Joe the Plumberstood upJohn the Candidate today in Ohio. I guess he was busy being shown around Nashville by his new best friend, Hank Williams, Jr. You see, Joe, as was reported this week, has parlayed his 15-minutes of fame into a country music recording contract, negotiated by his brand new agent. The first single, "President Obama Wants to Destroy Israel" should be released by inauguration day. Well, never mind. Who needs you, anyway, Joe? We'll fix our own toilets from here on out.
David, Now don't be too tough on Joe, let him ride out his fifteen minutes of fame. Oh wait, that's right--isn't he considering a run for Congress? Another Woody moment.
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Satin
2:17PM Oct 30th 2008
Please read this story. The following is something that I found on the Internet. It has me wondering two things: Why doesn't John McCain want the public to know that he has black and mixed race relatives? And, why doesn't he even acknowledge the white ones who appear to have accepted and embraced their non-white relatives? This story was taken from the South Florida Times newspaper.
In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.
Some of McCain’s black family members say they are not sure exactly where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the McCains fathered with their slaves...
White and black members of the McCain family ha ve met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.
“Why he hasn’t come is anybody’s guess,” said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a distant cousin of John McCain who is black. “I think the best I can come up with, is that he doesn’t have time, or he has just distanced himself, or it doesn’t mean that much to him.”
Other relatives are not as generous.
Lillie McCain, 56, another distant cousin of John McCain who is black, said the Republican presidential nominee is trying to hide his past, and refuses to accept the family’s history.
“After hearing him in 2000 claim his family never owned slaves, I sent him an email,” she recalled. “I told him no matter how much he denies it, it will not make it untrue, and he should accept this and embrace it.”
She said the senator never responded to her email.
Although Charles is uncertain who will get his vote for president, several of John McCain’s black and white relatives are supporting his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.
“I am absolutely supporting Obama, and it’s not because he’s black.... It’s because he is the best person at this time in our history,” said Lillie McCain, a professor of psychology at Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan.
“We simply need to look at the economy, and McCain’s campaign does not take us there,” said Joyce McCain, Lillie’s sister, a retired engineering manager with General Motors who lives in Grand Blanc, Michigan. “He is my cousin, but we are in dire times right now and people are hurting. Sen. Obama is clearly the best choice to be president.’’
Charles McCain and his wife, Theresa, who still live in Teoc, started the reunions over a decade ago. Charles is the deacon of Mitchell Springs Baptist Church, the only black house of worship in the area.
When Theresa McCain started the family reunions in the late 1980s or early ‘90s (neither he nor his wife is sure of the exact starting date), only black family members attended. But as word spread about the gatherings, white members of the McCain family got involved. Today, the reunion has expanded to the point where it is becoming a community event.
The reunion’s website, teocfamilyreunion.ning.com, has pictures, postings and other information about the family gatherings. While Sen. McCain’s brother, Joe, and many of his other white relatives attend the reunions, family members say Sen. McCain has never acknowledged them, or even responded to their invitations.
“Well, a lot of the people who had moved away and were living up north, would send money to help us maintain the church,” said Theresa McCain, 62. “Myself and others began inviting them back home for picnics, just to show our appreciation.”
The McCain campaign did not respond to repeated questions about John McCain’s black relatives, or about his relatives of both races who support Obama. Pablo Carrillo, a media liaison with the McCain campaign, said the senator was aware of his African-American relatives, but asked the reporter to put his questions into writing, and that someone would get back to him.
After the reporter sent questions in writing, and made repeated follow-up phone calls, neither Sen. McCain nor anyone else from the campaign responded.
Based on information obtained by the South Florida Times, the senator has numerous black and mixed-raced relatives who were born on, or in, the area of the McCain plantation. The mixed races in the family can be traced back to the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where his family owned slaves.
Sen. John McCain’s great, great grandfather, William Alexander McCain (1812-1863), fought for the Confederacy and owned a 2,000-acre plantation named Waverly in Teoc. The family dealt in the slave trade, and, according to official records, held at least 52 slaves on the family’s plantation. The enslaved Africans were likely used as servants, for l abor, and for breeding more slaves.
William McCain’s son, and Sen. John McCain’s great grandfather, John Sidney McCain (1851-1934), eventually assumed the duty of running the family’s plantation.
W.A. “Bill” McCain IV, a white McCain cousin, and his wife Edwina, are the current owners of the land. Both told the South Florida Times that they attend the reunions. They also said the McCain campaign had asked them not to speak to the media about the reunions, or about why the senator has never acknowledged the family gatherings.
In addition to distancing himself from his black family members, John McCain has taken several positions on issues that have put him at odds with members of the larger black community.
While running for the Republican Party nomination in 2000, he sided with protesters who were calling for the rebel battle flag to be removed from the South Carolina statehouse, only to alter that position later.
"Some view it as a symbol of slavery. Others view it as a symbol of heritage,” John McCain said of the flag. "Personally, I see the battle flag as a symbol of heritage. I have ancestors who have fought for the Confederacy, none of whom owned slaves.... I believe they fought honorably.’’
Novelist Elizabeth Spencer, another white cousin of John McCain, noted the slaves the family owned in the family’s memoirs, Landscapes of the Heart. Sen. McCain has acknowledged reading the book, but claims to have only glossed over entries about their slaves.
“That’s crazy,” said Spencer, who also attends the reunions in Teoc. “No one had to tell us, because we all knew about the slaves. I may not vote, because I don’t want anyone to think that I have an issue with John, but I don’t want to see him become president because I think Obama is entirely adequate, and it’s time for a Democrat.’’
Spencer acknowledged donating money to the Obama campaign and to what she called “Democratic causes.”
Sen. John McCain was born in 1936 at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station, a segregated military installation in the Panama Canal, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Navy. His family returned to the states shortly after his birth; where he went on to attend segregated schools in the Teoc community and elsewhere around the country.
He served in the Navy, where he was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, before being released and eventually running for Congress...
After he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, McCain voted against the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday in 1983. When he arrived in the U.S. Senate in 1986, he joined North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms in opposing the holiday again, and voted in 1994 to cut funding to the commission that marketed it.
John McCain also aligned himself with former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham.
Mecham was the governor in McCain’s home state of Arizona from January 1987 to April 1988, when he was impeached and removed from office for campaign finance violations. As a state senator and governor, Mecham publicly used racial slurs against black people and other minorities. He was also a member of the John Birch Society, which opposes civil rights legislation. In 1986, Mecham campaigned for governor on a promise to rescind the state’s recognition of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which he did in 1987.
Earlier this year, during the 40th anniversary recognition of King’s assassination, McCain, by this time a presidential candidate, said he was wrong for opposing the national King holiday.
Politics in America has long been steeped in the dynamics of the country’s myriad cultures, diverse ethnicities, and varying religious beliefs. Several of Sen. McCain’s black relatives say Obama’s candidacy represents progress.
“He is denying his black and white relatives in Teoc,” said Joyce McCain, 54. “I think he may not want the country to know his family’s full history, but times have changed and we need to move on, and that’s why I m supporting Obama.”
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Thomas J
2:52PM Oct 30th 2008
Now don't be too tough on Joe, let him ride out his fifteen minutes of fame.>>
The guy speaks up ... his first mistake, because an Obamy supporter released all sorts of personal information on him ... and not one liberal bed wetter cares. I guess personal freedom only matters when you support the empty suit.
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Fit 2 lead
2:59PM Oct 30th 2008
Maybe Joe was out working to payoff his Child support payment and real estate taxes. WOW! what a fraud this man is.
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PCL
3:00PM Oct 30th 2008
Thomas J2:52PMOct 30th 2008 Now don't be too tough on Joe, let him ride out his fifteen minutes of fame.>>
The guy speaks up ... his first mistake ---------------------------------------------------- But you have to admit--it has served him and McCain's campaign well.
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R Shanker
2:22PM Oct 31st 2008
Socialism in contrast to Capitalism is defined as government intervention or partial or full ownership of the free market. What the Bush administration has done to avert the credit market collapse is one good example of "govt. intervention". Like it or not we are slowly and steadily being dragged in to a socialistic society. Many in our society, for various reasons cannot take care of ourselves or protect ourselves from predators in the free market. We need the Govt. to protect us and spread a socialistic net when we fall through the cracks. The degree to which we want the Govt. to stick its nose in our affairs may vary. But nevertheless we cannot survive as a society if every body was out for him/her self. This is what Barak Obama was talking about and John McCain has been criticizing as though it is a disastrous and catastrophic word. Don’t you want your aging grandparents or a disabled child or sibling given special concessions in our society?
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Thomas J
3:11PM Oct 30th 2008
Clearly, we live in two Americas. One where Obama and his supporters have rights, and one where McCain supporters don't.
A citizen speaks up for McCain and all his personal information is released to the public.
Obama is on tape praising radicals american and Palestinian, and a major news outlet won't release it.
We live in two Americas, and I don't want to live in Obama's.
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Wormy
3:35PM Oct 30th 2008
Being I am from the deep south-(g.r.i.t.s.-girls raised in the south)-I grew up listening to Hank Jr. songs & have some of his albums; BUTTTTTTTTT after seeing him on stage with Dummy Girl, I won't ever listen, buy, and I may even burn the records I own. That cliff fall years ago messed him up worst than I ever thought. But his endorseing McCain & Company does not surprise me; that's the mentality of the SOUTH even to this moment------STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain also gave this Palestinian money in the 1980's & 1990's per reports from CNN & MSNBC; So McCain needs to be sure He doesn't have something to hide also! Better sweep out from under His own backdoor, before he starts on somebody else--He might stirr up alot of dust He doesn't want!
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Marie
3:34PM Oct 30th 2008
To Obama Supporters--Spread the wealth. Do not want to live under communism. Tony Resco, William Ayers, Acorn, and Saul Alinsky.Nice Bunch?? Google Saul Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicas. This is Obama's bible and he plays it to a tee. Promise the middle class everything and promote class warfare. How many of you hate big business , big oil , wallstreet, the rich? What would some of you UAW workers have if you did not work for a big car company, and how would you travel and ship goods without oil from big oil. But the middle class will get nothing and everything will be taken away. Remember the Constitution is only a paper contract. Any contract is only as good as the people involved. A Socialist-Marixt-Communist will not honor individual rights. Remember the saying: they came for the ----and I stood by because I was not a ----. Then they cames for ---. I stood by again. Then they came for me. There was no one to help. Argentina President Cristina Fernandez proposed a government takeover of nearly US$30 billion in private pension funds. The Democrats are floating the same idea of basically ELIMINATING our 401(k) system and replacing it with a new Social Security program: Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive. A plan by Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic-policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, contains elements that are being considered. She testified last week before Miller’s Education and Labor Committee. So not only will continue to pay into Social Security, the Democrats would TAKE ANOTHER 5% of your pay!! And you don't have ANY control over it, it would go into US Government Bonds -- which are just promissory notes for the future. Government will take control of your 401K. plan would amount to a tax increase on workers making more than $75,000--considerably less than the $250,000 Barack Obama has said would be his tax-hike cutoff. In addition, workers would be able to pass on only half of their account balances to their heirs; presumably the government would seize the remaining half. (Under current law, 401(k) balances are fully heritable, although they are subject to the income tax.) You can be assured that this will fly through the corrupt and dishonest Congress if they have an unbreakable majority AND a Dem President. This is just one of many such little zingers the socialis...umm, Democrats have been concocting to spring on an unsuspecting America. Make your voice heard and vote for America in November, not for Socialism
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misty
4:24PM Oct 30th 2008
The BIG INFONOTHING Tanked! Early Voting Favors McCain.
The PROPAGANDA Machine.. the LIES ... ALL EXPOSED!
NO NO NO ... I WON'T VOTE FOR NOBAMA!
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Another OUTRAGED MODERATE DEMOCRAT that can smell a rat.
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JVZaccaro
4:26PM Oct 30th 2008
“VERIFY” NOT “HOPE”
To complete his bid for the US Presidency, Senator Barack Obama produced a 30 minute infomercial which had as its theme “Hope not Fear.” Senator Obama is a very compelling speaker. His campaign asks American voters to trust him and to HOPE for positive CHANGE.
As a young man, Barack Obama attended some of the finest schools in America. He is said to be a very accomplished individual. But his birth records, his school records and his personal health records have been kept from public scrutiny. Do we HOPE he has nothing to hide, or do we VERIFY?
For more than twenty years, Senator Obama participated in a church where the pastor, the man who performed the Obama’s marriage ceremony, repeatedly spewed racial hatred. Senator Obama claims he never heard any inflammatory comments? Do we HOPE his statements are true, or do we VERIFY?
ACORN is the subject of a fifteen state investigation into voter registration fraud. Senator Obama’s own campaign website states : “Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.” However, Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader said “Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).” Do we HOPE Senator Obama is being truthful, or do we VERIFY?
More than a year ago, Senator Obama pledged to limit his campaign spending. He then broke his promise and raised more than $600 million, three times greater than the previous record. Senator Obama claims the bulk of his funds came from small donors, but he refuses to reveal the names. Do we HOPE he did not accept illegal foreign money, or do we VERIFY?
Senator Obama has a long list of extremist friends and associates. Some are former terrorists, some hold beliefs contrary to America’s best interest. A video exists of a dinner where he met with some of these radical individuals, but the video has not been released. Do we HOPE extremists have not influenced Senator Obama, and that he does not share their radical views, or do we VERIFY?
The Presidency is too important, too precious to more than 300 million American citizens. Does Senator Obama HOPE the clock will run out before Americans have the opportunity to examine his background? We must VERIFY!
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JVZaccaro
4:28PM Oct 30th 2008
“VERIFY” NOT “HOPE”
To complete his bid for the US Presidency, Senator Barack Obama produced a 30 minute infomercial which had as its theme “Hope not Fear.” Senator Obama is a very compelling speaker. His campaign asks American voters to trust him and to HOPE for positive CHANGE.
As a young man, Barack Obama attended some of the finest schools in America. He is said to be a very accomplished individual. But his birth records, his school records and his personal health records have been kept from public scrutiny. Do we HOPE he has nothing to hide, or do we VERIFY?
For more than twenty years, Senator Obama participated in a church where the pastor, the man who performed the Obama’s marriage ceremony, repeatedly spewed racial hatred. Senator Obama claims he never heard any inflammatory comments? Do we HOPE his statements are true, or do we VERIFY?
ACORN is the subject of a fifteen state investigation into voter registration fraud. Senator Obama’s own campaign website states : “Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.” However, Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader said “Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).” Do we HOPE Senator Obama is being truthful, or do we VERIFY?
More than a year ago, Senator Obama pledged to limit his campaign spending. He then broke his promise and raised more than $600 million, three times greater than the previous record. Senator Obama claims the bulk of his funds came from small donors, but he refuses to reveal the names. Do we HOPE he did not accept illegal foreign money, or do we VERIFY?
Senator Obama has a long list of extremist friends and associates. Some are former terrorists, some hold beliefs contrary to America’s best interest. A video exists of a dinner where he met with some of these radical individuals, but the video has not been released. Do we HOPE extremists have not influenced Senator Obama, and that he does not share their radical views, or do we VERIFY?
The Presidency is too important, too precious to more than 300 million American citizens. Does Senator Obama HOPE the clock will run out before Americans have the opportunity to examine his background? We must VERIFY!
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misty
4:29PM Oct 30th 2008
Hey Wormey:
Obama wants to have a 250,000 man civilian army that's armed and funded equal to the military. YOU NEED TO LISTEN... OBAMA IS BAD MOJO...NOBAMA!
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misty
4:39PM Oct 30th 2008
To Satin:
WHY is BARACK OBAMA trying to hide his birth certificate. WHY was BARACK OBAMA'S birth certificate SEALED after he made a trip to Hawaii that theoretically to see his "gravely ill" grandmother. WHY does BARACK OBAMA LIE about his associates and his positions on almost everything.
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misty
4:44PM Oct 30th 2008
OBAMA WILL LOOSE... the REAL poll numbers are coming out and the flim-flam man will get the can.
The PROPAGANA MACHINE is CRUSHED by REAL AMERICANS
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
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docb
5:34PM Oct 30th 2008
Never have I seen a military person lie with such alacrity as McShame.... Mccain = McCarthyism
What old news by the posters on this sight...Do they not realize that all these stories have been ask and answered months ago and did not work for Hillery either...mcsame =McCarthyism---dispecible!
This might be new --incase you are allergic to factchecker.org
The only stories that exist are the stories that the sociopathic liar Obama tells in his divisive anthing to win campaign. Opama has oposing views with himself on:
1. Offshore drilling
2. the military
3. taxes
4. economy
5. his associations
6. campaign finance
7. public funding
8. ACORN
9. energy independence
10. his marxist agenda
Why did Obama seal his birth record when he was in Hawaii? Does anybody have an answer as to why Barack Obama would do that. The posted birth record is not the long form and the claim is the one on line is a forgery...easy to do.