The reason I think Mcain will win. (airport runway), page 1
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reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 04:48 PM by Loki
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I'm sorry, but did you listen to Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC last night? If you think Americans for Change have abandoned him, you are sorely mistaken.

During his 45 minute speech he had to stop - several times - because it became too loud to continue speaking.

And I'm a writer, I can tell the difference between a pause and someone stopping their speech to let the crowd calm themselves.

Oh no, Americans are ready for change and now people know Barrack is going to bring it.



[edit on 8-29-2008 by Loki]


reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 05:05 PM by sos37
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No matter who wins, there is already change. History has been made twice this election. The first Afircan-American to be nominated as candidate and the first woman to be chosen as vice president. I'm already happy to see that Americans are accepting of what would have been taboos 50 years ago.


reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 05:12 PM by Loki
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You've gotta be kidding me.

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Much of the criticism has centered on two real estate deals involving Obama's South Side mansion. In the first, Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price for a doctor's home, while Rezko's wife paid the doctor full price for the vacant lot next door. Then -- a few months before Rezko was indicted -- Obama bought part of that lot from Rezko's wife.

But Obama's ties with Rezko go beyond those two real estate sales and the political support, the Sun-Times found. Obama was an attorney with a small Chicago law firm -- Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland -- that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding to rehab 15 of their 30 apartment buildings for the poor



1. A little research into the mansion deal shows that Obama's offer was the biggest of two.

2. Buying a 10 foot wide strip of land for his property from his neighbor (let's ignore the possibility that he wanted to have room for his children, The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born on July 4, 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), in 2001) Meaning that his Daughers were 7 and 4 at the time of the sale. Totally suspicious behavior.


From Wikipedia:
Applying the proceeds of a book deal,[145] the family moved in 2005 from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6 million house in neighboring Kenwood. The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko's indictment and subsequent conviction on political corruption charges unrelated to Obama



I realize that Wikipedia is not the gospel. For one thing, it's based on fact. However, the above are not opinions, but facts.


I also understand that Rezko was kind of a slumlord creep. That's why Obama selected a guy like Joe Biden to balance out his ticket. Let's not get into the faulty conservative way of thinking that having a bad acquaintance means you're a bad person, lest I begin talking about the Keating Five.


reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 05:12 PM by paperplanes
Originally posted by sos37
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the first woman to be chosen as vice president.



Don't let Geraldine Ferraro hear you say that...



reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 05:33 PM by Loki
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ARE YOU MENTALLY DEFICIENT!?

Both of his books were NY Times best-sellers.

Barack and Michelle Obama are both successful professionals with real careers.

In 2005 they reported an income (boosted by book sales) of 1.7 Million, and just under a million on 06

Government Jobs pay well, especially ones that hold office, and your little clip intended to raise the hackles on the necks of the ignorant shows that Michelle brought in OVER 300,000 the first year of Barack's term as Senator. That's a power household if I've seen one.

Both Obamas graduated from Harvard Law, for crying out loud, one of the most prestigious schools in the country.

These people aren't bad, they're rich.



Also, I'd like to add about these videos...they're horrible, and skew the facts absurdly. In one segment they compare the cost of healthcare between insured and uninsured, and takes Michele to task for uninsured people being charged more for care...uh well no # sherlock they don't have insurance and have to...you know...pay more. Something that Obama wants to do away with, as he promised to deliver the Congressional Health Plan to all Americans.

And for everyone's sake get a new avatar. I feel my IQ slipping everytime someone has something to say about his name rhyming with Osama. What are you, 4 years old?

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reply posted on 29-8-2008 @ 05:53 PM by Loki
Here, since we want to talk about corruption, I've dredged up a nasty skeleton from McCain's closet. One in which he actually took a large sum of money and other forms of compensation from Charles Keating jr. of Lincoln Savings and Loan.


The core allegation of the Keating Five affair is that Keating had made contributions of about $1.3 million to various U.S. Senators, and he called on those Senators to help him resist regulators. The regulators backed off, to later disastrous consequences.

More here

Quite a situation for a man who claims to be one of the uncorrupted in Washington.

Now, Congress' official inquiry cleared McCain of all charges, but we all know that congressmen and senators are quite lenient on one another, and the worst that came of any of these allegations is a severe reprimanding. Hell, George W. Bush is guilty of treason, yet there he sits. Cheney too.

McCain is the same as any dyed-in-the-wool conservative, He voted with George Bush almost every single time. He's no different, and expecting change from that side of the aisle is tantamount to holding your breath in the hopes of receiving a new car.
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