McCain Gets GOP Nod, Clinton Back to Life

At first I was riveted by Sen. Obama's speeches, until they became canned and generic. Coming from marketing, I began to perceive the great hoax of Obama - his ambitions and his political machine - Sen Obama is a marketing man, not a politician, nor a statesman. Carl Rove created political marketing, and branded his product, George W Bush Jr to two successful terms before his product cracked and the ooze of lies and political manipualtions of Congress, the Supreme Court came to light. Is this also the Obama method a la Carl Rove? I am beginning to think so. Obama is coached, like George W. Bush, to drive, drive, drive the message (the basis of marketing) but refuse to sink to the details (the small print on a warranty or guarantee). Marketing isn't about good or bad, or right or wrong, its about selling a product and who cares if the truth is distorted. Use godlike ventures, idealism, patriotism, and touch on niche trends, and wrap it up in a good rock concert with a builty in speech - well dang - if that doesn't sell, then what does.

I don't buy it anymore - I think I am getting swindled by the Obama machine. There's Resco the Slum Landlord, Obama's economic advisor who calls the Canadian government with a denial of Obama's speech against NAFTA (he's only saying it to get the election but he won't amend NAFTA, his failure to assume his Senatorial responsibility on his sub committee regarding Iraq. Now this new one - where lobbyists and the Chicago patronage system (and Ted Kennedy) is behind Obama's campaign.

http://savagepolitics.com/?p=165 Follow the Money
"The idea that hordes of grass roots contributors are driving the financial engine of the Obama campaign is a myth which has been advertised free of charge by a compliant media.

It is a stunningly nurtured falsehood.

His campaign utilizes a political fundraising machine that relies heavily on the wealthy, the powerful and the most exploitive of money lenders in the subprime mortgage crises.

Penny Pritzker, finance chairwoman for the Obama campaign, according to Earl Offari Hutchinson, headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank’s sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented. It engaged in deceptive and faulty lending, questionable accounting practices, and charged hidden fees. It did it with the sleepy-eyed see-no-evil oversight of federal. It made thousands of dubious loans to mostly poor, strapped homeowners. A disproportionate number of them were minority.

Obama’s home state, Illinois, ranked near the top of these states in the percentage of sub-prime mortgages. Nearly 15 percent of home loans were sub-prime according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. But that only tells part of the tale. According to the Woodstock Institute, a Chicago non-profit that studies housing issues, the sub-prime fall-out was far higher in the predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods of South and Southwest Chicago.

The predictable happened when many of those lost their homes. When the bank collapsed Pritzker and bank officials skipped away with their profits and reputations intact. Aside from the financial and personal misery subprime lenders caused the thousands of distressed homeowners, sub-prime lending has been a major cause of the housing crisis in many areas, and has dealt a sledgehammer blow to the economy. Obama has said nothing about Pritzker, Superior Bank, or their dubious practices.

Instead, there was a touching, even teary eyed photo op, moment during one of Obama’s Texas campaign swings. There was Obama talking to a group of San Antonio residents and lambasting the CEO of a sub-prime lender for greedily snatching at a $100 million buy out package while thousands of home borrowers that his company snookered into loans at below market rates faced foreclosure or the threat of foreclosure. SOURCE

According to the Center For Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy, the 20 top contributors to the Barack Obama campaign are Wall Street financial companies, their registered lobbyists, and go-to law firms.

Seven of the campaign’s top 14 donors are officers and employees of the companies that either originated or bundled fraudulent mortgages.

These seven Wall Street firms are in the order of money given: Goldman Sachs, UBS, AG, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. There is also a large hedge fund, Citadel Investment Group, which is a major source of fee income to Wall Street. There are five corporate law firms that are also registered lobbyists; and one is a corporate law firm that is no longer a registered lobbyist, but does legal work for Wall Street.

The cumulative total of these 14 contributors through February 1, 2008, was close to 3 million ($2,872,128).

But this was merely a drop in the Obama bucket. Major fundraisers, often called ‘bundlers’, are playing a gigantic role in financing the campaign. In the last half of 2007, Obama raised $58 million, of that amount at least $13 million came from ‘bundlers’ and Chicago Tribune Staff reporters Mike Dorning and John McCormick wrote, “the total is probably much higher.” SOURCE

But I bet you still thought his campaign was a movement powered by everyday Americans? We have been fed a load of pablum.

60% of the Obama campaign’s funds have come from people who have given at least $1,000, the kind of donors who are most often recruited by ‘bundlers’. Only 30% of his contributions have come from people who gave less than $200.

The inability or outright refusal of the press to report the reality as opposed to the myth goes back to the beginning of his campaign. In an early democratic debate, former Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska said Obama’s much repeated disavowal of lobbyist contributions is “less than pure” because he has wealthy executives who employ lobbyists raising money for him.

Gravel singled out Obama fundraiser, Robert Wolf, America’s chairman for Swiss-based UBS Investment Bank, a “foreign owned bank” he said with “lobbyists in Washington.” At that point employees of UBS had given at least $142,000.

As the campaign has progressed so has the duplicity. These top five contributors to the Obama campaign have filed as registered lobbyists: Sidley Austin LLP; Skadden, Arps, et al; Jenner & Block; Kirkland & Ellis; Wilmerhale, aka Wilmer Cutler Pickering. Bob Bauer, counsel to the Obama campaign, is an attorney with Perkins Coie, that law firm is also a registered lobbyist.

But here is where the duplicity takes on the dimension of the “Big Lie” and the sort of deception that could only happen in a country which no longer has an objective and impartial press corps. Nothing that follows is innuendo or conjecture or even supposition. It is fact..

On February 10, 2005, Obama voted in favor of the passage of the misnamed Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 which seriously hampers the rights of ordinary citizens to challenge corporations. Senators Biden, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Corzine, Durbin, Feingold, Kerry Leah, Reid and 16 other democrats voted against it.

So did 14 state attorneys general, including Lisa Madigan of Obama’s home state of Illinois. She called it a “corporate giveaway.” The Senate also received a desperate plea from more than 40 civil rights and labor organizations, including the NAACP, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Human Rights Campaign, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice and Democracy, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund) and Alliance for Justice. SOURCE

They wrote:

“Under the Act citizens are denied the right to use their own state courts to bring class actions against corporations that violate state wage and hour and state civil rights laws, even where that corporation has hundreds of employees in that state. Moving these state law cases into federal court will delay and likely deny justice for working men and women and victims of discrimination. The federal courts are already overburdened. Additionally, federal courts are less likely to certify classes or provide relief for violations of state law”

The bill which will seriously impair labor, consumer and civil rights involved five years of pressure from 100 corporations, 475 lobbyists, and tens of millions of corporate dollars to buy influence. It also involved the active participation of the Wall Street firms now funding the Obama campaign. The Civil Justice Reform Group, a business alliance comprising general counsels from Fortune 100 firms, was instrumental in drafting the class action bill, according to Public Citizen which also said in a 2003 report that Mayer-Brown partners and employees gave close to $100,000 [$92,817] to the Obama campaign by December 31, 2007. Mayer-Brown, hired by the US Chamber of Commerce, spent $16 million in 2003 lobbying the government on class action reform.

Why am I backing Hilary Clinton?

For my Great Grandmothers.
For my Grandmothers.
For my Mother and Mother-in-law.
For my Aunts.
For my Sisters.
For my Nieces.
For my Future Daughter-in-laws.
For my Future Granddaughters.
And for yours, too.

Why am I NOT backing Hilary Clinton?

For my Great Grandfather.
For my father and father-in-law.
For my uncles.
For my brothers.
For my nephews.
For my Future brother-in-laws.
For my Future Granddaughters.
And for yours, too.

HOW 'BOUT OUR GAL!!
WOW! WHAT A NIGHT!
I THOUGHT SHE LOST TEXAS BUT THEN SHE SWUNG BACK.
WHAT A FIGHTER!
AMAZING!
FINALLY THE PEOPLE ARE SEEING THAT SHE IS THE ONE WHO CAN TURN AROUND THE ECONOMY(YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS FIRST LADY DURING THE GREAT ECONOMY OF THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY)
AND THAT SHE CAN BE A STRONG COMMANDER IN CHIEF AS 30 (THIRTY!!!) GENERALS AND 2 FORMER ADMIRALS HAVE ENDORSED.
THANKS TO RHODE ISLAND,
THANKS TEXAS AND
THANKS TO OHIO!!
YOU HAVE SAVED THE BEST CANDIDATE
AND PROBABLY OUR COUNTRY!!

Nice try Mike,It was a real treat to have a civil campagn for a change. As for Mr.McCain,I wish you luck,on the election. But to be honest,the only way you can win is against Hillary.(she scares me) I will not vote for her,and will cast my vote to any other candidate.We have had two Bushes,it hasen't worked out too well. Let's not repeat that mistake on the democratic side !

Mike Huckabee only. This nation could have had Prime Rib, but now we are left with three different brands of Hamburger helper.

I will not stand behind John Mc Cain. I am finished with the liberal media, the so called conservative voices of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, and if the GOP ever calls me for a donation again, I will hang up.

The bias shown in these Primaries toward John McCain has been disgusting! It has been evident from the very first debate when it was the McCain and Romney show. Huckabee was lucky to have been given a few questions and all were designed to mock him.

This country has gone to hell. It is amazing that we can elect officials who murder babies, promote homosexual curriculum and homosexual marriage and even go into hysteria over a candidate with radical Muslim ties, but we silence the voice of a man who had the courage to stand for truth and morality.

I will write in Huckabee in November.

DREAM TICKET:
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON
VICE PRESIDENT OBAMA

THIS WLL UNITE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ASSURE OUR WIN IN NOVEMBER!
LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Obama is a Republican plant...they know he can't beat McCain. He is just stealing votes from non-thinkers. Don't be fooled by a Fool...Obama is the biggest bag of hot air since Bush!

Next headline..."Obama votes for Clinton"

It looks like we may finally have a really honest and thoughtful presidential campaign. Since McCain and Clinton seem to say many of the same things and have always spoken well of each other, we may see the kind of campaign the Americans long for, at last. If this happens and the Clinton-Richardson vs McCain-Huckabee tickets come about we might see the American that we have looked for, but failed to find. If I were a foriegn power I would be worried that the real America would now stand up.

this country is sliding down a 50ft. razor blade. if this is the best we can do, we only have ourselves to blame. you are going to get just what you asked for and its not good. ROBERT HOYING OHIO

this country is sliding down a 50ft. razor blade. if this is the best we can do, we only have ourselves to blame. you are going to get just what you asked for and its not good. ROBERT HOYING OHIO

Don’t write Obama’s obituary yet.
The problem was that he is trying to run a clean campaign.
Some one has to remind him what the Clinton’s are like.
Whitewater,
Cattlegate,
Travelgate,
Billing-gate,
Castle Grande,
Filegate,
And yet there was also:
Paula Jones,
Gennifer Flowers,
Monica Lewinski,
I am very concerned about is the Clinton’s refusal to release Hillarie’s White House records and lastly their Joint tax returns.
What new scandals do these records hold?
We can’t afford another 4 years of Bush.
It’s time for a new direction for this nation.
Thank you.

Dear Susan Nation:
And whom do you work for?
More Clinton propaganda!
Don’t write Obama’s obituary yet.
The problem was that he is trying to run a clean campaign.
Some one has to remind him what the Clinton’s are like.
Whitewater,
Cattlegate,
Travelgate,
Billing-gate,
Castle Grande,
Filegate,
And yet there was also:
Paula Jones,
Gennifer Flowers,
Monica Lewinski,
I am very concerned about is the Clinton’s refusal to release Hillarie’s White House records and lastly their Joint tax returns.
What new scandals do these records hold?
We can’
It’s time for a new direction for this nation.
Thank you.

Dear Susan Nation:
And whom do you work for?
More Clinton propaganda!
Don’t write Obama’s obituary yet.
The problem was that he is trying to run a clean campaign.
Some one has to remind him what the Clinton’s are like.
Whitewater,
Cattlegate,
Travelgate,
Billing-gate,
Castle Grande,
Filegate,
And yet there was also:
Paula Jones,
Gennifer Flowers,
Monica Lewinski,
I am very concerned about is the Clinton’s refusal to release Hillarie’s White House records and lastly their Joint tax returns.
What new scandals do these records hold?
It’s time for a new direction for this nation.
Thank you.
Be it Obama or McCain

Are these candidates really the best America can do? It looks like junior high. Barack O Blah Blah never really says anything, because if he ever explained what his changes will be, no one would vote for him. Hillary's lust for power should sicken us all. Do you really believe she cares diddly about you?

We Know the Clinton’s

We know John McCain

We don’t know Barack Obama.

I don’t like what I know about the Clinton’s.

John McCain is a Clone of George Bush!

I’ll take a chance on Barack Obama.

He has to be better then the other two choices!

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What a wonderful nation we live in!
I’m proud to live in a nation where people are willing to vote for a man whose father was a Black Moslem and Mother a White Christen.
Are we heading toward becoming a nation where the color of a persons skin no longer matters?
Are we heading toward becoming a nation where we respect a person no matter where he or she chooses to worship?
Are we heading toward becoming a nation of hope?
Oh! GOD please say it is so!
What a lesson for the world if the US elected a man whose name is Barack Hussien Obama.
I myself am a John Sidney McCain supporter but I keep listening to Barack and his message of hope and it is making me wonder what I would do if I have to stand in a voting booth and choose between the elder statesmen and a young man willing to work for peace?
If it’s Clinton / McCain!
No problem!
My vote would be John Sidney McCain.

Hillary for president ‹(•¿•)› Bill Clinton For Vice

Wow!!!Why is anybody surprised by any of these results? The presidential race has become just like selling any other product: underwear, deodorants, cars, viagra, etc. Who can outspend the other advertisers? You can buy the U.S. Presidency if you have enough resources, it would seem. But, that is not necessarily the case either. Because it depends on whose money you are spending on this advertising. If the folks who own the media do not like your message, they will use their unlimited resources of so-called news stations, TV talk shows such as Oprah, Jeraldo Rivera, Good Morning America, etc. to give dis-information about folks they do not want and give praise to the candidate of the advertisers choice. Bogus opinion polls that have been compiled by folks who want to form public opinion are broadcast, and folks at home watching the 15 second blurbs about some suppose opinion poll listen to the results and form their opinions based on this so called factual opinion. The problem with this is that you can get any result you want if you word your question just right. The average U.S. citizen who has time to sit around and watch this idiocy wants to appear informed, knowledgeable, in the know and popular takes the "so-called popular opinion view" lest they be unpopular.

True campaign reform needs to take place that would stop elections from being bought by the highest bidders who seek something in return for their support. But, of course, the news media being owned and operated by a few conglomerates, will still slant the news and other information about candidates in favor of what they, the conglomerates want.

The government and the advertisers and owners of conglomerates want an un informed, and ignorant public, and they guarantee it with TV and the idiocy that is on it, and with the public education system that does not teach how to think and reason, but has dumbed down people to the point that we have high school grads who cannot read, write, or do any math above grade school level and more importantly, have no logic and reasoning abilities. They have been brainwashed into believing that the government needs to be our nanny. People on welfare sit home and watch TV and receive government doles and then vote for folks who promise to give them more for nothing. Meantime, the owners of the conglomerates love this, because they have figured out how to benefit from these government programs. The mis-education system keeps computer and other technology people in business by buying technology that guarantees students remain aimless, and helpless. Selling computers to schools for children to use before they even know how to read and write or do basic math. No child should be on a computer until he or she is capable of performing basic skills in reading, writing and math through 8th grade level. These students are losing all reasoning ability by having computers do the reasoning and logic functions for them, and then there is all the other nonsense they get from computers and TV.

Oh, well, God Bless America, and Please hurry. In 1980, the entire national debt combined for about 200 years of being a nation was less than one trillion dollars, and today, 2008, what is it? nine or ten trillion and growing and these idiot candidates we have elevated to the top are promising to go into debt even deeper and paying for it by borrowing from the Chinese, Middle East Emirs, Japanese business interests, etc. and the band plays on. There is an old saying that says, "there is no such thing as a free lunch" and another that says, "The rent comes due." Well, these lenders will get repayment one way or another and they will collect the rent. Of course, we, as a nation can never repay these loans and have no intention of doing so. What our so-called leaders have done is that they have made international deals and agreements that have taken our sovereignty as a nation. When you are in debt, your creditors control you. Americans better wake up, but that is not likely. Any presidential nominee that would broadcast a campaign that said all this would never get heard no matter how much he spent, because it would undone by the so-called news giants, talk shows such as Oprah, Good Morning America, etc. So, the band plays on, and the idiots dance while there is rioting in the streets because some bodys basketball team lost. What a country?

M. Jerome Ennis, MAed
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
jgreyh960@aol.com

Dear new2008america:
Ok! She squeaked through – Texasn is only 68% reported as of this morning.

Two weeks ago your girl was leading by 18%.

This morning with 68% reported she is leading with 2%.

Now we are waiting to see who received more delegates.

I’m old enough to remember the years of Clinton scandals.

I was working in England and our president was called a stud muffin!

I remember being ashamed to admit that I was American because during the Clinton years we were tainted with scandal upon scandal.

As much as I’m afraid of McCain I will support him rather then put our nation through more MUD.