He was in Rev. Wright's racist church. Counting them chickens coming home to roost.
Posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:07 PM PDT by Saab-driving Yuppie
Yes, this is a vanity, but I seriously want to know the answer to this question:
Where was then-state-senator Barack Obama on September 11, 2001?
Not looking for a smart-aleck answer. This is a serious question for which I hope there are serious answers.
But, we can’t be certain
Playing golf.
He was also high-fiving Louis Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi!
LOL!
He missed his plane.
Once a year. ;)
Ulalating for the hijackers who martyred themselves.
That’s FANTASTIC! I downloaded it and am going to post it on all the blogs I go to.
What did obama say when he met his goat HEY YEW
He was in Rev. Wright's racist church. Counting them chickens coming home to roost.
This is illuminating: http://www.redstate.com/bs/2009/09/10/obama-and-the-911-murderers/
LOL!
Go for it. Please do!
He was community organizing and voting present on something.
He was parachuting over Pennsylvania.
Listening to Rev Wright chant blame-America rants...
On his prayer rug, ass in the air, faceing Mecca.
Shortly after Obama’s unsuccessful run for Congress in 2000, he was deeply in debt, with little cash at his disposal (his annual part-time salary as a state senator was $58,000) and a stagnant law practice that he had largely neglected during a year of political campaigning.
In early 2001 a longtime political supporter, Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell, Jr., hired Obama to provide legal advice for his (Blackwell’s) growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange (EKI). In exchange for his services, Blackwell paid Obama an $8,000 retainer each month for roughly a 14-month period -- a total of $118,000.
In return for these payments, Obama pressured the Illinois state tourism board to send a $50,000 grant to EKI. He also issued a formal written request for Illinois officials to furnish a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin, which sells equipment and apparel related to the sport of table tennis. The day after Obama wrote this letter, his U.S. Senate campaign received a $1,000 donation from Blackwell.
Killerspin would not receive the full $50,000 it was seeking that year, but only $20,000. With Obama’s help, however, the company eventually secured $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize the table tennis tournaments it sponsored. As blogger Ed Morrissey observes: “This looks like a rather obvious quid pro quo…. In exchange for $118,000 in salary, Blackwell received $320,000 in state taxpayer money and influence at the highest level of state politics.”
Obama’s presidential campaign website reported that Blackwell in 2008 committed to raise between $100,000 and $200,000 for Obama’s White House run that year.
Obama was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War ever since it was first discussed as a possible means of unseating Saddam Hussein from power. On October 2, 2002, Obama gave an antiwar speech alongside Jesse Jackson on the very day that President Bush and Congress had agreed on a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Suggesting that the prospect of war was largely a Republican ploy to distract voters from domestic issues that were impacting minorities negatively, Obama said: “What I am opposed to is the attempt by potential hacks like [Republican strategist] Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty state, a drop in the medium income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone thorough the worst month since the Great Depression. That’s what I am opposed to.”
Did you get the “Sorry sir, too long of break in service” answer?
Not to be too nosy but why wouldn’t they take you and your brother? (It’s okay to tell me to mind my own business.... I don’t want to embarrass you.)
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