95% gets a tax break?

I’m sorry but for the majority of America to believe that Senator Barack Obama has the answer to the Financial Crisis, by saying that he wants to give 95% of America a tax cut, and make the top 5% of wage earners pay their freight is not only preposterous but a flat out lie, and 100% socialist. The whole country can never be subsidized by only 5% of the population, while 44% pay nothing, if you believe that I have some property in the everglades………

I have to hand it to Obama; he hides nothing, evident by his recorded chat with “Joe the Plumber.” He explained that everyone should have the ability to succeed, so he would take money from “Joe” and give it to the poorer workers. I thought that the ability to succeed had to do more with education then social redistribution, but does it?

Let’s look at Joe the Plumber in a different light. He wanted to buy a company that does plumbing work. For argument sake let’s say Joe is single and starts his company as a “sole proprietorship”…..do you see where I’m headed yet? Let’s say he makes $250,000 in gross sales in the first year. Do you think that is a lot of money? Let’s pretend he only makes a 10% profit margin (which is close to the national average.) So Joe personally makes $25,000 for the year for his 16 to 18 hour a day business, probably less because it’s his first year. Joe gets to deduct his expenses of course but never at their full value. Senator Obama thinks that because Joe has a sole proprietor business he now falls into the upper 5% of wage earners, and will be taxed accordingly. Regardless of what Joe earns personally, he WILL be taxed on the gross income.

Now do you still think “Joe” is wealthy?

It seems funny to me how the democrats claim that George Bush’s policies to own banks is socialist, and yet “redistribution of wealth” isn’t. The banks will be allowed to buy back their stocks from the government eventually, but will we as American citizens be able to buy back our economic freedom under an Obama administration?
Even though 44% of the lower class of America pays no taxes, Obama’s program intends to give them money back in the form of an annual check. Obama says that the republicans don’t seem to understand that the lower tax class still pays other taxes, well no joke, don’t we all? So once again the lower wage earners will get a free ride in the Democratic system.

If everyone has the right to higher education, but some of those people chose to not accept that education for whatever reason, why should the driven, and the educated upper 5% of wage earners be not only required to share their wages from hard work, but allow politicians to say who should get it?

This way of thinking is labeled as “liberal,” and that is what the Democrats want you to believe. The fact of the matter is this is the classic socialistic manifesto. Under the truthful explanation of socialism, these ideas would never sell.

Let’s consider the uneducated or for lack of a better word, the uninformed. If you promise that you will take money from the rich, and then redistribute that money to the undeserving, it not only “buys the vote,” but also assures the Democratic position of supporting the poor from cradle to grave.

Even though Senator Obama claims that the present administration has saddled us unduly in debt, he has campaigned on the idea of adding 1 trillion dollars worth of new programs, how exactly does that help our country? Let’s not even talk about his plan to give $854 billion to the United Nations to distribute to the poor countries abroad. Have we fixed social security? Have we fixed our health care issues? Has our financial crisis been fixed? Have we paid down our debt yet? Yet Senator Obama wants to “give away” OUR money, never to return to our country?

If you think the government is best suited to decide healthcare, social security, the financial crisis, think of this scenario. In 1990 the government took over the Mustang Ranch (a bordello in Nevada) for failure to report IRS earnings. The government took over that business and failed can you imagine? They failed at prostitution and selling liquor! They failed at funding social security, they failed at public housing, they have failed us on energy, and they have failed us at virtually every turn involving money.

Is this the proof of how Obama is better suited to fix our financial crisis? I’m lost here, where exactly IS the logic of believing this garbage? Has Obama shown through his past experience of requesting earmarks to the tune of $1million dollars a day since he’s been a U.S. Senator. He promises to start new programs to drive us into 1 trillion dollars in new debt, and this is called fiscal responsibility?

Don’t believe me, GO AND CHECK IT OUT ONLINE!

http://www.ntu.org/misc_items/rating/VS_2007.pdf

Obama, ACORN, and Contempt for Election Law

Obama, ACORN, and Contempt for Election Law
by Frank Pastore

Frank Pastore from KKLA in Los Angeles interviews Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund.

Frank Pastore: ACORN is an acronym that stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. They are up to their eyeballs in voter fraud. When the subject of voter fraud is mentioned there is one expert in America that nearly everyone turns to and he is John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, and his book “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud threatens Our Democracy….”

Give us an overview—a lay of the land….

John Fund: ACORN is the left-wing housing lobby that was at the heart of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. They pushed Congress, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and banks to put out loans to people who weren’t credit worthy, they helped tip this crisis into the disaster that we have now. And they are out registering voters, mostly for Barack Obama, and in 12 states there are investigations into their fraud. Las Vegas is the most kindly. The Attorney Generals office raided them yesterday took all of their computers and files. ACORN has responded by saying this is a stunt designed to discredit our efforts and bring back discriminatory voting practices. In reality what ACORN had done is they had hired supervisors to run this voter registration program who were former felons, including felons who had been put into prison for identity theft. ACORN is now hiring specialists to do their work apparently.

Pastore: So, the problem that strikes so many people on this is not the overwhelming bias, but the fact that we are paying for it. Michelle Malkin had a piece [where] she cited 40 percent of ACORN’s budget is paid for by the American taxpayers. Is that true?

Fund: They get a lot of grants, they get a lot of housing subventions, and they get a lot of money to help build public housing. It is a classic case of the left-wing getting the capitalists—the productive private sector in this country—to pay for the rope that they are trying to hang them with.

Pastore: So how widespread is this?

Fund: I think voter registration fraud is akin to the one tenth of an iceberg that is above the surface. Nine tenths happens below the surface, you don’t see it until it’s too late. You don’t see it until Election Day. You don’t see it until the lawsuits that try to force poll closing hours open in only certain areas and not others. You don’t see it until absentee ballots come in and they come in from addresses that are fictitious.

All of your listeners have a civil right, two civil rights actually: There’s a civil right not to be intimidated or prevented from voting. We fought a voting rights struggle in the 1960s to make sure that doesn’t happen. You need to do that again and often. But we also have a civil right—all of your listeners—not to have your vote cancelled out by someone who shouldn’t be voting, someone who is voting twice, or someone who doesn’t even exist. And that means you can be disenfranchised as easily as if you are prevented from voting. And whether it’s a felon or whether it’s someone from out of state, or whether it’s an illegal alien—any of these votes subvert our democracy, destroy the legitimacy of our elections and make it more difficult for whoever gets elected in a close race to govern effectively.

Pastore: …The offense is obvious—that people who have a legitimate vote can be cancelled out by those with an illegitimate vote. Talk to us about how the legal process works, where it is long after the fact that wrongdoing is every confirmed and proved in a court of law.

Fund: The time to prevent voter fraud is before an election because we have a secret ballot. And if people vote illegally it is very difficult—almost impossible in most cases—to go back into the pile of votes that are cast in an election (which is a secret ballot and there are no names attached to the votes) and pick out the ones that are illegitimate. So, once the voter fraud is committed you might be able to punish the malefactors if you look hard enough, but you may not be able to prevent the election from being stolen.

Pastore: Well, as I believe it was you that had said, or maybe it was Stanley Kurtz who has been writing a lot about ACORN lately, he said it’s going to be about the time of Barack Obama’s second term as president if there is any kind of an investigation that goes on in this. What are you most concerned about as you are the expert on voter fraud in America?

Fund: I am most concerned about the fact that Barack Obama has ties to ACORN. He was their top trainer, he was their lawyer in election law litigation, he provided funding to them from the Wood Foundation that he sat on the board of. His ties to ACORN have not been fully explored. And Barack Obama has himself never, never criticized ACORN publicly. Instead his campaign has hired an ACORN affiliate and paid them $800,000 for election services. They misidentified that affiliate to conceal, I believe, the form of the payment and that it went to ACORN. I fear we are going to elect a candidate backed by an organization which has complete contempt for the election laws of this country. And Barack Obama has never criticized them.

Letter to the editor, of a local paper

Letter to the editor of the local paper
By Q.D Thompson

Dear Editor:
I still remain deeply concerned as the voting date approaches regarding Senator Barack Obama’s radical past and his nonchalant political performances in Chicago, and first, it should be noted that Senator Obama’s early twenty years he spent in considerable involvement in radical associations and activities in and around would have disqualified him from employment in the CIA and FBI, where he would have been subjected to taking a lie detector test.

In my estimation this should also have disqualified him from even running in the primaries, much less campaigning to become our Commander-in-Chief. When it became evident these past radical actions presented a campaigning obstacle, he unsuccessfully attempted to disavow them all with vague explanations and evasions.

Secondly, during his political tenure, Senator Obama has fashioned no leadership or governing roles. Instead he has walked a fine line with much flip-flopping and confirmed falsehoods and with no declaration of any firm convictions. His hollow campaign proclamations have been most alarming, full of numerous promises which would require increased taxation, resulting in a flavor of socialism invading our government.

Frightening also are his recommendations for dealing with the global conflict against terrorism which reflect a sense of naivety. Such measures would place the on the defensive, resulting in our loss of leadership and trust around the world, thereby sacrificing the welfare and security of our nation.

Therefore, I challenge every American voter to closely examine all political issues and the inner character of all four candidates, McCain/Palin & Obama/Biden; then search you conscience and soul before casting your vote on Nov. 4.

If it were the republican party who…….

If it were the Republican Party who was behind Acorn, there would be hell to pay! Acorn has participated in questionable voter registration since 2002, and yet here we are once again! When are we going to say that enough is enough? Today we watched TV as a number of people testified before the board of elections in Ohio on the practices of Acorn. I have to wonder how many of those so called “do gooders” didn’t know that registering 76 times wasn’t lawful. Regardless of what I think they were doing, today it was reported that an “upper level” Acorn official in Nevada is in fact a past felon that was found guilty of “identity theft.”

At Least Acorn hired professional criminals to do their hit squad work. It was also admitted by workers for Acorn that they have two different agendas, the first agenda was to register voters; the second agenda was to push for votes for Obama! This is a plain and clear conflict of interest.

I don’t understand how this can happen, and why we even allow it! If Acorn is a non-profit organization, and supported by government money I damn well want it to be bipartisan! When did we not only allow this to happen since 2002 but shrug our shoulders at the testimony we saw today? If the testimony we saw today was for real, then politicians are correct by saying that voters are STUPID! If someone stands in the senate and says he didn’t think it was wrong to register 76 times then HE shouldn’t have the right to vote! If he’s a high school graduate and he has failed to learn how our system works, then his voting rights should be revoked!

Of course I shouldn’t talk like this, and I’m sure in Obama’s eyes I would be labeled as a racist, but this hasn’t a thing to do with race, it has to do with what is right and what is wrong. I have said in previous posts that based on previous incidents and the wide spread voter fraud this year that not one vote should be counted from the Acorn files, and now I think that everyone who made the choice to register multiple times should also be revoked, and the canvassors be prosecuted........as they normally say in court…….”ignorance is no excuse of the law”

It defies all logic when…..

It defies all logic when a majority of the voters view Barack Obama as being better on the Economy. We all listen to the rhetoric from both sides, and we wonder who is telling the truth and who isn’t. None of us have crystal balls, so we can’t see into the future so how would we know?

The only way we have of judging them on fiscal responsibility is to judge them by what they have done in the past. Pick an unbiased, non-partisan group that only reports on all spending, and not just “cherry picking specific issues.” The Nation Taxpayers Union is such an organization, they rate each and everyone of those “545” that we talked about before (all senators and congressmen.) Please view this site and check out ALL your senators and congressmen, and make it one of your favorites, for future reference during elections.

When you make a decision for the Presidential position based on “change and hope” rather then logic and all available information, you do the rest of the public a disservice. In an age where the Internet is so prevalent, and information so readily available, it seems ludicrous to vote for someone just because we “like him.”

http://www.ntu.org/misc_items/rating/VS_2007.pdf

Feel free to view other articles from this same watchdog group

http://www.ntu.org/

According to Michelle Obama, the fix is already in

According to Michelle Obama, the fix is already in

By Judi McLeod Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Like editors the world over used to admonish reporters at deadline: “Your lead is buried down copy”, the lead in African Press International’s (API’s) “Mrs. Obama decides enough is enough” comes well down copy:

“My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by his step father.” (Emphasis added).

In other words, according to the overzealous, you’re-all-racists wife of candidate for presidency Barack Hussein Obama, the fix is already in.

The candidate’s wife treated the Norway-based API as if it was already under the command of a Barack and Michelle-run White House.

With an arrogance that can only be described as stunning, Michelle Obama said API would earn an invite to hubby’s upcoming inauguration ceremony when he will be installed as the next President of the United States of America next year, if only they wrote a “good” story.
In a good old fashioned hissy fit, Michelle Obama had picked up the phone to accuse API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband, saying she had decided to call API because of what she termed, API’s help to spread rumours created by American bloggers and other racist media outlets in their efforts to damage a black man’s name.

She made plain her hopes that the African Media was mature enough to be in the front to give unwavering support to her husband, a man Africans should identify themselves with.
“When API told her that our online news media was only replaying what the American Bloggers and other media outlets had discovered through their investigations, Mrs. Obama was angered and she came out loud with the following: “African Press International is supposed to support Africans and (the) African-American view, and she went (on) to state that, “It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband.” (africanpress, Oct. 15, 2008).

“There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by his step father, The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that my husband loves this country and his adoption has never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner, (emphasis added) says Michelle Obama on telefon (sic) to API.”

The person on the other end of the telephone line indicated concern for “the American man Dr. Corsi, who was recently reported to have been arrested in Kenya because there was fear that he might reveal information on Obama when he wanted to hold a press conference in Nairobi.
“When API asked Mrs. Obama to comment on why Dr. Corsi was arrested by the Kenyan government and whether she thought Kenya’s Prime Minister Mr. Raila Odinga was involved in Dr. Corsi’s arrest, she got irritated and simply told API not to dig that which will support evil people who are out to stop her husband from getting the presidency.
“When asked who she was referring to as the evil people, she stated that she was not going to elaborate much on that but that many conservative white people and even some African Americans were against her husband, but that this group of blacks were simply doing so because of envy.

“On Farakhan and his ministry, Mrs. Obama told API that it was unfortunate that Mr. Farrakhan came out the way he did supporting her husband openly before the elections (sic) was over. That was not wholehearted support but one that was calculated to convince the American people that my husband will support the growth of Muslim faith if he became the president, adding ‘even if my husband was able to prove that he is not a Muslim, he will not be believed by those who have come out strongly to destroy his chances of being the next President. Do real people expect someone to deny a religion when 80 percent of his relatives are Muslims?’” Mrs. Obama asked.

Meanwhile, there is no doubt that without a single vote having been cast for her husband, that the Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin-dubbed “Michelle, Ma Belle” is already off choosing her gown for his inauguration ball.

Intimidation by ObamaNation

Intimidation by ObamaNation
by Mark Hillman


Barack Obama says Republicans "are going to try to make you afraid of me." Well, it's hard to imagine how the GOP could conjure up a more fearsome specter of an Obama presidency than the one created by the tactics of his own campaign.

Responding to those who dare commit blasphemy against The One, Obama's campaign has unleashed lawsuits and urged prosecution by no less than the Justice Department, enlisted elected officials to threaten and intimidate his foes, and deployed its vast internet e-mail list to silence bloggers and radio talk shows.

In Missouri, Obama allies, from a U.S. Senator to a local sheriff, threatened criminal proceedings against television stations that air anti-Obama commercials. Such "police state tactics" prompted Gov. Matt Blunt to charge Obama's campaign with "abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism."

ObamaNation used the same strategy against the National Rifle Association when its political fund released ads to educate gun owners about Obama's hostile record. Bob Bauer, attorney for the Obama campaign, urged cable and television stations in Pennsylvania to "immediately cease" airing the NRA's ads, because the campaign determined they were "false, misleading and deceptive."

Well.

Similarly, Bauer pressured the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute the non-profit American Issues Project and one of its donors over an advertising campaign that exposed Obama's alliances with domestic terrorist-turned-university professor William Ayers who has reflected, "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

The Obama campaign also dispatched its thought police to silence the free speech rights of opponents on radio and internet. First aimed at internet blogs supporting Hillary Clinton, Obama supporters swamp certain unfriendly blogs with "spam" complaints.

When those complaints reach a threshold, Google's Blogger platform renders the blog inoperable. Bloggers must then wait for Google to make an individual determination whether or not each accused blog is legitimate.

A more sinister intimidation befell journalists probing Obama's background in Chicago politics, as well as radio stations that provided a platform for those reports.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Obama's campaign used its database "listing contact information for millions of people" not only for raising money but "to beat back media messages it does not like."

Milt Rosenberg, a longtime talk show host on Chicago's WGN radio interviewed two prominent Obama critics, author David Freddoso and professor Stanley Kurtz. Freddoso's The Case Against Barack Obama is a best-seller that unflatteringly examines Obama's career, while Kurtz fought the University of Illinois to gain access to files documenting activities involving Obama and Ayers.

In both cases, Rosenberg specifically invited Obama's campaign to participate. Obama's camp not only refused, but it dispatched an e-mail alert instructing compliant Obamabots to bombard the radio switchboard and e-mail in order to fill the lines with scripted callers and block out other voices.

Even liberal commentator Andrew Sullivan called the Obama tactics "a disgraceful attempt to intimidate journalists trying to get at the facts."

If other slimy strategies fail, Obama critics are subjected to the nuclear option , the race card , often by a reliably hypersensitive, sycophantic media.
Associated Press "analyst" Douglass Daniel tied himself in knots explaining how Sarah Palin's comment about Obama "palling around" with terrorists ‹ again referring to Ayers and his wife, both of whom are white , "carried a racially tinged subtext."

Remember, too, the supposed racial overtones ascribed to McCain's ad comparing the accomplishment-free Obama to similarly-credentialed starlets Paris Hilton and Britney Spears , again, both white.

Mentioning Obama's accounts of his own use of marijuana or cocaine is off limits because that's racist, too. And, of course, to vote for someone other than Obama is the telltale sign of racism.

If this is the treatment Obama's critics receive now ­ when he's merely a freshman senator from Illinois ­ there's plenty to fear from an Obama presidency.

The dangerous tactic of “astroturfing”

Obama accuses the McCain campaign director for taking money from the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage giants. Well that information is true, at least true in the fact that their companies accepted the money, because that is what they do, they are known as lobbyists. A lobbyist will take money from a company to promote a cause to either a senator or a congressman.

Obama on the other hand has as his primary campaign manager a man named David Axelrod. He is a partner in a company that has basically paid to lobby on a companies behalf, in much the same way that McCain’s campaign manager does. AKP&D Message & Media consultancy, the campaign veteran has advised a succession of Democratic candidates since 1985, and he's now chief strategist for Senator Barack Obama's bid for President. But on the down low, Axelrod moonlights in the private sector.

David Axelrod has his own deep secrets though a company known as ASK Public Strategies, this company is paid by companies to perform a service to “shape public opinion” Astroturfing for short. His company is paid to alter public opinion by way of advertising under the guise of a “concerned group” that can’t be traced. There is no state government regulation on this in Illinois because it doesn’t use the polititian. Everything about ASK is top secret, from clients lists to revenues to even their employees names.

In a TV commercial, constructed by ASK, warned of a ComEd (Chicago Electric Company) bankruptcy and blackouts without a rate hike: "A few years ago, California politicians seized control of electric rates. They held rates down, but the true cost of energy kept rising. Soon the electric company went bust; the lights went out. Consumers had to pay for the mess. Now, some people in Illinois are playing the same game." CORE, which describes itself on its Web site as "a coalition of individuals, businesses and organizations," was identified as the ad's sponsor. After a complaint was filed with state regulators, ComEd acknowledged that it had bankrolled the entire $15 million effort.
Similar ad campaigns were done by ASK on behalf of companies such as Comcast, AT&T,Children’s Museum in Grant Park, on the request of long time friend Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago. As has been said in the past, Chicago has one of the most corrupt administrations in the country, and Barack Obama’s campaign which is laced with questionable characters is no coincedence. David Axelrod’s involvement in the Obama campaign is a clear signal that they chose to masquarade as concerned groups to “mold public opinion” in the most underhanded ways possible. Transperancy is a catch phrase that Obama uses without flinching, and yet he hires a man who has NO transperancy, yet another contradiction in his less then honest run for the Presidency.

Barney Frank Hit Over Boyfriend’s Fannie Mae Role

Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Rep. Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.
Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.

He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae, Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.

“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane? “But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”

A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”
Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998
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National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”

Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.”

In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae


As reported from Newsmax.com

Jimmy Carter criticizes President Bush?

Past president Jimmy Carter emphasis on PAST has enough nerve to critique’ President George Bush on his handling of the economic crisis. The very same dementia ridden idiot from the left that told all the Islamic countries how many nuclear weapons Israel has, has chosen to shoot his mouth off about economics.

What exactly does he know about economics? This was the very same man that put us into this situation by way of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the basis of the sub-prime loan failures that Obama blames on George Bush. The very same man who stood by cowering in the corner while Iran held OUR hostages. He was the one in charge on our last financial decline in the late seventies

This Idiot really has enough nerve to blame anything on anyone. Remember the Iran hostages? Remember the gasoline shortages of his administration? Maybe the younger generation doesn’t remember it, but I sure as hell do! This past president couldn’t organize a two-car funeral, but has the audacity to blame Bush for the credit problems of today.

This Idiot chose to institute “affirmative action” on the mortgage market, a political solution to a self-perceived financial problem, which in turn drove the housing market into an overly inflated basis.

His initial Act, which was later bolstered by Bill Clinton, has driven our economy into a tailspin. This is not up for debate, this is fact! Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and all the useful idiots from the leftist (socialist) agenda have chosen to participate in transference.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Tell a lie, make it big, make it simple, and tell it often, eventually the people will believe you………………Adolph Hitler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeVLkCTXaw&feature=related

Obama's ACORN roots

Obama's ACORN roots

“’You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.’ So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left ‘community organizers’ called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness. At the time, however, that 1995 Chicago newspaper article represented something of a triumph for Barack Obama. That same year, as a director at Chicago’s Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN’s way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we’ve recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis... In June of 1995, President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Secretary Cisneros announced the administration’s comprehensive new strategy for raising home-ownership in America to an all-time high. Representatives from ACORN were guests of honor at the ceremony. In his remarks, Clinton emphasized that: ‘Our homeownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent. It will not require legislation.’ Clinton meant that informal partnerships between Fannie and Freddie and groups like ACORN would make mortgages available to customers ‘who have historically been excluded from homeownership.’ In the end of course, Clinton’s plan cost taxpayers an almost unimaginable amount of money. And it was just around the time of his 1995 announcement that the Chicago papers started encouraging bad-credit customers with ‘dog-food’ wages, little money in the bank, and even histories of bankruptcy to apply for home loans with the help of ACORN...ACORN is at the base of the whole mess... And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN’s economic madness every step of the way.” —Stanley Kurtz
reprinted form the Patriot Post http://www.patriotpost.us/

Acorn; maybe this would be a good time for them to hide their nuts

Today it was announced that a non-profit organization under the name of Acorn has participated in wide spread voter registration fraud. This organization has registered some 1.7 million new voters for this election era. Acorn aim is to register poverty and low-income people. It certainly raises eyebrows when the very states that have been labeled as “purple states” (on the borderline between candidates), have been the states where the voter fraud has been questioned.

It was widely reported this week that Acorn has participated in not only unethical practices, but also illegal ones. Multiple registrations for one person (some as many as 76 times) have shown to be a common practice on Acorn voter registrations. One voter was promised cigarettes in return for his vote, and another crack cocaine. Acorn a government subsidized, non-profit organization is reportedly using commissioned (paid per voter sign up) agents to register new voters.

When will the government prosecute and remove “non profit” status from the groups known to abuse the very morals they have been sworn to uphold? Let’s start with ACORN, and then go after the churches that preach against the country! Of course to do so challenges the very group that holds power in the country, the democrats. They are the ones who not only survive, but also thrive on the idea of anarchy. If the democrats achieve total rule in the house and the Executive branch of government, who will be left to question their motives? Maybe we as a voting body should demand that every single voter registration that Acorn signed up for this election should be null and void!

Debate: McCain vs ????????

Debate: McCain vs ????????
Kevin Bryant

As like many of you, I watched the debate last night. I don’t know if you were as much in awe of all the past presidents and presidential hopefuls that showed up as I am. I have to tell you, there were more people to show up on the Obama side during the debate than there was during the Democratic National Convention.

I know, you are all sitting there and asking yourselves if I was drunk last night or watching clips of past events. I assure you that we did in fact watch the same debate. Let me tell you how I came to the conclusion that I spelled out in my opening paragraph.

90% of Americans who watched the debate, 1st watched with their eyes, and then listened with their ears. We all saw the same thing last night, Obama on one side of the stage and McCain on the other. I’m certain that we can all agree on this. But what I heard last night was McCain on one side of the stage and a whole host of past and present political personalities on the other.

During much of the debate that covered health care, on one side you saw and heard the same old John McCain. During the primary debates, Obama stated that he wanted all Americans to be covered by government-mandated health insurance. This is not what he said last night. Instead of that Barack Obama answering the questions, there were shades of Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter & Hillary Clinton in those responses. There was not one bit of his response that said or even sounded like the Obama that was on stage debating during the primaries.

During the debate, national security was touched on. On one side there again was John McCain. On the other side, there was not one hint of the Obama that played to the George Soros and the Moveon.org crowd that you saw during the primary debates. Instead what we got was a little bit of Bill Clinton, some Jimmy Carter, some John Kerry and even a hint or two of Ronald Reagan. Where was the Obama that stated North Korea, Iran and Syria were small countries that didn’t pose any real threat to the United States? Where was the man who said that he would eliminate all nuclear weapons including those of the United States? I didn’t see him up there…….did you?

On economic issues, it was again McCain battling on one side, but it wasn’t the primary debating Obama on the other. What I heard coming from the Obama side of the stage sounded more along the lines of both John & Robert Kennedy with again some Bill Clinton thrown into the mix.

Taxes, everyone’s favorite subject. McCain once again was McCain, saying the same old things. Now here comes present day Obama and not the one from just a few months ago. He’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class. Can this guy get it through his head that if you raise taxes on corporations, they just pass them on to the consumers? If you raise taxes on those making $250,000 a year, then you will include all those middle class individuals who have finally reached the age of 59.5, been saving all their lives and are now required to close or change their IRA’s (hello reportable income). He will repeal the Bush tax cuts…..hello increased taxes on the middle class as well as the rich. Repealing the Bush tax cut also includes bringing back the death tax which not only affects the rich and middle class, but even those who would normally have zero tax liability. Someone stuck a stupid seed in a flowerpot and up popped a blooming Obama idiot.

On specifics when questioned about Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, we all heard the John McCain that we have all heard in the past many years. Where oh where was the white flag of surrender waving Obama from the democratic debates? I guess he stayed home and some imposter showed up sounding more like Lyndon Johnson and Teddy Roosevelt than the Barack Obama that we saw for the 16 or so months of the primaries. He sounded like Johnson in the manner that we would have never sent troops to go fight in a war that they had no business being in ala Johnson and Vietnam. The Roosevelt side came through loud and clear and he’s going to lead the charge into Afghanistan and root out and destroy the Taliban once and for all. If the Pakistanis couldn’t take care of the terrorist camps and root out Bin Ladin on their own, he would go in himself and get them. This from a man who has more disdain for the military than both Bill & Hillary Clinton combined.

So, what I learned from the debates is who these candidates really are. John McCain is still John McCain and Barack Obama is no longer filled with hatred and socialist aspirations, but instead now an experimental mental mixing of DNA from Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, John Kerry, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and I am sure that when you break it down, you will find some more past politic figures thrown into the mix. You could almost qualify him as a multi-personality schizophrenic.

The ACORN/Obama Voter Registration "Thug Thizzle"

The ACORN/Obama Voter Registration "Thug Thizzle"
by Michelle Malkin


Systemic corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I've reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two liberal groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in battleground states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
What's wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militant partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan civic activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same key states.

On Tuesday, Nevada state officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names.

ACORN, which receives 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers to pursue an aggressive welfare-state agenda, has already helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. The rest of their funding comes from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.
Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by left-wing lawyer Sandy Newman to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

The two groups are inextricably linked -- and at their nexus is Barack Obama.
In 1992, Newman hired Obama to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The Illinois drive's motto: "It's a Power Thing."

As previously noted in this column ("The ACORN Obama Knows," June 25, 2008), Obama also trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN's PAC endorsed his primary bid with full backing and muscle.

Despite his adamant denials of any association with the group (his Fight the Smears website now claims "Barack Obama never organized with ACORN"), Obama's political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

The Obama campaign's "Vote for Change" registration drive, running parallel to ACORN/Project Vote, is an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama's big-government vision. "Our volume," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, "will be enormous."

Quantity over quality. It's the ACORN way.

In addition to the Las Vegas raid, fraud allegations keep piling up:
Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected a large portion of the 5,000 registration forms ACORN turned in after conducting registration drives in the area all summer. Some vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. According to local reports, "large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants included dead people and underage kids.

On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 voter applications were no good -- tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

Last month, Milwaukee, Wis., officials discovered at least seven felons employed as voter registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter registration cards. The state GOP accused ACORN of attempting to enroll dead, imprisoned or imaginary people to voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. According to the Miami Herald, "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices several months ago, but it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats that constitute a fifth of all new voters in that region.

In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people received free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling prospects to the polls. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who told her ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because "I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle."

"Thug thizzle" is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democratic power base. Rules be damned.

Do You Know the Real Barack Obama?

Do You Know the Real Barack Obama?
by Carol Platt Liebau Columnist for Townhall.com


As the 2008 presidential campaign hurtles into its final days, John McCain confronts a choice: He can either start telling the public about the real Barack Obama, or he can lose.

For much of his career, McCain has been a media darling. He could count on the press to carry his water as long as he was a “maverick” Republican, driving more conservative members of his party crazy. But as he surely knows by now, when it comes to Barack Obama and the press, all bets are off. In covering Obama, the press has adopted a “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy designed to boost the least-vetted, least-known candidate ever to seek the presidency. It isn’t by accident that the media has denied all less-than-glowing stories about Obama the kind of consistent, sustained coverage that allows them to penetrate public consciousness.

If McCain is going to have a chance at winning, he must make sure that the public becomes thoroughly acquainted with the real Barack Obama – the most radical presidential nominee ever. And because the press evidently intends to abdicate its responsibility to acquaint voters with the less-popular parts of Obama’s record, he’ll have to rely on paid advertising to do it.
For starters, McCain should consider running a series of “Did You Know” ads about Barack Obama.

He should ask voters, “Did you know that:

Barack Obama has multiple ties to those responsible for the present economic crisis?:

Franklin Raines, the immediate past CEO of Fannie Mae – who has collected a $90 million golden parachute while driving Fannie into the ground – has advised Obama on housing issues
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Jim Johnson, yet another former Fannie Mae CEO, resigned from Obama’s vice presidential search team when it was revealed he had received a sweetheart home mortgage deal.

Despite serving in the Senate for only four years, Obama himself has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac largesse in the entire Congress, ahead even of former presidential candidate John Kerry, who’s spent two decades in the Senate?

Obama’s long-time political ally, radical group ACORN, played a key role in pressuring banks to offer loans to those who were unlikely to be able to pay them back. ACORN has taken credit for pressuring banks to accept undocumented income as a basis for offering loans, for offering loans without using credit scores, and for making 100% financed loans available to low-income people.

There is more, of course. Do voters know:
That, in apparent defiance of federal election law, the Obama campaign refuses to identify individual donors who have provided almost half the funds for his campaign, including obvious fakes like “Mr. Good Will” and “Mr. Doodad Pro”?

And that 11,500 donations to his campaign – totaling almost $34 million – may have come from overseas? Or that two Palestinians living in a Hamas-controlled refugee camp spent $31,300 in Obama’s online store? Who are all these people, and why won’t the Obama campaign obey the law and identify them?

That Jeremiah Wright wasn’t Obama’s first radical mentor? As a young man in Hawaii, Obama had a quasi-filial relationship with radical Frank Marshall Davis – an avowed member of the Communist Party of the USA. In fact, in his memoirs, Obama concedes that he attended “socialist conferences” and encountered Marxist literature. (Now imagine the outcry if a Republican presidential candidate had such ties to a Nazi).

That the People's Weekly World – the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA – has rhapsodized about Obama’s presidential campaign, calling it a "transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term"? (Think about how the press would react if a fascist newspaper heaped such praise on McCain.)

That Obama has routinely tried to intimidate his critics into silence? His political organization spearheaded a massive campaign against a Chicago radio show that invited one of his critics to appear – even after being asked (and refusing) to send a representative to balance the program, hosted by a non-partisan University of Chicago psychology professor.

Worse, his campaign sought to chill free speech by establishing a “truth squad” of Missouri prosecutors and sheriffs, which threatened a “vigorous response” to any ad presenting information about Obama that they deemed to be “inaccurate.” And there are other examples.

That even as America struggles to “bail out” our own struggling economy, Obama backs a global bailout? His Global Poverty Initiative would assess $2500 per taxpayer, according to Investor’s Business Daily, to fund a global war on poverty administered by the UN and its agencies.

That despite touting his academic credentials as a rationale for initiating a campaign for president just two years after leaving the Illinois state legislature, Obama refuses to release either his college or his law school transcripts – just as he sought to keep records of his working relationship with former terrorist Bill Ayers on The Annenberg Challenge (a left-wing educational foundation) safely under wraps? What is it that he doesn’t want voters to know?

Repeatedly, we’ve heard the media denounce the “rumors” about Barack Obama that are, supposedly, circulated on the internet exclusively by the bigoted and the ignorant. But Americans sense that there is more to Barack Obama than they’ve been told.

Having witnessed the media’s own bias and favoritism, they’ve come to suspect – reasonably – that even if any of the rumors were true, the press might choose to conceal them until the election is safely over. What’s more, they wonder: What else is the press not telling us?

Certainly, it would be terribly wrong for John McCain to traffic in rumors. But he doesn’t need to. The truth is more than enough. There are facts that the American people deserve to know – and which the press isn’t telling them. By filling in the gaps that the media has left unmentioned, John McCain isn’t just doing himself a service. He’s doing journalists’ job for them, and allowing Americans to make an informed decision when they head to the polls next month.


http://townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2008/10/06/do_you_know_the_real_barack_obama?page=1

Spanking that redheaded stepchild

Henry Waxman needed a scapegoat today as congress started their “place blame game.” It is a blame game now and the Democrats saw fit to grill the CEO of Lehman Bros. They asked him if his severance pay of 400 million was defensible.

They have chosen to attack the secondary targets and not the primary ones. I’d like to see a grilling of say Jimmy Carter for his role in the Community Reinvestment Act, or maybe Bill Clinton for his role in expanding Carter’s program.

Democrats see fit to place the blame on the “lack of oversight,” on the present administration, and yet the problems started with Carter. Where were the regulations on President Carter’s instituted act? Where were the regulations on the Clinton watch? President Clinton has admitted that more regulation was needed.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had all the expendable money to donate to individual campaigns, how was that even allowed? Both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are considered as non-profit organizations and yet they are under congressional oversight. The non-profit status allowed the questionable “donations” to virtually every senator and most congressmen.

Why hasn’t Henry Waxman dragged Franklin Raines, past CEO of Fannie Mae, who collected some 240 million and then “retired early” after questionable accounting practices. His career started in the Carter Administration as an “assistant director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff from 1977 to 1979. He went on to in 1996 to join the Clinton Administration as the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he served until 1998. His involvement with the Democratic Party was irrefutable, and yet the democrats will NOT question his involvement or others on their part to fleece America out of BILLIONS of dollars.

John McCain and George Bush have not only many years of trying to get congress to enact more stringent laws about lending (specifically Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.) But it is also recorded that Chris Dodd and Barney Frank told the American public that “everything was ok with both institutions,” and yet here we are, bailing out 5 to 7% of bad loans that shouldn’t have been made in the first place.

We have now entered the socialistic region. When something is enacted to benefit the few, stolen from the pockets of the many. This lending crisis is what started to cause the house of cards to fall. I hope the rest of the EU is watching, because in a world economy, when one goes down we all go down, you have a President of the United States from the past who pushed a policy that has caused a backlash in your economy now. One for all, all for one………..get used to it if Barack Obama is elected, because more bad times are headed your way, and the funny part is……….you don’t even vote for him!

Do Facts Matter?

Do Facts Matter?
By Thomas Sowell




Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now.
Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.

It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years— including the present year— denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial crisis.

Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?

Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.

Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!

The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.

The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.

But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.
Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.

The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to counter-attack. They deserve to lose. But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.

Who will you trust to protect us?

With a renewed Russian threat to assemble a new “Axis of Evil”, we have to wonder who would be the best candidate to support our country. John McCain believes in National Defense, and increasing the defense budget. After the Clinton Administration decreased our defense budget by 35% the attack on the Twin Towers happened, leaving us with a decreased capability to fight an Islamic war on many fronts. Barack Obama, on the other hand, wants us to give up our defenses while many countries seek to destroy us. He has concluded that Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, are all “small countries” and pose us no threat!

Vladimir Putin is on a course now to assemble a consortium of countries to secure Russia’s supply of oil, while in the same time strangling our country for supplies. Threats aren’t just physical, economic damage can hold us hostage too. Obama seems to have a simplistic view of foreign affairs, and that view will serve to hurt us. It wasn’t coincidence that had Russia invading Georgia, they have a pipeline of oil and they are a democracy, but of course Obama had 4 different positions on this invasion before actually deciding on anything.

You need to view this video to see his exact words;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcqhoiK8-Ww

Joe's nose was growing last night!

Joe Biden's 14 Lies in the Vice Presidential Debate 10/02/08

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”

4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.

5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.

7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false

8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.

9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.

10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.

11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.

12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.

13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”

14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.

Lies compiled by Michael Goldfarb

If you look at no other video this year you NEED to see this one!

This explains all the events that led up to the present financial crisis, including the PROOF! Listen to this carefully, and pause the video if you need to, it is sooooooooooooo fast!

If our country listens to the media exclusively, the whole story hasn't been told, the conservatives are working on a 20% deficit at the very LEAST!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_597487

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank caught with hands in the cookie jar

The Democrats seem to want to refuse accept responsibility in the financial failure. They claim the high ground, but their actions (Harry Reid telling McCain “we don’t need you here”) speak volumes. The Democrats seem so divisive, and want this whole debacle to slide off their backs, and yet here we have Barney Frank, the same democrat that claimed that there was nothing wrong with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, tell us what “we” have to do to fix the problem.

I’m shocked and amazed that McCain has failed to place blame where blame is due, and that he hasn’t distanced himself more from what President Bush wants to do (the same thing the dems want to do) and place all the stress on the taxpayer. Actually I’d love to see ALL the strain placed on every politician who sought to have their pockets filled with campaign graft. Is it just me who sees this campaign giving to the Senate Banking Committee as a CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

President Bush doesn’t look like a “turn coat” but more and more like a lame duck just buying his time (with our money) out of a financial jam. John McCain doesn’t agree with him on this issue as well as many others in the past, contrary to what Obama would like you to believe.

Why doesn’t McCain expose Obama’s past history in this issue? This infuriates me to see him being beaten on an issue that looks so cut and dry from the surface. I know that McCain’s campaign advisors have accepted money from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae but that IS the job of a lobbyist! They get paid to advance an issue. Do I have a problem with the fact McCain hired them?…………Damn right I do! Did Mc Cain accept money from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Yes he did, but very little.

Although neither candidate is in the banking committee, certainly the fact that Obama has taken some serious money from them erodes his credibility saying that the problems lie entirely with the present administration.

I think accountability is going to be part of this huge bailout. I’d personally like to see a public admission from Carter and Clinton (both liberal media darlings), that their political institutions of affirmative action in mortgage lending hasn’t worked, AND I’d like to see the two democratic leaders in the banking committees step down, Barney Frank (past leader) and the leader now Chris Dodd, who got a lot of money in his political campaign from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. While we are talking about things that will NEVER happen, let’s have EVERY politician give back every dime they accepted from both institutions, to help pay for their “oversights” read (looking the other way) on America’s best interests.

Also I’d like to ask Nancy Pelosi to keep her mouth shut if she expects the Republicans and 95 of her own Democrats to sign any kind of agreement, her opinions aren’t helpful to a quick resolution.

Obamamonopoly

Not much fun playing this game is it?

Obama is benefiting from the financial crisis, in more ways then one!

Obama has benefited from the financial crisis, swapping polling figures and for what reasoning? In 2007 alone President George Bush warned the Congress 17 times, and that doesn’t count all the years previous. In 2003 President Bush recommended an overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A report by outside investigators in July 2003 concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not

adequately hedge against rising interest rates.
Are they laughing at us?

House democrats had the following statements;

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed. ”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.

Senator John McCain explained his stance in early 2006 as follows;

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac. The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
The Democrats killed this measure in Committee preventing the full Senate Vote.
As you can see from the articles, President Bush and Senator McCain were over- ridden by house democrats, and yet the democrats are the ones who are benefiting?

Check this link http://cbs2chicago.com/business/fannie.mae.franklin.2.703253.html for some interesting facts about the aforementioned Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae, or just Google him. According to Wiki, Raines is currently employed by Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign as an economic adviser. Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008 Top Three:
Dodd, Christopher J
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$165,400


Obama, Barack
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$126,349


Kerry, John
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See the greedy hands that took the graft: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie.html
This explains it all!
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/09/busted-video-of-fannie-mae-ceo-in-2005.html

Barack Obama is relying on the fact that voters in America are stupid! He relies on the fact that we can’t research all the facts of his involvement, while all the time thumbing his nose at the Republicans.

If I were a senator I'd be demanding the removal of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank as part of the bail out, the head people who said there was NO problem..........leave them in?........when can it happen again?

send this video to all your friends, it's long but well worth it!

Burning down the House: what really caused the housing crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o&eurl=

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/joe-curl/2008/Sep/26/whos-blame-crisis/

In the words of Pastor Jeremiah Wright......." the chickens have come home to roost!"

Bumbling Joe and his economic plan,……….. god help us!

“Joe Biden isn’t backing down from his startling claim last week that raising taxes on the rich is the ‘patriotic’ thing to do. [In fact,] he upped the ante, thundering that he also has Jesus in his corner. ‘Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,’ Mr. Biden preached to a group of union supporters... We won’t get into a theological debate with Mr. Biden, except to say that Biblical tax rates tended to run around 10%, not the 39.6%-plus that Barack Obama’s tax plan calls for. As for patriotism, maybe the young Joe Biden missed school the day the Boston Tea Party was being taught. There’s also the point that if you want to finance a war, you need a strong enough economy to throw off the tax revenues to pay for it. As we learned in the 1980s under Reagan, lower taxes that help an economy grow can finance a defense buildup that helps win the Cold War. By that standard, cuts in marginal income tax rates deserve to be called patriotic. Regarding taxes and social justice, the issue is whether the high taxes that Mr. Biden favors promote economic growth and prosperity, not least for America’s poorest citizens. There he doesn’t have evidence on his side. Studies from around the world, including the annual Wall Street Journal-Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom, conclusively indicate that countries that keep taxes low tend to have the least amount of poverty. As for fairness, we’d note that today the top 1% of taxpayers pay twice as large a share of income taxes (39%) at a 35% rate than they did in 1980, when they were taxed at a rate of 70% yet paid only 19% of income taxes. In that sense, the tax code is more ‘progressive’ now. By the way, Mr. Biden and his wife recently released their tax returns, and they reported an average of $380, or 0.2% of their income, in annual charitable contributions over a 10-year period. The national average was about 2% of income.” —The Wall Street Journal

Joe Biden does it AGAIN!

With the ugliness of a financial crisis looming, and the actions that seem to be bi-partisan so far for the common good of our country. Leave it to Joe Biden, voted second largest “windbag” of the senate, by his peers, to climb over the dead bodies in the wake to grab all the money he can. It appears Senator Biden ignored all pleas to not have any earmarks until we are finished with the bailout. He brazenly requested 51.5 million dollars for his home state of Delaware, while the country hangs in the balance. Evidently HE has no problem multi-tasking, does he really see this as an opportunity to make money for his state, while voting for the bail out?

People need to wake up when blatant actions like this happen and get brushed under the carpet.

Gaffees this week by the Senator from Delaware

“I guarantee you Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey... If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.” —Joe Biden on Obama, who recently said, “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress.”

“I am so sick and tired of this phoniness. The truth of the matter is that we are in trouble, and the people who do not need new tax cuts should be willing as patriotic Americans to understand the way to get this economy back up on their feet is to give middle class taxpayers a break.” —Joe Biden, defending his patriotic tax remarks from last week.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television...” —Joe Biden **Uh, Joe, Roosevelt wasn’t president in 1929 and TV’s weren’t commercially available until the late 1930s.