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Be very wary of Obama’s ‘change’

John Barnes
Published: October 12, 2008

Intelligent people for Obama (Oct. 8)? There is a village somewhere in search of Ms. Guillen. She points out the size of the deficit. Since she is much more intelligent that the rest of us, perhaps she can
explain how Obama can offer $800 billion in new social spending plus give everybody a tax cut (except for those evil rich people and small businesses). She then regurgitates the Internet story about
Sarah Palin banning books in “little” Wasilla. Reading a comic book such as “Audacity of Hope” apparently leads to belief in such fairy tales. “Obama Nation” explains exactly who Obama is and what he
stands for.

Let’s step back for a moment and look at this candidate. Here we have a senator who has been in the Senate only a few years and much of that time he has spent running for higher office. As a state
senator he voted “present” more than 130 times, which indicates a lack of conviction and an inability to make a decision. When we have a national crisis I do not think he can get by with voting “present.”

His lack of attendance in the Senate coupled with his lack of spine in his state senate has given the public very little information with which to assess his judgment. His associations, it would seem,
indicate the kind of man Obama is. He attended a church for 20 years that spews hate against the United States and anyone who happens to be white. He left the church and his longtime pastor only
when he realized he could not remain a member while seeking nationwide office. It is not possible that someone would attend a church like that for 20 years and not agree with its teachings. Would you?

He is “friendly” with William Ayers. This person is a terrorist who bombed buildings in the country as part of the Weathermen, a radical 1960s group. In an interview on September 11, 2001, he stated that
he wishes he had bombed more. Obama and Ayers have done fundraisers together and sat on boards together. Ask yourself if you would have a friendship with someone like Ayers.

Obama is a Marxist who believes in the same things that his associates do. On the positive side, he sure can make a good speech. You want change? Be careful what you ask for.

JOHN BARNES
Manassas

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Posted by ( urf8 ) on October 13, 2008 at 1:14 pm

pwanon,

It is obvous that you don’t read what is posted before responding with your own BS. Do you even sit back and reflect on your misguided and misinfomred opinions? Are you a sheep? The 126K or so from Freddie and Fannie, if you were to check into it, did not come the companies themselves, but donations from employees of the companies. Also, if you had done your homework, Einstein, you’d find out that McCain also received donations from Fannie and Freddie employees, albeit significantly less.

What the heck does President Clinton have to do with this…just because some lawyer who happens to be a democrat said that McCain is a great guy and such means dribble. The 5 in Keating 5, incuded McCain. He was found to have exercised poor judgment and he received kickbacks from Keating for his support.

Futhermore, ye of little intellect, I do not form my educated opinions based on the likes of Alan Colmes or any other liberals, I despise those on the left and the right who misrepresent the truth and tell outright lies.

You evidently have bought into some of lies and half-truths from the right-wing fascist, religious fanatic, subversive, un-American TV talking heads and radio hosts. The idiots you listen to, as well as those on th extreme left, do nothing to help America; they only serve to divide this great country. Now step up and form your opinions, based not on what you hear from some of these “conservatives,“ rather study the issues from multiple sources and points of view; only then will your opinion add anything of real value to the discussion.

Bottom line, from a combat veteran and commissioned officer in the Armed Forces with 20 years of service, learn the facts before you speak or write moron!

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Posted by ( QuestionAuthority ) on October 13, 2008 at 11:30 am

We’ve spent our new millennium watching Republicans run our country into the ground. We’ve witnessed thier failure to do anything about immigration, energy independence, polution or the constant flow of US jobs overseas. We watched as they took a budget surplus and turned it into the largest budget deficit in history long before the Democrats gained a majority in Congress. We’ve watched the President rise above the rule of law, using signing statements to avoid complying with the law. We’ve watched them take us to war on the promise that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and attempt to explain why they sent our troops into battle without body armor or armored vehicles. We watched them completely mismanage the post-invasion occupation of Iraq, growing the insurgency and ensuring our prolonged involvement. We’ve watched them spend more time and money in Iraq than it took to win World War II, and we watch $2 Billion dollars a month go to support the occupation. We watched as they abused the basic human rights of huge numbers of people, many of whom were innocent, rounding them up, locking them down and committing heinous acts of torture, torturing some into insanity and others to death. We watched them use the name of the United States of America to establish a ring of black-site prisons in former communist countries to practice their dark craft, directed in great detail from the White House.

We have watched the Republican leaders over the past 12 years take Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill and kick it into a ditch.

And now we’re watching them ask for four more years. We watched (well, listened) to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rage over John McCain’s selection as their party’s nominee. We watched as they asked McCain how many houses he owned and his befuddled response that he’d have to ask someone to find out. We watched him say the fundamentals of the economy are strong hours before the Wall Street crash. We watched as he sent Sarah Palin and his wife Cindy out to insinuate that Barrack Obama is some kind of terrorist.

Is this the kind of change we need? Arrogant, out of touch, politics of fear?

Do you really want (can you at all afford) four more years?

Enough!

Vote for change, hope and “yes we can”...vote Obama.

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Posted by ( pwanon ) on October 13, 2008 at 9:43 am

“No matter how you try to frame it you are wrong”

That’s why I didn’t frame it. I let the lead investigator into the entire scandal…who is a registered democract…and lawyer to the Dress Stainer in Chief Billy Jeff Clinton…“frame” it for you.

And spare me the BS about McCain lacking character. You’re voting for a guy who has not once in his life displayed an ounce of it. He is a recipient of more than $126,000 of bribes (excuse me…“contributions”) from Fannie and Freddie, and has never achieved one single notable legislative accomplishment in his life. He’s never reformed a thing, despite many opportunities to bring “change” to the most corrupt political machine in America, from which he was born. He wants to legitimize tyrants the world over, and is by far too cowardly to protect our interests around the world agasint the likes of Ahmadinejad, Al Qaeda, and Vladimir Putin.

But maybe if you’d stop listening to Alan Colmes, Chris Matthews, Barbara Streisand, Barney Frank, and all the other “really smart people” that make up the Party of Surrender…you might learn something.

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Posted by ( spanky ) on October 13, 2008 at 8:14 am

Funny, the Communist party of America is for the ONE…...

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Posted by ( urf8 ) on October 13, 2008 at 7:37 am

Here you go regarding John’s Iran-Contra involvement—tip of the iceberg…

McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.
McCain’s ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his link to a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group.
“McCain was a new guy on the block learning the ropes,“ Singlaub told The Associated Press in an interview. “I think I met him in the Washington area when he was just a new congressman. We had McCain on the board to make him feel like he wasn’t left out. It looks good to have names on a letterhead who are well-known and appreciated.
“I don’t recall talking to McCain at all on the work of the group,“ Singlaub said.
The renewed attention over McCain’s association with Singlaub’s group comes as McCain’s campaign steps up criticism of Obama’s dealings with William Ayers, a college professor who co-founded the Weather Underground and years later worked on education reform in Chicago alongside Obama. Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event at his home when Obama first ran for public office in the mid-1990s.
Obama was roughly 8 years old when Ayers, now at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was working with the Weather Underground, which took responsibility for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. McCain’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has said that Obama “pals around with terrorists.“
In McCain’s case, Singlaub knew McCain’s father, a Navy admiral who had sought Singlaub’s counsel when McCain, a Navy pilot, became a prisoner of war and spent 5 1/2 years in North Vietnamese hands.
“John’s father asked me for advice about what he ought to do now that his son had been shot down and captured,“ Singlaub recalled in one of two recent interviews. “I said, ‘As long as you don’t give any impression that you care more about him than you care about any of the other prisoners, he won’t be treated any differently.‘“
Covert arms shipments to the rebels called Contras, financed in part by secret arms sales to Iran, became known as the Iran-Contra affair. They proved to be the undoing of Singlaub’s council.
In 1987, the Internal Revenue Service withdrew the tax-exempt status of Singlaub’s group because of its activities on behalf of the Contras.
Elected to the House in 1982 and at a time when he was on the board of Singlaub’s council, McCain was among Republicans on Capitol Hill expressing support for the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. In 1984, Congress cut off CIA funds for the Contras.
Months before the cutoff, top Reagan administration officials ramped up a secret White House-directed supply network and put National Security Council aide Oliver North in charge of running it. The goal was to keep the Contras operational until Congress could be persuaded to resume CIA funding.
Singlaub’s private group became the public cover for the White House operation.
Secretly, Singlaub worked with North in an effort to raise millions of dollars from foreign governments.
McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group’s letterhead.
“I didn’t know whether (the group’s activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn’t think I wanted to be associated with them,“ McCain said in a newspaper interview in 1986.
Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group’s day-to-day activities.
“That’s a surprise to me,“ Singlaub said. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office.“
“I don’t ever remember hearing about his resigning, but I really wasn’t worried about that part of our activities, a housekeeping thing,“ said Singlaub. “If he didn’t want to be on the board that’s OK. It wasn’t as if he had been active participant and we were going to miss his help. He had no active interest. He certainly supported us.“

Why doesn’t Fox pursue all stories with the same vigor as they due to cast Obama or anyone who is not a conservative in a negative light? Makes one wonder. What agenda does Fox have, it certainly is not to report unbiased news.

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Posted by ( urf8 ) on October 13, 2008 at 7:22 am

pwanon,

No matter how you try to frame it you are wrong. McCain’s involvement in Keating 5 was a direct and personal link to this sort of corruption that is indicative of Washington. It is certainly more relavent than Obama’s occasional contacts with Ayers, while on a board for eduction projects funded by a conservative (who apponted Ayers to the board). If your going to write, know the facts and present them accurately. And to set things straight, it is not just liberals who are disgusted with McCain—I’m a registered Independent and vote based on the issues not the Party affliliation, and often split my ticket by voting for Republicans, Demcrats, and independent candidates. If you could see past your partisan political goggles, you’d turn against McCain as I did. I supported him and voted for him in the primaries (absentee Florida, as I’m active duty military). However, with the viscious, untruthful, and deceptive tone and strategy, along with the poor choice for VP, he has become somene else. He now employs the dsame smears and tactics that Bush used againts him in the Republican primaries in 2000; for which he has said on several occasions since, that he’d never stoop to that level and that campaigns should be about issues; not personal attacks, lies, and inuendo.

Learn the facts (not what Rush, Fox, and other right-wing outlets try to pass off as facts) before you wirte from now on; you’ll be a better person for it and may even learn something factual, even if you do take the misguided step and uneducated choice in voting for McCain.

Veterans for Obama!

God Bless America!

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Posted by ( pwanon ) on October 13, 2008 at 6:36 am

“MCain started his career of government corruption shortly after he was elected—Keating 5 and he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal”

This is easily one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen posted in these pages.

For all your fact-adverse liberals out there, here is what Robert Bennett…the lead lawyer involved in the Keating scandal…had to say about it:

“First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on (McCain’s) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him.“

So say goodnight to that pathetic line of attack. And evidence of him being involved in Iran-Contra? Great. Produce it for me. You must know something that nobody in the entire world knows if you believe that’s true.

It’s laughable that liberals spend so much time talking about McCain “going negative” because they’re all out things to say on the issues. And they always say this RIGHT before they start saying stupid phrases like “Keating Five” and “McSame.“

And by the way…talking about why BHO lied about his association with a domestic terrorist…or his racist pastor…or an organization commmitted to full-scale voter fraud…is not “going negative.“

It’s called “going character” and talking about why BHO has none. And that is certainly an issue because it says a lot about how this inexperienced, naive, ultra-liberal coward would approach the challenges presented to him, should we be unfortunate enough to have to suffer the irreperable damage that would be known as a BHO administration.

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Posted by ( urf8 ) on October 13, 2008 at 6:24 am

Barnes, This is about the future, not the past. It is about who has new ideas, not more of the same Washington politics. McCain has had more than 25 years to change Washington, but has failed. It is time for Change. Apparently you listen to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Faux News to form your misinformed opinions. A vote for McCain is a vote against what America stands for and what my fellow sevicemembers and I serve this country for. He would appoint religious zealots to the supreme court, shifting the balance; effetively making the judiciary branch a theological institutiion.

MCain started his career of government corruption shortly after he was elected—Keating 5 and he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. The way his campign has been heading, I’m not surprised that groups such ast the Arian Nation, KKK, and other hate groups have not come out and endorsed him. You need to learn the unbiased facts and think for yourself! If you have nothing good to say about your candidate, then don’t propagate lies and inuendo about others. Be an honest and real American!

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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on October 13, 2008 at 6:17 am

Mr Barnes,

Kindly give it a rest! Reading your letter leads me to believe the “Village” of Manassas has indeed found its idiot.

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