Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Million Dollar Mansion
Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s UCC Trinity Church is using tax exempt dollars to build their retired, racist, and controversial pastor this million dollar mansion on a $345,000 lot they own.
Wright is on his national speaking tour promoting HIMSELF. Barack Obama has to be praying that Wright shuts up and disappears until he is elected President.
Sphere: Related ContentClass President Suspended for Going to Barack Rally
Student class president Colin Saltry resigns position after getting suspended for going to hear Presidential candidate Barack Obama speak at rally in Pennsylvania.
But the president, in this case, is an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who claims he was forced to resign as head of his senior class because he skipped gym and left school to see Democratic presidential would-be Barack Obama.
Colin Saltry, a Scranton High School senior, and fellow classmate Joey Daniel reportedly bolted school on Monday to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator during a campaign stop at “The Glider” restaurant, just minutes away from their school.
Saltry and Daniel say they met Obama, snapped photos with him, and even had the candidate sign excuse slips to present to their teachers.
I can understand the suspension because their skipping school violated the rules. If the principal asked Saltry to resign as class president then that is over the line and too much. He should be given his position back. If Saltry resigned on his own then that’s on him.
Sphere: Related ContentHillary Clinton Wins PA by Decisive Margin
Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat arch rival Barack Obama by 10% in Pennsylvania’s primary on Tuesday night.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton had 55 percent and Barack Obama had 45 percent, a comfortable enough margin to deny critics their demand that she quit the race.
“Some counted me out and said to drop out,” Clinton told cheering supporters at a rally in Philadelphia. “But the American people don’t quit. And they deserve a president who doesn’t quit either.”
And the race continues…
Sphere: Related ContentVOTE: Will Barack’s ‘Bitter’ Comment Hurt Him?
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” - Barack Obama
John McCain Raised $15 Million in March
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain raised $15 million dollars in March according to his campaign. It was a record to date for McCain but was still far behind his Democratic rivals.
Obama raised $40 million for his primary race in March, the majority of which came from small donors. Clinton raised $20 million.
On a positive note McCain is getting to stockpile a bit of his money as Hillary and Barack continue to battle it out in the trenches.
Sphere: Related ContentBarack Obama on Small Towns
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” - Barack Obama
Sphere: Related ContentBill Richardson and the Clintons
Who isn’t getting sick of Bill Richardson saying he did nothing wrong by endorsing Obama. By Richardson reiterating this so much and so frequently and responding to people provoking him (Bill Clinton, James Carville, and etc.) , it obviously means that he feels that in some way that he did. His conscious is apparently plaguing him.
Proof from CNN:
Sphere: Related ContentNew Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday sharply disputed Bill Clinton’s reported claim that Richardson promised to endorse Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House.
“I never did,” Richardson said. “I never saw [President Clinton] five times. I saw him when he watched the Super Bowl with me. We made it very clear to him that he shouldn’t expect an endorsement after that meeting.”
Bill Clinton’s comments reportedly came during a recent meeting with some California superdelegates. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the former president got “red faced” when the subject of Richardson came up and said, “Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that.”
In the interview Wednesday, Richardson acknowledged he was “very close to endorsing” Clinton, but decided not to after the campaign got “nasty.”
“I held back. I waited. I felt the campaign got nasty. I heard Senator Obama; he would talk to me continuously,” Richardson said.
“The Clintons should get over this,” he added.
Obama Wants Al Gore
Sen. Barack Obama has stated that he wants Al Gore, if he wins the Presidency. He wants Al Gore at the center of a group working to deal with Global Warming (that may or not be real or an issue at all). Isn’t that similar to asking a butcher to perform brain surgery on you brain. Also, someone might want to tell Baracky (yes thats right) that China is getting closer to being able to control the weather (which is amazing and scary, at the same time).
From CNN:
Sphere: Related ContentAl Gore has a spot in a potential Barack Obama administration, the Illinois senator said Wednesday.Asked at a campaign event if he’d consider Gore for his cabinet, Obama immediately said he would.
” I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this [climate change] problem,” Obama said.
Obama also said he talks with the former vice president on a “regular basis,” and often consults with him on climate change issues.
Could Gore serve alongside Bill Clinton in an Obama administration? Last November, the Illinois senator said he’d offer the former president a job “in a second.”
“There are few more talented people [than Clinton],” Obama said then.
Howard Dean Determined, if it is Appeasing, to Seat Florida Delegates
Howard Dean, in another typical bleeding heart liberal feel good move, said that he was committed to seating the Florida Delegates, as long as the Clinton and Obama camps agree to the seating. Which essentially means nothing.
This from MSNBC:
Sphere: Related ContentDemocratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday the party was committed to seating Florida’s delegates at this summer’s convention as long as any agreement is supported by the party’s two presidential contenders.
Dean met with Florida lawmakers to discuss ways of allocating delegates among Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and prepare for the fall campaign in the battleground state.
The party stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates to the national convention in Denver because they ignored party rules and moved their primaries to January.
Pork Barrel Fun with Clinton and Obama
Pork Barrel Spending ( aka Earmarks) is going to become more of an issue that it is now, and here is why from the LA Times.
The nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its newest Pig Book, an overwhelming detailing of all 11,610 pork barrel projects inserted in the current fiscal year’s appropriations bills by individual members of Congress.
These semi-secret spending measures cost taxpayers an extra $17.2 billion this fiscal year alone. This is the first year legislators have had to attach their names to these measures.
And guess which one of the surviving presidential candidates likes pork the most? And the least?According to the Pig Book (”The Book Washington Does Not Want You to Read”), New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is our new grand national oinker among presidential contenders for most pork barrel spending. She inserted a whopping 281 individual spending projects into bills for the benefit of New York interests at the cost of taxpayers everywhere.That totals $296.2 million.
The new national hero, on the other hand, for not inserting one penny of pork barrel spending is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona. As a longtime staunch opponent of such earmarks, McCain may be expected to raise the subject of such special spending if Clinton becomes his Democratic opponent in the fall’s general election.
He may also bring it up if his opponent is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who may be a freshman senator but still isn’t shy about inserting special earmarks into legislation cataloged by the taxpayer group’s annual report. He accounted for 53 special earmarks, totaling almost $97.4 million.
This includes about $402,000 for a juvenile delinquency program at the Shedd Aquarium and $383,000 for another ethanol research plant.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who still technically is in the GOP race, has campaigned against large government seeping into the lives of American citizens. However, according to the Pig Book, that didn’t keep him from proposing eight pork-spending bills totaling $22 million, including nearly $4 million to alter a Galveston bridge.
Photo: Baltimore Sun
Sphere: Related ContentBarack Obama On Hardball W/ Chris Matthews
Maybe it should have been called Softball with Chris Matthews. He loves him some Barack Obama.
Sen. Barack Obama in Philly
Sen. Barack Obama genuinely happy to have his picture taken.
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