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McCain’s Newest Ad: Obama’s Former Adviser, Jim Johnson and Fannie Mae

By NancyA on September 19, 2008 at 3:30 PM in Advertising, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Housing & Housing Crisis, Obama, Politico, Vice President

This morning Ben Smith over at Poltico had this to say about McCain:

John McCain has an uphill battle to convince voters that he and his party — who have been governing for the last eight years — aren’t responsible for the current financial crisis. But he also has a case to make, in the form of his own calls to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and of Obama’s ties to the Wall Street Democratic establishment.

With that in mind the McCain/Palin campaign released yet another ad linking an Obama ally to the Fannie Mae debacle. It is a follow up to the ad featuring Franklin Raines. Here is the latest ad starring Jim Johnson:

Of course we all remember Jim Johnson. This from the following Los Angeles Times article, Barack Obama advisor Jim Johnson quits under fire:

Jim Johnson, the former chairman of Fannie Mae who was one of three advisors tapped by Democrat Barack Obama to vet vice presidential candidates, resigned today after questions were raised about favoritism he may have received from Countrywide Financial Corp.

Insisting he had done nothing wrong, Johnson issued a statement saying that he did not want the flap over his mortgage to distract attention from Obama’s run for the presidency.

And now we stand reminded that the he was a former chairman of the housing giant, Fannie Mae, recently taken over by the feds.

The ad does however remind us that McCain warned us two year ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in dire trouble.

Paul3triple

He has about 6 new ads. You should update this with all of his new ads.
Could you do that please NancyA?
They are all pretty good and he has a great one with Joe and patriotic taxes.
I love McCains campaign ads.

Read my lipstick

Uppity has the McCain ads at her website:

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/mccain-ads/

HC

Some of the Youtube ads are no longer present. Try this link.

http://www.johnmccain.com/tvads/

Jess Terr

The web is being scrubbed by NObama.
Many links are gone or redirected to NObama sites.
Trolls4Nobama.

SJ

Is it not strange how the Obama camp can manipulate the internet like that, leaves one to wonder if the hacking of Palin’s account was not something done to see what they could of found and the young man has to take the fall for this.

AnnS

I try not to succumb to paranoia, but I’m sure you’re right.

Leisa

Obama will say anything to be elected. He acts as if he is above corruption, but he has been surrounded by and colluded with it for years.

This video has more info on Johnson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQUImPsItnA&NR=1

tek

The one where Obama says he isn’t ready to be president is probably the strongest one of all.

fif

The tax ad is hilarious: Lots more taxes, lots more patriots!

DAB

Joe Scarborough showed Biden’s clip on his show and immediately said that he would get nailed for it — he was correct as he often is regarding political gamesmanship.

hillaryvoter

I’m sure many former Hillary voters will enjoy this post from a (!!!) conservative blog:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/273831.php

“Mr. Obama, you claim we should look past the fact you don’t “look like other presidents.” I strongly suggest you begin looking past that too, and stop trotting out the accident of your race as an all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card to be played whenever you’re caught out in a lie, a hypocrisy, or a 20 year association with a radical hate-preacher. …

You want to be The Man in the Arena, Obama? Stop making excuses for yourself and demanding you be graded on an Affirmative Action Curve. It’s time to stand on your own two feet, whatever color they are.”

wodiej

that was a good read…thanks for posting.
Ginger

Looking past Obama completely….to the real candidate with actually compassion for all Americans sound good to me.

joe bob

Yeah, that’s great, he was chairmen from 1991-1998, he must really be responsible for the problems 10 years later…

Kevin

And such a great job he did

An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson’s compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

katmandu

Thanks, Kevin. I feel like this is a good double play combination. More on Jim Johnson — he hid his true compensation from the public.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWM3MDFkM2QwNzRjODk3NWZhZTc3OGIxNDQ4Nzc2NDc=

Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson’s 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million.

athy

Katmandu-
Keep the links & your recaps coming!
Great work….

beebop

Joe Bob can’t get a loan on his house trailer from Fannie or Freddie …

wodiej

LMAO!!

NoBamaNoWay

sounds like business as usual. can’t wait for obama to “clean thing up.” heh. Chicago.

katmandu

Thanks, Joe Bob, for the perfect lead in. Jim Johnson is credited with turning Fannie Mae into a political force such the politicians were afraid to question it. Per the Washington Post in 2006, when it was still doing decent journalism:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301751.html

During the 1990s, he [Johnson] shaped the company’s management and culture, mixing a Wall Street-like obsession with meeting earnings targets and the aggressive tactics of a political campaign. [cut] To keep up with Wall Street expectations, however, the company began holding onto more mortgages and mortgage-backed securities for investment purposes. The same practice nearly drove the company into bankruptcy in the early 1980s, when interest rates strayed into the double digits. Its smaller rival, Freddie Mac, copied the strategy. Around the time Freddie Mac’s accounting scandal broke in 2003, the companies’ combined portfolios totaled $1.5 trillion.

Then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and others came to fear that a sudden meltdown at one of the two companies could bring down the financial markets with it — an argument that Johnson and his successor, Franklin D. Raines, fought at every opportunity. They assured investors and policymakers that no such thing could happen because the company was so well managed.

Only after OFHEO uncovered accounting problems did it become clear that Fannie Mae hadn’t adequately invested in internal controls. The report said political power helped stave off closer scrutiny.

Fannie Mae’s lobbyists “did a superb job,” said Wright H. Andrews Jr., a partner at Butera & Andrews, a lobbying firm. “Politicians of both parties were afraid to give proper oversight.”

That lobbying power was magnified by the company’s network of partnership offices. In 1993, after traveling around the country, Johnson decided Fannie Mae needed a presence on the ground, closer to the markets in which the company did business and the public officials who served them.

“For a relatively small investment, Fannie Mae will be recognized as a force for good in each of those cities or states. And by doing so, will have . . . more networks of support,” then-general counsel Robert B. Zoellick said in a 1996 speech, referring to the 25 partnership offices then open. Fannie Mae would eventually open more than 50.

“I wanted to have everybody and anybody who cared about housing working in partnership with us,” Johnson said.

Company lobbyists tapped the contacts created by the partnership offices to generate letters or phone calls to lawmakers. And they relied on that network to pick up advance warnings of threats to the company’s charter or bottom line.

When Fannie Mae got wind in late December 1998 about an idea among some Clinton administration staff members to require the company to pay to register its securities, Fannie Mae officials tried taking their case directly to then-White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. When they couldn’t get him on the phone, Fannie Mae officials got 100 mayors and other local officials to call Podesta’s private line at the White House on the same afternoon. By New Year’s Eve, the idea was snuffed out.

Kevin

ah,
the sweet smell of facts

http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

SWEET!!! :-]

http://www.centristnet.com Geoff

You all are on fire today in the comment section.
joe bob

Does any of what you posted have anything to do with him being blamed for what’s happenning 10 years later??? No

joe bob

I just did some research. Ok, I do see how his leadership at the helm contributed to the current mess. I apologize.

This really doesn’t look good for Obama. He has too many connections to Fannie Mae.

Fred

.. I think you are begining to see the light.

Jess Terr

And, here is NObama’s old tactic of “take the criticisms of me and project them on the opponent” that is, when the “steal the opponent’s platform” doesn’t apply.

Democrat Barack Obama Friday said his “panicked” White House rival John McCain was flailing at a time of financial crisis and said a government rescue for Wall Street must shield regular Americans too.

HAHAHAHAHAHA But, uh uh uh, I uh uh thought we had to uh uh uh wait uh ah for your comprehensive review of uh uh uh the problems in the financial uh uh uh sector.

bemused

He has way too many other connections with real estate deals (not the house, big stuff like F&F). Look into Valerie Jarrett, the Crown family–think about who got paid by whom to by what, and who ended up benefiting from it.

MEchelle Hates America!

Johnson began his career as a faculty member at Princeton University, later moving on to the United States Senate as a staff member and to the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corp.) as director of public affairs. He was executive assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale during the entire Carter Administration (1977-1981).

Later, he founded and headed Public Strategies, a private consulting firm, from 1981 to 1985 before leaving for Lehman Brothers.

From 1991 to 1998, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the quasi-public organization that guarantees mortgages for millions of American homeowners. Previously, he was vice chairman of Fannie Mae (1990-1991) and a managing director with Lehman Brothers (1985-1990). An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson’s compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

As of 2006, he is a vice chairman of the private banking firm Perseus LLC, a position he has held since 2001. He is also a board member at Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., a media holding group, KB Home, a home construction firm, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and UnitedHealth Group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Johnson_(businessman)

Oblowme’s a corrupt asshole.

athy

Katmandu-
EXCELLENT Link. Thanks!
nobamaever09

ALAN GREENSPAN, THIS WHOLE NAME IS TELLING US ALL. HE IS ONE OF THOSE WHO “SPAN” LIKE JOHNSON… THEY “SPAN”OUR ECONOMY TOGETHER AND JUST AS RESPONSIBLE AS ALL OTHERS!!! WHAT “GREE-SPAN” MEANS TO YOU.??? IT IS SO CLEAR”GREEAN ARE DOLLARS”, HE “SPAN” DOLLARS HIS OWN WAY AND CACHED GREATLY. COMPRANDE???

nobamaever09

can You all imagine, how stinky rich this gay is, not to ferget Obamas bank accounts???
He make 1/2millions from Fannie Moe, ,AIG and others, can You imagine what He will do to those who are not in his cornet;US!!!

Kevin

Read what the man said
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/19/mccains-remarks-on-financial-markets/

beebop

Reading requires it’s best friend “comprehension.” Joe Bob and factual “comprehension” don’t mix well.
vinnie

Mac needs to continue using this language…gaming the system. Damn straight!

jangles

McCain needs to get ads out about what he tried to do on righting the FF mess. His speech on this in 2005 was excellent; he could include an except even from an HRC speech. He could show the R and D vote that kept anything from getting done. I think I like his ads best when he is being humorous—that Biden act is flat out hilarious.
benny

this is a very effective ad, NancyA.
tzada

Hope he hits Penny from Superior Bank and ties it to Bear Sterns.

RepublicanChick

Penny Pritzker–talk about an elitist.

And they have the nerve to go after Lady Lynn de Rothschild. Grrrr.

Sen. Magoo (R, AZ)

You don’t find it hilarious that a telecom mogul with a title of British nobility is calling Obama “elitist” and talking about how he’s not going to win over the rednecks?

That’s really the only story about Rothschild.

DAB

Her title and money don’t keep her from recognizing the truth. Besides, elitism is more about “attitude” than anything else and Obama has a bad one.
RememberWeWill

elitism is not about $$$
vinnie

When Lady Lynn was on CNN the other day, she set the record straight about her own background. Her parents worked two jobs to put her and her siblings to med school,and to law school. They told her that she can achieve the American dream with effort and hard work. She made her money well before meeting the British Knight. No one can accuse her of being born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Terry

The Obamathugs are fixated on Lynn’s wealth. That’s because they want to start a class war. The significant aspect of this story is that Lynn was on the Platform Committee of the DNC. That is to say, SHE WAS A CHIEF POLICY MAKER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

No small liberal credentials; but Obama gave even Lynn the creeps. Imagine what he does for us non-koolaid drinkning moderates. I hope she does a commercial. And a commercial comparing Sarah Palin and Teddy Roosevelt would be great as well.

Paul V – are you on-line?

Country First!

missE

Thanks for bringing up Pritzker. Here is Earl Ofari Hutchinson back in Feb. on HuffPo. He really lays into Obama.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/49ehv6

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says he’ll crack down on fraudulent sub-prime lenders. If he really means it he can start by firing his campaign finance chair, Penny Pritzker. Before taking over Obama’s campaign finances, she headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank’s sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented. It engaged in deceptive and faulty lending, questionable accounting practices, and charged hidden fees. It did it with the sleepy-eyed see-no-evil oversight of federal. It made thousands of dubious loans to mostly poor, strapped homeowners. A disproportionate number of them were minority.

snosandy

Well, Obama sure knows how to pick them, huh?

NoBamaNoWay

hey, he know’s which side his bread is buttered on.
vinnie

must be all that good judgment…Ayers, Rev. Wacko Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, and now all these financial swindlers.

nobamaever09

Cant You see, why Obama hire all those thiefs, because they know how to steal from US, and Obama wants to do the same , one He become President!!!. He is telling US, that He will crock down on His BEST FRIENDS, at the same time, He is one of them!!!!

RepublicanChick

Jim Johnson, the former chairman of Fannie Mae who was one of three advisors tapped by Democrat Barack Obama to vet vice presidential candidates, resigned today after questions were raised about favoritism he may have received from Countrywide Financial Corp.

Well, I know all of understand favors received by Countrywide Financial Corp. Let me just get on the phone to call mine in.

In similar fashion, we’re all good friends with terrorists that just live right up the street. We allow our children to play with their adult children. It’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in Obamaland.

Kevin

Oh, the terrorist is a person in the neighborhood
the neighborhood
the neighborhood
The terrorist is a person in your neighborhood
Your neighborhood
Your neigh-bor-hood

RepublicanChick

Kevin

Gonna do my first McCain phone bank Monday

RepublicanChick

Fantastic! I will be elsewhere in the country on Monday doing the same thing.

Thank you for helping!!

http://mbc MBC

I’m signing up to do it here in PA. Based on what I have been hearing and seeing, Obama doesn’t have a chance unless he rigs the polls. And he will of course, so we have to outnumber them!

beebop

I phone banked today and am doing it tomorrow. It felt strange since you’re in Republican headquarters. But its about the United States staying strong and having effective leadership that is prepared to haul us out of this crap that the uppity Congress is too complacent to do anything about.

Jackie

The great thing about McCain HQ is that they want everyone and will listen to all comers.

McCain doesn’t exclude he includes. He will listen to all sides and then be happy to include you among his friends even if you don’t agree.

I work the Northern Virginia Phone bank–and I would love to see more ladies and gentlemen from the Independent or DNC groups there with me.

We want idea makers not idealogs as we see in the Obama camp.

HC

How does that work? Do you get a script? Who do you call? Or do they call you?

Jackie

It depends,
sometimes you have a script and a list of numbers to conduct a poll. Or other times you work the incoming phones to answer questions about the campaign or take info from donations.

My mom stuffed packets last week and they also have terminals that you can write letters to the media or editors about the campaign.

There is lots of work to do. And anyone who shows up is welcome gay, straight, bi-, democrat, independent, republican, teen, elderly, no kidding they are all there.

Mondays are ladies night
Wednesdays are Veterans night

Come on down

nobamaever09

we know who is runnig current Congres;Pelosi,Dean,Reid,Richardson,Reich,Dodd.
Now wait on Kucinich response, Obama got add, were He is picking on MAN, who is one of those honests, and He respect Constitution of USA as His Bible. Obama is attacking wrong people… He will be paying a big price , Kucinoch is not affraid of Obama, and Obama is not his favor politician. I am waiting for Kucinich response!!!Super Delegates sell our country to someone like Obama, blindly cawards!!!

wodiej

omg…LOL

http://firefox AnnieCarmel

I stopped watching the Daily Show before the primaries ever began. Why? Because there’s nothing funny about what state our world/nation is in. The corruption, graft and greed is so disgusting that nothing can make it funny.

I think humor is appropriate in order to lighten things up from time to time but too much, every day, directed toward life altering decisions just reduces the serious nature of what we’re trying to correct.

Have to admit though JM singing Streisand was brilliant and that sort of mocking, making fun of how Obama responded to the serious economic debacle was delicious.

mimi

Annie,

I’ve felt this way for many years now.

This country took a direction in which humor became a the best cover for denial.

Let’s laugh at everything. Everything’s funny. Meanwhile little by little everything started going to shit.

And here we are.

Some things are just not funny.

George Bush/Dick Cheney, are among them.

I don’t want to be maudlin and self-pitying as a way of life, but dammit it’s time people started acting like adults and realize that laughter is not the solution. And may be part of the problem.

It’s more than time to put laughter into it’s proper place. A great way to relieve stress, but it should not be used as a mechanism of avoidance.

kgirl1028

Live at Five and CNN
keep us all abreast
of breaking stories that can tend
to make us anxious and depressed.
Problems with no answers
hang on like some chronic cough.
And every day some brand new issue
rears it’s head to piss you off.

Bad guys win.
Optimism’s wearing thin.
Things are spinning out of control.
Cynicism’s all the fad.
World events could make us mad
as hatters.
Almost every day
some underpinning slips away.
These aren’t laughing matters.

Time bombs tick.
People keep on getting sick.
And a nickel’s not worth a cent.
Wickedness and greed abound.
Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
and justice goes to those who pay.
Friend, these aren’t laughing matters.

The truth is scarier by far
than anything that Stephen King could write.
The stories in the paper are
the daily small decline and fall
spelled out in black and white.

Oh, what to do, what to do
how to take a brighter view
when your noodle’s totally fried.
Human spirits need to be
leavened by a little levity.
So take those blues
and bounce them off the wall.
Keep your humor please,
’cause don’t you know it times like these that
laughing matters most of all.

-Bette Midler
Bath House Betty

wodiej

I second that…

jnm594

Great Ad, Cuts through the koolaid haze!
benny

This is from another PUMA site….

MUNCIE — A vandal who apparently plans to vote for Barack Obama attacked the Delaware County Republican Party Headquarters sometime this week with a gold spray can.

The vandal, or vandals, left behind graffiti reading “McCain? Seriously?” underscored by a depiction of a hand gesturing with its middle finger on the western wall of the headquarters.

A Republican Headquarters sign that was leaning against the same wall was tagged with three symbols that closely resemble the round Obama campaign sign.

The vandalism was discovered Wednesday.

Delaware County Republican Party Chairman Kaye Whitehead called the vandalism a sign of immaturity and predicted that it would energize Republican voters.

“Many times these actions have unintended consequences for those who did them,” Whitehead said.

Obama’s campaign on Wednesday issued a statement condemning the vandalism.

“This campaign is about important issues that affect the lives of people all across this state, and there is no place, nor any tolerance, for these types of deplorable and illegal acts,” said Emily Parcell, Indiana Director of Obama for America.

Delaware County Democratic Election Board member Phil Nichols called the graffiti “unfortunate.”

The graffiti on the wall occupied a section about two feet by three feet.

How immature!!!

Boxer Mum 06

What ever happened to the cars and the graffiti in FL? Any word on the Hillary supporters who went on a vandalism streak?
Duras

Pretty much par for the course from the “progressive” left.
wodiej

well this seems to be a pretty frequent occurrence w Obama supporters. But like you said, it just drives more voters to McCains’ side. Frankly I don’t see the logic of how violence sheds a positive light or would garner support for a candidate. But these are very young and naive people just like the 20 year old who hacked Palin’s account. This shows the level of Obama’s support and it isn’t convincing. Most 20 year olds don’t know shit about life so I hardly think they are in a position to make good judgments about who would be best to lead the country.

Seattle Moss

Poor Obamatrolls
How’s it feel to be 0 for 10 the past two weeks

1..Not choosing Hillary for either the presidential or vice presidential nominee
2..Miscalculating in selecting a bore like Biden
3…Being sexist fools after McCain’s brilliant selection of Sarah Palin
4…Having your main issue of failure and retreat in Iraq blow up in your face with the success of the surge.
5..Wishing for a hurricane to hurt the republicans at their convention.
6…Wishing for a stock market collapse only to see the market rebound after a great move by the Fed on mortgages.
7…Watching Obama try to vote Present like always on the AIG bailout.
8…Seeing Obama exposed with his lobby money from Fannie and Freddie.
9…Watching democrats use illegal activity in hacking Palin e-mail accounts.
10…Watching McCain catch and lead in the electoral college

Not a great week for Obamabots who wish defeat and retreat for America!!

RepublicanChick

There is still plenty of time for the Obots. God help us all. They should all be rounded up after the election and sent to a desensitizer camp of some sort.

Seattle Moss

I think we should start by taking them to the Vet to have a flee bath and then have them neutered or spayed.
However,That would be an insult to my dog!

http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

yea the “anything” camp just sounds too nazi

but they FOR SURE need a rabies shot (LOL)

Seattle Moss

I just clicked on your name…
Is that a picture of you?

If it is you look like you could be related to the Palins

http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

that is me (26yrs ago) LOL

no relation but wow thanks for the compliment :-}

I wanted to prove a point to the dang trolls – service and all

but I’m not SUPPOSED to even respond to them (bad me)

Seattle Moss

Yes it was very much a compliment Dawnelle!

The point that’s missed about these trolls is that they keep us fired up and the discourse flowing.
Without dumb ass trolls like sf and roxanne this site would become a big social tea party.

Obama wants his trolls to argue with us..

Bring it on!!

Dawnelle

good point!

some days I need to VENT

but they’re giving me tourettes~~ hehe! (I can’t spell that)

nobamaever09

iI CHOOSE TO HAVE 26 UNDER MCcAIN THEN 4 UNDER OBAMA…
Ferd McBerfle

That looks like Germany. If so, was that anywhere near Wildflecken? If not, never mind.

Dawnelle

notice the 1st Inf Patch?
(Tong du Chong, South Korea)

Not sure if they are still there. Many went to Iraq but I don’t know if they took them all out. I haven’t kept up really but did see the patch on some soldiers in Iraq on one of the news stations not long ago.

Probably FOX because the other two never cover the soldiers.

Dawnelle

change that to 2nd

no idea where first came up in my head

2nd D

2nd to none
Ferd McBerfle

That patch was unfamiliar to me. I just saw the snow and made an incorrect assumption (we had snow 8 months a year, 10ft deep at times and was colder than a well-digger’s backside). Wildflecken was returned to the German gov’t in 1994. My former unit changed names and is now in Ft. Bliss, TX.

wodiej

I think a long stint in the Marines would straighten them out.

http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

they couldn’t survive boot camp

r u kiddin me???? roflol!
Astra14

Then the Obots had better hope Obama doesn’t win because I get the impression he’s going to bring back the Draft! What was he said about everyone doing “national service”?

Ginger

Send them all to Clown College, they can have extra credit for the last year.

nobamaever09

I am absolutely convince, that Obamas people got into Palin amil!!!
Obamas supporters, are treatning US, who are agaist obama , that we will have a hudge riot all over USA. Are You scare??? they are!!! They will loose, and we will help this to happend!!!
Jackie

Unfortunately we have seen a pattern of non action in the congress, I believe to insure a Dem victory in the fall.

When Chris Dodd killed McCain’s bill to reform Fannie & Freddie in 2005 it was just a matter of time till the organizations failed.

Everything Barck Obama is telling us seems to be dooms-day and only he can fix it. HA!

America is the greatest experiment in History. We have changed the world more than once. But what is most important is that our elected officials act in the best interest of the Nation not opportunistically sabotaging it in order to gain the White House.

We the people must DEMAND and end to this nonsense.

We must vote for the person that will help us to get there.

This time our choice is John McCain a man who has for years been the voice in opposition to the actions of his party and the opposition.

We have to get together and make a difference. We cannot hope others will do it for us.

It is in OUR HANDS. Our children are relying on us.

Hank

Who are they asking these questions to?
Poll: People prefer Obama over McCain as teacher. Let me see a War Hero or a ??? What is he??
http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Av3fcCNNEwOjqjtRinbU3FlG2vAI;_ylu=X3oDMTBiZ3MwbHJsBHBvcwM0BHRhYgMw/SIG=125tf15r2/**http%3A//news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-teacher

Felix Rodriguez

“Who are they asking these questions to?”

Answer:

People who prefer Kool Aid over all other beverages.
fif

That strikes me as accurate. Obama likes to lecture and talk down to people. He is aloof and philosophical. Those are not the qualities needed to be a Commander in Chief. There is no time for ruminating and equivocating about every friggin decision that needs to be made. He cannot take a stand or make a clear decision. Hence, all the waffling. Even on this economic situation, he has to “talk to his advisors first,” and he wouldn’t agree or disagree with the AIG bail out. There is no there there. Go head, please, go teach somewhere–but don’t expect to see me in the classroom. I’ve heard enough from him.

fif

Didn’t you hear the latest about the Raines ad? Apparently a Time journalist claims it is…(are you ready?)…racist!

Yes, that’s right folks, because there are 2 black men in it. When she was confronted with the fact that the ad is actually aimed at the current economic crisis and Raines, as a Fannie Mae exec, is right in the middle of it, she responded: “I’m from Texas, and I know it when I see it.”

I wonder how she explains the simultaneous ad with Johnson, who is not black.

Who are the divisive ones in this campaign? Who is the one running racist Spanish language ads to incite racial hostility toward McCain, based on lies about his “association” with Limbaugh (who has never liked or agreed with McCain)? Obama is divisive–period.

DoubleRider

I was just about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.

Try calling this ad racist! I see a standard template to keep hitting 0bama with. How that can be racist, I have not idea, but they try to play the card every time. Pathetic.

By the end of next week, I expect the narration to have totally turned around to where 0bama has done nothing but take money from Wall Street, while McCain (and our Hillary) has been proposing reforms that the Dems keep rejecting. Leave it to the Dimocrats to lose this election by a wide margin.

http://JohnMcCain.com Berserk “Hillawee can you change my diapy pwease” Ohitler

False claims of racism makes the accuser the actual racist.
beebop

Unless Johnson has a father from Kenya we don’t know anything about, this one is about as non racial as possible … actually, he’d be a zeromama ageism attack target if he was on the McCain team.
nobamaever09

Maybe McCains is old, grumpy,some how think like Bush, bad temperamnet guy, but it is one thing about McCain, that I trust Him. He tells US as is, He share His thoughts, and it is coming from His heart. At list I know what I can expect from Him, and then I do believe, that He will clean this GOVERNMENT as no one President ever did.. He means what He says.
He will work with Congres and Senat, and He will bring more good changes, than Obama is telling us in His empty speaches!!!
Beying for 6 years as POW ,it build You or anyone character, and I am sure, that McCain who is a true soldier, had a lot of time to think and how to survive. That is , why He is a MEVERICK!!!He will survive, and people needs to listen this man, He is for real!!!
I remember Him screaming to Rumdfeld” SEND MORE TROOPS, SEND 30 OR MORE THOUSAND SOLDIERS, BUT NO ONE WAS LISTENING. IF ANYONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION WHAT MCCAIN WAS SAYING THIS UGLY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ WOULD BE LONG TIME OVER, AND OUR SOLDIERS WOULD BE HOME, WERE THEY BELONG!!!
tHE SAME IS WITH WALL STREET CRICES, MCCAIN WAS SCREAMIN” THE BAD DAYS OF OUR ECONOMY ARE COMING, AND WALL STREET WILL DESTROY US. ADGAIN , NO ONE WAS LISTENING. NOW CNN,MSNBS, ARE SAYING THAT IT IS NOT TRUTH, THAT MCCAIN NEVER SAID THAT. WELL, THEY ARE OBAMAS PEOPLE, CLAN. THEY ARE LYING AS OBAMA!!!

joe bob

you don’t mention the fact that the ad is factually false and Raines has told the campaign that he neither supports Obama nor advises him…And that he emailed Fiorina 2 weeks ago to tell the campaign that…I wonder how you people live with your lies?

MEchelle Hates America!

On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” [6]. Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff claimed that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines

Oblowme is DANGEROUS!!

Sen. Magoo (R, AZ)

Well, I don’t know that it’s racist, but it is factually incorrect. Raines isn’t an advisor of Obama’s, and sent now-former McCain economic adviser Carly “I ran HP Into the ground and am still a more qualified executive than either McCain or Palin” Fiorino a note to this effect. FACTCHECK, PEOPLE.

MEchelle Hates America!

Well, if the corrupt lying sack of shit Raines sent an e-mail that cinches it…
Dawnelle

Hey I LOVED MY HP!!!

Wish I still had it!!!

Karly (Carly?) is a decent advocate for John Mc

Miles better than anything Axelrodish I’ve seen speaking for DEMS. AND LMAO when did the “righteous” Democrats start letting people like Axelrod RUN their Party???? ~~into the ground~~ ~~and out of money~~

BRAVO COMRADES!! It took REAL moxie for you to find a way to lose this one!!! Bravo Move On Out!
Bravo Susan & Tim & Barbara & Tom, Mat & Oprah, The View & Jon Stewart

YOU FOUND A WAY
YOU PUT NEW MEANING ON THE WORD M O E – RON
BRAVO

NOW STFU & LEARN SOMETHING!

sorry I’m yelling again
time for a break
out
athena

On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” [6]. Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff claimed that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines

Oblowme is DANGEROUS!!

Posted above.
hank48188

I think she saved HP, she bought Compaq and revived their brand, they fired her anyway but the company did improve because of her leadership.

http://www.governuts.us Agust304

Yea, Nancy!

Keep em comin’. May I pop one in here?

Disgrace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqHFk-3yQM
athy

Nancy A Good post!

Here is what I will be cross posting…

http://patriotroom.com/?p=2092

This speech is EXCELLENT. The truth will hurt Sen Obama indeed. This video needs to get out along with links on where people can learn more about what Sen McCain is discussing…They will see that Sen McCain is a straight talker. Sen McCain doesnt need to go down to Sen Obama’s gutter level…Sen McCain just needs to get the truth out there-that’s all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7DGTggpx0
Jim Johnson-Senior level person on Obama’s campaign team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYI0mHWQeD8
Franklin Raines-Senior level person on Obama’s campaign team

Have you connected the dots yet?

Learn More:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/19/mccains-newest-ad-obamas-former-adviser-jim-johnson-and-fannie-mae/#more-4909

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/16/obamas-finance-chair-failed-bank-owner-penny-pritzker-and-todays-wall-street-problem/#more-4842

fif

Update: The in the tank WAPO now says that the McCain camp shouldn’t have trusted them as a source, because they are inaccurate. No joke. Don’t listen to us–we just make stuff up!

Yea, we know.

MEchelle Hates America!

Yeah, I know to say “No Way” to corruption!

Vote Yea for McCain/Palin!

katmandu

A little more on what Fannie Mae became — a pig trough for lobbyists.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0912/p03s01-usec.html

At its peak – last week, just before the Treasury Department announced a government takeover – the operations ranged from campaign contributions and outright lobbying to a grass-roots charitable giving operation that covered nearly every congressional district.

“They were the most powerful companies in the country, and literally controlled the Congress,” Peter Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “Congress would not do anything they did not want Congress to do – and that came through some very sophisticated political activities and public relations that made it very difficult to challenge them.”

Since 1990, Freddie Mac has contributed more than $9.7 million to federal campaigns. Fannie Mae’s political action committee chalked up more than $2.9 million since 2004, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Together, they spent some $7.4 million in lobbying in the first six months of 2008 alone.

That’s just the beginning. What’s most remarkable about the influence operation is its sheer vastness.

Over the last decade, Fannie and Freddie together hired nearly every lobby shop in Washington – so many, in fact, that opponents complained that they had trouble finding someone to represent their interests.

In addition, Fannie and Freddie supported a vast network of charities, often specifically linked to members of Congress.

Some of the biggest movers and shakers in Washington graced their mastheads. James Johnson, chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991 to 1998, is a Democratic insider who chaired Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign. His successor, Franklin Raines, was former director of the US Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration.

“When you have leaders who are so well connected and so much of the power structure of Washington, it’s not surprising that people would think that these institutions were being well looked after by responsible people,” says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
http://JohnMcCain.com Berserk “Hillawee can you change my diapy pwease” Ohitler

After seeing the latest McCain ad, in a phone call to Hillary, Chockablock Opampers was overheard saying “Hillawee that big bad McCain whacked me in my peepee again! Waaah! Waaah!”

wodiej

LMAO….and your posting name…omg…LOL

http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

I was putting up some headlines and I thought you all might like this one…

♥McCain Wins Endorsement of Democrat♥
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122179087917055511.html

As Barack Obama and John McCain battle for the Hispanic vote, a leading Latino backer of Hillary Clinton is crossing party lines to support the Republican presidential nominee.

In an interview Thursday, Miguel D. Lausell, a Puerto Rican businessman and longtime Democratic activist and fund-raiser, came out for Sen. McCain. While he said he doesn’t agree with all the policy positions of the Republican candidate and his running mate, Sarah Palin, Mr. Lausell added: “I find McCain to be a sound person and a man with a track record. I know where he is coming from.” Mr. Lausell had been a major backer of Bill Clinton and served as a senior political adviser to Sen. Clinton’s unsuccessful bid this year for the Democratic presidential nomination.

This one I don’t like…
Undermining McCain Campaign Attack, Republicans Back Obama‘s Version of Meeting with Iraqi Leaders
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/undermining-mcc.html

[snip]

Lending significant credence to Obama’s response is the fact that — though it’s absent from the Post story and other retellings — in addition to Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, this July meeting was also attended by Bush administration officials such as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Baghdad embassy’s Legislative Affairs advisor Rich Haughton, as well as a Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.

http://www.governuts.us Agust304

I don’t waste time posting at ABC, but that was the al-Maliki meeting – not the one in question. See Nacy A’s story from a few days back. It has a photo of the Zebari meeting. No U.S. embassy folks at that meeting.

Maybe if you post there you can set them straight.
jangles

Well that ends that argument. McCain camp should have checked that story out much better. I trust Hagel to give a fair and accurate account. I think the Mac is going to have to back up. The statements from McCain did say, “if the news stories are true”. Maybe they took them at face value to stir up some dust. Oh well. Put some lipstick on it.

http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

This is what the McCain Camp said:

“At this point, it is not yet clear what official American negotiations Senator Obama tried to undermine with Iraqi leaders, but the possibility of such actions is unprecedented. It should be concerning to all that he reportedly urged that the democratically-elected Iraqi government listen to him rather than the US administration in power. If news reports are accurate, this is an egregious act of political interference by a presidential candidate seeking political advantage overseas. Senator Obama needs to reveal what he said to Iraq’s Foreign Minister during their closed door meeting. The charge that he sought to delay the withdrawal of Americans from Iraq raises serious questions about Senator Obama’s judgment and it demands an explanation.” —Randy Scheunemann, Senior Adviser McCain-Palin 2008
Duras

I wouldn’t trust Chuck Hegel to tell me what time of day it is.

Besides, the meeting that he attended in Iraq isn’t the one in question. The meeting Hegel et al attended was with Prime Minister Al-Maliki.

The meeting where Obama reportedly asked the Iraqis to delay negotiations on a Status of Forces Agreement with the US was with Foreign Minister Al-Zebari.

Understand now?

http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

I get it but that is what ABC is putting up and he changed the McCain release on it around in his piece…just like Gibson…

Understand now?

nobamaever09

THOSE TRAITORS REPUBLICANS ARE IN SAME POT WITH OBAMA… DID YOU WATCH BILL O’RALLEY SHOW, HE IS ALL ABOUT BUT DEFENDING OBAMA, ANOTHER CORRUPTED TALK SHOW HOST. THOSE SMART REPUBLICANS, AND DEMOCRATS MUST UNITED AND SUPPORT MCcAIN. YES, HE IS THE MOST HONEST POLITICIAN I EVER KNOW. NOW , SINCE kUCINICH WAS PROVOCATED YESTERDAY IN NEWEST OBAMAS ADDS, MAYBE MORE THOSE HONEST AND “USA FIRST” POLITICIANS START ACTING LIKE THEY SHOULD!!!
I AM “USA FIRST” AMERICAN, AND I SUPPORT PEOPLE LIKE;HILLARY,KUCINICH, PAUL,MCCAIN, AND THAT IS WHY AS INDEPENDENT , I WILL SUPPORT ANY ONE OF THEM,LIKE THEM AND ALLWAYS!!!I DONT CARE ABOUT PARTY AFFILIATION, NOW IS ABOUT USA, AND WE MUST UNITED BEHIND TRUE AMERICAN “USA FIRST”!!!!

jangles

Just read McCain’s speech on the economy. I thought it addressed some core problems, was targeted and I think is going to be understood by most Americans. It should serve him well and hopefully it will serve us well. This is going to be a very difficult battle for McCain but as the panic eases from it I think the conflation benefitting Obama will also subside.

http://JohnMcCain.com Chockablock “Hillawee can you change my diapy pwease” Opampers

Bad economy benefits a Democrat but the threat of economic collapse would favor the experienced McCain over the Axelgoebbels snake oil change mantra.
nobamaever09

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katmandu

Obama speaking today –

“As president,” he said, “I would say to Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke, do what’s required to make sure that people’s money market is protected, do what’s required to make sure that small businesses have credit lines to allow them to make payroll, do what is necessary to make sure that the economy is running and that ordinary people are able to go about what they do every single day, which is work hard and support their families.”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/19/obama_calls_for_rescue_and_sti.html#more

Doesn’t he realize he does not have to have Paulson as Treasury Secretary?

Or is he planning on keeping Paulson on if he wins?

And “people’s money market is protected?” Did he leave out something?

StrawberrybitesBarky

“Do what’s required?” WTF? Translation: Yeah, you, go do whatever it is you do and do it well and do it now…and I’m going to sit here and pretend I know what it is you do and take your word for it that what you do will work…and is working…and once they tell me it has worked, I’ll take all the credit for it, so it looks like I did some work.
Kal

Huh? That’s a policy plan?

A wind-up toy could do better!
Hillcrat

Typical Barry…he is “just words” as usual. He says a whole lot that amounts to so little! Lol!!
wodiej

oh good lord..that’s all he had to say? that sounded like an 8th grade answer. Where’s the details??
nobamaever09

BALONEY OBAMA, YOU JUST LIE AND LIE, AND DEPOSITS MILLIONS IN PRIVATE ACCOUNTS FROM PEOPLE LIKE WALL STREET !!!!
ANYTHING ON OBAMAS BIRTH CERTIFICATE???

Objective Analysis

Now all McCain-Palin has to do is bring out the infamous 2005 meeting of Fannie Mae CEO comments to the Congressional Black Caucus as “family” and then talk about how much money this Barack America got and who is influencing who.

PUMA 2008!

I like how they are playing this game – kill them solftly. America public understands the bull the MSM and Obamaites are playing.

nobamaever09

absolutelY, BRING on MCCAIN, PROVE TO WHOLE USA, THAT YOU AE SO RIGHT, THAT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS ASKING FOR MUCH MORE TROOPS, WHILE ROOMSFIELD WAS “THE BOSS”. THEI SPIT ON HIM, AND HE WAS SO RIGHT SO MANY TIMES!!!

Soldier of Christ

Nancy, Mccain can put as many ads as he want to but it is not going to change the map. Why? Because the majority of the followers of Obama are 18-29 years of age and they don’t understand the stock market and don’t care. The senior are the only ones that can understand the substance of this video. I will tell the Republicans again and again, if they don’t dirty their hands more , we will have a socialist liberal for a president. Down here in Coral Gables, in Florida today he has lied to the hispanics and now they are leaning toward him. He is showing many ads that are damaging and have a hint of white racism against the hispanic. They are all lies. We cannot offer to lose Florida. The word is “dirty” politics and they better start doing it now. Take a risk, bring out Larry Sinclair in the opening and get the Obama camp stunned for awhile. The 5 points does makes a difference at the polls in 48 days. Let him lose his 5 points after being stunned. It would be such a scandal that all the media will be on every station trying to defend him and the more they defend the more Larry Sinclair is spinned. Get smart, republicans !

snosandy

That’s what I’m afraid of, the majority of Obama’s naive supporters.
rickrickrick

Effective immediately! Ask all parents to cut allowances to children of voting age. That will help them better understand economics! All the Obama smears will not go unanswered, and he will get smacked hard very soon. Some of John McCain’s best assests are the ones up his sleeve!
Duras

Those aren’t the voters those ads are targeting. The voters the ads are targeting are the 5%-10% of Obama’s current supporters who might be persuaded to switch to McCain as well as the 10-15% of the electorate that is still undecided. That’s where this election will be won or lost.

As such, I think he’s going after these people the right way with these ads: Show how McCain sounded the alarm on the housing bubble years ago while Obama went along to get along, cozily in bed with several of the people who are directly responsible for it.

Tuppence 411

McCain’s ad are good. I think he needs to come out swinging even harder though. He is fighting against pre-conceived notions, which are tough to counter. Usually with problems on Wall Street or with banking, the automatic response is to assign blame to the Republicans. People usually assume Big Money is backing the Republican nominee. Not this time. Not this election. Dodd, Frank, and Biden need to be dragged out into the public square and tarred and feathered. Obama’s donations from Wall Street and Fannie Mae need to be plastered on billboards. McCain is not a tyical Republican, and Obama represents everything that is bad about the DNC.

nobamaever09

yOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEND, WHEN OR If OBAMA WINS, ALL RHOSE NAIVE YOUNGSTERS WILL CRY ONE DAY SO HARD, BECAUSE THEY DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IN STAKES , IT IS THEIR FUTURE, AND OBAMA WILL DESTROY ALL, AND THEY WILL GET NOTHING,NOTHING,NOTHING. OBAMA WILL OWNS THEM. HE OWN THEIR MINDS NOW, OH YES…
IN EASTEN EUROPE YOUNG GENERATION IS AGAINST WHAT USA YOUNGSTERS ARE FOR!!! VERY FAR LIBERAL POLITICS THIS MEANS!!!”COMMUNISM”!!!OBAMAS IDEOLOGY IS AS MARX/ENGELS, THAT WHAT IS COMMING TO THIS COUNTRY.IT TOOK 45 YEARS, TO KICK COMMUNISM IN BEHIND, AND THE WHOLE ADULT LIFE OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE, TO DESTROY, SO THAT IS WHAT IS APPROACHING THIS COUNTRY IF YOUNG PEOPLE WONT STOP TO BE SO NAIVE!!
i MAKE MY CHOICE AND WILL NOT BE OBAMA, AND THIS IS SO SAD, BECAUSE COULD BE DIFFERENT, AS WE THOUGHT!OBAMA IS ABOUT; ME,MY MONEY, POWER,EAGLE,GIVE ME-GIVE ME, MORE AND MORE…

Above My Pay Grade

Off topic, but scandal ridden Congressman Charlie Rangel (who Pope Nancy I refuses to discipline) called Governor Sarah Palin “disabled” today:

http://wcbstv.com/politics/congressman.charles.rangel.2.821541.html

The wacko wing of the Democratic party is exposing itself as the mean, hateful, intolerant, racist, sexist pile of filth that it is, more each day.

The party of FDR (who actually wss disabled) no longer exists.

Duras

That wasn’t a very bright thing to say, was it? I’m sure that’ll win over a lot of women voters who are still on the fence.
http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

What a PIG!!!

Well, the BIGGEST thing John Mc Cain has going for him this NOV is

NO CAUCUSES

it will be a landslide
dixie chicks & stevie nicks will have to RE-dedicate their song!

JM08

I agree Larry Sinclair front and center, but you wont get much traction for that idea on this site though. The overwhelming opinion is that mccain needs to take the high road. Alot of former kerry and dukakis supporters on this site.

Seattle Moss

JM
Just so that you know many of us are Reagan Democrats who as moderates welcome your opinion.

http://www.dawnellesplace.com Dawnelle

I came back from obscurity of Independent status to become a GORE DEMOCRAT in 2000

I was also a Carter Dem.

Indie once again going BACK in HISTORY and can’t see why I should bother to trust the future to someone who would DRAG ME BACK like this!

Sen. Magoo (R, AZ)

McCain doesn’t know where the high road is. He’s not just on the low road, he’s actually riding the subway.

fred

Do Whatever You Must to Trick Former Hillary Supporters into Voting Barack
Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election
Lea Lane Huffpo

If you’ve been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it’s time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you’ve come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don’t mean it. This is politics.)
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
jnm594

I just got this email..Good for a laugh.

The desperation is palpable!

I personally don’t think that Hillary would do it.

ALL,

This e-mail came from my niece that works with John McCain in his PR
department so I know it is good information.

hi all

let me share some info with you that i have
gotten from excellent sources within the DNC:

On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse
himself from the ticket, citing health problems,

and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is
timed to occur after the VP debate on 10/2.

there have been talks all weekend about how to
proceed with this info. generally, the feeling

is that we should all go ahead and get it out
there to as many blog sites and personal email

lists as is possible. i have already seen a few
short b lurbs about this – the “health problem”

cited in those articles was aneurysm. probably
many of you have heard the same rumbl ings.

however, at this point, with this inside info
from the DNC, it looks like this obama strategy will be a go.
therefore, it seems that the best strategy is to get out in front of
this obama maneuver, spell it out in detail, and thereby expose it for
the grand manipulation that it is.

so, let’s start mixing this one up and cut the
obamites off at the pass – send this info out to as many people as you
can – post about it on websites and blogs – etc etc

if you have any thoughts or questions about
this, please be in touch.

lastly, i have put an excerpt from Rudy’s speech
at the RNC below – it seems to address this

very issue!!

yours in the fight,

Carolyn

excerpt from R.Giuliani’s spe ech at the 2008
RNC:

“Obama – Obama promised to take public financing
for his campaign, until he broke his promise.

Obama – Obama was against wiretapping before he
voted for it.

When speaking to a pro-Israeli group, Obama
favored an undivided Jerusalem , like I favor and like John McCain
favored. Well, he favored an undivided Jerusalem – don’t get too excited
- for one day, until he changed his mind.

Well, I’ll tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I’d
want to get that V.P. thing in writing.”

http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

Why in the world people keep getting distracted by this rumor…I just don’t understand…it is a lie gone viral

Paul3triple

JM08 mccain released 5 tough and very good ads.
Larry Sinclair? Now i know why you think he is running a bad campaign.
Because you think poeple that no one has believed for over a year should be used against the guy.
Yeah JM that will work great. McCain should accuse obama of being gay, snorting coke with Larry, and giving him head.
That would ruin his campaign.
No wonder your always whining about the ads, your in loony land.
If he took your advice you could bet he will lose.
Also, i was 3 years old with dukakis. It has very little to do with their campaign. Republicans run entirely different campaigns than democrats.
Mccain hammered obama today and laid out an awesome plan for the whole nation.
Maybe instead of reading larry sinclair’s blog and the other conspiracy theories the never became.
You could pay attention to whats really going on in the real campaign JM08.

Soldier of Christ

Comment by Paul3triple | 2008-09-19 16:50:30
_______________________________________
He is losing now, what is the difference? The public can get into Palin’s private life but they can’t get into this half kenya birth certificate pasteup mechnical fraud of a man? Get Larry Sinclair out if he wants to win. Palin has helped him as much as she can- now put the icing on the cake and dismantle this guy already! If they want the whitehouse, dirty their hands. They can always clean them afterwards. I guess some of you know that this will be the real icing on the cake. Mccain doesn’t need to do anything, just bring up the arrest of Larry Sinclair due to Biden son and go from there. Gosh…..they can bring up Mccain’s cheating on his first wife, Sarah having her daughter’s baby rumor, troopergate- but the black boy cannot be touch. It is a good thing I am not a in the supreme court- I would put 20 years on him and his minions for the fake birth certificate!

Kelvin Hearts PUMAs

McCain’s losing because he has no ideas and he’s a liar. Palin shine has worn off and she’s been exposed as a no-nothing, corrupt liar as well. No one will believe Sinclair because he’s a gay career criminal. Larry Johnson has effectively turned you PUMAs into brain dead minions. You believe every debunked store about Obama that he’s put out there. And why? Because of you spoiled nature and sense of entitlement that Hillary got beat. Get over it and get a life.

Dan

Just make sure you come back to visit us on Nov. 6th, dickhead.

Dan

As much as I hate to agree with Kelvin, trying to make Larry Sinclair an issue would be a HUGE mistake. The guy has a very checkered past and has already failed two lie detector tests. He was unable to produce so much as a single shred of evidence or a single witness to substantiate his allegations, and he’s already failed two lie detector tests. In short, the clown has absolutely zero credibility. Maybe he did toot up with Barack and give him a hummer in the back of a limo, but nobody in their right mind would believe it.

For the McCain people to try and make an issue out of his allegations would only make them look stupid and would diminish the impact of the many things that Obama can legitmiately be criticized for, such as his cozy ties with seniot officials at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ Not Your sweetie

Bush speaks up in Iraqgate – on Obama’s behalf
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/bush-weighs-in-iraqgate-on-obamas-side/

Kal

Can someone explain, please, why Bush would want to support BO’s version as against McC’s version?
d
Hill Dem 4 McPalin

Wrong meeting. It was the Zebari meeting.

Doug

I thank the liberals are trying to bait conservative to say bad/racist things about Obama so they can rally their base. (Best to keep doing what we are doing!)

Eden

I don’t have any racial things to say, never have.

But I get your point.
Soldier of Christ

I hope you not were referring to me with your stupid remark. Even my name should give you a hint that I am not a liberal. I just know that they are slaughtering you in ads in Florida, Colorado, and hitting the Mccain/Palin camp harder than ever, and the republicans are just pussyfooting along thinking they have it wrapped. The Obamas fight like thugs- and if you guys don’t get off the fence and use the big guns- say Hi to President Obama and all his middleeast friends. Something I really hate to see happen.

cathnealon

soldier
Great post. However, don’t lose heart. Alot can happen in the next month.

Soldier of Christ

Thanks, cathnealon- he was 20 miles from me in Florida and I lost my marbles. I could feel Obama’s presence…….

Paul3triple

bush did not say anything. It did not say who said anything.
All it said was someone in the administration.
So Bush, di not say anything.

And who cares. Mccains camp has not mentioned it since the first article.

McCain will win on the issues of who you want to lead this nation in a time of uncertainty and who do you trust. Character as well.
Character is important, without character the issues of importance do not matter because you are beholden to the special interests
KC

I like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/19/todd.palin/index.html

The notion that a blue-collar, union guy who is not registered as a Republican might have a say in Washington only makes me want to vote McCain/Palin all the more.
http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

OT again..
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ON PALIN DISINVITE UPDATED:ISRAEL PROJECT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT

UPDATE: The Israel Project has removed its support for the Rally which disinvited Palin. The only rally in NY they are participating in is the one on the 25th

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/09/zoa-admits-democrats-forced-un-inviting.html

They are demanding Palin be re invited, says dems made them un invite her…it is a must read…it shows that the dems don’t care about anything but dems..

Eden

Penny Pritzker, national finance chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is the owner of the Hyatt, the hotel hosting the genocidal Hitler wannabee, Ahmadinejad.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/obamas-money-cz.html#comments
Dan

So much for “unity” in the face of our enemies, huh?

oilman

This Obama is just a joker.

Just looking and juxtaposing his name OBAMA, and comparing with the number 1 terrorist in the Universe and the number 1 enemy of the USA- Mr. Osama Bin Laden- only an insane person will go for the presidential post!!!!

Sheeh! This Osama and Obama should be locked up in a jail together, let alone this Obama be the No:1 man in the USA.

This is the biggest unprecedented joke in the history of mankind and is happening in a nation which claims is the no:1 super power of the Universe, ha ha ha…

State Senator Kevin Bryant Posts Osama-Obama Photo
Pink Panther

1. Investors.com Points To Obama and ACORN as Part of the Problem

From Investors.com

“They (Democrats) were the ones who screamed — “REDLINING!” — and sent banks scurrying for cover in low-income neighborhoods, where they have been forced to lower long-held industry standards for judging creditworthiness to make the subprime loans.

If they don’t comply, they are threatened with stiff penalties under the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, a law that forces banks to make home loans to people with poor credit risks.

The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical “housing rights” groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public-interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. (emphasis added)

HUD, in turn, pressured Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase more subprime mortgages, and Fannie and Freddie, in turn, donated to the campaigns of leading Democrats like Barney Frank and Pelosi who throttled investigations into fraud at the agencies.”

investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=306544845091102

2. Obama got $126,000 from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investments. He is the second biggest recipient of political money from these funds and he’s only been in the Senate 3 years.

(Reference: opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html)

3. Fannie Mae CEO calls Obama Family
youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0

4. Jim Johnson, A Former CEO Of Fannie Mae And Top Obama Campaign Adviser, Received Special Loans From Countrywide:

Jim Johnson, A Former CEO Of Fannie Mae Chosen To Lead Obama’s Vice Presidential Search Committee, Received Special Loans From Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo. “Countrywide Financial Corp. makes mortgage loans through a vast network of offices, brokers and call centers. But a few customers have gotten their loans a special way: through Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo. These borrowers, known internally as ‘friends of Angelo’ or FoA, include two former CEOs of Fannie Mae, the biggest buyer of Countrywide’s mortgages, say people familiar with the matter. One was James Johnson, a longtime Democratic Party power and an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, who this past week was named to a panel that is vetting running-mate possibilities for the presumed nominee.”

(Reference: Glenn R. Simpson and James R. Hagerty, “Countrywide Frien ds Got Good Loans,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/7/08)

http://www.governuts.us Agust304

Good collection of points Pink.
Keep the truth front and forward.
Heck. Let the truth: “Get in their face!”

http://www.patriotroom.com Bill Dupray

Bill Clinton Smitten With Sarah Palin – Somebody Call Todd

http://patriotroom.com/?p=2192
PAUL

mccain should step down and make sarah palin for president in fact lets write her name in we need new blood and we need it now!!!!
csuzeq

Crap. Does anyone know what happened to Phillip Berg’s website? This what you get when you try to go there:

Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL

http://www.governuts.us Agust304

It often means the SQL server is overloaded. It either means the site is popular or that Gaza has a team overloading it.

http://N/A breeze

Clinton recruiting her backers to help Obama

By BETH FOUHY,
Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
Sept. 19, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS – Hillary Rodham Clinton stepped up her efforts Friday to swing her supporters behind Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, her former rival for the nomination.

In an outreach dubbed “Hillary Sent Me,” the New York senator invited her primary-season partisans to get involved directly in Obama’s campaign and to donate to it. As part of that, she urged them to travel to a specific battleground state each weekend, beginning with New Hampshire on Sept. 27, when she will be campaigning for Obama in Michigan.

“Today I am asking all of you to stand up with me, to hit the road and spread the word that we must elect Barack Obama president and send a Democratic, filibuster-proof majority to Congress,” Clinton told supporters in a conference call Friday. “This is a call to action, a must-do. We all have a role. And there is not a moment to lose.”

Starting Saturday, Clinton’s political Web site will offer backers information about Democratic campaign events and grassroots efforts.

Clinton said the outreach “continues the historic journey that you have made with me.”

“I like to tell people this is a twofer,” said former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who is challenging Republican John Sununu for his Senate seat in that state and also took part in the call. “You can come up. You work in the presidential race, you can work in the Senate race.”

The effort was organized with the Obama campaign and state Democratic parties nationwide. Its goal: to engage the former first lady’s donors and voters — many of whom are still sore over her loss to Obama in the epic primary contest — to put that firmly behind them and help in battleground states.

The New York senator has already campaigned for Obama in Ohio, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico and raised more than $5 million for his campaign. “Hillary Sent Me” is her first explicit pitch to her grass roots supporters to get involved, Clinton aides said.
Eden

Rangel calls Palin, “disabled”.

http://wcbstv.com/politics/congressman.charles.rangel.2.821541.html

http://N/A breeze

I’ve been feeling sorry for Charlie lately….

NO MORE!!!

I hope they throw the book at him, the sleaze!!!

tek

Love it, love it, love it!
athy

30 year dem not anymore-
Thanks for the links to BOTH stories.

I reread Nancy’s original post

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/17/obamas-iraq-double-talk-gate-response/#more-4843

before I responded to info contained in abc link you gave us (THANKS!)

“Undermining McCain Campaign Attack, Republicans Back Obama‘s Version of Meeting with Iraqi Leaders”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/undermining-mcc.html

In abc blog- Obama campaign is naming names as supposed witnesses who oppose what journalist wrote about how Sen Obama tried to delay US troops being allowed to return home.

Are we talking about two different meetings that took place in Iraq this past July 2008?

One where Obama along with Bush officials met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and another separate private meeting between Obama and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari?

And can I infer that it was in private meeting with Zebari that Obama made this request to delay allowing US troops to go home?

ABC BLOG WILL INTENTIONALLY OR ACCIDENTALLY

confuse voters .

Obama team could use abc blog (unethically) as proof to refute what took place in a totally different meeting.

So, Bush’s people who attended public meeting can be used to confuse voters who think that Bush’s people are refuting private meeting converstaion…when in fact, they are arguing about discussion that took place in totally different meeting.

Abc blog (Jake Tapper) MUST clarify this. His article can easily confuse voters .

If 2 separate meetings occurred-then, in effect, Obama campaign has NOT BEEN ABLE TO REFUTE what journalist Taheri’s article says about Obama trying to delay troops’ return.

Read what the NY Post writer says about Obama campaign accusations:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_objects_129453.htm

“The Obama campaign has objected. While its statement says my article was “filled with distortions,” the rebuttal actually centers on a technical point: the differences between two Iraqi-US accords under negotiation – the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA, to set rules governing US military personnel in Iraq) and the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA, to settle the legal basis for the US military presence in Iraq in the months and years ahead).

The Obama camp says I confused the two. It continues: “On the Status of Forces Agreement, Sen. Obama has always said he hoped that the US and Iraq would complete it – but if they did not, the option of extending the UN mandate should be considered.
“As to the Strategic Framework Agreement, Sen. Obama has consistently said that any security arrangements that outlast this administration should have the backing of the US Congress – especially given the fact that the Iraqi parliament will have the opportunity to vote on it.”

If there is any confusion, it’s in Obama’s position – for the two agreements are interlinked: You can’t have any US military presence under one agreement without having settled the other accord. (Thus, in US-Iraqi talks, the aim is a comprehensive agreement that covers both SOFA and SFA.)
And the claim that Obama only wanted the Strategic Framework Agreement delayed until a new administration takes office, and had no objection to a speedy conclusion of a Status of Forces Agreement, is simply untrue. “

Speculation here on my part BUT…

Question…why would Bush officials refute what they know might/could hurt the credibility of the campaign of a candidate from the REPUBLICAN party who is running for president? What did Sen McCain do to upset the Neocons? OR what did Sen Obama offer the neocons? or…why would Taheri or Zebari have reason to lie?

tzada

If you believe Obama violated the Logan act go to this link. It’s so easy to voice your concern.

http://www.rallycongress.com/americansentinel/1223/a-call-for-hearings-into-senator-barack-obamas-violation-of-the-logan-act/

I signed it. It was very short and to the point and went out to all 3 of my Representatives both D and R.

It was under 3,000 when I filled it out and over when my husband did. Lets make it happen.

Also at AOL Political news Andrew Sullivan was doing a straw poll asking if Sarah Palin was a pathological liar. You may wish to go vote. No registration required for that.

McKatmoon

Love the ad, to the point, and the truth.
McCain/Palin 08
beebop

Only you so far, little man.
Ginger

You mean that part where he let’s the actual government come up with a plan before he says it sucks. That was smoke screen because he is too scared to tell us what his “advisors” plan is….he realized we all know those “advisors” created this mess to begin with. It was fear.
Seattle Moss

Who needs a whitey tape Francois
When you have Obama looking down on bitter white folks that’s all you need.
Todd Palin sows up the bitter white guy vote just fine being such a regular union blue collar guy.
Did you see Sarah Palin on Hannity without a filter.
Sarah said that Obama was talking about her when talking about bitter white folks.
How about that person in Canada calling us white trash.
And how about the black football player dissing the star spangled banner.
Did I mention the comedian who warned Sarah about being Gang raped by blacks in Manhatten
Keep talking about the whitey tape while the roof falls in on you.
wodiej

no shit…..that Kool Aid must be about 120 proof…