Can the MSM Get Over Its Precious Self?
By SusanUnPC on September 19, 2008 at 10:14 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Home Loan, Housing & Housing Crisis, Lobbyists
Last night, I posted the new McCain ad that exposes an Obama adviser, Franklin Raines, who reaped millions from Fannie Mae and gets a guaranteed lifetime pension of $110,000 per month after he left amidst a huge mismanagement scandal and, according to the Washington Post, “perpetrated ‘extensive financial fraud’” at Fannie Mae.
Now that’s damn serious. If Raines’ behavior isn’t criminal, it should be. The billions that U.S. taxpayers will be paying to rescue Fannie Mae are due in no small part to Obama’s adviser Raines as well as Jim Johnson, another Obama adviser who headed his vice presidential selection committee. NancyA posted today’s McCain ad on Obama’s connections to the corrupt Johnson who, like Raines, stuffed his pockets while ruining Fannie Mae.
Then there’s the whole lobbying matter: Barack Obama, who’s only been in the U.S. Senate since 2005, is the #2 recipient out of 354 lawmakers of lobbying monies from Fannie and Freddie (not to mention Lehman Bros. and AIG) — read Larry Johnson’s reports here and here. This should be a top topic at dinner tables around the country. How could someone with so little Senate service — two-plus years — be the #2 beneficiary of such huge amounts of lobbying monies?
Early today, still ruminating about Barack Obama’s predilection for questionable advisers who make their money on the backs of taxpayers, from Tony Rezko and the rest of the Chicago “machine” to Fannie Mae’s Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, I check Memeorandum.com and am FLOORED that this is the top story, from Time’s Karen Tumulty:
McCain Plays the Race Card — When politicians interject race into a campaign, they seldom do it directly. Consider McCain’s new ad, which the campaign says it will be airing nationally: This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman. …
First, when I watched that ad last night, it never dawned on me that Raines’ color was a factor. Furthermore, I’d already seen in my Inbox this morning that McCain has a new ad out today on Jim Johnson, Obama’s other adviser who scammed taxpayers while making millions at Fannie Mae.
Tumulty, in her article, complains that McCain singles out Raines because he’s black, but that McCain doesn’t go after Johnson, who’s white. Good god! If Karen Tumulty had picked up the telephone, she’d have known that John McCain released a new ad very early this morning titled, drum roll, “Jim Johnson.”
The simple logic to me is that it is easier to concentrate on one man’s thievery at a time in a very short TV ad. Hence, the McCain ad people created two ads. Not the first ad to make black people look “sinister.” (I literally just slapped my forehead with the palm of my hand.)
The silliness of the “race card” addressed, let’s focus more on Johnson and Raines:
These are NOT good people.
These are NOT people who stay awake at night worrying about the thousands of home owners losing their homes because they were screwed by shaky mortgage deals.
These are NOT the kind of “experts” that a presidential candidate should either seek out for advice — or even be seen remotely near (!).
If I’d been instrumental in bringing down one of the largest home financing institutions — and I’d been a major reason that taxpayers will have to shell out billions of dollars for decades to come — I’d be hanging my head in shame and hiding out in my basement, calling out for Domino’s pizza and donating $100,000 of that $110,000 monthly pension check to charity. But I’m clearly a fool. Consciences are so lame, huh.
Anyway, here’s some more history on Obama’s involvements with Jim Johnson at some very audaciously incongruent moments in his candidacy, courtesy of the excellent Commentary columnist Jennifer Rubin in June 2008 — with the highly apt title, “Let Me Get This Straight.”
On a day in which he is hip-deep in James Johnson goo, Barack Obama did a forum on mortgage lending practices? Nah, it can’t be. That would be the height of hypocrisy and the evidence that Obama’s fine-tuned machine had stepped on it’s own message. Oh, wait–it’s true. It has become clear that until Wednesday Obama still didn’t realize anything was amiss. As the New York Times noted:
Mr. Obama had defended Mr. Johnson as recently as Tuesday, saying that he had only a “tangential” role in his campaign and that he was not troubled by his business activities. He said he had not inquired about his mortgages and would not hire people to, as he put it, “vet the vetters.” But Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Republican Party officials kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism of Mr. Johnson. The case became a test of Mr. Obama’s professed independence from Washington insiders and supposed higher ethical standards. Mr. Obama has refused to accept campaign donations from lobbyists and had made criticism of the cozy financial and political relationships in the capital a hallmark of his campaign rhetoric.
Even aside from his poor choice of topics on Wednesday, the hypocrisy watchdogs had spotted the problem. Jake Tapper observed:
A consummate Washington, D.C., insider, Johnson’s leadership role in Obama’s campaign seemed to belie the candidate’s promise to voters that “the stakes are too high and the challenges too great to play the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expect a different result.”
But beyond that contradiction and Johnson’s controversial time at Fannie Mae was the issue of what Republicans termed Johnson’s “sweetheart” loan from Countrywide. Earlier this year, Obama and his campaign had impugned Sen. Hillary Clinton for taking money from Countrywide lobbyists and for allowing a senior campaign adviser to simultaneously do work for Countrywide.”
Tapper noted that, although Obama had excoriated Countrywide in a swing through the Rust belt in March,
[w]hen Obama was asked about Johnson’s special loan from Countrywide Tuesday in St. Louis, outrage seemed the furthest emotion he could muster.
“I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages,” he said after ABC News asked him about the apparent contradiction. “This is a game that can be played. Everybody you know who is tangentially related to our campaign I think Is going to have a whole host of relationships. I would have to hire the vetter to vet the vetters.”
As Gail Collins put it, “Talk about unnecessary disasters.” Unnecessary but not unexpected. In no other instance of brewing trouble–Bittergate or Rev. Wright, to name two–did Obama’s early warning signal go off that something was amiss. When you believe your own press releases and listen to your media fan club, you wind up thinking that no one will call you on it when you hire a Washington fixer and go to predatory lending events on the day you fire a recipient of discounted loans.
And here is where Jennifer Rubin hits the NAIL on the HEAD:
It is becoming easier to understand how Obama got swept into the orbit of Tony Rezko: he seems to lack basic common sense about the appearance of ethical improprieties and possesses the arrogance to believe no one will question his motives. It’s a deadly combination. …
But not these guys. They have such gall that they have no guilt about stealing millions in compensation and pensions while living the high life in the midst of Washington, D.C. society and cozying up to Barack Obama.
Get this!
This Jim Johnson character was in hock to Countrywide up to his eyeballs! At the time he was forced to resign from Barack Obama’s vice presidential selection committee, the Wall Street Journal discovered that Jim Johnson’s monthly “obligations” were nearly TWICE his “stated monthly income.”
But Countrywide considered him a “High Profile Borrower” and awarded Johnson the Exception Processing System, “which the lender used to handle loans that didn’t comply with its own regulations.”
Within Countrywide, Mr. Johnson was designated both a Friend of Angelo and a “High Profile Borrower,” according to documents and people familiar with the matter. His loans were handled by Mr. Mozilo and his lieutenants Andrew “Drew” Gissinger III and Wes Lazear.
Bank of America Corp., which is acquiring the struggling Countrywide, has chosen Mr. Gissinger, a former San Diego Chargers offensive lineman, and several other Countrywide executives to help run its mortgage business after the acquisition. Mr. Gissinger will head several groups responsible for selling mortgages to consumers.
Perhaps the most unusual of Mr. Johnson’s loans was one for more than $1.5 million last year for a real-estate project in Big Timber, Mont. At the time he got the loan, what the records indicate were Mr. Johnson’s monthly obligations were nearly twice his stated monthly income, according to documents and to people familiar with the matter.
The records say Mr. Johnson’s “total income” was $55,834 a month, while his “total obligations” were $97,708.97 a month. The result was a total debt ratio of 175%, which Countrywide’s records say was “too high.”
Countrywide handled this as a house construction loan, which meant that Mr. Johnson wasn’t required to make a down payment apart from the $240,000 investment he had already made in raw land and a payment for construction. A requirement for a second appraisal was waived by Mr. Gissinger.
The loan’s size also exceeded Countrywide rules, but that limit was overridden as well. The document indicated that the size limit was $1.5 million for a second home. In addition, Countrywide borrowers are supposed to have no more than four currently financed properties at a time. Countrywide waived that rule, too. Mr. Johnson was in the processing of selling one of his properties.
“The borrower of this loan is the former CEO of Fannie Mae,” Countrywide records state. “This is a very high-profile and visible loan that needs…immediate attention.”
Senior executive Mr. Lazear overrode Countrywide’s rule prohibiting loans to a borrower with such a high debt-to-income ratio (DTI) in an April 19, 2007 memo. “Mr. Johnson’s profile in many ways, including the existing performing loans at Countrywide, supports the exception,” Mr. Lazear wrote. “This email gives you my approval for the DTI exception.” Mr. Lazear couldn’t immediately be reached including through messages on his personal mobile-phone number. …
ALL I WANT:
(1) That Obama’s relationships with these people who ripped off major mortgage institutions are exposed!
(2) That Obama’s huge take in lobbying funds — thanks to his cozying up to these fat cats who have ripped off both their companies and the American taxpayers — is adequately revealed to all Americans!
(3) And, please lord god almighty, don’t tell me that Jim Johnson’s Countrywide loans are going to be bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers!
P.S. MSM, We know you have a vested interest in the outcome of this election, but your pathetic use of the “race card” is laughable. Knock it off.
And, Karen Tumulty, learn how to use your telephone or get an editorial assistant who has the brains to fact-check your stories for you.
If Time doesn’t have the budget, just call me, Karen. I get the press releases from both presidential candidates, and I can get you the latest info.
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COINCIDENCE?
Mr Soros spent the next few months building up a position from which he would profit from that devalutaion. He borrowed sterling heavily, reportedly to the tune of £6.5 billion, and converted that into a mixture of Deutschmarks and French francs.
On Black Wednesday, Mr Soros’s bet paid off. In the following days, he unwound his positions, paying back his original borrowings and ending with a profit of around £1 billion. As a parallel play, Mr Soros bought as much as £350 million of British shares at the same time, gambling that equities often rise after a currency devalues.
He admitted that his actions had benefited no one but himself and, at the time, claimed that the only thing that could save Britain was a common single currency – a view he continues to hold. Mr Soros has since proved that he can lose heavily, too.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2002/09/13/cnwed113.xml
“He admitted that his actions had benefited no one but himself.”
Explains why he supports Obama.
Yikes–good reporting SusanUnPC. I wish the MSM were capable of doing the same.
This is just totally nuts!
MSM is full of ****!
Gibson should be crucified. Literally!
http://minx.cc/?post=273849
Loved the video. Thanks for the link.
This is excellent reporting! Too bad no one in the MSM has come close to this kind of analysis. Yet, it depressed me no end. Here we all are jabbering about pro-choice, birth certificates and the race card, when it is really all about MONEY. The kind of money Susan described in her article is beyond my imagining. These people don’t care about the country. All they care about is making money, so much money they couldn’t possibly spend it all in their own lifetimes. And the drop dead question was: why would a first term senator be the recipient of all this money – second only to Chris Dodd? Makes you sick when you realize this was all set up a long time ago by some very rich powerful people.
Katherine B — What we see about Mr. Obama and his choice of friends is that they could care less about anyone but themselves. One of the things which has troubled me about Obama is his inability to connect with ordinary people. For Obama its all about playing with the big boys. We are just a necessary evil to him him what he wants.
Actually they are capable of doing the same. But it’s their job to do the opposite.
Ditto that for me BIG TIME Tricia!
If I quoted the brilliant bits I’d be repeating the whole post Susan.
Razor sharp!
Great stuff, Susan. Thank you. Both Johnson and Raines are dirtbags, and each were reached out to by Barack Obama. Problem.
Another sleazeball in all of this is Daniel Mudd, son of newsman Roger Mudd. He needs to be fully exposed as this financial crisis hits full steam. No more corruption and ridiculous golden parachutes, particularly on the taxpayers’ dimes.
For those who are interested, here is the video of the McCain/Palin rally today (9.19.08) in Blaine, MN:
Palin Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAjZxP2OySk
Palin Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEowjcqLX4
McCain Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMtY4ZQQOY
McCain Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8m1WopnpM
You guys are missing the biggest sleaze bag, BO closest advisor, Valerie Jarrett. She is the one that bought the dens of thiefs together (except of Soros, that was Sugar). She and her company are the biggest slum lords in Chicago. And she is very close to Raines.
i also read somewhere today various statements made during the past few years by Obama financial advisor (the one who stirred the controversy over his NAFTA statements with Canadian govt officials) urging deregulation of Fannie/Freddie and supporting their practices
jrterrier-
Are you referring to this article?
Obama’s economic adviser and self-proclaimed housing expert Austan Goolsbee last year advised people to make money by buying homes with no down payment loans and then reselling.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/rhetoric-and-po.html
jrterrier-
click on the links in this abc blog by Jake Tapper.
There is an excellent link in this blog to article in NYT written by Goolsbee…
OBSP
Thanks for your comment. Look at what I found….
http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/ValerieJarrett.htm
an excerpt from this website about Ms Jarrett.
U N B E L I E V A B L E…
How can they all get away with things like this?
Look at the other names in this FACEBOOK…
Valerie JarrettWho Am I?
Chicago Medical Center As Well.” (Jay Newton-Small, “Campaign Insider,” Time, 4/7/08)
“Chicago Is In The Running For The 2016 Olympics … One Of Obama’s Top Advisers, Valerie Jarrett, Is The Vice Chair Of Chicago’s Bid Committee.” (Lynn Sweet, “McCain, Obama, Clinton All Push Bush On China Games,” Chicago Sun-Times, 4/10/08)
Under A Plan Devised By The City Of Chicago And Habitat Co., “The City Has Lost More Than 13,000 Housing Units For The Poor.” (Jason Grotto and Laurie Cohen, “Obama Adviser Shapes City Housing Policy,” Chicago Tribune, 7/5/08)
“Habitat Has Earned $6.8 Million In Fees And $10.8 Million In Administrative Expenses Since The Plan Started In 2000, According To The U.S. Department Of Housing And Urban Development.” (Jason Grotto and Laurie Cohen, “Obama Adviser Shapes City Housing Policy,” Chicago Tribune, 7/5/08)
“Jarrett Is The Chief Executive Of Habitat Co., Which Managed Grove Parc Plaza From 2001 Until This Winter And Co-Managed An Even Larger Subsidized Complex In Chicago That Was Seized By The Federal Government In 2006, After City Inspectors Found Widespread Problems.” (Binyamin Appelbaum, “Grim Proving Ground For Obama’s Housing Policy,” The Boston Globe, 6/27/08)
They get away with shit like this because our dysfunctional corporate media is too busy hyperventilating over crap like “lipstick on a pig” and who called who the worst name first.
Do we have a media or a bunch of over paid shills with a middle-school mentality pretending to do journalism? Never mind, we all know the answer to that.
Yep, Habitat. What an interesting story. They got receivership of CHA housing. Valerie and the other minority profiteers were in on the ground floor as the effort to save public housing morphed into the effort to make the people running the programs rich. Not everyone can get this deal. I think her uncle (?) is Vernon Jordan.
She certainly should be looked at, yet she’s flying under the radar. The thought of her in a cabinet position makes me want to hurl.
Also lets don’t forget about Obama’s financial campaign chairman – Penny Pritzker, that cost the Federal Government – taxpayers one billion dollars when Superior Bank failed, and 450 million dollars still owed to the FDIC – and they gave her 15 years to pay back – no interest.
The trail for this failure leads to Bear sterns whose bailout cost taxpayers 30 million.
These questions need to be asked and answered.
Mr. Obama, why does she still have a principal financial role in your campaign?
Mr Obama, if Obama elected will you waive this money owed?
Barack Obama talks how hundreds have lost in the sub prime mess. It seems like the only person to come out well was his finance manager. And he knows it. Superior Bank of CHICAGO was a predatory lender, preying on some of the base that he counts on to elect him.
“Another sleazeball in all of this is Daniel Mudd”
For those who haven’t yet seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0
thank you for posting the links…awesome!!!
SusanUPC-Excellent article! Much information, many facts & links.
Paul,
Thanks again for the videos you guys are producing.
These videos are great.
The msm completely distorts what these two are saying. If they cover event, msm will quite often repeat their (McCain/Palin) speech comments, out of context, and while presenting comments in short sound bites.
Thanks again! I will cross post.
The voters need to see & hear the UNEDITED McCain/Palin.
If they are given the opportunity to do so, they will do the right thing at the polls in November.
Very Nice Reporting Susan…Good Job..
The Obama racists are pulling the race card again? I’m sure McCain is expecting this.
Your comment made me think of an article I read. I don’t have the computer skills to link but the end said something like…
Obama’s very nomination and rise to fame and fortune belie his charges of racism. Martin Luther King once dreamed of a day when people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Sadly for Barack Obama, that day has arrived.
It might have been said by a jerk, but I think it’s accurate.
If McCain is not expecting this then he has been sleeping. Since the beginning of the year I figured out that the race card was all Obama has to play.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186563104158747.html
Want to understnd what the hell heppened this week?
read it.
I am sure Obama staffers will before he comes up with that secret plan he doesnt have.
That’s why Obama’s virtual cue d’tat this morning 1/2 hour after the President’s pronouncement has so damn risky, irresponsible and reckless. And worse yet, dropping names like Bernanke and Paulson as if they have sought his advise or vise versa. Barack strikes me as a rebel in the way of Guevara. Because he can come out pretending he is the President and implying he is ‘The Government.’
He is always saying that he will do everything, as if he didn’t have to submit his plans to Congress. But to flank the elected President and undermine his position on a day like this one, … you guys talk about the Iraq thing as a violation of the Logan law … today, Obama couldn’t be more reckless. We are just lucky he didn’t say something really really stupid that would have jitter the markets again. But I notice that after he spoke the DIJ leveled out.
Obama’s assertions that more needs to be done is outright irresponsible.
Barrack Obama is really pissed… He was really
counting on that one Trillion dollars to get him
over the finish line…
Welcome to the world of being in opposition to the Academe-Democratic-Party-Media complex. Eisenhower actually warned about a complex like this (as well as the military-industrial complex) but I don’t have the link handy. He knew, he knew.
It’s not always fun here. They rev it up and, even when they’re right, they don’t give due credit to the counterpoint, they never even heard it. It’s hard to beat those barrels of ink. The media – riders on the storm, like a dog without a bone, an actor out alone.
Check out the relationship between Al Gore, Jim Hansen, George Soros, and Lehman.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/soros-stocks-up-on-lehman.html
Climate change is another of the scams.
Climate change is a scam? Did you check your brain out at the door?
Temperature drops this year eliminated all the gains of the last 30 years. There are no sun spots. The solar wind is at a 50 year low (NASA conference coming 22 Sept).
Even the warmists are predicting cooling at least until 2015. Follow the links in the above.
It was all a scam to get carbon trading going in the USA while India and china spewed without limit.
We are at minimum headed into a little ice age after 100 years of sun output at 11,000 years high.
BTW no solar scientists on the IPCC. Ever wonder why?
Have you even looked at a thermometer in the past decade?
Have you even looked at the graph of satellite measured temps linked in the above?
Temps are falling off a cliff after declining at a slow rate for the last 8 years.
Why don’t you know this?
For the same reason most folks don’t know the caucuses were rigged. Or that ACORN is big on mortgage and vote fraud.
Have you looked at one within the last year. According to NASA as well as several other sources, average global tempetartures dropped about 0.6 degrees Celsius. That’s a huge drop and it basically wipes out nearly all of the global warming that’s occurred in the last 100 years. This year’s winter is also projected to be colder than expected.
Correction: “According to NASA as well as several other sources, average global tempetartures dropped about 0.6 degrees Celsius … IN 2007 ALONE.”
Dan,
That is exactly what I’m talking about.
The whole AGW bit was a scam. The graph I linked to shows we are in big trouble. Temps are falling off a cliff.
Glad that there are some here in the know!!
Thank you Dan.
And if it were true, why aren’t the daily highs all this year?
It’s a crock.
I agree with Mr. Murder, M.Simon, what part of climatic changes/global warming don’t you get? This is not a cycle. We’re (humans) are damaging this planet. Might I suggest you read Plan B by Earth Institute President Lester Brown.
Try to educate yourself before dribbling all over this site.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3025
Yeah the fact that Soros is behind the climate change stuff is proof that it is strictly on the up and up.
Check the IPCC’s latest prediction. Cooling until 2015.
Look at the graph here:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/gains-of-30-years-wiped-out.html
And then buy some warm underwear.
Flat Earthers = Flat Brains
That’s right. You can’t come up with a coherent counterargument so you trot out a droll insult and then leave.
The fact is the the supposed “scientific consensus” on global warming is shattering because, darn it all, the earth’s climate continues to refuse to conform to the climate alarmists’ models.
So now, the IPCC (which is composed of as many bureaucrats as true scientists) is trying to save face by predicting a period of “temporary cooling” to 2015 before the planet’s temperature starts its inexorable climb upwards again, which will certainly produce global Armageddon.
The fact is that these people don’t have the slightest fucking clue what the planet’s temperature will be in 2015, but they have a vested interest in maintaining the global warming hysteria because it pays their salaries. After all, if the truth were to be admitted … that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is bullshit and always has been … then what use is there for the IPCC?
The Earth’s temperature fluctuations are caused primarily by fluctuations in the energy output of the sun. Always have been, always will be.
C’mon Dan–give him a break. You know he needs to have his bottle and put to bed.
When Al Gore starts riding a moped, riding Greyhound bus and living in a solar powered condo, I’ll believe he cares.
Perhaps you should do the same:
http://www.cgfi.org/2008/07/21/%e2%80%9cconsensus%e2%80%9d-on-man-made-warming-is-shattering-by-dennis-t-avery/
Yes, it’s a scam. The reason it’s become such a huge scam is because of millions of sheep like you who accept it blindly without bothering to research it on their own. Remember that the same people who are now preaching about global warming are the same types of people who, in the mid-1970s, assured us with great confidence that we were on the brink of a new ice age. The media back then trumpted these opinions with breathless certainty, only to be made to look like fools eventually. This time will be no different.
FYI, based on samples taken from the Vostok ice cores, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated between 200 parts per million and 300 parts per million for the last 400,000 years. They are now at 370 ppm, which is what has all the climate change alarmists with their underwear in a knot. So, we’re being asked to be believe that an increase of 70 ppm in CO2 levels … an increase that’s equivalent to 7/1000ths of 1 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere!!! …. is about to send the planet into runaway greenhouse mode. Please. There have been periods in Earth’s distant past when atmospheric CO2 levels were at 5,000 ppm and global temperatures were about where they are now.
If you’re actually stupid enough to buy into that, then I think it’s you who’s left their brain at the door.
M Simon
I’m curious- Since this article is dated 8/15/08…
do you know if Soros sold off any of his Lehman shares last week or are all of the following shares still on his books so he is merely suffering a ‘paper loss’ right now?
If he sold off any of his shares that he bought in the second quarter-well…he owned enough of them at that time to have his transaction actually negatively affect Lehman’s market share price and drive it down to where it is today…If he sold early, his transaction could have sped up Lehman decline. If he ‘dumped’ these shares on the market , the share prices would have been driven further downward.
An excerpt from the 8/15 article:
“The notable philanthropist, political activist, and hedge fund investor who made a killing on smart currency bets in the 1990s, disclosed in a filing yesterday that his fund raised its stake in the troubled investment bank from 10,000 shares to 9.5 million shares during the second quarter.
The stake, worth about $188 million, comes to 1.4 percent of Lehman’s outstanding shares.
Let’s hope he’s in it for the long haul, because the trade doesn’t seem to be paying off so far. Lehman shares started the second quarter in the mid-$40s, falling to $19.81 by June 30.”
My question is this-When Soros bought Lehman shares-was he in it for the long hall or did he plan on dumping shares quickly to drive share price down further…Some bigtime investors do tihs-and when they have driven price down really low because of their actions, they go back in market and buy up the shares at the new, further reduced price. This is OVERLY simplified explanation but I am curious.
How many Lehman shares does SOros own today? If he sold them off recently-on what day did he sell and what was his selling pattern?
Maybe Soros doesn’t care if he loses money. Maybe his plan is to make our dollar worthless.
That would be my guess.
It is the old Leninist thing – Worse Is Better.
What’s up with the print and broadcast media? Do they roll dice or cut cards or something? It’s been bash the Dem candidate since 1999, now it bash the republican?
When I’m bored I tune in Michael Savage on the drive home. Tonite he was saying something that I agreed with. He was on about the poor quality of dreck that passes for American journalism as compared to Britain.
Susan,
As usual, you wrote a great article. Obama is not who he says he is. We have nothing to confirm his assertions about what he stands for.
I am so frustrated that this duplicitous man, Obama, is even in the running to be CiC, the leader of the free world… He is not running for POTUS because he cares about me, it is all about him.
Why is it that foreign countries that hate America want Obama elected?
Once again, Obama tells us what he is by trying to paint his weaknesses on McCain… the first 25 seconds of this “speech” says it all.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/09/obama_fire_the_whole_trickle_d.html
Why is it that foreign countries that hate America want Obama elected? Good question.
This shows you an improve Hillary approach. That’s exactly the way he will do in the debates. He will project his weaknesses on McCain. He did it to Hillary and it was difficult for her to separate herself from him, as much as she tried. The man is despicable.
That guy is so unbelievable. When he is slamming McCain on falisies, all I hear is him talking about himself. He is so odd!
Does his little phoney accent bother anyone other than me? Is he trying to sound like MLK or what??? Where did the accent come from Indonesia, Hawaii? Where?
How about when he’s in a rural or southern section of the country and he morphs into Jeff Foxworthy.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that preacher-speak, too. Damn annoying.
Well my oldest son just asked me what I thought of the Charlie Gibson interview. I asked him if he meant what was shown or the text version.
He also asked me I was ready to have a women possibly lead the country. I told him I was ready when I voted for Clinton in the primaries.
I am facing the same thing. This election seems to have caused more friction between friends and family than any I remember. Just tell your son that you won’t discuss politics with him, that you obviously disagree. It’s a private matter and if you do not wish to discuss it, he should respect that.
As far as that BS time blog goes:
Are these people high? Reaching. Just reaching.
Ugh…Andrew Sullivan is a tool!
If you don’t vote for Obama you are a racist….but on and on and on.
How hard is it to hit google everytime Obama says look over there? They should be doing their due diligence and checking him out too.
Bill Maher he claims he reads but he can’t bother to look at the Chicago newpaper archives?
Johnson helped John Kerry find his veep also.
ACORN laundering subprime money.
I love the smell of scandal in the moring….
Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub
CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups’ Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite
excerpt: “It’s an absolute shame that this has happened,” Hikind said. “To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don’t withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we’re going to look into your tax exempt status … that’s McCarthyism.”
read entire story: http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Hitler would be proud. And check this out.
It is also very likely Larry Sinclair was a political prisoner at the hands of the Democrats for speaking out against Der Fuhrer Opampers.
From your link, interesting info on Obama key advisor Pritzker (McCain camp should really use this in an ad):
“With a business loss estimate of between $350 million and $1 billion, the 2001 failure of the Pritzkers’ Superior Bank represented the largest US-insured deposition institution to fall between 1992 and 2001. According to a February 7, 2002, report by FDIC Inspector General Gaston Gianni Jr., “the failure of Superior Bank was directly attributable to the Bank’s Board of Directors and executives ignoring sound risk management principles.”
To avoid being punished for the failure of Superior Bank, the Pritzker family agreed to pay the FDIC $460 million. Yet even with this settlement, the failure of the Superior Bank due to its board’s apparent mismanagement cost the federal thrift insurance agency (and US taxpayers) about $440 million. . .
The 1,400 Superior Bank depositors whose savings deposits in excess of $100,000 were uninsured, however, brought a federal civil racketeering suit against Penny Pritzker and other former Superior Bank officials. . .”
Good article. Thank you.
Getting this sort of thing out of the way early, like during the debates with Hillary, or before Iowa?
Who let the billion dollar cat out of the bag?
I don’t think that the MSM would be seriously interested in investigating their Precious and his accomplices. The MSM somehow want to carry Obama over the finish line.
Could it be that the corporations that own the media are tied to these individuals?
Obama votes ‘Present’ on new economic rescue plan for now
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama today met with some of his many economic advisors and made an announcement that he was not going to make an announcement about any new plan to plan plans.
Obama did suggest a bipartisan effort to deal with the financial crisis wreaking havoc on Wall Street, always a good idea for any candidate after the primaries because it sounds good and costs nothing.
But Obama did not present any detailed proposal of his own for how to resolve the monetary situation that has roiled world markets in recent days
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/mccain-obama-2.html
And if he did present a detailed proposal of his own it would not be his own anyway. About all he does is read off a teleprompter and if you have seen him lately he is not even doing that too well.
He did too. Someone asked about Hillary’s statement and he replied “Yeah, what she said.”
That kind of answer got you a passing grade at U Chicago lectures.
I have noticed that he has been using many of her stump speeches, barely even changed up to sound anything like his own.
I will fight for you… yeah, right.
Dog gone it Mr. Murder, I was going to say that
Well, this would be the first time I am in agreement with anything Oblahblah has said and done. This is no time for a candidate for president to be shortsightening the heads of these agencies and the party leaders who are meeting feverishly to come to some type of resolution of this very significant problem.
Still most of the news coverage of this topic seems to condemn McCain and praise Obama.
Obama had no answer, no plan, no strength or leadership; still McCain is considered as having a bad week.
Will this nightmare ever end?
My Brain Hurts!
September 16
WASHINGTON (AP)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Tuesday called for a high-level commission to study the current economic crisis…
September 18
MIAMI (CBS News)
Obama has blasted John McCain’s call for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the financial crisis, calling the idea a stunt… But tomorrow, Obama will be putting together his own commission of sorts to meet on the economy.”
Huh?!
O! Lenin reminds me of a university student I once had. He photocopied another student’s paper, turned it in as his own but forgot to white out the other students name. Doh!
No that will never stop. We are watching the wholesale absorption of the media into a proto stalinist – Obama cult.
We have to stop treating this as an annoyance and a disappointment. and respond.
You are right John. The media has been a propagandist arm to this campaign, just as they were to BushII and the Iraq war.
That is why people have an eerie feeling, we have seen this before. (Actually, this also occurred in the early 20th century as well).
IMO, our founding fathers would be encouraging protest events bigger than the Boston Tea Party if they were here to witness what is happening in our party and country today.
CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups’ Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Hillary Clinton won’t be speaking at Monday’s anti-Iran rally at the United Nations — and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter.
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
nice, more thuggery….
More and more of us Democrats are now recognizing that the “new” Democratic Party is not the same party we grew up with. The repugnant behavior of the Obamacrats does not resonate with this person’s Democratic heart.
We champion the underdog, we are open minded and kind, we serve others and we strive toward higher ideals to propel the human race forward toward peace and prosperity for all.
I am continually shocked to personally witness and read about the transformation of our party.
When the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the local propaganda arm for Obama in my community, endorsed Obama over Hillary during the primaries, they did so because they thought that Obama was transformative.
Yes, Obama is a transformative candidate alright… look at the change we are in bewilderment about as Democrats. Where did my party go? I do not identify with the racist, sexist, condescending and elitist commentary coming form members of what I thought was a progressive, open minded and inclusive party.
IMO, a huge factor in this negative, reto”transformation” is the idea that Obama supporters have. The idea that, because they support Obama, they are morally superior to those of us who do not. It is as if supporting Obama will somehow elevate your consciousness and make you a better person (smarter, cooler, more in touch… whatever you have been sold) this idea will elevate you above others. That way of thinking is divisive and propels the “ones we have been waiting for” to behave in ways that are inexcusable (like putting people into box cars on their way to a camp).
That is not a far reaching stretch, that statement about boxcars is a historically accurate account of what happens when the world seems to go crazy and people buy into divisive ways of thinking…
None of us is better than the worst of us… we can however, not support unethical and divisive people that beseech us to be our leaders.
Our leaders must embody high ideals and have a strong foundation on which we can judge them. To me, that means they must demonstrate their convictions through actions…
Thank you, Leisa, I concur.
Wow…
And look more proof the Obots actions are turning Democrats away. When you lose all decency you lose the support of decent people.
“I’m absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats,” said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. “I’m a Democrat and for the first time in my life I’m going to vote Republican. I can’t take it anymore.” “
karma — just a couple of weeks ago American voters trusted Democrats by more than 19% over Republicans with their future. Now the Republicans lead by 1%. A turn around of 20%. This to me says it all. The media’s propaganda isn’t hitting its mark–because people get it.
One of the most sickening things I’ve read this week is Sandra Bernhardt saying if Palin comes to NYC her black brothers will gang rape her.
Who does that play to? No one with an ounce of decency.
Bernhardt’s comment was one of the most disturbing things that I have ever heard.
I’m shocked. Sarah Palin should be raped, and this part:
Shocked.
Osama is the epitome of heinous crimes in the world, Obama in the USA.
Obama and Osama are twin brothers.
Whats the difference between Osama and Obama?
I sometimes wonder if Obama is Osama’s son!
Can’t go there though!
this is funny…..
Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) — The market storm that brought down Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., American International Group Inc. and other pillars of U.S. finance may have also blown holes in the portfolios of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator John Kerry and more than 50 other members of Congress.
Pelosi, in her most recent financial disclosure form, reported that her husband owned between $250,000 and $500,000 of stock in AIG, which ceded majority control to the U.S. government this week in exchange for $85 billion of loans.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, disclosed that his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, had more than $2 million of AIG stock at the end of 2007, when shares were worth $58.30. AIG has fallen 85 percent this week to close yesterday at $2.69. The lawmakers’ aides didn’t respond to calls seeking comment.
Benny,
thanks for info.
From my undertsanding, these individuals have only suffered ‘paper losses’ unless they have sold off any of the shares they own in these comapnies.
If they (Pelosi, Kerry, Heinzjust sit tight, these companies will go back up in value after the infusion by our government (through its bailout) of our hard earned taxpayer dollars…
Just curious-
Do Heinz and Pelosi still own their shares in AIG or did they sell off in the recent past? If they sold off in recent past-did they buy back in recent past too?
If they sold off their shares-can we find out on what day and what was their selling pattern?
Who else was a large shareholder of Lehman or AIG shares as of the 1st and 2nd quarter of 2008?
Do these large shareholders still own their shares of these comapnies? If they sold-what was their selling pattern? When did they sell? AND have they gone back in and bought at the MUCH lower per share price as a result of the financial crisis?
If they bought back-what was their buying pattern? How many shares do they own today? At what price per share did they buy the shares that they own today?
The “Blacks Against Obama” protesters are followers of a black lunatic minister named Michael Warns. His followers are all black males. He and his followers believe–among other kookie things–that Oprah Winfrey is a personification of Satan. Literally. They believe, as a matter of fact, that 33% of all black women are personifications of Satan. Obama is part of Oprah’s Satanic plot to destroy black manhood.
My guess is that Rev. Warns and his followers have
a history of seriously troubled relationships.
Here’s the Michael Warns website. They’ve got a photo of their protesters at the Obama event on their home page.
http://www.michaelwarns.com/
That brings up the interesting point of self-dealing and conflicts of interest. The congress protects its own butt while making speeches about the little people. And the Federal Reserve works behind closed doors on deals that effects it shareholders like Goldman Sachs. This whole financial merger with Washington is a disaster – one that Obie won’t fix. In fact, I think that’s why he’s here. To make sure that the Raineses of the world keep getting those $110K a month checks.
The Obama media WILL carry him over the finish line if people who see what is actually happening do not respond and take action.
Off Topic:
Obama was heckled in Coral Gables florida today by…get this….
BLACKS AGAINST OBAMA!
CHECK IT OUT!
“http://reddragon62.blogspot.com/”
It’s no less distasteful when done by anti-Obama people than when done by anti-McCain people. It’s juvenille and stupid, and if it has any real effect at all, it’s to generate sytmapthy for the candidate being heckled.
I was driving as the story broke. Were these people protesting the endorsement of O by the KKK? The commentator was talking about how snitty O got. He had never seen this behavior before. I just thought it was bogus but then i remembered some story during the primaries that said the KKK did endorse Obama.
I thought Obama was against slavery. Like every program he has touched, the people he claims to want to help get hurt even more by the time he is done. This time he is going to foist on his “brothers and sisters” even more that they and we will have to pay for. Since government gets its money at the point of gun, i.e., force, that is en-slave-ment. I think Obama is evil, to put it politely.
When is “helping people” going to end as a valid justification for anything? If you want to help someone, fine. Go help them. Don’t justify yourself by telling me about it.
Obama and his entire contingency (Michelle, Rev Wright, Rezko, various empty-headed Hollywood celebs, etc.) are toxic. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Is he nuts???? He comes out with this the same day we spend a trillion dollars saving the banks????
“By Bill Sammon
Barack Obama, who lamented Friday that “we have not managed our federal budget with any kind of discipline,” is nonetheless promising to spend $50 billion on a United Nations anti-poverty program that critics say will drive up American debt…
Yet Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, have pledged tens of billions in new spending on a U.N. program that promises cash to poor countries. The program is one of eight sweeping “Millennium Development Goals” the U.N. adopted in 2000…
Johns Hopkins professor Steve Hanke said such spending would merely drive up American debt, while doing almost nothing for the world’s poor…
“It goes down a bureaucratic rat-hole, lining the pockets of people who are connected to the power structure,” said Hanke, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “It’s basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries. It never reaches those people who are living on a dollar a day…”
The US unloading money on other countries needs to stop, we cannot afford it. Citizen of the World Obama won’t be able to toss our money overseas fast enough. Obama is coming out of an Afrocentric church for the last 20 years which is devoted to Africa. Africa is a huge continent filled with 3rd world countries and of no value to the US. But expect Obama to spend huge sums of our money in Africa including sending troops there whenever their governments have in-fighting. Obama did not learn anything from the Somalia fiasco.
We need to take care of our economy and infrastructure before we pledge more money to other nations. Things are pretty bleak here in the US, without promising billions more of our tax dollars to other countries…
“It goes down a bureaucratic rat-hole, lining the pockets of people who are connected to the power structure,” said Hanke, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “It’s basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries. It never reaches those people who are living on a dollar a day…”
I sure hope people wake up.
Here is another thing the MSM could look into (since he is such a great community organizer and they are like Jesus): the connection between Woods Fund money given to Allison Davis to rehab Grove Parc public/private housing and the route that the property has taken to end up with The Habitat Company which is owned by Valerie Jarett–isn’t that convenient. This property is also in the same area that the city wants to use for the Olympics in their 2016 bid. Is it any wonder that all the rehab efforts have failed and the people are being evicted. I am sure it was just that The Habitat Company, with all its exclusive properties that it manages, just didn’t have time to really put that free money to good use helping the people. But, at least those darn poor people will be out there so that the property value can go up after it is developed for the Olympics. Check it out and see what you think:
Obama helped ex-boss get $1 mil. from charity
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/672314,CST-NWS-watchdog29.article#
Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy – funny this article now requires a subscription all of sudden–good thing I saved it
Community Groups Demand Voice on Olympics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/15/community-groups-demand-v_n_119264.html
Grove Parc Tenants Achieve Major Victory
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2008/02/groveparc.htm
YouTube video from Mayor Daley: Chicago 2016 Rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XOsAofxpQ
(Obama speaks at 7:12 about the success of transforming Chicago with the Olympic effort, jokes about property values at 9:44)
Chicago 2016 application to the IOC, check the maps around Washington Park, Grove Parc area , etc.:
http://www.chicago2016.org/why-chicago/Pages/ApplicantFileDownloads.aspx
Videos of angry residents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3bsKKO-bFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbyLqy_T-Z4&feature=related
Obama the Slumlord Financier articles, how tax money and foundation money built his political empire in Chicago:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00064.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00295.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00452.htm
Should we start building lists of material, just in case? Anybody want to read about Emil Jones?
Stellar reporting, Susan.
At around 1:14 in this video Obama accuses McCain of doing nothing to fix the housing crisis, while just today he said the best course of action is to do nothing and wait (wait for someone to come up with an idea).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjQ_J4WMHzM&feature=related
hehe
- wait for someone to come up with an idea he can steal credit for.
I also love how they just take everything he says as truth without investigating. How about his repudiation of Rev. Wright, should we really believe that when the Rev. himself said this:
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection.
“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/politics/06obama.html
Rolling Stone changed the title of that article on Barack Obama from “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama” to “Destiny’s Child.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/03/15/rolling-stone-changes-headline-obamas-radical-roots-destinys-chi
It’s been mystifying to me how ob retains any of his Jewish support base. I was married to a Jew for 27 years and we were both NY’ers so Judiasm (and all other cultures and beliefs) were part and parcel of our family and friends.
My ex-husband saw right through ob a very long time ago. Alarm bells and red flags went off regarding ob’s connections of many anti-Israel friends and associates. Even Hillary’s introduction of ob at AIPAC didn’t sway my ex. He stated, rightly so, it is one of the few things Hillary or Bill has ever done that disappointed him greatly, especially after ob made his contrary remarks hours later.
Can ob be trusted regarding Israel? Absolutely F’n NO WAY. Just look at his latest threats to stop Palin from appearing at the Iran rally. He is all about winning and whenever we examine his actions and his history we find it alarming and horrifying.
Susan, We salute you for your hard work and diligence and Larry as well for bringing us so many great articles from your outstanding contributors.
Without you both many of us would still feel the way we do, we just wouldn’t have a constant reminder of why and this little “echo chamber” where we are free to speak our minds and find other who reflect and teach and learn from each other.
Saturday night toast – NQ ROCKS, cheers.
Probably Off Topic, but I have been forced to listen to KO (husband likes to see KO going after Bill O’Reilly and my house is small), and there is a Nobama ad at each and every break. None for Mc Cain, of course. I am wondering, and perhaps some of you can tell me if it’s possible, but is there a chance that MSNBC is not charging the Nobama campaign for these ads? There are an awful lot of them…and here in FL a bombardment of ads from one candidate e no ads for the other could make a difference. Just curious…
Obama is spending 39 million here in Florida.
Lysistrata
ob bought and paid for NBC fair and sqauare with money from doodad and soros and GA – not Georgia, no, no, no, but the GAZA brothers.
He owns Keith and the peacock.
MSNBC probably discounts the air time it gives Oblama. I do not know this for a fact. Just my guess.
You know I used to love to watch that channel. I gave it up as soon as they became a 527 for Barackula!
I hate Obama. But if he loses, there are going to be riots and civil unrest. He has unleashed something evil. I think he will be a do-nothing President. At this point, I rather have a do-nothing President than riots and burning buildings. Let him have his four years…
With that said, I still think Hillary will become President in ‘08.
Oh brother…What a wimp!
Why you say that…my feelings are hurt.
how cute
He will do something. With the aid of Congress he will loot the USA to the best of his and their ability.
BTW Carter was pretty ineffective and we are still paying for his screw up re: Iran.
Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Yemen, There is something going on. Our economy is in trouble and they are trying to provoke us. If Obama is elected…God help us all!
Bring on the riots. Riots would last a few days max. President destroyer of America would last as long as it takes for him to put America in ruins. I’m sure that would take him a few months at least.
If Obama gets in I fear there will be no 2012!
I, too, say bring the riots on if that is what they’re threatening. We can’t let ourselves be intimidated by these thugs.
Pal3,
Funny…
I have heard the opposite.
If he wins there will be rioting and looting.
I just ignore it all.
Wrong – he will be a KNOW-nothing President who will do plenty to finish the job of tanking our economy.
My late mother, born in 1918, was 44 when she had this child in 1962. She told me for years that our country was headed for race wars and I always dismissed it as nonsense coming from her Missouri roots and the age in which she had grown up.
Well, I pooh-poohed it right up until this year but now I see it as inevitable. And it will happen whether or not Obama is elected.
I don’t enjoy having to come to this realization. I have lived all my life thinking race relations were getting better every day and I blame it all on Obama’s candidacy that old wounds have been reopened and are now infected and festering.
You have your scenario of giving up to get along. But what are you giving up to? Do you want to live the rest of your life as subjects of Obama and his arrogant thug minions??
Not for me buddy! If any of this comes to pass, then we have a hunting rifle and a brand new handgun. I’d rather recreate the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War to protect our Constitution than be subjugated to anyone.
Better report that handgun stolen. Now. So it doesn’t look too coincidental when Obama’s henchmen get their “reasonable” gun laws in place.
There will be riots if he wins or riots if he loses. You have no choice at this point.
Police and National Guardsmen still know how to do their jobs and will round them up and bash in a few heads. We said all along he was setting back civil rights gains by decades, we weren’t lying.
We fought for it and that punk wouldn’t even try to stop it or be a real role model to AA youth. He will be fully held responsible for inciting riots.
If/when it does happen, and I fully expect it to, the blood will be on his own damn filthy hands.
We worked for progress, that is what progressives do, he destroyed it all and created a cult.
Dead SERIOUS. This isn’t a joke. It is a cult and his followers are as brainwashed as they are stupid.
We need to start responding to these journalists. I sent the following to the WaPo yesterday:
Ms. Howell,
The Obama-Biden campaign says you are lying or Senator McCain is lying. Do you stand by these stories? If they are false, will you defend Senator McCain for using them as sources of information? I am really tired of all this campaign garbage of exclaiming ‘liar’ every time one side accuses the other. I am under the impression that The Washington Post is a reputable news organization, but this campaign has caused me to have some grave concerns about the objectivity of the people who control the news media. I am curious to see how your paper deals with this issue as I think your reaction will have an impact on how people in this country view the journalists who are supposed to be reporting on and watching the government, rather than just helping their favorite candidate. I think the people would like to know if news organizations have any honor or integrity anymore. Here are the stories:
Anita Huslin, “On The Outside Now, Watching Fannie Falter,” The Washington Post, 7/16/08
The Washington Post: “Two Members Of Mr. Obama’s Political Circle, James A. Johnson And Franklin D. Raines, Are Former Chief Executives Of Fannie Mae.” (Editorial, “Tough Decision Coming,” The Washington Post, 8/28/08
We all know their answer. They say that Raines only talked to Obama, that is not a ‘close adviser’ and that Senator McCain is ‘exaggerating wildly.’ This is total BS because all the ad said was that Senator Obama had gotten advice from Raines–which their own stories confirm and they confirm as well. They did nothing to call out Obama for calling McCain a liar, they said that McCain exaggerated.
This is the email I sent to her today:
Ms. Howell,
I emailed you yesterday in reference to the Obama-Biden campaign’s challenge to your paper’s reporting. As I suspected, you have outdone yourselves in your continuing effort to show your fealty to Senator Obama. Nicely done–throwing the race card is always such a nice touch and your paper, as well as many others, continue to incite racial divide in support of the ‘post-racial’ candidate. I would write more, but your paper’s conduct is so outlandish that I doubt you will even consider my objections. The short version is that your paper has become a fraud.
I don’t expect a response, but I will keep letting them (and everyone I know) that I am fed up with their conduct.
Larry, speaking of baldfaced lies, where’s the whitey tape?
I think you mean “boldfaced”. Thank you for the laugh.
Honey child, if after everything we’ve learned about Obama, you still think anybody’s needs the “Whitey Tape” not to vote for him — you are dreaming.
I know what you mean RedDragon62: I used to love KO going after Bush. Then, when he went after Hillary, I realized that he lies and lies to make a point. The vitriol and the bile he spews at Palin every night is making me sick; tonight he said that her pastor makes J.Wright seem like a saint and he concocted a story of witches and people speaking in tongues and other absurdities of that kind…Despicable man!
I never believed anything these rags had to say. So it comes as no great shock that these “Defenders of Truth” can not seem to separate themselves from the hype.
But…..
I can honestly say that I have never witnessed a time where the Press has lost ALL credibility. They have become cheerleaders for BOTH parties!
Yeah….Those Cable “Pundits” have lost their minds, but it is especially vicious at that 527 formally known as MSNBC!
I have no problem with them going after ANY politician! They need to be kept in check. The problem I have is that they have allowed their personal views to infect their professional obligations to the public.
The damage these people have done is immense. Now, if they try to sound a “Genuine” alarm….will the people believe them?
I doubt it!
Why don’t you ever see reporting like this:
“This man, Barack Obama, has inspired America to believe that we can come together and meet the challenges of this new century and rise up to a better place.”
What “better place” might that be? He can’t possibly be referring to Chicago. There must be someone out there who remembers the 2006 election, in which Durbin and Obama together thwarted the efforts of bipartisan reformers who had reached across party lines to clean up their city’s politics. In that election, which I describe in detail in the most recent print edition of National Review, the two senators endorsed, as a “good, progressive Democrat,” a man named Todd Stroger. Both Obama and Durbin knew well that Stroger would continue to use the Cook County payroll as a private fund to support the politically connected — they just didn’t care.
Stroger, a man described by liberal Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as “an unimaginative legislative drone” and a “machine hack candidate,” won his race with Durbin and Obama’s help. As expected, he went on to shutter health clinics, lay off hundreds of nurses and dozens of prosecutors, and raise taxes — all in order to pay for the hundreds of unqualified but politically connected patronage workers that he and various politicians had “sponsored” for county jobs. John Stroger, his father and predecessor, had even taken the wise step of putting Tony Rezko’s wife on the county payroll.
Obama notes that his opponent, Senator John McCain, voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time. Obama sides with Mayor Richard M. Daley 100 percent of the time, whether in regards to Stroger’s election or anything else that helps keep Chicago politics dirty. That is the real Barack Obama — not the smooth-talking Greek god who plays a reformer on television, but the man who has never met a Daley-backed Chicago pol he could not support. He doesn’t work against politicians for whom Tony Rezko raises money.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmFmNDY4M2YwZjlmZjJiNWQyMmUyMTc1OTkzNDUxMzE
The new theme: Barack Obama voted with Mayor Daley 100% of the time.
Has anyone noticed that RCP has the Gov. of Illinois at the lowest approval rating and that Forbes called Chicago the ‘most stressed out’ city in the country? Is that what we want to bring to Washington.
Good Ad here. Check it out…
Carter-Obama-Taxes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vycxh1oSUo
some good news — mccain is gaining in battle ground states:
(CNN) — Call it the tale of two contests. While Barack Obama is making a modest rise and John McCain slightly dropping in the national polls, it’s just the opposite in some states.
An update of the CNN Electoral Map Friday suggests a tightening in the race for electoral votes in the crucial battleground states. CNN is moving Missouri, and its 11 electoral votes, from “toss up” to “lean McCain,” and is moving Wisconsin, which has 10 electoral votes at stake, from “lean Obama” to “toss up.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/19/electoral-map-update-mccain-gains/
Obama: Europe’s “The One”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haay-y4E6pA
I am a little tire of Obama’s claim of a mere “tangential” with all of his crooked associations.
His relationships with his barber, doctor, waiter, Obama Air pilot, and health club towel boy are “tangental”. Relationships with people that he has served on boards with, work in is campaign, and advise and report on his VP selections are not.
The latter are deeply involved in Obamas political processes. They are not just there for the ride. They are deep in the core of Obamas politics and policy.
Mr “Words Don’t Matter” needs to vet the meaning of “tangental”.
My apologies fellow NQ bloggers-
This is OT (Off Topic) BUT VERY IMPORTANT CONCERNING SEN OBAMA’S COLLEGE STUDENT VOTER REGISTRTAION DRIVES
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/09/norfolk-officials-ease-rules-registering-student-voters
By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 20, 2008
NORFOLK
Norfolk election officials on Friday reluctantly loosened procedures for registering college students to vote after protests from presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign and an admonishment from state election officials.
The Illinois senator’s campaign complained that the Norfolk registrar’s policy of sending a questionnaire to anyone applying to register from a college campus discouraged students from following through. The State Board of Elections asked general registrar Elisa J. Long to halt the practice.
The Norfolk Electoral Board agreed to that but said in a statement: “This compliance is with the understanding that the Board strongly feels that by doing so, we are out of compliance with Virginia Election Laws.”
Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign in Virginia, said Norfolk’s practice was “completely ridiculous” and had “a chilling effect on voter registration on campuses.”
Obama’s campaign has been aggressively registering students in Virginia, viewed as a battleground state. Griffis said Obama “is energizing young voters in a way that’s not happened in a generation or more.”
Of Virginia’s 49,000 new registrations in August, 43 percent were age 23 and under, he said
MORE ARTICLES ABOUT DEMOCRATIC PARTY&/OR SEN OBAMA VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES…..
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20080914/NEWS/809130293/1017/NEWS&title=State_s_voters_register_in_record_numbers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708809/
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-front-group-busted-for-voter.html
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Obama Front Group Busted For Voter Registration Fraud In Michigan
The stakes in this election could not be higher. Democrats are frustrated by the red state electoral college majority that has emerged in recent presidential elections. By hook or crook, they are determined to win back the presidency. To this end, we’ve been told about the millions of new registered voters Democrats have added to the election rolls this year
Pets, dead people, children, Hollywood, elites, nutroot far leties and AA’s.
And to think we used to worry about voter apathy!
Bravo, Susan.
Sing it loud and clear
so EVERYONE
in the goofy-ass MSM can hear.
It would be SO nice if a couple of these boobs would bother to do their jobs.
Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual.
MSM???…crickets…
gives a whole new meaning to don’t ask don’t tell.
Most excellent, Sir
Jeremiah, you are always so witty and wise.
The person you took your name from can also be described as guilty as hell and free as a bird.
American can’t afford to have Obama as POTUS. Obama has little foreign relations experience. Read the following and decide if you feel safe with Obama as POTUS.
1. Hugo Chavez Received Iran’s Highest Honor.
Chavez urged the world to rise up and defeat the U.S. “Let’s save the human race, let’s finish off the U.S. empire,” Chavez said. “This (task) must be assumed with strength by the majority of the peoples of the world.”
(Reference: breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8J6NURG0&show_article=1
2. Chavez Goes to Russia, Iran and Belarus to Get Arms (2007).
Chavez said the purpose for his trip included, “topics of a high strategic level in Moscow which are related to sovereignty, defense and integrity” of the Latin American Republic.”
Chavez also said he hoped to put the “finishing touches” on an agreement to purchase from Belarus an integrated air defense system with a 200-300-kilometer range.
(Reference: charter97.org/eng/news/2007/06/26/chaves)
3. Chavez and Iran Unveil Anti-US Fund.
The presidents of Iran and Venezuela agreed to spend billions of dollars to help other countries free themselves from what they describe as US domination.
The two called for Opec to cut oil production to support falling crude prices. “This fund, my brother,” Chavez said, “will become a mechanism for liberation.”
Chavez said the fund “will permit us to underpin investments … above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the [US] imperialist yoke … Death to US imperialism.”
“Today we know that there is too much crude in the market, that’s why we support … the decisions that have been taken to reduce production and protect the price of oil,” Chavez said.
(Reference: english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2007/01/2008525144836670455.html)
4. Barack Obama says that he would meet Chavez without conditions (July 2007)
5. Computers are Captured (March 2008).
Computers are captured by Colombian soldiers which contained information that Chavez expects to see more help if Obama is elected President become Obama is most aligned with the Colombian Marxist group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC.
(Reference: noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/12/obamas-chavez-communist-hezbollah-hamas-problem/
6. A Photo of Obama “bundler” and Code Pink Operative Jodie Evans Arm-in-Arm with Hugo Chavez.
Code Pink has bundled more than $50,000 for Obama. (Code Pink gave $600,000 to families of Iraqi terrorist in Fallujah, whom it called insurgents fighting for their homes.)
(References: humanevents.com/article.php?id=25997
newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/04/15/obama-big-money-bundler-hugo-chavez-supporter-will-media-report)
7. Obama Supporter Bill Richardson visited with Chavez Negotiated with Chavez about Hostages in Colombia (April 2008).
8. Che Guevara Flag Flying in Obama’s Campaign Office in Texas.
Chavez’s government intalled an 8-foot glass tall plate bearing Guevara’s image in Caracas last year. Chavez has stated that Guevara is a model socialist for all Venezuelans and named a state-funded adult education program “Mission Che Guevara.” Murals of Guevara are common in Venezuela. Obama and Chavez admire the radical Guevara.
9. Chavez invited Russian strategic bombers to Venezuela this week (Sept. 2008)
Chavez is now throwing out U.S. ambassadors and stating diplomatic relations will resume when America gets leadership he likes. Chavez has endorsed Obama. If anyone remembers the Cold War, well, it’s coming back thanks to Putin. Putin, former head of the KGB, will not respect anyone that is soft. Many may recall that Obama did not initially condemn Russian alone when it invaded Georgia. Putin and Chavez will run all over Obama (and America).
Chavez is also threatening to cut off oil exports to the U.S. until a new President is in office. The U.S. is the biggest buyer of Venezuelan oil, which accounts for 90% of the South American country’s exports.
On the money SusanUNPc.
I was thinking of a ‘group’ photo of all the tangential related people to BO would do well to get the point across. It could be like “Class of “
This does not suprise me at all that Obama has another close “friend” that is SO STINKING CORRUPT and bad for this country! Now Raines, it was Jim Johnson, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and the America hating Rev. Wright.
Americans need to wake up and see the Kool-aid the Barry Obama camp is pooring for them. Pure garbage.
Nobama….Keep the Change
Whose heard the latest bit of snobbery directed at Palin. Do you know that she was disinvited to the Anti Iran Rally after intense pressure from the democrats. I can’t believe my parents raised meto vote for these people. I guess they haven’t there pro slavory roots behind after all. Cause this doesn’t sound like LBJ or JFK it sound, more like the southern democrats that would make a tired black woman on the way home from work, get up becasue someone white needed to sit down. I will be apart of a part that discriminate against anyone regardless of the reason. Yeah, obama’s all about change, a change back to the 1960’s way of doing things. This is in no way shape or form MLK’s dream. I’ve judge Barak Obama and he has no character.
kgirl — The Democratic Party is now wholly owned subsidiary of Obama’s Campaign and the strong armed tactics practiced by this New Democratic Party are due his influence. I’m glad I switched parties — I am sickened by what has become of the Democratic Party.
I hope you mean NEO-Democrats when referring to Obama. Bill Clinton used the term New Democrats to describe his “third way” politics (i.e. centrist politics by triangulation).
I’d rather refer to these Neo Democrats as Pod Democrats.
The MSM is so thoroughly invested in Electing a Historic president so they can publish all those stories they already have written and wiaiting in their top drawers about what a historic moment it is that a black man has been elected.
They will simpley not examine the man with any objectivity. They are thoroughly commited to getting him elected.
Anything McCain does is going to be taken by the MSM as hateful, mean, evil whatever…McCain should not worry about it at all.
Nobody is going to pull the Media Off Obama’s side. If McCain is going to win he has to do it without the MSM.
The sooner that is understood by the McCain campaign (and i am pretty sure this past 2 weeks has made that abundantly clear) the sooner the 527 can start unloading on Obama with his blessing. Have his surrogates do the exact same thing Obama had his do regarding that honor swiftboat ad.
Let them get on TV with a Giant Shit Eating Grin on their faces and Say.
Fucking MSM doesn’t want to do their job, do it for them!
Great article. Why aren’t the major papers covering this stuff?
He’s such a phony. The people who already adore him won’t believe it but there are still millions of Americans who haven’t made up their minds and the way the msm has been spinning the story–the economic disaster is “good” for BO and “bad for McCain. I just wish they’d do their jobs.
And don’t you think the race card will start to backfire? I am so sick of being labeled a racist because I don’t like the guy and hate the way the DNC chose him and forced him as the nominee.
Do they think if they call people racists they’ll guilt them into voting for him? That’s weird.
answers:
MSM Agenda is to get Obama elected. They will investigate after.
Race card will work as long as people are too scared of standing up to it. Let them play it on palin.
Yes. Thats their intent.
if they get to investigate. Obamahitler may not allow them too. Obama is straight up fascist, let be honest. These people even manipulate poll numbers for him, they just don’t see what hey are getting themselves into, but should they suceed they will be the first ones to fell the collar he’s put around their neck. Look at the way the bots terrorize people now. Once obama gets in the oval office it will be ten times worst. The first time they even think about writing something that contradicts him…parties over. YOu’ve made this nut president, with Patriot act still on the books obama can place your behind in a jail cell and call you the ememy of the state. I wonder whether or not Chris Matthews will still fell a tingle running up his leg.
if chris mathews objects he will be replaced and then quietly dissappear….like they used to do in soviet russia….
Yes, Obama is a true fascist in the guise of a Leftie. Without exaggeration, I say he’s very much like Mussolini and Hitler in his strong-arm tactics, propaganda, and cult status. (See Tarpley’s OBAMA: THE POSTMODERN COUP.)
McCain needs to BE the maverick, toss the PC and call him on the race baiting.
ai1een — So far I have read 4 articles which show that unless Obama is leading by 10% he is going to lose because of the Bradley Factor. 6% of voters will not vote for an AA candidate but they will not tell pollsters this. So it seems that the race card might be played both ways. Obama has been told of this and this is the source of his anxiety.
I suspect that it’s way more than 6%.
Why? Because of the Bradley effect on research into the Bradley effect.
People can deal with Blacks running cities and states, cause those offices produce measurable results. They’re local. You’ve got at least a shred of control over the politicians.
But the presidency?
No way. The president has four years to run amok. And we, the voters, the citizens, have no recourse whatever.
bayareavoter — I can tell you one thing — this economic disaster is bad for the American people. They don’t want an amateur in charge right now.
Two things:
1. McCain warned about this in 2005 and co-authored a bill about Fannie/Freddie in 2006 to prevent this from happening.
2. Obama’s BFF Jim Johnson is one of the culprits involved in looting Fannie/Freddie.
FACTS–indisputable, do c u mented facts.
Too much junk out there now, I wish the big issues would just be displayed simply. But we know how the socialist community organizer works, distract us from the issue that paint him in a negative light, and point at Sarah Palin’s purchase (with her own money) of a tanning bed.
It’s frustrating, we just have to keep at it though.
“Explosive Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and the Dems the “Family” and “Conscience” of Fannie Mae.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0
Great post Susan. Informative as usual.
I wish McCain would just call Obama out on the Race card thing. That would show that he’s got guts enough to speak the real truth. America is sick and tired of it.
If they’re going to run as mavericks then they need to stump like mavericks and really start talking with FIRE. I’ve voting McCain/Palin, but McCain’s stump speeches this week were snoozeville for the most part. He kept looking at his notes and even when he would say something important, the audience would be looking away, shifting in their seats, etc. because he’s not CAPTURING them. McCain CAN do this. I’ve seen him in person (Primary season 2000) and this is his forte but lately he’s been subdued and looking at his notes constantly and there’s barely any emotion in his voice. That is NOT going to get him votes. Someone on that campaign needs to tell him to toss the notes and bring back the FIRED UP MCCAIN! I think he tries to tone everything down because he always gets accused of the bad temper reputation, but to heck with it. Obama has the rhetorical speech stumping – McCain needs to come out with the down to earth, fired up, kick ass stumping that we know he can do. Someone – 911 McCain and tell him to bring it on! (lol)
Correction: “I’m voting McCain/Palin.”
There’s got to be more here than meets the eye and all that money going to Obama had to leave a trail of acts on behalf of Fannie and Freddie. Follow the money, as they say.
Yes – I agree. That has also been Obama’s history. Remember when the LA Times reported about Obama writing a letter for an organization and then the next day, lo and behold – Obama gets campaign money from that organization. There are other incidents of Obama doing that with the pay off letter endorsements. He does leave a trail, but no one seems to care.
If this keeps up, Republicans are going to start seeing the wisdom of The Fairness Doctrine.
The GOP has Obama’s Fannie/Freddie friends and their connections/crimes all spelled out with linked sources.
http://www.gop.com/news/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=82d81739-da81-48ea-b329-026ac77bc8ec
I’ve noticed a trend this week on FOX, especially on Fox & Friends in the morning, that they are starting to bring up a lot more negative things about Obama. They still have the leftie liars on to try to defend Obama’s fraudulent claims and deny deny deny.
Still not what I want–I’d love 4 hours of criticizm every night like the MSNBC asswipes do, but FOX just doesn’t work that way.
PUMAs are rightly cheesed over the media’s pro-Obama bias, and I don’t intend to make light of the problem…
…but I am enjoying the look on Republican faces as this unfolds.
Any PUMA Democrat know what it’s like to see the media function as a mouthpiece for the right wing. It’s one of the major reasons democracy is dying in America today.
(I know wingers always say the media is liberal, but wingers voted twice for The Worst President Ever™, so their judgment is in doubt.)
Now it seems the tables have turned with this media bias thing. Story after story that might hurt Obama is ignored, while anything bad about John McCain or Sarah Palin is headline news every day. It drives me nuts, too.
I think it proves Obama is a neocon, but I’m not here to argue that…
I’m here to point out how funny it is to see Republicans getting a taste of their own medicine.
Aggravating, isn’t it? Now you know what it feels like to be a Democrat in America.
MSNBC has become a circus of horrors. Last night, while I was reading in the den, I heard the TV from the living room. Olbermann was on, ranting about a “witch hunt”. I quickly realized he was blabbering about Palin and asked my husband what he was talking about. He replied that Keith said she had a pastor from Kenya who, in the old country, had believed a local woman was conjuring car wrecks. O.M.G. Is this what these kooks have been reduced to criticizing Sarah for? It sounds like a SNL skit! (It must be impossible to actual parody KO!)
As for Franklin Raines, who just happens to be a crooked black man in the midst of crooked white men: Tumulty appears to be saying that a black person cannot be criticized or it’s racism. After all the floor-writhing and hand-wringing that has gone on in this campaign over this topic, you’d think no one would dare to jump on this creaky bandwagon! I suppose it would’ve been okay if the ad had an old BLACK lady!
Amazing post, Susan! I’m convinced that we no longer have journalism in this country anymore, it’s pure propaganda. I’ve noticed that the message in the MSM yesterday was “No one cares about Sarah Palin anymore” and “Obama has strong message about the economy”. His message was, however, that he is not going to give specifics on his plan. He does have a six point message without specifics, though…and that was ok with them. But then right after that they said that “McCain has no specifics on his plan, how can he be trusted to bring our economy back?”
Oh good grief.
Now Obama said he didn’t want to reveal his plan because it might send the markets in a spiral.
Read: He hasn’t made it up yet.
Excellent post SusanUnPC : this is what investigative reporting means !! Thank you.
I couldn’t believe Karen Tumulty’s article: how can she even write a draft of that with a straight face let alone get it passed the Time editor??? It’s really, really BIZARRE. The McCain camp put out this response:
http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=f56407e8-60e5-4c39-a24a-aa5734596374
Thank you SusanUnPC for another fine report. The media is doing their best to get Obie elected, just like they did George W. Bush. What a nightmare. I could not be any more disgusted with the dishonesty of the MSM – I think they should be called the YSM, the Yellow Stream Media, both for their yellow journalism and the golden shower they’re giving the public they deceive.
The Obama people dont want to win an election. They want to win over peoples hearts and minds to their ideas. They want the country to adopt their ideas on how things should be run.
If they allowed Hillary to have her votes counted and the will of the people to prevail their ideas would have fallen to the wayside.
By pushing Obama forward they continue to have an opportunity to push their ideas on government down everyones throat. They hope that if they are in charge long enough they can kill off the Clinton wing of the party’s voice and their views permanently.
This is an important distinction because it explains their apparently self destructive behavior. They are not fighting to win this election, they are fighting to change how people think. If they can not convert you they want to silence and destroy you. They are not concerned about winning over Clinton supporters to their side with compromise, because they are not going to compromise their belief. They are fanatics. They want to eliminate any competing ideas on government.
As such they have no realistic strategy to win the election, and will lose.
Hmmm, I think you’re on to something.
I believe they do want to win, however they are rookies on a national scale, as such, are making n00b mistakes. I saw a TV ad recently, you know the rising sun symbol of the 0bama campaign, it had this animated red arrow stretching out to the left and right from the symbol. What the christ are they trying to do? Is that supposed to be some subliminal mind control? Citizens want substance when they vote for a President, not freaky deaky symbolism.
The voter fraud can be challenged and who knows what the outcome could be. If it’s a close election, we could be subject to a 2000 replay.
But I agree with you, n0bama himself said he was not ready to lead and perhaps on some subliminal level he is self-sabotaging.