Obama’s Con Job Destined to Break a Lot of Hearts
By Ani on September 16, 2008 at 10:45 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Democratic Party
Gotta love that marketing! Voting for President is more than just a civic responsibility. It’s cool, too! First, behold The ChangeRing. Then, behold why it is a problem:
…A wearable symbol of “change” that is becoming a cult hit in Obamaland. Originally designed to be a wearable key-chain … young Obamaphiles have also taken to hanging it from a necklace or strapping it on their wrist.
Driving its movement around the country is that it is sold as “buy one/give one” and people are passing it to their friends and family members.
Another thing that makes The ChangeRing so compelling is the multi-layered story that has been woven into the product: the ring and its packaging are made in America from recycled materials … with an SMS lost-key tracking system. The ChangeRing also comes in a re-usable package. …
The ChangeRing has also produced the first full musical compilation in support of Obama: 14 Change cover songs … by various American artists [downloadable] on the website.
Celebrities reportedly wearing The ChangeRing: Susan Sarandon, Cuba Gooding Jr, Nick Cannon, Mary-Kate Olsen, Kelly Carlson, Tim Robbins, Ashley Simpson, … Pharell Williams and N.E.R.D., Alan Cumming, Hayden Panettier, Josh Lucas, Kerry Washington, Matthew Modine, Pras (Fugees), Apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas), … Jessica Alba. …
[G]o to www.thechangering.com
The website is urban, hip and young, with lots of teens and twenty-somethings wearing the ChangeRing sticking out of the back pocket of their very snug jeans. KEWL!
That’s American ingenuity I guess. Find a way to commercialize everything, even our Commander in Chief. Lord knows being cool and looking cool is far more important that actually voting for someone who has a clue what they are doing.
But let’s forget about poking fun or wondering if this is cultish. That isn’t the point. I am by nature as New Age-y as the next person and although I have never been an Obama supporter, I would celebrate change, too. Certainly there is something romantic about being a member of this special club that is out to heal the planet. Others of us also want to heal the planet. We just don’t wear a cool ring while we’re doing it. We also know that real change is achieved through slow, painstaking, consistent action.
With the exception of those in Obama’s camp who would use any cause as an excuse to hate and be cruel to others, there are certainly voters supporting him who have a sincere agenda. They actually believe his rhetoric. These are good, honest, decent people.
They are just being conned.
What angers me about this seemingly innocuous piece of jewelry is that it’s based on a con.
Being conned is something I know something about. I’ve been voting a straight Democratic ticket for thirty years, but the behavior I have seen exhibited by the DNC this year finally sent me over the edge:
To plot and plan so that the best candidate could be thrown under the bus in favor of a charlatan, to deny fair reflection, to give the earned delegates of one candidate to another with impunity, to condone caucus fraud and misogyny to propel your own selfish agenda, to allow two Democrats who have done more for the Party than any anyone to be called racists…
In answer to that behavior, on June 7th, I stood at the post office with my new voter registration card, tears rolling down my face, and registered as an Independent. I have always been a Democrat. No more. I was conned.
Why bring this up here? Because I was naïve enough to actually believe that Democrats held the moral high ground. Maybe they’re a bit spineless but they don’t fight ‘dirty like the Republicans’ cause they’re too nice, they’re just not as good at it.
Yes, naïve, I know, but that is what I truly believed. No wonder I felt sick inside. Thirty years is a long time.
Now please go back and reread the above sales pitch for the ChangeRing. Sure, to some kids it’s just a fad and sixth months from now it will just be another piece of metal haphazardly thrown in their whatnot drawer. And yeah, the tracking device is kind of creepy. We’ve got enough big-brother in this country. None of that is my worry.
The worry is there are those who actually believe the hopium he’s been selling. That’s why cons are the worst kind of theft. Obama’s con involves the theft of idealism.
Senator Obama truly is politics as usual. He is a product of the corrupt Daley political machine; the media creation of his campaign manager David Axelrod; well marketed, kind of like the ultra slick ChangeRing website.
But one of these days, after the pundits and media whores realize they need a new way to make a buck, all the facts will finally be exposed about him. To sell more papers, they will tell the truth. Honestly, I feel sympathy for those who believe in Obama because it will be a very dark day for them.
Likewise, it will be a very dark day for some friends of mine, a comfortable couple in their fifties with Obama’s HOPE poster proudly displayed in their front window. Maybe they’ve already bought two companion ChangeRings, although they won’t look as cool as the teens wearing it, it will mean just as much if not more to them.
And then they’ll find out they were conned.
Now please fast forward to ten years from now. Someone else might come along: black, white, bi-racial, Latina, Asian, Indian, man or woman. And that person will likewise have a positive message.
The difference perhaps, is that with this future candidate, maybe it won’t be “words, just words.” Maybe he or she will actually have the goods to back it up. But being that your naïve heart has already been broken with the charlatan Obama, you won’t believe it. And that will be a grave loss. I feel empathy for those citizens who have been taken in by Obama’s nonsense. To some degree, I understand why they have.
Democrats have been wandering like nomads in the desert for eight years dying for a drink of water, feeling unrepresented and unseen, listening to an inexperienced, arrogant boob say “nuke-u-lar” and “Mission Accomplished”, unable to string two coherent sentences together. War mongering. Lying.
Add to that, Obama, Axelrod and Company did a great job selling us on the idea that a new face will kill the dynasties of Bush/Clinton and usher in a post-partisan warm, fuzzy feeling in the White House. Actually, only the Bushes are a dynasty. The Clintons are a married couple. No matter. We need CHANGE!!
And then there were the uber-rallies and the rhapsodic speeches…A teleprompter! A teleprompter! My kingdom for a teleprompter!!
People had a desperate need to believe. And the mainstream media helped make the sale.
Is it any wonder that Obamania took hold?
The Change Ring is just a little token of Senator Obama’s con job. He and Axelrod have foisted American Idol on us, not someone really equipped to govern. But what goes up must come down and it is quite obvious that the toy has lost its luster. I just hope when everybody finally wakes up, they don’t use it as an excuse to turn away from the process altogether.
We need people to be involved if we are ever going to get our country back from special interests and people like David Axelrod and Barack Obama, who use our pain to sell us a product.
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To me it really looks like a paint can opener that’s been twisted back on itself. I have one in the garage! Wow! I was ahead of the fad! You can get one too for about $1.98 at your local hardware store!
Now that’s change you can believe in.
I get your point. It’s almost as bad as finding out your first true love was lying, cheating and only told you that he (or she_ loved you so he (or she) could get you in bed. It takes a long time to recover from a broken heart. you are only truly naive, once…when it happens again and again you become disillusioned and eventually bitter.
But on the upside, once you become those things then you can apparently judge political candidates with clearer vision, and apparently you’ll find God and develop a fondness for firearms!
This crap has a tracking device? Why not just get the mark of the beast on your forehead and be done with it?
And to activate the tracking, you fill in your name, gender, home state, and whether you’re registered to vote.
the tracking device is nutty and scary. who gets to keep track?
hahaha! Too funny, Hope!
I think it looks like an IUD..If U Don’t vote for O it will explode..
Tacky tacky tacky- that’s how I see the Obamacrats.
And yes he is a CON job.
Why not the real thing then? I knew a girl that used to wear an IUD on a necklace. The thing is ten years from now people will ask, “What is that?” and you can tell them it’s one of the birth control devices Obama helped make illegal.
That was the first thing to pop into my mind when I saw it too. That is just too funny.
So you have also considered that he might be the antichrist…
just want to know how many of us will be heading for the bunker in Utah on Nov.5th should Beezlebub, I mean, Barack steal win the election.
did I say steal? i meant win.
You were right the first time.
You mean win “handily.”
That was what I was thinking as well. This thing, for whatever reason, freaks me out.
It shocks you on election day and pushes you to the voting booth …. The piglet’s way of making sure his stupid little bots get out of bed and make it to the polls.
You can use a paint can opener in place of this, but you can’t register your personal contact information with BO forever if you don’t buy one of these!
Poor BO. Imagine! Having to maintain a self-updating database of young hip worshippers just so they can keep track of their stupid keys!!
according to the website – don’t let the facts get in the way of your smear though.
Why is every critical analysis of Obama a “smear”? That is so bizarre. The word is so overused now that it’s become meaningless.
Look at the bright side. At least Maddie didn’t call us Republicans. This means we’re making progress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_fPi-24Iw
Or racists.
okay, we won’t smear that con…
Hmm. Wonder why it proclaims “Obama ‘08″ up at the top of the page, and also has the Obama campaign logo on it.
Think your “fact” just added further support to Ani’s extremely well written post dear…only yours proved the connection is even CREEPIER and WEIRDER than Ani described.
Better check your ring Maddie, maybe they’re “tracking” you too, but whatever you do, don’t spend too much time looking at the “Change Ring Tracker Map” you might not have enough time to check your Lucky Charms Cereal box for prizes and don’t forget Cracker Jack – they have some pretty KEWL rings in there too, only I don’t think they have tracker maps…sorry.
And “change ring” sounds so much like “changeling.” For those of you who don’t know creepy folk tales and ghost stories, when elves stole your baby, they’d leave a “changeling” in its place. Like the pod people.
What a scam. I just looked at the website. That goofy piece of bent metal is supposed to be cool? This is cultish.
It looks like a fetus… maybe that is foreshadowing nObambi on Nov. 5?
it looks like a hand drawn The End sign – grade school level.
or an IUD.
everything about his signage – look&feel – of marketing totally creeps me out and has since the beginning.
Oversize Obama logo on personal plane
Faux presidential seal
Chaengering
Temple of Obama
Stalinist – Shepard Fairey Posters
I think this is much more scary than the Feds taking over AIG.
OMG I want to invent some change jewelry and sell it too, I’ll donate a penny of the proceeds to the Obama campaign.
Put these pampered, elitist, robotic twits to good use – make money off of them!
Form over substance. It would be pretty funny if those items where actually made in China
…and contained lead!
Ack – under their “How It Works” section,
“The Changering Is Powered By Generosity”
The creator of this product is brilliant, and has tapped into the narcissist generation with precision.
What was going on in Alaska when Palin was there?
Apparently, a pretty big anti-Palin rally…Interesting….
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/
I’m sure the Obama campaign didn’t bus in a bunch of Move On volunteers.
me thinks they’re still jet-lagged from the caucuses…
“What was going on in Alaska when Palin was there?”
That’s what Democritters look like in Alaska – I’m surprised there aren’t more!
Besides, the Dem-Lawyers came up with NO smear, so they had to do SOMETHING to justify their massive expenditures to barko… still, he ain’t can’t be all too happy
Doesn’t look nearly as big as the blogger is claiming it to be. The site claims 1,400. Take a look at the pictures. Even so, 1400 people? 80,000 people showed up at the Obamafest and he hardly got a bounce. I think you are reaching a little, but nice try.
Ya, I read somewhere there were like 400 and most had been bussed in from outside Alaska by the Code Pink freakazoids. See all that pink on clothing and on signs in the pictures? Wish I could find the link for you, forgot where it was I read it.
Look at it this way…..
With the dog tag on the “change ring” the Obama camp can track these little bastards….
When Obama looses in November, we can track them ourselves, for migratory purposes….
That’s scary that the
HitlerObama Youth Movement is buying into it. I’ll bet you can bend it into a swastika very easily.This guy’s ego is not to be believed.
“That’s scary that the Hitler Obama Youth Movement is buying into it.”
this is actually truly disturbing – this new ‘hip-hop generation’ is doomed to the likes of the ‘New People’s Democratic Party’…
this “change ring” reminds me of the “pet rock”…
at least this thing grows and does something……
http://www.drugstore.com/search/search_results.asp?N=0&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntk=All&srchtree=1&Ntt=chia&aid=336064&aparam=chia%20pet&scinit1=chia%20pet
“The ChangeRing is about giving and being generous with one another. Therefore, you also “give” a ChangeRing for free when you buy one.”
THIS IS A MARXIST PRIMER IF I EVER SAW ONE.
I”LL TAKE TWO OF THE CHIA PETS PLEASE……..
Read with the voice of the computer that will lock the Obamamites in their own homes once they buy the ring. precious…
I’m just glad that some teens and young people are actually taking an interest in politics. I’d rather Obama chains than some of the other stuff I’ve been seeing. They won’t be wearing them forever anyway. Once the election’s over, whether Obama wins or loses, they’ll stop wearing them and move on to something else.
My local Repub party chair returned my call this evening. I will be going in tomorrow to volunteer to elect McCain, and while there will change my registration from Dem to Independent. A very sad day. My first campaign was Carter. Will never forget how happy my Mother was (bless her sweet soul) the day she got to meet Jimmy and Rosalind. Time passes. We move on to do the right thing. I am ashamed of my party, and no longer want to be called a liberal. Their treatment of Sarah Palin is disgraceful. Their treatment of Hillary was nothing compared to this. I guess they were just getting warmed up. The Hollywood crowd is particulary disgusting. So many movies I won’t be seeing, so many songs I won’t be hearing.
You can always buy used movies or music, or exchange them through swapaDVD.com or swapaCD.com. LOL, no royalties! Course, you do have to look at their idiot faces or hear their idiot voices. You could maybe switch to country music, or classical produced in Eastern Europe. Or check out ssmunch.com for individual downloadable music.
It frustrates me too. I don’t watch many movies any more.
That’s enough–I’m leaving to find a place to purchase PUMA stuff.
Ani, I always relate to your posts. Don’t worry too much about the future candidate who is authentic and not a bullying phony. I am always amazed at the number of people who cannot see through the masks of phonies. But when someone is authentic, it is hard not to see the authenticity. That’s what we all saw in Hillary of the pantsuits.
I do wonder at our inability to create real leaders in this country lately. They say our thoughts precede reality. Let’s keep envisioning two leaders–McCain and Hillary (as the leader of the Senate, or maybe as someone in his cabinet–finally breaking this long run of great animosity between the parties and leading us to a new prosperity and a resurrection of renewed American greatness.
That’s enough–I’m leaving to find a place to purchase PUMA stuff.
Ani, I always relate to your posts. Don’t worry too much about the future candidate who is authentic and not a bullying phony. I am always amazed at the number of people who cannot see through the masks of phonies. But when someone is authentic, it is hard not to see the authenticity. That’s what we all saw in Hillary of the pantsuits.
I do wonder at our inability to create real leaders in this country lately. They say our thoughts precede reality. Let’s keep envisioning two leaders–McCain and Hillary (as the leader of the Senate, or maybe as someone in his cabinet–finally breaking this long run of great animosity between the parties and leading us to a new prosperity and a resurrection of renewed American greatness.
Is O.J. Causing Obama To Tank?
There seems to be a correlation between the ongoing robbery trial of O.J. Simpson, which is unfolding before our eyes… and the presidential trial of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. How ironic that everyday O.J.’s smirking face is on television… as he sits in that Las Vegas courtroom facing robbery, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and coercion charges… Obama’s poll numbers keep tanking. What??? New York and New Jersey are now in play!
Say what you will, but the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial was one of the most racially divisive events in the history of this nation. The lingering effects of that trial’s verdict can still be felt, as racial tensions hover across America like a wet blanket.
In light of that reality… who scheduled this ‘new’ Simpson trial to run concurrent with the final 47-days of the Obama presidential campaign? Did no one think to postpone O.J.’s memorabilia ‘thug’ trial until after November––especially considering O.J. and Obama both are experiencing national ire for the perception of one (literally) and the other [figuratively] having killed-off a blond, talented white women… and a hero White male?
Not good timing!
Let’s think about it. How many Whites remain chafed, angry, and will not ever vote for Obama because they feel he (with the help of the biased media) smugly and arrogantly gamed the system, and got away with robbing Hillary of her place in history… and now, has the audacity to set his sights on taking out America’s war hero John McCain as well?
Then, how many of those same Whites, harbor subliminal anger, as they are reminded each day via television, of how another good-looking African American man, (who with the help of the late Johnny ‘if it don’t fit, you must acquit’ Cochran) smugly and arrogantly gamed the system and got away with the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman?
Those once media darlings, O.J. and Obama, although not by their own choosing, are on simultaneous tracks, as both are now on trial and are currently being judged by their peers. Will one walk and one win? Now, that would be utopia for both.
But I wouldn’t bet the farm. There remains the chance that O.J. and Obama will each go down in defeat… big time! The jury is still out on both.
ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE BARKO CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR’S COMMENTS:
“The natural reminder here is O.J. [Simpson] — how does an African-American candidate attack a white woman [Hillary Clinton]?”
OMG, did an Obama campaign co-chairman really say that???
Yep, and his name is Jesse Jackson, Jr.
You didn’t know this? Jesse Jackson Jr. (Rainbow Co’s kid) said that right after Iowa. JJJr. also threatened the black congress members (using racial guilt) to switch from Hillary to Obama.
Jesus, if you didn’t know this, I can’t imagine how many other people don’t know how absolutely VILE Obama and his campaign are.
I never knew that either! I watch politics, but the early primaries were boring to me, and being a Republican I was indifferent about the Democratic Party candidates. That is horrible!!
You know we should start a charm bracelet PuMA down ticket Democrate site, since obama aint trying to share his deminishing wealth. Get at the charm bracelet and a charm or two for free and then by the rest for yourself or someone else.
The photo gallery has shots of twenty-somethings, one in each race, then an older, black street musician with a changering hanging from his saxaphone strap, another in a guitar case along with that street musician’s dollar and coin tips.
Please tell me this is satire.
“Please tell me this is satire.”
NOPE; IT’S BARKO’S BASE…
It is satire…for us!!!
Why the change ring is even cooler than the “Bros before hos” Obama campaign tee shirt!
Dude, change! Alright! What kind of change? Uhh Change dude, change! Like all that old stuff is so old! Cool, change! Alright!
The change ring is a very clever idea to get a little money for his camp and tie his base together. I don’t believe I have seen a single follower with any humility. They were told by the media very early in the primaries they were intellectually and financially superior to Hillary’s supporters and they bought the hype. Not only do they lack compassion for the poor and lower middle class, they never miss an opportunity to call them “low information” voters and they realy don’t seem to be interested in improving the quality of life for others. Elite groups are exclusive, not inclusive. Maybe this is why Obama and followers have found it difficult to reach out to others even though they can’t win the election without them. I agree with you Ani. This is not the Democratic Party I thought I knew or the principles they claimed to represent in the past. Thanks for this intuitive post.
THE CHINESE HAVE ALREADY MADE KNOCK-OFFS.
Well, give it about 7 weeks and then they’ll be recalled.
LOL and the groupies will need to pay to ship it back!
I don’t believe I have seen a single follower with any humility.
You hit the nail on the head. The arrogance of superiority amongst people I met who are for Obama is mind boggling. Another thing I noticed is that they think they are doing something great for mankind by making him the first black president.
There is an interesting ‘unofficial’ Obama strategy site here:
http://www.obamaco.com/2008/09/16/the-eight-things-that-will-win-or-lose-this-election-for-barack-obama/
I like this little nugget and I think I will send it to friends in some swing states to see how they like to have their intelligence insulted some more by Obama supporters:
“First, they have the naïve belief that the American electorate is intelligent, and that it will be able to sort out the lies from the truths of the campaign trail. But, as experience has shown over and over again, the electorate is not intelligent. It will believe what it is told by politicians, especially politicians who know how to tell their story and how to make up stories that, because of their plausibility, can become believable narratives (remember the Bosnian sniper story Hillary told in the primaries?). Thus, in the arena of campaign politics, victory generally belongs to those politicians who are best able to shape public opinion around their (misleading and/or not so misleading) narratives. John McCain seems to have accomplished this more successfully, and more effectively, than Barack Obama.”
The funny thing is, they could be saying this about their own followers couldn’t they? All they have is the story from the two books and the myth crafted by Emil Jones in Chicago. They don’t want to hear anything that contradicts the story line.
Here is another:
“Second, the Obama campaign seems to rely heavily on media inquiry and reports. Its belief seems to be that the media will collaborate in exposing the lies and misleading characterizations in the McCain/Palin narrative. This, again, is a very naïve belief. The media and pundits of America are, just like the rest of us, citizens with ideologies, preferences and sets of beliefs that do not necessarily lead to objective analysis. As a result, they are as much as the rest of us likely to be wowed by the personal stories and histories that fascinate our post-rational America (as Rachel Maddow of MSNBC likes to put it), a post-rational America of debased punditry, fallen journalism, bedazzled electorate, and Hollywoodized media. In fact, by simply making Sarah Palin the story of the day (or of the next 50 days), the media are, consciously or unconsciously, contributing to the shaping of public opinion about and around Sarah Palin. This means less coverage for Barack Obama and less coverage of the issues of substance that really matter.”
This idea has been getting a lot of play lately. The media is actually against Obama. The McCain campaign has manipulated them. Apparently, McCain is so brilliant that he made them all write stories of Palin being power-hungry, a bad mother, a whore, a zealot, a book burner, and hiding her daughter’s pregnancy in order to shift the coverage to her. McCain, that wily dog, convinced them to descend into Alaska to dig up dirt from every saloon, hair salon and coffee shop in Wasilla, all the while making sure that they didn’t go near Chicago–that sneaky old guy. I am sure it was the Clintons who made the media behave the way they did to them as well–we all know Bill and Hillary’s history of being racists right? Those Clintons are sneaky too.
I am starting to see one of the fall-back plans. It was the media’s fault because they are dupes for McCain and the Clintons. Poor old Obama and Axelrod are as pure as the driven snow, other than the fact that they only know how to run one kind of campaign and it may not work on the national level.
You should definitely read their post. One last line: “As odd as it may seem, one of the biggest problems for Obama is that his campaign seems to know how to function only in one mode, and this mode is a passive/defensive one.”
I think they mean passive-aggressive.
I have to add one more, it is too funny, and at this point I thought is was a joke. I did, however, read to the end and I now think it is serious–but still very funny:
6) Campaign Trail Speeches and the Teleprompter: The teleprompter made Obama. No politician in America matches Obama’s oratory when it comes to standing in front of a microphone and a teleprompter. Yet, the Obama campaign has, very often, been cornered by the McCain campaign into believing that the teleprompter is a bad thing.
Does anyone not find that first sentence the essence of the problem? This was a lot of wasted effort. Move point number 6 to point number 1, eliminate all but the first sentence and call it a day.
One more:
5. (On the experience factor regarding Obama vs. Palin; this line should be used by Joe Biden)
“There is a fundamental difference between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin that does not even call for a debate. After beating the most experienced field of Democratic candidates that this country has to offer, Barack Obama was voted into presidential candidacy by 18 million Americans in a competitive race in which they believed he was ready to be Commander-in-Chief. Sarah Palin was nominated into Vice-Presidency by John McCain.”
http://www.obamaco.com/2008/08/31/small-punchlines-barack-obama-could-use-against-john-mccain-to-beat-him-to-the-punch/
I love the ‘after beating the most experienced field of Democratic candidates” line. That is rich.
it looks like a weird IUD…is it also contraception?
I just found this little piece of info on a little government website:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190#sMonofilemx003Ammx002Fmmx002Fmmx002Fmhomemx002Fmgovtrackmx002Fmdatamx002Fmusmx002Fm109mx002Fmcrmx002Fms20060525-16.xmlElementm0m0m0m
Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
Guess who said these words back in 2005 when Fannie and Freddie were still lobbying the Republicans?
Just saw this on a post on PUMA’s blog:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084014/posts
I will always remember that line she said in her interview during the summer about barry “…frankly, I don’t like the guy.” Well said my lady.
Now THAT is cool!
Gee, looks like a nose ring for one of those big cows to be led around. Wonder if Michelle has one?
ouch.
she has a few so they can zone in and see where she is messing up!
I expect it is like some mangnet… watch when you walk down the street/in the store all these groupies will automatically stick together the ring will zap them all in one place..
Great. Presidential gansta wear.
Don’t these idiots realize that this just makes Obama less appealing to most Americans? Most Americans don’t want a celebrity for a president. They want someone who is taken seriously and can fix things. They don’t want someone that sells jewelry to twenty-something hipsters and Hollywood celebrities. This is a horrible move but maybe it just shows how desperate they are for money.
actually a lot of Americans like having celebrities in political power. I note Ronald Reagan and Arnie.
The Obama campaign has no affiliation at all with the “Change Ring”. They are just using his name to try and make a buck. That’s obvious just by looking at the “Change Ring” site.
From the sites FAQ:
Suck me.
And the sneaky SOBs are even duping poor, naive, trusting Bambi into giving them space on his site to “[use] his name to try and make a buck.” That’s obvious just by looking at the Obama site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gDhMs
Looks like a fetus to me too; rather ironic given that Obama voted Against keeping alive babies who survive abortion.
By the way, the first anti-Obama ads from BornAliveTruth.org started running in Ohio and New Mexico today.
http://www.bornalivetruth.com/
Just because you people don’t get it, don’t resort to snickering about the rings.
Signed,
Shirley McClain
Brilliant article. This website doesn’t have ostensible connections with Obama.
Neither their hosting company.
From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
The announcement will take place at a news conference on Capitol Hill, just blocks away from the DNC headquarters. Forester will “campaign and help him through the election,” the spokesman said of her plans to help the Republican presidential nominee.
Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.
In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”
Forester is the CEO of EL Rothschild, a holding company with businesses around the world. She is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Forester is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.
This is really scary. Why are they pushing SO hard to get him elected. Something that is this hard to sell, has to be the biggest scam in history.
On the 5th of November, they will have a fire sale and will go out of business, so they have to make a fast buck. Every single day can be their last day of business. Guess that every day they pick up the newspapers with the sweat of fear on their brows: “Did he implode overnight, did he implode overnight?”
Is that an IUD?
So who is Kelly Carlson? Is that supposed to be Kelly Clarkson?
“The change” is an old euphemism for “menopause.” It’s still used by some people. As in:
“After I went through the change, I had more energy.”
or
“Yes, he’s my youngest. I had him right before I went through the change.”
It’s sometimes called the “change of life.”
I can not be too critical. I wear my PUMA bracelet every day. I even bought a few extra so that I could give them to people who wanted them. My extras were gone after two days. Of course the PUMA bracelets to not have tracking devices, we PUMAs naturally hang together.
It looks like a twisted vagina. Is there a special “ring tone” for our cell phones to go along with our Change Rings? If not, Obarfy is missing another marketing ploy. They should add changing colors like “Mood Rings” to them too. That way Obarfy’s followers will know if they are feeling angry, very angry, angry and hateful, or just super misogynistic on any given day.
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Can we put one on all of Barfy’s terrorist friends so homeland security can track them?
LOLOLOL.
Others of us also want to heal the planet. We just don’t wear a cool ring while we’re doing it. We also know that real change is achieved through slow, painstaking, consistent action.
Oh, but that’s so “boring.” Hillary was really smart and detailed and all, but what’s cool about that? And besides, it sounds like really hard work. And sacrifice. That’s no fun. I just want to buy something and be part of the “in” crowd. Don’t you know he’s friends with George Clooney? Get with the program.
I just made one here at the office with a jumbo paperclip…and they want $6.99? Bwahahaha! Just goes to show you how gullible “they” are.
On further consideration, this idea is “Republican entrepreneurship” to a “T”.
Wow.
And why have more than half of them been purchased from (or sent to?) Colorado? Hmmm…..
http://www.thechangering.com/mod_map
Dear Mr. Obama: Who Are You?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4
McCain/Palin 08
Country First
It’s to late now Obama- DNC
Obama lacks character.
He is frightening and scary.
Lies andflip flops on his ‘change message”
He has taken the joy of wanting to be a Demcrat.
The Democrats blew this election.
They should have run it by a landslide.
Obama blew it with Wright, Rezko, William Ayers and Black Liberation Theology values.
This man, Obama is a disgrace. Period.
It looks like an I.U.D.
It looks like an I.U.D.
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