I came home yesterday evening to discover that apparently there was yet another incident at a Sarah Palin rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. How much l0nger is this going to go on people? The Mc Cain / Palin ticket needs to control themselves before one of their zealots really does get Obama hurt or worse! I'm as much of a supporter of free speech as anyone, but this unthinkable suggestion just plain crosses the line!
Has anyone really stopped to think about the kind of turmoil that an assassination would lead to in this country? Do we really want to find out? I don't, and even the thought of it turns my stomach. Have the wheels come so far off of the "Straight Talk Express" that the only hope of victory that the McCain campaign has left is to advocate the undertaking of a violent act against their opponent?!?!
Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Foootball Night in America fame handles this political football better than I do. Check out this video from last night's episode of Countdown. It may leave you with something to think about.
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The Secret Service states that allegations are unfounded...no one yelled "kill him" at the rally.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html
Aides to Barack Obama and officials at Adler Planetarium moved today to explain a pair of earmarks Obama has sought for the museum since 2006, at a time when the planetarium's chairman was raising money for the U.S. senator's presidential campaign.
In the presidential debate Tuesday night, Sen. John McCain criticized Obama's requests for federal funding, known as earmarks, for Illinois, including those for the planetarium.
The connection was raised in a Sept. 11 article in the Washington Times, which linked Obama fundraiser Frank Clark, former chairman of the board at the Adler Planetarium, and earmark requests for the museum.
At an afternoon news conference, Adler President Paul Knappenberger defended the 2007 funding request as an attempt to update the 78-year-old Adler's original Sky Theater Planetarium Auditorium. The request was part of a $10 million project to overhaul the theater and projection system, he said.
At the time, Adler representatives met with Obama, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin and six Chicago-area congressman, Chicago-MOB. All agreed to sponsor the $3 million earmark.
Knappenberger explained that the Adler's elaborate Zeiss projection system that projects stars, planets and galaxies on the Planetarium's huge overhead dome, is 40 years old, and its parts are wearing out and are not replaceable.
Listed on the Obama campaign Web site, the planetarium earmark requests include $300,000 in 2006 "to replace and update the planetarium projection system," followed by a $3 million request FOR THE SAME THEATRE in 2007.
The campaign Web site also lists major campaign funders, also known as campaign bundlers. Among them is Clark, of Flossmoor, who besides being chairman of the Adler board also is an executive with ComEd. He is listed as having raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for the Illinois senator's presidential campaign, putting him in the top third of Obama's fundraisers.
--James Janega and William Mullen, Chicago Tribune
Here is a suggestion for Mr. Frank Clark former chairman of the Adler Board. Instead of donating over $200,000 to Sen Obama's campaign, you should have used that money to offset the costs to the taxpayers for the projector. Better yet, maybe Sen Obama should give it back to the taxpayers. This is corruption - plain and simple - does anyone else see it?
....Busted
...thats some overhead projector!
"Aides to Barack Obama and officials at Adler Planetarium moved today to explain a pair of earmarks Obama has sought for the museum since 2006, at a time when the planetarium's chairman was raising money for the U.S. senator's presidential campaign."
That says it all, right there! Hello!!! OPEN YOUR EYES! THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY!!
McCain should be ashamed of himself. He wouldn't be embarrassed to push for improvements at the VA hospitals in Arizona since that is his focus. McCain's sympathies lie with the military. YEAH- BUT VA HOSPITALS AREN'T PRIVATE BUSINESSES ARE THEY! OBAMA GAVE TAX MONEY TO A PRIVATE BUSINESS SO HE'D GET MONEY OUT OF IT! PERIOD!
I'm pleased that I sent an e-mail about McCain's remark to someone at Channel 2 soon after that. McCain probably alienated everyone in Chicago, I thought. By not naming the Adler Planetarium, he made it sound like it was in some corrupt pol's basement. There are millions of people all over the USA who've been to Adler. Why can't they prophit pay for it?
The Adler Planetarium is a PRIVATE corporation, a point not mentioned in this article or by the Obama campaign. Why should Obama be seeking taxpayer funds for ANY private corporation, especially one in which one of his fundraisers has a direct interest. Another Obama deal that smells to the heavens and you don't need a telescope to see it.
Why should people who don't live in Chicago pay for this? Can't they fundraise? This is all part of the problem with America. Obama is the same old, same old.
Bill Clinton admits that Obama didn’t know what to do about the economy; Update: Video added
It was meant to be a compliment, apparently, but it came off as Bill Clinton telling everyone that Obama was clueless on what to do about the economic crisis.
Here’s the original story and the quote:
“I haven’t cleared this with him and he may even be mad at me for saying this so close to the election, but I know what else he said to his economic advisers (during the crisis),” Clinton told the crowd at a Wednesday night rally with Obama in Florida. “He said, ‘Tell me what the right thing to do is. What’s the right thing for America? Don’t tell me what’s popular. You tell me what’s right — I’ll figure out how to sell it.’”
Yup, seems like he’s saying Obama was clueless on the economic situation and had to go to the Clintons (and others) for help. The part where Obama tells Clinton “you tell me what’s right — I’ll figure out how to sell it” sounds especially bad. Makes him sound like an empty suit, does it not?
Or maybe he sounds more like a used car salesman? You tell me…
GOOGLE IT! It's not makebelieve.
Obama: I choose my Marxist professor friends carefully
Yup, that’s what he said in his book… (dreams from my father)
GOOGLE IT!
“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foriegn students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and stuctural feminists.”
Related: The constitution under Mar… opps, I mean Obama
“U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.”
Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."
After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem.
"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."
Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist."
Also present at that meeting was Ayers' wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and "Marxism-Leninism."
Obama has been widely criticized for choosing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American firebrand, as his pastor. Wright is a purveyor of black liberation theology, which analysts say is based in part on Marxist ideas.
Few political observers go so far as to accuse Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, of being a Marxist. But Republican John McCain has been accusing Obama of espousing socialism ever since the Democrat told an Ohio plumber named Joe earlier this month that he wanted to "spread the wealth around."
Obama's running mate, Biden, recently contradicted his boss, saying: "He is not spreading the wealth around." The remark came as Biden was answering a question from a TV anchor who asked: "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
"Are you joking? Is this a joke? Or is that a real question?" an incredulous Biden shot back. "It's a ridiculous comparison."
But the debate intensified Monday with the surfacing of a 2001 radio interview in which Obama lamented the Supreme Court's inability to enact "redistribution of wealth" -- a key tenet of socialism. On Tuesday, McCain said Obama aspires to become "Redistributionist-in-Chief."
Obama has managed to cultivate the image of a political moderate in spite of his consistently liberal voting record. In 2006, he published a second memoir, "The Audacity of Hope," that leaves little doubt about his adherence to the left.
"The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact," Obama wrote in "Audacity." "Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal."
National Journal magazine ranked Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate. The publication is far from conservative, employing such journalists as Linda Douglass, who resigned in May to become Obama's traveling press secretary.
Bill Sammon is the Washington deputy managing editor for FOX News Channel.
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