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[rushlimpdrug]

"Dem Strategist Sees Challenges For Obama"

Challenges for obama:

1. He is ashamed to be part white.
2. His wife hates America (unless her husband
is winning).

[taotxzen]

Poor ticket sales, expected protests scuttle Bush-McCain fundraiser at Phoenix Convention Center

(Isn''t McCain the Senator from?)

Phoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks

A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain''s presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center.

Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.

Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.

Bush''s Arizona fundraising effort for McCain is being moved to private residences in the Phoenix area. A White House official said the event was being moved because the McCain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media. The White House official said to reconcile that the Tuesday event will be held at a private venue and not the Convention Center.

Convention Center personnel confirmed the event has been canceled at their venue.

[taotxzen]

Is This News?

$15 Billion in US Iraq Spending Unaccounted For:

Fri May 23, 6:41 PM ET
The Pentagon cannot account for nearly 15 billion dollars in payments for goods and services in Iraq, according to an internal audit which members of Congress blasted Friday as a "shocking" accountability failure.

Of 8.2 billion dollars in US taxpayer-funded defense contracts reviewed by the defense department''s inspector general, the Pentagon could not properly account for more than 7.7 billion dollars.

The lack of accountability of the funds, intended for purchases of weapons, vehicles, construction equipment and security services, amounted to a 95 percent failure rate in basic accounting standards, according to the report.

"We estimated that the army made 1.4 billion dollars in commercial payments that lacked the minimum documentation for a valid payment, such as properly prepared receiving reports, invoices, and certified vouchers," deputy inspector general Mary Ugone told a Congressional committee Thursday.

"We also estimated that the army made an additional 6.3 billion dollars of commercial payments that met the 27 criteria for payments but did not comply with other statutory and regulatory requirements."

The Pentagon also was found to have given away another 1.8 billion in Iraqi assets "with absolutely no accountability," said Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

[truthyness]

Why is Democrat Barack Obama getting a free pass as he sends out campaign flyers showing him at the pulpit of a church? Huckabee was criticized for a bookcase in the background of his commercial that some said was a subliminal cross. Obama is standing in front of a real cross and church organ, and nothing is being said. If Huckabee went "too far" in "mixing religion and politics," what is Obama doing? It seems Obama will do anything in this campaign to sell himself to voters except actually telling them where he stands on the issues.

[terrorislami]

Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.

The historical irony is that the person most responsible for deficit reduction gets very little attention in the national media. The president who deserves the most credit for the fast-approaching balanced budget we are now witnessing is not Bill Clinton. And the Republican who deserves the most credit is not Newt Gingrich. Rather, the politician whose long-run policies are most responsible for leading us to a potential balanced budget next year is Ronald Reagan. Yes, Reagan, the man vilified by Clinton for "tripling the national debt in the 1980s."

Reagan''s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan''s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America''s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton''s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

[terrorislami]

Posted by olydem58 at 09:12 AM : May 24, 2008

ummmmm wronggggggg

nothing succeeds like success

from the dimmy kar-ter years of double digit unemployment, double digit inflation rate and double digit house mortgage interest rates, car loans were like going to a loan shark

reagan years brought single digit unemployment, single digit inflation and single digit house mortgage rates

vote demonic-rat to reward the deadbeat parasites spendthrifts

vote gop to reward the workers, frugal savers, investers, job creaters

even a dishwasher can become financially independent and secure under capitalism

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt


If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs. - Review of Reviews January 1897 Theodore

[olydem58]

Do people think before they post ? You good old boys are a joke. Yea we can''t go bak to Clinton we want to stay with policies that have bankrupted our nation cause 100,000 of people to die shot the price of gas to 4 $$ a gallon. When will you see your policies are bad for our country. Never has a GOP congress or prez ever led the country to enconomic or international prosperity. This prez has made the USA an international embarrassment

[xlib]

Isn''t a predential candidate supposed to face challenges??? However, I''m sure the msm will continue to protect him. Also, all that soros money sure as heck helps.

[tootall10142]

I would rather have a foriegn nationalist in the dod directing the military than have two clinton brains in the white house.how soon we forget the whitewater scandal.air america that flew out of the little airport in mena arkansas.Ol bill said lets do to the arkies they never know it right under thier noses.

[thgdriver]

The McCain Hillary ticket is a sure winner. I know a lot of folks, that, had they known about Nobama what they know now, he would never have done as well as he did on super Tuesday.

Nobama is to much to the "Wright"!!

[terrorislami]

jim jones was a demonic-rat,,, and that is why GOPers tell the demonic-rats not to drink the koolaid,,, LOL

got it

Jones Captivated S.F.''s Liberal Elite

They were late to discover how cunningly he curried favor

With these willing workers, Jones made himself the perfect gift for the liberal machine of U.S. Representatives Phillip and John Burton, Assemblyman Willie Brown and Mayor George Moscone, which was trying to consolidate its hold on San Francisco politics.

The turning point in Jones'' drive for power came in 1975, according to Tim Reiterman''s and John Jacobs'' exhaustive study, `Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and his People.'' Jones'' army of volunteers saturated San Francisco neighborhoods, distributing slate cards for Moscone (running for mayor), Joseph Freitas (district attorney) and Richard Hongisto (sheriff). All three won.

`What you had here was a ready-made volunteer workforce,'' said Agar Jaicks, who was chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party in San Francisco. `And you also had in Jones a man who touched a component of the consensus power forces in the city, such as labor and ethnicity groups, and he was very strong in the Western Addition. So here was a guy who could provide workers for causes progressives cared about.''
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/12/MN85578.DTL

[terrorislami]

do not drink the hussein/jim jones koolaid left wingnut barking moonbat demonic-rats,,,

Koolaid Drinker

People who believe anything they are told. people who refuse to change there minds when confronted with facts.

a koolaid drinker is the liberal democrat who is liberal because they are told they should be. they have made no attempt to decide why they are liberal.

often a koolaid "drinker" simply wants to hate anything a republican does good or bad.

koolaid people are the vocal howard dean wing of the democrat party. the converse of rightwing loonies.

koolaid drinkers are the ones that went first when jim jones said drink.

that earth mama hippy chick is such a sixties burn out wanabe. dude she is just a "koolaid drinker" cut her a break. she listens to air american and npr.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Koolaid+Drinker

[terrorislami]

insane husseins,,,

they hate the country that made them millionaires,,,

good one,,,

what bs left wingnut koolaid drinking barkinbg moonbats,,,

[patriot12436]

With the way the DNC has treated Hillary i think she should run as an independent. To run as vp for obama or McC

[patriot12436]

With the way the DNC has treated Hillary i think she should run as an independent. To run as vp for obama or McC

[patriot12436]

With the way the DNC has treated Hillary i think she should run as an independent. To run as vp for obama or McC

[patriot12436]

cryhavoc2
I have been saying what you ar saying all along. I never agreed with the invasion of Iraq. I think it is time we stopped trying to be the world police, cut off foreign aid as we can no longer afford to support the rest of the world, address the problems at home and take care of our own people. I have become an isolationist over the years but it is because people resent us for interfering in their political affairs.

[patriot12436]

whatithink
I have saidd it before. When someone lowers themselves to namecalling it is because they have no facts to refute the person in question, or are uneducated and unable to express themselves in a logical manner.

[thgdriver]

McCain is going to ask Hillary to be his vice President.

[patriot12436]

galoliagh an baby killer
I am a patriot. I served my country for 20 years. I listen to chicken hawks like you talk against my country and do nothing about it. Tell mne what you have done for your country ?