It’s one thing to pose with a fake Presidential Seal and make yourself look like a complete fool to the American Public. Not to mention all the Democratic voters who wanted Hillary Clinton for President…and voted for her instead of you.
It’s another to promise one thing to Senator McCain regarding fund raising and then go back on your word, isn’t it? These things are troubling. Very, very troubling.
The best story comes out of Aspen, Colorado from The Aspen Times… this morning. Don’t miss this read! The last few grafs are priceless. I hate to be the spoiler, but the writer Addison Garner nails it:
“…Sen. Obama, Abraham Lincoln had it right: “You cannot fool all the people all the time.” You cannot take a vow of pubic-finance piety — then give us a head-fake — and grab the bundled corporate cash. Voters notice.
Nor can you ignite a wall of racial animus, dance behind the flames, and then claim that your true mission is one of American unity and “post-racial” reconciliation. We hear you, Sen. Obama; but, increasingly, we also see you.
Don’t polish that presidential seal prematurely…”
There is also the no small matter of your forged Birth Certificate? It’s only a tad alarming, to any thinking voter. No, make that VERY alarming. Where is your REAL Birth Certificate? And, it certainly is audacious to think you could hope your way through this one now, no? It seems to me that our Government ought to intervene on this. Something seems wrong, doesn’t it? And since when is it up to a blogger to produce a document for you?
Over at Stop-Obama.org they have this up regarding the “Birth Certificate” matter.
Funny, The DNC sent a fundraising letter. It arrived yesterday. But, you aren’t getting one cent. Not a cent. Hillary Clinton was our candidate of choice, not you. You aren’t going to get any money and you aren’t going to get support, or our votes around here. Even the wording in the letter was bogus. I quote from your letter:
“We’re the party of a man who told us the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; and who faced down fascism and liberated a continent from tryanny”
Well, I think that is going to happen. John McCain is going to LIBERATE us from YOU! He will!
You see, you’ve tried to pull off some very strange things in this election, already. Haven’t you?
Why didn’t you stick to what you told John McCain about financing? It’s not as if the public hasn’t noticed, is it? Or how about the FEC? How about the FEC and all the things that happened this year, especially when it was “on shut down.” Maybe we ought to refresh our memory over at Democracy21.org, and then watch a little film on all of this, no? Concerned Americans want to know more about your involvement regarding this whole issue, don’t we?
Perhaps we should revisit something that the head of Democracy21.org said back in 1999, from the NYT:
A New Form of Soft Money Belies Much Talk of Reform
”…The problem with these PAC’s is their Cayman Islands quality,” said Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, a public policy organization here. ”Secret, unlimited money is about as dangerous as you can get in American politics in terms of corrupting the system.”
Larry Makinson, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said that nobody knew how many soft-money PAC’s were in operation in individual states by Senate and House members.
”This is a completely invisible, brand new area of fund-raising,” Mr. Makinson said…”
See, the whole problem a lot of us are having? It’s all about your CHARACTER! You thought people were just going to love your little hopey, unity, message didn’t you?
Except, no, what we wanted to see this year was CHARACTER! In the candidates for President of the United States. Because it COUNTS! So do ETHICS, don’t they?
You know, you seem FAUX and McCain seems GREAT! to this now ex-Democrat.
Here is an article from the NYT on McCain! From 2007! I know who I’m going to vote for now, strictly on CHARACTER, after what you pulled on Hillary Clinton, what you have pulled in terms of fundraising, how you broke your word to John McCain, how you allowed a forged Birth Certificate to appear in the web, and made a cheesy PRESIDENTIAL SEAL way in advance of even being named a nominee in Denver.
Don’t expect any unity from this voter, EVER! McCain will get my vote. Here is why:
The Character Factor
McCain HAS IT! — read the op-ed by David Brooks:
“…Telling the truth is a skill. Those who don’t do it habitually lose the ability, but McCain is well-practiced and has the capacity to face unpleasant truths. While other conservatives failed to see how corporations were insinuating themselves into their movement, McCain went after Boeing contracts. While others failed to see the rising tide of corruption around them, McCain led the charge against Jack Abramoff. While others ignored the spending binge, McCain was among the fiscal hawks.
There have been occasions when McCain compromised his principles for political gain, but he was so bad at it that it always backfired. More often, he is driven by an ancient sense of honor, which is different from fame and consists of the desire to be worthy of the esteem of posterity…”
And, this was interesting. It’s kind of a strange choice of colors for the menu selection isn’t it?
Funny, just how are you going to let your biggest meanest supporter get her “greasy fix” all cooked up out of those things when you have no plans to serve fried things. Let’s try and dream up a menu for the DNC.
“…The Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white…”
Let’s see:
You could have guacamole and salsa cruda on blue corn chips with sour cream.
You could have yellow cornbread, grits, collard greens, baby purple potatoes and sliced tomatoes.
You could have a really large white cake, with artificial frosting colors, no? That would be so faux real and surreal at the same time. But first? Maybe you better get going on that Birth Certificate deal. especially before you declare yourself the nominee like you did in that letter that just came, no?
It’s not nice to try and pull a fast one on all of us former Hillary Clinton supporters. We call ourselves P.U.M.A., in case you haven’t heard.
Well, well. I read that fabulous article in The Guardian on McCain the other day, and funny thing. I came across two names in a couple of those paragraphs, and one of them seems VERY afraid of a HERO who is as honest as McCain will be! It’s this guy:
“…That sentiment was echoed by Mississippi Republican Senator Thad Cochran, who told a Boston newspaper: ‘The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me…’
So, why would this Cochran guy be so damn scared of a good guy like McCain? Maybe he has some reasons to have a cold chill running down his timid little spine, no? Because, if you look at this article on him from the wikipedia he certainly does seem to have his little fingers all over Washington’s pie, doesn’t he?
Like for instance, he’s involved with all this stuff!
- Appropriations (Ranking Member)
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Defense
- Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Homeland Security (Ranking Member)
- Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Legislative Branch (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans’ Affairs, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Rules and Administration
That’s a lot of stuff isn’t it? To be involved with…
Maybe McCain scares him because he might want to investigate that little melamine dog food problem we seem to have just transcended, no? That killed all those people’s dogs over here. Could he have known about the Melamine being introduced into kibble?
If I were him, I’d be a little scared too.
Because of this! Just a little something I got off of the ol’ Muckraker!
“…Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.), ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has collected $774 million worth of earmarks in 12 spending bills. After Cochran, Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), the second-ranking Republican on Appropriations, secured more money for special projects than any other member of Congress: $502 million…”
I wasn’t exactly sure what all these pork things and earmarks were about, but, I know my personal hero, the MAVERICK JOHN McCAIN doesn’t like them!
So, I found this great article right here! (It helped me understand what all of that porky piglet stuff was about) and then, I thought I’d have a look at what McCain had to say about all this over at his place!
Well, well! Here is what he had to say!
Lobbying and Ethics Reform
Seal the Pork Barrel
“…Among the most glaring abuses in Washington is the willful setting aside of taxpayer dollars for the pet projects of special interests, often through last minute additions to appropriations bills. Pork barrel spending is an insult to taxpayers, a waste of public resources, and an abdication of our leaders’ responsibility to be good and honorable stewards of the public treasury, for the benefit of all Americans, not just a few.Too often it appears that elected leaders use the treasury as a campaign kitty, channeling taxpayer dollars for pet projects to preserve incumbency rather than to meet national needs. John McCain has been a tireless warrior against wasteful spending, and one of the few leaders who has the guts to challenge abusive Congressional earmarks and the pork barrel politics that grip Washington. John McCain understands that, fundamentally, wasteful spending is an issue of ethics.
As he pointed out recently as part of his longstanding, principled, and often lonely vigil against pork barrel earmarks in Congress: “Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years. This explosion in earmarks led one lobbyist to deride the appropriations committees as favor factories. The time for us to fix this broken process is long overdue.” As President, John McCain would shine the disinfecting light of public scrutiny on those who abuse the public purse, use the power of the presidency to restore fiscal responsibility, and exercise the veto pen to enforce it…”
Now do you see why he is my hero! He’s going to fix things around that ol’ Washington right where it counts! It occurs to me that there might be many in Washington who are absolutely scared shitless of him right now. Especially all those “special project” types, no?
Like say those Chicago Slums we talked about yesterday, and how Obama is involved with that guy Rezko, and stuff. Just to refresh your memory, here is that story again off the Boston Globe!
How interesting! Looks like our hero’s competition is involved with those earmarks and porky stuff too. But I guess that’s just the way they like to “keep house” up Chicago way. Let poor Black people suffer in rat infested slums while building gigantic Aquariums! Hmmmm….
My HERO, John McCain? I don’t think he’d like that kind of thing, do you?
Look what I found over at the SWINE LINE! wow!
Fishing for Tax Dollars
You know, rather than helping tourism? You better fix those rat-filled slums, pal. Like my HERO would.
And now a little song for all those lil porkers! (from one of my fave artists) just double click that arrow in the middle of it and be magically swept to a place where you can hear it! I’m playing it for my hero! Umm, hmmm… ’cause just like me, he’s a Westerner, and ummm, we just don’t abide with things like the above. No, we don’t. Why you ask? Because they are UNETHICAL!
Gee, I can’t help wondering what Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ralph Nader and the fabulous ghost of Teddy Roosevelt would have to say about all this! You know, John McCain is just like Teddy Roosevelt, isn’t he?
Beloved! By a lot of pumapeople, everywhere! It’s high time we had somebody with his kind of ethics take the helm!
“Housekeeping” on the South Side of Chicago, Democratic Party Election 2008, and why I am voting for John McCain reason #2…
June 30, 2008
This video below was an insult directed at my candidate Hillary Clinton regarding how Mrs. Clinton “kept house” during her years in the White House. Let’s take a look at what The Boston Globe has to say about how the other half lives, or should we say “keeps house” up in Chicago…
I refer you to an article from The Boston Globe, that will really sicken you when you read about the slum conditions of this district on Chicago’s South Side. It seems that this is how the DNC’s new Presidential candidate in the Democratic Party keeps house in Chicago. In the tenements under his care.
Part of the reason I am a P.U.M.A? I don’t support slums, or the people who are associated with keeping slums, taking kickbacks from slumlords, or profiting off other people’s misery.
The article is called: “Grim Proving Ground for Obama’s Housing Strategy”
“…CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition…”
Some way to keep house isn’t it? I do not support Hillary and Bill Clinton giving any aid to this candidate or the Democratic Party. Apparently, this is the sort of housekeeping they believe in up Chicago way. This is not the way most of America lives. Most of America, Republicans, and especially Democratic America will be very shocked at the facts in this article from The Boston Globe.
White working class people and Latinos, such as those disparaged by the tactics of the “New Democratic Party” in this video below have worked for years to help the poor, in various capacities. I doubt they will support any presidential candidate who allows rat-filled slums either in Chicago, Washington, or any city across the United States. I cannot support leadership such as this because it sickens me.
Perhaps, it is a matter of forgetting one’s roots in the case below, no? Or the decency of Bill and Hillary Clinton in their White House years.
I refer you to this article from The Chronicle out of San Francisco, to read Carly Fiorina on leadership and John McCain.
Fiorina stresses need for strong leadership
“The company with the best brains wins. The country with the best brain wins,” said Fiorina, adding: “We can leave nobody behind. Not the laid-off, 45-year-old worker, not the inner-city child.”
Turning to the ethical dimensions of leadership, Fiorina recalled the Enron scandal as a lesson in the danger of bending the rules, leading to breaking the rules, until it brought the company down. Without ethics, she warned, “a company, a person, a country, can lose their way.”
The article goes on:
“There are a lot of things that distinguish John McCain from President Bush,” Fiorina said. “All I can tell you is that John McCain is a man of his word, and when he talks about accountability, he means it.”
I feel the Republican Party, under John McCain’s leadership, can do a much better job of “keeping house” in Washington at this time, given the looks of his ethics and moral stance. I do not have regrets about leaving the Democratic Party and choosing to be a Republican. I cannot support the Clintons as they solicit help for people who have allowed such monstrosities to occur starting as early as 1995. This is not the way of any Democrats I have ever known. Or ever voted into office.
This is not the way the Clintons kept house, in the White House. I suggest the writers at Salon.com such as Ms. Traister check the facts, before she declares that the group calling itself P.U.M.A. Democrats fall in line. With housekeeping like this? Only a rat would want to live there, in those tenements. And plenty of actual rats did. It’s a difficult read, but read it anyway.
I can no longer support the Democratic Party, because of my moral stance. I also suggest the Democratic Party needs to look into the chickens that are “coming home to roost,” upon itself. It also might want to look into just who is responsible for such sordid and squalid conditions before it hijacks its operations northward, no?
Frankly, I’m very surprised that either John Edwards, Michael Moore or Al Gore, not to mention Jimmy Carter could come out for a candidate who was part of such a thing as these tenements in Chicago, I have had such great respect for the four of them, as Democrats up until now, and this election.
