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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (315556)	7/19/2009 3:07:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793625

This variety involves paranoid traits (think of Obama’s thin-skinned, quasi-hysterical reactions to Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin), That's a false note in the spiel. Obama has been thin skinned about Palin and Limbaugh by political standards, where you are supposed to have rhinocerous hide, but if there have been any quasi-hysterical outbursts, I haven't heard about them. We will see more of his true character if health care fails. Does he have Bill Clinton's resources to scrape together a Plan B? I suspect he does.

To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (315556)	8/6/2009 2:05:53 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

Liberal Health Care Lies Exposed August 5, 2009 Listen To It! WMP \| RealPlayer Audio clips available for Rush 24/7 members only -- Join Now! BEGIN TRANSCRIPT rushlimbaugh.com RUSH: The Heritage Foundation has a marvelous post today: "The People Spreading 'Disinformation' About Obamacare." This is fascinating. "The White House is losing the health care debate. Polls from National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal/NBC News, The Washington Post, Gallup, and Pew all show that the American people do not support President Barack Obama's health care plan. The White House wants people to believe they are losing the health care debate because 'scary … videos are starting to percolate on the internet' that are spreading 'disinformation' about Obama's health care plan. The White House is even encouraging Obama supporters to help them identify people spreading this 'disinformation.'" We told you Erick Erickson at RedState.com found it yesterday. You know what this is? This is Obama's own exclusive private domestic spying program. This website at Flag@WhiteHouse.gov If you get a White House blog, if you get an e-mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to Flag@WhiteHouse.gov. It's his own private domestic spying program! He is asking citizens to inform on others. Now, that means they are going to have to be hearing about a lot of people because a majority of people oppose this utter debacle and disaster. Now, as the Heritage people write here: "In the interest of honest debate, we would like to flag the White House about some prominent people that are directly contradicting the President about what his health care plan would do to the American people." The president's out there saying you will not lose your private insurance. The president's out there saying you will not get healthcare rationed. "The President has explicitly said that the public option will not eliminate private insurance. He told the American Medical Association on June 15th: 'What are not legitimate concerns are those being put forward claiming a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system..." That's the president: No public option will take away your private insurance. However, one, two, three, four liberals -- two of them elected, two of them in the State-Controlled Media -- virtually assure us that we will lose our private insurance. "Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at a Health Care for America Now rally: 'And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn't let private insurance compete, that a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer. My single-payer friends, he was right. The man was right,'" that their plan in the House would indeed eliminate private insurance. So who's spreading disinformation, Mr. President? You are spreading disinformation. Your party is spreading disinformation. Your party is lying to the American people because they have no other choice. Barney Frank -- and we have played audio sound bites from Barney on this. I even had it in the stack yesterday. I didn't get a chance to get to it. But he "told Single Payer Action: 'I think that if we get a good public option it could lead to single-payer and that is the best way to reach single-payer. Saying you'll do nothing till you get single-payer is a sure way never to get it. ... I think the best way we're going to get single-payer, the only way, is to have a public option and demonstrate the strength of its power.'" Yet Obama is running ads. He's got Linda Douglass out there saying, "There's all this disinformation being said about my plan. My plan won't destroy private insurance." Well, two elected Democrats in the House have just said that it will and that they want that to happen. So who's spreading the disinformation? "Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein at the Democratic National Convention last year: 'They have a sneaky strategy, the point of which is to put in place something that over time the natural incentives within its own market will move it to single-payer.'" Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein was being told this by Democrats at their convention last summer! "Noble Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: '[T]he only reason not to do [single-payer] is that politically it's hard to do in one step…You'd have to convince people completely give up the insurance they have, whereas something that lets people keep the insurance they have but then offers the option of a public plan, that may evolve into single-payer.'" Now, as Heritage says: "Americans deserve an honest debate about health care. President Obama, Barney Frank, and Jan Schakowsky cannot all be right. Either the President is wrong when he says his plan will not lead to government-run health care, or Frank and Schakowsky are spreading disinformation ..." Regardless it's not us lying about the plan. Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Obama, we are telling the truth about it. It is your party that is lying, because you care more about tort lawyers and public sector union bosses than any other group of people in this country. This is why Heritage is so valuable, folks. You know, limited government and full liberty are two of the hallmarks of the people at the Heritage Foundation. They are doing the best work anywhere inside the Beltway. They research and provide the facts on all that's happening and changing in Washington. It's amazing. They're in DC, but they don't do DC speak. They are us. They can't do it alone, though. They have 435,000 members, or maybe it's even more than that now. You should become one, too, for just $25. Just go to AskHeritage.org. And you can also do show prep in the morning at the same time I'm doing it. www.AskHeritage.org. END TRANSCRIPT Read the Background Material... • Heritage Foundation: The People Spreading 'Disinformation' About Obamacare • RedState: White House Actions Might Be Unlawful. Barack Obama's Very Own Domestic Spying Program

To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (315556)	12/29/2009 1:08:52 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793625

Re Obama's Revenge and Percy Sutton: Man Who Told of Obama’s Islamic Benefactor Passes Away Posted on December 28, 2009 stoptheaclu.com -By Warner Todd Huston Percy Sutton, long-time Borough President of Manhattan passed away this week at 89. Sutton is famous for being Malcolm X’s lawyer and a powerful New York politician but he was also a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a radio pioneer, and a civil rights activist. There is one more little thing that Sutton is known for and that is for revealing that Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, a member of the Black Panthers and a well-known Islamist, was the benefactor that paid for Barack Obama’s Harvard education. In October of 2008 Sutton appeared on NY1, a cable news channel in New York City. On the Inside City Hall show Percy spoke on-air with reporter Dominic Carter. Transcript: Percy Sutton: I think he’s the brightest most wonderful person who has come across the starting line and I was introduced to him by a friend who was raising money for him. The friends name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas. He is the principal adviser to one of the worlds richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me about him. And his introduction was “there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?” That’s before Obama decided to run.And he interjected the advice that OBama had passed the requirements necessary to get into Harvard and to become president of the law review. And I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly. Dominic Carter: And this is before the world knew about Barack OBama? Percy Sutton: That’s right. After the incident NewsMax.com published a story about this incident and of this al-Monsour, NewsMax said: Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel. A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board. Naturally, none of the news of Sutton’s passing mentions this video appearance. This fact makes at least one person wonder why this incident has gone down the “media memory hole.” The American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson wonders why the media hasn’t made a single reference to this incident even as a “controversial contention.” Of course, it should be noted that back in 2008 after Sutton’s TV appearance, several people disavowed Sutton’s claims. Ben Smith of Politico, for instance, reported in September of 2008 that al-Monsour denied ever having met Mr. Obama. Smith also noted that the Obama’s denied Percy Sutton’s entire story and ascribed his claims to Mr. Sutton’s advanced age. As to the costs of Obama’s Harvard tuition, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported during the late campaign that the Obama’s were “complaining about college debt.” She wrote, “Obama took out $42,753 in loans to pay for Harvard tuition.” So, you watch the video, you decide if a mere $42,753 in tuition loans was enough to pay for a Harvard education and you decide if Percy Sutton accidentally revealed a tightly held secret or was just a confused, senile old man past his prime. Finally you decide if the Old Media was right to ignore Sutton’s late-in-life controversial statements