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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/27/2011 1:52:11 PM From: TopCat   Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576728   "Time to quit with these STUPID Hitler analogies." Amen....

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/27/2011 3:10:32 PM From: joseffy 10 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576728   Obama is setting up Israel for destruction. He pours hundreds of millions into Iran's creation--HAMAS--in Gaza, and admonishes Israel to exercise "restraint" as HAMAS shoots thousands of rockets into Israel. [The same "restraint" he warned the Christian Copts in Egypt to exercise this week as they were being slaughtered by the unleashed islamists in Egypt]. Obama sits by and smirks as Iran's creation--Hezbollah--takes over Lebanon. That's two borders with Israel ready for attack. Obama pushed out Mubarak in Egypt so the murderous Muslim Brotherhood (another Iran creation) can take over Egypt. Already arms are pouring into HAMAS in Gaza from Egypt at a rate that were never allowed by Mubarak. Obama's handing over Egypt to the muslim brotherhood opens up a THIRD border of Israel for the coming attack. Meanwhile, as a result of Obama's expenditure of two billion dollars worth of bombs to push Gaddafi out in Libya 1--rabid islamists are taking over Libya 2--a huge number of modern, sophisticated weapons from Libya are pouring through the Egyptian Sinai to HAMAS in Gaza. And Tunisia's election just empowered the rabid islamists there. Obama is setting up a Caliphate by leaving Iran and Syria alone while he engineers the taking over by extreme islamists in Egypt, Tunisa, Libya. Obama's closest advisors are all rabid islamists--Samantha Powers (who wrote a book advocating that a "mammoth" US force move into Israel and force Israel to give the 'palestinians' everything they want) Robert Malley (who tried to deal with HAMAS in a hidden way during the Clinton administration and was discovered going against US policy at that time), Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers (who was active in the 'flotilla' crap recently against Israel), Rashid Khalidi, Brezenski, Susan Rice, who works to wipe out Israel at the UN, etc etc etc. Obama is very actively evil. Only the blind cannot see that.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/27/2011 4:56:30 PM From: Alighieri 1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1576728   Joseffy, Obama isn't rounding up Jews into concentration camps and never will. Obama will never invade America's neighbors. Obama isn't proclaiming anyone to be the "master race." Obama isn't evil. Period. Time to quit with these STUPID Hitler analogies. That is response to you has gathered 4 recommendations (so far) should tell you the kind of geniuses you've cast you lot with... Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/28/2011 7:32:26 AM From: Hope Praytochange 4 Recommendations  Respond to of 1576728   Obama Backers Tied to Lobbies Raise Millions By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: October 27, 2011 WASHINGTON — Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid. Enlarge This Image Stephen Crowley/The New York Times President Obama's car, outside a fund-raising brunch for his campaign that Mr. Obama attended in Medina, Wash., in September. Multimedia Graphic ‘Bundlers’ for Obama Related Obama Raises More Than $70 Million(October 13, 2011) Times Topic: Campaign Finance Blogs The Caucus The latest on the 2012 election, President Obama, Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. Follow The Caucus on Twitter FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus More Politics News Comcast David L. Cohen, who oversees lobbying efforts for Comcast, is a member of Mr. Obama's exclusive $500,000 bundling club. At least 15 of Mr. Obama’s “bundlers” — supporters who contribute their own money to his campaign and solicit it from others — are involved in lobbying for Washington consulting shops or private companies. They have raised more than $5 million so far for the campaign. Because the bundlers are not registered as lobbyists with the Senate, the Obama campaign has managed to avoid running afoul of its self-imposed ban on taking money from lobbyists. But registered or not, the bundlers are in many ways indistinguishable from people who fit the technical definition of a lobbyist. They glide easily through the corridors of power in Washington, with a number of them hosting Mr. Obama at fund-raisers while also visiting the White House on policy matters and official business. As both a candidate and as president, Mr. Obama has vowed to curb what he calls the corrupting influence of lobbyists, barring them not only from contributing to his campaign but also from holding jobs in his administration. While lobbyists grouse about the rules, ethics watchdogs credit the changes with raising ethical standards in Washington. But the prevalence of major Obama fund-raisers who also work in the lobbying arena threatens to undercut the president’s ethics push, raising questions about whether the campaign’s policies square with its on-the-ground practices, some of those same watchdogs say. “It’s a legitimate concern,” said Craig Holman, a registered lobbyist for Public Citizen, a nonpartisan ethics group in Washington. “The campaign has to draw the line somewhere, but the reality is that the president is still relying on wealthy special interests and embracing those people in his campaign.” Take Sally Susman. An executive at the drug-maker Pfizer, she has raised more than $500,000 for the president’s re-election and helped organize a $35,800-a-ticket dinner that Mr. Obama attended in Manhattan in June. At the same time, she leads Pfizer’s powerful lobbying shop, and she has visited the White House four times since 2009 — twice on export issues. But under the byzantine rules that govern federal lobbying, Ms. Susman has not registered with the Senate as a lobbyist. Nor has David L. Cohen, who oversees lobbying at the Comcast Corporation and is also a member of Mr. Obama’s exclusive $500,000 bundling club. At a June fund-raiser in the backyard of his Philadelphia home, Mr. Cohen hosted the president and some 120 guests who paid at least $10,000 each to attend; Mr. Obama called Mr. Cohen and his wife “ great friends.” As a matter of policy, Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign goes beyond what campaign law requires by refusing contributions from any “individual registered as a federal lobbyist.” Registered lobbyists are not even allowed inside his fund-raising events, and the campaign routinely returns checks from those trying to contribute. Republican candidates, in contrast, have placed no restrictions at all on accepting lobbyists’ money. Mitt Romney had a closed-door fund-raiser just this week in Washington at the American Trucking Associations that was expected to include many K Street lobbyists. The Obama campaign, which raised nearly $43 million last quarter, would not specifically discuss its fund-raisers who work in lobbying. Most of the bundlers themselves also declined to comment, referring questions to the campaign. Through interviews and public records, The New York Times identified at least 15 major fund-raisers for the Obama campaign who have been involved in different aspects of the lobbying and influence industry, representing a range of corporate interests from telecommunications and high-tech software to Wall Street finance, international commerce and pharmaceuticals. While none of the bundlers is currently registered as a federal lobbyist, at least four of them have been in the past. And a number of the bundlers work for prominent lobbying and law firms, including Greenberg Traurig and Blank Rome. Although Mr. Obama has helped make lobbying something of a dirty word in Washington — most firms refer to it by the euphemism of “government affairs” — that has not stopped a number of his fund-raisers from advertising their access to power brokers as they seek out clients. Alex Heckler, for instance, runs a Florida consulting firm he founded, LSN Partners, which boasts of its ability to “win results for our clients” at the national, state and local levels and to tap into “a strong national network of lobbying firms” through its contacts with “key decision makers.” Mr. Heckler, a noted Democratic fund-raiser in Florida who raised money for the presidential bids of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, has already brought in at least $200,000 for the Obama campaign, records show. (The campaign uses only broad dollar ranges for the money raised by its bundlers, and it declined to provide more precise data.) Likewise, Andy Spahn, owner of a government relations company in Los Angeles, tells visitors to his Web site about its “extensive relationships in Washington, D.C.,” and elsewhere in advocating for “high net-worth individuals,” corporations, nonprofit groups and others. Mr. Spahn, who made his name doing lobbying work for DreamWorks film studio and was appointed by Mr. Obama to a presidential committee on the arts, has raised at least $500,000 for the president’s re-election. And Michael Kempner, who has also brought in at least $500,000 for the campaign, runs a team of Washington lobbyists at his New Jersey firm, MWW Group, who, according to the its promotional material, use their “important relationships with both the Democratic and Republican leadership” to wield influence for their private sector clients. Seven of the lobbyists he employs are registered in Washington, but Mr. Kempner, the chief executive at the firm, is not. The Obama campaign declined requests to discuss specific fund-raisers and their ties to lobbying work. Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, stressed in a statement that “the president has fought to limit the outsized influence that lobbyists have over the policy making process, passing laws that promote reform and disclosure and establishing rules ensuring that industry lobbyists can’t come into the government to oversee the industry for which they used to work.” He said that while Republican candidates were actively raising money from special interest groups, Mr. Obama “drew a bright line” by rejecting contributions both from political action committees and from “Washington lobbyists whose job it is to influence federal policymakers.” The disconnect between Mr. Obama’s public stance on lobbyists and his use of fund-raisers who are active in the lobbying industry rests in part on the ambiguity in the law over who must register as a federal lobbyist. Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the complicated rules define lobbying in part as “active” or “direct” contacts meant to influence a public official, but they exclude “routine” contacts meant to simply gather information. The rules also take into account a variety of specific criteria, including how much time is spent advocating for a particular client, how much is paid, and which government officials are contacted. Mr. Obama has run into political problems before over the question of who should be considered a lobbyist under his ethics restrictions. Just weeks after the inauguration, in fact, Mr. Obama’s first pick as Health and Human Services secretary — former Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota — came under attack for acting as a highly paid “strategic adviser” to clients looking to influence government policy but failing to register as a lobbyist. (His nomination was ultimately withdrawn.) More controversy came last year over the White House’s informal contacts with lobbyists. The administration drew criticism over reports that White House officials were routinely sitting down with registered lobbyists at off-site locales, like a nearby Caribou Coffee shop, for meetings that would not show up on official White House visitor logs. Some Washington lobbyists suggest that the Obama administration’s tough public stance against lobbyists has served only to discourage those active in the lobbying industry from registering as lobbyists in the Senate. “What all this rhetoric does is to drive lobbying even further into the shadows,” said a Democratic lobbyist who works frequently with the administration but spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Obama will not take money from registered lobbyists like me,” the lobbyist said with some bitterness, “but that doesn’t mean that he won’t take money from people who are lobbying. There’s a big difference.” Barclay Walsh contributed research.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/28/2011 7:34:28 AM From: Hope Praytochange 2 Recommendations  Respond to of 1576728   Where in the World are Barack Obama's Bundlers, A Union Ally to Retire and More in Capital Eye Opener: July 18 By Michael Beckel on July 18, 2011 9:30 AM | More Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: OBAMA'S MONEYMEN: President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released the names of 244 individuals Friday who have steered tens of millions of dollars into his campaign coffers as bundlers. Collectively, these individuals bundled at least $34.95 million on behalf of Obama and the Democratic National Committee. An exact figure is not known, since the campaign only provided broad ranges of how much money each bundler had raised. About a quarter of this money was raised by Californians. Fifty-six of Obama's bundlers, who raised at least $8.9 million, were from California. Thirty-five New Yorkers, meanwhile, raised a minimum of $4.9 million. And 24 residents of the battle ground state of Florida bundled a minimum of $3.55 million. The following graphic plots these bundlers' location on a map of the United States, plus the United Kingdom, where one Obama bundler hails from. Click on each point to see the bundlers' names, locations and minimum amount raised. View Map of President Barack Obama's 2012 Bundlers in a full screen map And the following chart provides the minimum amount bundled -- and the number of individual bundlers in each location -- for these elite fund-raisers for Obama's re-election. Number of Bundlers Min. Amount Bundled California 56* $8,900,000 New York 35* $4,900,000 Florida 24* $3,550,000 Massachusetts 13* $2,550,000 Texas 13 $2,150,000 New Jersey 7* $1,800,000 DC 11 $1,700,000 Illinois 17* $1,600,000 Pennsylvania 8* $1,300,000 Maryland 11 $1,250,000 Georgia 9 $850,000 Vermont 3* $800,000 Puerto Rico 3 $750,000 Missouri 3 $350,000 Connecticut 4* $300,000 Tennessee 3 $300,000 Virginia 3* $250,000 Washington 3 $250,000 Colorado 3 $200,000 Maine 2 $200,000 North Carolina 2 $200,000 Ohio 1 $200,000 Michigan 2* $150,000 Wisconsin 3 $150,000 Oregon 1 $100,000 Alabama 1 $50,000 Minnesota 1 $50,000 New Hampshire 1 $50,000 United Kingdom 1 $50,000 Total 244 $34,950,000 *Note: Some bundlers disclosed by the Obama campaign represented pairs of individuals who raised money on the president's behalf. The figures shown here are the number of "bundling units." The actual number of individuals is higher, but pairs -- such as married couples or business partners -- are only counted once in this chart, not twice. KILDEE TO RETIRE FROM CONGRESS: Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.), who was first elected to Congress in 1976, announced Friday that he will not seek re-election after the end of the 112th Congress next year. Kildee currently sits on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Natural Resources Committee, where he is the second highest ranking Democrat on the subcommittee on Indian and Alaskan Native Affairs. During the 2010 election cycle, Kildee raised $622,560 and spent $1.2 million on his re-election bid. He ended the year with $12,670 cash on hand. Nearly 30 percent of all the money he raised came from political action committees associated with labor unions, who were his top financial backers. According to research by the Center for Responsive Politics, labor PACs donated $178,950 to his campaign in 2009 and 2010. Public sector union PACs accounted for $59,250 of this sum, while building trade unions accounted for $49,500. During the 2010 election cycle, Kildee was also the No. 2 top beneficiary among all House members of money from Indian gaming interests, which donated $81,500 to his campaign. That sum also ranked him as the No. 4 top beneficiary of money from these interests among all members of both chambers of Congress. Furthermore, according to the Center's research, Kildee was among the poorer members of Congress. His net worth was estimated to be $296,500 in 2009 -- the most recent year for which data is available. That ranked him as the 300th richest member of the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives. WHEN THE DEAD STILL GIVE: Federal campaign finance records show that on May 11, the Democratic National Committee received a contribution in the amount of $30,400 from a Gladis B. Innerst of San Diego, Calif. In most respects, the transaction was routine -- the DNC frequently receives large donations -- but the employer and occupation information listed for Innerst was not something familiar like "homemaker," "teacher," "physician," or "lawyer." Rather, Center for Responsive Politics researcher Carolyn Sharpe discovered the employer and occupation fields both said "deceased." Indeed, Innerst had passed away four years earlier, in May 2007. But death hadn't stopped Innerst from legally making an impact in federal politics. Starting in 2008, she has donated the legal maximum, or close to it, to the DNC. That's a total of $119,700 over the course of four years, according to the Center's research. "Deceased donors leave money bequests in their wills and can contribute through estates or trusts," a DNC official told OpenSecrets Blog. "The funds are administered and sent by a trustee. This is the case for Ms. Innerst." Such contributions are legal under federal rules, so long as the trust is not controlled by someone directly affiliated with the political committee that stands to benefit from the donations, as OpenSecrets Blog noted earlier this year while uncovering how a dead woman's name erroneously appeared in campaign finance reports for the Tea Party Express' PAC. A spokesman for the Republican National Committee could not immediately be reached for comment. In the past, USA Today has reported that both the DNC and RNC have legally accepted tens of thousands of dollars in donations from deceased individuals.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/28/2011 7:35:53 AM From: Hope Praytochange 2 Recommendations  Respond to of 1576728   Where in the World are Obama's Bundlers, Pt. 2 By Seth Cline on October 20, 2011 4:25 PM | More Nearly lost in the troves of campaign finance data recently released by presidential candidates was an updated list of bundlers for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. These 359 well-connected supporters have raised at least $56 million for Obama and the Democratic National Committee so far this year, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. Obama's campaign, the sole presidential campaign to disclose information about its bundlers, only gives broad ranges for the amounts these elite fund-raisers have raised, so the exact amount they’ve raised is unknown. But because the campaign releases a figure for the minimum amount bundled, it's safe to say that bundlers constitute a sizable portion of the fund-raising for Obama and the DNC. In fact, more than $1 of every $3 donated to Obama and the DNC so far this year has come from bundlers, according to the Center’s research. Through Sept. 30, the date of the most recent campaign finance filings, the Obama campaign has raised about $90 million and the DNC has raised about $64 million. Californians account for the largest source of bundled money, with 87bundlers raising at least $15.35 million overall for Obama and the DNC. At least $6.45 million is new money raised during the third quarter, as Californian bundlers had raised a minimum of $8.9 million for Obama and the DNC at the end of the second quarter, as OpenSecrets Blog previously reported. In distant second is New York, where 49 bundlers have raised at least $9.3 million for Obama and the DNC, according to the Center’s research. At the end of the second quarter, New York bundlers had raised a minimum of $4.9 million; so at least $4.4 million of the $9.3 million sum is new money raised between July and September. Other Obama-friendly states include Florida, where 29 bundlers have raised at least $4.5 million, and Massachusetts, whose 23 bundlers have raised $3.8 million, according to the Center's research. Bundling for the Obama campaign is increasingly an international affair as well. Eleven bundlers from three foreign countries and two U.S. territories (the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico) have bundled at least $1.55 million. This includes at least $100,000 each from U.S. citizens living China and Switzerland, and at least $750,000 from three residents of Puerto Rico. The city of London, in the United Kingdom, has been one of the most active places for bundlers abroad – and the city has seen an increase of pro-Obama bundling since the last time Obama released his bundlers' information in July as well. Four American citizens living in London became bundlers this past quarter, up from just one during the second quarter. That increased the country's minimum bundling total by 10 times, going from a minimum of $50,000 to a minimum of $500,000, according to the Center's research. Some notable bundlers for the campaign include former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who is also the former chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, and Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, each of whom has raised at least $500,000 and perhaps much more. The top dollar range provided by the Obama campaign is simply “more than $500,000.” View Obama's 2012 Bundlers in a full screen map MOBILIZING BUNDLERS AND THE GRASSROOTS The Obama campaign’s list of bundlers covers individuals who have raised at least $50,000 for the Obama campaign and the Obama Victory Fund -- a joint fund-raising committee that funnels money to both the Obama campaign and the DNC. While it's impossible to know exactly how much of the Obama Victory Fund's money can be attributed to bundlers, the fund accounts for about $1 of every $4 the Obama campaign has raised since April, according to the Center’s research. Since April the Obama Victory Fund has collected $65 million, of which about $22 million has been transferred to the Obama campaign. At the same time that the Obama campaign has been mobilizing its deep-pocketed supporters, it has also been firing up its grassroots donors. The campaign has raised $41 million from small-dollar donors -- those who gave $200 or less -- as OpenSecrets Blog previously reported. The Obama campaign says that more than 1 million individuals have donated to Obama’s re-election efforts. It claims that 98 percent of the donations it has received have been in increments of $250 or less. When asked by OpenSecrets Blog how the 98 percent figure meshes with the fact that the Obama Victory Fund -- whose donors typically give far more than $250, accounts for 25 percent of the campaign’s receipts to-date -- Katie Hogan, an Obama campaign spokeswoman, said that “the 98 percent is applied after the transfers occur.” "The first $5,000 of any donation [to the Obama Victory Fund] goes to Obama for America and the rest goes to the DNC,” she continued. “Any donation under $5,000 goes to the campaign." According to the Center’s analysis of the Obama Victory Fund’s FEC filings, only 3.4 percent of the money the fund has raised has come from small-dollar donors who gave $200 or less. WHAT ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS’ BUNDLERS? Federal law only requires the bundling activities of registered lobbyists to be disclosed, and an exact amount of money raised by these individuals is required to be reported. The Obama campaign does not have any lobbyists bundling on its behalf, but the campaigns of Republicans Mitt Romney and Rick Perry both do. During the third quarter, six lobbyists bundled $479,660 for Romney’s campaign and one lobbyist bundled $77,000 for Perry. Perry’s sole lobbyist-bundler is Dan Brouillette, the senior vice president for government and industry relations at insurer USAA. Four of Romney’s six lobbyist-bundlers also bundled money for him during the second quarter. They are: Patrick J. Durkin of Barclays, who bundled $187,025 for Romney during the third quarter. That’s on top of the $167,800 he bundled during the second quarter, as OpenSecrets Blog previously reported. Durkin was also a top fund-raiser for President George W. Bush. He was one of the famed "Pioneers" in 2000, who bundled at least $100,000 for Bush, and during the 2004 election, he earned Bush's "Ranger" status, bundling at least $200,000. Durkin did not contribute to Romney's 2008 presidential bid, but he did give the then-legal maximum of $2,300 to Republican John McCain, the eventual party nominee. T. Martin Fiorentino of the Fiorentino Group, who bundled $78,575 for Romney during the third quarter. That’s on top of the $102,900 he bundled during the second quarter. Fiorentino was also a Bush Pioneer in 2000 and Ranger in 2004. Like Durkin, he also did not back Romney during the 2008 GOP presidential primary. And he, too, donated $2,300 to McCain during the 2008 election cycle. David Beightol of Dutko Worldwide, who bundled $35,260 for Romney during the third quarter. That’s on top of the $54,200 he bundled for Romney during the second quarter. During the 2008 election cycle, Beightol donated $2,300 to Romney and $1,000 to McCain. His wife also gave Romney $2,275 during Romney's 2008 run. Judi Rhines of the Rath Group, who bundled $34,650 for Romney during the third quarter. That’s on top of the $34,200 she bundled during the second quarter. Rhines also donated $2,300 to Romney during his presidential bid four years ago. Lobbyists Robert T. Grand, of Barnes and Thornburg, who bundled $110,150 for Romney during the third quarter, and William Mark Simmons, of the Dutko Group, who bundled $34,000 for Romney, are both new additions to Romney’s bundler ranks. Meanwhile, Wayne Berman of Ogilvy Government Relations, who bundled $101,600 for Romney last quarter, and Drew Maloney, also of Ogilvy Government Relations, who bundled $56,750 for Romney during the second quarter, were not reported as raising additional funds for Romney during the third quarter. The Republican presidential candidates so far have been silent on plans to release additional information about their bundlers, as OpenSecrets Blog has previously noted. The following chart provides the minimum amount bundled -- and the number of individual bundlers in each location -- for these elite fund-raisers for Obama's re-election. You can also find out additional information about Obama’s bundlers here on OpenSecrets.org. Place Bundlers Min. Amount Bundled California 87 $15,350,000 New York 49 $9,300,000 Florida 29 $4,450,000 Massachusetts 23 $3,850,000 Illinois 28 $2,750,000 Texas 17 $2,750,000 Washington DC 16 $2,500,000 Washington 6 $1,500,000 Maryland 13 $1,500,000 New Jersey 7 $1,400,000 Pennsylvania 9 $1,350,000 Georgia 9 $900,000 Missouri 5 $900,000 Vermont 3 $900,000 Puerto Rico 3 $750,000 Connecticut 8 $550,000 North Carolina 6 $550,000 Kentucky 1 $500,000 United Kingdom 5 $500,000 Maine 2 $400,000 Ohio 2 $400,000 Tennessee 5 $400,000 Rhode Island 3 $350,000 Colorado 3 $300,000 Michigan 2 $250,000 South Carolina 2 $250,000 Virginia 3 $250,000 Oklahoma 1 $200,000 Oregon 1 $200,000 Wisconsin 3 $200,000 New Hampshire 2 $150,000 China 1 $100,000 Minnesota 2 $100,000 Switzerland 1 $100,000 Virgin Islands 1 $100,000 Alabama 1 $50,000 Total 359 $56,050,000 Note: Some bundlers disclosed by the Obama campaign represented pairs of individuals who raised money on the president's behalf. The figures shown here are the number of "bundling units." The actual number of individuals is higher, but pairs -- such as married couples or business partners -- are only counted once in this chart, not twice. Center for Responsive Politics money-in-politics reporter Michael Beckel contributed to this report.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/28/2011 8:42:58 AM From: Hope Praytochange 1 Recommendation  Respond to of 1576728

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (633427) 10/28/2011 8:43:32 PM From: Hope Praytochange 3 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1576728   On Martin Bashir's television program this afternoon, Democratic strategist and MSNBC analyst Karen Finney said that Republicans are supporting Herman Cain because GOP Sees Herman Cain as a 'Black Man Who Knows His Place'. One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy," Finney said. "I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me." "Thank you for spelling that out," Bashir responded http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/msnbc-analyst-herman-cain-black-man-who-knows-his-place_604145.html Gee then the dems must like Obama because they think he is a black man that knows his place. OH WAIT THAT WOULD BE RACIST FROM A CONSERVATIVE

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