Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Gas and Integrity Fuel Clinton-Obama Duel

Posted May 6, 2008

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OOOPS SHEEEE DID IT AGAIN

Hillary was the guest of OPEC in Dubai earlier this year escorted by her husband toy and didn't they give her millions and millions and millions and millions and millions = $5,000,000.00 or was it $50,000,000.00. Just more TriLateral (Bilderberg) (Google it) lies of support for more lies.

Obama Lies

1.) Selma Got Me Born - Lie, you were born in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.

2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - Lie, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - Lie, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had

4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - Lie, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in many years.

5.) My Name is African Swahili - Lie, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.

6.) I Never Practiced Islam - Lie, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.

7.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - Lie, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).

8.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - Lie, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

9.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - Lie, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.

10.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - Lie, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.

11.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - Lie, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

12.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - Lie, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

13.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - Lie, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

14.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - Lie, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 PRESENT VOTES.

15.) Oops, I Misvoted - Lie, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

16.) I Was A Professor Of Law - Lie, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

17.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - Lie, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

18.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - Lie, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.

19.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - Lie, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

20.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - Lie, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

21.) I Have Released My State Records - Lie, as of May, 1 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

22.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - Lie, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

23.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - Lie, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

24.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - Lie, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

25.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - Lie, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

26.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - Lie, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

27.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - Lie, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.

28.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - Lie, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.

29.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - Lie, you ran ads ONLY along the florida border as well as national ads in an attempt to reach Florida voters 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.

30.) I Won Michigan - Lie, no you didn’t.

31.) I won Nevada - Lie, no you did not.

32.) I Want All Votes To Count - Lie, you said let the delegates decide, and you have fought to have another primary in Michigan or Florida.

33.) I Want Americans To Decide - Lie, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

34.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - Lie, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.

35.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - Lie, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has finally stopped saying this.

36.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - Lie, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer (a fellow democrat that wanted you to replace her in the next term) from running against you by challenging ALL of her signatures and thus running unapposed.

37.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - Lie, you take loads of it. The Obama PAC is the largest PAC in the US Senate. I dare Obama supporters to go look this up.

38.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - Lie, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

39.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - Lie, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

40.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - Lie, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this to MySpace clients.

41.) I Inspire People With My Words - Lie, you inspire people with other people’s words.

42.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - Lie, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.

43.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - Lie, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date in Iraq - AGAIN.

44.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - Lie, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.

45.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - Lie, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no records of any such letters ever being created or sent.

46.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - Lie, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.

47.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - Lie, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.

48.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - Lie, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.

49.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - Lie, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate (going from $120K to $320K weeks after you got into the US Senate and tried to get a $1 million pork project for the very same hospital) and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!

50.) I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - Lie, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.

51.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - Lie, you only gave back Hsu ($72K [Yes, the same Hsu, Obama supporters try to tie Clinton to]) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K, then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.

52.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - Lie, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.

53.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - Lie, you only recently repudiated Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.

54.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - Lie, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Mr. Auchi was also found guilt in another political corruption scandal (largest in France since WWII). And this is one of Obamas' good supporters that paid millions into the Obama campaign.

55.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube - Lie! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.” FLIP-FLOPER

56.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! - Lie. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the company that looked into your records. Could it be that you had them look into yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s more than a year before!

57.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - Lie. Rev. Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and helped raise money, then AND NOW. He also seems to despise America as much as Rev. Wright.

58.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a phrase - Lie. Again, MicHELLe’s comments are perfectly in sync with Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and direction.

59.) I am very Anti-Terror - Lie. One of your good pals is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you weren’t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.

60.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - Lie. You and your campaign buddy Penny 'SubPrime Bank Collapse' Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?

61.) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion - Lie - It was found that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had greater role on liberal survey

Bail out

ughh Bear Sterns was bailed out as part of the New Deal Policy. The government cannot let a bank colapase again. This is what happend in the Great depression and everyone panicked pulled out of everything and it all fell apart. Since then a major part of the government and the economy has centered on not allowing that to happen again. This is not a save the rich guy scheme it is save the whole system so we are ALL ok. It may not be perfect but they decided after the depression to take these steps to prevent that from happening again. Why do you think they don't mention recession? Because they are too dumb to see one? No. They know if they say it it cause panick and things to get worse. I can't believe you people are voting for my kids next President it makes me sick.

oil tax & economists

Americans & Hillary need not worry about economists being against the oil tax. Economists tax record are terrible, most of the things they forecast have been wrong. Hillary logic is simple & straightforward. Oil companies are making record profits. OPEC and oil gaints are effectively a cartel. Getting some of BIG OIL profits to help inflation hit poor families make a lot of sense. A tax can be effective if it is well administered. With the Clintons it can be done well. Of course if it is Bush you can forget about it. Just look at the execution in the Katrina disaster. Bill Clinton excellent economic track record stands in sharp contrast with Bush horrible legacy. Hillary faithfulness, standing behind Bill despite his indiscretions speaks of strength not weakness. Her never say die determination and focus will make her an effective President. Obama is an unknown risk. Given US enormous internal and external problems, it cannot afford an unknown risk. The reality is that to run the country well the President needs to work with Congress and Senate. Rhetoric of change in DC cannot face up with the day to day reality with working in an establishment of more than 200 years. Hillary Clinton is the best choice. 2 Clintons for a price of ONE is obvious. America after 8 years of weakness will go down for a long long time if it replaces Bush with another ineffective or incompetent President. God bless America please.

oil tax & economists

Americans & Hillary need not worry about economists being against the oil tax. Economists tax record are terrible, most of the things they forecast have been wrong. Hillary logic is simple & straightforward. Oil companies are making record profits. OPEC and oil gaints are effectively a cartel. Getting some of BIG OIL profits to help inflation hit poor families make a lot of sense. A tax can be effective if it si well administered. With the Clintons it can be done well. Of course if it is Bush you can forget about it. Just look at the execution in the Katrina disaster. Bill Clinton excellent economic track record stands in sharp contrast with Bush horrible legacy. Hillary faithfulness standing behind Bill despite his indiscretions speaks of strength not weakness. Her never say die determination and focus will make her an effective President. Obama is an unknown risk. Given US enormous internal and external problems, it cannot afford an unknown risk. The reality is that to run the country well the President needs to work with Congress and Senate. Rhetoric of change in DC cannot face with with the day to day relaity with working in an establishment of more than 200 years. Hillary Clinton is the best choice. 2 Clintons for a price of ONE is obvious. America after 8 years of weakness will go down for a long long time if it replaces Bush with another ineffective or incompetent President. God bless America please.

hillary

Hillary is a Carpet Bagger plain and simple. If voters think she can actually deliver any of the things she has promised in the last few weeks this country's intelligence has not changed since the post civil war. Wake up people the President does'nt have the power to do all the things she promised or every past President would have done so. Take a civic lesson before you vote you are being fooled. What do you think GB wants to be the most hated guy around and the republican party wants to loose power? If this stuff could be done they would be doing it and no one would ever say the word Democrat again. Wake up vote on the real issues of what can be done by a President .Not empty promises,before you all have an empty bank account

OPEC?

Oh my goodness, an all out attack on all oil producing countries? I thought that attacking oil producing countries was passé' due to Iraq not quite working out as planned. An attack on other countries who are selling us their minerals, oil in this case, seems way too 19th century for an enlightened Democrat. Perhaps an attack on those other oil consuming countries would be more effective. Liberate them like Iraq was liberated and I am sure worldwide demand would go down. Mrs. Clinton's economic theories need a tune up. Of course more likely she doesn't mean a single word, this is simply two dimensional cartooning of the world for her political base, which she must think are extremely dimwitted. Actually we are quite insulted and would prefer an actual plan rather than a scoundrel attempting to stir the masses.

out of touch economists

Even though almost +70% Americans believe that we are in a recession, the majority of the economists still don't believe that we are in a recession. They claim all sorts of statistics and technical definition to defend their views. People are suffering, and that is the fact! no amount of technical definition can gloss over these pains.

These rich economists, friends of Obama and Obama himself laughed at how small $35 to $70 saving for the people. They dismissed it as laughable and gimmick. Well, it is not a gimmick for some folks when this means another week or two of groceries, a few more trips to go for job hunting. Why do these folks make such a big fuss to give people a small break and did not make a peep when Bear stearns was bailed out?

how about sustainability?

Cheap gas means more gas used, means higher prices. So the "break" will never be one. Beside, show me a workable definition of "windfall profits" that stands up in court.

As long as I see cars parked with running engines, open windows and roaring air conditioning units with no-one in them every day, I say gas is way too cheap. Compare with gas prices in Europe, $8 per gallon, anyone? And people still drive too fast there.

Maybe expensive gas will persuade more people not to buy that SUV and use the train or subway every once in a while.

At the end of the day, oil will run out, making it cheaper, will bring that day sooner.

PS: If you drive a few miles to save a few cents per gallon, you will lose money.

Hillary pumps more gas

Hillary is trying to push this holiday gas tax relief as an issue in order to make Obama look bad. And she wants us to ignore all the economists are telling us its a bad idea. She isn't that stupid that she thinks its a legitimate effort to help the oil crisis. But she is hoping we are dumb enough to jump all over a $28 carrot.

But not to worry. She has declared the oil cartel no longer a cartel in her eyes. We have them up against the ropes now don't we Hillary? They will really beg for our mercy when oil hits $200 a barrel.

You have to give her credit for having lofty goals. No matter how unrealistic they may be inspite of her claim of 35 years of experience.

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