Horrifying Choice for Barack

Obama's appointment of Eric Holder as attorney general is something I've been meaning to write about for a while. This is a horrible choice and reflects the inexperience Obama brings to the office. The more I read about Holder, the worse things get.

During the Clinton era, Holder played a leading role in the pardoning of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Holder was deputy attorney general under Clinton. Rich was a commodities trader who fled the U.S. in the early 80s to avoid prosecution for trading with the enemy, racketeering and tax evasion. Rich's wife was a major donor to the Clinton library, the Clinton legal defense fund and the Democratic party. Rich's attorneys miraculously received a pardon for their client from Bill Clinton by circumventing normal pardon requesting procedures. By definition, Rich was ineligible for a pardon and congressional panels were called to investigate how he received a pardon only hours before Clinton left office.

The congressional report released about the sale of the pardon stated that Holder played a major role in obtaining the illegal pardon, by assisting Rich's attorney Jack Quinn with the brokering the pardon. As deputy attorney general, he had to issue an assessment of the pardon request and he ruled he was leaning towards granting the pardon. Holder later admitted he wanted Quinn's help in his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration. Holder offered lame excuses for his role in the pardon by first claiming he didn't know who Rich was, then claiming he didn't think a pardon would be issued to a known fugitive. There are fascinating articles here and here which detail the completely ridiculous behavior of Holder.

Some other little tidbits about Holder I hate:

• He played a key role in the gunpoint kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez;
• He absolutely hates guns. He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called “assault weapons” (cosmetically incorrect guns) by anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday). He also promoted the factoid that “Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence”–a statistic is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as “children.” . . . Click here to read more about his disturbing gun views.
• He supports restrictions on internet speech - click here to watch

Bottom line, this guy is almost as frightening as Barack himself.

Way to Change your Position Barack!

This piece of news isn't really that much of an Obamanation to me. I think Bush has done a great job of keeping America safe. But it's completely the opposite of everything B.O. said when he was running for president:

Remember how opposed Barack was to the war and how horrible he made Bush and McCain out to be when he discussed the war? Remember some horribly offensive remark he made about our troops air-raiding villages and killing civilians? Well, now that he's almost in office, maybe Bush's policies aren't looking so bad - he kept Bush's defense secretary and the news now is that he's keeping most of Bush's political appointees at the Pentagon. Click here to read more. Interesting - so he likes Bush's defense guys and he's thinking of postponing tax increases on the wealthy. Is he realizing that conservative policies are the only way for this country to succeed?

Barack's Positively a Socialist

You think Obama's not at all connected with the Socialist party?

Then try this:
Go to google, type in 5046 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL - Barack's address. His phone # is listed as 415-821-6171.

Now visit http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer?pagename=contactus which is the website for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Barack's phone number on google is the same as the phone number for their San Francisco offices! HMMMM.

I know this is just a joke, that's not actually his home phone number, but hats off to whoever did it. Ha ha.

No Conscience Allowed

This week, Bush's people are finalizing a federal regulation allowing medical staff a right to refuse to participate in any procedure they object to on moral grounds. This is mainly aimed at abortion. The regulation is expected to be published this week, and it will take 30 days to be issued. For decades, federal law has said that health care workers can't be forced to perform abortions. The new Bush rules broaden the law to allow health care workers to refuse to provide information, such as a referral, to patients seeking abortions.

According to the Wall Street Journal, officials in Obama's administration are already considering when and how to undo the regulation. Officials close to Obama's transition team have stated they intend to begin the regulatory process to overturn the regulation. Click here to read more.

Too bad health care workers, under Obama's regulations you are not allowed to have a conscience. Very fitting for the new administration.

Wow, Another Crook in Obama's Life

He knows how to pick them:

his pick for energy czar (whatever that is, it sounds like a made up job that pays a lot to me): Carol Browner. On her last day in office in 2000 as head of the EPA, she oversaw the destruction of computer files although a federal judge ordered her to preserve its records. She claimed she was merely deleting computer games on her hard drive as a "courtesy" to the incoming Bush administration. Lovely. The EPA was later determined to be in contempt of court. Early in her term as head of the EPA, she got caught using taxpayer funds to create and mail illegal lobbying materials to environmental lobbying organizations.

Here's a side note: I'm sure you are all familiar with the Associated Press, which is the only nationally oriented news service based in the U.S. It supplies news stories to newspapers, radio and T.V. stations. You have to hand it to them, they know how to uncover and report juicy stories - did you know on December 10 they cracked the story of Obama's associations with some extremely shady characters? Click here to read more. Wow, where on earth did they hear that? It must have been their top notch journalism. Too bad they waited until after the election to report it - well, I'm sure it was just an oversight, won't happen again, and has nothing to do with the fact he's a liberal and they're in love with him.

No More Debt Obama!

Obama wants to spend his way out of a recession. His plan "might reach $1 trillion over two years". One TRILLION dollars we are most likely borrowing from China? Why does he think borrowing our way out of economic trouble is the answer? What about those checks sent to everyone earlier this year? Did they do one iota of good for the economy? Where are all the fiscal conservatives?

Click here to read more.

Thanks a lot Barack

You know how Obama is constantly blaming Bush and the republicans for the economy? And for some reason the polls always favored Obama when the economy mess hit the fan? The mess was caused by too many bad home loans given to people who shouldn't have qualified for them. The republicans tried to sound the warning bell but the dems didn't listen (even Saturday Night Live admitted this in a hilarious skit - click here to watch).

Did you know Obama's name appears on a lawsuit on behalf of ACORN, which sued Citibank for failing to make loans to minorities? Why do you think Citibank wouldn't make loans to said minorities? Is it because they wouldn't qualify for a loan? Do you think these practices are what led to the mess?

Click here to see Obama's name on lawsuit.

Barack Loves Abortion

"The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing I'd do" said Barack Obama while speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action fund in July 2007.

What is the Freedom of Choice Act? Click here to read the full bill. The Act would nullify the ban on partial birth abortion by the Supreme court, as well as disallow states from placing ANY restrictions on abortion whatsoever - including requiring parental consent for minors, requiring waiting periods, requiring information be given to women about the abortion procedure as well as fetal development.

I plan on devoting more attention to this issue later. It's too important to treat lightly and I don't have a lot of time to delve in now. I'll leave you with this quote from Barry O.: "I am going to teach [my daughters] first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

That's right, no life is sacred to Obama, and that includes his grandchildren.

Are you a Liar Mr. Obama?

Someone is lying:

Yesterday, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for trying to sell Obama's senate seat, as I'm sure you all know. Blagojevich didn't see why he should just give it away for free: "I've got this thing and it's [expletive] golden and uh, uh, I'm not just giving it up for [expletive] nothing."

Obama claims he knew nothing of what was going on: "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."

Yes, I'm sure Obama did not care who was taking his Senate seat and never talked to the governor about who his pick would be. Of course not. I believe you Obama.

However, Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago on November 23 and said something a little different.While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a "kingmaker," Axelrod said, "I know he's talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them." Axelrod has since said he misspoke.

Hmmm, I think this whole thing smells. I don't think Obama would be involved in something so stupid as selling his senate seat or keeping quite while the idiot governor sold the seat, so why does he deny even speaking to him at all??? Why not say, "yes, I've spoken to him about the senate seat but I certainly wasn't aware that any of this was going on"?

Someone is lying, either Obama or Axelrod.

Obama's Patriotism

Joke: What do Osama and Obama have in common? They both know people who bombed the Pentagon. (Courtesy of Rush Limbaugh).

A quote from Obama: "I don't care what they say about me but I love this country too much to let them take over another election". That's right, Obama has suddenly been hit with a wave of patriotism! After refusing to wear a flag lapel pin, after being married to a woman who says she was never proud of her country until Obama got the democratic nomination, after surrounding himself his entire life with people who absolutely hate this country, suddenly Obama has stars and stripes in his eyes. Give me a break! His complete B.S. is Obam-inable.

Obama's Tax Plan

This is old news, but I'm sorting through my archived emails:

Obama claims he wants to cut income taxes on 95% of Americans. Which I don't believe, but say I did. Did you know that between 30 and 40 percent of Americans don't even pay income taxes? Typically this is because their income is too low to meet the minimum threshold to pay taxes.

Now how do you think you cut taxes on people who pay no taxes? Either (1) you don't, and he is lying, or (2) he gives tax refunds to people who pay no taxes.I actually don't think he is lying, I think he wants to give tax refunds to people who pay no taxes. That's right, you file your tax return, showing that you paid no taxes either because you are lazy, unskilled, or maybe you've fallen on hard times. Then you get a check for $2,000 in the mail from the people who go to work all day. That's called income redistribution and it should be Obama's middle name - actually, it might be a better name than Hussein.

Obama's Poor School

Did you know there's a school in Kenya named after Obama? It was named after Obama in 2005, and was built on land donated by his grandparents. He visited the school amid great fanfare and said he was honored and promised to help the school financially. Shortly thereafter, the principal mailed a proposal to him, asking for around 65,000 pounds to build a water tank, a fence, dining halls, a science lab and classrooms.
Do you think she has heard from him since? NO! Of course not. This is not an isolated incident in Obama's life - he hasn't helped his half brother in Africa or his aunt living in a slum in Boston, both of whom are living well below the poverty level. He doesn't want to spread his own wealth around, only everyone else's.
Do you think John McCain could have gotten away with that?
Click here to read more about the school.

More Shady $$ for Barack

Obama received more political contribution $$ from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (now collapsed) than all but one of the 353 other senators and congressmen who received political contributions from these two entities. Nineteen years of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae statistics show that he received over $120K despite being in the Senate only 3 years. Only one other senator received more (Chris Dodd) and he's been in the Senate for 33 years!

Way to Support Our Troops, B.O.

Quote from Obama: "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians."

Obama thinks our troops are air raiding villages and killing civilians. He has a pathetic view of our troops and a pathetic view of America.

No More Secrets, Obama

Fun fact: These are some documents Obama won't disclose:

• his college transcripts (I can imagine his A's in "Communism 101" and "Marxist Theory" won't impress the voters)
• his bar application (which I can tell you from experience pretty well documents every aspect of your life)
• his medical records
• the identities of his donors
• his full birth certificate

What's he hiding?

Obama's Shady Funding Sources

Obama's campaign was funded by foreign citizens.

Campaigns do not have to disclose anyone who contributes under $200. John McCain disclosed all of his donors, regardless of contribution. BO did not. Surprisingly, the vast majority of Obama supporters' donations are less that $200. More than half of the over $400 million B.O. has raised has come from secret sources.

“We and seven other watchdog groups asked both campaigns for more information on small donors,” says Massie Ritsch, a spokesperson for a campaign watchdog group. “The Obama campaign never responded,” whereas the McCain campaign “makes all its donor information, including the small donors, available online.”

The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.

More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.

But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.

Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
With such lax vetting of foreign contributions, the Obama campaign may have indirectly contributed to questionable fundraising by foreigners.


FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS FOREIGNERS FROM DONATING TO U.S. ELECTION CAMPAIGNS.

Click here to read more about contributions from Arab nations to Obama.

Do you think middle Eastern loons were lining up to support McCain? Hmmm? Whose side would I rather be on? The side of the terrorists who want to kill us are on, or the other side? I'll choose the other side, thank you very much.

ACORN + Obama = Fraud

Before I get to another of Obama's misdeeds, let me say it makes me sick the mainstream media basically operated Obama's campaign for him. A quote from an anonymous employee at a major newsroom: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about mainstream media being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into Obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working."



My Obama-nation of the day, and this is a major one: ACORN

ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. Obama gave them $800,000 (which he tried to hide). He also worked closely with ACORN in Chicago. Also, while he served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, the fund sent grants to ACORN (as well as Jeremiah Wright's church). ACORN purports to engage in "get out the vote" projects. What ACORN actually does is commit voter fraud, and is being investigated in various cities across the country.

What ACORN has done:

• registered fake voter names in Milwaukee
• in New Mexico, hired convicts to collect voter registration information
• Last year in Washington, felony charges were filed against several paid employees and supervisors of ACORN. Over 1,700 fraudulent registrations turned in by the employees were revoked in one of the largest instances of voting fraud in the United States.
• In March of 2008, an ACORN worker was sentenced in Berks County Pennsylvania to 146 days to 23 months in the county prison for making 29 phony voter-registration forms to collect a cash bonus from ACORN
• Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder, Wade Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000 but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement. Dale Rathke remained on Acorn’s payroll until a month ago, when disclosure of his theft by foundations and other donors forced the organization to dismiss him.
• As of July 2008, at least three ACORN workers have been convicted of voter fraud in Kansas City, and one is awaiting trial. These ACORN workers in Kansas City flooded voter registration rolls with over 35,000 false or questionable voter registration forms.
  St. Louis, Mo., officials found that in 2006 over 1,000 addresses listed on its registrations did not exist. “We met twice with ACORN before their drive, but our requests completely fell by the wayside,” said Democrat Matt Potter, the city’s deputy elections director. Later, federal authorities indicted eight of the group’s local workers. One of the eight pleaded guilty last month.
• The Consumers Rights League reports that ACORN used taxpayer money to support “corporate shakedown tactics, counseling of potential homebuyers to use “undocumented” or “under the table” income to obtain mortgages, and to assist in obtaining mortgages for undocumented workers.
• Back in the '80s and '90s, ACORN's tactics included trespassing, illegal seizure of private property, physical harassment, intimidation and outright extortion.
  For example, in 1985, ACORN illegally seized 25 abandoned buildings owned by New York City and installed squatters as residents. A weak-kneed City Hall eventually gave the group title to the buildings - proving that crime can pay.

This is the group that Obama gave $800,000 to and worked closely with?????

Obama's Already Ignoring the Constitution

This is courtesy of redstate.com, an awesome conservative blog.

Obama allegedly plans to nominate Hillary for Secretary of State today. Did you know the Constitution prohibits this? Obama doesn't care, he's made clear many times his disdain for the Constitution.

The Constitution reads: No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.

A Senator, like Hillary, is prohibited from serving in any federal office "created" or if the "emoluments whereof" (compensation) were increased during the Senator's term. In 2008, the Secretary of State's salary was increased. Because the increase occurred during the time Hillary was a Senator, she can't be Secretary of State. It's crystal clear.

Do you think Obama doesn't know this? He used to be a lecturer on Constitutional law. Since he wants to change this country, and has made it clear many times what he thinks of the Constitution, what better way to start than to ignore this tiny little clause that most people won't care about anyway?