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Vetting Obama
IBD ^ | June 12, 2008

Posted on 06/12/2008 6:10:06 PM PDT by Kaslin

Election '08: If Barack Obama has such difficulty picking friends, mentors and advisers, should voters entrust him with the responsibility for picking a Cabinet and Supreme Court justices?


Sen. Obama was going to ride into Washington aboard a white horse and clean out the stables, except his high horse keeps coming up lame.

With the resignation of Washington insider James Johnson from Obama's vice presidential search team, we see the now-typical Obama pattern — surround yourself with either questionable characters or those who don't live up to the standards you yourself set, tap dance awhile, accuse your accusers of political motives, then disown those you said you could not or would not disown.

Obama has a history of railing against "predatory" mortgage lenders, and one in particular, Countrywide Financial. Then it's discovered that Johnson, the former head of the quasi-governmental mortgage agency Fannie Mae, benefited to the tune of $7 million in below-market-rate personal loans and was one of the "Friends of Angelo," Angelo being Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo.

Obama's response was to say, gee, it's not like I'm paying him, and besides, his function was only "tangential" to his candidacy. Forgive us for going off on a tangent, but helping pick the person who is going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency is tangential? What if Johnson were to recommend another Friend of Angelo?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; countrywide; electionpresident; judgment; obama
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1 posted on 06/12/2008 6:10:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Sen. Obama was going to ride into Washington aboard a white horse and clean out the stables, except his high horse keeps coming up lame.

And his stables at home are filled to the rafters with bullsh*t!

2 posted on 06/12/2008 6:13:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Kaslin

That’s very true, the next Barack Hussein Obama scandal will involve either:

1. Rezko
2. The Rich pardon aide
3. anything else

But there’s a scandal a day with it comes to this one.


3 posted on 06/12/2008 6:14:55 PM PDT by Baladas (M)
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To: Baladas

If he had enough experience to be president, he’d have learned how to cover his tracks better.


4 posted on 06/12/2008 6:18:09 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: Kaslin
Why can't the kid eat?

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5 posted on 06/12/2008 6:20:45 PM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: McCain or Obama! possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: Baladas

It won’t matter, he is Teflon Obama and the media is making sure he is staying this way.


6 posted on 06/12/2008 6:22:12 PM PDT by FORTRUTHONLY (Easy as 3.14159265358979323846...)
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To: Kaslin
He can't even clean out his own stables...they are filled to the rafters with manure that he keeps having to shovel out...but it's filled to the rafters and is all over him.


THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

7 posted on 06/12/2008 6:22:57 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Kaslin
Obama is an empty suit who has been groomed by the DNC since he ran for State office in Illinois. I read that he beat his Senate Dem Primary opponent, Blair Hull, by getting a judge to open Hull's sealed divorce records which revealed an unsubstantiated claim of domestic abuse. In the same fashion, a judge opened Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records which revealed his wife's (actress Jeri Ryan) claims he had wanted her to go to a sex club with him. He was booted by the Republicans. Obama was elected because he was running against Keyes who didn't even live in Illinois. The DNC so disliked the Clintons that they have been grooming Obama since he started in politics. He gave the keynote speech at the Dem convention in 2004. He has been running for President ever since then. The DNC had to run a minority against Hillary! to blunt her minority status as a woman. Obama was never vetted for this race and everything untoward that surfaces about him is immediately discounted by his supporters, the MSM and the Hollywood crowd. This guy is so empty that he can't speak well unless he has a written speech and a teleprompter. McCain's only chance to expose the real Obama is to get him into those Townhall meetings. Obama won't hold up well.
8 posted on 06/12/2008 6:23:58 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Kaslin
...just like selective rage,BHO is being vetting selectively. Can't talk about his church,wife,family,voting record,experience,income,friends,business associates,IRS tax forms,or the bus he throws people under.
9 posted on 06/12/2008 6:24:46 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kaslin

“should voters entrust him with the responsibility for picking a Cabinet and Supreme Court justices?”.....

Only if you want the ALCU running America....


10 posted on 06/12/2008 6:25:50 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kaslin

Obama isn’t running this thing. Others are.


11 posted on 06/12/2008 6:31:33 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
should voters entrust him with the responsibility for picking a Cabinet and Supreme Court justices

The ignorant masses that will vote for him haven't even thought of that and most don't even care.

12 posted on 06/12/2008 6:38:32 PM PDT by taraytarah (There is no "bad journalism;" there are only countless incompetent journalists.)
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To: Bahbah
Obama isn’t running this thing. Others are.

Exactly! When Obama made the comment that these people who were chosen to help vet his running mate picks weren't "working for him". The question the media should have immediately asked was "Who is running your campaign if you're not?".

When George W. Bush was elected in 2000 the liberals and the media megaphones kept pushing the notion that there was a "shadow government" running things since George Bush wasn't experienced enough, or smart enough, or didn't have the gravitas to run the country. Now that Obama, who has no experience running anything, is their chosen candidate, they couldn't care less who is pulling the strings of the Marxist marionette.

13 posted on 06/12/2008 6:53:37 PM PDT by eggman (Democrat party - The black hole of liberalism from which no rational thought can escape.)
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To: eggman
Exactly, eggman. But GW was and is actually his own man. A guy with his own lodestar. Agree or disagree (and I have parted company with him on policy), he has advisors, but he is no tool.

Obama is a creaton of others. He is a front man, a puppet. Not good.

14 posted on 06/12/2008 7:03:28 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person)
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To: eggman

Obama isn’t running this thing. Others are.

You bet!....Soros for one!


15 posted on 06/12/2008 7:09:31 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: originalbuckeye

I used to think Obama was an empty suit but I have since changed my mind...he comes across as an empty suit but I think he really does have deadly serious plans for our nation and if known we would not like it one bit..so he is saying what he THINKS the masses of skulls full of mush want to hear but what he says to get elected and what he will do once elected are two very different things.


16 posted on 06/12/2008 7:24:23 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: taraytarah
I have a question about trust.

Can BO get the top security clearance required by the president?

With his ties to people like Ayers, and he is not the only one, how can he not be considered a security risk?

I have suggested to Rush Limbaugh that he put pressure on the FBI and Secret Service to determine if the guy really is trustworthy.

If he can't pass the test for a top secret clearance, that ends him for good.

17 posted on 06/12/2008 7:38:46 PM PDT by woodbutcher
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To: Kaslin

From Larry Sinclair’s blog http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/

OBAMA MONEY MAN GEORGE SOROS, DAILY KOS & FIREDOGLAKE TRY TO INTIMIDATE >>>>NPC<<<<
Posted by Larry Sinclair on Thursday, June 12, 2008

“Below is the text of the Daily Kos attempt to intimidate the>>>>>>>>>>>>National Press Club<<<<<<<<<<<<<<. If these people feel they can dictate who can say what, and what is reported to the American Voting Public, then they only continue to demonstrate their determination to prevent the truth about Barack Obama from being known. I thank the Kos and Taylor Marsh, and FDL et.al. for your ensuring that I will speak on June 18th, 2008.......

Let me say something directly to the Daily Kos and Firedoglake: Petition all you want, but you will not prevent the News Conference on Wednesday June 18, 2008 at the NPC. So now the true colors of the Obama camp shine through. When you do not want to answer, pressure and intimidate in effort to shut down and shut out........

All media person’s must show press credentials and must have a press pass that we will issue to them......

Because of the acts by the Daily Kos and other Obama blogs and media persons I am now considering having the event fed live on the web.”

Looks like Larry Sinclair and the cocaine homosex of obsama is more and more credible.


18 posted on 06/12/2008 7:42:09 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Baladas

Put Larry Sinclair on your list


19 posted on 06/12/2008 7:43:07 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Kaslin

Why is there no FBI report on the person who wants to be president, but, everyone, vp on down, must have one?

Should Obama’s birth certificate show that he is not constitutional eligible to be president who will make him do the frog march? Is this not perpetrating a fraud on the people?


20 posted on 06/12/2008 7:48:27 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, where patriotism is replacing the stars in the flag with hammers and sickles.)
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