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

To: MJ who wrote (121623)	1/12/2012 8:24:50 AM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224729

Obama to ‘take on’ Netanyahu after election? Palestinians say White House asked them to delay demands till 2nd term by Aaron Klein wnd.com JERUSALEM – The Obama administration asked the Palestinian Authority not to make any major demands until after the presidential election in November, a senior PA official told WND. The PA official, speaking on condition his name be withheld, said that Obama promised to renew stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the basis of the 1967 borders, meaning an Israeli withdrawal from eastern sections of Jerusalem as well as from Judea and Samaria, also referred to as the West Bank. “We were asked by the (U.S.) administration not to make special demands or scandals during the elections,” said the official. “After elections, the negotiations will be renewed on basis of the Clinton plan and Obama’s speech in Cairo of the 1967 borders,” the official said. The Clinton plan is a reference to the formula used during the Camp David negotiations in the summer of 2000 that saw sections of Jerusalem in which Jews predominantly live go to Israel, while areas inhabited by Arabs would become a Palestinian state. The negotiations also called for a nearly complete Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank. WND previously reported that several major purported Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are actually built illegally on Jewish-owned land, resulting in an Arab majority in those sections. Obama to ‘take on’ Netanyahu? This is not the first time the PA claimed the Obama administration asked it to hold off until after this year’s election. Last September, WND quoted a top PA official saying the Obama administration told the Palestinian Authority it cannot significantly help advance a Palestinian state until after the election. The official, however, said the U.S. will press for a Palestinian state quickly if President Obama is reelected. “The main message we received from the U.S. is that nothing will happen in a serious way before the 2012 elections,” said the official. Earlier this month, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said he expected Obama to “take on” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a second presidential term. Appearing as a panel member on the syndicated “Chris Matthews Show,” Ignatius stated: “What I hear from the White House is looking towards a second term on foreign policy, which I cover, as an opportunity to do the broad things that would establish an Obama agenda. He came into office passionate about the Middle East, about the Palestinian issue. I’d see him taking another really strong crack at that.” “Go head to head with Netanyahu again?” Matthews then asked, according to a transcript provided by the media watchdog Newsbusters.org. “Yeah, and I think, this White House thinks … that he’s had success, that that’s an area. Who would have said that an anti-war President, candidate, four years ago, could run on a strong foreign policy record?”

To: MJ who wrote (121623)	1/12/2012 10:26:27 AM
From: Bill	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Bankruptcy laws specifically prohibit raiding a company's treasury before declaring bankruptcy. In the event it happens, courts will seize the assets of the raiders to repay the company. The bull shit being spewed by Gingrich and Perry about Bain is laughable.

To: MJ who wrote (121623)	1/12/2012 12:27:17 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Anti-Arpaio protesters ousted from meeting Activist wanted condemnation of sheriff, demand for resignation by Bob Unruh wnd.com The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona could be the next target of a transplanted attorney-activist, according to his own words as he was being escorted out of a board meeting today. Activist Randy Parraz, who earlier worked to derail the re-election efforts of state Sen. Russell Pearce, has been lobbying against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office. Arpaio is scheduled within weeks to release a report on an investigation of Barack Obama’s eligibility for the 2012 ballot. Parraz, who was at the meeting today with a crowd of his supporters estimated at about two dozen, had wanted the hear the board condemn Arpaio and ask for his resignation. The sheriff has been the target of Department of Justice accusations that he violated federal civil rights in his enforcement of immigration laws. Parraz and members of the Citizens for a Better Arizona organization were ushered out of the meeting by security officials after statements to board members turned raucous, according to witnesses who were at the meeting. Parraz, as he was leaving the room, turned to point at board Chairman Max Wilson and said, “No longer chairman,” according to one witness who discussed the meeting with WND. She and her husband were there to observe the opposition to Arpaio, whose office was asked by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party to investigate whether documentation being used by Obama to place his name on the 2012 election ballot could be fraudulent. The witnesses asked that their names not be used in print because that don’t want to become targets as well. The activism at the county board meeting today followed a recent protest against Arpaio organized by Parraz that drew one protester. The previous protest was at the opening of the state legislature, where Pearce earlier was a driving force behind a legislative effort to require presidential candidates to document their eligibility. Originally targeted in today’s action was Arpaio, who has been under fire for a Justice Department report claiming his office discriminates against Hispanics. He also plans to release results soon of his Cold Case Posse’s investigation of Obama’s eligibility. WND previously reported that Parraz is a leftist political activist now living in Arizona who has made his career applying Saul Alinsky “community organizer” skills. Parraz has worked with radical leftist “progressive” movements in the United States and Canada, including staff jobs with the AFL-CIO nationally and as Arizona state director. Parraz is operating under the auspices of Citizens for a Better Arizona, a 501(c)4 organization that appears to be violating IRS rules by engaging in partisan political campaigns. WND has also reported Parraz and a group of ACORN activists were arrested in 2008 for disrupting a meeting of the Maricopa supervisors. The witnesses who were at today’s meeting said when one speaker in support of Arpaio mentioned his investigation of Obama, the Parraz supporters burst out laughing. But they said Parraz apparently was implying that his organization would target the board members next. “Kind of ‘what we’ve done to Sen. Pearce, We’re coming after you next,’” one witness said. “They didn’t verbalize their meaning [but] it was a threat toward the board of supervisors.” A number of Arpaio critics expressed their dissatisfaction with the longtime elected sheriff who has announced plans to run for election again. But when Parraz started speaking, his supporters joined him and began making noise, a witness said. The sheriff’s investigation was launched when about 250 citizens of his county wanted to know whether Obama’s documentation was fraudulent and what impact that would have on voters who may choose a candidate not qualified for the office. The media officer for the board did not return a WND request for comment on today’s meeting. Parraz has a protest record stretching back to his days in the 1990s as a graduate student at Harvard and a law student at the University of California at Berkeley. The first published report WND can find documenting his political activism was a protest of about 150 students and faculties and administrators he organized as a graduate student at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, reported by the Harvard Crimson on March 9, 1994. According to the Crimson, the rally was attended by a coalition of Kennedy School student groups, including the Black Caucus, the Latino Caucus, the Women’s Caucus and the Asian Caucus, demanding the Kennedy School meet the Department of Labor’s recommended diversity levels by hiring more women and minority faculty. Parraz next surfaced as the president of a Latino Civil Rights Task Force, a group the Washington Post reported on Jan. 23, 1997, was created to field complaints from Latinos and promote Latino concerns to city officials in response to unrest in May 1991 by Central Americans in Mount Pleasant, a neighborhood in the District of Columbia. The Washington Post article described Parraz as “a self-confident, articulate Mexican American labor union organizer from California.” WND has reported Parraz, working as an AFL-CIO organizer, brought Canadian protestors through Vancouver, Canada, to participate in the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in which an estimated 40,000 protesters engaged in street violence, which in protest lore was subsequently tagged as the “Battle of Seattle.” The Orange County Register also reported on Dec. 8, 2001, that Parraz was arrested after protesters he organized to encourage national hotel chains to employ more Hispanics locally gathered in the middle of an intersection, disrupted traffic and refused to disperse as ordered by police. The questions about Obama’s eligibility arose even before his 2008 election. Some critics allege he was not born in the U.S. and therefore would not be a “natural-born citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution. Other critics say that a “natural-born citizen” is born of two U.S. citizens, so Obama would not qualify under any circumstances. While the first group argues that the “Certificate of Live Birth” image released by the White House in its attempt to stifle criticism is a fake, the second group argues that the same document proves Obama’s ineligibility, because his father was a Kenyan national who never was a U.S. citizen.