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By SusanUnPC on October 11, 2008 at 3:05 PM in Open Thread

Chomp on these bones:

“McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie

Meanwhile, the “paper of record,” which you’d think would hire the world’s best columnists, has these op-eds coming in its Sunday edition:

  • FRANK RICH: Fire stoked by McCain/Palin raging out of control…

  • MAUREEN DOWD: McCain/Palin rouse the mob against Obama…

Those columns will certainly educate us, won’t they.

What else is going on in the world?

  • cruz

    add what ga. dem said today also

    • http://www.deathofthedemocraticparty.com xax

      what did they say?

    • red_sleeves

      Happy Che’s Dead Day!

      Boliva, Oct.9, 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. The executioner was executed.

      Tengo una remera del Che y no se por que.

  • Cooper

    OCTOBER SURPRISE IS HERE!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

    • RM

      This video is wonderful. This should be shown everywhere! I don’t know how to do that, but I sent it in an e-mail to relatives. Thanks so much, I had been wondering how the lawsuit was moving along.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE Woman Voter

        FACT CHECK dot ORG
        is run by the Annenberg Foundation?

  • http://www.deathofthedemocraticparty.com xax

    And from now on the McCain team should build a mini fire in the middle of the stage.

  • pm317

    Susan, I don ‘t have a link for this but did you hear about Ohio? Brunner worse than Harris?

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge’s order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.

    Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

    “With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio,” the majority said in its opinion. “The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court’s order is equally clear.”

    • AnninCA

      That makes sense to me. It seemed like a completely impossible task she was given.

      She’s just carrying out Ohio’s bad registration laws.

      • pm317

        No, that is not true. She was the one who came up with the “one stop vote” with same day registration and a ballot. She is not releasing the SSN or the DMV info to the election boards to enforce registration verification. Where is your outrage?

        • AnninCA

          I presumed this was a state law.

    • red_sleeves

      PA,too.

      “A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is “not confident we can get a fair election” in the state come November.”

      http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=14034

      • Irish1139

        I don’t want a president who does this either. I wish someone would arrest him. Obama should be arrested for what he did in the primaries.

    • NoTrollZone

      Brunner is our dem version of Harris. Another reason to be glad I’m an indy now.

      She is the ______ who rejected all the McCain
      requests for absentee ballots due to a box– a box unrequired by law– not being checked by some of voters. The courts overruled her on that little bit of cuteness as well.

      I hope this gets to the SCOTUS immediately– as it should.

      This is disgusting partisan behavior. She should be both fired and disbarred. “officer of the court”- my ass.

    • Newly Independent

      Damn.

      I was optimistic that the U.S. Appellate court would make the Ohio SOS accountable for likely voter fraud there. Guess I was wrong.

      Many of the Democrats have become just as rotten as many Republicans.

  • Sarracuda In So Cal

    You know what is gonna happen, all these states that are involved in Voter fraud, when the election is over, its gonna be in the supreme court and every single vote will have to be checked to identify the person who voted and McCain will end up winning. Dead people, cats, dogs, children, felons, people voting 100 times for Obama CANNOT VOTE, no wonder Obama thinks he won, when you have people voting over 100 times for you of course u won

    • Docelder

      Or what if these states are invalidated? In the interim… neither candidate may have the 270 votes. In that case the House of Representatives votes for President… each state gets one vote.

  • ford

    Is Berg a crack pot???

    I think he might be a tinge nutty…

    The government needs to be investigating all this stuff…why depend on the media??

    Isn’t the FBI suppose to do some of this work, if there is a question?

    I love the Dowd “Camp Fire”..and Rich is such a schmuck….if you don’t support Odingbama you are a mob of crackpots!!! It’s funny, and sad.

    • Ann Arbor for Palin

      Ford,

      Berg is a lawyer. Just like other 1 million lawyers in this country, Berg has taken the oath to protect the US Constitution. Filing the suit is exactly what a lawyer should do. I admire him. I respect him.

      • http://mcnorman.wordpress.com mcnorman

        Unlike Obama that IS a constitutional lawyer. LOL and defends his image ONLY.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          Oblockhead is no Contitutional scholar no matter how much he might protest to the contrary since he seems to know nothing about Article 2.

          • http://mcnorman.wordpress.com mcnorman

            we’re in complete agreement

      • latina

        Any doubts about Berg, you can check this website

        http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-is-barack-obama.html

    • tellthetruth

      Berg has done a lot of work that unfortunately no one else has done, and many are refusing to address.

      Should be easy answers that Berg asks:
      http://quipster.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/56-questions-obama-refuses-to-answer-about-citizenship/

  • imustprotest

    Video interviewing Phil Berg on his lawsuit.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w

  • ford

    Should I start to invest in torches and lamo oil???

    • Docelder

      Ammo. While it is still widely available. “Fly over” America and all the “bitter” folk who reside there are our last line of defense. ;)

      • Docelder

        Don’t buy ammo with a bank card either… get out the cash and buy ammo with cash.

      • NoBamaNoWay

        i don’t know; we’re pretty mild-mannered out here; i don’t even know if most people here (western SD) would resist if the Obama brownshirts invaded.

  • AnninCA

    This meme is ridiculous, given Obama’s crowd was equally nasty according to reports today.

    I’ll be glad when this is over. Nasty business, politics!

    • tzada

      Never seen it this nasty. People voting for McCain are scared. Afraid for the country and the vileness of Obama supporters.

      I just spent a few hours making campaign calls and that is what people are telling me. Only 1 house for Obama and the rest I spoke to all the way McCain/Palin

      • AnninCA

        Good that people are having a chance to express that.

        I don’t think stuffing the reality of how this has affected people is at all healthy.

        Leads to backlash, bigtime.

      • Ani

        Not to invade privacy in any way- – may I ask what general area of the country you are in?

  • camille

    I’d still like to know where the October surprises as so promised are. This is a respectful question.

    • Shiloh

      One of them is in a bank deposit box in Arlington, VA. Or when you say where are they do you mean why haven’t they been released yet? The answer to that is – there is a decision on when is best and “when” isn’t here yet.

      • camille

        So I was told via emails that i have from Eastan that the polls would never be allowed to sink this far and drop drop drop the bombs would be released as much as needed.

        I am just not seeing this at all. Again. this is a respectful question regarding promises that were made and spread around a multitude of blogs and via email.

        • tzada

          No camille you are not being respectful. I have seen your other posts. I am answering you this time just to let people know what you are and who your friends are.

    • hadenough

      It’s too early. More than 3 weeks until the election. Patients.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      Patience, dung-beetle

      • camille

        eastan is not answering the question, that about says it all. i asked it in a reasonable way.

        • imustprotest

          Is eastan here?

        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

          Camille. Bear in mind three things.

          no major bombs will be dropped before october 15

          the Polls are being propped by significantly larger democrat sampling than republican so that 10 point lead is in all likelyhood erronious

          Many comapign operatives believe that The last 72 hours of the election cycle will be crucial.

          • Annie Oakley

            The last 72 hours? I hope these campaign operatives remember how GWB’s drunk driving arrest was used by the media against the Dems partly because it came SO late.

            • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

              Patience…young Padawan…all in good time.

              Barack Omerica’s CHICKENS

              ARE COMING HOME

              TO ROOST!

  • Seattle Moss

    So they want to call us the mob…
    I prefer to call it

    The Great Bitter Backlash!!!

  • Annie Oakley

    I guess blaming us for not being down with what Obama and the media have in mind for us makes us a “mob.” A little self-serving for the media as blaming us for caring about our future also distracts from the extreme bias they’ve shown again. I object to the NYT of WMD fame telling me I don’t have the right to have my opinions heard as well.

    I object to their assumption that they should pick our president.
    I object to their race baiting.
    I object to their bigotry against the people of the fly-overstates.

    Again, I ask, why point the finger at McCain/Palin? Is St. Obama responsible for the fires he has stoked? Is the media responsible for their cockeyed reporting when it comes to questioning the candidate they have so obviously ordained? Would those highfalutin big city bloviators care to look at the way they have orchestrated their very own mob in our public square?

    • AnninCA

      Well, it’s just the liberal pundits yakking. I don’t take Dowd seriously or Rich. They are very predictable.

      They make a living off of writing gutter stories.

      • beebop

        The two of them are going to be wrong and their careers will look like the brackish toilets they are. I don’t mind their having an OPINION but smearing me and those like me who are enttled to a difference of opinion is BULLSHIT!

        • AnninCA

          You know, beebop….the creepy part of our lives is that it won’t matter.

          They’ll have some nutty rationalization about how wrong they were.

          Ditto for the polls.

          Nothing really is held accountable today.

          That’s the truly consistent part of the them of our lives.

          No accountability for the past choices.

          Look at McCain. He took responsibility in the Keating affair. He was exonerated, but he went further. He apologized for even being involved.

          Does anyone today give him credit?

          No.

          I think a basic value has been dropped, and I think, frankly, my generation may be responsible.

          We so hated guilt that we removed it all. Guilt is an OK thing if it’s for true acts we’ve committed.

          It’s OK to make amends.

          It’s not the same as sliming someone forever in shame.

          Shame is different than true guilt.

          Oh well, I just think that all of these “names”
          will go forth. Andrew Sullivan still gets paid, for gosh sakes, and it’s clear to everyone he’s a nutcase at this point.

    • Tversky

      One thing I’ve learned during this campaign is that Obama is not responsible for ANYTHING.
      He’s not responsible for failing to attract working class, older and Hispanic Dems during the primary. The problem was that these Dems are racist.
      He’s not responsible for failing to get the committment of Hillary voters before the convention. That was Hillary and Bill’s fault.
      He’s not responsible for the hateful race baiting and viciousness of his supporters. However, clearly Hillary, McCain and Palin are responsible for every boneheaded thing they’re supporters spew.

      I would be so offended by the paternalistic and patronizing way the mainstream media (and many of Obama’s suppoters even)treat Obama. They act like he’s some kind of hothouse flower that can never be held responsible for anything and that shoudl be virulently protected from all the evil people trying to stop him from realizing his destiny. One thing these idiots don’t get is that they’re making an Obama win less legitamite with this type of crap. Many people are going to feel the playing field wasn’t even and Obama is merely the most egregious abuse of affirmative action this country has even seen. These idiots are actually making it TOUGHER for Obama to gain the type of respect he’s going to need to govern (recall Bush in 2000). I say treat him like every other candidate. Stop being so overprotective. If he makes it then he’ll earn the respect he needs. Otherwise, they’re setting him up for failure on alot of fronts.

      • imustprotest

        Obama is a hothouse flower. He’s a narcissist.

        • Irish1139

          Obama is a [Deleted by Admin].

          • beebop

            Please don’t compliment him! He’s nothing like a pussy. He’s a small, insignificant, lying, self indulgent, non-principled, lying, bigoted, ignorant, self-besotted, Chicago style politician with nothing to offer the American people.

      • AnninCA

        Well, I suppose I could bite my tongue if my payoff was going to be the first AA president in history. *haha

        He knows what’s what. He’s not as brilliant as many think, but he’s no dummie, either.

        He knows this is as racist as anything.

  • MRS.MCMAD

    I’m not sure about this bomb thing anymore either. I mean, I would think that Ayers, the birth certificate, the Hannity show with all of the Wright, Pfleger, Khalidi, Al Monsour, Rezko, whatever stuff would do it. Nope. I think what is wrong is that Obama has really brought out the worst this country has to offer. I know what some of the bombs are supposed to be. One was apparently a video that would put this Muslim question to rest and confirm that he is indeed one. But I don’t think the idiots voting for him consider that a negative. I believe the whitey tape exists and I am thrilled about the person who supposedly owns it. If that part is true it’s brilliance.

  • SlowBurn

    maybe if we make enough noise they (the msm) will do thir job and vet the traitor and coward obama!

    McCain/Palin 2008

    • Ferd McBerfle

      The cone of ignorance which envelops the MSM is impenetrable by reason or cogent argument.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

        Its worse than ignorance: they willfully propagandize for a political candidate.

        • Ferd McBerfle

          Agreed-that they do. My basic point was that reason and sound argument don’t work against those who are in the tank sewer for Oblockhead.

          • Irish1139

            I wonder how they (MSNBC, CNN pundits) sleep at night. They blatantly lie and report those lies as if it was news. How do they look at themselves in the mirror?

            • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

              Money is indeed the root of all evils. Well, add overly inflated egos to that somewhere.

              • imustprotest

                They can’t look at themselves in the mirror Irish, they have no reflection.

                • Ferd McBerfle

                  Or they do but break a lot of mirrors.

  • OCTOBER SURPRISE

    watch 11 minutes of interesting video raising a slew of questions for Obama, in fact cornering him, on the question of his birth, citizenship, and eligibility for office as POTUS under the Constitution. Especially if people start talking about the video. It’s called viral distribution. A friend emails an Obama-supporting friend and dares him or her to watch.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

  • Dr Felter

    See BREAKING news at
    http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/

    Obama will NOT be President.

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      Be careful! Fake documents could be released to then be discredited. Remember Dan Rather? There were obvious flaws to the documents that a novice would have spotted. Word to the wise: don’t put all your eggs in one basket!

  • Jim S

    This is old (2003) article and it’s long but for those looking to find more about ACORN, this does it.

    http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html

  • Tversky

    The way the media amps up the whole “McCain and Palin are inciting violence against Obama” crap you’d think those idiots almost WANT something to go down. (I had the unpopular opinion during the primaries that Hillary was most at risk of violence because the Obamanuts were so vicious toward her. I feel the same away about Palin. They HATE her. Even more than they hate McCain and ALMOST as much as they hate Bush.) The truth is, this is just another attempt to shame people into never questioning or criticising Obama. One of my biggest concerns about an Obama presidency is the politically correct thought police. I’m shocked that people like David Gergen actually say crap like the McCain-Paris Hilton ad has secret race code words with a straight face. When is someone going to have the balls to challenge this garbage? For example, why do we accept the premise that mentioning Obama’s crazy anti-American preacher is offlimits but attacking Sarah Palin for praying that we are doing God’s will when we went into Iraq (essentially praying that God will tell us if we’re doing the right thing) isn’t? At the very least, when are we going to get our extra special magic race decoder rings so we’ll know what we can and cannot say about our Dear Leader? For the life of me I cannot understand how anyone claiming to be a Libertarian could possibly vote for that man. The politically correct culture of an Obama presidency is going to completely stifle any and all political discourse. Liberal fascism at his “finest”

    • Kal

      Well, then, they may be lining up plants to make sure something awful does happen.

      This is an amazingly dirty crowd.

      • AnninCA

        I think Palin did uncork the bottle, so to speak. She’s pretty good at her job. LOL*

        But I think that McCain was right to rein it back. That kind of talk isn’t appropriate in public.

        I don’t personally want to be anywhere there’s a lot of booing. I never went to the Obama rallies here because of that. Too, too scary. Normal people don’t go to places where angry people are gathering, unless you’re stupid.

        • Tversky

          I don’t think Palin said anything out of bounds. She didn’t uncork the bottle. The biased media and the Obama campaign’s constant charges of racism uncorked the bottle. THEY are pissing people off. Not McCain and Palin. People sense this election isn’t fair and that angers them. People can live with crappy outcomes when they know the process if fair. This process stinks.

          • AnninCA

            By uncorking, I simply means she’s connecting with people.

            People feel at ease with her in a way they don’t with John.

            That’s a good thing.

            It’s also got to be managed.

            They are an excellent team, in my opinion.

            • imustprotest

              You’re right AnninCA people are connecting with Sarah. I went to her rally in Carson,CA and you could feel the good vibes people had for her…they really loved her.

  • MRS.MCMAD

    Comment by Dr Felter | 2008-10-11 15:47:09

    See BREAKING news at
    http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/

    Obama will NOT be President.

    =========================================

    I so pray this is all true. It has to be. Too many people involved and the REAL problem is that Obama REFUSES to address this and/or provide a legit BC. It HAS to be true. God Bless America. Maybe we have been saved.

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

      “Do you know who I am?”

      I might. ;)

  • Lurker

    Is it just me, or has anyone else picked up on the fact that at the John McCain campaign rallies, the folks chant USA, USA…, and at BO rallies the idiots chant Obama, Obama…

    Those brainwashed BO cultists make me want to throw up…

    McCain/Palin

    • NCgirl

      Well, yeah, that is the difference in the crowd that goes to see a patriot and the crowd that goes to see a narcissist.

    • BettsAZ

      Lurker…do you think they will try to force people to chant OSA if the marxist wins?

  • 30yrdem-not any more

    I am mad as hell. Can a person who does not live in the state of Ohio sue Ohio? or sue Brunner?

    http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/appeals-court-sides-ohio-secretary-state/
    Court sets aside federal judge’s order that Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information.

    CINCINNATI – A federal appeals court sided with Ohio’s top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge’s order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.

    Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

    “With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio,” the majority said in its opinion. “The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court’s order is equally clear.”

    On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ordered Brunner to verify new registrations by matching information on them against a database maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. He also ordered her to establish a process by which the county boards can access the information generated by the checks.

    Brunner praised Friday’s decision, saying there are sufficient systems in place to verify new-voter registration.

    “The … Court of Appeals has halted another partisan lawsuit in Ohio,” she said. “Under the Help America Vote Act, this verification process is not and has not been permitted to be used to determine a voter’s eligibility.”

    The orders stemmed from a lawsuit the Ohio Republican Party filed against Brunner, whom Chairman Bob Bennett called “the most partisan secretary of state in Ohio history.”

    “It’s a shame we don’t have transparency in this election. She has done everything she can to help her candidate,” Bennett said. “To not even check the registrations is a travesty of the first class.”

    Bennett said the party’s lawyers would determine its next step, including whether to appeal. A message seeking comment was left late Friday at the office of Bill Todd, a lawyer for the party.

  • Will Smith

    Does Newsweek Really Stand By This Poll?
    Obama winning Democrats, 91 to 5. <–ffs
    http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODIxNWRlOWNiN2Q0MTkxNTU0Yjg2MDY0OWU3M2I2YWE=

    • Irish1139

      Don’t make me laugh. All the democrats I know are voting for McCain.

      • 30yrdem-not any more

        me too…people I have ever talked politics with are dems…voting McCain…

        • red_sleeves

          Try using a Ouija board. You’ll find many more registered voters supporting Obama among that demographic, I suspect.

      • PhxNickD

        I can not say all the democrats that I know are voting McCain but I would say about 20-30% of them are. And I do meet people out there who identify themselves as democrats that are not voting that way. So I would be very skeptical of this poll.

        The one very interesting statistic that has remained a constant though out this year is that ~23% of Hillary supporters are not voting BHO. That single poll has not varied much in the past 9 months.

    • fif

      Newsweek is garbage. I cancelled after the 50th cover of Obama.

  • AnninCA

    Dowd has already been taken to the woodshed by her own editor publicly for her biased articles. Rich is now nothing more than a hack who exaggerates so badly and doesn’t seem to be in touch with reality. Sullivan, another one from the Atlantic, is about on par with blogger writers now who are into tinfoil hat theories.

    This election has done one thing. It sure has separated the wheat from the chaff. I called them pundits. That’s entirely too generous.

  • Postmaster

    I simply cannot understand why Obama doesn’t present his b/c to the court where the lawsuit was filed. How difficult is that? Makes me believe he is hiding something. McCain presented his when the question came up, it was all over the media.

  • Cooper

    EXCELLENT VIDEO

    The Second American Revolution

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFKGrmsBDk

    • red_sleeves

      ooorah

  • AnninCA

    Here’s a tidbit of odd-ball cheerful retail news. Sales for home safes has skyrocketed. LOL*

    Terrible humor, but it’s apparently true. A LOAD of people are buying safes to stockpile some cash, just in case of a complete banking meltdown.

    • 30yrdem-not any more

      good idea…

    • mimi

      That’s not a good thing to be widely circulated.

      This is not the America of the Great Depression. This will likely encourage more home robberies and break-ins.

      I understand people being fearful, but they are really putting themselves at risk, not to mention adding to the financial crisis by taking their money out of banks.

  • KC

    If you are interested in the potential fraud in the Ohio election, you have to listen to this interview with the Secretary of State’s office.

    First, go here:

    http://www.wtam.com/pages/bfrantz.html

    Scroll down until you see “Worried about voter fraud in Ohio?” in the right column. Click on the pic to get the interview.

    The interview is very interesting. But if you want your jaw to drop, fast forward to about 5 min (to stop the FF, click on pause and the click it again to play). You got to hear how this interview ends when the sos guy is asked about the procedures to safeguard against fraud!

    • AnninCA

      I’m in a liberal state. We have no checks on registrations. You can vote on a provisional ballot even if you’re not on the books. And I believe you can register up until 2 weeks prior to the election.

      Hence, many undocumented people can vote.

      How many of them do? Probably not that many. It might still be a bit too scary to try.

      Maybe I’m just more relaxed about this than some. We’ve had this for years.

      It’s not the end of the world.

      Ballot box stuffing has been going on forever. Sometimes it’s the Republicans pulling it. Sometimes it’s the Democrats.

      But I doubt seriously that many elections are truly won or lost due to cheating, in spite of what many people like to think.

      • Zeke

        How many prozac did you take today… and no Merlot!

  • Patriot Forever

    The main stream media has been paid off by socialist billionaires like George Soros to promote Obama. All of Obama’s warts and faults have been ignored or glossed over. Obama is a wishy washy individual being used as a pawn by powerful puppet masters.
    Rezko( a Syrian) is a known crook that has ties to Nahdim Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire and friend of Saddam Hussein. Among his ventures, Auchi used to sell arms to Saddam when Saddam could not buy weapons from other countries.
    Auchi gave Rezko 3 million dollars when Rezko claimed in an affidavit that he was bankrupt and proceeded to buy the lot next to Obama’s home the following week.
    Obama is a crooked politician. Just think, how can a young inexperienced man from New York come to Chicago to be the Chairman of the Board of a group started by Ayers? Obama was responsible for managing 50 million dollars. How could that happen?
    Rezko gave money to start Obama’s campaign. Most of Rezko’s businesses were failures. He had money because Auchi(Saddam’s friend) gave him money all the time. Some reports claim Rezko got from Auchi about 27 million dollars. For what? What was the purpose of that “seed money”?
    If you dumb people vote for Obama we are in trouble. For all we know, this Manchurian candidate is in cahoots with the Kremlin or with Iran.
    Read Rick Moran’s article on Pajamas Media April 2008. Other articles about the Rezko, Auchi and Obama relationship appeared on the Sun Times of Chicago.

    • mimi

      Yours is one of the more intelligent posts. I pretty much came to this conclusion on my own, months ago at the beginning of the Democratic Primary. Just based on my personal research.

      There are just too many coincidences in 0bama’s life. I’m pretty much inconsolable over the way the AA community has been used as pawns in this scenario.

      This has been planned for a long time, even before 9/11.

  • McKatmoon

    There is nothing wrong with that expression either; however you know the media and other swill try to tack a mob mentality to it so they have a reason to come after non o supporters. IF that man wins the election it will be a free for all on non o supporters, and if he loses it will be a free for all on those who didn’t vote for him. It’s a situation leading up to an awful clash between parties, class and race, and it was planned to be this way. IT is a load of horsesh*t to have pitted Americans against each other.

  • Frank

    The PRESS and Obama’s incessant campaign race-baiting memos has stoked this “Blacklash”.

    Many Americans of all colors and political persuasions are sick and tired of being called racist for not supporting Sen. Obama for POTUS.

    The Press is trying too hard to shove him down our throats and they do not treat him the same as other candidates.

    Why can’t we support another candidate? Why can’t we believe that he is not ready, or disagree with his platform or vision, or dislike his associates, or his public service record? Just as some did not agree with Hillary’s platform or think McCain too old.

    Why does the press perpetuate the spin coming straight from the Obama’s campaign? They said Bill Clinton was racist because he called Obama’s Iraq War opposition a fairy tale. They said Hillary was racist because she said Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights bill. Hundreds more attacks of racism were leveled by the campaign and the press against the Clintons and supporters. Now, this continues with McCain/Palin. Hockey mom is a racist term. Questioning associations with radicals is racist.

    McCain/Palin are not stoking this fire. Obama’s campaign and supporters (and sadly, many public officials such as Clyburn) along with the press bear the responsibility for this outrage.

    We are mad as hell. We are watching a Party complicit with voter fraud and election rigging. We are watching the press REFUSE to ask one candidate simple questions. Why the hell should he get a pass?

    There is no excuse. There is a growing angry mob and the longer this charade goes on, the angrier the mob gets.

    To dampen this anger requires that the press stop repeating and amplifying this racist theme. It requires our justice department to do it’s job and monitor election fraud.

    So, anyone in the press have the courage to tell the truth? If not, we all will suffer. Cause this angry mob is now also stressed about the bailout and their financial situation. Volatile mix.

    • AnninCA

      I agree. I think the writers in the papers and then, by de facto, the talking heads who really aren’t journalists per se, just found the topic too juicy to avoid.

      I read all the major editorials. What struck me was how very superficial most of them were. I realized after about editorial number 15 that these are people who have never actually lived in areas or known real “racists.” LOL* That sounds goofy, I guess.

      But I have.

      This is a far more complex dynamic than people think.

      What is more in line with the type of racism that they think exists is really like……skinheads. Now, there you combine testosterone, anger, peer group pressure, violence, shake it up…..and you get bona fide racist acts and gay murders, etc. Or by the flip side of the same coin, the ganging up on another race.

      That’s the kind of mentality they seem to think exists everywhere, minus the baseball bats and the KKK hats these days.

      That’s pretty far-fetched, actually.

      My own experience with racism is that it is just about stereotyping people today. And that’s going on within the youth about the McCain/Palin supporters just as assuredly as it is happening in the reverse.

      So …. racism is alive and well, but not like most of the Washington insider writers are documenting.

      They can’t help it. They lead such yuppie East Coast lives. What in the world do they even know about such things?

      That’s why they were attracted to the topic, too. It was “exotic” to them.

      Then they can tack on a sentence about how this is relevant due to the Bradley effect and turn it in as political writing.

      It really isn’t. It really is more about them playing at their own desire to give a great “race speech.”

  • Docelder

    2001 Northwestern Chronicle article NU alumni wanted Dohrn gone after Sept. 11.

    Medill Prof. Donna Leff pleaded in the Daily Northwestern that angry alums “call [Dohrn] and ask if she currently advocates violence,”

    http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=193

  • fif

    Re: Rich & Dowd. They (+ Bob Herbert) are the exact reason I stopped reading the Times in February. They are toxic propagandists. The irony is: WHO is whipping people into a hostile mob? How about Dowd, Rich & the rest of the MSM? I notice they weren’t complaining when Obama was playing “99 problems and a b*tch ain’t one” at his rallies, or when the Obot Army was savaging everyone on the internet for months. They will use any and all means to force this election, including race and riot baiting. Disgusting and shameless.

    • vee

      I also quit reading the NYT about the same period of time. What the Obama campaign has done without anyone complaining about the harm they are doing compared to any other campaign is another instance of media hypocrisy.

      • mimi

        I also stopped reading the NYTimes, ages ago.

        Interesting to me is how they are doing financially? How are they staying afloat? Have the Botheads started reading their paper??

        How are these people staying in business?

        They are getting an infusion of capital from somewhere.

        That in and of itself should tell us something.

  • IndieDogg

    This race firestorm is distracting. And expected. And, think about it, who does it benefit. If a band of racists are not going to vote for Obama solely, then they’re not going to vote for him. Stiring up racial fires does nothing to help McCain/Palin. Rather, it helps mobilize the other side to indignation and, I suppose they hope, an uprising against the forces of evil aligned against them.

    Whatever they need. But it’s not coming from anything John McCain or Sarah Palin have ever said.

    Are there people not voting for Obama because he’s 6 or 7% Black, sure. Are there racists in the Obama camp who are still stuck in the 1800′s and calling for the damnation of the white man and killing of the Jews? Sure. You want to talk racism? When you’ve got Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Pfleger on your side of the ledger, you can’t cast too many stones. But, cast they will, to stir this up.

    The GA Congressman is John Lewis (whose claim to fame is marching with MLK, Jr. in Alabama — he goes back that far and is/was a respected civil rights leader). He is also the former Hillary Clinton supporter who switched on her at the last minute when Obama’s people played the “race card” with him and read him the riot act. He dumped Hillary (as Bill Richardson did) because he had his arm twisted. Lost a lot of respect in the process but solidified his “base” I guess.

    As reported at the start of this race (the primaries), Hillary Clinton had an advantage among African-American voters of 34 points (52%-48%). And it was still significant until South Carolina. Bill Clinton did not play the infamous “race card” — they had nothing to gain from it. But the other side did. You want to talk about bias and discrimination, is there any doubt out there that, if Hillary Clinton had been a man, she’d be the Democratic nominee today and well on her way to being elected President? That’s the unholy firestorm that’s been unleashed in this campaign, against first HRC and now against Governor Palin. It’s unprecedented, ugly and indefensible.

    So, at the very least, if we want to talk about bias an discrimination, we should talk about it across the board. A few months ago, on the always entertaining if somewhat nutty Bill Maher show, someone brought up a study that had just been done on voters which showed that the level of sexism in this country was significantly higher than the level of racism. The response? On to the next topic. Totally jumped over it and dismissed it because it didn’t fit in with the “PC Rant of the Day” which was the terrible problem of some people, apparently a lot of people, who weren’t going to vote for Barack Obama. As if there had to be something wrong. Who wouldn’t vote for him normally, as wonderfully as he turned a phrase. It was considered outrageous and immediately attributed to racism. Baloney.

    Barack Obama is a neophyte U.S. Senator with no resume. No record of significant accomplishment either as a part-time Illinois legislator or as a U.S. Senator. As the WSJ pointed out immediately after the DNC convention, Barack Obama may be the least qualified candidate for President in the history of this country.

    I’ve always liked John McCain, particularly because he seemed to have a mind of his own and bucked his own party when he felt it was right.

    If anybody expects me to apologize for voting for him and for the pit bull, it ain’t gonna happen.

    And, you’re welcome to call me whatever you need to call me to rationalize for yourself the fact that you have a flawed and unprepared candidate on your hands. That is NOT my problem.

    • AnninCA

      The last half of your post pretty much sums up my attitude.

      I don’t care if they think I’ve got horns. *haha

    • mimi

      IndieDogg,

      You nailed it!

      0bama’s shameful/shameless, irresponsible playing of the race card is the reason I, an AA, am not voting for him as well as his lack of solid qualifications and experience.

      They may not be able to call me a racist, but they have other names for me and frankly, I could care less.

      He will not get my vote. I will not reward the Democratic Party for giving us this useless candidate.

      One thing I will say 0bama accomplished, he changed my life. I will be ‘Unafiliated’ on Election Day after being a loyal Dem for years. I no longer tune into cable news daily, read the crappy papers, or watch network news. I no longer take the American Press seriously. They are a bunch of errand boys/hacks. The msm is dead to me!

      And frankly, I’m happy about the whole thing.

  • Anon

    If you think the racist thing is hot now, just wait until Dictator OBama takes over and if you look at him crooked you will be racist. Only, by then, there may be serious ramifications for being racist.

  • http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ The Robot

    Fitting the Obama logo so closely resembles that of the infamous Weathermen. Ayers must be laughing his ass off.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Weather_Underground_logo.jpg

    • mimi

      This is what I’m talking about. All of these coincidences.

      There are just too many with 0bama.

      It’s downright ridiculous.

  • jbjd

    Please recall that when John McCain was asked at Saddleback, who were the 3 wisest people he knows, whom he would rely on in his administration, he named Representative John Lewis, citing his civil rights history, including the beating he endured at the Petus Bridge; and his “optimistic outlook about America.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehu-U_LCqQ

  • AndyP

    Once again, Camille, drop it. You are just trying to agitate. Kal, I agree with you that Camille has done a lot of good for PUMA but I don’t understand her need to belittle Eastan. Eastan thought he had something (and he did). He came up with information but it didn’t pan out the way he wanted or the way I wanted, or the way you wanted so get over it. You are not 6 years old. Don’t you have something better to do? Blog all you want, but why the grudge?

  • kgirl1028

    I hope one of those stoked mobs comes and visits Maureen Dowd personally, I want to see her pee her pants, she has been down right irritating this entire election process. I’m not saying hurt her, but definately give her freedom of the press, i don’t know what too say cause i’m a rude behind b*tch and have a crush on barack obama ass something to think about.

  • Destini

    Obama on video inviting ACORN to help shape his presidential agenda during the transition and the first 100 days.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

    This needs to be everywhere…now. I believe this might take him how, Acorn that is.

  • Deb

    Have you all seen this?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

    Obama telling supporters that community organizations (ACORN for one) will help him “shape the agenda” for his presidency…

  • abc1 23

    This great link sends a pre-formed letter to your local congressman and state representatives aslking them to avoid the Constitutional crisis that would occur if Obama is not qualified under the constitution to become President.

    All you have to do is give an email and a zip code and it does the rest. Let’s force them to recognize this issue! Obama does not appear to meet the Consititutional requirements of President — if he did, why wouldn’t he simply produce his birth certificate in the lawsuit that has been filed against him by a Democrat fundraiser??? [go to http://www.obamacrimes.com for information and updates on the Berg lawsuit]

    Send your letters at:
    http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis/

  • prose34

    Even the New York Times is astro-turfing for Obama campaign! Well, looks like Obama campaign has planned some riots and then blame Mccain/Palin for that! God help us all this coul get real ugly.

  • imustprotest

    Sure you are….god these trolls are really stupid.

  • hadenough

    patience you mean?

    OK we’ll spell it your way.

  • PhxNickD

    camille I agree with you but we need to wait this out. when i first heard about the “whitey tape” (on here) I always assumed it would come out days before the election. America, as a whole, has a very short attention span, I suspect much more to be released that last week also. Anything that gets released earlier will be spun a hundred different ways and then forgotten about. We need to be talking about the Whitey tape as we are walking to the polls. I also suspect Rev Wright to make an appearance and the biter gun and religion clinging statements. Those issues to go to the core of who we are as an American people but right now we have seem to have forgotten about them

    If Larry Johnson pulled a fast one on us, then he is as guilty as the MSM we have been complaining about. I am willing to wait before I make any judgements.

  • AnninCA

    Accountability? I’m confused.

    I would probably NOT vote for McCain if any racial tape is exposed at this point.

    It’s inflammatory, dangerous, and would harm way too many people.

    Beat Obama on basic judgment issues and on policy, or don’t beat him.

    But that other stuff is too incendiary.

    Responsible politicians don’t play that way.

  • Kal

    Camille is NOT a troll. She is one of the original tried and true Hillary supporters and PUMAs. Please answer her question with respect, and please treat her with respect. She has done a lot for the PUMA/Hillary blogging movement — much more than most of us.

  • camille

    yes, i understand that. i am just asking why eastan promised all these bombs that would be dropped. i am not questioning whether it is a good idea or not. the accountability i am asking for is regarding those who tried to make a splash by saying the gop has the goods on obama and would use them at the right time, drop by drop, and not to worry, it’s in the bag.

    i am interested in hearing out in the open what eastan has to say about that now. he drops hints and sends emails and writes posts that lead people about, but i’d just like a straightforward explanation about where he stands now, after all these promises.

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

    Obama has proven to be the biggest racist in the election. The only racism I see comes from him with his false accusations of racism left and right, threat of race riots if he is not elected and then there is that little thing of his “friend, mentor and pastor.” I am holding Obama accountable for what his surrogates say when Obama does not condemn what they say. Only a fool would believe Obama is unaware of the racism coming from his own people. Mac is no more racist than the Clinton’s, and they were falsely accused of being racists. False accusations of racism are a form of racism.

  • tzada

    No that is BS and you should know it.

    The racist accusations are slung at us no matter what.. The American people have the right to know how a president and his wife regard the majority of the voters.

    We already know they are racist themselves after the church they attended for 20 years. I want to vomit every time I see or hear from them.

  • NoTrollZone

    god, naive much?

  • AnninCA

    I hate to sound prissy, but two wrongs don’t make a right. :)

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion

    I don’t see any racism coming from Mac. I see people making it up.

  • imustprotest

    Agreed. The MSM and Camp Obama (same thing) are stoking these fires, not McCain.

  • AnninCA

    Neither do I, nor from Palin, which is why they have my support.

  • AnninCA

    It IS quite possible that both are true.

    One, it exists.
    Two, it’s not worth the consequences to run it.

    Backlash is real. That might be the final straw for the country. Really.

    Frankly, I don’t think Michelle making some asinine liberal statement when she was younger is really all that far-fetched or relevant.

    She’s clearly willing to conform at this point.

    We have to be careful, in my opinion, to allow AA politicians their own path.

    What is important to me is who are they today?

    I’m still not impressed with how Obama lies. That really, really bothers me.

  • PhxNickD

    Backlash is real. That might be the final straw for the country. Really.

    I would rather deal with the backlash then have her as first lady. A 527 can run the tape, McCain doesn’t have to

  • http://investigatebarackobama.blogspot.com/ kat in your hat

    camille, so why aren’t you emailing him?

    Meanwhile, what are you talking about? Haven’t you been paying attention to the news? Bill Ayers and ACORN finally became mainstream. We have a few weeks left.

    Obots in the media desperately want to avoid talking about Ayers and ACORN. They want to talk about the economic crisis they helped create to help them win.

    But negative ads have been proven to work. There are a great deal of people who will now not vote for O because of Ayers and this ACORN scandal.

    camille, we are political junkies and we already know all this stuff. Others don’t. Believe me, it’s like dropping bombs.

  • AnninCA

    I am probably just more of a rebel than you.

    I couldn’t care less if they think I’m a racist.

    I’ve been independent and probably a wee bit stubborn my entire life.

    I’m not changing. :)

  • AnninCA

    That’s too bad. I disagree.

    Principles before personalities, I guess.

    How you win is important to me.

  • OhioMary

    I don’t think releasing the white tape is a matter of principle. I think it should be released so the public is informed about how the Obama’s really feel. I still agree with Rev Wright when he said that Obama has to say what he has to say to his public and he (Rev Wright) has to say what he has to say to his congregation. I do believe that he was speaking the truth. Obama will say and do anything to get elected. He does not reveal his past because he knows no one in their right mind would vote for him if he did. The glimpses we get of him that are even now not being reported are scary. If the whitey tape reveals the character of He and Mechelle than so be it.

  • beebop

    Releasing the truth? I don’t want there to be ANY OPPORTUNITY at all that those two have ANY CHANCE to invade the White House. If it riles up their base, so be it. They started this BS and they will live with the freaking consequences of the dangerous path of screaming RACISM RACISM RACISM where there was NONE!!!!!

  • mimi

    Ordinarily, I would agree.

    But when you are playing with a cheater, then you have to play rough.

    0bama’s a cheater.

    You can’t play fair with him.

  • AnninCA

    I disagree and always have on this issue. Michelle is not Obama, for one. I’m not that sexist. She gets her own identity in my world.

    Second, I think she’s a bit of an emotional thinker. She never pictured herself in the role of first lady. Therefore, she was probably a lot more outspoken in her youth.

    So I never have thought it was relevant to today.

    What’s relevant to me, thankfully, is exactly John’s point. It’s the lying that bothers me.

  • AnninCA

    We disagree.

    I think there are tactics that are far too damaging.

    Playing the race card?

    Not principled. Not right. And not wise.

    I think he’d lose big-time doing so, just as a practical aside.

    He would definitely lose my vote.

  • Zeke

    A nice, open minded approach which totally disregards the fact that SHE went to that damned church for twenty years too! SHE sat there and swallowed that vile racist shit just the same as her worthless husband.
    To suppose anything other than that alpha female whipping her child/husband around the pony ring like a trained Lipazanner is ridiculous. She was working for Dohrn, the bomber when she met Obama.
    To think she isn’t up to her ass in this is sheer nonsense.