HA: The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama

The talented writers at Hot Air have put together a case against Barack Obama for the last push before the election.  Definitely a worthwhile read, especially if you're planning to argue with any liberals in the next couple weeks.

CLOSING THE DEAL
A Roadmap for Campaign 2008’s Homestretch
By GUY BENSON, MARY KATHARINE HAM, & ED MORRISSEY

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[The Truth shall prevail]

This is to prove that the only reason obama is even thought of as a candidate is because he is black.

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?

.....think about it. Would the country's collective point of view be different? (10/8/08)

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

Not really... the only reason Mccain isn't being laughed out of the election is cause he is white.

And im white...

[Jeremy]

This is a little long, but please take the time to read it and then do what you think is right.

The below article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. I find that amazing in itself as it is no secret that the Chronicle is an exremely liberal paper. My hat is off to them for reporting ALL the facts and holding EVERYONE'S feet to the fire over this issue, Republicans and Democrats alike. This is information every American needs to know.

When Washington politicians tried to rush to cram an ill conceived immigration bill down the throats of "We The People," they were overwhelmed with emails and phone calls. They backed down. When they tried to do the same thing with the first 700 billion "rescue bill," the same thing happened. These bills failed because Democrats and Republicans were afraid to pass them, due to responses from their constituency. Don't give them too much credit. It wasn't so much they were interested in doing the right thing for the country. It was more a case of them worried about being re-elected or not. The motivation for what most of them do comes from that mindset, unfortunately.

Over the last several weeks, we have all heard ALL the politicians blame each other over our economic crisis and with apologetic tones, ask "We The People" to make sacrifices in order to save our economy. Then they imposed more budget deficits on us, like it or not. I ask you, where is THEIR sacrifice? It is over due that "We The People" demand that the politicians start making sacrifices before we make any more. I urge all of you, be you Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green or whatever, to call or email your National representatives and demand the following:

1. ANY politician who took any kind of money from Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac should return ALL of it and it should go directly to reducing the amount of the "rescue" fund. Yes, this includes BOTH McCain and Obama.

2. A full, independent investigation should be conducted into the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac failures and anyone found to be in violation of the law should be held accountable, including financially, just like the Enron case. Any recovered funds should again go to reducing the amount of the rescue fund.

3. ALL politicians should cease to have the benefit of "We The People" paying for their rental cars AND their gasoline. At minimum, if we have to pay for their rental cars, the only option they should have as a choice of vehicles should be the vehicle which gets the best MPG. Period. If this "going green" stuff is good for us, it should certainly be just fine for them. No more Cadillacs, Suburbans, Humvees and Limos. If they don't like this option, they can drive their own personally owned vehicles. And THEY should pay for their own gas, regardless.

4. Their retirement packages should be no better than Social Securtity/Medicare. Period. They have mis-managed both programs to the extent the possibility exists these programs won't be there for our kids and maybe not even us. If they will be there, they will be so watered down they will have to be supplemented by...yup...us. Why should they have it better, when they are responsible for what we are left with?

This is not a partisan issue. This is right and wrong and about stopping the crooks in Washington from raping us, financially, while they just keep getting fatter. Please contact your representatives, at least. It doesn't take that much time or effort. Tell them you will not vote for them no matter what if they don't address these issues. If you agree with me that enough is enough, please forward this to everyone you know. Maybe write letters to the editors in your local papers? If we act they way we did on the immigration bill and the first "rescue" package, maybe, just MAYBE, we might get SOME changes. If you choose not to act, don't expect anything different.

> This is truly an amazing article by one of the most liberal newspapers in the country. Send it to everyone you can. It is the truth. San Francisco Chronicle
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> The average American listening to all the news of bank failures, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (who?) being taken over by the government, and now a bail-out of large, privately owned and well known companies, is at first bewildered, and then angry. The average American should be furious. But with whom should Americans be furious? That seems to be the big question as political fingers are pointing in every direction.
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> Was it greedy CEOs with their golden parachutes? Was it the Democrats? Was it the Republicans? Was it Wall Street? Who, exactly IS? The simple answer is that it is all of the above. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke were on Capital Hill taking a verbal beating from some of the very people who should not be asking the questions, but answering them and answering those questions under oath. Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Conn.) and Congressman Barney Frank, (D-Mass.) are the first two who should be grilled, not by fellow politicians, but by an independent and hopefully very clever, angry, and mean attorney hired by the American people.
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> No one from the present Justice Department need apply. Both should be asked how much money they have taken from lobbyists hired by the CEOs of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Since that is public record, they should then be asked what Fannie and Freddie got in return for that money.
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> Barney Frank should be questioned about his House Bill, H.R. 3838, that is clearly designed to keep Fannie and Freddie afloat as long as possible despite all the signs that there was serious trouble ahead. But all his bill did was make the hole bigger in the side of the Titanic. Basically all H. R. 3838 did was: To temporarily increase the portfolio caps applicable to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, to provide the necessary financing to curb foreclosures by facilitating the refinancing of at-risk sub-prime
> borrowers into safe, affordable loans, and for other purposes.
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> Barney Frank and his counterpart in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.) did everything they could to delay and cover-up the outright fraud and book-cooking that was going on within Freddie and Fannie. As far back as 2003, Freddie and Fannie were $9 billion dollars in debt because of bad loans that continued to be accepted on a daily basis. Pressure from liberals in Congress to continue giving out bad loans was relentless and for years it continued with CEOs, who happen to be friends of Dodd, Frank, Schumer, and Clinton, leaving with millions in their bank accounts as the companies they ran went under.
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> The truth is that this financial disaster for the American taxpayer didn't begin under George Bush, or Bill Clinton, or George Herbert Walker Bush, or Ronald Reagan. It started under Jimmy Carter . It started with the passing of The Community Reinvestment Act in 1977. Basically, this act pushed local community banks and lenders, to bend the rules a little and give loans to low-income families. Like many liberal schemes, it seemed like a good idea at the time. There was a provision that protected the nervous lender in the clause that stated that loans should be given in a safe and sound manner. This gave the bank some leeway and choice in the loans that were given out.
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> Under Bill Clinton, The Community Reinvestment Act was revised. Basically, the revision started to put pressure on lenders to take more financial risks. It was felt that lenders were not being to minorities and the poor who only wanted to share in the American dream of owning their own home. Janet Reno began to outwardly threaten banks and mortgage lenders with prosecution if home loans were not approved for those who wanted to purchase homes that, in truth, they could not afford.
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> Fearing federal retribution, loans started being approved for people who had no down-payment, no jobs, no collateral, and absolutely no hope of ever being able to meet any mortgage payment after the grace period of low interest ran out. Then, the greed took over. Banks would up loans, good and bad, and sell them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, making all their money up front for loans they knew would default eventually. As these loans did default, in larger and larger numbers, even Fannie and Freddie could no longer stand up under the hemorrhage of money loss. Wall Street panicked and so did the federal government.
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> Were there warning signs that a disaster was looming? Of course, there were. But there was money to be made and politicians and CEOs alike were not about to give up the gravy train of money being crammed in their pockets. The CEO of Freddie and Fannie would hire lobbyists to slip money into the pockets of Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate banking committee, who was supposed to be overseeing the banking industry, to the tune of $133,900 since 1989. Barack Obama was number two at the trough with over $120,000 which was no small feat since he has only been in the Senate for three years. Dodd and Obama were closely followed by the last Democratic nominee, John Kerry, (D-Mass.) and then Senator Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.)
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> What were these lobbyists buying for the millions they sprinkled around the Senate and House of Representatives? They were buying a blind eye. They were buying little or no oversight into the juggernaut that has finally crashed on the heads of the American taxpayer. CEO's got rich, politicians got rich and they got votes, being able to tell minorities and the poor, see what we are doing for you. For years, the red flags were stuffed under the desk and ignored.
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> Early in his administration, George Bush sounded an alarm over the small amount of working capital Fannie and Freddie had on hand. He urged them to sell more shares to increase their reserve in funding and put them on more stable ground. He urged them to be more selective in the loans they bought. This suggestion was declined because the current stockholders would not make as much profit.
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> Franklin Raines, the Fannie Mae CEO from 1999 to 2004, decided to retire early, taking millions with him, under a cloud of accusations that he had cooked the books to make it appear the company was making money instead of going head-long into debt. Another player in this financial kabuki dance is Jamie Gorelick. That name should ring a bell with every American. She seems to surface right at the heart of every American disaster in the last 15 years. Ms. Gorelick was vice-chair of Fannie Mae from 1997 to 2003. Like all the others, she left with millions in her pocket while declaring that Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions.' The next year it was found that Fannie was $9 billion dollars in the red.
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> Oddly, this $9 billion had been overlooked in the books Ms. Gorelick and Mr. Raines kept. Let's put Mr. Raines and Ms. Gorelick on the stand. The American people deserve to hear how much they gave lobbyists to pass on to their friends in Congress to keep the blinders on. That number is a staggering $16.2 million dollars since 1997. That amount bought very large blinders. And, it bought time. It bought time for the likes of Raines and Gorelick to make their millions and bow out before the bottom fell out. Republican nominee John McCain raised the alarm two years ago but his plan for more oversight was killed in the Democrat-controlled committee. Over 20-year span, McCain took $20,000 but this did not stop him from voicing his concerns. The problem was that Democrats didn't want to hear about it. President Bushs warnings were also ignored. Should Bush have done more? Yes. Unfortunately, Bush was distracted by the 9/11 attack and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So now, nearly every hour Americans watch as a pompous Chris Dodd or Barney Frank struts to a microphone to declare the failed economic policies of the Bush administration are responsible for this mess.
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> No, Senator, he is not. YOU and your greedy friends are responsible. It took three decades to reach the point of no return and some were there with their hands out nearly all of those years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a full investigation into all of this. This investigation will abruptly end should Barack Obama win in November.
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> The last thing Democrats want is the American people learning how complicit so many of them are in the illegal practice at Fannie and Freddie that led to the taxpayers bearing the brunt of the their unbridled greed. While politicians want oversight over the bail-out, there has been little outcry for an investigation into how all this evolved.
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> It's time for Americans to go to their windows and throw them open and yell, We are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.
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> Then, in November, vote the lot of them out of office.

[Alex]

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[Alex]

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