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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 1:54:26 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224749

No, he doesn't. He is out for a job and Obama confirmed that.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 2:01:55 PM
From: DizzyG	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Wrong again, Kenneth... "He will have a role as one of my advisers," Barack Obama said on NBC's "Today" in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush's former secretary of state, endorsed him. "Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss," Obama said. news.yahoo.com You are such a DNC parrot...LOL! Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 2:08:16 PM
From: DizzyG	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224749

The plot thickens with Rezko and Obama... Bank whistleblower alleges Rezko property value altered October 20, 2008 Rick Moran This is something of a complex story so bear with me. When Obama purchased his house, the back and side yards were sold as a separate piece of land - ostensibly at the request of the seller but it may very well have been Rezko's idea to help Obama and allow him to be able to afford the $1.9 million asking price for the house. That land was valued at $625,000. Rezko's wife put a downpayment of $125,000 (where she got the money when Rezko was pleading poverty to the court at the same time is unknown) on the yard, paying full asking price, while the sellers lowered the price of the mansion to $1.6 million, thus allowing the newly elected senator to afford the house. A few months later, Obama agreed to help Rezko by buying a strip of that land for a "garden." A Mr. Kenneth J. Connor reappraised the land and found that it had been overvalued at the time of sale - by a whopping $125,000! Now Connor is suing because the bank made his lower appraisal disappear. From Saturday's Washington Times: A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama. In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko's property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document. Mr. Connor, a real estate and commercial credit analyst at the Mutual Bank Corp. in Chicago, also noted in the complaint that the bank received a grand jury subpoena in October 2006 requiring it to produce information concerning Mrs. Rezko's purchase, including the bank's files on the property. The complaint also said that the grand jury wanted information on Mrs. Rezko's checking account and loan file and that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) had audited the Rezko file - although Mr. Connor's lower reappraisal had been replaced with a higher amount. "Connor's internal whistle-blowing activity at Mutual Bank implicates Mutual Bank and the potentially guilty officers thereof to prosecution under federal and Illinois statutes," said the complaint, filed by attorney Glenn R. Gaffney. The complaint said Mutual Bank officials could be guilty of making false statements, willfully overvaluing property, bank fraud, witness retaliation, willful violation of a lawful subpoena, FDIC violations, and state banking regulations. This, from what I understand, is highly unusual. First, the size of the lower appraisal is incredible - 20% errors are just not made in that business. If the bank were in on this, that would mean that it is possible that the sellers - a doctor who worked at University of Chicago hospital where Michelle Obama worked - were in collusion. The higher appraisal of the empty yard meant that they could lower their asking price for the house. The 10 foot parcel of land that Obama paid more than $100,000 for was worth nowhere near that amount (one real estate expert thought it would be worth about half that). Now it could be that Obama was just helping out a buddy in a financial bind by paying twice what the property was worth. But there is also a possibility that it was Obama paying Rezko back for his buying the vacant yard at the inflated price. The whole transaction stinks of manipulation, cronyism, and collusion to possibly defraud. It should be interesting to see where this investigation leads as well as how Mr. Connor's lawsuit progresses. americanthinker.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 2:48:28 PM
From: DizzyG	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Is this what we have to look forward to, Kenneth? President Obama will have debts to pay October 20, 2008 BY LAURA WASHINGTON The first black president of the United States cannot take office on Jan. 20 bereft of a national black agenda. Sen. Barack Obama has one priority: to get elected. Period. Black leaders must have a different, urgent priority -- to put meat on the bones of a realistic black economic and social compact. Obama is surging toward the White House because he is one of the New Blacks -- a coalition-minded progressive who eschews tradition and piecemeal, narrow agendas. The New Blacks know they need not take their cues from the Jacksons, Sharptons and Smileys. He knows that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. If black people allow parochial and self-interested operators to nibble away at Obama's ankles, black America will be the biggest loser. The conversation is long overdue. Obama's dodge around race has been exquisitely choreographed. Practically the only black concerns he has addressed are his weak nod to affirmative action and his stump-speech admonishments to wayward black fathers and that trifling "Cousin Pookie." Since his landmark speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Obama's mantra has been "there's not a black America and a white America and a Latino America -- there's the United States of America." It was lame, but it worked. That's an aspiration, not an accomplishment. Come Inauguration Day, the pressure groups will be tearing up the playing field to score points with the man. Black folks aren't going to be any different. Obama's shadow base is revving up to produce a monumental turnout. That gives them major dibs on Obama. America's black leadership needs to get steppin'. It's not too early to start mapping an agenda. Start with equitable educational opportunities for African Americans. Fifty-four years after Brown v. Board of Education, black schoolchildren are still relegated to the bottom of the educational opportunity barrel. Urban schools need more resources than their relatively meager tax bases can support. Expand school choice options like vouchers, build more charter schools, ramp up federal funding. The New Triers are not going to move over for the Simeons. It's time to jettison the fraudulent No Child Left Behind initiative and replace it with a creative, no-nonsense plan. Black America should demand that Obama cease his shameless pandering to the People of the Gun and launch a full-throttle crusade for sensible gun control. While he has been out on the campaign trail, dozens of Chicago children have been slaughtered in the streets. Everyone is for "affordable housing." Yet the federal government has retreated from its decades-long commitment to housing the poor. The funding is paltry and our political will is paralyzed. For instance, Chicago has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to transform public housing. The national experiment has been a boon for the elites and a bust for the poor. Job One for black advocates: Back top Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett for HUD secretary. She is well-prepared for the treacheries of the Washington Beltway. Jarrett has stood down an array of Chicago characters, from cranky transit riders, vociferous public housing activists and mendacious aldermen. Her prescriptions will have the president's ear. Don't get me wrong. Obama will prevail precisely because he is the New Black. He is a candidate who knows how to reach across race and ethnicity, to build -- and govern -- beyond the base. Still, he will step into the Oval Office courtesy of overwhelming turnouts dug out of the red hills of Georgia and the gritty concrete of Newark. There will be a debt to pay. Black folks will be ecstatic about making history, but they won't settle for history. We are still treading on an uphill climb. A national black agenda is non-negotiable. There may be a New Black coming to the White House, but it's still the same old USA. suntimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 3:24:48 PM
From: Geoff Altman	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Colin Powell puts his country first ahead of blind party loyalty. Yes, race loyalty seems to be more important to Powell....... He certainly doesn't have the loyalty to the American people if he's going to endorse a green Senator with little to no experience at anything. Not to mention the fact that what there is of Obamas track record is rotten to the core.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 4:13:03 PM
From: DizzyG	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

More Evidence That Ayers Ghosted Obama’s “Dreams" By Jack Cashill: WorldNetDaily.com October 20, 2008 As I have contended in previous articles, there is considerable and growing evidence that Bill Ayers made a significant contribution to Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Among other indicators, I have cited the stunning parallels in nautical metaphors and postmodern themes as well as the nearly miraculous transformation of Obama from struggling hack to literary giant in just a few years. On Friday evening I received a welcome call from a member of Congress who has found the evidence as convincing as I have and has intervened to have writing samples tested through a university-based authorship program. cashill.com The plot thickens...:) Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (52307)	10/20/2008 4:38:36 PM
From: DizzyG	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Hey Kenneth, whatever happened to Man Made Global Warming? Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:26 AM Lorne Gunter In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement. Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures -- they're going down, not up. On the same day (Sept. 5) that areas of southern Brazil were recording one of their latest winter snowfalls ever and entering what turned out to be their coldest September in a century, Brazilian meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart explained that extreme cold or snowfall events in his country have always been tied to "a negative PDO" or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Positive PDOs -- El Ninos -- produce above-average temperatures in South America while negative ones -- La Ninas -- produce below average ones. Dr. Hackbart also pointed out that periods of solar inactivity known as "solar minimums" magnify cold spells on his continent. So, given that August was the first month since 1913 in which no sunspot activity was recorded -- none -- and during which solar winds were at a 50-year low, he was not surprised that Brazilians were suffering (for them) a brutal cold snap. "This is no coincidence," he said as he scoffed at the notion that manmade carbon emissions had more impact than the sun and oceans on global climate. Also in September, American Craig Loehle, a scientist who conducts computer modelling on global climate change, confirmed his earlier findings that the so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP) of about 1,000 years ago did in fact exist and was even warmer than 20th-century temperatures. Prior to the past decade of climate hysteria and Kyoto hype, the MWP was a given in the scientific community. Several hundred studies of tree rings, lake and ocean floor sediment, ice cores and early written records of weather -- even harvest totals and censuses --confirmed that the period from 800 AD to 1300 AD was unusually warm, particularly in Northern Europe. But in order to prove the climate scaremongers' claim that 20th-century warming had been dangerous and unprecedented -- a result of human, not natural factors -- the MWP had to be made to disappear. So studies such as Michael Mann's "hockey stick," in which there is no MWP and global temperatures rise gradually until they jump up in the industrial age, have been adopted by the UN as proof that recent climate change necessitates a reordering of human economies and societies. Dr. Loehle's work helps end this deception. Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2." An analytical chemist who works in spectroscopy and atmospheric sensing, Michael J. Myers of Hilton Head, S. C., declared, "Man-made global warming is junk science," explaining that worldwide manmade CO2 emission each year "equals about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration ... This results in a 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number." Other international scientists have called the manmade warming theory a "hoax," a "fraud" and simply "not credible." While not stooping to such name-calling, weather-satellite scientists David Douglass of the University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville nonetheless dealt the True Believers a devastating blow last month. For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide." Moreover, while the chart below was not produced by Douglass and Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared. It may be that more global warming doubters are surfacing because there just isn't any global warming. network.nationalpost.com You and Al better dump all those green scam stocks soon. LOL! Diz-