Our Server Transition * Open Thread

Thanks Susan and Larry, and all the writers. While I’ve taken the time today to visit other blogs, you’d be amazed at the number of comments I see asking what has happened to NQ and wondering if you’re ok. Your readership must be ginormous.

Is this an open thread?

Anyway, just found this video on the net. It may be old news, but I’ve never heard it before. It’s a 2001 radio interview with Barack Obama, the title of the video is:

Obama Charts ‘Reparative’ Redistribution of Wealth Strategy in 2001 Radio Interview

LINK: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=205883

direct link to Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

THIS IS NOT OLD NEWS THIS IS NEW!!! EVERYONE SAVE AND REDISTRIBUTE IT!!

Yes, we DO have a ginormous readership and a ginormous commentariat. Hence the complicated migration.

9 days out and something “rare’ on the horizon

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20081026/ML.Syria.US.Raid/

iran, russia, libya, cuba, venezuela, kenya, pakistan, afghanistan, etc.

Quite rare…christ.

Well, then let’s get the links out there NQ readers! I sent it to Drudge.

Thank you for the reminder! I just added Open Thread to the title and category.

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ONE VIDEO I am dying to put up, once it’s cool to post YouTubes again: Elizabeth Hasselback’s intro of Sarah Palin today. WOW! She was so good, so charming, so engaging, so sharp. She should run for office someday soon.

THIS AS WELL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

I was going through DT’s, because I couldn’t access NoQuarter. I found Susan’s email address and emailed her to ask what was wrong. She emailed back to tell me what was happening. Thanks Susan! You and Larry are very important people in my life. I can’t go a day without coming here to read the articles and everyone’s comments. NoQuarter has been a lifesaver for me.

Whooohooo…Newsmax quotes us an mentions our film. Maybe the truth about what OHitler did in the Primary will finally come out.

Hillary Backers Decry Massive Obama Vote Fraud

Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:02 PM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size

With accusations of voter registration fraud swirling as early voting begins in many states, some Hillary Clinton supporters are saying: “I told you so.”

Already in Iowa, the Obama campaign was breaking the rules, busing in supporters from neighboring states to vote illegally in the first contest in the primaries and physically intimidating Hillary supporters, they say.

Obama’s surprisingly strong win in Iowa, which defied all the polls, propelled his upstart candidacy to front-runner status. But Dr. Lynette Long, a Hillary supporter from Bethesda, Md, who has a long and respected academic career, believes Obama’s victory in Iowa and in twelve other caucus states was no miracle. “It was fraud,” she told Newsmax.

Dr. Long has spent several months studying the caucus and primary results.

“After studying the procedures and results from all fourteen caucus states, interviewing dozens of witnesses, and reviewing hundreds of personal stories, my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process,” she said.

In Hawaii, for example, the caucus organizers ran out of ballots, so Obama operatives created more from Post-its and scraps of paper and dumped them into ice cream buckets. “The caucuses ended up with more ballots than participants, a sure sign of voter fraud,” Dr. Long said.

In Nevada, Obama supporters upturned a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted to caucus for Hillary, flushed Hillary ballots down the toilets, and told union members they could only vote if their name was on the list of Obama supporters.

In Texas, more than 2,000 Clinton and Edwards supporters filed complaints with the state Democratic Party because of the massive fraud. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions “amount to criminal violations” and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement, but nothing happened.

In caucus after caucus, Obama bused in supporters from out of state, intimidated elderly voters and women, and stole election packets so Hillary supporters couldn’t vote. Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.

Obama’s win in the caucuses, which were smaller events than the primaries and were run by the party, not the states, gave him the margin of victory he needed to win a razor-thin majority in the delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention.

Without these caucus wins – which Dr. Long and others claim were based on fraud – Hillary Clinton would today be the Democrats’ nominee running against John McCain.

Citing a detailed report on the voting results and delegate accounts by accountant Piniel Cronin, “there were only four pledged delegates between Hillary and Obama once you discount caucus fraud,” Dr. Long said.

Dr. Long has compiled many of these eyewitness reports from the 14 caucus states in a 98 page single-spaced report, and in an interactive Web site: http://www.caucusanalysis.org.

ACORN involvement

The Obama campaign recently admitted that it paid an affiliate of ACORN, the controversial community organizer that Obama represented in Chicago, more than $832,00 for “voter turnout” work during the primaries. The campaign initially claimed the money had been spent on “staging, sound and light” and “advance work.”

ACORN is now under investigation by state and federal law enforcement in eleven states for voter registration fraud. ACORN workers repeatedly registered voters in the name of “Mickey Mouse,” and twice registered the entire starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys – once in Nevada, and again in Minnesota.

A group that has worked with ACORN in the past registered a dead goldfish under the name “Princess Nudelman” in Illinois. When Beth Nudelman, a Democrat, was informed by reporters that her former pet was a registered voter, she said, “This person is a dead fish.”

ACORN was known for its “intimidation tactics,” says independent scholar Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. who has researched Obama’s long-standing ties to the group.

Fully 30 percent of 1.3 million new voters ACORN claims to have registered this year are now believed to be illegitimate.

Dr. Long shared with Newsmax some of the emails and sworn affidavits she received from Hillary supporters who witnessed first-hand the thuggish tactics employed by Obama campaign operatives in Iowa and elsewhere.

Jeff, a precinct captain for Clinton from Davenport, Iowa, thought his caucus was in the bag for his candidate, until just minutes before the voting actually began.

“From 6-6:30 pm, it appeared as I had expected. Young, old males, females, Hispanics, whites, gay and lesbian friends arriving. Very heavily for Ms. Clinton, a fair amount for Edwards and some stragglers for Obama,” he said.

That makeup corresponded to what he had witnessed from many precinct walks he had made through local neighborhoods.

“My mind began to feel victory for my lady,’ he said. “THEN: at 6:50 pm, over 75 people of African-American descent came walking in, passed the tables and sat in the Obama section. I knew one of them from my canvassing. I knew another one who did not live in this precinct. And aside from 4 or 5 families that live on Hillandale Road, there are no other black people in this unusually white precinct. And one of those black couples were in my Hillary section,” he said.

Thanks to the last-minute influx of unknown Obama supporters, Obama won twice the number of delegates from the precinct as Hillary Clinton.

After it was over, “a very large bus was seen in the parking lot afterwards carrying these folks back” to Illinois, Jeff said.

Obama’s flagrant busing of out-of-state caucus participants from Illinois was so obvious that even Joe Biden – today his running mate, then his rival – pointed it out at the time.

At a campaign stop before the Jan. 3 caucus at the JJ Diner in Des Moines, Biden “said what we were all thinking when he got on stage and said, ‘Hello Iowa!’ and then turned to Barack’s crowd and shouted, ‘and Hello Chicago!’” another precinct captain for Hillary told Dr. Long.

Thanks to Illinois campaign workers bused across the border into Iowa, all the precincts in eastern Iowa went for Obama, guaranteeing his win in the caucuses, Dr. Long says.

Obama supporters were also bused into northeast Iowa from Omaha, Nebraska, where Obama campaign workers were seen handing out “i-pods and free stuff – t-shirts, clothes, shoes, and free meals” to students and people in homeless shelters,” according to eyewitness reports collected by Dr. Long.

In Iowa City, red and white chartered buses with Illinois license plates arrived from Illinois packed with boisterous African-American high school students, who came to caucus for Obama in Iowa after being recruited by Obama campaign workers.

2,000 complaints in Texas

In a change in the Democratic National Committee rules for this year’s election season, four states had caucuses and primaries: Washington, Nebraska, Idaho and Texas. “But Texas is the only one that counted both the caucus result and the primary result,” Dr. Long told Newsmax. “The others didn’t count the primary at all, calling it a ‘beauty contest.’”

Because caucuses are more informal, and can last hours, they tend to favor candidates with a strong ground operation or whose supporters use strong-arm tactics to intimidate their rivals.

“There is inherent voter disenfranchisement in the caucuses,” Dr. Long says. “Women are less likely to go to caucuses than men, because they don’t like the public nature of the caucus. The elderly are less likely to go to a caucus. People who work shifts can’t go if they work the night shift. And parents with young children can’t go out for four hours on a week night. All these people are traditionally Clinton supporters,” she said.

But Obama’s victories in the caucuses weren’t the result of better organization, Dr. Long insists. “It was fraud.”

In state after state, Hillary was leading Obama in the polls right up until the last minute, when Obama won a landslide victory in the caucuses.

The discrepancies between the polls and the caucus results were stunning, Dr. Long told Newsmax. The most flagrant example was Minnesota.

A Minnesota Public Radio/Humphrey Institute poll conducted just one week before the Feb. 5 caucus gave Hillary a 7-point lead over Obama, 40-33.

But when the Minnesota caucus results were counted, Obama won by a landslide, with 66.39 percent to just 32.23 percent for Hillary, giving him 48 delegates, as compared to 24 for Clinton.

“No poll is that far off,” Dr. Long told Newsmax.

Similar disparities occurred in 13 of 14 caucus states.

In Colorado and Idaho, Obama had a two-point edge over Hillary Clinton in the polls, but won by more than two to one in the caucuses, sweeping most delegates.

In Kansas, Hillary had a slight edge over Obama in the polls, but Obama won 74 percent of the votes in the caucus and most of the delegates. In nearly every state, he bested the pre-caucus polls by anywhere from 12 percent to more than 30 percent.

This year’s primary rules for the Democrats favored the caucus states over the primary states.

“Caucus states made up only 1.1 million (3 percent) of all Democratic votes, but selected 626 (15 percent) of the delegates,” says Gigi Gaston, a filmmaker who has made a documentary on the caucus fraud.

In Texas alone, she says, there were more than 2,000 complaints from Hillary Clinton and John Edwards supporters of Obama’s strong-arm tactics.

One Hillary supporter, who appears in Gaston’s new film, “We Will Not Be Silenced,” says she received death threats from Obama supporters after they saw her address in an on-line video she made to document fraud during the Texas caucus. “People called me a whore and a skank,” she said.

John Siegel, El Paso Area Captain for Hillary, says “some people saw outright cheating. Other people just saw strong-arm tactics. I saw fraud.”

Another woman, who was not identified in the film, described the sign-in process. “You’re supposed to sign your names on these sheets. The sheets are supposed to be controlled, and passed out – this is kind of how you maintain order. None of that was done. The sheets were just flying all over the place. You could put in your own names. You could add your own sheets or anything. It was just filled with fraud.”

Other witnesses described how Obama supporters went through the crowds at the caucus telling Hillary supporters they could go home because their votes had been counted, when in fact no vote count had yet taken place.

“I couldn’t believe this was happening,” one woman said in the film. “I thought this only happened in Third World countries.”

On election day in Texas, Clinton campaign lawyer Lyn Utrecht issued a press release that was widely ignored by the national media.

“The campaign legal hotline has been flooded with calls containing specific accusations of irregularities and voter intimidation against the Obama campaign,” she wrote. “This activity is undemocratic, probably illegal, and reflects a wanton disregard for the caucus process.”

She identified 18 separate precincts where Obama operatives had removed voting packets before the Clinton voters could arrive, despite a written warning from the state party not to remove them.

The hotline also received numerous calls during the day that “the Obama campaign has taken over caucus sites and locked the doors, excluding Clinton campaign supporters from participating in the caucus,” she wrote.

“There are numerous instances of Obama supporters filing out precinct convention sign-in sheets during the day and submitting them as completed vote totals at caucus. This is expressly against the rules,” she added.

But no one seemed to care.

Despite Clinton’s three-and-a-half point win in the Texas primary – 50.87 percent to 47.39 percent – Obama beat her in the caucus the same day by 56 to 43.7 percent, giving him a 38 to 29 advantage in delegates.

Dr. Linda Hayes investigated the results at the precinct level in three state Senate districts. Under the rules of the Texas Democratic Party, participants in the caucuses had to reside in the precinct where they were caucusing, and had to have voted in the Democratic primary that same day.

When she began to see the results coming in from the precincts that were wildly at variance with the primary results, “I could see that something was wrong,” Hayes said.

Dr. Hayes says she found numerous anomalies as she went through the precinct sign-in sheets.

“Many, many, many Obama people either came to the wrong precinct, they did not sign in properly, they did not show ID, or they did not vote that day.” And yet, their votes were counted.

In a letter to Rep. Lois Capps, a Clinton supporter calling himself “Pacific John” described the fraud he had witnessed during the caucuses.

“On election night in El Paso, it became obvious that the Obama field campaign was designed to steal caucuses. Prior to that, it was impossible for me to imagine the level of attempted fraud and disruption we would see,” he wrote.

“We saw stolen precincts where Obama organizers fabricated counts, made false entries on sign-in sheets, suppressed delegate counts, and suppressed caucus voters. We saw patterns such as missing electronic access code sheets and precinct packets taken before the legal time, like elsewhere in the state. Obama volunteers illegally took convention materials state-wide, with attempts as early as 6:30 am.”

The story of how Obama stole the Democratic Party caucuses – and consequently, the Democratic Party nomination – is important not just because it prefigures potential voter fraud in the November 4 presidential election, which is already under way.

It’s important because it fits a pattern that Chicago journalists and a few national and international commentators have noticed in all of the elections Obama has won in his career.

NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher described Obama’s first election victory – for Illinois state senate – in a recent commentary that appeared in the London Telegraph.

“Mr. Obama won a seat in the state senate in 1996 by the unorthodox means of having surrogates successfully challenge the hundreds of nomination signatures that candidates submit. His Democratic rivals, including Alice Palmer, the incumbent, were all disqualified,” Fletcher wrote.

Obama’s election to the U.S. Senate “was even more curious,” conservative columnist Tony Blankley writes in The Washington Times.

Citing an account that appeared in The Times of London, Blankley described how Obama managed to squeeze out his main Democratic rival, Blair Hull, after divorce papers revealed allegations that Hull had allegedly made a death threat to his former wife.

Then in the general election, “lightning struck again,” Blankley writes, when his Republican opponent, wealthy businessman Jack Ryan, was forced to withdraw in extremis after his divorce papers revealed details of his sexual life with his former wife.

Just weeks before the election, the Illinois Republican party called on Alan Keyes of Maryland to challenge Obama in the general election. Obama won a landslide victory.

“Mr. Obama’s elections are pregnant with the implications that he has so far gamed every office he has sought by underhanded and sordid means,” Blankley writes, while “the American media has let these extraordinary events simply pass without significant comment.”

Hillary Clinton supporters, belatedly, now agree.

That interview would be a bombshell if anyone outside of Fox would ever report it- but they won’t.

The MSM will continue to suppress all negative stories about Obama. They are completely invested in his winning- and they care not they will destroy our country because of their ideological greed.

I have a question (then I’m off to bed & I’ll check back in the morning). Any help would be appreciated. I’m trying to find out the structure of the major news outlets. You have the commentators, the anchors, reporters…but what about management and program directors? How would I get a list of these people?

Specifically what I’m looking for is a list of those responsible for this media fiasco. I want names. Then we can start putting together information…interviews, statesments, bias etc… And then we can start a grassroots effort to get them fired. Each and every one. And first my list is Charles Gibson (I’ve put up with his stick up the ass face for the last 20 years and I’m soooo over him).

I want to start vetting the media. I don’t want just the talking heads to pay; I want their bosses. Whoever is in control of the content on the news.

And, a list of advertisers…not who owns what; but who actually advertises on CNN, MSNBC, etc… I don’t get cable, so I don’t watch those programs.

We are going to need this information if we are going to start a grassroots effort to clean up our media and government.

I think the undecided indy voters would tend to be computer savvy and are getting the stories the MSM won’t cover via blogs like this. I remain very hopeful we can pull this off. All ’12′ of us PUMAs can make a difference!

Great stuff Obama is a Fraud! Thanks for posting that.

And a huge thank you to NQ!! I’m happy to be patient while you finish upgrading. This one of few places you can get truthful news anymore, as opposed to the MSM who are just part of ObamaNation.

Great ideas and don’t forget massive ORGANIZED boycotts are in order.

I found it — she was great in her intro of Palin.

Damned if Elizabeth doesn’t sound like a liberal — speaking about sexism, and equal pay for equal work — plus “honor killings” of women etc. Issues that at one time I thought were liberal issues. She also brought up the gossiping about Palin’s clothes.

She managed to hit a lot of issues and subjects!

Well worth watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EstZOP0hh4

I am not defending Charlie Gibson for his interview with Sarah Palin, but…

Remember during the ‘debate’ in Philadelphia, when he and George Stephanopoulos grilled Obama? And, when Obama said he would increase the income subject to the capital gains tax to pay for his programs; and Charlie explained to him that, historically, when capital gains taxes are raised, revenue falls but when the taxes are lowered, revenues rise, and he got Obama to insist he would do this, anyway, to be ‘fair’?

TO ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN TO A POLLING PLACE RECENTLY, DESCRIBE THE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING DETAILS:

Fullness, length of lines.

Approximate number of obvious bots.

Approximate number of obvious McCain voters.

Any “funny business”.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THIS INFORMATION.

That is a great find — a 2001 interview with Obama. He is talking about HOW to share the wealth — not if it should be done — but HOW to do it.

Obama is a r@cist — no other way to explain this guy.

Send the link to EVERYONE! Even people who are voting for McCain — because they have emailing lists and they can spread this link far and wide.

I’m so excited that the voter fraud in the PRIMARY is finally coming out. Hillary deserves for the world to know what was done to her. Whooohoo…it’s just the beginning…Tick tock OHitler. Your days are numbered.

I hope Galt doesn’t attack me for this question but do you think the Hillary Fraud information will help? Have any of your friends changed their mind in light of all of this information?

1 week to go. I hope Nobama loses. I must hold on to hope.

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_voter_fraud/2008/10/26/144303.html

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This is the link to the Newsmax story about the voter fraud. PLEASE everyone spread this to EVERYONE you know. This rocks.

Obama sure seems to have a problem with people that worked hard and attained wealth, he sure keeps pushing this idea now its pay back time, the rich will have to carry the lower income bracket for the next four years.

Whitey is going to have to start pumping some warm dollars into the blacks hands for all those years of slavery, if anyone ever thought thing could not get worse than the Bush years will think again because I am dam sure a whole lot of us are going to be suffering in more ways than one if this clown Obama wins this election.

Andrew I can answer you…YES…There are SO many Hillary voters who have known about this fraud since the Primary and they are voting McCain. I know because I am linked in and friends with these people. If you go to Nobamanetwork.com you will see TONS of Dems for McCain groups. PUMAs are around. It’s a lot. Trust me, the MSM has tried to hide this but we have hope that finally it will be exposed.

The MSM is very evil. I never knew a group of people could be so devious. It must be the greed. It corrupts the soul and destroys the mind. All of the TV anchors have been corrupted. They keep spewing the same message: Obama has already won. No use in voting. Learn to say President Obama.

I’m sick an tired of it.

Andrew Obama isn’t going to win. He disgusts any normal, decent person. I think I told this story on another thread…

Last night I was in a store that is in my neighborhood. Very quaint, owned by a family. I go there every day just about. Anyway, a bunch of Mexican gang members came in, tats, threatening, nasty looking kids. They piled all this BOOZE up on the counter, only to realize that between them they didn’t have enough money to pay for it. One of them said “wait for Obama, we’ll have it then.” They kept saying “yeah Obama” and all that crap. I finally said…”so y’all are voting for Obama? Why? You won’t like the life you get.” Well, with that they called me a “typical white woman” (sound familiar?) and then proceeded to threaten me to the point I had to have the store owner walk me to my car. THOSE are the people voting for OHitler. Not real people. He’s going to lose. Big time.

Oy vey–typical Obots. Malefactors and thugs waiting for BO’s handouts so they can buy alcohol, and probably drugs and firearms. Let’s just sit on our ***es and wait for a handout. These loser types have already been registered by ACORN and will be voting in droves for The Precious.

Lisa, this is a GREAT idea!

We need to organize a full-fledged campaign against media bias. Straight reporting. Period. Unless they state that it’s an editorial or an opinion piece.

Here’s a great article by Michael S. Malone called Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline, October 26, 2008:

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6099188

I KNOW KathyNeoCon…I couldn’t BELIEVE these guys actually said that they would be able to buy all their booze because of OHitler. My mother almost KILLED me for getting up in their dangerous faces. But I had to. I couldn’t believe that was what my life was becoming. That I was going to have to send my paycheck to these people so they could sit on their azzes, not work, do drugs and drink, all because Ohitler says it’s okay. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Voting On Nov. 4th isn’t going to be like a caucus.

The only problems will be small stuff in lines waiting, and I doubt we’ll see much of that.

That’s because I’m not so sure all those folks saying they are going to vote really will stand in lines.

Was there the same attitude in the media in 2004, the inevitability attitude? It is getting a little sickening.

I think Gibson went a bit far in arguing in that debate, too, although he was correct.

However, the difference is that with Palin he was challenging her basic qualifications. How can one defend that?

It wasn’t a content discussion. It was very personally attacking.

The fact is that all this talk about “vetting” is nonsense. She meets the qualifications. It’s up to voters to decide.

The press role should be to offer objective information ONLY because voters are curious about anyone new on the scene.

The news business SHOULD coincide with the voter curiosity. It SHOULD be a win-win deal.

We got, instead, humiliation because the press is so partisan.

That’s propoganda. There’s a huge difference.

Thanks for the warning. I had a heck of a time linking today to this site.

But I am glad you guys are beefing up now.

I’m HOPING that Nov. 4th will be a big night.

OMG! Drudge has the story on top of his page!!!
AHHH! I think I broke a story for Drudge!

Headline:

2001 OBAMA: ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’; WARREN COURT NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH

OMG! Drudge has the Obama story on top of his page!!!
AHHH! I think I broke a story for Drudge!

Headline:

2001 OBAMA: ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’; WARREN COURT NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH

link I sent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

See my original post above at 22:10:54

I do thank the writers and LCJ for this forum, for its opposition not only to Obama but the disastrous Fabian socialist/redistributionist policies of the Democratic party. To expose Republican wrongdoing we have the entire mainstream media.

I sent it to Obama’s PR Dept (CNN) and to FoxNews.

Send it to cnn.com (and their tv shows) so they have no excuse to say they weren’t informed.

bottom of cnn.com page shows “site map” and it’s easy to find the page to send an email to any of their programming-

If it’s true Obambi belonged to a socialist group at one time, then this info isn’t surprising.. that’s what socialist views are all about..

I have a question as part of the great unwashed commentariat. Some of my comments on threads this weekend went missing and the posting window now says moderation is enabled. Did I manage to say something too offensive for NQ, or was this just part of the complicated migration?

Voted ealy in Texas – waited about 20 minutes. Never had to wait before to early vote. Hard to tell who was voting for who….. there were AA’s but I have met many who DO NOT support THAT ONE….