Obama Campaign Workers Unpaid and Angry

WTHR

Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd.

The line was long and the crowd was angry at times.

“I want my money today! It’s my money. I want it right now!” yelled one former campaign worker.

A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid Visa card.

The workers showed up to get their cards Wednesday morning at 10:00 am.

“There was a note on the door saying 1:00 pm and then at 1:20 pm everybody was like why is nobody here. They just got here and they’re trying to get it organized,” said Heather Richards, a former campaign worker.

The large gathering of around 375 people prompted police to call in extra officers and set up temporary barricades. The barricades helped keep the crowd from spilling out onto Meridian Street. Police say the several hundred people in line were for the most part orderly.

“No arrests. Some of the people were upset at first because the line wasn’t moving as fast as they thought it should. But we really haven’t had any problems,” said Major Darryl Pierce, Metro Police.

Eventually people did start getting paid, but some said they were missing hours and told to fill in paperwork making their claim and that eventually they would get a check in the mail.

“Still that’s not right. I’m disappointed. I’m glad for the president, but I’m disappointed in this system,” said Diane Jefferson, temporary campaign worker.

“It should have been $480. It’s $230,” said Imani Sankofa.

 

“They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90,” said Charles Martin.

“I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned,” said Randall Waldon.

Some people weren’t satisfied with filling out a claim form for money they felt was still due to them.

“They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don’t know. We’ll see what happens,” said Antron Grose.

“Talking about they’ll mail it to us. I ain’t worried about that, man. They’re not going to mail nothin’,” said Martin.

As my friend diggins says…  “Can You Feel The Hopechangery Yet?”

FL McCain Campaign Mgr Has House Shot At In Drive By

Wow… the violence of the Obots against the McCain supporters is getting out of hand. There have been death threats, arson attempts, physical attacks and now… McCain’s campaign manager for central Florida has had his house shot at in a drive by shooting.

Thankfully, no one was hurt, but this is getting really really friggin scary. These people are out of hand and Obama needs to say something… now.

 

From Local 6

 

The Republican manager said he is convinced he was targeted because of new McCain signs he added around his home…

Coverely said he has taken about 300 calls concerning stolen or vandalized McCain signs in the area.

“It says this campaign is getting vicious,” Coverely said.

Coverely said it appears Democrats are becoming more aggressive in the county.

“I wouldn’t say slipping, but I would say the Democrats have become far more aggressive in Seminole County because it is such a heavy Republican area,” Coverely said….

Barack Obama’s Kenyan Ghost – Raila Odinga.

This is a subject I have known about for a long time.  I mentioned it breifly once, but because the mainstream media was not covering it yet, I was thorougly rebuked at the time.

I decided to leave the subject alone and hope that the MSM picked up on it.

They have.  Finally.

Washington Times

….The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30….

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya’s Muslim community heading into the election….  Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader….  The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of “Islam as the only true religion,” Islamic leaders would have an “oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original],” installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who “allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists,” adoption of a women’s dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

Raila Odinga is a Marxist.  He graduated from East Germany’s Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro….  Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States.

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama’s six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies…. “Kenyans are now yearning for change,” he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama’s remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans – he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga….

….In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, “Barack Obama’s father is my maternal uncle.”

….Mr. Obama’s judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.

Make sure to read the whole article!

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.

HuffPo – Why Hillary’s Folks Won’t Quit

I have not been a fan of the Huffington Post during this election cycle.  The Huffington Post, along with DailyKos and DU, lead the charge in the online attack against Clinton, at least perceptually.

Since the end of the primaries, when the real numbers are coming in and critical votes came up, and Obama did not perform as these entities would have liked, they started to get a bit more critical of Obama…  thus the advent of articles like the following…

LINK

One thing that can be said about Hillary Clinton’s backers is that the word quit is not in their vocabulary. Their thinly disguised end around at the Democratic presidential nomination shouldn’t really surprise. The end around is the soft soap announcement that they’ll keep her name in play as a Democratic presidential candidate at the convention. There are several reasons why there’s no quit in Hillary’s folks. They make up a big percentage of the Party, and they still fervently believe that she’s the best, maybe only, Democrat who can beat McCain.

Their passion is driven by an odd, troubling and invigorating, commitment mix of dedication, gender support and racial fears. It’s also driven by the growing unease that the steam is leaking out of Obama’s turbine. Despite seven weeks of non stop media fawning over and adulation of him, Obama still can’t give McCain the shakes in the polls. Worse, McCain seems to have gotten better. He’s sharpened his message, his attacks and confidence.

SNIP

The hard numbers and demographics certainly are good reason for terror over an Obama loss. His caucus and primary wins in the red states and the handful of endorsements he got from the Democratic governors and senators in those states hardly spell a breakthrough for the Democrats in the head to head match with McCain. Obama swept to primary or caucus wins in Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia and Nebraska. Bush won these states handily in 2000 and 2004. But that’s only the start of the problem. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Idaho and Utah by a crushing margin of a three to one, and in other states by margins of two to one and half.

The red states that Obama won in the Democratic primaries have been the guaranteed pathway for Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. to win and stay in the White House. Their 170 to 200 electoral votes are virtually in the GOP’s coffers before the first vote is cast on Election Day. The states are so bankable and reliable for the GOP that it’s the rarest of rare sighting to see a GOP presidential candidate even bother to make anything more than a token appearance in these states in the stretch run of the campaign.

Read the rest…  except for a detail or two (ie the injection of race…  they just can’t leave it alone, can they?) it is a really good article.

AnnieNYC: I Ran Into Keith Olberman Tonight

AnnieNYC is an extremely active PUMA from NYC.  She is out several times a week handing out fliers, setting up tables, talking to people, organizing events and attending meetings.

Well, tonight, she was running late to a meeting and bumped into Keith Olberman…  the following is a story of that encounter.

XPosted From AnnieNYC

I was going fliering tonight and walked past the NBC building, on his way walking to the building i ran into KO. I stopped him “are you keith olberman?” him in bold. there is some stuff missing, but most of it is here. He was nervous and nerdy, hands in his pockets the whole time, he really seemed like a hollow fool. i was actually very surprised, i thought he had more than this.

are you keith olberman?
Yes.
Ok, what is with the hillary hate.
I don’t hate her.
gimme a break. what is your problem with her, just tell me.
i don’t hate her, i hate her policies and tactics
her policies? Obama is to the right of her!
he’s moving to the middle because he’s trying to win!
the middle?! he agrees with alito and scalia on the death penalty, he actually wants *more* death penalties, what kind of policy is that? Now he’s against affirmative action…
well he’s trying to win
well not only did he vote yay on fisa, but now at&t is sponsoring the convention. that’s ok with you?
well, i was very mad about his vote on fisa.
well at least hillary sticks to her guns and she wanted to win.
(then we get into tactics)
her tactics? like what.
the 3am phone call…
well he failed that test didn’t he, russia goes to war with georgia and all he can say is he wants a shave ice. and what about the smearing of the clintons as racist? what about those tactics, donna brazile and saying fairy tale is racist, clyburn, etc.
that wasn’t him.
don’t you think it was his job to ratchet it down? do you know how many times i’ve been called racist for not supporting him? it was his job to ratchet that down, i campaigned for her in Philadelphia and we were treated like *shit* because of the smearing of her as a racist. Wasn’t it his job to deal with his supporters?
i think he is
oh really? what about late may axelrod faxing YOUR worst person in the world report on her RFK comments to all the media, really? hillary is the worst person in the world?!
that was only 10 minutes, and that’s axelrod, it’s not him…
that’s the head of his campaign, he already had the win in the bag, and even now he hasn’t said what he needs to to ratchet down the hate. He could have said at any time “she’s a great lady and she’s worked throughout her life for civil rights, and he hasn’t.
(super nervous) i think he is
Well think of the alternative
I am

 

The entire time, NO INTELLECTUAL RESPONSE WHAT-SO-EVER. NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Nothing new, just anything that some uninformed kid on the street would say. WOW. i was blown away by how lame his responses were. amazing. He even at one point mentioned that he was called a misogynist, as if he couldn’t understand why! wow.

 

I have one thing to say about that…  actually, just one word….

Awesome.

New Ad: Dems Love McCain

Who didn’t see this one coming from a MILE away?

 

Oh, and to all you morons that screamed and yelled about how they would use what Hillary said about McCain and Obama in the GE…  what about the 5 other Dems?  And Obama himself?

I am sorry, but the Democratic party cannot claim that a guy they asked to be Vice President 4 years ago is the devil…

He was good enough to be a Democratic Vice President…  but now he is satan incarnate?  Sorry…  no go.

Worst Campaign Advert EVER.

This is Moveon.org’s new campaign ad for Obama.  I have never ever seen a more vacuous or inane advertizement for a political campaign ever.  There is ZERO substance to it.  It says absolutely NOTHING.

God damn it, this makes me friggin crazy.  There is no substance to this man or his campaign.

You might as well say “Vote for Obama cause he makes you tingly in the pants.”

Is this what we are reduced to?

Romney, Hillary, Campaign Loans, And The Vice Presidency

I read an article about Romney…  and it said that Romney had loaned his campaign $45 million dollars, which he is filing to change from a loan to a contribution, essentially forgiving the debt.

The article also said by doing this that he cleared the “legal deck” for him to be able to be a VP candidate…

Former Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s increasingly visible on the campaign trail on behalf of the man who beat him for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain, is about to forgive the $45 million he loaned himself for the primary struggles.

The legal move of filing papers with the Federal Election Commission re-declaring Romney’s loans as contributions is imminent, according to a report by Michael Kranish on the Boston Globe website. It would clear the legal deck for Romney to become a candidate again as, oh, say, the vice presidential Republican running mate of McCain.

 

To be honest, I had not even thought about campaign debt being a roadblock on the path to the Vice Presidency in the legal sense…  I mean, I would have just thought it would have made that pick that much less attractive…  but a legal roadblock?  Wow, ok… 

So, anyway, I suspect that Hillary’s pay off the debt effort is because she wants to clear her “legal deck” just in case…  especially given the fact that she is not asking for any of her personal loans to be paid back.  I suspect she will file similar paperwork to what Romney has soon. 

And that maybe it could be why Obama is draggin his damn feet, refusing to send an email blast on her behalf and “forgetting” to ask for people to help her?

He wants the reason she can’t be VP because of a legal technicality so he doesn’t have to take the blame perhaps?

I might just bet on it.

Hillary Building War Chest For 2012?!?!?!

In a very interesting development, it seems that Hillary is leaving her options option for 2012…  you know, just in case the Precious doesn’t win after all.

She sent out a letter to her contributors that was fairly standard, asking permission to roll their contribution from her 2008 GE fund to her Senate campaign fund.

If you read the form carefully, an intersting little tidbit pops up…

http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/hillary-clinton-asks-keep-donor-money-2012

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is sending out letters to donors asking permission to roll a $2,300 contribution to Clinton’s 2008 general election coffers to her 2012 senate election fund instead of offering a refund.

The letter, read to me by one recipient, includes a photocopy of a handwritten note from Clinton that says, “Dear friend, your commitment has meant so much to me over the course of my presidential campaign. You were there for me when I needed you the most and I’ll never forget it. I hope you’ll help me continue to fight for the issues and causes we believe in by filling out the enclosed form in support of Friends of Hillary.”

The form says, “I hereby verify that my 2008 general election contribution may be designated to the 2012 Senate election. I designate the entire amount to the 2012 primary election. However if I have already contributed to the 2012 primary, I designate any amount in excess of $2,300 to the 2012 general election.”

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