Obama Does the Switcheroo(s)
By LisaB on June 20, 2008 at 4:35 PM in Barack Obama, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Democrats, Dick Cheney, John McCain
1) Barack Obama announced yesterday he would opt out of public financing for his presidential bid. At Beyond the Dome, David Nather called up some of Obama’s erstwhile campaign finance reform colleagues to see what they thought.
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One of the consequences of Barack Obama’s announcement this morning that he’ll opt out of the public financing system is that he’s alienated the allies who worked with him, and praised his work, on last year’s lobbying and ethics overhaul.
Obama was one of two Democratic senators who took the lead on the legislation, and it was the most significant accomplishment of his short Senate career. Reid paired him up with Russ Feingold of Wisconsin – the Democrat who co-authored the 2002 campaign finance overhaul with John McCain – to take the lead in pushing the ethics legislation through the Senate.
So what did Feingold think of Obama’s decision not to participate in the public-financing system in the general election against McCain? Not much.
“This is not a good decision,” Feingold said in a statement today. “While the current public financing system for the presidential primaries is broken, the system for the general election is not. The entire system must be updated.”
The reactions were similar from the government watchdog groups that worked closely with Obama and Feingold on the ethics overhaul. Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer declared himself “very disappointed” with the decision. Public Citizen president Joan Claybrook said she was “deeply disappointed.” You get the idea.
Feingold, Claybrook, campaign finance legislation and Obama’s sole accomplishment as a US Senator. WHAM! Under the bus. Soak up the fumes, baby.
2) In a very curious story at Salon, BO taped a radio spot supporting Rep. Barrow D-GA for re-election. The reason this is curious is because Barrow is quite the blue-dog, supporting Bush’s stance on Iraq and telecommunications immunity. He is opposed by State Senator Regina Thomas whose positions are the same as BO’s on everything.
Thomas is an AA woman and Barrow is a white male who didn’t endorse BO until after Obama won Georgia.
Greenwald goes on to say:
For all of Obama’s talk about the wicked ways of Washington, these incumbent protection schemes — whereby Beltway power factions all help each other stay in power no matter their ideology or positions — are among the most vital instruments for perpetuating how Washington works. Democratic leaders pretend that they are forced continuously to capitulate to the Bush administration due to their “conservative” members, yet continuously work to keep those same members in power, even when it comes to supporting them against far better Democratic primary challengers.
Obama has made himself a central part of that rancid scheme. Recall that in 2006, Obama — who now touts his commitment to ending the war — endorsed Joe Lieberman in his Connecticut primary race over war opponent Ned Lamont. . .
So, what will get the most reaction here? Obama’s support for a democrat who backs Bush’s positions on Iraq and FISA? Obama’s support for a politician not on board until after Obama took his state? Obama’s support for a white rival of an AA woman who mirrors Obama’s own positions? Obama’s support for an entrenched incumbent over an “upstart” candidate?
There are so many flip-flop angles to this story, I don’t know which side is up here.
The local Atlanta Journal-Constitution story here. It’s worth a look.
3) At the Politico, Govs. Janet Napolitano and Martin O’Malley have published an open letter about democratic governors’ support for BO. Here are a few exerpts – note the governors think BO supports universal health care. Where’d THAT idea come from?
Our constituents struggle to buy groceries and gasoline because of a recession brought on, at least in part, by the subprime mortgage industry that Washington allowed to run unregulated and ignored. The change Barack Obama talks about starts in Washington, D.C., but it will have tremendous impact in every state in the union. Change means restoring sense to our foreign policy. It means taking bold steps to ease our dependence on foreign oil and shift toward renewable energy sources. And it means jump-starting this economy to help our families thrive again. Barack Obama has spent his career making change happen — and we know, as president, he’ll spend every day working with us to turn this country around. In fact, he already has. In the Senate, he fought to expand children’s health insurance. His good-faith partnership with states on this critical priority — in concert with his plan for universal health care — will heal our broken health care system and will ensure that every American finally has access to high-quality, affordable care.
4) The NYT today has a story about the Obama campaign reducing access to the nominee and exercising more control over his image and message.
The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Mr. Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Mr. Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit
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In spirited discussions with reporters barred from Monday’s meeting with African-American civic leaders, aides said that no cameras were allowed because the participants wanted the meeting to be private, even though it was announced on the daily hotel roster of events. Later, other aides said the lighting was not properly set up for television quality.When Mr. Obama met with religious leaders last week, his campaign kept out photographers and reporters and refused to share a full list of participants.
Hmmmmm. Sounds Cheneyesque to me, you know, the vice president who met with energy and oil companies and would not release any information. Another republican lesson well learned. Bravo Barack! You’re learning imperial behavior very quickly!!
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Obama just did another switcheroo……see the headline on Huffington
Obama Backs Bill Giving Immunity To Telecoms
Anti Obama people are finally getting some of their licks in the comments and Obama people are coming up with very lame comments to support him……
Harry Reid says, he will give Obama cover…..I guess that means they will install present buttons in the Senate…..in Illinois they are yellow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/20/obama-backs-bill-giving-i_n_108370.html#postComment
LOL*….very good!
Yes, Mr. Progressive? I wonder how long it will be before even the obamabots give in and get mad at him.
They are a tad pissed right now at Daily. Hey didn`t we tell them he was a phony?
“A fish flips and flops to stay alive”
I heard Pat Buchanan say this and thought it was funny.
I leaned Obama, but now I will vote for someone else now that he has decided to forego public financing. That is not progressive.
Raising money is Obama’s claim to fame. So he’s holding onto that “trait” while his minions sacrifice simple pleasures to donate to THE ONE. Obviously, the Washington establishment that backed him is smiling.
iirc – he’s the only presidential nominee to forego public financing since it began after Watergate.
Word is (Blitzer announced) Obama raised $22 million this quarter.
But….John McCain raised $21 million.
Isn’t $22 million DOWN for Obama?
You are welcome to pull up a chair right here,if you don`t mind being called bat shit crazy from time to time.
Sounds like home to me
I think you better do much more reading about Obama. Read the stuff on this site about Obama-Rezko and go to the Chicago Sun-Times and read their old stuff. Nothing progressive about Obama at all, read about how he won his first Primary for State Senate, he got the other 3 DEMS removed from the ballot with a team of lawyers at the State Elections commission. Obama is a crook, read about his house deal. Obama would write letters in support of Rezko’s slum projects so Rezko could get Gov’t backed loans, the projects would go bankrupt and the taxpayers stuck paying the bills, these were in Obama’s state Senate District. Rezko got convicted on 12 counts in his coruption trial a couple weeks ago. Everyone Obama knows is either a crook or they hate this country, like Ayers, Rev. Wright, Father Mike and his wife. VOTE McCAIN
What happened to Tom in Paine’s article? One moment it was there, then POOF!
Read the rest link was not working…..
I noticed too sometimes things disappear around here. What’s up with that? Anyone have any idea?
Obama had him arrested. Duh.
Damn that Obama
Obama psyops?
tampagurl, Maybe it`s got something to do with that ID theft we talked about !! LOL
Could be HARP, The bots might be trying to hack the sight for our email addresses. I always use a secondary email account for blogg sites anyway. You know, yahoo or hotmail .
Good thinking
I’m experiencing link connection problem too, guys. If I click to the NQ headline, a “You are not allowed to read this site” pops out! So I click on the right side box. The work of the Obamanites?
Are we in a communist country?
All patriotic citizens,America needs us to campaign for Hillary or McCain ‘08 !
P.U.M.A. ROARRRRRRRRRRRRR !
I just don’t know how anyone can believe a word he says. If his mouth is moving Obama is lying.
LOL! All too true!
McCain, meanwhile WILL take public financing
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/when-you-can-sue-them-join-them/
McCain just looks better each and every day – I might not even have to hold my nose while I vote for him.
McCain 08 and Hillary 2012!!!
To know Obama is not to love Obama. It is to vomit.
I wonder how this will sit with all the Obama parrot heads over at Air Obama or at the Evil Orange site and its’ “people powered politics”?
Obama is a lout and all those who sat by and did nothing or as much to blame as those who from the get go took him by the hand and got him here. I kept saying that he has lobbyist from the telecom industry in his campaign. They have been pushing for blanket immunity for the industry and that is a major reason as to why Rockefeller from WV has been such an Obama cheerleader. He tried to get his immunity bill thru the Senate, and failed. Guess he rightfully thinks that in an Obama administration it will finally become a reality.
obama, what a piece of shit…..he doesnt want to play fair with mccain by taking public financing,he thinks he can win by out spending him. what a joke. he out spent hillary and still lost in most states that matter. i dont care what the polls say, people are learning more and more about him and will flock to a real american, mccain. obama is a third world wannabe, fraud. he makes me gag. or was it larry sinclair that gagged ?
You know, I wonder if that isn’t an interesting point – he outspent Hillary and still didn’t beat her in several states. Any chance he REALLY needs this money to hold on?
From the O’Malley/Napolitano letter:
“Barack Obama has spent his career making change happen..”
Really!!?? and what would that be Governors?
I don’t know anything about O’Malley, but Napolitano is supposed to be something of a political soulmate of John Kerry. In governing Arizona, she seemed to follow the Bill Ayers educational philosophy and the University of Chicago economic philosophy. She also never criticized the war in Iraq. Maybe that is the way she had to be to be elected governor in a far-right state like Arizona. But, in any case, I don’t believe she is the kind of Democrat who would appeal to the blue collar base that has already been cast aside by the Democrats. And it is worth noting that the Democrats in her own state of Arizona gave Hillary a primary victory.
Obama has made changing his mind, changing his position, and changing his word his career.
He has less morality than a goat.
Here is another Obama failure to stand for reform in Chicago, 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/6mwo9n
I am deeply disappointed in Obama, I voted for him, and even donated. The acceptance of public financing was supposed to be part of the deal. Public financing is not broke, it is Independent, and without strings. Private fundrasing creates obligations.
The Campaign has done a 180* turn on amnesty for the Telecomm’s too.
This is what Pelosi and Reid have done for 2 years. Talk alot, then sell out.
Suddenly Barack looks less like change, and more like a slick politician.
I am just sick.
Damn. Thats 2 in one thread. Pull up a chair my friend.
LOL!!
I think we’ll see more of them coming over to commiserate about how they got bamboozled by the Great One.
I’m so glad you came out of your sleep
Well, we have been trying to warn people for some time….but you guys did’nt want to listen.
Daydream Believer….
Welcome to the board….and you’re going to need that chair and maybe some water.
When you start reading old Chicago area newspaper articles it gets worse than just public financing and the telecomm immunity.
This type of stuff has been going on for a while with him.
Obama is the wizard of Oz. When you look behind the curtain, he is just another politician. I take that back. He is a lot worse than the typical politician.
I hope you won’t let this discourage you from continuing to participate in the political process.
When he’s raking in the donations from small donors, Obama is the people’s candidate.
When he’s voting on the Senate floor, Obama is just another politician.
YEP. Votes FOR the telecoms, votes FOR the big bankers wanting no cap on interest rates, votes FOR Cheney’s Energy Bill giving the big oil boys subsidies and tax cuts.
Wants ALL the money he can get. Even if he loses, he can still gain power by financing his PAC to buy other legislators’ loyalty.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
rezkowatch.com is an excellent site for Rezko, combine dealings, lots of dots get connected by E. Pringle, and
capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1212187691.pdf good information with supporting docs.
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Posted at the NJ Star-Ledger (NJ.com)
(begin quote)”Obama Caves to Bush on Domestic Spying
by Bill Wolfe
Friday June 20, 2008, 4:44 PM
This is not the change we were promised
Today the House voted to approve a FISA bill that would provide retroactive immunity for criminal domestic spying violations by Telecom companies and expand Bush domestic spying powers. Here is a link to the vote tally – NJ Republicans Ferguson, Freylinghuysen, Garrett, Saxton and Smith were joined by lone NJ Democrat Sires to vote yes in support of the bad bill – Democrats Andrews, Holt, Pallone, Pascrell, Payne, and Rothman stood up for the Constitution and opposed the bill.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml
Waiting until after the vote to take a position on the bill, Obama has finally come forward and issued a statement – looks like Obama reversed his prior strong opposition to both retroactive immunity for criminal acts by telecoms and expanded domestic spying powers. According to Glenn Greenwald at Salon:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
“Barack Obama got around to issuing a statement and — citing what he calls “the grave threats that we face” — he just announced that he supports this warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty bill:
Given the grave threats that we face, our national security agencies must have the capability to gather intelligence and track down terrorists before they strike, while respecting the rule of law and the privacy and civil liberties of the American people. . . .
After months of negotiation, the House today passed a compromise that, while far from perfect, is a marked improvement over last year’s Protect America Act. . . .It is not all that I would want. But given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives — and the liberty — of the American people.” [end Obama statement quote]
“Telling Americans that they have to give up basic constitutional rights in order to save ourselves from “the grave threats we face” sounds awfully familiar. Obama has obviously calculated that sacrificing the rule of law and the Fourth Amendment is a worthwhile price to pay to bolster his standing a tiny bit in a couple of swing states.”
[end Greenwald quote]
Link to Obama statement:
http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/06/statement-of-barack-obama-supporting.html(end NJ.com quote)
Da chickens will come home to roost now.
It makes me wonder whether Obama has a more nefarious agenda.
If the bill remains intact, and Obama becomes (please God, no) President, then he would be able to continue the illegal surveillance to his own ends. Looking to “carefully monitor” the program.
I do not trust this man with power of any sort.
He wants to be like Hoover’s administration where he will get the govt agencies to spy on everyone (w/ immunity) and gather dirty info that he can then use to blackmail people into passing his bills – and scare people from indicting him or holding hearings against his criminal actions or else he would release private info about them. And even worse – he can then use it to quell all opposition on the internet and anywhere else. Soviet Union and Nazi Germany stuff we’re dealing with here folks.
“Those who would give up essential liberties for temporary security, deserve neither.” –Ben Franklin
The lead story on the google home page:
http://www.nj.com/njvoices/index.ssf/2008/06/obama_caves_to_bush_on_domesti.html
Change my ass.
Obama’s bots put too much hope in Obama’s change.
They created their own image of a “progressive” Obama, but he walked and talked like a Centrist.
And he flim flams like a con.
Those of us who actually studied his positions and his votes ALWAYS knew he was never a progressive.
He is CORPORATE owned, period.
It’s why his biggest contributors are the financial corporations like Goldman Sachs and UBS…….you know, of subprime mortgage fame.
He’s not for universal healthcare, either, even thought he plays like he is.
Obama is nothing short of Political dog shit! You do your best to avoid stepping in it but sometimes have to scrap the mess off your shoe.
Time to wipe this shit off our shoes before it tracks into the Whitehouse
lol. Clean up in the West Wing!!
http://clintondems.com/2008/06/presumptuous-obama/
LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!
Holy F****** shit. It even has his little rainbow in the middle. His arrogance knows no bounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
Thirteen stripes on the shield gone and replaced with his cartoon symbol!?
It looks like it is smothering the eagle!
Someone in the military or govt do something about this. That symbol is on everything right down to their business cards.
The US Seal should NOT be defiled like that!
Didn’t you get the memo? Obama IS America.
SNARK!!
Isn’t it a Federal offense to appropriate the Great Seal? Is he kidding?
YES, it is.
Even George Bush Sr—-as president—removed a presidential/campaign seal from an ad in his re-election campaign because he saw it as being disrespectful and possibly AGAINST FEDERAL LAW.
Obama? Not so much.
What it IS, is deeply , deeply offensive.
Arrogant prick.
Obama switching his position? No! This can’t be so!
Now you know:
Obama is a spineless, incompetent, unqualified, ethically-challenged, unintelligent fool. He will never get my vote (NOW MORE THAN EVERY)!
Now you know:
Obama is a spineless, incompetent, unqualified, ethically-challenged, unintelligent fool. He will never get my vote (NOW MORE THAN EVER)!
You can say that again!
RedDragon are you old enough to remember Cheech and Chong? What you said reminds me of a skit they used to do.
Looks like dog shit
Smells like dog shit
Hmmm must be dog shit
LMAO! Yeah I remember them.. Holy shit I didn’t even think of that when I wrote that..LMAO! Good one.
It is so damn funny watching those fruit cakes at Huff-n-Puff trying to explain away their BIG O’s flip flop! I got a kick out of that one…Big O! Freakin fruit cakes! Some people there are pissed and want their vote back! LMAO! We tried to tell you this man was a freakin Tool! I am laughing my ass off here today!
Checked a couple of Obama blogs real quick and they are getting steamed.
There will be more flip flops. This is but the beginning.
When they finally realize that he doesn’t really intend to get out of Iraq, their heads will explode.
Now you know:
Obama is an insulting, spineless, incompetent, unqualified, ethically-challenged, unintelligent, fraud and fool. He will never get my vote (NOW MORE THAN EVER)!
You know want really makes me sick about Obama is knowing what we know about him (and there are still worst to come), the obmedia is treating him like he is the next president comes Janunary. Thus, forget that the DP nominating convention, not to mention the GE where he has to beat McCain, an American Hero. How much money has the Obama camp given the media under the table to keep pushing this spineless- piece-of-faithless-flip-flopping-Unamerican- braindead-egotistical-maddog-piece-of-shit..?
No Quarter – your place for highly selective, political news with spin. HillAddict commentators, fingers ablaze with name-calling, hate-filled rants.
“internet driven drivel”, “character assassination with half truths, innuendoes, and disputable internet facts”
- Mike Huckabee, on his blog
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/Huck_decries_internet_drivel_about_Obama.html
http://www.huckpac.com/?FuseAction=Blogs.Home
I read some of the messages at the huffington site and in a way, feel sad for some of the obama supporters. They really believed in obama; he bamboozled them.
They are probably very young, naive and/or have never been involved in politics. Obama used them, as he has used others to get this far. They will continue to realize he will throw all his promises away to get what is best for obama.
He is an actor and they his audience.
Hopefully by November, his audience will be small and obama will go “off-broadway”.
Can I dare to hope it will be by late August?
He is Elmer Gantry and they fell for it — hope that they wake up in time.
The Media NEEDS to be held accountable for this Travesty! We NEED to organize and to make our voices heard! We cannot allow the media and their paid Hacks to get away with this. WE hold the power here. WE control the purse strings! WE can force change not Oblamabamadingdong!
The MSM portrayed Bush as a uniter and overall good guy. They allowed Bush to sell the WMD story.
You are right; they are some of the culprits. But, the New Democratic Party is being lead by individuals that misrepresent the principles of the Democratic Party. Where was Barbara Boxer, Pelosi, and the other female Democratic leaders when Hillary and her supporters were being hammered? They should have spoken up without taken sides and said demand that all sides stick to issues and not make racist and sexist remarks.
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Now you know:
Obama is an insulting, untrustworthy, unprincipled, spineless, incompetent, unqualified, ethically-challenged, unintelligent, fraud and fool. He will never get my vote (NOW MORE THAN EVER)!
I just can’t stand the idea of Hillary and Obama campaigning together. I wish she wouldn’t do it, I’m afraid he will dirty her up. Also, she will probably have to attack McCain and it might put us in a precarious position.
All in one day. He flip-flopped on public campaign finance and the FISA telecom immunity and hijacked the Presidential Seal. Wow. E vero possumus. It’s the DNC’s new motto. It means “we’re all playing possum now.”
The President’s job is to protect the Constitution and all Americans’ rights and safety, not to act like a pompous douchebag. Bush already did that for 8 years, and BO is trying to outdo him even before he got into the WH. Even Bush had his humble, common folk act before the election.
I have it on good authority, five sources, that a tape of Larry Johnson raping a four year old boy will come out in a few months.
H can deny it all he wants but we all know it’s true because I said so.
Mike, I think your mistaken…that was Obama!!!!
Nope, it’s Little Larry. And he is quite little at that.
I hear it was he who had sex Larry Sinclair.
But keep trying to out idiot yourselves. It gets tougher every day.
* Blink *
Brushing Mike off my shoulder and scratching my face with my middle finger!!!!!
Keep going. The best thing about this site is the way it makes FreeRepublic look like a blog of brilliant people.
And they’re all led by a child rapist.
Your joke about Larry and the four-year-old was especially brilliant.
No joke. And like him I will continue to tell people about it regardless of the facts on the ground.
And I am sure that there are people out there that will believe me even though I have no proof. You idiots prove that there are enough idiots out there that will believe anything.
No joke. He’s a child rapist. And he hasn’t even denied it. So there you have it.
But Mike, Larry has never defaced the Presidential seal.
And he doesn’t know people who stomp on the American flag.
I’ll make my own choices, thank you.
But Mike, Larry has never defaced the Presidential seal.
And he doesn’t know people who stomp on the American flag.
I’ll make my own choices, thank you.
You people crack me up. So desperate to find any reason to vote against Obama that you whine about the Presidential seal.
Grow up.
Shut the f*@#* Up idiot. Go away and let the grown ups talk.
“Grown ups?” Oh child, you are about as far from “grown up” as the children Larry rapes are.
Poor Mike we should go easy on him, I think he has some kind of brain disorder.
Is that the best you have? This is like a parody site, except that it isn’t funny. Tragic is more like it.
Buyer’s remorse on Obama!!!! Love this guy!!!
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/06/20/buyers-remorse-an-obama-supporter-now-has-doubts-video/
Obama has now co-opted and edited the presidential seal:
When the Obama logo and presidential seal collide
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/20/when-the-obama-logo-and-presidential-seal-morph/
I really don’t like this at all. It’s just downright creepy. It reminds me of martyrs and dictators and banana republics.
Yes indeed, that is creepy. The “Yes we can” part makes me want to spew.
Oh dear. We are going to need a bigger bus.
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It’s funny watching Taylor Marsh explain away Obama’s endorsement of what his colleagues did today. JesusH. Christ! man did she really fall off the deep end!
Ignore her. Don’t give her hits. She is a nutcase that lies her ass off. She doesn’t even have a radio show! She LIES just like her hero Oblahma.
Yea…But I really liked her! ;-(
LMAO!
NEWS UPDATE ON http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM
When the Presidential Seal collides with Obama’s new logo
Potential Obama Running Mate Supports McCain
http://www.obama-wire.com
The campaign finance retreat has cracked the pro-Obama media phalanx open.
Obama cheerleader Mark Shields called it a “flip flop of epic proportions” on the Newshour today. Russ Feingold criticized the move. Shields also said the video of Obama’s finance flip-flop explanation was “like a hostage video, as if Obama had a gun to his head” because it was so unconvincing.
So creepy – Obama says the system is broken. But the graphic almost implies he thinks the constitution is broken.
Fox news just released most recent campaign contributions.
McCain $22.5 Mil
OBlahma $22.0 Mil
Sure looks like all that Hillary money is going somewhere else. What’s happening Trolls? Getting nervous…
I hope the messiah has lots of diapers for his followers.
Yep. And the DNC only has $4 million for the GE. The RNC has $40 million.
Looks like the Obama Messiah glow is wearing thin.
This is truly disheartening. Obama backtracks as was warned. McCain, while a solid American, has positions some Democrats simply will not vote for. Who’s left?
Let me think… Oh yeah, the person drummed out of the race while being called a racist and a b*tch. Now who was that?
He bought stock in Pampers!
The Obama folk called me yesterday (did Al Gore give him my number?) Although I would never give them any money, instead of telling them that, I scolded them for harassing us little people instead of taking the public finance money. Maybe those who have already emptied their pockets for this freeloader will finally see the light and refuse to pony up for the rest of the race.
Our constituents struggle to buy groceries and gasoline because of a recession brought on, at least in part, by the subprime mortgage industry that Washington allowed to run unregulated and ignored.
Uhmmmm…Obama’s largest campaign donors, via Wall St., are from the subprime mortgage industry…
Did My Fellow NoQuarters Know That Obama Raised $161,927 From Lobbyists?
http://www.obama-wire.com/obama_lobbyist.htm
David Brook’s column in the NY Times suggest their are two BHO. The one that talks about hope and change and then the one that is slicker than slick williy. In fact I think the name he was given was “Fast Eddie” In any case Senator Obam’s decision to forgo public financing is one more piece of sleaze that no body in the MSM seems to want to call him on. I think we are in for the most corrupt administration since Nixon. Barack has proven a willingness to lie on demand. He has mastered the art form of passing the buck and no one seems pay attention. As an African American, my first thought was that he was going to break the hearts of our community by simply using us to get to the White House and then ceremonially ignoring us as a constituent group. In hindsight, my fear is, he is going to break America ’s heart and do more damage then even Nixon did to the office of the Presidency.
There is a lot of talk about McCain serving Bush’s third term. The counter has been that Barack will be serving Carter’s second term. Well I think we have gotten it completely wrong, it looks like he will be serving Nixon’s third term instead. What a strange political season we are in. God Bless America , or maybe not!
Remember the flap when Hillary hugged Mrs. Arafat???
I’m waiting for the same outrage about some of the things Obama has done, then flip flopped on.
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