NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS REGARDING THE CANDIDACY OF SENATOR BARACK OBAMA FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
By Larry Johnson on October 26, 2008 at 10:44 AM in Current Affairs
[Note from Larry Johnson--Don Basset is another distinguished retired FBI agent who is legitimately concerned about the possible election of Barack Obama. I applaud Don for speaking out.]
I am a retired Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The following opinions are mine alone; they are in no way intended to represent those of the FBI.
As a condition of my employment with the FBI I, like other Special Agent applicants, underwent a comprehensive and rigorous background investigation to determine my suitability for holding a position of high public trust. This investigation was critical due to the fact that my duties sometimes required me to have access to highly sensitive and classified information relating to the national security of the United States. The areas of inquiry into my background included, among others, my character, associates, reputation and loyalty to the United States of America. The continuing relevance of these inquiries is evidenced by the fact that they were repeated and updated at intervals throughout my career. In essence, a national security clearance represents the hallmark of this nation’s trust in its servants — both civilian and military.
During my career I conducted national security background investigations concerning candidates for positions of high pubic trust such as federal judges, White House appointees and other FBI Special Agent applicants. Just as parents throughout the ages have cautioned their children that “you are known by the company you keep”, a person’s friends and associates have long been recognized as a critical and relevant factor in assessing their suitability for public service. One’s associations and relationships provide invaluable insights into that person’s judgement, integrity and loyalty. They can also provide a window into a candidate’s social and ideological comfort zones.
Since there is no requirement for a candidate for high elective office — such as the presidency of the United States — to undergo a national security background investigation, such vetting is left to the voting public. Thus, the burden rests on the voters to weigh a candidate’s character, associates, reputation and loyalty, recognizing that the candidate they choose will have access to the most highly classified information, and ultimately will be responsible for our nation’s security. Unfortunately the voters have only public information, or that which the candidates choose to disclose, upon which to base their decision.
It is public knowledge that Senator Barack Obama has had a deliberate, long-term association with William Ayres, an admitted and unrepentant bomb-maker for the Weather Underground, a violent anti-government group active in the 1970’s. Senator Obama acknowledges his relationship with Ayres but provides little information as to its nature and extent, and minimizes its significance or relevance to his candidacy.
Additionally, it is well documented that Jeremiah Wright, the Senator’s mentor, pastor and spiritual advisor of some twenty years has publicly engaged in America-hating and racist rants. When Wright’s extremist “sermons” first became widely known to the public, Senator Obama denied knowledge of them. Later, he repudiated them, while continuing to express support for Wright. Finally, as Wright continued to be a public embarrassment to his presidential campaign, Senator Obama repudiated him.
From the perspective of my professional experience, these associations are troubling. In both instances, the individuals espoused extreme anti-American views, while Ayres over a period of time actually engaged in violent criminal actions to further his radical agenda. In both instances Senator Obama claimed ignorance of the extremist, anti-American views by these two associates until public disclosure made it impossible to deny them. And in both instances he repudiated them only after being compelled to do so by the pressure of events and public criticism.
In the meantime, serious and legitimate questions remain: What was the precise nature and extent of Senator Obama’s relationship with William Ayres? Would Senator Obama be willing to provide all records relevant to this relationship for public review? If a detailed explanation would allay public concerns, why not give it? When did Senator Obama first learn of Ayer’s violent, anti-American activities? Was he aware of them at the time his relationship with Ayres began? How long after acquiring such knowledge did Senator Obama disavow those activities and repudiate his association with
Ayers? How was it possible that Senator Obama could have been an active member in the church of Jeremiah Wright — his pastor, friend and mentor for twenty years — and be unaware of Wright’s extremist views, which were spoken from the pulpit, video-recorded and sold by his church? Once he became aware of these views, why did he delay repudiating both the views and the man who espoused them?
These are questions that only Senator Obama can answer…and he should do so. The voters should expect no less prior to deciding who will occupy this Nation’s highest office.
But there is a better remedy for the growing controversy surrounding Senator Obama’s associations with Ayres and Wright–Senators Obama and McCain could both voluntarily submit to a national security background investigation and agree to make the results public. Doing so would provide an objective and complete history of each man’s background, enabling voters to determine for themselves the candidates’ fitness for high public office. Resolving this issue would then allow both candidates to refocus on the substantive issues in the waning days of their presidential
campaigns.
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It’s all good in Chicago.
More pesky facts from a friend in Ilinois:
Please read and consider the following.
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago; 221
killed in Iraq.
Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod
Blogojevich,
House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike),
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
…..our leadership in Illinois…..all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago. Of course, they’re all blaming
each other.
Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look ‘em up if
you want).
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics for us!
How do you make $160 Million disappear?
Give it to Oblowme to fix Chicago schools!
Right on txchick57! Oblowme’s too corrupt to recognize it.
Having undergone numerous background checks – I can assure y’all that Oblowme would not pass one – and that McCain would.
The current average wait time for a federal judge or homeland security attorney background check
is 7 months.
They talk to everybody you ever knew, lived by or worked with –
all mysteries or scary friggin negatives with Oblowme.
Felons for Oblowme/Corporate Bag Man Biden ‘08!
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago; 221
killed in Iraq.
Those are US service men killed not total dead. You forget that Iraq citizen and contractors are not counted in those figures. If you think Iraq is so safe then move there to prove it. You would not last a week unless you were in the green zone or areas protected by US troops.
And what do you think the average life expectancy is in Chicago projects?
Try visiting a Chicago ER if you want to see some real action. Lots of wounded.
Million and millions of dollars later and kids are now getting shot on the way to school in Oblowme’s neighborhood.
It was safer under Al Capone.
Hey dumbass,
Just got back from Tikrit–as a citizen not under any protection. I was not hasseled once. Normalcy is returning to Iraq. The Al Queda jerkoffs are running to Somalia and Afghanistan.
Iraq ain’t perfect but conditions are improving throughout the country.
wooo hoooo! Chicago, here we come!!!
I know someone working with the FBI headoffice on training.
They cannot go to the toilet without a chaperone to escort them and walk them back to where they need to be….
and were giving someone with no background check the keys to the whitehouse??
That is pretty scary in the least.
I’d say that there’s the proverbial “fat chance” that The One would agree to that. But his hypnotized followers don’t seem to care. It’s a sad state of affairs in America right now.
No, they don’t care. Just last night, my sister pooh-poohed the relationship between Obama and Ayers, claiming I see my postal carrier as much or more as Obama sees/saw Ayers. He will not be held accountable by his followers, the MSM, the DNC, nor, it seems, the RNC (I thought they were going to come out with guns blazing, but no – they are laying off The One, too, it seems…).
Great post – thank you so much for this!
Does your sister work in my office because that is the kind of response I get from people I work with and its jaw dropping.
“Since there is no requirement for a candidate for high elective office — such as the presidency of the United States — to undergo a national security background investigation, such vetting is left to the voting public.”
Isn’t that profoundly incredible? Just terrible.
Isn’t this remarkably hard to believe? What were our fore fathers thinking??? I just don’t understand this.
Our forefathers have told us all exactly what they thihk.. we have been warned:
Thomas Jefferson:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
James Madison
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
George Washington:
“The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!” [Fuck yeah!]
This guy is truly Prophetic
Daniel Webster
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.”
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may ovenvhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
[It's taken about 40 years for this happen]
“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
Noah Webster:
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty;
“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes;
“Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.
“If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”
“Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And…the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.”
Let us not insult their honor and memory by saying they haven’t warned us.
Check this out.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31688_LA_Times_Hiding_Incriminating_Video_of_Obama_with_Radical_Palestinian_Update-_Ayers_and_Dohrn_Attended_Khalidi_Party_with_Obama
Isn’t the LA Times owned by the Chicago Tribune?
Yes it is owned by the Trib—–. A guy out of Chicago named Zell owns them…
Thanks Larry for posting this, America deserves the backstory and the press hasn’t given it.
No; it isn’t. Ours is a civilian government. Obviously, millions of our citizens are willing to hand over the reigns of government to a man who could not pass a security screening. Luckily, he is not omnipotent; visitors to the White House must still undergo routine screens to protect the Office of the Presidency, even if the man who fills the office feels safe otherwise. And William Ayers cannot pass scrutiny.
He’s over 35 and a citizen.
To take that away?
I don’t get that thinking.
This whole “vetting” notion isn’t the “responsibility” of anyone but the voter.
you need to let him move in with you and where did you see his documentation?
I would love access to the information to vet the SOB.
I have 1400 pages of medical records from McCain, his birth certificate etc.
I know who has given McCain money and how much.
I know squat about Obama except the lies in his books.
Thank you for this post Mr Bassett.
I have confidence in middle America, but I woulod still like to see a 527 ad:
it’s 10:00pm (or 3:00am HA) America, do you know where your POTUS IS?
And show pics of Obummer with Wright, with Ayers, with Khalidi..
I would really like the LATimes to do their job and release the video they have of Obummer toasting Khalidi..
I believe America will soundly reject Obummer on Nov 4th
the silent majority is pretty pragmatic and we dont have time for experiments when we are in a global economic crisis and a two front war..
If you saw Bill Ayers confronted by a producer of Bill O’Rieley, you would have noticed the shirt Ayers was wearing. A black tee shirt with a BIG RED STAR on it. I Googled “Red Star” and this is what Wiki said:
Red star
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For other uses, see Red star (disambiguation).
The red star.The five-pointed red star, a pentagram without the inner pentagon, is a symbol of communism as well as broader socialism in general. It is sometimes understood to represent the five fingers of the worker’s hand, as well as the five continents. A lesser known suggestion is that the five points on the star were intended to represent the five social groups that would lead Russia to communism: the youth, the military, the industrial labourers, the agricultural workers or peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used the red star as a symbol[citation needed]. It was also one of the emblems, symbols, and signals representing the Soviet Union under the rule and guidance of the Communist Party, along with the hammer and sickle. The star has since become a symbol representing socialism of all varieties.
(There was a picture of the same Red Star on Bill Ayers shirt…..talk about stupidity and arrogance and…scary)
Thank you for providing this article, Larry. I want to pass this one around.
Godspeed.
This is one of the best articles around on the security concerns that will have to be addressed too late unfortunately! Thank you for this information which is vital for everyone to know.
Also, Obamarama knew that Rezko was being indicted while he was making his mansion purchase with funds from billionaire convicted Arab Mr. Auchi. Rezkos received funds from Auchi’s overseas account. Why didn’t the prosecutor address this? And will Obama be a president (god forbid) while Rezko is indicted?
Don Young was the Trinity choir master shot to death last Xmas. Why isn’t Chicago Police investigating currently? Has anyone ascertained about hte validity of Barry’s birth certificate and if he’s eligible to become president? So many issues that will haunt his candidacy for years to come. Thank Zeus he’s got Biden by his side to steer Him on the right path!….Biden’s a real gem. A treasury of Obama’s errors and omissions soon to come….”Motormouth” senator from Delaware at least blurts out a few truths. Who knows, he may say something that will be Obama’s downfall….A real gem, you are Joe!
Question is why was Obama never vetted properly? Could the Democratic Party be prosecuted if, at any future time, it is proven that BHO breached security concerns?
I have wondered about that myself.
Do we citizens have the right to file a complaint with the Justice Dept. over violations of HAVA? and do we have a right to sue the Democratic Congress for their dereliction of duty, not asking, even once, to see the candidate’s COLB. I believe it is an extreme act of negligence to have allowed a candidate this close to the WH and our top secret security codes,our Military Intelligence Reports w/o a Security clearance…this is not just a concern that I have about BO, this should be standard de rigueur for any candidate filing his or her intention to seek POTUS. We need to make sure that there are never any questions such as these, ever again, in any Election for President.
The safety of our nation should not be compromised because we want to appear to be pc, and non to a candidate…for any reason. It should not matter if the candidate is Democrat or Republican, male or female, White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or any other distinction.
Who, and what, is it more important to protect? The feelings of the prospective candidate, or the American people? Any candidate who would not voluntarily submit to the same extensive background checks we would, and do perform on our Government Contractors, need not apply to be the Leader of the Free World. It’s not racist, nor invasive…it should be a job requirement. if you can’t pass it, then you are seeking the wrong job.
Thank you! Great post.
I’ve said over and over. Vetting is the responsibility of the voter in our democracy.
It is NOT the responsibility of the press.
It is NOT the responsibility of the congress.
If Obama is over 35 and a citizen, he’s technically “vetted.” The rest is up to voters.
And if we abdicate our responsibility, then we are basically throwing away our democratic ideals.
I am as disappointed in the news sources as anyone, but the 4th estate ideal was obviously way, way overblown in many people’s minds. It is not their responsibility at all to “inform” the public. They ARE allowed free access to verify information that may not be welcomed by those in power. That’s it. That is the sole source of their power. If they don’t choose to use it wisely, that’s nothing more than a reflection of business conditions. Journalism is a business, above all else.
Vetting is the responsibility of each voter. How much integrity or ethical clarity you demand as a voter reflects upon your vote and your vote only.
Democracy is messy. Some vote based on a promise. Others on an image. Others out of anger. Others due to principles.
We all come together, mix it up, and out comes the result.
I thought Sarah Palin should have answered ALL questions about her “readiness” with the simple answer: That will up to the voters.
AnninCA: It is the responsibility of the press to screen and investigate. That’s their job. You need a basic course in government. The press is called the Fourth Estate for a reason. Most ordinary Americans do not have the time or resources to go vet every incident or public person. They rely on the press.
Even some ine the Press are beginning to acknowledge this, and they’re embarrassed by this year’s coverage.
Read:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6099188
And read:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/737mifbf.asp
Yeah, before this presidential cycle started, there were stories about how the media would DO THEIR JOBS and avoid the type of stuff that they pinned Gore with…mostly inaccurate reports that created a false image of Gore.
Well,this time they went after Clinton and Palin…and jnow they’re “embarrassed”??? Screw them… I don’t believe it! They’re just trying to regain their lost credibility…what they even had left before their completely unprofessional actions this year.
It is not their [4th Estate] responsibility at all to “inform” the public.
Amendment 1 guarantees “freedom of the press” because the Founding Fathers realized the importance of a free press. The Revolution would not have been possible without men, that are as well known as Washington, like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine “informing the public.”
The Constitution does not protect individual jobs like farmers and businessmen, it protects journalists, reporters, and we all know that sometimes investigative reporting can get a journalist thrown in jail. With special rights comes special responsibilities because if what we now call the media does not do the job they were protected to do then We the Citizens (voters) can not do our job properly.
And under that Constitution there is no comparison between what the vice presidential candidate says or does compared to what the presidential candidate says and does. Before political parties took over our election process, the two candidates who received the most votes became the president and vice president, a much better system than what we have experienced with parties giving votes to candidates who didn’t receive them, deciding whose votes would and would not count (Michigan, Florida) even though political parties have no Constitutional standing.
Governor Palin has been vetted by the State of Alaska and found “ready” to lead her state. Senator Soertoro/Obama has not been vetted by his state or the People of Chicago. He ran unopposed with the political backing of wealthy men like domestic terrorist Ayers, convicted criminal Rezko, and other foreign residents with sympathies toward the same terrorists who cheered the terrorist attack of 9/11.
According to the international media Soertoro/Obama is an international candidate chosen for us by Kadaffi, Kenya, Hamas and other terrorist nations. And if our “free press businesses” doesn’t feel it is their job to inform us of this, then their special Constitutional protections should be removed.
I don’t share your belief that “Democracy is messy”, our Constitution is actually the most orderly and clearly stated you will find. The “mess” comes from those who seek to distort it or don’t understand what it says.
If, as you say, the burden of vetting falls upon the individual citizen and Federal Court Judge Surrick rules that as citizens we have no standing to vet the candidates then we have a Constitutional crisis on our hands.
Anne…I’m sorry-but we deserve what we get! When we elected George Bush, the media did not do its job….you are just plain wrong, you statement is just plain stupid! The MSM is a controlled corporate institution and we no longer have such a thing called a free, investigative press! We all have to start relying on the internet and the serious bloggs which are reporting the truth and really allowing the people to express our opinions. What do we get with the MSM??? Crapola. More Americans are beganning to realize the truth about our so-called freedom of speech.
Larry,
Thank you for writing this article.
Obama’s biography touches so frequently on such unsavory organizations as CAIR and the Nation of Islam should give pause. How many of politicians have a single tie to either group, much less seven of them? John McCain charitably calls Obama “a person you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States,” but Obama’s multiple links to anti-Americans and subversives mean he would fail the standard security clearance process for Federal employees.
Islamic aggression represents America’s strategic enemy; Obama’s many insalubrious connections raise grave doubts about his fitness to serve as America’s commander-in-chief.
Obama would fail the secrutiy clearance.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5983
Another interesting question is whether BO is currently under investigation by Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Also whether BO applied for college using his admitted Kenyan citizenship.
Obama is the most secretive, NON-TRANSPARENT candidate for POTUS most of us can remember. The gaps in our info about him stretch back and back and back. Where are his records? Where are his character refs?
why is this info gap o.k.?
correct; he and his minions think we don’t have a right to know a damn thing about our potential future Crook-in-Chief. and if he steals his way into office, he’s going to tell us that we don’t have the right to know what our own government is doing. Bush/Cheney III, i’d say.
Governor Palin made an insightful statement, which of course was not picked up by the MSM,- “What did these characters see in Obama?”
What in Obama attracted such unsavory people to him?
Ayers, Wright, Resko, Kaladid, Farrakan, Auchi, Mansour…the list goes on and on……. What do they see in him?
that is a VERY good point!
as John Kass says in this CNN investigative report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ned5TQoW4
There are no coincidences in Chicago… the fact that all these con-men, now convicted felons and racists are connected highlights the corruption, influence peddling, pay to play, bribes and general slimey politics going on…
they are involved in chicago politics to line their pockets.
and it shows. Chicago has is the murder capitol, lowest achieving schools etc etc…
you would think that any of these facts would disqualify Obama from even being considered for running for president…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Troubling too is that he, evidently, has no “normal” friends without shady backgrounds. It began with Mommy Dearest and goes on today.
This is something that needs to be changed. The people inhabiting the WH and the VP, need to have a complete security background check. If this had been in place, Barry wouldn’t even have dared stepped up for the nomination…knowing he’d never pass the test.
Look what happened to the FLorida anchor, Barbara West…when she asked a substantive question, she’s now locked out. Biden laughed it off, attempted to demean her and even asked it she was serious. So arrogant, they are insulted if anyone expects them to answer. Now they spin, spin, spin it as foolish and a ridiculous question. Outrageous.
Hell the media wont vet him, and any average citizen who asks a question is called RACIST/REDNECK.
Larry, great article, as usual. It is too bad that the Prince of Air-wave has captured the airwaves because they were are only source of information. The internet is next. As you know, I am from Florida, and when I saw what Obama’s camp did down here with the local station asking them tough questions and forbidding them any interviews in the near future, I realized that Obama is the Prince of Air-wave as predicted by our old doctrines. He is not called the Prince of Air for nothing by G-d.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need … Karl Marx
Spread the wealth……
OT -
McCain aide says Palin’s “going rogue” -
WTH???
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
I hope that this is disinformation to set up the good cop/bad cop dichotomy. Maybe McCain is hoping to project the image that he’s not going to dirty his hands with the mud that the ‘Cuda’s about to sling at Obama bin Biden. Let’s hope she gets to it and soon!!!
Yes, I love this idea…good cop, bad cop…go, Sarah, go!
josey,
That’s a lame article. Palin is enthusiastic….it’s a ridiculous article, like many in the media.
She should have done that a long time ago. Her handlers got her all screwed up to begin with.
Senators Obama and McCain could both voluntarily submit to a national security background investigation and agree to make the results public
This is a brilliant idea. If McCain were to do it, and Obama refused, how would the media make it backfire on McCain?
This is similar to the suggestion Greta made that all 4 candidates present their birth certificates.
We may find the darkest day in America’s history will be the day it became obvious no one or nothing could force either of these to be done.
Off topic but good news – polls tightening:
Reuter’s says that Obama’s lead has dropped 5 points.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49J0LF20081026
This is a litlle bit of a contrast to the picture Rove painted today on Fox News Sunday. It was pretty bleak.
If it is important to each of us, just go vote. You can’t predict what might happen. Remember the 2000 election, who would have thunk it!
GOOD GOD! Even the US Marine Corps used to (don’t know about now) check to see if applicants had a police record, level of education, and tested for drug abuse. I guesse a recruit private might pose higher security risk than someone who has all the codes and triggers to our nuclear weapons.
Don’t worry, Josey- Palin has decided that enough is enough with the “holding” her down for interviews and now she has enough confidence to approach the media. The Mccain camp advisors don’t like her to do that………..well…..too bad…if it wasn’t for her…..Mccain would not be where he is at……
I could never vote for anyone who does not qualify for a Top Secret SCI (codeword) security clearance. I could list at least a dozen reasons off the top of my head why NObama would NEVER qualify for such a clearance.
He cannnot get a clearance to guard public latrines, let alone have access to classified information.
I am absolutely mortified that Barrack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro-Dunham-Davis is a heartbeat away of becoming the most powerful man in the world. I wholeheartedly agree that all candidates running for state or federal office should have to be held to a higher standard than those written into our constitution over 230 years ago. To include the same requirements any private/seaman/airman in the military must meet – FBI background checks, necessary security clearances, and mandatory drug testing at the very least. NObama would NEVER qualify to hold public office if this were the case. Yet, 50% of America seems ready to hand over the keys to the White House to this Kenyan/Indonesian/Muslim? man who will not release his original birth certificate or even supply his previous addresses. I sincerely fear the damage this man will do to our national security.
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So glad this link is working again. Haven’t been able to get on since yesterday.
Yes, me too..I was going stir crazy without my NQ fix!
It’s true. I felt like I was locked out of my house.
i know! i was at loose ends all day (sunday). in the future is there an alternative way for us to know that all is still well at NQ? that we haven’t been shut down by the O’thugs (yet!)?
Omigod, Joe.
We have a Don…wow
Heads up!
Senior officials in Tehran are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London.
israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2018399%3ABlogPost%3A11105
AND
Fearing a US strike on Iran during President George W. Bush’s last months in office, a senior Iranian official has suggested the Islamic regime should target London to deter such an attack.
jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017624184&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
and meanwhile in Pakistan:
Pakistan rejects ‘America’s war’ on extremists
• Parliament vows to end military action on border
• Relations with US will be strained by new strategy
Serious doubts multiplied yesterday about Pakistan’s commitment to America’s military campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban after parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for dialogue with extremist groups and an end to military action.
The new strategy, backed by all parties, emerged after a fierce debate in parliament where most parliamentarians said that Pakistan was paying an unacceptable price for fighting “America’s war”. If implemented by the government, support for Pakistan from international allies would come under severe strain, adding further instability to a country facing a spiral of violence and economic collapse.
guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/24/pakistan-us-foreign-policy-terrorism
looks like everyone is getting prepared for an Obama presidency….
Biden was right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbS-vy9_Sk
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Contrast that with reports today that Pakistani military forces dealt a serious blow to Taliban forces and had chased them from the region back toward Afghanistan.
Pakistan claims victory after battle for key Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold
Published Date: 26 October 2008
By Munir Ahmad
PAKISTAN’S army yesterday captured a key militant stronghold near the Afghan border, a breakthrough in an offensive against the Taliban and al-Qaeda that has sent nearly 200,000 civilians fleeing for safety.
Major General Tariq Khan said government forces captured Loi Sam, a strategic town in the Bajur tribal region, this week “and killed the militants who were hiding there”.
Read the rest:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/world/Pakistan-claims-victory-after-battle.4630361.jp
Up on Drudge there is a report that US helicopters hit a house inside of Syria.
Yes they killed many terrorists and are about to catpure Bin Laden.
One thing that was not mentioned is that Senators are given security clearances and they are not automatically handed out. We learned this during committee meetings where the Bush administration representatives, and some elected officials, admitted they had intelligence information on the Iraq invasion that other senators and congressmen did not have a security clearance high enough to see or hear and therefore were not privy to all intelligence information when they voted to give Bush the authority that led to the invasion of Iraq.
And we know that the other Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton did not have a security clearance high enough to be included in these intelligence meetings and yet she was highly criticized by her critics for not having all of the intelligence information before she made her decision on Iraq.
So here’s a question for the FBI: When Barack Hussein Obama joined the Senate, was he given a security clearance to see classified information and what kind of security clearance was he given? Who investigated his background at that time and what was discovered?
If he doesn’t have a security clearance he can not see any classified information which would mean he has no access to the issues he talks about and is no more informed than any well read citizen so he has probably had some sort of investigation done and just releasing this information will help us determine his background because everything about him is a big mystery; from his birth, his education, his associates and his legislative history.
Security Clearance: My understanding; During the primaries, Sen. Clinton did not have a security clearance.
But neither did Sen. Obama. He’s been said to have applied for one in April (?). I know someone who does these clearances, she says it takes much longer than 6 months.
What I logically deduced: 1. That’s why Sen. Obama was never able to hold Committee Hearings on his NATO sub-committee. 2. And his quick run for the Presidency might hide his past.
I’m just trying to be as accurate as possible
Security clearance for Senators was discussed in detail during the hearings on the Iraq war and it came out under oath that Senators, like Senator Clinton, did not receive the same information as others because their security clearance was not high enough.
Another indication that senators had security clearances was an article dated October 5, 2001 which states that George W. Bush “Pulls security clearance from 92 Senators“. So it is entirely possible that none of these 92 senators, including Senator Clinton, have ever had one since 2001. It also states that “President Bush issued an order limiting access to classified intelligence only to 8 members of Congress — the Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committee.”
Now whether GWB had authority to pull these security clearances on a political whim or not is beside the point; if they did not have a security clearance there would be no need to pull them.
I remember when this was done and although information on security clearances for government officials, elected and appointed, is hard to find some of the information can be found by putting pieces of the puzzle together; but it defeats the purpose of electing government leaders if information about what they are voting on is kept from them because of not having a security clearance.
However, how a security clearance could be issued for Soertoro/Obama who has closer ties to terrorist organizations than those citizens put on no fly lists by Homeland Security defeats logic!
Does your friend know how Soertoro/Obama could slip through? I’ve been vetted for low level security clearances for employment but have never known anyone bold enough to even try if they knew they didn’t meet the criteria so this run for the office of president with Soertoro/Obama’s background after 9/11 and the creation of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act is unprecedented!
Well, no background checks for presidential candidates. No enforcement of Art. II, Sec. 1, Clause 5 of the presidential candidate qualifications.
Is it just me or is our country f*** up right now in terms of checks & balances?
Wolves in sheep clothing can invade our country like 9/11 and none of our agencies have authority to protect us from this marxist/communisist and his friends set to destroy America?
I need a drink.
I just applied to work at a Senior Apartment facility.
I had to have a complete criminal background check completed, get my fingerprints done and get a drug test.
A nominee for the office of President of the United States should have to do no less.
Excellent article Mr. Bassett, but we all already know Sen. Obama will never acknowledge the need for such a thing.
AnninCA, there would be no problem for the voter to vet Obama or McCain, but to do so, we must have access to the files and the records. He is hiding everything about his past – EVERYTHING!. People have gone through the only legal channels available and have been turned down, told that they have no standing. There are no investigative journalists anymore save the few we have on the internet. How are we supposed to vet these candidates, indeed.
Not only should this be done by the voter, but the party that puts their name forward. The Democrats have screwed the people of America and for that, I’m truly sorry I was ever part of their crowd.
This is insanity.
…but this refusal to provide documentation is in itself a vetting of sorts. That is, what kind of man, having acknowledged concerns expressed by the electorate as to whether he is eligible for POTUS – after all, he said he posted that “Certification of Live Birth,” which he called a “Birth Certificate,” on his “Fight the Smears” web site to allay these concerns – and, faced with continued doubts as expressed in several lawsuits, chooses to contest these legal actions on the basis of lack of standing, ripeness, or jurisdiction, rather than producing the documentation that would, if authentic, unequivocally establish this eligibility?
It is as if these people who support his candidacy misconstrue the Constitution to mean, they must prove themselves worthy of being governed by him, rather than the other way around.
hear, hear.
Hi Type, for the 1st time this weekend I couldn’t get on. Eventually came through the back door thanks to some good tips.
Happy Sunday, Type~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ing!
This is pay dirt…thanks NQ, Larry, Susan and Don!
Just when you think there couldn’t be anymore tugs associations added to the already long list, this one has to be as bad as the rest are.
Not only does Barack Obama’s church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a longtime close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi.
Earlier this month Sean Hannity dared to report Barack and Michelle Obama’s radical associate and friend.
Hugh Hewitt on the tightening of the polls:
IBD-TIPP 4%, Zogby 5%, Rasmussen 8%
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/ec95b06b-a584-4e5b-a175-48733e4745f8
DON -
Thanks for that interesting perspective. Our cherished “rule of law” in this country requires that we all live by the same rules – that includes all the joes the plumbers and all the candidates for the highest office in the world. Therefore, your recomendation for both Senators Obama and McCain to submit to the same standard
Great article. Why can’t we get this idea of background check pushed on Fox, CNN (probably won’t run it), and all over the internet? I know McCain wouldn’t have a problem with doing it, then maybe O will be forced to. Bet Hannity and Limbaugh will push it. (never thought I would ever tune in to either of these guys), but they are helping me keep my sanity now.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” – Karl Marx
“Spread the Wealth” – Guess who?
Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi’s anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to “political enlightenment,” threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
Although he is described as a former PLO operative, via Free Republic, this is what Rashid Khalidi has to say about Palestinian terrorism against Jews– he said anti-Israel violence contributed to “political enlightenment”:
On Palestinian violence. Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out. His loyalty to Palestinian terrorist groups run so deep that he actually dedicated his 1986 valentine to the PLO, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives . . . in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.”[viii] The book whitewashes PLO violence against Israelis and Lebanese, as well as the Syrian occupation.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” – Karl Marx
The phrase summarizes the principles that, under a communist system, every person should contribute to society to the best of their ability and consume from society in proportion to their needs, regardless of how much they have contributed. In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist society will produce; the idea is that there will be enough to satisfy everyone’s needs.
“Spread the Wealth” – Guess who?
“From each according to his ability”–SOCIALISM,
“To each according to his needs”– COMMUNISM.
Communism is the ultimate goal of socialism.
I just sent an email on this exact topic. Our national security is the number one reason NOT to vote for Obama.
Yeah, he’s a sexist racist hateful bastard, a crook and a fraud, but those are small potatoes compared to what we (and our allies, Israel for sure) face. I don’t think Biden was blowing air out his butt when he warned of military dangers. In fact, I don’t think Biden necessarily knows more than most semi-intelligent non-koolaid drinkers know. Obama knows fuck one about terrorism (except for what Ayers taught him), foreign affairs, the military, and national security, etc.
Pardon my language, I’m sick and cranky. In my darker moments I wonder if an Obama presidency won’t get us nuked off the map, at the worst, or living in fear of getting nuked, at the best.
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The LA Times wrote an article about Obama’s association with Rashid Khalidi in April:
It was a celebration of Palestinian culture — a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama’s unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama served on the fund’s board of directors…
At Khalidi’s going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. “You will not have a better senator under any circumstances,” Khalidi said.
The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.
The LA Times acknowledged it has a video of this tribute Barack Obama gave to the Khalidis at their going away party.
But, the LA Times won’t release this video before the election.
DON -
Thanks for that interesting perspective.
Our cherished “rule of law” in this country requires that we all live by the same rules – that includes all the joe the plumbers and all the candidates for the highest office in the world.
Therefore, your recomendation for both Senators Obama and McCain to submit to the same standard national security background scrutiny, not withstanding the importance and validy of the American voters, makes plain common sense. It should be done!
We have gone round and round about the lack of vetting of Barack Obama since June. It is now, I fear, too late.
We have to hope that Obama is not a Marxist, and is only a socialsit. My biggest fear is that Obama is a member of the “Authoritarian Left”. We may see an all-out assault on freedom of speech in the next 4 years.
What a sad state our country is in when you let someone that has all kinds of ties with the worst kind of people almost making it to be our next President. What is wrong with the MSM to let this happen.How can they report about Palins clothes and not about Ayers, Wright and Acorn is beyond me.
As predicted by me and many many others, including Hillary Clinton, the PUMA movement is dead.
Obama is now polling better among Dems than McCain is among Repubs. And oh yeah, Independents are breaking for Obama too. It is a classic example of how you cannot fuel an entire movement on hurt feelings.
Most Hillary supporters are listening to Hill and looking at what is in the best for their families. The remaining people on this site have other reasons for continuing to hate Obama, none of which have anything to do with the ideals to which Hillary ascribes.
Your movement will now be known as the Whitey Tape PUMAs. Your welcome!
9 days left…still no whitey tape! Berg’s suit was dismissed as frivolous. What’s left? Larry Sinclair, you out there?
So when does the “Impeach Obama” campaign start?
ADMIN: someone shit themselves in aisle:
Comment by Francis | 2008-10-26 15:00:40
Type,
You have to remember that Francis the Douche-brained Talking Mule was dropped on his head by his mother from the back of the camel she was riding.
nice try Obama Bot…
you think by now we still pay attention to the lies from the mainstream media?
Mccain is winning… that is why you guys are here…
-=sigh=-
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Good try. Pollsters have been complaining for months about the hang-up rate when they are polling. It’s somewhere between 60-80%. Wonder how that large group of hang-up’s is going to vote?
I think we have all seen that it can be dangerous to say you are NOT supporting Obama. At this very point in time (who knows what the future will bring) we still have privacy voting.
The only “poll” that counts is the private vote on Nov 4.
Thanks for posting this Larry. Once again you are ahead of the game. For those of you that read Obama’s American Socialism Part I, I have put up Part II of the research sent to me my numerous PUMAs to show the various radical associates and the timeline of Obama’s involvement with these folks.
http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/25/obamas-american-socialism-decades-in-the-making-part-ii/
This is an amazing piece, Diamond Tiger. I have sent Part 1 around; didn’t know there would be a Part 2. So much for PUMAs being ineffective. Will forward this one and print out too for my friends who are not on line.
Thanks for forwarding the link.
http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/25/obamas-american-socialism-decades-in-the-making-part-ii/
Everyone should read these essays.
Canada Free Press reported:
An article has appeared on the ISM affiliated website Electronic Intifada (EI) by one of its co-founders, Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a “Palestinian activist.” Abunimah insists that Obama will “come around” once elected.
But Ali Abunimah is more than just some “Palestinian activist” based in Chicago, the same location as Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is, in fact, one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Semitic ISM Arab group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Abunimah is a high level international leader of the ISM for the Arabs who travels extensively between Chicago, Europe and Ramallah.
Al Awda in Arabic means “The Return,” and the group not only calls for the complete destruction of Israel, even denying Israel’s current existence on its website and urging boycotts against not only Israelis, but American Jews and their businesses, but also calls for specifically supporting Arab terrorists in Iraq who kill US soldiers. Among its more than 130 chapters across the US and Canada, Al Awda’s New Jersey chapter is led by a young woman named Charlotte Kates who has called Israeli children killed by suicide bombers “fair game.” The ISM’s Al Awda openly supports terrorism as “legitimate resistance” in ISM revolutionary lingo.
…If Barack Obama didn’t know about Abunimah’s writings (and Abunimah says he did), the same as his claims of being unaware of Reverend Wright’s remarks after 20 years, then Obama is not competent to be our President. Abunimah likes to lie and claim Al Awda has nothing to do with the ISM or Electronic Intifada, though plenty of evidence exists on the website the homepage at http://www.StoptheISM.com showing the contrary.
But Obama’s association with the ISM through his church and lobbying in Chicago goes even deeper than just his past links to Al Awda and Ali Abunimah. His pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the Trinity Union Church of Christ in Chicago, are both equally involved with the ISM.
There is much more- HERE.
there’s no doubt which side obama is on when it comes to the israel/palestinian situation; he’s one of the suicide bombing apologists who would attempt to legitimize the arabs/muslims blaiming everything bad thing that’s ever happened to them on the joooz.
McAnnie-
I am currently working on Part 3, should have it up in a day or two. Please stop by the site and leave a comment so I can contact you with the link – and thanks for the kudos – but they belong to all the PUMAs that sent me the information. Hele Mai!
Francis…How much do you trolls make? Is it really 5 cents a post? Wow. Guess what? Your post was all lies. PUMA is far from dead and Obama has NEVER changed percentage wise of how many Hillary voters he is getting. It was 58% in June and I bet it’s even less now. Obama will never run this country. Never. Can you say C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L? And the reason desperate morons like you show up where you aren’t wanted is that you know it was well as we all do. ROFLMAO. He can’t keep over 50% in the (legitimate) polls. Need we remind you that Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, and even MONDALE were up way into double digits in the polls by now and gee we all know how that turned out. God loves this country too much to turn it over to a bunch of sicko wing nuts and their unqualified, lying, cheating, thieving, mentally deranged “Messiah.” This is AMERICA. If you hate it so much then move. We don’t want America haters like you here. BUH BYE TROLL.
I agree with you ‘Comment by OBAMA IS A FRAUD’. All you trolls that are American hating Marxist get the hell out of our country. That goes for all of the Hollywood crowd too. Go make your movies in Venezuela….
K S girl Great comment……………..I agree 100%
Polls schmolls. They are tightening all of a sudden so the pollsters don’t look inept on election day. This race has been close all along thanks to us PUMAs sticking to our guns!
Check out this great article on why PUMAs should ignore the polls.
PUMA power baby!
As long as this has gone OT I found this:
Obama followers vandalize homes in Gainesville
Although these attacks are in fitting with what we know about the more militant Oborgbots, caution is in order. It is always possible this was an opposition operation done to discredit The Precious.
And last is this:
Channel 9 is being attacked by Obama followers! They need your support!
I believe this is the video of the Biden interview, but I can’t view it at this moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubM
Could The Precious’ campaign Brownshirt reaction to the Biden interview be a game changer? Probably not but it is very damaging I think.
Ahem…correction….clinging to our guns.
WE WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
McCain/Palin ‘08 Country First
Cubs in 08 — Couldn’t have said it better.
You people have gone off the deep end.
The President of the United States is given clearance for Top Secret-type classifications, Code-word clearance or probably better (truthfully, I don’t know what the highest level of clearance is, but the President has it), as well as the Nuclear Codes, etc.
Do you people really think that our department of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, etc., – all who are RUN by Bush appointees, are about to hand the reigns over to some guy who they have never investigated?
Have any of you ever gotten a Passport? Having a Birth Certificate, as well as 7 “points” through different papers is a requirement in order to do so.
Just because no one has shown you the vetting does not mean Obama has not been vetted properly.
You people are probably big proponents of the grassy knoll and the 9-11 Truth as well.
If it doesn’t seem logical, it’s probably because it’s not logical. Not because our entire government has conspired to make Barack Obama the next President of the US despite being an illegal alien terrorist who hates America.
WAKE UP.
Wake up?? Please, I think we are the only ones paying attention . Half of America has gone nuts.
There’s a reason Obama doesn’t want to show his medical records or his birth certificate. Those that have nothing to hide…Hide nothing.
I will never trust Obama as long as he remains secretive, everything about Obama is shrouded in deceit.
I remember hearings something on Fox about this from a legal professor during a larger segment. The anchor asked a similar question and the professor answered that nothing that Obama had done from a legal perspective would disqualify him for security clearance.
Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi’s anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative (in bed with Yassar Arafat) who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to “political enlightenment,” threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama and raised $40,000. There are more dots to connect all the way to BIN LADEN…
Anyone who believe that believes any of these polls is smoking crack. They are full of fixed numbers that swing wildly around. Zogby poll went from 8 to 3 to 5 percent in two days. IBD went from 6 to 3 to 1 to 4. All of these swings are no logical.
I can vouch for all of the above (unfortunately). Though I am a lifelong Dem, I can attest to the fact that in Cook County (where Chicago is located), the notion of a Republican party is pretty much a joke. There are some people who run, often year after year, but there is rarely if ever any success.
Around the country, gas is found as low as 1.99, but here still more than three dollars. And they wonder why people go to the suburbs to shop.
Happy Sunday Papoose!
Glad to see you got thru as well!!!
I think this misses the psychological nuance of the matter, important for understanding Obama. Obama was not particularly embarrassed by Wright, and did not do the prudent thing to disassociate from him. Indeed, he made that race speech so many liked, though it raised the issue of how this guy made that great “One America” speech at the 2004 DNC while attending a separatist church.
Anyway, Obama apologized for and protected Wright UNTIL Wright said things specifically about Obama. I recall something like Wright saying Obama was a politician and will have to say what he has to say. THAT is what made Obama abandon not only Wright, but his church too.
To understand Obama’s psychology one should think of him as an abandoned child grown adult. Abandonment, not race, is what his closest Hawaii friend said troubled Obama. Obama is an abandoner too. This allows him not only to “pivot”, but do so grandly without remorse. Not only does he flip flop on his FISA position, he knew he would yet claimed he would filibuster it. Not only does he flip flop on public financing, he knew he would yet made public financing a campaigning point in the primaries. Abandonment of principles, strongly stated principles, is a hallmark his political history.
Obama also has a messianic complex. Yet, given his Senate race when the leading Dem was knocked out with a wife beating scandal then the leading Republican was knocked out with a sex scandal, one might concede Divine intravention a possiblity.
But around the election in 2006 when he was pushed for President in the press he sounded wisely cautious given his experience. But Soros or whomever engineered Time/Newsweek covers and press pressure and Obama was hooked. That said, Obama is no slouch to understanding people himself.
I agree, the polls are going on roller coaster rides that no one predicted. The pollsters are now quickly changing the voter composition to minimize the changes.
What the hell is wrong with this site, its slow any faster and the next speed is dead stop, time to fix this thing please..
Comment by Jon Sanity | 2008-10-26 15:10:24
Jon is really Francis. Multiple Personality Disorder
Oh, that article is such bullcrap! Unnamed McCain sources? My ass! They would NEVER say those things. Either the entire story is made up or, as someone mentioned, they are setting the stage for an Obama attack by Palin.
1) IBD-TIPP 4%, Zogby 5%, Rasmussen 8%
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/ec95b06b-a584-4e5b-a175-48733e4745f8
2) Berg’s suit dismissed for “lack of standing” Berg is appealing to Supreme Court. Multiple state lawsuits as well.
Obama has not yet s
tolen the electionbeen crowned. The people will speak on Nov. 4th.AP is reporting that the U.S. attacked a Syrian position 5 miles inside Syria’s border. Here is a link from Israel National News reporting the same thing:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128087
Checked out a few sites… the attack was real. Diplomatic and political repercussions still unclear. From what I can gather, US blaming Syria for not doing more to stop insurgents from Iraq from escaping over the border into Syria. Syria previously asked US for help securing border, with arms, but US, fearing these would be used against Israel, said no. Oh, my god.
txchick57 has it right about Illinois and Chicago. Why has no one done an ad on the truth about Illinois – it would make a great 527 ad.
Silence – just like there is silence on everything Obama has done.
Amazing – I don’t trust that a National Security Clearance check has been done on Obama – I think everything is upside down right now.
You know, the same battle that is brewing within the Democratic Party is also happening in the Republican Party. The Republicans suffer from elite intellectuals too. Who look down their noses at working class republicans and have particular distaste for Evangelicals. When you hear a Republican dismiss Palin as unqualified, that is code for “She embarresses us by energizing the sections of the party we would prefer to ignore”.
It’s just like when Donna Brazile told us all to “Shut up and Stay home”. Same message, just different players.
absolutely. republican party are in shambo as we can see. Why they attackin Palin, well it is so clear to me. Sarah promise to make the biggest changes of corrupted GOVERNMENT, and She will, and this is why She is not popular among republicans, they are affraid of HER!!!
Good Grief. I keep getting locked out of here. It really is anxiety producing. I am not medicated for this. This site can’t shut down after the election. I don’t know what I will do with myself. I would have to have to join a support group or something. We at least best have some notice if that’s going to happen. Some of us have abandonment issues.
Can anyone here imagine a world without great blogs like No Quarter? How isolated we PUMAS would have felt, would feel now? How great people like Larry, Susan and Uppity and B Merry over at The Real Barack Obama are (etc. Etc).
Thanks a lot for everything.
i went to hillbuzz for a cheap fix!
Larry
Thank you for this article and for your uncommitted support to democracy.
It took me some time to get in here (migration problem with the website). For once, I felt desperate, for it is usually here were I am at ease to express my political view.
If it not were for you and all those courageous and insightful blogers, I would never be so aware the magnitude of damage this chameleon is able to do in my beautiful and blessed country.
America is the last bastion in the world for life, liberty and the pursuit of our once cherished happiness.
We can never surrender our values.
I pray that people sit down and rethink of Nobama’s policies,of the little we know about his life, and the additional damage he could do in this country, for our best gift is to be taken away, our freedom of expression.
GOD SAVE AMERICA
Speaking of Donna Brazile – has there been any sitings of her lately? I don’t watch CNN so I wouldn’t know.
Just curious?
Apparently she was in downtown Richmond, VA yesterday rallying the troops. Richmond is strongly Dem with a large AA population, while the surrounding counties are largely GOP dominated. Rudy was here in my county (one of those Red ones) pounding on Gov Kaine for speeding up restoration of rights for felons from a usual 6 months to 1-2 months so they could register and vote while its reported that at least 250 military absentee ballots probably not be counted. That’s a conservative estimate.
Rudy is not my favorite character by any means, but I appreciated him bringing this up.
AM JOE THE PLUMBER – McCain Supporters Fight Back Against the Media and Stand with Joe, John, and Sarah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7yx5EBrRQ&feature=related
Wow; talk about well-educated voters… They blew the CNN reporter away.
“Barack Obama and I both have spent quite some time on the basketball court. But where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the net.”
Sarah Palin, today
Sarah Palin is awesome. I love that she pisses off the Socialist Dems so much. Ha!
Francis gave me a BJ last week. She wanted me to vote for obama. After she finished I changed my mind. Sorry Francis….but if you want to try a convince me again……
francis with an “i” is a guy, frances with an “e” is a woman. Just so ya know…
Polls tightening? Really? Let’s examine that proposition.
Take the Rasmussen poll…
Last Sunday: OBAMA +6
Today: OBAMA +7
Now look at Hotline/FD…
Last Sunday: OBAMA +7
Today: OBAMA +8
Now look at Zogby…
Last Sunday: OBAMA +3
Today: OBAMA +5
Now look at Gallup (Expanded)…
Last Sunday: OBAMA +7
Today: OBAMA +9
Tightening? Some GOP sphincters might be tightening, my friend… but not the polls.
This election is already in the bag for McCain. Just watch the polls show a McCain win with in the next 7 days. The pollsters can play this game until it get very close to election. At which point they have to show reality or nobody will pay attention to them anymore.
Another thing that my husband pointed out today is that Republicans by nature are always very quiet and hush-hush until election day and then they stampede to vote.
My husband hates politics, and hates talking about it even more, but he’s seen me fretting these last few days and just threw that out ‘matter-of-factly’ at me today. He definitively doesn’t want the Obammunist as POTUS but just doesn’t want to hear anything about any of the candidates as he really does hate this whole politics thing with a passion.
You might want to take a look at this. The polls like everything else connected to Obama is not quite as it seems.
You might want to take a look at this. Like everything else connected to Obama it’s never quite as it seems.
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/hey-eeyores-another-take-on-those-polls/
After I read that Hillbuzz post I was optimistic, but then I looked on the Fox News site a few minutes later and they showed another 100,000+ crowd in Denver this afternoon for Obama. Fox News also mentioned that Obama was 12 pts ahead in Colorado. Isn’t Colorado a must win battleground state for McCain?
I guess, Coloradan are waiting for 4 of November. I went to vote early, and suprise, there were more working people there, then voter. Took me about 15-20 minutes to answer all question, just to make sure that I answer rih=ght. Our Governor Ritter is screwing Colorado a big time, from day #1. After promising giving power to Unions, just like Pelosi, He took of the table as sonn He become to be Governor. Now He wants throw on Coloradans more taxes, this time at gas station(360 millions). Property taxes are terrible,. This guy is just another screwing US politician!!!So what there were 100.000 people, but the speach was just as usual, same all!!!I took ride to Mountains and it was great!!!
No
I WOULDN’T COUNT ON THOSE POLLS!!
I got called by Gallup earlier this week and i refused to do their poll..I got called Friday by Pew..again..I refused to answer their poll..
I have many friends doing the same!
and since many of the polls are skewed some by 15 % points to obama..who believes a damn thing these polls say!
Count on the Bradley effect..seriously ..count on that!!
I agree with you that the polls are off. But the pollsters will narrow the polls before election just to make sure they are not completely off. They would look like fools if they had Obama up by 10 points and McCain wins by 5. Nobody would ever trust them again. But then again anything is possible in this election.
Undercover…I WOULDN’T COUNT ON THOSE POLLS!!
I got called by Gallup earlier this week and i refused to do their poll..I got called Friday by Pew..again..I refused to answer their poll..
I have many friends doing the same!
and since many of the polls are skewed some by 15 % points to obama..who believes a damn thing these polls say!
Count on the Bradley effect..seriously ..count on that!!
Anyone familiar with a technology in place to do “robo-polling” ? Presumably respondent answers, chooses from a menu style recording and hangs up ??
I read about it somewhere a while back as a way to eliminate the Bradley effect, and it seems like a great idea (no way to verify identify of subject, though…) but haven’t come across anything since then…
Bill Clinton said”Chill out” and it is just what I am doing. Even if Obama wins, it wont be over. Republicans are getting ready for the biggest fight ever, even after 4th.
Objective Analysis says “I need a drink.”
Please pour one for me too, and make it a double. I had no idea that official vetting for the office of the presidency was so totally out to lunch. Evidently, the candidate for president does not have to show anyone his birth certificate, and nobody has the right to ask, although a kid can’t get into Little League without showing his birth certificate. The PFC working on a radar installation in Alaska may need a top secret clearance, but the Commander-In-Chief in charge of the nuclear arsenal doesn’t need any clearance at all. Am I reading this wrong? I am astounded with disbelief.
Objective Analysis says “I need a drink.”
Please pour one for me too, and make it a double. I had no idea that official vetting for the office of the presidency was so totally out to lunch. Evidently, the candidate for president does not have to show anyone his birth certificate, and nobody has the right to ask, although a kid can’t get into Little League without showing his birth certificate. The PFC working on a radar installation in Alaska may need a top secret clearance, but the Commander-In-Chief in charge of the nuclear arsenal doesn’t need any clearance at all. Am I reading this wrong? I am astounded with disbelief.
This is not true. Every state official who oversees elections, including qualifications to get onto the ballot, has the authority to determine eligibility. Citizens of the states can file challenges with these state officials to keep the candidate off the ballot. (As far as I know, in every state, these deadlines have passed.) But, in GA, the S of S can challenge BO’s eligibility to be on the ballot in her state sua sponte, that is, on her own. And she can do this up to the date of the election. That is, she can notify the state chair of the Democratic Party, who submitted his papers to get onto the ballot on BO’s behalf, that she needs to see proof he is a natural born citizen.
In other words, before the election and the inevitable impeachment proceedings – Congress – BO’s eligibility can be challenged to keep him off the ballot. Of course, even if he did not need GA’s electoral votes, what would it look like if he refused to produce a birth certificate?
What in Obama attracted such unsavory people to him?
Ayers, Wright, Resko, Kaladid, Farrakan, Auchi, Mansour…the list goes on and on……. What do they see in him?
He’s a puppet with just the right amount of delusions of grandeur and animosity to our system to carry out their plans. He also owes them for various favors – who got him in the elite schools and paid his way?? Why and by whom was he led to Chicago and to community organizing in the first place – a place he was previously completely unfamiliar with.
And if it’s up to the the citizenry to vet their candidates, then why has a judge recently ruled in the Berg case in Philly that he has no standing and suggested that only Congress may decide whether or not to challenge the candidate’s qualifications???
OK time to put on your tinfoil hats. What does your tinfoil hat tell you is coming this week? We KNOW there is something big saved up ready to drop on Der Precious. What is it? Any ideas? I do know one thing: we will see “BATTLE STATIONS” posted on the blogs soon enough. When that happens, hold on to your tinfoil hats!
Is this conspiracy brainstorm time? Goody. These are my candidates:
1. All the obscene extra money spent by O. is part of a money laundering scheme to reabsorb all the money Alsammarae stole from Iraq (no reason to think that other than the amount and the bad PR it would be)
2. Someone has his previous marriage certificate, which will explain the wedding ring in old photos and will also reveal his true identity.
3. All the rumored bad news tapes will come out, plus some we haven’t seen.
4. The agony will go on until past Nov. 4 in order to smoke every last election fraud trick the O camp plans to use.
I really wished that reporter didn’t tell the “genius, I have an IQ higher than yours” Joe Biden whose quote that was. Wouldn’t it have been freakin’ fantastic if foot-in-the-mouth Joe had responded ” Barack Obama is 100% correct” ROTFLMBO
I thought that too. Wouldn’t that have been fabulous?
i thought the same thing. wouldn’t that have been fantastic?
Did anyone else notice how much this troll sounds like Tokyo Rose?
They’re all one in the same regardless of identity. They’re all Obama Youth, graduated from the Brainwash School of Obamanation Fascism.
LMAO!
We demand better quality trolls!
You don’t have to worry about Barack. The whitey tape will be out tomorrow.
Good Lord, you don’t know how much I wish that is true! If someone’s sitting on this and doesn’t release it for fear of racial tension, they’re going to have a lot of answering to do if Barack Hussein & company win on 4 November.
The only thing I regret is that all the disturbing truths that have been discovered about Obama have remained confined to sites like No Quarter, Puma PAC, Just SAY NO Deal, Hillary is 44 and others. This vital information has not reached mainstream America. That is why we are facing the almost sure election of a man that hates this nation as our next President.
It’s Barry Soetero’s new definition of “transparency.” Apparently he thinks American voters are too stupid to question him. Actually, the polls show they are.
About what I am experiencing today..
NQ is slower than it has ever been and the site was down for a long time…
what’s up???
I was hoping that you all were getting ready of a stealth week that is sure to have at least 3 drops…
am I right?
So I thought you were beefing up the site for the BIG week..No?
I voted today in a swing state. Another lifelong Dem that voted for McCain.
Why?
There is not one single day missing or unaccounted for in McCain’s life.
There is not one single question that McCain has refused to answer. Or avoided. From reporters. Or from citizens.
There is not one single station that McCain refuses to be interviewed on.
There is not one single question/issue/topic that reporters or hosts are given by McCain that are off-limits.
Kind of a no-brainer. My wife and kids agree and they voted McCain as well.
Thanks for the post and God save America!
Hi stranger!
Liberty Bell is right. Among the other Ten Thousand reasons not to vote for OHitler….what kind of complete moron votes for someone with SO many things to HIDE? Birth certificate, school records, medical records, there is a chunk of time in NYC where he has no known address, etc. No wonder people say things like “sleeper cell” and “Manchurian Candidate.” WTF is wrong with this creep that everything is hidden from the world? And WHO with a brain would vote for it?
I think this all things anymore doesn’t make sense. If he passes the next three days he wins easily.
Tomorrow is his day , he is going to give speech.
A day after tomorrow is BO with Bill Clinton.
After a day is awaiting of his prime time show
After that day people will start talking
He systematically erase all we people are talking and will pass the next week easily
Sometimes I appreciate him though I don’t like him
The areas of inquiry into my background included, among others, my character, associates, reputation and loyalty to the United States of America.
I heard this argument by an FBI agent on the radio awhile ago, and it’s frustrating that the McCain camp did not present it this way. Every time they were criticized for being “negative,” they should have framed it as a national security issue. People would have understood that clear connection: if an FBI agent is vetted this way, why not the president?
It’s also true that in this strange political climate, people are completely blind to facts. I have a friend, very well-educated and a successful business woman, who actually responded to my Wright inquiry: “He wasn’t IN church THAT day.” This man is famous for his Black Liberation Theology and colorful sermons, and we are supposed to believe Obama, who was a “family member,” was unaware of the content of his sermons or his ideology? It is willful blindness, and that goes for all the other unethical and unprincipled behavior we have seen from Obama. It’s mind boggling.
BREAKING NEWS: Unbelievable that the Judge is corrupted!
The newest thing, I see, is that the Hon. R. Barclay Surrick somehow was implored to decide as he did in the Berg v. Obama suit, that the memorandum and order was somehow thrust upon him by a former law clerk who now works closely with Michelle Obama.
Fax transmissions shown on the readily-available document have been called into question, as though the judge was sent the decision he was supposed to render.
People, come on.
The standing doctrine is crystal clear. The law, in this case, was on the side of Barack Obama and the DNC when it came down to the procedural details. To prevail, Berg needed Judge Surrick to play the role of judicial activist and expand the law as it stands today.
Don’t get me wrong — I was hoping that Surrick would do just that. I find it sad, and somewhat contrary to what I feel our founders would have liked, that individuals cannot ask that a presidential candidate who has failed to be forthcoming in so many different ways to come clean about his questionable past. Still, as disappointing as Surrick’s decision was, it was far from unexpected.
It would not take a conspiracy to force a judge to come down on the right side of the law as it currently stands. He did what was expected of him. I understand the will to look for answers, but if there is an answer that we should all be looing for, it should be to the question of standing and, more specifically, injury. Hopefully, as Berg proceeds through the court system, he will frame his questions in a way which will nudge the courts into providing a true, specific, definitive test for injury-in-fact, the first of three elements in the standing doctrine. Right now, while a judge may apply the plaintiff’s allegations to a sliding scale of remoteness and speculation in order to decide whether a plaintiff has been injured in a specific and particularized manner, it would be nice to see a definitive test for the injury requirement come of all of this.
In the meantime, we are nine short days away from the most important election of this generation, a contest between two men with stark differences in policies, ideology and aspirations. We may not be able to affect the thinking of a political candidate or a district court judge — so let’s take responsibility for our own actions and do the right thing in the voting booth.
http://www.americasright.com/2008/10/addressing-rumors-surrounding-surricks.html
Scary Oblowme Firsts:
1. The only non-writing Law Reviewer in history.
2. The only ivy league attorney who refuses to release his school records.
3. The Affirmative Action guy who somehow needed student loans…
4. Self-professed heavy drug user.
5. Associated with and worked for people who bombed the Pentagon, police stations, the Capital, robbed Brinks trucks,
and bombed a Judge’s home with everyone at home including a 9 year old child and his mother.
6. Uncle Rev. Wrong and Uncle Frank Marshall Davis – both avid anti-American white people haters.
7. Nobody remembers him from Columbia U – this is absolutely amazing to me. They remember George Stephanopoulas, but not Oblowme!
What the hell was he wearing or doing or both? I’m guessing drag shows as Diana Ross. He did after all, describe his male roomie as a “well-built” Pakistani…
8. Won’t provide medical records, including his birth hospital.
WHAT IS HE HIDING?!!!
This nonsense stuff that we all talk all the year that has noting give us result. We just wrong on our strategy
You can talk but it is nonsense anymore
National security is never nonsense.
Men and women have given their lives for U.S. and preserving the American way of life.
It is our duty to remain vigilant.
Jackasses voting American Idol for Prez should at least use the right criteria for a friggin President.
The Daley Machine? The Illinois Combine? Terrorists? Anarchists? Drugs? Hates the middle class – especially whites?
Who gives a shit what the corrupt candidate Oblowne claims his moving target of a plan for anything is?
He can’t be trusted!
Why do you claim he is “The only non-writing Law Reviewer in history”? The Harvard Law Review policy states:
Emphasis added.
The kind of crap that goes on here.
This is a great article. Thank you Mr. Bassett!
What a silly article. Does the author think that Obama wants to bomb America? Obama’s association with Ayers in the 1990s had nothing to do with Ayers’s radical activities in the sixties and seventies.
For the record, I know people who have served on other boards with Ayers, and who like his scholarly work (we are all involved in education research) so I guess that makes me a pal of a pal. Should they have withdrawn from the academic panels they shared? Refused to contribute to books to which Ayers contributed?
I smell something really bad…odiferous really.
yes!
You’ve associated with me by responding. You’re only two pals removed from Ayers yourself.
well, it does show what a cesspool chicago is, if they would let a guy like ayres be a “respected member of academia.” i highly doubt that ayres would have been given any position at any university out here in SD, where i live. we tend to take a pretty dim view of violent criminals. we all know about the horrific crime and corruption that is endemic in chicago, as well, and i’m just not sure that chicago is the best place to draw our next president from.
Hannity will be on at 9PM est–
He will be wrapping up Obama series in a nice, tighty package.
Watching Hannity. It’s just unbelievable with what people know about Obama that they would vote for him. I know the polls are BS but you can’t even compare McCain and Palin, two honest people and then his insane lying nutcase.
A M E N ! ! ! ! ! !
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
TAPE RELEASED. OBAMA SAYS THAT WEALTH NEEDS TO REDISTRIBUTED TO BLACK PEOPLE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
SCARY
DISTRIBUTE TO EVERYONE. IF YOU CAN, SAVE A COPY FOR YOURSELF.
it sure does sound like he favors some kind of gov’t enforced “redistribution.” gee, maybe he can do for america what he’s done for chicago? i can hardly wait.
S&L bailout, stimulus packages to push forward a faltering bankrupt economy.
Redisitrubtion of CEO’s, from private to public sector, and back again!
*Redistribution
The consequences of bringing childrens in political arena,has already produse hate between them. My friend daughter a 5th grader was accused by obama supporter a ” racist”. Believe-me this is just the beginning. Obamas presidency will be the biggest mistake the American people will do.
my questio is; were You Chicagoans were for all those years, nnot just white. Now when ellection is coming You are telling us the real story of Chicago. Why You wait so lom=ng. No one cares about south Chicago, were Obama lived, ans especjaly Him.Were are those money theth should be spend on poor black communities???
This is all interesting.
Obama has a shady past.
But don’t you need a security clearance as a Junior Senator?
Or Junior Senators have limited access?
The 2008 Election Results – or are they?
http://www.new-visions.com/the-2008-election-results-or-are-they.html
good article, Mr. Bassett. Unfortunately, this group of media lovers of Obama have not vetted him, nor are they going to now. They’ve given him a pass, much like mainstream media did with Bush W. And you see where he brought us – a total catastrophe here and abroad. but I remain “hope”ful that McCain can win it.
Never mind the free pass given to the Enron gang of Bushco.
Care to inform people who was hand in hand with both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in early 2001?
The same people who let a jet full of GOP staffers from Congress fly to Dade Co. and hijack the free world’s electoral process.
Way to stand your watch, great due diligence!
I do not get it…..all of u in here replying toposts – none of u have or know anyone that is connected to the MSM? You write what is your beliefs – r u actually doing anything about other than b i t c h and moan besides voting on Nov 4th? I mean r u making calls for McCain? R u sending email out to everyone exposing BHO and asking them to be passed to others? R u blogging on other sites?
OR
Are you just blogging here and hoping others will do “what is right”
Get off your butts and let’s fight to win this election !
One concerned former Hillary supporter, from PA
I suspect that Obama’s foreign relatives and ties to foreign citizens would be his biggest problem. From what I understand, it is exceedingly difficult to get a high level security clearance if you have relatives in foreign countries or have held dual citizenship with another country. This is why the CIA has trouble recruiting people who speak native Arabic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08intel.html?hp
http://lastpostpublishing.com/SCFAQ.aspx
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/07/foreign_influence_and_security.html
Obama just changed again – Taxes go up for $200,000 or more……
I am canvassing, calling for McCain, talking to neighbors and voted early.
Isn’t it kind of odd that the Ayers and Wright stuff isn’t phasing people in the slightest? Or maybe everyone’s still so dillusioned from the great hope Obama is making them feel. The thing is we are currently fighting the War on Terror. Why arn’t people scared to death of this man? He’s affiliated with terrorists. Isn’t that enough? What happened to the terrorist paranoia wave sweeping the nation the past eight years? Now, that this great “Messiah” has comenobody cares about the past anymore? And notice how all he says is look to the future and change. This might just be my own paranoia, but seriously can we really trust that? He’s sending PrObamas to McCain/Palin rallies to start fights. Is that really what the nation needs? Has anyone heard of the death threats? I thought the inabillity to pronounce “nuclear” would scare people, and I think it did. It’s just the fact that people are getting death threats and that this “messiah” was affiliated with Wright and Ayers yet nobodys scared.
Also, on a lighter note the debates should have been called “The Maverick vs. The Messiah ‘08″
Larry,
But don’t you need a security clearance as a Junior Senator?
I assumed the becoming a senator, congressman or president of the U.S. one had to undergo a security investigation. Is this not so? Why would military (as I was) and FBI and others be required to do this and not those who represent us, especially in matters of national security? Am I wrong?