was ruled that the Government's case was based on illegal wiretaps." [New York Times, 12/5/80]

      Ayers "Served No Time." "William Ayers: Surrendered and pleaded guilty in 1980 to possession of explosives and served no time. Teaches early childhood development at the University of Illinois." [Boston Globe, 9/19/93]

      McCain litmus test for Keating 5 was that his charges were dropped so what's good for the goose...

  • Posted By: rbwogi @ 10/12/2008 11:35:34 PM

    Comment: I hope Obama takes a look at the African dictators like Museveni of Uganda he just purhased a jet for $84 million while the poverty rate is on the increase. He is resposible for the death of many both in Uganda ,Congo and Rwanda.

  • Posted By: rbwogi @ 10/12/2008 11:30:42 PM

    Comment: I hope Obama takes another look at the dictators in Africa starting with Museveni of Uganda he is looting the country dry, he just purhased a jet for $84 million while the poverty rate is on the increase.

  • Posted By: trazer222 @ 10/12/2008 11:24:17 PM

    Comment: Axelrod is a master at his game. So good, that none of us really have an idea where Obama stands on the issues. He was left of left to win the nomination;now at times it appears Obama is so hawkish he plans to attack Pakistan, African nations, and others. I thought the original premise was to get out of Iraq - now, we have a candidate who wants to attack others to win the election.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/12/2008 10:35:54 PM

    Comment: Bill Clinton points to liberal Congressional Democrats' protection of Fannie and Freddie from scrutiny as a primary cause of the current economic meltdown.

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

    To prove Bill Clinton's point, this is a link to a C-SPAN video clip of the Congressional hearings at roughtly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix fannie and freddie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

    "Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis"

    The link below describes how some of those Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN. See: Wall Street Journal

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

    And here is Lou Dobbs reporting on ACORN corruption and ties to Obama, including Obama Campaign paying ACORN $800,000 for voter registration activities, and Obama representing them when he was a practicing attorney.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/10/09/ldt.tucker.acorn.under.fire.cnn

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/13/2008 12:06:38 AM

      Comment: nowforthetruth

      Fact: ACORN has implemented the most sophisticated quality-control system in the voter engagement field but in almost every state we are required to turn in ALL completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic.

      Fact: ACORN flags in writing incomplete, problem, or suspicious cards when we turn them in,. Unfortunately, some of these same officials then come back weeks or months later and accuse us of deliberately turning in phony cards. In many cases, we can actually prove that these are the same cards we called to their attention.

      Fact: Our canvassers are paid by the hour, not by the card . ACORN has a zero-tolerance policy for deliberately falsifying registrations, and in the cases where our internal quality controls have identified this happening we have fired the workers involved and turned them in to election officials and law-enforcement.

      Fact: No criminal charges related to voter registration have ever been brought against ACORN or partner organizations. Convictions against individual former ACORN workers have been accomplished with our full cooperation, using the evidence obtained through our quality control and verification processes ??? evidence which in most cases WE called to the attention of authorities

      Fact: Most election officials have recognized ACORN???s good work and praised our quality control systems. Even in the cities where election officials have complained about ACORN, the applications in question represent less than 1% of the thousands and thousands of registrations ACORN has collected.

      Fact: Our accusers not only fail to provide any evidence, they fail to suggest a motive: there is virtually no chance anyone would be able to vote fraudulently, so there is no reason to deliberately submit phony registrations. ACORN is committed to ensuring that the greatest possible numbers of people are registered

      ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.

      http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22384&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12386&cHash=848fccca14

  • Posted By: guinness42 @ 10/12/2008 9:19:02 PM

    Comment:
    There have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different.

    https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html

  • Posted By: guinness42 @ 10/12/2008 9:18:15 PM

    Comment: How close were Presidential Elections?

    https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html

    There have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different.

  • Posted By: grej @ 10/12/2008 8:46:12 PM

    Comment: BlotJot: you take a link like this and paste it into the address bar at the top of your Browser and click "enter"

    This iss from the Illinois state archives:

    http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf

    For 4 years following his 2003 vote Obama misrepresented it, stating the wording of the IL version of Born Alive was not the same as the federal version, and he would have voted for it if so. As recently as August 16, 2008 Obama made this false assertion.

    But when evidence presented was irrefutable, Obama's campaign on August 18, 2008, admitted the truth to the New York Sun.

    The nonpartison group FactCheck.org has since corroborated Obama voted against identical legislation as passed overwhelmingly on the federal level and then misrepresented his vote.


    • Posted By: blotjot @ 10/12/2008 9:29:55 PM

      Comment: That's weird, because I got my info that Obama wasn't lying from factcheck.org

      http://factcheck.barackobama.com/PP%20Born%20Alive%20History.pdf

      Maybe factcheck needs to check their own facts, or something just doesn't add up.

      Well, thanks for the info. I'll look it over to see if I can heads or tails out of it all. Hope you do the same.

  • Posted By: grej @ 10/12/2008 8:29:07 PM

    Comment: Following are Obama's actions and votes on Born Alive. The bill number changed every year it was reintroduced.

    2001

    Senate Bill 1095, Born Alive Infant Protection Act

    Obama's "no" vote in the IL Senate Judiciary Committeehere, March 28, 2001

    http://www.jillstanek.com/Obama%27s%20vote%20against%20SB1662%20pdf.pdf

    Transcript of Obama's verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor, March 30, 2001, pages 84-90

    http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf

    Obama's "present" vote on the IL Senate floor, March 30, 2001


    2002

    Senate Bill 1662, Born Alive Infant Protection Act

    Obama's "no" vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, March 6, 2002

    http://www.jillstanek.com/Obama%27s%20vote%20against%20SB1662%20pdf.pdf

    Transcript of Obama's verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor, April 4, 2002, pages 28-35

    http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST040402.pdf

    Obama's "no" vote on the IL Senate floor, April 4, 2002

    http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/srollcalls92/920SB1662_04042002_014000T.pdf

    Listen to audio from Obama's 2002 IL Senate floor debate wherein he argued that while babies might be aborted alive, it w