For hours (ok, maybe 15 minutes) of fun, visit the Obama Sound Board. You click it, and Barry Hussein says it.
More entertaining than repeatedly making Barack say “That’s just how white folks’ll do ya” is the section of the site featuring prank calls people have made to various Obama campaign offices, one of which I have placed below for your convenience and enjoyment. Warning: Some rough language in a very condescending voice.
A September 11, 2003 New York Times article shows that President Bush proposed “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.” His proposal: An agency within the Treasury Department to supervise mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fearing that mortgages would no longer be available to people who were unable to pay them back, Democrats eventually killed the proposal. The current meltdown in the mortgage industry is a direct result of giving mortgages to people who could not pay them back, a practice protected by Congressional Democrats.
Both entities were recently taken over by the government, a move that puts trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk.
Barack Obama’s poll collapse is so severe that formerly true-blue states like New York, New Jersey, Washington and Pennsylvania are suddenly within reach for John McCain according to a spate of recent polls.
Governor Sarah Palin has wisely refused to cooperate in the Alaskan Kangaroo court investigation that the left-stream media has termed “Troopergate.”
I’m rejecting the “Troopergate” moniker. The Trooper in question, Palin’s former brother-in-law Mike Wooten, admitted to tasering his 10-year-old stepson. Because of this and other allegations like threatening to have her dad “eat a lead bullet,” Palin didn’t want the guy carrying a gun and badge. Public safety director Walt Monegan didn’t do anything about it. Monegan later had no job. That’s the investigation in a nutshell. Let’s call this what it is: either Tasergate or Abusergate.
Either way, Palin has seen her political adversaries turn the investigation into a tacit Obama campaign office and she’s had enough.
Patrick Murphy’s puppeteer Nancy Pelosi has asked Representative Charlie Rangel, a significant donor to the Murphy campaign, to step down from his Chairmanship of the House’s Ways and Means Committee in response to the serious and “explosive” corruption allegations facing Rangel according to the New York Post.
One of the men working Barack Obama’s mouth during this election season is David Axelrod, a former Public Relations guru who popularized a viral type of marketing called “astroturfing.”
In election terms, Astroturfers are partisans who take to public forums like internet message boards, blog comments, talk radio phone lines and “Letters to the Editor” pages claiming to be unaffiliated voters or supporters of candidates they really oppose. They claim to be “concerned” with the behavior of the candidate they really oppose, stating they can no longer back them. They then spew the latest (usually Democrat) talking points.
If you listen to talk radio, you hear these astroturfers all the time. They’ve been lifelong Republicans, but can’t bring themselves to vote for McCain because he’s gotten too far from his “maverick” roots.
Usually, astroturfers are pretty transparent and easily exposed. As noted by the always eagle-eyed Alex Charyna of PA Watercooler, however, they’re not usually this easily exposed. I guess it’s hard to astroturf a “Letters to the Editor” page when the newspaper you’re trying to scam knows who you are and decides to print it below your letter.
As a Republican and strong McCain supporter in 2000, I was disappointed and saddened in 2004 when McCain permanently traded in his maverick credentials and sold out his principles to support George W. Bush. I now find it equally disturbing to see him gamble our security and future with a reckless choice for a running mate.
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Christopher Tarsa
Lebanon
Tarsa is chairman of the Lebanon County Democratic Committee.
In 2008, sitting in front of Bill O’Reilly, Barack Obama may only remember unrepentant Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers as “some guy I know.” But in a newly unearthed video (below) shot during his failed House of Representatives bid in 2000, Obama cited his association with the man who bombed the Capitol and Pentagon and still doesn’t feel he did enough as one of his primary qualifications for the office.
In 2000, as now, few people believed Obama’s experience qualified him for the job he was seeking. He wound up losing badly in the primary that year. That’s correct, in his home town and among voters in his own party, he was deemed too inexperienced and unqualified to serve in the US House of Representatives just 8 years ago.
He was asked about his thin resume and short stint in the Illinois State Senate during an interview with a Chicago television station.
Um, Barack, I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
“If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.
Maybe it’s time for the McCain campaign to run ads questioning whether we really want a President who can’t use a dictionary or thesaurus. They seem much easier to manage than computers and email.
Barack Obama famously played the “race card” back in June, using his sage predictive abilities to warn of an upcoming Republican scare campaign based on his race.
They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. ‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?’
Barack the Magnificent’s crystal ball (or was it a Magic 8 Ball, probably more appropriate) must have been a little hazy. It isn’t the mysterious “they” repeatedly using Obama’s race as an issue in the election. He obviously meant “we.”
[Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina] particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”
Identity politics. If that’s the way they’re going with this, it will be very good for Republicans. There’s no demographic victory for them on that basis in this election.
ESPN analyst Sal Paolantonio will headline a September 16 fund-raising event to benefit Congressional candidate Tom Manion in his bid to ouster accidentally elected PA-8 Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy. The event is being held at Doylestown clothier Ventresca’s, which caters to high-end customers such as local sports stars.
[Manion] may need more than a little help from the man known by some Philly sports fans as “Sal Pal” on the fund-raising front. According to the Federal Election Commission, Murphy had 2.2 million on hand, compared to about $500,000 for Manion at the end of June.
