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Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research
various FR links and stories and posters | 12-07-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 12/07/2003 3:44:56 PM PST by backhoe

The purpose of this post is to begin providing links, tools, and tactics which we can all use to educate the public, fellow citizens, and neighbors about Hillary Clinton.

It is a work in progress- I have provided a starting point, but want others to chime in with more links, stories, and information.

It is the product of conversations with a number of other members, from which several salient tactical points emerged:

1- keep it as contemporary as possible- the old Whitewater and similar items are stale and dead to the public.
2- keep it civil, please- within the board guidelines, or better. We are trying to convert the mushy middle, and stridency puts them off. Badly.
3- source or reference everything. Authenticity is critical to such an effort.

Here's where it started:


Links from this post:
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 Dec 2003
Various big media television networks ^ | 7 Dec 2003 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
Follows:
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3923fdd07554.htm
Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention
Politics/Elections News Keywords: HILLARY'S RADICAL SUPPORTERS
Source: Albany Times Union Posted on 05/18/2000 07:27:28 PDT by 1Old Pro

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032083/posts
Bagram G.I.: Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/02/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts
..HILLARY & TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House..
J.R. NYQUIST Website ^ | 11/09/2003 | RICHARD ROBERTS

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003138/posts
PETER PAUL SUES BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON FOR FRAUD, CONSPIRACY, UNJUST ENRICHMENT
Judicial Watch ^ | Oct 16, 2003 | Press Office

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008003/posts
Hillary Stonewalls AP's Questions on Peter Paul Lawsuit
NewsMax.com ^ | 10/25/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962304/posts
Hillary Clinton's Biggest Cover-ups

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926091/posts
Hilary – great cartoons

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/940060/posts
Hillary history
487 posted on 12/07/2003 12:06:47 PM EST by mathluv
 
HAL9000 has a great source; he works continually to keep it updated--
http://www.freerepublic.com/~hal9000/
 
 
THE DOWNSIDE LEGACY ARCHIVES
http://www.alamo-girl.com/
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003911/posts
Hillary Clinton 10-16-03 Senate Speech
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html ^ | 10-16-03 | HILLARY CLINTON

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834207/posts
HLLLARY RODHAM, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee = Future Disasters
Posted on 02/01/2003 8:13 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
 
Paul takes the fall?
Insight on the News, Oct 1, 2002, by Paul M. Rodriguez
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:TWF-4MeGNM0J:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/37_18/92589574/p1/article.jhtml+Tonken,+clinton&hl=en&ie=UTF-8



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This is so damn-fool gawdawful it deserves a repeat with more comments & graphics:

Democrats Propose Sweeping Pro-LGBT Platform (BARF ALERT)

 
 
The National Stonewall Democrats, Pride Democrats, Pride in The Party, Stonewall Vets, Stonewall, Stonewall Warriors, all affiliated.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts
Brief history of the modern childlove movement

Tell all of those soccer moms that the Democrats want "women" with male genitalia to be allowed to use the ladies room with their daughters (that's what the whole "gender identity" thing is about -- people who want to change their sex without changing their anatomy) and they'll have all sorts of fun explaining it.


1,721 posted on 08/19/2008 1:28:00 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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LEE STRANAHAN: Where the John Edwards scandal is headed.

I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not a candidate. He confessed. Who cares? Let's just recap the what The Deceiver calls 'the non-story' so far.

A former Senator and vice-presidential candidate misused campaign contributions and money pledged to fight poverty so he could bring his mistress on the campaign trail with him during the presidential campaign where he was constantly making appearances with his widely admired cancer stricken wife then fathered the mistress's child sometime around the time he was getting a Father Of The Year Award and then asked his loyal aid who already has a wife and kids to falsely claim paternity while the fake dad and the mistress were funneled money so they could move to be near the mistress's psychic healer friend while the former candidate continued to meet the mistress and baby until he was caught by tabloid reporters and hid in the bathroom and then confessed on national TV a couple of weeks later but both he and his wife continued to lie during that interview and in subsequent statements.

And the press is supposed to yawn that story off?

As we head into the the Democratic convention, the Edwards scandal isn't over. It's really just beginning. Don't blame the media, blame John Edwards.

The story isn't over because the revelations and twists in the story aren't over. If John Edwards was more interested in helping the Democratic party then continuing the futility of his deception he could come out tomorrow, do a number of no holds barred interviews, tell the whole truth, allow Andrew Young and Rielle Hunter to come out of hiding and repay contributors from his considerable personal fortune. Everyone would appear on Larry King and Oprah and we might be really done with this some time in September.

Then John Edwards could go to work chopping wood and carrying water for a couple of years to reflect on his mistakes. Building houses full time with Habitat For Humanity would be a great start for his redemption. No speeches, no suits. Just let your hair get messy and hammer nails all day, John and then go home tired and be a good father at night.

That's a dream, of course. The reality is that we're heading into fresh territory and allegations in the next few weeks and John Edwards is unlikely to tell the truth until there's simply no other option. So instead of a responsible and swift end to this mess we'll get the Edwards Water Torture that reduces all politicians (especially idealistic ones) to same lying bastards that cynics always believed they are.

Cynicism is exactly what Republicans want when their opponent's message is 'hope'.

Here's my Edwards Scandal Future Lowlights Roadmap : My Predictions Of Tomorrow's News, Today!


It's His Baby:
It's the question everyone seems to want to know, so I'll skip right to it. Don't we all really know Quinn Hunter is his baby? If it's not his baby then why meet with Rielle Hunter three times in 2008 and lie about it? Edwards obviously has maintained a secret relationship with Hunter in 2008 where he's had contact with Hunter and the baby without Elizabeth's knowledge. Hunter's statement about not wanting a DNA test was sure convenient, too. Edwards has no credibility and this is the last thing he wants to admit but that sure seems like the endgame here.

The Other Meetings At The Beverly Hilton : Last week, I guessed that Edwards and Hunter met on March 20th, 2008. Turned out to be Rielle Hunter's birthday, too. Since then, there's video posted of Cenk from the Young Turks from back then discussing running into John Edwards. I checked the FEC filing from that period and the Beverly Hilton isn't anywhere on it.

Some Democrats Will Want Their Money Back : It's already becoming something people are talking about informally but it's just a matter of time before lawsuits start because it's becoming clear that Edwards used campaign money to take his girlfriend on the road with him. Times are hard and this could become a new and innovative economic stimulus plan for Democrats.

Some Democrats Will Remain In Denial : New information breaks on the front page of the New York Times last Friday and a DailyKos diarist writes about it. The response is largely pictures of kittens and recipes and people telling the writer to STFU; same basic response that I got when writing about Edwards before I was banned...The Other Other Woman : There are persistent rumors that Rielle Hunter wasn't Edward's first or only mistress. I know -- I'm rumor mongering but this is coming from multiple, independent sources. And do you really think this is first time John Edwards strayed?


1,722 posted on 08/19/2008 4:04:52 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Politics, not principles, behind Pelosi's turnabout on oil drilling (WORTHLESS NAN FEELS THE PINCH!)

 
Good...

Bush rushes to gut Endangered Species Act

To wit:

Environmentalists file for protection of alpine critter

Greens, Liberals, LOVE High Gasoline Prices

“Green Energy” Corruption, the Elephant in the Room.

Pelosi and Pickens, investment partners

More people get news from web than TV or print

How a BBC charity funded the 7/7 bombers

August 20, 2008 12:22 AM by Michelle Malkin

Really, there’s only one thing to type in reaction to this jaw-dropping report on how a BBC charity called “Children in Need” helped fund the 7/7 bombers’ jihad– and how the ninnies dispensing the philanthropic funds didn’t want to ask the (non-needy children) terrorist recipients what they were doing with the money for fear of offending Muslims...I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.10 Comments   "After all, it’s for the children."

 

Liars are exposed by blinking

Help unlock the Obama/Ayers papers; Update: Response from UIC; AP’s lousy coverage

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 19, 2008 09:02 PM

Scroll for updates…reader sends response from UIC…and the MSM catches up, almost…

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Stanley Kurtz has done yeoman’s work trying to uncover the true nature of the relationship between Barack Obama and Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic William Ayers. (See Barack and Michelle and Bill and Bernardine for background.) And see the must-read post by Steve Diamond: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.”

During his in-depth investigation and travels to Chicago to dig deeper, Kurtz has run into unexpected (or perhaps, quite expected) roadblocks:

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.

COVER-UP?

Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial.

Read the entire piece for the full details of the runaround. Kurtz is asking for help appealing to the president of the University of Illinois system, B. Joseph White:

“The Chicago Annenberg Challenge records almost surely contain important information on Senator Obama’s political associations, policy views, ideological leanings, and leadership ability. His role as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is the most important executive experience Obama has held to date. Given this, the public has an urgent right to know what is in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records.

…Ask [White] to take immediate public steps to insure the safety of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to release the identity of the Collection’s donor, and above all to swiftly make the Collection available to me, and to the public at large.

Email here.

Phone/Fax here.

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If you send a note, also post it here or cc me and I’ll keep a collection of the complaints and any responses.

Kurtz reports the documents are in danger. Related transcript here.

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Previous Bill Ayers blog posts.

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Update: Reader Mark sends a response from UIC…

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Bill Burton
To: MARK MCNABB
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38:05 PM
Subject: Re: request

Dear Mr. McNabb:

Thank you for your inquiry. Responses are below.

Please note that I have no connection to the Obama spokesman by the same name.

Sincerely,
Bill Burton

MARK MCNABB wrote:
> Mr Burton, just got off the phone with you. I would be happy if you
> could provide me with the statement you mentioned re: the Chicago
> Annenberg Challenge documents that were suddenly pulled from public
> access, as well as access by Mr Stanley Kurtz.

The University of Illinois at Chicago released the following statement
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008.

“The University Library supports the teaching, research, and service
missions of the University by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and
providing access to information. The Library is open to the public and
dedicated to free inquiry. The University has not received ownership
rights to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge collection. The university is
aggressively pursuing an agreement with the donor, and as soon as an
agreement is finalized, the collection will be made accessible to the
public.”
>
> For the record, I am also shocked and amazed that the
> University employs the radical U.S. terrorist William Ayers. I
> believe that is an apalling fact.

In the 1970s, Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, a radical
group opposing the Vietnam War. Federal charges against him were later
dropped; he has never been convicted of a crime.

Professor Ayers was already a well-regarded scholar of education when he
joined UIC in 1987. Since joining UIC, he has published several
influential books, founded the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for
Youth and Society, served on several community and foundation boards,
and earned national recognition for his work in the education of
children. We have no evidence that he has ever used his position for
advocacy inappropriate to the education curriculum.

The university has always been transparent about Professor Ayersʼ
employment during his two decades on our faculty. We know from
correspondence we have received over the years that many people find his
past activities and statements objectionable. Thank you for informing us
of your opinion.

Sincerely,

Mark Rosati
Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs
>

Bill Burton
News Bureau Director
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph 312-996-2269
Fx 312-996-3754
burton@uic.edu
www.news.uic.edu

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Update: Follow-up from Dan Riehl…

At least on the surface of it, it appears these records were somehow taken back, or removed from public access. That’s a very different thing than the appropriate permissions not having been granted in the first place. Would a responsible Library accept and list such documents before that step was done? I think someone has some explaining to do, especially considering a good deal, if not all of this involves public funding.

Update: Tom Maguire covers the MSM coverage of Obama/Ayers from the AP’s Pete Yost and helpfully points out what the AP failed to report…

Yost makes no mention of the fact that Obama was asked about Ayers at the Philadelphia debate in April and described him as “”a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago…”, rather than as “a guy I worked with on education reform for six years without accomplishing anything” (The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was ultimately judged a failure by the Annenberg Foundation.)

Yost makes no mention of the fact that the Obama website produced a “Fact Check” on the Obama/Ayers relationship which made no mention of this failed collaboration on education reform.

Yost makes no mention of the fact that previously the Obama campaign was telling reporters that (a) Obama and Ayers met through kids who went to the same school, or (b) Obama and Ayers first met in the second half of 1995 when Ayers hosted a campaign kick-off for Obama. Since Obama became chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in January 1995, that was false.

In fact, its almost as if the Obama campaign has tried to conceal this Obama/Ayers relationship. And now some mysterious unnamed donor is continuing the cover-up by sitting on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge archives.

And Yost almost reports on it.

So what does it mean? Well, none of us can judge the relationship at this point since a lot of possibly important information is being concealed. But the fact of an ongoing cover-up might spark some journalist’s curiosity.

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1,723 posted on 08/20/2008 3:34:21 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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SHOWDOWN: RUSSIA VOWS SHIELD RESPONSE BEYOND DIPLOMACY

The Idiocy of Energy Independence

--put more energy into promoting lifting restrictions on American producers, not some rose colored glass scenario that ignores islamofacism.

Drill Here, Drill Now- (Live Thread, Day XIV)

Little Ice Age Coming

Some education could immunize us from common economic myths

Science Now Explains The Uniqueness of Every Human Being From Conception

Tampa’s Terror for Kids--Islamist hatred, violence continues to be spread within W Florida

ICE Raid on Kosher Meat Plant Results in Illegal Hispanics Replaced with Somali MUSLIMS

An estimated 750 to 1,000 Somali refugees are living in Emporia, a magnet because of jobs at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant. Many have latent tuberculosis.

Gun owners got letters

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Obama's Polls At 4 Month Low

Dick Morris: "Obama — the New Jimmy Carter"

ZOGBY: Obama Loses Ground among Dems, Women, Catholics & even YOUNGER Voters

McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll

McCain grabs lead in latest US presidential poll (ANOTHER)

Mass Murder in Denver

Obama Caught Red-Handed in Abortion Lie
 
 
 But just a personal observation?

To True Believers in the Hopey Changey shibboleth, the lie will not matter.
The Clintons are living proof that many supporters love to be lied to, just as long as they are on the winning side...

It Appears that The Left Was Lying About McCain (Cross in the dirt episode)

The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund

Are We About To Witness The Greatest Political Ambush Of All Time in Denver?

 
 
Drip, drip, drip...

EDWARDS' CRUEL WIFE JAB: REPORT "We'll be together when Elizabeth is gone,"


1,724 posted on 08/20/2008 11:00:17 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com Flushes Out Code Pink's Jodie Evans on Obama Funding

Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records (Obama and Ayers)

Photographic proof debunking the latest Democrat lie about the McCain - Rep John Lewis relationship!

PUMA Alert: “Massive” E-Mail Campaign to Derail Obama at Convention

Why Obama's Red Mentor is News


1,725 posted on 08/20/2008 11:54:00 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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CORRECTING OBAMA ON THE TOPIC OF AMERICAN SELFISHNESS: "Whatever the case is with his own selfishness, the evidence of an internationally superior American generosity is impressive, beginning with the numbers on our charitable giving. We give twice as much as the British per capita, and according to The American magazine, seven times as much as the Germans and 14 times as much as the Italians. Even in inflation-adjusted dollars, the amount given each year just keeps getting larger, and meanwhile, we do far more volunteer work than in other industrialized countries."

Obama's comments seem to echo the claims of U.N. official Jan Egeland that the U.S. response to the Indian Ocean tsunami was "stingy." That charge was bogus -- there was over a billion dollars in private tsunami relief from Americans -- and it turned out that the U.N. wasted a lot of its own relief money on overhead. But that's how it is with nanny-state approaches: They dampen private impulses toward unselfishness, even as officials line their pockets. Is this what Obama wants?

SCATTERED, SMOTHERED, COVERED IN LOVE: Obama and the Big Networks: "In isolating stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC broadcasts that were mainly focused on Obama, the center says, 42 percent were positive and 7 percent negative."

ALMOST LIKE REPORTING: Tom Maguire on what the AP left out of its report on the Obama / Bill Ayers / Annenberg stonewall story.

Plus, the intricacies of "Sullyboating."

Despite A 3-1 Disadvantage In MSM Coverage

John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama .

He should probably send a thank you note* to Vladimir Putin.

You know, if McCain pulls this off, they're going to have to install concrete barricades around the CBC to protect the public from the cluster head explosions.

More - Buyer's remorse?

And..."This is getting embarrassing. 300 people on Daily Kos are now discussing how Obama will word the Text Message when he announces his vice president."

Posted by Kate at 10:42 AM | Comments (35) "I am sure the Democrats are in a fit over the fact that Obama, who was sent from heaven, is not doing better in the polls against an evil, big bad Republican who is part of the same party as the evil George W. Bush. I always felt the non-stop mean-spirited childish hammering of Bush was going to bite the Democrats eventually. Most  people are sick and tired of hearing it, and most people realize that the hammering has gone too far, and has descended into pure nastiness."

1,726 posted on 08/20/2008 12:15:49 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Incredulous UN Bans Criticism of Islam
 

The Murtha Rules: A simple system to win federal money (Murtha Watch)

Man Jailed After Taking Photo of Police Van Ignoring 'Wrong Way' Sign (UK)

Four More Newspapers Intend To Drop AP Over Rates (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Wind turbines across Oregon stir up health scare

 
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Textbook Lies About Islam

So How Many Wives Did Obama Sr Have?

August 20th, 2008

From the UK Telegraph:

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Barack Obama’s ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya

Senator Barack Obama’s long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.

By Nick Pisa in Rome
20 Aug 2008

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

“No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.”

According to Italy’s Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.”

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.

For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college.

He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.

The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”.

Of their second meeting, George Obama said: “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”

George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said:”I have had to learn to live and take what I need.

“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.

“I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”

What is Barack Hussein Obama’s favorite Biblical passage again, the words he says that guide his life?

Oh, yeah. From Mattews 25: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

What has Mr. Obama done for this brother or any of his brethren? Ever?

Besides live like a multi-millionaire while they live on less than one dollar a month?

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

Still, it should be noted that there is no mention of any Jael in either of the Anointed One’s autobiographies.

There is no mention of her even in Wikipedia’s entry on Barack Obama, Senior:

Barack Obama, Sr.

Obama grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo. At 18, he married a young woman named Kezia in a tribal ceremony. They had four children, two of them after he returned to Kenya from the United States. He never divorced Kezia, who now lives in Bracknell, England…

On February 2, 1961, Obama married a fellow student, Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. She did not know that he already had a wife in Kenya.[citation needed] Their son, Barack Obama II, was born on August 4, 1961. Two years later, Obama was accepted at Harvard for graduate study. He moved to Massachusetts, unable to afford to take his wife and son with him. He and Dunham divorced in 1963, divorce filed in Honolulu, Hawaii in January 1964, and he only saw his son again once, at age 10. He received the AM degree from Harvard in 1965.

At Harvard, he met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand who would follow him to Kenya when he returned after completing his Masters degree. She eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced…

In fact, the only indication we have of any additional “wives” is from the UK Daily Mail article we posted back in January, 2007:

A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN’T said about his father…

By SHARON CHURCHER
27 January 2007

Now prosperous with a flashy car and good salary, his third wife was an American-born teacher called Ruth, whom he had met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann, and who followed him to Africa.

A relative of Mr Obama says: “We told him[Barack] how his father would still go to Kezia and it was during these visits that she became pregnant with two more children. He also had two children with Ruth.”

It is alleged that Ruth finally left him after he repeatedly flew into whisky-fuelled rages, beating her brutally.

Friends say drinking blighted his life - he lost both his legs while driving under the influence and also lost his job.

However, this was no bar to his womanising: he sired a son, his eighth child, by yet another woman and continued to come home drunk.

He was about to marry her when he finally died in yet another drunken crash when Obama was 21

Of course we don’t know if this is Jael or not?

So how many “wives” did Barack Senior have? Is anybody keeping track?

The Obama clan is making Bill Clinton’s background look positively stable.

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Head’s Up,

el rushbo quotes!

Yes, Mr. Limbaugh was kind enough to mention this thread on his program. Which is always a great thrill.

John McCain Town Hall Meeting at New Mexico State University - Full Video 8/20/08

Obama Campaign Site: Israel Has No Right to Exist as a Jewish State

He should support a gun ban .... he keeps shooting himself in the foot...

1,727 posted on 08/20/2008 1:14:43 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Russia's Nuclear Threat Is More Than Words

 I'm going to repeat this question on every thread about this issue:

Barak Hussein Obama has vowed to scrap the  missile defense program, in order to use the saved money for social welfare.

If it is so unproven, Mr. Obama, Why has Russia threatened to attack Poland if they install it?

And if the disparity in actual nuclear weapons is a threat, what, besides wishful thinking and a grandiose offer to talk do you plan to do about that, Barry, Barak, Hussein, or whatever your real name is?

New Left Wing Anti-Energy Strategy: Drill Nothing, Tax Everything ( Newt Gingrich )

Drill Already ( AMEN! )

We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis

Jim Rogers Predicts Bigger Financial Shocks Loom, Fueling a Malaise That May Last for Years

Food prices to post biggest rise since 1990: USDA

Farmers' Almanac says cold winter ahead

The Windmills Of His Mind ( Moonbat/

The Inconvenient Lies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

City refers 32 more to DA for voter fraud (ACORN in Milwaukee, WI)

Clinton creates 'whip team' to quell anti-Obama protests [start blowing kazoos and making a scene..]

Barry's Brother Lives in Kenya Hut (Rush)

Fairness Down Your Throat

 
Drip, drip drip...

John Edwards promised Rielle Hunter they'd be together - report

Latest FREE Conservative Bumper Sticker Degigns

New Hampshire Poll: Obama's Big Lead Now Down To A Virtual Tie (Obama 47% - McCain 46%)

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Democrats Agitate for Black "Youths" to Attack Seniors They Disagree With

Wow (McCain camp hits hard on Ayers)

Smoking gun? Papers expose Obama's 'infanticide' vote

Why you read Atlas ..... and a BONUS: ATLAS OBAMA VLOG

You read Atlas because you get the real news, the real story - first.

January 18, 2007 Barack Hussein Obama's "Apostasy" from Islam

March 5, 2007 Pro Palestinian Obama and Edward Said

March 6, 2007: Obama and Reverend Wright

October 4, 2007 Obama dumps American flag pin

Obama_islam

January 4, 2008 Obama and violent inciter and Islamist supporter Kenyan Odinga and here (Obama and Odinga humdinger) and some media noticed -Obama Odinga Atlas sighting

January 9,2008 Obama, the Muslim Thing, And Why It Matters by Pamela Geller (Israel National News)

Januray 18, 2008 Obama's Brother is a Radical Muslim and his sister

January 31, 2008 Obama to convene a summit of Islamic nations to address their grievances should he ascend to the Presidency

February 16, 2008 Obama: Arab American

February 28, 1008: Obama and Islam:  The Third Rail in American Politics

February 2008 Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla

Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic

Gaza Contributions from "Palestinian" Rafah refugee camp (story broke at Atlas)

Obama's Birth certificate forgery (story broke at Atlas)

Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla Feb 2008

More, more, more:


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BRR: Farmers' Almanac says cold winter ahead.
 

Behind America's shield

Fed Gov't Finds Fires Took Down WTC 7 Building

I HAVE IRREFRUITABLE PRRUFF THAT FIRE CANNOT COLLAPSE A STEEL BUILDING...

 

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Abortion, Human Trafficking, and the Left's Double Standard

JANE HAMSHER: ( AKA, Liardog Fake... )  "I have an elaborate nightmare where Joe Lieberman gets the VP nod, McCain wins, then dies -- and we're looking at a President Lieberman. At which point I and a host of others bloggers who supported Ned Lamont wind up in Guantanamo Bay."

(Via Ace: "You probably think she's kidding. You probably are quite wrong.")

UPDATE: A reader emails: "Note that Hamsher's response is very similar to those people who are for gun control because they know what they would do if they had a gun... Yep, think there is more than a little projection there."

 

THE OBAMA / BILL AYERS / ANNENBERG STORY has broken out into the Legacy Media now. Tom Maguire comments: "Hard to believe that with our aggressive national media covering a Presidential campaign that Obama and Daley could mange this cover-up in plain sight. Yeah, real hard."

HMM: "Annenberg-Gate" - It's not the crime, it's the cover up. (Via Tom Maguire). I suspect that anything damaging has vanished by now anyway. It's Chicago, after all.

I caution those who are excited about getting into the archives, though: It probably won't happen, and by now I'm sure that the files have been vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter anyway. This is Chicago.

UPDATE: What leaked out.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN A "DEBACLE"? 

OBAMA AND INFANTICIDE (Reinhard)

After Barack Obama hype, a backlash.

TIME MAG PUTS OBAMA ON COVER -- FOR 7TH TIME IN A YEAR! [DRUDGE REPORT]

Obama: We Should Probably Stop Setting Examples For Russian Aggression

Obama's plan to disarm America (video, in his own words)

Ayers in 2006: Weather Underground a “great teaching moment” (Video Interview)

Obama Poll Crash Expands! The Year Of The Center Continues


1,729 posted on 08/21/2008 11:03:29 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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World heading towards cooler 2008 -- This year appears set to be the coolest globally this century.

Architects and Engineers Express Doubt About Bloomberg’s Windmill Proposal

 
Does the US need to restock its nuclear arsenal (poll)
 
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nuclear-nations

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nuclear-weapons-and-the-United-States
 
Uncle Sam In Your Pocket

Just released: The RNC’s Tony Rezko fact sheet [PDF]

Daley on Obama and Ayers: 'They're friends. So what?'

They're friends. So what?

Days of Rage in Chicago - Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen (Obama's buddies)

New Ad Hammers Obama for Association with Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist - Video

McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright "Now Fair Game"; GOP 527 Attacks

They'd be angry at Obama if he was caught saying the N-word. Supporting Infanticide—Not so much.


1,730 posted on 08/21/2008 3:08:35 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Defund Enemies By Drilling For Energy

Velvet Glove Iron Fist A History of Anti-Smoking

Media's Obama Crush Flunks Smell Test

 
 
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
 

I wonder if the highly-educated Obama ever had time to read Philip K. Dick’s “The Prepersons“?

“The whole mistake of the pro-abortion people from the start, he said to himself, was the arbitrary line they drew. An embryo is not entitled to American Constitutional rights and can be killed, legally, by a doctor. But a fetus was a “person”, with rights, at least for a while; and then the pro-abortion crowd decided that even a seven month fetus was not “human” and could be killed, legally, by a licensed doctor. And, one day, a newborn baby - it is a vegetable; it can’t focus its eyes, it understands nothing, not talks… the pro-abortion lobby argued in court, and won, with their contention that a newborn baby was only a fetus expelled by accident or organic processes from the womb. But, even then, where was the line to be drawn finally? When the baby smiled its first smile? When it spoke its first word or reached for its initial time for a toy it enjoyed? The legal line was pushed back and back. And now the most savage and arbitrary definition of all: when it could perform ‘higher math’.” (at age 12)

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fred5678 on August 21, 2008 at 6:57 PM

BEWARE THE "Hillary Harridan!"

WELL, THIS IS ENCOURAGING: "A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges." There's an obvious solution, of course.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, politically inconvenient videos would vanish down the memory hole. And they were right!

RASMUSSEN: 69% Now Say Controlling the Border More Important than Legalizing Aliens. Not a whole lot to choose from between McCain and Obama here, but this may affect some Congressional races. And isn't it funny that 69% of Americans don't have a Presidential candidate who agrees with them on this issue? Plus this: "Only 14% think the government is doing enough to secure the borders."

I TOLD YOU THAT IT WAS A BAD IDEA for Obama to bring up houses again. "Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?"

Talk about a rapid-fire response! McCain has come out with a new ad, which I assume he's running in the same states where Obama is airing his silly attack on McCain. Here it is, "Housing Problems:"

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Obama might want to re-think this line of attack.

Plus, more Rezko reminiscences. "On June 15, 2005, Obama bought a gorgeous house in Hyde Park for $1.65 million - $300,000 below the list price. Rezko bought the empty but attractive lot next door from the same seller at the same time; Obama would later buy part of Rezko's lot, overpaying him. The transaction was shady, but not obviously corrupt. The overall Obama-Rezko relationship looks worse." And now the McCain people have an excuse to bring it up.

But wait, there's more:

Obama is more vulnerable on this stuff than he thinks. Not only because of Rezko but because of Jim Johnson, his former go-to-guy on veeps who was instrumental to the mortgage crisis we have today as Chairman of Fannie Mae.

Indeed.

MORE: The McCain battle plan revealed. Plus this:

You don't want a President who's managed to become rich, do you? So pick Obama, who lives in a hut. No, wait, that's Barack's brother George. Obama lives in... that Chicago house that cost... how much?

It's not just Obama who seems to have lost his mojo. It's the whole staff.

MORE STILL: John Hinderaker: "The truth is that McCain isn't out of touch with 'ordinary people' because he's rich, he's out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife's money, but to serving the American people. Given the number of nights he's spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it's no wonder he hasn't seen much of his wife's condos."

Obama Being Weaned From Teleprompter

August 21st, 2008

From the great “Prowler” at The American Spectator:

Teleprompting Obama

By The Prowler
Published 8/21/2008

According to several Democrat political consultants presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama spent part of his Hawaiian vacation working on weaning himself from a heavy dependence on teleprompters. Even in what are staged as “town hall” events for Obama, remarks are scripted or formatted into bullet points that scroll on teleprompter screens. Obama has had several embarrassing events where the teleprompter either malfunctioned or the screens were not fully visible.

He just locks down and can’t get the words out,” says one political consultant. “For such a fine speaker, it’s really quite remarkable that he’s had issues.”

Obama’s troubles with unscripted moments contributed to his campaign’s refusal to participate in town hall format debates or discussions with Sen. John McCain, who feels much more comfortable in the unscripted moments

This explains a lot.

Though, if the Anointed One is so brilliant at debates, why is he only allowing three of them? During the Democrat primaries they had three a week.

It’s almost as if Mr. Obama is afraid of anyone finding out what he really thinks.

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Bad - Really Bad - Move

On the part of the Obama campaign. They chose to attack John McCain for not being able to answer how "houses" McCain owns. Considering the fact that Obama obtained his mansion with the help of convicted felon Tony Rezko, this was a stupid - potentially politically lethally stupid - move on the campaign's part. They have opened the door to a counterpunch over Obama's ties to Rezko.

“Does a guy who… bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?”

–Spokesman Rogers:

Says Obama lives in “a frickin’ mansion” that was “bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon.” Says they will hit harder on Tony Rezko.

People who live in glass mansions might want to heed that old proverb. The full quote from the McCain camp is actually a lot more pointed than the excerpt quoted above:

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in response: "Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people 'cling' to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who’s in touch with regular Americans?

They may be grabbing media attention with their claims, but the counterattack by McCain is devastating. Up until now they have pretty much kept off of Rezko, even if Hillary did not. But now the forum is a national one, not a Democratic party internecine one. This will backfire on Obama.

By the way, whatever happened to a different kind of politics and promises of change from Obama? Looks like old-style political hardball to me. No hope of change there.


1,731 posted on 08/22/2008 1:04:17 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Ralph Peters: The End of The Fairy Tale ( Vladimir Putin )

Illegal aliens linked to gang-rape wave - The crime epidemic no one will talk about? ...the percentage of crime caused by illegals is completely off limits. Neither law enforcement, nor public officials, nor the news media dare tell us the truth...2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century

Gun owners got letters

“Swiftboating,” Media Myths and the 2004 Campaign

 
Drip, drip drip...

Buffett Suggests Edwards Supporters File Class Action Suit

RNC Stage vs. DNC Stage...

RNC stage: More on GOP Convention Podium

DNC stage: More on DNC Denver Podium

It reminds me a bit of the movie "Tron."

In 2002, Barack Obama Supported Infanticide and I've Got the Transcript of His Words

Why Obama Really Voted For Infanticide

Hillary Clinton is the best choice to run alongside Barack Obama (Finish them both off at once.)

 What he needs is an electrifying jolt of Clintonian proportions.

Will we ever be free of these people?

Clinton was awful. His wife is worse.

They've brought nothing good to American politics.

The Obama Platform Dive: Senator Empty Suit DQs

Study: Networks Gave Fawning Coverage to Obama


HAWAII TRIP => HARD COPY.

ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”

Leader of Muslim Brotherhood-linked group to speak at Democratic National Convention

Why Won't the Mainstream Media Question the Obama Narrative?

Couldn't be bias, could it?
 

Obama not the first mixed race President of USA if elected. ...He won’t be the first idiot either...

 

1,732 posted on 08/22/2008 12:28:25 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 22, 2008 11:46 AM

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There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. Obama officials say it’s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along. But where there’s left-wing laundering smoke, there’s fire. CSI has been the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going on between CSI, ACORN, and a left-wing 527, Communities Voting Together.

But first, the headline:

Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has details:

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in “get-out-the-vote” projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.

FEC spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger said it is not unusual for campaigns to amend reports, even regarding large sums of money.

But, said Blair Latoff, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee: “Barack Obama’s failure to accurately report his campaign’s financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign’s interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing ‘new’ politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the ‘old-style’ Chicago politics of yesterday.”

The suspicions are well-placed, as I’ve been detailing ever since starting ACORN Watch.

Jim Terry, spokesman for a group that tracks ACORN, said Citizens Services Inc.’s involvement in the Obama campaign raises bigger questions.

“All of this just seems like an awful lot of money and time spent on political campaigning for an organization that purports to exist to help low-income consumers,” said Terry, chief public advocate for Consumers Rights League, a Washington, D.C., advocacy outfit with a libertarian outlook.

“ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain,” Terry claimed. “Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama’s political gain.”

Are your alarm bells ringing yet?

The Ohio primary was March 4. According to FEC records, the Obama campaign paid Citizens Services Inc. $832,598.29, from Feb. 25 to May 17.

A Trib analysis of campaign finance reports showed Obama paid CSI for services that stood out as unusual. For example, CSI received payments of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent with other organizations was $558.82 per check on more than 1,200 entries classified as advance work.

Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans. Citizens Services was established in December 2004 to “assist persons and organizations who advance the interests of low- and moderate-income people,” according to paperwork filed in Louisiana. In a 2006 ACORN publication, Citizen Services Inc. is described as “ACORN’s campaign services entity.”

Separate? Bull:

Regarding CSI’s nonprofit status, Robinson said: “We are organized specifically not to make money, but we make money. There are no profits. We have a staff of 60 people around the country, and that eats up our entire profit. We’re not a for-profit corporation, but we are not a group like a United Way.”

CSI is a “separate organization entirely” from ACORN, he said.

“ACORN is a client of ours,” Robinson said. “ACORN has a lot of different partner organizations. We are a partner, but we are separate.”

Robinson is listed on several Web sites as national deputy political director for campaigns and elections at ACORN. He is also listed as political director at the nonprofit Communities Voting Together and as a consultant at Project Vote. He did not return phone calls or an e-mail request for a follow-up interview.

Money flows back and forth between ACORN, Citizens Services Inc., Project Vote and Communities Voting Together. ACORN posts job ads for Citizens Services and Project Vote. Communities Voting Together contributed $60,000 to Citizens Services Inc., for example, in November 2005, according to a posting on CampaignMoney.com. Project Vote has hired ACORN and CSI as its highest paid contractors, paying ACORN $4,649,037 in 2006 and CSI $779,016 in 2006, according to Terry of the Consumers Rights League.


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And now, let’s dig deeper.

FEC reports show that from February-May 2008, Obama paid $832,598.29 to CSI.

The payments were for:

$310,441.20 25-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$160,689.40 27-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$98,451.20 29-FEB-08 TRAVEL/LODGING
$74,578.01 13-MAR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$18,417.00 28-MAR-08 POLLING
$18,633.60 29-APR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$63,000.00 29-APR-08 ADVANCE WORK
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$75,000.00 17-MAY-08 ADVANCE WORK
$13,176.20 17-MAY-08 PER DIEM

Interesting services and payments for a nonprofit that supposedly does simple canvassing work on behalf of low-income people. And now, the Obama campaign is going to wave its magic wand and change those services to get-out-the-vote work? What the…?

For your information: The New Orleans building that houses CSI also houses multiple chapters of ACORN and the SEIU– as well as the 527 group Communities Voting Together.

And for your information: A tipster points to shady business by CSI -detected by Maryland Democrat Al Wynn, of all people. His team, which filed an FEC complaint over the matter, linked several suspicious outfits used by his primary opponent to one address: 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans. That’s the address of CSI and ACORN.

In a letter to the FEC, Lori Sherwood, the congressman’s campaign manager, wrote, “Based on my examination of various records and documents I believe the Donna Edwards for Congress Committee has received substantial assistance by way of unreported, in-kind contributions from organizations who profess to have operated independently of the Edwards Campaign.”

In a lengthy complaint, Sherwood claimed that as executive director of the social justice organization the Arca Foundation, Edwards was “responsible for administering and overseeing grants that are awarded and distributed” by the group – grants that go to some of her campaign’s biggest supporters.

“By way of example and not limitation, the Arca Foundation contributed $100,000.00 in grants to the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) from 2004-2006,” Sherwood said.

“That after having been intimately involved in the award of an Arca grant to the LCV, Donna Edwards was appointed to the Board of Directors of the League of Conservation Voters,” she continued. “After receipt of grant money from Ms. Edward’s group and her appointment to the LCV Board, LCV endorsed Donna Edwards for Congress in 2006 and 2008.”

Sherwood goes on to allege that the “LCV and its principals contributed over $15,000.00 to the Edwards campaign through its board members, employees, and the LCV PAC.”

Tip of the iceberg:

Sherwood said the 527 group Communities Voting Together(CTV), which is located at 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans, was also the address for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100, and theaddress of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN),along with the Elysian Fields Corporation.

“Wade Rathke, President of Elysian Fields Corporation is also the chief organizer for SEIU Local 100, founder of ACORN, and a member of the Board of Directors of Tides Center and Tides Foundation,” Sherwood said while alleging that Tides, a social justice network, “received $245,000 ingrant money” from the Arca Foundation from 2002-2006.

She continued, saying, “Donna Pharr is the Custodian of Record for Communities Voting Together, the Assistant Treasurer for ACORN, andDeputy Treasurer for the American Institute for Social Justice and Voting forAmerica, Inc. Both of these organizations received a combined total of $230,000 in grants from Arca between 2003 and 2006.”

Sherwood also said members of the CTV “printed and distributed thousands of handouts attacking Congressman Wynn,” while they also attempted “to hire canvassers to assist the Edwards campaign.”

She continued, saying, “Donna Pharr is the Custodian of Record for Communities Voting Together, the Assistant Treasurer for ACORN, and Deputy Treasurer for the American Institute for Social Justice and Voting for America, Inc. Both of these organizations received a combined total of $230,000 in grants from Arca between 2003 and 2006.”

Sherwood also said members of the CTV “printed and distributed thousands of handouts attacking Congressman Wynn,” while they also attempted “to hire canvassers to assist the Edwards campaign.”

In addition, Sherwood said she also learned of a relationship between the Edwards [campaign] and another not for profit, Citizens Services, Inc., a Louisiana corporation also claiming the address 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans.

“I learned that Citizens Services, Inc. qualified to do business in Maryland as a foreign corporation and gave a registered agent address of 11 East Chase St., in Baltimore,” Sherwood said.

“In checking to verify the address, I learned that there is no record of Citizen Services, Inc. actually having an office in Baltimore,” she added. “According to recent records from the Maryland State Department of Taxation and Assessments Citizens Services, Inc.’s ability to do business in Maryland was forfeited less than 2 months after the 2006 primary.”

Sherwood alleged that the Edwards campaign paid Citizens Services a total of $76,866.80 in three separate payments in a door to door get out the vote effort.

There is at least one other example of suspiciously large payments to Citizens Services, Inc. that call into question what kind of work this non-partisan, non-profit is doing.

See here, where liberal group Ohio Citizen Action notes a $907,808 payment to Citizens Services for canvassing and $590,526.10 for “campaign consulting.” That’s some gold-plated get-out-the-vote and consulting services right there.

The scheme has all the appearances of another left-wing slush fund for Democrat satellites exploiting their non-profit status and skirting campaign finance laws.

The more things Change…

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Stanley Kurtz has much more on Senator Stealth’s ACORN ties.

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We may be about to have a world war.

http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html

Can Obama Answer 6 Questions Honestly? (Free Republic mentioned)...we’d all die of old age before Barry could stammer out those answers.

 

FOX News Poll: In a Gut Decision, Undecided Voters Pick McCain

Flashback: John McCain Speech at the 2004 GOP Convention - Video

Obama Crimes : Is Obama A Natural Born Citizen? [Berg's Website for Lawsuit: Summary, PDFs, Etc.]

Voter ID Paints an Odd Picture (NM-Fraudulent ACORN registrations)


1,734 posted on 08/22/2008 4:03:42 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Menace of the growing red fleet

Planned Parenthood promotes casual sex to kids on website

Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers

Wind turbines found to cause sickness

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
 
Toilet
 

China: The Crackdown to Come (be very afraid)

 

The Section On Firearms From A Draft Of The DNC's Platform "Renewing America’s Promise"

The Section On Firearms From A Draft Of The DNC's Platform "Renewing America’s Promise"

All women who receive abortions will be entered into a national registry and will only be allowed to have one abortion per year.

There will be mandatory counseling from an authorized priest or psychiatrist coupled with a three day "cooling off" waiting period.

Why have Haliburton and Dick Cheney been demonized by the Socialist Left?

 
MORE ON BARACK OBAMA AND BILL AYERS from Tom Maguire. "Barack Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers have worked closely together on education reform since 1995, and possibly since 1987. Obama has obfuscated and minimized this association in his public statements and on his website. Why the cover-up? We don’t know, since we aren’t sure what is being concealed." We just know it's something Obama doesn't want us to think about.
 

"The Ad above is running in VA and it is pissing Obama's team off big time."

U.S. Secret Service on Way to Biden's House

Obama Picks Biden for V.P. ( Do you care? LOL )

Biden, in his own words...

‘Just Words’ That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget-The curse of a loose mouth and Nexis

Joe Biden said this much more direct and insulting comment about Indian-Americans.

Joe Biden's Racist Slip (youtube video reminder in case Biden's the VP pick)

Joseph Biden's Plagiarism; Michael Dukakis's 'Attack Video' – 1988

 
Snore...
 

Michael Barone: The Chosen Obama Narrative

Once upon a time, the two parties' national conventions chose presidential nominees. Now, they are television shows that try to establish a narrative -- one that links the long-since-determined nominee's life story with the ongoing history of the nation, one that shows how this one man is perfectly positioned to lead America to a better future.

In Obamaland, Fairy Tales Pass As Policy

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Joe Biden On Barack Obama (Latest McCain Campaign Ad)

Biden is the right pick for Obama because he has so much experience in dealing with plagiarism & cheating issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8

1,735 posted on 08/23/2008 4:50:53 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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At What Point Does the U.S. Just Go Broke?

 

A safer society? Legalize drugs

 
 
 
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Famous Plagiarists - Joe Biden

Joe Biden: Obama Not Ready to Lead; McCain Is

http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=53279

Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Joe Biden:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

NARAL: 100%
Planned Parenthood: 100%
National Right to Life: 0%
Sportsmen and Animals Alliance: 0%
The Humane Society: 100%
National Tax Limitation Committee: “F” Grade
Americans for Tax Reform: 10%
National Association of Manufacturers: 0%
ACLU: 92 - 100%
NAACP: 100%
Iranian American PAC: 100%
NEA: A+ Rating (Teacher’s Union)
League of Conservation Voters: 100%
Family Research Council: “O” Rating
Citizen’s for Global Solutions: A+ Rating
Jews for Peace in Palestine & Israel: -1%
Brady Campaign: 95-100% (Gun Grabbers)
NRA: “F” Rating
American Immigration Lawyers Association: 100%
AFL-CIO: 100% (Near 100% ratings on ALL Unions)
Center for Security Policy: 21%
Population Connection: 100% (These are the ‘Zero-Growth’ freaks)
All “End Poverty Now By Throwing Money Down a Rathole” groups: 100%

This guy is to the LEFT of Obama, if you can imagine it!

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279

Sen. Joe Biden ("I WOULD LET THE TAX CUTS FOR ALL OF THE MIDDLE CLASS LAPSE")

BLOWHARD COULD BE JUST WHAT O NEEDS

Biden Said In April 2008 He Would be Willing to Run With -- John McCain! -- Video

It's Biden: So much for 'Hope and Change'

Joe Biden Commits Racial Slur, Where's the Outrage? (2006)

Let’s count them up:
obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem.
The official aircraft loses it’s American Flag on the vertical stabilizer.
The official Florida dem headquarters uses a Che Guavera Cuban flag instead of the American flag.
The only time michelle was proud of her country is when her husband is nominated.

1,736 posted on 08/23/2008 8:13:24 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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A letter from Canada--In response to the Taliban's threat
 
Child-Man in the Promised Land

New Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes (Good report. Read and weep)

As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations

Pickens Gives New Meaning to 'Self-Government'

 
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National Gay/Lesbian group hails Biden choice

 
Senator Joe Biden: A Look at His Pro-Abortion Voting Record
 

Obama's letter to Station Managers to Quash the Ayer's ad!

Revisiting the Thomas-Hill Hearings (Biden says Thomas only on court cause he's black)

About the Weather Underground-related police killing mentioned in the new anti-Obama video

 
Biden shakes hands with a costumed Hagel
Biden shakes hands with a costumed Hagel
Open thread. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s running mate. Why Biden? And what does he bring to the table? The AP says that Obama sought to balance his ticket with “an older congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues”. Both Obama and Biden are Senators, and neither has held an executive position of any magnitude.

“Biden slowly emerged as Obama’s choice across a long day and night of political suspense as other contenders gradually fell away. … Among those on the short list, Biden brought the most experience in defense or foreign policy — areas in which Obama is rated relatively poorly in the polls compared with Republican Sen. John McCain.”

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Over at Hot Air it’s been labeled the “clean and jerk” ticket.

It’s Smarmy and Smirky ‘08!

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 23, 2008 09:20 AM

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First gaffe of Obama-Biden ‘08: “Let me introduce to you the next president…”

August 23, 2008 03:23 PM by Michelle Malkin41 Comments

McCain's Best Choice: Sarah Palin

 
 

Do these look like 18+ million democrats that are going to vote for Senator Barack Obama?

Hillary Clinton Supporters For John McCain:

http://www.hcsfjm.com

Party Unity My A$$ PAC/People United Means Action PAC:

http://blog.pumapac.org

Democrats Against Obama/Nobama ever!

http://democrats-against-obama.org

Just Say No Deal:

http://justsaynodeal.com

Take a look around these sites for a half hour or 45 minutes and then you decide....(there are hundreds more linked to these, just look for links)

When Does a Baby Get Human Rights?


1,737 posted on 08/23/2008 3:32:47 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Does anyone remember Jack Ryan and Obama's Senate run four years ago?

Fairness Doctrine Discussion - Silencing Christians.com - Janet Parshall

On August 12, 2008, FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell stated that the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine would be intertwined with the debate over net neutrality regulation of the Internet, presenting a danger that content controls will expand to the Internet.[18] It would also include "government dictating content policy".

Michelle Obama Oversaw Contentious Program (Kicking the uninsured out of her hospital's ER)

 It’s Smarmy and Smirky ‘08! ( the “clean and jerk” ticket......

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Obama and Biden lose the script

A Conversation with Philip J. Berg, Esq. (Obama birth certificate lawsuit)

Philip Berg, from what I can tell, is not the stark-raving mad whack-job that people on the American political left are already portraying him to be. In our two discussions, he was rational, he was calm, he was congenial and showed a sense of humor -- something I thought inexistent in most liberals. I'm not afraid to say that I like the guy.
 

And Now for Something Truly Bizarre

On the door of the medical clinic I saw this logo:

Wellmont Medical

Coincidence?

BHO Logo

There is nothing quite as serene as an image of a Japanese temple in front of a rising, red sun.

Um, unless said imagine also resembles the Empire State Building being stuck up some fat, sunburned chick's ass.

 

 

And Then!

Obama Wants To Shift Tax Burden To Rich

Biden’s nomination allows us to put his VAWA law in a national spotlight.

The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law. It was passed as Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 HR 3355 and signed as Public Law 103-322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. Since that time--through the Office of Violence Against Women at the U.S. Justice Department, and the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--VAWA has provided over $4 billion dollars to combat domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault nationwide. The Violence Against Women Act's programs range from policies to encourage the prosecution of abusers, to victim's services to prevention programs. VAWA helped forge new alliances between police officers, courts, and victim advocates.

VAWA was drafted by Senator Joseph Biden's office with support from a number of advocacy organizations including Legal Momentum and The National Organization for Women, which heralded the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades."

VAWA was reauthorized by Congress in 2000, and again in December 2005. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 5, 2006.

VAWA will be up for reauthorization in 2010.


1,738 posted on 08/24/2008 3:29:02 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Obama's choice: Good government, bad politics

'This story is going to kill Obama at the polls'

Biden's Arrogant Anti-Gun Record Comes Back to Haunt Him

McCain Campaign Representative Takes Obama-Biden Ticket Apart! - Video 8/23/08

Renewing America's Promise Means Lots of Goodies

So they’re going to drastically raise government spending to save us money. Zimbabwe, here we come...
 

Media forms Mile High mob in Denver

 
 These  people are an embarrassing joke...

DUmmie FUnnies 08-24-08 (DUmmies To Hillary Supporters: DROP DEAD!!!)

IT'S HER PARTY ( & she'll cry if she wants to... )

 

1,739 posted on 08/24/2008 11:54:15 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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Heating costs to leave some in the cold

Durkin defends Great Global Warming doc (Global Warming Swindle Producer Whacks "Greenie-Left")

DNC Dispatch: The Planned Parenthood protest; Update: Vid added

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 23, 2008 02:20 PM

Scroll down for updates…vid added…

DENVER — I attended the abortion protest at the new Planned Parenthood mega-facility here in Denver this morning.

The pro-abortion presence was measly. I counted about seven or eight demonstrators who tried to compensate for their low numbers with their loud mouths.

The ignorance of the pro-abort activists is, frankly, astonishing. This woman, Elaine Brower of NY, stood with the small gaggle of pro-Planned Parenthood cheerleaders attacking pro-lifers as racists.

But when asked whether the barbaric eugenics legacy of Planned Parenthood godmother Margaret Sanger bothered her, she told me: “No, I don’t believe that. That’s made up. This has nothing to do with black people.”

Speaking of which: All of the pro-abortion activists I saw were white. Meanwhile, across the street from Planned Parenthood’s palace, I spoke with black and Hispanic mothers who had very strong feelings about abortion. They weren’t there to take part in the protests. They were there because Planned Parenthood had the disgustingly bad taste to build their bloody business right next to a large park and playground. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park — and it was filled this morning with families watching their sons practice football:

One of the moms, Priscilla, was angry about the construction of the clinic right across from her neighborhood park and said bluntly: “I don’t want a f**king abortion clinic in my neighborhood!” A Hispanic mother added: “It’s against the Catholic Church.” Someone tell Joe Biden. And another black mother of three I spoke to while sitting in her minivan, when asked about her views on abortion, told me simply: “I don’t believe in it.”

But our tax dollars pay for it.

And you’re a woman-hating racist if you oppose it.

And if you want to make your views known at the DNC, you better be quiet about it.

The People’s Press Collective, an impressive group of Denver-area bloggers who have united to provide multimedia coverage of the circus, caught a Democrat clean-up crew quickly dispatched to scrub away pro-life chalk messages left on the sidewalk at the Pepsi Center yesterday:

The message they didn’t want the public to see:

“True change ends abortion.”

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Stay tuned here, at Hot Air, and at the People’s Press Collective for more video.

Update: Here’s vid of the protest. Some of my interview with Priscilla, one of the moms angered by Planned Parenthood’s presence, begins at around 5:39:

Posted in: Abortion

Obama's teenage mentor liked sex with kids

Obama/Biden: Escalating the War on Fathers and Families

Obama Is Bad for the Economy - Barron's

 

Hangin’ with the ‘bats; Update: Anarchists wimp out

August 24, 2008 02:16 PM by Michelle Malkin

Your Sunday afternoon comic relief:

Hot Air special correspondent Jason Mattera rubs unwashed elbows with the moonbats in Denver.

Favorite line: “Deadly? How deadly? Like abortion deadly?”

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Meanwhile, the anarchists wimp out. Recreate ‘68? Never mind:64 Comments

Some Dems Think Hillary Will Fight Obama For Nomination In Denver

ARA freaks organizing riot at the DNC Convention in Denver??...
 
 video of this chaos with the Fox news reporter in Denver on YouTube, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDsQ2VNArI

Just found this report about the folks jumping on Griff..:

http://www.fortcollinsnow.com/article/20080824/MISC12/1306618/1062&ParentProfile=1054
 
"DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS" threaten Ron Fournier. Thou shalt not criticize the Messiah!
 

Protesters confront Fox News reporter (Ward Churchill there)


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