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POPSI'm the sheriff, I can do what I want Haidl told jurors he and Carona made an initial list of 86 people — friends, family and contributors to Carona — who should become reserves. In 2001, a state commission decertified 86 reserves because of a lack of training and failure to pass background checks. It was unclear Friday whether that group was the same 86 mentioned in Haidl’s testimony. Haidl had earlier testified that he and Carona wanted to expand the program to 1,000 people, and that they wanted reservists to be mostly professionals who could donate a total of $1 million to Carona’s future campaign coffers
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POPS Osawatomie: The Weather Underground Newspaper Don’t believe me? Read the quotes for yourself, and see them in context on the full pages below. As with my earlier posts about Prairie Fire and Obama’s review of Ayers’ book, media members and bloggers are granted full permission to use the images and transcriptions on this page freely and without restriction. Many thanks to Zomblog contributors experiencedtraveler and Sharmuta, who did the actual legwork of tracking down and obtaining this rare document. (Coincidence? The image on the left shows the Weather Underground Organization logo in 1975, and the Obama for President campaign logo in 2008.) The following quotes are scanned directly from Osawatomie, with a transcription below each image.
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POPSShort Term Senator Earmarks funds to family I bet you have never heard that headline anywhere have you? Well the fact of the matter is that in the short time Senator Obama actually WORKED in the Illinois state senate he personally secured over $3 million dollars in earmarks which would appear to have been used to take care of family and campaign contributors. CAN WE SAY ABUSE OF OFFICE?
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POPS "Argue With Them And Get In Their Face"
I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-'02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Mr. Obama's ties to Mr. Ayers. These attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals. "Saturday Night Live" ran a spoof of the financial crisis that skewered Democrats like House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and liberal contributors. The tape of the broadcast disappeared from NBC's Web site and was replaced with another that omitted the references to Mr. Frank. Evidently NBC and its parent, General Electric, don't want people to hear speech that attacks liberals. Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting. .
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POPSObama's Foreign Funders Of course, its against the law for him to accept money from non-US citizens, but that wouldn't stop the Messiah, would it?
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POPSBanking on Becoming President Information on Politicians and their Elections Presidential * List All Candidates * Search Donors * Candidate Comparison o Contributors o States o Sectors o Industries o Quality of Disclosure o Source of Funds * Money Web * Industries o Sector Totals o Selected Sectors o Selected Industries * State/Metro Funding * Donor Demographics o Contribution Size o Gender * Expenditures * Fundraising Over Time * Bundlers o John McCain o Barack Obama * Fundraising By Party * Money Primary * News & Analysis * Election Totals 1976-2008 * Primary Calendar * Previous Elections
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POPSMcCain's Fannie and Freddie Connections In McCain's op-ed in the Journal, he and Palin wrote: For years, Congress failed to act and it is deeply troubling that what we are seeing is an exercise in crisis management rather than sound planning, and at great cost to taxpayers. We promise the American people that our administration will be different. We have long records of standing up to special interests… But McCain's own campaign staffers are those special interests, a fact that casts doubt on both McCain's hiring judgment and his ability to pursue tough reforms of Fannie and Freddie.
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POPSJustice For Sale. This is obviously true, and that being the case, I am drawn to the conclusion that the US of A is not a democracy, a free country or anything else but a front for corporations, "Justice for sale" means corruption and greed know no bounds. The clippers here were mostly appalled at the way Dick'n'George manipulated the judicial branch, but this...........
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POPSObama's Foreign Contributions And The F.E.C. Here, for example are the tabulations for how much a Karen Olsen, a free lance interpreter from Geneva contributed to Obama's campaign, and how much a Canadian management consultant from Toronto named Ronald Hickel got away with. In a way, Mr. Hickel's misdeeds were even more brazen, as he did it in a number of days and it is listed on contiguous entries on the FEC files. Amazing. Wildly amazing that it would not attract any attention: one would think the goverment would have computers that would sound alarms on stuff like this. There is another aspect of all of this, and is is vaguely reminiscent of a ponzi scheme. The federal government is never actually in possession of this money. It stays with the campaigns. In effect, from the day of receipt until the day the money is spent, it is in control of the Obama campaign, totally without interest. And, if it is refunded, it is without interest.
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POPSThe Big Question: Does the Deal Include Clinton's Delegates IMMEDIATELY After maligning him, saying he is less qualified to be President than John McCain, making Obama's skin tone a campaign issue, and generally hurting his chances to win this Fall, any deal to help this $100 millionaire plus pay off her debt ought to include the immediate release and encouragment of Clinton's delegates to vote for Obama. Otherwise, I'd tell her to suck wind and watch how she gets voted down in flames at the convention. She also should QUIT, not suspend, her election bid. Why pay off the debt of someone who just might suddenly unsuspend her candidacy for some bogus reason?
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POPSObama And Alinskyism The Los Angeles Times, persuaded a Democrat-appointed judge in California to open the sealed divorce records of Obama's Republican opponent to a press fishing expedition. The resulting sex scandal cleared... With a $10 million campaign war chest from contributors, and with no Republican opponent who could garner much support, Obama had an open road to become the next U.S. Senator from Illinois. In April 2007, Obama addressed the National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by Al Sharpton. In 2007, then-presidential candidate Obama named Robert Malley, the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the International Crisis Group, as a foreign policy advisor to his (Obama's) campaign. In March 2008, Al Sharpton, a strong supporter of Obama's presidential candidacy, stated that he spoke to Obama on a regular basis -- "two or three times a week." Sharpton also said that he had told Obama four months earlier, "I won't either endorse you or not endorse you.
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POPSMoney Interests Buying 2008 Elections Note Romney and McCain won the Michigan primary. Ironically, the same Money Interests financing elections of "establishment" candidates are the same banks and investment firms now in trouble financially.
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POPS BILL & HILL'S LATEST INTRIGUE Moreover, reports the Times, the foundation's donations are up 70 percent since Hillary's campaign got under way - with two-thirds of the money coming from just 11 donors. For his part, the former president says he'll be happy to start naming names and amounts - but not until Hillary is elected. Even then, he says, past donors will remain anonymous, "unless there is some conflict of which I am aware." However, he insists, "there is none." Pardon us if we don't simply take his word for it. Again, the possibilities for using the foundation for influence-peddling are enormous - and, sad to say, Team Clinton doesn't exactly have an illustrious record in safeguarding against any abuse. Unless there is something they don't want us to know, the Clintons should provide some genuine transparency and make the names and amounts public.
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POPS87% of Journalists Gave Cash to Liberal Politicians Bans on contributions simply make it easier for the main steam media to hide it's political bias. These are just the frenzied few who can't control themselves from putting their money where their mouths are. Most elite journalists know that the slanted and distorted reporting they do is worth much more than any amount of money they could possibly give.
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POPSMitt wont come clean On Tax Exemptions and Health Care: Does Mitt Romney support using tax exemptions to expand health care (as he said in Florida on August 24) or does he think tax exemptions are not an effective way to provide universal health coverage "because the people that don't have insurance aren't paying taxes" (as he said during nationally televised debate on August 5)? On Iraq: Why did Mitt Romney let John McCain bully him into saying President Bush's strategy in Iraqis working just days after Romney finally admitted that Iraq is "a mess" and in the middle of a civil war? On the YouTube Debate: Is Mitt Romney ducking the CNN/YouTube debate (which was originally scheduled for today) because he's afraid to take questions from a snowman, or because the virtual video trail of all his flip-flops on YouTube is dogging his campaign?
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