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July 02, 2008
Presidential Wanna B....UH Um UH Hussein Obama
There is so much to post about Obama right now, so I thought I would take snipets of things and put them all here. --Wild Thing
Obama Got Discount on Home Loan
Washington Post ......for complete story
Shortly after joining the U.S. Senate and while enjoying a surge in income, Barack Obama bought a $1.65 million restored Georgian mansion in an upscale Chicago neighborhood. To finance the purchase, he secured a $1.32 million loan from Northern Trust in Illinois.The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the average for such loans at the time in Chicago. The loan was unusually large, known in banker lingo as a "super super jumbo." Obama paid no origination fee or discount points, as some consumers do to reduce their interest rates.
Compared with the average terms offered at the time in Chicago, Obama's rate could have saved him more than $300 per month.
Obama's house purchase has been a source of controversy.
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July 10-24, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone....
NOTE the Lapel pin but watch out for those teeth. LOL
Interesting that there's no words of the cover. Perfect for a guy with no ideas, or bad ideas. And quite fitting considering he's an empty suit also.
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Obama website for Pride Week for gays etc.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama opposes a California measure that would define marriage as between a man and woman after the state's top court backed same-sex weddings, according to a letter released on Tuesday.
Californians will vote on the effort to alter the state's constitution and override the state Supreme Court's decision on November 4, when they cast votes in the presidential election. Obama's Republican rival, John McCain, endorsed the measure last week.
The California court's decision made the state the second after Massachusetts to allow same-sex marriages and the first to offer to marry gay couples from outside the state. The marriages began on June 16.
Obama said he favors extending "fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under both state and federal law" in the letter, posted on the Web site of the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club of San Francisco.
CBNews
This past week he sent a letter to the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club where he congratulated those in California who recently got married. He also lays out his gay rights agenda.
Read the letter below:
"Dear Friends,Thank you for the opportunity to welcome everyone to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club's Pride Breakfast and to congratulate you on continuing a legacy of success, stretching back thirty-six years. As one of the oldest and most influential LGBT organizations in the country, you have continually rallied to support Democratic candidates and causes, and have fought tirelessly to secure equal rights and opportunities for LGBT Americans in California and throughout the country.
As the Democratic nominee for President, I am proud to join with and support the LGBT community in an effort to set our nation on a course that recognizes LGBT Americans with full equality under the law. That is why I support extending fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under both state and federal law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, and the passage of laws to protect LGBT Americans from hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states.
For too long. issues of LGBT rights have been exploited by those seeking to divide us. It's time to move beyond polarization and live up to our founding promise of equality by treating all our citizens with dignity and respect. This is no less than a core issue about who we are as Democrats and as Americans.
Finally, I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks. My thanks again to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club for allowing me to be a part of today's celebration. I look forward to working with you in the coming months and years, and I wish you all continued success.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama"
Mrs. Obama attempted to link the civil rights movement with the gay rights movement:
"“We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect union,” she said at the event, held days before the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots between gays and New York police, and the city’s annual gay pride parade.“The world as it is should be one that rejects discrimination of all kinds,” she said.
Touting her husband’s record pushing for workplace discrimination legislation as an Illinois state senator and his support of civil unions, Obama noted her husband also had brought a call for equality to conservative groups, telling churchgoers they need to combat homophobia in the black community."
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Obama to rename Bush's faith office
The White House views the office as one of the cornerstone's of Bush's legacy, making Obama's vow a very personal one.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to slam President Bush’s faith-based program as “a photo op” and a failure on Tuesday, and says he would scrap the office and create a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that would be a “critical” part of his administration.Obama, unveiling a plan to overhaul and expand Bush’s faith-based program during remarks at a community ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, said the White House Office of Community and Faith-Based Initiatives — which Bush founded during his second week in office — “never fulfilled its promise.”
“Support for social services to the poor and the needy have been consistently underfunded,” Obama says in prepared remarks. “Rather than promoting the cause of all faith-based organizations, former officials in the Office have described how it was used to promote partisan interests. As a result, the smaller congregations and community groups that were supposed to be empowered ended up getting short-changed.”
Wild Thing's comment........
All of this makes me dizzy the way he is truly on a roll of what his plans are, what he and his wife are up to. WHEW!
There is just no way America can survive this couple. It is still recovering from the Clinton's being in power.
Posted by Wild Thing at July 2, 2008 02:47 AM
Comments
THIS IS SUCH A CROCK-- -I COULD NOT BELEIVE IT WHEN I SAW THIS ON THE NEWS- LMAO!!! HE IS JUST TRYING TO THROW PEOPLE OFF THE REAL ISSUES- THE MAIN ONE BEING- HE IS NOT QUALIFIED- FOR PRESIDENT- JUST SOMETHING ELSE HE WILL LIE ABOUT LATER - OBAMA THE GREAT LIAR!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at July 2, 2008 08:39 AM
We have a dizzy 4 months ahead of us. I can only hope that the extremes of Obama's beliefs and ideas and his radical associations work against him at the polls. I have to hope that at the same time McCain keeps his gaffes to a minimum. We know who the MSM will support.
Posted by: TomR at July 2, 2008 10:39 AM
WT, we were thinking alike today. I just prepared an email for you and some friends with the same and a few additional items in the news today about BHO.
Sounds like the same old politics and politician to me. What a phony and hypocrite!
http://www.electropeasant.com/uploads/obama.jpg
http://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/snob.jpg
Bush's Third Term
July 2, 2008; Page A12
We're beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of "George Bush's third term." Maybe he's worried that someone will notice that he's the candidate who's running for it.
Most Presidential candidates adapt their message after they win their party nomination, but Mr. Obama isn't merely "running to the center." He's fleeing from many of his primary positions so markedly and so rapidly that he's embracing a sizable chunk of President Bush's policy. Who would have thought that a Democrat would rehabilitate the much-maligned Bush agenda?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121495450490321133.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
Obam's not a cynical flip-flopper, he's merely ... "post-partisan"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/02/obamas-not-triangulating-hes-post-partisan
The audacity of cynicism
Posted by: Les at July 2, 2008 03:08 PM
Cheryl, your right, his lies and the media helping him all just to throw people off the issues.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2008 05:29 PM
Tom,yes Obama sure has one huge force backing him with the media. It makes it harder for McCain to make the news.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2008 05:33 PM
Les, LOL thanks, yes dizzy is a good description of so much happening at once and all crazy stuff.
Thanks for the links and information.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 2, 2008 05:39 PM
