Comments on: A mansion for every American? http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/ The Wichita Eagle Editorial Department Blog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:26:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378877 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:40:04 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378877 It'd be more informative to find out who became millionaires after joining congress. It’d be more informative to find out who became millionaires after joining congress.

]]> By: MaxGrobnik http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378837 MaxGrobnik Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:29:37 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378837 Source for the Richest SOB's in the US Congress: http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php Source for the Richest SOB’s in the US Congress:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378836 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:29:04 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378836 The Gsters, have been having a hard time getting gas to do a drive by, and a walk by requires too much effort. The Gsters, have been having a hard time getting gas to do a drive by, and a walk by requires too much effort.

]]> By: MaxGrobnik http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378835 MaxGrobnik Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:28:40 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378835 The Richest SOB's in Congress are Democrats! They won't give up their Mansions! Rank Name Net Worth 1 Jane Harman (D-Calif) $409,426,887 2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $337,440,028 3 John Kerry (D-Mass) $267,789,805 4 Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $191,695,634 5 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $171,423,011 6 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $102,822,519 7 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $91,713,012 8 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $82,552,081 9 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $79,555,657 10 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $79,051,090 The Richest SOB’s in Congress are Democrats!

They won’t give up their Mansions!

Rank Name Net Worth
1 Jane Harman (D-Calif) $409,426,887
2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $337,440,028
3 John Kerry (D-Mass) $267,789,805
4 Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $191,695,634
5 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $171,423,011
6 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $102,822,519
7 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $91,713,012
8 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $82,552,081
9 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $79,555,657
10 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $79,051,090

]]> By: MaxGrobnik http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378831 MaxGrobnik Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:15:42 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378831 Indeed crime rates are falling. Gang Crime news is used by the Leftists as a scare tactic to encourage more Government Police Control and Gun Bans. http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/11/crime-rates-shown-to-be-falling.html But the release this week of preliminary crime statistics for last year shows a 1.4 percent drop in violent crime and a 2.1 percent decline in property crime rates. The minor upticks in crime during 2005 and 2006 (2.3 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively, for violent crime) appear to be no more than minor fluctuations from the historic low crime rate reached in 2000. Indeed crime rates are falling.

Gang Crime news is used by the Leftists as a scare tactic to encourage more Government Police Control and Gun Bans.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/11/crime-rates-shown-to-be-falling.html

But the release this week of preliminary crime statistics for last year shows a 1.4 percent drop in violent crime and a 2.1 percent decline in property crime rates. The minor upticks in crime during 2005 and 2006 (2.3 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively, for violent crime) appear to be no more than minor fluctuations from the historic low crime rate reached in 2000.

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378826 Regular Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:08:13 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378826 Nope, as usual, the Phantom cannot read and tries to equate Laura Bush as some sort of gang Czar. It's an alternative program for youth to participate in, instead of gangs. Laura Bush is not dealing with gangs. <i>Taking on gang life will be one part of a broader outreach to at-risk youth, which involves parents and pastors, coaches and community leaders, in programs ranging from literacy to sports.</i> The only game, set and match you've won Phantom is the pocket pool in your pants. Nope, as usual, the Phantom cannot read and tries to equate Laura Bush as some sort of gang Czar.

It’s an alternative program for youth to participate in, instead of gangs. Laura Bush is not dealing with gangs.

Taking on gang life will be one part of a broader outreach to at-risk youth, which involves parents and pastors, coaches and community leaders, in programs ranging from literacy to sports.

The only game, set and match you’ve won Phantom is the pocket pool in your pants.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378820 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:00:29 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378820 Game, Point, Set. Bring on Premium, Regular is just too easy. Game, Point, Set. Bring on Premium, Regular is just too easy.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378819 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:59:05 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378819 SOTU :Because one of the deepest values of our country is compassion, we must never turn away from any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America. Our government will continue to support faith-based and community groups that bring hope to harsh places. Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail. Tonight I propose a three-year initiative to help organizations keep young people out of gangs, and show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence. (Applause.) Taking on gang life will be one part of a broader outreach to at-risk youth, which involves parents and pastors, coaches and community leaders, in programs ranging from literacy to sports. And I am proud that the leader of this nationwide effort will be our First Lady, Laura Bush. (Applause.) catch the part about a three yr. iniative, and guess who the leader of this initiative is? http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-11.html SOTU :Because one of the deepest values of our country is compassion, we must never turn away from any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America. Our government will continue to support faith-based and community groups that bring hope to harsh places. Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail. Tonight I propose a three-year initiative to help organizations keep young people out of gangs, and show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence. (Applause.) Taking on gang life will be one part of a broader outreach to at-risk youth, which involves parents and pastors, coaches and community leaders, in programs ranging from literacy to sports. And I am proud that the leader of this nationwide effort will be our First Lady, Laura Bush. (Applause.)

catch the part about a three yr. iniative, and guess who the leader of this initiative is?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-11.html

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378800 Regular Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:41:33 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378800 It's an alternative program for boys to participate in, instead of gangs. But do carry on with your tinfoil conspiracies Phantom. Perhaps you'll actually make a point. Perhaps you'll understand the program was meant to do good and help people out of a desperate situation. Or did you really not have any compassion for the troubled boys in gang neighborhoods with no other alternatives. Yeah, that must be it, Phantom doesn't care, he just wants to make a political point that has no point. More of empty rhetoric from Phantom. It’s an alternative program for boys to participate in, instead of gangs.

But do carry on with your tinfoil conspiracies Phantom.

Perhaps you’ll actually make a point.

Perhaps you’ll understand the program was meant to do good and help people out of a desperate situation.

Or did you really not have any compassion for the troubled boys in gang neighborhoods with no other alternatives.

Yeah, that must be it, Phantom doesn’t care, he just wants to make a political point that has no point.

More of empty rhetoric from Phantom.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378798 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:39:36 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378798 He made the appointment public in his SOTU. He made the appointment public in his SOTU.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378787 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:31:48 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378787 Sounds more like a presidential appointment, than lending celebrity status: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june05/lbush_02-10.html Sounds more like a presidential appointment, than lending celebrity status:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june05/lbush_02-10.html

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378773 Regular Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:09:38 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378773 The <b>Helping America's Youth initiative</b> is a way to help American young people grow up to be healthy and successful. And I'd like for you to be part of our work. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060110-2.html A far cry from being a 'gang czar.' But since you like tinfoil hat articles so much phantom, please carry on. I'm sure others will ignore your arm flailing chimpanzee-like screams. The Helping America’s Youth initiative is a way to help American young people grow up to be healthy and successful. And I’d like for you to be part of our work.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060110-2.html

A far cry from being a ‘gang czar.’

But since you like tinfoil hat articles so much phantom, please carry on. I’m sure others will ignore your arm flailing chimpanzee-like screams.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378771 Phantom Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:03:21 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378771 Anothe link and exerpt for you: "After plummeting during the 1990s, gang violence is making a bloody comeback all across America, with gang-related homicides up 50 percent since 1999. According to Justice Department estimates, there are about 21,500 gangs nationwide with over 730,000 members. And these gangs are no longer confined to Los Angeles and New York. Cities like Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Tulsa have all seen dramatic surges in gang-related criminal activity. And how has our tough-on-security president responded? By proposing to cut close to a billion dollars from programs designed to help anti-gang efforts. His 2006 budget would cut more than $412 million from education, after-school, and family-support programs that help keep at-risk kids away from gangs. It would eliminate Juvenile Accountability Block Grants ($54 million worth) designed to help prosecutors deal with gang issues. It would also reduce funding for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program by 95 percent, which could result in as many as 88,000 fewer police officers patrolling America's mean streets. And these proposed cuts come on top of a 44 percent reduction in delinquency-fighting and anti-gang funding since 2002. "The federal budget is more than mere numbers, it is an accounting of our country's priorities," says Seattle Chief of Police Gil Kerlikowske, chairman of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a bipartisan anti-crime organization of over 2,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, and crime victims. "The president's budget just doesn't add up for children and instead makes the wrong choices on crime prevention." But wait, could this possibly be the same president who during his State of the Union address so preeningly patted himself on the back for his commitment to dealing with gang violence? Of course. It's the kind of political sleight of hand his presidency is built on. First, Bush earned PR points for earmarking $50 million a year for the next three years to a new, still-to-be-defined anti-gang initiative, then turned around and submitted a budget that cuts nearly 20 times that much from programs already proven effective in keeping young people out of gangs. Not exactly a fair trade-off for America's at-risk kids. Oh, and here's the kicker: the new initiative is to be overseen by First Lady Laura Bush. I don't know about you but the idea of Laura the Librarian bringing the Crips, the Bloods, and MS-13 to their knees doesn't exactly make me feel any safer. The First Lady's new role as gang czar seems like another Mission to Mars in the making—a highly touted project long on potential photo ops and woefully short on specifics. Here's what we do know about Mrs. Bush's feel-good initiative: the program won't be administered through the law enforcement professionals at the Justice Department. Instead, the limited dollars will be funneled through the president's compassion fund and doled out to his favored faith-based groups. Who knows, maybe they?ll serve up the gang prevention entree with a side order of moral values. I can hear the ad campaign now: "Just Say No... To Drive-Bys and Turf Wars. And Premarital Sex, While You're At It." http://www.democracyformo.com/d/node/513 Anothe link and exerpt for you:
“After plummeting during the 1990s, gang violence is making a bloody comeback all across America, with gang-related homicides up 50 percent since 1999. According to Justice Department estimates, there are about 21,500 gangs nationwide with over 730,000 members. And these gangs are no longer confined to Los Angeles and New York. Cities like Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Tulsa have all seen dramatic surges in gang-related criminal activity.
And how has our tough-on-security president responded? By proposing to cut close to a billion dollars from programs designed to help anti-gang efforts. His 2006 budget would cut more than $412 million from education, after-school, and family-support programs that help keep at-risk kids away from gangs.
It would eliminate Juvenile Accountability Block Grants ($54 million worth) designed to help prosecutors deal with gang issues. It would also reduce funding for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program by 95 percent, which could result in as many as 88,000 fewer police officers patrolling America’s mean streets. And these proposed cuts come on top of a 44 percent reduction in delinquency-fighting and anti-gang funding since 2002.
“The federal budget is more than mere numbers, it is an accounting of our country’s priorities,” says Seattle Chief of Police Gil Kerlikowske, chairman of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a bipartisan anti-crime organization of over 2,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, and crime victims. “The president’s budget just doesn’t add up for children and instead makes the wrong choices on crime prevention.”
But wait, could this possibly be the same president who during his State of the Union address so preeningly patted himself on the back for his commitment to dealing with gang violence?
Of course. It’s the kind of political sleight of hand his presidency is built on. First, Bush earned PR points for earmarking $50 million a year for the next three years to a new, still-to-be-defined anti-gang initiative, then turned around and submitted a budget that cuts nearly 20 times that much from programs already proven effective in keeping young people out of gangs. Not exactly a fair trade-off for America’s at-risk kids.
Oh, and here’s the kicker: the new initiative is to be overseen by First Lady Laura Bush. I don’t know about you but the idea of Laura the Librarian bringing the Crips, the Bloods, and MS-13 to their knees doesn’t exactly make me feel any safer.
The First Lady’s new role as gang czar seems like another Mission to Mars in the making—a highly touted project long on potential photo ops and woefully short on specifics. Here’s what we do know about Mrs. Bush’s feel-good initiative: the program won’t be administered through the law enforcement professionals at the Justice Department. Instead, the limited dollars will be funneled through the president’s compassion fund and doled out to his favored faith-based groups. Who knows, maybe they?ll serve up the gang prevention entree with a side order of moral values. I can hear the ad campaign now: “Just Say No… To Drive-Bys and Turf Wars. And Premarital Sex, While You’re At It.”
http://www.democracyformo.com/d/node/513

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378770 Regular Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:02:23 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378770 # Phantom Posted July 5, 2008 at 6:59 pm | Permalink Kind of like that successful “Just San No to drugs”. ---------------------------- Evidently it wasn't too successful, as I never heard the phrase "San No to drugs." Of course, the "N" and the "Y" are real close together (cough) on the QWERTY keyboard. #
Phantom
Posted July 5, 2008 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

Kind of like that successful “Just San No to drugs”.
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Evidently it wasn’t too successful, as I never heard the phrase “San No to drugs.”

Of course, the “N” and the “Y” are real close together (cough) on the QWERTY keyboard.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378769 Phantom Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:59:44 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378769 Kind of like that successful "Just San No to drugs". Kind of like that successful “Just San No to drugs”.

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378766 Regular Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:51:27 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378766 I read it Phantom, it said nothing about an executive managing role for Mrs. Bush. It just mentioned that she would be promoting the program. This is the giving a celebrity name to a program, nothing else. There is no 'there there.' I read it Phantom, it said nothing about an executive managing role for Mrs. Bush. It just mentioned that she would be promoting the program.

This is the giving a celebrity name to a program, nothing else.

There is no ‘there there.’

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378765 Phantom Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:45:26 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378765 Apparently you didn't follow my link? Apparently you didn’t follow my link?

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378764 Regular Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:43:04 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378764 If you are talking about Laura Bush Phantom, the only programs that have been heavily published are her involvement in help funding and promoting health issues in conjunction with the World AIDS Society and children's literacy program to a certain extent. If you are talking about Laura Bush Phantom, the only programs that have been heavily published are her involvement in help funding and promoting health issues in conjunction with the World AIDS Society and children’s literacy program to a certain extent.

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378763 Phantom Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:40:32 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378763 there's the explanation, put a bush in charge, and things can only get worse! http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2005/laura-bush-tackles-gang-issue.html there’s the explanation, put a bush in charge, and things can only get worse!
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2005/laura-bush-tackles-gang-issue.html

]]> By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378762 Phantom Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:39:05 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378762 Wasn't Laura given or (took) the task of dealing with gang problems? Seems I read something about that a couple yrs. ago. Wasn’t Laura given or (took) the task of dealing with gang problems? Seems I read something about that a couple yrs. ago.

]]> By: Regular http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378757 Regular Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:26:04 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378757 Obama's (cough) leadership role in Chicago housing appears to be a total failure, while making his crooked associates like Rezco richer from taxpayer subsidies. This story from the Boston Globe. <b>Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy</b> Boston Globe Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing. As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable. Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted. Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama's state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/ Obama’s (cough) leadership role in Chicago housing appears to be a total failure, while making his crooked associates like Rezco richer from taxpayer subsidies. This story from the Boston Globe.

Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy
Boston Globe

Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing – an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.

As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama’s state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/

]]> By: WSClark http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378755 WSClark Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:24:20 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378755 "Chicago is going through one of the worst periods of gang violence in its history, right now!" And "right now!" Barack Obama is a US Senator! And before that! Barack Obama was Illinois! State representative! How long! has it been since! Barack! Obama! was a community! organizer!?!? Christ. “Chicago is going through one of the worst periods of gang violence in its history, right now!”

And “right now!” Barack Obama is a US Senator! And before that! Barack Obama was Illinois! State representative! How long! has it been since! Barack! Obama! was a community! organizer!?!?

Christ.

]]> By: WSClark http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378753 WSClark Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:20:30 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378753 "Check your facts, would you please?" I checked my facts and Obama is not an Arab. “Check your facts, would you please?”

I checked my facts and Obama is not an Arab.

]]> By: Franklin http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378750 Franklin Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:18:50 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378750 WS Check your facts, would you please? Chicago is going through one of the worst periods of gang violence in its history, right now! If Obama wanted to do something about gang violence, Obama would attack the hip-hop "Don't Snitch" culture, and tell people, bluntly, to call the police with tips on the murderers. WS
Check your facts, would you please?

Chicago is going through one of the worst periods of gang violence in its history, right now!

If Obama wanted to do something about gang violence, Obama would attack the hip-hop “Don’t Snitch” culture, and tell people, bluntly, to call the police with tips on the murderers.

]]> By: WSClark http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378749 WSClark Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:11:16 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/07/a-mansion-for-every-american/#comment-378749 "And just what has Obama done for all the $$$ he has gotten as a Community Organizer?" Obama got all his "$$$" as an author, not as a community organizer. "And is Chicago any better than before he came." Yes. “And just what has Obama done for all the $$$ he has gotten as a Community Organizer?”

Obama got all his “$$$” as an author, not as a community organizer.

“And is Chicago any better than before he came.”

Yes.

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