Comment: It is begining to look like Obama's trip is too much for him. The more he talks the more we are hearing uh uh uh uh uh and pausing before the next word comes out of him!!! No written speach to read from the more he stumbles when he talks!!! Or could it be he is talking about things he has no idea or knowledge about!!!
Comment: Americans will unite to reject this media creation and years from now our children will say that it was our finest our.
Comment: BothWaysBarack: http://bothwaysbarack.com/
Comment: BELOW is a quote by Obama in regards to his beliefs about energy and the environment. Then below that is an excerpt of an article about the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act . Obama was part of the group of 6 who introduced this Act to the Senate in last year (Jan. 2007). If he means what he believes in, what type of judgment was this he made just last year? ? Just one more example that he talks a good talk.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Quote from Obamas Website:
Plan For a Clean Energy Future
Well, I dont believe that CLIMATE CHANGE is just an issue thats convenient to bring up during a campaign. I believe its one of the greatest MORAL CHALLENGES of our generation. Thats why Ive fought successfully in the Senate to increase our investment in renewable fuels. Thats why I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise our fuel standards. . . And I didnt just give a speech about it in front of some environmental audience in California. I went to Detroit, I stood in front of a group of automakers, and I told them that when I am president, there will be no more excuses . . . we will help them retool their factories, but they will have to make cars that use less oil.
??? Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA, October 14, 2007
Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act
The Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act would establish a new massively polluting industry to convert coal into liquid transportation fuel. The bill provides a variety of incentives for liquid coal, including tax incentives, loan guarantees, expanded plant siting, and a host of other government subsidies. The bill also allows the Department of Defense to enter into fuel purchasing contracts for up to 25 years.
The serious economic and environmental downsides of liquid coal prevent it from being a good option for a cleaner, healthier energy future. A liquid coal (coal-to-liquids) transportation fuels industry would DOUBLE the global warming emissions of regular gasoline and would require millions of dollars in investments. Instead of funneling those millions into a new, dirty industry, we should be investing in efficiency and renewable energy technologies that exist today and can help us solve global warming.
http://www.sierraclub.org/legislativetracker/110HR0370.asp
In The Senate of The United States
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 154
Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Energy Act of 2007 (Introduced in 6 Senators, including OBAMAe)
Mr. BUNNING (for himself, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. PRYOR, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. BOND, Mr. THOMAS, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. ENZI, Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mr. CRAIG) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:s.154:
Comment: Eventually "sharenoise" will share an original thought, doubtful, but we Obama supporters have HOPE that share will find CHANGE, and let go of the old embrace the new, and for God sake, stop pasting, we didn't read it on the first 1000 trys...lol
Comment: Check out Jib Jab new video! The part with Obama and change is just perfect !!!! Change, change, change. It really a great video! It also has parts about McCain that are really funny too!!
Comment: PART 1 - BARACK OBAMAs Friend Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)
Obamas relationship with Rashid Khalidi goes beyond conversation. Khalidis ties to Obama were first exposed by WND in February in a widely cited article.
According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the University. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.
Sources at the university told World Net Daily (WND) that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.
Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful Fundraiser for Obamas failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.
As WND reported, an ANTI-ISRAEL Arab group run by Khalidi's wife, Mona, received crucial funding from a Chicago nonprofit, the Woods Fund, for which Obama served as a board member with William Ayers (the notorious terrorist from infamous Weather Underground (VIDEO).
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In 2001, the Woods Fund, which describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to Khalidis Arab American Action Network, or AAAN. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an ANTI-ISRAEL line.
The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, The Subject of Palestine, that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the Nakba or catastrophe of Israels founding in 1948.
When Khalidi departed the University of Chicago in 2003, Obama delivered an in-person testimonial at a farewell ceremony reminiscing about conversations over meals prepared by Mona Khalidi.
According to a Los Angeles Times account, Obama said his talks with the Khalidis served as consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. It is for that reason that I am hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation ??? a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashids dinner table, but around THIS ENTIRE WORLD.
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Comment: (Continued from another of my Posts above)
PART 2 - BARACK OBAMAs FRIEND: Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)
Khalidis farewell dinner was replete with ANTI-ISRAEL speakers. One, a young Palestinian American, recited a poem in Obamas presence that accused the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticized U.S. support of Israel, the Times reported: Another speaker, who reportedly talked while Obama was present, compared ZIONIST SETTLERS ON THE WEST BANK to Osama bin Laden.
ISRAEL A CONSTANT SORE.
Just last week, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the Palestinian question a RUNNING SORE.
In his piece, Palestine: Liberation Deferred, Khalidi suggests Israel carried out ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israels establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authoritys stated acceptance of a Palestinian state ONLY in the WEST BANK, GAZA STRIP and EASTERN SECTIONS OF JERUSALEM; and argues ISRAEL SHOULD BE DISSOLVED and instead a bi-national, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.
During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an apartheid system in creation and a destructive RACIST state. He has multiple times implied support for Palestinian TERROR, calling SUICIDE BOMBINGS A RESPONSE TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION. He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to those who gave their lives in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.
Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism and claim the dedication is in reference to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which at that time committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist group SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.
Speaking in a joint interview with WND and WABC radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama. I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician, Khalidi stated.
Khalidi said he supports OBAMA for president, because he is the only candidate who has EXPRESSED SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.
Khalidi also LAUDED OBAMA FOR SAYING HE SUPPORTS TALKS WITH IRAN. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it cannot talk with the Iranians. Asked about Obamas role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago.
He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama. (WONDER WHY?). SOURCE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65108
Comment: PART 1 - BARACK OBAMAs FRIENDS : William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (Admitted Terrorists of the Weather Underground)
Obamas Relationships Stemming from his Directorship of the WOODS FUND
* Obamas Problematic Directorship at Woods Fund with WILLIAM AYERS
Barack Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Funds website.
While the Chicago Sun Times provides a laundry list of Obamas problematic relationships (Rezko, Farrakhan, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Austan Goolsbee, list goes on), none may prove more ultimately controversial than fellow Woods Fund Directors William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
As others have mentioned, WILLIAM (BILL) AYERS and wife BERNADINE DOHRN were once notorious members of the Weather Underground, TERRORIST BOMBERS who attempted to overthrow the United State Government. http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-bill-ayers-problem.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BpDUU3Z7dm4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMOtNHyejrU
Bill Ayers was Obamas (radical) mentor whom he has known since 1995. The Ayers were principals in Baracks first run for the State Senate. The Ayers hosted a Meet the Candidate dinner/meeting at the Ayers home. Not an attractive character for a President to hang out with and to not answer to what he learned from Ayers after all those years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV_h-XwchkY
William Ayers, quoted on Sept. 11, 2001: Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
[Ayers and Dohrn] disappeared in 1970, after a bomb, designed to kill army officers in New Jersey, accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.
I DO NOT REGRET SETTING BOMBS. I feel we did not do enough, AYERS TOLD the New York Times in 2001. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
Ayers was a terrorist. His wife Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. (She knows and worked in the same law firm with Michelle Obama). Ayers has never offered one word of apology. He glories in it, thinks it is terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior, said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now Dean of George Mason University Law School. If Obama takes a different view on that - well, OK, that is data about Obama.
SOURCE: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-problematic-directorship-woods.html
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Comment: (Continued from another of my posts above)
PART 2 Woods Funds Investments (association with Radical Groups):
Setting aside Obamas relationship with William Ayers, the Board on which they served together deserves additional scrutiny. And, in fact, the Woods Funds INVESTMENTS appear to be quite problematic for Obama.
* Arab American Action Network (AAAN): Supports expanded rights for illegal aliens and was founded by anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, former director of the PLO press agency and onetime moderator of PLO advisory committee.
AAAN views the United States as a nation wherein ARAB CITIZENS are routinely MALTREATED. To remedy this perceived societal injustice, the organization aims to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights OF THE ARAB American and ARAB immigrant community. Among these policies are DETENTIONS, DEPORTATIONS and OTHER ATTACKS on immigrants that result from Homeland Security measures!
AAANs hostile view of the JEWISH state is further manifest in the organizations reference to Israels creation in 1948 as Al Nakba ( The Catastrophe ).
Among the current luminaries of AAANs staff are (a) Vice President Ali Abunimah, who maintains the website ElectroicIntifada.com and is a Board member of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, and (b) Executive Director Hatem Abudayyeh, who has condemned the Israeli government and its military killing machine.
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* American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Radical Quaker organization that supports Americas unilateral disarmament (and that backed) the Vietnamese Communists, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, and the PLO.
In fact, AFSC recently formed a partnership with MEChA. MEChA is one of several groups that intend to reclaim Aztlán (the southwestern portion of the United States):
The AFSC is a Chicana and Chicano student movement directly linked to Aztlán. As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, they say they are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that LAY CLAIM TO THE LAND THAT IS OURS BY BIRTHRIGHT. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land. Put simply, MEChA's mission is straightforward. To overthrow the United States Government and establish a new form of government.
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SUMMARY
Put very simply, Obama must explain not only his relationship to Ayers and Dohrn, but also his SUPPORT OF RADICAL GROUPS that support the overthrow of the United States Government. The MainStreamMedia is doing us a huge disservice not focusing more on his past and fully vetting him.
SOURCE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65108
Comment: Part 3 - I wear a helmet in the shower...
Comment: This is a follow up to Holy Roller's post about Obama's birth certificate. It seems that a lot of Anti Obama websites are posting on this subject.
Check out this website and take 4 mins to look at the You Tube. This person is explaining the differences in Obama's birth certificate on his Fight The Smears website and a birth certificate he says is authentic.
View the video and come to your own conclusion. VERY INTERESTING----------
Take the info for what you feel its worth!
http://www.hcsfjm.com/
Comment: obama is a devout coward, he is a fool of the highest order, those that are taken in by this scumbag politician are typical of the feeble minded idiots that populate this country..so be it..we get the politicians we deserve. true statesmen are few and far between..so goes the true dumbing of america,GOD BLESS AMERICA. save us from the idiots.
Comment: OBAMA SAYS: Dont tell me words dont matter!
OBAMA WORDS: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are TINY compared to the Soviet Union. They DONT pose a serious threat to us!
TWO Days later . . .
OBAMA WORDS: Iran is a GREAT threat! Iran is a GREAT threat (REALLY)! Iran is a GREAT threat (I AM NOT KIDDING HERE)!
WHAT does Obama really believe?? What are we supposed to think if he tells us words DO matter and he flip flops on such a major belief issue??.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lx-QcstDcU
Comment: WHY IRAN IS A GREAT THREAT:
It is Irans APOCALYPTIC world view that distinguishes their likelihood to use a nuclear bomb than other governments (US, Israel, etc.) with nuclear weapons capability. See article excerpt below I obtained from a couple sections on this site:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Threats_to_Israel/Iran.html#threats
THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL AND AMERICA
The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying September 3, 2005, in a meeting with the militant group Islamic Jihad's secretary general Ramazan Abdullah (AFP, September 3, 2005).
In October 2005, recently elected PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD QUOTED AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI AND DECLARED: AS THE IMAM SAID, ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP.
The president added: And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism (AP, October 26, 2005).
President Bush said February 16, 2005 Iran has made it clear that they do not like Israel, to put it bluntly. And the Israelis are concerned about whether or not Iran develops a nuclear weapon, as are we, as should everybody. Clearly, if I was the leader of Israel, and I listened to some of the statements by the Iranian ayatollahs that regarded my security of my country, I would be concerned about Iran having a nuclear weapon, as well. And in that Israel is our ally, and in that we have made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if their security is threatened.
Irans non-conventional weapons are not a threat only toward Israel, they also pose a danger to the United States and its interests around the world. And the American people recognize this danger. According to a January 2006 Gallup poll, 19% of Americans see Iran as an immediate threat to the United States and another 65% said Iran is a long-term threat.
On June 15, 2006, Irans defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, signed an agreement with his Syrian counterpart, Hassan Turkmani, for military cooperation against what they called the ???COMMON THREATS??? presented by Israel and the United States. Our cooperation is based on a strategic pact and unity against common threats, said Turkmani. We can have a common front against Israels threats.
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WOULD IRAN USE THE BOMB?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes the most important task of the Iranian Revolution was to prepare the way for the return of the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared in 874, bringing an end to Muhammad???s lineage. This imam, the Mahdi or DIVINELY GUIDED ONE, Shiites believe, will return in an APOCALYPTIC BATTLE in which the forces of righteousness will DEFEAT THE FORCES OF EVIL and bring about a new era in which Islam ultimately becomes the dominant religion throughout the world. The Shiites have been waiting patiently for the Twelfth Imam for more than a 1,000 years, but Ahmadinejad believes he can now HASTEN THE RETURN THROUGH A NUCLEAR WAR. Ayatollah Hussein Nuri Hamdani explicitly said in 2005 that THE JEWS should be fought against and forced to surrender to prepare the way for the coming of the Hidden Imam.
It is this APOCALYPTIC world view, Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis notes, that distinguishes Iran from other governments with nuclear capability.
THE SCARIERTHING IS THIS OBAMA FLIP FLOP. WHO REALLY IS THIS GUY?
OBAMA SAYS: Dont tell me words dont matter!
OBAMA WORDS: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are TINY compared to the Soviet Union. They DONT pose a serious threat to us!
TWO Days later . . .
OBAMA WORDS: Iran is a GREAT threat! Iran is a GREAT threat (REALLY)! Iran is a GREAT threat (I AM NOT KIDDING HERE)!
WHAT does Obama really believe?? What are we supposed to think if he tells us words DO matter and he flip flops on such a major belief issue??.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lx-QcstDcU
Comment: Shocker Barry and the Muslim world see eye to eye.
Comment: Muslims again Rocky? You and your pals who support McCain seem to be obsessed with the subject. Don't you agree they are people too? Or, pehaps in your world you see them only as terrorists?
Comment: LOL
I hate to laugh at this but the fact that the media is doing their damnest to shove Obama down the voters throats is becoming so outrageous that all you can do is make fun and light of the situation. It is truly becoming a comedy show!
Comment: Better be careful. The sheep are watching your post and I'm not sure if your allowed to call their second coming of Christ himself Barry, or Barack, or hussain, or Obama. I think your considered a racist if you dont call him god now lol.
Comment: http://www.sheepshagger.com/ : - D
Comment: Love those pictures of Obama in the Middle East. Hard to pick him out ain't? Keep them coming.
Comment: Aww, how nice, refering to Obama supporters as sheep. Some McCain supporters here are wolves in sheep clothing. What's worse?
Comment: http://www.sheepshagger.com/
Enjoy. : - )
Comment: Sharenews, stop being so full of yourself. You're not all that. Enjoy. Oh, and don't ever call SJPersonal a liar. She doesn't lie nor post links to smear sites.
Comment: Sounds like someone needs to wash down a chill pill with a full glass of Obama juice. Relax, Pia. Im just getting started: You will need more energy. . I called SJ a liar? Did I really? I cant remember calling anyone a liar on this board cuz that is just not my norm. If I did, tell me where I said it. Again, sit down and relax. : - )
Comment: Sheep cuz they are wimpy compared to wolves. Id rather have a wolf sit down with Irans president than a peepy sheep. LMAO
Comment: You would.
Comment: You bet I would.
Comment: Jose, you're an idiot and a bigot.
Comment: Oops....Details?? Does Barry have any?? LOL!! Better call Hillary she can give you some more ideas.
Comment: Obama on a foreign policy venture. I watched CNN, MSNBC and Fox News a good portion of my weekend and of course, all networks covered a good portion of Obama's trip to the middle east but what I found comical is that there were no sounds from the trip, all we had were visuals of him trying to look Presidential. No reporters were able to give first hand accounts of anything! This trip would rate very high for those very many voters who are highly influenced by visuals only!! To me, an indicator that a good number our service men and women may not have been too impressed with the visit, is the number of service men and women that were in the gym with him. It really was a relatively small number.
Also, I noticed how Fox News reported that the citizens in the middle east were in support of Obama and his trip because his father was Muslim and because his father came from Kenya. I didn't see where any other channel covered the citizens take of his trip.
Lastly, on Morning Joe this morning, he was able to get Andrea Mitchell to spit out that it was Obama's decision NOT to have reporters on site during his middle east visit. Initially, she called it "congressional delegation" (whatever that is) decision but after persistence from Joe, she FINALLY said that in the end, it was the Obama campaign decision.
The fact that the media is not calling this phony out on anything is a disgrace but I have comfort in knowing that more and more Americans are beginning to wake up and the fact that Obama has every single thing going for him, including the media in his pocket and money yet the polls are still very tight-----is very refreshing for me!
The media has been sort of making fun of the fact that for the next week or so, most of the media attention will be on Obama and not McCain. I said it once and I will say it again, this is a true gift for McCain IF he play his cards right! He and each state GOP should do a good number of radio, internet and tv ads across the country to point out just how phony this trip is and plus, this is the only way he will be able to get the media to have an honest conversation about it!
Comment: You are so right. This trip is a gift to McCain. It is the equivalent of the Dukakis in the tank ad.
Comment: jose, Obama wins. Hasta la vista, baby!
Comment: DB, the only gifts that would help McCain would be 1) if by some miracle he were to be 50 years old again instead of 72 and, 2) he was the Democratic nominee running against the Rep. In Nov,McCain is toasted.
Comment: Pia, you are awfully fiesty today! I think it's cute.
Well it seems to me that the old man has got the young man and his party worried. If not, Obama would not have gone on this obvious photo op and press tour!! The old man who has everything against him is pretty much running neck and neck witht he young man who has everything working for him! That alone, SPEAKS VOLUMES!
Comment: GM, DB. I will take feisty, thanks. Mac and O neck and neck. If you say so. It matters not though, Obama wins in Nov.
Comment: Yes, pretty much neck and neck! But if you are so sure Obama will win, none of this matters!
Happy feisty didn't offend you because actually, I think it's cute and funny!
Comment: Not at all, DB. I like to be called feisty.
Comment: LOL!!! Good one P!
Comment: Rocky, what is so funny ? You laugh at most of my comments lately. Because? Just remember pal, my guy wins the presidency and your guy goes on a senior citizen cruise, an extended cruise.
BTW, I didn't mean that comment about you being phony. You p..... me off that day, that's all.
Comment: HOW NICE IT MUST BE TO LAND A PLANE IN A WAR TORN COUNTRY WITHOUT AIR SUPPORT FROM THE MARINE AIRCRAFT LAUNCHED FROM OUR CARRIERS ! YEP OBAMA WILL SEE THE SURGE WORKED !! HE CAN WALK AROUND WITHOUT A FLACK JACKET KINDA LIKE HILLARY IN BOSNIA !
Comment: What I like about Barry's Afghanistan plan is that you can swap Afghanistan with Iraq and you would have GOP/BUSH talking points.....
Comment: Z, your jealousy for Obama is showing again. McCain is just a Pres. Bush clone.
Comment: Since Afghanistan is a NATO lead operation, I like how Obama is basically saying "Piss Off" to our NATO allies....that's definitely going to help the US's image abroad...."You can't do it so WE have to do it for you."
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Comment: Question of the Day. Is the United States better off because we did not keep troops in Iraq after Gulf One? If not, are we going to do it again?
Comment: McCain can NOT begin to see Obama's vision for the Middle East. He's simply been in Washington too long, his breadth of thought limited to the confines of traditional Washington thinking. He's in the past not the future.
And by the way, don't get hung up on experience. Experience isn't worth one dime without having the ability to formulate the correct judgement. The ability to formulate the correct judgement. always trumps so called experience. McCain certainly has longevity but that doesn't necessarily equate to appropriate experience and it certainly does't equate to having sage judgement. Too many ASSUME experience equals wisdom.
Comment: Obama is quick to say that we need not always focus on the next war, YET, he is the very candidate proposing 50 thousand more troops to escalate the war in Afghanistan and to target bomb Alqeada in Pakistan without Pakistani consent...........what do you think will happen if we target bomb Pakistan without their consent? 1) No more military supplies to troops in afghanistan/pakistan border regions 2) War with Pakistan.
Obama is essentially proposing that we turn our back in Iraq and initiate 2 new wars...one in afghanistan and one in pakistan. And still....reporters refuse to ask the tough questions in order to expose the dangerous, irresponsible and contradictions that has become more blatant and bold each day from Obama himself.
Vote Mccain and turn to a new chapter for Amerca!
Comment: OK, I am missing your point because as soon, I mean right after, Obama came out and stated that 2 more brigades (?) of AAmerican troops needed to be sent to Afghanistan, McCain stated that 3 brigades need to be sent to Afghanistan. Then of course later he FORGOT that he stated that the troops would be from the US.
This is one of McCain's big issues as far as I am concerned, his memory or lack there of. It is as though he is not aware that cameras and reporters are recording his every move and word. MSNBC (Yeah I know Obama owns them too LOL) aired a segment a few weeks ago listing all of the statements caught on video that McCain vigorously stated he DID NOT say. He has the nerve to get angry when reporters remind him that they have him on tape.
Comment: go to www.johnmccain.com and watch the 8min video of obama's flip flops it is so funny to see him squirm !!
Comment: I found a 6 min video a few weeks ago, but have not been to McCains site to see an 8 min video.
Here is the 6 min video . Entertaining!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnKoJP1_xk&feature=related%20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnKoJP1_xk&feature=related
Comment:
Actually, maybe I did see it. Is it this one?
ABC NEWS
OBAMA 8 Min VIDEO: Montage of Contradictory Statements on IRAQ
Subliminal Messaging, or Over-Active Imaginations?
July 18, 2008 5:54 PM
By Rick Klein
EXCERPT:
There is a longtime tradition in political advertising to look beyond the message to the subtext -- and even to the subliminal.
In that spirit, a veteran Democratic operative offers an interesting observation of the newly released anti-Obama Web video produced by the McCain campaign. The VIDEO is an EIGHT-MINUTE montage of sometimes CONTRADICTORY statements about the Iraq war made by Sen. Barack Obama. (Continued in full article link below).
Warning: Make sure you are sitting down before you watch this video. . .you may become dizzy.
SEE 8 MINUTE VIDEO: Newly released as Obamas makes his trip overseas.
http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/documentary.htm
SEE FULL ARTICLE: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/subliminal-mess.html
Comment: Wills, here is something much more SQUIRM WORTHY for you. Watching McCain's expression when a heckler askes him why he cheated on his crippled wife. Or, talking to him over the phone and asking the question then. I can. I have family connections. I'm serious.
Comment: I would LOVE to see Obama's reaction if anyone, pundit, reporter or heckler had the guts to ask Obama about alleged extra marital activities with other men! I am certain that the mudslinging in regards to cheating or alternative lifestyles is a road Obama OR his campaign does not want to go down.
More Americans can forgive and accept allegations of a male candidate cheating with a woman than a male candidate cheating with another male! Pia, it is out of character for YOU to go down this path!
Comment: DB, Obama's are alleged, Mac's are fact. He himself admitted it, but for me, that does not excuse him. Yes, it is out of character for me to go down this path, but you see DB, some of the Mac supporters have forced my hand and have taught and shown me how to be just as mean and vicious as they can be. I have got to fire back for my candidate.
Comment: Can't blame you for defending your candidate. Clinton is out of the race but I still DEFEND her!
And we know that in this political climate and in the world we live in today----facts and allegations, in many cases go hand in hand. Look at R Kelly. Everyone I know believe he is guilty but I am trying to give him the benefit of the doubt but that cloud will always be over his head. But back to the subject at hand-- I find it admirable that McCain can be honest about what he has done in the past. And if ANY coverage of Obama's possible alternate lifestyle hit MSM then that'll be all she wrote whether it's true or not, a HUGE number of people will believe it. We both know that Obama's alleged and very possibly true alternative lifestyle is WAYYYY more damaging than McCain's cheating on his wife with another woman.
I just think this is a HIGHLY LOSING AND EMBARRASING subject for your candidate so I don't think it is beneficial to go down this road. If you bring up McCain's admitted cheating one will surely bring up all the rumors surrounding Obama including the infamous Larry Sinclair. Personally, I just don't think it's worth going down this road.
However, far be it from me to try to advise ANYONE on how to defend their candidate. You defend your candidate as you please. I just think the subject of either candidate cheating is a losing subject for both but potentially detrimental to your candidate.
Comment: DB, you said it yourself, this Larry Sinclair claim is but a rumor. The guy is a criminal anyway. Do you think he has any credibility?
Comment: Just curios, Pia. If the Sinclair thing is a rumor (and I am not saying that it isnt) is it posted on Obamas fight the rumor site (forgot the name), can you provide link or let me know answer to this?
Comment: P, you missed my point. I was just trying to state that allegations and facts are sometimes the same thing in the public eye site and I just think it is not worth going down the extra marital affairs road. But to answer your question, yes I think Sinclair has some credibility especially when he has been honest and frank about his past.
Comment: Yep, I probably did miss your point DB, still, I strongly believe Sinclair is lying.
Comment: attention Barak and other silly liberals. The only nuclear weapons he can eliminate as president are the weapons owned by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Now I know you flower children think this is a bright idea but let me be the first to tell you if we don't have the biggest most powerful weapons on the planet that means someone else does. Right now the world resents the fact that we act like we are in control a large part of our swagger is the ability to anihilate any country in the world. IF we give up the power in the interest of world peace we are inviting someone else to step up and take the lead. Countries like China and Russia will be all over the opportunity. These countries have very different philosophies than our own and if we can't keep them in check you might as well forget about democracy around the world.
Comment: ONEPOKER YOUR RIGHT !! AND DRIVER I'VE GIVIN THE MAX CAN I USE YOUR NAME TO GIVE MORE ??
Comment: Wills, McCain does not need his supporter's donations. He has plenty coming to him from , the BIG LOBBYISTS and the PACS. So far 95 million.
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How many times have you contributed to McCain,s campaign?
Comment: Not sure why you keep asking bloggers that question, but I for one do not give to McCain. At least not yet; maybe after the DNC depending what happens. I contribute to Puma and 2 other orgs in support of Hillary. Orgs have already raised $10 to pay off her debt. Only 5million to go and she is clear. Looks like she doesnt need Obama after all. . . . : - )
Comment: Driver, they are only wasting their money on him.
Comment: What voters appear to be concerned about is not so much Mr. Obama's need to run to the center. By deserting his activists he is, after all, pleasing the majority in the all-important center ground. What they are becoming wary of is what his zig-zagging tells us about his character. And the more we discover about Mr. Obama, the more we find to dislike. All politicians are vain, but in Mr. Obama there is the same self preening swagger that is evident in President Bush.
The grumpy, unreconstructed Mr. McCain, meanwhile, is an authentic eccentric, a courageous politician who has, over immigration and the Iraq War, defied his own party and his president. His independence has not made him many friends among conservatives and evangelicals, but he is so cussed, he does as he pleases and hang the consequences.
Mr. McCain is not much good at policy for its own sake and doesn't take himself too seriously. He is without pomp and likes to crack a joke to make a point, even when the joke is a little off color. His evident strength of character is in stark contrast to Mr. Obama's lust to please, which is why, against the odds, the Arizona senator is proving a most formidable rival.
Comment: Obama is not deserting his activists, he is trying to show them that there is a better way than slash n burn politics and that he will not tolerate monkey business..
McCain can't be faithful to his $100 million sugar-momma who bought him the senate seat to begin with, how can we trust him to be faithful to us? McCain consistently missed more Senate votes than anybody else, is that the work ethic he's going to bring to the White House to get us out of Bush's messes?
McCain military record is suspect. If he is such the hero, then why not release his full military records? Speaking of records release medical records too. So much for transparency, or does that only apply to others, like Bush's spying & torture policies?
McCain is running as a foreign policy beast yet says constantly messes up his foreign facts such as referenceing a country that has not existed in 16 years Czechoslovakia in the present tense on a half dozen occasions. Sure once is forgivable, but he keeps making the SAME mistakes. You would think a guy of his supposed intellect would learn from his mistakes, but then again he did graduate in the bottom 1% of his class at the Naval Academy.
Ditto for Iran training al-qaeda & al-qaeda being in Iraq before we invaded. His foreign policy sucks or he wouldn't have said "President Putin of Germany".
McCain will deny what he said yestereday, & often has, while becoming surly and rude. What happens when he blunders with the Russians & they call him on it? Will his anger step take control & make him B**** slap Putin or Med, mabye he will just cuss them out really good like he has done to colleagues on the senate floor on numerous occasions.
Comment: Excellent comments Jurr, excellent!
Comment: Obama warns??? LOL....How is this guy qualified to warn anyone about anything??
Comment: Don't you know that he graduated from Harvard and was a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Is that not qualification enough for you?
Comment: josemari, you're just jealous of Obama. He will beat McCain hands down in Nov. Go back to your knitting, Madame Defarge.
Comment: well...there's one thing. I like obama to warn me the next time he decides to flip flop...man...its like rain with all the flipping and flopping he's been doing lately.
Comment: Obama said he's embarassed with americans because we can only speak one language 'english' while others in the world are multi lingual in most cases. Newsflash! Obama only speaks one language.....so what the heck was he talking about! Hey bama! walk the walk then talk the talk...not the other way around!
Comment: I laugh everytime I hear someone cite change as a reson to support Barry...The guy is a fraud.
Comment: Not a fraud nor a wife cheater like your candidate.
Comment: Not that you know of......you seem pretty upset by infidelity...must hit close to home??
Comment: Rocky, is your response about me personally, the best you can do? Defend your candidate, that is, if you can. Can you?
Comment: No Rocky, no one has ever cheated on me.
Comment: ok mr obama...37 million small businesses file their taxes as individual. You are planning to increase the corporate tax as well as though filing income over 200K, how are you helping the 37 million small businesses then?
I'm on to your selective word game....if voters do not know the facts, you can bambozzled them with selective slices of your proposals.....how about doing the change you constantly touting....how about telling voters the complete story and give them the complete facts and statistics and let them make an informed decision?
Obama is counting on people making misinformed decisions folks....do your research because we are dealing with a car salesman who's gifted with the ability to manipulate words.
Comment: Poor lori, maybe retiredmarryanne can explain it to you.
I tell you this NOT spending 12 billion for Halliburton and Blackwater in Iraq will be a GREAT start ;)
Comment: Under Obama's plan what constitutes a "small business" 4 employees? 25 employees? 1000 employees?
I still have a hard time figuring out how he is going to institute all these tax credits and still be able to fund the programs he wants to implement.
Comment: Yeah judgment and experience like voting NO for the NEW GI BILL, Hey Mr. McCain who are we suposed to be killing in Iraq, sunni or shia? What's a Kurd? And even though the US weapons inspectors said there were NO weapons, expolsives, or ammunition from Iran, and the latest NIE said Iran had backed away from uranium enrichment...why are you deterimined to take this country into another, a third war? Is it because of your "experience" and "Judgment"?
Comment: Brand new website............. http://formerobamasupporters.com .........................................
Very first video, is Hussein advocating sex ed, FOR KINDERGARTEN. The fool is a, uh, well ....FOOL.
NOBAMA!!!
Comment: Sinclair's oils boy says what....
Comment: The Media and Obama think that it's only the Republican conservatives who are offended by his Spanish comment. Do they think the centrists, the moderates, some liberals and independents agree with him? I take offense to anyone telling me what I should do in private matters. And, my children are none of his business. I have NOT been dumbed down and I will NOT bow down.
When 80% of American want English as the official language, and 37 states have voted for English as the states' official language, it is time to LISTEN to the people. Not tell us WE NEED TO MAKE CERTAIN OUR KIDS SPEAK SPANISH!
Just how much fodder is Obama's statement going to make in the 10 states who have an initiative for English as the official language on their ballots? What will Congress do when 75% of the states have adopted it (1 more)? Will they EVER LISTEN?
Comment: Correction: English is the official language in 30 states. It is on the ballot in no other than Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey - the purple states.
Comment: Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It's not because of Gramm's obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" who are in "a mental recession." Those remarks were so ascerbic that they may've been made just to give McCain an excuse to distance himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.
When Gramm was a Senator he was Chairman of the Banking Committee. He pushed through the legislation known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why investment banks were able to falsely inflate the prices of oil, wheat, corn and other commodities through massive futures trading, causing your costs of gas, heating oil and food to go through the roof.
Gramm also created the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. The Gramm Act was touted as a new way to protect consumer privacy, but the real meat on the Act's bones was banking deregulation. Essentially, this Act did away with laws written after the Great Depression to protect us from another Wall Street/Banking Industry collapse. That's right, Gramm stripped the system of it's safe guards nine years ago, and guess what? The value of the dollar has nose-dived, four major economic institutions have failed, Wall Street is unstable, and we are in a worsening recession.
Notably, the US investment banks that gained the most from the Enron Loophole and from the Gramm Act contributed more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign.
Currently Gramm is Vice Chairman of UBS, the Swiss Bank that came up with the idea of "death bonds." Worse, though, UBS is involved in a scam where they sold auction rate securities to American customers. Auction rate securities are supposed to be as safe as cash, but the way UBS did it, the fees garnished by their in-house investment bankers were intentionally higher than the return on the securities, ripping off their American customers. The Massachusetts Attorney General has already filed charges against UBS, and private brokers world-wide have dropped UBS stock. UBS is forecasted to lose 82.91% of it's value in 2008. We are talking about the corporate bank where Gramm is Vice Chairman. Looking at his track record there and at the havoc he has wrought on the US economy through the Senate Banking Committee, it's clear that either Gramm is a criminal or grossly incompetent.
Now McCain wants nothing to do with Gramm, wants us to forget Gramm has been a key player on McCain's team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISOR. Previously, McCain had said that he planned to appoint Gramm as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
With Gramm as McCain's leading economic advisor, now you know why economists and analysts say that McCain's economic policy plans are untenable.
Comment: Nins:
You have been posting this same propaganda for 3 days now. Hasn't Obama's team send you a new one yet? Or are they too busy defending their latest gaffes?
And, please tell us about the current chair of the Banking Committee. You know the one that took a sweetheart deal on his mortgage. You know - Chris Dodd, the same one who Obama added to his VP search. Tell us about him and his lobbyists.
Comment: Shouldn't we be learning Chinese, since the neoliberal Democrats and neoconservative Republicans handed them our manufacturing and superpower on a silver platter?
Why Spanish, unless his Globalization plans first include combining the Western Hemisphere as one country?
Comment: Chinese- no. Chinese is the most difficult language to learn.
Comment: Maybe Obama wants us to speak Arabic.
Comment: like George Bush wants to speak English...lol
Comment: Yeah judgment like voting NO for the NEW GI BILL, Hey Mr. McCain who are we suposed to be killing in Iraq, sunni or shia? What's a Kurd? And even though the US weapons inspectors said there were NO weapons, expolsives, or ammunition from Iran, and the latest NIE said Iran had backed away from uranium enrichment...why are you deterimined to take this country into another, a third war? Is it because of your "experience" and "Judgment"?
Comment: I find it so condescending and minimizing that Obama thinks all women care about are productive rights. Women are very dynamic and even some like me who are pro-choice...has a deep appreciation for life and feel we must choose life while consider choices. Women also wants good jobs, opportunities, security and care about getting this country towards energy independence. Senator Obama....Stop boxing us in like you did to Hillary! We'll just like everyone else and care about multiple issues and actually are just as dynamic as any man.
Comment: Obama has spoken often about equalizing the pay scales since women are still paid only about 70cents to the dollar a man is paid. His talked about the opening of opportunities for women like his daughters and all our daughters -- in part thinaks to Hillary Clinton -- at almost every campaign speech. He emphasizes the woman's role in chooseing health care for her family and the need to make this secure for our families. When he talks about jobs and opportunity and education, he is inclusive of both sexes. If you really believe that Obama thinks women care only about REproductive rights (as opposed to just posting that for the sake of argument), you haven't been paying attention.
Comment: oh, i've paid attention. I paid so much attention that it is clear as day that Obama has little respect for women as he took full advantage of the gender bias during the primary and even chimed in to mock and minimize Hillary as a female candidate. But now that he needs the female vote to serve his personal political interest...he's pandering big time. Give me a break! if there was any core convictions to his beliefs we would have seen it from the beginning and not just when its politically convient for him. Nobama...Noway!
Comment: One of the posts on these blogs states that Obama doesn't even pay his female staffers as much as the men in similar positions.
Comment: Prediction on Mccain's VP choices: Powell, Romney and Jindal...........that's all folks. Mccain is now down to three....not surprise if he's already made his decision. Expect the announcement to be done at the GOP convention early September. No need to be anxious....Mccain will not annoucne his VP until September.
Comment: Bad choices -- Powell is probably supporting Obama (at any rate, he's not supporting McCain). Jindal is interesting and as a Democrat he might have a chance at national politics -- but do you really think the religious right (that "base" group that is so lukewarm regarding McCain anyway) would warm to Piy
