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“Yeah, deep pockets for the Obama - none for the needy.”

As usual, a stupid comment from McCluer. Just where do you get the knowledge that Obama supporters give nothing for the homeless or the needy?

Jackass.

A while back the blog discussion was about the tremendous positive impact the political campaigns have on the economy — leaving lots of money in their wake, creating many jobs…

Then we pretty much all agreed that a disproportionate amount was directed to “media.”

Seems if Obama is successful in raising money that indicates a number of people support his success in the campaign to be first nominated and then elected.

A confession: I have donated money to both Obama and Hillary. I would gladly take either of them as our next president.

Wow, I wish I was hurt by Wright’s comments the way Obama is, I’d be a rich man. Don’t worry, the Moonies will come out and support McCain.

Jimmie might not make it to the convention.

“Jimmie might not make it to the convention.”

Johnny might not either - after all, McCain is just a few years younger than Carter, and Carter was elected president 28 years ago.

BTW - Carter is 83, McCain is 71.

Carter is much more mentally agile than McCain ever thought of being!

For example, an examination of the records reveals her husband is a partner in an investment fund, Yucaipa Global Partnership, registered in the Cayman Islands, and was paid “guaranteed payments to partner.” Sen. Clinton’s forms do not list the exact amount of her husband’s payments, only that they totaled more than $1,000 over four years.

“No average person has interest and funds in the Cayman Islands. This is all the above-average, non-tax-paying, super rich,” said Jack Blum, an attorney and leading expert on offshore tax havens.

Beyond Obama’s Beauty
BY KENNETH BLACKWELL
February 14, 2008
URL: http://www2.nysun.com/article/71278

It’s an amazing time to be alive in America. We’re in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.

We won’t truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won’t arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.

Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.

The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.

Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He’s not. He’s the next George McGovern. And it’s time people learned the facts.

Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.

Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.

Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.

Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let’s look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial “beauty.”

Start with national security, since the president’s most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong Il, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists — something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.

Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on “the rich.”

How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, “All praise and glory to God!” but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have “hijacked” — hijacked — Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban — ban — on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.

The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don’t start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of “bringing America together” means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.

But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and — yes — they’re talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama’s radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.

It’s time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let’s first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

“BY KENNETH BLACKWELL”

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

“A conservative, Blackwell successfully campaigned for the 2004 State Constitutional Amendment banning state recognition of same sex marriage, is a staunch proponent of gun ownership rights, and has stated that he is against abortion except in order to protect the life of the mother. He was defeated in the 2006 Ohio gubernatorial election, winning only 37% of the vote.”

And…………………

“In 2005, he supported keeping Terri Schiavo on life support indefinitely, saying, “I really do think that life is sacred, no matter how painful.” When asked on Hardball with Chris Matthews if he would keep her on life support for 30 years, Blackwell said he would.”

Ken Blackwell is a right wing nut case.

UPDATE: Clinton only raised $20 million in March, only half of Senator Obama’s $40 million. (link below)

J R posted April 3, 2008 at 2:58 pm

“I have noted at least among those I know, that most Obama supporters tend to be more well off than supporters of Senator Clinton.”

IIRC, donations to Clinton have been in larger amounts — and some of her contributers have maxxed out, and can’t contribute any more.

Senator Obama, on the other hand, has been getting lots of small donations.

That sounds like Clinton’s supporters are generally “more well off” than Senator Obama’s.

‘Obama’s $40 Million Haul (And What It Means)’
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/04/obamas_40_million_haul_and_wha.html?hpid=topnews
“Obama’s fundraising machine continues to churn at historic levels. In March alone, 218,000 new donors contributed to Obama’s campaign and a total of 442,000 people contributed to the campaign in the last month — a reflection of the massively broad fundraising pool from which the Illinois Senator is drawing.”

And Clinton earlier had to make a $5 million personal loan to her campaign.

Come on guys, Blackwell was Max’s source. What do you expect?

J R,

I understood your point, “among those I know”, before I made my post at 4:21 pm.

Small sample sizes are usually not very accurate.

“Small sample sizes are usually not very accurate.”

Small non-random samples are a greater problem.

Well I guess he bought a free concert with some performer or other today Steven. I heard something about it.

I can’t help hearing about Obama. I sure wish he had something to say that I WANT to hear.

‘Give to Hillary Clinton and hang with Elton John’
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/give-to-hilary.html

Also, is the comment there that Hillary is charging her campaign interest on her $5 million loan true? Is she making a personal profit from her campaign activities?

J R,

I have already done my research. Have you?

Is “idea” without a modifier defined as “better idea”?

He may buy his way into the nomination, and there are few comments about that?

Not sure what to say, Steven. It doesn’t look like he broke any rules getting it. Of course is raises concerns that what’s left of this contest will be determined by a lopsided blitz of 30-second ads, but I’m not sure there’s anything that can be done about that.

At least it’s been a real contest so far, and we’ll see what happens in Pennsylvia etc.

J R,

If you only say “ideas”, without a modifier, then you are NOT saying that the “ideas” were “better”, or “good”, as the Clinton’s incorrectly claimed.

If you cannot understand that, then vote for Clinton.

J R,

Much of what the “right is circulating” is invalid… and that’s probably why the “media is not reporting” it.

And considering your angry rants toward Senator Obama, like when you misunderstood his child health insurance statement, I can’t consider you to be a credible, unbiased source.

J R,

I don’t consider stating the facts to be an “insult”.

If you believe that your past rants at Senator Obama (like buying childrens health insurance, etc) were valid, then post your proof.

If I’m wrong, I will apologize.

MICHELE OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
“In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on “crime and hatred”. Moreover, she stated that whites in America were “ineradicably racist”. The 1985 thesis, titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to “Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…” However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, “If those “Whites at Princeton” really saw Michelle as one who always would “be Black first,” it seems that she gave them that impression”.
Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms “separationist” and “integrationist” when describing the views of black people.”
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin. “I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.

The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism.
This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration.

Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.

It’s the stuff the media has missed in their love affair with Obama there cosmos.

I DID try and warn you.

Look, everyone knows I have my problems with Obama. But I won’t attack him here except for what he himself has said.

You and his supporters NEED to get out in front of stuff like James just posted.

“please quickly tell us ”

“Quickly” is the problem cosmos.

How quickly Obama’s star has risen.

How quickly the media were to fall in love with him and so give him a pass.

How quickly belated exploration as to Obama caused problems.

And how quickly SOME and YOU cosmos seem to want to end the Democratic nomination in favor of your quick candidate.

We are determining the next leader of the free and otherwise world. Let’s not be hasty.

Claim: Access to Michelle Obama’s senior thesis has been restricted until after the 2008 presidential election.

Status: Was true.

“Michelle Obama’s thesis became a matter of controversy (outside of its subject matter) in early 2008 when some interested parties who attempted to retrieve its content were informed by Princeton that access to the thesis had been restricted until after the presidential election in November 2008. Regardless of the reasons behind it, such a restriction naturally engendered suspicion that someone or something (in this case, presumably the Obama campaign itself) had a vested interest in keeping the information from reaching the public, which in turn served to heighten interest in the contents of the thesis.”
It has been release now, forced, by ‘fire control’.