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  • Posted By: kaj_pagan @ 11/01/2008 12:10:39 AM

    If you don't understand the hard news, you would never get the jokes.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 10/31/2008 5:23:39 PM

    The ugly side of Big Brother Socialism: Media Blackmail
    October 31, 2008 12:27 PM ABC Reports:
    The Obama campaign has told three reporters they have to drop off the campaign plane this weekend. All three work for papers that endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.: the New York Post, the Washington Times, and the Dallas Morning News.
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/citing-space-co.html

    Barack Obama's campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station, the Orlando Sentinel reported .
    "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, according to the Sentinel.
    http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html

    See also:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash
    55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash
    http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp
    Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted'

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/30/2008 4:34:42 PM

    Here are the answers to all the Obama smears using various trusted non-partisan sources. Investigate for yourselves before believing anyones version of the facts.

    Rezko: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

    Ayers: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp

    Rashid Kahlidi: http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=23

    Are three former Fannie Mae executives economic advisers to Obama?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/are_three_former_fannie_mae_executives_economic.html

    Is Obama's brother really dirt poor in Kenya and living on a dollar a day?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_obamas_brother_really_dirt_poor_in.html

    How many times did Obama vote PRESENT as a state senator and why?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html

    Obama???s relationships with corrupt Chicago politicians
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/guilt_and_associations.html

    NRA ads regarding Obama violating second amendment right to bear arms
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

    Jerome Corsis The Obama Nation
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/corsis_dull_hatchet.html

    Obama wants to teach sex ed to Kindergartners?
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html

    Obama plans painful tax increases for working families
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.html

    Context Included: Obama on Iran
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/context_included_obama_on_iran.html

    Did Obama write that he would stand with the Muslims and that he nurses a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward whites?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html

    Did Hamas endorse Barack Obama?
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_hamas_endorse_barack_obama.html

    Claims that Obama is a Muslim, attended a Wahabi school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S.
    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html

    Barack and Michelle Obama spent $450 on lobster and caviar at the Waldorf at taxpayer expense
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_michelle_obama_spend_450_on_room.html

    50 Obama lies and counting
    http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=9

    The Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan Controversies
    http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=21

  • Posted By: christlikeman @ 10/30/2008 3:54:31 PM

    I think Obama sincerely cares about us more than anyone in a long time. My owner at work said at a meeting recently to vote for the one that was not raising taxes on the wealthy..its a Sonic Drive IN!! He is the only wealthy one there...what about all the minimum wage workers that are gonna take a gut shot if McCain wins?? Huh??

  • Posted By: dealer57 @ 10/30/2008 2:25:22 AM

    ok people lets be honest. we all know that politicians are all rich and don't care about taxes.
    the economy is in the dump because we have spent all our resources on the war.
    the real truth is just choose the best crook and pray he stayed in your court.
    beat of all is vote....if you don't go vote you don't have any rights to complain.

  • Posted By: dealer57 @ 10/30/2008 2:14:55 AM

    ok people lets be honest with each other, we all know that most politicians are 1.rich.so they don't really care about taxes.2.we just need to decide which crook is going to be better for the less fortunate.3 do we need more of the same bs and lies about money. we all know that the real reason the economy is in bad shape is mostly because of the war in the middle east. we have spent all our resources on that and now our own country in in jeopardy. so vote that's all we can do ...if you don't vote you cant complain about any of it.

  • Posted By: lshu @ 10/30/2008 12:23:10 AM

    They should at least be looking to Biden - hello... "Stand up Chuck" - Dude, guy's in a wheelchair!

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/29/2008 7:21:13 PM

    Gutlessness. Tinsetown and New York are cowards. Clinton was OK because he was white,and exuded ''bubba''style. Obama,black and erudite. Comics,especially white ones, are scared to death of being branded racists,which is why Hughley,a black,can get away with what got Imus into trouble. Letterman,SNL, and Leno do not want to deal with a howling mob led by Jackson or Sharpton showing up on their doorstep.

  • Posted By: Patram @ 10/29/2008 11:40:17 AM

    Call it by its real name: HYPOCRISY

  • Posted By: Patram @ 10/29/2008 11:39:15 AM

    Called by its real name: HYPOCRICY

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/29/2008 7:11:55 AM

    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    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 how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    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 budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing 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 team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/29/2008 7:11:47 AM

    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    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 how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    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 budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing 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 team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:04:01 AM

    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: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 10/29/2008 12:32:04 AM

      ALL TOGETHER NOW ... every tax ever imposed on anyone throughout ALL of human history was and is redistriburion of wealth?? Your current tax dollars do NOT go into some vault in Fort Knox ... it is all redistributed. Your social security tax is not sitting there waiting for you to retire .... it is redistributed!! Any fee you pay any branch or level of government is REDISTRIBUTED!!!!

    • Posted By: dearlizzie @ 10/27/2008 8:41:02 AM

      Community organizing and settlement houses have 150 year old histories helping the downtrodden. They are honorable groups doing good works. I know I have supported several and the childhood education, job training, parenting classes, homeless shelters, help navigating social services, etc. made amazing differences in people's lives.

      Just keep repeating," there but for the grace of God go I" and count your blessings.

      And what's wrong with wealth redistribution? That's what all taxes are.

      We've had 16 years of intense spreading of the wealth around and redistribution, with CEOs and hedge fund managers raking in $25-40 mil and more a year. The richest 5 % owned about 20% of the wealth in 1992 and now own a whopping 41%, exactly the ratio at the time of the Great Depression and one of the reasons is was so hard and so long. America needs a strong middle class! Go Obama!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 7:57:25 PM

    Now there is proof. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama let it slip that he really is as radical as his early political mentors, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now, an interview with Obama in 2001, mysteriously overlooked all this time by the main media outlets, proves this fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

    Obama's redistribution and restitution 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 branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
    See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

    Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

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

    See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 10/29/2008 12:13:51 AM

      Give it up, man!! Don't you realize that every tax ever imposed on anyone throughout ALL of human history was and is redistriburion of wealth?? Your current tax dollars do NOT go into some vault in Fort Knox ... it is all redistributed. Your social security tax is not sitting there waiting for you to retire .... it is redistributed!! Any fee you pay any branch or level of government is REDISTRIBUTED!!!!

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 9:19:28 AM

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

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

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

    • Posted By: Bob in Ohio AKA VietVet4Obama @ 10/29/2008 12:09:28 AM

      Give it up, man!! Don't you realize that every tax ever imposed on anyone throughout ALL of human history was and is redistriburion of wealth?? Your current tax dollars do NOT go into some vault in Fort Knox ... it is all redistributed. Your social security tax is not sitting there waiting for you to retire .... it is redistributed!! Any fee you pay any branch or level of government is REDISTRIBUTED!!!!

  • Posted By: Dolmance @ 10/28/2008 9:57:44 PM

    Comedy writers are helped enormously when their subjects behave like imbeciles. An Obama Presidency might not provide many imbeciles directly, but the pundits on Fox News and the Republicans who will become truly demented after election day should provide more than enough laughs to go around.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/28/2008 7:10:13 PM

    Has anyone noticed that Obama seems to be catching up in Arizona? And he is doing better than expected in Texas. McCain may loose his home state.

  • Posted By: Content40 @ 10/28/2008 3:28:56 PM

    D.L. Hughley is No Jay Leno or David Letterman. Check out: http://www.drboycespeaks.blogspot.com/

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 10/27/2008 3:40:42 AM

    Good Point! Does anyone really believe the Limousine Liberals, are going to share their wealth? Not hardly.

    • Posted By: dearlizzie @ 10/27/2008 8:53:19 AM

      You mean like Warren Buffet who's given away 100's of millions or the Gates' Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation or Oprah or George Soros or Alan Patrikof or thousands of others? What does liberal mean if not generous. Try getting a penny out of Cindy McCain who cut off her two half-sister's car leases, their grand kid's tuitions and the credit cards before their dada was cold in the ground and who had to give up her medical charity when she was busted for stealing drugs.

      It;s not the Limousine liberals you have to worry about darlin'

      • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/28/2008 12:43:25 PM

        Probably more like Biden's big $3,000.00 a year contributions. So very impressive.

  • Posted By: jetoney @ 10/28/2008 10:46:04 AM

    Not to worry. Even if Obama himself is devoid of easily mockable personality traits, satirists will always find someone or something around him to ridicule. Remember Dan Akroyd's portrayals of the bland, humorless Jimmy Carter? Hemorroids and a nuclear melt-down became fodder for satire. Undoubtedly the fates will provide ample opportunities to poke fun at the next president as well.

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