Obama slams Bush for false attack with appeasement remarks
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May 15, 2008, 16:39 GMT
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The Los Angeles Times, in an article dated April 27, 2008 reveals
that Obama received a $8,000 a month retainer from Robert Blackwell
for his technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange,
for a total of $112,000. The following exerpts are from the LA times
article:
“A few months after receiving his final payment from EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin.”
“With support from Obama, other state officials and an Obama aide who went to work part time for Killerspin, the company eventually obtained $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize its tournaments.”
“But Obama portrays himself as a lawmaker dedicated to transparency and sensitive to even the appearance of a conflict of interest.”
“Killerspin’s owner, Blackwell, was a political supporter and friend as well. Both men lived on Chicago’s South Side. Blackwell, a savvy and successful entrepreneur, was one of the first donors to Obama’s early campaigns, including the state senator’s failed bid for a congressional seat in 2000. In the presidential race he is credited on Obama’s website with committing to raise $100,000 to $200,000 for Obama’s campaign.”
Obama and his supporters have downplayed the legal retainer and grant
request. The MSM is barely touching this story. Even the LA Times,
that broke this story, downplays the significance of Dan Shomon and
refers to him as an Obama aide. Dan Shomon was much more than just
an Obama aide. Consider the following facts about Shomon and his
relation with Obama and other politicians and businessmen.
Don't pay any attention to him, he doesn't understand what he's saying - his speech writer does it for him.
Appeaser is the exact word to describe obama's mentality toward islamist terrorism and the monsters who sponsor it.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last”. Winston Churchill
Bush can't think of any solution that doesn't include increased funding for his buddies at Haliburton, Blackwater, General Dynamics, Martin Marietta et al...
Quote from story:
'George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists
Are you kidding--he held the party to announce his running at the home of a Weatherman --A Terrorest--who bombed US gov buildings , banks,Military bases attempts etc.
People --WAKE UP AND REALIZE WHO YOUR DEALING WITH IN THIS MAN
The U.S. Congress closed down the Bushies business in the 1940's for breaking the 'Trading With The Enemy' Act. Bush's grandfather, Prescott, is on the record saying Adolph Hitler was one of the greatest men ever born and Jews were... not.
Name all the Jews in Bush's cabinet?
There are none. He hates 'em!
Crybaby Says What?
What’s that high-pitched, furious whining sound I keep hearing?
Oh, I see. It’s just Barack Obama complaining again. This time he’s throwing a tantrum about a boilerplate anti-terrorism statement by President Bush that doesn’t even mention him by name.
ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: The Obama campaign is taking issue with a comment President Bush made while speaking to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s statehood.
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” the President said to the country’s legislative body, “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
In a statement, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shot across the bow: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”
ABC News’ White House troops point out that the President has made similar statements in the past and Bush did not specifically cite Obama by name, though he did reference Sen. William Borah’s immortal reaction upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland and begun World War II, something he has not highlighted in the past.
“(The President) has said similar things before,” a White House official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. “But it is in reference to a number of people, think Carter, others who have engaged in this or suggested it.”
White House spokesperson Dana Perino was asked if Bush’s line was a slam against Obama and she insisted, “It is not.”
“I understand that when you are running for office sometimes you think the world revolves around you. That is not always true and it is not true in this case,” Perino added.
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Why on earth would Obama think that someone was equating him with terrorists?
Oh yeah, the Weather Underground.
The ENDORSEMENT from Hamas.
Giving money and accepting it from Rashid Khalidi, a palestinian shill for Hamas...
Cozying up with Farakahn and wright who went to pay homage to Libya's terrorist supporting dictator Momar Kadafi.
Google: 'Adolph Hitler' +'one of the greatest men ever born...
Zero results...
Why lie? Especially when Bush isn't even running?
What's false about it?
That does not make Mr. Bush wrong, either.
...Obama was on TV last night saying we don't have enough arabic interpreters in Afghanistan....???
I guess no one told him they do not really have any arabic speaking peoples there....?
A GW moment from mister silver tongue....
Why don't you Google yourself? Google is not the fount of all information. Try reading a book, instead of being a lazy S.O.B. and keyboarding, finding nothing and then calling somebody a liar. It makes you out to be just another lame idiot.
'Why don't you Google yourself? '
Obviously I did you complete moron.
Abridged:
A few weeks ago, Ahmed Yousef, a top political adviser for terrorist group Hamas, said in an interview on WABC radio in New York that the group supports Obama. “We like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef explained. Hamas, which seized control of the Palestinian Gaza last June, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
The Obama campaign has claimed to be “flattered” by the fact that the Hamas endorsement compared their candidate to Kennedy. Obama himself told the Atlantic magazine that he understands why Hamas would support him. “It’s conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, ‘This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.’” Obama concluded that the perception is “legitimate” as long as they understand he will be “unyielding” in his support for Israel.
So what have Barack’s Hamas friends been up to lately? Well, on the very day President Bush arrived in Israel to mark the nation’s 60th anniversary and to renew his push for a Palestinian state as part of elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Barack’s buddies fired a rocket into an Israeli shopping mall. The mall was devastated, and 14 innocent civilians were seriously injured.
The Hamas endorsement of Obama is even more interesting when viewed against the backdrop of the group’s aggressive promotion of violence among young Palestinians in Gaza and in the context of a recent Al-Jazeera story about how young Palestinians in Gaza have banded together to call American voters at random asking them to vote for Obama. Rockets by night, Obama phone banks by day?...
pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-isnt-obama-bothered-by-terrorist-support
He is right about bush's grandparents
httpwww.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
You Googled yourself? My what an egotistical little parasite you are. I bet you found nothing. Which is exactly what you are, a zero.
You sir are posting things we can read on our own. Why do you hate Obama so much, your guys have not done such a good job. You support a man that has flipped-flopped on numerous items, the latest is how long we are going to be in Iraq?
I guess you are blinded by the fact that you believe in country more than common sense?
I want to know why would anyone put anything into anything GWB says. He has shown that he is ignorant to facts, does not know how to run a company let along a country, gave up golf for the troops?, and has yet to lead anyone anywhere.
He is so easy to ignore, but I guess he will give us something to hate until the end.
Barack Obama casts a big tent to enlist support from a wide range of supporters. He appeals to so many people because people are able to see in him what they want to see. Will this inclusive stance allow Mr. Obama to achieve success on the issues that progressive Americans care about? There are two concerns. First, Mr Obama has a tendency to bend rather than stick to principles (and get tagged with a label). After a nuclear waste leak in Illinois, he introduced tough legislation to regulate the industry, but then he accepted campaign contributions from the power plant owner, Excelon and allowed the legislation to be diluted to the point that it never passed. He also compromised on NAFTA, joining Bush to support the entry of Peru without human rights and labor protections.
The 'blank canvas' strategy also allows the opposition to define Mr. Obama the way they want to just as it allows his supporters to see their own desires in him. Today's Bush speech is just a hint at the kind of attack Mr. Obama would face as a general election candidate. Does Mr. Obama advocate appeasement? He has said that he would like to meet personally with Cesar Chavez, Kim Jung Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but he has never defined what it is he would say to them. The result is that Bush's hints at appeasement are immediately interpreted as an allusion to Obama. By contrast, Hillary Clinton's views on almost every issue have been known for years making it impossible to attack her through vague allusions.
Oregonian's have an important choice to make. Will they support Mr. Obama as the pundits are all predicting, or will they step back and say 'Wait a minute.' If Mr. Obama is the Democratic candidate, there is a real risk that he will lead the party to a defeat of historic proportions akin to to McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis, the other Democratic candidates who won Iowa but failed to win New Hampshire. Running against war hero McCain, Obama will not carry Florida, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia or Missouri and there is a good chance that he will lose Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well. Oregenonians who truly want to advance a progressive agenda and end 8 years of Republican administration need to vote for Hillary Clinton, a woman who will win and who will not take no for an answer on issues of the environment, fair trade and equal rights.
(The argument goes that Bush only owned ONE share of UBC - but that ONE share was valued at $1,500,000 at the time)
www.counterpunch.org/donnelly09072006.html
Even though Hitler had declared war on the US, it was still legal for UBC to conduct finances for the Nazis. But, after Pearl Harbor that outrage finally changed. After another ten months of Bush/Harriman/UBC work for the Nazis; in November 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, all of the Harriman business interests were seized by the government, including UBC.
The assets were held by the government for the duration of the war and then quickly returned. Prescott Bush' interest in UBC consisted of One Share--worth $1,500,000 ($19 million in today's dollars) at the time UBC was disbanded in 1951. (The Harriman family garnered $4 billion!) It was the money used to start the Bush Family Texas oil empire.
Another Harriman subsidiary through Silesian Holding Co.; Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation saw the Harriman-Bush group owning one-third of a complex of steel making, coal-mining, and zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland. The other two-thirds were owned by Wehrwirtschaftsführer (Military Economy Leader) Friedrich Flick. Silesian Holding Company's president was George Walker and its sole directors were Prescott Bush and Averill Harriman.
Silesian Steel used slave labor from Auschwitz (even before the concentration camp was built there) in its coal, iron and zinc mining operations. At Nuremberg, Flick was sentenced to seven years for Silesian's role in building up the Nazi war machine. Harriman, Bush and Walker were never charged.
June 14, 1940, nine months after the Nazis conquered Poland, the IG Farben Company opened an Auschwitz factory and slave labor camp in occupied Poland, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal. This was done in a partnership with Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (EXXON).
The millions made off the labor of hundreds of thousands of Nazi victims were inherited by William S. Farish III, grandson of William S. Farish, the head of the IG/Standard cartel. Farish III is George H.W. Bush's best friend and the person who took over Bush's assets and managed them in a blind trust after Bush was elected vice-president.
'You sir are posting things we can read on our own.'
Like you can read.
'You support a man that has flipped-flopped on numerous items, the latest is how long we are going to be in Iraq?'
So he set a timetable? Like I said, as if you could read.
'I guess you are blinded by the fact that you believe in country more than common sense?'
Do you ever tire of being wrong?
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