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The woman behind John McCain

raves +4   by Ayla
Cindy McCain is amazing.
I cannot make the video work. Please click on it and suffer through the commerical and learn about the real Mrs McCain
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5200823&affil=wytv

Cindy is the real thing. She does her good works out of the lime light.



Cindy McCain
In Service to Others

Cindy McCain has long been an advocate for children everywhere and their health care needs in particular. She founded and ran the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT) from 1988-1995. AVMT provided emergency medical and surgical care to impoverished children throughout the world. Cindy led 55 medical missions to third world and war-torn countries during AVMT's seven years of existence. In recent years, Cindy has dedicated the bulk of her volunteer time to three international organizations: The HALO Trust, Operation Smile and CARE.

The HALO Trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to landmine removal and weapons destruction in war-torn countries. HALO has 7,000 mine clearers in 10 countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Balkans. As a member of the Board of Trustees for the HALO Trust, Cindy has traveled to Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Angola and recently returned from her second visit to Cambodia. On each mission, she has observed the mine clearing process and seen the impact HALO has had in people's lives by removing landmines. She has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of HALO's life saving work. "It is impossible to describe the emotion of watching villages erected before your eyes as recently cleared land is handed back to its once displaced people."

Cindy also serves on the Board of Directors of Operation Smile, a non-profit organization whose mission is to repair cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities for children around the world. Operation Smile also works to build partnerships between the public and private sector to advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for families. Since its founding in 1982, Operation Smile has provided free reconstructive surgery to more than 100,000 children and young adults in 25 countries. Cindy has assisted on volunteer missions in Morocco, India and Vietnam. During those trips she has seen firsthand the life changing effects of Operation Smile's work.

What did Denver spend $50 mil grant for crowd control?

raves +1   by Ayla
Denver was given a $50 million dollar grant for security and crowd control.

You are not going to believe what they spent it for.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/activists-preparing-a...

I know you would not believe this so above is the link. I am shaking my head you just cannot make this stuff up.

If you are going to demonstrate at the Dem’s convention you better be prepared for their newest weapon in crowd control

THE CRAP CANNON

It is the latest in crowd control weapon Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily. Or crap their pants in lay terms.

Denver’s Mayor John W. Hickenlooper has refused to give details on how they spent $50 million federal grant money given to the city of Denver for crowd control, security.

If this weapon is real I suggest if you are going to the Denver convention pack Depends, baby wipes and old clothes. Also as I understand this is a ‘radio or microwave’ frequency sound so a roll of heavy duty foil to fashion beanie hats’,vests and crap shields covering vital areas to “foil” the effects of the weapon. No Pun intended. Are you visualizing the sight? Of brown covered street. There will be a big stink both outside and inside the convention hall.

One more Denver notice;
Breasts for Denver, not for St. Paul
By Robin Marty 06/11/2008
Via MNSpeak, we learn that a national day of protest in favor of the exposed breast is coming up quickly. Gotopless.org (I'm not live linking to protect any office workers in the audience) has multiple events scheduled, including one in Denver "at the doorsteps of the Presidential Democratic Convention."

"I say, why not Sept 1 at the GOP convention?
Are our breasts not good enough?" asks the MNSpeak poster.

Perhaps the security team feels there is already enough to handle.
No pun intended.

I have to stop now. Laughing too hard to type
. Enjoy your night.

Obama’s worse nightmare

raves +4   by Ayla
The Democratic Party had the audacity to answer my letter telling them how I felt about Obama "not being the one" to ask me to join them and send money.

democraticparty@democrats.org
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
David,
Sorry but Obama is not a good choice. He hates America. He will lose in November. Hillary was my choice. She is better prepared to become president.

I am now working for McCain to become President. Dems should of choose Hillary.
Ayla










An explosion of rogue grassroots organizations coalesced literally over night to form one united Mega-Coalition,

Just Say No Deal
http://www.justsaynodeal.com


Growing exponentially individually but infinitely together in one unifying mission, they are Obama’s worst nightmare.
The Just Say No Deal is made up of over 20 grassroots organizations and over 1 million subscribers thus far with one unifying mission: Operation Nobama

Literally millions of frustrated, disenfranchised and gritty activists, to include Democrats, Independents as well as naughty Republicans have already come together for one common thing…
”We Will Not Vote For Obama Period.”

When asked, “Should Hillary become the nominee for VP, would you then cast your votes for Obama?”
Answer: One goal, one mission…NOBAMA Period.

Obama’s campaign got this one right…he has managed to bring people of all colors, genders, cultures and religions together for one unifying coalition.
Just Say No Deal


The clintons4mccain.com group has also started making pledges of donations to send to John McCain after the DNC Convention when they are certain Hillary is OUT.
A LIST OF THE GROUPS BELOW

1. CLINTONS4MCCAIN.COM
2. CLINTONDEMS.COM
3. SWINGCRATS.ORG
4. HIREHEELS.COM
5. WALKAMILEINMYSHOES.COM
6. MAD AS HELL / BITCH (youtube vid co-creator)
7. OBAMAWTF.BLOGSPOT.COM
8. WRITEHILLARYIN.COM
9. HILLARYGRASSROOTSCAMPAIGN.COM
10. HILL R W UNITED
11. PUMAPAC.BLOGSPOT.COM
12. WOMENFORFAIRPOLITICS.COM
13. HILLARYCLINTONFORUM.NET
14. HILLARYSPEAKSFORME
15. MISSHILLARYCLINTON.COM
16. NOQUARTERUSA.NET
17. FLORIDADEMANDSREPRESENTATION.ORG
18. LIBERALRAPTURE.COM
19. COMEALONGWAY.BLOGSPOT.COM
20. SEATOURDELEGATES.COM
21. BLUELYON.BLOGSPOT.COM

Not Stepford Wives
Heroes that are standing up to the Democratic Party. These men are supporting the voters of their states who did not choose Obama in the Primaries but choose Clinton they are respecting and supporting their choice.

Ted Strickland, the Democratic governor of the swing state of Ohio, attempted to rule himself out Tuesday, telling NPR’s All Things Considered he would “absolutely not” join the Obama ticket.
Strickland, who supported Hillary Clinton during the primary but has been floated as a potential Obama running mate, told NPR in no uncertain terms that he is not interested in the job, and would not take it if asked.

“If drafted, I will not run; nominated, I will not accept; and if elected, I will not serve,” Strickland said in the interview. “So, I don’t know how more crystal clear I can be.”

Good for you Ted. I knew I was right in voting for you as Governor.

Fox News has confirmed that Congressman Dan Boren, the only Democrat in the Oklahoma delegation , said yesterday in an interview, that he will not endorse Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president because he is” the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate”. Boren, running for re-election, said that he had to reflect the views of the 2nd district of Oklahoma, a mostly rural area.The majority of his constituents voted for Senator Clinton during that state’s presidential primary.
” We’re much more conservative,” Boren said to the Associated Press, “No one means more to me that the people who elected me. I have to listen to them.”
Boren also criticized Obama for having a record” that does no reflect working in a bipartisan fashion.”

Note: Am starting a new blog Just did not seem an appropriate subject here.

In the mean time check out the links at http://www.justsaynodeal.com
Ayla

Dems vote for McCain movement

raves +4   by Ayla
I wanted to post this under Goverment but SH would not let me select it.



I wrote Dems:

Just heard on Fox NEWS about Democrats for McCain

Hillary’s followers are mad.

Is it true DNC is going to take away all Hillary’s delegates and not even put her on the Convention Ballot?

If so you are beyond stupid you have a death wish for the Party.

We will not come around and vote for Obama he is not honest, go here and read the truth about Obama
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/obama-links/

He is a crook and hates America and so does his wife.

I was hoping by polling the delegates at the convention Hillary would win the nomination other wise millions maybe billions of voters are going to vote for McCain.

Not only vote for him but also Campaign for him go door to door for him. Blog for him. Send McCain money. Buy Democrats for McCain bumper stickers. Do not ignore us we will not get over it. Obama is bad for the Country.

How Obama eliminated Opponents so he was only one on the Ballot

raves +2   by Ayla
updated 2:26 p.m. EDT, Fri May 30, 2008 www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html

Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
 Sen. Barack Obama used the rule book to win first race for Illinois state Senate
 Democrat challenged opponents' petitions and forced them off the ballot
 Opponent says Obama's move "wasn't honorable"

In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.

As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to validate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.

Obama's past battles See how Barack Obama has used election rules to his advantage during his political career on CNN AC360 they may run it again Thursday 10:00

The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right?

It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice." Obama only one on the ballet
Watch how Obama shut out challengers in his first race » http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/...

Obama's challenge was perfectly legal, said Jay Stewart of the Chicago's Better Government Association. Although records of the challenges are no longer on file for review with the election board, Stewart said Obama is not the only politician to resort to petition challenges to eliminate the competition.

"He came from Chicago politics," Stewart said. "Politics ain't beanbag, as they say in Chicago. You play with your elbows up, and you're pretty tough and ruthless when you have to be. Sen. Obama felt that's what was necessary at the time, that's what he did. Does it fit in with the rhetoric now? Perhaps not."

The Obama campaign called this report "a hit job." It insisted that CNN talk to a state representative who supports Obama, because, according to an Obama spokesman, she would be objective. But when we called her, she said she can't recall details of petition challenges, who engineered them for the Obama campaign or why all the candidates were challenged.

But Will Burns does. Now running himself for a seat in the Illinois legislature, Burns was a young Obama volunteer during the presidential candidate's first race.

Burns was one of the contingents of volunteers and lawyers who had the tedious task of going over each and every petition submitted by the other candidates, including those of Alice Palmer.

"The rules are there for a reason," Burns said.
He said that challenging petitions is a smart way to avoid having to run a full-blown expensive race.
"One of the first things you do whenever you're in the middle of a primary race, especially in primaries in Chicago, because if you don't have signatures to get on the ballot, you save yourself a lot of time and effort from having to raise money and have a full-blown campaign effort against an incumbent," Burns said.

Burns said he believed that Obama did not enjoy using the tactic to knock off Palmer.
"It was not something he particularly relished," Burns said. "It was not something that I thought he was happy about doing." Watch Burns describe how Obama used the rules to his advantage » http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/...

But Obama did it anyway, clearing the field of any real competition.
Obama's staff would not comment on what the senator thinks about that petition challenge now. Instead, they referred CNN to this 2007 comment made by Obama to the Chicago Tribune.

"To my mind, we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up," the senator is quoted as saying in the Tribune. "My conclusion was that if you couldn't run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be."

But in that same newspaper story, Obama praised Palmer.
"I thought she was a good public servant," he said.
Palmer, who has campaigned for Clinton, told CNN that she did not want to be part of this story.

Obama supporters claim that Palmer has only herself to blame because she indicated she would not run for the 1996 state Senate and instead aimed for Congress. After losing in that bid, she returned to running for the state Senate seat, a move Obama supporters claim amounted to reneging on a promise not to run.

But Palmer supporters, who did not want to be identified, said that she never anointed Obama as her successor and that the retelling of the story by Obama supporters is designed to distract from the fact he muscled his way into office.

One other opponent who Obama eliminated by challenging his petitions, Gha-is Askia, said he has no hard feelings today about the challenge and supports Obama's presidential aspirations.

But back at the time he was running for state Senate, Askia said, he was dismayed Obama would use such tactics.

"It wasn't honorable," he said. "I wouldn't have done it."

He said the Obama team challenged every single one of his petitions on "technicalities."

If names were printed instead of signed in cursive writing they were declared invalid. If signatures were good but the person gathering the signatures wasn't properly registered, those petitions also were thrown out.

Askia came up 69 signatures short of the required number to be on the ballot.

Kass, the Chicago Tribune columnist, said the national media are naive when it comes to Chicago politics, which is a serious business.
He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer.

The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.

"It's not the tactics of 'let's all people come together and put your best ideas forward and the best ideas win,' " Kass said. "That's the spin; that's in the Kool-Aid. You can have some. Any flavor. But the real deal was, get rid of Alice Palmer.

"There are those who think that registering people to vote and getting them involved in politics and then using this tactic in terms of denying Alice Palmer the right to compete, that these things are inconsistent. And guess what? They are. They are inconsistent. But that's the politics he
plays."

And this weekend, DNC delegates will have to decide what kind of rules it will invoke in helping choose its next candidate.

They choose to play dirty by giving Obama 4 of Hillary’s delegates and all the unclaimed delegates. in a state where his name didn't appear on the primary ballot. Talk about crooks.

It is like the Democrats want to lose the General Election

Democratic National Comittee Survey

raves +8   by Ayla
Today I received a survey from the Democratic National committee. On the last page of the survey they ask for a donation.

I replied I will not donate anything until I find out who they Pick as the nominee here is my letter:

To any one with a brain I address this letter.

If you choose Obama as the nominee I will, after a lifetime of voting Democratic I will change parties and vote for McCain.

I will not give any money to the Democratic Party at this time until I find out who will be the nominee.

You will lose my vote and that of my 5 children and my husband.

Obama is wrong for the country and I must vote for the person that will do the least damage to our Country sadly it is McCain if Hillary is not the nominee.

Go to www.obamatruth.org and check out all the disgraceful things he has done for money and his own self interests and that of his wife.

.The Republicans will find lots of “swift-boat” material there.

Nominate Hillary Clinton or that loud noise you hear will be thousands of Hillary supporters leaving the Dem Party.

We do not care how much she tells us not to leave we will.
No Obama now! No Obama ever!

If by some stupid chance the Democrat Party think the voters will fall in line once the nomination is set. They are sadly mistaken.
The Super Delegates need to read this.
Vote for the good of the Party

The choice is be a sheep and follow the Dems insane mandate or chooses some one less destructive to the United State? I will vote for the good of the Country. Obama is not good for the USA Hillary is. Our second choice will be McCain No Obama ever!

Obama has the audacity to assume Bush was talking about him.

raves +4 -2 by Ayla
Obama has the audacity to assume Bush was talking about him.

Bush touched off the firestorm with his address to the Israel Knesset on Thursday, when, without mentioning Obama by name, he criticized politicians who would negotiate with terrorists and radicals. He called such positions a “foolish delusion” and the “false comfort of appeasement.”

The White House said Bush was referring to Carter not Obama but Obama and other Democrats took it as an affront to him, and immediately lashed out at Bush and McCain.

Very egotistical and presumptuous of Obama I say. Is that the way to unite the country? I got news for you Obama the world does not orbit around you. Obama and his minions have got to stop jumping to conclusions everytime someone makes a speech. That is how we got in the war with Iraq. Bush jumped to the conclusions Iraq was behind 911 and when he found out they were not it was too late we were already invading their country. Oops! My bad.

It seemed Obama was just spoiling for a fight with Bush and McCain. He reminds me of a schoolyard bully who drags his buddies (the Dems) into a fight to later find out the other guys were not even talking about them.

Even if they were, was this the time to call them out on it? There is lots of time between now and November for a confrontation.

What harm would it of done to just let it go. A wise man picks his battles but who said Obama was a wise man? and the Dems are just lambs led to the slaughter following the tinkle of the Judas bell around Obama’s neck. Have some more mind numbing Kool-Aid why don’t cha?

Wake Up Dems! Obama is bad for the country he will get us in a war before you can say, “why didn’t we nominate Hillary?”

I do know the thundering sound you hear are hordes of Clinton supporters stampeding to the Republicans to vote for McCain if the Dems dump her.

Do they like McCain? Probably not but he is the lessor of two evils.

I need to find a new party to join the Dems are just to dumb and self-destructive for me. Their theme song is “IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN” from the wizard of Oz of all the viable candidates that were running how did we end up with Obama?

Your comments are welcome but remember my "reply" button does not work so I will have to answer you up her. Fef is working on it I hope.

Super delegates for sale

raves +2   by Ayla
Super delegates for sale
Candidates are paying Superdelegates: Current and former elected officials received campaign contributions from either Obama or Clinton or both in the 2006 and/or 2008 election cycle
For a list of the superdelegates and who received what and then who they choose to support. Here is the link. http://www.capitaleye.org/superdelegates.asp

Obama has contributed $710,926 to the superdelegates
Hillary has contributed $236,080.
Obama has contributed 3 times the amount Hillary has contributed.

Some of these hypercritics took large sums of money from Clinton and being the double-crossing stab-you-in-the-back Traitors they are choose Obama to support which is OK but why did they take her money If they were not going to support her?

Inquiring minds want to know are the superdelegates for sale? Can this be a fair election where the one with the most money wins? Like a game of Monopoly?

Should this despicable practice of buying votes be stopped?

All is fair in politics may the most devious, crafty, hypocritical one win



Some of these hypercritics like Kennedy and Bill Richardson took large sums of money from Clinton and being the double-crossing stab-you-in-the-back Traitors they are choose Obama to support which is OK but why did they take her money If they were not going to support her?

They took her money because they felt once elected Obama will be easier to control than Clinton? Obama is very naïve and new to the game. Some of the Democrats don’t want Clinton because Clinton knows all the tricks of the trade and maybe invented a few. She knows the ropes and few will be able to pull the wool over her eyes.

Texas brainless man

raves     by Ayla
Texas brainless man

A Japanese doctor says, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.'

A German doctor says, 'That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one
person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in three weeks.

A British doctor says, 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.'

The Texas doctor not to be outdone, 'You guys are way behind...
We took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House, and now half the country is looking for work'

Can you finish this with something about Obama or Clinton?

The Audacity of Rhetoric

raves     by Ayla
The Audacity of Rhetoric http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/03/26/th...
By Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Posted by Janet

It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.

Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.



It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny.

Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."

These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.

Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.

In Shelby Steele's brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama -- "A Bound Man" -- it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were -- and, like many converts, he went overboard.

Nor has Obama changed in recent years. His voting record in the U.S. Senate is the furthest left of any Senator. There is a remarkable consistency in what Barack Obama has done over the years, despite inconsistencies in what he says.

The irony is that Obama's sudden rise politically to the level of being the leading contender for his party's presidential nomination has required him to project an entirely different persona, that of a post-racial leader who can heal divisiveness and bring us all together.

The ease with which he has accomplished this chameleon-like change, and entranced both white and black Democrats, is a tribute to the man's talent and a warning about his reliability.

There is no evidence that Obama ever sought to educate himself on the views of people on the other end of the political spectrum, much less reach out to them. He reached out from the left to the far left. That's bringing us all together?

Is "divisiveness" defined as disagreeing with the agenda of the left? Who on the left was ever called divisive by Obama before that became politically necessary in order to respond to revelations about Jeremiah Wright?

One sign of Obama's verbal virtuosity was his equating a passing comment by his grandmother -- "a typical white person," he says -- with an organized campaign of public vilification of America in general and white America in particular, by Jeremiah Wright.

Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.

Among the many desperate gambits by defenders of Senator Obama and Jeremiah Wright is to say that Wright's words have a "resonance" in the black community.

There was a time when the Ku Klux Klan's words had a resonance among whites, not only in the South but in other states. Some people joined the KKK in order to advance their political careers. Did that make it OK? Is it all just a matter of whose ox is gored?

While many whites may be annoyed by Jeremiah Wright's words, a year from now most of them will probably have forgotten about him. But many blacks who absorb his toxic message can still be paying for it, big-time, for decades to come.

Why should young blacks be expected to work to meet educational standards, or even behavioral standards, if they believe the message that all their problems are caused by whites, that the deck is stacked against them? That is ultimately a message of hopelessness, however much audacity it may have.


Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.

Obama treated like he is in a beauty pageant.

raves +1 -1 by Ayla
Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.
We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.
Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.
Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.
Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.
Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial 'beauty.'
Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on 'the rich.' How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, 'All praise and glory to God!' but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have 'hijacked' - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and pr omises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and Sa n Francisco values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of 'bringing America together' means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandon ing any conflicting beliefs.
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.
It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

Barack Obama is a sociopath

raves +1 -2 by Ayla
Sociopath
from www.stop-obama.com
Ijane

Barack Obama is a sociopath. There’s no other explanation after looking at his political record for this man to believe that he’s qualified to lead our country.

Barack Obama’s campaign and election history:

1996-Obama decides he wants to run for the state Senate in Illinois.
He hires a Harvard election law expert to rid the ticket of all his Democratic opponents running for the same position. His attorney was successful and Obama literally won the seat by default! He didn’t even have to campaign.

1999-Obama, having no accomplishments as a state Senator, decides he’s qualified to run for US congress. Being the nobody he was, he lost by 30 points!

2003-Obama, still a nobody as a result of never taking any positions on any important issues, decides he’s qualified to run for US Senator. Even though his state didn’t know who he was, his opponent’s campaign exploded at the last minute when his nasty divorce papers were made public and Obama wins once again by default!

2007- Obama, a step above a nobody at this point, and still with no accomplishments to call his own, decides he’s qualified to be the President of the United States. David Axelrod was brought in and he crafted a campaign for Obama identical to the campaign he crafted for Deval Patrick when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts. The state of Massachusetts is hurting thanks to voting for an inexperienced person which is why Massachusetts wasn’t about to repeat the same mistake and didn’t vote for Obama during their primary contest.
Despite his campaign claims, his quick rise in status as an old school dirty politician rivals the oldest and dirtiest. Obama has a 100% record of answering to Illinois politicians before the citizens. As state senator, when the city of Chicago wanted to tear down historical landmarks important to the black community, Senator Obama never took a stand out of fear of making political enemies despite the hundreds of activists fighting to save the landmarks. The same way as he recently declined to take a stand on the Sean Bell verdict-of course Senator Clinton did.
As a favor to Mayor Daley, he endorsed the disgusting Dorothy Tillman whose ward she represented for 22 years had the highest property vacancies in the whole city. She was accused of tax law violations and years of doing favors for other politicians rather then serving the people. Thank god she finally lost her election.
Obama secured $300 million worth of earmarks for Illinois and awarded Emil Jones (and his district) tens of millions of that money for giving him his farce legislative record during his final year as state Senator.

Obama secured a mansion with a bonus garden at the expense of hundreds of low income South siders thanks to his dark dealings with Rezko the slumlord.
His Legislative record while in the state Senate for 6 years was zero, however he spent his time getting his corrupt self in the circles of people like Rezko and Ayres to financially benefit his future in politics. It wasn’t until Obama asked Emil Jones to make him a federal Senator that Obama showed an aggressive record…but what a fricking farce!
Emil Jones, President of the Illinois state Senate, who is as corrupt as they come, deliberately appointed Obama the head of literally EVERY piece of high-profile legislation to pad his resume. Jones pushed to the side all the senior state senators who had been working on bills for years and literally took their bills out of their hands and named Obama as sponsor. In his 7th and final year as a state Senator, his record went from zero accomplishments to being falsely credited for the sponsorship of 26 passed bills…None of which he worked on or fought for!
Barack Obama’s history of the backstopping and self-serving shit he pulled in Chicago has left him very unpopular with the local community leaders, activists, and politicians. The idea that if Obama doesn’t win the nomination, he won’t have a political career left in the state of Illinois because they don’t like him or want him!
Axelrod had no choice but to run a race baiter campaign. There was no other way to distract America from Barack’s inexperience and pathetic dirty politics.
Oh my god, what if he does win the nomination? We’re going to have four more years of a Republican leading the country. Barack Obama can’t win. He doesn’t have a coalition, he’s run such a vicious campaign that he’s alienated 40% to 50% of Senator Clinton’s supporters to the point they won’t vote for him, and he’s got no record of experience to run on in a GE campaign. He sure as hell already proved that he’s a great divider and not a great uniter so he won’t even have his stupid “Hope” crap to use as a tool . Dean and the DNC and all the superdels are going to be in for a rude awakening when the dems don’t follow their agenda and back Barack! I can’t wait until they’re all in the unemployment line!

DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale

raves +2   by Ayla
I tried to post this in Politics but it wouldn't let me. It put it in Enertainment TV Sodahead is very flustrating.

What do you think about
DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale
Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13) ― In this tight battle for the Democratic nomination we've heard a lot about the candidates courting superdelegates.

But, one superdelegate is courting the candidates. He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million.

Steven Ybarra of Sacramento says that eight-figure price is peanuts for the presidency.

http://www.cbs13.com/video/?id=33250@kovr.dayport.comRaw Video Of Interview: Part 1
Raw Video Of Interview: Part 2
http://www.cbs13.com/video/?id=33252@kovr.dayport.comRaw Video Of Interview: Part 3

When asked whether it was right to offer what is clearly a quid pro quo, he responded, "yeah, absolutely. People do it all the time," answered Ybarra.

But not like this. Not in public and not for such big bucks. It begs the question: Is he crazy?

"Nobody's said I'm crazy," said Ybarra.

Ybarra wants every cent of the $20 million to go towards registering and educating eligible Mexican-American voters, who he calls the key to the White House.

"And I keep asking the question of the DNC: 'why won't you earmark money for these voters?' And their answer is, 'oh, we can't do that' Which is a lie," said Ybarra.

With the Democratic National Committee saying 'no,' Ybarra waits for a 'yes' from already cash-strapped Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Would he accept less? How about $5 million?

"No, $5 million is nothing," said Ybarra.

It might be a moot point as neither campaign has come calling.

"No, I think most people right now are looking at this as some crazy guy in California because after all I'm from California," said Ybarra.

He thinks his own party is crazy for not aggressively pursuing the Mexican-American vote especially with such a large Mexican-American population in the southwest.

"We should kick John McCain's a** in his own hometown," said Ybarra.

This superdelegate thinks his vote would be the best $20 million a candidate could ever spend. After all, he says, in 2004 John Kerry spent $1 billion to lose.
What are your thoughts about this?

Why Hillary should win.

raves +4   by Ayla
Hillary Clinton has the experience. She has all her ducks in a row and will take off managing the country from day one. Her life has been an open book. No surprises, no one can dig up any dirt that we do not already know. Bill Clinton for all his private personal faults is a true diplomat and could charm the flowers off wallpaper. What is most important the Clinton’s love American.

The Obama’s have too many despicable friends who hate America. I read Michelle’s Princeton Thesis which is now restricted until November 5th the day after election.
Michelle wrote in part in her 1985 Princeton senior Thesis entitled: "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,"
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/thesesid.asp?ID=9867
Princeton University Senior Theses Full Record
TITLE: Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community
As Michelle Obama wrote in her thesis introduction, "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."...
Michelle Obama was guided in her choice of thesis topic by a consuming concern that her success might compromise her black identity. Michelle Obama's fears of losing touch with her roots without ever being embraced into the mainstream led her to promise, in her thesis introduction, "to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community." Hmm not the Country?

For more insight on the possible first lady go to http://corner.nationalreview....

For more insight on Obama read: http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/03/26/th...

Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far-left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."


These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.

Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.
Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far-left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."

A must read is Ken Blackwell of the New York Sun http://www2.nysun.com/article/71278

PS both of these reporters are Black.

April 24

raves     by Ayla
Sodahead updated to day. I had high hopes my rave button and reply buttons would work. Alas another disappointment. There are so many comments I would like to reply to and others I'd like to give a thumbs up to.