Wally's Blog

Truth is, it is unlikely Obama is unlikely to share HIS wealth with anyone.. With an average annual income of more than $500,000 between 2000 and 2006, Barack and Michelle only gave two percent—two percent—of their income to charity.

Obama’s running mate is even more miserly. The Bidens’ income averaged $260,000 over the last 10 years, but they averaged just $650 a year in charitable giving.

What a couple of cheapskates Obama and Biden are.

W

Oprah is not infallable. She left the ride early because BHO was a bit to sirly!

I think in the beginning she was gung BLEEP for the "BIG O" and then she found out he was mostly phoney she said this is baloney.
She said I am not risking my fame on this guy who's running a game on us and when he is through with people he throws them under the bus!
His deals with two pastors turned out to be disasters but in his deals with real estate the outcome for himself was great.
For education he complains about the school but HIS KIDS go to a private one he ain't no fool.

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I received this from an unknown source in my  article email. I think it makes total sense so I pass it on!

The NYT coverage of the US Special Ops raid on the Al Qaeda camp in Syria does sound more like a piece for the Syrian and Iranian governments protesting the US raid rather than actually highlighting the fact that a major Al Qaeda leader which was running arms and  support to insurgents and Al Qaeda in Iraq. Not once does the NY Times  
mention the Al Qaeda involvement. Hilarious!

I am pleased to see the G.W. Bush is pulling all the stops in order to inflict as much damage as ossible on Syrian and Pakistani targets across the Iraqi borders.

We need to hit them now before Jan. 20th if  
Sen.Barack"ThinkNotAct"Bama gets elected.

Wally

Maybe The U.S. should pull out of Chicago!

Body count: In the last six months, 292 people were killed (murdered) in Chicago; 221 people (Coalition AND Iraqis) were killed in Iraq .

• U.S. Senators. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin

   

• U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr.

   

• Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich

   

• Illinois House Leader: Mike Madigan

   

• Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)

   

• Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)

   

..... our leadership in Illinois .....all Democrats.

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago.

Of course, they're all blaming each other.

Can't blame Republicans; they're aren't any! 

State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.

Cook County (Chicago) city sales tax 10.25% - this is the highest in the country.  (Look 'em up if you want).

The Chicago school system is consistently rated as one of the worst in the country.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois......

And he says that he's gonna 'fix'  Washington politics for us!

This article appeared in NRO today's date and I thought particularly pointed, especially the underlined parts!

"But Why Keep Talking to Him?   [Victor Davis Hanson]

I confess I haven't followed the Ayers matter — except for one key and  persistently bothersome detail — the continued communications following 9/11. Relying on the unimpeachable New York Times, I learned two fact: (one), Bill Ayers, in 2001 said that he felt that he had not done enough bombing and could not rule out the possibility that he might have done it all over again; (two) for the next four years (until 2005 when Obama reached the Senate), Obama communicated with Ayers by phone and email (e.g.: "[they] have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Mr. Obama began serving in the United States Senate in January 2005." NY Times)

So why would anyone in a post-9/11 climate continue to communicate with such a loathsome character for four years, when it was common knowledge that Ayers had approved (no, was proud) of his past terrorist tactics of bombing buildings?

Obama may plead the 'I was only 8 years old' line about Ayers' bombing career, or the 'I bumped into him on the street once or twice' story, or the narrative of  'I served with him on a board with some Republicans'. But really, the continued association by phone and email with a proud, creepy Ayers is simply mystifiying and has been rarely raised and never explained."

Vote McCain/Palin on November 4, 2008, they are GREAT!

Wally

The Chicago Tribune, once was a strong Conservative newspaper. Last week that changed. In the first time in it's history it endorsed a Democrat, Barack Hussein Obama, for President. Col. Robert McCormick is no doubt spinning in his grave.

Then to add grave insult to serouis injury, The Chicago Tribune endosed Dick Durbin to be our U.S. Senator from Illinois,

Obama is a Socialist and said it himself ( we have to spread the wealth) while speaking with Joe the Plumber in Toledo and said it on camera. I would wager he is sorry he EVER said those words.He has NEVER done anything worthy of the Presidency and the Tribune cast that aside in its decision to ride with what it believes to be public opinion.

Dick Durbin is a fake, a phoney and a do nothing that does not benefit Dick Durbin and screw the rest of the state.

I am considering cancelling my home delievry subscription of the Tribune and I have already voted against both Obama and Durbin.

The same would be is that when Obama loses, both of these useless politicians will be back in the U.S. Senate as our representatives.

Vote against both in the election on November 4th, you will do yourself, your State and your country a great service if you do.

Wally

I ran across this article about  Rezko, Butler and Davis and their dealing in substandard realestate for low-income housing with none other than BARACK OBAMA being the financial enabler and "CLOUT" for the approvals they needed,

Read on Folks, it's interesting and pathetic what this man (BHO) who professes he did nothing wrong, EVER!

Obama’s Real-Estate Bust By David Freddoso, National Review Online

Posted by: "Kathleen Flaherty"Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:24 pm (PDT)

He did for Illinois taxpayers what shady mortgage lenders have done for
the economy.

Last week, Sen. Barack Obama compared the Savings and Loan bailout of
the late 1980s to the situation of the mortgage-securities markets
today:

Too many S&Ls took advantage of the lax rules set by Washington to
gamble that they could make big money in speculative real estate. . . .
[T]hey made hundreds of billions in bad loans, knowing that if they lost
money, the government would bail them out. And they were right. The
gambles did not pay off, our economy went into recession, and the
taxpayers ended up footing the bill. Sound familiar?

Indeed, it does sound familiar — it sounds a lot like what Barack
Obama did to Illinois taxpayers as a state senator in Springfield. Using
his elected office and his clout, Obama helped Tony Rezko and other unscrupulous low-income housing developers obtain millions of dollars in state grants, tax credits, low-interest loans, and regulatory advantages.

Taxpayers had no serious chance of recouping these "investments"
in Rezko and other developers. And many beneficiaries went one step
farther, depriving the public of even the benefits they could have
gotten. These developers took government help to build low-income
housing, and then let their buildings deteriorate into uninhabitable
slums.

To date, the most complete account of this sad story is Binyamin
Appelbaum's piece
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27
/grim_proving_grou\
nd_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full> in the Boston Globe. Not only
does it demonstrate the monumental failure of the low-income-housing
policy that Obama vocally championed as a state senator, it gives a
detailed look at how some of Obama's donors and friends — the
beneficiaries of that policy — neglected their own housing
developments at the expense of the inhabitants.

There is no indication that Obama approved (or even knew) of the massive
and systemic neglect of these properties in his own state-senate district.

But there is also no question that he was an enabler in these transactions. He cosponsored at least six bills to give special tax breaks, tax credits, building-and-maintenance subsidies, and zoning exemptions to the developers. In 1998, he wrote letters
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-
NWS-obama13.article>
to state and city officials requesting $14 million for a project developed by Tony Rezko and another close Obama friend — the politician's old law-firm boss, Allison Davis.

In his Globe piece, Appelbaum describes the low-income Grove Parc Plaza
complex, which was developed by Davis:

Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage
backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the
condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale — a score so bad
the buildings now face demolition.

Sewage backups seem to be a common problem in Davis's low-income
slums — another of his buildings, Appelbaum reports, was cited in
2007 "after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage
spilling into several apartments."

Valerie Jarrett, Obama's campaign adviser and the subject of a
recent fawning interview by Katie Couric, is the chief executive of the
company that managed that Grove Parc slum until just recently. Appelbaum
writes that her company managed another housing complex until its
condition became so poor that the federal government seized it in 2006.

Cecil Butler, another Obama donor, had his Lawndale Restoration complex
confiscated by the government in 2006 "after city inspectors found
more than 1,800 code violations."

Appelbaum's piece gives some sense of just how closely Obama was,
and still is, tied to the slum-lord world. He's taken contributions
from its big players and pushed legislation favorable to them. His
closest ally in that sphere has been Rezko, who raised $250,000 for
Obama's campaigns before being convicted on unrelated corruption
charges earlier this year.

Rezko had been leveraging his fundraising abilities to win alliances
with other politicians long before Obama got his start. He applied for
his first subsidized-housing loan from the City of Chicago six days
after Mayor Richard M. Daley's election in 1989. Within the first
six years of Daley's reign, Rezko's company, Rezmar, received
$24 million in government loans and $8.5 million in federal tax credits.
Over the following decade, it would rake in more than $100 million in
loans from the city, state, and federal governments, as well as private
bank loans to fix up 30 Chicago buildings for low-income public housing.

Despite all this cheap and free taxpayer money, all of Rezko's 30
buildings eventually ran into financial difficulties. As of 2007, 17 had
gone into foreclosure. Six were boarded up and abandoned
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355099,cst-nws-rez
24a.article> .

The City of Chicago sued Rezmar at least a dozen times for failing to
heat its properties. During the winter of 1997, Rezmar claimed it lacked
the funds to heat a 31-unit building in Englewood on the south side of
Chicago — one of eleven Rezmar buildings in Obama's state-senate
district. Tenants there went without heat from late December 1996
through mid-February 1997. Despite his company's financial hardship,
Rezko signed a $1,000 check for the campaign fund of the newly elected
state senator Barack Obama on January 14, 1997.

When Barack Obama talks about risky real-estate investments and failures
of government oversight, remember how he put Illinois taxpayers on the
hook for some of the worst real-estate investments of all —
investments in his close friend and in other slum landlords who took the
public's money and betrayed their trust.

— David Freddoso is a staff reporter for National Review Online and
author of The Case Against Barack Obama

Last Wednesday, Obama told his followers to sabotage the WGN radio show of Chicago host and University of Chicago Professor Milt Rosenberg (a fellow Professor, albeit a FULL PROFESSOR, of Barack H. Obama's). Because he invited National Review writer Stanley Kurtz to discuss his investigation about Obama's ties to William "the unrepentent bomber" Ayers and the results of their (Obama and Ayers)  left- wing, socialist education project ordered and funded by the Annenberg Challenge.  There are additional things about the Annenberg Challenge and the Obama/Ayers relationship that are coming to light and Obama does not seem to happy. The worshippers of Obama were instructed to call in the radio show, tie up the lines and destroy the show by saying things like:

"that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are allowing  attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discussion. ... It isunacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves."

  Barack "The Silencer" Obama and his silent enablers on the left. were using his Chicago-schooled campaign tactics to muzzle conservative critics. "We want it to stop," demanded one critical caller to WGN. What right did this caller have to say that? If he didn't want to hear it, turn off his radio! How utterly asinine!

Is this what the Obaba Presidency would be like IF by some chance that he is elected? Will Obama take even further steps to silence his detractors? Will Obama step on the freedom of speech rights of Americans in order to get what he feels is so rightfully his? What is next?

I guess we will have to see how this unfolds but from whare I sit, it doen't look good for our side.

W

I can’t vouch for the truthfulness but sounds about right! In any case it is food for thought about the slanted news we all know that we receive on TV and in papers!

Wally

ABC News - Suspicions confirmed ! No mention of the 54 for McCain]
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:33:00 +0000

Just in case you happened to see the ABC News piece
(if you watch ABC News) with interviews of 5 military folks in Iraq - 3
planned to vote for Obama and 2 for Hillary; no mention of any McCain
supporters.  Well, here's the ''Rest of the Story.'' 

This from Major General (ret) Buckman 

My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud , Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/ watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain's recent trip to Iraq    

Katelyn and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI's walking past. They kept count of the GI's and you should remember these numbers. She asked 60 GI's who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary. 

 Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they'd see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn.  

Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn't a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a hell'uva view of skewed news.  After a dissertation on McCain's trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI's being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton .. No mention of the 54 for McCain.
 
If you don't want to forward this  for fear of offending someone...
  YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM !  
  It is Time for America to Speak up!

Please notice that fact that ALL three Listed FAILED to pass. OBAMA AGAIN FAILED to do his duty!

Cloture Motion; Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008 - Vote Rejected (51-43, 6 Not Voting)

The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to move forward on this bill intended to provide energy price relief and prevent price gouging.

Sen. Richard Durbin voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. Barack Obama voted Not Voting......send e-mail or see bio

Cloture Motion; Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008 - Vote Rejected (50-44, 6 Not Voting)

The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to proceed to a debate on this House bill that “patches” the alternative minimum tax and extends a series of tax provisions.

Sen. Richard Durbin voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. Barack Obama voted Not Voting......send e-mail or see bio

Cloture Motion; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 - Vote Rejected (54-39, 7 Not Voting)

The Senate did not get the necessary 60 votes to advance to debate on this Medicare bill.

Sen. Richard Durbin voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. Barack Obama voted Not Voting......send e-mail or see bio

What a joke!

W

A teacher in Elmira, New York, who is an Obama supporter, asked her 4th grade class,"How many of you are Obama fans?"

Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands, except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he decided to be different?

Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not an Obama fan."

The teacher asked, "Why aren't you an Obama fan?"

Johnny said, "Because I'm a Conservative ."

The teacher asked him why he's a Conservative .

Little Johnny answered, " Well, my Mom's a Conservative  and my Dad's a Conservative, so I'm a Conservative."

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?"

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me an Obama fan."

W

Dear Barack Obama:

I have decided that I too believe in HOPE and I believe in CHANGE!

I HOPE YOU LOOSE and the CHANGE in the Presidents from Bush to McCain is just fine with me!

Thanks  but no thanks for you efforts. You have already done enough damage.

Yours Truly,

A. Voter

The following was copied from National Review ONLINE:

Friday, May 16, 2008

BARACK OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTON

A Pro-Hillary Blog's Unverified Rumor About The Opposition

See, if I were Madeline Albright's "Gossip Buddy" the way Jamie Rubin is, I would spend a lot of time on Hillary-backer Larry Johnson's claim, "I now have it from two three sources close to senior Republicans that they have video dynamite–Michelle Obama railing against “whitey” at Jeremiah Wright’s church."

I think Barack and Michelle should open up on this and maybe tell what else the opposition may have!

W