Obama for President 2008

“Hell I believe Obama could draw 75,000 in Portland by himself. We're talking about the PNW here. Oregon has a socialist party in their state for crying out loud. The crappy indie band that loves the Soviet national anthem is just icing on the cake. So sure, Obama drew them in...like a flock of slobbering sheep. Gee, I wonder if anyone was crying or falling out in the holy ghost at this one?”

“I would so totally go to see Obama. He's a great speaker and he wants change. Plus he's not another old white guy. I think he would make a great president.”

“Real Obama Quote -
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

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What an idiot!

Will Media Report Obama Seeing Dead People in Memorial Day Audience?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/27/will-media-report-obama-seeing-dead-people-memorial-day-audience”

“Sounds like something the current Prez would say as well.”

“Commander-in-Chump.

Obama is so under qualified it should scare people.”

“....but do we need another, WK? LOL

In Obama's defense, many dead Democrats vote every election.
last edited: 5/27/08 8:17:12 AM”

“LOL, good one Stovie.”

“good one, something funny out of SS's keyboard for once.”

“Sounds like something the current Prez would say as well. - WK

+ 1, big deal. It's the stuff he says and means to say that is scary.”

“For the folks not paying attention, Bush isn't running for reelection.”

“�For the folks not paying attention, Bush isn't running for reelection.�
hyway
10:04:39 AM
5/27/08

To bad...he would stand a better chance over McCain.

BTW, I don't like Osama either.”

“LOL
Obama/Osama, what's the difference?”

“Is this the Character Assassin's thread??”

“For sure. If only they could drum up something against Obama that would actually stick...”

“Obama claims uncle helped liberate Auschwitz.
History books claim Red Army did that

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/05/26/politics/fromtheroad/entry4127479.shtml”

“I don't think he meant to say that he saw dead people in the audience, I think he doesn't know Memorial Day was for honoring dead people.

What he meant to say was that he saw a lot of veterans and others he could tax to death.”

“I'm sure Obama will get another pass from the liberals for lying about his uncle liberating Auschwitz. After excusing his racism and sexism, a little white lie is nothing.”

“Obama will be telling how he was under sniper fire next.
Hillary/Obama, just the usual lying Democraps.”

“Obama claims uncle helped liberate Auschwitz.
History books claim Red Army did that

StoveStomper
11:14:55 AM
5/27/08

Maybe his uncle was in the Red army.
I mean perhaps that is why Obama is slightly left of center :)”

“FYI - all that loot that the worst president in the history of the USA gave to us in 02' has been wiped out by the price of fuel increases, which has a lot to do with all the morons running out to walmart, buying crap products made in China, who is using a ton of oil, driving up the price of gas.

Talk about the high cost of low price!

lololololololololol”

“He's most likely becomming a supply sider who can see a sea of red being loaned by the army of reds holding their 'Uncle Sam owes Me Notes' in their hands.
last edited: 5/27/08 3:13:32 PM”

“It was Buchenwald.

Another blank fired from the right! You boys are gonna have gone through a lot of Viagra by November.

Still, nothing you're not used to huh.”

“Barack Obama gets Fidel Castro's support

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2039018/Barack-Obama-gets-Fidel-Castro%27s-support.html

Senator Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials took a further blow on Tuesday after his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination won the backing of Fidel Castro.”

“Like the Dobbs-Richardson debate on immigration, now on CNN, little truth exist in the fissure that separates them and obviously arising from other than the source of their words.”

“if the election were held tomorrow he would win”

“Big maybe, but the general election isn't being held tomorrrow.”

“Last May, Barack Obama claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: �In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died � an entire town destroyed.�

The actual death toll: 12.



Earlier this month in Oregon, Barack Obamae redrew the map of the United States: �Over the last 15 months, we�ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I�ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.�



Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: �Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I�ve been in Iowa for too long. I�m sorry.�



Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: �Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it�s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.� On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?



Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: �There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.�

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965.


Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: �We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it�s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.� The real reason it�s �harder for us to use them� in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.


Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: �Here�s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I�m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don�t know exactly what�s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I�ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.�

Barack Obama voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the �costs, schedules, and technical issues� dealing with the nation�s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.


Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama�s Dreams from My Father: �Then, there�s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don�t exist, say the magazine�s own historians.�


And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn�t �pose a serious threat to us� � cluelessly arguing that �tiny countries� with small defense budgets can�t do us harm � and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, �I�ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.�”

“You know I picture all you boys ranting and raving for the next five months, then quietly voting for Obama come polling day. I don't think even you guys believe half the stuff you're posting.

If you don't do that then you know a lot of you won't bother voting, or you'll suddenly think it's time to vote libertarian.”

“I'll be in the back of a real bar, not a Bob Barr. My vote'll go to the ClintonX2 ticket of the newly formed Dependents Party, hardy harr.”

““You know I picture all you boys ranting and raving for the next five months, then quietly voting for Obama come polling day. I don't think even you guys believe half the stuff you're posting.

If you don't do that then you know a lot of you won't bother voting, or you'll suddenly think it's time to vote libertarian.”

I try to stick to policy but I'm not above poking fun when he says there are 57 states simply because the irony is too much because it's something even dumber than Bush would say.

The truth of the matter is I have never seen anyone else who posed a bigger threat to America than Obama. His policies are horrible. I don't see how anyone can complain about the economy and Bush's spending but yet support Obama. He will out spend Bush with no problem and with bringing back higher taxes I look for the economy to slow down even more.

And with Obama controlling the white house and the democrats controlling congress there is no end in site for the oil crisis. I think they will seize oil company money in the largest corporate theft ring in history. Obama has a history of banning guns and I believe he will try and do the same if elected.

All semantics aside Obama is simply bad for the country and bad for our personal freedoms.”

“I don't think even you guys believe half the stuff you're posting. - Y2

I do. I'd say probably close to 90%. I can forgive him if it's true he simply got the name of the concentration camp wrong. I don't care that he didn't remember the details on a cleanup site. Little stuff like that. But overall his words do damn him and show him to be a racist, sexist, liar. Not to mention all that other stuff Nigal pointed out.”

“Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation - Obama

Hard-Core Socialist.”

“Are you all waiting for 'Survivor Campaign 2008', for clarity of Buchenwald-Auschwitz, Sunni- Shiite and sniper fire- camera fire?”

“It matters little to me what speaking gaffs he makes. His voting record proves he is one of the most liberal politician in congress. His plans, what little he has fleshed out, show that he has no intention of being anything but the most liberal politician in Washington. Thats all I need to know to vote against him.”

“Exactly. Sure, we can come on here and say the exact same things about Obama that the Bushwackers do (stupid, druggie, puppet, etc) but at the end of the day it's about Obama and his record. I have yet to see anything here (of substance) from an Obama supporter that tells us why we should vote for him.”

“http://www.borgenproject.org/globalpovertyact.html�

The multibillion-dollar procurement business of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the U.N.�s flagship anti-poverty agency, is a gigantic shambles, according to UNDP�s own investigators.

Moreover, UNDP�s management has privately acknowledged that fact and is scrambling to fix the mess � even as it loudly denied concerns of a procurement scandal that have been raised by FOX News, among others.

In a confidential report obtained by FOX News, UNDP�s auditors have described the UNDP procurement organization that is spending well over $2 billion annually as:

� overwhelmed by its caseload at headquarters and in the field, while procurement ballooned from $800 million in 2003 to $2.5 billion in 2006 and $2.2 billion last year;

� often failing to provide plans to support its buying activities, which the report says causes many purchases of goods and services to be carried out on an "ad hoc basis" (in fact, more than $595 million worth of non-existent purchases were recorded, although the audit notes that they were not paid for);

� wallowing in shoddy paperwork and faulty bidding processes, which contributed to a "high number of waivers of the competitive process and to quality problems in the procurement process in general";

� lacking the expertise to evaluate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its most expensive and important purchases in civic construction and high-tech communications;

� drastically unqualified: Fully half of the organization�s procurement staff around the world were not certified for the basic requirements of their jobs, while the auditors also found the six-hour course for those who were certified to be "inadequate." Additionally, the auditors noted, "there are entire offices without a single certified buyer";

� suffering from an "apparent" conflict of interest at the top, where the people charged with vetting the procurement process for flaws are also members of the procurement office staff.

The same potentials for conflict of interest apparently dog local staffers, who, the report says, had not received official guidelines for disclosing their finances and interests, even though a policy demanding those declarations had been issued a year earlier.

Even more ominously, the same auditors point out that UNDP:

� has no sure way of knowing whether it is doing business with organizations that the U.N. itself has condemned for terrorist ties and says UNDP country offices find the current manual system of cross-checking with U.N. terrorist sanctions lists to be "cumbersome and inefficient";

� has no formal policy for suspending or removing vendors for poor performance or corruption;

� and doesn�t ask new vendors for the identity of their owners or other corporate ties. This raises the possibility that vendors caught out for corruption or poor performance could simply switch names and reapply for approved status.

The auditors also declare that at the time of their report, a staggering 260,000 vendors registered with UNDP were considered "inactive," meaning that the names existed, but the vendors were not seeking UNDP business � at least under those names.

Nor does UNDP policy, the auditors say, require detailed background checks on vendors unless "the contract amount is expected to exceed $1 million."

All of those observations, and many more almost as damning, are contained in a confidential draft audit report prepared by UNDP�s own Office of Audit and Investigations, or OAI, and embellished with comments by UNDP�s top management as of April 18. A redacted version of the draft report was obtained by FOX News.

Click here to see the draft audit.

According to its authors, the report contains some 21 "high priority" recommendations, where action is "imperative" and "failure to take action could result in major consequences and issues." All of these and other, less "imperative" recommendations were blacked out in the copy obtained by FOX News.

In several cases, where disagreement existed, it mainly appeared that top managers did not think UNDP could afford the changes or cited bureaucratic obstacles to full compliance.

The gaping holes and lack of competencies revealed by the report in the safeguards surrounding UNDP procurement have implications not only for the flagship anti-poverty agency but conceivably for many other U.N. agencies.

UNDP does business in 160 countries, where it designs all kinds of development programs in close collaboration with local governments, including a variety of radical dictatorships and many nations with abysmal corruption records.

UNDP has touted itself as a safeguard for the honesty and transparency of procurement exercises carried out on behalf of those governments � a view of UNDP probity and efficiency that the audit report essentially explodes.

Moreover, UNDP often conducts its procurement exercises to further the programs of other U.N. agencies among its far-flung constituencies, and the UNDP resident representative in each country is empowered as the U.N. secretary-general�s envoy.

UNDP is also taking the lead in an eight-country U.N. experiment known as "One U.N.," which will make the anti-poverty agency even more a conduit of all U.N. business in each nation, especially as "One U.N." rolls out further in the years ahead.

Among other things, the audit report gives grounds for questioning the wisdom of that process as it has been practiced.

The report includes a mini-digest of procurement cases with suspicious, unsatisfactory or unjustified results ranging from Ukraine ("the procurement process was unfair and non-transparent") to Colombia ("the soundness and effectiveness of the procurement process were questionable") to Somalia ("donor had requested a specific international company to be considered even though the solicitation process was local").

The importance of UNDP in the U.N. scheme of things and the controversy that has surrounded some of its recent actions are likely reasons for the apparent management scramble to meet its auditors� concerns, especially as a key meeting of UNDP�s 36-nation supervisory executive board is scheduled to take place mid-June in Geneva.

On some issues examined in the report � notably, on the need to run background checks on vendors � management declares it will have a new system in place in June. Terrorist cross-checks, however, will take at least until July. So will the need to demonstrate planning along with "demonstrated capacity and performance," especially at the level of individual countries.

(Among other things, the audit report notes that some countries "have a rejection of 50 percent or more" on their first attempts at procurement submissions, while the overall rejection rates for Africa as a whole are "more than 40 percent.")

In April, UNDP took strong exception to a FOX News report that cited the development organization's own internal documents to show that over the past three years, UNDP had waived competitive bidding procedures for goods and services worth $879 million, roughly 58 percent of the total disbursed by UNDP headquarters during that time.

Some of the largest volumes of waivers went to countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, where official corruption has reached shocking levels.

In its response to the FOX report, UNDP claimed that procurement during the three-year period was $6.96 billion and claimed that waivers of competition amounted to only 7 percent of the total. That percentage, however, amounted to a redefinition of the term "waiver of competitive bidding" as used on the UNDP documents obtained by FOX.

The same month, after FOX questioned the existence of a $2.3 million UNDP procurement of U.S.-made airport scanners on behalf of the radical Chavez government in Venezuela, UNDP posted a purchase order whose date and number did not match earlier documents that the agency had said were used to ship the equipment � three weeks before the later documents attested that the deal had been done.

International anti-corruption watchdogs rank Venezuela as being on the same level as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNDP practices in its client countries have been controversial since January 2007, when then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mark Wallace raised questions about the agency�s use of cash payments to North Koreans who were employees of the Kim Jong-Il regime and who also occupied sensitive UNDP local posts. Subsequent investigation revealed that the Kim regime had also used UNDP bank accounts to funnel money to its nuclear weapons program.

UNDP subsequently fired a member of its staff who blew the whistle on the North Korean practices and declared it was not bound by U.N. rules when the U.N.'s newly appointed ethics officer declared he had found "prima facie evidence" of retaliation against the whistleblower. An ostensibly independent report on the whistleblower�s status, written by three panelists chosen by UNDP, is expected shortly.

How successful UNDP will be at fixing the mess described in the April draft audit report remains to be seen.

Among other things, top management agreed with the auditors that greater regional supervision of UNDP country procurement decisions is required. (The auditors suggested that for waivers of competition where "exigency for the requirement" is cited as justification, "the Regional Bureau concerned should be requested to confirm that there is indeed a �genuine exigency.�")

But management also said that the changes in supervision would not be implemented before the end of this year.”

“Obama, Hagel & Cantwell Introduce Global Poverty Act in the Senate

Presidential candidate Barack Obama announced that he will introduce the Global Poverty Act in the Senate. Obama teamed with Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington. Clint Borgen will be on Capitol Hill January 7th building support for the bill. The Global Poverty Act requires U.S. leadership to �develop and implement a strategy for addressing global poverty.� The bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in September.”

“Obama picked up another supporter today. Fidel Castro! He says of Obama...“the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency”.

What more needs to be said?”

“Isn't Che already on his staff?”

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