Friday, September 05, 2008

Obama Resorts to Lies About Republican Convention

This is the beginning of an Obama fund raising letter:

Owen—

John McCain and the Republicans had all week to make their case—and they didn’t do it.

The whole Republican convention went by without offering a single idea about how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

Along with that, Obama keeps saying that nobody at the GOP convention spoke about the economy.

That’s an outright lie and there’s plenty of recordings to prove it.  The Republicans talked about lowering taxes, policies to make us energy independent, regulatory reform, and on and on and on as ways to improve the economy.  I know that Obama disagrees with the Republicans on these issues, but to say that they didn’t talk about it is a flat out lie.

(8) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1911 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. Agreed, that’s no spin, just a plain old lie.  This will become more and more frequent.  The man is getting nervous.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 2042 hrs


  2. John McCains speech was everything that you have been saying about Obama in the past. No real policy discussion to speak of. When he says “I will lower taxes…Obama will raise taxes”, does that constitute a discussion of policy?
    Obama went much further into details of who will benefit from the tax cuts, those of us making less than $250,000. McCains speech was pretty weak and not delivered very well. I think that after Governor Palins speech he looked even more out of touch. They used Obamas line by saying he “just don’t get it”. That’s like arguing children would say “no you are…no you are’
    I think that the Republicans are playing for 2012 with a new look beginning now. When the media is done vetting Governor Palin it will be the end of the honeymoon.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 2314 hrs


  3. Move

    Unlike the real vetting the Democratic Presidential candidate got from the fair and balanced media.  Keith and Chris are calling…

    19 Months of hear no evil, see no evil, and for sure speak or broadcast no evil, (About the Messiah).

    So Move how much do you make and how far into your pocket will the great Messiah reach?

    By the way just so all of us conservatives can keep up with the other sides jargon, is your word “vetting” the new word for “destroy”.

    Like with Clarence Thomas, or Mr. Bork.  Shall I go on?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 2332 hrs


  4. I will likely fair much better under an Obama presidency than I have under the Bush policies in the past or the unknown McCain policies of tax breaks for the rich. I am not hurting as much as others but I sure am not going to let the government keep its foot on their throat while the rich get richer.

    Whatever the word, destroy or vet, the Republicans used to be the standard bearers but now they don’t like it when the Democrats beat them at thier own game.

    It’s a shame that we have come to this but look back and see who threw the first stone.

    I really cannot imagine any party belittling community organizers as not important to communities. Most churches are considered community organizations that have organizers to help others.
    Is the Governor going to continue to throw these people under the bus by criticizing those who give their time to their communities?
    I hope she does because it will begin to resinate again how out of touch they are.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 2343 hrs


  5. Sure, we talked about the economy. But we talked loose and a bit fast and I’m worried that we’re not talking about it in the way that America needs to hear it right now. Joblessness is at a 5-year high and John keeps saying the economy is fundamentally sound and just needs a few tweaks. And then he brings in Sarah who has no real understanding of big picture economics. I hope to God we’re looking at 2012 b/c we just don’t seem to understand what’s going on here in 2008.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 0101 hrs


  6. I really cannot imagine any party belittling community organizers as not important to communities. Most churches are considered community organizations that have organizers to help others.

    Now, the community organizers are “victims”.

    I think Michelle Malkin gives a pretty good perspective on the issue:

    Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors’ lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Obama’s brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan nonprofits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in.

    What deserves derision is “community organizing” that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.

    As I’ve reported previously, Obama’s community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub “direct actions”); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush on a government planning meeting about a landfill project opposed by Chicago’s minority lobbies.

    With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud. Since I last detailed ACORN’s illicit activities in this column in June (see “The ACORN Obama knows,” June 19, 2008), the group continues to garner scrutiny from law enforcement:

    Last week, Milwaukee’s top election official announced plans to seek criminal investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up voters (including prepaid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.

    Last month, a New Mexico TV station reported on the child rapists, drug offenders and forgery convicts on ACORN’s payroll. In July, Pennsylvania investigators asked the public for help in locating a fugitive named Luis R. Torres-Serrano, who is accused “of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration forms he collected on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to county election officials.” Also in July, a massive, nearly $1 million embezzlement scheme by top ACORN officials was exposed.

    ACORN’s political arm endorsed Obama in February and has ramped up efforts to register voters across the country. In the meantime, completely ignored by the mainstream commentariat and clean-election crusaders, the Obama campaign admitted failing to report $800,000 in campaign payments to ACORN. They were disguised as payments to a front group called “Citizen Services, Inc.” for “advance work.”

    Jim Terry, an official from the Consumer Rights League, a watchdog group that monitors ACORN, noted: “ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain. Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama’s political gain.” With a wave of his magic wand, Obama amended his FEC forms to change the “advance work” to “get-out-the-vote” work.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/why_obamas_community_organizer.html

    So. let us MoveOn to more discussion about community organizing Obama-style.  I have been involved with numerous nonprofit endeavors as service volunteer, fundraising, committee, and Board member (Homeless, Habitat, Interfaith Caregivers, Youth Mentoring, and domestic violence program) and I can assure you that none of those experiences remotely “resinate” with “get-out-the-vote” antics of ACORN.

    Sorry for the length of this comment - sometimes depth is needed to fully understand an issue.  In any event, it is good that the indignity being expressed by “community organizers” will revitalize the topic of Obama’s shady connections with ACORN.  That has to be “gold” for the McCain campaign.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 0833 hrs


  7. The reason Obama didn’t recognize McCains talk about the ecomomy was that McCain never mentioned tax increases and government handouts.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 1034 hrs


  8. Governor Palins’ words were to the effect that community organizers don’t have real responsibilities.
    As a volunteer on many community boards and as a mayor of a small city, I believe that more community organizers are needed to alleviate the government from having to step in.
    If we don’t try to help these people off the streets and into some kind of self sufficiency, then they are backed into a corner and will likely steal and rob people out of necessity for survival.
    Stop turning your backs on these people and belittling them because your inaction is part of the problem.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 1357 hrs


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