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Shot In The Dark

Why was crime overlooked in this campaign?

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  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/05/2008 9:04:51 PM

    George Soros finally got what he wanted! I have a feeling that his influence is going to extend well beyond the campaign stage. Everybody was touting what a great campaign Obama was running. But he wasn't running it. It was running him. With enough money you can buy anything. You can buy extreme order. George Soros is going to continue coddling Obama through his presidency to make him look good. He will likely be in contact with foreign leaders, buying their cooperation and easing their fears. The Democratic take over of congress was probably engineered long in advance. This also makes Obama's job easier and insulates him from the tough issues that presidents have to deal with in terms of senate battles between Republicans and Democrats. George Soros likely bought Obama an Army of advisors to answer any and all questions. Remember Soros is the financial genious that made his money off of the securities markets. He may have even had a hand in crashing the stock market to favor the Democrats just before the election. There is no way that the most unqualified presidential candidate in history got to where he did without such massive help. Some have speculated that after Obama won the Presidency, the media would turn on him and the honeymoon would be over but there is a broader agenda. Soros is buying up all of these newspapers that are endorsing Obama which is an attempt at a Socialist propaganda state. He will likely retain his control over the large media networks as well. What is the price Obama pays for having his ego stoked? An agenda that makes George Soros the grand puppet master of planet Earth!

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/05/2008 4:03:36 PM

    Our Saviour?? You really are 12 years old, or really ignorant. Hey, if I kill infidels, do I get 70 virgins in heaven? May I ask, who is "we"?

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/04/2008 6:42:10 PM

    WITH INSURMOUNTABLE LEADS IN ALL THE POLLS, THE QUESTION IS NO LONGER WHO WILL WIN, BUT HOW BIG OF A LANDSLIDE OBAMA WILL WIN BY: 90%? 80%? 70%? HENCE, IT CAN ALREADY BE DECLARED THAT OUR SAVIOR, BARACK OBAMA, HAS WON AND WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF OUR NEW OBAMACA NATION.

    THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND DEDICATION. WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SMITED THE UNBELIEVERS AND OPENED THE ONE AND ONLY GATE TO HEAVEN. GOD BLESS US, GOD BLESS US ALL.

    THE ONLY THING LEFT IS FOR MCCAIN TO DROP DEAD OR CONCEDE ALREADY. WE HAVE WON FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE WORLD!

  • Posted By: Butterfly Effect @ 11/04/2008 3:39:18 PM

    In a move that will set back African-Americans 30 years, Obama will inject a huge amount free, welfare check capital into urban drug/sex dealers (who do not pay taxes and wil revieve free monthly handouts) to help them fund their soon to be expanding operations.

    WINNERS:
    DNP - This will help Democratic Party keep their key (and wasted) voting base poor and voting democratic forever.

    CRACKHEADS/DRUG DEALERS/PIMPS: It will provide cheap crack and promote drug dealing competion. PIMPS be be able to finance a new army of addicted, crack-whore fodder. Who said Obama is anti-business? Who said Financing is not avaiable for your (drug/sex) operations and purchases?

    LIQUOR STORES/ELECTRONIC OUTLETS/FAST FOOD CHAINS: Booze, hamburgers and big screen TV sales will sky-rocket as burnt-out welfare parasites buy junk with their money instead of using it to better themselves.

    LOSERS:
    GED SOCIAL SERVICES, COLLEGES & TRADE SCHOOLS.
    Who need that junk when you got TV, booze, drugs and sex by sitting on your lazy fat butt.
    The evil "I" word for democrats is is "Incinitive". None of that for you!

    CHARITY: Overburdend people and business will have no money for charity. To DNP that is no problem because they feel the DNP should tell you what charities your pile of tax dollars will fund. These will non-profit 'garbage charities" like acorn to promote the DNP.

    REPUBLICANS: Becuase we pay most of hte tax that will fund these inner ciy crime waves - idioitic.

    ASK ANY INNER CITY LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICER IF WHAT I SAY IS TRUE. OFF COURSE IT IS - ITS HUMAN NATURE OF WELFARE PARASITES AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.

    • Posted By: MICKYmouse @ 11/04/2008 5:48:35 PM

      fly away hateful butteryfly.

      Your truth is good only in your own lil head.

      You have clue none about living in the hood, so you may as well be giving a speach in german, sue it would make just as much sense.

  • Posted By: ploughman @ 11/04/2008 3:58:09 PM

    Crime as an issue has always been driven by those statistically least at risk. Bill Clinton did a lot to take it off the table, and there were also the theories in "Freakonomics" about demographic shifts.

    Maybe, just maybe, the voters also got wiser. Particularly at state levels (but also at local and federal), politicians have repeatedly tried to score cheap political points with proposals to make some draconian sentence even more so, up to where they're trying to expand the death penalty for non-murder crimes and locking away 17-year-olds on laws meant to go after child molesters.

    There's no crisis of leniency at all in laws and sentencing guidelines, and maybe people finally realize that cynical moves to flog the issue are simply attempts to mask the politicans' LACK of accomplishment on more difficult issues like education or the economy where money has to be spent, priorities set, and decisions taken that may upset some people regardless of what decision was made.

  • Posted By: n7r3pyd @ 11/04/2008 3:33:24 PM

    Agree with Posted By: C. MacLean @ 11/04/2008 3:21:50 PM, too bad for McCain was somehow grouped in with that motley crew.

    Obama was fortunate to not get meaningully linked to the murder capital of the US and ACORN

  • Posted By: Butterfly Effect @ 11/04/2008 3:30:41 PM

    In a move that with set back African Americans 30 years, Obama will inject a huge amount free welfare check capital to urban drug/sex dealers (who do not pay taxes and will ,uinder Obama, recieve free welfare checks i the mail) to help them fund their soon to be expanding operations.

    WINNERS:
    DNP - This will help Democratic Party keep their key (and wasted) voting base poor and voting democratic forever.

    CRACKHEADS/DRUG DEALERS/PIMPS: It will provide cheap crack and promote drug dealing competion. PIMPS be be able to finance a new army of addicted, crack-whore fodder. Who said Obama is anti-business? Who said Financing is not avaiable for your (drug/sex) operations and purchases?

    LIQUOR STORES/ELECTRONIC OUTLETS/FAST FOOD CHAINS: Booze, hamburgers and big screen TV sales will sky-rocket as burnt-out welfare parasites buy junk with their money instead of using it to better themselves.

    LOSERS:
    GED SOCIAL SERVICES, COLLEGES & TRADE SCHOOLS.
    Who need that junk when you got TV, booze, drugs and sex by sitting on your lazy fat ass.
    The evil "I" word for democrats is is "Incinitive". None of that for you!

    CHARITY: Overburdend people and business will have no money for charity. To DNP that is no problem because they feel the DNP should tell you what charities your pile of tax dollars will fund. These will non-profit 'garbage charities" like acorn to promote the DNP.

    REPUBLICANS:
    Because we pay most of the tax bill THAT WILLL FUND THIS CRIME WAVE.

    ASK ANY INNER CITY LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICER IF WHAT I SAY IS TRUE. OFF COURSE IT IS - ITS STUDIED AND DOCUMENTED HUMAN NATURE OF CAREER WELFARE PARASITES - AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 11/04/2008 3:21:50 PM

    Crime was absolutely at the center of the 2008 presidential race.

    Bush's crimes, Cheney's crimes, crimes by Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzalez were all front and center, as were the crimes of Big Business, Big Oil, and unscrupulous mortgage lenders.

    We talked a lot about crime - the only thing different this time was the type of criminal; rich and white instead of poor and black.

  • Posted By: paulte @ 11/04/2008 3:18:55 PM

    If crime were an issue, it would work against Obama and the media is working for his election, so crime was not an issue as far as the media was concerned.

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/04/2008 6:47:28 AM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

    • Posted By: MICKYmouse @ 11/04/2008 9:05:43 AM

      Comment: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17516764/


      you just dont get it you. Is that becuse your are full of hate?

      Warning: Hate kills.

      • Posted By: HockeyMom18 @ 11/04/2008 2:53:28 PM

        Well, the bad news is if they break both his legs he will find right into the less fortunate Obama wants to just send money too. Spread the wealth, hey why don't you take a collection and help this guy out of his hardship. Heck let us change america make it a better place for all the Joe Plumbers out there, be patriotic.

  • Posted By: HockeyMom18 @ 11/04/2008 2:47:43 PM

    Where have you been Newsweek, I know protecting sweet boy Obama's but. Look the Community Organizer you know Obama the guy who did so much for Southside Chicago, NOT. I knew this was going to happen Obama is going to start getting bashed by the press I really didn't think it would happen this soon. I guess the old saying no time like right now. Have your reporter call Obama's and ask why he did not do more for Chicago and the horrible living conditions and crime infested neighborhoods before moving on. $500 Vote for Me Obama check isn't going to do much there.

  • Posted By: bigg_game_james@hotmail.com @ 11/04/2008 2:42:43 PM

    Ohhh Newsweek, you are such a joke. Now you ask the questions you should have been asking all along instead of slobbering all over your favorite Marxist. Why don't we take a look at the Crime in B.O. (PEEEUUU) home terf, his community organizing has done wonders. Nothing like being the number one place for homicides in the Nation.

  • Posted By: bigg_game_james@hotmail.com @ 11/04/2008 2:42:15 PM

    Ohhh Newsweek, you are such a joke. Now you ask the questions you should have been asking all along instead of slobbering all over your favorite Marxist. Why don't we take a look at the Crime in B.O. (PEEEUUU) home terf, his community organizing has done wonders. Nothing like being the number one place for homicides in the Nation.

  • Posted By: stjoe @ 11/04/2008 2:37:05 PM

    The crimes of Obama and his accomplices; ACORN, Ayres, Rezko, Wright, etc were an issue with the thinking people among us. Unfortunately, the anti-American, journalists of this country, which includes Newsweek, chose to ignore them.

  • Posted By: VOTEOBAMA2008 @ 11/04/2008 2:12:24 PM

    Obama will be a great President!!!!

  • Posted By: VOTEOBAMA2008 @ 11/04/2008 2:10:55 PM

    Obama will be a great President!!!!

  • Posted By: RACISM_IN_AMERICA @ 11/04/2008 1:28:59 PM

    I AM FACING 5 YRS. IN PRISON FOR A CRIME THAT I DID NOT, OR NEVER WOULD COMMIT. I AM THE VICTIM OF A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS POLICE OFFICERS TO LIE AND COMMIT PERJURY WITH NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS. I HAVE TO GO TO TRIAL AND PROVE TO A COURT OF LAW THAT I AM INNOCENT. I HOPE THAT OBAMA CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT INNOCENT PEOPLE GOING TO PRISON FOR CRIMES THEY DID NOT COMMIT. PLZ DO MORE ON POLICE WHO LIE TO GAIN CONVICTIONS, AND WHO CONTINUE TO PUT PEOPLE OF COLOR IN JAIL OVER LIES FOR MEETING THE INDUSTRIAL PRISON COMPLEX'S QUOTA

  • Posted By: RACISM_IN_AMERICA @ 11/04/2008 1:24:37 PM

    I AM FACING 5 YRS. IN PRISON FOR A CRIME THAT I DID NOT, OR NEVER WOULD COMMIT. I AM THE VICTIM OF A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS POLICE OFFICERS TO LIE AND COMMIT PERJURY WITH NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS. I HAVE TO GO TO TRIAL AND PROVE TO A COURT OF LAW THAT I AM INNOCENT. I HOPE THAT OBAMA CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT INNOCENT PEOPLE GOING TO PRISON FOR CRIMES THEY DID NOT COMMIT. PLZ DO MORE ON POLICE WHO LIE TO GAIN CONVICTIONS, AND WHO CONTINUE TO PUT PEOPLE OF COLOR IN JAIL OVER LIES FOR MEETING THE INDUSTRIAL PRISON COMPLEX'S QUOTA

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/04/2008 12:30:14 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I did not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 11/04/2008 9:12:10 AM

    Crime was absolutely at the center of the 2008 presidential race.

    Bush's crimes, Cheney's crimes, crimes by Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzalez were all front and center, as were the crimes of Big Business, Big Oil, and unscrupulous mortgage lenders.

    We talked a lot about crime - the only thing different this time was the type of criminal; rich and white instead of poor and black.

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