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Who Vetted Obama?
www.FamilySecurityMatters.org ^ | 09-03-08 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 09/03/2008 11:28:18 AM PDT by Security Mom 08

The Washington Post reported that John McCain’s vetting process for picking Governor Sarah Palin included an FBI background check. Other reports dispute this. But when did the FBI investigate Obama? Who vetted him?

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; obama
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To: Petronski

I thought Operation Chaos was supposed to keep Hillary in the race, not support Obama.


21 posted on 09/03/2008 11:44:24 AM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: Security Mom 08

I don’t think he was vetted. And I think if he was, they only gave him one question... will you do whatever it takes to win the white house....

ummmmmmmm ahhhhhhhhhh ummmmm yessss I will


22 posted on 09/03/2008 11:45:19 AM PDT by JFC (McCain/Palin 08 BASE IS RALLIED!)
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To: Security Mom 08
RUSH: The Democrats’ real problem is they didn't vet Obama.
23 posted on 09/03/2008 11:47:24 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: TommyDale

All George Soros had to know about B.O. in order to hand-pick him was that at least one of his parents was a closet commie, that his other parent was a foreigner, that he lived in a Muslim country, that he attended a muslim school, that he changed his name to a muslim name, that he associated with domestic terrorists, that he learned thug politics from the Chicago school of thuggery, that he was black(free from attack), that he despised the United States, that he despised the military, that he favors total gun control, that he favors other countries over the U.S., that he has no use for patriotism, that he will do anything George Soros wants!


24 posted on 09/03/2008 11:47:45 AM PDT by Stayfree (***********************************************If it is left, it can't be right!!)
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To: palomonte

Larry Sinclair “probed” him.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I thought Larry said he was the one being probed.


25 posted on 09/03/2008 11:49:21 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Stayfree

You left out that Obama was born to an unmarried teenager.


26 posted on 09/03/2008 11:50:36 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: All

Biden does own a corvette...hmmm.

anyway I googled “Vette Joe Biden”
and got this little tidbit from a covette forum:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=2122304


27 posted on 09/03/2008 11:50:52 AM PDT by trappedinnj (Missing Something)
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To: Philly Nomad

It muddied the waters.


28 posted on 09/03/2008 11:52:37 AM PDT by Petronski (The Vice Presidency is below Sarah Palin's paygrade.)
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To: griswold3
"Vette me, Baby" OK, here is mine!! Photobucket
29 posted on 09/03/2008 12:00:27 PM PDT by mmanager (What a mess we are in.)
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To: Petronski

Obama was able to do something the GOP hasn’t been able to do in over 25 years - Beat Clinton in an election.


30 posted on 09/03/2008 12:00:32 PM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: TommyDale

Plus some other stuff, but my fingers were tired.


31 posted on 09/03/2008 12:04:44 PM PDT by Stayfree (***********************************************If it is left, it can't be right!!)
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To: Security Mom 08

I think you’ll find that the FBI does not do background checks on party nominees. They will do background checks for appointees to various high level government offices, but it is not done for party nominees. The story is incorrect and the FBI has acknowledged it did not do a background check on Palin for the purpose of supplying information on her to the selection process of the McCain campaign.

I’m sure it is possible that some of the people that McCain employed in his campaign to do their vetting process may have had experience working with the FBI or perhaps tried to pattern their approach to interviews and investigative process like that of the FBI, and perhaps that is the source of the confusion.


32 posted on 09/03/2008 12:05:16 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Security Mom 08

A leftist vetting process is like taking a census during a San Francisco Gay/Peacenik/Commie parade and scoring the participants for adherence to stated goals.


33 posted on 09/03/2008 1:07:27 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: Security Mom 08
This is a conversation between the Special Agent-in-Charge: C. Frank Figliuzzi of the Cleveland FBI and Mike Trivisonno on the Mike Trivisonno Show, WTAM 1100, 7/02/08, Hr. 2.

Caller - Do they perform background checks on candidates and fellows who are in Congress and the Senate and perhaps potential presidential candidates?.

FBI - The short answer is no, no we don't, but they're given top secret clearances because they're members of Congress, or Senators, or even higher ranking officials.

Host - Time out. There are no background checks from the FBI on the people that lead the country, the United States of America?.

FBI - Let me emphasize, elected officials. This is a democracy, the people have elected an official to represent them in Washington, and we do not routinely run background checks on those people.

Host - Even people running for president of the United States of America?.

FBI - That's correct.

Host - That's a little weird

FBI - Well, its part of democracy, its part of what the American people want, they want to be able to vote for somebody to represent them in Washington and they don't want us to get in the way of that and we have no predilection to get in the way of that.

Host - Yeah, but what if they're voting for a bad person and they don't know that person is bad, do you follow me?. I'm saying, if the guy's got a background and maybe he's involved with some people that he shouldn't be involved with, shouldn't we know that as voters?.

FBI - Well, I think you'd agree that the American political process is about as rigorous as you'll ever see and if there's dirt back there, probably the opponent is gonna get it out probably before anyone else will.

Host - Now I know why you're the head of the FBI, they're good, aren't they?.

Me - Let's just hope that somebody is up to the job!.

34 posted on 09/03/2008 1:42:23 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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