Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel Go After the Census

How absurd! You conspiracy mongers need to grow up

1. Gregg asks Obama (not the other way around) for the appointment as Commerce Secretary almost certainly because among other things, he wanted to be able to fulfill his long-standing desire to water down the census just like GWB did by under-counting minorities, the poor, and the homeless the in the first place. He wanted the job in part so that he could strangle the census.

2. Obama grants Gregg his wish, and nominates Gregg for Commerce Secretary.

3. Individuals and groups who are aware of Gregg's contempt for a census that includes everyone -- because that is standard Republican dogma and is something that is anathema to most Republican leaders -- come forth to express their deep concerns about placing a fox in charge of the census chicken coop.

4. When Obama learns from those groups of Gregg's preference for an unfairly limited census -- something Gregg has fought for in the past -- the President agrees to move control of the census out from under Gregg's jurisdiction. Obama does this out his zeal for bipartisanship, because he still wanted Gregg as his Commerce Secretary. MOVING THE CENSUS TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT WOULD ALLOW OBAMA TO GET HIS NOMINATION APPROVED BY THE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE VOTE AGAINST HIM BASED ON GREGG'S HOSTILITY TO THE CENSUS.

5. When Gregg learns that one key area which he wanted to control -- the census -- is now out of the Commerce Secretary's jurisdiction, he decides he doesn't want the job anymore and so he withdraws his nomination!

There is NOTHING suspicious or nefarious about Obama's bending-over-backwards in order to try to fulfill Gregg's request to be Commerce Secretary -- compromises that were necessary to get Gregg's nomination through the Senate -- but there's a huge amount that is suspicious in Gregg's behavior! He tried to to scam us by taking control of the census, but when he learned that his manipulative ruse failed, he scampered away, defeated.

Bush verses Gore; rino vs non compos mentos

As an independent, a lot of us voted for Bush as the least harmful of two totally

inept candidates. I believe time has proven that Bush was demonstrably inept and Gore is a bona fide nut with money. He has a mental condition referred to as hardly excogitative, given

his looney co-opting of the enron hydro carbon scam. As for Obama, who can vote for president a mature adult who knows not "when life begins". That it is debatable? Elections are not won based on the qualifications or vision of the candidates (they are neither wise nor virtuous)

but on their ability (like Obama) to exploit the ignorance, complacence and outright stupidity of the electorate. Obama had enough money to be elected if he ran as a "HAM SANDWICH".BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA an elected means for the REQUIEM OF OUR NATION.Look a the three stooges running the congress? Pelosi, Reid and the ACLU!

The Messiah or Emanuel -- who has the bigger God complex?

The Chicago machine takes over the White House. Uggh.

Can't wait until that Blago case comes to fruition -- come on Mr. Fitzgerald -- we know Rahm is wrapped up in it. Let's move this along.