Barack Obama: Bringing You the Sounds of Conservative Silence

If there was only one single reason to vote against Obama, the Supreme Court would be it. How ever the Supreme Court goes, so goes our constitution. So goes our freedom. So goes America.

Obama's Brown Shirts

Now, just like Progressives think they can re-interpret the bible and speak for God and Jesus, they also feel that the constitution is theirs to revise in any way that they are so lead. To them it is a living document, subject to any interpretation that their pointy little heads can devise.

What Liberals Want

A progressive conference on the Constitution sheds light on the real stakes involved with the judiciary.

The left makes no secret of its intentions where the Constitution is concerned. It wants to change it, in ways that have nothing to do with what the document actually says. It wants the Constitution to enshrine its own policy preferences–thus freeing it from the tiresome necessity of winning elections. And how will the Constitution be changed? Through a constitutional convention, or a vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures? Of course not. The whole problem, from the liberal perspective, is that they can’t get democratically elected bodies to enact their agenda. As one of the Yale conference participants said: “We don’t have much choice other than to believe deeply in the courts–where else do we turn?” The new, improved Constitution will come about through judicial re-interpretation.
It only awaits, perhaps, the election of the next Democratic president.

And here he comes, that very president, being advised by yet another flaming socialist, Cass Sunstein, a man who practices constitutional blasphemy.

Cass Sunstein

Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein was appointed as an advisor for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Sunstein formerly taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a colleague of Obama in the 1990s.

In his 2004 book The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, Sunstein argues that citizens’ rights exist only to the extent that they are granted by the government.

Sunstein, who believes that the federal courts are dominated by conservatives, agrees with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s assertion that the Constitution is a “living” document whose meanings and mandates change with the passage of time.
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In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope, Obama echoes the foregoing perspective, declaring that, as President, he would not appoint a strict constructionist to the Supreme Court:

“When we get in a tussle, we appeal to the Founding Fathers and the Constitution’s ratifiers to give direction. Some, like Justice Scalia, conclude that the original understanding must be followed and if we obey this rule, democracy is respected. Others, like Justice Breyer, insist that sometimes the original understanding can take you only so far — that on the truly big arguments, we have to take context, history, and the practical outcomes of a decision into account. I have to side with Justice Breyer’s view of the Constitution — that it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world…”

So for those  who still wonder how Obama can so blatantly trample the First Amendment, well, he never did have much respect for it to start with, as is evidenced by all of his maneuvers to squelch opposition during his current crusade for office.

Now, factor in this disdain for all of our basic freedoms with his grotesque ambition to foist on America a “youth corp”, and you have Obamafascism.

He said: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Add an Obama paramilitary force to his campaign’s attempts to suppress criticism and I can’t help but recall 1933 Germany.
(Source)

And down the road to tyranny we go. Actually, we have long been on that road and most of us are only now waking up to that sad state of affairs. But even so, the fight we have ahead of us is monumental and must be engaged in, regardless of Obama’s fervid supporters,their suffocating collectivism and their obvious intentions of silencing all heresy from the right. We can not fight if we can not speak.

Obama Wants DOJ to Silence McCain-Palin on ACORN

Remember when Barack Obama used his campaign lawyers to petition the Department of Justice to shut down the American Issues Project when it created an ad about William Ayers?

Obama’s complaint didn’t go anywhere, but he’s at it again. This time Obama’s trying to use his influence as a presidential candidate and U.S. Senator to convince the DOJ to shut down those who are criticizing ACORN.

Obama for America General Counsel Bob Bauer wrote a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasy last Friday asking Mukasy to launch an investigation against John McCain, Sarah Palin and their campaign surrogates.

Why? Because Obama is upset the GOP is drawing attention to ACORN’s fraudulent voter registration activities. Bauer said members of the GOP are “fomenting specious vote fraud allegations, and there are distorting indications of official involvement or collusion.”

Bauer’s 7-page letter specifically accuses McCain, Palin and Republican Sens. George Voinovich, John Cornyn and Reps. Michele Bachmann, Roy Blunt and Paul Ryan of engaging in “politically-motivated efforts to influence the Department’s investigative and prosecutorial efforts.”

The Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll says this gives a “good preview of what an Obama Department of Justice would look like.” Scary.

When All Else Fails, Use The Courts To Silence Talk Radio

Having failed to shut down conservative talk radio through every means possible, including well- funded attack sites, smear strategies and so much more, the left has opened up a new front on its war against viewpoints they oppose. The new approach: simply sue your political foes right out of business.

In what appears to be a test case for what could become a future trend nationwide, a suit has been filed in Los Angeles against conservative talk station KRLA, which is owned by Salem Broadcasting.

In the suit, David Birke and attorney Johnny Birke argue that KRLA uses public airwaves to push Republican Party causes, an old lefty chestnut. Named in the suit are Salem, CEO Ed Atsinger and seven talk show hosts, according to the Glendale News-Press….

The Coming Counterrevolution To Hush The Alternative Media

But the biggest potential danger of neutrality is that its concern for equal treatment of bits will extend to sites’ content, creating a kind of Fairness Doctrine for the Web, as FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has warned — and as Obama adviser and law professor Cass Sunstein once called for.

Not coincidentally, hampering the alternative media with new regulations would leave the liberal mainstream press, which still enjoys full First Amendment protections, comparatively empowered.

Given how the “MSM” has covered this presidential race — fawning over Obama and pummeling John McCain and especially his charismatic running mate Sarah Palin at every opportunity — it’s easy to see why many liberals may be hoping for a media restoration.

The unFairness Doctrine

There are always those who’d like to improve on freedom of speech. Shut up, they explain. All they want is what’s fair, meaning their idea of what’s fair. There’s a difference.

They sigh for the good old days when riffraff like Rush Limbaugh and numerous imitators could be shut out of the public discourse. It is those who claim to speak for The People who resent it most when people choose to listen to somebody else.

We knew who our betters were in the good old days, when we tuned in to find out what was politically correct long before it had acquired that label. No wonder our current elite, or those who’d like to be, dream of restoring the Fairness Doctrine in all its constricting glory.

On his Web site, Barack Obama says that the country should “clarify the public interest obligation of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum.” I’m not sure what that means, but I have an idea. The senator can put all the lipstick he wants to on the Fairness Doctrine, but it’d still be unfair. Those who wax sentimental for it mystify me. I’d much prefer to win a fair fight, or even lose one, rather than tie the other guy’s hands. For the best response to an idea one detests is not to suppress it, but to offer a better idea. It’s only fair.

Welcome to An Obama Nightmare

Social Justice: Code for Communism
By Barry Loberfeld

What is “social justice”? The abolition of privacy. Its repudiation of property rights, far from being a fundamental, is merely one derivation of this basic principle. Socialism, declared Marx, advocates “the positive abolition of private property [in order to effect] the return of man himself as a social, i.e., really human, being.” It is the private status of property — meaning: the privacy, not the property — that stands in opposition to the social (i.e., “socialized,” and thus “really human”) nature of man. Observe that the premise holds even when we substitute x for property. If private anything denies man’s social nature, then so does private everything. And it is the negation of anything and everything private — from work to worship to even family life — that has been the social affirmation of the socialist state.

Adolph Obama

What is “social justice”? The opposite of capitalism. And what is “capitalism”? It is Marx’s coinage (minted by his materialist dispensation) for the Western liberalism that diminished state power from absolutism to limited government; that, from John Locke to the American Founders, held that each individual has an inviolable right to his own life, liberty, and property, which government exists solely to secure. Now what would the reverse of this be but a resurrection of Oriental despotism, the reactionary increase of state power from limited government to absolutism, i.e., “totalitarianism,” the absolute control of absolutely everything? And what is the opposite — the violation — of securing the life, liberty, and property of all men other than mass murder, mass tyranny, and mass plunder? And what is that but the point at which theory ends and history begins?

And yet even before that point — before the 20th century, before publication of the Manifesto itself — there were those who did indeed make the connection between what Marxism inherently meant on paper and what it would inevitably mean in practice. In 1844, Arnold Ruge presented the abstract: “a police and slave state.” And in 1872, Michael Bakunin provided the specifics:

[T]he People’s State of Marx … will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organization and direction of commerce, and finally the application of capital to production by the only banker — the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many heads “overflowing with brains” in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and counterfeit scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!

It is precisely this “new class” that reflects the defining contradiction of modern leftist reality: The goal of complete economic equality logically enjoins the means of complete state control, yet this means has never practically achieved that end. Yes, Smith and Jones, once “socialized,” are equally poor and equally oppressed, but now above them looms an oligarchy of not-to-be-equalized equalizers. The inescapable rise of this “new class” — privileged economically as well as politically, never quite ready to “wither away” — forever destroys the possibility of a “classless” society. Here the lesson of socialism teaches what should have been learned from the lesson of pre-liberal despotism — that state coercion is a means to no end but its own. Far from expanding equality from the political to the economic realm, the pursuit of “social justice” serves only to contract it within both. There will never be any kind of equality — or real justice — as long as a socialist elite stands behind the trigger while the rest of us kneel before the barrel.
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Orson Scott Card…….

……is a newspaper columnist and a Democrat. Not what you think though, in this column he ladles out the truth to his fellow Democrats and journalists.

There is hope. I think.

Comment of the Day: Bar Stool Economics

Posted in: The Stop Obama Tour in Colorado

31 Sizzlack 10/21/2008 11:12:52 am PDT

Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten

comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would

go something like this:

Bar Stool Economics

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay $1.

The sixth would pay $3.

The seventh would pay $7.

The eighth would pay $12.

The ninth would pay $18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the

arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are

all such good customers,’ he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your

daily beer by $20.’ Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the

first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.

But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they

divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that

from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end

up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill

by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each

should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to

drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare

their savings.

‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’declared the sixth man. He pointed to

the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’

‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too.

It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I got’ ‘That’s true!’ shouted

the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The

wealthy get all the breaks!’

‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get

anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks so the nine sat down

and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they

discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all

of them for even half of the bill!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how

our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most

benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being

wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start

drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

On Powell’s ‘Transformational Figure’.

Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion, takes on the bureaucratic Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama.

I agree with Gen. Powell that Obama would be a “transformational figure.” But what sort of transformation are we talking about? The United States is the richest, freest, most powerful nation in history. What would it look like after Obama, abetted by a Pelosi-Reid Congress, got done with their transformation?

Yes, that’s right, Virginia, it would be poorer, markedly less free, and less powerful.

Interesting conclusion, go see.

Class Will Tell

Why is Bill Ayers a respectable member of the upper middle class and Sarah Palin contemptible?

I’m sure it’s puzzled and shocked us all, the visceral hatred of Sarah Palin, right from the moment she was introduced when most on the left had never even heard of her let alone knew anything about her.
Sam Schulman has provided an answer.

While Palin threatens class solidarity, Obama is emollient. The more urbane members of the Hyde Park community are cleverer than their Wasilla counterparts and believe that they have captured Obama for their class–just as Richard Stern persuades himself that the still-radical couple he dines with are merely Unitarians in a hurry. But the man who may be president is cleverer still.

Obama and his surprising choice for vice president have spent most of their career working on their own images, smoothing out the rough edges, trying out devices, rhetorical and cosmetic, to make the nicer sort of people feel comfortable with them. Obama wrote his own life, and then wrote it again; Biden practiced for years in front of a mirror to overcome his childhood stutter. Carefully composed, Obama holds the upper-middle class in his steady hands, and has no need of Stern’s help to assure our anxious electorate that he will not shock their class sensibilities.

As good as that quote is, you must read it all to get the full understanding of what he’s saying. Though you could sum it up in a word, they’re all snobs.

This and That.

Well, first the good news. [Hmm, come to think of it I only have good news!]

The Zogby rolling poll shows Obama at 48% and McCain a 45%. So it could be better but the way the MSM are spinning the campaign and from the rhetoric coming from the the Obamacides you’d think he was home and dry and picking out the drapes for the White House.

Obama leads McCain by 48 to 45 percent among likely U.S. voters, down 1 percentage point from Saturday. The four-day tracking poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 points.

Pollster John Zogby said the numbers were good news for McCain, and probably reflected a bump following his appearance in the third and final presidential debate on Wednesday.

“For the first time in the polling McCain is up above 45 percent. There is no question something has happened,” Zogby said.

He said the Arizona senator appeared to have solidified his support with the Republican base — where 9 out of 10 voters now back him — and was also gaining ground among the independents who may play a decisive role in the November 4 election.

Obama’s lead among independent voters dropped to 8 points on Sunday from 16 points a day earlier.

‘RED FLAGS’

“If that trend continues, it is something that has got to raise red flags for Obama,” Zogby said. “It suggests to me that his outward look of confidence may be as much strategy as it is real.”

Other national polls have given Obama a double-digit overall lead, fueled by perceptions he would do a better job managing the faltering economy and unhappiness with McCain’s attacks on him over the past week.

But he has cautioned his supporters against overconfidence and most polls now put his lead in single digits.

Just think, he is massively out spending McCain specially in the battleground States, the MSM are ridiculously and despicably rooting for him, he has the black and Hispanic vote in his pocket and with two and a bit weeks to go that’s the best he can do. Against that is the fact, to me at least, that an awful lot of Americans are going to arrive at the polling booths and say, ‘Nope, can’t take the chance here’ and vote for McCain, the tried and true candidate.

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I have long been a fan of Christopher Hitchens, his writings and talks on the Iraq war have been exemplary, I’ve been going off him a bit of late because of his strident, shallow diatribes against religion which are typical of the lefty he used to be and now it seems still is. Now he has endorsed Obama! What is it with these intellectual types, and how the hell can we just get rid of them all and let real people like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber run things? Hot Air has a post which includes a video of Laura Ingraham on Fox news taking him to task and doing a great job. First time I’ve seen Hitch stumbling over his words and not quite knowing what to say, much like Obama actually.
Hey Hitch, just go back to the left where you belong and let the grown ups do what has to be done.

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Last Friday was little Lara’s third birthday! She is talking up a storm now [well she is female!] and last January looking at the snow falling out of the window she could just manage ‘no’ for snow, it’s kind of like a miracle how fast they master the language.

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If you want to beat any lefties over the head with the facts about global warming, read the ‘Open Letter on Global Warming’ by Viscount Brenchley. It’s long and detailed and should be compulsory reading for anyone who wants to pontificate on the subject.

H/T Alan Sullivan.

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Well here’s something to warm the cockles of your heart:

The Obama Condom

I got this in an email and thought it worth passing along. Much like Obama favors infanticide, thus destroying new life, his presidency will abort and prevent the birth of new business, new ideas, and life in general.

The federal government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed!

It just doesn’t get more accurate than that.

Obama’s Ohio Lackey Brunner Triumphs, Good Man Boehner Fails

This is what conservatives have to prepare themselves to expect on a continuous basis. That voter fraud perpetuated by Obama’s ACORN is sweeping the country like a virulent virus is beyond dispute. But any attempts to investigate, or attempts such as John Boehner’s efforts to cut off funding to this band of miscreants are squashed. Rule of law means nothing to the left. If it did, we wouldn’t have a problem with illegal immigration, sanctuary cities or upstart mayors sanctioning gay marriage.
It is going to get worse under Obama, so you can expect that lawsuits like Phil Berg’s will be buried. It doesn’t matter to the Progressive pukes if their Messiah has legitimate claim to citizenship, no more than Wright, Ayers and the sundry other radical detritus he is tied with mattered to them. He is surrounded by the men who are responsible for the Fannie Mae debacle and the media whistles Dixie. None of it matters.

High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute

The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don’t match records in other government databases.

Frank rebuffs GOP calls for ACORN hearings

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Wednesday dismissed GOP calls for immediate hearings regarding a grassroots group’s alleged abuse of government funds as a political tactic to help John McCain.

His comments come in response to an Oct. 14 letter, signed by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Financial Services ranking member Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) and Republican members of the committee, requesting that Frank call hearings on the activities of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) and the group’s alleged ties to fraudulent voter registration.

“Recent press accounts have listed allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, Nevada and Florida among others,” the letter said. “Given the reliance of ACORN on millions of dollars of federal funding from the housing GSE’s [sic] and grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it is imperative that the Financial Services Committee use its oversight authority to determine the accuracy of these reports.”

Frank disagreed.

“My Republican colleagues, in raising the issue of ACORN, which is unrelated to the subject of regulatory restructuring, have apparently decided to try to hijack the committee and turn it into an echo chamber in an effort help out the McCain campaign,” Frank said. “No legislation passed by the House has authorized or appropriated funds for ACORN.”

Produce the Damn Birth Certificate Obama

Alex Jones – Phil Berg Pt1

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Phil Berg Part 2

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Comment of the Day: We Are All Joe the Plumber

We Are All Joe the Plumber

McCain should do a “we are Joe the Plumber” ad. Feature a wide assortment of average folks, all ages and backgrounds, men and women, saying “I am Joe the Plumber, and I have a question for Senator Obama…” and let fly with the questions Dear Leader will never answer:

… why did you spend twenty years in a racist church?

… why do you think you have the right to seize the earnings of free men and women to “spread the wealth?”

… why did you lie to the American people about your relationship with the unapologetic terrorist William Ayers?

… why did you support the massive voter fraud organization known as ACORN, now being investigated in a dozen states by the FBI?

… why did you vote ‘present’ on the bill that could have prevented the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crisis? Why did you take so much money from them?

… why couldn’t you name even one federal spending program you would cut, after you had two different chances in two debates?

… why do you accuse everyone who asks you a tough question of being a racist?

… why did you blame the mortgage crisis on the free market, instead of the Democrat senators who caused it? Why won’t you call for them to resign? Why do you blame *everything* on the free market?

End it with a title card that says, “We are ALL Joe the Plumber.”

Doctor Zero on October 16, 2008 at 11:09 PM

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The Third Jihad

It was difficult enough to speak the truth about Islam in a PC addled Bush administration. The advent of an Obama administration will likely lead us down the dark path Europe now slogs on. Just north, in Canada, the Islamists are tightening their grip around the throat of free speech and CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and like groups in America will have a green light should the Marxist Obama ascend his throne.

Because there is really little difference between islam – a complete theocratic system that swallows freedom, personal choices, politics, family relationships whole – and the’isms of the left. Except they put a “god” on the throne. A god quite unlike the Christian god who will at least allow an individual to choose a path to hell if it so behooves him. It’s called free will, a concept that islamists deem to be a blasphemy.

This page offers more excerpts of the complete DVD that may be purchased. The darkness Obama brings over this country will usher in yet a deeper shade of hell and it’s name is Islam. Be prepared.

The Third Jihad

What is The Third Jihad?

The Third Jihad exposes the war the media is not telling you about.

It reveals the enemy our government is too afraid to name.

One person who is not afraid to tell you the truth is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim American and former physician to the US Congress.

After the FBI releases a radical Islamist manifesto describing how to destroy America from within, Dr. Jasser decides to investigate.

The Third Jihad is about what he discovered.

Interviews are conducted with radical Islamists in the US and the leaders trying to stop them, such as Rudy Giuliani, Clinton CIA Director Jim Woolsey, NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Senator Joe Lieberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former terrorist group member Tawfik Hamid. (source)

Obamadebacle.

Seems like it could all be over before the fat lady sings.

API has recordings of the conversation between API and Mrs Obama (Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API., and we confirm that the audio will be released to the public. In the last 24 hours, API has been consulting legal advisers on the way forward in order to avoid being sued by the Obama camp. API has realised that the contents of the tapes if made public may change the political atmosphere in America for ever, especially in the next few days.

If Obama gets yanked, because if he was adopted by a foreigner he isn’t qualified to run, does that mean that Joe Biden will be the nominee? There is also the rumour that he wasn’t born in Hawaii, but so far that is just rumour. Curiouser and curiouser.

Chauvinistic Socialism:They’ll Shove the Money Down Your Throat

Smaller U.S. Banks Resist Federal Cash Infusion, But May Be Forced To Take It.

The opposition suggested that the government may have to continue to press banks to participate in the plan. The first $125 billion will be divided among nine of the largest U.S. banks, which were forced to accept the investment to help destigmatize the program in the eyes of other institutions.

In rolling out the program, Treasury said it would make the rest of the money available to banks that requested it. Officials said they expected thousands of banks to participate.

Both the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America said that they knew of few banks that planned to participate.

“I’m not sure we’ve heard from any that want to participate,” said Karen Thomas, vice president for government relations at the community bankers group, which represents about 5,000 banks. “That said, if any community banks do enroll, we anticipate it will be just a small minority.”

Federal regulators said they did expect some banks to volunteer, though none stepped forward yesterday. But they added that they would not rely on volunteers. Treasury will set standards for deciding which banks can be helped, and the regulatory agencies will triage the banks they oversee: The institutions faring best and worst will not receive investments. The institutions in the middle, whose fortunes could be improved by putting a little more money in the bank, will be pushed to accept the money from the government.

“We will encourage institutions to apply,” said John C. Dugan, the comptroller of the currency, who oversees most of the nation’s largest banks.

In return for its investments, Treasury will receive preferred shares of bank stock that pay 5 percent interest for up to five years. After that, if the companies haven’t repaid the government’s initial investment, the interest rate goes up to 9 percent.
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Pick Any State and There is More Obama Voter Fraud

Stealing Pennsylvania: “Massive Fraud”

“Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board” with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. “Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election.”
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Asked whether the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party had come forward to work with the GOP on the ACORN voter fraud issue, Gleason tersely shook his head. One source did say that much of the impetus for the fraud was “an Obama effort,” as opposed to the Democratic Party as an institution.
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Is it really possible that the presidency could be stolen for Obama by virtue of a massive voter fraud here in Pennsylvania? And elsewhere? ACORN seems to think so. One so-called “non-partisan” ACORN member, Gleason pointed out, has been captured on video tape saying the group’s objective was to “beat McCain down.” Not exactly “non-partisan” sounding, is it?

Newman, the retired Supreme Court Justice, was blunt on the evidence: “I don’t want a president who does this.”

Dirty Obama Minion: Ohio’s Jennifer Brunner

Ohio Secretary of State Forced to Reveal She’s Been Hiding 200,000 Questionable Registrations

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Is This Good for Michelle Obama’s Children?

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More Brown Shirt Tactics From the Obamafascists

Democracy is the Ultimate Form of Intolerance

This week the Washington Post had the upbeat story of how a bunch of Democratic activists in Prince George’s County used a combination of racial victimization and straight up threats of boycotts to intimidate a hotel into removing a McCain marquee.

Had it been a bunch of Republican activists forcing a black hotel owner to remove an Obama for President sign, we can be sure that the Washington Post would have covered it in entirely different tones. We can also be sure that someone would have turned up a noose somewhere even if they had to buy it on eBay and Jesse Jackson would be leading a march down there chanting, “We Will Overcome.”

But since it’s a McCain sign, there was a sense of entitlement by black Democratic activists in getting it taken down. A sense of entitlement that the Washington Post article implicitly supports. Apparently supporting the candidate of your choice, if he isn’t Obama, is “disrespect” which is next door to “intolerance” which is next door to “racism”.

This all makes sense in the same twilight zone in which McCain with his interracial family is just like George Wallace and a commercial pointing out that Obama was associated with an upper middle class white terrorist is racist. Then there’s Sarah Palin’s white blouse. Next thing you know she’ll be burning polar bear crosses on their lawn.
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