Husband of Hillary Clinton: "Sanders Supporters will be Toast!!"

In comments directed at heckling Bernie Sanders supporters during today's Boyle Heights Mariachi Plaza Campaign Event, the Impeached Former President (and alleged RAPIST) angrily-stated that those who support "The Berning Man" .........., "will be toast by Election Day".

The inner-vindictive William Jefferson Clinton surfaces today (again) in Boyle Heights.

** Blogger's Note: In comments that are already garnering National Press attention, former Impeached President (and alleged Rapist) Bill Clinton, angrily stated that those who support his wife's Democratic Challenger Bernie Sanders ..........., "will be toast by Election Day". Paraphrasing from the report on "The Hill Website", the Arkansian minced no words in stating that Sanders supporters (who were heckling him) should be screaming because by Election Day ........,,, they know they will be toast by Election Day. Below are several Twitter posts regarding the noted angry, vindictive (and troubled) Politico's comments today----Scott Johnson.

Fin Gomez ‏@finnygo  4h4 hours agoMariachi Plaza

.@billclinton to @BernieSanders hecklers: "I'd be screaming too..bc they know they will be toast by election day."

......, and another.

Cassie SpodakVerified account‏@CassieSpodak

WJC to noisy Sanders fans at today's LA event: "They can shout all they want... she has bent over backwards to be positive in this campaign".

A Bloggin Safety Alert for Boyle and Lincoln Heights!! Former President (and alleged RAPIST) Bill Clinton is coming to your Hood

We interrupt our Sunday before Tuesday's California Primary, to post this Special Bloggin Safety Alert for Boyle and Lincoln Heights, regarding the pending Hillary Clinton Campaign Rallies today, featuring former Impeached President (and alleged RAPIST) Bill Clinton.

Impeached President Bill Clinton admitting to "Inappropriate Conduct" with Monica Lewinsky.

** Blogger's Note: We interrupt our Sunday before Tuesday's California Primary coverage, to cyber-broadcast this SPECIAL SAFETY ALERT for the bordering communities of Boyle and Lincoln Heights. According to the Hillary Clinton Campaign Website, former impeached President (and alleged RAPIST) Bill Clinton will be appearing at Campaign Rallies at Mariachi Plaza (12;30-2:30 PM) and then proceed North to Lincoln Park's Plaza de la Raza (3:30-5:30 PM). Community members are already reporting increased LAPD (and other assorted law enforcement) patrols in the surrounding neighborhoods. As a bloggin public service, we post the videos below (along with a photo of a recent "Slick Willie sighting" after a low-turnout event at Mission College), to educate our cyber audience on the past, alleged sexual transgressions of the spouse of enabler Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton. We will bring you more updates as needed----Scott Johnson. 

** Afternoon Update: The Bill Clinton Motorcade made a lunch stop at the Politically-connected El Sereno Eatery "Hecho En Mexico" which has been the location for many political gatherings and fundraisers .........., including one for a certain Paul Tanaka, former LA County Sheriff Official (now acing a long-term incarceration).

Former Impeached President Bill Clinton at San Fernando Valley "In and Out Burger" yesterday.

Former Impeached President Bill Clinton evading media questions about his alleged Rape of Juanita Broaddrick.

Juanita Broaddrick in her own words.

Does Hillary's comments regarding Sexual Assault apply to those allegedly targeted by her husband? 

Your thoughts .............

Scott Johnson in CD 14

We bring you this "Slick Willie" (Endorsement) of "The Villar Greuel"

We inaugurate our "Politico Wastes, Frauds and Abusers for The Villar Greuel Series" by highlighting today's endorsement by the reigning "Politico Waste, Fraud and Female Abuser in American Politics", Impeached Former President Bill Clinton. 

......... or get down on your knees to service the needs of Slick Willie.

Two noted "Politico Wastes, Frauds and Abusers of Women", stand together for a third term incarnation of the Mayor Villar Political Machine.

** Blogger's note: With today's announcement of the premier "American Politico Waste, Fraud and Female Abuser" Bill Clinton's endorsement of the Wendy "The Villar Greuel for Mayor Campaign", we inaugurate our series of probing posts on the growing list of "Politico Wastes, Frauds and Abusers for The Villar Greuel Series". In the days and weeks ahead, we will endeavor to bring you the facts behind the noted "Politico Wastes, Frauds and Abusers" supporters of a attempted third term incarnation of the failed reign of Mayor Antonio Villar. From the Impeached President to lowly community enabler, we want to truthfully expose those who would support the failed elite's status quo and block needed ethical and fiscal reforms at 200 Spring Street. In honor of this inaugural post, we provide the following videos of Misogynist Bill Clinton under oath, which led to the Articles of Impeachment approved by the Congress. One other side note here to watch is the coming divide of the local Clinton and Obama supporters in the days ahead as the 2013 Mayoral Contest become more heated and personal---Scott Johnson.

The famous "I did not have sex with That Women Comment"

Clinton's Grand Jury Testimony under Oath.

Juanita Broaddrick discloses Hillary Clinton's threat against her, regarding alleged rape by Bill Clinton.

Your thoughts ..............

Scott Johnson in CD 14

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday

Are they gay?

Bad news for Mayor Villaraigosa.  Many thought that his consolation prize for not running for Governor of California was that he could replace Dianne Feinstein as US Senator when she was to retire in 2012.  Oops. DiFi may not be retiring.

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Meg Gets Clinton Bounce

Following Jerry Brown's latest fail (#34 in a series - collect them all) in which he went on a bizarre rant against Bill Clinton today's latest Real Clear Politics polls show a slight bounce for Meg and a bit of a drop for Jerry.

Even though the former President later offered a tepid endorsement of Jerry (one the LA Times wasn't surprised about) it appears to be too little too late on this issue.  Meg most likely will now pull the ad, the damage having been done and move on to the next salvo.  Leaving Brown little time to recover let alone prep for the coming missive.  Team Whitman has obviously shown they're framing the campaign discussion and so far doing so in their favor.

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday

Los Angeles elected officials would love to lure major manufacturing plants to the region, especially anything that has the "green" tag attached to it but it's business climate is so hostile to business the big factories may take a look but are going elsewhere.  The latest hit is Coda Motors, an upstart electric car company that is picking the East Bay town of Benicia in Northern California for it's assembly facility.  The Bay Area has succesfully attracted the technology industry to center there, particularly in very business friendly Santa Clara County while LA only attracts taco trucks.

There's more...

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Jerry Brown Losing It

Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Wednesday

"One down."

Recalling his abuelito and hoping for sunny days ahead Mayor Villaraigosa laid out massive jobs and budget cuts for the City in his annual State of the City address.  The event was indeed somber; the Mayor only drawing applause when he made reference to historically low crime rates in the City.  Villaraigosa also lambasted critics as "clucking pundits" who were proven wrong by voters who approved the controversial phone tax, Measure S. However Clucker-in-Chief Mulholland Terrace recalls a 2008 op-ed piece he authored for the Los Angeles Times clearly outlining the fraud that Measure S was and how the voters were duped by the grandson of Pedro Acosta.

What was promised to be a big kick-off to Phil Jennerjahn's attempt to recall Mayor Villaraigosa turned out to be a big thud.  Phil reported earlier Tuesday evening to have completed one petition which if the version we have access to online is correct, the two page document only has space for five signatures. Among the latest questions about this effort - which could distract from other efforts to bring about reform in Los Angeles - are 1) if this is not about anyone's ego why is Walter Moore being touted as the first signer of the petition and 2) If Phil's strategy for victory includes pulling in disgruntled City workers why does he post commentary that "public employees are killing this country?"

When you're a carpetbagger running for a statewide seat in a state you didn't grow up in what do you? Bring in your former boss who happens to be a former President of the United States.  Andrei Cherny, formerly of AD40 here in the Valley is running for State Treasurer of Arizona is hosting a big campaign event featuring President Bill Clinton, for whom Cherny was once a wonderkind speechwriter for.  And to prove he's a man of the people, if you can't afford the $840 to meet the former philanderer-in-chief in person all you po' folks can ante up $25 for the chance to win a raffle to get into the party.  An insider recently told me that Cherny has little chance to win the race for Treasurer, an insignificant position in Arizona state government, but he's setting himself up for a Congressional race in 2012.

Now that he has succeeded in getting the final phase of the controversial Playa Vista development approved, CEO Steve Soboroff is stepping down.  The LA Times reports that the move appears to be voluntary and quotes the former Riordan administration insider as wanting to move on to his next big challenge.

Newsom Fail: You Heard it Here First!

Whether you like it or not!

 
When we tell you that you've heard it here first, we mean you've heard it here first.  It didn't take long for California political scribes to jump on our analysis that the campaign of Gubernatorial candidate Gavin "I'm running whether you like it or not" Newsom is dangerously close to imploding. 

The thrust of our piece Monday was that Newsom has had such major trouble collecting any real campaign jack the San Francisco Mayor had to throw a hail mary pass and roll out a way earlier than usual endorsement of a former POTUS - Bill "BJ" Clinton in an LA photo opp at a green college building earlier this week.

According to the Fishwrap by the Bay, the San Francisco Chronicle the nod from the husband of the head yenta of the Sisterjhood of the Traveling Pantsuit netted G-New the endorsement of mega-bucks Democratic donor Susie Tompkins-Buell, Hilz BFF and multi-millionaire founder of Esprit who also dropped about 30Gs on Newsom.  We won't know for a few days how much dough a Gavin fundraiser held here in town with BJC scored, and then we can only glean that from required financial filings.

Though the Chronicle couldn't choke down attributing our story to uh, well, mainly us they did include a quote from Newsom svengali Garry South who said our story was "bullshit."  That, along with Betty "Pay to Play" Pleasant telling the old, dead Republican Mayor to "kiss her ass" really made our week.

In the meantime Newsweek also picked up the story of Gavin's potential implosion with a piece that makes pretty much the same point we did.

And then to add to the fun Calbuzz, pulling a Kevin Roderickesque no-comments move, gives South the chance to rant further with the boys there buying his well-crafted spin.  To South, who in his quote made a Freudian like prediction of a Jerry Brown primary victory, we say "uh-huh."  South fantasizes Jerry tweeted Gavin's troubles directly to the Sister City, which is laughable, he'd probably be surprised at our actual source.  Memo to the Buzzards, our headline was NOT a typo; it was intentional, G-New has indeed released "The Clinton."

Its nice to know that such major fishwraps are reading Mayor Sam! Maybe Betty Pleasant will want to take lessons.

The real reason why Team Newsom unleashed the Clinton so early in it's campaign.

Background: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and President Bill Clinton are in Los Angeles today.

As we just witnessed in the Valley with the campaign of Krekorian and Essel – money does matter. And because it was a special election after Greuel won her Controller’s race money mattered very quickly.

And it is with that thought in my mind that I venture to delve into the Governor’s race:

Team Newsom unleashed Clinton because they might just have to fold up their tent in December.

You heard it here first on Mayor Sam – according to various accounts across California, Garry South has scolded Prince Gavin into a corner and is forcing him to finally fundraise if he wants to be viable. In fact, South has made his pronouncement to many outside of Team Newsom to the point that this old dead Mayor would now hear it. Either raise $5 million by December or drop out!

Some of you dum dums might demand that I back this up with some facts, so here you go.

Fact #1:

Garry South forced Eric Jaye Newsom’s longtime friend and strategist to quit http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/matierandross/detail?entry_id=44362

Fact #2 :

Typically a major endorsement by a former President would wait until voters pay attention to ensure massive media coverage, and that media strategists would be used to get this big endorsement out.

Yet we see that it was Newsom’s fundraisers who pushed Bill Clinton and forced the campaign to use him extremely early to meet Garry South’s demand.

http://www.calbuzz.com/2009/09/newsom-clinton-how-the-endorse-deal-got-done/

Fact # 3:

Newsom is either broke, in debt or getting ready to have a fire-sale.

Since July Newsom has only raised a paltry $152,541.00 in donations over $5,000.00. In fact, since the announcement of the Clinton endorsement only one person from Los Angeles has even donated $5,000 (Jeffrey Kwatinetz) or more. That is going to make for a sad VIP area unless they open it up to smaller donors.

Now you might be claiming that perhaps Newsom gets most of his donations under the $5,000 limit and thus would not have to report those donations within the 24 hour period that these large donations require once received.

Want to see the proof? Look here.

Since the beginning of Newsom opening his account he has raised approximately $3.7 million dollars with approximately $1.3 million coming from donations larger than $5,000 but smaller than $25,900.00.

Which means Newsom on average gets nearly 36% of his money from large donors – something no political reporter has ever published. Which means if we follow the standard trend of 36% coming from large donations – since July 1st the Newsom campaign has raised…$423,725.00. Which is just a few thousand dollars short of the money pro-Essel committees spent to get her less than 5,000 votes in the Valley.

Yet from Jan 1 – June 30th of 2009 Newsom spent $1.5 million. Which is an average monthly expenditure of $215,000.00. The months of July, August and now September are done which would mean they have spent $645,000.00 a net lost of $222,000.00.

Not exactly close to the $5 million Garry South is demanding.

It appears the Newsom campaign is going to be folding up its tent really soon, whether they like it or not.

P.S. What is most depressing about all of this is that not a single fish wrap reporter has even delved into this, they just accept whatever the campaign says and call it news.

Afternoon Briefs and Outtakes before "El Grito" Festivities

"LA Times photo of "guess who" during today's City Council Public Comment session"

It is 4:15 PM and with tonight's "El Grito Celebration" getting ready to begin, 13 well-paid politicians (minus Dennis Zine) sit behind close doors in search of the collective wisdom to draft some sort of resolution to the dire financial state of affairs on Spring Street.

For Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, he has fallen back on his well-worn practice of abandoning others for the sake of political self-preservation by announcing his withdrawal of support for the "Early Retirement Agreement" crafted with the "Coalition of Unions" minus EAA. Villaraigosa has even mention that four letter word "V-E-T-O" as a threat, if the City Council goes ahead with the passage of the "Early Retirement Agreement".

For the likes of SEIU's Julie Butcher and AFSCME's Cheryl Parisi, the Mayor's act of "going back on his word" should not be met with shock or surprise. Many who have "join hands" with Villaraigosa over the span of his political and personal life will all agree that when times get tough or when something comes along that will benefit Antonio, he will act with "self-advancement" as his paramount thought, just ask Jack Weiss, Gil Cedillo, Tamar Galatzan, Martin Ludlow, Corina and his dad.

But in this saga, the bigger issue here is the financial welfare of the city. The likes of LACERS General Manager Sally Choi were the first to assert some needed truthful leadership, in butting heads with the "Coalition of Unions" with her steadfast stance that the fifteen year time period for paying back contributions to LACER, would be fiscally detrimental to the city's financial well-being.

Choi's reward for speaking the fiscal truth was having SEIU's Julie Butcher unleash a verbal tirade and release Choi's personal contact information to her "union brothers and sisters". But Choi held firm even when the City Council's budget committee overrode her recommendation of a five year repayment plan and sided with the unions on the fifteen year option.

Now the council sits behind close doors and mulls over whether to face a mayoral veto, the wrath of the unions. or maybe think of a solution that will place the taxpayers as the paramount interest?

PM UPDATE: Ron Kaye and Chelsea Cody report at "OurLA" that Council President Eric Garcetti has "(He) told members to stay on call and be available to resume the recessed session sometime between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wednesday for a vote on an early retirement package being worked out in talks among unions, the mayor's office, Council members and top bureaucrats.

PM UPDATE # 2 at 9:05 PM: Councilman Bernard Parks is currently on air with KRLA's Kevin James discussing today's developments regarding the budget. He has just stated that the pension fund is 3 to 4 billion dollars in the hole!! Further, The CAO, CLA and the Council President are working through the night with union leadership, on a solution to present to the full council by tomorrow afternoon. Parks just stated that there was never the ten votes needed to pass the refinements to the pension plan/ Early Retirement Plan as dictated by State Law.

OTHER NEWS:

** KFI's Eric Leonard reports that Department of Building and Safety General Manager Andrew Adelman has resign this afternoon. Adelman had been placed on paid leave pending the resolution of his sexual assualt case. The LA Times catches up at 6:02 PM and the LA Weekly chimes in at 6:20 PM.

** Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing San Fransisco Mayor Gavin Newsome in the 2010 race for Governor. No doubt in this blogger's mind that the former impeached President has not forgiven Attorney General Jerry Brown for introducing the Whitewater Land Deal in Arkansas into the 1992 Presidential Campaign. Will Mayor Villaraigosa join his "social friend" in supporting Newsome?

** Continuing on the subject of questionable land deals, Los Angeles Times Reporter David Zahniser provide the details of what you get when the DWP, Mayor Villaraigosa friend Ari Swiller, Deputy Mayor S. David Freeman and the City of Vernon, all go land banking in Kern County for the same piece of property to build some windmills.

Walter Moore has this salient observation on Ron Kaye's LA post regarding this story.

By Walter Moore on September 15, 2009 2:13 PM
The L.A. Times's headline is misleading.

The DWP was not "outmanuevered" at all.

Rather, the evidence indicates that all the entities are being maneuvered according to a single plan: cronies buy land at low price, then have their career politician lackeys buy the land from them at a high price, using taxpayer money.

This is the same story that happens every day downtown. It's a variant on the multi-million-dollar subsidies for the downtown developers and "anti gang" programs, and the dollar-a-year leases.

They get away with it because the local media -- with a few remarkable exceptions like David Z -- are too lazy to hammer home to oblivious voters how badly they're being ripped off.

Meanwhile, those of us stupid enough to have stayed here this long better start heading towards the exits. There is no scenario where this town pulls out of the nose-dive.

** One should note that among the performers tonight in celebrating "El Grito" at City Hall, is the band "Quetzal". You may remember them for dropping out of the "Festival Shalom" festivities in CD 14 due to the involvement of the Israeli Consulate. Plus they had some kind comments about a certain City Councilman.

** Downtown News Editor Jon Regardie has the latest from City Attorney Carmen Trutanich regarding the continuing legal standoff between the City Attorney and City Controller Office.

Trutanich provided these comments,

At Monday’s event, Trutanich addressed the matter, stating that only the City Council can settle the case, and that the opinion he offered before the election became moot once the judge issued a ruling.

However, after meeting in closed session last week with City Attorney officials, the Council did not settle the case.

The decision could be made final next month Trutanich said that the Controller’s office will conduct an audit of the city attorney’s workers’ compensation program starting Wednesday.

“But does that mean that when Wendy files a request to audit a city councilperson that they’re not going to object to it?

Absolutely not,” Trutanich stated. “If we dismissed our lawsuit we’d have Rocky II, and Rocky III, and Rocky IV. If the lawsuit stands you’re going to have Rocky II, and Rocky III and Rocky IV.

The only way to address the matter now, he said, is to put a ballot measure before the public giving the controller’s office the right to audit elected officials.

“I have already drafted it,” he said of the proposed measure, which has not yet gone to the Council. “I am going to make that available.”

Your thoughts.....................

Morning Briefs and Outtakes on Bratton, Bratton and some other News

" You talking about me ??"

One can gauge the inpact of LAPD Chief Bill Bratton on the city's "body politics" by the amount of column inches devoted to his surprise resignation.

** Homeboy Industries founder Father Greg Boyle calls LAPD Chief Bill Bratton "LA best Police Chief" .

** LA Times Op-Ed by James Q. Wilson: "Goodbye to the Chief".

** LA Times Editorial: William Bratton: "A Top Cop".

** LA Weekly's Jill Stewart: "Who Will Replace Bill Bratton as LAPD Chief ??".

** Crime on the rise in Bratton's Los Felix Neighborhood ?? Los Felix Ledger via Eastsider LA.

** LAPD Officer "Jack Dunphy" in Nation Review Online: "Farewell to the Chief".

** LA Daily News: "Rank-and-file cops offer mixed review of Chief Bratton".

** LA Daily News Editorial: "Thanks, Chief".

** Ron Kaye's LA: "Bratton Quits".

** Witness LA's Celeste Fremon: "Bill Bratton Resigns as Chief".

Other News:

** Ron Kaye reports on the unethical assault upon LACERS General Manager Sally Choi by the Unions and City Council members for stating the truth about the cost of Early Retirement Package.

** Billboards are in the news again via LA Times David Zahniser.

** Who's plane was use to bring home reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee from the "Peoples Paradise of North Korea" ?? Leave it to ex. President Bill Clinton to follow the money.

** City Controller Wendy Greuel to "woman up" for Chris Essel to replace her in CD-2 at a 10:45 AM photo op.

Breaking News Parking enforcement just ticketed all the cars at the Wendy-Essel press conferenc. Time for a Freedom of Information request to see which city assigned vehicles were ticketed and who they are assingned to. Do the tax payers have to pay the tickets as well?

TICKET GATE????????

Your thoughts...........................................

In Honor of Mack and Jerry Reed

Mack remarked about how Twitter is the modern day version of CB radio, which made me wonder what is the contemporary equivalent to the trucker of the 70s? There's a great subtext of the heavy hand of government, much of which was unyoked by Reagan and Clinton only to be rekindled under GW Bush and accelerated by Obama.

Where is Jerry Reed when we need him now?

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday

We started the weekend with two candidates for Mayor and could wind up with five real soon. As noted here, joining current declared candidates Antonio Villaraigosa and Walter Moore, Friday evening longtime community activist David Hernandez announced his candidacy. Sunday Zuma Dogg declared his candidacy and proceeded to lay out his platform on his blog. And finally, longtime developer and civic leader Rick Caruso sure made it sound like he was going to run at Friday night's Lincoln Club dinner where he was presented with the 2008 Spirit of Lincoln Award by local Republicans.

Speaking of the Mayoral election, former President Bill Clinton hosted a fundraiser for Mayor Villaraigosa Saturday at the home of record producer Clarence Avanat. According to the Daily News' Rick Orlov, Clinton threw his endorsement behind Villaraigosa saying "Whether it's rescuing the city's lowest performing schools, putting 1,000 cops on the street, taking on the gang problem or transforming LA with a path-breaking environmental agenda, Antonio has laid a foundation for fundamental change in the City of Angels." Is the President talking about OUR Antonio? Just wanted to check.

Speaking of some of the collateral damage of the Clinton Administration, the New York Times via Street Hassle identifies Clinton Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros as a chief player in causing the housing bubble. Cisneros was one of the chief proponents of the failed policy of encouraging those who could not afford mortgages to get them, as promoted by everyone from Clinton to Maxine Waters to George Bush to Barack Obama and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Cisneros, a poverty pimp who has parlayed his government service into corporate millions, should be ashamed of himself.

Yet another reason to vote no on the Mayor's transit tax scam, Measure R: the MTA could be facing potential bankruptcy. In the last twenty years or so, the MTA made a number of deals with investment groups to buy its buses, rail cars and other infrastructure in exchange for cash and then the MTA would lease the equipment back. The problem is that the MTA contracted with in-trouble financial services firm AIG to guarantee the leases. With AIG out of funds and near collapse, MTA is on the hook to pay billions in leases to the investors. MTA doesn't have the cash to cover this so cuts in service are certain.

And finally we welcome a new contributor to Mayor Sam's Sister City, Donna Barstow.  Donna, who writes the Griffith Park, Interrupted Blog has been a cartoonist for the New Yorker, LA Times, Glamour, Barron's, WSJ, and several other publications.  lots more. Barstow is the cartoonist for Parade Magazine and is the author of  the books What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate!, and Love Me or Go to Hell. Donna describes herself as "Picky eater, great friend, curious observer, elitist artist, midnight writer, voracious reader, omnivorous chocoholic, impatient driver, and so-so lover."  Donna will be writing about a number of issues and topics ranging from Griffith Park to Dancing With The Stars.  Welcome Donna!

Yet Another Scary Thing About Barack Hussein Obama

What the hell is Obama proposing here, a Sturmabteilung or Komsomol for America? Michelle Obama, who has shown her disdain often for America and it's values, makes it real clear.

UPDATE: Video below of the model for the "Obama Youth" in action. What the hell is this? By the way if you want to read up on Obama's and Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge - which makes Tony Villar's school reform look like the McGuffy Reader - click here to learn more including evidence that the Obama-Ayers connection goes all the way back to at least 1987.

On July 2, 2008, Barack Obama announced: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Obama's Civilian National Security Force:

* What sort of people would be in this paramilitary force?
* What sort of weapons would they have?
* Who would command them?
* Would they be subordinate to the U.S. military?
* Would they be subordinate to the police?
* What would be the purpose of this paramilitary force?
* What would it do?

And, what are Obama's "national security objectives?"

Michelle Obama lifts back the curtain hiding Barack's plans for a new order:

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation. That you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

Folks, I know it looks hip to vote for Barack Obama. I know George Bush sucks. I know the economy is all screwed up because of Bush. None of which is a good reason to vote for the Democrats.

Some have said to me, the Democrats can turn the economy around, they did it when Clinton did. But Barack Obama is not Bill Clinton. He's not FDR.

At the same time John McCain is not George Bush. He comes from the opposite wing of the party and has always been on the outs with the Bushies.

This race is not a repeat of Bill Clinton vs. George H.W. Bush in 1992. If you're looking for a return to the halcyon years of the Clintons, you lost that chance when you shot down Hillary.

Obama is Carter. Or worse.

He's just too dangerous when it comes to our national security and economy.

Feel free to send this on to your friends.

D'Oh! Obama's Democrats Said There Was No Issue With Fannie Mae But McCain Wanted To Regulate Them. In 2006

New video unearthed today from 2004 showing that Congressional Democrats made the claim that there was nothing to worry about at Fannie Mae, and in fact even went as far to inject the race card because then Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines - a former Clinton Administration official - happened to be African American.

"Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines. Everything in the 1992 act has worked just fine."
-Representative Maxine Waters in 2005

"The responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more with resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was president to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
-President Bill Clinton, this week

"If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole."
-John McCain in 2006

At the same time Republicans including John McCain called for more regulations and more control on Fannie Mae while usual suspect Democrats Maxine Waters (please, please Ted Hayes win and send Maxine packing) and Barney Frank saying this was not necessary.



Amazingly, yet another video shows Obama at an event in 2005 celebrating Fannie Mae, from which he was the second highest recipient of campaign contributions in the US Senate though Obama has been in the Senate less than four years.



Thank God for YouTube because we have video showing that McCain supported regulation of Fannie and Freddie, and along with many others including then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, express serious concern over what was to come.



Oh and where was Barack Obama on this? Apparently he voted present.

What's the new term these days? Epic Fail? Yea, Senator Obama, you and your Democrats did. What's more, you got PAID to do it.

Ooops! Bill Clinton Praises John McCain

From CNN:

Bill Clinton has long pointed out he has enjoyed a good relationship with John McCain, but for a moment the former president almost sounded like a surrogate for the Republican presidential nominee Thursday morning.

Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America, Clinton said McCain's move to suspend his campaign and request a delay in the first presidential debate was a move done in "good faith," rather than as a stunt to halt falling poll numbers as several Democrats have alleged.

"I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted — I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don't think we ought to overly parse that," Clinton said, sounding a familiar McCain Campaign talking point.

A few hours later Clinton lavished praise on McCain as he introduced him at the Clinton Global Initiative forum, saying Republican presidential nominee had taken the lead in his party when it comes to climate change.

"When most people in his party were thinking that global warming was overstated and maybe even a myth — he decided to look into it," he said.

The former president also described the two trips that McCain took with his wife Hillary Clinton, “the junior senator from New York," to look into the issue.

But Clinton has also been effusive in his praise for Obama in recent days, telling CBS earlier this week the Illinois senator is better-suited than McCain to bring the country out of the economic crisis.

Clinton's praise of McCain also came days after he told CNN's Larry King Live he was looking forward to campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama, but was not planning on "dumping" on McCain.

Read it & weep, licorice sticks! McCain-Palin up by 4 points

Go ahead and start crying about how the new McCain-Palin 4-point lead is just a convention "bump."

That Villaraigosa endorsement has the touch of death, I tell ya! First Hillary Clinton's campaign dies with Antonio on-board, and now this.

My, how the tide has turned, now that Obama is meeting with Bill Clinton on the ex-Prez's Harlem turf today. It was just two months ago that Clinton complained that he couldn't get a meeting with Obama.

The Obama campaign's other big response to the McCain-Palin lead is to try and get the other Clinton, Hillary, out on the stump. Didn't Obama tell her to take a hike just a few weeks ago?

Also, some of Oprah's audience is turning on her for refusing to have Sarah Palin on her show prior to the election, even though she already had Obama on and endorsed him. Yes, it's Oprah's show, and her brand. But a large portion of the audience is miffed.

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First here's the Democratic point of view:



And there's my contribution:

'Big Mouth' Biden: Is This The Best Obama Could Do?

Newly minted Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden has been nominated and made his acceptance speech afternoon night.  Biden managed to go the entire speech without saying anything stupid but who knows maybe Barack had him on seven second delay.

Following Senator Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday night and her gracious efforts on the Convention floor Wednesday afternoon, it's become apparent that Obama made the wrong pick.  As noted by blogger Darren Duvall, the upside to dissing Hillary is that Obama is not faced with the prospect of former President Bill Clinton hanging around the White House.  At the same time, Duvall makes a good funny when he writes "A lot of what he (Biden) has to offer is a legacy of misstatements that make George W. Bush look like Oscar Wilde."

However Duvall also points out Biden's legacy of off-the-cuff and over the top remarks such as "crypto-racist" comments by Biden about Obama and ignorant statements about Indian-Americans in the State of Delaware.

Despite whatever failings Hillary Clinton may have, one can not imagine her making those types of comments.  And one can not imagine Barack Obama losing with the New York Senator as his running mate.

But, he will never know now.