Too many people taking the elections too seriously. It's nothing more than a three ringed circus.
Travis wrote: > From: *Travis* > Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 > Subject: Too Many People Taking Obama Too Seriously > > > > > > B, good summary and the Jackie Mason section is great.. > > Too Many People Taking Obama Too Seriously > By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin > 09/22/2008 > > If someone woke up Rip van Winkle style after a 20 year sleep and > popped right > into the middle of our 2008 presidential election, he'd think it was > a "Saturday > Night Live" installment. The Democratic Party has nominated Sen. > Barack Obama, a > man with a razor-thin resume, who has never accomplished anything in > his life > but self-aggrandizement and running for office, who is full of wacky > ideas many > bordering on, if not in the realm of, pure idiocy. A man who has an > anti-American perspective and associates with bigots, racists and > anti-Americans, and who - despite all that - is hailed as a savior > by the > mainstream media and has gone almost two years into a campaign, > escaping tough > questions and remains essentially unvetted. > > > We fac e a new and dangerous threat to our very existence from > Islamofascist > terrorists. We face jihadist regimes that are already or are going > nuclear. We > have to deal with an economy going through a major crisis and we are > being > challenged by new potential superpowers such as China and India and > by a whole > series of dangerous autocracies such as Iran, Russia, Venezuela, > North Korea and > Syria. At such a time are we going to elect an amateur-hour > candidate who is > both untested and unvetted? > > We need a tested leader with unquestioned experience, character and > courage but > we are actually considering a political toddler who comes over as an > > unprincipled opportunist, who will do and say anything to get > elected, who > stoops to playing the race card and to stirring up racial > intolerance to win an > election. And yet this man, whose actions are the opposite of his > rhetoric, who > is a product of the most corrupt political machine in America, the > Cook County > Chicago gang, who has always gone along with the old boy network out > of Chicago > and has always refused to help in reforming that machine still has a > good chance > of being elected. > > This can't be happening. Surely, it must be a joke. To get some > measure of its > comic, rather than its tragic, aspects I have to call on the great > comedian > Jackie Mason. Here's what Mr. Mason had to say about Sen. Obama and > his pastor, > the Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright, during a radio > interview program: > > "First thing he says this guy is his mentor, his teacher his > philosopher, I > learned everything from him. Then they ask, did you ever listen to > him? Never. I > was in the church but I never heard him. He was talking, but I > didn't know I > should be listening. And besides, whatever he said he didn't say it > on the days > that I was there. He said it on Tuesday. I came on Thursdays. > Then when he saw > his polls started to go down a little he s aid: he was always my > mentor but he > wasn't a close mentor. I saw him, but not very often. I heard him, > but only > maybe once in a while. Then he said: I never even liked him. I never > got > involved with him. Then he said: whatever he said was disgusting to > me and if I > knew he was saying these things, I would have hated him a long time > ago. And he > sounded like he just found out about him 20 years later, when he > wasn't in the > church. He was in the church 20 years and he never heard anything. > Now that he's > out of the church for a year, he suddenly found out what he said in > church when > he wasn't actually there." > > The Obama phenomenon is so bizarre that it takes a comedian to best > understand > and unmask him. It is too far out of our usual experience for most > to comprehend > this irrational and dangerous Obamania. > > In the interview, Mr. Mason concludes Sen. Obama is a fraud and a > world-class > liar. He said Sen. Obama "is a man who's a rea l, devastating, > fraudulent liar. > He makes (Bill) Clinton look like an honest man. He's already told a > hundred > lies about every issue ... There's no bigger fake in the history of > politics > than this Barack Obama. > > "He is a total fraud and a fake in every respect. He lies every > single day but > the press is all behind him, because the press is 90 percent > Democratic. And not > only are they behind him but they hate Bush ... the press of America > should be > on his [Obama's] payroll because they are all working for him day > and night. He > gets like a $100 million dollars worth of [free] advertising while > (John) McCain > hasn't got 10 cents of advertising from the American press." > > That's about what I concluded after hearing Sen. Obama discuss his > relationship > to Rev. Wright, and I've studied the man from almost every angle > since. > Everything I know about him points in the direction of Mr. > Mason's conclusion: > Sen. Obama is a phony, a faker, a four-flusher and a fraud. > > It is frightening to even think there's a chance this man could be > elected to > the most important and most powerful office in the world in times > like these. > Any reasonable observer would conclude if Sen. Obama is in the White > House, it > is the end of America as we know it. He would almost certainly wreck > our health > care delivery system and economy and would weaken our national > defense while > undermining our security so severely that we would lose the war on > terror. Iran > is getting ready to produce nuclear weapons and has the missiles to > deliver them > and Sen. Obama is ready to talk to Iran ... after Europeans have > spent five > years negotiating with him, while he was obviously just stalling. > > John Bolton, our former ambassador to the United Nations, is right - > we've seen > talking gets us nowhere and now we are left with limited and > unattractive > options. But as bad as those options are, including military for ce, > they get > much worse if Iran finally goes nuclear. We may face war against > Iran or the > possibility of Iran using nuclear blackmail against Europe and the > Middle East. > The only arrows in Sen. Obama's quiver are pretty speeches, > diplomacy and the > threat of arrest and prosecution for terrorists including those that > might nuke > us. Sen. Obama has already adopted Mr. Clinton's law enforcement > strategy on > terrorism, so if a terrorist blows up Philadelphia, Sen. Obama will > respond by > issuing a warrant for his arrest. This is real, even though it > sounds like > "Saturday Night Live." > > But you don't have to be a great comedian like Mr. Mason to see how > ridiculous > and almost comical Sen. Obama positions are. Take his position on > the current > financial crisis. He blames everyone except himself and the > Democratic Party and > the Democratic-controlled Congress. > > He points the finger at Sen. John McCain and conveniently neglects > the fact that > Sen. McCain predicted the very problem we're now experiencing and > introduced > legislation to properly regulate Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae and head > off its > abuses, which, in turn, led to the mortgage and financial crisis > we're now in. > > Sen. McCain sponsored and fought for the Federal Housing Enterprise > Regulatory > Reform Act of 2005, and the speech he gave in support of it merits > extensive > quotation here as he perfectly identified the problem before calling > for > remedies that would have fixed it. > > Here is what Sen. McCain said on May 25, 2006, more than two years > ago: > > "Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae's regulator reported that the > company's > quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were > 'illusions > deliberately and systematically created' by the company's senior > management, > which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal. > > "The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's report goes on > to say that > Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated > financial > reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for > senior > executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae's former > chief executive > officer, OFHEO's report shows that over half of Mr. Raines' > compensation for the > six years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings > targets. The report > of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 > billion > profit restatement at Freddie Mac. > > The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political > power to lobby > Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator's examination > of the > company's accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after > Freddie Mac > paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal > Election > Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to > 2005. These are > entities that have demonstrated over and over aga in that they are > deeply in need > of reform. > > For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that > governs > Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... and the report this week does nothing > to ease > these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. > OFHEO's report > solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. > > I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory > Reform Act of > 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE > regulatory > reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers > will continue > to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac > pose to the > housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a > whole. I urge > my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform > legislation." > > Sen. McCain foresaw the future and where we are now with precision > accuracy. > Then he proposed subjecting Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to tough > regulatory > controls. The legislation spelled out tests of capital requirements > and even > regulated golden parachutes. > > The bill never got out of committee, because the then ranking member > of the > Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, D-Conn., was getting heavy campaign > contributions > from the people named by Sen. McCain in his speech and was getting a > preferred > mortgage rate from the infamous Countrywide Mortgage. At the same > time, guess > who was the No. 3 recipient of the money was - the finger-pointing > Sen. Obama. > He always went along with the Democratic Party line, so he, too, can > be assumed > to have been opposed to Sen. McCain's reform measure and he > certainly wasn't > fighting for its passage. Here are the four leaders in that money > according to a > front-page report in Investor's Business Daily (Sept. 19, 2008). > The > contributions came in from 1989 to 2008: > > 1. Sen. Chris Dodd, $133,900. > 2. Sen. John Kerry, $111,000. > 3. Sen. Barack Obama, $105,849. > 4. Sen. Hillary Clinton, $75,550 > > Sen. Obama, awash in Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac money, and his advisers > has the gall > to talk of "crony capitalism." You might say he has the audacity of > the > hopeless. He is the very symbol of cronyism and the > go-along-get-along mentality > he has displayed since his start with the corrupt Chicago political > machine. > > He wouldn't bring about real reforms even if he understood what is > going on. In > his statement on AIG, the American International Group, he couldn't > even get the > name of the company right, and referred to it as the "American > Insurance Group." > > The Democratic Party, President Clinton, and Sen. Obama made another > important > contribution to the present crisis. They were all involved in > lowering mortgage > standards to spread home ownership. That meant many were getting > mortgages > without down payments and without the financial position to pay them > off. This was a major factor in the fiasco that followed. > > During recent years, Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae were a virtual > campaign unit for > the Democratic Party. Others on the list of the 25 top recipients in > Congress > included House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. > > To make matters worse, who did Sen. Obama select to head the group > appointed to > come up with his vice-presidential nominees. None other than Jim > Johnson, who > was once the top executive at Fannie Mae when these problems, > including > billion-dollar accounting irregularities, were developing. And to > make that brew > even worse, Mr. Johnson was also a top executive at the recently > bankrupt Lehman > Brothers, one of the biggest casualties of this fiasco. Mr. > Johnson was removed > from the committee to help select the vice president but is still an > adviser to > the Obama campaign. Another Obama campaign adviser is Franklin > Raines, the > above-mentioned chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, who h elped > bring on the > crisis we're now in, but who received compensation totaling about > $90 million. > > And how has Sen. Obama displayed his leadership during this crisis. > He had no > position on the bailout of AIG, the giant insurance company. I guess > we can put > him down as voting "present," his vote on 130 controversial measures > while in > the Illinois legislature. He has no proposal now to fix the present > crisis, but > wants to wait till things settle down. I guess we can put him down > for another > "present" vote on what to do, rather than yes, no, or here's my > proposal. As > Rudy Giuliani so perfectly put it, when you are president there is > no such thing > as a present vote. Sen. Obama is not a leader. He is a speech giver. > And he > doesn't even do that very well without the aid of a teleprompter. > Who do you > want in the White House during this most dangerous and unprecedented > time in our > history - the unvetted, untested beginner or the battle-tes ted, > public servant > who has demonstrated he can make sound decisions and who loves his > country > without doubts and qualifications? > > We must choose between Sen. Obama who makes speeches, votes present > and is a > wimp. Remember he's never had the courage to stand up to his own > party, to his > corrupt Chicago political machine, or to even participate in town > forums with > Sen. McCain. For 20 years, he sat in Rev. Wright's church and didn't > have the > courage to object or even walk out. He needs the security of a > teleprompter to > face an audience. Or we can choose Sen. 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