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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) introduces Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton at a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has desperately sought to win back voters hit by the economic crisis and flocking in droves towards Democrat Barack Obama, three weeks before the elections. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., waves after a campaign rally in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 outside the Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., as retired Gen. Wesley Clark, back left, and Sen. Vic Synder, D-Ark., back right, look on.

In a raucous conference call to reporters that included an interruption and heated exchange with one of Barack Obama's attorneys -- Hillary Clinton's campaign accused Obama supporters Tuesday of trying to hijack the Democratic presidential caucuses in Texas. The Clinton team accused Obama supporters of seizing the caucus packets and signing up delegates early in the day, against the rules. They said Obama supporters took control of the caucuses and turned away Clinton caucus-goers in line at the door. They called the reports disturbing and undemocratic and said all options were on the table in regards to possibly taking the...

Hillary Clinton, once a front-runner herself, warned Barack Obama's supporters Sunday that, though he leads John McCain in the homestretch of the presidential campaign, it's not over. "Sure, the polls show Barack and Joe [Biden] ahead now, and that's good news," said Clinton during her first joint appearance with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to tout the Obama ticket. "But I don't pay much attention to polls - nobody should be lulled into any false sense of security."

Sarah Palin sat down Friday night with Tribune-Review political reporter Salena Zito for a wide-ranging interview that covered the economy, education, energy and the Alaska governor's approach to governing. It was Palin's first face-to-face interview with a print reporter as Republican vice presidential candidate. John McCain's running mate was in Pittsburgh for a fundraiser at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown.

Most Americans wake every morning to news that Barack Obama will win next month's presidential election. Strategists even say the word "landslide" aloud. Every poll shows it, every pundit echoes it, and every analyst predicts it -- therefore it must be true, right? Let's take this political axiom to some of those who do the predicting, to project what America will look like under an Obama administration, governing with a Democrat congressional majority led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

McCain-Palin 2008 is about to launch a $160 million ad blitz backed by $40 million from the NRA. We have heard Rove may be deploying $200 million in 527 PAC funds which could bring the dollar amount to $400 million. Buck up troops and no whining. Obama has been spending ad money like a drunken (Indonesian) sailor. He has hit McCain with probably $150 million in ads and has barely budged the rigged polls. McCain-Palin have been hit by ads, MSM, bad market and we are still going to win. McCain's battleship has 10 inch armor plating and we are...

Obama's Ties to Tony Rezko and Alexi Giannoulias Closing the Obama-Rezko gap. Who is Alexi Giannoulias? Could there really be yet another shady connection that will finally grow legs in the media. Obama helped Alexi Giannoulias (D) win a run for Illinois State Treasurer. Giannoulias has helped fund Barack Obama. From Giannoulias' website: "Prior to taking office, Giannoulias served as vice president and senior loan officer at Broadway Bank in Chicago’s Edgewater community. Crain’s Chicago Business rated Broadway the No. 1 Bank in Illinois for five years based on return on assets. Giannoulias grew up in Chicago, graduated cum laude...

Allegations are no longer confined to ACORN There is no place in the American electoral process for the types of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and supporters. Sincerely, Lyn Utrecht, Counsel, Hillary Clinton for President It is said that, during the Nuremberg trials, Nazi war criminals used the following defenses: (1) "It didn't happen," (2) "I wasn't there" and (3) "besides, I was only following orders." Given the onslaught of indictments and guilty pleas of ACORN personnel for voter registration fraud, Barack Obama's handlers and enablers cannot argue that it didn't...

A common chemical ingredient in plastics has been linked to smaller penises and incomplete descent of testicles in baby boys. Phthalates, which are added to plastics to keep them soft and pliable, are linked to a feminizing effect on boy fetuses whose moms had above-average levels of the chemical in their urine while pregnant. Moms who had the highest amounts gave birth to boys with more feminine characteristics.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race. Once the nation's best known and most powerful Democrats, the former first couple is getting used to a new role: cheerleaders for Obama, who vanquished Hillary Clinton last spring in a Democratic primary contest for the ages. Whatever recriminations the Clintons may still harbor from that long battle seem to have been nudged aside as they campaign in...

Hillary Clinton's campaign accused Obama's campaign of fraud and voter intimidation in Nevada and Texas.Barack Obama can try all he wants to distance himself from ACORN, even though it is a matter of proven record that he worked closely with the organization. A Google search on "Lyn Utrecht" (Hillary Clinton's campaign counsel) and "Obama" reveals equally serious and very credible allegations of voter intimidation and election fraud against Barack Obama's own campaign. The allegations include, among other things, interference with the basic civil right to vote without fear of intimidation or loss of one's job--a Federal crime if proven in...

This is the biggest witch hunt I have ever seen in politics. The MSM had no problem with all the lies, corruption, selling secrets, stains, et al of the Clintons. So now, Sarah Pain is the wicked witch of the west because she fired some incompetent state employee who supported a cop who threatened her father and such??? Geeze, I would have fired him too in NY minute. What's the big deal?

This Sunday, October 12th, please join President Bill Clinton for a rally in Roanoke, where he will talk about Barack's vision for creating the kind of change we need. Change We Need Rally with President Bill Clinton Market Square 1 Market Square Roanoke, VA Public Entrances: Corner of Jefferson St. and Campbell St. Corner of Church Ave. and Market St. Sunday, October 12th Gates Open: 4:45 p.m. Program Begins: 6:15 p.m. http://va.barackobama.com/Roanoke The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required; however an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For...

Ever since Obama appeared as a Democrat contender for the Democrat nominee, I kept wondering...who is this guy, how did he get this far without serious backing...and why? He is not the usual Democrat politician who has worked himself up the ranks by developing long-term support the way most young politicians grow within the system. No, he came from another powerful support group outside the normal mainstream Democrat structure. Why and how? The tie-in between fringe liberal Democrats, campaign contributions from Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac and ACORN (funded by Democrats) using our tax dollars to stuff the ballot boxes...

Attached is Philip J. Berg's Opposition to Defendants, the DNC and Obama's Motion for Protective Order Staying Discovery pending Decision on their Motion to Dismiss. If the Protective Order were granted, discovery could not occur until the standing issue has been resolved and only if it is in favor of the plaintiff. Following is an excerpt from the response: PLAINTIFF’S RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS BARACK H. OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE’S MOTION FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER STAYING DISCOVERY PENDING DECISION ON DISPOSITVE MOTION .... 1. Defendants’ pending Motion to Dismiss does not entitle them to a Protective Order...

BANK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Secretary Cuomo admits they forced banks to make BAD LOANS, and Obama's tie to all of it. Secretary Cuomo even admits these bad loans will default. Then Obama is seen discussing his legal and community organizing career. See how it ties in to ACORN and the Clinton administration enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama's positions on gun issues. The NRA's Political Victory Fund planned a national newspaper ad Thursday reviving a Clinton mailing that accused Obama of waffling on gun issues. Clinton's campaign sent the mailing when the New York senator was challenging Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. It accuses Obama of changing his statements on gun issues to try to fit the audience he was addressing. "Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns," says the NRA political action committee's...

Security and stabilization efforts in three southern Iraqi provinces are going well, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today. The 1st Cavalry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team is responsible for an area that includes Muthanna, Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces in southern Iraq, Army Col. Philip Battaglia, 4th brigade commander, said during a satellite-carried news conference with Pentagon reporters. “We’ve seen the security in this area improve significantly since our arrival in July,” Battaglia said. “The provinces are overall very stable, with occasional attacks by special groups and other criminal elements.” “Special groups” is the term military...

Lynette Long — psychologist, feminist, Democrat, Dupont Circle dweller, Whole Foods shopper, George Bush hater, Hillary Clinton supporter (to the max) — is not just WASHINGTON — Lynette Long’s friends can barely sputter their objections. “How could you?” they say. “What about the environment? What about gay rights? What about Roe v. Wade?” Long’s son calls, flabbergasted. And her patients? They can hardly fathom it. voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin, she even took the stage at their rally in Fairfax, Va., to trumpet her decision to the world. Long got the call from the McCain campaign at 10...

PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY October 8, 2008 If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask...

Bill and Hillary Clinton will join Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden at a Barack Obama campaign rally Sunday in Scranton. The former president and current New York senator are expected to address the failed economic policies and how Barack Obama and Biden will work to help ordinary families, according to a campaign press release. Biden and Sen. Hillary Clinton have strong ties to the area. Biden was born in Scranton and lived in the city’s Green Ridge section until his family moved to Delaware when he was 10. Hillary Clinton’s father, the late Hugh Rodham, was a Scranton native....

Clinton Democrats are to blame for the credit crunch Our current financial turmoil is not the fault of greedy bankers, says Dennis Sewell. In fact, the banks were bullied into lowering their lending standards by left-wing idealists intent on equal opportunities at any cost 'Let us be clear: this is a crisis caused on Wall Street,' insisted Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her consensus-strangling speech on Monday, shortly before her fellow members of the House of Representatives voted to reject the President's $700 billion bail-out plan. Out on the campaign trail, Barack Obama ventured that the root cause of the trouble...

Berg is “Outraged” that Obama & DNC Hide Again Behind Legal Issues as their attorney files a Motion for Protective Order to “not” Answer Admissions & Production of Documents while Betraying Public in not Producing Documents proving Obama is “qualified” to be a candidate for President. It is believed Obama is an “illegal alien” For Immediate Release: - 10/06/08 (Contact info and pdf of press release below) Country is Headed to a Constitutional Crisis (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/06/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to...

TWO FILINGS: Berg Files Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint, Obama and DNC File Motion to Delay Discovery Until Judge Decides on Prior Motion to Dismiss It was a busy day in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania today. First, attorney Philip Berg files a motion asking the court to permit him to file an amended complaint with several additions, and then next, attorneys for Barack Obama and the DNC file a motion asking the court for a protective order, essentially asking that the judge rule on their motion to dismiss for lack of standing before ruling on Berg's motion...

Phil J. Berg filed an amended complaint today in Berg v. Obama. The amended complaint adds the Pennsylvania Department of State, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortes (in his official capacity), the U. S. Sentate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Senator Diane Feinstein (in her official capacity as chairman) for their failure to exercise due diligence with respect to Barack Obama's contitutional qualifications to be elected and serve as President of The United States, and for his inclusion on the ballot in Pennsylvania as a candidate for President of the United States. The amended complaint also bolsters...

PRISTINA, Kosovo, Oct. 7, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited with U.S. troops assigned to NATO’s Kosovo Force here today. Gates – making the first visit to Kosovo by a defense secretary since 2001 -- said he wanted to thank the 1,400 American servicemembers deployed here. “We haven’t forgotten about them, and we know how important they are,” Gates said during a news conference with Pentagon reporters. The Europeans and Kosovars depend on the American presence, Gates noted. “There has been a great concern that we might pull out, and what I have reassured our allies is...

You’ll want to double-check the logo at the bottom left corner during this report. It really is CNN and Anderson Cooper fact-checking Barack Obama’s claims to have barely known William Ayers — and calling it dishonest. Stanley Kurtz even gets to make an appearance on a network other than Fox for this report (via Dirty Harry’s Place):

MR. RUBIN: Hi. I'm Bob Rubin, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and I'm going to introduce today's topic. The President, as you know, has a broad, comprehensive strategy for dealing with the economic problems of the country for putting the country back on the right track for the long-term. A lot of the legislative and executive actions that have taken place in 1993 have been pursuant to that long-term economic strategy of the President's. An important component of that strategy is to deal with the problems of the inner city and distressed rural communities -- pursuant to...

This morning, prominent Philadelphia attorney and former Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Philip Berg filed a Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint in his ongoing case against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and others, arguing that Obama is in fact not a natural born United States citizen and, pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution is ineligible to serve as president of the United States of America. Now, this does not mean that the amended complaint has been filed. Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits amendments by leave of...

Former Clinton neighbor convicted of murder in NYSaturday, October 04, 2008 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A disbarred attorney who lived three doors down from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in suburban New York was convicted Saturday of murdering his wife in what prosecutors said was an attempt to collect life insurance money. A Westchester County jury found Carlos Perez-Olivo guilty of second-degree murder. He could get life in prison. Prosecutors said the troubled lawyer shot his schoolteacher wife, Peggy, in the back of the head as she dozed in their car during a drive to their home in Chappaqua on...

More relevant are the baroque delegate rules and strong-arm tactics that helped him to victory. A recent Associated Press story glibly proclaimed that “deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House.” The story relied on an AP-Yahoo poll that posed questions regarding race to white Democrats. One is left to wonder why questions regarding race were not posed to black Democrats ... It’s quite troubling, really, that mainstream media outlets are focusing upon “racial misgivings” factors, while all but ignoring the major divides among voting constituencies that occurred during the nominating contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama....

Go PUMA!!!!! Git 'er done!!!! For Obama, with 'friends' like Hill and Bill who needs enemies.

I'm writing this brief post to put into perspective what it all means when Obama cannot (rather refuses to) release his genuine birth certificate to put all rumors to rest. The time for surprizes has long past. Obama is not going to magically produce it, saying "Gotcha," because that would have been done in response to Berg's suit. You can take this to the bank, that when Obama is forced show his "vault" long-form birth certificate, the whole world will know that the COLB image was a forgery from Day One, as well as the phony FactCheck photos. BUT, now...

  Assault on the mortgage lenders: in the name of racial justice, the Clintonites want the power to decide who gets a home of his own - efforts to impose regulations on banks to make loans even if applicants are not creditworthy Robert Stowe England QUIETLY, behind the scenes, the Clinton Administration is preparing for the biggest regulatory crackdown of recent years. Attorney General Janet Reno is linking up with banking regulators and with HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros to end the supposed epidemic of discrimination against minorities in making home loans. The implications for society at large are ominous. Here,...

Our current financial turmoil is not the fault of greedy bankers, says Dennis Sewell. In fact, the banks were bullied into lowering their lending standards by left-wing idealists intent on equal opportunities at any cost ‘Let us be clear: this is a crisis caused on Wall Street,’ insisted Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her consensus-strangling speech on Monday, shortly before her fellow members of the House of Representatives voted to reject the President’s $700 billion bail-out plan. Out on the campaign trail, Barack Obama ventured that the root cause of the trouble in the markets was that ‘too many people in...

It was no surprise that my son plans to vote for Obama. He's been veering left throughout his college years. We had a rather heated discussion about Obama on the phone. I told him that Obama was a socialist. His response was "maybe a little socialism won't hurt". Here is my written response. Dear Son, When we discussed Barack Obama and I said he was a socialist, I remember that you responded that "maybe a little socialism won't hurt." We are now in the midst of an economic crisis of global proportions, the results of which will impact much of...

On defendant's Barack Hussein Obama and the Democratic National Committee's Motion to Dismiss Plaintifs Complaint.........Denied........... Order of this Court that the following discovery is to be turned over to Plaintiff within 3 days 1. Obama's "vault"version (certified copy of his original long version Birth Certificate and 2. A certified copy of Obama's Certification of Citizenship 3. A Certified Copy of Obama's Oath of Allegiance Filed September 29, 2008

Berg Confident Obama & DNC Motion To Dismiss Will Be Defeated Tuesday, 30 September 2008 Berg Filed an Answer Sept. 29th, 2008 (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 09/29/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he filed his Opposition and Brief to Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] Joint Motion to Dismiss in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083. Berg feels confident that he has “Standing” and the Court will allow the case to go...

For some weird, unknown reason in the middle of the night I was awakened with a vivid flashback dream. The dream was a recollection of all the time we early Freepers spent on the Prodigy Whitewater Bulletin Board, discussing Clinton and his unfolding horrible presidency. Somebody told us about a book written by Terry Reed, a Viet Nam vet and how he and a cast of now famous names wound up all twisted in the Arkansas of then Gov. Bill Clinton. The long and detailed book opened up many of our eyes about where Clinton and G. H. W. Bush...

Against an avalanche of evidence that our current financial problems resulted from mismanagement and corruption on the part of Democrats and their cronies, especially at Fannie Mae, the Democrats have responded that it's all due to Phil Gramm's "repeal" of Glass-Steagall.  The facts, and Bill Clinton, say otherwise. The bill they are talking about is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.  The facts are summarized nicely in the Atlantic .  President Clinton's take is summarized in the Wall Street Journal , liberally quoting our former President. "I have really thought about this a lot. I don't see that signing that bill had anything to do...

March 4, 2008 MEMORANDUM TO: Interested Parties FROM: Lyn Utrecht Campaign Counsel RE: Caucus Irregularities The campaign legal hotline has been flooded with calls containing specific accusations of irregularities and voter intimidation against the Obama campaign. This activity is undemocratic, probably illegal, and reflects a wanton disregard for the caucus process.

Among the Clinton campaign's allegations: Obama supporters "locked out" Clinton supporters from caucuses, filled out sign-in sheets before caucuses started, and called in caucus results before the 7 p.m. starting time. Smith, who said that the Texas Democratic Party issued two memos today to remind campaigns of the rules "as a result of the acts of the Obama campaign," challenged a reporter who labeled his assertions "accusations," saying, "These are not accusations. They're documentable incidents."

A running cliché of the political left and the press corps these days is that our current financial problems all flow from Congress's 1999 decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that separated commercial and investment banking. Barack Obama has been selling this line every day. Bill Clinton signed that "deregulation" bill into law, and he knows better. In BusinessWeek.com, Maria Bartiromo reports that she asked the former President last week whether he regretted signing that legislation. Mr. Clinton's reply: "No, because it wasn't a complete deregulation at all. We still have heavy regulations and insurance on bank deposits,...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 The Legacy of "Conservatism" An interesting question: what now amid the wreckage can be seen as the legacy of "conservative" governance over the past 38 years (from the time of Reagan's ascendance) - what did it accomplish? The answer that begs to be spoken: not much. Or maybe: too much (destruction). While the stock market is higher than it was in the 1980s, a good deal of its rise was the result of the fiscally responsible Clinton 90's. The national mood is about where it was at the end of Carter's term. Military morale is likely...

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) ― Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. Senate may have to lead the way in passing a $700 billion Wall Street bailout package, now that the House has rejected the measure. "I certainly would support the Senate going first, so long as we have the votes ... as early as tomorrow if that's what would make this process successful," Clinton told reporters by phone Tuesday.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) launched a new TV ad on Tuesday saying he fought to reform the nation's largest mortgage companies. The spot also uses a statement from former President Bill Clinton to criticize Democrats for "staying silent" on regulation. "John McCain fought to rein in Fannie and Freddie," an announcer in the minute-long ad says before citing a Washington Post story that said, McCain "pushed for stronger regulation... while Mr. Obama was notably silent." "Democrats blocked the reforms," the announcer continues. "Loans soared. Then, the bubble burst. And, taxpayers are on the hook for billions. Bill Clinton knows who...

Root Cause Crisis of politically driven crony capitalism The way it’s presented, Democrats have the media and public convinced they had nothing to do with it. Over the past eight years, those who have tried to fix Fannie and Freddie (the epicenter of the current meltdown) were stymied repeatedly by Congressional Democrats. Don’t get me wrong, some key Republicans deserve some blame as well, but the majority stake holders in this meltdown are Democrats. If you want to know how we got here, read on. Also, I am not taking credit for this research, I am just passing it along...

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... the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans... The action... will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough... Fannie Mae... has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people... borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough... Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk... the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble... prompting a government rescue... the move is intended in part to increase the number of... home owners who tend to have worse...

Today - September 30, 2008 - is Bill Clinton's last day on the job at InfoGROUP, the company that own's CNN's presidential polling partner, Opinion Research. After the company discovered the millions of dollars of corporate waste lost to the Clintons, his contract is not expected to be renewed. The information was learned from a court settlement filed with the SEC and the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware a few weeks ago, which revealed some term of his contract, including the ending date. There is no evidence that it will be renewed. It appears that Bill...