McCain’s Newest Ad: Obama’s Former Adviser, Jim Johnson and Fannie Mae
By NancyA on September 19, 2008 at 3:30 PM in Advertising, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Housing & Housing Crisis, Obama, Politico, Vice President
This morning Ben Smith over at Poltico had this to say about McCain:
John McCain has an uphill battle to convince voters that he and his party — who have been governing for the last eight years — aren’t responsible for the current financial crisis. But he also has a case to make, in the form of his own calls to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and of Obama’s ties to the Wall Street Democratic establishment.
With that in mind the McCain/Palin campaign released yet another ad linking an Obama ally to the Fannie Mae debacle. It is a follow up to the ad featuring Franklin Raines. Here is the latest ad starring Jim Johnson:
Of course we all remember Jim Johnson. This from the following Los Angeles Times article, Barack Obama advisor Jim Johnson quits under fire:
Jim Johnson, the former chairman of Fannie Mae who was one of three advisors tapped by Democrat Barack Obama to vet vice presidential candidates, resigned today after questions were raised about favoritism he may have received from Countrywide Financial Corp.
Insisting he had done nothing wrong, Johnson issued a statement saying that he did not want the flap over his mortgage to distract attention from Obama’s run for the presidency.
And now we stand reminded that the he was a former chairman of the housing giant, Fannie Mae, recently taken over by the feds.
The ad does however remind us that McCain warned us two year ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in dire trouble.
(Release: November 13)
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He has about 6 new ads. You should update this with all of his new ads.
Could you do that please NancyA?
They are all pretty good and he has a great one with Joe and patriotic taxes.
I love McCains campaign ads.
Uppity has the McCain ads at her website:
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/mccain-ads/
Some of the Youtube ads are no longer present. Try this link.
http://www.johnmccain.com/tvads/
The web is being scrubbed by NObama.
Many links are gone or redirected to NObama sites.
Trolls4Nobama.
Is it not strange how the Obama camp can manipulate the internet like that, leaves one to wonder if the hacking of Palin’s account was not something done to see what they could of found and the young man has to take the fall for this.
I try not to succumb to paranoia, but I’m sure you’re right.
Obama will say anything to be elected. He acts as if he is above corruption, but he has been surrounded by and colluded with it for years.
This video has more info on Johnson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQUImPsItnA&NR=1
The one where Obama says he isn’t ready to be president is probably the strongest one of all.
The tax ad is hilarious: Lots more taxes, lots more patriots!
Joe Scarborough showed Biden’s clip on his show and immediately said that he would get nailed for it — he was correct as he often is regarding political gamesmanship.
I’m sure many former Hillary voters will enjoy this post from a (!!!) conservative blog:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/273831.php
“Mr. Obama, you claim we should look past the fact you don’t “look like other presidents.” I strongly suggest you begin looking past that too, and stop trotting out the accident of your race as an all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card to be played whenever you’re caught out in a lie, a hypocrisy, or a 20 year association with a radical hate-preacher. …
You want to be The Man in the Arena, Obama? Stop making excuses for yourself and demanding you be graded on an Affirmative Action Curve. It’s time to stand on your own two feet, whatever color they are.”
that was a good read…thanks for posting.
Looking past Obama completely….to the real candidate with actually compassion for all Americans sound good to me.
Yeah, that’s great, he was chairmen from 1991-1998, he must really be responsible for the problems 10 years later…
And such a great job he did
An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson’s compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.
Thanks, Kevin. I feel like this is a good double play combination. More on Jim Johnson — he hid his true compensation from the public.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWM3MDFkM2QwNzRjODk3NWZhZTc3OGIxNDQ4Nzc2NDc=
Katmandu-
Keep the links & your recaps coming!
Great work….
Joe Bob can’t get a loan on his house trailer from Fannie or Freddie …
LMAO!!
sounds like business as usual. can’t wait for obama to “clean thing up.” heh. Chicago.
Thanks, Joe Bob, for the perfect lead in. Jim Johnson is credited with turning Fannie Mae into a political force such the politicians were afraid to question it. Per the Washington Post in 2006, when it was still doing decent journalism:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301751.html
ah,
the sweet smell of facts
SWEET!!! :-]
You all are on fire today in the comment section.
Does any of what you posted have anything to do with him being blamed for what’s happenning 10 years later??? No
I just did some research. Ok, I do see how his leadership at the helm contributed to the current mess. I apologize.
This really doesn’t look good for Obama. He has too many connections to Fannie Mae.
.. I think you are begining to see the light.
And, here is NObama’s old tactic of “take the criticisms of me and project them on the opponent” that is, when the “steal the opponent’s platform” doesn’t apply.
HAHAHAHAHAHA But, uh uh uh, I uh uh thought we had to uh uh uh wait uh ah for your comprehensive review of uh uh uh the problems in the financial uh uh uh sector.
He has way too many other connections with real estate deals (not the house, big stuff like F&F). Look into Valerie Jarrett, the Crown family–think about who got paid by whom to by what, and who ended up benefiting from it.
Johnson began his career as a faculty member at Princeton University, later moving on to the United States Senate as a staff member and to the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corp.) as director of public affairs. He was executive assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale during the entire Carter Administration (1977-1981).
Later, he founded and headed Public Strategies, a private consulting firm, from 1981 to 1985 before leaving for Lehman Brothers.
From 1991 to 1998, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the quasi-public organization that guarantees mortgages for millions of American homeowners. Previously, he was vice chairman of Fannie Mae (1990-1991) and a managing director with Lehman Brothers (1985-1990). An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson’s compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.
As of 2006, he is a vice chairman of the private banking firm Perseus LLC, a position he has held since 2001. He is also a board member at Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., a media holding group, KB Home, a home construction firm, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and UnitedHealth Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Johnson_(businessman)
Oblowme’s a corrupt asshole.
Katmandu-
EXCELLENT Link. Thanks!
ALAN GREENSPAN, THIS WHOLE NAME IS TELLING US ALL. HE IS ONE OF THOSE WHO “SPAN” LIKE JOHNSON… THEY “SPAN”OUR ECONOMY TOGETHER AND JUST AS RESPONSIBLE AS ALL OTHERS!!! WHAT “GREE-SPAN” MEANS TO YOU.??? IT IS SO CLEAR”GREEAN ARE DOLLARS”, HE “SPAN” DOLLARS HIS OWN WAY AND CACHED GREATLY. COMPRANDE???
can You all imagine, how stinky rich this gay is, not to ferget Obamas bank accounts???
He make 1/2millions from Fannie Moe, ,AIG and others, can You imagine what He will do to those who are not in his cornet;US!!!
Read what the man said
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/19/mccains-remarks-on-financial-markets/
Reading requires it’s best friend “comprehension.” Joe Bob and factual “comprehension” don’t mix well.
Mac needs to continue using this language…gaming the system. Damn straight!
McCain needs to get ads out about what he tried to do on righting the FF mess. His speech on this in 2005 was excellent; he could include an except even from an HRC speech. He could show the R and D vote that kept anything from getting done. I think I like his ads best when he is being humorous—that Biden act is flat out hilarious.
this is a very effective ad, NancyA.
Hope he hits Penny from Superior Bank and ties it to Bear Sterns.
Penny Pritzker–talk about an elitist.
And they have the nerve to go after Lady Lynn de Rothschild. Grrrr.
You don’t find it hilarious that a telecom mogul with a title of British nobility is calling Obama “elitist” and talking about how he’s not going to win over the rednecks?
That’s really the only story about Rothschild.
Her title and money don’t keep her from recognizing the truth. Besides, elitism is more about “attitude” than anything else and Obama has a bad one.
elitism is not about $$$
When Lady Lynn was on CNN the other day, she set the record straight about her own background. Her parents worked two jobs to put her and her siblings to med school,and to law school. They told her that she can achieve the American dream with effort and hard work. She made her money well before meeting the British Knight. No one can accuse her of being born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
The Obamathugs are fixated on Lynn’s wealth. That’s because they want to start a class war. The significant aspect of this story is that Lynn was on the Platform Committee of the DNC. That is to say, SHE WAS A CHIEF POLICY MAKER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
No small liberal credentials; but Obama gave even Lynn the creeps. Imagine what he does for us non-koolaid drinkning moderates. I hope she does a commercial. And a commercial comparing Sarah Palin and Teddy Roosevelt would be great as well.
Paul V - are you on-line?
Country First!
Thanks for bringing up Pritzker. Here is Earl Ofari Hutchinson back in Feb. on HuffPo. He really lays into Obama.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/49ehv6
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says he’ll crack down on fraudulent sub-prime lenders. If he really means it he can start by firing his campaign finance chair, Penny Pritzker. Before taking over Obama’s campaign finances, she headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank’s sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented. It engaged in deceptive and faulty lending, questionable accounting practices, and charged hidden fees. It did it with the sleepy-eyed see-no-evil oversight of federal. It made thousands of dubious loans to mostly poor, strapped homeowners. A disproportionate number of them were minority.
Well, Obama sure knows how to pick them, huh?
hey, he know’s which side his bread is buttered on.
must be all that good judgment…Ayers, Rev. Wacko Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, and now all these financial swindlers.
Cant You see, why Obama hire all those thiefs, because they know how to steal from US, and Obama wants to do the same , one He become President!!!. He is telling US, that He will crock down on His BEST FRIENDS, at the same time, He is one of them!!!!
Well, I know all of understand favors received by Countrywide Financial Corp. Let me just get on the phone to call mine in.
In similar fashion, we’re all good friends with terrorists that just live right up the street. We allow our children to play with their adult children. It’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in Obamaland.
Oh, the terrorist is a person in the neighborhood
the neighborhood
the neighborhood
The terrorist is a person in your neighborhood
Your neighborhood
Your neigh-bor-hood
Gonna do my first McCain phone bank Monday
Fantastic! I will be elsewhere in the country on Monday doing the same thing.
Thank you for helping!!
I’m signing up to do it here in PA. Based on what I have been hearing and seeing, Obama doesn’t have a chance unless he rigs the polls. And he will of course, so we have to outnumber them!
I phone banked today and am doing it tomorrow. It felt strange since you’re in Republican headquarters. But its about the United States staying strong and having effective leadership that is prepared to haul us out of this crap that the uppity Congress is too complacent to do anything about.
The great thing about McCain HQ is that they want everyone and will listen to all comers.
McCain doesn’t exclude he includes. He will listen to all sides and then be happy to include you among his friends even if you don’t agree.
I work the Northern Virginia Phone bank–and I would love to see more ladies and gentlemen from the Independent or DNC groups there with me.
We want idea makers not idealogs as we see in the Obama camp.
How does that work? Do you get a script? Who do you call? Or do they call you?
It depends,
sometimes you have a script and a list of numbers to conduct a poll. Or other times you work the incoming phones to answer questions about the campaign or take info from donations.
My mom stuffed packets last week and they also have terminals that you can write letters to the media or editors about the campaign.
There is lots of work to do. And anyone who shows up is welcome gay, straight, bi-, democrat, independent, republican, teen, elderly, no kidding they are all there.
Mondays are ladies night
Wednesdays are Veterans night
Come on down
we know who is runnig current Congres;Pelosi,Dean,Reid,Richardson,Reich,Dodd.
Now wait on Kucinich response, Obama got add, were He is picking on MAN, who is one of those honests, and He respect Constitution of USA as His Bible. Obama is attacking wrong people… He will be paying a big price , Kucinoch is not affraid of Obama, and Obama is not his favor politician. I am waiting for Kucinich response!!!Super Delegates sell our country to someone like Obama, blindly cawards!!!
omg…LOL
I stopped watching the Daily Show before the primaries ever began. Why? Because there’s nothing funny about what state our world/nation is in. The corruption, graft and greed is so disgusting that nothing can make it funny.
I think humor is appropriate in order to lighten things up from time to time but too much, every day, directed toward life altering decisions just reduces the serious nature of what we’re trying to correct.
Have to admit though JM singing Streisand was brilliant and that sort of mocking, making fun of how Obama responded to the serious economic debacle was delicious.
Annie,
I’ve felt this way for many years now.
This country took a direction in which humor became a the best cover for denial.
Let’s laugh at everything. Everything’s funny. Meanwhile little by little everything started going to shit.
And here we are.
Some things are just not funny.
George Bush/Dick Cheney, are among them.
I don’t want to be maudlin and self-pitying as a way of life, but dammit it’s time people started acting like adults and realize that laughter is not the solution. And may be part of the problem.
It’s more than time to put laughter into it’s proper place. A great way to relieve stress, but it should not be used as a mechanism of avoidance.
Live at Five and CNN
keep us all abreast
of breaking stories that can tend
to make us anxious and depressed.
Problems with no answers
hang on like some chronic cough.
And every day some brand new issue
rears it’s head to piss you off.
Bad guys win.
Optimism’s wearing thin.
Things are spinning out of control.
Cynicism’s all the fad.
World events could make us mad
as hatters.
Almost every day
some underpinning slips away.
These aren’t laughing matters.
Time bombs tick.
People keep on getting sick.
And a nickel’s not worth a cent.
Wickedness and greed abound.
Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
and justice goes to those who pay.
Friend, these aren’t laughing matters.
The truth is scarier by far
than anything that Stephen King could write.
The stories in the paper are
the daily small decline and fall
spelled out in black and white.
Oh, what to do, what to do
how to take a brighter view
when your noodle’s totally fried.
Human spirits need to be
leavened by a little levity.
So take those blues
and bounce them off the wall.
Keep your humor please,
’cause don’t you know it times like these that
laughing matters most of all.
-Bette Midler
Bath House Betty
I second that…
Great Ad, Cuts through the koolaid haze!
This is from another PUMA site….
MUNCIE — A vandal who apparently plans to vote for Barack Obama attacked the Delaware County Republican Party Headquarters sometime this week with a gold spray can.
The vandal, or vandals, left behind graffiti reading “McCain? Seriously?” underscored by a depiction of a hand gesturing with its middle finger on the western wall of the headquarters.
A Republican Headquarters sign that was leaning against the same wall was tagged with three symbols that closely resemble the round Obama campaign sign.
The vandalism was discovered Wednesday.
Delaware County Republican Party Chairman Kaye Whitehead called the vandalism a sign of immaturity and predicted that it would energize Republican voters.
“Many times these actions have unintended consequences for those who did them,” Whitehead said.
Obama’s campaign on Wednesday issued a statement condemning the vandalism.
“This campaign is about important issues that affect the lives of people all across this state, and there is no place, nor any tolerance, for these types of deplorable and illegal acts,” said Emily Parcell, Indiana Director of Obama for America.
Delaware County Democratic Election Board member Phil Nichols called the graffiti “unfortunate.”
The graffiti on the wall occupied a section about two feet by three feet.
How immature!!!
What ever happened to the cars and the graffiti in FL? Any word on the Hillary supporters who went on a vandalism streak?
Pretty much par for the course from the “progressive” left.
well this seems to be a pretty frequent occurrence w Obama supporters. But like you said, it just drives more voters to McCains’ side. Frankly I don’t see the logic of how violence sheds a positive light or would garner support for a candidate. But these are very young and naive people just like the 20 year old who hacked Palin’s account. This shows the level of Obama’s support and it isn’t convincing. Most 20 year olds don’t know shit about life so I hardly think they are in a position to make good judgments about who would be best to lead the country.
Poor Obamatrolls
How’s it feel to be 0 for 10 the past two weeks
1..Not choosing Hillary for either the presidential or vice presidential nominee
2..Miscalculating in selecting a bore like Biden
3…Being sexist fools after McCain’s brilliant selection of Sarah Palin
4…Having your main issue of failure and retreat in Iraq blow up in your face with the success of the surge.
5..Wishing for a hurricane to hurt the republicans at their convention.
6…Wishing for a stock market collapse only to see the market rebound after a great move by the Fed on mortgages.
7…Watching Obama try to vote Present like always on the AIG bailout.
8…Seeing Obama exposed with his lobby money from Fannie and Freddie.
9…Watching democrats use illegal activity in hacking Palin e-mail accounts.
10…Watching McCain catch and lead in the electoral college
Not a great week for Obamabots who wish defeat and retreat for America!!
There is still plenty of time for the Obots. God help us all. They should all be rounded up after the election and sent to a desensitizer camp of some sort.
I think we should start by taking them to the Vet to have a flee bath and then have them neutered or spayed.
However,That would be an insult to my dog!
yea the “anything” camp just sounds too nazi
but they FOR SURE need a rabies shot (LOL)
I just clicked on your name…
Is that a picture of you?
If it is you look like you could be related to the Palins
that is me (26yrs ago) LOL
no relation but wow thanks for the compliment :-}
I wanted to prove a point to the dang trolls - service and all
but I’m not SUPPOSED to even respond to them (bad me)
Yes it was very much a compliment Dawnelle!
The point that’s missed about these trolls is that they keep us fired up and the discourse flowing.
Without dumb ass trolls like sf and roxanne this site would become a big social tea party.
Obama wants his trolls to argue with us..
Bring it on!!
good point!
some days I need to VENT
but they’re giving me tourettes~~ hehe! (I can’t spell that)
iI CHOOSE TO HAVE 26 UNDER MCcAIN THEN 4 UNDER OBAMA…
That looks like Germany. If so, was that anywhere near Wildflecken? If not, never mind.
notice the 1st Inf Patch?
(Tong du Chong, South Korea)
Not sure if they are still there. Many went to Iraq but I don’t know if they took them all out. I haven’t kept up really but did see the patch on some soldiers in Iraq on one of the news stations not long ago.
Probably FOX because the other two never cover the soldiers.
change that to 2nd
no idea where first came up in my head
2nd D
2nd to none
That patch was unfamiliar to me. I just saw the snow and made an incorrect assumption (we had snow 8 months a year, 10ft deep at times and was colder than a well-digger’s backside). Wildflecken was returned to the German gov’t in 1994. My former unit changed names and is now in Ft. Bliss, TX.
I think a long stint in the Marines would straighten them out.
they couldn’t survive boot camp
r u kiddin me???? roflol!
Then the Obots had better hope Obama doesn’t win because I get the impression he’s going to bring back the Draft! What was he said about everyone doing “national service”?
Send them all to Clown College, they can have extra credit for the last year.
I am absolutely convince, that Obamas people got into Palin amil!!!
Obamas supporters, are treatning US, who are agaist obama , that we will have a hudge riot all over USA. Are You scare??? they are!!! They will loose, and we will help this to happend!!!
Unfortunately we have seen a pattern of non action in the congress, I believe to insure a Dem victory in the fall.
When Chris Dodd killed McCain’s bill to reform Fannie & Freddie in 2005 it was just a matter of time till the organizations failed.
Everything Barck Obama is telling us seems to be dooms-day and only he can fix it. HA!
America is the greatest experiment in History. We have changed the world more than once. But what is most important is that our elected officials act in the best interest of the Nation not opportunistically sabotaging it in order to gain the White House.
We the people must DEMAND and end to this nonsense.
We must vote for the person that will help us to get there.
This time our choice is John McCain a man who has for years been the voice in opposition to the actions of his party and the opposition.
We have to get together and make a difference. We cannot hope others will do it for us.
It is in OUR HANDS. Our children are relying on us.
Who are they asking these questions to?
Poll: People prefer Obama over McCain as teacher. Let me see a War Hero or a ??? What is he??
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Av3fcCNNEwOjqjtRinbU3FlG2vAI;_ylu=X3oDMTBiZ3MwbHJsBHBvcwM0BHRhYgMw/SIG=125tf15r2/**http%3A//news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-teacher
“Who are they asking these questions to?”
Answer:
People who prefer Kool Aid over all other beverages.
That strikes me as accurate. Obama likes to lecture and talk down to people. He is aloof and philosophical. Those are not the qualities needed to be a Commander in Chief. There is no time for ruminating and equivocating about every friggin decision that needs to be made. He cannot take a stand or make a clear decision. Hence, all the waffling. Even on this economic situation, he has to “talk to his advisors first,” and he wouldn’t agree or disagree with the AIG bail out. There is no there there. Go head, please, go teach somewhere–but don’t expect to see me in the classroom. I’ve heard enough from him.
Didn’t you hear the latest about the Raines ad? Apparently a Time journalist claims it is…(are you ready?)…racist!
Yes, that’s right folks, because there are 2 black men in it. When she was confronted with the fact that the ad is actually aimed at the current economic crisis and Raines, as a Fannie Mae exec, is right in the middle of it, she responded: “I’m from Texas, and I know it when I see it.”
I wonder how she explains the simultaneous ad with Johnson, who is not black.
Who are the divisive ones in this campaign? Who is the one running racist Spanish language ads to incite racial hostility toward McCain, based on lies about his “association” with Limbaugh (who has never liked or agreed with McCain)? Obama is divisive–period.
I was just about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.
Try calling this ad racist! I see a standard template to keep hitting 0bama with. How that can be racist, I have not idea, but they try to play the card every time. Pathetic.
By the end of next week, I expect the narration to have totally turned around to where 0bama has done nothing but take money from Wall Street, while McCain (and our Hillary) has been proposing reforms that the Dems keep rejecting. Leave it to the Dimocrats to lose this election by a wide margin.
False claims of racism makes the accuser the actual racist.
Unless Johnson has a father from Kenya we don’t know anything about, this one is about as non racial as possible … actually, he’d be a zeromama ageism attack target if he was on the McCain team.
Maybe McCains is old, grumpy,some how think like Bush, bad temperamnet guy, but it is one thing about McCain, that I trust Him. He tells US as is, He share His thoughts, and it is coming from His heart. At list I know what I can expect from Him, and then I do believe, that He will clean this GOVERNMENT as no one President ever did.. He means what He says.
He will work with Congres and Senat, and He will bring more good changes, than Obama is telling us in His empty speaches!!!
Beying for 6 years as POW ,it build You or anyone character, and I am sure, that McCain who is a true soldier, had a lot of time to think and how to survive. That is , why He is a MEVERICK!!!He will survive, and people needs to listen this man, He is for real!!!
I remember Him screaming to Rumdfeld” SEND MORE TROOPS, SEND 30 OR MORE THOUSAND SOLDIERS, BUT NO ONE WAS LISTENING. IF ANYONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION WHAT MCCAIN WAS SAYING THIS UGLY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ WOULD BE LONG TIME OVER, AND OUR SOLDIERS WOULD BE HOME, WERE THEY BELONG!!!
tHE SAME IS WITH WALL STREET CRICES, MCCAIN WAS SCREAMIN” THE BAD DAYS OF OUR ECONOMY ARE COMING, AND WALL STREET WILL DESTROY US. ADGAIN , NO ONE WAS LISTENING. NOW CNN,MSNBS, ARE SAYING THAT IT IS NOT TRUTH, THAT MCCAIN NEVER SAID THAT. WELL, THEY ARE OBAMAS PEOPLE, CLAN. THEY ARE LYING AS OBAMA!!!
you don’t mention the fact that the ad is factually false and Raines has told the campaign that he neither supports Obama nor advises him…And that he emailed Fiorina 2 weeks ago to tell the campaign that…I wonder how you people live with your lies?
On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” [6]. Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff claimed that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines
Oblowme is DANGEROUS!!
Well, I don’t know that it’s racist, but it is factually incorrect. Raines isn’t an advisor of Obama’s, and sent now-former McCain economic adviser Carly “I ran HP Into the ground and am still a more qualified executive than either McCain or Palin” Fiorino a note to this effect. FACTCHECK, PEOPLE.
Well, if the corrupt lying sack of shit Raines sent an e-mail that cinches it…
Hey I LOVED MY HP!!!
Wish I still had it!!!
Karly (Carly?) is a decent advocate for John Mc
Miles better than anything Axelrodish I’ve seen speaking for DEMS. AND LMAO when did the “righteous” Democrats start letting people like Axelrod RUN their Party????
into the groundand out of moneyBRAVO COMRADES!! It took REAL moxie for you to find a way to lose this one!!! Bravo Move
OnOut!Bravo Susan & Tim & Barbara & Tom, Mat & Oprah, The View & Jon Stewart
YOU FOUND A WAY
YOU PUT NEW MEANING ON THE WORD M O E - RON
BRAVO
NOW STFU & LEARN SOMETHING!
sorry I’m yelling again
time for a break
out
On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” [6]. Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff claimed that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines
Oblowme is DANGEROUS!!
Posted above.
I think she saved HP, she bought Compaq and revived their brand, they fired her anyway but the company did improve because of her leadership.
Yea, Nancy!
Keep em comin’. May I pop one in here?
Disgrace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqHFk-3yQM
Nancy A Good post!
Here is what I will be cross posting…
http://patriotroom.com/?p=2092
This speech is EXCELLENT. The truth will hurt Sen Obama indeed. This video needs to get out along with links on where people can learn more about what Sen McCain is discussing…They will see that Sen McCain is a straight talker. Sen McCain doesnt need to go down to Sen Obama’s gutter level…Sen McCain just needs to get the truth out there-that’s all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7DGTggpx0
Jim Johnson-Senior level person on Obama’s campaign team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYI0mHWQeD8
Franklin Raines-Senior level person on Obama’s campaign team
Have you connected the dots yet?
Learn More:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/19/mccains-newest-ad-obamas-former-adviser-jim-johnson-and-fannie-mae/#more-4909
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/16/obamas-finance-chair-failed-bank-owner-penny-pritzker-and-todays-wall-street-problem/#more-4842
Update: The in the tank WAPO now says that the McCain camp shouldn’t have trusted them as a source, because they are inaccurate. No joke. Don’t listen to us–we just make stuff up!
Yea, we know.
Yeah, I know to say “No Way” to corruption!
Vote Yea for McCain/Palin!
A little more on what Fannie Mae became — a pig trough for lobbyists.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0912/p03s01-usec.html
After seeing the latest McCain ad, in a phone call to Hillary, Chockablock Opampers was overheard saying “Hillawee that big bad McCain whacked me in my peepee again! Waaah! Waaah!”
LMAO….and your posting name…omg…LOL
I was putting up some headlines and I thought you all might like this one…
♥McCain Wins Endorsement of Democrat♥
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122179087917055511.html
This one I don’t like…
Undermining McCain Campaign Attack, Republicans Back Obama‘s Version of Meeting with Iraqi Leaders
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/undermining-mcc.html
[snip]
I don’t waste time posting at ABC, but that was the al-Maliki meeting - not the one in question. See Nacy A’s story from a few days back. It has a photo of the Zebari meeting. No U.S. embassy folks at that meeting.
Maybe if you post there you can set them straight.
Well that ends that argument. McCain camp should have checked that story out much better. I trust Hagel to give a fair and accurate account. I think the Mac is going to have to back up. The statements from McCain did say, “if the news stories are true”. Maybe they took them at face value to stir up some dust. Oh well. Put some lipstick on it.
This is what the McCain Camp said:
I wouldn’t trust Chuck Hegel to tell me what time of day it is.
Besides, the meeting that he attended in Iraq isn’t the one in question. The meeting Hegel et al attended was with Prime Minister Al-Maliki.
The meeting where Obama reportedly asked the Iraqis to delay negotiations on a Status of Forces Agreement with the US was with Foreign Minister Al-Zebari.
Understand now?
I get it but that is what ABC is putting up and he changed the McCain release on it around in his piece…just like Gibson…
Understand now?
THOSE TRAITORS REPUBLICANS ARE IN SAME POT WITH OBAMA… DID YOU WATCH BILL O’RALLEY SHOW, HE IS ALL ABOUT BUT DEFENDING OBAMA, ANOTHER CORRUPTED TALK SHOW HOST. THOSE SMART REPUBLICANS, AND DEMOCRATS MUST UNITED AND SUPPORT MCcAIN. YES, HE IS THE MOST HONEST POLITICIAN I EVER KNOW. NOW , SINCE kUCINICH WAS PROVOCATED YESTERDAY IN NEWEST OBAMAS ADDS, MAYBE MORE THOSE HONEST AND “USA FIRST” POLITICIANS START ACTING LIKE THEY SHOULD!!!
I AM “USA FIRST” AMERICAN, AND I SUPPORT PEOPLE LIKE;HILLARY,KUCINICH, PAUL,MCCAIN, AND THAT IS WHY AS INDEPENDENT , I WILL SUPPORT ANY ONE OF THEM,LIKE THEM AND ALLWAYS!!!I DONT CARE ABOUT PARTY AFFILIATION, NOW IS ABOUT USA, AND WE MUST UNITED BEHIND TRUE AMERICAN “USA FIRST”!!!!
Just read McCain’s speech on the economy. I thought it addressed some core problems, was targeted and I think is going to be understood by most Americans. It should serve him well and hopefully it will serve us well. This is going to be a very difficult battle for McCain but as the panic eases from it I think the conflation benefitting Obama will also subside.
Bad economy benefits a Democrat but the threat of economic collapse would favor the experienced McCain over the Axelgoebbels snake oil change mantra.
t
Obama speaking today –
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/19/obama_calls_for_rescue_and_sti.html#more
Doesn’t he realize he does not have to have Paulson as Treasury Secretary?
Or is he planning on keeping Paulson on if he wins?
And “people’s money market is protected?” Did he leave out something?
“Do what’s required?” WTF? Translation: Yeah, you, go do whatever it is you do and do it well and do it now…and I’m going to sit here and pretend I know what it is you do and take your word for it that what you do will work…and is working…and once they tell me it has worked, I’ll take all the credit for it, so it looks like I did some work.
Huh? That’s a policy plan?
A wind-up toy could do better!
Typical Barry…he is “just words” as usual. He says a whole lot that amounts to so little! Lol!!
oh good lord..that’s all he had to say? that sounded like an 8th grade answer. Where’s the details??
BALONEY OBAMA, YOU JUST LIE AND LIE, AND DEPOSITS MILLIONS IN PRIVATE ACCOUNTS FROM PEOPLE LIKE WALL STREET !!!!
ANYTHING ON OBAMAS BIRTH CERTIFICATE???
Now all McCain-Palin has to do is bring out the infamous 2005 meeting of Fannie Mae CEO comments to the Congressional Black Caucus as “family” and then talk about how much money this Barack America got and who is influencing who.
PUMA 2008!
I like how they are playing this game - kill them solftly. America public understands the bull the MSM and Obamaites are playing.
absolutelY, BRING on MCCAIN, PROVE TO WHOLE USA, THAT YOU AE SO RIGHT, THAT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS ASKING FOR MUCH MORE TROOPS, WHILE ROOMSFIELD WAS “THE BOSS”. THEI SPIT ON HIM, AND HE WAS SO RIGHT SO MANY TIMES!!!
Nancy, Mccain can put as many ads as he want to but it is not going to change the map. Why? Because the majority of the followers of Obama are 18-29 years of age and they don’t understand the stock market and don’t care. The senior are the only ones that can understand the substance of this video. I will tell the Republicans again and again, if they don’t dirty their hands more , we will have a socialist liberal for a president. Down here in Coral Gables, in Florida today he has lied to the hispanics and now they are leaning toward him. He is showing many ads that are damaging and have a hint of white racism against the hispanic. They are all lies. We cannot offer to lose Florida. The word is “dirty” politics and they better start doing it now. Take a risk, bring out Larry Sinclair in the opening and get the Obama camp stunned for awhile. The 5 points does makes a difference at the polls in 48 days. Let him lose his 5 points after being stunned. It would be such a scandal that all the media will be on every station trying to defend him and the more they defend the more Larry Sinclair is spinned. Get smart, republicans !
That’s what I’m afraid of, the majority of Obama’s naive supporters.
Effective immediately! Ask all parents to cut allowances to children of voting age. That will help them better understand economics! All the Obama smears will not go unanswered, and he will get smacked hard very soon. Some of John McCain’s best assests are the ones up his sleeve!
Those aren’t the voters those ads are targeting. The voters the ads are targeting are the 5%-10% of Obama’s current supporters who might be persuaded to switch to McCain as well as the 10-15% of the electorate that is still undecided. That’s where this election will be won or lost.
As such, I think he’s going after these people the right way with these ads: Show how McCain sounded the alarm on the housing bubble years ago while Obama went along to get along, cozily in bed with several of the people who are directly responsible for it.
McCain’s ad are good. I think he needs to come out swinging even harder though. He is fighting against pre-conceived notions, which are tough to counter. Usually with problems on Wall Street or with banking, the automatic response is to assign blame to the Republicans. People usually assume Big Money is backing the Republican nominee. Not this time. Not this election. Dodd, Frank, and Biden need to be dragged out into the public square and tarred and feathered. Obama’s donations from Wall Street and Fannie Mae need to be plastered on billboards. McCain is not a tyical Republican, and Obama represents everything that is bad about the DNC.
yOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEND, WHEN OR If OBAMA WINS, ALL RHOSE NAIVE YOUNGSTERS WILL CRY ONE DAY SO HARD, BECAUSE THEY DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IN STAKES , IT IS THEIR FUTURE, AND OBAMA WILL DESTROY ALL, AND THEY WILL GET NOTHING,NOTHING,NOTHING. OBAMA WILL OWNS THEM. HE OWN THEIR MINDS NOW, OH YES…
IN EASTEN EUROPE YOUNG GENERATION IS AGAINST WHAT USA YOUNGSTERS ARE FOR!!! VERY FAR LIBERAL POLITICS THIS MEANS!!!”COMMUNISM”!!!OBAMAS IDEOLOGY IS AS MARX/ENGELS, THAT WHAT IS COMMING TO THIS COUNTRY.IT TOOK 45 YEARS, TO KICK COMMUNISM IN BEHIND, AND THE WHOLE ADULT LIFE OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE, TO DESTROY, SO THAT IS WHAT IS APPROACHING THIS COUNTRY IF YOUNG PEOPLE WONT STOP TO BE SO NAIVE!!
i MAKE MY CHOICE AND WILL NOT BE OBAMA, AND THIS IS SO SAD, BECAUSE COULD BE DIFFERENT, AS WE THOUGHT!OBAMA IS ABOUT; ME,MY MONEY, POWER,EAGLE,GIVE ME-GIVE ME, MORE AND MORE…
Off topic, but scandal ridden Congressman Charlie Rangel (who Pope Nancy I refuses to discipline) called Governor Sarah Palin “disabled” today:
http://wcbstv.com/politics/congressman.charles.rangel.2.821541.html
The wacko wing of the Democratic party is exposing itself as the mean, hateful, intolerant, racist, sexist pile of filth that it is, more each day.
The party of FDR (who actually wss disabled) no longer exists.
That wasn’t a very bright thing to say, was it? I’m sure that’ll win over a lot of women voters who are still on the fence.
What a PIG!!!
Well, the BIGGEST thing John Mc Cain has going for him this NOV is
NO CAUCUSES
it will be a landslide
dixie chicks & stevie nicks will have to RE-dedicate their song!
I agree Larry Sinclair front and center, but you wont get much traction for that idea on this site though. The overwhelming opinion is that mccain needs to take the high road. Alot of former kerry and dukakis supporters on this site.
JM
Just so that you know many of us are Reagan Democrats who as moderates welcome your opinion.
I came back from obscurity of Independent status to become a GORE DEMOCRAT in 2000
I was also a Carter Dem.
Indie once again going BACK in HISTORY and can’t see why I should bother to trust the future to someone who would DRAG ME BACK like this!
McCain doesn’t know where the high road is. He’s not just on the low road, he’s actually riding the subway.
Do Whatever You Must to Trick Former Hillary Supporters into Voting Barack
Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election
Lea Lane Huffpo
If you’ve been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it’s time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you’ve come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don’t mean it. This is politics.)
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
I just got this email..Good for a laugh.
The desperation is palpable!
I personally don’t think that Hillary would do it.
ALL,
This e-mail came from my niece that works with John McCain in his PR
department so I know it is good information.
hi all
let me share some info with you that i have
gotten from excellent sources within the DNC:
On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse
himself from the ticket, citing health problems,
and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is
timed to occur after the VP debate on 10/2.
there have been talks all weekend about how to
proceed with this info. generally, the feeling
is that we should all go ahead and get it out
there to as many blog sites and personal email
lists as is possible. i have already seen a few
short b lurbs about this - the “health problem”
cited in those articles was aneurysm. probably
many of you have heard the same rumbl ings.
however, at this point, with this inside info
from the DNC, it looks like this obama strategy will be a go.
therefore, it seems that the best strategy is to get out in front of
this obama maneuver, spell it out in detail, and thereby expose it for
the grand manipulation that it is.
so, let’s start mixing this one up and cut the
obamites off at the pass - send this info out to as many people as you
can - post about it on websites and blogs - etc etc
if you have any thoughts or questions about
this, please be in touch.
lastly, i have put an excerpt from Rudy’s speech
at the RNC below - it seems to address this
very issue!!
yours in the fight,
Carolyn
excerpt from R.Giuliani’s spe ech at the 2008
RNC:
“Obama - Obama promised to take public financing
for his campaign, until he broke his promise.
Obama - Obama was against wiretapping before he
voted for it.
When speaking to a pro-Israeli group, Obama
favored an undivided Jerusalem , like I favor and like John McCain
favored. Well, he favored an undivided Jerusalem - don’t get too excited
- for one day, until he changed his mind.
Well, I’ll tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I’d
want to get that V.P. thing in writing.”
Why in the world people keep getting distracted by this rumor…I just don’t understand…it is a lie gone viral
JM08 mccain released 5 tough and very good ads.
Larry Sinclair? Now i know why you think he is running a bad campaign.
Because you think poeple that no one has believed for over a year should be used against the guy.
Yeah JM that will work great. McCain should accuse obama of being gay, snorting coke with Larry, and giving him head.
That would ruin his campaign.
No wonder your always whining about the ads, your in loony land.
If he took your advice you could bet he will lose.
Also, i was 3 years old with dukakis. It has very little to do with their campaign. Republicans run entirely different campaigns than democrats.
Mccain hammered obama today and laid out an awesome plan for the whole nation.
Maybe instead of reading larry sinclair’s blog and the other conspiracy theories the never became.
You could pay attention to whats really going on in the real campaign JM08.
Comment by Paul3triple | 2008-09-19 16:50:30
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He is losing now, what is the difference? The public can get into Palin’s private life but they can’t get into this half kenya birth certificate pasteup mechnical fraud of a man? Get Larry Sinclair out if he wants to win. Palin has helped him as much as she can- now put the icing on the cake and dismantle this guy already! If they want the whitehouse, dirty their hands. They can always clean them afterwards. I guess some of you know that this will be the real icing on the cake. Mccain doesn’t need to do anything, just bring up the arrest of Larry Sinclair due to Biden son and go from there. Gosh…..they can bring up Mccain’s cheating on his first wife, Sarah having her daughter’s baby rumor, troopergate- but the black boy cannot be touch. It is a good thing I am not a in the supreme court- I would put 20 years on him and his minions for the fake birth certificate!
McCain’s losing because he has no ideas and he’s a liar. Palin shine has worn off and she’s been exposed as a no-nothing, corrupt liar as well. No one will believe Sinclair because he’s a gay career criminal. Larry Johnson has effectively turned you PUMAs into brain dead minions. You believe every debunked store about Obama that he’s put out there. And why? Because of you spoiled nature and sense of entitlement that Hillary got beat. Get over it and get a life.
Just make sure you come back to visit us on Nov. 6th, dickhead.
As much as I hate to agree with Kelvin, trying to make Larry Sinclair an issue would be a HUGE mistake. The guy has a very checkered past and has already failed two lie detector tests. He was unable to produce so much as a single shred of evidence or a single witness to substantiate his allegations, and he’s already failed two lie detector tests. In short, the clown has absolutely zero credibility. Maybe he did toot up with Barack and give him a hummer in the back of a limo, but nobody in their right mind would believe it.
For the McCain people to try and make an issue out of his allegations would only make them look stupid and would diminish the impact of the many things that Obama can legitmiately be criticized for, such as his cozy ties with seniot officials at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Bush speaks up in Iraqgate - on Obama’s behalf
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/bush-weighs-in-iraqgate-on-obamas-side/
Can someone explain, please, why Bush would want to support BO’s version as against McC’s version?
d
Wrong meeting. It was the Zebari meeting.
I thank the liberals are trying to bait conservative to say bad/racist things about Obama so they can rally their base. (Best to keep doing what we are doing!)
I don’t have any racial things to say, never have.
But I get your point.
I hope you not were referring to me with your stupid remark. Even my name should give you a hint that I am not a liberal. I just know that they are slaughtering you in ads in Florida, Colorado, and hitting the Mccain/Palin camp harder than ever, and the republicans are just pussyfooting along thinking they have it wrapped. The Obamas fight like thugs- and if you guys don’t get off the fence and use the big guns- say Hi to President Obama and all his middleeast friends. Something I really hate to see happen.
soldier
Great post. However, don’t lose heart. Alot can happen in the next month.
Thanks, cathnealon- he was 20 miles from me in Florida and I lost my marbles. I could feel Obama’s presence…….
bush did not say anything. It did not say who said anything.
All it said was someone in the administration.
So Bush, di not say anything.
And who cares. Mccains camp has not mentioned it since the first article.
McCain will win on the issues of who you want to lead this nation in a time of uncertainty and who do you trust. Character as well.
Character is important, without character the issues of importance do not matter because you are beholden to the special interests
I like this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/19/todd.palin/index.html
The notion that a blue-collar, union guy who is not registered as a Republican might have a say in Washington only makes me want to vote McCain/Palin all the more.
OT again..
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ON PALIN DISINVITE UPDATED:ISRAEL PROJECT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT
UPDATE: The Israel Project has removed its support for the Rally which disinvited Palin. The only rally in NY they are participating in is the one on the 25th
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/09/zoa-admits-democrats-forced-un-inviting.html
They are demanding Palin be re invited, says dems made them un invite her…it is a must read…it shows that the dems don’t care about anything but dems..
Penny Pritzker, national finance chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is the owner of the Hyatt, the hotel hosting the genocidal Hitler wannabee, Ahmadinejad.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/obamas-money-cz.html#comments
So much for “unity” in the face of our enemies, huh?
This Obama is just a joker.
Just looking and juxtaposing his name OBAMA, and comparing with the number 1 terrorist in the Universe and the number 1 enemy of the USA- Mr. Osama Bin Laden- only an insane person will go for the presidential post!!!!
Sheeh! This Osama and Obama should be locked up in a jail together, let alone this Obama be the No:1 man in the USA.
This is the biggest unprecedented joke in the history of mankind and is happening in a nation which claims is the no:1 super power of the Universe, ha ha ha…
State Senator Kevin Bryant Posts Osama-Obama Photo
1. Investors.com Points To Obama and ACORN as Part of the Problem
From Investors.com
“They (Democrats) were the ones who screamed — “REDLINING!” — and sent banks scurrying for cover in low-income neighborhoods, where they have been forced to lower long-held industry standards for judging creditworthiness to make the subprime loans.
If they don’t comply, they are threatened with stiff penalties under the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, a law that forces banks to make home loans to people with poor credit risks.
The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical “housing rights” groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public-interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. (emphasis added)
HUD, in turn, pressured Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase more subprime mortgages, and Fannie and Freddie, in turn, donated to the campaigns of leading Democrats like Barney Frank and Pelosi who throttled investigations into fraud at the agencies.”
investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=306544845091102
2. Obama got $126,000 from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investments. He is the second biggest recipient of political money from these funds and he’s only been in the Senate 3 years.
(Reference: opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html)
3. Fannie Mae CEO calls Obama Family
youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0
4. Jim Johnson, A Former CEO Of Fannie Mae And Top Obama Campaign Adviser, Received Special Loans From Countrywide:
Jim Johnson, A Former CEO Of Fannie Mae Chosen To Lead Obama’s Vice Presidential Search Committee, Received Special Loans From Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo. “Countrywide Financial Corp. makes mortgage loans through a vast network of offices, brokers and call centers. But a few customers have gotten their loans a special way: through Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo. These borrowers, known internally as ‘friends of Angelo’ or FoA, include two former CEOs of Fannie Mae, the biggest buyer of Countrywide’s mortgages, say people familiar with the matter. One was James Johnson, a longtime Democratic Party power and an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, who this past week was named to a panel that is vetting running-mate possibilities for the presumed nominee.”
(Reference: Glenn R. Simpson and James R. Hagerty, “Countrywide Frien ds Got Good Loans,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/7/08)
Good collection of points Pink.
Keep the truth front and forward.
Heck. Let the truth: “Get in their face!”
Bill Clinton Smitten With Sarah Palin - Somebody Call Todd
http://patriotroom.com/?p=2192
mccain should step down and make sarah palin for president in fact lets write her name in we need new blood and we need it now!!!!
Crap. Does anyone know what happened to Phillip Berg’s website? This what you get when you try to go there:
Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL
It often means the SQL server is overloaded. It either means the site is popular or that Gaza has a team overloading it.
Clinton recruiting her backers to help Obama
By BETH FOUHY,
Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
Sept. 19, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS - Hillary Rodham Clinton stepped up her efforts Friday to swing her supporters behind Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, her former rival for the nomination.
In an outreach dubbed “Hillary Sent Me,” the New York senator invited her primary-season partisans to get involved directly in Obama’s campaign and to donate to it. As part of that, she urged them to travel to a specific battleground state each weekend, beginning with New Hampshire on Sept. 27, when she will be campaigning for Obama in Michigan.
“Today I am asking all of you to stand up with me, to hit the road and spread the word that we must elect Barack Obama president and send a Democratic, filibuster-proof majority to Congress,” Clinton told supporters in a conference call Friday. “This is a call to action, a must-do. We all have a role. And there is not a moment to lose.”
Starting Saturday, Clinton’s political Web site will offer backers information about Democratic campaign events and grassroots efforts.
Clinton said the outreach “continues the historic journey that you have made with me.”
“I like to tell people this is a twofer,” said former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who is challenging Republican John Sununu for his Senate seat in that state and also took part in the call. “You can come up. You work in the presidential race, you can work in the Senate race.”
The effort was organized with the Obama campaign and state Democratic parties nationwide. Its goal: to engage the former first lady’s donors and voters — many of whom are still sore over her loss to Obama in the epic primary contest — to put that firmly behind them and help in battleground states.
The New York senator has already campaigned for Obama in Ohio, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico and raised more than $5 million for his campaign. “Hillary Sent Me” is her first explicit pitch to her grass roots supporters to get involved, Clinton aides said.
Rangel calls Palin, “disabled”.
http://wcbstv.com/politics/congressman.charles.rangel.2.821541.html
I’ve been feeling sorry for Charlie lately….
NO MORE!!!
I hope they throw the book at him, the sleaze!!!
Love it, love it, love it!
30 year dem not anymore-
Thanks for the links to BOTH stories.
I reread Nancy’s original post
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/17/obamas-iraq-double-talk-gate-response/#more-4843
before I responded to info contained in abc link you gave us (THANKS!)
“Undermining McCain Campaign Attack, Republicans Back Obama‘s Version of Meeting with Iraqi Leaders”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/undermining-mcc.html
In abc blog- Obama campaign is naming names as supposed witnesses who oppose what journalist wrote about how Sen Obama tried to delay US troops being allowed to return home.
Are we talking about two different meetings that took place in Iraq this past July 2008?
One where Obama along with Bush officials met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and another separate private meeting between Obama and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari?
And can I infer that it was in private meeting with Zebari that Obama made this request to delay allowing US troops to go home?
ABC BLOG WILL INTENTIONALLY OR ACCIDENTALLY
confuse voters .
Obama team could use abc blog (unethically) as proof to refute what took place in a totally different meeting.
So, Bush’s people who attended public meeting can be used to confuse voters who think that Bush’s people are refuting private meeting converstaion…when in fact, they are arguing about discussion that took place in totally different meeting.
Abc blog (Jake Tapper) MUST clarify this. His article can easily confuse voters .
If 2 separate meetings occurred-then, in effect, Obama campaign has NOT BEEN ABLE TO REFUTE what journalist Taheri’s article says about Obama trying to delay troops’ return.
Read what the NY Post writer says about Obama campaign accusations:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_objects_129453.htm
“The Obama campaign has objected. While its statement says my article was “filled with distortions,” the rebuttal actually centers on a technical point: the differences between two Iraqi-US accords under negotiation - the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA, to set rules governing US military personnel in Iraq) and the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA, to settle the legal basis for the US military presence in Iraq in the months and years ahead).
The Obama camp says I confused the two. It continues: “On the Status of Forces Agreement, Sen. Obama has always said he hoped that the US and Iraq would complete it - but if they did not, the option of extending the UN mandate should be considered.
“As to the Strategic Framework Agreement, Sen. Obama has consistently said that any security arrangements that outlast this administration should have the backing of the US Congress - especially given the fact that the Iraqi parliament will have the opportunity to vote on it.”
If there is any confusion, it’s in Obama’s position - for the two agreements are interlinked: You can’t have any US military presence under one agreement without having settled the other accord. (Thus, in US-Iraqi talks, the aim is a comprehensive agreement that covers both SOFA and SFA.)
And the claim that Obama only wanted the Strategic Framework Agreement delayed until a new administration takes office, and had no objection to a speedy conclusion of a Status of Forces Agreement, is simply untrue. “
Speculation here on my part BUT…
Question…why would Bush officials refute what they know might/could hurt the credibility of the campaign of a candidate from the REPUBLICAN party who is running for president? What did Sen McCain do to upset the Neocons? OR what did Sen Obama offer the neocons? or…why would Taheri or Zebari have reason to lie?
If you believe Obama violated the Logan act go to this link. It’s so easy to voice your concern.
http://www.rallycongress.com/americansentinel/1223/a-call-for-hearings-into-senator-barack-obamas-violation-of-the-logan-act/
I signed it. It was very short and to the point and went out to all 3 of my Representatives both D and R.
It was under 3,000 when I filled it out and over when my husband did. Lets make it happen.
Also at AOL Political news Andrew Sullivan was doing a straw poll asking if Sarah Palin was a pathological liar. You may wish to go vote. No registration required for that.
Love the ad, to the point, and the truth.
McCain/Palin 08