That's Not The Aunt Zeituni Obama Knew

Because he barely knew her.

I am intrigued by this:

Federal Election Commission records list a Zeituni Onyango in South Boston as making a series of contributions, totaling $265, to the Obama campaign, with the most recent contribution, $5, made on Sept. 19.

To what data base do they refer?  The public online records provided by the FEC only report donations of $200 or more.  Open Secrets does not show any donations from "Onyango" either.

Very interesting stuff from Glenn on the fund raising practices of the Obama campaign.  Their "catch me if you can" philosophy seems to be that donations are legal unless someone can prove otherwise.

Comments

[viens]

Free police protection and a green card.

[Inaction]

catch me if you can?

We caught him. Mortgage crisis, banks, stock market, etc. Observers say at least he's not staring through your head or paining your body. He remains committed to the past being the present. Like the time you did that crack.

[Doodad Pro]

Very interesting stuff from Glenn on the fund raising practices of the Obama campaign.

Sounds like TM hasn't been reading the extensive coverage of this on The Corner by Mark Steyn and others.

[kim]

Run, run, as fast as you can.
You can't catch me, I'm Obamanation Man.
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[Inaction]

Boston is one of the sanctuary cities, like California where they don't enforce. Immigrants have no criminal charges there. It's safe and should be America until these wrong laws are changed. Soon, we can get some done and immigration is free for everyone.

I made some real cool shit for Obama.

[Jim Ryan]

He can't stare through my head. It pains him when he tries. When I hear him on the radio I switch it off because of the smell.

[cathyf]

So, maybe one of you legal types can explain something to me:

I remember a few years back, a bunch of lawyers got together and sued the credit card companies because they were engaging in obnoxious behavior (calling payments late and charging a late fee when the money came in the afternoon of the due date.) If I remember correctly, the lawyers got tens of millions out of the credit card companies, while the customers got 69 cents each or something.

So we have the Obama campaign committing massive credit card fraud -- what I learned from the Obama campaign is that if I wanted to steal $150,000,000 in a month, all I would need to do is to set up a merchant account, stick in randomly guessed credit card numbers and expiration dates, and put through charges.

So why can't some enterprising lawyers sue the credit card companies?

[Familiars]

Cheney is a relation, so when CIA hired his two brothers, Dick was in the deal?

They are just going to say they serve lucifer and use your head anyway. Paining is their deal and using other humans is what lucifer wants and what they are; Spock. Your head is part of your body and so are your dreams, which they'll damn you with anyway.

The smell is there because they were used by Satan, which is a computer or cylon with fission beam eyes. The computer assumed them and had them made just like they assume humans and 'make' them too. They claim it's bad for their health. The device records their existence to make sure they don't use anymore humans just like lucifer's creations have been monitored since time began by Satan. Like a TV staring through their eyes is bad, so you can pay for that too. It's just luciferians been run like they should be and they are just things that exist to try and be Satan. They'll be fine when the device is
done making them and so will everyone else.

Wakjobs aren't clones or Rubbermaids.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

all I would need to do is to set up a merchant account, stick in randomly guessed credit card numbers and expiration dates, and put through charges.

I think the random credit card numbers thing is a bit of a red herring; it's a very sparse space.

Helluva money laundering scheme though: buy gift cards, "contribute" with them anonymously, keep the money.

[Doodad Pro]

So why can't some enterprising lawyers sue the credit card companies?

The main type of fraud that's happening is that some people are using real credit cards (either their own or prepaid) together with fake donor names.

In this manner it's easy for George Soros or Mahmoud Ahmedenijad to give lots of cash by using the name of Mary Biskup. But Mary Biskup has lost no money in the scam.

Whereas the McCain campaign (or amazon.com for that matter) will not accept a CC if the CC number is not issued to the name and address associated with the transaction.

[Pofarmer]

Helluva money laundering scheme though: buy gift cards, "contribute" with them anonymously, keep the money.

Hadn't thought of it from exactly that angle.

[MayBee]

Nobody could have seen this coming.
I mean, making it so nobody has to report donations under $200 and not having regulations about how online transactions are processed. I can absolutely understand how people were totally blindsided by the abuse that has followed that brilliant scheme.

[Raisers]

Obamanation

The billing address has to be the same as the shipping address. So, they're not putting in the billing address as the address on the card. If you don't put the address as the billing address the transaction is illegal. If they're just taking credit card numbers there might be problems, like the mortgages.

The suing was over the credit, which is proprietary. Once they sue and get this, then they have to information changed. Once this is changed the credit has to be given to everyone. So, mortgages were cheap. So, they had to lend money to people who couldn't pay. So, they asked for a government bail out for forcing that credit. If your someone like Merrill with pals like Obama(who sued) and dems, then you ask for the money just before the election and sell to the Asian buyers that it's government backed. The Asians buy the mortgages and we default, so the government bails them out again. Credit cards didn't default because that's not the deal. Credit cards should default over the next five years, but probably won't because it won't be allowed, like oil prices. Foreign investment is fleeing the US and that probably won't change, especially with the gas order. American business is a loss because the government buying is really not possible because of the huge debt and the foreign aid 100s of billions we give away as entitlements that are now on a five year budget. The money isn't there. So, what do you think will happen to your investment?

[MayBee]

Asked by Gibson on Oct. 29 if he would disclose the names of his many unidentified donors, Obama said, "Look, you know, 3.1 million donors would be a pretty hard thing for us to be able to process. And we have done everything that's been asked of us under the FEC guidelines.

This man wants to run our government, and he thinks 3.1 million people is too difficult to process.
He has about $100,000,000 a month to spend, and can hire anybody he wants to do the job right.

Just wait until he tries to cut the budget of government programs that aren't working. Just wait until he has to work with lifelong bureaucrats.
It is all going to be too hard to do the job well. Which is good, because I don't think that's his priority anyway.

[bio mom]

Did you read this yesterday at NRO?

By This One [Less Than Perfect] Indicator, McCain Is Taking Two-Thirds of the Catholic Vote in Virginia

Campaign Spot Cousin reports on an early indicator in Virginia:

The results of the vote of Ms. Borden’s Third Grade Class at St. Agnes Catholic School in Arlington are in: John McCain – 14; Barack Obama – 7! There were no tracking polls so it is difficult to determine whether the undecided voters broke for McCain. I also thought that there were only 20 kids in the class so I am not sure how they came up with 21 voters, unless ACORN was involved in the voter registration drive.

This is one of those elections where Mickey Mouse may not be on the voter rolls, but he had an outside shot of outdrawing the two major party candidates.

[Pofarmer]

It is all going to be too hard to do the job well.

If that situation materializes, gridlock will be our friend.

[JBean]

TM --

The original source for the contribution, in one of the stories, was HuffPo.

It's still there.

Link

[predictoer]

When did these rules change?

[MayBee]

If that situation materializes, gridlock will be our friend.

Sadly, I don't think gridlock will be an option. I envision more of an implement the plan now, there will be time to figure out how to do it well later kind of mentality.
Just like his campaign financing.
Just like the Michigan and Florida primary vote counting.
Just like Acorn's registration drives.

[sylvia]

Some interesting stuff on this page. I didn't know if we all knew this. If so, it would explain the Occidental connection to Ayers.

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm

Obama joined the Students for Economic Democracy (SED), a radical socialist "cousin" organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the Weather Underground was an off-shoot. As a matter of fact, Obama's first public speech was at an event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy.

[sylvia]

Also this below. This adds fuel to the fire that maybe that some of the dates on BHO are being fudged. Like his real age and maybe he was born before he wedding.

"Born on August 4, 1961, Obama would have been 7 years and 5 months old. That's late to start school. Obama will always be 2 years older than his classmates. I have found no information about previous schooling.

Obama may have started Kindergarten in Hawaii but was whisked off to Indonesia as a result of his mother's second marriage. There are 5 missing years in Anna's CV between Obama Sr. abandoning the family and her emigration to Indonesia with Lolo."

[Jane Plumber]

Boston is NOT a sanctuary city. Cambridge is. Auntee can't afford Cambridge.

[sylvia]

Also this about his trip to Pakistan:

"...staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India." That information is significant for two reasons. First and foremost is the fact that Mohammed Hasan Chandoo is a radical Muslim who with his relatives operate a website that is anti-Semitic and anti-American and supports radical Islamic politics. Go to chandoo.com , the home page of the Chandoo brothers"

[Chris]

If that situation materializes, gridlock will be our friend.

Not a chance in you know where. The only thing to slow the Pelosi-Reid-Obama bullet train to Bolshevism might be a lack of staff to write new regulations and get them passed expediently. We'll see a special session of congress in short order to kick off the revolution. They'll work 24-7 to bury any semblance of personal responsibility, entrepeneurship, and finally, get rid of that "fatally flawed" document. Way too many individual protections and freedoms there.

[sylvia]

Figured this one. Most black students got most of their tuition paid. I would imagine the same with Columbia if he went. "Obama received a full scholarship to Occidental, which he rejected after two years in favor of Columbia. Did he get a similar deal at Columbia? What grants and loans did the Obamas receive while at Harvard?"

[sylvia]

More stuff that I didn't know before, although mayeb you all did.

http://www.zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/

It did, however, list five locations where Obama lived during his four years here: three on Manhattan's Upper West Side and two in Brooklyn - one in Park Slope, the other in Brooklyn Heights. His memoir mentions two others on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walkup on East 94th Street.

That's seven different locations in total. However, a quick perusal of the phone books from the period suggest otherwise -- that Obama moved into that 94th Street apartment shortly after first arriving, and stayed there the rest of the time while in New York: This page from the 1982 Manhattan phonebook lists "B. Obama" as living at 339 East 94th St. (The 1982 directory is the first one Obama could have appeared in, since the 1981 directory was printed before Obama's arrival.) Yet this page, from the 1985 Manhattan phonebook, shows that he was still living at the same address -- even having the same phone number. And he was in the following year's directory as well, still at 339 East 94th St.

[bgates]

Sylvia, isn't it as likely that 20 year old college student druggie Barry Dunham didn't send change of address cards to the phone company?

[Thomas Collins]

Sorry to go off topic, but don't Barry's "bankrupt coal" remarks constitute a gigantic "November surprise?". Sorry, I can't seem to link with the device I am using, but Drudge, Gateway, Free Republic and Instapundit are reporting on it. This seems to me to be the type of remark that will make for terrific ads for McCain and Palin. Sure, MSM (with the possible exceptions of Fox and the WSJ) will attempt to minimize it, but I think this info will reach folks in coal states (several of which are "in play"). Am I missing something? This seems far more devastating to Barry than Auntiegate or Illegaldonationsgate or any other Barrygate to have come to our attention.

[Mike Drew]

Its like the movie Catch me if you Can. The problem is that you couldn't crack this case before the election and nobody is going to look at it after the election if Obama is elected. The illuminati party has this in the pocket and they know it.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

There were no change of address cards for the phone company. Those were for the post office,

Your listing in a phone book was for the residence where you paid for phone service. If you moved during the year, the next year's phone listing would show that.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

From David Broder's most recent column:

After his performance in 2004, some Democratic activists had marked him as the best convention speaker since Ted Kennedy, Ann Richards or Mario Cuomo. Others had read his book, "Dreams from My Father," and had declared him their finest literary talent since Ted Sorensen was ghostwriting for John F. Kennedy.

Gee, David, are you saying Obama is as big a fake as JFK?

[cathyf]

In this manner it's easy for George Soros or Mahmoud Ahmedenijad to give lots of cash by using the name of Mary Biskup. But Mary Biskup has lost no money in the scam.

Unless, of course, there is an additional scam to use stolen credit card numbers. Look, so you have a ring of shop clerks, wait staff, etc. They have real customers' real credit cards in their hands. They keep copies of the numbers/expiration dates. Over a few months, they collect 1000 numbers. Then, tomorrow, they run 1000 transactions for $1,000 apiece through the Obama system, grab the money, skip the country.

I would be completely unsurprised if we find out in the next several weeks that some crooked Obama staffer(s) have been stealing huge sums of money on the side using stolen credit card numbers and the security-crippled campaign systems. This would be the end of Citibank -- the shareholder lawsuits would leave the lawyers picking over the shriveled remains. The only question is how many other credit card processors would be sued out of business for accepting transactions where they knew that the security protections had been turned off.

As for money laundering, well you folks do understand that The Outfit is expert in using the legit corners of the financial industry for this, right? The exchanges and the CFTC work very very hard trying to stay a step ahead (for example the simple scheme that Hillary Clinton used either to steal money or accept bribes from (an)other Red Bone customer(s) back in the late 70's is impossible now). But keeping ahead of the game -- or even keeping not to far behind the scammers -- is a herculean effort. Turning off the security controls is simply mind-boggling!

[bio mom]

Yestereday on Huckabee’s show on FNC, Lawrence Eagleburger called Obama a charlatan! Everybody seemed kind of shocked that he would say that publicly.

[bio mom]

Yesterday Obama said that on Wednesday, after he wins, they will begin to change America and after that to change the world!!

I have never seen such an ego in my lifetime.

[bio mom]

And also, on Wednesday he will finally give a press conference!! Phoney, phoney, phoney.

[pred]

change America and after that to change the world

He already did this change. He gave away hundreds of billions in foreign aid then you went broke. Next he'll tax.

[Uncle BigBad]

Patrick

He could have subleased the apt. (very common in NYC) and moved elsewhere, leaving the phone in his name (also not unheard of). Otherwise, you're entirely right; his phone would have followed him to a new address.

[PD]

I have never seen such an ego in my lifetime.

Thomas Sowell on O's ego and mouth

[M. Simon]

shit for Obama.

Is it a movement?

[M. Simon]

The Obama File - ObamaEducation

[kim]

Five bucks. I can't get over that.
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[M. Simon]

Sylvia, isn't it as likely that 20 year old college student druggie Barry Dunham didn't send change of address cards to the phone company?

Posted by: bgates | November 02, 2008 at 01:39 PM

No. In those days you only had land lines and a change in location was automatically entered into the phone book records.

In any case after a year he would have to notify them to keep getting the bills.

[Lori]

I wonder if it was a rent controlled apartment?

By the way, that picture of Obama, who feels a righteous wind at his back, on Drudge is really creepy.

[Deagle]

I'm sorry, but Hawaii's response to the birth certificate issue is strange. If there was really no issue, they would make it public.

I know, seems silly but is important... Me, I doubt all of the liberal government responses these days... Yep, I'm beginning to think of myself as a doubter! Wonder when that happened...?

[PeterUK]

Barrack Hussein Obama cartoon. All show and no substance.

[patch]

Just some disjointed facts:

TIPP shows Senator Obama up by 2.1% with 8.7% undecided.

Drudge has this headline:

Audio: Obama Tells Paper He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry…

From wikipedia:

27 states produce coal. The major coal-producing states are (in descending order as of 2000, with annual production in thousands of short tons):

Wyoming (338,900).
West Virginia (158,257)
Kentucky (130,688)
Pennsylvania (74,619)
Texas (49,498)
Montana (38,352)
Illinois (33,444)
Virginia (32,834)
North Dakota (31,270)
Colorado (29,137)
Indiana (27,965)
New Mexico (27,323)
Utah (26,656)
Ohio (22,269)
Alabama (19,324)
Arizona (13,111)
Total United States: 1,437,174

I smell a quick attack ad….

[PeterUK]

"I'm sorry, but Hawaii's response to the birth certificate issue is strange."

Hawaii's equivalent of Helen Jones - Kelley probably handled it.

[sylvia]

Well the article goes on to speculate that BHO might have subleased. But then they thought if he subleased then he probably had enough finances to not be broke and moving around like a gypsy while he was at school. It also mentions later that there are no records for where Bill Ayers lived during that time. We know that Dorhn was in prison in 1982.

[sylvia]

And if you subleased, would you really want to leave the phone in your name for your subleaser to use? That was in the old days when god knows how high your long distance could get. If BHO wasn't worried about that, then he probably had enough money to find a place to live.

[Lori]

RedState is featuring a comment Obama made to Joe Klein in a Time interview. He's blaming many of our problems on the agricultural industry. The guy is crazy. He wants to control everything:

As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That's just one sector of the economy.

[sylvia]

Also there was some interesting speculation in that article about how there are no records of BHO ever getting a student loan. Something about the records not easily determined because BHO made too much money later to list deductions for a loan so it's not on his taxes. In fact, the only loan they know of is a $20,000 loan BHO took out for himself to help finance his first state senate campaign, and they speculate if he really owed that much on his student loan then, could he have got that new loan.

[clarice]

Sweetness & Light finds another O brother and his step mother living in public housing in the UK

[Wrapped thread]

Obama chronology. Redistribution was foreign aid.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

cathyf: There are several instances of stealing valid credit cards and making donations with them. I don't think the staff was stealing the money, I think the campaign got it all. One Republican couple had a charge on their card for the maximum of $2300 to Obama. If they get the number when you make a legit. charge and you don't know your number is compromised, they can do a one or two time charge and no one is the wiser until you get your bill and complain.

There have been numerous stories of wholesale theft of credit card numbers from business databases over the last two years. So you've got large scale identity theft coupled with individual credit card theft. You can run up several millions under phony names and get away with it before the actual owner even knows they've been robbed.

Even if the campaign had to give back huge chunks of the money, they still make out because for a month or more they've been drawing the interest on those millions.

[Jane Plumber]

Also there was some interesting speculation in that article about how there are no records of BHO ever getting a student loan. Something about the records not easily determined because BHO made too much money later to list deductions for a loan so it's not on his taxes.

Sylvia,

Reagan cut the deduction for student loans in the '80's. I know because I was relying on it for my law school debt loans and it screwed up my planning when he did it.

I always thought I should have sued for detrimental reliance.

[PeterUK]

"RedState is featuring a comment Obama made to Joe Klein in a Time interview. He's blaming many of our problems on the agricultural industry. The guy is crazy. He wants to control everything:"

"What's a dazzling urbanite like Obama doing in a rustic setting like this?" Just because his father owned a goat?

[Pofarmer]

My 90 year old Grandmother, who is an oldtime hardcore Dem, said tonight, "I don't know why McCain had to bring up that Joe the Plumber."

I said, Grandma, "McCain didn't bring it up, Barack Hussein brought it up by answering a question that Joe the plumber asked him" and then I repeated the "spread the wealth" quote.

Then, "But I don't know why McCain brings it up."

Me, "Because the guys a socialist? And he didn't bring it up, the guy asked Barack Hussein a question."

Her, "But McCain had already brought it up before that."

At this point I left the room.

I won't be giving her a ride to the polls.

[Sarah Joseph Ballard]

Pofarmer,

Be a sport. At least take her 25% of the way.

[Simple Simon]

I am dreaming of aWhite Christams with acorns roasting on an open fire.

When did Peggy noonan morph into David gergen.

[clarice]

What do you think are the odds that she didn't call her step nephew the Senator when she was ordered deported?

[PeterUK]

"What do you think are the odds that she didn't call her step nephew the Senator when she was ordered deported?"

She might not have done,but the local Jones- Kelley would have.

[Jim Ryan]

When did Peggy noonan morph into David gergen.

Hive mind. Brooks, Kmiec. They walk amongst us. If you look you can see that the eyes are left and you can tell they're still alive:

Except for the eyes.... But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophed, so the brain couldn't give orders any more. it was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For awhile, you could see the silent helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes went out, and there was no more feeling in them than a crab's eye on the end of a stalk.

[narciso]

Hey that's more like it; it was getting to be a little too funereal around here. Lets make sure, that Tina Fey ends up doing that role for 4-16 years; she better save that wardrobe. McCain was a good sport about it,
the skit did grab an essential truth; Sarah
is the new blood of the party; of course, they will continue to 'misunderestimate' her, She's not going to be "White Oprah", she actually does things for a living, not just talks about it .Ask Ruedrich, Carney,
Murkowski,Large,Stein, Green, et al ; how well patronizing her worked out. If the RNC had bought up large runs of Kaylee Johnson's
bio, much of this problem would have been resolved. I really came to know of her, not from Kristol, Bolton & Morriso; but as a result of Bill Dyer aka Beldar. He vouched for her, just as he vouched for the Swift Boaters, particularly John O'Neil. He linked her story, including her trip to Kuwait, her reformist efforts, so it wasn't
a surprise when she was chosen.
Unfortunately, the sinestro-media's shock was so great, that they had to release this carp storm; made almost entirely out of whole cloth; That Charlie Martin, Jim Treacher; have extensively chronicled, rebutted to the point of annihilation.; Also if one had widely circulated Elan Frank's profile of Palin, as part of a series on successful women politicos which came to light because of Greta; which included snapshots of the publication, Couric was unwilling to have found out about. instead we have the 'Greg Stillson in Wasilla', portrait crafted by CNN and MSNBC. Then again, when there is aconcerted efforts of misrepresentation, this vast, there's only so much, someone can do.
Maybe '''Noonan was right''' (watch the triple quotes)insofar as the RNC has really lost the ability to recognize narrative; that doesn't mean she shouldn't have been able to. Buckley's reaction as I've pointed out, are irrational almost at a freudian level, presaged in his novel, Frum/(he's kind of relented, but not before damage was done,) Brooks was and will remain clueless; consider Nordlinger's dissection of class dynamics in Vermont, vis a vis the McCain/Obama choice, which annihilates his bobo sociology. Hitchens I couldn't even really begin to understand how he has jettisoned his convictions; on the importance of the cardinal issue of our time; than I remember, he swooned over Edwards for national health care and poverty
reasons. Another figure I used to respect was the anti-jihadi social democrat at Harry's Place; follow the memeorandum link to the 'Palin prank' and the 'diss of Cheney' to see why this is no longer the case.
Had the preliminary groundwork been layed out 'the deciders'would have 'recontex-
tualized' the thought that she shouldn't be 'misunderestimated'. like another former broadcaster, who went into politics. Ronald Reagan, even the current sage of Cape Giradeau; Rush Limbaugh. Than again that would have made them double their efforts.

[Simple Stupid]

Please recall that they were questioning Reagan's intelligence when he challanged Ford in 76. I am afraid we are into recreate 68.

[M. Simon]

I have some good stuff up on polling, PUMAs, and Patriots.

LUN Scroll around.

[M. Simon]

Ronald Reagan, even the current sage of Cape Giradeau; Rush Limbaugh.

From Dixon IL. to Cape Giradeau MO. is about 400 mi by road.

[M. Simon]

Ronald Reagan, even the current sage of Cape Giradeau; Rush Limbaugh.

From Dixon IL. to Cape Giradeau MO. is about 400 mi by road.

[kim]

It's a little stunning, n, the unself-consciousness of some of these coat turnings. Or is it deliberate, and cynical? The matter probably needs individual adjudication. It's too easy to damn en masse.
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[peter]

It's a little stunning, n, the unself-consciousness of some of these coat turnings. Or is it deliberate, and cynical? The matter probably needs individual adjudication. It's too easy to damn en masse.

Could you translate that into English?

[Jim Ryan]

Could you translate that into English?

Conservative O lickspittles - rationale a bit thin. In it for the SCOTUS nom? The WH press pass? The Lincoln b overnighter? Friend of O card - don't leave a free society without it?

[Captain Hate]

Friend of O card - don't leave a free society without it?

That's a keeper; one that might even provoke a surreptitious chuckle as we look into the abyss if that punk wins.

[M. Simon]

Could you translate that into English?

A bunch of conservative elitist of the commentariat variety got fooled by bad poll numbers put out by the Shrinking Media™. Instead of sticking with their principles - do or die - they endorsed Obama in the hopes of some crumbs from the table.

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They will not be welcome at any tables but their own come 5 Nov.

[fdcol63]

On a certain level, it's almost gratifying that McCain will be trounced by 2 things:

1) His assinine McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill.

2) His unbelievable reluctance to make the most of all of Obama's known unsavory associations, especially with Wright and Farrakhan, in a futile attempt to avoid being called a "racist" - which Obama's campaign has largely succeeded in, anyway.

Almost gratifying, because the stakes are too high for Obama to win.

[peter]

A bunch of conservative elitist of the commentariat variety got fooled by bad poll numbers put out by the Shrinking Media™. Instead of sticking with their principles - do or die - they endorsed Obama in the hopes of some crumbs from the table.

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thanks now I get it. Plain English has its virtues.

[jimmyk]

in the hopes of some crumbs from the table

Given the nonzero probability that O turns into a Robespierre, or at least a Chavez, this might be rational on their parts (no doubt the have families to support, and they see what happens to journalists who dare to confront The Great One), but it's not exactly honorable.

O is such a preposterous candidate that many of his supporters are like someone having an affair or out on a bender. If they could stop what they are doing, step back, and think about it, they would see it's a terrible idea, and they will have a lot of remorse the next morning. But right now it's just too much fun to stop. I remain hopeful enough of them will regain their senses before it's too late.

[kim]

You're a shriek, peter; how dare you try to understand me illicitly.
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[bad]

Peter knows Kim illicitly? O my....

[matt]

so what next, then?

[PeterUK]

"Steady the Buffs" chaps,"keep your powder dry","praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" and "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes".

[PeterUK]

Barrack Obama - Too Radical - Too Risky

[bad]

PeterUK, add "Too Racist" to that litany.

[PeterUK]

bad,

"add "Too Racist" to that litany."

Too undemocratic.If a black candidate cannot lose because to vote against such a candidate is racist then ,by definition all candidates would have to be black.

[MayBee]

Finally, I find it distasteful that Obama just asked everyone at his rally not making $250,000 to raise their hands.

Ick.

[PeterUK]

"Finally, I find it distasteful that Obama just asked everyone at his rally not making $250,000 to raise their hands."

Obviously Obama didn't raise his hand.

[M. Simon]

fdcol63,

He is not going to win:

Palin
Joe the Plumber - grace of the Maker
Higher energy prices (the Nov Surprise)

[M. Simon]

Given the nonzero probability that O turns into a Robespierre, or at least a Chavez, this might be rational on their parts

Situational ethics.

[fdcol63]

M. Simon,

I hope you're right. Hope springs eternal. LOL

[24AheadDotCom]

It might be helpful to point out to those who think BHO is a nice guy that BHO supports deporting his own aunt at the same time as he supports letting millions of other illegal aliens stay here.

Go make that point to those who think he's a nice guy, noting that he could have gotten her an imm. lawyer for a potential appeal.

[A.B.]

So he didn't really know his aunt? K, but even for a stranger, you'd do more than he did for her. Didn't he ever wonder how or what she was doing in the Unites States or ask how the green card process was going? That's how the leftwing illuminati treat relatives who only have $200 to donate to their campaign.