5 Things You May Not Know About Obama...

...And What They Seem To Say About The Democrats' Presumptive Presidential Nominee

(CBS)  The long, grueling race to determine the head of the Democratic ticket resulted in Barack Obama emerging as the presumptive nominee, and brought much to light about him.

But plenty fell under the radar.

And, on The Early Show Wednesday, correspondent Jeff Glor explored Obama's background, pointing to five things many Americans almost certainly aren't aware of.

Glor also surmised what those things, taken together, seem to reveal about Obama -- for better or worse, depending on the perspective of the viewer.

Glor looked at everything from how Obama met his wife, Michelle, to his summer job as a teenager.

To see Glor's report, click on the arrow in the image below.

[soccermomhsc]

How about telling us something of substance! Cut the fluff- tell us 5 things that matter!! I love to play Scrabble but that does not qualify me to be president.

[leftyintexas]

Obama is a black guy from Hawaii, who would never pick up a rifle and defend the United States from our enemies. Obama thinks we can make friends with the terrorists!

Posted by S_Temper at 02:10 AM : Jun 20, 2008

Hey jarhead, why are you bringing up Obama''s color and where he was born? What does that have to do with being President of our country? Are you a racist? Are you a bigot? What does him not being in the military have to do with anything? Is it a requirement that you have to serve in the military before being qualified to hold public office? If so, Doofus and Butthead would be disqualified. Butthead got 5 deferments and Doofus never showed up for his ANG meetings. As for what Obama thinks of terrorists, you don''t have a clue because you never listened to what he has said about that or anything else for that matter. You are just a stupid dead-ender who Dumbya walks on water. Why aren''t you over in Iraq fighting bush''s war for him like a good little boy?

[beastof70]

How''d you like that Rastus...err I mean Rufus??

[beastof70]

Now that we all got a good look at OsamaObama shooting America the middle finger of defiance with the following declaration:

"The only problem I have with today''s price of gas is that prices have gone up so fast." Which literally translates to:

I''m happy with fuel prices this high, or even higher, I simply wish the increase would have waited until after I was in the White House.

Can there remain any real Americans who aren''t convinced, in the words of the great Pres. Reagan, "the Democrat Party has moved so far left they''ve left America"?????

Yesterday, after watching the rape of America perpetrated by OsamaObama and all of his Democrat minions in Congress I became convinced....The only folks who could possibly vote for any Democrat wears only one hyphen with their American...."Un-"

[david1737]

First the S&L scandal.

Then the Sub Prime melt down.

McCain has his foot print in Both.

1. McCain was one of the Keating 5.

2. Then, The general co-chairman of John McCain %u2019s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law (see Gramm-Leach Act) which contributed significantly to today%u2019s Sub Prime meltdown and economic turmoil.

Google:

Keating 5/S&L scandal Bush family.

Then Gramm-Leach Act.

Connect the dots.

[david1737]

Bottom line McSame wants more deregulation.

The roots of both the S&L scandal and the sub prime meltdown stem at least in part from the deregulation of the both the Savings and Loan industry and the Banking industry.

If you look at both the Bush Admin. and now the McCain campaign they''ve both got fingerprints on not only the S&L scandal (McCain/Bush family) and the Sub Prime meltdown (McCain''s econ. Guru Phil Gramm)

Just google:

McCain/Bush Family, and then Keating 5/S&L scandal.

You''ll see that not only was McCain one of the Keating 5, but also that both Bush Jr., Senior, Jeb, and Neal Bush were all involved in the S&L scandal this and it cost the American tax payer over $1.4 trillion dollars!

Couple this with the fact that the general co-chairman of John McCain %u2019s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law (see Gramm-Leach Act) which contributed significantly to today%u2019s Sub Prime meltdown and economic turmoil.

Now just ask the simple question, can we afford another 8 years of this?

[david1737]

Now let''s take a look at McCain''s economic Guru Phil Gramm.

The general co-chairman of John McCain %u2019s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law (see Gramm-Leach Act) which contributed significantly to today%u2019s Sub Prime meltdown and economic turmoil

[david1737]

guysdigdirt

Stop lying, it''s bad for the soul.

[david1737]

Speaking of the number 5 let''s all look at the fact that McCain was one of the Keating 5.

McCain/Bush and his family were all over this and it cost the American tax payer over $1.4 trillion dollars!

It stems from deregulation of the S&Ls.

Do some research.

[guysdigdirt]

For those who want to know what Obama believes in we have finally found this in his campaign notes.

%u201CYes we can%u201D lose to Al-Qaeda
%u201CYes we can%u201D ban all the guns
%u201CYes we can%u201D eliminate the military
%u201CYes we can%u201D make America into a socialist nation
%u201CYes we can%u201D surrender to the U.N.
%u201CYes we can%u201D ban free speech
%u201CYes we can%u201D pardon all the terrorists including Obama%u2019s friends
%u201CYes we can%u201D have a tax rate of 95% for everybody
%u201CYes we can%u201D hate all the people who don%u2019t support Obama
%u201CYes we can%u201D stop this election and make it a coronation

[libh8er]

Here''s about 10 more:

%u201CYes we can%u201D lose to Al-Qaeda
%u201CYes we can%u201D ban all the guns
%u201CYes we can%u201D eliminate the military
%u201CYes we can%u201D make America into a socialist nation
%u201CYes we can%u201D surrender to the U.N.
%u201CYes we can%u201D ban free speech
%u201CYes we can%u201D pardon all the terrorists including Obama%u2019s friends
%u201CYes we can%u201D have a tax rate of 95% for everybody
%u201CYes we can%u201D hate all the people who don%u2019t support Obama
%u201CYes we can%u201D stop this election and make it a coronation

[beastof70]

Now that we all got a good look at OsamaObama shooting America the middle finger of defiance with the following declaration:

"The only problem I have with today''s price of gas is that the prices have gone up so fast." Which literally translates to:

I''m happy with fuel prices this high, I simply wish they would have waited until after I was in the White House.

Can there remain any real Americans who aren''t convinced that in the words of Pres. Reagan, "the Democrat Party has moved so far left they''ve left America"?????

Yesterday, after watching the molesting of America being perpetrated by OsamaObama and all of his Democrat minions I became convinced....The only folks who could possibly vote for any Democrat wears only one hyphen with their Americanism...."Un-"

[taotxzen]

Guantanamo by the Numbers

By DAVID BOWKER and DAVID KAYE
Published: November 10, 2007

SIX years ago this Tuesday, President Bush granted American armed forces sweeping authority to detain and interrogate foreign members of Al Qaeda and their supporters and to use military commissions to try them. By doing so, the president set in motion the creation of military commissions and the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Bush administration may legitimately claim certain benefits from the Guantanamo system. Some dangerous men are held there, and valuable intelligence has probably been gathered, perhaps even some that has enabled the government to disrupt terrorist activities.

But the costs have been high. Guantanamo has come to be seen worldwide as a stain on America%u2019s reputation. The military commissions have failed to deliver justice, stymied by the federal courts%u2019 refusal to permit the president to create a system at odds with United States courts-martial and the international law of war.

(CONT)

[taotxzen]

(CONT)

Meanwhile, the number of detainees at Guantanamo has steadily dropped to a little over 300, from its peak of more than 700, no more than 80 of whom are likely to face any kind of American prosecution. Not a single defendant has gone to trial, and only one has pleaded guilty.

Number of %u201Chigh-value detainees%u201D now at Guantanamo: 15

Approximate percentage of detainees found to have committed %u201Chostile acts%u201D against the United States or coalition forces before detention: 53

Most represented countries at Guantanamo: Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen

Cost of building Guantanamo high-security detention facilities: about $54 million

Estimated annual cost of operating Guantanamo: $90 million to $118 million

Cost of %u201Cexpeditionary legal complex%u201D for the military commission (under construction): $10 million to $12 million

[taotxzen]

Who Cares, They are All Terrorist...

Former Army Secretary: A Third Of The Prisoners Don''t Belong In Guantanamo

America''s prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: June 14, 2008 10:50:09 PM

GARDEZ, Afghanistan %u2014 The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

They shouted "Allahu Akbar" %u2014 God is great %u2014 as one of them hefted a metal mop squeezer into the air, slammed it into Akhtiar''s head and sent thick streams of blood running down his face.

Akhtiar was among the more than 770 terrorism suspects imprisoned at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. They are the men the Bush administration described as "the worst of the worst."

(cont)

[taotxzen]

(cont)

But Akhtiar was no terrorist. American troops had dragged him out of his Afghanistan home in 2003 and held him in Guantanamo for three years in the belief that he was an insurgent involved in rocket attacks on U.S. forces. The Islamic radicals in Guantanamo''s Camp Four who hissed "infidel" and spat at Akhtiar, however, knew something his captors didn''t: The U.S. government had the wrong guy.

"He was not an enemy of the government, he was a friend of the government," a senior Afghan intelligence officer told McClatchy. Akhtiar was imprisoned at Guantanamo on the basis of false information that local anti-government insurgents fed to U.S. troops, he said.

An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that Akhtiar was one of dozens of men %u2014 and, according to several officials, perhaps hundreds %u2014 whom the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments.

(cont)

[taotxzen]

(cont)

McClatchy interviewed 66 released detainees, more than a dozen local officials %u2014 primarily in Afghanistan %u2014 and U.S. officials with intimate knowledge of the detention program. The investigation also reviewed thousands of pages of U.S. military tribunal documents and other records.

This unprecedented compilation shows that most of the 66 were low-level Taliban grunts, innocent Afghan villagers or ordinary criminals. At least seven had been working for the U.S.-backed Afghan government and had no ties to militants, according to Afghan local officials. In effect, many of the detainees posed no danger to the United States or its allies.

The investigation also found that despite the uncertainty about whom they were holding, U.S. soldiers beat and abused many prisoners.

Prisoner mistreatment became a regular feature in cellblocks and interrogation rooms at Bagram and Kandahar air bases, the two main way stations in Afghanistan en route to Guantanamo.

[taotxzen]

One Thing You Already Know About Bush McCain:

"At today%u2019s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights hearing on torture, Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, told Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) that over 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody, with up to 27 of these declared homicides." Bush and His Crew Should be Tried for War Crimes. Skip Impeachment and Go Right to the Hague.

[beastof70]

You vote for anyone due to their ethnic background or skin color. The abnormally high percentage of African-Americans voting for Obama reflect racism.
Posted by mecury69
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I would beg to differ ... voting against someone because of their skin color is racist. Voting for someone because of their skin color is discriminatory.
Posted by makeitso928 at 05:11 PM : Jun 18, 2008
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Just as I would beg to differ with you....Since anyone accepting your above definition would have to believe we humans are comprised of multiple races.

Sounds a bit like bell curve thinking, no??

Perhaps you hyphenated-Americans are members of the non-human race. I personally know for a fact I''m a member of the human race, with a family tree comprised of at least a half dozen regional lineages.

[beastof70]

One thing we know for sure and for certain....Whoever gets tapped to be OsamaObama''s VP better be ready to give up politics forever.

I mean who even remembers who rode second chair behind George McGovern?

Who was Michael DooDooCockeyes second seat??

Real Americans have traditionally not thought very high of these ultra-left wing pinkos the Democrat Party keeps trying to give us. But, we obviously think even less of the turkey trying to ride their coat tails into Washington.