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Obamas Donate Less than 1% of Income to Charity (Updated by Larry Johnson)

LARRY’s Tuesday night UPDATE is AT THE END of the STORY

Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008:

Obamas Donated Less Than 1% of Their 2000-2004 Income
By Ryan J. Donmoyer and Julianna Goldman

March 25 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.

The couple earned more than $2.6 million in 2005 and 2006, combined, after the Illinois senator published a bestselling book in 2005. They donated $137,622 over those two years and made their church, Trinity United Church of Christ, one of the biggest beneficiaries of their philanthropy, donating $27,500. Obama is under scrutiny for his ties to the church because of comments made by its senior pastor. …

Besides the extraordinary stinginess — whatever happened to their deep-felt ties to the Christian faith which teaches CHARITY — there’s that they gave some of the largest sums to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who preaches hate, racism, and anti-Americanism.

(Updated by Larry Johnson) Barack Obama wants you to believe that he was a community organizer dedicated to working on behalf of the poor. Well, as a Christian committed to a theology based on black supremacy, he apparently was too busy to take time to read the 7th Chapter of the book of Matthew in the New Testatment:

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Hypocrisy is a wonderful thing.  I don’t expect Obama to give all that he has to the poor.  But to donate less than $3000 a year when he is making on average $300000 a year is beyond pathetic.  Talk is cheap.  At least this gives me a chance to fell morally superior to Saint Obama.  I made less money per year during the same time period but gave more to charity.  But at least we are seeing a consistent pattern of behavior from Obama.  He’s good with golden words, but fails to follow the golden rule.

  • DisenfranchisedVoter

    Cheapskates! What is even more disgusting is that the little they give to charity is given to their crazy pastor Jeremiah Wright. Couldn’t they have given that money to a more worthy cause? And would it really surprise any of us if the church and their congregation was raising money for his campaign and spreading hate and lies about the Clintons in the black community????

  • Kevin

    oh.my.gawd…

    what’s next an examination of how much a prospective candidate tithes??? LOL

    Guess we’ll have to see how much the clintons donate out of THEIR OWN funds when Hillary decides to make her tax records clean.

    Seriously – this whole line of questioning/examination is silly

  • PMS

    Now that’s Change You Can Believe In, alright!

    Small change.

  • chris c

    Don’t you understand? It’s all about Barack. He is one self-centered individual.

    Just ask those 2 million disenfranchised voters in Florida and Michigan. They know all about Barry’s priorities.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    You have endless excuses for everything. What will you say if Obama hits a child with his car? That the child’s parents should haven’t allowed him in the street?

  • Shainzona

    Ironic, isn’t it!!! He gave nothing to charity UNTIL he decided to go directly to the WH without passing go. Then his wallet and Michelle’s purse opened up….just a tiny bit further.

    Cheapskates!!!

  • PMS

    Kevin would say St. Barack was doing his part to control world overpopulation.

  • mel

    Hey someone has to give to Wright so he an vacation in Peurto Rico right now in the Ritz Calton hotel there!

    Come on fools buy my books, I haven’t many more major speches left to plug them in! hankyou BO!

  • Kevin

    “Endless excuses”??? please cite an example of me providing excuses for anything. then explain to me how you comment is a direct and rational response to mine.

  • Kevin

    “He gave nothing to charity UNTIL he decided to go directly to the WH”

    your proof of this is what? why can’t you guys just pick facts that can be disputed rather than these continued salacious attacks?

    How in the name of all things sane is an undecided or fence sitting voter going to learn about either candidate if all they get is the mindless cheerleading and attack innuendo of their supporters for pete sake?

  • apishapa

    Well, you guys obviously have no idea how expensive ballet classes and piano lessons and private school are. Oh, and the cost of Organic food. Why, the Obama’s can barely afford their small, cramped house. How could anyone expect them to share?

    Really, I don’t know how they get by.
    Those people in Barack’s district with no heat just don’t know how hard it is to get by on just $300,000 or so a year.

    Kevin, Obama started giving slightly more recently because he wants to be president and he needs to appear generous. If his generosity now is worth noting, so is his lack of it in the past. What he gave before it was politically expedient is a better measure of his heart.

  • PMS

    There was a great quote recently from Obama hoping his daughters could get athletic scholarships to college (thereby denying two non-rich kids scholarships).

    He’s been taking handouts so long, he doesn’t have any idea what it’s like to pay for something himself.

  • tinat

    I hear Hillary has NEVER been on a vacation in her life…where does Obama get off going to St. Thomas for three days, LOL

    seriously people there are a ton of real issues out there but until you can actually compare one to the other..ie Clintons contributions to Obamas contributions it all just sounds like petty bickering amongst children

  • tinat

    ROFL

    There was a great quote recently from Obama hoping his daughters could get athletic scholarships to college (thereby denying two non-rich kids scholarships).

    you are NOT serious..athletes of all income levels get athletic scholarships because it’s about the talent, not the money

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Maybe Axelrod will say, “HILLARY pushed the child right smack in front of him!”

  • Eurogirl70

    Barack and Michelle Obama’s miniscule donations to charity are right in keeping with George W. and Laura Bush. For all the talk by the Bush’s about the importance of reading and libraries (Laura) and our troops (George) they do not give donations to any of these causes. In fact the Bush’s give to 4 churches (they do not belong to) and a cancer center in Texas where George’s younger sister, who died, received treatment.

    As for Michelle Obama, who tells middle America to forgo the corporate world, you can see that she holds onto her own little slice of the “American Dream” and is not one for sharing.

    In fact both Michelle and Barack, who liken themselves to be “Kennedy-esque” seem to have forgotten one of his most important legacies: “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”

    John F. Kennedy did not take a salary as President. Hillary Clinton said that she would take minimum wage as President. You can damn well be sure that Barack and Michelle (just like good ole George and Laura) will be cashing in his paycheck!!

  • Hope

    This guy is a total twit. I almost pray the Republicans blast him with enough swift boating to send him to the bottom of the Chicago River.

  • Hope

    God aren’t you tired yet? Your fingers must be raw to the bone by now.

  • DCDemocrat

    What this race has made clear to anyone with eyes to see is that the Obamas care little about anyone but themselves.

  • DCDemocrat

    Really. The idea of an Obama presidency makes me want to wretch.

  • Hope

    Immodium and Pepto will see their profits skyrocket!

  • rwc

    The people that I know who are generous actually worked for a living unlike Obama and his ingrate wife who have had the best this country could offer in terms of education and opportunities for advancement served to them on a silver platter.

    Most folks would kill to be in their position.

    They are ingrates and selfish pigs to the core. This is why they don’t donate.

  • Hope

    References must be checked for job applicants so why not check Obama’s references for the most important job in our country?

  • PMS

    you are NOT serious..athletes of all income levels get athletic scholarships because it’s about the talent, not the money

    Oh I’m very serious. Schools are LIMITED in the number of Athletic Scholarships they can award. Every rich who gets one takes it away from someone perhaps can’t afford the school of their choice.

    If the rich kid is talented enough, they can walk-on and make the team.

  • Mel

    Hey anyone know if Obama’s tax returns showed the $300 grand gift from Rezko for the land?

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  • Kevin

    Right… and Bill and Hillary had it sooooooooo hard.

    ROFLMAO

  • Kevin

    amen to that.

  • Kevin

    nope… and I’ll continue to ask the questions since no one wants to honestly answer them. Sorry…

  • TeakwoodKite

    What are you some kinda minder? Are you undecided? Are you fence sitting? Are you similar to the person Obama has at the Rezko trial everyday?

    Now there’s some charity that did not cost Obama a dime in fact he made a profit, so to McPeak.

    The guy is running for president and for 20 years he gives Alms’ fine and dandy…donating $27,500 in 2006, I believe is the deal. Man that describes the salary for two people on min wage.

    Kevin have you spent any time looking at the relationship of minority contracts and the Trinity churches ties to the “community development” Projects?

    2. Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers — primarily not-for-profit groups — building low-income housing with government funds.

    As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.

    Faith based community development is what Obama did eh?

  • TeakwoodKite
  • Mel

    Now now now TWK, Kevin is the one who sits one the fence, be nice to him! Even though it is the $14,500 fence Rezko paid for separating his lot from Obama’s, for appearance sake, that sits on Obama’s side of the property line!

    Oh shit, that appear on Obama’s tax returns too?

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  • PMS

    Hillary was solidly middle-class in her upbringing. Bill did indeed have a rough time financially as a child, earning his scholarships on merit… and not a legacy kid either, unlike Barry-O, W, and John Kerry.

    Something you wouldn’t understand.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Not a bad Idea Hope…I’ll start tracking it. LOL
    provided there is a thing called a “market” by the end of the year…

  • Kevin

    As I’ve pointed out to other commentors – if you want to go down that path and start comparing – then bring it on.

    Here’s a question for you… do you not believe that the GOP is salivating over all this and fine tuning, improving their own swiftboating and attack plans and weapons by watching this interchange between the dem candidates???

  • TeakwoodKite

    Michell Obama “Give me Some”. Ni! Ni! Ni!

  • simon

    and I’ll continue to ask the questions since no one wants to honestly answer them. Sorry…

    Do you think this is an effective way to troll, “create your own reality, and they will follow.”

    Some say it was the best troll ever, on Bush and Cheney.

    Didnt you catch on yet?

    We call it “stinking nuts.”

  • Kevin

    As I’ve pointed out to other commentors – if you want to go down that path and start comparing – then bring it on.

    Here’s a question for you… do you not believe that the GOP is salivating over all this and fine tuning, improving their own swiftboating and attack plans and weapons by watching this interchange between the dem candidates???

    ps – yes I have, hence my response. But, riddle me this – as you (and others) have noted, which one of the dem candidates has a longer history in govt. and thereby more of a backtrail that will (and has been) thoroughly tilled for nuggets of poo to fling?

  • Kevin

    please, cite an instance of “creating my own reality” to paraphrase. And since when is challenging statements trolling? I’ve been able to provide direct examples whenever I’ve been asked – yet whenever I do the same, you and other posters here change the subject or launch into personal attacks…

    LMAO

  • simon

    As I’ve pointed out to other commentors – if you want to go down that path and start comparing – then bring it on.

    Kevin,I believe, is of the “create your own reality, and they will follow” school.

    It worked very very well for Bush and Cheney, except when the room flipped, and they realized they’d been trolled.

    Some are slow to catch on.

    Kevin looks stinking nuts, or stinking stupid, again, the lessons of the last 7 years over his head, apparently. Again.

    And little red riding hood, went merrily along.

    It’s YOUR head, do0d, no one elses.

    Make sure you’re not being set up, lured to a trap.

  • Kevin

    Hmmmmm… guess you read Tom Tomorrow as well. Anyway, that’s my point. Hard questions need to be asked of and about each. And honest answers given. Yet what I’ve seen over and over from supporters of each is mindless parroting of talking points and ad hominem (at best) attacks on their opponent.

  • Mel

    You guys are wasting your time on this paid Obamabot blogger! Just read the ramblings and you can tell he is a former Illinois Nuclear plant worker who had to find a job since he was part of the leak response team, so was left to only take a minimum wage blogging job for the Obama campaign!

  • Kevin

    ramblings? I ask questions that you and others dodge… and I’m rambling. Right… okay, tell me where I sign up to get paid? I could do it both for either side since there’s not much actual discussion of fact and context involved – just alot of emotional screaming… “don’t you talk about my momma”?

    ROFLMAO

  • Kevin

    Bring us a shrubbery!

  • Kevin

    second time (today), fourth challenge – show me how I’ve created my own reality?

  • TeakwoodKite

    No, but I will be looking at them this weekend, in particular 2002 – 04
    The ones I want to see are from 1990-2000.

  • Kevin

    It wasn’t a gift (per se) he purchased the land himself… didn’t give the money to Obama so it wouldn’t show. Geez…

  • simon

    please, cite an instance of “creating my own reality”

    Want to deflect now, or later?

    You’re not interested in proof, you ‘re choosing to deflect the arguemnt.

    Deflection is not a substitute for legitimate arguement, despite your pretension toward competency. But like Obama, you pretend.

    (Next thing you know, you’re the one being trolled.

    Go figure!)

    Hillary went to Bosnia, eyewitness accounts have said sharpshooters were in the area. Joe Klein gave an example of a witness, on the plane, saying evasive action had to be taken in the face of a sniper.

    Apparently, not a very smart, talented or intelligent sniper.

    She was under fire, she handled it, she has combat experience, far far far more than the cowardly Obama.

    It is my impression NO ONE in Obama’s room has an fing clue how bad it looks, how infatile, how amatuer.

    Because , in their minds, they’re players, brilliant.

    You look like a specious, lightweight potato.

    Which, you are.

    Swiftboating attmepts of Kerry are one thing, with Clinton, and a woman in combat, it is different. You fail to notice the nuance. America is PROUD to have her daughters handle their own, in the line of fire.

    If Clinton were a man, it would be as you wish to play it. As it is, you’re helping her make her bones.

    Silly troll wannabe, you’re strengthening Clinton’s support, framing her as strong.

    You intend one thing, the opposite occurs.

    Strategy, d0od.

    Ever hear of it?

  • Kevin

    no need to deflect, because as you proved yet again w/ this rambling post you can’t respond to direct challenges or questions.

    “Thanks as always for playing. Please try again, maybe your luck will improve”

    and while I’m at it, yes – the plane did the standard corkscrew landing and takeoff. No one’s disputing that (only people like you citing it to support your statements) – the woman said she had to run from the plane to the cars w/ her head down for cryin out loud. Again. If you want to debate the issue/topic then stick to it and address it directly.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Do your damn homework Kevin. The house and land was a rigged sale. Rezko did not purchase the land himself, for starters his wife had in trust…just like the numbered trust Obama had, Just like the one Rezko setup for Mr Nation Of Islam Jr.

    Michelle brought pressure to bear on the sellers, Rezko brought pressure to bear on the sellers real estate agent…there’s way more on this topic.

    per se ? Sorta not but coulda be agift kinda sorta maybe?

  • Kevin

    Interesting – then by your own admission, it wouldn’t show up as a gift to the Obamas now would it, because of the very structuring you note? Yet you and others want to take a look and see if it will? ROFL

  • Mitchman

    Don’t we need Hillary’s tax returns to compare apples to apples for Charity giving…? Oh right, those are still secret…?

    Don’t throw stones in glass houses folks.

  • http://www.todayslies.com Will

    Are you really comparing hitting a child with a car, to someone not donating enough of their own money to charity to satisfy you?

  • Kevin

    “and a woman in combat, it is different”

    I still can’t believe you typed that w/ a straight face…

  • http://www.todayslies.com Will

    “Silly troll wannabe, you’re strengthening Clinton’s support, framing her as strong.”

    How can a made-up story about being shot at, debunked by video of her casually strolling over to an 8 year-old and chatting instead, “frame her as strong”?

  • Kevin

    “and a woman in combat…”

    regarding Hillary – in the context we’re talking about? I still can’t believe you typed that w/ a straight face…

  • http://www.todayslies.com Will

    so, so cheap and petty.

  • http://www.todayslies.com Will

    this is hateful nonsense.
    you’re going to be embarassed when the Clintons release their tax returns..if they ever do.

  • http://www.todayslies.com Will

    “and a woman in combat…”

    Let’s hope that this talking point filters into the Clinton campaign. Can you imagine what the McCain forces would do with Hillary actually presenting herself as a former “woman in combat”?

    Truth is, someone got to Hill–likely Bill–and convinced her to start puffing up what was already a nice moment of her visiting Bosnia into this ridiculous story of life-threatening sniper fire. They wanted a clip of her tossing around lots of military phrasing, like “get to our base”, “evasive maneuvers”, “sniper fire”, blah blah blah.

    It’s so obvious it’s pathetic. They thought it would be the same “strong frame” her clueless partisans here are trying out with “woman in combat”. Only it has obviously, totally backfired.

  • Xeno

    Why, yes, Obama is cheap and petty. It’s good to see that you get it.

  • barbh

    Actually none of this can be proved or disproved since both the lot and the house property were put in trusts. I wish Obama would release details of the trust.

    It is interesting though that when Tony Rezko had his original bond hearing and St. Eve asked him to go back two years as far as sales of property and profits, etc., he made no mention of the sale of the Obama slice of the lot. He did mention however that the lot was in a trust. Right now Rezko is being sued by a son of the Nation of Islam leader over property that was put in trust.

    I find this all very interesting. If the press were something beside stenographers for Obama, they would do their job and get some answers about this, I feel that there are definitely dots to connect.

  • Michael Lafferty

    Um, excuse me: combat experience?

    “She was under fire, she handled it, she has combat experience…”

    She has NOT have combat experience! She is and was not a member of a uniformed force on—or called to—active duty. She was not assigned to a combat theater. She was not a combatant.

    Do you make this stuff up as you go?

    A Los Angeles police office does not gain ‘combat experience’ in a running gun battle with an armed offender. A passerby wounded by a drive-by shooter does not gain combat experience as a result of this unfortunate encounter. Those relatively unlucky non-combatant civilians assigned by US State Department to the Green Zone in Baghdad cannot claim combat experience simply because mortar rounds often rain down on them.

    Can’t you simply say that Senator Clinton willingly went to Bosnia as a representative of the US Government, and may have been—at times— in great danger from real or potential sniper fire? That this action shows a willingness to take risks and exert leadership?

    What’s with the approximate ‘…she took a bullet, he was to scared…’ inference all about? You impugn the experience of all veterans, particularly experienced combat veterans, who have endured tremendous dangers and stresses day to day while actually assigned to a combat theater, and engaged in confronting the enemy.

  • Michael Lafferty

    My bad: the first sentence in that third paragraph should have read “She does NOT have combat experience!”

    But, since I have this opportunity to offer that correction, let me ask this? What was Senator Clinton thinking at the time she decided to take her young daughter into the dangerous ‘combat zone’ that you describe?

    Just wonderin’…

  • barbh

    Even more reprehensible is the fact that he seems to have paid very low wages to his Hispanic name sounding nanny, 6.000.00 a year in 2006, that’s a real bargain. When I had to get after school/day care for my son 15 or so years ago the going rate was minimum 100.00 a week, so he gets two kids taken care of for 6,000.

    In 2005, the non-Hispanic nanny must have fared much better. The total for child care that year was 9,000. some, expense went down when the Hispanic help took over. Exploit Hispanics much? Probably. I would like to really hear Michelle and Obama’s explanation for this.

    You know what else, I don’t think people that make over 200,000. a year ought to be eligible for child care credits either.

  • Mary

    Thank you, Simon.

    After a few of Kevin’s posts, I realized he sounded just like my son did when he was 13.

    After that, I skipped anything he posted.

    Maybe our Kevin is one of those idealistic college kids who like Obama because they don’t understand real life yet.

    He’ll understand someday.

  • Mike Howell

    DisenfranchisedVoter –

    The Obamas hate White people, Jews, Gays, Americans who the Hell needs them?

    They’re takers not givers!

    Let Indonesia have them. Let the MidEast have them. Let Africa have them,

    but please don’t stick U.S. with them.

  • Mary

    Me too, DC.

    He thinks he has foreign policy experience because he lived overseas when he was 10 years old.

    What a frikkin amateur. Sheesh

  • Mike Howell

    Will –

    Don’t you think that the Obamas should have made a stand against the hatred of their Church?

  • Mary

    Where are Obama’s Illinois Senate records?

    He says he can’t find them.

    Sounds incredibly incompetent to me.

    Not presidential material.

  • Mike Howell

    Kevin- your mother’s calling you!

  • Mary

    Speaking of stones, Mitch, where are Obama’s Illinois Senate records?

  • Viola

    Hm, which would I prefer? The wife of someone who whores himself out to corporations for pointless $100,000 speeches? Or someone who passed up the big-bucks route to become a low-paid community organizer in a poor community?

    By the way, why haven’t we seen Hillary’s tax returns and Bill’s library contributions yet? What are they trying to hide? Maybe more donations from scum of the earth like Marc Rich, trying to buy pardons in the (extremely unlikely) event that Hillary is elected? Hillary shouldn’t throw stones when she can’t even be 10% as forthcoming as Obama.

  • Mike Howell

    Speaking of cheerleaders –

    Doesn’t BO have the puniest 98 lb weaking arms? I feel sorry for McCain, but BO is such a wuss.

    And all of his crybaby shit about how Hillary’s picking on him.

    Maybe the kiddies like Kevin, Will and Mike Lafferty fall for it, but it’s so annoying.

    BO let his contituents freeze and threw his Grandmother under the bus to try to save his skinny ass, but he’s your best friend Kevin, Will and Mike Lafferty.

    You’re special!

    You’re not white, gay, jewish or American though are you? Because then Obama hates you.

    And he won’t say that he’s sorry. And he won’t stop it.

  • Mike Howell

    Viola,

    Do you also hate whites, jews, gays and America?

    How much do you tithe?

    Isn’t it immoral to let other people freeze to get a mansion?

    Isn’t it unChristlike to support every anti-reform candidate in Chicago?

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Use our search engine to look up “the forgotten people.” I dare you.

  • Viola

    Mike, when did you stop having sex with goats?

  • Mike Howell

    tinat –

    BO’s too busy to Chair a Senate sub-committe meeting – ever! In the middle of a war! And now he’s on vacation!!!

    4,000 dead!

    Tell some widows and orphans you heartless bitch.

  • Mike Howell

    tinat –

    With the Obamers it’s always about the money. The mansion. The pay to play.

    If his? kids grow up to be half as big and ugly as Michelle they can play linebacker.

  • Viola

    I googled “the forgotten people”, and Marc Rich didn’t show up. I guess that makes sense, because after all Bill Clinton remembered Mr. Rich well enough to pardon him in return for that bribe donation.

    I wonder how many other bribes donations will show up in Bill’s library donor lists or Hillary’s tax returns.

    It’s pretty easy to give to charity when people are lining up left and right to give you dirty money.

  • Mel

    The wife of someone who whores himself out to corporations for pointless $100,000 speeches? Well rather someone who does things and manages to help more Aides victims in Africa than Obama’s taking an Aides test in Africa that is for sure!

    Or someone who passed up the big-bucks route to become a low-paid community organizer in a poor community? You talking about Hillary here? Oh and BTW, if you are talking about Obama, don’t forget, if he took a high pay job, he wouldn’t of qualified for his scholorships at Harvard, he was playing the system!

    By the way, why haven’t we seen Hillary’s tax returns and Bill’s library contributions yet? Why haven’t we seen all of Obama’s tax returns or schedules yet? What are they trying to hide? Maybe more donations from scum of the earth like Rezko, trying to buy pardons in the (extremely unlikely) event that Obama is elected?

    Obama shouldn’t throw stones when he can’t even be 1% as forthcoming as Hillary. But then again, he will blame it on losing the papers, like he will lose the constitution!

  • Viola

    Oh my GOD. Obama failed to chair a subcommittee meeting? Halt the presses and start the recall immediately! This. Can. Not. Stand.

    4000 dead indeed. From a war that Hillary herself authorized. I wonder how she sleeps at night.

  • Mike Howell

    Mitchman –

    The word is charitable. And if you have no information – as you claim, what is your nonsense about glass houses?

    But Hillary!! Wah! Wah! WAH!

    You are pathetic!

  • Viola

    You’re right Mike, we have no information about Hillary’s tax returns. Gee. I wonder why. What is she hiding? It must be pretty juicy if she’s refusing to release them. So much for the “vetted” candidate, right?

  • Mike Howell

    Kevin –

    The grown-ups on this blog know that it was an “unsavory” deal to quote an ethics professor.

    The appearance of impropriety by definition.

    Certainly Rezko could rightly assume he had bestowed a very expensive gift on BO after BO solicited said gift.

    Accordingly, BO should lose his Senate position and law license.

    Whether or not the cash actually came from Iraqi felon Auchi is possible.

  • Mike Howell

    Kevin –

    Your mother’s calling you!

  • Mike Howell

    Will –

    No “will” we’ll be shocked if you ever say anything resembling intelligent conversation. What do you have against capital letters? Is that part of ebonics?

  • Mike Howell

    Viola –

    Hillary Clinton should sleep just fine, but then again, she has heat in her home. Unlike Obama’s constituents, who he let freeze, so that he and Michelle could get a mansion that they couldn’t otherwise afford.

    Hillary Clinton was at ground zero on 911. Remember 911? It was just a few days before Barack Obama’s spiritual advisor said “God Damn America”!

    Barack Obama pays Rev. Hate & Co. to spread the word about hating white people, jews, gays and the U.S.

    Barack Obama was absent in the legislature, the Senate and he’s on vacation now.

    If there was some way that only you would be stuck with him Viola, I’d be all for it.

    But the loved ones of the people who died in 911 deserve better. The loved ones of the 4000 dead in Iraq deserve better.

    Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for reliability, responsiblility, pressing the right button, and national security.

  • Mike Howell

    Viola/Ken Starr –

    What a nutball you are! Quit stalking her. She has to file conflict reports every year. They’re public documents. Who the hell cares about her tax returns.

    Abner! Look it’s a 1099!!

    Why don’t you busy yourself hiding in the bushes by the trashcans like you usually do?

  • Mike Howell

    Oh- you’re a hedge! Wait. No, it’s just Kevin, Viola, Will and Mike Lafferty hiding in the bushes outside of Hillary’s house.

    FREAKS!!

    BTW – Does BO wear the dress and hat around the mansion?

  • TeakWoodKite

    whores himself …

    He must a been whoring when he personally intervened to assist my stepmom and dad to have the claims the insurance company was refusing to pay the insurance claims for my stepmom’s cancer. Is that it?

    Did you just call a former Democratic President of the United states a Whore?
    And you call yourself a Democrat.

  • Mike Howell

    Viola,

    I’m a Hillary Clinton supporter. I love real live human women.

    Leave the goats alone you freak!

  • Viola

    “Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for reliability, responsiblility, pressing the right button, and national security.”

    Reliability? Hillary reliably votes to support George W. Bush’s wars of choice, from the authorization of military force in Iraq to the recent congressional saber-rattling resolution against Iran.

    Responsibility? Hillary is responsible for the death of 4000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

    Pressing the right button? Hillary presses the right-wing button by praising John McCain’s foreign policy experience.

    National security? Hillary impacts national security by voting for a war that has stoked anti-Americanism and spawned a new generation of terrorists.

  • Viola

    Why hasn’t she released her tax returns yet, Mike?

  • Mike Howell

    Viola –

    I bet the Lindberg baby kidnapper is in their tax returns!

    And who shot J.R.! And the secret ingredients. And a lost galaxy. And leprauchans!

    And lions and tigers and bear! Oh my!

  • Mike Howell

    Viola –

    Obama NEVER voted against the war!

    Obama has voted for the war every single chance he has gotten.

    Obama has never tried to end the war the entire time that he has been in the Senate.

    John McCain has way more foreign policy experience. It’s a FACT!!

    Obama has never been in Europe longer than 1 night.

    Hillary Clinton voted to allow the President to authorize the war.

    The President could have done whatever he wanted anyway for months.

    You’ve made it painfully clear that you don’t have any idea what you are writing about.

  • Viola

    Yeah, I’m a Democrat. And I will never forgive the Clintons. For botching their duty to give us universal health care. For Bill’s inability to keep his privates in his pants and for blatantly lying to the American people about it with a straight face. For “triangulating” against real Democrats and passing so-called “welfare reform” and NAFTA. For hiring that right-wing hack Dick Morris (and his protege Mark Penn) to demonize real Democrats. For decimating Democratic majorities in Congress after only two years of “leadership”. For instigating a decade of right-wing legislation, a disastrous Republican president, and a Supreme Court that will soon overturn Roe vs. Wade. Thanks Bill! Thanks Hillary!

    And yes, Bill’s a whore. In the sexual and monetary sense.

  • Hope

    Mike now that you mention the arms: he looks like a 90lb weakling yes! Do you think we should include him in Olbermann’s Armani suit get-up? Maybe we should put Obama in a Versace cut-out replete with safety pins so he can hold his diapers up.

  • Hope

    Why are we being bombarded by thse people? Are they a family of traveling pinheads looking for a circus?

  • TeakWoodKite

    Moth meet flame I guess.

  • DCDemocrat

    Obama, more and more, emerges as a pathetic creature. I think he is seeking the presidency as a way to affirm he is a person of value and worth. I am really tired of people using the presidency as a therapeutic activity.

  • Mary

    Same place Obama’s Senate records are, Viola.

    Did you hear about Obama’s 2006 tax return?

    He deducted $13,000 donation to the Congressional Black Caucus as a “charitable donation,” which is AGAINST THE LAW. He had to file an amended return when he got called on that false deduction.

    If Obama’s too stupid to know that political contributions aren’t the same as charitable donations, then he’s too stupid to be my President.

    With all due respect.

  • Kevin

    “grown ups”? Nice… so I’ll ask again – do you really want to go down the path of seemingly improper and unseemly associations and business deals? Do you really want to do a comparison?

  • Hope

    Somebody put a plug in that ugly woman’s mouth! God – imagine having to listen to her for four years. I’d rather listen to the air let out of a balloon.

  • Kevin

    what a wonderfully racist and self revelatory comment Mike.

    [ADMIN: HAVING RECEIVED TOO MANY COMPLAINTS, I HAVE PLACED YOU ON MODERATION. I WILL REVIEW YOUR COMMENTS AS TIME ALLOWS.]

  • John D

    Did Obama donate to Katrina relief?

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