Obama The Slum Lord
Obama claims he cares about poor blacks, but a Boston Globe report exposed how for eight years Obama supported slum projects in Chicago.
Poor blacks living in rat and roach infested apartments condemned Obama for not caring about them.
Cynthia Ashley, a fourteen-year resident said: "No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it."
Anthony Frizzell a twenty-year resident said: "In the winter I can feel the cold air coming through the walls and the sockets."
Sharee Jones who has lived for years with the rats said: "You could hear them under the floor and in the walls, and they didn't do nothing about it."
Paul Johnson who helped organize a protest against Obama said: "Of course he knew. He just didn't care."
Showing he just didn't care, Obama wrote letters on Illinois Senate letterhead supporting government loans for slum projects.
Obama coauthored the Illinois law that gave tax breaks to his slum lord friends, including now convicted felon Tony Rezko who helped Obama buy a million-dollar house.
As a US Senator, Obama worked to increase federal subsidies for his slum lord pals who donated more than $175,000 to Obama's campaigns with Rezko raising another $200,000.
While running for president, Obama is promising to create a fund that gives his slum lord buddies $500 million a year. This is outrageous.
Poor blacks living in rat and roach infested apartments condemned Obama for not caring about them.
Cynthia Ashley, a fourteen-year resident said: "No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it."
Anthony Frizzell a twenty-year resident said: "In the winter I can feel the cold air coming through the walls and the sockets."
Sharee Jones who has lived for years with the rats said: "You could hear them under the floor and in the walls, and they didn't do nothing about it."
Paul Johnson who helped organize a protest against Obama said: "Of course he knew. He just didn't care."
Showing he just didn't care, Obama wrote letters on Illinois Senate letterhead supporting government loans for slum projects.
Obama coauthored the Illinois law that gave tax breaks to his slum lord friends, including now convicted felon Tony Rezko who helped Obama buy a million-dollar house.
As a US Senator, Obama worked to increase federal subsidies for his slum lord pals who donated more than $175,000 to Obama's campaigns with Rezko raising another $200,000.
While running for president, Obama is promising to create a fund that gives his slum lord buddies $500 million a year. This is outrageous.
Posted by Michael Higby @ 10/06/2008 12:42:00 PM
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There are going to be thousands more slums under the failed trickle down economic policies of George W. Bush.
If you want some more of the same economic crisis vote for McSame and Palin.
We are only see the tip of the icberg in our current economic diaster, George W. Bush should be jailed for corruption and stupidity.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-markets7-2008oct07,0,2652434.story
Wall Street suffered through another traumatic session today, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points and setting a new record for a one-day point drop as investors despaired that the credit crisis would take a heavy toll around the world. The Dow also fell below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, and all the major indexes fell more than 7 percent.
MICHAEL YOU ARE AS DESPERATE AS THE REPUBLICANS. Why can't you be fair and balanced and post both sides of the candidates. McCain numbers are dropping so fast its making them do and say really stupid things.
New York Times
October 6, 2008, 3:19 pm
QUESTIONS LINGER ABOUT PALIN TAXES
...Now that tax attorneys have had a chance to review Gov. Sarah Palin’s tax returns, which were released late last week, a new round of questions are being raised on tax-related websites.
One big issue that tax attorneys are pointing to is the fact that the Palins did not report as income the $43,490 that the state gave the family to cover travel expenses for Mr. Palin and the Palin children. Had the Palins reported these payments as income, the couple would have had to pay taxes on it.
These tax attorneys note that neither Mr. Palin nor the children were employees of the state. Nor were they traveling on behalf of the state. There was some discussion that perhaps some portion of Mr. Palin’s travel expenses might be excludable as income if there was a bona-fide business reason for his presence and if he assisted Mrs. Palin in her official duties.
But there was also uniform agreement that it would be hard to make a case for the not reporting the payments to the children as income.
“The children’s travel payments are clearly taxable income,’’ said Jack Bogdanski, a tax professor at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland and a former advisor to the Internal Revenue Service. “The money paid for Todd Palin’s travel might possibly turn out to be tax-free, but it would be quite a stretch.”
McCain admits to accepting a bribe from Keating 5, Is this the maverick Palin keeps talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhIUXwcjHY
Sounds like the Jimmy Carter days
The McCain campaign proposed that they would be turning to a 100% negative effort in attacking Obama's character, because speaking about the issues isn't working. MayorSam has its marching orders from the lobbyists who run the campaign, so we can expect a daily dose of this.
In the meantime, Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece for the Guardian entitled "Flirting her way to victory."
Calling Palin's performance at the debate "an appalling display," Goldberg was shocked at Palin's admission that she wasn't going to answer the questions asked of her, but rather repeat her talking points.
She added that Palin "has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and the American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably ...."
"That her performance was considered anything but a farce doesn't show how high Palin has risen, but how low we all have sunk."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/03/sarah.palin.debate.feminism
Things Sarah Palin can name:
(Very funny but makes important points)
Example:
Mavericky Things I’ve Done Today:
1. Taken 14 items to the 12 items or less checkout line.
2. Winked at a woman.
3. Shoplifted lipstick from Wal-Mart.
4. Prank-called Andrew Sullivan.
5. Crashed a jet plane killing my friend.
6. Went all in on an inside straight draw.
7. Made the secret service guy pick up the dog’s poop.
8. Read the New York Times.
9. Called Katie Couric a “cancer on society.”
http://www.thingspalincanname.com/index.php
During the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant, Sarah Palin said she was pro-choice, at least when it comes to mosquitos and mountains.
"God has made us this promise: If we will commit our works to Him, we will succeed. Our lives can be enhanced by applying this, and by thinking optimistically. In Alaska we have mosquitoes; we also have the most beautiful mountains in the world. The choice is ours as to which we'll focus on.
Oh, sure, it's all about choice."
She the evening gown competition answer for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJPrTLevYw
McCain and the POW Cover-up
The "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation.
By Sydney H. Schanberg
September 18, 2008
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain's role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain's military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that "men were left behind." This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the US prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.
the full story with more damning evidence can be found here: http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1
McCain is a traitor who should burn in hell for not doing more for POWs and their ultimate release and return home to American soil. But why should he care? Daddy made sure lil' Johnny Mack made it home in one piece.
Coward.
That's because this last minute attempt to swift-boat McCain isn't true.
Whats with all the cut and pastes everytime Higby posts something? Think you are changing minds with this garbage?
Brent Bozell, III, Author, Syndicated Columnist, Founder and President, Media Research Center, Regarding Senator Obama's Tax Proposal:
"In 2008, reporters and columnists touting Obama are repeatedly citing numbers by something called the Tax Policy Center -- and you'll never hear that this is a project operated by two liberal-Democrat think tanks -- to suggest Obama will actually cut middle-class taxes more than John McCain. That, of course, assumes that President Obama will follow his plan to the letter, and that a newly elected liberal House and Senate will rubber-stamp his alleged tax cut for '95 percent' of Americans. That, by the way, is a serious math error. Please explain how it's possible to cut 95 percent of Americans' taxes when the Tax Foundation reports that 40 percent of Americans don't pay any income tax. If you think you can, I'd like to interest you in a sub-prime mortgage. This math apparently is too sophisticated for the guardians of 'fact,' who are nowhere to be found."
At the Boston Globe, as is customary in the news industry, the editorial pages are separate from the news operation. Editorials represent the official view of the Boston Globe as a community institution. The publisher P. Steven Ainsley reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office.
Describing the political position of the Globe in 2001, editorial-page editor Renee Loth told the Boston University alumni magazine:
The Globe has a long and proud tradition of being a progressive institution, especially on social issues. We are pro-choice; we're against the death penalty; we're for gay rights. But if people read us carefully, they will find that on a whole series of other issues, we are not knee-jerk. We're for charter schools; we're for any number of business-backed tax breaks. We are a lot more nuanced and subtle than that liberal stereotype does justice to.
Thank God for Barack Obama. Thank GOD.
Just saying it isn't true is a weak defense. The public record is clear regarding the anger expressed by the families of MIAs and POWs directed at McCain as he continued to block the release of information about the MIAs/POWs.
Who is deleting comments? JoeBee or Valley Troll?
So much for free speech? You losers need therapy if you can't take the heat you dish.
Obama leads in:
Ohio, 49-42%
Pennsylvania, 50-40% Minnesota, 55-37%.
Colorado remains a tie.
Nationally, Obama leads 49-42% after being tied in mid-Sept. according to Pew.
CBS has Obama leading 50-41% among likely voters, up 4 points from last week.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081006/pl_bloomberg/am6wsrkwniy4
McCain=change?
I'm confused. Maybe Higby can expalin this one to me.
If elected, McCain has named Bill Timmons to lead his transition team. So this will be the guy who recruits people to serve in the highest positions in the McCain administration.
The problem is that he is a very influential lobbyist who represents, among others, the American Petroleum Institute, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Visa USA, and the American Medical Association.
Would I be wrong to assume that he will tap a collection of pro rich people and Washington insiders to fill the key positions?
Timmons and the McCain campaign refused to answer calls from Time during the preparation of this story.
His counterpart in the Obama campaign is John Podesta, a former Clinton chief of staff who now runs the Center for American Progress think tank.
So is the promise of reform just a bunch of one-liners for public consumption?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1840722,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
"Now she said it, I didn't," Palin said of Albright. "She said, ‘There's a place in hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"
As it turns out, Palin misquoted both Albright and her mocha cup, which reads: "There's a place in hell reserved for women who don't help other women."
At least for the moment, Albright had the last word. "Though I am flattered that Gov. Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics," Albright told the Huffington Post.
"This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/05/2008-10-05_sarah_palin_misquotes_madeleine_albright.html
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Goes to show you just don't fuck with Madeleine Albright. Palin learned the hard way.
4:55
Those cuts and pastes that follow a Higby post are an attempt to either show an opposing opinion from someone who has better credentials than Higby, or to prove a source citation for another point of view.
Regardless, having different points of views presented and discussed is at the foundation of our democracy.
I understand that they are many McCain supporters who disagree with that, and who would prefer that only side of an issue be presented.
To them I ask that they take a few moments to examine what they have become.
The McCain campaign is dropping faster than the stock market.
What advice would you give McCain on how to win?
At InTrade, Obama has increased 3.4% over the last couple of days to 69%
McCain dropped 2.5% to 31.6%.
What a cheap shot! Barack Obama was just eight years old when he became a slum lord! You can't hold a poor little eight year old bastard accountable for ANYTHING EVER-- even when he grows up, develops core beliefs rooted in Communist philosophy, forges his birth certificate, consorts w/ hippie terrorists and "reparation" reverends, AND receives financial kick-backs from bad-risk home loans-- right, all you masochistic Obama fans??
Republicans are DESPERATE so instead of talking about issues and the economy they blast Obama. But its back firing. Voters are pissed, they have McCain on tape saying he wouldn't go down that road, and they need to put a mussle on that dumb ass Palin. The Republicans think so highly of her that the media isn't allowed to speak to her, she can't give any interviews and her rallies are now becoming like the KKK where one yesterday said "kill Obama."
...National Review:McCain Has To Meet A Higher Standard... NY Times: McCain Intends To Attack Obama On All Fronts …Joe Klein: "What A Desperate Empty Embarrassment The McCain Campaign Has Become"... WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Gaining Independents...
Let's post the McCain Keating stuff.
Obama Widens Lead Over McCain in Poll
CNN...Oct. 6) - A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Monday afternoon suggests that the country's financial crisis, record low approval ratings for President Bush and a drop in the public's perception of McCain's running mate could be contributing to Obama's gains.
Chicago Tribune about to publish explosive article about Obama and Ayers.
from fivethirtyeight.com (a REAL political blog):
With Sarah Palin's attack yesterday on Barack Obama's patriotism and his ties to former Weather Underground ringleader William Ayers, the McCain campaign has left little doubt about in which direction it intends to head over the final month of the campaign. Namely, they're going to drive their campaign into a ditch -- and hope they can find a way to take Obama along for the ride.
It is a sad denouement for what was one to be a high-minded campaign focused around themes of honor and reform (themes that were resuscitated briefly during the Republican Convention), possibly accompanied by McCain's taking a one-term pledge. It is also, however, Mr. McCain's strategists would seem to have concluded, their only remaining hope.
Ultimately, however, the fact that McCain is resorting to these sorts of attacks are an indication of just how much his brand has been damaged. They certainly aren't likely to help him to repair it.
fivethirtyeight's projections ("done right"):
Electoral College:
Obama 343.8
McCain 194.2
Win Percentage:
Obama 88.5%
McCain 11.5%
Read it and weep, suckas.
from Joe Klein:
...Every so often, we journalists have a duty to remind readers just how dingy the McCain campaign, and its right-wing acolytes in the media (I'm looking at you, Sean Hannity) have become--especially in their efforts to divert public attention from the economic crisis we're facing. And so inept at it: other campaigns have decided that their only shot is going negative, but usually they don't announce it, as several McCain aides have in recent days--there's no way we can win on the economy, so we're going to go sludge-diving.
[snip]
It is appropriate that the prime vessel for this assault is Sarah Palin, whose very presence on a national ticket is an insult to your intelligence. She now has "credibility," we are told, because she managed to read talking points off notecards in the debate last week with unwitting enthusiasm.
Over the weekend, she picked up on an article in The New York Times, which essentially says that Barack Obama and the former terrorist Bill Ayers have crossed paths in Chicago, served on a couple of charitable boards together, but aren't particularly close. To Palin--or her scriptwriters--this means that Obama has been "palling around" with terrorists.
In any case, this is rather rich coming from Palin, who is married to a man who belonged to a political party--the Alaskan Independence Party--that wanted to secede from the union.
Todd Palin -- Alaskan Successionist. What about that, Sarah?
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