Ficticious Life, Ficticious Record, Ficticious Voters, Ficticious Donors

Fiction.

It is what Barack Obama is best at.

His life story…  fiction. His record…  fiction.   And donors and voter registrations…  fiction.

Obama’s father was not just a “goat farmer.”  Obama Sr’s father was a major landowner in Kenya, incredibly wealthy and very powerful.  Grandpa Hussein Obama’s (from whom Obama Jr gets his middle name) wealth and power is why Obama Sr. was awarded the scholarship to an American University.  Sr eventually became a Harvard educated economist who became a part of the Kenyatta regime in Kenya, one of the most brutal governments in modern history.

Obama did not grow up poor.  His grand parents were upper middle class, Obama Sr was very well off, Lolo Sotero was VERY wealthy and Obama attended the best Prep School in Hawaii, followed by the crown jewels of the American university system.

Michelle did not grow up poor.  She grew up in a middle class neighborhood and while it was on the Southern end of Chicago, it was most certainly not the projects.  She had a very nice home in a middle class working neighborhood.

Obama was not born as a result of Selma or the Kennedy Airlift.  The Kennedy Airlift that Obama claimed brought his father to the United States started a year after his father arrived in Hawaii.  Selma happened years after Obama was born.

Obama has never published anything except for 1 unsigned and heavily edited note in the Harvard Law review and 2 autobiographies…  a nearly impossible feat for anyone who claims to have been in Academia and a “constitutional law professor.”

Obama’s status as having graduated “Magna Cum Laude” is not that stupendous…  Unlike most schools, where MCL’s comprise the top 10% of graduates, at Harvard…  it’s the top 20%.  That means that with an average graduating class of 600 or so out of Harvard, he could have been #120.  And hell, you get Cum Laude at Harvard if you are in the top 50%.

Obama was not the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review…  there were two others before him.  There are also many many editors of the Harvard Law Review each year, not to mention the fact that at the time, you did not become an editor at the Harvard Law Review because of grades or accomplishments.  He was given the title “editor” of the HLR because he won a writing contest.

No one knows what Obama’s grades were like.  He has not released his school records.  He has had nothing published.  Classmates at Columbia don’t even remember him and he didn’t even appear in the yearbook.

During his years as a “community organizer” he accomplished basically nothing.  He had 2 accomplishments in total.  He got people sign a petition to open up a summer jobs office for teens on the Southside of Chicago as a supplement to the on that was located downtown, and he had people sign another petition to have the city remove asbestos from a building.  In both instances, the city gave in immediately.  Other than that, Obama taught “get out the vote” classes to ACORN volunteers.  Yes… that ACORN.

Obama pretends that he was a one man legislating machine while in the Illinois Senate.  Obama did not pass one bill for his first 5 years in office.  He only started passing legislation when the head of the legislature took him under his wing and literally put Obama’s name on bills the day of the vote.

Obama claims to be an agent of change and yet in Illinois he funneled money to supporters and family members, cozied up to political fixers, had his own questionable real estate deals, knocked opponents off ballots thru shady and less than honorable means, made friends with questionable people, smeared opponents with the dirtiest of political moves, “borrowed” speeches from peers, and has accepted millions of lobbyist money…  especially from the banks, wall street and fannie mae/freddie mac.

Obama claims to have been against the Iraq war all along and that proves his superior judgement.  While it is true that he said he was against the war, he said it once and only once…  at an anti-war rally, to a largely middle eastern crowd, while running for office.  He then changed his stance for the following couple of years…  basically, until running for President.  (As for his judgement…  where was the judgement when he opposed McCain’s calls for reforming Fannie and Freddie or when he said that “the surge” would never work?)

Obama claims that the reason for his massive fund raising is because of millions of different people have been making small donations, and yet we are finding out now that there are HUGE irregularities in Obama’s fundraising with ficticious donors making multiple donations, donors from other countries, and a tremendous amount of unnamed donors.  (McCain on the other hand has every donor to his campaign in public record, even the small donors he doesnt have to disclose.)

Obama claims that he is the spark that has brought millions of new voters into the fold, and yet as we are finding out that Obama and his buddies in ACORN (whom he hired and paid nearly a million dollars for get out the vote work) have registered legions of ficticious voters…  dogs, cats, dead people…  one guy was even bribed and registered to vote 72 times…  ACORN workers have traded crack cocaine for registration cards, and now Indianapolis has more people registered to vote than people over the age of 18.

Obama has distanced himself from his poker buddies, church, pastor, several mentors, friends, co-workers, associates, neighbors, supporters, fundraisers, former employers and more…  Does he have any friends he has not distanced himself from?

When Obama says that his number one goal is to get the US out of Iraq as soon as possible, it is fiction.  Obama went so far as to try to convince the Iraqi government against making a deal with Bush on getting the US out of Iraq.  Let’s repeat…  for political advantage, Obama wants the US and Iraq to wait before they make a deal to get troops out.  Obama wants to WAIT on troop removal.  Seriously.  Bush and Iraq said…  lets make a deal, but Obama said, hold on…lets wait a few months.

Obama has promised to fight for the little guy and that he is the only one that we can trust to change this country, and yet he has yet to keep a campaign promise.  From FISA to Campaign Financing, he has thrown every promise he has made under the bus.  He has even basically telegraphed that he isn’t gonna deliver on any of his promises.

Obama has said he wants to move past race and yet all of his congressional supporters are smearing John McCain, a man with a Bangladeshi daughter, with accusations of racism.  The celebrity supporters are out of control with comparisons to Hitler and hinting that McCain is somehow the cause of African starvation.  These accusations are disgusting and revolting.

And the list goes on…  Is there anything real about this guy?

Fiction.  It’s what Obama is best at and he is rewriting his story every day just to get elected.

John McCain’s Letter Of Warning Re: Fannie And Freddie

Looks like he pretty much called it exactly like it happened….

That’s what I call judgement.

Props to Sweetness And Light

United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
May 5, 2006

The Honorable William H. Frist, MD Majority Leader
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Richard C. Shelby
Chairman, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Majority Leader Frist and Chairman Shelby,

We are concerned that if effective regulatory reform legislation for the housing-finance government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) is not enacted this year, American taxpayers will continue to.be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. Therefore, we offer you our support in bringing the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act (S. 190) to the floor and allowing the Senate to debate the merits of this bill, which was passed by the Senate Banking Committee.

Congress chartered Fannie and Freddie to provide access to home financing by maintaining liquidity in the secondary mortgage market. Today, almost half of all mortgages in the U.S. are owned or guaranteed by these GSEs. They are mammoth financial institutions with almost $1.5 Trillion of debt outstanding between them. With the fiscal challenges facing us today (deficits, entitlements, pensions and flood insurance), Congress must ask itself who would actually pay this debt if Fannie or Freddie could not?

Substantial testimony calling for improved regulation of the GSEs has been provided to the Senate by the Treasury, Federal Reserve, HUD, GAO, CBO, and others. Congress has the opportunity to recommit itself to the housing mission of the GSEs while at the same time making sure the GSEs operate in a manner that does not expose our financial system, or taxpayers, to unnecessary risk. It is vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that these institutions benefit from strong and independent regulatory supervision, operate in a safe and sound manner, and are primarily focused on their statutory mission. More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event either GSE should fail. We strongly support an effort to schedule floor time this year to debate GSE regulatory reform.

Sincerely,

(signed)

John McCain

100 Ambassadors Endorse John McCain and Sarah Palin

JohnMcCain

ARLINGTON, VA — McCain-Palin 2008 today announced that more than 100 former U.S. ambassadors are endorsing Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for president and vice president.

Prominent former U.S. ambassadors endorsing the McCain-Palin ticket include former Ambassador to Japan, Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker; President George H. W. Bush, former Ambassador to the United Nations; former Ambassador to Yugoslavia and former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger; former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; former Secretary of Defense and former Ambassador to Portugal, Frank Carlucci III; former Ambassador to the Vatican and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson; and Ambassadors Richard Burt (Germany), Bruce Gelb (Belgium), Margaret Heckler (Ireland), John L. Loeb (Denmark), Ed Ney (Canada) and Julia Chang Bloch (Nepal), the first U.S. ambassador of Asian descent.

Democrat Mark W. Erwin, a former Hillary Clinton supporter and an ambassador during the Clinton administration, is co-chair of the group. “I will vote for John McCain because the differences between the two candidates are so vast and profound,” he said.

“Senator Obama does not have sufficient leadership experience, nor has he been tested in difficult times,” Erwin said in his endorsement.

Other co-chairmen of the group called “Former U.S. Ambassadors for McCain/Palin” are former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Gregory J. Newell and former Ambassador Gilbert A. Robinson, both of whom served in the Reagan administration. Newell also served as an assistant to President Gerald Ford and as Assistant Secretary of State. Robinson was special adviser to Secretary of State George Shultz, Director of the Office of Public Diplomacy and Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency.

“Nobody could ask for a greater show of confidence,” Sen. McCain commented. “These former ambassadors are outstanding men and women who have served their country in foreign lands with great distinction and devotion to the values we all hold dear. They have a deep knowledge of the challenges facing this country abroad as well as at home. I am honored by their endorsement.”

Ambassador Robinson added, “The endorsements from this country’s most experienced foreign affairs experts are still pouring in. This demonstrates the overwhelming admiration and respect they have for John McCain’s leadership and the confidence they have in the historic McCain-Palin ticket.”

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADORS FOR MCCAIN-PALIN

Weston Adams, Malawi — Columbia, S.C.

Lenore Annenberg, Chief of Protocol — Radnor, Penn.

Cresencio Arcos, Jr., Honduras; FP/NS — Coral Gables, Fla.

George Argyros, Spain and Andorra — Costa Mesa, Calif.

Catherine Todd Bailey, Latvia — Louisville, Ky.

Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senator (R-TN); Senate Majority Leader; Amb. Japan — Huntsville, Tenn.

Douglas H. Barclay, El Salvador — Pulaski, N.Y.

Stuart A. Bernstein, Denmark — Washington, D.C.

My Palin Tribute Weekend…

I am back…  for my Palin Tribute weekend I went dove hunting with my father-in-law…  had a great time and forgot about all of this crap.

It really put things into perspective and am now even more clear.

There is no way I am putting up with the bullshit the Democrats have pulled this year.  Hell No.

Guest Blogger: Shtuey of Oh My Valve!

I must thank my dear friend Shtuey for seeing the bigger picture for all of us. And I must say thank you for helping me recover some of my memories of Denver. Shtuey you are my hero!

From Shtuey, our guest for the day:

At the outset I must thank Ms Placed Democrat’s Renaissancelady 48 and Eastan McNeal at No Quarter for their exhaustive research, love of country, and wise council.

How did we get here? How is it that “subprime mortgages” have brought us to the brink of economic collapse? Most people believe it is due to the predatory lending practices of financial institutions. That is the lie you have been sold. The truth is far more insidious. We are in fact on the brink of economic disaster because of the people who have sent Barack Obama.

In order to understand how this happened we must begin with Saul Alinsky , the radical socialist who, after spending a great deal of time with the Al Capone crime family in Chicago, realized that the same shakedown tactics used by the mob to extort business, and control politicians, could be used by activists to shakedown banks and political institutions to advance a socialist agenda. These were tactics utilized by groups like ACORN, in an effort to lobby the government to pass laws that forced lending institutions to issue mortgages to low income/”at risk” borrowers who often had no way of paying the money back.

But ACORN members probably did not lobby for these laws to bring down our economy, at least not knowingly. I believe that, apart from the leaders at the top, rank and file ACORN members legitimately believed they were fighting for low-income housing. But ACORN’s backers were simply using Alinsky’s method (never reveal your real agenda) to serve their own purposes. Who are these people? You know the names of two of them: Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. I suspect that they are more front men than anything else, though who knows who Ayers was with while he was in hiding?

Where did ACORN get the funds to engage in the widespread lobbying (read extortion) that allowed them to shakedown lenders and politicians? From the money diverted to them by Bill Ayers and Barack Obama, via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and the Woods Fund, as well as with your tax dollars allocated by Congressional Democrats; the same Congressional Democrats that have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Freddie and Fannie in the form of campaign contributions; the same Congressional Democrats that ignored Republican calls for the regulating and reform of Freddie and Fannie–the institutions that took subprime mortgages, bundled them, and infected financial institutions worldwide…all in the name of granting minorities and low income families access to housing (always the trouble begins with the most honorable of intentions, or at least it is made to seem so), but with the Leftists’ hidden purpose of initiating a worldwide economic collapse. All of it accomplished with ACORN as the muscle.

The root of the problem lies with the Community Reinvestment Act. The CRA was passed in 1977 and, according to Thomas J. DiLorenzo,

“compels banks to make loans to low-income borrowers and in what the supporters of the Act call “communities of color” that they might not otherwise make based on purely economic criteria.”

DiLorenzo goes on to explain:

The original lobbyists for the CRA were the hardcore leftists who supported the Carter administration and were often rewarded for their support with government grants and programs like the CRA that they benefited from. These included various “neighborhood organizations,” as they like to call themselves, such as “ACORN” (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). These organizations claim that over $1 trillion in CRA loans have been made, although no one seems to know the magnitude with much certainty. A U.S. Senate Banking Committee staffer told me about ten years ago that at least $100 billion in such loans had been made in the first twenty years of the Act.

So-called “community groups” like ACORN benefit themselves from the CRA through a process that sounds like legalized extortion. The CRA is enforced by four federal government bureaucracies: the Fed, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The law is set up so that any bank merger, branch expansion, or new branch creation can be postponed or prohibited by any of these four bureaucracies if a CRA “protest” is issued by a “community group.” This can cost banks great sums of money, and the “community groups” understand this perfectly well. It is their leverage. They use this leverage to get the banks to give them millions of dollars as well as promising to make a certain amount of bad loans in their communities.

A man named Bruce Marks became quite notorious during the last decade for pressuring banks to earmark literally billions of dollars to his organization, the “Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America.” He once boasted to the New York Times that he had “won” loan commitments totaling $3.8 billion from Bank of America, First Union Corporation, and the Fleet Financial Group. And that is just one “community group” operating in one city – Boston.

Banks have been placed in a Catch 22 situation by the CRA: If they comply, they know they will have to suffer from more loan defaults. If they don’t comply, they face financial penalties and, worse yet, their business plans for mergers, branch expansions, etc. can be blocked by CRA protesters, which can cost a large corporation like Bank of America billions of dollars. Like most businesses, they have largely buckled under and have surrendered to their bureaucratic masters.

Consequently, banks in every community in America have been forced to hold a portfolio of bad loans, euphemistically referred to as “subprime” loans. In order to compensate themselves for the added risk of extending these loans, many lenders have increased the lending fees associated with mortgage loans. This is simply an indirect way of doing what banks always do – and what they must do to remain solvent: charging effectively higher rates of interest on riskier loans.

But this is discriminatory!, complained the “community organizations.” Thus, if one browses the ACORN web site, one can read of their boasts of having “predatory lending laws” passed in numerous states which outlaw such fees, prohibiting banks from protecting themselves from the added risk involved in making forced loans to “subprime” borrowers.