Obama’s Questionable Internet Donations Raise Suspicion at WaPo
By Ani on October 31, 2008 at 10:25 AM in Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Campaign promises, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Christopher Dodd, David Axelrod, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Yesterday John McCain made this statement regarding Senator Obama’s infomercial which aired via his multi-million dollar ad buy on CBS, NBC, FOX, UNIVISION, MSNBC, and NY1:
“When you’re watching this gauzy, feel-good commercial, just remember that it was paid for with broken promises. Senator Obama signed a piece of paper committing to public financing of his campaign.
Twice he looked the American people in the eye and said he would sit down with me before he abandoned public financing.
He didn’t mean a word of it.
When it was in his interest to break his promise, he tossed it aside like it didn’t mean a thing.
He is the first candidate since Watergate to abandon the public financing system, and his campaign is now being flooded with hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed and questionable donations.”
This smacks of a man trying to buy the Presidency. Obama’s campaign has spent one billion dollars.
Are his supporters really foolish enough to believe that this outrageous amount of money came from small donations over the internet? Apparently so.
Someone named ‘Marie’ on the Nielsen website wrote the following:
“Obama’s money comes from small contributions donated mainly through the internet by regular people who choose to donate. If he chooses to spend it on an infomercial then he’s spending it on behalf of his supporters. It has therefore nothing to do with a corrupt government or ‘buying the election’.”
I almost fell off my chair at the naïveté and ignorance of this statement.
Barack Obama has received more Wall Street money than any other candidate. He has received more Fannie/Freddie lobbying money than anyone in the Senate, save Senator Chris Dodd (D), Chair of the Senate Banking Committee. To use one of Senator Obama’s favorite phrases, ‘the notion that’ his base, without the help of a bunch of millionaires or billionaires, would have the kind of money required, and would be so inclined to donate a billion dollars on their own in this horrible economy, is preposterous.
Even Matthew Mosk of the Washington Post reported yesterday that Obama [Is] Accepting Untraceable Donations:
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.
Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.
But at the rate he is spending it, he could not afford to scrutinize these donations – surely he cannot afford to return any of that money. It is long gone.
The Obama organization said its extensive review has ensured that the campaign has refunded any improper contributions, and noted that Federal Election Commission rules do not require front-end screening of donations.
They have refunded the donations? How would we know? How would the FEC know? Perhaps he has returned a few, but read on and see that it is highly doubtful that this problem has been solved. Government agencies seem reluctant to question him about much of anything.
In recent weeks, questionable contributions have created headaches for Obama’s accounting team as it has tried to explain why campaign finance filings have included itemized donations from individuals using fake names, such as Es Esh or Doodad Pro. Those revelations prompted conservative bloggers to further test Obama’s finance vetting by giving money using the kind of prepaid cards that can be bought at a drugstore and cannot be traced to a donor.
The problem with such cards, campaign finance lawyers said, is that they make it impossible to tell whether foreign nationals, donors who have exceeded the limits, government contractors or others who are barred from giving to a federal campaign are making contributions.
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The Obama campaign has shattered presidential fundraising records, in part by capitalizing on the ease of online giving. Of the $150 million the senator from Illinois raised in September, nearly $100 million came in over the Internet.
Consider:
…[T]he case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama’s FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.
Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. “That’s an error,” she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card.
There is nothing in this story stating whether that $174,800 was refunded to the phony donors and rejected. This is horrifying. And here is the Obama campaign’s cavalier response:
When asked whether the campaign takes steps to verify whether a donor’s name matches the name on the credit card used to make a payment, Obama’s campaign replied in an e-mail: “Name-matching is not a standard check conducted or made available in the credit card processing industry. We believe Visa and MasterCard do not even have the ability to do this.
Surely, you must be joking. Uppity Woman posted an excellent story, My Contributions to the Obama Campaign Under Fictitious Names Sunday night, complete with screenshots of Obama’s donation page.
It was possible for her to make donations under the names Bill Ayers, Osama bin Laden, John Galt and Saddam Hussein under the same credit card – and the charges went through. Attempts to do the same on both Hillary Clinton’s and John McCain’s donation pages were rejected.
R. Rebecca Donatelli, who handles online contributions for the McCain operation and the RNC, said security measures have been standard in the GOP nominee’s fundraising efforts throughout the campaign. She said she was “flabbergasted” to learn that the Obama campaign accepts prepaid cards.
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“They have opened the floodgates to all this money coming in,” said Sean Cairncross, chief counsel to the Republican National Committee. “I think they’ve made the determination that whatever money they have to refund on the back end doesn’t outweigh the benefit of taking all this money upfront.”
How can anyone determine the source of these donations – and since he has all but spent it all, with outrageous ad buys like the one last night, how is he ever going to give it back if these donations were found to be fraudulent?
Answer – he’s not.
No one would begrudge anyone their fundraising prowess, but something does not pass the smell test. He has outspent John McCain six to one and yet this is very much a tied horse race, no matter how much the cooked polls pretend otherwise.
Does anyone really think that if Obama had kept his word and accepted public financing, subjecting his campaign to a level playing field, he would still be in this race? Makes one wonder. Obviously, Senator Obama and his campaign manager, David Axelrod, must not have had much confidence in his chances either – otherwise he would not have gone back on his word in order to super-size his way into the Presidency.
Let us hope the voters are not fooled.
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Fun Halloween pictorial for PUMAs and friends
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Obama calls $1 Trillion tax hike a “small adjustment” by re-defining $97K family income as “upper class”
I found a video clip in which Obama totally redefines what middle/upper class income is and who should pay more taxes. He is quoted on video. I think this is newsworthy, given the current focus on Obama’s plan to tax a larger number of families. The video shows Obama directly stating this. It is far less difficult to interpret than, say, the Chicago NPR audio-only about redistributive change. This is a video that’s ready-made for a campaign spot and for video news releases. All people will understand it.
In this video, Obama defined $97,000 family income as “upper class” and subject to $1 Trillion in tax increases in debate within the last year and in policy proposals. He also makes a similar claim in writing in an Op-Ed (see below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SavgJlBLA
The key minute: Watch from 1:15 to 2:15 for Obama’s remarkable claim that $97K family income is “upper class”
Of course there are other videos of this same debate, Nov 2007, Las Vegas from which you can clip these quotes, but this one just puts in the context of Obama/Biden redefining Middle Class income from $250K to $200K to $150K to $97K is “upper class.” and the top group—and subject to big tax hikes.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1
I wonder how many families with 2 or 3 kids in middle class suburbs of our major cities would consider their $97 K income to be “upper class.” If any of those kids plan to go to college, the families will hardly be living like the upper class on $97K.
Obama’s Op-Ed
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/09/21/opinion/opinion/doc46f35dac127eb409456532.txt
“… raise the cap on the amount of income subject to the Social Security tax. If we kept the payroll tax rate exactly the same but applied it to all earnings and not just the first $97,500, we could virtually eliminate the entire Social Security shortfall.” - Op-Ed by Barack Obama, Quad City Times, Sep., 2007
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With the election just 4 days away, I continue to be amazed at the stupidity of people who are voting for Senator Government. It’s breathtaking.
Unfortnately, we’ve become an “MTV society” where appearance and 15-second sound bytes on the evening news are more important than experience, integrity, and true substance.
The issue of illegal donation will haunt Barry even if he becomes prez (I’m crossing every finger that will not happen). What worries more is the illegal and fraudulent voting. I shake my head in disbelief that America can allow and condone this shit to happen. I saw a post of someone from NC last night and he said his voting computer kept on registering his votes as all down ticket Dem when he specifically checked all down ticket Republican! WTF!
Ditto.
What I find equally astonishing is the easy ride that Joe Biden has been getting not only from the Obama-biased media but even by anti-Obama bloggers. In my new video “Joe Biden, the fisherman’s friend”, I describe how I see him - as a very weak and ineffectual man. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCniVz1b7Bw
Great post Ani. As the blog from yesterday “Food for Thought” said about O’s chances: “…his only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the republicans.” I think that applies to the money as well. The intention is to shock all into believing this $600 Million has come from small, individual contributions from his millions of supporters making the other side feel they might as well stay home, it’s over, he’s won - a self-fulfilling prophecy if they can succeed in making this stick.
Given the fact that the Obama campaign acccepts any donation from anybody - just so there’s a credit card number attached - is one of the scariest things about this campaign. Example: the guy who used the same credit care number with five names (John Galt, Tony Rezko, Obsama Bin Laden, Bill Ayers, etc.) and faked expiration dates and addresses - AND THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN TOOK THE DONATIONS WITHOUT HESITATION.
That means Osama bin Laden or any other terrorist or European or crook or whatever can be sitting at a computer making $199 donations all day long from the same credit card - and Obama doesn’t give a crap where the money comes from just so he gets it.
God help us if this man gets into the oval office.
Ani – Did you see this op-ed by Bob Kerry (former senator from Nebraska) in the New York Post. He claims the critical issue on campaign financing is not corruption and money, it’s the correlation between money and voter disillusionment. And since there is such an excited electorate this year (and No voter disillusionment!?), then it just proves that all this money is a good thing. And campaign financing in not necessary. Wow is this really the dem party I’ve been voting for, for over 30 years. Heere just the highlights.
Choo Choo –
Thank you for finding this — it is terrifying how people in trusted government positions will betray everything they stand for to obtain a certain outcome.
He must have sat up late and had an extra bowl of Wheaties to come up with that piece of nonsense!
Looks like this is what is really going on!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5868
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Like we didnt already know this!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/obama-lays-plans-kill-expectations-election-victory/
$250K, $200K, $150K…surprise! You’re all getting taxed and bye bye universal health care.
Note he wouldn’t answer the question directly in 2 debates, even when the moderators said directly: We never got an answer on this one, so we’ll try again.
This is the old “float the rumor at the water fountain” method of communications.
Frankly, I’m surprised Biden could even pull it off. He’s such a goof, usually.
He actually did his VP job this week.
Validating credit cards and addresses is simple from an IT standpoint.
Obama’s acceptance of these campaign donations- without a few simple security checks- is corrupt, no two ways about it.
Oh, but they said in an interview that even Mastercard and Visa don’t know how to match the card number to the name, much less the address. According to the O spokesman, that technology is not even available yet.
A name can (and should) be matched to an address.
It would be easy to reject any amount donated over the maximum by an individual name or credit card #.
True about MC and Visa.
That is bullsh**!
I’ve tried to order stuff online and because my phone number was different on the order form than it was on the credit card information the transaction was canceled.
This is nothing but fraud.
Should always require entry of the security code on the back of the card.
Urban Hillbilly has it right. I have run several not insignificant internet ecommerce companies and know for a fact that verifying a credit card address and name is a trivial matter.
To assert otherwise is a lie.
Political donations are PUBLIC RECORD.
Any decent ecommerce operation captures all of that information and runs an AVS (Address Verification System) check to match the address provided with one in the credit card database. They also capture the time, date and IP address of the computer used for the transaction — again, this is trivial. This is important for two reasons….you can identify the country where the transaction came from with a reverse DNS lookup (the IP address is an exact and unique number each computer has) AND you can compile this to check on multiple and duplicate donations from the same IP.
The bottom line, Obama has all the information needed to prove or disprove this. McCain released all this information, why won’t Obama?
I’m sure the only cards VISA and Mastercard cannot match name and addresses to are the prepaid ones that people used cash to acquire.
Ani-Good post!
Read below to see why Sen Obama has been able to get away with so much-NO SCRUTINY by government agencies we rely on to do the right thing for our country.
No one is investigating- only the citizens are…
Please read the following-we need more reporting on this. WHY IS NO ONE COVERING THIS STORY ABOUT SEN OBAMA’S FINANCES IN THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/breaking-whistleblower-ignored-by-doj-fec-fbi-200-million-in-fishy-obama-donations/
Whistleblower Ignored by DOJ, FEC, FBI: $200 Million in Fishy Obama Donations!
October 2, 2008 by texasdarlin
Via The American Spectactor
FEC Auditor Blows the Whistle on $200 Million in Fishy Obama Donations
REQUESTS TO INVESTIGATE IGNORED BY FEC, DOJ, and FBI
An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.
But the analyst’s requests have largely been ignored. “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system …no one wants to touch it.”
…One reasons cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.
U.N.B.E.L.E.I.V.A.B.L.E!
Who is going to take care of this. It has been obvious for months that his campaign is taking illegal donations, they are paying for and training people to commit illegal votes. At least a few jpiurnalists are reporting on these issues. What will happen if this man gains complete, unchecked power.
You know it’s been said that one reason John McCain is so honorable is because he stands up for this country -EVEN WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING. Obama doesn’t do that even when we are.
Watergate, anyone?
Yep. Donor-gate.
journalists not jpiurnalists - oops
Us. We are going to take care of this on election day. That means get out and VOTE. Talk to others, explain this stuff. No one is going to do this for us. It’s time to be an AMERICAN and stand up for what’s right.
No Media.
No Government.
NOBAMA!
Who wants to bet that Obama’s grandma dies or gets ‘deathly sick’ this weekend.
This will give the media something to cover other than McCain’s Oct surprise’
Thanks typical white grandma!!!!?
I have to say that this is the scariest Halloween on record…not because I’m scared of ghosts and goblins, but because the specter of Count Baracula is invading my dreams.
I will not give up on my country, no matter what happens…and unlike such foreigh elites as Heidi “Crumb” and the barking “Seal”, I will never abandon my native land. I stand with New Hampshire: Live Free or Die!
In these last few days before the election, we must fight for our country, as our very freedom is at stake.
People Want To Know About P.U.M.A. And Obama Associates-Polls
I keep seeing post about P.U.M.A. and the one question that everyone has is how many people are in the P.U.M.A. Party?..I keep hearing that Obama’s associates don’t make any difference to the voters. Well is that right? They matter to me, how about you?[vote in the polls]
Submitted By 30yrdemnotanymore - Oct 31, 8:18 am 6 votes | VOTE
I need 4 more votes to get to 10 so it won’t get knocked off the page.Thanks!!!
http://readerarticles.realclearpolitics.com/?period=all
New poll added-People Want To Know About P.U.M.A. And Obama Associates-Polls
I keep seeing post about P.U.M.A. and the one question that everyone has is how many people are in the P.U.M.A. Party?..I keep hearing that Obama’s associates don’t make any difference to the voters. Well is that right? They matter to me, how about you?[vote in the polls]Submitted By30yrdemnotanymore - Oct 31, 8:18 am 6 votes | V…
Submitted By 30yrdemnotanymore - Oct 31, 10:54 am 1 votes | VOTE
Starting over!
http://readerarticles.realclearpolitics.com/?period=all
Everyone please check your bank statements. Seriously. These small amounts could go unchecked. Not being paranoid, just careful.
Check your credit card statements, too!
One lady discovered $174,000 charged to her card to the Obama Campaign, and she’s voting McCain!
Where did you see this at? Do you have a link? I have read about $2300 donations showing up on cards in a few states but I haven’t heard about this.
It’s in the article above.
If I were Mary, I’d demand to have every cent over $2,300 returned to me. It would make retirement a lot more comfortable. Of course, then the IRS would ask where that money came from.
Yeah, sorry, that’s what I was implying.
With only the numbers required, any server at a restaurant could make any donations they wanted.
It’s already happened to people in MO.
And to answer your next question. Yes, the credit card is actually charged. Yes, the money is actually taken out. No, there is no “check” on the backend unless the person with the credit card squeaks about it.
Numerous people have done it–”contributed” to see if it goes through. It does and is never questioned unless THEY question it.
And why would say Soros or Khalidi or Ayers or Bin Laden (yes, it works with international cards as well; and no, none of this works at either McCain’s site or Hilarey’s) question it if they indeed sent the money in under a false name with an address that doesn’t even exist? Answer: They wouldn’t because they MEANT to do it.
Outcome: $200 sent 1 million times by the same person (who is not even required to be listed because each donation was less than $250) is how much?
Goes a long way to explaining that $1 Billion in cash now, doesn’t it?
What bothers me more than anything about Obama’s fundraising tactics is his obvious use of the election campaign loopholes. Not only did he use the loophole with on-line donations and not even pretend to verify donations, but he pulled the same tactic in the primary with his bundled donations.
Remember? He claimed he had no lobbyists?
Except he had more lobbyist money than Hillary!
That frosted me to no end. Why? Because I thought Hillary really worked extra hard to ensure she was running a spit-spot clean campaign, and he thumbed his nose, pulled all the tricks, and then turned around and campaigned on her as “untrustworthy.” That’s classic Rovian tactics…
And it worked.
You are right AnnainCA, those are the “rules” has been a recurring theme when Obama’s campaign is clearly doing something unethical, but there is no “rule” against it.
Just like the way he flooded the caucuses this his supporters yo overwhelm the system.
He has used technicalities all of his career to get ahead, starting with the way he was first elected to office, knocking people off the ballot by challenging their signatures. Funny, no one seemed to challenge HIS signatures.
The Alice Palmer story told me all I needed to know about Obama.
Argh, how he got away with all of his “technical truths” BS is astounding.
After watching Obama through this election, I think that everything he accuses others of being is actually what he is in the depths of his character.
He hides it well behind his well-con
OOPS.
…he hides it behind his well-constructed facade.
Off Topic but found this while blogging at Greta’s
Comment by Tom
October 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am
WATCH VIDEO OF BERG NEWS CONFERENCE AT U.S. SUPREME COURT 10/30/08:
Part 1: http://www.whitehouse.com/FullStory.aspx?NewsID=2054
Part 2: http://www.whitehouse.com/Fullstory.aspx?NewsID=2053
Part 3: http://www.whitehouse.com/Fullstory.aspx?NewsID=2055
Part 4: http://www.whitehouse.com/Fullstory.aspx?NewsID=2057
Part 5: http://www.whitehouse.com/Fullstory.aspx?NewsID=2058
Part 6: http://www.whitehouse.com/Fullstory.aspx?NewsID=2059
Part 7: http://www.whitehouse.com/FullStory.aspx?NewsID=2060
PHILIP BERG MAKES HIS CASE!!!
A MUST VIEW!!!
PLEASE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE!!!
No thanks.
I know for a fact that’s BS because I’ve donated multiple times to Hillary and to McCain. A few times I accidently typed in wrong spelling or number, etc. And it was flagged and i had to review the info and correct it before the charge would go through. So Obama’s campaign is just either lazy or lying. Or both. You decide.
This was NOT a reply to AnninCA. I have no idea how it popped up here instead.
I just watched the Berg press conference. Very impressive. I think Berg has even more than what he spoke about. If the court doesn’t follow up on this, we’ll know what kind of govt. we have.
Will do.
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RE: OBAMA CAMPAIGN DONATION SCANDAL!!!!
The donation-processing software/company that Obama uses is called NGP, located in Washington. This should be able to lead someone into finding out whether or not the Obama campaign PURPOSELY disabled verification requirements for the name and credit card to match.
A company like that putting out this service is guaranteed to have all the checks in place. They have a lot of clients, and if they missed this, they’d be facing a lot of liability.
They serve only democrats, and a lot of democrats — http://www.ngpsoftware.com/clients
IF THE VERIFICATION IS IN PLACE ON ANY OF THOSE OTHER DEM’S WEBSITES, THEN IT POINTS TO THE FACT THAT THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN INTENTIONALLY REMOVED THOSE REQUIREMENTS. OR ASKED NGP TO DO IT FOR THEM.
FROM THE NGP WEBSITE:
KEY FEATURES OF NGP CONTRIBUTION WEB PACKAGE™:
Accept secure online contributions
Capture all FEC and/or state required information in customized forms
Customize preferences pages by setting donation minimums/maximums, amount option buttons, custom language, defaults, etc.
THE POINT:
INVESTIGATING NGP, THEIR SERVICES, AND THE FEATURES OF THEIR SOFTWARE COULD BE KEY IN FINDING OUT IF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WAS INTENTIONAL IN CREATING LOOPHOLES IN THEIR PROCESS IN ORDER TO WIDEN THE FLOW OF INCOMING CASH
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Don’t forget Qaddafi actually said they were fundraising for Obama.
There is NO question what is being done. Our government agencies are corrupt from the bottom to the highest levels.
Why would the State Department assist Obama by enabling foreign money to flow to Obama’s campaign?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5868
Obama has changed all of his positions, He will say and do what ever he has to just to win. People have to know he will not keep his promises.
How many years have the Dems promised universal health care? Kennedy started that rumor years ago. People need to think if any promises have ever been kept by the Dems. I can’t think of any. Pelosi lied to us all just to get power. Now look what we have done by believing the dems…I talked my rep. hubby into voting dem in ‘06 because I believed all the lies. We needed to stop the reps. Why I thought that the right was lying all the time, I don’t know.
“The ends always justify the means.” –Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (i.e. The Obama Bible)
That means… it really doesn’t matter WHAT you have to do to get to the goal. Do it.
Do you have to lie? Do it (and don’t worry about it).
Do you have to cheat? Steal? Kill? Doesn’t matter. The ENDS ALWAYS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.
Understand this ONE point, and you will then understand the tactics of “The One.”
We have done all we can to alert the citizens of our country to this unbelievably unqualified, and possibly corrupt, candidate that is Obama. And I say this as a voting member of the Democratic party who was an Obama supporter for several months. I changed my mind after his poor debate performances, my awareness of his lack of accomplishment in Chicago and, to add icing to this already questionable candidate’s cake, his associations and relationships; I am an atheist and even I was disgusted by Reverend Wright and Obama’s long-standing relationship with him.
We are all wiped out from the effort. But I believe it will pay off. There has been a shift and if 10% of our voting public is still undecided, if they have not been swayed by Obama by now, they won’t be. That is more than enough to win an election for McCain - even if it comes down to just a state or two with our Electoral College system.
I have a friend who used to be an Hillary supporter and now she is an Obot, that told me exactly the same as “Marie”: the donations come in 5 and 10 dollar bills through the Internet.(She added all her co-workers did it: she is a nurse) I almost choked laughing and she hung up on me: do you all think I’ve still got a friend?
With friends like that,….
Too bad you didn’t get to point out the very crux of Obama’s argument.
1. The economy is terrrible!
2. That is George Bush’s fault (not Dems and Fannie Fred)
3. We do not care about ANY other issue whatsoever (see 1.) and you are getting sleepy, very sleepy.
People are so desperate and POOR they NEED a president who releases no less than 3 statements during the economic crisis saying why he’s doing nothing.
4. Those same desperately struggling Americans are donating to his campaign in record numbers.
Okay, sure.
I am sorry that your friend is in a position where she is responsible for human life.
Been a registered Dem for nearly 50 years, supported Obama and planned to vote that way, until the last few days and a growing concern.
I had no less than five calls in one day from the Obama campaign, applying car salesman-like pressure for me to volunteer. When I explained I have two jobs and simply would not have the time to do so, three of the five questioned me in a bullying tone (’You mean to tell me you can’t take 2 hours out of your day for your candidate?’ said one).
After telling all five I could not, every single one of them asked me “you are voting for Obama, aren’t you?”. On the fifth I rudely told them “I was until today!”.
I have indeed arched my eyebrows a few times over the past months, like when I heard Obama’s camp flooded a radio station which was airing anti-Obama rhetoric and jammed the frequencies, or Obama’s meeting with Iraqi officials and encouraging a stalling of any withdraw plans.
In retrospect, Clinton took criticism like a pro and without making underhanded attempts to quash free speech.
It seems criticism of Obama is something akin to treason and, even though Obama is certainly a leftist, these tactics are very George Bush-like and it seems we’re going to be trading one brand of thinly disguised dictatorship for another.
It doesn’t matter if whether or not one gives up freedoms to the right or to the left, it amounts to still sacrificing one’s freedoms and choices.
Is this what we have to look forward to?
The signs are there and just as apparent as the signs given when a few of us were questioning the Iraqi invasion and being ostracized for it.
We are a nation of foolish masochists.
have an origial idea for once in your life
^^^ Case in point troll. ^^^
Tell that to barky who, despite paying teenagers like you to write idiot things on blogs and terrorize people on the street and on the phone, and despite paying for 24/7 fawning coverage by the media, and despite paying for voter fraud and cheating by ACORN, HE’S GONNA GO DOWN IN FLAMES.
CNN, MSNBO and all the other 0bama propaganda organs are gonna melt down next Tuesday night.
You and your pubescent buddies are gonna be delegated to rubber rooms or hospital wards for overdoses and breakdowns.
and barky 0blalalalalalal will NEVER see the White House.
I put up a FOX poll.
Did you change to FOX NEWS during this election? Will you go back to MSNBC/CNN?
Yes I changed and I won’t go back. 100% (37 votes)
Yes I changed but I will go back. 0% (0 votes)
No, I still watch MSNBC. 0% (0 votes)
No, I still watch CNN. 0% (0 votes)
Total Votes: 37
my polls
Yes, thanks - I went back and answered that one too.
PUMAs are gonna bring it home for Mac and Sarah!
I went back to your sight and voted on the Fox news issue, too.
Your finger is on the pulse!
Obama and his supporters use an extreme amount of “peer pressure”.
In relation to that, the group bullies the opponent, eg Clinton or Palin, creating a “group mentality” to such a degree that it is unacceptable to remain a member of their group without joining in on the character assassination.
These tactics have always repulsed me about Obama and his supporters.
I think these tactics repulse EVERYBODY - some are susceptible to it because of young age, low self-esteem or stupidity, but most people will go the other direction. These kind of tactics only work on teenagers and mental teenagers.
Even if people pretend to like 0bama in order to get by, they will run like they had a bee in their underwear into the voting booth to pull the lever for McCain. Human nature.
Will Obama be able to swear his oath of office? Will he have his fingers crossed, will he use a copy of My Pet Goat, or will he choke and say it’s an artifact of white supremacy? Maybe he’ll use Ayer’s book.
Heck - he’s barely gonna be able to get his sorry ass get back into the Senate - no way he’s getting anywhere near a bible to swear an oath of office, fingers crossed or not!
Kool-aid and Obama-haze Detox Room to the right.
WELCOME BACK!
hanks for sharing Jonah,
I also am concerned about the squashing of free speech and have been ringing the warning bell about Obama for months now. I was a Hillary delegate in TX and you are correct about what is happening.
This part of your comment really sums it up.
It also doesn’t matter is we are Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green or whatever. We will all equally loose our freedoms under this totalitarian type of governing we see glimpses of with Obama squashing free speech and bullying of delegates and other Democrats. No dissent or questions allowed!
The POTUS must be accountable to the citizens of the USA. We must always be able to question the government.
I am so glad you see this is threatened with an Obama presidency. He really is Bush III.
*Thanks*
pull out your Webster’s and look up “desperate”…
you Repugs need to pull out your Webster’s and look up “desperate”…
There you go…..shooting turds out of the wrong orifice again.
I’m not a Republican, and I think “desperation” is the reason why you trolls are here annoying all of us everyday.
Obama’s juggernaut is not being funded by obama-besotted coeds in $5 increments.
The cash is coming from overseas. So the question is, which enemy of the United States will own our new president?
AP Is Shocked: Undecided Voters Are PUMAs, And They Don’t Like Barry
You guys will like this. Sounds like the MSM is looking for a way to explain a McCain victory on Tuesday.
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3614
I don’t consider all of Hillary’s voters who are still yet undecided to be PUMA.
That doesn’t make sense.
I do believe that the numbers estimated of registered Dems going for Obama were exaggerated. It was, what….37% at a high point?
Down now to a solid 10-15%, maybe more?
But not all of those are PUMA.
I think most people believe that if you voted for Hillary in the primary and vote for McCain in GE you are a P.U.M.A. if you are a dem or rep it does not matter.
Well, that’s ridiculous. They can lay claim to it if they wish, but it’s silly.
Why? Isn’t P.U.M.A. a part of just say no deal? It is for Hillary voters and I know reps have commented here saying they voted for Hill and would not support Obama and consider themselves P.U.M.A…..it is open to all who are fed up with the dirty politics of both parties I think anyway.
20% of Hillary supporters, who I personally know how they will vote, are going to vote for McCain on Tuesday in Missouri.
Primary reason - They were not captivated by Obama in the first place, however, his disdainful comments about small town people did him in.
60% of the rest of this group of Hillary supporters are extremely bothered by Obama’s associations and his putdowns of small towners and “joe the plumber”. They feel the choices (Obama and McCain) are bad, but Obama is the better of the two options. I do not see them changing their minds, but I DO KNOW they are HUGELY bothered by these Obama negatives.
For what it’s worth!
I agree with that. I am literally sitting on my fingers here about PUMA.
Right now, not the right time for the discussion.
Post-election…..I have a lot to say.
Hillary and Bill speaking in support of Obama at the Democratic Convention did Obama a world of good with her supporters in my above post.
Again, for what it’s worth!!
BREAKING NEWS from AP:
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west!
OMG. Check out Drudge.
“Obama Plane Pitches Reporters From McCain-Endorsing Papers
Reporters from three newspapers that endorsed John McCain have been told that they can’t travel aboard Barack Obama’s plane in the final days leading before Election Day. “
I just heard that as well!, also, MCCain will be making an appearance on SNL this weekend with Ben Affleck, an Obama supporter… that should be interesting.
Oh good….a light touch. This has been a hard-hitting week, naturally.
A nice light ending is appropriate.
Why do they bother going on SNL? They just like to
make fools out of McCain/Palin. There are no votes there. Waste of time to get laughed at by these yokels and liberal O democrats.
SNL has sucked for yrs.
Yes, and one commented that this was the journalistic equivalent of ‘redistribution of wealth’ lol.
Maybe those three reporters will let some truth out to the public now.
What does his campaign hope to accomplish by behaving in that manner? It’s not going to make the newspaper publish more Obama-friendly news!
Obama is such an inspiration. He’s going to make GWB look like a piker.
As a Writer wrote, “Yes, Obama is a cynic and a liar. Having spent about an hour alone with the man, I also think he’s very shallow, a rank hustler.”
…nothing but a lowlife crook.
O? NO!
Good artcle Ani. The FEC won’t force Obama to release the names of his small donors, because that could be interpreted as “racist.” Anybody else would have had to cough up the goods but not “that one.” McCain already released his small donor list, so he ought to be shouting that fact everywhere he goes that Obama won’t. The Democrats have always decried accepting private campaign contributions. Now, since “you know who” decided it was okay to back out of public financing, it is just fine. Hypocritical doesn’t begin to decribe the DNC these days. It put McCain at a terrible disadvantage, and I feel it was a calculated act by Obama, not a last minute resort.
They can’t just change the rules!
Obama should be criticized for finding the loophole. Question his sense of ethics.
Not only did he reverse a decade of work on campaign finance laws, but he also has set a role model for finding loopholes for the future.
THAT to me is the issue.
NOT the agency. They are handcuffed by the rules.
Not true. His illegal actions with regard to campaign financing are not limited to the under $200 donations.
There are many more offenses like:
.over limit donations (by thousands per individual)
.many donations ending in off cents (indicating foreign exchange)
.not returning over limit donations within time limit
.donators not aware they’ve contributed (even in excess)
and so on
We all wondered how Republicans and Indies could elect Bush. Now we have to wonder at the stupidity of Obama supporters on the Dem side. So there is always a faction in either party that does not use common sense. Let us just hope this time, the majority prevails in rejecting the worse candidate. Say NO to Obama.
This article suggests the Obama campaign lies about “small donors” being untraceable.
It’s a little late to look into this issue. I have been suspicious for months. It is very hard to believe that all those small donations are still coming in in such volume.
Now let’s see if THIS gets any coverage:
According to Haaretz, Sarkozy disagrees sharply with Obama’s stand on Iran.
“….according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and comprised of “formulations empty of all content.”"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031943.html
Not surprisingly the French are denying this report, but the story appears to have multiple sources. Bet our media ignores it.
I keep wondering about the Repubs opposition research. Why haven’t they used any statements against O? The focus groups with no accomplishments, O’s supporters incapable of naming an accomplishment, Biden’s words, Clinton’s words, Sarkozy, MO… all of these together would make an effective ad. Not only wasn’t there an October surprise, they seem to have fallen down on all of the things that happened during the primary I expected them to use.
They simply don’t have the money to counter everything.
There are so many issues tied to Obama, it makes McCain look like he doesn’t have a cohesive message trying to attack at all of it. Look how hard it is for us to decide what to tell those we run into supporting BO. There is so much corruption it works in his favor because common sense indicates it’s just too much to believe.
Add to that that the media is protecting him in unprecedented ways. It is extremely hard for McCain to be heard over the roar of the Obamedia.
Finally, remember McCain has run an excellent campaign. He is basically tied in a race Republicans should have been blown out of. His timing has been impeccable and he is being outspent 6 to 1.The obama campaign and media WANT you to think he hasn’t run a good campaign..they accused Hillary of the same. All that means is they did NOT cheat and game the system unchecked like Obama.
I agree. McCain is honestly making his party look better than it is. LOL*
The lady whose identity was used to donate $174,800 to Obama should file a legal complaint against the Obama campaign.
Does anyone know if law enforcement is looking into this? It stinks of corruption and fraud. This is a violation of this nation’s campaign finance laws and our right to free and fair elections.
She should insist that 170,200 (in excess of the 4600 limit) be returned to her!
I understand she never made a contribution but she should get something for the ID theft and all her trouble.
170,000 would almost make the criminal abuse worth it, LOL.
More of the media needs to cover this story to protect the public from fraud. People need to check and find out if illegal donations have been made under his or her name. This is why Obama needs to make the list of small donors public.
Canada just elected a right-wing government… I’m sure they would welcome all of you disillusioned Repugs with open arms…
Yes, Canada is an ally. I am sure they favor McCain. Enemies, not so much.
What does that make you?
I think I hear Hamas calling you.
Thanks for stopping by.
LOL*….no, no…..
This one is from CA.
I spot it. (I got it….:))
Dear Red States…
We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we’re taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.
We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their
children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our
resources in Bush’s Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people
with higher morals then we lefties.
By the way, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
weed they grow in Mexico.
Peace out,
Blue States
Looks like you been smoking that glass pipe, another wannabe Barry Soetoro!
I can tell you’re from my state….CA.
How do you think Prop 8 will go?
I’m voting down on propositions for high-speed rail, the farm animal bill, and every bill that will cost a penny. Heck, CA is downgraded now to the point that we cannot raise money by bonds. We’re “junk.”
Time to get real.
Prop 8 seems the only one that is “values” based.
I’m thinking it won’t pass. What say you?
And as for the rest of your post? You’re dreamin’….CA dreaming.
The dream is over. Get ready for off-shore drilling too.
I see you have chosen this special time to prove once again what a complete idiot you are. Congratulations.
You don’t speak for me, and I am a Californian.
You forgot to mention, by the way, that California has the highest bimbo ratio in the country, with the most boob jobs per capita. Way to go, California!
What’s your take on the propositions.
I’ve been waiting all morning for an open thread.
I give up. I’ll just cheat and ask.
You see, this is why Bambi and his followers are so well loved and received! They’re just joyful loving creatures.
If that’s the case, I want a petition for the independent of CA. I don’t want Obama to mess up CA the way he does in IL. You can move to IL if you want.
Ken Lay is dead, you idiot. And Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign because of his relationship with a prostitute. Remember that?
How would he know that. He copied all that sh..
from someone else’s article. He’s too stupid to
have ideas other than his manlove for O.
And at the end of the day the blue states will still be considered US and other countries will still hate you. When they attack your arrogant, self righteous asses, you will all run with your tail between your legs to the red state in hopes THAT WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, SO YOU CAN KEEP YOUR POT, EXPENSIVE CARS, ILLEGAL NANNY’S, WELFARE RECIPIENTS (SO WHEN YOU STEP OVER THEM IN THE MORNING YOU CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT HELPING THE LITTLE PEOPLE), GAY FRIENDS (TO SHOW HOW HIP YOU ARE) AND MAYBE YOU CAN ALL BECOME SCIENCETOLOGIST THAT WAY YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE PROBLEM OF SEPARATING CHURCH AND STATE. WHEN YOU CREATE YOUR OUR UNITED OF BLUE STATES MAKE SURE YOU TAKE OBAMA, PELOSI, BRAZILE, DEAN, REID, OBAMA’S WIFE, REV WRIGHT, REV FLAGER, BILL AYERS, KHALADI AND ALL THE REST OF THE OBAMA GANG WITH YOU. MAKE SURE YOU MAKE CUMBA YA YOUR NATIONAL ANTHEM (DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE THE WORDS MY LORD!!!!!)
Just looking at a headline on Yahoo that says “former secretary of state says Palin not ready for top job” - it’s Eagleburger, who’s a McCain supporter.
Man - barky and his minions in the media are desperate to “discredit” Sarah Palin, ain’t they? It’s hilarious!
In the meantime, I picked this up at Redstate:
The Death Of A Democracy And Road To Dictatorship!
The “Leader” publishes a “My Struggle” Bio. during good economic times.
A major political party, the money people and the media “intellectuals” all ignore the “warning signs”.
Those in power think they can control The “Fuhrer”, ride him to power and then diguard him.
The “Party” is ruthlessly taken over by a core of the Fuhrer’s thugs who care nothing for the “rules”.
Promises, Pleges and Laws are all broken and ignored by the Fuhrer’s fanatical followers.
The Mob is “blooded” by the leader at increasingly staged and controled extravaganzas.
An economic down turn is used to ignite “Class Warfare”.
Anti semitic scape goating esculates.
Race, Religion and Culture are all demonized.
A new state religion of liberation is put in place.
Oposition is harrased, demonized, hung in effigy and brutally attacked by organized thugs.
The Business and Money class are attacked, purged, sent to re education camps and eventually exterminated.
Labor Unions are outlawed and their leaders rounded up and “disappeared”.
College faculty and books are purged, banned and burned.
The “Bad Media” is shut out, shut down, sent to re education camps and eventually exterminated.
“Reactionaries of the New Order” are identified, “researched”, rounded up, sent to re education camps and eventually exterminated.
The New Order is nothing more than a personality cult of the Furher
Crest, Slogans, and statues, all made to his Image and likeness appear in public.
Think it can’t happen here???
It has already begun!
Have you read Drudge today??
Sig Heil!
Footnotes.
See A. Hitler
See J. Stalin
See S. Husain
See B. Obama
No matter what the out come of this election, there has never been a more clear example of the press, the self proclaimed forth branch of government has let the american people down. they have with held vital information, at a time when our nation is facing the most important decision of leadership. they chose not to look, they chose not to care, and still should obama loose and they bring all this information come to light these fools have commited treasons. While no court should ever lock them up for it, I do believe there is a better way to punish them. Let them go down in history as men who did not love or care for their country and choose not to defend it or it’s people in it’s greatest hour of need, and that they choose to act as an imprisioned institution of propaganda instead of being the free press which our founding fathers gave them a right to be, and not only did they fail us, they fail themselves. And the only justice i seek is that none of them be able to face the man or woman staring back from the mirror for the rest of their days. and if obama is elected, then the fools will get what they deserve for sure.
If you guys get a chance, turn on Rush today. He’s talking about the Obama ground game and the astroturfers and how the polls are crap. It’s good stuff!
Rush??? you don’t take that clown seriously…
do you???
Bye Bye Obot!
So cool - I e-mailed Rush this morning (and Hannity) to beg them to PLEASE spend all their time through Tuesday exposing 0bama’s so-called ground game - which is actually just lies and propaganda and fraud - most of it to be accomplished by the media.
The “ground game” plans are only to try to demoralize McCain voters and get them to stay home.
Watch for it - “0bama’s doing great in states he wasn’t supposed to have a chance in - like Montana, Louisiana, blah blah blah…”
“Early exit polls show 0bama waaaaay ahead in state after state after state - this could be an 0bama landslide, folks!”
We saw it in spades with Hillary - “She’s dropped out!” on the day of the last primaries.
We’ve already seen a lot of it in the GE too - “early voting shows HUGE democrat/0bama lead!” Of course it’s all BS and it’s all propaganda.
Hope that’s what Rush is talking about today - all day…
Depressing the McCain vote IS THE ENTIRE 0BAMA GROUND GAME.
prop 8 is a farce… why would you want to deny anyone rights which they currently have?
it’s just wrong … PERIOD
I agree.
but what do you think about the rest?
I am voting them ALL down.
California….time to get real.
I saw a post someplace that once it gets voted into law like in Mass. they teach it in schools and parents are not happy about it. A father got arrested trying to stop his children from being taught that it is ok for Sally to marry Cindy or Jack to marry Tom something like that. It changes things that parents are just finding out about.
People don’t want their small children taught this.
That’s the ad, for sure.
if “Joe the Plumber” is the best the repugs have to offer at this point….
hey, do you hear that??? sounds like the fat lady is beginning to sing….
Joe the Plumber is KILLING barky in Iowa, to name just one state.
Why else do you think barky’s having to go back and stump right now in his FORMERLY “in the bag” state of Iowa?
IOWA! IOWA! Iowans remember the caucus fraud/shenanigans and the bused-in Chicago thugs. BARKY’S GONNA LOSE IOWA - AND NH AND MAINE AND PA AND NEVADA. And, it goes without saying that McCain’s gonna win OH and FL and VA - and THE WHITE HOUSE.
Can you spell DESPERATE, troll?
Barky stumping again in Iowa! Hilarious!
Joe the Plumber is the most sensible voice in this entire election, including the primaries.
He is the voice of the people. He’s obviously bright. Brighter than most, I wager. But that’s beside the point. He is the people that the Democrats said were racist and bitter and clinging to guns and religion. He is the voice of the land between the coastal belts, the “flyover voter.” He is the voice of voters who know that they are only important once every 4 years. They have learned the hard way. Those planes land once every 4 years.
And then, Washington goes back to business as usual.
This IS a year of great change.
And I personally say: He represents that change.
NO MORE BS.
Yeah she singing alright - sitting on top of a crushed Obama.
this is a ridiculous joke about the donatioins. It’s dirty, dishonest and stinks to high heaven of fraud. I believe most of Obama’s been getting as far as he has is because he is black. If it had been a white person, he would have went down the tubes long ago. But by all means, lets worry about Palin’s wardrobe. Bunch of aatanic kooks just like Wright and Ayers.
I am going to check the FEC contributions online. Make sure my name wasn’t stolen and used to launder Fraudbama’s dirty money.
Dear Voters in Blogger Land:
This is a long comment, but I believe it is worth the reading. It will tell you how to stop the Obama Fraud Group from collecting money by making the donation tied to the answering of certain, important questions.
The Ineptitude of the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee to Comprehend and Answer Logical Questions
On 15 October 2008 I sent the following standpoint, which I have also placed on some internet blog pages, to the Democratic Party/Democratic National Committee.
I asked them if they would please answer my questions and make comment on my stance. Here is the email:
More Falsehoods From Pied Piper from Illinois
I am an independent voter. As far as I am concerned, John McCain definitely won all of the Presidential debates because he did not lie to the American public in them. Barack Hussein Obama gives the public the feeling that he is the oratorical genius. He is not. Practically nothing that comes out of his mouth can be considered as being logically and factually sound. He cannot speak without memorization and without a teleprompter. His spontaneous speaking is loaded with ‘”errr, uhs, ahh, let me think about that, I’ll … er, uh …” etc.
There is so much murky mud in Barack Hussein Obama’s background, political vita, speeches, and writings.
In a large majority of Barack Hussein Obama’s public appearances, from the Democratic Convention in 2004, through the Barack Hussein Obama Berlin Speech in July of 2008, to the Barack Hussein Obama Denver Acceptance Speech in August, 2008, and even the Presidential Debates, Barack Hussein Obama gives the viewer and the people in the audience that politics is show entertainment. Entertainment in shows is comedy and tragedy. The comedy with Barack Hussein Obama is that Barack Hussein Obama believes what Barack Hussein Obama says without knowing what Barack Hussein Obama says. The tragedy is that there are so many Americans (and people from other countries) who believe Barack Hussein Obama, because it is subtly suggested to them to think that Barack Hussein Obama is on a Godly mission. I have said it before and I shall say it again: If I had ever made such speeches in any one of my public speaking classes when I was a university student in America and in Europe, I would have flunked the course due to intellectual incapability. If I were to make such a (non-)quality lecture before my university students, undergraduate and graduate students, they would laugh me out of the classroom.
I come from the Northeast Kingdom and the Great North Woods. People in that original part of the United States of America believe in the truth. It is the truth that makes one free. Barack Hussein Obama has not got a good relationship with the truth. I have reviewed Barack Hussein Obama’s public statements and writings, if they were ever from his pen. Throughout, 70-plus percent of the writings and speeches are factually wrong. They are loaded with falsehoods. Totally, they are a reinterpretation of history that is revisionist to satisfy Barack Hussein Obama’s own personal goals, which are not a service to America. Moreover, serious questions should be asked concerning at least the following matters:
- What is the content of his real, original (sealed) birth certificate?
- Whether or not he travelled on an Indonesian passport to Pakistan in 1981?
- Why he lied to the State of Illinois in 1991 when he registered as an attorney? He stated that he did not have any former names. It has been proven that when he was in Indonesia (or even before?) he was called Barry Soetoro and the fact is indicated on his school registration papers, which also lists him as a Muslim.
- What do the adoption papers say about his being adopted by Lolo Soetoro?
- Why documents relating to his university studies have been closed to the public?
- Why he claims the authorship of papers and writings that he never wrote?
- Why he never wrote one article for the Harvard Law Review when he was its president?
- Why he has never really severed ties with ACORN and the 1960s Weather Underground Terrorists Group and its leader/co-founder Bill Ayers?
- Why he has not released campaign contribution information concerning the origin of contributions from foreign countries, which is against the laws of the United States of America?
- Why he never refers to the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, with the official title of the office that he presently possesses. If he wants to be President, then he should at least respect the position and the people who hold it.
- Why he has always supported his wife Michelle in her ever-occurring tirades against the United States of America, until approxi9mately two months ago, when she suddenly realized that Barack Hussein Obama might become President.
- Why he does not want to be called by his complete (legal?) name, Barack Hussein Obama?
- Why does he almost always refer to his mother’s ancestry, but practically never to his father’s? If he cannot find pride in his African roots, then he can never be proud as a President, and can never represent a proud nation, for the source of pride is in the complete individual.
- The list could go on ad infinitum.
Of course, Presidential candidates should really know about domestic affairs, international relations, and the economy. But …
1. Domestic affairs to Barack Hussein Obama are nothing more than organizing communities and stating lies to Illinois state government departments.
2. His policies on international relations, he says, will be reliant on the advice of his Vice-Presidential running mate, Joe Biden, who as a United States Senator played up to the Russian negotiators in the 1970 Salt-2 Talks, unofficially telling them not to worry about position of the United States of America on Europe, because “…he (Joe Biden) personally and other members of the US Senate do not very much care about the Europeans’ concerns.” Furthermore, “…Biden and (Senator)Lugar said that, in the end of the day, they were not so much concerned with having a problem (with the basic human rights) of this or that citizen.” “In other words, the collocutors directly admitted that what is happening is a kind of a show, that they absolutely do not care for the fate of most so-called dissidents.”
The quotations are from the memo by Vadim V. Zagladin, deputy head of the International Department of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Central Committee titled ON THE BASIC CONTENTS OF TALKS WITH THE US SENATORS, written between 9-20 April 1979 and originally classified as TOP SECRET by the Soviet Union. It has been declassified by the Russian government.)
3. He presents himself to the American voter as the know-it-all economist. He is not. The facts are as follows:
Economic trends and market stimulations come in circular paths with ups and downs in the market economy. The rule is that if a presidential administration passes laws affecting the national economy, in the long range, it will take up to four to eight years for this legislation to become fully effective. Based upon this reality, the economic legislation passed by the George Bush Sr. presidential administration took effect under President Clinton, and those economic legislative bills passed by the Clinton administration came into effect during the George Bush Jr. presidential administration. Barack Hussein Obama is taking the citizenry as a fool when Barack Hussein Obama claims that only the Democrats are the real economic knows-it-all personalities, and that the Republicans do not know anything that has to do with national or international economics. President Clinton happened to be President when new, developing computer-based technologies created job opportunities. The economic impulse was its own motor in the New Economy. The Clinton Administration did not have much to do with its success. The economic upswing started to get out of control in approximately the last 18 months of the Clinton Administration. The full effect of the blown-up-economic-bubble burst of the New Economy came under the Presidency of George W. Bush Jr. Had George W. Bush Sr. been elected to a second term of office, he would have received credit for the estimated 23 million jobs.
Furthermore, the present-day international banking crisis was not caused by Republicans alone, particularly not by President George W. Bush alone. Barack Hussein Obama fails to accept the truth that the present banking crisis has its roots in the Presidency of James Earl Carter, a Democrat. In 1977 the Carter Administration passed legislation that forced banks to make bad loans to people who could not afford them. In 1998-99 Clinton pushed reform legislation that made Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae take on more risk. In 2004 and 2005 the Republicans tried to tighten up control on the two national lenders, but they were rebuffed by Barney Frank, a Democrat responsible for overseeing the banks and lending institutions. It is interesting to note that the Democrats have a majority in both houses and the two overseeing chairs are occupied by Representative Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Senator Christopher Dodd (D) of Connecticut, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. They are not calling for any special investigations into the cause of the banking crisis. Surely, if Republicans were chairing these committees, the Democrats would demand that they be relieved of their duties.
Republicans make mistakes. But they admit them and say that they can and will learn from them. Democrats take the opposite stance.
Barack Hussein Obama’s incapability to understand the truth convinces me that his economic prowess has no veracity. John McCain’s economic views, on the other hand, are exceedingly more convincing because they are concreted with logic.
Before I continue, I emphasize the following to the utmost.
My conclusions after reading and closely examining all of Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called great speeches, with Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called great oratory, Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called perfect answers and comments in the Presidential debates, and Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called genius solutions for the United States of America are three-fold:
1. Barack Hussein Obama is a true charlatan.
2. Barack Hussein Obama is an outright falsifier and historical revisionist.
3. Barack Hussein Obama is the perfect present-day symbol of the following quotation: “The people want to be lied to, and if the lie is big enough, they will believe it.” (The source of the quotation is Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Propaganda.)
Barack Hussein Obama is of one kind only. Barack Hussein Obama has only one principle: self-interest. Barack Hussein Obama has only one desire: to insult and spread falsehoods. Barack Hussein Obama has only one truth: don’t tell it. Barack Hussein Obama has only one -crisy: hypocrisy. Barack Hussein Obama has only one dice: cowardice to face up to the truth.
I know some Americans who are already considering renouncing their American citizenship should Barack Hussein Obama be elected President. I personally fear that the bottom line comes down to the fact that if Barack Hussein Obama becomes President of the United States of America, America and all Americans will be the losers. Should Barack Hussein Obama lose the election, then America and all Americans will become winners.
Perhaps a better epithet for Barack Hussein Obama is The Pied Piper from Illinois. If elected President, he will start the Great American Sell-Out, take everything way from Americans so that only -rats exist. What do you think?
Now that I have the above off of my mind, I think that I have come across a weird statistic.
At http://www.barackobamatest.com/ there is a questionnaire to compare one’s views with those of Barack Hussein Obama. Once the person takes the test, that person will be rated with what All Americans said in the polls on the matters in question: energy, taxes, felon voting, second amendment, spending, defense, trade, health care, social values, justice, crime, labor.
I took the test and found out that I disagree with Barack Hussein Obama on 46 out of 48 questions. I am really disappointed. I expected 100% disagreement. The weird statistic is that once you find out how All Americans responded to the respective polls, there is a collective average of 73.7% of All Americans that do not agree with Barack Hussein Obama’s policies, yet the polls that rate who is leading in the Presidential race give Barack Hussein Obama a 50% plus lead over John McCain.
How can it be that 73.7% of All Americans disagree with Barack Hussein Obama’s policies, yet more than 50% of All Americans think Barack Hussein Obama is the better candidate and want this person as their next President?
Winston Churchill was correct: Believe no statistics, except the ones you yourself falsify.
Would you call Barack Hussein Obama a liar? I certainly would.
Frederick William Dame
(Dr. rer. pol.; Dr. Phil.; D. Litt.)
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That is the end of my email to the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee.
I never received a reply from them. This does not surprise me. What I have been receiving are begging emails to make a contribution for the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the next President. They have come from
Jon Carson
National Field Director
Obama for America
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
Michelle (Is this person Michelle Obama? I do not believe that I know her well enough and personally to be on first name terms with her.)
Barack (Is this person Barack Hussein Obama) I do not believe that I know him well enough and personally to be on first name terms with him.)
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
The Democratic Party
Of course these begging emails were automated and are sent to every person deceased or alive that the Democratic Party can get an address on. This does not surprise me either.
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Five days later I sent the Democratic Party/Democratic National Committee another email that I also submitted on a number of blog pages. Here it is:
Why Americans Must Not Cast Their Vote For Barack Hussein Obama
The identity of a person is one’s name and one’s heritage. Most often a person’s name tells something about that person’s heritage. If a person has certain friends and associates and exemplifies a certain conduct, then we have an indication of that person’s character. The totality of a person’s being, which includes the personal name, the heritage, the background, the associations, and the conduct are a person’s character identity. My identity is my name. It signifies my heritage as well. That is simple and I can prove it with my original birth certificate. My background (growing-up, academics, and profession) is also excellent. They got me the highest security clearance and some of the best positions that can be attained. My associations are the best: upright, patriotic citizens who keep their feet on the ground. My conduct in respecting and obeying the laws of the land is flawless. That is the situation with me: explicit, straight, and to the point because there is nothing to hide.
1. What is in a name?
Now let us take a look at the Democratic Party candidate for the office of President of the United States of America: Barack Hussein Obama. The name indicates that it is not American/Anglo-Saxon. There is nothing wrong with that. Barack (Baruch) indicates a possible Hebrew heritage. There is nothing wrong with that. Obama indicates a possible non-White American heritage. There is nothing wrong with that. Hussein, a name common in Moslem countries, indicates an Arab heritage. There is nothing wrong with that, either. Let us delete Hussein, because belle Michelle once stated that it is a “fear bomb” for the American electorate. Now we have Barack Obama (Or is it Barry?) The name tells us that it is not a usual American/English name. (I shall use Barack Hussein Obama, because that is Barack Hussein Obama’s name!) Barack Hussein Obama tells us that Barack Hussein Obama is American because Barack Hussein Obama’s mother was American and his grandparents were/are American. In one sweep his African heritage disappears. I suspect that Barack Hussein Obama’s American heritage would disappear in one sweep if Barack Hussein Obama were running for President of Kenya. My conclusion on this matter is that Barack Hussein Obama has half an identity, and half a heritage that Barack Hussein Obama does not openly want to be made public. The situation could be easily remedied by Barack Hussein Obama claiming both heritages all of the time and backing the claim up with his original birth certificate. (Oh, darn it! What am I saying? The Messiah did not have a birth certificate, either! )
2. What do we know about Barack Hussein Obama’s background ?
We do not know much. The investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid maintains that when Barack Hussein Obama was a young man in Hawaii he had ties with the Communist Party of the USA and was mentored by the American Communist-Stalinist Frank Marshall Davis. There are rumors bordering on 100 percent surety that Barack Hussein Obama was associated with the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, and the Students for a Democratic Society. (How many of them were really students?) Then Barack Hussein Obama went off to Columbia University to study, returned to Chicago, where the clean Democratic Party Machine assures voters that their votes will be counted. (As many times as is necessary!) Then Barack Hussein Obama attended Harvard University Law School, graduating magna cum laude (I would like to read the justification.), but without ever having authored one piece of judicial writing that has been made public. We do not know Barack Hussein Obama’s academic record at Columbia University and Harvard Law School. (or any other school!) We know nothing about Barack Hussein Obama’s academic standards. We do not even know the university entrance exam scores. We know absolutely nothing, except that upon graduation from Harvard Law School Barack Hussein Obama returned to Chicago to conduct social work, rather than join a well-known law firm in New York City. (Maybe Barack Hussein Obama was afraid of the results of a background check that the firm would definitely have executed!!!) We do know that Barack Hussein Obama always held a job paid for by the taxpayer, which tells us a lot about Barack Hussein Obama’s (non-)knowledge of the trials and tribulations of American middle class businesses.
3. What are the associations?
Check the data available and you will find out all you need to know: Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Barack Hussein Obama never broke ties with him, it was only distancing, just a little, until after the election.), Tom Ayers, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Mike Klonsky, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ACORN, Rashid Khalidi, Mona Khalidi, Tony Rezko, Raila Odinga. I surely would not want these types as my friends and associates, unless I were on their wave lengths! (And bonus/gratuity lists!)
4. What about the conduct?
Living by the lie is a form of conduct. Barack Hussein Obnama lied about having other names on an application to obtain a lawyer’s license in Illinois. Barack Hussein Obama lies in his official speeches. (The private conversations must be more than revisionist!) Over 75% of the Berlin Speech in July 2008 is historically false. Over 70% of the Denver Acceptance Speech in Auguast 2008 is historically false. Breaking the law is a form of conduct. Barack Hussein Obama has broken federal law by accepting election campaign contributions from foreign countries. Barack Hussein Obama has broken federal law by not listing contributors to his election campaign properly.
5. What about character?
The core of character is a moral matter. Human morality is of an especial importance because it is the quality that makes human beings as individual citizens become special, social beings in the political sense. Virtue is the quality of moral goodness, excellence, righteousness, responsibility, and conduct that adheres to a standard or mores and morality. Barack Hussein Obama is void of these essentials. Barack Hussein Obama plays God by deciding against the right to life of human beings who are not yet born. Barack Hussein Obama is the personification of a masquerade of showing morals that do not really exist in that person. Barack Hussein Obama does not dare to appear as what he really is. The madness is caught up in istself. Barack Hussein Obama disregards the respect for the nation and its symbols. Barack Hussein Obama disobeys the respect of and obedience to its laws. Barack Hussein Obama depraves the love of freedom that is not Barack Hussein Obama’s view of socialist freedom. Barack Hussein Obama laughs at the Constitution of the United States of America and its regulatory law on the qualifications one needs to become President of the United States of America, as well as the basic freedoms it guarantees. All of these standpoints are immoral, and dispicable. They show rotten character. Indeed, they show a black hole soul-psyche without any morality. An election campaign, nonetheless the next President of the United States of America, cannot be constructed and elected on a basis of immorality. The need for morality in politics is at the heart of a social contract. A country’s citizenry is political and the result of the American Revolutionary War is that the citizens of the American Colonies organized themselves into a functioning democratic, republic-federal system – a civil, social form, the outcome of which guaranteed a higher form of freedom and morality than they had had before the Revolution. Every day that Barack Hussein Obama continues to pay disrespect to America’s laws and traditions is a day that he spits in the face of Americans, the forefathers, and their desire for moral government. His behavior tramps on America’s heart and soul. Barack Hussein Obama’s method is to suck out all of the life the individuals have, to guzzle down the blood of their pride, and then puke out a tune to which they all dance in ecstasy. Those who are Obamarites have sold their souls and they know not why, nor do they care.
Barack Hussein Obama has alienated the American self from the American self. Barack Hussein Obama stands for everything that is not democratic republicanism in the federal form. He disregards legal proofing, has questionable, criminal and terrorist associates, disobeys the laws of the state of Illinois and the federal government, and shows conduct unbecoming to a future President. Barack Hussein Obama is worse than base, worse than vile. Barack Hussein Obama has no moral core in his character. A person who has no moral core is a false and evil person and is intrinsically corrupt.
These are my reasons why Americans must not cast their vote on Election Day for Barack Hussein Obama!
Dear Democratic Party/Democratic National Committee Personality: would you please tell me one reason why anyone should voter for Barack Hussein Obama? The reason does not even have to be a good one!
Frederick William Dame
(Dr. rer. Pol.; Dr. Phil.; D. Litt.)
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I received some more begging emails.
Here is the one that made me laugh my you know what off:
“Thank you for your suggestion. We are looking forward to changing the direction our country is going in by electing Democrats up and down the ballot in November. The Democratic Party and Senator Obama along with Senator Biden will continue to work hard for all Americans and bring real change we can believe in”
Sincerely,
Rosemary Enobakhare
Constituents Services
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I responded with this email:
Dear Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee Automated Personality:
I am an independent voter. I support no political party financially.
You have failed to answer my two previous emails and the questions contained therein.
Perhaps they were too difficult for you.
Perhaps the English was too complicated.
I shall rephrase them in a very concise manner.
In this email I have limited them to only three questions.
I hope that they are now not too difficult and not too many for you.
1. Why should any voter cast his/her vote for Barack Hussein Obama who has been proven to be a lair concerning his political policies, associates, and other issues that are important to the electorate?
2. Why should any voter cast his/her vote for Barack Hussein Obama who has broken Illinois State (application for his lawyer’s license) and federal law (not listing sources of election contributions?
3. Why should any voter cast his/her vote for Barack Hussein Obama who cannot prove his birth qualification for the office of the Presidency beyond any doubt, but is more interested in undermining the Constitution of the United States of America?
Barack Hussein Obama is not answerable to himself only.
As a politician (even one of questionable integrity) he is answerable to the complete electorate, even to Republicans and especially Independents.
I think that it is about time that you and all Americans understand that Barack Hussein Obama has removed all morality from his actions and thus has removed all freedom from his will.
This is corruption in its most absolute condition.
Please give me one good reason why any American should vote for him!
Dr. Dr. Dr. Frederick William Dame
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I have not received any more begging emails.
The truth hit home!
May the truth show its strength on Election Day.
May God Bless America.
Frederick William Dame
Ani, great article. John McCain could not have made a better statement about character!
Mollye –
Thanks. You are absolutely right about McCain’s statement. The significance of this, of course, is that Obama is exactly the opposite of what he pretends to be.
Aren’t there sales figures on those prepaid credit cards. Where are they selling the most and what is the pattern would be interesting to know.
It would be pretty obvious if data showed that thousands of cards were bought in a couple of big chunks.
The media is a serious problem in this country, but only because a great majority of americans have not had proper education.
I had the great opportunity to take a philosophical logic class in college. It was one the electives required for my degree in Molecular Biology. They teach you fallacies that people make in their arguements.
One of the biggest the media makes are calls to authority and bandwagon. Time after Time after time, they use “election analysists” and former advisors to campaigns to give popular opinions and then pass them off as facts. Just because someone has held a position of importants or has run a campaign before, doesn’t mean they have the right answers, especially when those answers aren’t backed up with concrete facts, but rather opinion and speculation.
The second biggest fallacy the media creates is with the idea of “polling”. First off, the more you are willing to admit that you poll is flawed the more accurate it is (they teach you that in this class). The media uses polling to in effect call for people to jump on board with the most popular candidate. Very fallacious, the only poll that matters is the election. To call for support of a particular candidate based on his/her popularity is very falicous.
So Basically it boils down to the type of education one has had in their life. It seems to me, that many students don’t get proper critical analysis skills. This allows you to be open to fallacy because you don’t have the education and tools to decide for yourself what is a good and bad argument. You have to rely on your emotion or other people opinion because you have never been taught how to systematically break and arguement down on its merits alone. Never good in making a sound decision.
One of the best fallacies of this election is the change motto by Obama. Change is ambigous and as such can mean many things to many people. By Obama not truly defining change, it then becomes what ever you decide to direct upon him. This is very fallacious but very effective. It is a testment to the stupidity of the american public and a validation of the crappy education they have had. Also change is not always good. There is bad and good change. By not really defining the change, it can go either way. This arguement i have made is pure logic and points out flaws. It is also why Obama bots go into pure fits of rage and insult. There brains KNOW its not right, but they try to fight it.
I think that the media and the government are working with each other now. I think they are making backroom deals and trying to pursuade the public. I have evidence for this. During the Primary, when Obama was given votes in Michigan. The argument in favor of that was it was because Obama supporters were told that it wouldn’t count or that he wasn’t on the ballot therefore they couldn’t vote for him. While the latter COULD be a speculation for saying some didn’t show up, the first held true for hillary supporters. Bascially you could make the same argument for hillary by saying, “even though she was on the ballot, some people didn’t show up to vote because they thought it wouldn’t count.” NO ONE EVER in the media brought up this very logical flaw in the Obama campaigns argument. Its blaring right in front of you, but with all the politican lawyers, none of them pointed this flaw out. Why? Because it was all rehearsed for your viewing pleasure. I think its too late for us. I think america is totally corrupted and its now nothing more that money interested and mass slavery. You go to work and make the people in power rich.
Excuse me……loads of us took Philosophy 101.
That has zip to do with voting.
Were life to unfold in a logical way, trust me….I’d not be posting on this blog.
I’m a non-profit fundraising professional. As one of my jobs, I help groups set up credit card transactions with companies ALL the TIME. I know a little about all of this.
When you setup credit card transactions you are asked what level of security screening you want. If you want low level screening (like Obama’s) you pay a higher fee to the company. The more secure you make it then the less it costs to process the cards. The companies know that when you don’t have additional security checks, then you have more bounces or fraud. They want to get paid so they charge you more for that. It’s like paying a “pain in the butt tax.”
Obama’s people weren’t trying to save the campaign money and ensure clean transactions. Clearly Hillary and McCain were. Most non-profits go the route of safe transactions too.
On another note. The Obama campaign has said they don’t make a list of all donations of less than $200 because it would be too much work. Well, non-profits do it all the time. Data entry doesn’t take THAT much time. To those that argue that the number of donations to his campaign was unprecedented, I disagree. The Red Cross and dozens of other organizations dealt with more donations in a shorter period of time after 9/11, and they found a way to process the checks and send thank you LETTERS (not just emails). And Obama could have given one or two people a nice little job, since he DOES have all that MONEY. Plus, with all those donations coming in online, it’s a simple export/import. So it’s either laziness, gaming the system, outright fraud, or some combination.
Basically, if he wanted it to be an open campaign, he could have easily done that. I say we keep the heat on him. I also think we should demand changes from the FEC so campaigns track each donation not just bigger ones.. I don’t think anyone wants this doesn’t happen again.
Read one ex-Obama supporter memoir about the working style and conception of Obama & CO, go to;www.newsmax.com
Why not believe it, when you know some of the people who made those small donations? I personally know people who donated 25, 50, or 100 bucks to the Obama campaign. I know one person who donated his old cell phone to local Obama campaign volunteers because money was too tight to donate cash. It was accepted with much appreciation.
John McCain can say what he wants, but the Obama campaign has been about as grass-roots as campaigns get. Big money has been buying political influence for years. It’s standard operating procedure in corporate America. So what’s wrong with a few million regular Americans deciding to financially support a guy they believe is looking out for their own best interests? Why shouldn’t they decide to buy their government back? And why should Obama have handicapped his campaign by declining that support?
IndianaDem
Your an ignorant mindless party automoton,
Millions of dollars have been proven to be fraudulent/illegal. It has been proven that false names have been charged multiple times on the same card. A women supposedly gave $175000 to his campaign and never gave a dime. The Obama camp claims that credit card companies dont even offer a service of name/card verification (you believe that or are they lying). Obama refuses to report the names of givers under $200 even though McCain campaign does (is it possible that a person is making 100, $200 donations to get around FCC rules and that is why he wont report the givers.). And finally your most blatant stupid statement “why should Obama have handicapped his campaign by declining that support” a) because he said he would b) because supposedly the Dems (and John McCain) for decades have been making the argument that public financing is the only way to clean up the money end of elections and I thought principles actually mattered to honest people 3) what “that One” is doing will now be the norm in every election from here on out, you can live in the fantasy world that all those $200 or less donations are coming from individual people but there is no way of knowing and anyone with half a brain is going assume that they are working the system, which every campaign from here on out will do.
Your ignorant support of corruption will just help perpetuate more corruption.
yes I did a,b,3… for some reason that always cracks me up.
If I make a $200 political donation as a private citizen, it’s my right that this should remain private. I don’t expect my name to be published on a public list any more than I expect it to be made a matter of public record who I vote for.
I rather like the fact that Obama declined to finance his campaign with taxpayer money. I totally reject the notion that millions of small donations from private, individual sources actually represent some sort of a fraud. The logistics of such a thing would be impossibly complex, and equally impossible to conceal. John McCain just doesn’t want to accept the obvious: Rightly or wrongly, millions of private citizens have been sufficiently supportive of Barack Obama’s candidacy to be willing to reach for their credit cards. Many are young and totally at home on the internet. The Obama campaign has taken full advantage of their impulse to help by making the donation process quick and easy. In every sense, they’ve been running the first truly 21st Century political campaign.
The 21st Century campaign has no place for “mindless party automatons”. These days you’ve got to be up to speed and thinking every minute.
Another example of tactical savy:
Remember how they ridiculed the Obama campaign’s mass early morning cell phone calls to announce his running mate?
Do you think that huge database of supporters’ instant messaging numbers hasn’t been used to turn out his voters? How many of the people in those long early voter lines have gotten reminders to get out there and vote?
IndianaDem says: “The 21st Century campaign has no place for “mindless party automatons”. These days you’ve got to be up to speed and thinking every minute.” The problem is that most Obama supporters are NOT thinking AT ALL, ignoring all the evidence about his shady past associations, his total lack of experience, his empty promises that just don’t add up, and the question of who is really financing him.
let’s try it, and see if it is really possible to raise that much money over the internet!
every, please send a donation smaller than $200 to me!
I will let you know how long it takes to get to a million.
If Obama is installed as president, chances are that the media will continue to be his propaganda tool, as it has been under the Bush administration. And has anybody noticed that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that persecuted the Clintons through 8 years in the 1990s seems to have disappeared? Does that not suggest that perhaps, just perhaps, the same people who illegitimately installed Bush/Cheney into power are the same people behind Obama…and I’m not talking about the lemmings. I am talking about the power mongers, the string pullers, the money interests, the corporatists, the oligarchists.
Change….we’ll be taxed more; I have no doubt about that. But the net change will be the elimination of the middle class…a New World Order (who said that, Joe Biden?)… back to feudalism.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Heaven help us.
If Obama is installed as president, chances are that the media will continue to be his propaganda tool, as it has been under the Bush administration. And has anybody noticed that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that persecuted the Clintons through 8 years in the 1990s seems to have disappeared? Does that not suggest that perhaps, just perhaps, the same people who illegitimately installed Bush/Cheney into power are the same people behind Obama…and I’m not talking about the lemmings. I am talking about the power mongers, the string pullers, the money interests, the corporatists, the oligarchists.
Change….we’ll be taxed more; I have no doubt about that. But the net change will be the elimination of the middle class…a New World Order (who said that, Joe Biden?).
Back to feudalism. There is nothing new under the sun.
Heaven help us.
the situation with “Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama’s FEC reports as having donated $174,800″ although she hadn’t is particularly troublesome. apparently, as biskup explained someone appropriated her name. that means that someone contributed $174,800 to Obama because it is impossible for unrelated people to have come up with this same particular name. that is a clear violation of campaign finance law.
that is no chump change. so, the question is which movie star, sports figure, or foreign entity had the wherewithal and inclination to donate $174,800 to the Leader?
Obama is a liar-NOOBAMA EVER!Kick his tail back to Kenya
Anyone besides me notice the koolaide drinkers are out in numbers today..I would not bet slimee takes Minnesota…The number of signs for slimee are about 1 to every 50 of Johns.VOTE VOTE
I am sure that a lot of the billion dollars he is spending on his campaign is very questionable, as I alluded to in my video “Show me The Money” http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/13/grumpy-old-guy-open-thread/
Sorry to have missed you when the thread was active, OldGrumpyGuy. I just love your videos and thank you for your courage in putting them out there.
All of us here at NoQ appreciate your efforts a great deal!!