Why does the top of the frontpage of today's Seattle Times [pdf] headline a story of McCain pushing back against nutjobs at a campaign rally?
Honestly, because the MSM is much more comfortable assuming that the Republican faithful are ignorant racists than they are noticing and condemning the rabid intolerance to be found in some corners of the left.
To be blunt, those that claim Barack Obama is an "Arab" or a "Muslim" or a "terrorist" are absolute idiots. A stain on the right just as notable elements of the netroots end up deeply soiling the left (see Palin, Trig).
Yet does remarking on the latter's disgusting antics merit front-age discussion? Nope. Doesn't fit the stereotype of "enlightened progressives."
Both sides have their morons and both sides should be quick to condemn and/or correct them. McCain deserves admiration for having done so decisively yesterday.
For now, however, society should be much more concerned about the bubbling attempts by Obama supporters to quash free speech (chronicled here and here for starters). Speech codes should be of more concern than blowhards venting dumb views at campaign rallies.
Anyone with even a vague awareness of how such tactics of silencing "hate speech" and the like occurs on college campuses can recognize this is a deeply troubling trend. And Barack Obama has had nary a word to say about it.
Posted by Eric Earling at October 11, 2008 11:25 AM | Email ThisObama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
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CHICAGO (AP) - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.
Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.
Rezko also was friendly with Obama - offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko's trial, there's no indication there'll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee - even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.
"I think this strikes fear into the Blagojevich administration and the Statehouse Democrats but not into the Obama campaign," says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.
Rezko, 53, a real estate developer, was convicted in June of scheming to use his clout with the Blagojevich administration to squeeze $7 million in kickbacks out of a contractor and seven money management firms seeking to do business with the state.
Within two months, Rezko was seen in U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald's office, along with his attorneys.
There has been no official confirmation that Rezko is talking but his sentencing has been postponed indefinitely and both sides say they are going to "engage in discussions that could affect their sentencing postures."
"They never would have delayed the sentencing if he weren't talking - it's proof positive," said Jay Stewart, executive director of the Better Government Association of Chicago.
In addition, attorneys say federal investigators have been questioning Blagojevich contributions around the state using information that only Rezko could have supplied. Finally, courthouse personnel requesting anonymity because grand jury probes are secret said Rezko has been repeatedly brought from his cell to the U.S. attorney's office to talk to prosecutors.
Rezko could have a lot to tell. He has raised millions of dollars in campaign money for many Illinois politicians and according to federal prosecutors used his clout to control appointments to state boards.
Obama has sent to charity $159,000 that Rezko raised for his campaigns for the state legislature, the House and the Senate. Rezko raised nothing for Obama's White House run.
Obama's name came up in testimony at the trial four times, twice in connection with an obscure legislative memo, as a guest at a Rezko party and when defense attorney Joseph Duffy told jurors his client was a friend of the senator.
None of the witnesses accused the Democratic nominee for president of doing anything improper.
But questions concerning Obama's relationship with Rezko linger, particularly over Rezko's role in the purchase of the Obamas' home.
The two have known each other for years, starting when Rezko offered Obama a job after he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. Obama didn't take it, but a friendship developed.
The men talked politics frequently and occasionally dined together with their wives.
In 2005, the Obamas paid $1.65 million for their home near the University of Chicago. The sellers wanted a parcel they owned next door to sell on the same day, and Rezko's wife, Rita, was the buyer. At the request of the Obamas, Mrs. Rezko later sold them a 10-foot strip of land to enlarge their lot. They paid $104,500.
The deal took place while Rezko was under investigation and when details of the cozy relationship surfaced, Obama said it was a "bonehead" error to have asked for the additional land because it looked like he was getting a favor.
"I regret it," Obama said at the time. "I'm going to make sure that from this point on I don't even come close to the line."
McCain and vice running mate Sarah Palin have mentioned Rezko little if at all. But Republicans have aired a television ad focusing on Rezko. And McCain aides have repeatedly tweaked their opponent over the real estate deal in e-mails to reporters.
"We're delighted to have a debate on judgment with Barack Obama, who bought his million-dollar mansion in a shady deal with a convicted felon," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in August.
Blagojevich, meanwhile, got a black eye from the trial.
One witness testified that Blagojevich talked about hiring him for a major state job while his $25,000 donation to the governor's campaign fund was lying on the table.
Two attorneys testified that Blagojevich hinted that they could get lucrative state contracts if they raised money - possibly for a future White House campaign.
Obama's name has not surfaced in accounts of the investigation since the trial. But Rezko himself raised it in a letter to the judge months ago.
"Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened," he wrote. "They are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama."
Even if only 10% of the stuff out there (Ayers, ACORN, Rezko, Wright, Pfleger and much more) is true, isn't that reason enough to worry most reasonable people? Sure, McCain had his Keating association, but that was FULLY INVESTIGATED and MCCAIN WAS CLEARED. None of Obama's shady dealings have been as thoroughly explored.
While the Washington Times had a story on it, why wasn't there greater coverage of Barack Obama's possible violation of the Logan Act, which says that nobody but the President can negotiate with foreign leaders? A summary of that whole thing can be found here: http://audacitywatch.com/?p=438
The deck is stacked more than it has been in a long time. What can we do about it at the eleventh hour? While there are definitely people who cross the line, there are quite a few more who are mad as hell and not going to take it any more!
Posted by: Audacity Watch on October 11, 2008 11:47 AMYour own blog demonstrates why the fear of the R^4 right is all to real.
Posted by: Sesttlejew on October 11, 2008 12:37 PMAnd for the secrets of his magic, read
The Audacity of Socialism
Or worse....
Every time McCain hands the mike to a rally attendee, you can tell just how genetically challenged his followers are.
Is there anyone with an IQ over 50 that thinks McKeating5 would make a better president than Barack? I truly doubt it.
Does anyone have a good explanation of why McCain wasn't prosecuted for corruption in the Keating 5 scandal? He took the money, and he did the favors. Consistantly, and repeatedly. Looks like an open and shut case to me.
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 01:29 PMBTW. How is all that de-regulation, and out-sourcing working out for America these days?
Warren Buffet made 8 billion last year.
That's how it is working out.
At least Warren is giving it all to charity....
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 01:43 PMThe Obama Campaign has established a pattern of Actively Stifling Dissent
The Obama Way of Ending Divisiveness
Gloves off: Now, Obama calls for prosecuting GOP donor
Missouri Governor Accuses Obama of Conspiring to Violate Civil Rights
Hello?? Main Stream Media???
Hello???
How's that FIRST AMENDMENT working out for you?
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on October 11, 2008 02:16 PMCommie-kid is convinced that ACORN voter registration fraud has absolutely nothing to do with election fraud.
In light of his certainty, I have given him a challenge.
I am so relieved that commie-kid is just absolutely sure that the ACORN "irregularities" will NOT result in election fraud.
I am confident that with his absolute certainty he will stand shoulder to shoulder with you and me in calling upon the Secretary's of State in Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada North Carolina, Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Florida NOT open any absentee ballots and NOT to certify their election results until the FBI has thoroughly investigated the "irregularities" and cleansed their voting rolls if any were found.
After all, when a commie-kid is certain, surely he'll put his election results where his big mouth is. Right?
SHOCKINGLY, commie-kid has ignored my challenge!
Please, do your best to encourage him to join us... or shame the hell out of him for his cowardice and duplicity!
While yer at it, defend Bush. Are you one of the 10% of Americans that think we are headed in the right direction?
Obama's children have better judgement than McKeating5. What's your problem?
BTW. How many women did McCain screw while he was still married to his first wife without her knowledge?
Never mind the wicked witch of the North....
While you are at it. Go to AirAmerica.com and listen to them talking about the 20,000 people who's life savings Keating stole with McInsane's help. Without McCain, the number would never be 20,000 because regulators were already looking into Lincoln.
You right wing lunatics keep defending slime, and covering for criminals. It is part of your disease.
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 02:40 PMHow many working people have lost more than half their 401(k) retirement savings because of the idiotic scheme pushed by Democrats to sell homes to those who couldn't afford them? And who was one of the Senators who resisted Republican efforts to stem the problem? Why it was your hero, Barack Obama, who was also on the take from Fannie and Freddie.
You just keep living in your fantasy world where all the good guys are Democrats, and all the Republicans are evil.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 11, 2008 03:55 PMIt is really sad.
Posted by: All His Venom Supports Liberalism on October 11, 2008 03:56 PMThey are reeeeel busy listening to Al Qaeda aren't they......
Welcome to the Third Reich! Sieg Heil!
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 03:58 PMTo be blunt, those that claim Barack Obama is an "Arab" or a "Muslim" or a "terrorist" are absolute idiots.
In addition, I will also add:
Any conservative obsessed with ACORN is also an idiot.
The Republicans better become a multicultural - multiracial party if that party wants to survive in the 21st century. In other words:
Those who vilify the Muslims and those xenophobes who are scared of an "unamerican" sounding name are doing great harm to the Republican party.
If the Republican party continues along this path it won't exist for very much longer. The party is going to tear itself to shreds because the moderate Republicans and the sane Republicans aren't going to remain associated with a political party which is becoming increasingly extremist and behaving very much like the Christian Taliban.
Posted by: David Mathews on October 11, 2008 04:03 PMOh, I'm a racist now, too.
Posted by: Independent Voter on October 11, 2008 04:07 PMHow many working people have lost more than half their 401(k) retirement savings because of the idiotic scheme pushed by Democrats to sell homes to those who couldn't afford them?
Look, Bill, it takes more than minorities and the poor to create a housing bubble.
The housing bubble was a mania which afflicted Americans of all types. The wealthy bought too many houses, the Middle Class bought McMansions and wildly speculated on real estate, and the poor bought houses with artifically inflated values.
In addition, the American people engaged in an orgy of hyperconsumerism, all of it paid for on debt based upon the theory that they could sell their houses for a hefty profit in the future and use the money to pay off all of their toys.
In addition, the US government engaged in an illegal war in Iraq, grew tremendously, and amassed several trillion dollars more debt.
Finally, Peak Oil bumped against humankind's insatiable appetite for oil and this propelled oil to reach $147 a barrel and gasoline to reach $4 a gallon.
This is the reason why the stock market has collapsed and your 401k's will soon become worthless.
You are responsible for your own suffering. Don't blame anyone else.
and ..
Stop whining, conservatives. Poverty will serve you well.
Posted by: David Mathews on October 11, 2008 04:10 PMI don't care if they call him Santa Claus, I still won't vote for a communistic, leftist lying kook. Oh, I'm a racist now, too.
You are not necessarily a racist, but you are an uneducated, idiotic, blind, uninformed fool.
Conservatives are not merely scared, they are the most scared people on the planet!
Posted by: David Mathews on October 11, 2008 04:13 PMWho Is Barack Obama?
After two years of media exposure, most of us still don't know. Every week there is some story about a hateful past...this is then covered up by his handlers. Then anyone who mentions it is called a "racist".
No one can question Barack.
No one can criticize Barck.
But who is Barack? His biography is sketchy. He claims to be poor, but his upbringing is upper middle class. He seems to be bitter -- but why? When he enjoyed the finest fruits of society at Harvard?
At best, I get a cold icy feeling from Barack Obama...I coldness that doesn't let me understand who or what he is. To me, he's a puppet, a puppet who is being used by the Democrats to get back into power at any and all costs.
McCain-Palin are exposing Barack Obama and his contradictions and it hurts. It hurts so much for people who are under an illusion to see the truth about him.
Now about the Barrack Obama Muslim label. Barack Obama’s father is defined in this way From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Obama, Sr. had already turned away from Islam and became an atheist by the time he moved to the United States. In other words when Obama Jr. was born, he was born into a Muslim family tradition. I agree that he certainly is not an Arab.
Posted by: Bob Clark on October 11, 2008 04:46 PMLet me break it to you right wing nutcases gently.
Left = Center
If the right wingers have so much to offer, then why do they have to lie about EVERYTHING.
Conservative = dishonest. They are exposed as the lunatics they have always been. From Terry Schaivo, to Pat Roberts, and Rev. Dobson. From Bush's 6 trillion onto the national debt to zero oversight, or accountability in Iraq. Ignoring drowning people in New Orleans to denying global warming, and fighting renewable energy.
The right is a sickening stain on our country's history. The sooner we lock them all up for corruption, or remove them from the body politic, the better off our country, and the world will be.
Of course, when you point it out to them, they get really angry. And to think 25% of the people calling themselves Republiconvicts in 2004 have left the party. Can you blame them?
BTW. I am not a communist, or a socialist. I am an American. Constitution, (including the parts not in the 2nd amendment) and everything!
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 04:50 PMThank god that the heroic editors of Sound Politics are exposing this questionable black man.
Posted by: Obama Who on October 11, 2008 04:52 PMWhy don't you read Obama's 2 books if you really want to know.....
I know. I know. If you didn't hear it on the Rush Limbaugh Show, it can't be true right?
Obama Who. How many planes did McCain crash? I heard he was a very crappy pilot, and wouldn't have even got show down if he had followed procedure.
Who is McCain?
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 05:00 PMMcCain's the guy who, unlike you and that empty suited, anti-American racist bigot you support, actually put his ass on the line for this country.
McCain's the guy that you and the rest of your fringe-left morons aren't fit to carry his laundry.
Thanks for asking, Moron.
Posted by: Hinton on October 11, 2008 05:03 PMIt started long ago when a woman asked McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?" (back in the primaries) and he basically laughed. It was very disrespectful. He could have set the tone then and said, "Madam I'm a competitive guy, I feel I have a lot more to offer in experience and ideas against the Democrats but I'm not running my campaign on uncalled for name-calling. I'd rather you not refer to Senator Clinton to me that way."
THAT would have set a tone.
Obama has been the most vetted candidate. What else do you want to know? His mother was a single parent for awhile so yeah, they were poor. What is the problem with him doing what we tell all American kids? Rise above your circumstances, study hard and you can accomplish great things. He did that and bam! elitist.
There are things I'd love to know about Bush, McCain and Palin but frankly, no adult of any real age has led a perfect, mistake-free life (especially politicians ). They have all had to accept and be part of political realities. It would behoove all of us to be pragmatic on this point.
Obama is not a Communist, a Socialist, an Arab or anything else you want to sling at him.
But I understand. It's a painful thing as your candidate and his pathetic campaign go down the drain.
Posted by: westello on October 11, 2008 05:03 PMTHAT tone? THAT hate speech?
dumbfellow, you must do better than this. And since t5he campaign is, as you so adroitly put it, "go down the drain" while that leftist scumbag you support pulls so far out ahead... then why are you engaging in this playground crap?
Posted by: Hinton on October 11, 2008 05:09 PMMcCain did do something about it, and Obama thanked him for it.
Of course, we have Carville and others promising riots if Obama loses, and we have Obama threatening TV stations if they run ads critical of him.
Seems free speech is only allowed in one direction, if you're a Slavery Party member that is!
Oh, and for the record Obama was a registered Socialist at least in 1996. So yes, Obama was a Socialist and based upon his welfare schemes for the masses (how can you give tax cuts to 95% of the people if only 57% actually pay taxes? Simple - you give them actual welfare checks even if they pay no taxes) he is still a Socialist.
At least be honest about your candidate...
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on October 11, 2008 05:17 PMA perfect example of Bambi O-bomb-a's supporters.
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on October 11, 2008 05:28 PMYou'll have to excuse me but I long ago decided there is no earthly reason to respond to anything you write.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 11, 2008 05:29 PMFot the ACORNS (aka leftwing CHEATS) and the lefty moonbats, the Answer.
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on October 11, 2008 05:42 PMMcCain is not fit to carry my laundry.
I didn't help Keating rip off 20,000 people for their life's savings.
McCain did.
That is a fact, regardless what Rush, Hannity, and the other pathetic liars tell you.
I didn't use my daddy's pull to get into aviator school, when I practically flunked out of Annapolis.
McCain did.
McCain, and all the other privileged pukes (like W.) are what is TRULY wrong with this country.
Wait till it is you job shipped overseas. Your pension stolen. Your insurance canceled after you get sick. Your house worth less than you owe, because the banks get to do as they please to your neighbors.
McCain has only one goal. Helping the top 1% skim the cream off our country, while the other 99% lose more and more ground every day. Checked your IRA lately?
You can defend these lying pathetic criminals all you want. I would rather see them locked up.
Leave your fantasy world. If you really want to find out something, read "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein. Maybe you might begin to understand what is happening all around you.
I know, I know. You would rather bury your head in the sand, and pretend liars like John McKeating 5 is her to help you, instead of the 150 lobbyists running his campaign.
Grow up.
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 07:21 PMYou will understand how easy it is to get folks like yourself to believe lies no one with a lick of sense would ever believe.
Trickle Down?
Trickle Down is the cruelest, most sickening joke the ruling class ever played on our people. Why else, when the top 1% own 50% of America, and the top 10% own 90%? That makes 270,000,000 Americans fighting over the crumbs falling off the fat pigs chins.
There is no penalty great enough to equal the crimes committed against our nation by the likes of Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Karl Rove, W., Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of the gang of crooks infesting our capitol.
Now Bush's buddies want another 700 BILLION, as frosting on the cake for their trips out of office, and their corporate boardrooms.
You smell something here? If you don't you don't have a nose.....
I hope you will put your hate aside, and help Barack, and I, while we try to rebuild our nation, after the corrupt conservative wrecking crew laid her to waste, and looted the treasury for 6 TRILLION DOLLARS. We still have hope.
Join us....
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 07:40 PMYou are a liar and about as dumb as a rock (although I haven't talked to all rocks, so there's still hope you'll come out lower on the intelligence scale).
McCain was CLEARED of all impropriety and the charges were DROPPED. There is nothing about the Keating 5, other than Slavery Party Senator Cranston being officially reprimanded and Slavery Party Senators Riegle and DeConcini being officially charged with improper actions.
So that's ONE Republican CLEARED of any wrongdoing, and three of your Slavery Party paying the price.
Keating Five is around the neck of you Slavers, and you're too stupid to realize it. And you try to change it around... That's what you Slavery Party hacks do - completely deny your actions since they are reprehensible.
Why don't you go back to Obama, plan how to kill a few more babies, steal a few more votes, and blackmail more companies into payouts for your cronies...
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on October 11, 2008 07:42 PMHow about Obama's home ownership being highly questionable - not just the Rezko payoff mansion but the previous house?
And how about Obama being on the payroll - and paying into - ACORN, the multiply convicted vote fraud machine?
Nothing to say about Obama supporting the MURDER of living, breathing babies?
How about over 100 highly esteemed economists - including multiple Nobel prize winners and 5 of the faculty of Harvard - decrying Obama's economic plan as disasterous, guaranteed to wreck our economy?
How about 3 out of 4 business owners stating that Obama's infantile understanding of economy will destroy our country within 3 years?
And lastly, how about the PROOF that Obama was a card-carrying and position-running member of the Socialist Party?
Put that it your pipe and smoke it, you lying sack of equine excrement.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on October 11, 2008 07:50 PMI love it. You call me names, and all the while reading me the talking points right off the Rush Limbaugh show. All these pathetic baseless claims. You know Rush. The guy that admitted he carried water (lied) for the GOP. You also seem to forget Palin and the Alaska Freedom Party, wanting to secede from the United States. Talk about carrying cards.
They got video by the way.... I loved the witch hunter steering her political career. Priceless.
If Barack did something even close to wrong, you think the Bush Gang wouldn't try to Don Siegelman him?
I bet you hate Obama because he worked his way up, instead of being helped every step of the way by his daddy, just like W, our current pathetic liar in chief. Mr 18%!
The days of the dying GOP are numbered. All we have left is to watch their prosecutions. I can't think of a single crime the lying chimp's gang hasn't committed with the help of scared lemmings like yourself.
Conservatives too stupid to understand that their ideology of fear, hate, and greed is destroying our country. It's ok. We have enough straight jackets to go around.
"Highly esteemed economists"? You mean the mouthpieces of the think tanks funded by the folks robbing our country blind? You mean those folks right?
You make me sick.
Go drink your kool aid. I am sure the 150 lobbyists running McCain's campaign will tell him what to say tomorrow to impress the genetically deficient. You know. The folks that think teeth are bling bling. The average Republiconvict voter!
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 09:07 PMWhoa! At what point in recent history did liberals develop a sense of morality? Because I thought sex was a private matter, not to be brought up when talking about a politician.
Posted by: Dave on October 11, 2008 09:43 PMWho said anything about minorities? The point is, Carter started this and Clinton augmented the policy of requirng Fannie and Freddie to back sub prime and no-doc loans. With the idealist goal of enabling more people to buy a house who would otherwise not qualify under standard lending rules. While the intent was noble, because of the 14th Amendment, ANYONE...poor, middle-class, rich, or filthy rich could apply for one of these loans and not be turned down. So, many people were buying houses and flipping them, or keeping them as income generating rental properties. The reason this utlimately lays at the feet of the Democrats is that they thought up the scheme in the first place, and when people started sounding warning signals about the impending failure of Freddie and Fannie, people like Barney Frank, Mazine Waters, Chris Dodd and John Conyers refused to listen to any of it. Bascially calling it a racist which hunt, due to the fact the head of Fannie was Black. And Chris Dodd would not let proposed oversight regulation of Freddie and Fannie out of Committee. So, the Dems refused to hear any of this until it was too late.
Now, what makes us believe Barry is the best one to turn things around when he attended the party in the first place?
Posted by: Dave on October 11, 2008 09:55 PMYour ignorance comes shining through! McCain was cleared completely - the charged DROPPED. And if you had half a brain (I doubt you do), you'd know that with a DEMOCRAT controlled Senate his ability to get himself dealt with easier than the three DEMOCRATS found GUILTY of wrongful actions, you're definitely a low-grade moron.
And it goes further. Palin provided a video to the Alaska Freedom Party. Obama RAN as a card-carrying Socialist! Yes, only in your twisted mind are the two equivalent.
Face it - Obama was (and probably still is? Has he renounced his membership) a Socialist. Pure and simple - the man is a Socialist.
Obama never worked his way up. His grandmother was a bank president, his stepfather was rich, and he went to the best of the private schools.
He snorted coke throughout his time at Columbia, and only through back-room dealings with Pakistani financiers did he get in to Harvard. He was a failure as a student, and as a "Law Review" editor (what was published? What were his grades?)
Obama then made friends with an admitted terrorist who blew up American Government buildings and killed people. That same man greased Obama's palm to the tune of millions, and bought him his positions in Illinois.
Then with CONVICT Tony Rezko dropping big wads of cash to keep That One going, he used illegal influence to force out his political opponent, meaning he won by default.
Yes, that's right. Obama NEVER won a political seat - he won by forcing his opponents out on technicality because he knew he was dirty and a failure.
Obama's gotten to where he is by being an elitist, coke-addled Socialist, hanging out with terrorists, and taking bribes left and right. And giving bribes left and right (you don't think the fact his wife got a $200,000 annual pay increase had nothing to do with her employer getting a million dollar grant a few months later, really?).
Obama represents the sickest of the sick, and the worst of the worst of the scum of Chicago politics. He's a racist, he's a drug addict, he's a liar, he's a thief, he's a cheat, and he's a Socialist.
Hail, hail your baby killing leader!
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on October 11, 2008 10:03 PMI am right, right?
From the PI yesterday: "The Bush administration and members of Congress -- including a key Republican subcommittee chairman who was later sent to prison for political corruption -- sided with lending-industry lobbyists and free marketers who hotly and successfully opposed blanket liability for Wall Street firms selling mortgage-backed securities, according to congressional testimony, other records and interviews.
Those loans are what taxpayers will be buying under the $700 billion bailout plan approved by Congress and signed by President Bush last week. "
Better not read today's PI. When the state wanted to investigate banks who appeared to be breaking Washington State's laws, the Bush Administration threatened our state officials, and shut down the investigations.
And you want to blame democrats?
Turn off your right wing hate radio, and get a clue. The crooks, Bush's buddies, are lining their pockets and scamming a few more trillion before he leaves office.
And you want to blame dems. Part of your disease.
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 11, 2008 11:58 PM"While you are at it. Go to AirAmerica.com and listen to them talking about the 20,000 people who's life savings Keating stole with McInsane's help. Without McCain, the number would never be 20,000 because regulators were already looking into Lincoln."
Why don't we look at the FOUR DEMOCRATS who stole the savings of over 20,000 people. Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI).
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand.
McCain was CLEARED by a DEMOCRAT investigation.
As usual, no lie is to big to tell over an over again with the Democrooks like No-Facts.
Democrats use tax dollars to buy their high priced whores. Look at Elliot Spitzer.
It seems funny how sorry McCain used to be, and now says he did nothing wrong. Like all those earlier statements never happened.
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 12, 2008 12:45 AMYou people really shouldn't speak if you want the Republican party to maintain any sort of political viability after the next election.
I have spent some time watching John McCain and Sarah Palin rallies and I have noticed something:
These rallies are all-white and all-Christian and all-angry.
An all-white, all-Christian, all-angry rally might as well be a KKK rally. This is a very effective technique for the Republican party to guarantee itself minority status forever.
Republicans shouldn't have to work so very hard appealing to the KKK vote. Republicans have the KKK vote in the bag for every election, this is the reason why the party can afford to appeal to moderates.
But not this year. If the Republicans became any whiter and angier, they will have to start wearing hoods and burning crosses at their rallies.
This sort of crap doesn't sell any longer, Republicans. Racism may have worked in the 1950's and 1980's but it is the 21st century and the nation is becoming increasingly multiracial, multicultural and religiously diverse.
Posted by: David Mathews on October 12, 2008 03:18 AMPerhaps you ought to have some basic understanding of how Congress works before you make truly silly statements like this.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 12, 2008 08:19 AMIf you think multiculturalism is so great, you are an idiot.
Do we need any more evidence that conservatives are uneducated, incurious idiots?
Look, Michael, if the world has one too many cultures, I would recommend getting rid of your culture.
Which, incidentally, is exactly what is happening right now. Your world has already ended and you don't even know it, but you will discover it soon enough by direct personal experience to your own great horror and dismay.
Capitalism is dead. Thank God!
Posted by: David Mathews on October 12, 2008 09:37 AMThe reports of the death of capitalism are greatly exaggerated.
Eh ... you must have completely missed all of the economic news over the last six months. The US government and other Western governments have nationalized their banking, insurance and automotive industries. Although these "rescues" have become increasingly desperate and more expensive, they continue to fail.
Call the present economy whatever you will, it is not capitalism. Corporate Socialism is a more appropriate name for the present economy and it is quickly transforming into full-blown socialism.
Posted by: David Mathews on October 12, 2008 11:00 AMAbuse power.
Sound familiar?
Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on October 12, 2008 03:47 PMComrade Commissar Mathews, would have made a great NKVD agent.
It is quite ironic that conservatives haven't even realized yet that capitalism is dead, I think this excellent evidence that conservatives are as oblivious as those dinosaurs driven extinct by the asteroid impact.
Don't blame me for capitalism's death ... it happened under the leadership of George W. Bush.
Posted by: David Mathews on October 12, 2008 06:13 PMI could envision mentally deranged narcissistic idiots like No Facts or David Matthews pulling this kind of scheme. (If either of you respond to this, i know that both of you are lacking in reading comprehension because your brain cells are too far gone because of your meth habit). The truth hurts extremists, who now have an extremist candidate in a moderate liberal disguise to support for POTUS.
Posted by: KS on October 13, 2008 07:30 PM