phoenixJane

I have been wondering where bloggers on various sites have been coming from in their affection for Barack Obama. The zeal and religious affection had me so curious that I signed up on the "Fight the Smears" edition of the Obama web suite. I had the audacity to hope for more insight, and after a long 22 hour wait, I got my first fight-the-smears email from Joe himself! I have to say, I understand the drama a little better now. But most of all it's crystal clear what the Obama camp really thinks about their constituents:

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Friend --

The McCain campaign is on the ropes, and sadly it's no surprise they're responding with attacks and outright lies.

I've heard some pretty unspeakable things in the past few days -- deeply offensive smears that we'll hear over and over again until Election Day.

John McCain and Governor Palin are setting a new low in presidential politics with their dishonorable campaign.

Barack and I are out there every day fighting back. But we need your help.

Make a donation of $5 or more right now to show John McCain and Governor Palin that when they attack us with lies and smears, it literally makes our campaign stronger.

After last night's debate, it's clear why John McCain doesn't want to talk about the issues facing ordinary Americans -- especially the economy, which his own advisers admit he can't talk about without losing.

Barack won last night by offering clear plans to rebuild our economy from the bottom up, lower healthcare costs, and end the war in Iraq responsibly.

McCain tried to push more of the same disastrous Bush administration policies -- more tax cuts for the wealthy and giant corporations, deregulating the healthcare industry and taxing employer-based healthcare plans, and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq.

So what's left for the McCain campaign? Negative attacks and lies.

And it's even worse from some of the well-funded outside groups supporting McCain, whose sole purpose is tearing Barack down with smears.

Instead of focusing on the issues that really matter, our opponents are doing everything they can to encourage this toxic atmosphere.

We cannot stand by and let them get away with it.

We need to increase the cost of these desperate tactics for McCain's campaign. Please make a donation of $5 or more right now: [url to donation page]

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I'm not surprised that Barack feels that telling his whole story is an attack, but I am surprised at the pretense to solicit a $5 donation. The fact that this outreach is one big contradiction isn't the issue so much, the thing is that on many Americans, it works.

First, it's incredible that one California parent hoisted their child onto the National stage singing Obama praise, let alone a chorus of them. That was a grossly hitleresque and irresponsible move, unless Obama really IS one's religion. Then, in that case, it makes perfect sense.

Second, mainstream media's dismissal of Obama's political life, vis-a-vis, his close relationships with communist and radical Islamic devotees is cowardly and an insane business move. The refusal to report the news, produced a huge media vacuum. The guys out there reporting their leftovers are raking in millions while DNC & television execs are scrapping around barrels of trash looking for sludge to broadcast. Nothing can empty your pockets faster than a cult. And nothing fills your pockets faster than presiding over one.

Third, on the official Obama website at this moment, is a simple presentation. The word CHANGE, the Obama family portrait underneath, and the caption: Join the Movement. Visitors are presented with neither bio or platform. Instead, they are confronted to join up right then and there. In faded letters at the bottom of the page, is the only link to view campaign information. How about facts first, membership maybe. Not the other way around.

Nothing about "Obama for America" makes sense as a Presidential campaign. Instead of the opening mantra of an America to be proud about, the Obama campaign has long-since abandoned any sense of pride. Endless circuses, suspicious campaign donations, loose-lipped celebrities, communist and radical Islamic sympathies, and a VP who's allergic to the truth. That's all that's left.

The bail out was rejected yesterday, and as far as I can tell, we're all still here. Markets gained this morning, and Americans are breathing audibly, relieved about having dodged this bullet. Capital Hill administrators reported that the switchboard suffered a huge load due to people calling in to say "no bail out." I couldn't get through on several tries, and at one point all I could reach was a recording saying the circuits were busy.

But the headlines and news anchors are cranking up the fear and doom message.

Despite obvious constituent opposition to the bail out, congress is still playing re-election chess. How to get people to vote for their party over this issue. After reconsidering their response to the legislation, it's clear Congress is NOT really listening to us. They are simply trying to manipulate all the emotion in their favor. The fact that people are still scuffling around in DC trying to pass a bail out, and not one person has said "drop it" let's move on, tells me we're not dealing with one honest humanoid in DC.

Today, I saw newscasts of foreign prime ministers and statesmen urging the US Congress to pass the bail out to save financial markets in their respective countries. That's nauseating. Does money only grow on American trees? Why can't British or German banks pull money off their trees and bolster the global economy. And where's that fine European Union that's supposed to be all the rave? Funny, how the capitalist—not the fascist, socialist, communists, or Marxists—are the go to guys when the rubber hits the road.

The House rejected the bail out plan. Votes: 226-207!

Anyone encouraged? The plan still gives Paulson authority to do what he wants to whom he wants. Stocks are selling off. Liberals are still trying to get ACORN included. And Pelosi wants her people who are not up for re-election to sway the next vote, in other words pure politics to save a bad agenda.

Is it worth calling (202) 224-3121...hell yea!  Then call your broker, it's time for you to buy stocks!!!!!

"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."  --Warren Buffett

Newt Gingrich issued a warning to John McCain. Opposed this bail out or forget labeling yourself as a reformer. If McCain opposes the bail out, he could then truly say he's for taking on the establishment and being on the side of taxpayers.

More than that, if McCain opposes the bail-out, the dynamic of the Presidential race would change overnight. Gingrich thinks a "McCain Reform Wing" would emerge from the Republican party, and the McCain-Palin ticket would then be the antidote to the Bush-Obama ticket! Actually, considering the many similarities between Bush and Obama already—extreme globalism, UN authority in national affairs, pro illegal immigration, too much government spending, intermittent disability with the English language—I have to say the idea is seriously plausible.

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Kinda has a nice ring to it!

Late Saturday night, details of the bail out terms started to hit the air waves. What we were first told is NOT what's going on right now.

Secretary Paulson says that the bail out should also cover foreign banks that do a lot of lending to the United States.

Foreign banks were in the conversation all along I think. An eventual $1.5 trillion payout by roughly 300 million people amounts to $5000 a head. We couldn't dream and get $5000 out of the Federal Government over a weekend. But it's okay to take $5000 or more from each of us over the weekend to give to foreign banks and Wall Street. And the rhetoric about not bailing out Lehman Bros was a hoax. Lehman Bros is getting some anyway along with everyone else. I'm sure other industries are starting to size up the opportunity for their own handout. This bill may not get to the House floor until Thursday. It could then go to the Senate floor on Friday. Americans have FIVE days to make a fuss to remember. The way I see it, by this time next week, Congress will have granted two or three individuals with the authority to do whatever they will with US markets.

What's the rush on a bail out? That's how scumbags do business—hurry up and pay or it'll be too late. Any bail out falls on the shoulders of working Americans; the talking heads making this deal could very well profit from it. Furthermore, Secretary Paulson is asking Congress for authority to print paper to give to the Federal Reserve to use at their discretion and put on our tab. Thats' all the Fed does, print money and charge us for using it. And they decide how much to charge. We will owe the international bankers of the Federal Reserve for using our paper, our printing presses, our trees, and our ink to print paper notes, loan us a little to us to live on, and give most of it to Wall Street and foreign banks!

On the other hand, maybe the best thing might be to let it go and focus on the November race. All the drama threating a "supposed" depression is perhaps the only thing that could have taken the heat off a fledgling liberal bid for the White House.

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First off, I'm a layman when it comes to financial markets, but I watched President Bush's address on Thursday calling the bail outs vital to our economy. I'm sorry, I just don't believe all the hype that the economy will categorically fail if the government and the Federal Reserve don't get the new powers he outlined. Do you? Of course, end the short-selling for personal gain and the fraud, but why do we need a fiscally incompetent government controlling all aspects of our money? I doubt one needs to be an economist to discern that the recent financial "crises" seem contrived.

Bush said in his address yesterday that the regulations governing the market were written in a different era and needed to be updated to meet the reality of today's global financial system. He might have been alluding to the $90 billion in cash being dangled in their faces by European banks offering to help the "system," most likely with conditions.

Bush also said that once the bail outs are in effect, he will work with Congress to incorporate Treasury Secretary Paulsons big plan. Paulson's plan had a lot to say about giving the Federal Reserve (an international banking contractor) control over our financial markets. Shouldn't government control over the private sector be a major concern to any US citizen? I feel strongly that the scores of needy congressmen who created this situation intend to use the end result to force a complete takeover.

My blog contains previous posts on the subject. But in a nutshell, it seems that the perfect storm has been orchestrated for a complete government takeover of the US financial market. That's not to say it's a forgone conclusion. Congress still has to vote on the power grab, which is why I'm writing my senators. Give it some thought and write too if you can.

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I don't think so. At least not with any expectation to win this election. Obama packed up a porta-promter and is hitting the road according to CNN. He spoke in the rodeo ring at the Colorado State Fair with a teleprompter on Monday. Normally a teleprompter isn't a big deal. But with all flap about his gaffs when he's on his own, you would think he would try harder to remember his speeches. Raising an average of $50 million per month, isn't there some kind of chip implant or hypnosis he could use to make him appear more "independent?"

It's bad enough that both tickets are sporting weak candidates, but someone who does little more than mess things up when he says what he really means is super-unattractive as POTUS. Liberal voters claim McCain and Palin are telepromptees to the same degree. Sorry, that's not true. It's been out that Palin delivered her acceptance speech to nearly 40 million on her own after her teleprompter malfunctioned—and rocked the house. We all know how resolute McCain was without his teleprompter at Saddleback which was in stark contrast to Obama's admitted "uncertainty" about key issues.

I don't like liberalism, I consider it mostly short-sighted melodrama. However, Obama's inability to be himself on the campaign/rodeo trail makes him an even bigger pill to swallow.

I'm sure when Barack Obama called off criticism of the Palin teen pregnancy, it was in part damage control after a right wing blitz to publicize his opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. I think Palin can handle the aspersions cast on her family by this pregnancy. It's most certainly not the unforgivable sin, although, denying it and  lying about it—like so many prominent politicos do—would have been a deal killer. Obama has made numerous comments on the subject of unplanned pregnancies, but the two Palin decisions not to abort really contrast his solution with the conservative solution to the majority of unplanned pregnancies. Ironically, in two days, the body of his abortion rhetoric was sent up in smoke...by one family.

Obama has no real control over what left wing bloggers say of course, but it's clear that media attention on the Palin youth contradicts the favor he asked for his own family. More than, that the coverage forces the public to focus on people who choose not to abort and jars our collective memory of unscripted moments which have been unfavorable for him to date.

Democrats will do everything Bush has done including increasing the size of the military.  They also have a really naive world view that by taxing Americans they can change the human condition. All that the Dems have in mind is as bad and worse than what the combined Clinton and the Bush administrations have done:

(1) Restrict domestic supply of oil and force Americans into energy sources that they and their lobbyists have invested in heavily;
(2) Slap on a small fine and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants;
(3) Repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell and openly allow homosexuals in the military;
(4) Attach new regulations to the Second Amendment;
(5) Strike down laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.

I downloaded and read the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee platform.  Many already know that Obama and Biden co-sponsored legislation essentially making the US government responsible for a bogus cost of living increase for the planet. What you may not know is that the Democratic Party platform now calls for the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration Goals in their entirety! The Obama-Biden legislation currently on the way to the Senate to will enact UN goal three. However, each UN Millennium goal will bind member countries to other treaties, conventions, and conferences, including:

— Regional and local small arms and light weapons disarmament based on the premise that small arms are a threat to peace and development, to democracy and human rights.
— Stepped up compliance with the International Court of Justice, and
— Numerous bad global warming agreements such as Kyoto which already Bush has wisely refused to sign.

The UN buget is in the neighborhood of $10 billion annually. We need a smaller UN or a non-existent UN, not a bigger one.

According to recallmayorgordon.com, signatures for petitions to recall Phil Gordon are due August 28th. The organizers have given no information about the number of signatures collected so far, which is understandable. But based on little snippets in the news over the past weeks, it sounds like Phil Gordon's measures to thwart the recall have inspired people to sign.

Phil Gordon encouraged city workers to post his election signs in their front yards when he was running for re-election. However, he forbids them to sign the recall petition citing that such actions are classified as political activity. What irritates me the most are the numerous times Gordon labeled his own constituents with racially charged slurs. Then, there are the numerous waste-of-money filings with Federal officials about his nemesis. I know several people turned off by his angry tirades.

Several days ago, I caught a JD Hayworth show when it was described how a volunteer collecting signatures in one of the city's parks was confronted by a Phoenix park ranger. The ranger wanted him to move to a low traffic area of the park. The petitioner declined to move. Then when a person came up to sign the petition, the ranger approached the two and took a picture of the person signing the petition with his cell phone.

The Gordon camp has used all kinds of spiteful tricks to subvert the rights of Phoenix residents. Today, Gordon is in Washington D.C. addressing the Police Foundation at their National Conference. He is representing that he is an example of good public safety leadership, except he has not shown good leadership at all. Phoenix Police are still unable to call ICE on their own when making an arrest. Gordon deserves a great little welcome home gift. Everyone eligible to sign and desiring to recall Mayor Gordon, should go to http://www.recallmayorgordon.com/Petition_Locations.ht
ml and check out all the petition locations. Or send an email to RecallPhilGordon@aol.com, because as of this writing, if you live in certain zip codes, they'll send someone to collect your signature.

You may have heard the buzz speculating that Gen. Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama. I've always felt I would vote for the General were he to run for President. Mostly, I doubt the speculations are true, but I did consider how I would view Powell should he endorse or join the Obama ticket.

In other words, would such a move: (1) lend Obama credibility or (2) lessen Powell's credibility. Well, right now, it's door number two. Powell holds a lot of currency for his part in Desert Storm. He's well-spoken—far beyond Barack. He's not a telePromptee, yet he still manages intelligent and wise impromptu answers. However, if Powell endorsed Obama, I would completely re-evaluate my estimation of him, not Obama. Why? Because although stellar, Powell's military pedigree is not enough to erase the fact that we've already peaked behind the wizard's curtain—Obama—and he's come up really short. Besides, endorsements are seriously over-played anyway. Hopefully, Powell has already seen the problems with an Obama presidency, and will commend Obama as a personal friend rather than as a candidate for President.

There was a blogger with the screen name of something like "kid_with_thoughts." Whatever happened to his blog? Have you heard from him lately? I enjoyed his blog and was going to  link to it but I was not able to find it again?

Do you remember any of his comments on your own blog posts? Sensible chap, good mind,  writes well, but I can't find a thing by him anywhere.

PJ

Russia attacking the country of Georgia might have moved the price of oil down nearly $5 dollars. I don't care. I want the price of oil to drop, but not this way. This isn't our war. If there is oil in Georgia, so the heck what. Drill here, drill now, fight our own battles. If trade routes are blocked, so the heck what, make our own toys, grow our own food, weave our own fabric, and buy our own cars. If Russia wants a more direct route to Iran, so the heck what, they'll kill each other anyway. Less work for us. Last but not least, I'd love to see a dollar worth something, and I'm tired of lining the pockets of people who bank wars. With talk about American troops leaving Iraq AND Americans finally demanding domestic drilling, our economy stands a chance.

We get pulled into conflicts due to the complicated little back room bets. Well life ain't that complicated. Just say no. We have plenty on our plate, and I'd rather see our troops taking in the fine views along our southern border.