Obama-Biden Reservations Confirmed - STANDING BY THE STORY

The American Spectator

The Obama campaign spent more than five hours on Monday attempting to figure out the best refutation of the explosive New York Post report that quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that Barack Obama during his July visit to Baghdad demanded that Iraq not negotiate with the Bush Administration on the withdrawal of American troops. Instead, he asked that they delay such negotiations until after the presidential handover at the end of January.

The three problems, according to campaign sources: The report was true, there were at least three other people in the room with Obama and Zebari to confirm the conversation, and there was concern that there were enough aggressive reporters based in Baghdad with the sources to confirm the conversation that to deny the comments would create a bigger problem.

Instead, Obama's national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told reporters that Obama told the Iraqis that they should not rush through what she termed a "Strategic Framework Agreement" governing the future of U.S. forces until after President Bush left office. In other words, the Iraqis should not negotiate an American troop withdrawal.
According to a Senate staffer working for Sen. Joseph Biden, Biden himself got involved in the shaping of the statement. "The whole reason he's on the ticket is the foreign policy insight," explained the staffer.

This is disgusting behavior from someone who wants to be my President...

The Left’s Trillion $ ‘Housing’ Shakedown

Another column from the winter of 2000. Notice the comments of the Senate Committee chairman. Isn't he the "clueless" McCain economic advisor who got run off the campaign for speaking the truth? Seems like a pretty smart guy to me.

The Left’s Trillion $ ‘Housing’ Shakedown Sweetness & Light

This is a highly prescient article from the Winter 2000 edition of the The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal:

A member of the Boston Mayor’s Foreclosure Intervention Team (FIT) posts a sign on a foreclosed and boarded-up property in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, May 13, 2008.

The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities

The Community Reinvestment Act funnels billions to left-wing activists, while threatening to destabilize lower-middle-class neighborhoods.

Howard Husock

The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act, a once-obscure and lightly enforced banking regulation law, into one of the most powerful mandates shaping American cities—and, as Senate Banking Committee chairman Phil Gramm memorably put it, a vast extortion scheme against the nation’s banks. Under its provisions, U.S. banks have committed nearly $1 trillion for inner-city and low-income mortgages and real estate development projects, most of it funneled through a nationwide network of left-wing community groups, intent, in some cases, on teaching their low-income clients that the financial system is their enemy and, implicitly, that government, rather than their own striving, is the key to their well-being.

Bush, McCain Tried To Reform Freddie Mac

This is another STELLAR discovery by the folks at Sweetness & Light regarding what the Bush Administration proposed FIVE YEARS AGO!!!

Bush, McCain Tried To Reform Freddie Mac Sweetness & Light

September 11, 2003

The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.

The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios...

And what does our wonderful Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi have to say about Congress' actions during this time:

Pelosi: Dems bear no responsibility for economic crisis

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when asked Tuesday whether Democrats bear some of the responsibility regarding the current crisis on Wall Street, had a one-word answer: “No.”

Pelosi (D-Calif.) ripped President Bush’s “mismanagement” of the economy and a lack of regulation that led to the current situation.
“I think the American people have had it with this situation where the middle-income people in our country are not protected from the ramifications of the risk-taking and the greed of these financial institutions,” Pelosi told MSNBC.
When asked whether the Democrats “deserve some responsibility” regarding the economic crisis, Pelosi responded: “No.”

CNN’s Jack Cafferty: Obama: Race a factor?

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time CNN’s Jack Cafferty « - Blogs from CNN.com

Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it's one that nobody's talking about.

The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn't be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn't make sense…unless it's race.

So it all come down to this?  The mainstream media and the Democrats can't convince America that Obama should be anointed President so their only excuse has to be racism.  And this guy actually gets paid to think.

Nevermind the fact that Obama is simply a liberal with the same, worn out ideas that Al Gore and John Kerry brought to the fight in the last two elections.

Nevermind the fact that the exact same states that were in play in the last two elections are the ones in play for this election.

We must play the race card anytime a minority doesn't win against a white person.

Why is it racism when 55% of white people want a conservative in the White House and 45% want a liberal but it's not racism when 90% of African Americans are voting for the African American?

Maybe people outside of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the DC beltway just don't like Obama's ideas - did they ever think of that?  Of course not.

Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain « - Blogs from CNN.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

...Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.  “This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don't like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

This shows EXACTLY what's wrong with the media and Obama...

This is collection of one sound bite, one video and one news story. First listen to Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, answer a question from a radio host regarding Sarah Palin's qualifications to be a CEO. Listen to all 1:43 of it.

Then watch the video of Fiorina being interviewed about that statement.

And finally, check out the headline and story that CNN and the Obama campaign (I know, I know, redundant...) come out with.

Absolutely disgusting that they would take her words out of context and deliberately twist them for their purposes.

Isn't it also interesting that the Obama campaign believes that Carly Fiorina is intelligent enough to determine that Sarah Palin and John McCain wouldn't be qualified to be a CEO of a large corporation but they conveniently ignore that she said Obama's and Biden's name in the same sentence?

Sound file from radio show

Video of Interview

McCain adviser Fiorina: Palin not ready to run a corporation

(CNN) -- Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned top John McCain aide, said she doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to run a major corporation.

..."If John McCain's top economic adviser doesn't think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis?" said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "Apparently, even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn't understand as well as he should."

Palin and the 'Experience' Canard

Global View - WSJ.com

If nothing else, the media meltdown over Sarah Palin's candidacy for the vice presidency has exposed the not-unsuspected truth that, when it comes to historical ignorance and political amnesia, our cultural panjandrums are in a class by themselves.

ABC's Charlie Gibson is only the latest to offer himself upon the altar of self-parody with his pop-quizzing of the Alaska governor during their interview last week.

Gibson: "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"

Palin: "In what respect, Charlie?"

Which was a sensible answer, given that no higher authority than Jacob Weisberg of Slate has counted six versions of the thing (including "absence of any functioning doctrine at all"). Further pressed on the subject, Gov. Palin explained that "what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism," which better sums up the gist of Bush policy than Mr. Gibson's cramped definition of the doctrine as "anticipatory self-defense."

 

 

 Ismael Roldan

Dems, media using lies to paint Palin

The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY - The Newspaper for the Heartland of New York - On The Right Side: Dems, media using lies to paint Palin

Can you believe how scared the cowardly left is about Sarah Palin?

Its petty, immature attempts to insult and demean her and her family seem to know no boundaries, and worse, its lackeys, the mainstream media, continue the lies.

Obama’s teleprompter hits the trail

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Obama’s teleprompter hits the trail « - Blogs from CNN.com

(CNN) — It appears Barack Obama's teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn't use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

In case you forgot what Obama looks like without his teleprompter, check this out from an earlier post.

The Real Culprits In This Meltdown

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- The Real Culprits In This Meltdown

Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's dysfunctional, Democrats during the Clinton years are a prime reason for it.

Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the "trickle-down" economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.

But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions.

Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.

I'm sure you'll be seeing this type of analysis on the CBS Evening News any day now  - - - not...

Devastating Video for the media to ignore: Obama talks about job Bill Ayers Gave him as qualification for US Senate

Devastating Video for the media to ignore: Obama talks about job Bill Ayers Gave him as qualification for US Senate | Infidels Are Cool

Another OUCH for Obama.  Geesh, stuff just keeps coming out about the man who the media and liberal-elite fully trust without recognition of ANY background check, yet are “terrorized” at the thought of a vice-president who happens to be the most popular governor in the country.

Here Obama is, in an interview, laying out his job qualifications for the US Senate, and one of the things he cites as a qualification is being the Chairman of the Board for the Annenberg Challenge, which was set up by Bill Ayers himself, including a “meet the candidate” event for Obama hosted at Bill ayers home.  Things just keep geting worse and worse for the “Unknown Chosen One”.

Thanks to Lucianne.com for pointing to this video.  Please try to ignore the "Terminator" music and pay attention to the details.  And remember, this is just some guy Obama knew...

Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin

Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin - WSJ.com

Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL - New York Post

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Amazing... "hey, hold on now, can't you wait until I'm President to figure this out?  Otherwise, how am I going to get the credit for it?

ACORN Faking Voter Registration Again!

ACORN Faking Voter Registration Again! | Sweetness & Light

Bad voter applications found

Clerks see fraudulent, duplicate forms from group

BY L.L. BRASIER • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • September 14, 2008

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”

Imagine that...

LIFE OF THE PARTY RETURNING AT LAST

LIFE OF THE PARTY RETURNING AT LAST - New York Post by Jonah Goldberg

...The press and Hollywood have spent the last three years making it sound like people become Republicans so they can flood New Orleans, ruin the economy, torture Muslims, listen to everyone's phone calls, and make a ton from selling papier maché bulletproof vests to the troops.

To cap it off, John McCain, renowned for driving the GOP base batty by bebopping and scatting all over his own party in order (according to his conservative detractors) to win praise from The New York Times, actually won the nomination.

In short, you don't have to be a political scientist to understand why Republican self-identification has been at a 16-year low or why even many of the GOP faithful were planning on putting out their "Gone fishing" signs this November.

Jonah, as usual, hits it right on the head.  And mercifully, he does so quickly.  I love Jonah Goldberg's writing but I've only got so many hours in the day  :)

Whoopi's worried she'll be a slave under McCain

This would be funny if people didn't take it so seriously.Let me clear something up for those of you out there who struggle with how to answer a liberal who likes to claim Republicans will throw America back to the times of slavery and women not being allowed to vote:

The Constitution was written by very intelligent men who knew that they didn't know everything. They built in a process to change the Constitution if, over time, the people realized that things needed changing. It's called the amendment process. They believed so much in amendments that they put 10 of them in only four years after writing the original document. These first 10 amendments became the founding rights of our country known as the Bill of Rights. That's right - free speech wasn't in the "original" version of the Constitution. It wasn't until some of the framers raised doubts about a centralized government taking away the rights of the people that these were added in as a condition of accepting the new United States government.

No one is going to appoint judges who pick which version of the Constitution they want tom enforce. Being a "strict constitutionalist" means that a Supreme Court justice's job is to apply the laws as they are written and to ensure that those laws follow Constitution, as it IS written, with amendments and all, not how it WAS written.The problem conservatives have with 'activist' judges is that they make up rules IN ADDITION to the Constitution to suit their personal opinions, which have no place in the Supreme Court.If a law is passed by a city, state or the federal government - and that law does not violate any provision of the U.S. Constitution, then the Supreme Court has no business being involved in changing that law. Plain and simple.

Our government is set up so that legislatures make laws and judges enforce and interpret those laws in accordance with the Constitution.Slavery is specifically forbidden by the U.S Constitution under the thirteenth amendment. Whoopi should be glad that McCain wants judges that intepret the Constitution this way.

John McCain...e-mail...and the end of Barack Obama

The Corner on National Review Online

Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its "get tough" makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn't use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

"Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail."

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary." The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Way to go, Obama. Can't do enough research before you attack someone to know that your insulting a man for not using e-mail when the reason he can't use e-mail is because he can't use a keyboard because his hands don't work well enough because his captors beat him so badly while he was imprisoned while serving his country!! Idiot!

How about you just go back to organizing your community and pretending to be the second coming. This is getting ridiculous!

By the way, a friend of mine asked me today. How come Barack Obama's too stupid to fly a plane. George W. Bush and John McCain both know how to fly fighter jets...

Hillary to replace Biden??

Hearing more and more rumors about Obama replacing Biden with Hillary for VP. This could just be wishful thinking on the part of some after Biden's comments this week.

If it turns out to be true, would that be pandering? Nah!

Stay tuned.

NYT: Why Not A Non-Senator Woman As VP?

It's always nice when you can you someone's own words against them. This is a beautiful job of unearthing what the NY Times editorial staff wrote over 24 years ago. You've come a long way, baby!

NYT: Why Not A Non-Senator Woman As VP? Sweetness & Light

New York Times Editorial

July 3, 1984, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition

On one side, Walter Mondale has been hearing some infuriating demands. If he wants to win in November, feminists are saying, he has to nominate a woman to run with him. Otherwise, as Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women, said the other day, ”I don’t know how we can go out to women and say ‘Here’s something to work for.’ ”

...to be shrill is no worse than to be righteous, like the people who insist that the women Vice Presidential candidates so far proposed lack the requisite standing and experience. Why, it is said, none of them is even a senator.

Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? Surely Ronald Reagan does not subscribe to that maxim. Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified...

Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial?

...Remember the main foreign affairs credential of Georgia’s Governor Carter: He was a member of the Trilateral Commission...

Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow? We may even be gradually elevating our standards for choosing Vice Presidential candidates. But that should be done fairly, also. Meanwhile, the indispensable credential for a Woman Who is the same as for a Man Who - one who helps the ticket.

Barack Obama's Latest Campaign Ad

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need "Still" -- On the air...



So this is what they've come up with? John McCain doesn't use e-mail??
Yeah, that's gonna work.

Tennessee Rep. Compares Obama to Jesus, Suggests Palin is Pontius Pilate

Tennessee Rep. Compares Obama to Jesus, Suggests Palin is Pontius Pilate - America’s Election HQ

Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen riled Republicans Wednesday after he compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ and suggested Sarah Palin is akin to Pontius Pilate.

The Tennessee Democrat, who supports Obama, was on the House floor giving a one-minute speech when he offered the comparisons.

“If you want change, you want the Democratic Party,” Cohen said. “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Nice.  Now they aren't just thinking Obama is the Messiah, they're actually calling his opponents Pontius Pilate.  This will go over real well in flyover country...
Oh, and by the way - anytime a congressman or representative is referred to as "Rep", that's media-code for 'this guys a Democrat but we can't say that in the headline...despicable

Sarah Palin Investigators Set Up ‘Tip-Line’

From the Associated Press via Sarah Palin Investigators Set Up ‘Tip-Line’ Sweetness & Light

Sen. Hollis French, the man heading the Palin investigation appears fifth from the right along with two other of the panel’s Democrat “investigators” in this photo taken at Obama’s headquarters in Alaska.

Palin’s attorney: Investigator ‘biased’

By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 11

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A lawyer for Gov. Sarah Palin ...Thomas Van Flein called the investigation “unlawful and unconstitutional” and said the man hired to run it, former prosecutor Stephen Branchflower, has a conflict of interest because he’s a friend of the fired commissioner. Citing “your seemingly biased conduct of the investigation in recent weeks,” he urged Branchflower to stop interviewing witnesses — the second time this month that he’s asked Branchflower to stand down.

...The investigation has included setting up a secret tip line to “accept and investigate anonymous rumors and complaints outside the scope” of the inquiry, Van Flein alleged. He also said Branchflower has deposed witnesses without proper notice other attorneys.

Branchflower did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.

Van Flein sent one of the letters to Branchflower and the other to Democratic Sen. Kim Elton, who heads the Legislative Council, the body that unanimously approved the investigation in July. Both letters were dated Tuesday.

Elton this week rebuffed a Republican attempt to have Sen. Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat, replaced as head of the investigation.

Van Flein wrote that both French and Branchflower are friends of Monegan but apparently failed to disclose those relationships to the Legislature.

...The Palin family repeatedly complained to Alaska State Troopers about Wooten, and he was eventually suspended for five days. Wooten admitted that he Tasered his 10-year-old stepson and that he illegally shot a moose, but he denied other accusations, including that he drove with an open container of alcohol in his patrol car.

Maybe it's just me but it doesn't seem quite right to allow one campaign to conduct an official investigation of the other and claim there's no bias...

Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11

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For those liberal elitists who love to preach about how George Bush took his 'eye off the ball' and put everything we had into Iraq and 'hasn't made the country any safer', here's an amazing list of the success stories in preventing terrorist attacks since 2001.

Never, EVER, Forget...

Obama Can't Win Against Palin - by Karl Rove

Obama Can't Win Against Palin - WSJ.com

Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama's head. How else to explain Sen. Obama's decision to go one-on-one against "Sarah Barracuda," captain of the Wasilla High state basketball champs?

It's a matchup he'll lose. If Mr. Obama wants to win, he needs to remember he's running against John McCain for president, not Mrs. Palin for vice president.

The "evil genius" gets it right, as usual.  I just wish he would wait until AFTER the election to try to help Obama.