US congressman indicted in land deal scheme
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Feb 23, 2008, 14:27 GMT
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Bush supports this regime!
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a good friend of JM. Oh and of course JM never had improper sexual relations with that woman.
Congressman Rick Renzi (R-Az), a longtime protégé of John McCain
Do you think the Clinton camp might mention any part of this?
John, please tell us this is a planted story by your opponents. Tell us it isn't true. Poor old John, does not even have the nomination and is already catching all the crap. I wonder if it is really worth the effort when you are his age?
worth voting for president
all crooks lyers scammers pedifiles etc.
take them all out and shoot them before they spread.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama's refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on Internet and in the media to question his patriotism.
Now Obama's wife, Michelle, has drawn their ire, too, for saying recently that she's really proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.
THE IDEAL PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY.
actually, this is what's great about the USA. These atrocities are a matter of personal preference and not a matter of law. Obama and his wife can hang the flag upside-down and be ashamed of America and he can be pretty and still run for the presidency.
Yeah, and William Jefferson, the congressman who Accepted $100K From an FBI Informant and hid it in his freezer supported Obama in his senate race... So what..
Too bad we don't talk about their policies.
...this is a very good example of the Bush administration going after another crooked congressman, regardless of his affiliations.
AG Gonzales pursued these guys relentlessly. After all, WHY do you think congress wanted him gone sooo bad?
Now it's the new guys turn.
During Clintons stay, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Il) was tried and convicted for similar charges.
Clinton pardoned him.
His AG, Jnet 'buck'Reno, protected every one of Clinton's pecadillo's until the stench was so bad she had to spec pros. the White Water investigation, because Clinton ordered her to fire the investigating attorney.
Now who's the filthy dickhead here? Compared to Hillary and Bill, Bush is a boy scout. Oh yeah, liberals also hate the boy scouts too.
His head is up Bush's ass all day.
That does not make me wrong.
is only outdone by your stupidity SP4. Reading your posts is really good crap and I don't know why anybody would feel anything for you other than pity.
SP4: NonethelessFeb 23rd, 2008 - 23:19:16
That does not make me wrong.
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What makes you 'wrong' is your persistent need to open your mouth, and the facts be damned.
If it's not this old story on Renzi finally ending up with DOJ action, it's McCain's apparent confusion over which lobbyists he met with, and when the meeting (did/did not) occur. On top of that is his not acknowledging the concern of the FEC over whether he has the right to suddenly NOT be publicly funded. Since the FEC board has vacancies they have no teeth to pursue anything in time for the election, but all these 'shortcomings' are dead weight on someone who thrives on their reputation for ethics. The GOP is concerned because they have no fallback if McCain's halo is tarnished, and the Times story has turned into a fundraiser for McCain amongst the paranoid GOP preoccupied with the 'liberal media' and other gremlins in the night. When McCain needs to bring out Bob Bennett to explain a 'mis-statement', that's a problem.
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Just when John McCain may have been breathing a sigh of relief, his campaign woke up to a new round of negative headlines -- this time, suggesting that in defending himself against The New York Times this week, he had misrepresented some facts.
In an effort to refute the Times story implying the senator had an inappropriate relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, McCain's campaign stated unequivocally on Thursday that he had never held a meeting with Iseman and her client, broadcaster Lowell Paxson, about letters he sent to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf in 1999.
But it turns out, McCain did sit down with the two of them, and he himself admitted to the meeting in a 2002 deposition. Today, McCain's lawyer says the campaign got its facts about the meeting wrong, but insists the underlying point remains the same.
'On top of that is his not acknowledging the concern of the FEC over whether he has the right to suddenly NOT be publicly funded. '
Hey if Obama isn't going to keep his word and go with Public Funding why should McCain?
'but all these 'shortcomings' are dead weight on someone who thrives on their reputation for ethics.'
Good thing Obama doesn't have a reputation to protect.
'he Times story has turned into a fundraiser for McCain amongst the paranoid GOP preoccupied with the 'liberal media' and other gremlins in the night.'
LOL! Naaah, the Times isn't liberal and the media haven't been falling all over themselves to fawn over your flavor of the month or anything.
'But it turns out, McCain did sit down with the two of them, and he himself admitted to the meeting in a 2002 deposition.'
And that got them what? You would have a story if McCain broke some rules for them but even the Times acknowledges that after 8 years of looking they couldn't find anything.
How do you like these apples?
' Barack Obama's longtime minister, mentor, and sounding board has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan and last month honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement.
Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals. He has called whites 'blue-eyed devils' and the 'anti-Christ'. He has described Jews as 'bloodsuckers' who control the government, the media, and some black organizations.
'Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET [the Black Entertainment Network] Farrakhan said in a speech on Nov. 11, 2007. Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the record industry, movie industry, and television. And they make us look like we're the murderers; we look like we're the gangsters, but we're punk stuff.
The month after that speech, Obama's minister and friend, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, honored Farrakhan at a gala, bestowing on him its Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer award.'
[snip]
The title of Obama�s bestseller 'The Audacity of Hope' comes from one of Wright�s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
For a Jan. 21, 2007 story in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said that Wright keeps his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.
'What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice, Obama told the paper. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking truthfully about what I believe is possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.'
However, Obama has said that in the fall of 2006, he broached the subject of a run for the presidency with Wright, who encouraged him to go ahead.
As noted in a Jan. 7 Newsmax article, 'Barack Obama's Racist Church,' in sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with racism and has compared Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America's racism.
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Just before Obama's nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: When [Obama's] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli� to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.
According to Wright, Obama then told him, 'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we've decided is that it's best for you not to be out there in public. Wright is retiring as senior pastor of the church in May. He asked his successor, Otis Moss III, to speak instead, but he declined. However, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the presidential announcement.
The media blackout on Obama�s radical minister is in striking contrast to the coverage of Romney. Nearly half the references to Romney in the media include a discussion of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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'Moreover, [Obama's] church has a 'non-negotiable commitment to Africa,' according to its Web site, and the church and its pastor subscribe to what is called the Black Value System.
While the Black Value System encourages commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to 'our racist competitive society' and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of 'middle-classness' and a pledge of allegiance to 'all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.' It defines 'middle-classness' as a way for American society to 'snare' blacks rather than 'killing them off directly' or 'placing them in concentration camps,' just as the country structures 'an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.'
Oh yeah... there is plenty, plenty more. Are you sure you want to down this road?
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, January 15, 2008; Page A13
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said 'truly epitomized greatness.' That man is Louis Farrakhan.
Maybe for Wright and some others, Farrakhan 'epitomized greatness.' For most Americans, though, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler -- 'They helped him get the Third Reich on the road.' His history is a rancid stew of lies.
It's important to state right off that nothing in Obama's record suggests he harbors anti-Semitic views or agrees with Wright when it comes to Farrakhan. Instead, as Obama's top campaign aide, David Axelrod, points out, Obama often has said that he and his minister sometimes disagree. Farrakhan, Axelrod told me, is one of those instances.
Fine. But where I differ with Axelrod and, I assume, Obama is that praise for an anti-Semitic demagogue is not a minor difference or an intrachurch issue. The Obama camp takes the view that its candidate, now that he has been told about the award, is under no obligation to speak out on the Farrakhan matter. It was not Obama's church that made the award but a magazine. This is a distinction without much of a difference. And given who the parishioner is, the obligation to speak out is all the greater. He could be the next American president. Where is his sense of outrage?
Any praise of Farrakhan heightens the prestige of the leader of the Nation of Islam. For good reasons and bad, he is already admired in portions of the black community, sometimes for his efforts to rehabilitate criminals. His anti-Semitism is either not considered relevant or is shared, particularly his false insistence that Jews have played an inordinate role in victimizing African Americans.
In this, Farrakhan stands history on its head. It was Jews who disproportionately marched for civil rights and, in Mississippi, died for that cause. Farrakhan and, in effect, Wright, despoil the graves of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and, of course, their black colleague James Chaney.
I can even see how someone, maybe even Obama, could dismiss Farrakhan as a pest, a silly man pushing a silly cause that poses no real threat to the Jewish community. Still, history tells us that anti-Semitism is not to be trifled with. It is a botulism of the mind.
The Obama and Clinton campaigns are involved in a tasteless tussle over the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. What is clear from rereading King's celebrated 'I Have a Dream' speech of Aug. 28, 1963, is how inclusive that dream was -- 'all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!' '
This, though, is not Farrakhan's dream. He has vilified whites and singled out Jews to blame for crimes large and small, either committed by others as well or not at all. (A dominant role in the slave trade, for instance.) He has talked of Jewish conspiracies to set a media line for the whole nation. He has reviled Jews in a manner that brings Hitler to mind.
And yet Wright heaped praise on Farrakhan. According to Trumpet, he applauded his 'depth of analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation.' He praised 'his integrity and honesty.' He called him 'an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.' These are the words of a man who prayed with Obama just before the Illinois senator announced his run for the presidency. Will he pray with him just before his inaugural?
I don't for a moment think that Obama shares Wright's views on Farrakhan. But the rap on Obama is that he is a fog of a man. We know little about him, and, for all my admiration of him, I wonder about his mettle. The New York Times recently reported on Obama's penchant while serving in the Illinois legislature for merely voting 'present' when faced with some tough issues. Farrakhan, in a strictly political sense, may be a tough issue for him. This time, though, 'present' will not do.
And you think anything you have said in all these posts will take votes away from people who are sick of the way things are going? No matter what you say your rants are not going to sway one person who hates the way things are politically in America.
Go smoke another one and shut the f*ck up.
'And you think anything you have said in all these posts will take votes away from people who are sick of the way things are going? '
Things could go a lot worse. Not all 'change' is for the better.
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