Top 10 Poorest Cities
What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI(1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY(2nd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH(3rd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1984;
Cleveland, OH(4th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1989;
Miami, FL(5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO(6th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1949;
El Paso, TX(7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI(8th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA(9th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1952;
Newark, NJ(10th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
Pittsburgh, PA(11) ... No Republican held ANY office in Pittsburgh for 65 years until two were elected in 1995.
Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
It is the disadvantaged (define that however you will) who habitually elect Democrats --- yet they are still disadvantaged after all these years! Imagine that.
Like Charles Barkley said: "The poor have been voting for Democrats for 50 year s and they are still poor" !!!!!!
December 10, 2008
November 10, 2008
EDITORS NOTE FOR NOV 11 2008
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I HAVE OVER THE PAST YEAR WORKED AT GETTING LEGISLATION PAST IN THE FEDERAL LINE TO CEASE PAYING PENSIONS TO THOSE "CONVICTED FELONS". THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THEM. ROSTENKOWSKI, CUNNINGHAM, JUDGE HASTINGS (NOW DRAWING A JUDGES RETIREMENT THO HE IS NOW IN CONGRESS) AND THERE ARE OTHERS.
THE IRONY OF THIS EFFORT IS THIS. I PURSUED CLOSURE TO THE PROBLEM BY WRITING AND HOUNDING MY SENATOR TED STEVENS OF ALASKA. I FELT THAT I HAD A CHAMPION IN MR. STEVENS, AS HE FAITHFULLY ANSWERED MY QUERIES AS TO THE STATUS OF THE BILL GOING THROUGH CONGRESS AND SENATE.
ON FEBRUARY 11 2008, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM MR.STEVENS ADVISING ME THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL PENSION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IS TITLE IV OF S.1. THIS LEGISLATION APPLIES TO LAWMAKERS CONVICTED OF A CRIME AFTER THE BILL BECAME LAW. ARTICLE I. SECTION 0 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROHIBITS "ex post facto" LAWS, THEREFORE, THIS LAW DOES NOT APPLY PUNISHMENT RETROACTIVELY.
I MENTION IRONY IN THIS CASE FOR AS I WAS COMMUNICATING WITH THIS SENATOR OF MINE, THIS WEASEL WAS IN THE THROES OF CRIMES AT THE VERY TIME HE WAS SUPPOSEDLY PUTTING A STOP TO THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ($126,000. PER YEAR TO ROSTENKOWSKI) ANNUALLY. HE WAS CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT OF SEVEN FELONY COUNTS. OF COURSE AS ANY MISCREANT THE DENIALS WILL LAST FOR EVER. THE FACTS REMAIN HE WAS CONVICTED.
THE BITTER PART OF THIS IS THAT THE SLIMES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE A LAW TO BREAK AND APPARENTLY BE SPECIFIC AS TO THE TYPE OF CRIME BEING BROKEN BEFORE THERE CAN BE THE TYPE OF PUNISHMENT METED TO THEM IN WITH THE VALUE OF OR WORTH OF THE CRIME. THUS IF ONE TAKES MONEY OR FAVOR FOR MISGUIDED DEED AND IS CONVICTED ME/SHE/IT MAY GO TO JAIL BUT THE GAIN (MONEY OR FAVOR) REMAINS WITH THEM.
THIS A TRAVESTY THAT CAN BE HANDLED, AS I SEE IT, VERY QUICKLY. IT IS CALLED 'ANSWER TO YOUR OATH'. MOST OF US IN OUR WORKING LIFETIME HAVE HAD TO ANSWER
OR FACE THAT 'ANSWER TO YOUR OATH' AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER.
MOST OATHS PROCLAIM THAT THE MAKER OF THE OATH WILL OBEY THE STRUCTURE (LAWS OF, CONSTITUTION OF, OR OTHER MANIFESTO OF) MAKING UP THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL EMPLOYEES
FUNCTION. THIS IS CALLED 'STANDARD OF ETHICS' FOR THOSE NEEDING HELP.
WITH THIS IN MIND THEN THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE TRUE. BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME(CURRENTLY OKAY TO TAKE GIFTS OR MONEY) AND GET A LITTLE JAIL TIME BUT, BUT, BUT, YOU STILL GET TO KEEP YOUR MILLION DOLLAR PENSION. REMEMBER THAT JAIL TIME FOR MOST OF THESE SLIME BAGS IS LESS THAT 36 MONTHS. EVEN I CAN DO THAT STANDING ON MY HEAD.
MY NAME IS DAVE ANDERSON AND YOU CAN REACH ME AT oad@alaska.net I ASK YOU TO JOIN ME IN PURSUING AN HONEST END TO THE CORRUPTION RAMPANT IN THE CAPITOL CITY.
THE IRONY OF THIS EFFORT IS THIS. I PURSUED CLOSURE TO THE PROBLEM BY WRITING AND HOUNDING MY SENATOR TED STEVENS OF ALASKA. I FELT THAT I HAD A CHAMPION IN MR. STEVENS, AS HE FAITHFULLY ANSWERED MY QUERIES AS TO THE STATUS OF THE BILL GOING THROUGH CONGRESS AND SENATE.
ON FEBRUARY 11 2008, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM MR.STEVENS ADVISING ME THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL PENSION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IS TITLE IV OF S.1. THIS LEGISLATION APPLIES TO LAWMAKERS CONVICTED OF A CRIME AFTER THE BILL BECAME LAW. ARTICLE I. SECTION 0 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROHIBITS "ex post facto" LAWS, THEREFORE, THIS LAW DOES NOT APPLY PUNISHMENT RETROACTIVELY.
I MENTION IRONY IN THIS CASE FOR AS I WAS COMMUNICATING WITH THIS SENATOR OF MINE, THIS WEASEL WAS IN THE THROES OF CRIMES AT THE VERY TIME HE WAS SUPPOSEDLY PUTTING A STOP TO THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ($126,000. PER YEAR TO ROSTENKOWSKI) ANNUALLY. HE WAS CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT OF SEVEN FELONY COUNTS. OF COURSE AS ANY MISCREANT THE DENIALS WILL LAST FOR EVER. THE FACTS REMAIN HE WAS CONVICTED.
THE BITTER PART OF THIS IS THAT THE SLIMES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE A LAW TO BREAK AND APPARENTLY BE SPECIFIC AS TO THE TYPE OF CRIME BEING BROKEN BEFORE THERE CAN BE THE TYPE OF PUNISHMENT METED TO THEM IN WITH THE VALUE OF OR WORTH OF THE CRIME. THUS IF ONE TAKES MONEY OR FAVOR FOR MISGUIDED DEED AND IS CONVICTED ME/SHE/IT MAY GO TO JAIL BUT THE GAIN (MONEY OR FAVOR) REMAINS WITH THEM.
THIS A TRAVESTY THAT CAN BE HANDLED, AS I SEE IT, VERY QUICKLY. IT IS CALLED 'ANSWER TO YOUR OATH'. MOST OF US IN OUR WORKING LIFETIME HAVE HAD TO ANSWER
OR FACE THAT 'ANSWER TO YOUR OATH' AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER.
MOST OATHS PROCLAIM THAT THE MAKER OF THE OATH WILL OBEY THE STRUCTURE (LAWS OF, CONSTITUTION OF, OR OTHER MANIFESTO OF) MAKING UP THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL EMPLOYEES
FUNCTION. THIS IS CALLED 'STANDARD OF ETHICS' FOR THOSE NEEDING HELP.
WITH THIS IN MIND THEN THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE TRUE. BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME(CURRENTLY OKAY TO TAKE GIFTS OR MONEY) AND GET A LITTLE JAIL TIME BUT, BUT, BUT, YOU STILL GET TO KEEP YOUR MILLION DOLLAR PENSION. REMEMBER THAT JAIL TIME FOR MOST OF THESE SLIME BAGS IS LESS THAT 36 MONTHS. EVEN I CAN DO THAT STANDING ON MY HEAD.
MY NAME IS DAVE ANDERSON AND YOU CAN REACH ME AT oad@alaska.net I ASK YOU TO JOIN ME IN PURSUING AN HONEST END TO THE CORRUPTION RAMPANT IN THE CAPITOL CITY.
November 8, 2008
Republicans Will Emerge Stronger Than Ever
Republicans Will Emerge Stronger Than Ever
Thursday, November 6, 2008 4:28 PM
If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.
Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy.
The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt, student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.
Had McCain won, he would be the latter-day Hoover, blamed for the disaster that unfolded on his watch. Now it is Obama's problem. With the Republicans suffering a wipeout in congressional elections (although not as bad as they feared), the ball is now squarely in the Democratic court. Good luck!
If Obama raises taxes, the situation could get even worse. With a liberal Congress on his hands, he will be constrained to move to the left, if he needs any pushing.
When Clinton was elected in 1992, the Democrats in control of Congress gave him a clear message: Either you govern within the four walls of the Democratic Caucus or you won't get our support. Crossing the aisle to get Republican votes, even including the GOP in negotiations, was a no-no for which the president would pay dearly if he transgressed.
The result was predictable. Moderate initiatives like welfare reform were scrapped, the Congress passed tax hikes and legislation became festooned with liberal amendments.
Faced with the need to round up every last vote in the Senate and House Democratic caucuses, Clinton had no choice but to load up conservative bills like an anti-crime measure with liberal pork (like a provision for midnight basketball courts in urban areas) to get unanimous caucus backing.
Obama will have to move left to appease his caucus. He will become their hostage, and they his jailers.
This dynamic will produce extreme-left-wing governance, which the Republicans can blame for the continuation of the recession and for any worsening. The party will recover, fed by anger at Obama's policies, and will emerge from this defeat stronger than ever.
But the Republicans must learn the lesson of MoveOn.org. Founded in the bleak days of the Clinton impeachment, MoveOn developed a grass-roots Internet base. Building up its e-list of activists and contributors, MoveOn laid the basis for the incredible Internet appeal of the Obama campaign. At last count, Obama has 4.5 million donors, most online.
Conservatives cannot count on the Republican Party to fight their battles for them, and certainly cannot count on them to win. The right needs to develop cyber-roots conservative organizations to rival the power of groups like MoveOn.org.
The stellar efforts of Newsmax.com and its ally, GOPtrust.com, illustrate the power of such efforts. Together, these groups raised $10 million for an independent expenditure on media in swing states featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-American bombast.
And their efforts worked.
Virtually all the polls agreed that Obama would win 52 percent to 53 percent of the vote, but the surveys varied in the amount of undecideds they found.
On Election Day, virtually every undecided voter went to McCain, and Obama's final vote share was no more and no less than the 52 percent to 53 percent the surveys had predicted. This unanimity among undecided voters is attributable to the endgame of groups like GOPtrust.com and Newsmax.com.
These groups have to lead the way in running media to battle against the leftist legislation that will undoubtedly emanate from the Obama administration and the liberal Congress America has just elected. Then they can become the basis for a Republican resurgence, just as MoveOn.org was this year for the Democrats.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Thursday, November 6, 2008 4:28 PM
If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.
Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy.
The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt, student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.
Had McCain won, he would be the latter-day Hoover, blamed for the disaster that unfolded on his watch. Now it is Obama's problem. With the Republicans suffering a wipeout in congressional elections (although not as bad as they feared), the ball is now squarely in the Democratic court. Good luck!
If Obama raises taxes, the situation could get even worse. With a liberal Congress on his hands, he will be constrained to move to the left, if he needs any pushing.
When Clinton was elected in 1992, the Democrats in control of Congress gave him a clear message: Either you govern within the four walls of the Democratic Caucus or you won't get our support. Crossing the aisle to get Republican votes, even including the GOP in negotiations, was a no-no for which the president would pay dearly if he transgressed.
The result was predictable. Moderate initiatives like welfare reform were scrapped, the Congress passed tax hikes and legislation became festooned with liberal amendments.
Faced with the need to round up every last vote in the Senate and House Democratic caucuses, Clinton had no choice but to load up conservative bills like an anti-crime measure with liberal pork (like a provision for midnight basketball courts in urban areas) to get unanimous caucus backing.
Obama will have to move left to appease his caucus. He will become their hostage, and they his jailers.
This dynamic will produce extreme-left-wing governance, which the Republicans can blame for the continuation of the recession and for any worsening. The party will recover, fed by anger at Obama's policies, and will emerge from this defeat stronger than ever.
But the Republicans must learn the lesson of MoveOn.org. Founded in the bleak days of the Clinton impeachment, MoveOn developed a grass-roots Internet base. Building up its e-list of activists and contributors, MoveOn laid the basis for the incredible Internet appeal of the Obama campaign. At last count, Obama has 4.5 million donors, most online.
Conservatives cannot count on the Republican Party to fight their battles for them, and certainly cannot count on them to win. The right needs to develop cyber-roots conservative organizations to rival the power of groups like MoveOn.org.
The stellar efforts of Newsmax.com and its ally, GOPtrust.com, illustrate the power of such efforts. Together, these groups raised $10 million for an independent expenditure on media in swing states featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-American bombast.
And their efforts worked.
Virtually all the polls agreed that Obama would win 52 percent to 53 percent of the vote, but the surveys varied in the amount of undecideds they found.
On Election Day, virtually every undecided voter went to McCain, and Obama's final vote share was no more and no less than the 52 percent to 53 percent the surveys had predicted. This unanimity among undecided voters is attributable to the endgame of groups like GOPtrust.com and Newsmax.com.
These groups have to lead the way in running media to battle against the leftist legislation that will undoubtedly emanate from the Obama administration and the liberal Congress America has just elected. Then they can become the basis for a Republican resurgence, just as MoveOn.org was this year for the Democrats.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
November 4, 2008
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
D O N E
THAT IS ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY, DONE. I DON'T MEAN THAT WE ARE DONE, BUT RATHER THAT FOR THE TIME BEING SOME THINGS ARE DONE.
WHAT DISTURBS ME IS THAT THE ELECTION IS BARELY OVER (LESS THAN ONE HOUR SINCE McCAIN
CONCEDED) AND I AM HEARING THAT ALL OF THE SUDDEN THIS IS A BLACK NATION. AND IF I DON'T LIKE IT LEAVE.
HAVE NEWS FOR THOSE THINKERS, THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND THE FOLKS THAT PROFESS OTHERWISE
ARE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING FOR I SHALL BE HERE TILL MY LAST BREATH AN WILL HELP TO GET RID OF THE USURPERS AND TEMPORARY OCCUPANTS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
ALL OF US MUST KEEP OUR FAITH IN THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF ANY LEADERSHIP IN THIS OUR COUNTRY, WE WILL PREVAIL AND SUCCEED IN AVERTING TAX, HEALTH, MILITARY, AND ECONOMIC DISASTERS. FAITH, ALWAYS FAITH.
THAT IS ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY, DONE. I DON'T MEAN THAT WE ARE DONE, BUT RATHER THAT FOR THE TIME BEING SOME THINGS ARE DONE.
WHAT DISTURBS ME IS THAT THE ELECTION IS BARELY OVER (LESS THAN ONE HOUR SINCE McCAIN
CONCEDED) AND I AM HEARING THAT ALL OF THE SUDDEN THIS IS A BLACK NATION. AND IF I DON'T LIKE IT LEAVE.
HAVE NEWS FOR THOSE THINKERS, THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND THE FOLKS THAT PROFESS OTHERWISE
ARE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING FOR I SHALL BE HERE TILL MY LAST BREATH AN WILL HELP TO GET RID OF THE USURPERS AND TEMPORARY OCCUPANTS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
ALL OF US MUST KEEP OUR FAITH IN THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF ANY LEADERSHIP IN THIS OUR COUNTRY, WE WILL PREVAIL AND SUCCEED IN AVERTING TAX, HEALTH, MILITARY, AND ECONOMIC DISASTERS. FAITH, ALWAYS FAITH.
November 3, 2008
FROM THE EDITOR
AS THIS DAY PASSES AND TOMORROW WE FACE AN ELECTION OF THE MANNER NOT SEEN IN MOST OF OUR LIVES, IT OCCURS TO ME THAT HERE ARE CERTAIN DISTINCT DIFFERENCES IN OUR CANDIDATES AND THAT BRINGS UP THE QUESTION "WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT" AND THUS SPEAKING ONLY FOR MYSELF I WOULD OFFER THE FOLLOWING.
A SAFE AND SECURE NATION, BORDERS PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL INDIVIDUALS, OUR PROPERTY, POSITIVE PROTECTION FROM INTRUDERS SEEKING TO TOPPLE OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND OUR WAY OF LIFE AND DESTROY THE VERY FIBERS FROM WHICH OUR NATION IS BUILT.
THE RIGHT AS A CITIZEN TO CONTINUE TO PURSUE THE SEARCH FOR A WAY THAT I, AS AN INDIVIDUAL, MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE BENEFIT OF MY FELLOW CITIZENS AND CONVERSELY THAT I MIGHT ENJOY THE PLEASURES CREATED BY THE FREE MIND OF OTHERS, BE IT A NEW METHOD OF HEATING OR COOLING ONE'S HOME, OR A NON-POLLUTING METHOD OF TRANSPORT.
I WOULD OFFER THAT THE CORRUPTION OF THE ELECTED FOLKS BE FOREMOST IN OUR MINDS AND THAT A JUST PUNISHMENT BE METED TO THE WRONG DOERS, THE ALLOWING OF PENSIONS TO CONVICTED FELONS SHOULD BE A THING OF THE PAST. IF THE OFFICE SEEKER CAN NOT BE HAPPY WITH THE HONOR OF SERVICE AND THE AMPLE SALARIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE OFFICE THEN HE/SHE/IT SHOULD STAY AWAY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IS AND MUST BE THE PRIME MANDATE.
I WOULD AND DO SINCERELY HOPE THAT THIS ELECTION WILL PRODUCE THE QUALITY LEADERSHIP THAT THIS GREAT COUNTRY DESERVES. WHERE TRUST WITHIN THE COUNTRY IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AND WHERE OUTSIDE FORCE RECOGNIZE THAT PUSHING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL GAIN YOU NOTHING, THE STEPPING ON US AND OURS OUT HAS GOT END.
THE MESSAGE OF YOU ARE WITH US OR YOU ARE AGAINST US MUST MUST COME TO FRUITION.
WITH THIS IN MIND THE SECURITY OF NOT JUST THE UNITED STATES BUT ALL NATIONS WILL UNDERSTAND A HIGHT DEGREE OF SECURITY AND WELL BEING.
WHAT EVER YOU DO ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER YOU MUST.........VOTE
A SAFE AND SECURE NATION, BORDERS PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL INDIVIDUALS, OUR PROPERTY, POSITIVE PROTECTION FROM INTRUDERS SEEKING TO TOPPLE OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND OUR WAY OF LIFE AND DESTROY THE VERY FIBERS FROM WHICH OUR NATION IS BUILT.
THE RIGHT AS A CITIZEN TO CONTINUE TO PURSUE THE SEARCH FOR A WAY THAT I, AS AN INDIVIDUAL, MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE BENEFIT OF MY FELLOW CITIZENS AND CONVERSELY THAT I MIGHT ENJOY THE PLEASURES CREATED BY THE FREE MIND OF OTHERS, BE IT A NEW METHOD OF HEATING OR COOLING ONE'S HOME, OR A NON-POLLUTING METHOD OF TRANSPORT.
I WOULD OFFER THAT THE CORRUPTION OF THE ELECTED FOLKS BE FOREMOST IN OUR MINDS AND THAT A JUST PUNISHMENT BE METED TO THE WRONG DOERS, THE ALLOWING OF PENSIONS TO CONVICTED FELONS SHOULD BE A THING OF THE PAST. IF THE OFFICE SEEKER CAN NOT BE HAPPY WITH THE HONOR OF SERVICE AND THE AMPLE SALARIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE OFFICE THEN HE/SHE/IT SHOULD STAY AWAY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IS AND MUST BE THE PRIME MANDATE.
I WOULD AND DO SINCERELY HOPE THAT THIS ELECTION WILL PRODUCE THE QUALITY LEADERSHIP THAT THIS GREAT COUNTRY DESERVES. WHERE TRUST WITHIN THE COUNTRY IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AND WHERE OUTSIDE FORCE RECOGNIZE THAT PUSHING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL GAIN YOU NOTHING, THE STEPPING ON US AND OURS OUT HAS GOT END.
THE MESSAGE OF YOU ARE WITH US OR YOU ARE AGAINST US MUST MUST COME TO FRUITION.
WITH THIS IN MIND THE SECURITY OF NOT JUST THE UNITED STATES BUT ALL NATIONS WILL UNDERSTAND A HIGHT DEGREE OF SECURITY AND WELL BEING.
WHAT EVER YOU DO ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER YOU MUST.........VOTE
Obama's Mine Shaft
Obama's Mine Shaft
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: Barack Obama's plan to bankrupt anyone building a new coal plant prioritizes global warming myths over U.S. energy independence. It also wields government power punitively and will hurt the economy.
Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 17, Barack Obama singled out new coal plant construction for big taxes. The scheme, part of the cap-and-trade energy policy he wants to implement as president, is meant to tax coal producers straight out of business.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can," Obama said. "It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
Isolated gaffe? No. On his own Web site, Obama declares:
"Once we make dirty energy expensive, the second step in my plan is to invest $150 billion over the next decade to ensure the development and deployment of clean, affordable energy."
In other words, Obama's plan is confiscatory taxes to first destroy America's domestic energy producers, and once that bridge is burned, force the U.S. to rely on alternative energies that haven't been developed. The big-government plan might make ideologues happy, but in the real world, it won't work. History shows that centrally planned industries fail, and when there's an energy shortage, the private sector works best when it's left alone.
We aren't just talking Cuba, where the agricultural base was destroyed after Fidel Castro decreed that it would produce only sugar, or Russia, where farms were devastated in the 1930s after collectivization.
In the 1970s, Jimmy Carter splashed out billions to develop shale oil and created a vast boondoggle with no new energy produced. In Brazil, the military-financed ethanol project also was a money-pit until the 1990s when the government ended all involvement.
Obama's $150 billion plan would be no different. But it's worse than just burning money because its punitive element destroys one of America's best competitive advantages: its treasure trove of coal and the companies that produce it.
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal, with the world's largest demonstrated reserve base of 489 billion short tons, the Energy Department says. About 93% of it is used to produce electricity, and it provides about half of U.S. electricity needs. As the nation's economy expands, that need for coal is projected to grow about 20% by 2030.
If that need can't be met, consumers will be hit with high prices brought on by shortages. Meanwhile, America's 80,000 miners and 1.6 million workers in coal-related and coal-dependent industries would suffer from Obama's taxes on new plants.
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system," Obama said in another interview, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." He added that because "I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to the consumers."
The biggest problem with Obama's plan is that it taxes productive companies, and offers nothing but "hope" to replace the missing energy. He does not propose using our current resources as a bridge to cleaner energy. He'd rather stop their use cold. No nuclear power, no offshore drilling, no new coal plants, and if consumers have to pay more, too bad. Obama's attack on coal use surely will leave us poorer.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: Barack Obama's plan to bankrupt anyone building a new coal plant prioritizes global warming myths over U.S. energy independence. It also wields government power punitively and will hurt the economy.
Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 17, Barack Obama singled out new coal plant construction for big taxes. The scheme, part of the cap-and-trade energy policy he wants to implement as president, is meant to tax coal producers straight out of business.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can," Obama said. "It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
Isolated gaffe? No. On his own Web site, Obama declares:
"Once we make dirty energy expensive, the second step in my plan is to invest $150 billion over the next decade to ensure the development and deployment of clean, affordable energy."
In other words, Obama's plan is confiscatory taxes to first destroy America's domestic energy producers, and once that bridge is burned, force the U.S. to rely on alternative energies that haven't been developed. The big-government plan might make ideologues happy, but in the real world, it won't work. History shows that centrally planned industries fail, and when there's an energy shortage, the private sector works best when it's left alone.
We aren't just talking Cuba, where the agricultural base was destroyed after Fidel Castro decreed that it would produce only sugar, or Russia, where farms were devastated in the 1930s after collectivization.
In the 1970s, Jimmy Carter splashed out billions to develop shale oil and created a vast boondoggle with no new energy produced. In Brazil, the military-financed ethanol project also was a money-pit until the 1990s when the government ended all involvement.
Obama's $150 billion plan would be no different. But it's worse than just burning money because its punitive element destroys one of America's best competitive advantages: its treasure trove of coal and the companies that produce it.
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal, with the world's largest demonstrated reserve base of 489 billion short tons, the Energy Department says. About 93% of it is used to produce electricity, and it provides about half of U.S. electricity needs. As the nation's economy expands, that need for coal is projected to grow about 20% by 2030.
If that need can't be met, consumers will be hit with high prices brought on by shortages. Meanwhile, America's 80,000 miners and 1.6 million workers in coal-related and coal-dependent industries would suffer from Obama's taxes on new plants.
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system," Obama said in another interview, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." He added that because "I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to the consumers."
The biggest problem with Obama's plan is that it taxes productive companies, and offers nothing but "hope" to replace the missing energy. He does not propose using our current resources as a bridge to cleaner energy. He'd rather stop their use cold. No nuclear power, no offshore drilling, no new coal plants, and if consumers have to pay more, too bad. Obama's attack on coal use surely will leave us poorer.
Headlines
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Obama Has Links to ANOTHER '60s Radical
2. Noam Chomsky: Iran ‘Entitled’ to Uranium Enrichment
3. Obama’s Tax Hike Would Impact Blue States
4. Russians in U.S. Back McCain
5. Dolphins’ Huizenga Wary of Obama Tax Plan
6. Poll: Israelis Prefer McCain Over Obama
7. We Heard: Bean Counters, Michelle Obama
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1. Obama Has Links to ANOTHER '60s Radical
Barack Obama has consistently sought to distance himself from former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. But it’s a different story with another student radical from the 1960s — Marilyn Katz — who is actually on Obama’s fundraising team.
Katz, a public relations executive in Chicago, serves on Obama’s national finance committee. She is listed as a fundraising “bundler” on his Web site, has hosted fundraisers for the candidate, and attended the Democratic Convention as part of the Illinois delegation.
But during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which spawned Ayers and the Weather Underground.
During those protests, Katz advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, the Chicago Tribune reported.
In 1969, an undercover policeman named William Frapolly testified at the “Chicago Seven” trials, and prosecutors asked him to describe his collaboration with organizers of the protest the previous year.
He testified that one night in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Katz briefed a group of protesters on the use of “guerilla nails.”
“She had two types,” he told the court.
“One was a cluster of nails that were sharpened at both ends, and they were fastened in the center. It looked like they were welded or soldered. She said these were good for throwing or putting underneath tires.
“She showed another set that was the same type of nails sharpened at both ends, but they were put through a Styrofoam cylinder.”
A prosecutor asked, “To whom was she showing these objects?”
Frapolly answered, “Everyone in the group.”
Katz was a principal organizer of the October 2002 anti-war demonstration in Chicago where Obama first expressed his opposition to the looming Iraq war.
In 2005, she co-authored the book “Stopping War, Seeking Justice” along with longtime Marxist and Obama supporter Carl Davidson.
Now she is co-chair of Chicagoans Against War & Injustice, and her public relations firm is working on contracts with the city of Chicago worth millions of dollars. She lists as her clients the city’s housing authority, law department, and departments of housing, human services, streets and sanitation, and public health, among others.
As for her relationship with Ayers, who admitted helping to bomb the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in the 1970s, the Tribune reported that she has said, “Bill and I were in different parts of SDS. We disagreed on tactics.”
Guy Benson wrote on Townhall.com about Obama’s Katz connection: “There are so many objectionable figures in Obama’s social milieu, new revelations about yet another garden variety radical may elicit shrugs at this point . . .
“Perhaps it follows that someone who preferred lobbing guerilla nails at police over planting pipe bombs in federal buildings would be integrated into Obama’s official campaign apparatus without so much as a second look.”
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2. Noam Chomsky: Iran ‘Entitled’ to Uranium Enrichment
Radical leftist Noam Chomsky has attacked America’s stance on Iran and says the Islamic Republic has the right to enrich uranium.
The MIT professor and author told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that public opinion in the U.S. “overwhelmingly holds that Iran should have the right to develop nuclear energy.”
He added that “nobody thinks they have the right to develop nuclear weapons,” but Iran is “of course entitled to uranium enrichment.”
He also lashed out at Western media for asserting that Iran is “defying the world” over its nuclear program.
“That’s a funny definition of the ‘world,’” he said in his IRNA interview. “The Non-Aligned Movement, for example, which is the majority of countries, endorses Iran’s right to enrich uranium.”
He went further in his attack on U.S. policy, claiming that America’s hostile stance toward Iran results from Iran’s refusal “to subordinate itself to U.S. will. Iran is an independent actor. It is defiant of the U.S. and that’s not tolerated.
“In fact, that’s official policy going back to World War II in which the U.S. would try to create a world order in which it is dominant.”
Chomsky’s remarks to the IRNA are far from the first time he has verbally assaulted the nation of his birth.
As Newsmax magazine reported earlier, the author of “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance” has compared America to Nazi Germany, called capitalism a worse form of tyranny than communism, and referred to the Pentagon as “the most hideous institution on earth."
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3. Obama’s Tax Hike Would Impact Blue States
Democrat Barack Obama’s plan to raise tax rates for families earning more than $250,000 would have the greatest impact on high-income states that are likely to vote Democratic in this year’s presidential election.
The Internal Revenue Service provides figures on the number of married couples with adjusted gross incomes over $200,000.
In 2006, 6.5 percent of all married couples reported an AGI above $200,000, “squarely in line with Obama’s claim that only 5 percent of families would pay more,” Forbes magazine observed.
The jurisdiction with the highest percentage of married couples that would be impacted by Obama’s tax plan is Washington, D.C., where 23 percent of couples report an AGI above $200,000. Washington is certain to go for Obama on Election Day.
In Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts, more than 10 percent of couples earn over $200,000. Those three states voted Democratic in 2000 and 2004 and are solidly in Obama’s camp this year, according to electoral maps drawn up by the Realclearpolitics Web site and political analyst Dick Morris.
Rounding out the top 10 jurisdictions with the highest percentage of couples earning in excess of $200,000 are Maryland (9.7 percent), New York (8.7 percent), California (8.4 percent), Virginia (8.4 percent), Illinois (7.4 percent) and Colorado (7.1 percent).
Only two of those states, Virginia and Colorado, are not solidly in Obama’s camp, and both of them are “leaning Obama,” according to Realclearpolitics and Morris.
On the other hand, four of the five states with the lowest percentage of couples earning over $200,000 voted for George Bush in 2000 and 2004 “and are likely to give John McCain their electoral votes,” Forbes predicts.
They are West Virginia (2.4 percent), Arkansas (3.4), Kentucky (3.4), and North Dakota (3.5) — although Realclearpolitics has West Virginia only “leaning McCain” and rates North Dakota as a tossup.
Iowa, where 3.5 percent of couples earn more than $200,000, went for Bush in 2004 but is solidly for Obama this year.
Half of the 3.5 million couples reporting an AGI over $200,000 live in California.
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4. Russians in U.S. Back McCain
The overwhelming majority of Russian immigrants in the U.S. say they will cast their ballots for Republican John McCain in the Nov. 4 presidential election, according to the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights (MBHR).
MBHR reported on a poll among Russian immigrants in New York, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Florida, and Massachusetts between Aug. 30 and Oct. 10, which was conducted in cooperation with the American Jewish Congress, Interfax Information Services reported.
Of the 79 percent of respondents who said they are certain to go to the polls, over half, 63 percent, said they will vote for McCain; 11 percent will choose Barack Obama; and 25 percent remain undecided.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2006 that about 3.1 million people in the U.S. cite their ancestry as Russian.
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5. Dolphins’ Huizenga Wary of Obama Tax Plan
H. Wayne Huizenga, co-owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, said Barack Obama’s plan to raise the capital gains tax could hasten his move to sell most of his remaining share of the team.
“He wants to double the capital gains tax, or almost double it,” Huizenga said.
“If you [sell] this year or you do it next year, the difference is humongous because of the taxes.”
Huizenga sold 50 percent of the team and Dolphin Stadium to businessman Stephen Ross earlier this year for $550 million, and wants to sell another 45 percent to Ross. The transfer has already been approved by NFL owners, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
“It’s been 19 years and after 19 years, it’s kind of time” to sell, Huizenga said. “I don’t want to be one of those owners who gets real old and hangs in there. We know some of those stories already.”
Huizenga turns 71 in December.
Bobby Gravitz, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, disputed Huizenga’s statement, saying Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax maximum from
15 percent to 20 percent — a 33-percent increase rather than double.
Gravitz noted that the 20 percent rate would be “a third lower than the rate that President Reagan set in 1986.”
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6. Poll: Israelis Prefer McCain Over Obama
If Israelis could vote in the U.S. presidential election, they would choose Republican nominee John McCain over his Democratic rival Barack Obama by a substantial margin, a poll reveals.
In the survey of 500 Israeli adults commissioned by the Rabin Center for
Israel Studies, McCain was chosen by 46 percent of respondents, compared
to 34 percent for Obama.
“Most Israelis remain convinced that McCain’s approach to regional threats to both Israel and American interests is far more realistic than Obama’s,” Israel Today reported.
The poll also found that Israelis are comfortable with McCain’s position that the U.S. should step back from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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7. We Heard . . .
THAT the bean counters will be tallying up the score the morning after Election Day — the bean counters at Sweet Sue’s restaurant in Tyler, Texas, that is.
Patrons are each given one bean per visit, and they can express their presidential choice by dropping the bean in either the Barack Obama jar or the John McCain jar.
The beans won’t be counted until Wednesday morning, local station KLTV reported.
Of course, the results won’t mean a hill of beans in the presidential race. But managers at Sweet Sue’s say the bean poll, a long-held tradition at the restaurant, has always been very close to national poll results.
THAT the new coach of Oregon State University’s basketball team, Craig Robinson, has a sister named Michelle who is married to a man named Barack Obama.
Yes, that Barack Obama.
“It’s really hard to get my arms around the fact that my sister could be first lady, that my brother-in-law could be president,” Robinson said.
But Democrats can’t expect the school’s winning ways to rub off on Obama in the general election. Oregon State went 0-18 in conference play last year, and according to USA Today “is a solid news media pick to finish last again this season.”
1. Obama Has Links to ANOTHER '60s Radical
2. Noam Chomsky: Iran ‘Entitled’ to Uranium Enrichment
3. Obama’s Tax Hike Would Impact Blue States
4. Russians in U.S. Back McCain
5. Dolphins’ Huizenga Wary of Obama Tax Plan
6. Poll: Israelis Prefer McCain Over Obama
7. We Heard: Bean Counters, Michelle Obama
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1. Obama Has Links to ANOTHER '60s Radical
Barack Obama has consistently sought to distance himself from former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. But it’s a different story with another student radical from the 1960s — Marilyn Katz — who is actually on Obama’s fundraising team.
Katz, a public relations executive in Chicago, serves on Obama’s national finance committee. She is listed as a fundraising “bundler” on his Web site, has hosted fundraisers for the candidate, and attended the Democratic Convention as part of the Illinois delegation.
But during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which spawned Ayers and the Weather Underground.
During those protests, Katz advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, the Chicago Tribune reported.
In 1969, an undercover policeman named William Frapolly testified at the “Chicago Seven” trials, and prosecutors asked him to describe his collaboration with organizers of the protest the previous year.
He testified that one night in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Katz briefed a group of protesters on the use of “guerilla nails.”
“She had two types,” he told the court.
“One was a cluster of nails that were sharpened at both ends, and they were fastened in the center. It looked like they were welded or soldered. She said these were good for throwing or putting underneath tires.
“She showed another set that was the same type of nails sharpened at both ends, but they were put through a Styrofoam cylinder.”
A prosecutor asked, “To whom was she showing these objects?”
Frapolly answered, “Everyone in the group.”
Katz was a principal organizer of the October 2002 anti-war demonstration in Chicago where Obama first expressed his opposition to the looming Iraq war.
In 2005, she co-authored the book “Stopping War, Seeking Justice” along with longtime Marxist and Obama supporter Carl Davidson.
Now she is co-chair of Chicagoans Against War & Injustice, and her public relations firm is working on contracts with the city of Chicago worth millions of dollars. She lists as her clients the city’s housing authority, law department, and departments of housing, human services, streets and sanitation, and public health, among others.
As for her relationship with Ayers, who admitted helping to bomb the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in the 1970s, the Tribune reported that she has said, “Bill and I were in different parts of SDS. We disagreed on tactics.”
Guy Benson wrote on Townhall.com about Obama’s Katz connection: “There are so many objectionable figures in Obama’s social milieu, new revelations about yet another garden variety radical may elicit shrugs at this point . . .
“Perhaps it follows that someone who preferred lobbing guerilla nails at police over planting pipe bombs in federal buildings would be integrated into Obama’s official campaign apparatus without so much as a second look.”
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2. Noam Chomsky: Iran ‘Entitled’ to Uranium Enrichment
Radical leftist Noam Chomsky has attacked America’s stance on Iran and says the Islamic Republic has the right to enrich uranium.
The MIT professor and author told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that public opinion in the U.S. “overwhelmingly holds that Iran should have the right to develop nuclear energy.”
He added that “nobody thinks they have the right to develop nuclear weapons,” but Iran is “of course entitled to uranium enrichment.”
He also lashed out at Western media for asserting that Iran is “defying the world” over its nuclear program.
“That’s a funny definition of the ‘world,’” he said in his IRNA interview. “The Non-Aligned Movement, for example, which is the majority of countries, endorses Iran’s right to enrich uranium.”
He went further in his attack on U.S. policy, claiming that America’s hostile stance toward Iran results from Iran’s refusal “to subordinate itself to U.S. will. Iran is an independent actor. It is defiant of the U.S. and that’s not tolerated.
“In fact, that’s official policy going back to World War II in which the U.S. would try to create a world order in which it is dominant.”
Chomsky’s remarks to the IRNA are far from the first time he has verbally assaulted the nation of his birth.
As Newsmax magazine reported earlier, the author of “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance” has compared America to Nazi Germany, called capitalism a worse form of tyranny than communism, and referred to the Pentagon as “the most hideous institution on earth."
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3. Obama’s Tax Hike Would Impact Blue States
Democrat Barack Obama’s plan to raise tax rates for families earning more than $250,000 would have the greatest impact on high-income states that are likely to vote Democratic in this year’s presidential election.
The Internal Revenue Service provides figures on the number of married couples with adjusted gross incomes over $200,000.
In 2006, 6.5 percent of all married couples reported an AGI above $200,000, “squarely in line with Obama’s claim that only 5 percent of families would pay more,” Forbes magazine observed.
The jurisdiction with the highest percentage of married couples that would be impacted by Obama’s tax plan is Washington, D.C., where 23 percent of couples report an AGI above $200,000. Washington is certain to go for Obama on Election Day.
In Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts, more than 10 percent of couples earn over $200,000. Those three states voted Democratic in 2000 and 2004 and are solidly in Obama’s camp this year, according to electoral maps drawn up by the Realclearpolitics Web site and political analyst Dick Morris.
Rounding out the top 10 jurisdictions with the highest percentage of couples earning in excess of $200,000 are Maryland (9.7 percent), New York (8.7 percent), California (8.4 percent), Virginia (8.4 percent), Illinois (7.4 percent) and Colorado (7.1 percent).
Only two of those states, Virginia and Colorado, are not solidly in Obama’s camp, and both of them are “leaning Obama,” according to Realclearpolitics and Morris.
On the other hand, four of the five states with the lowest percentage of couples earning over $200,000 voted for George Bush in 2000 and 2004 “and are likely to give John McCain their electoral votes,” Forbes predicts.
They are West Virginia (2.4 percent), Arkansas (3.4), Kentucky (3.4), and North Dakota (3.5) — although Realclearpolitics has West Virginia only “leaning McCain” and rates North Dakota as a tossup.
Iowa, where 3.5 percent of couples earn more than $200,000, went for Bush in 2004 but is solidly for Obama this year.
Half of the 3.5 million couples reporting an AGI over $200,000 live in California.
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4. Russians in U.S. Back McCain
The overwhelming majority of Russian immigrants in the U.S. say they will cast their ballots for Republican John McCain in the Nov. 4 presidential election, according to the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights (MBHR).
MBHR reported on a poll among Russian immigrants in New York, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Florida, and Massachusetts between Aug. 30 and Oct. 10, which was conducted in cooperation with the American Jewish Congress, Interfax Information Services reported.
Of the 79 percent of respondents who said they are certain to go to the polls, over half, 63 percent, said they will vote for McCain; 11 percent will choose Barack Obama; and 25 percent remain undecided.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2006 that about 3.1 million people in the U.S. cite their ancestry as Russian.
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5. Dolphins’ Huizenga Wary of Obama Tax Plan
H. Wayne Huizenga, co-owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, said Barack Obama’s plan to raise the capital gains tax could hasten his move to sell most of his remaining share of the team.
“He wants to double the capital gains tax, or almost double it,” Huizenga said.
“If you [sell] this year or you do it next year, the difference is humongous because of the taxes.”
Huizenga sold 50 percent of the team and Dolphin Stadium to businessman Stephen Ross earlier this year for $550 million, and wants to sell another 45 percent to Ross. The transfer has already been approved by NFL owners, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
“It’s been 19 years and after 19 years, it’s kind of time” to sell, Huizenga said. “I don’t want to be one of those owners who gets real old and hangs in there. We know some of those stories already.”
Huizenga turns 71 in December.
Bobby Gravitz, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, disputed Huizenga’s statement, saying Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax maximum from
15 percent to 20 percent — a 33-percent increase rather than double.
Gravitz noted that the 20 percent rate would be “a third lower than the rate that President Reagan set in 1986.”
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6. Poll: Israelis Prefer McCain Over Obama
If Israelis could vote in the U.S. presidential election, they would choose Republican nominee John McCain over his Democratic rival Barack Obama by a substantial margin, a poll reveals.
In the survey of 500 Israeli adults commissioned by the Rabin Center for
Israel Studies, McCain was chosen by 46 percent of respondents, compared
to 34 percent for Obama.
“Most Israelis remain convinced that McCain’s approach to regional threats to both Israel and American interests is far more realistic than Obama’s,” Israel Today reported.
The poll also found that Israelis are comfortable with McCain’s position that the U.S. should step back from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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7. We Heard . . .
THAT the bean counters will be tallying up the score the morning after Election Day — the bean counters at Sweet Sue’s restaurant in Tyler, Texas, that is.
Patrons are each given one bean per visit, and they can express their presidential choice by dropping the bean in either the Barack Obama jar or the John McCain jar.
The beans won’t be counted until Wednesday morning, local station KLTV reported.
Of course, the results won’t mean a hill of beans in the presidential race. But managers at Sweet Sue’s say the bean poll, a long-held tradition at the restaurant, has always been very close to national poll results.
THAT the new coach of Oregon State University’s basketball team, Craig Robinson, has a sister named Michelle who is married to a man named Barack Obama.
Yes, that Barack Obama.
“It’s really hard to get my arms around the fact that my sister could be first lady, that my brother-in-law could be president,” Robinson said.
But Democrats can’t expect the school’s winning ways to rub off on Obama in the general election. Oregon State went 0-18 in conference play last year, and according to USA Today “is a solid news media pick to finish last again this season.”
Palin Slams Obama Over Coal Comments
Sunday, November 2, 2008 8:46 PM
Responding to the discovery of an audio tape of an old Barak Obama interview Sunday, Sarah Palin accused the Democrat of “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,” as she campaigned through the coal regions of Ohio.
“He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he's comfortable letting that happen,” Palin said. “And you got to listen to the tape.”
The audiotape Palin referred to was recorded by the San Francisco Chronicle in a Jan. 17 interview and uncovered by the Drudge Report.
“Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?” Palin said, according to CBS News.
Someone in the crowd shouted, “Liberal media!”
“This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago,” Palin said. “You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth.”
In the audiotape, Obama reiterated his call for a cap and trade system on carbon and greenhouse gases.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” Obama said. “It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.”
Responding to Palin’s comments, the Chronicle said the tape had never been hidden away.
“Let's be very clear: The Chronicle did not, and has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers,” the paper responded on one of its political blogs.
“The truth: The paper's January editorial board session with Obama included comments about coal. The entire interview has been in the public domain, available on line to the public — and to the McCain campaign — since early January.”
An Obama representative said Obama’s remarks were taken out of context. In another part of the interview, Obama said the idea of eliminating coal plants was “an illusion.”
“The point Obama is making is that we need to transition from coal burning power plants built with old technology to plants built with advanced technologies--and that is exactly the action that will be incentivized under a cap and trade program,” the representative said.
“We know that additional work is necessary to develop and deploy these technologies. That is why Obama has argued for a robust funding program for carbon capture and sequestration. It’s strikingly similar to what McCain has said (in fact McCain goes a step further saying he wants to transition completely away from coal).”
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Sunday, November 2, 2008 8:46 PM
Responding to the discovery of an audio tape of an old Barak Obama interview Sunday, Sarah Palin accused the Democrat of “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,” as she campaigned through the coal regions of Ohio.
“He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he's comfortable letting that happen,” Palin said. “And you got to listen to the tape.”
The audiotape Palin referred to was recorded by the San Francisco Chronicle in a Jan. 17 interview and uncovered by the Drudge Report.
“Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?” Palin said, according to CBS News.
Someone in the crowd shouted, “Liberal media!”
“This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago,” Palin said. “You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth.”
In the audiotape, Obama reiterated his call for a cap and trade system on carbon and greenhouse gases.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” Obama said. “It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.”
Responding to Palin’s comments, the Chronicle said the tape had never been hidden away.
“Let's be very clear: The Chronicle did not, and has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers,” the paper responded on one of its political blogs.
“The truth: The paper's January editorial board session with Obama included comments about coal. The entire interview has been in the public domain, available on line to the public — and to the McCain campaign — since early January.”
An Obama representative said Obama’s remarks were taken out of context. In another part of the interview, Obama said the idea of eliminating coal plants was “an illusion.”
“The point Obama is making is that we need to transition from coal burning power plants built with old technology to plants built with advanced technologies--and that is exactly the action that will be incentivized under a cap and trade program,” the representative said.
“We know that additional work is necessary to develop and deploy these technologies. That is why Obama has argued for a robust funding program for carbon capture and sequestration. It’s strikingly similar to what McCain has said (in fact McCain goes a step further saying he wants to transition completely away from coal).”
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McCain Only 2 Points Behind
IBD Poll: McCain Only 2 Points Behind
Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:46 PM
John McCain is trailing presidential rival Barack Obama by just two points heading into Election Day, according to a new tracking poll released Sunday by Investors Business Daily.
Overall, McCain trails Obama by 2.1 percentage points — 46.7 percent to 44.6 percent, with 8.7 percent not sure — in the tracking poll released Sunday by IBD and its polling partner, the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).
The latest numbers continue a tightening trend that shows McCain steadily gaining while Obama’s support around 47 percent of respondents is holding firm.
Independents who'd been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a tossup, according to the IBD pollsters. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, and moved back strongly into the lead with men. He is padding his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates.
The newest poll shows that McCain has made steady gains in the West, up from 37 percent of respondents to 44 percent. He still leads Obama in the South, 50 percent to 45 percent, and he is tied in the Midwest, 45 percent to 45 percent, with 12 percent still not sure.
In terms of age group, McCain still is virtually tied with Obama with respondents in the categories between 25 years of age and 64. Some 9 percent are still undecided. He leads among voters 65 and over by 2 points, 45 percent to 43 percent. Obama has a commanding lead only among the young respondents, those 18 to 24. But that group's reliability on Election Day varies tremendously.
Among party faithful, the poll shows that McCain is holding onto Republicans by an overwhelming margin — he has 89 percent locked up — and is winning now among self-described independents, 45 to 43 percent.
McCain also has a 15-point lead over Obama among voters who earn at least $75,000 a year, and now holds a 54 percent to 40 percent edge among male voters, up from a 4-point lead just several weeks ago.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent. IBD said its polling partner, TIPP, has been the most accurate pollster during the 2004 election season.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:46 PM
John McCain is trailing presidential rival Barack Obama by just two points heading into Election Day, according to a new tracking poll released Sunday by Investors Business Daily.
Overall, McCain trails Obama by 2.1 percentage points — 46.7 percent to 44.6 percent, with 8.7 percent not sure — in the tracking poll released Sunday by IBD and its polling partner, the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).
The latest numbers continue a tightening trend that shows McCain steadily gaining while Obama’s support around 47 percent of respondents is holding firm.
Independents who'd been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a tossup, according to the IBD pollsters. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, and moved back strongly into the lead with men. He is padding his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates.
The newest poll shows that McCain has made steady gains in the West, up from 37 percent of respondents to 44 percent. He still leads Obama in the South, 50 percent to 45 percent, and he is tied in the Midwest, 45 percent to 45 percent, with 12 percent still not sure.
In terms of age group, McCain still is virtually tied with Obama with respondents in the categories between 25 years of age and 64. Some 9 percent are still undecided. He leads among voters 65 and over by 2 points, 45 percent to 43 percent. Obama has a commanding lead only among the young respondents, those 18 to 24. But that group's reliability on Election Day varies tremendously.
Among party faithful, the poll shows that McCain is holding onto Republicans by an overwhelming margin — he has 89 percent locked up — and is winning now among self-described independents, 45 to 43 percent.
McCain also has a 15-point lead over Obama among voters who earn at least $75,000 a year, and now holds a 54 percent to 40 percent edge among male voters, up from a 4-point lead just several weeks ago.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent. IBD said its polling partner, TIPP, has been the most accurate pollster during the 2004 election season.
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Obama Coverup Altered History
Obama Coverup Altered History
Monday, November 3, 2008 1:54 PM
By: Ronald Kessler
Just before Halloween, Politico published a story saying the media really are not rooting for Barack Obama. Nor are they biased against John McCain. Rather, the story attributed the fact that twice as many positive stories are appearing about Obama than about McCain to journalists just doing their job of following the news.
Was Politico trying to pull off a Halloween prank? I have seen firsthand how the media have favored Obama, while ignoring their obligation to report the news. As chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax, I began writing stories about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor and former pastor, Jan. 7 with “Barack Obama’s Racist Church.”
The so-called Black Value System that Wright’s church promotes asserts that America structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons” and takes other steps to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” the story reported.
In sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid, the story reported. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.
I cited two exceptions to the media blackout about Obama and his church. Back in 2007, Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a Black Value System would be any more acceptable than a white value system. Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.”
During the next two and a half months, I wrote more than half a dozen stories disclosing new information about Obama and Wright. On Jan. 14, I broke the story on the church’s lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan with “ Obama’s Minister Honored Farrakhan.”
The story on Newsmax.com quoted Wright’s glowing praise of Farrakhan in the church magazine “Trumpet.”
On March 6, I wrote “Obama Minister Exudes Hatred.”
That story quoted the full text of a sermon Wright gave at Howard University. Among other things, the sermon said that America created the AIDS virus to kill off blacks. Based on that sermon, I sent a proposed Op-Ed to The Washington Post’s editorial side. I sent a similar piece to the paper’s “Outlook” section. Both rejected the piece.
Meanwhile, I sent the Newsmax stories to dozens of people I know in the print and broadcast media. In contrast to their interest in Joe the plumber’s background, no media outlet would touch the Wright stories. When I mentioned the stories to a cable news reporter I know, she said she could never propose running such a story.
“The media love Obama,” she said. “If you want to do a critical story about him, you are considered by the network to be biased.”
Finally, on March 12, Fox News ran a portion of a Wright sermon. ABC ran more excerpts the next day. On March 15, my Op-Ed, ‘Obama and the Minister,' appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Based on my reporting for Newsmax, it included excerpts from the Howard University sermon.
Referring to that piece, the March 15 New York Times said, “On Friday, Senator John McCain’s campaign forwarded to reporters an article in The Wall Street Journal in which Mr. Wright was quoted as saying, ‘Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run,’ and accusing the United States of importing drugs, exporting guns and training murderers.”
Yet for nearly three months, the media had refused to pick up the stories about Wright. Largely as a result of the stories’ being picked up, Obama’s double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in national polls vanished, according to pollsters. At the same time, McCain shot up in the polls, and Clinton began pulling ahead of Obama in primary elections. If the media had done its job as Politico claims it does, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for president.
After the first flurry of stories, the media have continued to be reluctant to raise Wright as an issue. Politico’s Oct. 28 story by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei asserts that the reason Wright has been “basically a non-issue” during the general election campaign is that his connection to Obama has an “out of bounds racial subtext.”
I may not be black, but I know what racism is. In 1964, as an editor of my college paper, I wrote articles that exposed discrimination against blacks in rental housing in Worcester, Mass., leading to investigations and a crackdown by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In 1984, I wrote Washington Post stories revealing that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she was black. The stories led not only to her admission to the DAR but also to her appointment as chairman and founder of the D.C. DAR Scholarship Committee.
The fact that a man Obama described as his mentor, sounding board, and adviser for 20 years routinely denounced America has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with character and Obama’s true beliefs.
The media’s continuing coverup of Obama’s associations with radical hate-mongers like Wright is a shameful chapter in the history of American journalism.
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via
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Monday, November 3, 2008 1:54 PM
By: Ronald Kessler
Just before Halloween, Politico published a story saying the media really are not rooting for Barack Obama. Nor are they biased against John McCain. Rather, the story attributed the fact that twice as many positive stories are appearing about Obama than about McCain to journalists just doing their job of following the news.
Was Politico trying to pull off a Halloween prank? I have seen firsthand how the media have favored Obama, while ignoring their obligation to report the news. As chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax, I began writing stories about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor and former pastor, Jan. 7 with “Barack Obama’s Racist Church.”
The so-called Black Value System that Wright’s church promotes asserts that America structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons” and takes other steps to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” the story reported.
In sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid, the story reported. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.
I cited two exceptions to the media blackout about Obama and his church. Back in 2007, Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a Black Value System would be any more acceptable than a white value system. Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.”
During the next two and a half months, I wrote more than half a dozen stories disclosing new information about Obama and Wright. On Jan. 14, I broke the story on the church’s lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan with “ Obama’s Minister Honored Farrakhan.”
The story on Newsmax.com quoted Wright’s glowing praise of Farrakhan in the church magazine “Trumpet.”
On March 6, I wrote “Obama Minister Exudes Hatred.”
That story quoted the full text of a sermon Wright gave at Howard University. Among other things, the sermon said that America created the AIDS virus to kill off blacks. Based on that sermon, I sent a proposed Op-Ed to The Washington Post’s editorial side. I sent a similar piece to the paper’s “Outlook” section. Both rejected the piece.
Meanwhile, I sent the Newsmax stories to dozens of people I know in the print and broadcast media. In contrast to their interest in Joe the plumber’s background, no media outlet would touch the Wright stories. When I mentioned the stories to a cable news reporter I know, she said she could never propose running such a story.
“The media love Obama,” she said. “If you want to do a critical story about him, you are considered by the network to be biased.”
Finally, on March 12, Fox News ran a portion of a Wright sermon. ABC ran more excerpts the next day. On March 15, my Op-Ed, ‘Obama and the Minister,' appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Based on my reporting for Newsmax, it included excerpts from the Howard University sermon.
Referring to that piece, the March 15 New York Times said, “On Friday, Senator John McCain’s campaign forwarded to reporters an article in The Wall Street Journal in which Mr. Wright was quoted as saying, ‘Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run,’ and accusing the United States of importing drugs, exporting guns and training murderers.”
Yet for nearly three months, the media had refused to pick up the stories about Wright. Largely as a result of the stories’ being picked up, Obama’s double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in national polls vanished, according to pollsters. At the same time, McCain shot up in the polls, and Clinton began pulling ahead of Obama in primary elections. If the media had done its job as Politico claims it does, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for president.
After the first flurry of stories, the media have continued to be reluctant to raise Wright as an issue. Politico’s Oct. 28 story by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei asserts that the reason Wright has been “basically a non-issue” during the general election campaign is that his connection to Obama has an “out of bounds racial subtext.”
I may not be black, but I know what racism is. In 1964, as an editor of my college paper, I wrote articles that exposed discrimination against blacks in rental housing in Worcester, Mass., leading to investigations and a crackdown by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In 1984, I wrote Washington Post stories revealing that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she was black. The stories led not only to her admission to the DAR but also to her appointment as chairman and founder of the D.C. DAR Scholarship Committee.
The fact that a man Obama described as his mentor, sounding board, and adviser for 20 years routinely denounced America has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with character and Obama’s true beliefs.
The media’s continuing coverup of Obama’s associations with radical hate-mongers like Wright is a shameful chapter in the history of American journalism.
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via
e-mail. Go here now.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
November 2, 2008
Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close
Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says
Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:59 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.
The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a “hate group.”
Farrakhan has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.” In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: “These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"
Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments – but not the man -- during the Democratic primary season earlier this year, but only after Hillary Clinton called him out for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.
He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.” See Video: Farrakhan Endorses Obama, Calls Him Messiah.
Once the news media and the Clinton campaign got hold of those comments from Farrakhan, demands mounted from all sides that Obama “renounce” Farrakhan.
But as he has done repeatedly throughout this campaign, Obama was careful to parse his words.
“You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments,” he said during one appearance on “Meet the Press.” “I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible.”
Obama hastened to point out that Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
But Obama, once again, was less than candid.
In 1995, according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader newspaper, Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.”
At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side, a seat he won after getting surrogates to challenge the signatures on nominating petitions for his chief rival, the incumbent Alice Palmer.
The march, which fell far short of attracting the million men it advertised, was organized by Farrakhan and by Obama’s then-pastor, the anti-white black nationalist Wright.
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago Reader upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said.
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
“Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."
“Black nationalism” is a current of thought and political action in the African-American community that has been championed by the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Khalid al-Mansour. Obama discussed his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”
Obama further parsed his words in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, where he insisted that Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.”
And yet, just months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”
That award was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men, White told Newsmax. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States.
Wright also accompanied Farrakhan and Jackson to Syria in 1986, where they successfully negotiated with Syrian strongman for the release of downed American pilot Robert O. Goodman.
Obama’s Speaking Style
In addition to the ideological affinity Obama expressed for the black nationalist movement, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and exploited for years to great success.
“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like,” White said.
Any American who has listened to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear how dramatically Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator.
In clips dating from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly and in long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and dense pseudo-academic rhetoric. But not today.
“As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak,” White told Newsmax. “I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style.”
White began in the late 1970s as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the military branch of Farrakhan’s Black Muslim group, then rose to become a minister of the Nation of Islam and a top deputy to Farrakhan himself.
Known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad, he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization.
White’s 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” prompted death threats by Farrakhan loyalists, so he left Illinois and moved to Florida to teach at the University of Central Florida.
He told Newsmax that Obama’s remarkable speaking style, even his manner of standing at a podium to appear larger than life, is directly copied from Farrakhan.
“If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister,” he said.
Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.
Newsmax queried Obama’s U.S. Senate office, his Chicago office and his campaign press office about his ties to Farrakhan, but did not receive a reply.
Ever since he appeared before the annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in June, Obama has attempted to convince the Jewish community that he is pro-Israel.
But his longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many Jewish community leaders.
Sen. John McCain publicly chastised The Los Angeles Times on Thursday for not releasing a videotape the newspaper said it possessed of a 2003 dinner for Khalidi, where Obama reportedly accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:59 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.
The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a “hate group.”
Farrakhan has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.” In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: “These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"
Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments – but not the man -- during the Democratic primary season earlier this year, but only after Hillary Clinton called him out for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.
He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.” See Video: Farrakhan Endorses Obama, Calls Him Messiah.
Once the news media and the Clinton campaign got hold of those comments from Farrakhan, demands mounted from all sides that Obama “renounce” Farrakhan.
But as he has done repeatedly throughout this campaign, Obama was careful to parse his words.
“You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments,” he said during one appearance on “Meet the Press.” “I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible.”
Obama hastened to point out that Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
But Obama, once again, was less than candid.
In 1995, according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader newspaper, Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.”
At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side, a seat he won after getting surrogates to challenge the signatures on nominating petitions for his chief rival, the incumbent Alice Palmer.
The march, which fell far short of attracting the million men it advertised, was organized by Farrakhan and by Obama’s then-pastor, the anti-white black nationalist Wright.
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago Reader upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said.
“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
“Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."
“Black nationalism” is a current of thought and political action in the African-American community that has been championed by the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Khalid al-Mansour. Obama discussed his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”
Obama further parsed his words in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, where he insisted that Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.”
And yet, just months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”
That award was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men, White told Newsmax. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States.
Wright also accompanied Farrakhan and Jackson to Syria in 1986, where they successfully negotiated with Syrian strongman for the release of downed American pilot Robert O. Goodman.
Obama’s Speaking Style
In addition to the ideological affinity Obama expressed for the black nationalist movement, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and exploited for years to great success.
“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like,” White said.
Any American who has listened to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear how dramatically Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator.
In clips dating from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly and in long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and dense pseudo-academic rhetoric. But not today.
“As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak,” White told Newsmax. “I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style.”
White began in the late 1970s as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the military branch of Farrakhan’s Black Muslim group, then rose to become a minister of the Nation of Islam and a top deputy to Farrakhan himself.
Known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad, he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization.
White’s 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” prompted death threats by Farrakhan loyalists, so he left Illinois and moved to Florida to teach at the University of Central Florida.
He told Newsmax that Obama’s remarkable speaking style, even his manner of standing at a podium to appear larger than life, is directly copied from Farrakhan.
“If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister,” he said.
Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.
Newsmax queried Obama’s U.S. Senate office, his Chicago office and his campaign press office about his ties to Farrakhan, but did not receive a reply.
Ever since he appeared before the annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in June, Obama has attempted to convince the Jewish community that he is pro-Israel.
But his longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many Jewish community leaders.
Sen. John McCain publicly chastised The Los Angeles Times on Thursday for not releasing a videotape the newspaper said it possessed of a 2003 dinner for Khalidi, where Obama reportedly accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Obama Explains National Anthem Stance
Obama Explains National Anthem Stance
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: FW:
> Subject:
> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:19:58 -0600
> From: jmelancon@sjrmc.net
> To: mommalacita@hotmail.com
>
> > > I hope every one is listening, before it is too late.
> > Perhaps there are SOME out there who are beginning to get
> > 'the picture'. The following is a narrative taken
> > from Sunday Morning's televised 'Meet The
> > Press'. And the author is employed by none other than
> > the Washington Post!! Yeah......the Washington Post of New
> > York and Los Angeles Times fame!! Must say that I'm
> > dually impressed..................
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From Sunday's Televised 'Meet the Press'
> > Senator Obama was asked About his stance on the American
> > Flag. > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, General Bill
> > Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he
> > doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is
> > played.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The General also stated to the Senator that according
> > to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
> > During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is
> > displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected
> > to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand
> > over the heart. At the very least, 'Stand and Face
> > It'
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Senator Obama Live on Sunday states, 'As I've
> > said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as
> > taking sides, Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in
> > the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of
> > oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like
> > message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It
> > should be swapped for something less parochial and less
> > bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the
> > World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might
> > salute it.'We should consider to reinvent our National
> > Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our
> > enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to
> > disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East
> > Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should
> > conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace
> > prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord
> > between our governments. When I become President, I will
> > seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those
> > who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom
> > from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have
> > placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My
> > wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons.
> > Together she and I have attended several flag burning
> > ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views
> > and I have mine'. Of course now, I have found myself
> > about to become the President of the United States and I
> > have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring
> > CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of
> > hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our
> > Country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to
> > overwhelm the United States of America.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > WHAAAAAAAT ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This
> > could possibly be our next President.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I, for one, am speechless.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dale Lindsborg, Washington Post
>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: FW:
> Subject:
> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:19:58 -0600
> From: jmelancon@sjrmc.net
> To: mommalacita@hotmail.com
>
> > > I hope every one is listening, before it is too late.
> > Perhaps there are SOME out there who are beginning to get
> > 'the picture'. The following is a narrative taken
> > from Sunday Morning's televised 'Meet The
> > Press'. And the author is employed by none other than
> > the Washington Post!! Yeah......the Washington Post of New
> > York and Los Angeles Times fame!! Must say that I'm
> > dually impressed..................
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From Sunday's Televised 'Meet the Press'
> > Senator Obama was asked About his stance on the American
> > Flag. > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, General Bill
> > Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain why he
> > doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is
> > played.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The General also stated to the Senator that according
> > to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
> > During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is
> > displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected
> > to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand
> > over the heart. At the very least, 'Stand and Face
> > It'
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Senator Obama Live on Sunday states, 'As I've
> > said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as
> > taking sides, Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in
> > the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of
> > oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like
> > message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It
> > should be swapped for something less parochial and less
> > bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the
> > World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might
> > salute it.'We should consider to reinvent our National
> > Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our
> > enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to
> > disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East
> > Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should
> > conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace
> > prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord
> > between our governments. When I become President, I will
> > seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those
> > who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom
> > from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have
> > placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My
> > wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons.
> > Together she and I have attended several flag burning
> > ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views
> > and I have mine'. Of course now, I have found myself
> > about to become the President of the United States and I
> > have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring
> > CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of
> > hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our
> > Country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to
> > overwhelm the United States of America.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > WHAAAAAAAT ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This
> > could possibly be our next President.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I, for one, am speechless.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dale Lindsborg, Washington Post
>
November 1, 2008
The Colonel and Lincoln.
THIS HAS BEEN OUT SEVERAL TIMES BUT DESERVES YOUR ATTENTION NOW.
Subject: The Colonel and Lincoln......... POWERFUL
TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND READ THIS LETTER. THESE ARE STRONG, POWERFUL AND
COURAGEOUS WORDS COMING FROM A RETIRED COLONEL, AND READ WHAT LINCOLN HAD TO
SAY AT THE END. WOW!
33 Senators Voted Against English as America's Official Language on June 6,
2007.
On Wed. 6 June 2007, Colonel Harry Riley, USA, Ret. wrote:
Senators: Your vote against an amendment to the immigration Bill 1348.... to
make English America's official language is astounding.
On D-Day, no less, when we honor those that sacrificed in order to secure
the bedrock, character and principles of America, I can only surmise your
vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens.
I don't much care where you come from. What your religion is. Whether you're
black, white, or some other color...male or female......Democrat, Republican
or Independent...... But I do care when you are a United States Senator
representing Citizens of America ....and Vote against English as the
official language of the United States.
Your vote reflects Betrayal. Political Surrender. Violates Your Pledge of
Allegiance. Dishonors historical principle. Rejects Patriotism. Borders on
traitorous action and, in my opinion, makes you unfit to serve as a United
States Senator...impeachment... Recall..Or other appropriate action is
warranted, or worse.
Four of you voting against English as America 's Official Language were
Presidential
Candidates: Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd and Senator Obama.
Four Senators vying to lead America, but won't, or don't, have the courage
to cast a vote in favor of English as America's Official Language when 91%
of American Citizens want English officially designated as our language.
This is the second time in the last several months this list of Senators
have disgraced themselves as 'political Hacks'..... Unworthy as Senators and
certainly unqualified to serve as President of the United States .
If America is as angry as I am, you will realize a backlash so stunning it
will literally 'rock you out of your socks'... And preferably totally out of
the United States Senate.
The entire immigration bill is a farce... Your action only confirms this
really isn't about America ... it is about self-serving
politics...despicable at best. It has been said: 'Never Argue with an
Idiot....They'll drag you down to their level!'
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID:
'Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale
and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly
tried and hanged!!!'
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING AROUND THE UNITED STATES UNTIL THE ELECTION IN
NOVEMBER...
Subject: The Colonel and Lincoln......... POWERFUL
TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND READ THIS LETTER. THESE ARE STRONG, POWERFUL AND
COURAGEOUS WORDS COMING FROM A RETIRED COLONEL, AND READ WHAT LINCOLN HAD TO
SAY AT THE END. WOW!
33 Senators Voted Against English as America's Official Language on June 6,
2007.
On Wed. 6 June 2007, Colonel Harry Riley, USA, Ret. wrote:
Senators: Your vote against an amendment to the immigration Bill 1348.... to
make English America's official language is astounding.
On D-Day, no less, when we honor those that sacrificed in order to secure
the bedrock, character and principles of America, I can only surmise your
vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens.
I don't much care where you come from. What your religion is. Whether you're
black, white, or some other color...male or female......Democrat, Republican
or Independent...... But I do care when you are a United States Senator
representing Citizens of America ....and Vote against English as the
official language of the United States.
Your vote reflects Betrayal. Political Surrender. Violates Your Pledge of
Allegiance. Dishonors historical principle. Rejects Patriotism. Borders on
traitorous action and, in my opinion, makes you unfit to serve as a United
States Senator...impeachment... Recall..Or other appropriate action is
warranted, or worse.
Four of you voting against English as America 's Official Language were
Presidential
Candidates: Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd and Senator Obama.
Four Senators vying to lead America, but won't, or don't, have the courage
to cast a vote in favor of English as America's Official Language when 91%
of American Citizens want English officially designated as our language.
This is the second time in the last several months this list of Senators
have disgraced themselves as 'political Hacks'..... Unworthy as Senators and
certainly unqualified to serve as President of the United States .
If America is as angry as I am, you will realize a backlash so stunning it
will literally 'rock you out of your socks'... And preferably totally out of
the United States Senate.
The entire immigration bill is a farce... Your action only confirms this
really isn't about America ... it is about self-serving
politics...despicable at best. It has been said: 'Never Argue with an
Idiot....They'll drag you down to their level!'
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID:
'Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale
and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly
tried and hanged!!!'
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING AROUND THE UNITED STATES UNTIL THE ELECTION IN
NOVEMBER...
Adding Up Obama + Pelosi + Reid + Frank
Adding Up Obama + Pelosi + Reid + Frank
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wobbliest one-world instincts is not a close call.
But it's all about economics and kitchen-table issues, we are told. OK. Start with economics.
Neither candidate has particularly deep economic knowledge or finely honed economic instincts. Neither has any clear idea exactly what to do in the current financial meltdown.
Hell, neither does anyone else, including the best economic minds in the world, from Henry Paulson to the head of the European Central Bank. Yet they have muddled through with some success.
Both McCain and Barack Obama have assembled fine economic teams that may differ on the details of their plans but have reasonable approaches to managing the crisis. So forget the hype. Neither candidate has an advantage on this issue.
On other domestic issues, McCain is just the kind of moderate conservative that the Washington/media establishment once loved — the champion of myriad conservative heresies that made him a burr in the side of congressional Republicans and George W. Bush.
But now that he is standing in the way of an audacity-of-hope Democratic restoration, erstwhile friends recoil from McCain on the pretense that he has suddenly become right wing.
Self-serving rubbish. McCain is who he always was. Generally speaking, he sees government as a Rooseveltian counterweight (Teddy with a touch of Franklin) to the various malefactors of wealth and power.
He wants government to tackle large looming liabilities such as Social Security and Medicare. He wants to free up health insurance by beginning to sever its debilitating connection to employment — a ruinous accident of history (arising from World War II wage and price controls) that increases the terror of job loss, inhibits labor mobility and saddles American industry with costs that are driving it (see: Detroit) into insolvency. And he supports lower corporate and marginal tax rates to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation.
An eclectic, moderate, generally centrist agenda in a guy almost congenitally given to bipartisanship.
Obama, on the other hand, talks less and less about bipartisanship, his calling card during his earlier messianic stage. He does not need to. If he wins, he will have large Democratic majorities in both houses. And unlike 1992, Obama is no Clinton centrist.
What will you get?
(1) Card check, meaning the abolition of the secret ballot in the certification of unions in the workplace. Large men will come to your house at night and ask you to sign a card supporting a union. You will sign.
(2) The so-called Fairness Doctrine — a project of Nancy Pelosi and leading Democratic senators — a Hugo Chavez-style travesty designed to abolish conservative talk radio.
(3) Judges who go beyond even the constitutional creativity we expect from Democratic appointees. Judges chosen according to Obama's publicly declared criterion: "empathy" for the "poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old" — in a legal system historically predicated on the idea of justice entirely blind to one's station in life.
(4) An unprecedented expansion of government power. Yes, I know. It has already happened. A conservative government has already partially nationalized the mortgage industry, the insurance industry and nine of the largest U.S. banks.
This is all generally swallowed because everyone understands that the current crisis demands extraordinary measures. The difference is that conservatives are instinctively inclined to make such measures temporary.
Whereas an Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Barney Frank administration will find irresistible the temptation to use the tools inherited — $700 billion of largely uncontrolled spending — as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to radically remake the American economy and social compact.
This is not socialism. This is not the end of the world. It would, however, be a decidedly leftward move on the order of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
The alternative is a McCain administration with a moderate conservative presiding over a divided government and generally inclined to resist a European social-democratic model of economic and social regulation featuring, for example, wealth-distributing, growth-killing marginal tax rates.
The national security choice in this election is no contest. The domestic policy choice is more equivocal because it is ideological. McCain is the quintessential center-right candidate. Yet the quintessential center-right country is poised to reject him. The hunger for anti-Republican catharsis and the blinding promise of Obamian hope are simply too strong. The reckoning comes in the morning.
© 2008 Washington Post Writers Group
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wobbliest one-world instincts is not a close call.
But it's all about economics and kitchen-table issues, we are told. OK. Start with economics.
Neither candidate has particularly deep economic knowledge or finely honed economic instincts. Neither has any clear idea exactly what to do in the current financial meltdown.
Hell, neither does anyone else, including the best economic minds in the world, from Henry Paulson to the head of the European Central Bank. Yet they have muddled through with some success.
Both McCain and Barack Obama have assembled fine economic teams that may differ on the details of their plans but have reasonable approaches to managing the crisis. So forget the hype. Neither candidate has an advantage on this issue.
On other domestic issues, McCain is just the kind of moderate conservative that the Washington/media establishment once loved — the champion of myriad conservative heresies that made him a burr in the side of congressional Republicans and George W. Bush.
But now that he is standing in the way of an audacity-of-hope Democratic restoration, erstwhile friends recoil from McCain on the pretense that he has suddenly become right wing.
Self-serving rubbish. McCain is who he always was. Generally speaking, he sees government as a Rooseveltian counterweight (Teddy with a touch of Franklin) to the various malefactors of wealth and power.
He wants government to tackle large looming liabilities such as Social Security and Medicare. He wants to free up health insurance by beginning to sever its debilitating connection to employment — a ruinous accident of history (arising from World War II wage and price controls) that increases the terror of job loss, inhibits labor mobility and saddles American industry with costs that are driving it (see: Detroit) into insolvency. And he supports lower corporate and marginal tax rates to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation.
An eclectic, moderate, generally centrist agenda in a guy almost congenitally given to bipartisanship.
Obama, on the other hand, talks less and less about bipartisanship, his calling card during his earlier messianic stage. He does not need to. If he wins, he will have large Democratic majorities in both houses. And unlike 1992, Obama is no Clinton centrist.
What will you get?
(1) Card check, meaning the abolition of the secret ballot in the certification of unions in the workplace. Large men will come to your house at night and ask you to sign a card supporting a union. You will sign.
(2) The so-called Fairness Doctrine — a project of Nancy Pelosi and leading Democratic senators — a Hugo Chavez-style travesty designed to abolish conservative talk radio.
(3) Judges who go beyond even the constitutional creativity we expect from Democratic appointees. Judges chosen according to Obama's publicly declared criterion: "empathy" for the "poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old" — in a legal system historically predicated on the idea of justice entirely blind to one's station in life.
(4) An unprecedented expansion of government power. Yes, I know. It has already happened. A conservative government has already partially nationalized the mortgage industry, the insurance industry and nine of the largest U.S. banks.
This is all generally swallowed because everyone understands that the current crisis demands extraordinary measures. The difference is that conservatives are instinctively inclined to make such measures temporary.
Whereas an Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Barney Frank administration will find irresistible the temptation to use the tools inherited — $700 billion of largely uncontrolled spending — as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to radically remake the American economy and social compact.
This is not socialism. This is not the end of the world. It would, however, be a decidedly leftward move on the order of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
The alternative is a McCain administration with a moderate conservative presiding over a divided government and generally inclined to resist a European social-democratic model of economic and social regulation featuring, for example, wealth-distributing, growth-killing marginal tax rates.
The national security choice in this election is no contest. The domestic policy choice is more equivocal because it is ideological. McCain is the quintessential center-right candidate. Yet the quintessential center-right country is poised to reject him. The hunger for anti-Republican catharsis and the blinding promise of Obamian hope are simply too strong. The reckoning comes in the morning.
© 2008 Washington Post Writers Group
All Charisma, No Heart
All Charisma, No Heart
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Character: Barack Obama would "spread the wealth" as president, but until lately the Obamas were giving less than 1% of their own high incomes to the needy and neglecting even poverty-stricken blood relatives.
Sen. Barack Obama is apparently quite a cheapskate when it comes to giving to charity. From 2001 to 2004, the tax returns for Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Obama show less than $8,500 in donations out of the nearly $1 million they made.
In 2005 and 2006, with book royalties making them millionaires, their charitable contributions rose to about 5% of income. But how "charitable" are some of the causes Obama supports? In 2006, for instance, he gave more than $20,000 to the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Imagine that. Giving tens of thousands of dollars to someone who preaches "not God Bless America; God damn America!" from the pulpit. It remains incomprehensible that John McCain chose not to hammer home Obama's close association with Wright. The Wright issue has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with radical ideology.
Another supposed charitable donation was the more than $13,000 Obama gave to the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC last year confirmed that it is a hard-core segregationist organization. When white liberal Democrat Steve Cohen ran in a majority-black House district in Memphis in 2006, he pledged to become the first white CBC member. But once he won, caucus members told him that whites need not apply.
Juxtapose that with the South Carolina state Republican Party chairman feeling compelled last month to resign his 12-year membership in an exclusive whites-only country club. Imagine the uproar if McCain, like Obama, had given a $13,000 "charitable donation" to a group that restricts membership based on race.
How can Obama spare thousands for Chicago's Muntu Theater of African dance, while allowing his 56-year-old Aunt Zeituni, about whom he reminisces fondly in his best-selling "Dreams From My Father," to live in a South Boston slum, as exposed by the Times of London this week? While Obama was swimming in well over $600 million in cash contributions, his underprivileged Kenyan-born auntie actually sent his campaign a modest donation.
A 2003 Associated Press story profiling poor people who buy lottery tickets at check-cashing stores apparently quotes Obama's Aunt Zeituni, describing her as unemployed and cash-strapped.
Obama's Uncle Omar, also described affectionately in his book, was apparently evicted from his Boston home in 2000 after losing his job. Then there is Obama's 26-year-old half brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, discovered by the Italian edition of Vanity Fair to be living in a hovel near Nairobi, claiming to earn "less than a dollar a month."
It's funny how Obama can sell his memoir exploiting his relatives and humanize himself for voters, yet be too busy getting ready to change the world to be there for them when they need a hand.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Character: Barack Obama would "spread the wealth" as president, but until lately the Obamas were giving less than 1% of their own high incomes to the needy and neglecting even poverty-stricken blood relatives.
Sen. Barack Obama is apparently quite a cheapskate when it comes to giving to charity. From 2001 to 2004, the tax returns for Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Obama show less than $8,500 in donations out of the nearly $1 million they made.
In 2005 and 2006, with book royalties making them millionaires, their charitable contributions rose to about 5% of income. But how "charitable" are some of the causes Obama supports? In 2006, for instance, he gave more than $20,000 to the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Imagine that. Giving tens of thousands of dollars to someone who preaches "not God Bless America; God damn America!" from the pulpit. It remains incomprehensible that John McCain chose not to hammer home Obama's close association with Wright. The Wright issue has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with radical ideology.
Another supposed charitable donation was the more than $13,000 Obama gave to the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC last year confirmed that it is a hard-core segregationist organization. When white liberal Democrat Steve Cohen ran in a majority-black House district in Memphis in 2006, he pledged to become the first white CBC member. But once he won, caucus members told him that whites need not apply.
Juxtapose that with the South Carolina state Republican Party chairman feeling compelled last month to resign his 12-year membership in an exclusive whites-only country club. Imagine the uproar if McCain, like Obama, had given a $13,000 "charitable donation" to a group that restricts membership based on race.
How can Obama spare thousands for Chicago's Muntu Theater of African dance, while allowing his 56-year-old Aunt Zeituni, about whom he reminisces fondly in his best-selling "Dreams From My Father," to live in a South Boston slum, as exposed by the Times of London this week? While Obama was swimming in well over $600 million in cash contributions, his underprivileged Kenyan-born auntie actually sent his campaign a modest donation.
A 2003 Associated Press story profiling poor people who buy lottery tickets at check-cashing stores apparently quotes Obama's Aunt Zeituni, describing her as unemployed and cash-strapped.
Obama's Uncle Omar, also described affectionately in his book, was apparently evicted from his Boston home in 2000 after losing his job. Then there is Obama's 26-year-old half brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, discovered by the Italian edition of Vanity Fair to be living in a hovel near Nairobi, claiming to earn "less than a dollar a month."
It's funny how Obama can sell his memoir exploiting his relatives and humanize himself for voters, yet be too busy getting ready to change the world to be there for them when they need a hand.
October 30, 2008
NEWSSHOPPE READERS PLEASE ALERT YOUR FRIENDS TO THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARTICLE.
WE CERTAINLY DO NOT THE ELECTION STOLEN
Time is running out! We must act now so that left wing groups like ACORN know that they can't get away with "stealing" your vote!
But as if potentially "stealing" your vote was not bad enough - to add insult to injury - a new story has come to light that is equally as troubling:
If you're a soldier overseas - putting your life on the line to defend and preserve our freedoms - FORGET IT... YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK... APPARENTLY YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT!
According to the website StoptheACLU.com:
"This year’s election mischief is not limited to the fraud perpetrated by Obama’s old ACORN friends. Swing state Virginia has been finding lame excuses to toss out military ballots, even as it allows nonresident college students to vote there... As if to replace the military voters who will not be allowed a say in the election, bureaucrats have visited Fairfax County jail to encourage criminals to vote."
Just in case you haven't heard the story, essentially, the Fairfax County Virginia Registrar of Voters found a discrepancy between the Virginia law and the federal law and used it as a pathetic excuse to start throwing out absentee votes of service members.
According to the Associated Press, Fairfax County General Registrar Rokey W. Suleman II said; "We're following the letter of Virginia law."
Jed Babbin with Human Events knew better:
"The just-issued opinion smacks down the partisan effort by Fairfax registrar Rokey Suleman who -- contrary to federal law -- was requiring military absentee ballots to show the address of the witness countersigning the ballot."
For the record, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued an opinion on Monday in defense of our men and women in uniform but Suleman's bone-headed action is just one example of the transparent hypocrisy of the liberal bureaucrats across the country.
It's likely you'll hear of more.
And one thing is becoming abundantly clear.
It's not about attempting to "stop voter disenfranchisement" or making sure that "every vote counts."
That's why, with the election about a week away, we can't afford to lose a second!
Patriotic Americans must stand up and continue to be counted!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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It's A Little Bigger Than A Few Dead People Voting In Chicago.
Recently, we told you about massive voter registration fraud in Nevada and Georgia.
To refresh your memory, according to the liberal New York Times:
"In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 nonmatches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 nonmatches."
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Add Indiana, Ohio and Colorado to the list.
According to the Associated Press:
"The Indiana secretary of state's office says it has found evidence of 'multiple criminal violations' in connection with voter registration applications in Lake County. Secretary of State Todd Rokita says they include possible violations of state and federal racketeering laws."
"Rokita says 30 percent of the applications included information that was obviously incorrect, incomplete or illegible. He calls it a "fraud perpetrated on all of the people of Indiana."
As for Ohio... according to UPI:
"President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the status of 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters."
Some liberals simply shrug off this threat to our system of government.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile wrote for CNN:
"The so-called ACORN scandal is no more than a few canvassers trying to meet their quota and make easy money by cheating the system."
But others are more brazen and are actually demanding the courts reinstate questionable registrations already purged from the voter rolls.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
"A similar legal drama could play out in Colorado. Republicans there are charging that the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is loading up the voter rolls with unqualified people. Democrats are asking a federal court to reinstate approximately 30,000 Colorado voters purged from registration lists by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican."
It's becoming painfully obvious.
We're not just talking about a handful of dead people voting in Chicago.
We're talking about bedlam.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
The Integrity of Our Elections Are At Stake.
There's only ONE way to STOP ACORN.
The actions you take (or do not take) RIGHT NOW as you read this urgent appeal may well determine whether or not ACORN will succeed.
The Internet Blog Powerline.com went so far as to write:
"It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans."
ACORN's actions, which are currently under investigation in 12 states, may actually strike at the very heart of the freedoms we cherish and enjoy in the United States of America!
This is one of the most urgent and pivotal letters we've ever put before you.
These are desperate times and simply listening to Sean Hannity or Rush talk about this evolving scandal on the radio WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Hearing allegations about ACORN on FOX News WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Simply shooting off an angry e-mail IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
And no, threatening legal action AFTER the fact IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
Frankly, RIGHT NOW, talk is cheap.
There's ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP the apparent massive voter fraud that may be taking place right under your nose.
Simply put, it's now within the realm of possibility that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of fraudulent votes could be cast in pivotal swing states and make a farce of our entire electoral process!
There is not a moment to lose!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
A History of Fraud and Deceit...
ACORN has a long and dubious history.
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said:
“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took a stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done."
Boehner continued:
"ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”
Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts:
“These are recent complaints, but ACORN’s history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election [2006], the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania."
Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations:
"Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.’ (Keith Ervin, ‘Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,’ 10-30-2007)"
"This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
"There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map... ."
If criminal indictments did not deter ACORN in the past...
...why would they deter ACORN NOW?
No, there is only one solution to this problem.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
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Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
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WE CERTAINLY DO NOT THE ELECTION STOLEN
Time is running out! We must act now so that left wing groups like ACORN know that they can't get away with "stealing" your vote!
But as if potentially "stealing" your vote was not bad enough - to add insult to injury - a new story has come to light that is equally as troubling:
If you're a soldier overseas - putting your life on the line to defend and preserve our freedoms - FORGET IT... YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK... APPARENTLY YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT!
According to the website StoptheACLU.com:
"This year’s election mischief is not limited to the fraud perpetrated by Obama’s old ACORN friends. Swing state Virginia has been finding lame excuses to toss out military ballots, even as it allows nonresident college students to vote there... As if to replace the military voters who will not be allowed a say in the election, bureaucrats have visited Fairfax County jail to encourage criminals to vote."
Just in case you haven't heard the story, essentially, the Fairfax County Virginia Registrar of Voters found a discrepancy between the Virginia law and the federal law and used it as a pathetic excuse to start throwing out absentee votes of service members.
According to the Associated Press, Fairfax County General Registrar Rokey W. Suleman II said; "We're following the letter of Virginia law."
Jed Babbin with Human Events knew better:
"The just-issued opinion smacks down the partisan effort by Fairfax registrar Rokey Suleman who -- contrary to federal law -- was requiring military absentee ballots to show the address of the witness countersigning the ballot."
For the record, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued an opinion on Monday in defense of our men and women in uniform but Suleman's bone-headed action is just one example of the transparent hypocrisy of the liberal bureaucrats across the country.
It's likely you'll hear of more.
And one thing is becoming abundantly clear.
It's not about attempting to "stop voter disenfranchisement" or making sure that "every vote counts."
That's why, with the election about a week away, we can't afford to lose a second!
Patriotic Americans must stand up and continue to be counted!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
It's A Little Bigger Than A Few Dead People Voting In Chicago.
Recently, we told you about massive voter registration fraud in Nevada and Georgia.
To refresh your memory, according to the liberal New York Times:
"In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 nonmatches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 nonmatches."
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Add Indiana, Ohio and Colorado to the list.
According to the Associated Press:
"The Indiana secretary of state's office says it has found evidence of 'multiple criminal violations' in connection with voter registration applications in Lake County. Secretary of State Todd Rokita says they include possible violations of state and federal racketeering laws."
"Rokita says 30 percent of the applications included information that was obviously incorrect, incomplete or illegible. He calls it a "fraud perpetrated on all of the people of Indiana."
As for Ohio... according to UPI:
"President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the status of 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters."
Some liberals simply shrug off this threat to our system of government.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile wrote for CNN:
"The so-called ACORN scandal is no more than a few canvassers trying to meet their quota and make easy money by cheating the system."
But others are more brazen and are actually demanding the courts reinstate questionable registrations already purged from the voter rolls.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
"A similar legal drama could play out in Colorado. Republicans there are charging that the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is loading up the voter rolls with unqualified people. Democrats are asking a federal court to reinstate approximately 30,000 Colorado voters purged from registration lists by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican."
It's becoming painfully obvious.
We're not just talking about a handful of dead people voting in Chicago.
We're talking about bedlam.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
The Integrity of Our Elections Are At Stake.
There's only ONE way to STOP ACORN.
The actions you take (or do not take) RIGHT NOW as you read this urgent appeal may well determine whether or not ACORN will succeed.
The Internet Blog Powerline.com went so far as to write:
"It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans."
ACORN's actions, which are currently under investigation in 12 states, may actually strike at the very heart of the freedoms we cherish and enjoy in the United States of America!
This is one of the most urgent and pivotal letters we've ever put before you.
These are desperate times and simply listening to Sean Hannity or Rush talk about this evolving scandal on the radio WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Hearing allegations about ACORN on FOX News WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Simply shooting off an angry e-mail IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
And no, threatening legal action AFTER the fact IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
Frankly, RIGHT NOW, talk is cheap.
There's ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP the apparent massive voter fraud that may be taking place right under your nose.
Simply put, it's now within the realm of possibility that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of fraudulent votes could be cast in pivotal swing states and make a farce of our entire electoral process!
There is not a moment to lose!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
A History of Fraud and Deceit...
ACORN has a long and dubious history.
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said:
“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took a stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done."
Boehner continued:
"ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”
Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts:
“These are recent complaints, but ACORN’s history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election [2006], the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania."
Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations:
"Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.’ (Keith Ervin, ‘Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,’ 10-30-2007)"
"This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
"There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map... ."
If criminal indictments did not deter ACORN in the past...
...why would they deter ACORN NOW?
No, there is only one solution to this problem.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
www.cfif.org
P.S. Please help us reach as many concerned Americans as possible by forwarding this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and family members.
STOP THE ACTS OF ACORN
NEWSSHOPPE READERS PLEASE ALERT YOUR FRIENDS TO THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARTICLE.
WE CERTAINLY DO NOT THE ELECTION STOLEN.
Time is running out! We must act now so that left wing groups like ACORN know that they can't get away with "stealing" your vote!
But as if potentially "stealing" your vote was not bad enough - to add insult to injury - a new story has come to light that is equally as troubling:
If you're a soldier overseas - putting your life on the line to defend and preserve our freedoms - FORGET IT... YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK... APPARENTLY YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT!
According to the website StoptheACLU.com:
"This year’s election mischief is not limited to the fraud perpetrated by Obama’s old ACORN friends. Swing state Virginia has been finding lame excuses to toss out military ballots, even as it allows nonresident college students to vote there... As if to replace the military voters who will not be allowed a say in the election, bureaucrats have visited Fairfax County jail to encourage criminals to vote."
Just in case you haven't heard the story, essentially, the Fairfax County Virginia Registrar of Voters found a discrepancy between the Virginia law and the federal law and used it as a pathetic excuse to start throwing out absentee votes of service members.
According to the Associated Press, Fairfax County General Registrar Rokey W. Suleman II said; "We're following the letter of Virginia law."
Jed Babbin with Human Events knew better:
"The just-issued opinion smacks down the partisan effort by Fairfax registrar Rokey Suleman who -- contrary to federal law -- was requiring military absentee ballots to show the address of the witness countersigning the ballot."
For the record, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued an opinion on Monday in defense of our men and women in uniform but Suleman's bone-headed action is just one example of the transparent hypocrisy of the liberal bureaucrats across the country.
It's likely you'll hear of more.
And one thing is becoming abundantly clear.
It's not about attempting to "stop voter disenfranchisement" or making sure that "every vote counts."
That's why, with the election about a week away, we can't afford to lose a second!
Patriotic Americans must stand up and continue to be counted!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
It's A Little Bigger Than A Few Dead People Voting In Chicago.
Recently, we told you about massive voter registration fraud in Nevada and Georgia.
To refresh your memory, according to the liberal New York Times:
"In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 nonmatches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 nonmatches."
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Add Indiana, Ohio and Colorado to the list.
According to the Associated Press:
"The Indiana secretary of state's office says it has found evidence of 'multiple criminal violations' in connection with voter registration applications in Lake County. Secretary of State Todd Rokita says they include possible violations of state and federal racketeering laws."
"Rokita says 30 percent of the applications included information that was obviously incorrect, incomplete or illegible. He calls it a "fraud perpetrated on all of the people of Indiana."
As for Ohio... according to UPI:
"President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the status of 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters."
Some liberals simply shrug off this threat to our system of government.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile wrote for CNN:
"The so-called ACORN scandal is no more than a few canvassers trying to meet their quota and make easy money by cheating the system."
But others are more brazen and are actually demanding the courts reinstate questionable registrations already purged from the voter rolls.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
"A similar legal drama could play out in Colorado. Republicans there are charging that the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is loading up the voter rolls with unqualified people. Democrats are asking a federal court to reinstate approximately 30,000 Colorado voters purged from registration lists by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican."
It's becoming painfully obvious.
We're not just talking about a handful of dead people voting in Chicago.
We're talking about bedlam.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
The Integrity of Our Elections Are At Stake.
There's only ONE way to STOP ACORN.
The actions you take (or do not take) RIGHT NOW as you read this urgent appeal may well determine whether or not ACORN will succeed.
The Internet Blog Powerline.com went so far as to write:
"It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans."
ACORN's actions, which are currently under investigation in 12 states, may actually strike at the very heart of the freedoms we cherish and enjoy in the United States of America!
This is one of the most urgent and pivotal letters we've ever put before you.
These are desperate times and simply listening to Sean Hannity or Rush talk about this evolving scandal on the radio WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Hearing allegations about ACORN on FOX News WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Simply shooting off an angry e-mail IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
And no, threatening legal action AFTER the fact IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
Frankly, RIGHT NOW, talk is cheap.
There's ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP the apparent massive voter fraud that may be taking place right under your nose.
Simply put, it's now within the realm of possibility that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of fraudulent votes could be cast in pivotal swing states and make a farce of our entire electoral process!
There is not a moment to lose!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
A History of Fraud and Deceit...
ACORN has a long and dubious history.
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said:
“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took a stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done."
Boehner continued:
"ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”
Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts:
“These are recent complaints, but ACORN’s history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election [2006], the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania."
Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations:
"Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.’ (Keith Ervin, ‘Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,’ 10-30-2007)"
"This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
"There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map... ."
If criminal indictments did not deter ACORN in the past...
...why would they deter ACORN NOW?
No, there is only one solution to this problem.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
www.cfif.org
P.S. Please help us reach as many concerned Americans as possible by forwarding this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and family members.
WE CERTAINLY DO NOT THE ELECTION STOLEN.
Time is running out! We must act now so that left wing groups like ACORN know that they can't get away with "stealing" your vote!
But as if potentially "stealing" your vote was not bad enough - to add insult to injury - a new story has come to light that is equally as troubling:
If you're a soldier overseas - putting your life on the line to defend and preserve our freedoms - FORGET IT... YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK... APPARENTLY YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT!
According to the website StoptheACLU.com:
"This year’s election mischief is not limited to the fraud perpetrated by Obama’s old ACORN friends. Swing state Virginia has been finding lame excuses to toss out military ballots, even as it allows nonresident college students to vote there... As if to replace the military voters who will not be allowed a say in the election, bureaucrats have visited Fairfax County jail to encourage criminals to vote."
Just in case you haven't heard the story, essentially, the Fairfax County Virginia Registrar of Voters found a discrepancy between the Virginia law and the federal law and used it as a pathetic excuse to start throwing out absentee votes of service members.
According to the Associated Press, Fairfax County General Registrar Rokey W. Suleman II said; "We're following the letter of Virginia law."
Jed Babbin with Human Events knew better:
"The just-issued opinion smacks down the partisan effort by Fairfax registrar Rokey Suleman who -- contrary to federal law -- was requiring military absentee ballots to show the address of the witness countersigning the ballot."
For the record, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued an opinion on Monday in defense of our men and women in uniform but Suleman's bone-headed action is just one example of the transparent hypocrisy of the liberal bureaucrats across the country.
It's likely you'll hear of more.
And one thing is becoming abundantly clear.
It's not about attempting to "stop voter disenfranchisement" or making sure that "every vote counts."
That's why, with the election about a week away, we can't afford to lose a second!
Patriotic Americans must stand up and continue to be counted!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
It's A Little Bigger Than A Few Dead People Voting In Chicago.
Recently, we told you about massive voter registration fraud in Nevada and Georgia.
To refresh your memory, according to the liberal New York Times:
"In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 nonmatches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 nonmatches."
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Add Indiana, Ohio and Colorado to the list.
According to the Associated Press:
"The Indiana secretary of state's office says it has found evidence of 'multiple criminal violations' in connection with voter registration applications in Lake County. Secretary of State Todd Rokita says they include possible violations of state and federal racketeering laws."
"Rokita says 30 percent of the applications included information that was obviously incorrect, incomplete or illegible. He calls it a "fraud perpetrated on all of the people of Indiana."
As for Ohio... according to UPI:
"President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the status of 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters."
Some liberals simply shrug off this threat to our system of government.
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile wrote for CNN:
"The so-called ACORN scandal is no more than a few canvassers trying to meet their quota and make easy money by cheating the system."
But others are more brazen and are actually demanding the courts reinstate questionable registrations already purged from the voter rolls.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
"A similar legal drama could play out in Colorado. Republicans there are charging that the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is loading up the voter rolls with unqualified people. Democrats are asking a federal court to reinstate approximately 30,000 Colorado voters purged from registration lists by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican."
It's becoming painfully obvious.
We're not just talking about a handful of dead people voting in Chicago.
We're talking about bedlam.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
AOL Members Use This Hyperlink
If the button does not work, you should copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
The Integrity of Our Elections Are At Stake.
There's only ONE way to STOP ACORN.
The actions you take (or do not take) RIGHT NOW as you read this urgent appeal may well determine whether or not ACORN will succeed.
The Internet Blog Powerline.com went so far as to write:
"It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans."
ACORN's actions, which are currently under investigation in 12 states, may actually strike at the very heart of the freedoms we cherish and enjoy in the United States of America!
This is one of the most urgent and pivotal letters we've ever put before you.
These are desperate times and simply listening to Sean Hannity or Rush talk about this evolving scandal on the radio WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Hearing allegations about ACORN on FOX News WILL NOT STOP ACORN!
Simply shooting off an angry e-mail IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
And no, threatening legal action AFTER the fact IS NOT going to STOP ACORN!
Frankly, RIGHT NOW, talk is cheap.
There's ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP the apparent massive voter fraud that may be taking place right under your nose.
Simply put, it's now within the realm of possibility that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of fraudulent votes could be cast in pivotal swing states and make a farce of our entire electoral process!
There is not a moment to lose!
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
A History of Fraud and Deceit...
ACORN has a long and dubious history.
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said:
“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took a stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done."
Boehner continued:
"ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”
Michael Gaynor with Canada Free Press recounts:
“These are recent complaints, but ACORN’s history is riddled with criminal activity. During the last major election [2006], the Wall Street Journal did a story about ACORN. Four ACORN workers had been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board; other ACORN workers were convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado and investigations, at the time the article was written, were under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania."
Gaynor also writes of more recent indictments and investigations:
"Last year, The Seattle Times reported the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history. Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged for filling out and submitting more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.’ (Keith Ervin, ‘Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme,’ 10-30-2007)"
"This year, an ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced for up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
"There are also examples of indictments this year, such as the four ACORN employees in Kansas City charged with identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election and the Reynoldsburg fellow indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. And there are current investigations into ACORN for voter fraud all over the map... ."
If criminal indictments did not deter ACORN in the past...
...why would they deter ACORN NOW?
No, there is only one solution to this problem.
Some battles must be fought to the bitter end... win, lose or draw. This is one of those battles. This is one of those times. We simply cannot stop now... we must fight this battle to the bitter end. If we don't, lawmakers and bureaucrats across the country will think the American people will simply roll over and accept what constitutes a complete mockery of our electoral process. It will never end and each mockery and offense will simply become more egregious and more blatant. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent, separate and distinct Blast Faxes to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Tell them to call Congress back into session immediately and demand that they pass emergency legislation that will require all voters to present valid state or federal IDs at the polling place or have their votes counted only provisionally until legitimacy can be verified. Tell them that the cherished privilege to vote is pivotal to our way of life and MUST be protected from ALL illegitimate challenges whether they come from the political left or the political right!
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/acorniiinm.html
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We MUST flood our legislative officials with high-impact faxes and calls. After you take action, please forward this urgent and time sensitive alert to at least 10 of your friends. Our system of government hangs in the balance!
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
www.cfif.org
P.S. Please help us reach as many concerned Americans as possible by forwarding this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and family members.
Obama's 'Change' Is Socialism
Obama's 'Change' Is Socialism
Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:56 AM
By: Michael Reagan
The other day, I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers, and other film industry notables.
One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism?
Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes? It doesn’t work that way.
There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist any more than you can be half-pregnant; get knocked up with a socialist fetus and you’ll have to deliver a full-born Marxist. There’s nothing in between. Try it, you’ll like it; and if you don’t, as the lads in the Gestapo used to tell people, they had ways to make them like it.
Larry Gelbart gorged himself at the capitalist table and came away with untold millions, now safely banked, and continues to collect even more millions from never-ending reruns of the “MASH” sitcom. Having made his bundle from our capitalist free-enterprise system, he seems to be telling us now that the rest of us should get in the socialist bread line and eat crumbs while he feasts on caviar.
One of the realities of this age is that the great mass of the American people haven’t traveled abroad to see how the rest of the world lives, a lot of it under dreary socialist regimes with stalled economies and no real chance for advancement for the ordinary citizen.
Moreover, our shoddy educational curriculum that has left most younger Americans so deficient in the study of history that vast numbers of them think George Washington was a Civil War general, or a lumberman who chopped down cherry trees. They have no real understanding of the economic system that allowed us to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation since the Roman Empire ruled most of the known world 2,000 years ago.
Given that mournful reality, the moment the economic Rolls Royce engine that drove this nation to the top of the hill stalls, instead of installing new spark plugs to get it going again, they go looking for an alternative mode of transportation.
In the present case, Obama and the Democrats are directing them to Larry Gelbart’s used-economic system lot where he shows them a jalopy with a fancy paint job on the outside and a one-cylinder motor inside that goes chug-chug.
Listening to the advice of a man who made his name and his money on a show about America’s military at war — yet told the same audience that our armed forces are nothing but “mercenaries” — doesn’t seem the smartest thing to do.
We are now a few days away from an election in which one of the presidential candidates is trying to sell that jalopy on Larry Gelbart’s lot and convince us that it is really a luxury limo that will get hundreds of miles to the gallon and carry us off to the promised land, where the rich will be impoverished and the middle class enriched and everybody will be deliriously happy.
Call Barack Obama’s program socialism, however, and he’ll swear on a stack of Qurans it isn’t. He calls it change. He says it’s fairness, not Marxism.
Oh?
How does he explain the proven fact that he has been wallowing in a sty surrounded by fervent socialists and sharing in their swill for most of his life?
According to Fox’s Bill Sammon, his messiahship recalled that when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles "to avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," he wrote in "Dreams From My Father," his memoir. "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." And that was his milieu for all his years in Chicago.
To anyone familiar with socialism, Obama’s programs fit comfortably within the pages of Karl Marx’s playbook, the root of which is the redistribution of the wealth, the key to the entire Obamian vault.
What’s mine is yours, and he’s the middle man.
It’s socialism lite, and it can only evolve into socialism heavy. Remember, you can’t be half-socialist, and Barack Obama knows it.
© 2008 Mike Reagan
Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:56 AM
By: Michael Reagan
The other day, I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers, and other film industry notables.
One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism?
Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes? It doesn’t work that way.
There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist any more than you can be half-pregnant; get knocked up with a socialist fetus and you’ll have to deliver a full-born Marxist. There’s nothing in between. Try it, you’ll like it; and if you don’t, as the lads in the Gestapo used to tell people, they had ways to make them like it.
Larry Gelbart gorged himself at the capitalist table and came away with untold millions, now safely banked, and continues to collect even more millions from never-ending reruns of the “MASH” sitcom. Having made his bundle from our capitalist free-enterprise system, he seems to be telling us now that the rest of us should get in the socialist bread line and eat crumbs while he feasts on caviar.
One of the realities of this age is that the great mass of the American people haven’t traveled abroad to see how the rest of the world lives, a lot of it under dreary socialist regimes with stalled economies and no real chance for advancement for the ordinary citizen.
Moreover, our shoddy educational curriculum that has left most younger Americans so deficient in the study of history that vast numbers of them think George Washington was a Civil War general, or a lumberman who chopped down cherry trees. They have no real understanding of the economic system that allowed us to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation since the Roman Empire ruled most of the known world 2,000 years ago.
Given that mournful reality, the moment the economic Rolls Royce engine that drove this nation to the top of the hill stalls, instead of installing new spark plugs to get it going again, they go looking for an alternative mode of transportation.
In the present case, Obama and the Democrats are directing them to Larry Gelbart’s used-economic system lot where he shows them a jalopy with a fancy paint job on the outside and a one-cylinder motor inside that goes chug-chug.
Listening to the advice of a man who made his name and his money on a show about America’s military at war — yet told the same audience that our armed forces are nothing but “mercenaries” — doesn’t seem the smartest thing to do.
We are now a few days away from an election in which one of the presidential candidates is trying to sell that jalopy on Larry Gelbart’s lot and convince us that it is really a luxury limo that will get hundreds of miles to the gallon and carry us off to the promised land, where the rich will be impoverished and the middle class enriched and everybody will be deliriously happy.
Call Barack Obama’s program socialism, however, and he’ll swear on a stack of Qurans it isn’t. He calls it change. He says it’s fairness, not Marxism.
Oh?
How does he explain the proven fact that he has been wallowing in a sty surrounded by fervent socialists and sharing in their swill for most of his life?
According to Fox’s Bill Sammon, his messiahship recalled that when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles "to avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," he wrote in "Dreams From My Father," his memoir. "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." And that was his milieu for all his years in Chicago.
To anyone familiar with socialism, Obama’s programs fit comfortably within the pages of Karl Marx’s playbook, the root of which is the redistribution of the wealth, the key to the entire Obamian vault.
What’s mine is yours, and he’s the middle man.
It’s socialism lite, and it can only evolve into socialism heavy. Remember, you can’t be half-socialist, and Barack Obama knows it.
© 2008 Mike Reagan
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