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

To: puborectalis who wrote (49906)	10/3/2008 8:27:58 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Obama's background is scarier than most people know! The country needs to debate this! OK this is the first post in a number that I will be posting in the hope we can debate them and find the truth and see what people think of some of the people Obama has been involved with. Now this is really important. Not one of them things like people trying to figure out what exactly was Barack Obama referring to with his lipstick on a pig comment. we all know what Sarah Palin was referring to when she compared a hockey mom to a pit bull with lipstick. She was claiming she fights for what she believes is right. If elected I believe she will show that as well. What I want to find out here is if anybody who reads this is bothered by Obama's past relationships. 20 years with Rev.wright. Professor Meyers( who a lot of people have yet to hear a lot about. I'd admit I don't know much about him but that's what I hoping to fix. We all should know he came up in the Chicago political machine which from what I have learned is very corrupt and it's takes a special kind of politician to make it in Chicago politics. Has Obama really done great things in the 3 years he has been a senator from ILL. It shouldn't bother anyone he has a a 1.5 million dollar house. What Bothers a lot of people is how he obtained it. Tony Rezko gives him a sweet deal. Tony Rezko gets a huge grant from the government. Tony Rezko is on his way to prison. William Ayers. 1970's radical who's group sent bombs to American targets in America. That's terrorism my friends. I wonder if it bothers people that Michelle Obama thinks America is a mean country. That for the first time in her life she is proud of her country because she just now See's hope making a comeback. Even though she has been blessed with the chance to go to great school and have a wonderful family. To me she has lived the hopes and dreams of so many in this country that she should be telling people they live in a country where they can have that too. This doesn't sound like a first family that helped create this great nation. I can't bring myself to trust someone with so many shady friends over someone who has bleed for his country men. McCain has made real sacrifices for us. He has fought for us. So I'm going to keep touching on these subject until the election in the hope I can a least tell as many people about these people as I can until election day! For right now It's my hope we can debate these issue's with a warm heart with no name calling and nobody spiting racist jargon. I don't have any feeling on the race of the candidates. I want to see the person I feel I can trust the most to fix the problems of the country he loves. As always I wanna say God bless you all and please remember to be civil with your follow country men on this post. We are all brothers in this cause to get are country on the right track and it won't happen unless we come together after this election. Thank you for your time. ireport.com

To: puborectalis who wrote (49906)	10/3/2008 8:41:22 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224748

FBI raids Obama friend's home Andrea Billups (Contact) Friday, October 3, 2008 washingtontimes.com Sen. Barack Obama hugs Will County executive Larry Walsh in a hotel in Springfield, Ill., in February 2008. (Associated Press) The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. According to Chicago authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime friend of Mr. Obama's, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan. Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid. With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan. Will County auditor Steve Weber confirmed that his office had been asked by the FBI to assist in an investigation, but he did not elaborate on the specifics. Two FBI agents out of Chicago reportedly spent more than an hour in the Will County offices on Wednesday morning. According to sources, the Walsh investigation may be tied to lobbying firm Smith Dawson and Andrews, which was hired in 2006 for $10,000 per month to help Will County acquire federal grants. The firm, which is registered with the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, assists clients with communications and legislative strategies that better their public policy agendas, according to its Web site. Last month, Mr. Walsh announced that Will County was the recipient of a $750,000 federal government grant that would allow law enforcement and prosecutors to fight against domestic violence. One of the firm's partners, James P. Smith, contributed $2,000 to help Mr. Walsh's county executive election bid. A corn farmer from Joliet, Mr. Walsh has supported his friend's presidential bid, and campaigned for him in rural and farming areas of the state. They are seen hugging each other in photos before Mr. Obama's announcement that he was running for president. The two men became tight friends during their tenure in the Illinois Senate and bonded over games of poker. According to a report in Time magazine, Mr. Walsh lost to Mr. Obama once with what he thought was a winning hand, and then slammed down his cards and said: "Doggone it, Barack, if you were more liberal in your card-playing and more conservative in your politics, you and I would get along much better." Mr. Walsh denied any knowledge of any investigation. "I don't have a clue what you are talking about," Mr. Walsh said in reports published Thursday in the Chicago Sun-Times.

To: puborectalis who wrote (49906)	10/3/2008 8:41:57 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224748

Biden gets veep role wrong Stephen Dinan Friday, October 3, 2008 washingtontimes.com Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Associated Press) Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. appeared to incorrectly outline the constitutional role of the job he's seeking in Thursday's debate. In attacking Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Biden said the vice president's only role is to support the president and to preside over the Senate "only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit." The Constitution, though, actually says the vice president is always president of the Senate and legal scholars say he has the right to preside at any time. Early vice presidents, such as Thomas Jefferson, actively exercised that role, the vice president still keeps offices at the Capitol, and scholars say it wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that the vice president had an office at the executive office building. The president pro tempore, usually the senior senator from the majority party, takes over only when the vice president is absent. In recent practice, as the vice president has taken a bigger role in the executive, that's meant the Senate operates almost all of the time without the vice president in the chair. The Obama campaign didn't return a message for comment left late Thursday, after the debate. For her part Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans to take the vice president's role of president of the Senate seriously. "I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president's policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are," she said. Mr. Biden, who's been in the Senate for three decades, also mistakenly stated that the executive branch is defined in Article I of the Constitution. In fact, Article I describes the legislature, while Article II lays out the executive.