1. He joined and remained active in a church where racism and anti-American hate is routinely preached. He and his family attended, and heavily contributed for about 20 years. This has received worldwide attention, as show in the link below.
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Obama first claimed not to know about Wright鈥檚 inflammatory statements. He later admitted he did.
CBS News
Flip-Flip Video
CBS News
OOPS鈥?didn鈥檛 notice. Or else he forgot.
Rev Wright, one of the ministers, even promoted Obama and denigrated Hillary Clinton from the pulpit spurring an IRS investigation as to the validity of their non-profit status. The Obama campaign is also reported to have campaigned on at least one occasion at church events, furthering the curiosity of the IRS.
WCBS TV
Obama Speech at General Synod of the United Church of Christ
But, OOPS鈥?he didn鈥檛 know. Or didn鈥檛 mind.
2. Senator Obama bought stock in two companies whose investors included his 2004 campaign political donors. One, in fact, was developing medicine to treat avian flu 鈥?with the stock purchase coming right before Obama introduced legislation to increase funding to combat the virus.
The other company, SkyTerra, received government permission to build a national wireless network on the day Obama purchased his shares. Among the principal owners of this business were four people who had raised more than $150,000 for Obama. Attorney Obama claimed later that they were in a semi-blind trust, that just didn鈥檛 legally work out. When this became public, Obama sold the stock.
Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times
Oops鈥?he didn鈥檛 know. Or didn鈥檛 he mind?
3. Senator Obama came into politics through the famously corrupt Chicago political machine, with the help of some of the slimiest characters imaginable. (Several major players who helped him are have been indicted for graft, fraud, etc. Obama now keeps a rep at Rezko鈥檚 trial every day to monitor testimony.) Obama has had to donate to charity much of the money they gave him to get his start, though the admitted dollar amount keeps increasing as time goes on. It鈥檚 now up over $250,000. Tony Rezko, currently at trial on federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud, was also involved in the purchase of Obama鈥檚 home at well below market value.
Huffington Post
Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times
Not so well publicized is the fact that Obama wrote letters to the Illinois Dept of Housing, recommending Rezco鈥檚 company, North Kenwood, LLC, for the housing projects that soon became slums, causing inhumane hardship for their residents.
Obama Letters
These slums, later repossessed, were in Obama鈥檚 district while he was an Illinois senator. In fact, some are about a mile from his home, and several are still boarded up. Obama professed to be unaware of any problems. During the Democratic debate on January 21, 2008, Obama, in fact, gave the impression that he had merely done about 5 hours of legal work for 鈥渢his individual.鈥?br>
The Rezko Foreclosed Properties
telegraph.co.uk
No Quarter
Rezko Watch
Chicago Tribune: Almost Believable
OOPS鈥?he didn鈥檛 know. Or did he care?
4. According to the Sun-Times, Barack Obama, 鈥渁llegedly decent guy and agent of change鈥?in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the University of Chicago Hospitals, where is wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president. Said hospital, by the way, gave Michelle Obama a huge raise (nearly $200,000, more than doubling her salary) in 2005 after Barack was elected to the United States Senate.
Michelle Obama
Chicago Sun-Times
According to The Chicago Tribune, 鈥淥bama had a special connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, one of the company鈥檚 directors and biggest investors whose family, records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama鈥檚 campaigns since 2003.鈥?Maytag closed its refrigerator plant in Galesburg, Ill during Obama鈥檚 2004 Senate campaign, but Crown says Obama never raised the fate of the Galesburg plant with him. Obama鈥檚 campaign responded 鈥渢hat the senator did not know Crown sat on Maytag鈥檚 board until the Tribune noted it last September in a story about the closing of the Maytag headquarters in Newton, Iowa.鈥?br>
Chicago Tribune
Obama Truth
Oops鈥?he didn鈥檛 know? Or didn鈥檛 he care?
5. Obama took donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees for his House and Senate races and his own Hopefund political action committee. He only stopped taking this political money 鈥?and began speaking out against it 鈥?when he launched his presidential campaign in February 2007. However, he still takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from their high level employees.
Politifact
The Hill
Politifact
Oops鈥?he didn鈥檛 know? Or doesn鈥檛 mind?
6. Opponents have asked Senator Obama to release the records from his term of state office in Illinois. Since he has little other experience in politics (he did, after all, declare his presidential candidacy barely 2 years after election to the US Senate), this doesn鈥檛 seem an unreasonable request. The records might also shed light on his relationship with Rezko and some of the other corrupt individuals he rubbed shoulders with during his climb up through Chicago politics. But lo and behold, the records all seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
Politico
The Pantagraph, a central Illinois newspaper
Questions have also been raised about Obama-sponsored legislation during the last year he was in office there. It is alleged that, in the interest of making Obama appear more prolific, then Illinois Senate Majority Leader Emil Jones appointed Obama as sponsor of many pieces of legislation, even though other senior senators had spent many years working on the bills.
鈥淚 took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen,鈥?State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. 鈥淏arack didn鈥檛 have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.鈥?br>
鈥淚 don鈥檛 consider it bill jacking,鈥?Hendon told me. 鈥淏ut no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book.鈥?br>
As a result, Todd Spivak of the Houston Press noted, 鈥淒uring his seventh and final year in the state Senate, Obama鈥檚 stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law 鈥?including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.鈥?br>
Houston Press
Oops鈥?he didn鈥檛 know? Or did he mind?
7. Obama鈥檚 website sported a page for the New Black Panthers organization until it was discovered and reported by the media. It was quickly removed. Obama denounced their support, but the New Black Panthers鈥?Winter 2008 newsletter still carries a full page ad for his campaign on page 36. Though the origin of the ad is not stated, it contains logos, graphics and quotes from the Obama website, which Obama could have ordered removed as a copyright violation.
The NBP page, before its deletion.
NBP Winter 2008 Newsletter
OOPs鈥?he didn鈥檛 know.
8. In addition to the controversy concerning his numerous 鈥減resent鈥?votes while in the Illinois legislature, Obama also maintains that he just pushed the wrong button on 5 or 6 other votes. (Let鈥檚 not even go there!)
According to the New York Times, however, an examination of Illinois records shows at least 36 times when Mr. Obama was either the only state senator to vote present or was part of a group of six or fewer to vote that way, causing many to question whether he was really just trying to avoid taking a stand.
LA Times on Obama votes
Real Clear Politics
New Your Times
Obama also has an exceptionally high no-show ration for votes since coming to the Senate.
Media Matters
OOPS鈥?he didn鈥檛 know? Or didn鈥檛 he care?
9. On Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008, CTV reported that a senior member of Obama鈥檚 campaign, Austan Goolsbee, spoke directly with the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago to assure them that if Obama publicly spoke about opting out of NAFTA, they should not take it seriously. It would just be political posturing鈥?campaign rhetoric. Obama flatly denied the report, attacking both Senator Clinton and Senator McCain for their comments on the issue.
On March 4, the New York Times, among other sources, revealed that the conversation had indeed taken place, and published the memo. The Canadian government announced that an investigation would begin to find out who was responsible for leaking the memorandum concerning the conversation.
CTV News
New York Times
New York Times published the memo
OOPS鈥?he didn鈥檛 know.
10. Obama鈥檚 position on the war in Iraq, in spite of the October 2002 speech, has not been as unwavering as he would have us believe.
# He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that by March of 2003, 鈥淚 began to suspect that I might have been wrong.鈥?br>
# In July, 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune, 鈥淭here鈥檚 not that much difference between my position and George Bush鈥檚 position at this stage.鈥?br>
# Once elected to the US Senate, he told Charlie Rose on PBS, 鈥淥nce the decision was made, then we鈥檝e got to do everything we can to stabilize the country, to make it successful, because we鈥檒l have too much at stake in the Middle East. And that鈥檚 the position that I continue to take.鈥?br>
# Obama continued that tack in his speech of November, 2005. Mirroring the Bush administration鈥檚 position, he asserted on January 26, 2006, that 鈥渋t remains my position that we have a role to play in stabilizing the country as Iraqis are getting their act together.鈥?In this interview on Meet the Press, he further stated, 鈥淢y position has been that it would not be responsible for us to unilaterally and precipitously draw troops down regardless of the politics, because I think that all of us have a stake in seeing Iraq succeed.鈥?br>
# It wasn鈥檛 until October of 2006 that he called for 鈥渁ll the leadership in Washington to execute a serious change of course in Iraq.鈥?br>
# A month before he announced his presidential candidacy he repositioned himself again, saying for the first time, 鈥淚t鈥檚 time to start bringing our troops home.鈥?br>
# It wasn鈥檛 until May of 2007 that Obama voted against funding for the war for the first time.
# In June, 2007, Obama voted no to Senator John F. Kerry鈥檚 proposal to remove most combat troops from Iraq by July 2007, warning that an 鈥渁rbitrary deadline鈥?could 鈥渃ompound鈥?the Bush administration鈥檚 mistake. He voted instead for a Republican-sponsored resolution that stated the Senate would not cut off funding for troops in Iraq.
Commentary Magazine
Obama Gets the Facts Wrong
Clinton Takes on Obama
MSNBC
The Boston Globe
OOPS鈥?did he forget?
11. Senator Obama is chair of of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee鈥檚 Subcommittee on Europe, having been appointed in early 2007. According to Congressional Records, the subcommittee鈥檚 jurisdiction includes 鈥渁ll matters, policies and problems concerning the continent of Europe, including the European member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.鈥?That means it has jurisdiction over NATO.
As Senator Clinton asserted in a recent debate, 鈥淣ATO is critical to our mission in Afghanistan. He鈥檚 held not one substantive hearing to do oversight, to figure out what we can do to actually have a stronger presence with NATO in Afghanistan.鈥?br>
Politifact
OOPS鈥?he didn鈥檛 know鈥?or did he forget?
12. Senator Obama told Tim Russert in January of 2006 that 鈥淚 will serve out my full six-year term.鈥?br>
From the official transcript of Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: But there seems to be an evolution in your thinking. This is what you told the Chicago Tribune last month: 鈥淗ave you ruled out running for another office before your term is up?鈥?Obama answered, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not something I anticipate doing.鈥?But when we talked back in November of `04 after your election I said, 鈥淭here鈥檚 been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?鈥?Obama, 鈥淎bsolutely.鈥?br>
SEN. OBAMA: I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you鈥檙e going to get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.
MR. RUSSERT: So you will not run for president or vice-president in 2008?
SEN. OBAMA: I will not.
Obama formed an exploratory committee in January of 2007 and declared his candidacy two months later.
Meet The Press Transcript January 22, 2006
鈥淥bama Takes the Russert Test鈥?from The Swamp
Obama Learns the Washington Ways
OOPS鈥?he forgot.
13. Senator Obama promised to use public financing for the general election if his Republican opponent would do the same. Now, apparently after he realized how much more money he could have at his disposal, he has reversed himself.
League of Women Voters
Mr Obama鈥檚 Waffle
OOPS鈥?he forgot.
14. Obama bragged in the Iowa debate about the 鈥渘uclear legislation I鈥檝e passed.鈥?When he encountered resistance from the nuclear industry鈥?including Illinois-based Excelon, the country鈥檚 largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama鈥檚 largest sources of campaign money, he edited his bill several times, making it weaker each time. The bill, however, never passed. It died. But Mr Obama gained a chief political strategist鈥?David Axelrod. In October 2007, Obama resubmitted the bill in its watered-down version.
Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate
OOPS鈥?he forgot.
15. Senator Obama purports to be in favor of 鈥渦niversal鈥?health care, utilizing private insurance, on the campaign trail. In fact, he adamantly denied advocating single payor. But there was a time when he was in favor of the single payor system.
Video
The Swamp
OOPS鈥?he forgot.
16. While campaigning, Obama told several hundred people in Iowa, 鈥淣o lobbyists need apply to my White House.鈥?br>
However, in contrast to his pledge to fight against the influence of special interests, his record on employing lobbyists isn鈥檛 quite so pristine. Several high level members of his campaign are registered lobbyists, including his New Hampshire campaign manager. Lately, he has softened his campaign line to, 鈥淭hey are not going to run my White House.鈥?br>
The Boston Globe
The Wall Street Journal
Politico
The Washington Post
The Hill
Obama actually seems very comfortable working with lobbyists on legislation. To site just one example鈥?br>
According to ABC, Obama 鈥渉as quietly worked with corporate lobbyists to help pass breaks worth $12 million,鈥?that gave two overseas companies tariff suspensions. Both companies also have facilities in Illinois.
One of these companies, Nufarm, told its shareholders it was making 鈥渕ore money than ever before in North America because it had increased its prices on its U.S. and Canadian customers, predominantly farmers.鈥?This had the effect of profiting business interests in his state, while punishing its farmers.
According to ABC News, 鈥淲ith a dozen tariff suspension bills to his name, Obama stands out as the most prolific of any Democratic presidential hopeful on the topic.鈥?br>
Despite Rhetoric, Obama Pushed Lobbyists鈥?Interests
OOPS鈥?he forgot. Or didn鈥檛 he mind?
How many other things are we going to find that Senator Obama conveniently forgot? It is my hope that the political powers-that-be will lay off the talk about ending the primaries early, and that the media and the internet diggers will help us truly vet Senator Obama. Use a little old-fashioned, objective journalism鈥?remember that?
If he has nothing more to hide, it can only help him.
But if we don鈥檛 know the whole story yet, it might just help us be certain that we can indeed put a Democrat in the White House in November.
That is, after all, what Democrats want, isn鈥檛 it?
Farrakhan: 鈥楳ischief making鈥?should not dampen support for Obama
http://www.noi.org/statements/statement_... Yes he is. I know that we both want Hillary to be the Democratic candidate but Obama is a genuine man. Please don't lose perspective of the battle ahead. He's a politician - so he needs to raise money and when you need to raise money, you need to go asking for it. People aren't going to give large amounts of money without something in return. I believe Obama has said he won't take PAC money - but trust me, he's getting it from somewhere. It's not all coming for the likes of you and me but large organizations.
In Obama's defense - when you are giving thousands of speeches over 16 or 18 months - opponents are going to be able to slice different speeches and produce confusing messages. It's an old tactic - used as far back as the United States has been around. Hillary is using some of his speeched to help create confusion - and I know for a fact he is doing it to Hillary. How many times have you've heard Obama come out against Hillary voting for the war in Iraq. Which if you go back in time - was a smart vote based on the facts in 2002 (they turned out to be somewhat false but they when the facts were presented and along with Saddam's actions - a vote for a war wasn't a bad thing).
I do think Obama has got a glass jaw. He can be rattled when attacked. He seems to get in a very defensive mode when come at. I do think his ideas are "pie in the sky" and he's totally not in touch with reality. I think we know one thing in politics - "TALK IS CHEAP" - and Obama is all talk. If your foreign policy cornerstone is to sit down and talk to Al Queda, North Korea, Iran or Syria - that let me tell you - your a fool. I'm not advocating war with these countries but unless you back up your talk with a fist - those countries will manipulate you - and I think Obama will be manipulated big time in the international arena.
For the record - I will not vote for Obama, or Hillary. I am a moderate who leans right in the foreign policy area. I do think the Democrats could of won this election in a landslide had they actually put a decent candidate out there The one thing he's mirroring and does better that any other candidate is to play the same game he wants to be perceived as condemning.
You see, Obama can NEVER disassociate himself from the experience of being black in America. He would want nothing more than you buying into the absurd idea that he would be an impartial President where the issue of race has nothing to do with the way he will preside over our country. Only ABSOLUTE IDIOT FOOLS will believe that ...
We don't need someone who can't help but operate from the standpoint of what the Church he now denies made him believe.... (In 20 years he never heard anything like what he now so fervently denies ??? Wake the hell up America !!)
I'm not judging whether he's right or wrong for the beliefs he sure must've formed over the years, I just simply don't think his background (the one he's working so hard at denying now) should be ignored or looked at non existing because he just says so....
We need a global thinker, an open state of mind who can look at things through no filters... America today is without a doubt the product of not one way of looking at things, but the product of thousands of cultures, beliefs and nations. We need someone who understand this CLEARLY to move forward and to meet the local and foreign challenges our nation faces today. Tell you what.. when you come across as neutral when asking a question like..
'Is Obama honest?'
Then I can answer it whole heartedly. I dont like when people take sides in a obvious attempt to stir up a rally rather a debate.
I tend to take Obama's side when I see immaturity such as this. Great Question !!!
GREAT INFO !!!!
I gave you a STAR !!!
CHANGE is ALL that you will get back from the Socialist/Communist/Liberal Democrats, when they TAKE your hard earned paycheck from you to give it to able bodied people, "FEEDERS", who do NOT want to get off of their butts and actually get a job !! Our wonderful government hand-out programs !!
Please, TRY to HOPE in one hand and SPIT in the other hand!
Which one is filling up the fastest ??
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We need to make sure that the person that represents AMERICA is PRO-AMERICA !!!
WE NEED to make sure that EVERY man, woman, and child, KNOW how ANTI-AMERICAN Obama and his Reverend(S) ARE !!!
Would a CONTINUAL 20 years of "second hand smoke" have a negative affect on the other people in the area ??
Would a CONTINUAL 20 years of "Anti-American Preachings" have a negative affect on the other people in the area ??
John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, was sworn in as the 35th President of THE United States of America, at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the NEED for ALL Americans to be ACTIVE CITIZENS, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Please NOTICE that it said DEMOCRAT - NOT Socialist and / or Communist Democrat !!
It means this country is only as strong as the people in it. It means get off your a$$ and do something!!!
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The Democratic Elite make the rules and then they change them for their convenience !!
The Elite Democrats feel like THEY know better than YOU who would be the best person to run the country !!!
By the People and For the People !!!
. People that vote for him deserve every dirty tactic he can muster. As for the rest of us who wont vote for him, I guess we will just have to complain................................... until the part of "free speech" is taken from the constitution, & we can no longer say what we think...................... but then again what do you expect from BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The name says it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow...all that.....now tell us why we should vote for old man McCain and the rest of those retro reactionary bozos that gave the 'conservative' George Bush....an act that will live infamy. Here's a hint, dude Obama will get a lot of votes because he's politically committed to putting the American wage-earner first, unlike the fascisti sons of $#^$&es of the current Republican party who put the trans-national corporations, the Oil Mafia and the radical clerics of the Jesus freak right first...last....and always! Take 'yer swift-boat down the river! No kiddin'! |
