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Remember When Obama Said He Chaired the Banking Committee (Chris Dodd’s Committee)?

By SusanUnPC on September 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM in Economy, Foreign Policy, NATO, Obamaisms, Obamedia

Since Barack Obama doesn’t have time to be in D.C. during the intense negotiations over the financial crisis, it’s probably a good thing he really isn’t the chair of the Banking Committee — not that it’s any better that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) aka “Senator Acorn” is in charge. Besides, as all of you regular readers know, Barack Obama has NO time for the committees that he IS on, even NO time for the subcommittee he chairs but has utterly ignored for two years because, as he admitted in a primary debate, he’s too busy “running for president.”

Dusted off, here’s my July 23rd story on Obama’s gaffe and related fall-out:

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Yet Another Worrisome “Obamaism”: The Banking Committee Is “My Committee” [UPDATES], July 23, 2008:

At today’s press conference, Barack Obama said that the U.S. Senate’s banking committee is his committee, which will surely come as a surprise to the chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee, Christopher Dodd, an Obama sycophant.

Not only is the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs not HIS committee, Barack Obama is not even a member of the committee:

Perhaps Senator Obama is having a “senior moment”? It’s reminiscent of his stating that there are 57 states in the U.S. Actually, I think that Obama probably doesn’t remember which committees he is on, given his dilatory, lackluster inattention to his duties on the committees on which he does serve. Shall we bring up his failure to hold a single hearing as Chair of the Subcommittee on European Affairs, which is part of the Senate’s Foreign Policy Committee? As Joseph Wilson wrote here:

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Europe, with jurisdiction over NATO, he has held not a single oversight meeting because, as he admitted, he was too busy running for president, even though NATO’s presence in the Afghanistan war is critical to success in that venture.

– “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience” by Joseph Wilson, May 4, 2008

As the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee on Europe, he has not chaired a single substantive oversight hearing, even though the breakdown in our relations with Europe and NATO is harming our operations in Afghanistan. Nor did he take a single official trip to Europe as chairman. This is the sum total of his actions in the most important responsibility he has had in the Senate. What are his actual experiences that reassure us that when the phone rings at 3 a.m. he will know what to do, which levers of power to pull, or which world leaders he can count on?

– “Obama’s Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country” by Joseph Wilson

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Thanks to PPM for sending me the link to the video.

I find this appalling on many levels.

First, it is wholly inappropriate to refer to any committee as “MY” committee. It is not only ungentlemanly, it is egotistical.

Second, it is a flat-out lie that shows his utter lack of attention to his Senate duties in the VERY short time he has been a U.S. Senator.

Third, here is the list of committees on which Senator Obama theoretically serves.

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UPDATES: Memeorandum.com is tracking the story; CNN’s Political Ticker and several blogs have reported Obama’s (to be polite) misstatement. The Chicago Tribune has picked up the story. I’m certain that MSNBC and Keith Olbermann will be all over this too, especially since Keith constantly criticizes other news networks for not being “fair and balanced.” LATEST UPDATE: “THE FINE LINE BETWEEN PANDERING AND LYING.”

(I used to say, “Imagine if Hillary had said this.” Now, I say, “Imagine if McCain had said this. It’d be reported at the top of every news show.”)

http://www.missmalevolent.com Miss Malevolent

Senior moment?

How about his brain cells are so coked out he can’t tell fact from fantasy anymore.

This is your brain on drugs people, any questions?

PKJAYNE

NONE
http://chriss chris

How in the world is this guy leading in the polls? I cannot believe the American voters are that uneducated about what is going on here. He is now taking credit for solving the financial crisis when he wasn’t even going to bother showing up. He was out-debated and his biggest response was to take McCain’s answers and make them his. This guy has no qualms about just taking everyone elses ideas and just boldly stating he thought them first. How do people not see this stuff! I’ve got to give his minions in his campaign some disgusting credit for just telling him to say anything that gets him to look like a hero. It is just so ridiculous that people actually are sucking this up. And the smilin MSM just helps happily to move it along. I was in Toronto this week and I’m thinking it looks mighty good in Canada these days. Looks like they are going to elect a Conservative government very soon. Plus they use their resources for themselves and as a financial boon for their country. Might give it some thought to relocate if America is taken over by these Obama thugs and communists.
Maddie

easy

An Obama spokesman tells CNN “it was his bill, not his committee,” referring to the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act that the Illinois senator sponsored and introduced in May 2007. The measure was then referred to the Banking Committee, and passed a vote of 19-2 on July 17.

In a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday, Obama told the former Israeli Prime Minister, “I could fall asleep now standing up,” after Netanyahu asked him how his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe is going.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/23/obama-incorrectly-claims-membership-of-senate-committee/

and

Senate Banking Committee Passes Obama Provisions on Divestment in Iran Sanctions Bill
Thursday, July 17, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Michael Ortiz, 202 228 5566

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama today applauded the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s passage of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2008, which includes provisions Obama offered last year in the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007 (S. 1430). The Obama provisions clarify that state and local governments can divest from companies that invest $20 million or more in Iran’s energy sector and provide safe harbor for private fund managers who divest from such companies. The Committee approved the measure by a vote of 19 to 2.

“Preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a vital national security priority. In addition to an aggressive, direct, and principled diplomatic effort, we must continue to increase economic pressure on Iran to convince its government to halt its nuclear program, support for terrorist activity, and threats toward Israel.

“This important bipartisan legislation will allow state and local governments and private fund managers to divest from companies that support Iran’s energy sector, reducing the revenue Iran uses to expand its nuclear program and sponsor terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.

“I commend Chairman Dodd for his leadership on this important issue, and I call on the Senate to quickly pass this legislation.”

http://obama.senate.gov/press/080717-senate_banking/print.php

Understandable, yet I know that will make some explode. How about we have a “Gaffe Meter”? Oh wait, I don’t think many here can count that high considering McCain’s daily lies and gaffes are off the charts. Oh well.

http://chriss chris

Guess what, if you listen to the words out of his own mouth the story is quite a bit different. Just like always, their they are, the excuse makers spinning him out of his own very plainly stated speech. You are why this country will be torn apart if he somehow gets elected. Nice work and I hope you are paid well. You’ll need it if your deceitful leader gets the job he’s cheating for.

Michelle

Speaking of the Banking Committee and the financial crisis – Barack has supposedly said that McCain can take absolutely “zero credit for the bailout” (or something very close to that)…

Arrgh – I can’t stand this guy – he is such a liar – he has been “phoning it in” for days now and he makes it sound like he was sent by God to clean up all the messes.

Worse still, the donations he has received and the advisors he has shows that he was clearly a HUGE part of this crisis happening in the first place.

And the worst – too many people seem to be believing him – he is at 50% in a number of the tracking polls.

When will America wake-up? I feel like I’ve been praying for a long time – watching Hillary not be able to take this guy down and now, it seems like the Republicans can’t even do it. How is this possible??

cruz

i wouldnt take to much stock in the polls

PKJAYNE

Susan I was wondering when this gaffe would surface again.

It amazes me the DEMS actually back this liar for POTUS.
Mar

My hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, is reporting today that Antonin (Tony) Rezko may be talking to Federal prosecutors.

Here is the link to the story.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-flip28sep28,0,5691387.story

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Oh sweet mama! Of course, the governor may be the first to go? And the state treasurer, who Obama propped up so he’d prevail, even though a far more experienced Democratic candidate ran against him in the primary.

Thanks, Mar, for this great tip. We should try to write this up. I need Truthteller to check this — he’s our true expert on all things Rezko.

Diana

That’s all it will take is the Governor to go down, he’ll be the one to take down Obama and anyone else that was involved. We’ll all hear him singing like a canary.

http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/about/ kat in your hat

Rezko, SING! Sing like a canary! For crying outloud, spill the beans; let the cat out of the bag, man!

Rat em out!
JS Ruby

Tony is betting on BO becoming Pres and pardoning him. No Pres No pardon. Then the real talking will begin.

benny

OHitler is showing his true colors. Has the fourth reich begun? With this sort of arrogance, imagine him as president with the powers of FISA. If elected, this guy will make Bush look like a peaceful dove.

rw

Maybe Petraeus will have to be recalled from his Afghanistan back to the US to handle the military coup that will ensue, so that democracy can be restored.

http://N/A breeze

Afghanistan?

Isn’t Petraeus in Tampa at CentCom?

Chicago Joe

Advantage: experience
September 27, 2008

Friday night in Oxford, Miss., moderator Jim Lehrer tried to force the men who would be president to confront how a costly bailout of America’s credit markets will constrain their grand plans for the next four years. That’s likely to be the shadow lingering over official Washington for much if not all of someone’s first term in the White House.

If you saw the debate, you didn’t see Barack Obama or John McCain hit that question out of the park. You saw, instead, maddening exercises in small-ball. This nation’s debt is fast approaching $9.8 trillion—and any bailout likely will, in the short run, push that number into (gulp) the low 14 digits. You didn’t hear anybody acknowledge that Friday night.

Instead, Obama initially responded by listing areas from energy to education to infrastructure where he’d devote new spending, eventually acknowledging that he’d have to delay some of those expenditures. McCain proposed a freeze on federal spending outside defense, veterans’ care and entitlements—a collective so massive that, when coupled with mandatory debt payments, wouldn’t leave much to freeze. Obama and McCain have five weeks to develop better answers. We suggest they get cracking.

As the debate shifted to national security issues, McCain demonstrated why many voters see this as a strong area for him. He’s been involved for decades in deciding whether the U.S. engages militarily in hot spots such as Somalia, Lebanon and Bosnia—and it shows. His cautious words about the careful use of power indirectly addressed the fear of some Americans that he’d be a trigger-happy president. Similarly, Obama’s pledge to add troops in Afghanistan and his forceful language on terrorist breeding grounds in Pakistan addressed the fear of other Americans that he’d be a weak commander in chief.

On Iraq, Obama spoke repeatedly about his opposition to initiating that war. But he didn’t directly respond to McCain’s key points—that a surge-enabled victory in Iraq will leave this country with a stable ally in a bad neighborhood, and that the next president has to decide not whether to enter Iraq but how to leave in a way that best serves America. Obama gamely noted that he had chosen Sen. Joe Biden, a specialist in foreign affairs, as his vice presidential candidate.

The bulk of Friday night’s debate took place on the turf McCain knows best: foreign affairs and military endeavors. That showed. Obama spoke capably on one topic after another; McCain, who has traveled to numerous crisis locales and joined in more foreign policy debates, spoke with more fluency and experience.

As one TV talking head said afterward, McCain spent the night on offense; Obama found himself playing more defense. The debate that almost didn’t happen was a serious—and decorous—affair. Over 90 minutes, though, Americans who’ve been following the campaign didn’t hear much that McCain and Obama haven’t said, and said, before.

Given the swing of poll numbers against him in recent days, McCain had to make the better showing in the Mississippi night. By some small measure, he did.

Chicago Joe

This is an editorial comment from BHO’s home paper, the Chicago Tribune.

No Way, No How, NoBama

Thanks for this article.

I’m so disturbed by all of the lies that have been uncovered from leadership. Just today I heard Pelosi claim that the Repugs refused to help with the bill but why do they even need them if they already have the votes? Do you know how many votes are needed to pass this? Could you write something about this?

Pelosi also released a “draft” of the new deal they are working on…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429343,00.html

http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

Showing no money for ACORN!
Shiloh

Pelosi won’t let the bill pass unless there are an equal number of republican votes for it so they have political cover. Frankly, I don’t think republicans are playing hard ball enough. They should be saying loud and clear that they do not have the votes to block it and the democrats do have the votes to pass it. If the democrats aren’t willing to pass it on party lines, maybe it shouldn’t pass.

Or here’s a novel thought: how about letting each and every member of congress vote their so called conscience, or rather, do what they think is politically expedient for them. Then just count the votes. I sometimes wish the constitution allowed for the president to force congress to take an up or down full floor vote.
mcpalin hill

no way no how no obama — Pelosi’s boobs are going to her head. She needed the Republicans because this is a poison pill which needed to be bi-partisan in order to be palatible. Besides the Republicans are the ones who took out the Pork before they would go along.

No No Obama gets all the credit because the Dems left him in charge of the White House meeting and he had everyone at each other’s throats. What a guy their leader is —- not.
No Way, No How, NoBama

Did anyone hear Obama speaking from Detroit? He’s taking credit for what’s going on in DC and that he’s the one who insisted on making sure the taxpayer was protected. I wish I kept my TIVO continuously recording for the past few days, I’m starting to feel like I’m having many senior moments.

Shiloh

This reminds me of the story about Lyndon Johnson when a visited some military facility. As he was leaving the presidential helicopter was parked in the vacinity of several other helicopters and LBJ began walking toward the wrong one. A young enlisted man who was part of the ceremonial entourage said, “sir, that’s your helicopter over there.” LBJ put his arm around him and said, “son, they’re ALL my helicopters.”

Can anyone really doubt that Obama thinks they are all his committees?

rw

Too funny….but maybe not. Obama thinks, acts, and struts like a dictator….it’s all mine.

moi61537

Alas, that is true. Still can’t believe that Tom Daschle is involved w/ Obama.

SJ

GOOD ONE!!!!!

Dear Colleagues,

Our nation has been confronted by a serious crisis in our financial markets. The President and this Congress were right to act with all deliberate speed in addressing this crisis.

We now have a deal that promises to bring near term stability to our financial turmoil, but at what price?

Economic freedom means the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail.

The decision to give the federal government the ability to nationalize almost every bad mortgage in America interrupts this basic truth of our free market economy.

Republicans improved this bill but it remains the largest corporate bailout in American history, forever changes the relationship between government and the financial sector, and passes the cost along to the American people. I cannot support it.

Before you vote, ask yourself why you came here and vote with courage and integrity to those principals.

If you came here because you believe in limited government and the freedom of the American marketplace, vote in accordance with those convictions.

Duty is ours, outcomes belong to God.

We have fought the good fight. Now we need to finish the race and make sure that posterity and the American people know there were conservatives who opposed the leviathan state in this dark hour.

And if you do this I promise you, I will stand with you and, I believe with all my heart, the American people will stand with you as well.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28751
MCCAIN REGRETS PALIN

PALIN IS A ~~NUT JOB~~

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vinnie

where’s biden? Anyone care? anyone?
Shiloh

One thing is clear: Palin has brought votes to her ticket and Biden has brought none to his.
HC

Thank you for coming by caps-user.

$50 to McCain, Trollfund is at $2050.

I can meet Palin for $2500, so I am upping the cap on TrollFund to $2500, after that it goes to NQFund.

With all the bots, paid or unpaid, I am sure I will get there.
mcpalin hill

MCCAIN REGRETS PALIN

Bull chit — Palin is terrific and its making Obama crazy. Deal with it.

SJ

Obama would want bailout review if elected

You got to be kidding right?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14030.html

Kal

Well, yeah — he needs to be able to insert ACORN in there asap! Otherwise he might run out of slush funds!!
lark

I think this is very significant to all parties involved and all stakeholders. In fact, it says everything about Obama. This spells disaster for Hillary and the Dems.

He’ll appropriate the work of everyone.

His only willing to accept his way or no way.

His more than willing to derail any recovery and more than willing to advance chaos in order to rush his ad hoc constitutional powers.

benny

The way Obama goes about his business distresses me. He is currently the head of the democratic party. He says that the committee is his. Its obvious that he is dictating the democratic party. I dont know what he is demanding of hillary, and I dont like it. He sounds more like a dictator. Hope the Clintons are resistant to numerous demands made by Obama. I’m glad that President Clinton had the guts to admire McCain, and say that even if some obama supporters doubted him, he isn’t gonna diss McCain. Keep up the tough stance, Mr. President. you’re the only man standing upto obamas bullying tactics.

30yrdem-not any more

I saw a video the other day of A-Jad when he was running for leader in Iran…he used HOPE and Change also…they fell for it in Iran.

Kal

That is totally cool — any way you can youtube it over here? Might be interesting for some folks to see.

mcpalin hill

benny — Howard Dean gave Obama the Democratic Party when he moved the party to Chicago. Now when I get their Mail it says Democratic Party on the front of the envelope and Obama on the back. Obama took the party lists and now the workers at the DNC in Chicago are all Obama people. Last week Harry Reid asked Obama for money for Senate Dems and Obama said no.

Obama originally promised to share his donations with the party — but he lied, go figure.
lark

Like with Chavez, he will be very difficult to oppose, even by members of his own party once he takes charge of the police powers the state will provide him under the Constitution.

30yrdem-not any more

He has always claimed others work as his own.

I see he is still wearing the mans bracelet..he is on TV lying right now.
MCCAIN REGRETS PALIN

PALIN COULDN’T NAME ONE THING MCCAIN PUSHED FOR REGULATION ON IN CONGRESS!

SHE SAID THAT THE BUSH DOCTRINE WAS BUSH’S “WORLD VIEW”….GET THE F OUTTA HERE!

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benny

***troll alert***. $3/hour troll. cheap, cos he/she/it is brain-dead.

vinnie

outsourced troll…probably from the gaza

Pelosi Regrets Obambi

Palin asked what Charlie Gibson meant by his question. Charles Krauthamer himself said that Charlie didn’t know what it meant–Krauthamer would know, he coined the phrase.

30yrdem-not any more

Yes and Charlie didn’t get it right ..Krauthamer cracked me up when he said that…

mcpalin hill

McCain — and Obama doesn’t even know how many states are in this country. Get off Sarah Palin. She is terrific, honest, smart, beautiful. She is a Governor who’s popularity registers at 80% and a mom of 5. Work on the amateur at the top of the Democratic ticket.
rw

IT IS BUSH’S WORLD VIEW, you MSM gerbil. You take hook line and sinker anything the MSM tells you and regurgitate it, think for yourself….oh, yeah, that’s why you support Obama…you can’t.

Read the world view plan of Wolfowitz, Pearl, Cheney in their ideal to remake the Middle East into democratic states, beginning with Iraq……cause a polsci theory states ‘democracies don’t go to war with each other’. In their plan is the belief in preemptive strike legitimacy.
street_parade

Alaska has a massive SURPLUS. I wish the rest of the country did. Washington needs to go to Gov. Palin hat in hand and ask her (no beg her) for some money. SHE knows how to run a state.

Shiloh

If the supposed changes have really happened (acorn and ceo pay) and it doesn’t pass I fear that will make Barack Obama president. And then it will just happen later anyway. Not worth it.
SJ

Let just hope there are more Republican like Mike Pence to say no to this bailout
Anonymus

two new CA polls show Obama only winning by 10. I thought it would be like 15-25. Well if McCain can pull out CA, checkmate

Shiloh

I doubt McCain wins CA unless there is a monster poop-bomb drop on Obama which is possible. But the key is, it will make Obama spend a lot more money out there than he ever intended to.

Hank

If it’s his committee shouldn’t he be there? I keep forgetting he did have any meetings as Chair of the Subcommittee on European Affairs either.

He needs to be exposed, Sen. McCain Country First, do whatever it takes to bring him down.

Obama keeps saying he has a bridge to sell in Alaska, and the people clap to that lie. Why doesn’t he say that he voted against Katrina assistance, but was trying to push the Bridge to Nowhere along with Biden. So many lies!!!

30yrdem-not any more

That is what makes me sick to watch him…he lies so easy and these poor people just believe him…just like A-jad…He scares the hell out of me with his truth squads popping up all over the place.

mcpalin hill

30 year dem — people believe Obama’s lies because the media allows him to say whatever he likes. Its up to the Republicans to call him out on every lie.

30yrdem-not any more

And who will believe them now…the camp…Obama lies are turning into fact per the press…they report it as truth McCain won’t be able to touch him on anything.

Hank

Maybe McCain needs to go to the next debate with Facts on his lies. Either by having sound bites on his lies and proof on he has voted. And make him fess up, on each one, put him on the spot.
Hank

Another lie from BO, he is saying that the revised bailout has items on it that he wanted included the very same day that Treasury Paulson released his.

Didn’t he say he would wait until he reviewed the bailout first.

Why is the MSM allowing the BO camp to say that McCain never mentioned the middle class during the debate. He did use the word Mainstream which what BO also uses.

I’m so glad FoxNews is constantly talking about ACORN. Voter Fraud now being investigated in NM, no shit Bill Richardson is the Govenor. They are also investigating it in WI.

voterfraud@foxnews.com
Let’s continue emailing them, they want to hear from us.

street_parade

I doubt that BO has read the bill or if he has understands it. BO is a very dumb bunny…just like George, who also attended Harvard under ‘special’ circumstances.

Andy

Obama has no interest whatsoever in helping with the financial crisis and in addition he has NO IDEAS and no clue how to help. He wants to rip the benefit of a bad economy all for his own
personal ambition. That’s it. Besides that; please someone else take care of this sick baby. It is appalling. He would have not gone to DC AT ALL during the crisis if Bush hadn’t said in his address to the nation that he had summoned BOTH candidates back to Washington for a face to face meeting. We know McCain was already going so Bush’s order was to bring Obama by the ear.

Ask yourselves: Where were the candidates yesterday?

Obama was with Biden in NC campaigning and struggling with his teleprompter getting all rained in.

McCain cancelled all events and was in DC “awaiting” ( i.e available to help with
mediations/consultations/discussions with the House GOP et al.)

If that is not telling I don’t know what is.

Too bad none of this matters to the media and that the media (that is his real army) is succeeding in protecting and electing Obama: the polls today have him up by 8 — and include the debate–….

benny

andy, McCain is a senator. he is merely doing his job. and he is trying to bring around the ultra-conservative repubs, who hate him in the first place. He is now head of the republican party. and the repubs cant resist him for long.

obama is trying to get elected president. he basically cares a damn about the economy. and cares less about his present job as senator. he is going after the glory of being POTUS.
30yrdem-not any more

They had the headlines ready to claim an Obama win for the debate…if all the tv people keep repeating it enough people who didn’t even watch think Obama won…thus they get higher poll results…we have to stay on top of things and stop this kind of thing from happening …hell I don’t know how but we need to try…all the MSM is backing Obama…I saw a headline from USA Today I think saying “McCain won but will it matter?”…answer no because Obama controls the press.
mcpalin hill

andy — tracking polls mean nothing. Its state polls of likely voters. 38 days–pay no attention to the polls. Those are bought and paid for too.

HARP

Obama will never be MY president. I wouldn`t cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire.

30yrdem-not any more

Well I think I couldn’t resist pissing on him right now..I would rather s-t on him but anyway.

McHope

Obama is so dangerous.
Thanks for the laughter through tears, 30 yr.
PJ

Thanks for the great laugh 30yr!

Linda

Obama can’t help himself, he lies….oops, sorry, MISSTATES, EVERYTHING, including HIS PAST LIFE.

Habitual liar is the problem.

…down to the tiniest of things(“they ran Osama Bin Laden ads against me in the run for the Senate”…..up to the grandest of tales (I always opposed the Iraq War”-that’s a funny one).
kinthenorthwest

This has to be one of the worse years in American History.

We have one of the sleaziest guys ever running for President with many people, including Main stream media turning a blind eye to anything and everything he does. 10 or 20 years ago this man would never have made it pass 1st base with out the media outing all the crazy rumors, truths and long list of corrupt/sleazier friends he has had for the past 20 to 50 years. And dont forget all the mispeaks/lies/untruths that he has spoken from the get go, and still speaks.

Now to top it off we have this crazy Wall Street Bailout, which doesnt seem to be helping people keep their homes, nor the middle class keep or get jobs. This Bailout only seems to be keeping the rich rich by maintaining their over priced bonuses, and retirements while putting a heavier burden on the American taxpayer. It also seems one of the crookiest organizations that the sleazy presidental nominee is involved with is to get 20% of the bailout(is that so he can buy the votes?).

What has happened to our country?? We are not just accepting 2nd rate, but we are scaping the bottom of the crap/sleazy/crimminal barrel for people to run our country. We are also ignoring the vast majority of the citizens, while bailing out crooks/account book cookers so that they can maintain and improve their millionaire status.

bethtopaz

You are not alone. Many Americans are fed up — it doesn’t matter if they’re Republicans or Democrats.

I am a Republican and I am sick of the corruption of our politicians.

You are right, too, about Obama — No experience, No qualifications, No Character (very bad character), No loyalty to America, I could go on – and he is this close to the Presidency.

Very. Scary.

I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone.

MMI

The Fed lends to institutions each day. This is not a taxpayer loan.

Congress spent months grilling athletes about steroids in sports. Now they are trying to get a bailout done in two weeks. This is a joke.
Steve-O

Oh come on, give that poor man a break…

He is busy running an expensive campaign which he claims is his executive experience (Did he teach that in his classes on Constitutional Law? That runnning a campaign is like working in the executive??) so that it matches his foreign relations experiences that he acquired during his school days in Indonesia and his vacations in Pakistan and Kenya…
http://Q Diana L. C.

Now the House Republicans need to have a media event. They need to get someone out there to explain why they balked, why the Democrats were desperate for their approval, though they didn’t need it for the votes. They need to make a strong statement about why it was important to have McCain there.

AND, in addition, they need to point out how O’s ACORN cronies were the problem in the first place.

http://deleted YES HRC

On Fox, a few minutes ago, they’re now linking BO to ACORN, whereas before they danced around it.

HARP

MSNBC Busted.. Foreigners Cast 80% of Votes in MSNBC’s Online Debate Poll

http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/msnbc-busted-foreigners-cast-80-of-votes-in-msnbcs-online-debate-poll/

30yrdem-not any more

I put it up at RCP for votes
http://readerarticles.realclearpolitics.com/?period=all
pasmalltowngirl

LMAO. Anyone who has more than a “pea” for a brain knows that CNN and MSNBC polls are a joke.
Diana

I think their is a whole lot of poll manipulation going on. One of my sisters in Ohio and my other sister in Indiana want us to get together with our friends on the internet from different states and do our own little polls, to see just how accurate the polls are.

Diana

there not their

Zorro Astor

Not only is the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs not HIS committee, Barack Obama is not even a member of the committee

ROFL Why doesn’t he just say ‘I remember from my first term in the White House’.
Cooney

This is more exhibition of his narcissistic personality again. These are not accidents, everyone who knows a narcissist knows that their reality is not necessarily the true reality. The narcissist is always trying to slip in information that will be impressive to others, whether truthful or not. Their live’s are full of lies, their’s are purposeful lies, self agrandizing lies, and do have a real egocentric purpose for the narcissist. He is notmaking mistakes or misstatements such as Biden makes, he is lying to impress people.
Zorro Astor

Joe Wilson is too cool for words but he’s much to kind on Obama. I know he has to phrase things as he does but that’s not getting the word out to the people. OTOH it’s hard for people to believe it’s as bad as it is.
wodiej

I don’t give a rat’s ass what the polls say. I still believe the majority of America has more logic and sense than these naive, pathetic losers who think Obama is Presidential material. He is lazy and immature…hey, that sounds like his good stepping soldiers behind him. Polls are not accurate. The only poll that has accurately predicted the outcome of the last 4 elections is Zogby and they are predicting a McCain landslide.

Francis

Not sure which Zogby polls you are referring, but they have Obama up as well.

http://www.zogby.com/index.cfm

lark

No. Now we know why he was appropriating the banking committee for himself. It is fair to say that he had something very important going on there even when he was not even part of it. And what it is that he has going for himself there? The ACORN connection.

30yrdem-not any more

an un-official member to get funds…

benny

I dont have links, but I know a guy – he is crazy. he is a spiritualist. nice guy but I feel funny when he talks bout that stuff. he doesn’t care a damn about politics. but he is sort of a friend. and he is asian-american. he correctly predicted the 2-term clinton presidency. and although I argued with him like hell for gore, and then for kerry, he predicted the 2-term GWB presidency. I honestly believed that gore had won. I called this guy and told him : man, your predictions are wrong. He asked me to wait and see. well, all I’m saying is that this guy told me that obama has a good chance of winning, and if he does, we wont be having presidential elections in 4 years. that scared the s**t out of me. well, lets see.

lark

I believe Obama has a good chance of winning and there is a good chance the presidential election be suspended for his next term. Why? Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao, etc. Why? Because he will have four good years to conduct research and find out exactly how these people manage to control the police powers of their country to stay in power.

benny

lark, that honestly aint funny. Its the country we are talking about. We aint russia, venezuela or china. but I’ll tell you : its scary.

Zorro Astor

Troll. A lot of psychics continue to predict Hillary will win. Besides: predicting an incumbent will win re-election is not exactly sophisticated predicting.

Troll. Troll trying to demoralise people. Evidently the Obama word is out that they’re in really deep shit again!

benny

zorro, do you understand english? I said spiritualist, not psychic. lol. I bet you dont know the difference. but no more responding to trolls like you. hehehe

Cat in NJ

I’ve posted this one before, but I think it’s worthy of reading again. It’s typical Obullshit:

On June 11, 2002, Obama’s vote sparked a confrontation after he joined Republicans to block Democrats trying to override a veto by GOP Gov. George Ryan of a $2-million allotment for the west Chicago child welfare office.
Shortly afterward, Obama chastised Republicans for their “sanctimony” in claiming that only they had the mettle to make tough choices in a tight budget year. And he called for “responsible budgeting.”
A fellow Democrat suddenly seethed with anger. “You got a lot of nerve to talk about being responsible,” said Sen. Rickey Hendon, accusing Obama of voting to close the child welfare office.
Obama replied right away. “I understand Sen. Hendon’s anger. . . . I was not aware that I had voted no on that last — last piece of legislation,” he said.

30yrdem-not any more

like hell he didn’t …We are in deep s-t if he get sin office..
Zorro Astor

I understand Sen. Hendon’s anger. I was not aware that I had voted no on that last – last piece of legislation.

Oh that’s precious!

benny

McCain, you got to do something, and fast. get negative and cut ohitler down to size. its about time.

debbie

Sure – because independents just love negative attacks. That must be why the dial groups numbers went way down when McCain said Obama “didn’t understand.”

debbie

I haven’t been here for a month or so, and see you’re still here and still deluded.

Love that +8 Gallup for Obama today.

Ever find that whitey tape?

30yrdem-not any more

I suppose you think this is fine..

The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.

http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1
http://deleted YES HRC

Be patient, Deb, the whitey tape is the least of BO’s problem.

debbie

Ha! He’s up by 8 in today’s Gallup and leading in virtually every other poll by 5 or 6. If this is trouble, well, sounds pretty nice.

Lochos Vestu

Ah, this stupid Obamabot from the Taylor Marsh site. Go back and suck Obama’s ass, stupid Obamabot! Pride comes before fall, you Obamabots are going to be history come Nov 5.
rw

Ha! Obama was up in every poll yet Hillary kept winning primary after primary to the point that she won the popular vote….and had the nomination stolen from her. Keep dreaming Debs if you think the polls will make your dream come true…..this is one election your guy will go down BIG….but you keep praying to the polls.

Speak to the people around you, esp. those in line at the supermarket, at the farmers market, at the car wash…that is you poll.

HC

Hi Debbie thanks for coming by.

$50 to McCain, Trollfund at $2100.

debbie

Yeah – Send all your money to him. Better yet, send it to all the losing Republican Senate candidates or to the Palin legal defense fund.

What countries can you see from your house?

Lochos Vestu

I can see the country of losers called Obamaland, where the one-eyed king Phonybama leads stupid blind Obamabots like a whore called debbie.
rw

You just might be geographically illiterate, the farthest tip of Alaska is 2.5 miles from Russia…when I was in Gibraltar, I saw on a daily bases Morocco 13 miles away.

I really wish the Am. educational system would return to drilling the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic.
street_parade

Debbie, sweetie — you can see Russia from Alaska. Get your little map out and lookie. See how close they are darlin’.

And of course, Gov. Palin did not say she could see it from her house, that was a sketch on a TV show, pumpkin – not real life.

You do understand the difference between real life and a TV show, don’t you tootsie pop?

Now you need to get back to your work for the Democratic ladies auxiliary, and iron Barack’s shirts. Okay honeypot?

pasmalltowngirl

Well , talking about “pea” brains. Anyone with more than a “pea” brain knows that there is a “WHITEY” tape. Bob Beckel almost shit himself when he admitted that there was a “Whitey” tape. John McCain is the reason why it has not been released. John McCain is a man of integrity and is not going to permit that tape to be released unless he feels it is absolutely necessary. John McCain will slowly destroy Obama without using a tape of Michelle spewing hate. We all know who Michelle is, we don’t need a tape to prove it, we have already heard her un-American comments.

Francis

John McCain is a man of integrity and is not going to permit that tape to be released unless he feels it is absolutely necessary.

So are you saying this “man of integrity” would only allow the release of the tape if it suits his political needs?

Nice logic.
toni

News Flash: We need anything and everthing to be put out. BHO and his mob are gangsters and will stop at nothing to win the presidency.

Zorro Astor

You still twisting your knickers?

BTW there’s only one explanation for the sudden onslaught of ‘Teens for Obama’ in here today. The word must have got out that the ACORN shit hit Obama in his ugly face!

pasmalltowngirl

LMAO. They afraid they aren’t going to get any more money to buy their crack.

MMI

I am listening to Gregg. If these assets cannot be valued, how does the government know what price to pay these corrupt, incompetent, failing institutions for these bad debts, I mean bad assets?

Were these bad institutions just saying that these bad debts could not be valued because the market was offering them a price that is lower than what they think they can get from government?
MMI

Is the proposed plan online yet for us to see. I don’t want to hear the spin from these politicians.
moi61537

I used to think he was lying, but after seeing how much money he has taken from Countrywide, Lehman Brothers and Fannie Mae, I think he is correct. Mr. O functions, when he is there, as the on-site supervisor/lobbyist for those companies contributing heavily to him. Kind of like an internal lobbyist or the enforcer in shake downs for protection money. Remember, he’s from Chicago.

Zorro Astor

Remember, he’s from Chicago.

That’s hard to forget!

Jackie

Yes he’s from Chicago where the Machine is still running,not to mention the crime rate.

http://chriss chris

And they are the masters of lying, deceit, and dirty campaigning. Obama has learned all of that very well and is applying it in his campaign to the letter. His lies are constant now and no one is calling him out. If they do, they are shot down by the MSM. What’s the old saying: A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth in people’s minds? Now even when McCain tries to fight the lies, he looks like he is the one lying. It is truly a frightening manipulation of the American public aided and abetted by the media. We need a major issue to change this tactic. Time is of the essence now in my opinion. The OB people will keep applying this pressure until someone makes them stop.

Francis

I haven’t seen any posts recently on here about how Palin is more qualified than Obama. Why is that? After watching her interview w/ CBS, it is so obvious she is.

And oh yeah, where’s the whitey tape? Now would be a good time to release it. McCain is slipping in the polls. What is Rick Davis waiting for?

How about the fake COLB? Techdude needs to publish those results, pronto. This thing is going to get out of hand. Why is McCain sitting on this?

Where’s Larry Sinclair???? Limo…crack…BJ

Aaarrrggggghhhhhhh!

moi61537

That was kind of cute. Thanks for the chuckle.
Zorro Astor

Did Obama say this?

What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe. Every thought and every idea, every doctrine and all knowledge, must serve this purpose. And everything must be examined from this point of view and used or rejected according to its utility.

He could have. It certainly applies in everything he and his friends do. But if he ever said this he certainly wasn’t the first.

That, dear trolls, is what is known as a HISTORY LESSON.

Francis

He could have.

But he didn’t. Adolf Hitler did (interesting you had a Hilter quote at the ready).

Thanks for the “history lesson” but what is your point?

http://www.missmalevolent.com Miss Malevolent

The spinning of the poll numbers is ridiculous on all sides.

When Obama is up, Obama acolytes start cooing about how fantastic those numbers are, when they’re down, they say it’s nothing.

No one has contacted me or my friends…

Besides, everyone knows there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

I don’t have any illusions that Obama COULD win in November, but given they’re splitting HALF the vote, and this is a Republican coming on the heels of Bush Jr.? Half isn’t good enough.

debbie

Take a stats class sometime and learn something about sampling theory. Try knowledge – it’s good!

Zorro Astor

‘Knowledge’ is a NINE LETTER WORD. It may be too much for their likes.
rw

Yeah, but if YOU did take the class you’d know damn well how ‘random polling’ is manipulated, idiot.
street_parade

Try geography pussycat, it’s better.

Russia > Alaska – a couple of miles apart.

http://www.missmalevolent.com Miss Malevolent

Debbie, unless you’re the one taking the sample, you don’t know if they over sampled, African-Americans, Democrats, or what.

You’re just repeating propagandized garbage because using rational thought would be too much of a chore.

You’re the type that believed in WMD. Because the media told you too…just like the media is telling you what a “stand up guy” Barack is.

Please, don’t talk to me about knowledge when it’s obvious you’re deficient in it.
benny

lol, do you know how many presidential elections I’ve seen? I’ve seen the same confidence with dukakis, gore and kerry. the obamacrats really think that they’ll win. oh, how many times have I seen the same thing. except with clinton – he really got hold of the rural voters, or whats known as the reagan democrats. because of the polls, the obamacrats are confident. reminds me of Gore and Kerry.
Hank

Another lie from BO, he is saying that the revised bailout has items on it that he wanted included the very same day that Treasury Paulson released his.

Didn’t he say he would wait until he reviewed the bailout first.

Why is the MSM allowing the BO camp to say that McCain never mentioned the middle class during the debate. He did use the word Mainstream which what BO also uses.

I’m so glad FoxNews is constantly talking about ACORN. Voter Fraud now being investigated in NM, no shit Bill Richardson is the Govenor. They are also investigating it in WI.

voterfraud@foxnews.com
Let’s continue emailing them, they want to hear from us.

30yrdem-not any more

didn’t see that you had it up..

http://www.missmalevolent.com Miss Malevolent

I think that’s why they really have a lot of Clinton hate, Benny. Cause he was supposed to lose.

Their anointed and appointed candidates all lost,while this “hick” won.

This is why they can’t stand them.

I swear I don’t understand why so many of them don’t drown when it rains with their noses that turned up in the air.
30yrdem-not any more

to report voter fraud in your state.

voterfraud@foxnews.com
benny

This new ad is hilarious……really hits obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-K7JwwV0U

wodiej

wow…that one is really good!!
Zorro Astor

Yeah especially the gaffes were really cool. What a dimwit Obama is! He couldn’t have made it through Columbia and Harvard without cheating! All he really has is a baritone and calculated delivery – that unfortunately too many people like myself find annoying.

As Forrest Gump probably said: stupid is as stupid does. Obama is stupid; therefore his approach to people is stupid and he assumes others are as stupid as he is.

And that’s why his teleprompter speeches sound so stupid. They’re crafted by and with Mr Stupid for people he thinks are as stupid as he is.

EyesOpen

SusanUnPC, I’m pondering this post and have a different conclusion. American Thinker has a fascinating article out today called Obama and the Manufactured Crisis. Basically stating that Obama’s network could have set in motion the banking / credit crisis we are now in. This would require a complicit Banking Subcommittee.
So these gaffes Obama makes, they are so out in left field I believe there is some truth to them. Like the 57 states – I believe this was no mere slip of the tongue I believe a critical reference point for him is the Nation of Islam with 57 states. In this instance, Chairing the Banking Committee, perhaps he was sooo close to the activities of Dodd, pulling strings behind the scenes, that he felt like he was running the committee.
Betty

Couldn’t be that you are missing something here, could there?

Chris Dodd takes his orders from ACORN and ACORN takes its orders from Obama?

So is the Banking Committee, which is vital to ACORN, has been overseen by Obama so much that he really feels as though the committee is his, and that is what that strange slip up was revealing?
BJ

PLEASE someone get this info directly to Obambi-bots Chris Matthews, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and ask them DIRECTLY to comment on this stuff

ON AIR!
http://www.robdiego.com Rob Diego

Maybe he just got confused. Perhaps it is ACORN’s banking committee that he chairs…the committee that shakes down banks and mortgage companies so they will loosen their lending standards…you know, the committee that caused our financial crisis.
Jackie

CHECK OUT ACORN,THE LIBERAL NEWS WON’T.