Posted on 09/30/2008 6:12:40 AM PDT by pabianice
McCain/Bush and Republicans in general are saying that now is the time to fix the problem, the time to blame comes later. Problem is the Democrats have already started blaming Republicans. They need to do this now because it will take a lot of work on their part and help from to press to fool the public.
Barrack Obama has been HEAVILY involved with ACORN for a LONG time and ACORN is a Communist front organization!
There is a link, but BO is hardly responsible. He wasn’t even in Congress when the truly damaging legislation was passed. While he supports the Socialist goals of the CRA, he was not a player. The culprits are fairly easy to spot: Chris Dodd (Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs), Paul Sarbanes (former chair of Senate Banking Committee), Phil Gramm (former chair of Senate Banking Committee and author of Gramm-Leach-Bliley), Barney Frank (CRA and guilty on multiple other counts of demogoguery), Jimmy Carter (the Squish-head who was President when CRA was enacted), Clinton (who presided over CRA being made even worse than it already was), the idiots at non-think tanks such as New America who argued that the CRA had nothing to do with excesses in the housing market despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, and EVERYONE, every two-bit, ward-heeling, cheesy congressman and senator who did everything they could to block the reining in of Freddie and Fannie (see Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer). I could continue, but you get the point. There is plenty of blame to go around.
He can't just run with it. He needs to get all of his ducks in row.... legally. He must verify it and then take him down. Trust but verify. If he runs a negative ad and can't make a strong case to back it up, Obama will call one of his press conferences and denounce it as negative campaigning and totally take the wind out. I think it's coming. They are just waiting for the right time to lower the boom.
THEN, he needs to tell the whole nation that as president he will see to it that those people and policies that caused this mess will be investigated and made to pay the price.
Right now all they are talking about is how they have a bill that they know is not great, and then in the next breath they say they need for us to understand how important it is to pass it. They are saying they did not ‘sell’ it right. For me, that is insulting. I don't want to be sold something I know is not good. They need to get this thing right period
Yesterday the people said no. Some are saying the people are trying to effect revenge on Wall Street and the other Fat Cats. Well, maybe to a degree that is true. We know if we don't try to hold the right people accountable no one else will. McCain needs to tell the people that someone WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. No one is telling us that. No one.
If our PRESS CORP does not start BALANCING this...then we are in a pre-NAZI state of DYING our here in the hinterland because our MEDIA is in the tank for Obama....AMERICANS DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT ACORN IS, HOW IT HAS BEEN FUNDED BNY OUR TAX DOLLARS--that would be YOU and ME--because CREEPY democrats have been slipping funding for this group that uses bullying int0 congressional bills for YEARS AND YEARS!!
I say ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!!!Ph my gosh---------I would be willing to BEG the reporterws of the mainstream media to report on this....I am sick in my heart....WE CANNOT HAVE THIS MAN AS PRESIDENT...HE TRAINED ACORN GROUPS AND GOT MUCH OF HIS OWN MUNEY FROM THIS HORRIFIC FORCED MORGAGE GROUP....HE IS PART OF WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS IN A DIRECT WAY!!
And as if this were not enough.......ACORN even got its dirty slick fingers INTO the bailout bill ( I know--our public outcry got it removed--49 NGOD!) to the TUNE of 20% OF THE PROFITS OF THE 700 billion when the loans begin to break even and pay out.
I am ready to go to WAR with the democrats...I am.I HATE THEIR DISHONESTY AND OWNDERSHIP OF THE PRESS!
They said the first bailout was not signed due to the calls sent in huge numbers against it....
WE NEED TO MAKE CALLS AND ASK FOR AN INVESTIGATION ON ACORN AND THE OBAMA CONNECTION!
The ironic thing is, were it not for Congressional Democrats trying to sneak into the bailout bill goodies for Acorn, connecting Obama to Acorn would have little effect.
A week ago, Acorn wouldn't have meant anything to the vast majority of Americans. Those who had heard of it would mostly associate it only with leftist get out the vote efforts--slimy but largely minor players in the overall national picture. Thanks to the congressional Black Caucus efforts to pay off their pals and finance their subversive actions on a breathtakingly brazen scale, that's changed. Obama's significant ties to Acorn are now a major, major deal.
I hear you. The press is a national disgrace. Even the FBI investigation is suspect — they are only going back to 2007.
McCain still has his campaign switched off.
LLS
“But whats 300 billion or so between friends right?”
$300 billion here, $300 billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money! lol
Every $300 billion is right about $1000 per citizen. :-P
Yikes-—sorry about not editing above post...anger got the better of me.
Exactly. So no matter what McCain does the msm will flock around Braaaak, TMM. There is so much d-partisan shrieking that no one is interested in the truth out there in la-la land.
Bummer.
I have listened for years to excuses from Republicans that the media hates them and they can't get their message out. "Poor us. We try but those mean Democrats just own the news cycle and we're always on the defensive." Yadda Yadda Yadda.
Frankly, I'm sick to death of their excuses.
If the Republicans care about winning - not just about "being right", because in politics, being right doesn't mean a damn if you don't win - they need to learn how to organize around one idea at a time and relentlessly hammer it home everywhere they can, naming names and not mincing words.
Democrats are not smarter than Republicans, not by a long shot. They just care more about getting elected and staying in office. That is a natural artifact of their ideology: they believe in government; Republicans don't. So to counter this natural advantage, Republicans need to out-work, out-organize, and out-think their opponents.
They've done it before. But more often they seem to avoid the necessities of politics, as though they are farmers who hate to get their hands dirty. Sorry guys, but you can't plant potatoes without getting down in the mud.
At the next debate, if McCain starts pointing out the links between ACORN and the disaster, and Obama's work with ACORN, we might be treated to seeing Obama having a psychotic episode on stage (in which case I hope McCain's Secret Service detail is prepared to restrain Obama from assaulting McCain)
“My question is why Bush is kneecapping McCain and the other GOPer’s?”
I thought Bush was rallying the Conservatives to go against this? This one move has opened up every congressional race. He did it with Dubai and he did it with Harriet Miers. Both times the Conservatives gained in strength.
If anything I would say this is GW’s parting gift to a Conservative movement that was just about dead two years ago.
I want to know how much of our tax dollars paid for this creepy group!
I want to know how ACORN was able to pressure BANKS into making thousands upon thousands, possibly MILLIONS of loans out to people who had ZERO assets with no means pay back the loans!
How did BANKS become INTIMIDATED?
I want ANswers TO THIS before the election!
I DO NOT WANT A COCAINE SMOKING, ACORN TRAINER (obama), LYING, WIMPY, ZERO executive experience man SITTING IN OUR WHITE HOUSE!
Is there a person or group out there ready to make an AD for McCain that FOCUSES on this? An ad that would use the VIDEO from Stanley Kurtz's expose ON ACORN( shown on FOX today) I AM ready to contribute !
My gosh...let's get ROLLING!
On the otherhand Mclaim and Bush too might be complicit in some way.. to go after the bad guys would eventually expose themselves.. But that could ONLY be true IF there were a Shadow Government running Washington D.C... I am still not comfortable with the arch weasle John McLaim weaslling his way into becomeing the republican candidate.. in an almost miraculous way..
I thought I heard that he suspended his campaign - wanted to work accross party lines on somethig or other while the partisan dems are eating his lunch.
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