Threatening Karma (Update)

The Obamaborgs embody the worst aspects of the loony bin.

Lary, PLease don’t get overly frustrated. We all experience bad karma from time to time. It’s just your turn now. Perhaps if you sell your Playstation games and your bike you can still keep the site going. Best of luck to you!

Too gross. Where will it end?

We can all see how they won those caucuses. The same kind of strong-arm tactics. Sickening. Aren’t they a wonderful bunch of scared donkeys? This is the same group that beats up people on the street for fun just so they can catch it with their cells and put it on the net. Can anyone imagine what the country will be like under their leadership? They have no people skills, no communication skills, no social manners, no dignity and they possess no empathy for their fellow human beings. Whatever happened to debate with integrity? I think that is what we were taught to do in high school back in the 60s. And they’ve got their Obama, Mr. Entitlement now as their leader. Through him, they can manifest the worst of their traits because they recognize his same selfish, egocentric motives: IT IS ALL ABOUT THEM! No one else is allowed to share this world! They want to rid themselves of anyone who disagrees with them. If you are a bit older, if you are the wrong political party, if you are the wrong color (white) yada yada. The list is endless. Quite frankly they will be the ruin of this nation. Imagine this group fighting the Nazis like the Greatest Generation once did? Imagine them actually fighting for something other than their IPODS and their Playstations and their text messaging! Imagine should they defer to a god greater than their own egos. Well it is all too much to imagine.

We all know who they are. They are a scourge! A lost generation easily led to the slaughter by a phony, two-faced user named Barach Obama,

Sorry folks but I’m sick of them. Thanks for letting me vent.

larry

thx

Howard Dean just sent me that mass e-mail about NO LOBBYING YAAAAY!!!

And this is what I sent back.

“Howard,

You and the DNC stole my Michigan vote. No amount of placating will assuade me.

You and the rules and bylaws committee honestly found it acceptable that you “interpret” my Michigan vote and those of hundreds of thousands of other Michiganians (nee Michiganders, but I despise John Engler and the spread of that term).

Republicans do not sit in a room and divide votes based on arbitrary decision.

Democrats did.

You get no money from me. And you lost my vote. And I say this as a LGBT American who makes 45K/year and is pro-choice.

You fuck with my Michigan vote? You can fuck off. Period.

Not a dime from this Democrat. You made your bed. Lie in it.”

Pathetic. These Obama loons are dangerous.

Larry…
That just makes me really sad. To see these good folks from my area being punished because we dare say the truth about the coming socialism just makes me sick.
I’m also a manufacturer in this area that happens to supply the raw materials for them to complete their products.
I will miss their add, but will give them a friendly reassuring visit soon.

We can judge a person by the company he keeps, and those enthralled with Obama are not people I’d want to spend any time with. They usually have a four-letter vocabulary.

It was great to receive an email from the DNC today, from Howie asking for money and saying that Bama was no longer letting them take PAC or lobbyists money (did they ever take that from their mailing list of supporters)?

Obama used to attack Hillary for taking lobbyists’ monies when he took not a dime — true, but rather millions. Almost that same day of that victory dance in early February, Nader’s group Public Citizen documented the federally registered bundlers Obama had, and the L.A. Times

2/6/2008 9:44:30 AM

During his speech last night, Sen. Obama continued his negative attacks on Hillary. Among them:

It’s a choice between a candidate who’s taken more money from Washington lobbyists than either Republican in this race and a campaign that has not taken a dime of their money.

Sen. Obama’s comments come on the same week Public Citizen released a report detailing ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists.

Sen. Obama has also taken money from former lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, people who hire lobbyists, lobbyists’ spouses, and state lobbyists. [article copied below]

Until he started running for president, Sen. Obama took money from federal lobbyists and, as a state senator, directly from corporations.

http://www.caclean.org/problem/latimes_2007-04-22.php

An Asterisk To Obama’s Policy On Donations
A presidential hopeful’s refusal of lobbyist money has its limits
By Dan Morgan L.A. Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON ? While pledging to turn down donations from lobbyists themselves, Sen. Barack Obama raised more than $1 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign from law firms and companies that have major lobbying operations in the nation’s capital.

Portraying himself as a new-style politician determined to reform Washington, Obama makes his policy clear in fundraising invitations, stating that he takes no donations from “federal lobbyists.” His aides announced last week he was returning $43,000 to lobbyists who donated to his campaign.

But the Illinois Democrat’s policy of shunning money from lobbyists registered to do business on Capitol Hill does not extend to lawyers whose partners lobby there.

Nor does the ban apply to corporations that have major lobbying operations in Washington. And the prohibition does not extend to lobbyists who ply their trade in such state capitals as Springfield, Ill.; Tallahassee, Fla.; and Sacramento, though some deal with national clients and issues.

“Clearly, the distinction is not that significant,” said Stephen Weissman of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on campaign issues.

“He gets an asterisk that says he is trying to be different,” Weissman said. “But overall, the same wealthy interests are funding his campaign as are funding other candidates, whether or not they are lobbyists.”

A relative newcomer to national politics, Obama stunned the political world by raising $25.7 million in the first three months of the year, all but matching money raised by his main rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Obama attained the lofty mark even as he decried the fundraising system. In his Internet appeals for small donations, Obama played up populist themes of reform.

“It may sound strange for a presidential candidate to launch a fundraising drive that isn’t about dollars. But our democracy shouldn’t be about money, and it’s time our campaigns weren’t either,” he said in one such pitch.

In another e-mail seeking money, Obama decried the “special interest industry in Washington” and warned it would spend more money than ever to “try to own our political process.”

“We’re not going to play that game,” the e-mail said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Obama instituted the ban on lobbyist money in reaction to public anger over the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Burton also acknowledged the policy has its flaws.

“This ban is part of Obama’s best effort to address the problem of money in politics,” Burton said in a statement. “It isn’t a perfect solution to the problem and it isn’t even a perfect symbol. But it does reflect that Obama shares the urgency of the American people to change the way Washington operates.”

Obama said in his first-quarter financial report that he received money from 104,000 donors, twice as many as Clinton, suggesting a disproportionate number of small contributions. But the Campaign Finance Institute said Obama still received 68% of his money from donations of $1,000 or more, compared with 86% for Clinton.

Rules for lobbyists

Lobbyists generally are paid by corporations, unions and other interest groups to shape public policy by making regular contact with government officials. They must register with both houses of Congress, and make public disclosures identifying their clients and the amounts they are paid.

Some of the most influential players, lawyers and consultants among them, skirt disclosure requirements by merely advising clients and associates who do actual lobbying, and avoiding regular contact with policymakers. Obama’s ban does not cover such individuals.

For example, partners from the Atlanta-based law firm Alston & Bird donated $33,000 to Obama in the first 90 days of 2007.

Alston & Bird has a large lobbying division in Washington. It billed its clients nearly $3.9 million in 2006, ranking 35th among Washington lobbyists. Alston boasts on its website that it offers clients “unique experience with how policy is made” and knows “the people who make it: government and agency officials; members of Congress and their staff.”

Obama kept $2,300 donated by Alston’s Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader. Daschle, located in Washington, is neither a lawyer nor a lobbyist. He is a consultant.

According to Alston’s website, Daschle advises “clients on issues related to all aspects of public policy with a particular emphasis on issues related to financial services, health care, energy, telecommunications and taxes.”

Daschle did not return phone calls.

While refusing money directly from federal lobbyists, who get their income from clients, Obama takes money from those clients. In the first quarter of 2007, he accepted a combined $170,000 from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, two financial services giants that have numerous issues pending in Washington and spent a total of $4.6 million on lobbying in 2006.

Power provider’s largess

Obama’s biggest single source of corporate money ? $160,000 ? came from executives at Exelon Corp., the nation’s largest nuclear power provider, and its subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, an Illinois utility.

Exelon spent $500,000 to influence policy in Washington last year. Although Obama took no money from Exelon’s Washington lobbyists, he accepted $1,000 checks from lobbyists John P. Novak and James Monk of Springfield. In Springfield, Novak represents Exelon., and Monk is president of the Illinois Energy Assn., a trade group that represents Commonwealth Edison.

Monk and Novak said they do not lobby in Washington. But their clients care about federal issues, including where to store nuclear waste and what restrictions to place on coal-fired plants.

“I’m not going to second-guess his policy,” Novak said. “I think it is appropriate for me to support a presidential candidate from Illinois.”

Lobbyists from other states also gave Obama money. In California, Obama accepted $2,300 from a partner whose lobbying firm represents AT&T, United Airlines and the Recording Industry Assn. of America in Sacramento.

In Tallahassee, Obama held a fundraiser attended by several statehouse lobbyists, taking checks from lobbyists for trial attorneys, the insurance industry, fast-food chains and sugar cane growers. State and federal issues often are related, as noted by the law firm Akerman Senterfitt, whose Florida-based members donated $7,000 to Obama. On its website, Akerman notes it combines Tallahassee connections with “an involved federal political action committee” to provide its clients “with an enviable level of access.”

“If you cannot be completely pure, is it worth it to be partially pure? That seems to be debatable,” said political scientist Bruce Cain, director of the University of California Washington Center, based in the nation’s capital.

“We cannot say his policy is completely meaningless,” Cain said. “But it doesn’t insulate him from interests.”

On May 2, Obama is scheduled to attend a $2,300-per-ticket breakfast 10 blocks from the Capitol. The hosts include 22 lawyers. Although they are not federal lobbyists, three in the past have been registered lobbyists; they all work at firms that have Washington lobbying operations or hire outside lobbying firms to contact lawmakers.

Lobbyists at the law firms where the lawyers work billed lobbying clients a combined $19 million in 2006, according to PoliticalMoneyLine. Clients include defense contractors, energy producers, healthcare interests, pharmaceutical manufacturers and tobacco companies.

One lawyer co-hosting the Obama event has represented companies fending off litigation over toxic waste cleanup, and another represents employers on affirmative action requirements, force reduction and early retirement programs, their firms’ websites say.

Attorney Robert Sussman, one of the organizers, said in an interview that he was a registered lobbyist until recently, when he decided to help Obama raise money. So that he might do so, he said, the campaign requested that he drop his registration.

“This is a policy that they felt would be consistent with their values and their beliefs. I take no position on the wisdom,” Sussman said. “I decided whatever small inconvenience that was created [by ceasing lobbying] was more than outweighed by helping the candidate.”

I am just disgusted with media .

They did not show any respect for hillary but just talk and talk about obama.
I agree ,everyone has different opinion and we average voters do get biased with our candidates ,but media when were they allowed to choose the candidate .

I am sure black people are so proud of obama ,and they should be ,but i wish they had shown thier loyalty and little respect to CLINTONS,i wish media did not play sexism,and blame race on clinton ,i wish dean had any brain to defend hillary ,

OBAMABOTS try to make us feel bad about voting for mccain ,

where they were when a woman was being called bitch on tv,i mean ,i can go on ,on,on, and on

i see black people happy and it makes me happy .but then i remember all the tricks played by obamas,his camp,media and then i get mad not at black community but at media and dnc

I AM HILL SUPPORTER BUT i am not that forgiving ,i am just one vote ,but when a woman is hurt ,everyone knows what hAPPENS,

is it me? or does Larry look like Jim Carrey in “Dumber & Dumber”?

i’m not an Obama supporter, but i will vote for him in the general election. the prospect of Mkkkain is far worse by comparison.

From Hillary44

Just yesterday, the media and Democrat-ick officials and Obama campaign staff were claiming that Barry Obama would draw between 25,000 and 50,000 to his “Old-Time Traveling Medicine Show” at the Nissan Pavillion in PWC today where he would hawk his modern day snake oil remedies. The Pavillion holds 25,000 for concerts and it was expected that nearly double that number would show up in a sea of humanity stretching far beyond the gates.

Now, the WashPo is reporting that only about 10,000 people showed up, which given their propensity for fuzzy math favoring Democrats, means there were probably more on the order of about 7,500 to 8,000 people there. Even if they did reach 10,000, the place would have been more than half empty and only 1/5 the size of the crowd they had hoped for.

Barry, meet reality.

As I previously responded on another post here:

It’s absolutely frightening there are so many parallels to 1932 Germany.

Rallying youth support against the old guard.

The false ideology cloaked in democratic slogans. Could there have been a more perfect name than National Socialist Party.

The economic strain of the times.

The false promise of a New World Order.

The war echoes past and future.

The undercurrent of hatred used by a specific minority to fuel some kind of yet to be explained retaliation/reparation/redistribution.

The swelling and swooning of the mass followers.

We haven’t remembered history very well or learned anything from Orwell.

Hopefully it’s not to late.

I would like to add:

The intimidation, threats, and coercion used against non-supporters.

The list is dangerously long, so much more to add.

Larry,
Haven’t read all the comments yet, but just wanted to thank you for your site. It’s nice to have a “place” to go where I don’t have to see and/or hear the still ongoing Hillary bashing.

Bambi will never get our votes here. Hillary or McCain ’08.

You are right. So many of us will vote for McCain. I for one will not vote Democratic for sure. Nobama for me.

I guess he takes his talking points from dailyidiots because they were pissed because he was pandering to aipac. They had a whole post bitching about it – guess it didn’t take long to figure out their beloved is just a politician. Oh, well…

NO OBAMA/MARXIST
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008

Many Obama supporters are mindless wonders.

The Obamaites scare me. They use threatening words; now they put their threats into action.
Isn’t this intimidation? If there is proof, and it sounds like it, shouldn’t Larry alert the authorities (or maybe that would make things worse for his friends).
This type of action sounds just like what Obama did to win his seat in the Illinois Senate. It’s a pattern.

threats and violence is the marxist method.

If the Obamites keep up their threatening and misogynist attacks, they are going to build the Republican coalition that Bush always dreamed about:

- professional women voting Republican on economic and equal rights

- fiscally conservative Asians – largest minority in California, growing rapidly and deeply offended by affirmative action

- value oriented voters of both sexes, including Hispanics and Catholics

- foreign policy conservatives

Cindy Hensley and Carly Fiorina are pretty impressive role models. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is emphasizing Michelle’s role as a stay at home mom and Barack talks about “my wife”.

If McCain is smart, he will go back to the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater and John Danforth when Republicans worried about balancing the budget, defending America and keeping the government out of people’s lives, and he will tell the Falwells and Dodsons to stuff it, or more politely “who would you rather have in office, me or Obama?”

So go ahead Obamites, gloat and insult, but the result will be a Democratic Party that is dominated by Black urban concerns and will be perpetually a minority party.

Well, I never thought that I would say it, but watching the antics of the Obama campaign and Obama supporters over the past few days has just about convinced me to stay home in November. The straw that broke the camel’s back was to read Peter Dreier compare Hillary Clinton to Richard Nixon on the HP. This is really sick stuff! What is wrong with these people? Are Obama and his supporters really so stupid that they think that they can win without Hillary’s supporters?

Heard on the news this morning Clinton asked Obama to retire her campaign debt.

In addition, they discussed the VP.

I will not vote for them.

Obama is a criminal, and he goes to prison.

Fitzgerald has to deal with those mafia types, too, I guess it’s simply a fact of life when dealing with those retarded criminal types.

hey larry, sorry your ad support are getting nasty threats. yeah, those are the crazies that obama attracks. i say, good luck holding on to their votes in nov.

I think everyone on this site needs to look up the term Marxist and figure out what it means. Just because Tom “The Bug Man” Delay called him a Marxist doesnt’ mean the Bug Man even knows what a Marxist is.

While your at it, look up the word fascism.

There seems to be a wealth of ignorance at this site.

I went ahead and joined democrats for McCain last night and sent an e-mail to my friends inviting them to do so. I called obamabert (i like the dilbertism) the most dangerous person to ever be nominated by either party ever. One of my friends has taken the koolaide. usually good debater, just went off on me, no rationale, no reason. just spewing all this garbage about my morals in changing my affiliation. I gave up reasoning with him after 3-4 exchanges.

There goes the Jewish vote! Does he think that none of us will ever notice that he’s constantly changing his position on everything, depending on his audience, including talks with leaders of terrorist states, NAFTA, his past associations, policy issues, etc.?

Obama Clarifies Remarks on Jerusalem

Facing criticism from Palestinians, Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged today that the status of Jerusalem will need to be negotiated in future peace talks, amending a statement earlier in the week that Jerusalem “must remain undivided.”

“Obama, during a speech Wednesday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-israel lobbying group, had called for Jerusalem to become the site of the U.S. embassy, a frequent pledge for U.S. presidential candidates. (It is now in Tel Aviv.) But his statement that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel drew a swift rebuke from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.