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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (48000)	9/21/2008 6:00:54 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224666

McCain might disapprove of congress' bailout plan this week. The public could respond positively to that stance. Obama refuses to reveal his opinion until after the election--it correlates to his over 100 'present' votes in the IL state senate.

To: TideGlider who wrote (48000)	9/21/2008 10:12:52 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224666

Check out this site that shows just how much the contributions are according to latest FEC reports---as Sirius Satellite and XM have been under attack by Georgetown Partners---googled "Georgetown Partners and Obama"----this is what came up/------will SIRI and XM now being called Sirixm survive? For two years Georgetown and various Democrat Congressmen lobbied against the merger under consideration by the FCC as Goldman gave one downgrading after another to Siri and XM---as they caused a delay that has resulted in significant loss economically to the company and to stockholders. And who has received contributions from both Georgetown employees and from Goldman Sacs----Obama? You be the judge. campaignmoney.com - 51k - Cached - Similar pages This site has other info on contributions--enjoy googling. ********************************************************** DEFINITELY AGREE: "Barack Obama has a major Wall Street and Washington problem that the media so far is refusing to acknowledge or explore. He is in the pocket of the Wall Street firms and mortgage security companies that are at the center of the collapse of the real estate bubble. He is closely tied to at least two of the Fannie Mae principals. As Ricky Ricardo would say, “Barack, you got some splaining to do.” Let’s start with the numbers. Why is a first term Senator pulling down almost $300,000 a year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual? He has not even completed his fourth year in the Senate and received a total of $1,093,329.00 from these eight companies and their employees. (all data from OpenSecrets.org). John McCain’s numbers, according to OpenSecrets.org for the period 1990-2008 (i.e., 18 years worth of data) only collected $549,584.00. In other words, Barack is receiving $273,582.25 (and 2008 is not over) per year while McCain raised a paltry $30,532.44. "Want another shocker? Barack Obama has received more from one source–Goldman Sachs $542,252.00–than McCain has from all of the companies combined. Who the hell is more beholden to lobbyists? And why does a junior Senator from Illinois rate this kind of dough? Why are these firms and their employees showering Barack with their cash? Although the conventional wisdom wants to pin the Wall Street debacle on Republican greed, the reality is that the real estate market and the big players on Wall Street have been a Democratic game. McCain’s hands are clean when it comes to this mess. That is not spin, that is a fact. He proposed legislation back in 2006 to start addressing the abuses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the Democrats would have none of it. Why? Here’s the explanation. noquarterusa.net;