(2008-10-25) — Coming off a month in which his campaign raised a record-breaking $150 million, Sen. Barack Obama announced today that he would voluntarily redistribute his cash to his presidential rivals including Libertarian Bob Barr, Independent Ralph Nader, Green Party pick Cynthia McKinney and even Republican John McCain, who has struggled to make ends meet while running on public assistance.
“I’ve always felt that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” said Sen. Obama. “To demonstrate my faith in what I call trickle-up economics, I’m going to dole out my undeserved windfall to these needy, but deserving candidates who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.”
The Democrat nominee said the basic idea is to “expand the middle class” among candidates and “to reinstate fairness to a process that has frankly put greed ahead of compassion, lavishing rewards upon a lucky few like me, while starving the many who, like John McCain, work hard and play by the rules.”
Sen. McCain, who, like Sen. Obama, promised to run his campaign under the limitations of public financing, said his rival is free to give money to the Republican National Committee.
“And when I’m president,” said Sen. McCain, “I’ll remind Sen. Obama’s wealthy liberal friends that they’re also welcome to help the needy any time they choose. Because the way we spread the wealth around in this country isn’t by confiscation or under compulsion, but through compassion that spurs joyful giving. The mercy that trickles down causes gratitude to spring up, so that some of those who received help inevitably grow into the next generation of helpers.”
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1 Fred Sinclair // Oct 25, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Why I chose to be happy and maintain a merry heart. Better heart medicine than any pharmacy can provide from a doctor’s prescription. I don’t need or want any of B.O.’s money.
Prov. 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Prov. 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
2 Fred Sinclair // Oct 25, 2008 at 2:27 pm
3 camojack // Oct 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm
“…when I’m president,†said Sen. McCain, “I’ll remind Sen. Obama’s wealthy liberal friends that they’re also welcome to help the needy any time they choose. Because the way we spread the wealth around in this country isn’t by confiscation or under compulsion, but through compassion that spurs joyful giving. The mercy that trickles down causes gratitude to spring up, so that some of those who received help inevitably grow into the next generation of helpers.â€
Now there’s a novel concept…
4 mig // Oct 25, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Soros is also spreading his funds around again. This time with pro-abortion catholic groups, helping to confuse already confused catholics to vote for pro-choice candidates.
Here is Soros article and here is an article worth reading from Archbishop Chaput.
5 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm
So is this the Armageddon we all wondered about?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/10/24/2245238.shtml
Now back to our regularly scheduled Blogcast
6 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 25, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Oh, oh, me, me, me. I’m running for president too, but I can’t remember where I put my campaign banner.
7 Darthmeister // Oct 25, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Heck, when you have tens of millions of Soros money deluging Obambi’s coffers along with all the illegal foreign money and the tens of thousands given by fine upstanding Democrats like Good Will, Mini Me, James Bond, and Marvin the Martian, there should be more than enough wealth to spread around.
More Corrupt Obambi Supporters Whacked on Back of Hand in OH.” Why aren’t these Donk prosecuted for election fraud? What with this “worked out a deal” with election crooks? Oh, alright, I guess they meant well, they were merely in the wrong state, right?
Now why don’t we hear about this kind of stuff happening on the Republican side? Oh, that’s right, the national socialist media is actually part of the reich-wing conspiracy to steal the election from Oblahblah.
8 gafisher // Oct 25, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Considering the questionable nature of many of the Obama donors, perhaps preference (but never quotas!) should be given to such fake campaigns as that of Paris Hilton and of course the inimitable Pat Paulsen, who is also a natural representative for so many deceased Obama voters.
wv - [...] - If I show it, this post will be moderated. Just let’s say it was relevant.
9 BlackLion31U // Oct 25, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Colin Powell - “I have some concerns about the direction that the party has taken in recent years,†Mr. Powell told Tom Brokaw on “Meet the Press†on NBC as he made his endorsement of Mr. Obama.
Joe Lieberman -”Thank God, she’s not gonna have to be president from day one,” he told a Connecticut newspaper, “because McCain’s going to be alive and well.”
Gov. Tom Ridge - “I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania,” Ridge said when asked if he should have been chosen to run as vice president. “I think we’d be foolish not to admit it publicly.”
Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a Republican, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president on Friday, citing the senator’s good judgment, “deep sense of calm” and “first-class political temperament.”
Scott McClellan, President Bush’s former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president.
Joel Haugen - “I believe in putting nation before party and my first priority is following my conscience with regard to what is best for America,” Haugen said in a statement issued by his office today. “I have a huge amount of respect for John McCain, but I believe that he has more of a cold war mentality.”
Gov. Arne Carlson - “The choice of governor Sarah Palin as a running mate, and the resultant shallow campaign based on fear and suspicion, looks frighteningly similar to the politics of Karl Rove [Bush's campaign strategist].” He described Obama as having “the potential to become a truly great president”.
Ken Adelman, a foreign policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, who told the New Yorker he would endorse Obama because of McCain’s temperament, describing as weird his behaviour in response when the economic meltdown began.
Republicans for Obama include a former Iowa congressman, Jim Leach; a former Rhode Island senator, Lincoln Chafee, and a former Bush fund-raiser, Rita Hauser.
Fox News has found that the consensus among Scrapple Face bloggers is that all those previously mentioned are just “closet liberalsâ€. They have now been deemed “Trollsâ€.
The “troll” count is growing daily. All in support of “the ONE”.
all hail “the ONE”
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10 BlackLion31U // Oct 25, 2008 at 6:04 pm
The biggest barrier to rolling up our sleeves and preparing for a better future is our own apathy, fear or immobility. We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists. I am convinced that Susan Eisenhower Joins Other Republicans in Endorsing Obama
“Barack Obama is the one presidential candidate today who can encourage ordinary Americans to stand straight again; he is a man who can salve our national wounds and both inspire and pursue genuine bipartisan cooperation. Just as important, Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation’s impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded.”
11 BlackLion31U // Oct 25, 2008 at 6:07 pm
When enough people conclude that a liquid is sour, but yet it still tastes sweet to you, at what point do you conclude that maybe it’s your own sense of taste that might be in question?
12 SGT USMC 1ea // Oct 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Wow,
I almost feel as if I should apologize for apologizing yesterday.
My flight leaves tomorrow morning but I hopefully will not be out of touch so long this time.
BL31U
Your argument is disqualified in debate due to being an argumentum ad populem fallacy. Or “It is what eeeverybody thinks” argument. For example: 98% of scientists not long ago believed that leeches were helpful for lung problems Therefore we need to use leeches.
What is 2+2?
DEUS est Semper Fidelis
13 Maggie // Oct 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Sgt USMC 1ea,
Apology accepted….:>)
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 25, 2008 at 8:40 pm
FWIW:
I am reminded of African Queen and it’s giving me the creeps.
The Leftist Traitors think their mumbo-jumbo makes sense because they heard another Leftist Traitor say it.
15 gafisher // Oct 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm
God be with you, SGT USMC 1ea. Thank you.
16 gafisher // Oct 25, 2008 at 9:37 pm
JL3 Re#14: All it takes is an echo.
17 gafisher // Oct 25, 2008 at 9:47 pm
BL31U: Re#10: “The biggest barrier to rolling up our sleeves …”
Sounds like you rolled up for the Magical Mystery Tour.
18 Darthmeister // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Are signs pointing to a possible McCain victory being ignored by the national socialist media?
It’s an interesting analysis which runs against the grain of conventional wisdom though I’ve been hearing the last three months that about 20% of registered Democrats, mostly Hillary supporters, aren’t going to vote for Obama no way and no how and in fact a significant number of those Democrats said they will be voting for McCain. I suppose the rest will either not vote for either candidate or possibly vote for Ralph Nader or some such. But 20% of Democratic voters is a significant number. If only half, or 10%, actually vote for McCain that represents a 20 pt shift. And then there’s the possibility of the “Bradley Effect” which reared its head during the Democratic primaries, though “experts” are pooh-poohing that possibility in the general elections themselves. It seems to me it should be an even bigger effect but then I’m not one to quickly embrace convoluted scenarios or conspiracy theories however entertaining they may be.
On the other hand, my conservative old school Republican father-in-law can’t bring himself to vote for either McCain or Obama and there are probably a number of Republicans who feel this way given their media-based impressions of John McCain. Despite their abject disgust that a candidate of Obama’s stature is able to get where he is without having been adversarily vetted by the media and so lacking in accomplishments and broader public service, they still can’t bring themselves to pull the lever for McCain … well, at least that’s what they say now.
This is one crazy election with the national socialist media clearly cheerleading for Obama and election polls all over the place and dramatically swinging from one week to the next.
19 Darthmeister // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Now what political party has been putting their party before country the last seven years? I think historians will document the common thread that Democrats, during a time of war, were putting party and their acquisition of power before the good of the nation with their divisive lies and blame-America rhetoric.
So some blue-blood country-club Republicans decide they like socialism better, it was in the cards. Good riddance. Lincoln Chafee? Buwahahahaha … RINO. I never respected the man for precisely the very reason he just demonstrated, he’s willing to prostrate himself before the Democrats’ messiah and put this nation in further danger of an even greater financial maelstrom and galvanizing a resurgence of Islamic radicalism when Muslim terrorists and despots see a limp-wristed, anti-war socialist in the White House.
20 Fred Sinclair // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:35 pm
In from Elly Cat:
Joe “The Bummer” Biden lies, spins, distorts and pouts on TV
Oh MY! A wee bit amusing! More so w/each question. A Florida news anchor @ WFTV dares to not handle the chosen one’s sidekick without kid “lightweight” gloves—- and actually asks “hard” (read: HONEST) questions! I do wish she’d have specified the hidden $800,000.00 Obama gave to ACORN routed thru “Citizens Services, Inc.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubM
Although visibly flustered, it seems effortless for the Biden part of Obama-bin-Biden to lie like his ‘better’-AND be easily offended and pout just like him too.
Just keep talkin’ Joe, & Michelle O, too [notice how quiet she's been kept]
“Give Barbara W a promotion!!!” I’ll sure be writing her a note of thanks and encouragement: barbara.west@wftv.com
21 Darthmeister // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Here’s a sample comment from a PUMA at the American Thinker site I linked to above:
As our last PUMA protest at the DNC in Denver ended, minutes before the televised fraud that was the roll call vote, we chanted “Country before party!” We meant it then, and we mean it now. The PUMA movement has never been about Clinton supporters being sore losers. It is about doing what we can to make sure the DNC is held accountable for raping its charter by hijacking delegates, intimidating and censoring pledged delegates, and disenfranchising 18 million people by rigging the aforementioned roll call. We have known for months that the DNC was going to nominate a dangerous, unqualified, sexist, bigoted, Stalinist liar and thug. His campaign organized and executed a strategy to seize control of the caucuses. This fraud is now well documented (http://www.lynettelong.com/CAUCUSFRAUD/). The DNC did nothing to stop it. The media refused to report it.
I’ve been listening to a lot of conservative talk radio over the past month and a half. I’m amazed at the number of people who find themselves falling victim to the same methods of voter suppression through polling and media drumming that we experienced in the primaries. On the last day of the Democrat Party primaries AP released a false story that Clinton was conceding; BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSED. There has most likely not been a point where Obama has polled ahead of McCain out of the margin of error. Republicans need to know there are millions of us out there that are going to vote against Obama because of his politics, and his hand in the destruction of democratic process. We could care less about the color of his skin. It’s the content of his character we have a problem with. I have never voted Republican before. Country before party.
Read the entire comment thread for the article. It will be interesting to see if the “PUMA factor” becomes a reality on November 4th. Apparently these Democrats have been running under the radar of the national socialist media if what I’ve been tracking the last two months about PUMAs is true and not simply hype.
But we must remain sober and clear-eyed and continue influencing our neighbors and co-workers with the counter-truth about His Majesty Obama that the national socialist media either ignores or spins away.
22 Fred Sinclair // Oct 25, 2008 at 11:25 pm
America, in the early days had to cope with traitors and now here we are forced to cope with the Benedict Arnolds in these latter days.
Benedict Arnold, a military hero who became a traitor to the American cause for freedom.
Colin Powell, a military hero who became a traitor to the American cause for freedom.
It was a Republican Ronald Reagan who pinned the fourth star on Powell; it was a Republican Ronald Reagan who made him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; it was a Republican George Bush who nominated him to become Secretary of State in 2001.
But it was as a RINO that Powell sold out his commitments, his responsibility, his obligation, his duty, his dedication, his devotion, his allegiance, loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity.
He had made a vow, took an oath and it was all washed down the sewer of the NYC-Wash D.C. gauntlet of elites.
History also records another man who sold his ‘birthright’ for a pot of beans; Colin Powell has sold his soul for a chance to remain on the cocktail swilling party circuit.
Desertion in the face of the enemy used to have meaning to a military man. To Powell and his elitist cohorts, honor is an outmoded concept. They have none.
23 Darthmeister // Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10 am
Obamafraud Still Being Ignored by National Socialist Media
Of course Obamatons believe the ends justifies the means so they don’t concern themselves with what they see as “negative campaigning”.
I wonder how many stories the NSM would be running if this had been McCain’s campaign engaging in such donation fraud?
24 Fred Sinclair // Oct 26, 2008 at 12:53 am
Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Obama citizenship
Oct 25, 3:37 PM (ET)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama’s qualifications to be president.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick on Friday night rejected the suit by attorney Philip J. Berg, who alleged that Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency. Berg claimed that Obama is either a citizen of his father’s native Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia after he moved there as a boy.
Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was “too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters.”
I don’t wonder whose pocket this judge is in he seems to have a horse in the race. I don’t suppose he might be a Democrat?
attenuated: reduce the force, effect, or value of :
25 RepublicanAttackMachine // Oct 26, 2008 at 3:06 am
Someone mentioned “The African Queen” above, actually BL31U makes me think of another character Bogart played.
Whenever “troll-y” starts his, “here’s proof” of the nasty Republican’s, I get this “vision” of Capt. Queeg, rolling his steel balls in his hand, while explaining he was RIGHT about the missing strawberries!
26 gafisher // Oct 26, 2008 at 5:26 am
Fred Re#23: According to reports I’ve seen, Judge Surrick is a Republican who was appointed by Pres. Clinton as part of a deal to avoid a filibuster “back in the day” when his Party didn’t control Congress.
Judge Surrick’s ruling is largely based on the fact that Berg has no legal ’standing’ in this instance because he hasn’t been hurt — yet — by Obama’s candidacy, a generally sensible provision of U.S. law which protects (presumed) citizens from frivolous or harassing lawsuits. If Obama’s elected, THEN the American People would be harmed, if the allegation is true, and could sue, though obviously avoiding such a Constitutional crisis would be preferable; by simply producing the certified Birth Certificate, as McCain, Biden and Palin have all done, Obama would have closed the issue forever.
At this point, though, the only people with ‘legal standing’ would probably be the Attorneys General of each State, who could require proof of eligibility in the course of certifying each Candidate on their State Ballot. There are efforts underway in at least a half-dozen States to require this of their AGs, and I suspect the issue would have to be dealt with if even one State actually had the guts to do so, but this late in the game I doubt it will happen.
Frankly, if Obama can’t be beaten on the issues, a technicality like this, important as it is, won’t make half the electorate tuck tail and walk quietly away.
27 Fred Sinclair // Oct 26, 2008 at 6:43 am
gafisher #25 - Straining at a gnat and swallow a camel? Reminds me of the owner of a little Chihuahua who went to a neighbor to apologize, “My dog just killed your pit bull dog.
“Impossible!” exclaimed the neighbor.
“No, it’s true, your dog choked to death trying to swallow mine.”
So a fine point technicality is used to vacate a broader technicality and possibly allow an ineligible person to become President of the USA?
I would counter that the use of such a technicality will render the illegal election, nothing more than a coup d’état. (1 a sudden, illegal seizure of power from a government). Once in place it will be virtually impossible to overturn the election.
Sort of like an election I read about over in Iraq some several years ago when President Saddam Hussein bragged of being elected in an open free election where he received 100% of all the votes cast.
Joe Stalin in Russia (also a Socialist) bragged of his winning open free elections.
Fidel Castro (A full blown Socialist a/k/a Communist) following his coup d’état in Cuba also bragged of his open free elections.
Idi Amin was a Ugandan military dictator and the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Bragged of his open free elections.
A more recent “election” in Venezuela resulted in a massive landslide putting Hugo Chavez (also a Socialist) in power.
Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t run for President because of that little technicality in our Constitution.
So waving aside that little citizenship technicality, America is on the verge of possibly voting in a “Quote/Unquote” Socialist Government.
The history books tell of a war that was fought, and a great price that was paid in the early 1860’s to do away with slavery. Now in these modern times almost half of America is eager to vote it back into place.
I pray to God that He will not let that happen.
28 Fred Sinclair // Oct 26, 2008 at 6:45 am
(:>)
29 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 26, 2008 at 7:31 am
You may or may not find this clip humorous (I did) but, either way: God Bless You.
30 danimal // Oct 26, 2008 at 8:55 am
Fred - With 50% of the taxpayers already paying 96.4% of the taxes, the slavery you speak of is well established.
And it’s not enough for them.
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
—Benjamin Franklin
31 danimal // Oct 26, 2008 at 9:10 am
And those of us in the 50% who pick up the tab for those who won’t would revolt against the government, but we’re too busy working (for the government).
Representation without taxation. Tyranny nonetheless.
32 gafisher // Oct 26, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Fred Re#27: I share your frustration, but if we start playing dirty like the Democrats, we all lose.
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