Hot Seat: Obama and Attacks

"Obama’s Years at Columbia Are a Mystery
He Graduated Without Honors"
By ROSS GOLDBERG,
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/

Senator Obama’s life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank — his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely speaks about and where few people seem to remember him.

Contributing to the mystery is the fact that nobody knows just how well Mr. Obama, unlike Senator McCain and most other major candidates for the past two elections, performed as a student.

The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago. The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public.

For better or worse, voters have taken an interest in candidates’ grades since 1999, when the New Yorker published President Bush’s transcript at Yale and disclosed that he was a C student. Mr. Bush had never portrayed himself as a brain, but many were surprised to learn the next year that his opponent, Vice President Gore, did not do much better at Harvard despite his intellectual image. When Senator Kerry’s transcript surfaced, reporters found that he actually had a slightly lower average at Yale than Mr. Bush did.

Some political observers cite such disclosures as proof that candidates’ intelligence cannot be judged solely by their political careers or the schools they attended. Grades provide a rare measure of intellect that is immune to political spin, proponents say.

“We like to pretend IQ doesn’t matter, but it really does with a lot of jobs, including the presidency,” a professor at Smith College who studies the effects of human intelligence on the economy, James Miller, said. “We can’t trust the information that candidates give us, so it’s important to look for objective data that they can’t falsify or distort.”

"Will more personal attacks on John McCain and Sarah Palin help
Barack Obama?"
No. The pathetic thing is this. Obama and his supporters think
American's will believe them and their lies and innuendo.
The smear campaign of lies and double talk show America the true
nature of Obama's supporters not to mention Obama himself.
Stop smearing Sarah Palin and John McCain.
America has had enough of the far left Democrats.
Vote for decent people.
McCain Palin will bring a new revitalized America, safe from
terrorist and with prosperity.
***Vote McCain Palin 08****

Americans Against the Liberal Press
We are forming a new Political Movement to remove the excessive
Liberal slant from our mainstream media.
The purpose is to remind the advertising industry and advertisers who
fund the mainstream media, NBC, ABC and CBS and FOX CNN MSNBC that we
are fed up with lies and superficial reporting. The net result is the
Media employs almost 100% Liberal Commentators. Yes there are
exceptions that prove the rule.
Here it is we are mounting an all out blitz on the media bosses,
owner, and advertisers to show them what people power is all about.
The vast majority of consumer purchases are made by people with
incomes above the poverty level. Most Americans are political
moderates regardless of whether they are Republican Democrat or
Independent.
People are sick of the media and liberals.
There are also cultural issues here. Television advertising must be
pleasant and appealing to the mass market segments with the
purchasing power. Unfortunately it has become a pipeline for social
comments by liberals. I am highly offended by many of the
advertisements. If MTV wants to be a piece of garbage that���s their
business, just don���t spend money supporting them with corporate
advertising dollars.

Clean up the Television Advertisement and fire the Liberal News
Commentators.
We are going to win this battle against liberals and sleaze.

Americans Against the Liberal Press
We are forming a new Political Movement to remove the excessive
Liberal slant from our mainstream media.
The purpose is to remind the advertising industry and advertisers who
fund the mainstream media, NBC, ABC and CBS and FOX CNN MSNBC that we
are fed up with lies and superficial reporting. The net result is the
Media employs almost 100% Liberal Commentators. Yes there are
exceptions that prove the rule.
Here it is we are mounting an all out blitz on the media bosses,
owner, and advertisers to show them what people power is all about.
The vast majority of consumer purchases are made by people with
incomes above the poverty level. Most Americans are political
moderates regardless of whether they are Republican Democrat or
Independent.
People are sick of the media and liberals.
There are also cultural issues here. Television advertising must be
pleasant and appealing to the mass market segments with the
purchasing power. Unfortunately it has become a pipeline for social
comments by liberals. I am highly offended by many of the
advertisements. If MTV wants to be a piece of garbage that���s their
business, just don���t spend money supporting them with corporate
advertising dollars.

Clean up the Television Advertisement and fire the Liberal News
Commentators.
We are going to win this battle against liberals and sleaze.

"Will more personal attacks on John McCain and Sarah Palin helpBarack Obama?"
Political Smears and lies hell that is baby stuff.
See this post borrowed form
Clintons 4 McCain,
Obama's people are already shooting real bullets.
Sounds like a ghetto version of Murder Inc.

>The Obama Files<
The Death Count Begins...What Really Happened in Arkansas?
By Betty Jean Kling, FREE US NOW!
��� What really happened in Arkansas?
��� Why is the Edward���s affair bigger news than the fatal shooting
of a top Democratic Delegate?
��� Was this prominent delegate about to stage a walkout for Hillary
at the Convention?
��� Has Chicago style politics escalated to murder and a convenient
cover-up?
��� Ask yourselves where this story disappeared to and why?
��� Why wasn���t this 30 minute chase televised on TV like every
other chase has been? Folks this should have been big news ���very
big news - the fact that no one is talking even his family sends
shivers down my spine and reeks that this could very well have been a
hit and a message. I get that message and I don���t like it one bit.
READ MORE>>
BREAKING NEWS Press Release: ODM CAMPAIGN TARGETS ARKANSAS!

IS THE DEATH OF THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN PART OF AN
OBAMA BODY COUNT?
By Webster G. Tarpley
Washington, DC, Aug. 13 ��� This afternoon, Arkansas Democratic Party
Chairman Bill Gwatney fell victim to what was evidently a political
assassination. Gwatney was a major ally of Hillary and Bill Clinton,
and was a leader of the strongly pro-Clinton Arkansas delegation to
the upcoming Denver Democratic National Convention.
Gwatney���s Arkansas delegation was known to be a hotbed of
anti-Obama sentiment, and was reportedly ready to walk out of the
Denver convention if Senator Clinton were not to be treated fairly by
the Howard Dean- Donna Brazile DNC leadership.
Observers in Washington are now asking whether the assassination of
Gwatney can be read as attempted intimidation of the anti-Obama
forces now gaining strength before the Denver convention.
Is the death of Bill Gwatney part of an Obama body count which
already includes the names of Donald Young (the murdered gay
choirmaster of Rev. Wright���s church) and possibly others? For
further information, Click Here. Read the comment thread after the
post to catch a glimpse of Obama supporters��� mindset!
Want to know what kind of campaign Obama is really running- and who
pulls the strings? Learn the truth, click here. And here:
���Obama the ODM Candidate���:
3 Part in-depth investigation of Obama���s true connections and
campaign methods EXPOSED:
Part I
I started working on a post that was more in-depth about Obama and
his ���cousin��� Odinga of Kenya and then ran into Jacquerie. I
could never do justice to the amount of research this lady has done
and she has graciously allowed me to reprint her article (3 Parts)
here on the monster. Part 1 today and the following 2 Parts
tomorrow. This is alot of information to digest in one sitting. If
there are problems with the links, let me know���..

For my post about Obama and the Arkansas Murders.
See Clinton 4 McCain.

Hit the Obama Files link the under the article on
>The Obama Files<
The Death Count Begins...What Really Happened in Arkansas?

There are three links Part I, Part II and Part III.
See Dem's vpter fraud in Virginia. Under Obama see "Bump?'. The
arrested parties freely admit they were obtaining multiple voter
registrations.
WOWEE.
Clinton 4 McCain has tons of Obama's illegal tricks and lies.
Also:
Where is the Washington Post? This Murdergate!
Come on liberals press investigate a series of murders now.

SEE THE POST ABOVE
>The Obama Files<
The Death Count Begins...What Really Happened in Arkansas?

Spread the word about this extremely dangerous Obama.

Vote McCain Palin 08 Save America.

It was only 2 years ago. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion
dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember its Congress that makes law not the President. He has to
work with what's handed to him.

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these
statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 &nbs p;T axes under< /FONT> Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250


Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates


It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
President ever. If Obama or Hillary is elected, they both say they
will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is
like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don't even know what happened.

It was only 2 years ago. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion
dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember its Congress that makes law not the President. He has to
work with what's handed to him.

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these
statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 &nbs p;T axes under< /FONT> Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250


Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates


It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
President ever. If Obama or Hillary is elected, they both say they
will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is
like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don't even know what happened.

Why I’m (Finally) Supporting Sarah Palin


Since John McCain announced Sara Palin as his running
mate, like many of you I suspect, I’ve been constantly asked: “What do you think of Sarah Palin?”

The struggle that I’ve been going through in trying to answer that question honestly, is that all the things I find compelling about her: that she’s attractive and charismatic, has a great personal narrative, is eloquent, a 'breath of fresh air'--yes, even "tokenism" (for lack of a better word) were also true of Obama. And, I, like many Clinton supporters, decided those were not sufficiently strong reasons to support him.

So, in one sense, I would feel like a hypocrite supporting Palin for any of those reasons.

Although I think she is more experienced than Obama—(She, has, after all, directed a budget of over $10 billion, supervised 24,000 employees and negotiated with foreign governments -Russia and China over fishing rights); she is lightly credentialed in terms of the possible field of socially progressive Republican women McCain could have chosen (Snowe, Whitman, Hutchinson etc.). And, although I respect her integrity, there is virtually no social issue on which I share common ground with Sarah Palin. Unlike John McCain, who has never been ideological; Sarah Palin is, and unabashedly so.

However as I’ve struggled with these issues since her selection, I keep coming back to two points. Of all the basic rights—human rights-- that Democrats have stood for---there are two that seem to me to be the most important: the right to vote (and have that vote counted fairly) and the right to free speech.

The right to vote, it seems to me, is not simply about exercising your franchise—but actually having that exercise tied to a result. Whether we look narrowly at Florida and Michigan, or broadly at caucus and convention intimidation and fraud—what becomes clear—crystal clear—is that the delegates—both in number and composition-- did not accurately represent the ‘will of the people’ that voted for them. And, as a tribute to their organizational skill, if not their integrity, the Obama campaign did everything in their power to ensure that that would be the case. Just as importantly, throughout the nomination process, the Obama campaign did everything possible to curtail the free speech of those who opposed him. Whether it was as simple as harassing supporters at the local metro, or as brazen as intimidating delegates at state conventions and threatening members of the Black Caucus---opposition to Barack Obama put people at risk—to be taunted, insulted and harassed in a way I’ve never before experienced in a political campaign.

So, I come down to this. Do we believe that the Obama campaign curtailed the freedom of speech of those who opposed him? Do we believe that Clinton’s supporter's votes were not counted fairly? If we answer ‘yes; as I have answered, than it seems to me that the fact that we disagree with Sarah Palin on reproductive choice, or creationism, or even protecting the Polar Bears—is the human rights equivalent of small potatoes. There are two basic rights that make us a democracy; two essential rights that keep us free. If I have my voice—and my vote—I can work for all the other issues. Without them, I can do nothing.

So, this fall I will vote for John McCain and, yes, Sarah Palin. I will vote as a protest, and as a promise. A protest at what took place; a promise that it will never happen again. I will vote as a democrat.

short answer NO...but they will help McCain

Obama's Camp Needs to Stay Focused
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

By Susan Estrich

Good news. I have been invited for about the fiftieth time to have dinner next week with Barack Obama for $28,500 at 5 p.m. or to attend the second-tier reception (clearly, it will be a quick dinner for the senator, anyway) two hours later for a mere $2500.

The first five or six times, I actually responded, explaining that I couldn’t afford the ticket prices, was sure that this would not be an occasion to really get to know the senator and, in any event, have long made it a personal policy not to contribute to campaigns that I write about and talk about on television.

bama's Camp Needs to Stay Focused
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

By Susan Estrich

But the invitations to wine and dine with Obama are nothing compared to the volume of Palin email I’m getting. But if the goals is to defeat McCain and elect Obama, sending hundreds of emails attacking Sarah Palin is not the way to do it.

One of the things that the initial barrage of mostly unfair attacks on Palin by many of my friends managed to accomplish was to turn her into a martyr, a heroine, a symbol of the bias and viciousness and just plain sexism of many in the left medial bloggerland. It helped turn Sarah Palin into one of the most popular and respected people in the country.

It gave her an excuse to avoid the Sunday talk shows she was probably not ready for anyway, and to insist that she was going to deal with the press on her terms, not theirs.’

I would like to join the movement against the liberal bias in the mainstream press.
There is so much attempted brainwashing going on in the lib press!

Obama's Camp Needs to Stay Focused
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

By Susan Estrich

As if that weren’t enough, what it also did was to blunt all the attacks – fair and unfair – that have come since. You know the line she will use if/when Biden goes after her in the debate for switching her position on the Bridge to Nowhere, or firing the supervisor who wouldn’t fire her taser-crazed ex-brother-in-law, or whatever the latest barrage entails: “As one of my heros once said, in very similar circumstances, ‘there you go again.’” And she’ll bring the house down. Even though I’ve just told you it’s coming. Given what’s come before, it can’t help but work.

and THERE YOU GO AGAIN. Thanks media

One of the things that the initial barrage of mostly unfair attacks on Palin by many of my friends managed to accomplish was to turn her into a martyr, a heroine, a symbol of the bias and viciousness and just plain sexism of many in the left medial bloggerland. It helped turn Sarah Palin into one of the most popular and respected people in the country.

WHAT WE DON'T NEED IS

We do NOT need a LIAR who is ultra-liberal, black-radical, white-hating, anti-American, muslim-born, terrorist-loving, arrogant, narcisstic, un-accomplished, inexperienced, CORRUPT spawn of the Chicago Political Machine, the most corrupt mob-connected political organization in the country as the President of the US of A.

WHAT WE DO NEED IS A DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED HOUSE AND SENATE TO RESTORE A BALANCE OF POWER BADLY NEEDED IN OUR GOVERNMENT.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

WHAT A BUNCH OF GARBAGE...The war and the last eight years of total fiscal irresponsibility by a Republican administration are responsible for the disaster that is this country today....GREED AND CORRUPTION HAVE RULED.

Sue10:33PMSep 12th 2008

Why I’m (Finally) Supporting Sarah Palin

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to free speech.

The right to vote, it seems to me, is not simply about exercising your franchise—but actually having that exercise tied to a result. Whether we look narrowly at Florida and Michigan, or broadly at caucus and convention intimidation and fraud—what becomes clear—crystal clear—is that the delegates—both in number and composition-- did not accurately represent the ‘will of the people’ that voted for them. And, as a tribute to their organizational skill, if not their integrity, the Obama campaign did everything in their power to ensure that that would be the case. Just as importantly, throughout the nomination process, the Obama campaign did everything possible to curtail the free speech of those who opposed him. Whether it was as simple as harassing supporters at the local metro, or as brazen as intimidating delegates at state conventions and threatening members of the Black Caucus---opposition to Barack Obama put people at risk—to be taunted, insulted and harassed in a way I’ve never before experienced in a political campaign.

So, I come down to this. Do we believe that the Obama campaign curtailed the freedom of speech of those who opposed him? Do we believe that Clinton’s supporter's votes were not counted fairly? If we answer ‘yes; as I have answered, than it seems to me that the fact that we disagree with Sarah Palin on reproductive choice, or creationism, or even protecting the Polar Bears—is the human rights equivalent of small potatoes. There are two basic rights that make us a democracy; two essential rights that keep us free. If I have my voice—and my vote—I can work for all the other issues. Without them, I can do nothing.

So, this fall I will vote for John McCain and, yes, Sarah Palin. I will vote as a protest, and as a promise. A protest at what took place; a promise that it will never happen again. I will vote as a democrat.

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I didn't copy all your post but it was a great post!

You are so right -- Obama and the DNC have effectively silenced freedom of press and freedom of speech in this election.

I have been saying that back since poor Hillary got stomped on by a biased news media and then the stomping re-inforced by her own party.

I know that she is a loyal democrat but I wish she would stand up and be heard! She needs to call them on their disgusting, dispicable displays of favoritism towards Obama.

I have always loved Hillary but I have to say that I am sadly disappointed that she has not come out with the truth about what went on during the primaries!

I also am voting for John McCain and I have been a democrat for over 40 years.

I'm inclined to make up my own mind.....and when one side or the other starts slinging mud I just don't hear it. Never could understand why people have to write such degrading things. Tell me why your guy/gal should win....don't tell me why the other guy/gal should lose.

There's no need for personal attacks when McCain/Palin's policies are understood by the public.

Instead of personal smears, there's a battle of ideas to consider -- from healthcare to the economy to foreign policy to corruption in Washington. As for Iraq, do we go on with the neocons’ domineering vision to transform a region into ourselves -- one as different as the Middle East? Or is it Obama's plan to remove troops at one to two brigades each month to be out in 16 months; initiating an aggressive diplomatic effort; easing the demand on our military; and preventing $10 billion of our tax dollars from being thrown in there every month?

On the economy, McCain's has plans to keep up the proven failure of a trickle down economics. More tax cuts for the richest at a time when the wealthy to impoverished gap is the largest since the Depression. He will give away billions in subsidies to Big Oil. He will also privatize Social Security. Obama's plan is to have a $1,000 annual tax cut for working/middle class families - triple the amount in McCain's plan; a new Social Security tax only on incomes above $250,000; a $4,000 annual college tuition credit for those who commit to national or community service programs; and eliminate income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 a year.

McCain has no plan other than a tax rebate for health care, and allow his friends in the health insurance lobby to run things -- McCain has had at least 133 lobbyists running his campaign and raising money for him. Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions, that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress.

McCain and Palin would open the door for imprisoning women who have abortions. Their platform is to ban abortion even in instances of rape and incest.

Personal attacks should not be confused with questions of judgement. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

FOR THE INSANE VOTE MCCAIN.

What personal attacks? Oh, you mean using a common turn of phrase about McCain's economic plan that conservative news networks manage to turn into a sound bite and a personal attack.

I guess they had to do something when they got tired of emphasizing Obama's middle name and "accidently" saying Barack Osama.