OPEN Thread: Hot Stories Today

Just heard it on the news. Obama’s aides are saying the first debate in Oxford, Mississippi which is only on FOREIGN POLICY will not favor Obama and are lowering expectations of him because McCain should give him a major home court advantage because he is the highest ranking member of the Senate Armed Service Committee and is highly regarded in foreign policy expertise. Will Obamas camp protest bias was at hand if he doesn’t live up to expectations with the public and does badly? It will be moderated by PBS’s Jim Leher who is pretty tough on the issues.

Barky Oblahblah will attempt a bait and switch on every question. He’ll try to double back to economic issues. McCain needs to hammer back with energy secuity.

Of course Obamanation is lowering expectations. They cover their ass if Obama looks like a dork, and say “he’s really quite articulate” if he doesn’t sound like a fool. That’s a standard political manueover.

who cares what they protest.
They are making obama sound like a moron to the american poeple. Obama is supposed to be the man of “superior judgement” on these issues as he always says. The normal person wattching is not paying attention to what the media’s expectations are at this point or his campaign’s.
I think it just makes obama sound even more inexperienced, Mccain and them can say obama runs a subcomittee.
BUT, he never acutall ran it or hold meeting or even care about it. Just a nifty title to throw around for himself.
The ayers stuff is good. It should get out and be pounded into the public’s portrayal of obama and his insane clown possy of mentors and friends.
this guy is the greatest con in america, and it must be stopped.

Tomorrow is the berg lawsuit right? That is the day Obama has to send the right information

this bailout stinks. i wish there were someone in the govt i could trust — bill clinton for example, although because hillary will want to run again, i don’t think we can even trust him.

i sure wish mccain would come out and say, let the chips fall where they may. no bailout. it would be like the surge all over again.

already, when the bailout started working through the govt, the price of oil went back up to over $130.

Barry is relaxing in FL taking 3 days out to get up to scratch…. Scratching for 20months has not brought us much good so guess it’s going to be a 3day vacation for the One

Jim Leher from PBS as a moderator? He will play a softball on Obama.

Doesn’t PBS get $ from Annenberg?

Don’t they lower expectations every time Obama opens his mouth?

Is it possible that Joe Biden is purposefully scripting this GIGANTIC gaffes?

Yesterday’s Ad screw up with Katie, today’s breaking news that he just handed Pennsylvania to McCain by saying No Coal in America on camera…

…I’m beginning to seriously think that they are paving the way for Obama to dump him after the debates for Hillary. Is this possible? Would she attach herself to him?

I’m just not sure but I just see NO way that this is accidental…but I loved the X-Files, so I’m a natural conspiracy theorist!!!!

Take care,
Patrick

Barky’s debate tactic is to filibuster. He did it on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. He gave such long winded rambling answers that he ended up answering about half as many questions as McCain.

I watched Hillary this morning on one of the morning shows. THAT’s the person I’d trust to deal with this financial mess.

what is the berg law suit?

Chicago! (Received this today; can’t vouch for its veracity), but wouldn’t we know more if Hillary or Palin came out of this cesspool?

Body count. In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago, 221 killed in Iraq.

Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike), Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)…..our leadership in Illinois…..all Democrats.

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago. Of course they’re all blaming each other.

Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!

State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country. Cook County ( Chicago) sales tax 10.25%–highest in country. (Look’em up if you want). Chicago school system one of the worst in country. This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. He’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop

here’s the link to WSJ – Obama/Ayers article.

Right. ALL of his previous debates have set the bar really, really, REALLY low. If he speaks with a max of 20 uhhhs per sentence his followers will swoon. Can’t wait for his non answer answers.

Perhaps halfway through the debate, Barky will reach up and scratch his right cheek, then slowly bring his middle finger down while Jim Lehrer prepares to ask yet another difficult question…

I also saw on the news a couple of days ago that the situation with Russia and their cozying up with Venezuela and Iran is going to present itself in the coming weeks leading up to the election. I don’t think I want a president who needs the bar to be lowered when a foreign crisis arise just because he hasn’t a clue. Does the thought of that scare anyone besides me?

Name source?

Hmmm intersting, the young hip guy needs rest. I guess running a campaign against a man 15 years his senior is difficult. 3rd one, how many will he need before November. And if he wins will he take vacation before his swearing in. He seems to like rest and relaxtion quite a bit for a 47 year old.

Nah – just classic good cop/bad cop.

Oh God Patrick I hope you are wrong!!!!

I’ll send you a new roll of aluminum foil for your new hat! Joke!

Thought it was the 27th for both Barky and the DNC to cough up documentation for the Berg case. The FEC, a governmental agency, gets another 30 days.

Lehrer has been asleep at the wheel for some time now.

Patrick,
I know the rumor is huge, but I can’t see that happening.
Biden has always been an off the cuff speaker and has been especially prone to gaffes. It seems more like his having a much longer and broader experience level has caused him not to bone up on what Obama’s policy statements have been. Really, who could, Obama is all over the place. So when Biden speaks , he goes by his own policies and not Obama’s which is showing a lack of coherence.Besides what does he set up by doing this. Will Obama be able to say Biden has made too many gaffes and he’s going under the bus? Wasn’t it Guiliani who said Biden should get his VP offer in writing? LOL

Bill Clinton just said on the View that Hillary did not want the VP spot and Obama was right to choose who he was comfortable with.

And, with such little time left in the campaign, there is not sufficient time to explain such a replacement, battle the so called ‘polarizing’effect Hillary has been tagged with by Obama,and galvanize support for such an obvious political move devoid of character. In short, too little to late.

Having said all that..We do love the x File conspiracy theories.

I just read Keith Olbermann’s first comments on Barky’s debate performance:

“A grand slam! Out of the park! Not only did he sound presidential he looked presidential. He hit every note perfect pitch and countered McCain and threw him off balance. Obama scored on every point.”

Oh wait…the debate is THIS Friday.

I’m sure you’re all right

Still, it’s ‘spooky’ and I’m not talking Mulder!

Take care,
Patrick

I didn’t see Hillary. Could you tell me if McCain’s plans are similar to hers? I’d heard that they were and that would be comforting.
Also, is she doing the talk shows and promoting these plans as hers, Obama’s, or generic Dem plans?
Are they suggestions or legislation she intends to introduce in the Senate?

CB,
You are great to pass along these facts. I’m with you, Obama hasn’t done a thing for IL, unless you count making it worse.
Do you suppose those liberal leaders will ban together and call for a withdrawl from Chicago? LOL.
Keep the facts coming.

Susan,
Thanks for the open thread! It really helps wprk out the aggression and in my case snarkiness!

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I read on a previous blog posted on NQ this morning that Chris Rock was a guest on Letterman last night. After Bubba left the building Rock came out and trashed HRC.

I want Barky to lose so I can see Keith Olbermann’s head explode on camera and the AA community rioting in the streets. Yes, racism was the ONLY reason why Barky lost.

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“He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win!”
HRC to Bill (Judas) Richardson after he called her to tell her that he was endorsing BHO.

PBS is doing a poll which asks if Palin is qualified to be VP. The right wing has organized a yes campaign–and the ‘yes’ is at the moment winning.
Take literally 2 seconds, go to:
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html and vote!

Berg v. Obama Update — Monday, September 22

Answers from defendant Sen. Barack Obama and defendant Democratic National Committee to the original complaint filed on August 21st by attorney and former Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Philip Berg are due on Wednesday, September 24.

Both sides have a number of options available at this point in time, not the least of which is the expected motion to dismiss for lack of standing which will inevitably be filed by Obama or the DNC by the deadline. Judge R. Barclay Surrick will be hard-pressed to deny such a motion, but the most interesting part may not be whether he grants it or denys it but rather the language surrounding such a decision.

No news that I can find where the case was dismissed. The Obama campaign has to file their answer by tomorrow. That may include a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but thus far, I don’t think they’ve filed their answer yet.

The Judge should allow the case and discovery to to go forward. I think Judge R. Barclay Surrick will.

Stay On This. We should have an answer this week.

The Annenberg Foundation is a huge charitable organization that gives money to thousands of organizations. There is no connection between them and Obama/Ayers except that O/A probably ripped them off through the Chicago challenge. The Foundation sponsored those challenges in other cities, too. Walter Annenberg, who started the Foundation, was a Republican-appointed as Ambassador by Nixon and a friend of Reagan. The rumors that Factcheck.org, because it is run by the Annenberg School for Public Policy at Penn, is on Team O are also untrue. Penn is Walter Annenberg’s alma mater.

Thanks! Don’t know why I had the 27th stuck in my head. My bad.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

VOTE YES!!!!!!

Power Line! Hugh Hewitt! The Corner! RedState! And….No Quarter! They go together pretty well, I guess.

I’m gonna find out where I can get air sickness bags so that when Obarfy talks I wont have to vomit all over myself.

PBS’s Jim Leher is in the tank with Obama and will be soft on him, mark my words

You know guys and gals, it is fine and good about some papers coming out with things that they should have eight months ago, but too late. The young seniors, 30ish and 40ish individuals are the ones that read this stuff. In Tampa, Florida, I was amazed at the coverage of all those idiot college students screaming and chanting “yes we can” today. As you can see- no one showed Palin’s 60,000 in the same state the other day. This is a very sad day in America and in the media. Yesterday, I heard the word calling from Hollywood- whore- trash- incest-filthy bitch- beauty queen prositude, etc,.etc., and not one Media (with the exception of one local network and Fox)reported it.) It is a sad day in America when you see hateful people calling an american woman these names. Virginia is leaning toward Obama in the first time in many years. Why? Because they have a ground network that has shown Palin and Mccain as evil people. It is time for the big guns, folks. This little article of the slumlord and the others are OLD news and the bullets are just bouncing of the son of satan- It will take a big bomb to unveil his real self to the public. Children don’t READ! And they are his supporters. The unversity clueless children.Period. Hope I am wrong.

Barky talks in circles like a dog chasing his tail… he says many things and absolutely nothing all at once, we do not get a comprehensive answer and the dog fails to catch his tail.

This is a dead thread now, so why do I want to post?

Susan

Are any of you watching the Senate Banking committee hearings?

Every one has Obamanitis – the stuttering decease combine with the stupid answer decease.

Sen Q.: Question for Paulsen, how must is 2 + 2.

Paulsen: Uhhh uhhh uhhh if you take 1/4 of a 1/4 and a 1/2 of 1/2 and multiply it 1/5 of the 1/5 uh uh uh presto.

Sen Q.: And how about that cafeteria downstairs what do you think? Mr. Bernanke.

Bernanke: uhh uhh uhh, if you take the ham and add a slice of cheese, and in the future we can get some bread, but the tax payers will get the mayonnaise back.

Know what I would love to see… Obama’s view on the camera. A shot of him from behind with him debating while his debate answers magically appear on a teleprompter to be read… demonstrating he’s really just a “marketed brand name”. The image would drive home the point that he is in reality… a puppet being dangled by powerful strings.

Joe Biden on Renewables and Coal in Maumee, OH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXyTRT-NZg

“No coal plants here in America,” he goes on to say “Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there. Make them clean,” and “We’re not supporting clean coal.”

Isn’t Obama for clean coal…it seems he said he was during the primary???

Boston Herald
UMass chaplain fails in effort to boost Barack Obama’s chances
University of Massachusetts officials yesterday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama.
Chaplain Ken Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, “If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day.”
Higgins added that an unnamed “sponsor” in the university’s History Department would offer a two-credit independent study for students willing to canvass or volunteer on behalf of the Democratic nominee.
Higgins refused to identify the History Department sponsor and referred all further questions to university officials.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view/2008_09_23_UMass_chaplain_fails_in_effort_to_boost_Barack_Obama_s_chances/

This comment is slightly off tropic.

Today is an ordinary day for millions of Americans who were born US citizens but it is not an ordinary day for Alma Cardenes one of my co-workers at a predominately Hispanic grocery store in South Tucson where we both work.

For you see today at 11:00am PST Alma will take the oath to become a US citizen. Alma is a hard working mother of two with 10 grandchildren who of course has waited years for this day.

So at 11:00 any of you who read this please think of Alma as she celebrates this special day in her life and take a minute to be thankful for the priviledge we natural born citizens were given which Alma has worked so hard for.

It’s worse than that. Ahmadinajad of Iran is Obama’s guy, and Obama has his back. After getting Hillary to back out of the protest at the UN, he put pressure on the sponsors of the event to dis-invite Sarah Palin. Can’t have anyone getting media attention other than Precious, and can’t have anyone getting media attention for bashing his buddy.

Pentagon budget, disaster aid set to advance

Details of the emerging legislation remain secret, but its outlines have come out in interviews with aides to both the House and Senate Appropriations committees, as well as aides to top House and Senate leaders.
The legislation is coming together in a remarkably secretive process in which decisions are concentrated in the hands of just a few lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis.
The unusual process means thousands of lawmakers’ pet projects of the very sort blasted by GOP presidential nominee John McCain on the campaign trail would escape scrutiny, including up to $5 billion worth of such “earmarks” in the defense budget alone.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/22/national/w131939D34.DTL&type=politics

Fantastic!

Congratulations to Alma!!

Yes and so will Gwen Ifill with Biden. Gwen has had a lot of criticism about her facial expressions and voice tones in her reporting/interviews in this election campaign. She and Leher both are PBS. One of the sponsors is the Joyce Foundation, from Chicago. They are very much anti guns and Barack Obama sat on their board for several years.

Barky’s coming down in the RCP average. He’s down to 2.5 from 3.0 this morning. He dropped a point in today’s Gallup.

I’ll take it.

He probably has a cordless ear peice to feed him answers. But I love the puppet string vision.

It seems that would be against some kind of law???

It is wrong to push your political beliefs off on students…yes it is good to debate but to say you will get extra credit if you do…me I would campaign for the candidate of my choice and say yes I did go out and work for the candidate and just not say what one.

I think so and the Joyce Foundation.

That thought is going through my mind too. Hillary has been in the news lately. She is on the front of Drudge today. Sorry to say she doesn’t look good at all. It would be a lousy political move on her part.
Biden and his gaffes make Obama look even worse than he already is. Goes to judgment on Obama part.

That’ll keep the trolls away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qomPp_Y9Ps

I’ve been watching the bail out hearing and I am not all that knowledgeable about stocks etc. I’ve never ‘gone after’ money and am content as long as I have enough to meet my needs and I live minimally on disability income.

With that said, listening to Paulsen etc., THEY don’t make any sense. Maybe it’s because THE PLAN has not been drawn up but R.Bunning just asked or stated a GREAT concern- Paulsen will not be there next year- meaning WE just give him a check for 700Billion and where will he be??

Think about that. I do not trust ANYONE in the BUSH admin, and there are a few Republicans, including McCain who DON’T TRUST BUSH ANYMORE EITHER.

What ever the outcome I hope these ‘leaders’ put Americans first.

That’s what I was just thinking Paul after reading that. His own campaign is making him look like an idiot, plus brining out the point he isn’t as experienced as McCain. Is that not what people have been saying from the beginning?

They keep complaining about Sarah and her experience. How many Governors have been president. She is at the bottom of the ticket with more experience than he has at the top of the ticket!! The sky is falling! What if John dies! The sky is falling! Pay no atention to that man behind the screen that doesn’t have to wait for anyone to die and that we want at the top of the ticket. Divert and distract.

That is bringing, attention and there is supposed to be a ? behind president. I know. I downloaded IE Spell to spell check all my posts since I have that quick trigger point and click on add comment before checking my post.

Uncharacteristically low turnout for Barack Obama rally in Green Bay, Wisc.

McCain/Palin drew 4,000 more supporters at same venue a week ago
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Hoping to shore up support in his suddenly undependable backyard, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama flew here Monday to talk about how he’d handle economic crises as president.
Recent polls have shown that Wisconsin — once pretty solidly in Obama’s column — is now a statistical dead heat between Obama and Republican John McCain.
Just a week ago, John McCain and his vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin — who can bring out crowds the way Obama can — appeared in this same stadium, Resch Center, to a crowd of 10,000 fans. There were an uncharacteristic amount of empty orange seats for Obama’s rally.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1178184,obamarally092208.article

Lots of Annenberg coin rolling around there, they underwrite NOVA for starters

Welcome Anna Cardenes.

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMASM BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

“The Shifting Ground of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice” by William Ayers (1992)……Ayers writes “in a sense, all education is about power.” His greatest concern is to use politics to shake up what he sees as the “bureaucratization”of the schools by school boards and unions. In the following years Ayers would conceive and draft the proposal for the $160 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge and recruit Barack Obama to chair its board.(1995)
Gloria Ladson-Billings,professor of Urban Education, is the inventor of a proposal to make repayment of centuries of”education debt” owed to people of color the top priority of the next President, an idea shared by Ayers and also strongly backed by Barack Obama’s education advisor, Linda Darling-Hammond…CHANGE, you bet!

lol Hey, send me some too! I’m going to make me a tin foil hat in the shape of a safety cone that says No Obama Zone.

President Clinton said on the View that Hillary only said she’d do that for her party. She did not want to be his number 2. She knows, she wouldn’t let him get away with half of what he’s doing to Biden. Did you see the list of what McCain is going to let Sarah do? They are going into this as partners. Think Obama will delegate any duties to Biden other than what is the typical duties for a VP? No way. McCain is going in making sure if something happens to him Sarah is already doing some of the duties of a president so she’ll be more than ready. He’s not going to hide her away like other VP’s to come out once in a blue moon. He’s going to let her shine.

They should do a pat-down a la airport security of each candidate prior to each debate and not allow any earpieces IMO!

pray for me. I am watching the debates with my boyfriend. He is a weak bot, has to vote D, but still we have been at odds the past few weeks. I decided we must watch together so I can stop having to send him clips of what Barfy says. I swear when these Ds watch Obarfy they hear only what they want to hear. many times I have said, Barfy said the same as McCain…and the Bf says, no he didn’t, then I send a clip where I was right, and he says it that was edited. Swear. so we are going to watch at the same time and try not to break up! Pray for me, watching with a minibot!

thank you for posting…that is such awesome news! Smart guy

And the gaffe goes on….

Biden garbles Depression history
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
As Reason’s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Biden_garbles_Depression_history.html?showall

Nancy P (D) SF CA

stating the party is over for all these ceo’s in top jobs lining their pockets….

3-4 times she repeated

“The Party is Over”

I trust the whole truth in this GE must be hitting home….

WTG NANCY… collect your pink slip Nov 5th. along with the rest of u goons

Wrong.

I hope the NRA knows about the Joyce Foundation and their ties to Obama. This is news to me. I am pro Palin and Pro 2nd amendment.

HA, I love it…

I’d love to put the mess in Chicago at the feet of the “Daley machine”, but there are a few other factors at work. There may not be Republicans in charge of the City government, but they (meaning the Bush Administration, not Republicans in general) bear some responsibility. When Bill Clinton was President and the budget was balanced, the nation at (relative) peace, surplusses on the rise, unemployment at its lowest point in recent history, and generally good times for just about all, the crime rates in Chicago had dropped to record lows. Clinton also funded many hundreds of additional police officers and supported an effective C.A.P.S. program and many after school programs. Mayor Daley had a nifty new anti-gang ordinance that allowed sweeping (perhaps too sweeping) police powers to clear the corners whenever gang-bangers began to congregate. Once George W. Bush took office, the economy went into the crapper, the money stopped flowing to the cities, the after school programs and summer jobs programs were eliminated or drastically cut, the additional funding from the Clinton Administration for additional police officers and equipment was eliminated, the jobless rate skyrocketed, the courts stepped in and overturned Daley’s anti-gang ordinances, suits against handgun manufacturers were thrown out, and out-of-control gun sales and importation of guns from Southern states incresed, along with the violent crime rates in the city. There are quite a few factors and dynamics at work here, and a simplistic blame of Republicans and/or Democrats does a disservice to the importance and urgency of the issues. Even among the Democratic politicians mentioned above, there are some who are not on the same team with Daley and Obama, and I’ve witnesses surprising maturity, independence, and integrity from (Illinois) House Speaker Mike Madigan’s daughter, Lisa Madigan, the Illinois Attorney General that should serve her well in politics, and should keep her out of the crosshairs of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

Info on Berg lawsuit

Berg, a former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general and Montgomery County Democratic Party chairman, was prepared for an onslaught of e-mail messages and phone calls attacking him. However, the opposite has occurred.

“I’m totally amazed by the positive responses we’re getting,” he said.

His office received more than 600 phone calls after the public got wind of the suit, and he’s been interviewed on about a dozen radio talk shows.

Either this is a photo shop picture or it looks like Biden doesn’t have much respect or like for Barack Obama.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080829/i/r3654586364.jpg?x=400&y=294&q=85&sig=4xBkKzZi.2JSLkZvkxE5RA–

What would I have done with the Ayer’s ad? Well…first thing…I wouldn’t be showing the long hair clean cut Ayers and his good looking wife back in the 70s walking hand and hand with a smirk in their faces. They don’t even look like the type of people that would even put a firecracker in somebody’s house. It is a GOOD thing I am not running Mccain’s campaign, but, maybe a hint of wisdom can be carried over to them from me. Take the bomb buildings, the dead bodies (if any) take the people who lost their kins to talk on the ad about the two clean cut terrorist and friends of Mr. Obama. Blow up a picture of the penagon’s building — and then show the bombing again- then show the guy Ben Laden Osama and the twin buildings coming down and say “Can we trust an ex-terrorist named Bill Ayers to be that close to our whitehouse? Obama’s is not ready to lead with friends like this. I am Mccain and I approve this message.! There you go- ! That dear friends is called “truth deadly politics”.

This is something else that just came off the Real Barack Obama blog site – an update on Auchi – that other guy in Obama’s past: “Nadhmi Auchi and the leaked DoD IG report” It stirs more questions including: “Of all the matters that Sen. Obama need address, this latter, the issue of his possible involvement with Mr. Auchi’s appeal for restoration of his visa privilege, is the most troubling.”
Sen Obama we are STILL WAITING….

I think that would not only be extremely effective but would certainly win McCain many more undecideds. Is there some way to get this to their ad campaign? Excellent idea.

Congratulations Alma!! As an immigration lawyer, I know some of what you had to go through to get to this point, and you (and your family) deserve to be proud of this success. If the test you had to take and pass on your command of the English language, U.S. civics/government and U.S. history were administered to the young Barky cult members, most of them would probably fail the test.

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them

* Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.

* The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.

* Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.

* Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.

* The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.

* This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod’s firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as “astroturfing.”

* David Axelrod is Barack Obama’s chief media strategist.

* The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194057.php

Penny Pritzker

Instapundit links to this Wall Street Journal item suggesting Obama may have some explaining to do given his position on the Sub-prime lending crisis. His national campaign-finance chairwoman, Penny Pritzker, headed a bank which helped to fuel the crisis and was also guilty of predatory lending practices. Now, here’s something of a kicker. From her website:

TransUnion: Ms. Pritzker is chair of TransUnion, a global leader in credit data information services.

Even assuming she wasn’t Transunion’s chair while heading Superior, can you think of a better way to identify people ripe for predatory lending, than by having close ties to one of the big three credit data services? In essence, one business relationship lent money to people with bad credit, while the other was responsible for identifying those very people for would be lenders, or extenders of credit. I smell a rat and this one ain’t named Rezko.

Finally, what qualifies her to chair Transunion? She’s good at identifying individuals who are credit risks because she loaned them a ton of money over the years??? Hmm….

During this time, according to the Journal, Superior funded more than 6,700 new subprime loans worth more than $550 million. Most of these loans were subsequently sold to another bank. The problems was, many of these loans suffered from the same deficiencies as other subprime loans – unqualified borrowers, inflated appraisals, and inadequate verification of borrowers’ incomes.

The WSJ states, “Hundreds of borrowers who took out Superior subprime loans on the FDIC’s watch – some with initial interest rates higher than 12 percent – have lost their homes to foreclosure.” The FDIC stopped funding new Superior loans in early 2002 and closed the lending operation by mid-year.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/07/penny-pritzker.html

Comment by wodiej | 2008-09-23 13:30:02
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Be my guest and give it to whomever- I just want to see this man dismantle after this media has done injustice to us by not vetting him. I am more upset with the media and hollywood than him. He is just green around the ears and ambitious. He didn’t vetted his friends well- just thinking of the Presidency all his life. There is an old saying in another language that says: Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.

soft on him…he’s probably giving 0bama the questions ahead of time!

Why else would he be taking three days off ahead of the debates, so he can memorize and cram!

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/nadhmi-auchi-and-the-leaked-dod-ig-report/

Grand Hyatt NY to host Iran president
September 18, 2008
Free Republic

Penny Pritzker, Obama’s campaign finance chair, is the heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune. The Grand Hyatt in New York city is hosting an “interfaith dinner” with Iranian President Ahmadinejad Thursday night (September 25) when he comes for his annual UN propaganda tour.

Breaking bread with a genocidal maniac who has repeatedly told his people and other world leaders to prepare for a “world without America.” Meanwhile, his country works on the Atomic Bomb.

He also has the blood of US troops on his hands–Iran has provided advanced weaponry to insurgents in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which were used to kill our GIs.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085085/posts

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/sep/23/an-electoral-college-doomsday/

AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE DOOMSDAY?

On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to make Republican Sarah Palin his successor.
“Wow,” said longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess. “Wow, that would be amazing, wouldn’t it?”
“If this scenario ever happened, it would be like a scene from the movie ‘Scream’ for Democrats,” said Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh. “The only thing worse for the Democrats than losing the White House, again, when it had the best chance to win in a generation, but to do so at the hands of Cheney and Lieberman. That would be cruel.”
Sound impossible? It’s not. There are at least a half-dozen plausible ways the election can end in a tie, and at least one very plausible possibility – giving each candidate the states in which they now lead in the polls, only New Hampshire – which went Republican in 2000 and Democratic in 2004, each time by just 1.5 percent – needs to swap to the Republican column to wind up with a 269-269 tie.

Full article at the link. Worth the read, but keep in mind that the Democrats wish to get rid of the Electoral College. They feel if they get rid of it, they can insure a Democrat for President. But of course they mean the New Democratic Parties choice.

LOL

I came to the same conclusion the other day when I was playing around with the EV maps

Doesn’t it say “Annenberg FactCheck” at the top? Berg says they pulled a switcheroo of two certificates of live birth. obamacrimes.com

McCain is drawing 60,000 in Fl and elsewhere.

Of course Palin is more than qualified. It’s a stupid question and they need to ask Barky if his speecehes qualify him. VET BARKY! America needs to know who this fool is!

biden gaffe number 243. maybe someone should ask biden whether he wondered if he was qualified to be Vice President when Obama called or whether it was plain hubris for him to accept:

Biden garbles Depression history

Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

As Reason’s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”

Since this is an open thread I would like to ask a few questions, as I used to blog here but now wonder what are acceptable opinions.

1. Is this site anti- Obama?

2. Is this site pro McCain Palin?

3. Is this site mostly Republicans?

I think I know the answers which means as a liberal Democrat my opinion will probably not be welcomed here, which is okay but I would rather get a sense of what is acceptable rather than p*** anyone off.

Thank you

McCain Palin up 3% in Michigan.

http://www.mrgmi.com/PR%20Pres%20Fall%2008.pdf

That “cordless ear piece” gave me a brief flashback. Was there such a scandal in the past? Or what am I thinking of? Maybe it was a hilarious comedy routine.

Lordy yes! I am a professor and we can get into a ton of trouble for doing that sort of thing. It goes even further. If you give college credit, the activities must have solid academic content.

Respectful opinion from any point of view welcome.

Patrick: Here you go…

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Congratulations, Alma! Now go register to vote for McCain/Palin.

I have to agree. Trying to downplay expectations of Obama’s performance is only going to make him look weak and inexperienced.

barfing into a rolled up paper towel works great too. Just don’t flush them.

Hate to break this to ya, jrterrier, but this whole mortgage mess got started when Clinton was president. It was under the auspices of something called, I think, “The Housing Affordability Act” that the Clintons and the Democrats really pushed hard to get through. Basically what it did was to require lenders to lower their loan qualification standards so that lower-income Americans could buy homes of their own. “Every American should be able to own their own home.” was the rallying cry. This was the genesis of the “sub-prime mortgage market”.

Now I certainly won’t blame all of the ensuing mess on the Clintons. Bush sat around with his thumb up his ass for years without doing anything while the real estate bubble inflated. Had he called attention to the abuses going on at places like Fannie Mae and Goldman Sachs, this whole thing could have been avoided. A few people like John McCain tried to stem the tide, but hey, when there’s easy money to be made, everybody wants in on it.

Make no mistake, the American public itself deserves a large share of the blame for this mess. There are millions of people out there who willingly took on mortgage debt that they knew damn well they couldn’t service when the “teaser rate” on their mortgages expired for houses they knew damn well they couldn’t afford. “But hey, real estate prices only go up, right? So if we get in trouble, we’ll just re-finance and if we can’t do that, we’ll just sell the house and cash in!”

This entire saga reflects the “get rich quick” “MTV” mentality of the current American public. Nobody wants to defer satisfaction any more, Nobody wants to work for anything any more. This is why a smooth-talking snake oil salesman like Barack Obama, a man with virtually no qualkifications at all, can be running even with a genuine American hero like John McCain, a man who has one of the best resumes ever presented for the position of president.

Yeah, wasn’t it McCain who supposedly couldn’t handle the physical demands of the presidency? This is the 2nd time that Barack has had to take time off the “recharge the batteries” while ol’ J-Mac hasn’t missed a beat.

Very well put.

Respectful being the key word.

Top story at ABC.com…. McCain Trillion Dollar Man (Dems will follow McCain’s lead) http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/stephanopoulo-4.html

Politico’s Quote of the day… Obama speaking on the market issue: [When it comes to phasing in the bailout, or phasing in a program, I do think that it’s important to recognize that we’ve got a short-term problem of keeping the market functioning…that requires some short-term intervention. How much of the request that Secretary Paulson’s made deals with that short-term problem, or how much is required to deal with that short-term problem, has not been made clear.” – Barack Obama, at a press conference in Florida]

Huh? What did he just say?

Something about “short-term.”

Thanks, I did it, I clicked on YES!!!
Now why don’t they ask me if I think Obama is qualified to be POTUS?

No doubt, Rob. I will give Bush major credit for aggressively taking it to Al-Qaeda around the world while keeping us safe here at home since 9/11/01. But on anything related to the economy, he’s been an absolute fucking disaster. The federal budget is in shambles, spending is totally out of control, the financial markets are in chaos, and the dollar is in the tank.

He sat around and did absolutely nothing … NOTHING! … for seven years while this real estate price bubble inflated. Anyone could see what was eventually going to happen. (That’s why when I moved out here to San Diego in late 2004, I refused to buy a house, opting to rent instead. Boy am I glad I did! Now I’m gonna be able to get a great deal on a house in about six more months.)

Likewise, Bush has made absolutely ZERO progress on addressing huge looming entitlement liabilities like Medicare and Social Security. We’ve now wasted eight years, meaning that the needed reforms are going to be much more painful now than they would have been had they been addressed earlier. And don’t even get me started on his refusal to secure the border with Mexico.

Hell, he and his crew even royally screwed up the occupation of Iraq for 3 1/2 years before he FINALLY came around to sacking Rumsfeld and the rest of the Keystone Kops at the Pentagon. Thank God for David Patraeus or that would have been a total loss too!

I’m a registered Republican (albeit a moderate one) and as a Republican, I can say that George Bush has set the party back 20 years with his incompetence. All of the gains in Republican voter registration that had been made since 1980 are now gone. Gone. We’re now back to the same percentage of people identifying themselves as Republicans that we had in the 1970s.

I think Bush means well and that he loves his country. But he has the worst managerial skills of any Amertican president since Jimmy Carter. Until recently, he has always appointed people based on personal loyalty rather than ability and that has proven to be a disasterous flaw.

Yeah, what are the odds that PBS puts up a poll on that question?

I’d say slim and none … and Slim just left town.

Somebody sent me this in a mass e-mail yesterday. Looks to me like it isn’t the “right wing” that’s doing the “organizing” here.

Yeah, they’re populated for the most part by people who think for themselves rather than being led around by the nose by the mass media.

On the whole, it’s most definitely an anti-Obama site. (And for good reason!) Most of the posters are probably pro-Hillary Democrats but there are also quite a few Republicans like me as well.

Here are two articles. I am with you on Palin and gun rights. “They” have stolen the media and guns will be next , if we don’t stop them.

http://news.yahoo.com/story//politico/20080419/pl_politico/9722

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmM2NjY3ZWEyNjE4MTMwMDlmNTA5NzE2M2Y2NDQ4ZTM=

Don’t look at the fluctuations in the day-to-day polls. They’re meaningless. Even the ones with the largest sample sizes, Gallup and Rasmussen, are polling only 3,000 people at a time. Trying to predict the behavior of 120,000,000 voters using a sample size of only 3,000 is dicey at best. And most polls only use about 1,000 respondents.

The bottom line is that this is a very close race with anywhere from 10-15% of voters having not yet decided.

But there are some underlying trends that would seem to bode well for McCain:

1) Most of the undecideds are lower middle class and middle-class whites. These people went for Hillary by about 2-to-1 over Obama in the primaries.

2) The Bradley Effect will be a factor. In a close race, even if it’s as little as 1-2% of the electorate, it could swing the election to McCain.

3) The debates are coming up, and this is an environment in which McCain should have an advantage. It’s no accident that Obama has refused to appear with McCain at “town hall” events. Extemporansous speaking under pressure and responding to specific challenges is not Obama’s strength.

Anything can happen, and six weeks is an eternity in politics. But if I were betting, I’d definitely put my money on McCain at this point.

Is anyone telling us the whole truth about the problem on Wall Street?

The bail-out proposal seems so extreme I wouldn’t think it would stand a snowball’s chance in hell before Congress. Yet they’re obviously seriously considering it, and seem to think it needs to happen quickly.

What’s the real deal? I think the real deal is that the confidence game they’ve been running on everybody is in serious trouble of coming totally unglued. This is a last-ditch effort to keep the scam going.

I have a different opinion of Gwen Ifill. It’s only because of her that I continue to watch the PBS News Hour. I feel that she’s been doing a fine job, her commentary and demeanor has been impartial, unlike many other newscasters and journalists. I did notice she looked beleaguered at the Republican Convention and she looked startled when someone bumped into her. That was really the only time her expressions betrayed her(correct me if I’ve missed something). I read after wards that the conventioneers were heckling the media.
I also noticed that the PBS camera people seemed to deliberately show the teleprompter when Sarah Palin was speaking and that they showed as many disruptions in the arena (Code Pink Protesters etc.) as they could.
I lost my faith in the news media with the fiasco they called journalism during the lead up to the Iraq War. Remember that? It’s been downhill ever since. I will no longer contribute to my Public radio station because they are so seriously impartial to Obama.
p.s. csuzeq
I too will be watching with an Obot spouse hopefully he will retire early!

If Ohio polling looks like Chicago, ‘thank’ Brunner
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/COL05/809230318/1055/NEWS

[snip]

Since the Florida debacle in 2000, most states have made voting easier. Ohio now lets anyone get an absentee ballot. This year, Ohio could again decide a close election – and Brunner is inviting the kind of lawsuits and suspicions that destroy public trust.

She said Hamilton County “may face other lawsuits or even challenges to the rights of those whose applications they would process” if her memo is ignored.

Brunner’s web site says she “wants to ensure that Ohio elections are free, fair, open and honest; and to encourage the highest level of participation in our democracy.” So why reject 1,500 voters in Hamilton County and thousands more in Ohio?

An honest mistake? With Brunner’s partisan record, not likely.

Laying litigation landmines to lawyer the outcome if Democrats don’t win? That fits like a tinfoil hat with her irresponsible attack on Ohio’s voting machines.

Raw partisanship? Ring the jackpot bell.

“Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we’ve got Democrats in charge of the machines,” Barack Obama said on Sept. 3.

I think he was talking about Brunner – the partisan secretary of state who is doing her best to bring Chicago elections to Ohio.

oops I meant that “my Public radio station because they are so seriously PARTIAL to Obama.

Patrick…I created a tin foil monster at your expense! That website above is an absolute riot and should be sent to all Obamabots after the election.

Btw, I have forwarded your previous comments to other people because they are so beautifully written, eloquent and thoughtful.

Hate to break this to ya, jrterrier, but this whole mortgage mess got started when Clinton was president. It was under the auspices of something called, I think, “The Housing Affordability Act” that the Clintons and the Democrats really pushed hard to get through.

Dead wrong. Clinton fought the GOP-controlled Congress tooth and nail to keep tight regulations on mortgage financing. The Housing Affordability Act was all he could squeeze out of them as a concession. It was the GOP that pushed what was called the Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act that was favored by the big lenders and brokerage houses. (Yes, that’s Phil Gramm, McCain’s buddy–I really wish McCain would dump him). Essentially, what they did was allow these financial companies to break the law (the Glass-Steagall Act) by simply changing the law to suit what the bankers wanted. They basically gutted Glass-Steagall. Congress had a GOP veto-proof majority and there was little Clinton could do but sign the damn thing.

It was a rotten, underhanded move that benefited nobody but the same people who landed us in the mess we are in and who we are bailing out now.

Make no mistake, the American public itself deserves a large share of the blame for this mess. There are millions of people out there who willingly took on mortgage debt that they knew damn well they couldn’t service when the “teaser rate” on their mortgages expired for houses they knew damn well they couldn’t afford. “But hey, real estate prices only go up, right? So if we get in trouble, we’ll just re-finance and if we can’t do that, we’ll just sell the house and cash in!”

I do agree with this. Absolutely. Also, a lot of people don’t realize that mortgage brokers are totally unregulated–they don’t need to take any classes, get any licenses, or prove they know anything. It is harder to get licensed as a dog groomer than it is to set up shop as a mortgage broker. And with all the money rolling around, every crook or idiot figured he could get in on the action. People buying homes thought they were dealing with a bank official or professional financial adviser–when in reality they were just dealing with a scummy con artist who didn’t know–or didn’t care about–an ARM from a hole in the ground. What a mess.

Couple things to add. No Indictment in Palin Case:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10049106-83.html

Can you believe this is actually from MSNBC? Talking about Biden’s earmarks. In all the years McCain has been in office he has asked for 0 for his state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1zGTBaGvA

McCain Hits Back: Obama Has No Plan Of His Own

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/31e95745-b802-4ec2-99f4-eb58ea345bf5.htm

DECONSTRUCTING #10: Barack Obama Copies John McCain’s Anti-Earmark Pledge

Barack Obama: “And we will put every corporate tax break and every pork-barrel project online for every American to see. You will know who asked for them and you can cast your vote accordingly.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Green Bay, WI, 9/22/08)

John McCain Said He Will End Earmark Requests And You “Will Know Their Names, And I Will Make Them Famous.” MCCAIN: “Tax cuts for America’s hard-working families; strong support for small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. And an end pork barrel spending in Washington, an end to the earmark, pork- barrel spending in Washington. My friends, I will make them famous. I want to promise you, I’ll take an ink pen, and I will veto every pork barrel, earmark spending bill that comes across my desk. I will know their names, and I will make them famous.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 9/19/08)

DECONSTRUCTING #11: Barack Obama Copies John McCain’s Government Efficiency Pledge

Barack Obama: “As President, I will go through the entire federal budget, page by page, line by line, and I will eliminate the programs that don’t work and aren’t needed. As for the programs we do need, I will make them work better and cost less. I will create a High-Performance Team that evaluates every agency and every office based on how well they’re serving the American taxpayer.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Green Bay, WI, 9/22/08)

John McCain Said He Will “Order A Thorough Review Of The Budgets Of Every Federal Program, Department, And Agency.” MCCAIN: “To control spending, I will also order a thorough review of the budgets of every federal program, department, and agency, and I will post the results of these reviews on the Internet for every American to see. While that review is underway, we will institute a one-year pause in discretionary spending increases with the necessary exemption of military spending and veterans benefits.” (John McCain, Remarks At NFIB And eBay 2008 National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., 6/10/08)

DECONSTRUCTING #12: Barack Obama Copies John McCain’s Proposal To Create A Standing Financial Market Advisory Group

Barack Obama: “Sixth, we must establish a process that identifies systemic risks to the financial system like the crisis that has overtaken our economy. We need a standing financial market advisory group to meet regularly and provide advice to the President, Congress, and regulators on the state of our financial markets and the risks they face. It’s time to anticipate risks before they erupt into a full-blown crisis.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Green Bay, WI, 9/22/08)

John McCain Proposed Creating The Mortgage And Financial Institutions Trust Which Would “Identify Institutions That Are Weak And Take Remedies To Strengthen Them Before They Become Insolvent.” MCCAIN: “We cannot wait any longer for more failures in our financial system. Structures like the resolution trust corporation that dealt with the failed savings and loan industry were designed to clean up the system and worked. Today we need a plan that doesn’t wait until the system fails. I am calling for the creation of the mortgage and financial institutions trust — the MFI. The priorities of this trust will be to work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and take remedies to strengthen them before they become insolvent. For troubled institutions this will provide an orderly process through which to identify bad loans and eventually sell them. This will get the treasury and other financial regulatory authorities in a proactive position instead of reacting in a crisis mode to one situation after the other. The MFI will enhance investor and market confidence, benefit sound financial institutions, assist troubled institutions and protect our financial system, while minimizing taxpayer exposure. Tomorrow I will be talking in greater detail about the crisis facing our markets and what I will do as President to fix this crisis and get our economy moving again.” (John McCain, Remarks, Cedar Rapids, IA, 9/18/08)

DECONSTRUCTING #13: Barack Obama Copies John McCain’s Proposal To Bring The Regulatory System Into The “21st Century”

Barack Obama: “These are the principles that should guide the reforms we need to establish a 21st century regulatory system — a system that recognizes our free market economy has only worked because we have guided the market’s invisible hand with a higher principle — that America prospers when all Americans can prosper.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Green Bay, WI, 9/22/08)

John McCain Said “We Need To Fix The Regulatory System And Bring It Into The 21st Century.” MCCAIN: “Well, I don’t want to raise taxes on anybody. I think that would be the worst thing. He even said that he, quote, ‘Wouldn’t raise taxes if the economy was bad.’ Well, the economy is bad. But the point is that we need to fix the broken system. We need to have an FDIC that will insure every American’s bank deposit; that may need more funds. We need to fix the regulatory system and bring it into the 21st century. Of course we need to have oversight and regulation. And I warned about it. Greed and excess and corruption is beset Wall Street. They’ve treated it like a casino and they need to be held accountable and stop walking away with these fat-cat packages.” (NBC’s “Today,” 9/16/08)

John McCain came out with a six point plan LAST WEEK to help deal with this crisis and get our economy back on the right track.

Obama came out with NOTHING-NADA-ZERO. He punted the political football to Paulson. He showed NO leadership whatsoever.

In Obama’s press conference today, which was several days AFTER John McCain released his six point plan,, look what Obama did today: He copies several parts of McCain’s six point plan and tries to make them his own. That’s not being a leader. That’s being a follower. And even worse, a plagiarist!

John McCain is showing leadership. he gets it.

Obama is showing that he is simply a follower with no plan of his own.

The Obama-Biden team really is the ticket of do nothing and plagiariasm.

Obama is like a deer in headlights. Frozen still and mum on what to do and how to do it.

McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary ’12

Is this poetic justice?

Today at the anti Ahmadinejad protests in New York it turned into an anti-Obama rally as well. (link below) Good job Obama and Democrats. Keep up the good work. Obama will be defeated thanks to you all. Mkaes my life easier.

http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/united.nations.general.2.823131.html

Anti-Iran Rally Turns Into Anti-Obama Rally
Jewish Groups Furious That Protest Against Ahmadinejad Was, At Times, A Pro-Palin, Bash-The-Dems Affair

http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/united.nations.general.2.823131.html

Not everyone agrees with the Dems strong arm tactics.

J Mac’s mom is 96!

“The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain’s party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The New Deal never acted so precipitously on such a scale. Treasury Secretary Paulson, asked about conservative complaints that his rescue program amounts to socialism, said, essentially: This is not socialism, this is necessary. That non sequitur might be politically necessary, but remember that government control of capital is government control of capitalism.”
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“It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?”
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Conservative George F. Will, September 23rd, on John McCain.

Sorry, I forgot the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html

Here’s so insight into the rip=off, I mean the bail out. If you only look at one thing click on the video of Hank Paulson http://www.fedupusa.org

excuse the typos