How can anyone vote for Obama after seeing this? The man is an economic idiot!! Taxbreaks for 95% of Americans and increase taxes for “corporations”?? Corporations include small businesses!! These are not all oil companies we are talking about. A lot of Americans won’t need that tax break because they won’t be paying taxes-they won’t have a job anymore after their overtaxed employer lays them off!! McCain needs to point out Obama’s role in pushing the subprime mortgages, stress that he warned against them, and explain what will happen to American jobs if Obama’s tax plan succeeds.
This needs to go out as an advertisement to the American Public!!!! McCain needs to put his solider cap on and fight for the American people. Barack is out there blaming the current President and Banks for permitting bad loans, when in fact it was the Democratic Party that was strong arming them. He is in Indiana, Dayton and Cincinnati stating all these lies and no one calls him on it. Go for the end game. We want Republicans back in the drivers seat to get Capitalism back in motion. Part of the Democratic Party means Corruption nothing more. They are not out for the American People. They are out for themselves. We need to stop being an apathetic nation and get out there and fight for our rights. We cannot have Barack as President. It will change America Forever.
I lived in Chicago during those years and it was a nightmare with this redlining nonsense - between Obama and others of his ilk it was a wonder anyone could do any business and survive! The taxes were unbelievable and still are on everyone that lives there and/or does business there. The City of Chicago is in the County of Cook and I bet those people pay the highest taxes in this country! It’s like most cities and states run by Democrats - high taxes and the people that pay them don’t really get a lot for their money but the do nothings are coddled and cradle to grave taken care of. The city had years of brown outs in the summer because the libs and yuppies didn’t want big energy - they finally upgraded the system when citizens and restaurant owners got tired of food spoiling in their refrigerators and freezers and threatened to leave. I shudder to think what will happen if these same Chicago cronies get their hands on the country nationally! I am sure if he wins Obama will surround himself with Mayor Daley who he helped drive the gunshops out of Chicago with, slum landlord Tony Rezko, terrorist William Ayers, racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, etal. All his friends running around the White House. What do Obama and Osama bin Ladin have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
Oh how I wish people would connect the dots so they could see, clearly, how Obama and his cronies have/will ruin the economy. Its a convoluted image, sadly, and quite difficult to see. My hunch is that most Americans will fall for the lies of Obama and his friends in the MSM.
We may be in for four years of angst. Put your $$$ in off-shore banks, folks.
It should be, NH, but people have stopped thinking critically. They so irrationally hate George Bush that they don’t even consider anything remotely related to him, they just assume it is moronic. For some reason, even though he has been consistently bipartisan, John McCain is linked to GWB in the minds of these people.
Besides that, the young voters who have no clue about the issues are voting for Obama simply because he looks like a cool, young black guy. That’s all there is. In my high school I see so many kids that no absolutely NOTHING about politics, and yet they say they are for Obama and that McCain is an old man. This type of thinking persists through the college years.
It is a shame. Makes me think we should raise the voting age.
So THAT’s what a “community organizer” is! Finally I understand. I just always knew it as a “shakedown artist”, or the old school term “thug”. Right out of the Jesse Jackson mold. Give us what we want or we cry racism. Instead of “Your money or your life!”, it’s “Your money or your reputation and customers”. So much for the post racial candidate. No thanks.
Bleeding-heart people will usually end up enabling someone to stay right where they’re at while others do all of the work for them.
This whole sub-prime thing is a perfect example of giving someone a fish instead of teaching them to fish. You end up crippling them and making them dependent on you to supply their every need.
In a country where all men are already declared to be created equal (and that include the women, too), someone has now decided that some are MORE equal than others. Rather than using the laws and regulations already in place, people said that we needed a way to guarantee that certain people cannot be turned down. They thought they were doing it to ensure that it wasn’t for their skin color or orientation, or beliefs, but what they didn’t realize was that it was empowering evil groups like ACORN to abuse the law. Now if you had no business getting a loan on a house, you could almost guarantee that you could still get it as long as you had someone willing to play the right card against the credit agency.
I believe it ultimately comes down to people believing that with enough laws we will eventually be able to change and control the hearts of men. It’s from those hearts that all kinds of evils come; racism, sexism, and all other kinds of discrimination and hate. But what do liberals do? They say, “They ought to make a law to force people to think another way”. Laws never change hearts, they just shine an even brighter light on the evils within, and often end up hurting those who would never dream of doing the things that it was put in place to prevent.
When you yell at MSM, you’re yelling at the very same Socialist or Socialist leaning or plain Communists–the graduates of America’s Communist infiltrated journalism schools. They’ve already been brainwashed. So they’re not about to put the truth out there. Admit to lies and deceit? I think not.
American citizens got so involved in straightening John/Susie’s teeth they forgot about straightening their minds.
We all need to commit to send this to ten friends ask them to send to 10 etc–we can do this–i will do 20–are you with me?? I am a democrat and I am shocked that I had to stumble upon this–there is something rotten going on –we have got to stop it==please join me now
Thanks
John
Two can play this game. Why not turn the tables on ACORN? How ’bout we file a class action suit against them for there voter registration frauds which diluted the wishes of legally registered voters in selecting their elected officials.
Negating my vote alone would undoubtedly translate into personal ingury and suffering of at least $5 Million, just how big the claim could be with a class action suit.
Given all the fraud they’re perpetuating this election cycle, if the law is ineffectual at stopping them then let’s put ‘em out of business the old fashioned way - litigate ‘em to death.
To much crap is rising to the surface for the media to ignore. If they do, they are going to get as lot of this all over their faces. This ie not about exposing Obama, it’s about being straight with the American people. If the main stream media does not tell the factual truths they will lose the American people and our trust in the future. They will become past time entities, they will not survive. MSNBC is very close right now to losing most of it’s viewers due to their biased and untruthful practices. Overboard is just a vile character and has no respectability, and the rest of them are more sheep. It’s sad that we the people do not have better reporting offered to us. Let’s all get ready for the new designated slogan from the White House “You Betcha”. John and Sarah, are you going to clean up Washington? “You Betcha”!
When will McCain take off the gloves and get down to the business of defending this country in the political ring? Now is not the time to be nice. He needs to force the issue and make statements of fact about the socialist and radical ideologies of Obama — you then point to the relationship with Ayers, Kahlidi, Acorn etc as evidence to support the claim. Go after Obama’s ideologies!!!! Call a spade a spade — socialism for what it is. Even my 9 year old daughter understands that resdistribution of wealth is not fair. Heck, I think that the Cubs should have won — LA should have given them 1/2 their runs to make the playoffs more fair…..
It just goes on and on. There is nothing redeaming about Obama, and yet he continues to go up in the polls. Please, someone tell me how we can stop this man. I have talked until my voice is gone. I have presented articles and books for others to read. I feel as if I am talking to a bunch of cast members in ‘Night of the Living Dead’. Can someone out there help me. I am so frustrated.
THE REAL REASON THE STOCK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD ARE TANKING IS BECAUSE
EVERYONE IS SCARRED OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WORLD ECONOMY IF OBAMA IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Silly NH… this is not really coming out. We have heard this stuff (and much more) on Obama for the last year but the main stream media refuses to touch it. Most people get their news in sound bites on one of the big 3, ABC CBS NBC and they are not talking about anything that will favor conservatives. Same goes for CNN MSNBC and even (gasp) FOX. WE ARE TOAST!!!
Why don’t the American people wake up! With Obama, the dems and the media running this country, we are well on are way to SOCIALISIM. The Dems want to make all people subserviant and indebted to the government so they can control us.
He paid ACORN $800,000 to register voters in the primary (and was their lawyer, and trained their activists). Now ACORN’s massive voter registration fraud has been exposed. They are under federal investigation. Makes you wonder if Obama won the nomination fair and square. What do Hillary supporters say?
Republicans want America to forget that they were the power in this nation from 2001 to 2006, there was no talk of bad loans when the real estate market was booming. Under Republican rule the national debt has doubled, salaries stagnated, prices rose, and the rich got richer. The Bush administration made deregulation its first priority, allowing business to do as they pleased with little or no oversight. But even so when groups like ACORN use race to blackmail banks to do their bidding, holding business hostage with threats of boycott, and protest, that is a disgrace, these are Al Sharpton tactics. The fact that Obama was associated with these groups reaffirms my belief that he is unqualified to be President. One thing is certain a white candidate with Obama’s baggage would never have been the nominee, the press would have made sure of that, Obama continues to receive a free ride because of his skin color, incredibly the media still seems fearful of portraying Obama for what he really is, half white.
Unless I missed something, this was the core issue in the case:
“Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories.” Several federal laws and the Constitution were implicated.
Basic discrimination claim, seems to me. What is fundamentally shocking or appalling about a discrimination claim? By the way, lawyers in Illinois as in other States are ethically bound to not bring frivolous lawsuits. Doing so can result in sanctions being imposed on the lawyer.
Maybe we should start some type of campaign to rase some money to buy some 30 min prime time air time on ABC and CBS (like obama has done) and put this article and video and other findings on the air to get it across America. People NEED to find out the truth. I knew all along that president Bush had NOTHING to do with this financial melt down. Why is the media not pushing these issues? WHY are they so pro obama? I was on OBAMACRIMES.com all day yesterday and I hope to God that Mr Berg’s civil lawsuit against obama goes thru as planned. For those of you that not have heard of this lawsuit, There is a private lawyer in Lafayette Hill, PA by the name of Philip J. Berg that has put a civil case against obama pleading that he IS NOT eligible to run for POTUS because of him not being a natural born citizen of the USA. All that Mr Berg is asking of obama is to produce to the court is a ceritfied copy of his “vaulted” birth certificate and obama has yet to do so and keeps putting it off (wonder why?). You can check the whole thing out at OBAMACRIMES.com. Obama and his cronies have even went as far as putting a fake birth certificate on his website but he has been busted. PLEASE PLEASE check this out. Be sure to check the whole site out even go to the links at the bottom of the page and pass it along. Thanks
Unbelievable, LOL! Nothing this spear-chucking, liberal idiot does, surprises me, anymore! Wake up and smell the coffee, America! John McCain: OUR LAST HOPE.
Subprime loans helped my family. I have a subprime loan. This loan helped me to buy a house, which we still pay on. But our was a good subprime loan, because I did my homework. They do help people to make their dream a reality. It’s not Obama’s fault. It’s the greedy predatory lending that happened and the real estate agents that pushed it. And no one to regulate these greedy people. I saw horrible loans out there that people were offering because they were making money on the back end. People can’t go into something blindly, but they did because they did not understand how the system worked. Also the real estate agents pushed the prices up more than they were worth, because they get 6% commission. They started the hype by saying if you don’t over bid, we have 10 other offers we have to compete with. I was outbidded on houses 6 times before finally we found a good real estate agent who didn’t do that to us and fought for us. People were over bidding like $25,000 over the actual appraised value. This is what happened. The system would have worked nicely if it was regulated more to screen the bad apples.
I’m voting Obama. He’s not exactly the ideal, but he’s thinking about the working class. McCain is all about continuing the war. We need to concentrate on America. Obama is for keeping jobs here and he’s going to cut the act to do that as soon as he gets into office. I just heard another of my friends losing their job next month because the company is shipping the job to overseas. India. Everytime I call Dell, I get an Indian person on the phone with such a thick accent. I can’t even understand them. Keep the jobs here. Its not the housing economy. Its the job. Big companies shipping our jobs overseas. If people had jobs, they could pay for their mortgage. That’s the problem.
No one forced the banks to give out money. They did so because they didn’t care if the loans would be paid back as long as they made money in the loan origination process. All the banks had to do to combat any claim was to be truthful and deny the loan based on credit worthiness. The banks used the CRA to rake in billions that they knew the could pass off to Fannie and Freddie. The last thing the banks are in this case is the victims. The fact is that the lawsuits were legitimate in combatting redlining of minorities that qualified for loans on a legitimate basis but were declined by banks and mortgage brokers from buying in “certain” neighborhoods. Say it with me now….President Obama. Get used to it.
I guess you folks overlooked the actual claims alleged by the plantiffs (e.g. Obama and others):
“Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories.”
The suit is about ethnic discrimination - not forcing a company to do things that were not already being done.
As long as McCain continues to behave in a gentlemanly, non-partisan manner he will lose. He needs to come out swinging on this issue. His campaign has been too timid. This is often the problem with Senators - they are so used to the gentle nature of the Senate they can’t get tough.
If you notice that Obama said “It started out as a good idea” but why did the end it there. They were taking his words out of context. Obama was pointing that “It started out as a good idea but now something is wrong”
I have never voted in my life. But 4 years ago when Bush was reelected I could not understand how. I always thought the American people would do what is right as a whole. But now I can see that America has gone down the wrong path. I could not understand how Bush could lie to everyone about Iraq and let the one that attacked us on 911 get away and then send our Military over to fight for Iraqy freedom. This all done in the name of our freedom. Was Iraq going to take our freedom? This was for the oil. This was to line their own pocket books. And now to set here and watch this election, is this Democracy. I can’t understand now how McCain is even close to Obama in the poles. I can’t understand how he even has anyone believing his lies. I am ashamed of this country. From the torture of POW’s to how McCain’s election campaign is being run. If McCain is elected I am seriously considering taking my family and moving from the United States.
You Obama supporters are confusing a plaintiff’s allegation with a court rendered verdict of guilt. The text above says “alleging that Citibank had engaged in redlining practices”. The parties settled out of court. Insurance companies do similar settlements on what might be viewed as silly suits because it’s cheaper in the long run.
Imho, Citibank should have argued the case with Obama and ACORN in court, but probably saw a cheaper way out by selling crap loans to Fannie/Freddie.
Hey Joe, why wait? Hell,if you live close to me, I will come help you pack.If you are so ashamed of this country you do not deserve to be here. No matter who wins, this is our home, our country. I do not care who you want to be president, but I do care that you are ashamed of this country that has given you the right to even say such a thing. So while you can say whatever you like, if you want to leave, I will more than happy to help your sorry butt do just that.
PEOPLE like joe our the typical jerks in our country that i wish they would move themselves out of this country with there families and gee just think how much better this country would be.understand i cant believe how these joe types think.iam ashamed of these stupied joe types that where born in this country .
Well duh Joe something is wrong. Something is very wrong. You are an American citizen and you are ashamed of your country? Well I am ashamed of you. Why is it that it is so convenient to forget all that has gone on to get to this point in history? I guess its convenient to notice that we haven’t had an attack on our country in over 2000 days. Finding Bin Laden? The man is dead. Has been. Al Qaeda keeps his memory alive to further the fear that you and other ignorant people gravitate to. We are fighting in Iraq to keep those terrorist on that battlefield not on the streets of NYC or elsewhere in the states. But here you go, you, take your family to Mexico or Canada or somewhere you feel safe, we don’t want or need you here anyway.
I can’t understand why the American Public can be so blind. In all the past Democratic President’s Tenures, we always had higher taxes and financial problems. Obama is like a bright light bulb that draws all the American Moths to it and then they die form the heat. This country will do nothing but get worse under his Government. I hope we can see the truth before it is too late but it seams that too many are following him to destruction. I’m not saying that McCain has all the answers, but he would be a better leader than someone who has only been in Congress for 145 days and who has Muslim backing. We are fighting in Irac the same people that have sent millions of dollars to support Obama, what does that tell you??????
Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States,and we should do whatever we can to make sure he isn’t elected.
The Republican party however, brought its problem on itself. Of all the possible candidates the party could have nominated, McCain presented one of the least electable. His lack — of speaking ability, charisma, and general likeability makes him a tough sell. Add to that his obvious leaning toward the more well-off segment of society and we have the makings of a real challenge to get him elected. Had he not fortunately chosen Sarah Palen as a running mate, he would really face an uphill battle.
But we must work with the hand we were dealt, and get out the vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. Otherwise — our values, standard of living, and whatever we may have accumulated in life — will go down the drain if Obama is elected.
There are too many issues with Obama. I can’t see myself voting for a man who claims he is for change but doesn’t take a stand. His senate voting record shows he voted “present” instead of for or against a bill. This means he rather abstain from chosing a side during risky votes. He has a swirl of negative events, votes etc.. surrounding him. All you hear that is negative about McCain is his ideas and how he would lead, but he really doesn’t have any controversial events really tied to him that would cast doubt on him like Obama does. Obama has great ideas but so do all the rest of us, but it is experience and being a real leader that sets McCain and Obama apart. Both of their records show McCain is better fit. I wouldn’t trust a anyone to be the head of our country’s military when they never even served!
Everyone is missing the point, the financial meltdown is being caused by sub-prime mortgages that started after 1999, the mortgages involved in the asuit listed above were regular mortgages at regular rates, NOT sub-prime mortgages at discount rates that later raised interest to the point where people could not repay the loans. The loans issued before 1997 rarely wnet into foreclosure and if they did, the bank did not lose money because there was not housing boom infalting the prices ofhomes until 2002, FIVE YEARS after these lawsuit! People pay attention tot he facts before you start accusing!
I don’t know how well Mac is doing amongst the Polish population, Joe, but your astroturfing check from ACORN may not be as fat as you had hoped after all these FBI busts.
HEY YOU FAR LEFT WINGERS AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN IF YOU HAVEN T
FIGURED IT OUT YET OBAMA IS THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE READ THE BOOK OR
FOR YOU NON READERS WATCH THE MOVIES IT WAS SO GOOD THEY REMADE IT
RECENTLY WITH DENZEL WASHINGTON.HINT…A YEAR AGO HILLARY,THE
BILDEBURG GROUP, THE MEDIA AND THE COUNTRY HAD HER ELECTED AND PLACED
AS PRESIDENT WITHOUT EVEN AN ELECTION AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE
DISAPPEARS DUE TO AN INEXPERIENCED 3 YEAR SENATOR WHO VOTED PRESENT
OVER 100 TIMES ,HAS NOT ONE SINGLE IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
TO HIS NAME . HIS MOST MEMORABLE PIECE OF WORK IS A BIOGRAPHY ON HIS
FAVORITE SUBJECT…HIMSELF.MOSES AT LEAST HAD HELP PARTING THE RED
SEA,OBAMA APPARENTLY THINKS HE WORKS ALONE.WAKE UP
PEOPLE…MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE…AS OBAMA SAID ON VICTORY NIGHT WHEN
HE TOOK THE NOMINATION,HIS RISE MARKS THE MOMENT WHEN “OUR PLANET
BEGINS TO HEAL”.AS I RECALL-AND MIND YOU IM NO EXPERT ON THIS-JESUS
PRACTICED HIS HEALING ONLY ON THE SICK. OBAMA OPERATES ON A MUCH
LARGER CANVAS. THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF THE CAMPAIGN, THE QUESTION
ABOUT OBAMA WAS WHO IS HE? NOW THE QUESTION SEEMS TO BE WHO DOES HE
THINK HE IS?….MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
People have said they would leave the US if McCain wins the election. These same people should not be here to begin with because they support the most UN-American candidate in history.
At least Obama was trying to help a majority of the American people. The republicans are ONLY concerned with the rich. If we haven’t been fighting this unnecessary war, which is making millions for folks with multiple milliion dollar plus homes we might not be in this mess. If the banks, investment banks and insurance companies of the world were paying their fair share in taxes and not giving each other huge bonuses maybe some of the riches would have trickeled down to the folks working hard to make mortgage payments. I truly hope that the American public is not as dumb as these folks hope. McCain is way too OLD for this Job!!!! He will not last four years. What I truly can’t understand is that John McCain was NOT good enough for then eight years ago, George Bush was their guy. Now they wont even mention George Bush and McCain/PALIN is suppose to get the job done. For what it’s worth I would vote for George Bush over John McCain because McCains short election campaign has been just as disaterous as Bush’s Presidency. I would hate too see four years of that duo in office. Train Wreck.
I know people who are big Obama supporters and they truely believe that the day he is innogarted (sp?) everything (the economy, the war in Iraq ect.) will be magicaly better - Obama utopia will reign in the USA! I have heard Obama called “the messiah” and thought it was just a joke, but there are many people who really think that he is our country’s savior - they will be sorely dissappointed - but will never admit their mistake - they will only continue to blindly blame the republicans for all of his ignorant choices. People are blinldy following this man, so called “educated people”, because they have portrayed all republicans as ignorant gun toting rednecks, if you ask me the Obama disciples are the truely ignorant. The state of our country and the mentality of the media and many of the citizens of this country truely frightens me.
Exactly Joe. It’s refreshing to know someone can actually listen and hear without bias and comprehend what they just heard without some preconceived slant that they have subscribed to courtesy of Rupert Murdoch.
When do neo-conservatives NOT take something out of context?
T Maz…McCain is done. Put a fork in his, and his supremely stupid wife’s, rear end and roast them.
President Obama. Can’t wait for that to become a reality on November 4th.
Fine, Joe. Go. We don’t need people in America who expect hand-outs from the government. I’m not necessarily poor, but I can’t afford to buy a house. So I don’t. Now, banks shouldn’t be raising the premiums on people after they signed - that’s just wrong. But a lot of those people lied about what they earned just to get those shady mortgages. “Can a blind man lead a blind man?” No. And wasn’t it JFK that said, “Ask not what your country can do for you…”? You know the rest. All I want my taxes to do is protect me from getting murdered or robbed. I don’t need hand-outs. I don’t need Obama.
Joe said “I have never voted in my life. But 4 years ago when Bush was reelected I could not understand how. ” It was people like you who did not vote that alowed him back in office. So please take your non voteing family to a country where you’re not given that right or allowed to voice any opinion.
I am sorry but I think the people one associates with are an indication of the person you are the values hold, and as a Democrat before the primary as Obama was a new person on the scene I did extensive research on him. I googled him and found out about the Saul Alinsky, Acorn, Rezco, Ayers, Rev. Wright stuff on my own. (I might add I found about Hillarys infatuation with the Socialist Alinsky also and was not pleased), however if you can sit in a racist church for 20 years, be affiliated with a terrorrist like Ayers who’s agenda and values are so far removed from my belief in what one should hold ideal, family, education, self reliance. I find it offensive that you would sit on a board in which you help him (Ayers) disperse 60 million dollars for his so called education plan which did not focus on things I find important, Reading, Math, Science but instead want to radicalize students against there parents school, etc. I do not think Obama’s friendship with Rezco is inconsequential when he represented the people living in Rezcos Slums and did nothing to make him address the conditions the people he represented were living in when he could have influenced him.So by doing my own research I have come to the conclusion that while Obama can make a pretty speach, change his mind and discard people in his past when it is politically expedient he shows me that his lack of resolution and socialist leanings do not inspire me to vote for him and I choose the lesser of two evils, McCain may not be the ideal candidate but I do believe he has a strong desire to serve his country. Again I truly believe Obama is a Trojan Horse and that my Party has let me down promoting a candidate whose past associations I find personally repugnant, and whose lack of experience I find frightening. Obama may have gone to the best colleges and can be touted as very bright but for a person described this way he has made in my opinion some Very poor choices.I do not like what I have found out about his past, I feel he has not been vetted by the Media who instead chose to tear Clinton down while annointing this neophyte.
Anyone that tries to justify Obama’s involvement in this mortgage fiasco is not
living in the world of reality. I nor anyone else I know would buy a home that
was priced 10 times higher than I could afford, unless you want government to take care of you.
The law was passed to protect bank depositors from the practice of redlining (i.e. racial descrimination). People were dicriminated against because the banks, ususally in urban areas, took the money from the redlined area and wouldn’t lend it back to the very community were it came from. It’s amazing that just by posting a bunch of idiotic half truths, you can fill up a band wagon of supporters that can’t do even the most basic of research. Oh, the case was settled, so do you think CITI was innocent or guilty of the practice? This was a very common practice in Chicago.
The article basically claim’s Redlining is based on ethnicity. I disagree, it’s about property values and customers ability to repay loans within a specific area historically. Just like the insurance company has “Actuary Tables” to decide the risk vs profit potential in different neighborhood’s to adjust their rates accordingly. If the people and property in that zone are “Risky”, custom is to charge more for it. I don’t care what color you are or your ethnicity, the property history and potential profit is the question.
People who can’t differentiate between ACORN and the subprime crisis, who don’t understand that the time bomb in the economy, to use Buffett’s phrase, was CDS, really should stick to voting for American Idol. Ditto heads who want to blame Jimmy Carter for today’s economic mess, who are going back 10 years to find an Obama connection when pretty much every intelligent person, conservative and liberal thinks the lax regulation policies of Bush played the major role, are just proof of Mencken’s contention that no one every went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Good-bye Joe. And take all the rest of those who do not appreciate our freedoms with you. It’s too bad you don’t realize we live in the greatest country in the world. My two sons, who served in the military, tell me no one would believe the things they have seen or the way other nations have to live. Say good-bye to your freedoms if Obama makes it. With his LACK OF INTEGRITY, he won’t think twice to really “change” our nation, and it won’t be for the better!
This just proves how we have so complete opposite world views. Our Country is divided. We have those like me , that belive in our Constitution and Freedom, and those as Obama , that believe that the government should provide and control the population. I am afraid we have come to this opposition because history is not being taught in our schools. If anyone with a brain will read the real history of our Constitution and why we fought for our independence I think your world view will either change - or you will decide to move to Russia - or as a matter of fact since all of these Countries we are harming - such as Iraq and Iran - since they are so great - why don’t you just move there and let us that love freedom abide in America.
Lets face it, people who hold racist inclinations will justify and twist to their advantage anything that they can, rather than just admit they don’t like or trust black people. Its a fact that 50 percent of all white Americans still view blacks unfavorably and would not want one running this country. But racism is no longer acceptable, so what do people do instead? Like I said, they rationalize anything they can, to find fault with the unacceptable candidate, because they can no longer come out and say “I don’t like darkie”, so the smear tactic is used to cover up their true feelings. This is largely what we are seeing out there in responce to Barack. Just thought some of you should realize that. The fact of the matter is, Barack is the finest leader to come along in our lifetime, black or white (in his case both). Now this is the kind of man/leader we can truly take pride in, to represent us with the highest integrity. People without this integrity( and there’s a lot of them), just can’t see it yet. Cultivation takes time.
“Joe”, if a person can’t afford to buy something, how is it a good idea to saddle him or her with debt in order to buy it? The problem is that the original premise is flawed. If you can’t afford a house, then dont’ buy it!! And if McCain does win, we won’t miss you.
Ibama has three men working for him that cause the mess in the first place with WallStreet. I dobn’t like McCain but hell I don’t want Obama in . Obama is for the blacks I am sorry to say, and the blacks arn’t they only one that is poor or living on the streets either, Obama better get that in his thick skull white”s are having just as much as the blacks do the blacks arn’t the minority here either. So please lets vote for the indepence person . or the country will go to hell with either Obama or McCain Can’t let either of them in. we all can VOTE INDEPENDENT NOT DEMOCRATE or REPUBLICAIN.
Hey Joe… you should move now.
Try Canada, they are almost a Socialist country… or Mexico. Although, I think it is tougher to move to Mexico than it is to illegally enter the USA and get a home loan without a Social Security number.
Obama will most likely steal this election, and the Liberal elites will feel the short lived thrill of victory. That thrill will dissipate quickly as taxes are raised, our country is weakened, and the USA stops being a strong, sovereign nation and is forced to become a citizen nation of the new world.
Joe… you don’t need to vote in this election either… there is a cemetery in your town where all the registered voters are voting multiple times for Obama.
Don’t blame McCain for G. W. Bush, they are not the same people, and do not have the same ideals.
Please don’t start voting…
What about all of those High End homes that retailed for 500k-1m that were marketed to Middle Class and upper Middle class income families as Vacation and second homes, or Executive first homes. Where Mortgage companies offered ARM’s, Pick a Pay and interest only ARM’s? Millions of these homes were bought and sold using similar underwriting guidelines that were used for CRA lending. The only difference was zip code, type of customer(White). The result of which millions of people hoping to catch the wave of flipping high end homes for a profit got caught holding properties with inflated values when purchased, lost market value when trying to sell and as a result, just walked away from the property, or declared bankruptcy to avoid paying their mortgage on these second and investment properties. These types of deals had as much if not more to do with the Bankning/ Mortgage collapse as CRA Loans, Nobody wants to talk about the invensment banks packaging these products in the market as well even though they were a bad deal for the economy (i.e. taxpayers). Stop trying to blame Urban communities for the collapse. This is a widespread problem that all income classes in this country are responsible for. Don’t just blame the Dems. The GOP is largley responsible (due to deregulation) as well!
Joe, you can move but you can’t take your money with you thanks to Charlie Wrangle & the House of Representatives. If you move out of the country they will tax your money at 50% to prevent it from leaving the country with you.
Socialism in action…with more to come when Obama gets elected.
Mr. Obama originally did not strike me as presidential material. Now, he scares me. He goes to “church” for 20 years, never hears this rev. speak hatefully (the congregation fully supports the reverend’s hate message) and is also never present when they occur. How will his presidency by: “I never saw that…”?
Mr. Obama contributed to the housing/banking crisis as well with Acorn. His logic and justifications are always 20/20 hindsight. What we need is 20/20 foresight. If any of you feel the need to move out of the USA because McCain makes it to the White House, please, do go. Your judgment is as impaired as your “messiah.”
Once you stipulate to the racism of this article’s author, I guess the rest just falls into place, eh?
See, as pointed out by other posters - and even the author - the ACORN lawsuits were about redlining - about denying loans based on racial discrimination.
The author assumes that:
A) the claims are “bogus” (thanks for being both judge and jury in your spare time) and that …
B) since these are, by definition, claims brought by racial minorities, that they MUST BE bad loans.
C’mon, be honest… How often do you bleach your Klan hood to keep it so lily-white?
Will you Obama haters cut it out! Let’s get real here for a change. John McCain is a great man that I have nothing but respect and admiration for and who I supported for President against lil w and who was smeared by the very Republican machine that now works to elect them.
In these times, forget about Barrack as a black man and get over it and check your prejudices, hatred, racism, and bias at the door. Barrack, just like you, me, and ANYONE is first a huMAN, next a MAN, and then an American. He is cool, calm, and collected and what we need in these troubled times.
He has strategic insights that are uncanny and an ability to execute a vision (see defeat of Clinton and polls in red states he “targeted” and did not concede).
If he was white and his name was Barry Jones, he would be leading by a margin of 70% or more right now and even Republicans would be headed his way.
Stop, think of yourself, your family, and your nation, Stop letting powerful “banking interests” sway you by their divide and conquer tactics. Become one, unite, and support the one man who has Warren Buffet at his side to help calm these volatile markets!
Good, go ahead and leave this country, make sure you do not return. Just make sure the country you want to run to allows you to have the following freedoms and rights: SPEECH, make a decent living, and the right to purchase a home and good decent healthcare.
Don’t always think the grass is greener on the other side of the road.
It is people with your mental attitude that gives the impression that all AMERICANS are like you, this is one reason why we are not liked around this world.
And you are promoting the idea that AMERICANS are only good for what they can do for others.
As with most things in this Racist Country. If Whites were given the same treatment as other’s… There would be no need for any of this. I am to believe all White people are good risks? I am to believe, all of the failures, are due to Blacks and Mexicans? Ed McMahon’s house was in Foreclosure… How does one explain that? Plenty of White people are losing their homes… It was predator vs greed… Neither won… It wasn’t a Black think either…
I’ve lost half my stock investments, but I’m so grateful for Gangsta Rock emerging as a culture! We have the FBI to investigating lynchings from the 1940’s while they protect their pride by murdering us if we “dis” them. Now that they have the globe on it’s knees, they have to feel empowered with self-esteem. Any ideas what country I can move to? Somewhere the idiot Joe won’t go?
As with most things in this Racist Country. If Whites were given the same treatment as other’s… There would be no need for any of this. I am to believe all White people are good risks? I am to believe, all of the failures, are due to Blacks and Mexicans? Ed McMahon’s house was in Foreclosure… How does one explain that? Plenty of White people are losing their homes… It was predator vs greed… Neither won… It wasn’t a Black think either…
Jane Jane Jane, I think you projecteth too much. A red flag (as apposed to a black flag) went up with your very first sentence. What is racist about our country other than you? Put down your crackpipe,I’m sure there are some Kung-Fu movies to be watched and some malt liquor and pork skins to swill…and remember a stitch in time is probably a skin laceration.
For all of you supporting Obama, note this: the man is is an empty shirt. He has no morals, no values, no compunction about lying through his teeth. He has nothing but the worst interests of the country in mind.
He and his cronies are crooks. Vote for him and you’re throwing your vote away. He has no experience - and as I’ve said elsewhere, even if Sarah Palin had only her mayoral experience in Wasilla, it’s still a lot more than Obama has ever had.
Name one thing the man has done. You can’t. He’s a do nothing, know nothing kind of person. It’s really sad that so many of you are supporting him based upon his race when there are far more decent, honorable, and experienced African-Americans out there. For example, there’s J. C. Watts, Ken Blackwell, Condoleeza Rice….
Wake Up. Wake Up.Before it’s too late. These facts coming out about Obama’s deep association with ACORN, William Ayers, Bernadette Dorhn, Saul Alinsky’s ideals, etc….are only the tip of the iceberg. He’s a shill.
My question is this if Obama is so smart and has such a great plan to fix the country, why has he never introduced any of it as legislation. It has been a long time but if I remember government class, the President cannot introduce legislation. So then what happens to the “plan” He should have stepped up in congress and actually done some work with the plan.
Obama say…
Jeremiah Wright was a preacher, he was a good friend of mine. In 20 years I never heard a racist thing he said, but when we had communion I got full as a tick on his cheap ole wine!
as usuall people are twisting things so that they can try and drive their point home. If you really read the above you would have realized that the area’s that were being “redlined” where area’s in which high risk loan applicant’s lived. Just because these area’s happened to be predominatly inhabited by people of different ethnic backrounds (eX. black, hispanic, ect.)doesn’t mean that thier weren’t whites there as well, and even if there was no white population in those area’s “redlined” why does that make it acceptible to hand out high risk loans? maybe people in these area’s should have been using some common sence and not trying to purchase something they couldn’t afford. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE FACTS.. IN 2004 REPUBLICANS WARNED OF THIS HAPPENING AND THE DEM.’S…. WELL… DID WHAT YOU SEE HERE…
VOTE FOR OBAMA? THIS GUY IS DANGEROUS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED SOMEHOW INTO THINKING THIS CHANGE HE OFFERS IS GOING TO BE THE END ALL SAVE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP! PLEASE DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN. THERE IS TOO MUCH WITH HIM THAT IS UNKNOWN AND TOO MUCH THAT IS KNOWN THAT MAKES ME QUESTION HIM. MY FELLOW AMERICANS…. PLEASE! USE YOU HEAD!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
How can anyone vote for Obama after seeing this? The man is an economic idiot!! Taxbreaks for 95% of Americans and increase taxes for “corporations”?? Corporations include small businesses!! These are not all oil companies we are talking about. A lot of Americans won’t need that tax break because they won’t be paying taxes-they won’t have a job anymore after their overtaxed employer lays them off!! McCain needs to point out Obama’s role in pushing the subprime mortgages, stress that he warned against them, and explain what will happen to American jobs if Obama’s tax plan succeeds.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
This needs to go out as an advertisement to the American Public!!!! McCain needs to put his solider cap on and fight for the American people. Barack is out there blaming the current President and Banks for permitting bad loans, when in fact it was the Democratic Party that was strong arming them. He is in Indiana, Dayton and Cincinnati stating all these lies and no one calls him on it. Go for the end game. We want Republicans back in the drivers seat to get Capitalism back in motion. Part of the Democratic Party means Corruption nothing more. They are not out for the American People. They are out for themselves. We need to stop being an apathetic nation and get out there and fight for our rights. We cannot have Barack as President. It will change America Forever.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I lived in Chicago during those years and it was a nightmare with this redlining nonsense - between Obama and others of his ilk it was a wonder anyone could do any business and survive! The taxes were unbelievable and still are on everyone that lives there and/or does business there. The City of Chicago is in the County of Cook and I bet those people pay the highest taxes in this country! It’s like most cities and states run by Democrats - high taxes and the people that pay them don’t really get a lot for their money but the do nothings are coddled and cradle to grave taken care of. The city had years of brown outs in the summer because the libs and yuppies didn’t want big energy - they finally upgraded the system when citizens and restaurant owners got tired of food spoiling in their refrigerators and freezers and threatened to leave. I shudder to think what will happen if these same Chicago cronies get their hands on the country nationally! I am sure if he wins Obama will surround himself with Mayor Daley who he helped drive the gunshops out of Chicago with, slum landlord Tony Rezko, terrorist William Ayers, racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, etal. All his friends running around the White House. What do Obama and Osama bin Ladin have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Karen,
Oh how I wish people would connect the dots so they could see, clearly, how Obama and his cronies have/will ruin the economy. Its a convoluted image, sadly, and quite difficult to see. My hunch is that most Americans will fall for the lies of Obama and his friends in the MSM.
We may be in for four years of angst. Put your $$$ in off-shore banks, folks.
Chris
October 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
If not for ACORN, McCain would lead in the polls.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I don’t understand. With the sordid past of Obama and all this stuff coming out, it should be a landslide for McCain.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
It should be, NH, but people have stopped thinking critically. They so irrationally hate George Bush that they don’t even consider anything remotely related to him, they just assume it is moronic. For some reason, even though he has been consistently bipartisan, John McCain is linked to GWB in the minds of these people.
Besides that, the young voters who have no clue about the issues are voting for Obama simply because he looks like a cool, young black guy. That’s all there is. In my high school I see so many kids that no absolutely NOTHING about politics, and yet they say they are for Obama and that McCain is an old man. This type of thinking persists through the college years.
It is a shame. Makes me think we should raise the voting age.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
So THAT’s what a “community organizer” is! Finally I understand. I just always knew it as a “shakedown artist”, or the old school term “thug”. Right out of the Jesse Jackson mold. Give us what we want or we cry racism. Instead of “Your money or your life!”, it’s “Your money or your reputation and customers”. So much for the post racial candidate. No thanks.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Bleeding-heart people will usually end up enabling someone to stay right where they’re at while others do all of the work for them.
This whole sub-prime thing is a perfect example of giving someone a fish instead of teaching them to fish. You end up crippling them and making them dependent on you to supply their every need.
In a country where all men are already declared to be created equal (and that include the women, too), someone has now decided that some are MORE equal than others. Rather than using the laws and regulations already in place, people said that we needed a way to guarantee that certain people cannot be turned down. They thought they were doing it to ensure that it wasn’t for their skin color or orientation, or beliefs, but what they didn’t realize was that it was empowering evil groups like ACORN to abuse the law. Now if you had no business getting a loan on a house, you could almost guarantee that you could still get it as long as you had someone willing to play the right card against the credit agency.
I believe it ultimately comes down to people believing that with enough laws we will eventually be able to change and control the hearts of men. It’s from those hearts that all kinds of evils come; racism, sexism, and all other kinds of discrimination and hate. But what do liberals do? They say, “They ought to make a law to force people to think another way”. Laws never change hearts, they just shine an even brighter light on the evils within, and often end up hurting those who would never dream of doing the things that it was put in place to prevent.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
When you yell at MSM, you’re yelling at the very same Socialist or Socialist leaning or plain Communists–the graduates of America’s Communist infiltrated journalism schools. They’ve already been brainwashed. So they’re not about to put the truth out there. Admit to lies and deceit? I think not.
American citizens got so involved in straightening John/Susie’s teeth they forgot about straightening their minds.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
We all need to commit to send this to ten friends ask them to send to 10 etc–we can do this–i will do 20–are you with me?? I am a democrat and I am shocked that I had to stumble upon this–there is something rotten going on –we have got to stop it==please join me now
Thanks
John
October 9th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Two can play this game. Why not turn the tables on ACORN? How ’bout we file a class action suit against them for there voter registration frauds which diluted the wishes of legally registered voters in selecting their elected officials.
Negating my vote alone would undoubtedly translate into personal ingury and suffering of at least $5 Million, just how big the claim could be with a class action suit.
Given all the fraud they’re perpetuating this election cycle, if the law is ineffectual at stopping them then let’s put ‘em out of business the old fashioned way - litigate ‘em to death.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
The reason McCain isn’t doing well is because the economy is being blamed on Bush. The McCain = Bush strategy is resonating with ignorant voters.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
But with Obama’s willing friends in the media running interference….
The world is upside-down. I fear for my country.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
To much crap is rising to the surface for the media to ignore. If they do, they are going to get as lot of this all over their faces. This ie not about exposing Obama, it’s about being straight with the American people. If the main stream media does not tell the factual truths they will lose the American people and our trust in the future. They will become past time entities, they will not survive. MSNBC is very close right now to losing most of it’s viewers due to their biased and untruthful practices. Overboard is just a vile character and has no respectability, and the rest of them are more sheep. It’s sad that we the people do not have better reporting offered to us. Let’s all get ready for the new designated slogan from the White House “You Betcha”. John and Sarah, are you going to clean up Washington? “You Betcha”!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
When will McCain take off the gloves and get down to the business of defending this country in the political ring? Now is not the time to be nice. He needs to force the issue and make statements of fact about the socialist and radical ideologies of Obama — you then point to the relationship with Ayers, Kahlidi, Acorn etc as evidence to support the claim. Go after Obama’s ideologies!!!! Call a spade a spade — socialism for what it is. Even my 9 year old daughter understands that resdistribution of wealth is not fair. Heck, I think that the Cubs should have won — LA should have given them 1/2 their runs to make the playoffs more fair…..
October 9th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
It just goes on and on. There is nothing redeaming about Obama, and yet he continues to go up in the polls. Please, someone tell me how we can stop this man. I have talked until my voice is gone. I have presented articles and books for others to read. I feel as if I am talking to a bunch of cast members in ‘Night of the Living Dead’. Can someone out there help me. I am so frustrated.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
THE REAL REASON THE STOCK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD ARE TANKING IS BECAUSE
EVERYONE IS SCARRED OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WORLD ECONOMY IF OBAMA IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Silly NH… this is not really coming out. We have heard this stuff (and much more) on Obama for the last year but the main stream media refuses to touch it. Most people get their news in sound bites on one of the big 3, ABC CBS NBC and they are not talking about anything that will favor conservatives. Same goes for CNN MSNBC and even (gasp) FOX. WE ARE TOAST!!!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Stay tuned, as the economy gets worse, what’s next?
Martial Law? Socialism?
Obama’s new way of dealing with Americans! “CHANGE IS COMING”
October 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Why don’t the American people wake up! With Obama, the dems and the media running this country, we are well on are way to SOCIALISIM. The Dems want to make all people subserviant and indebted to the government so they can control us.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Did Obama Steal Election from Hillary via ACORN?
He paid ACORN $800,000 to register voters in the primary (and was their lawyer, and trained their activists). Now ACORN’s massive voter registration fraud has been exposed. They are under federal investigation. Makes you wonder if Obama won the nomination fair and square. What do Hillary supporters say?
October 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Republicans want America to forget that they were the power in this nation from 2001 to 2006, there was no talk of bad loans when the real estate market was booming. Under Republican rule the national debt has doubled, salaries stagnated, prices rose, and the rich got richer. The Bush administration made deregulation its first priority, allowing business to do as they pleased with little or no oversight. But even so when groups like ACORN use race to blackmail banks to do their bidding, holding business hostage with threats of boycott, and protest, that is a disgrace, these are Al Sharpton tactics. The fact that Obama was associated with these groups reaffirms my belief that he is unqualified to be President. One thing is certain a white candidate with Obama’s baggage would never have been the nominee, the press would have made sure of that, Obama continues to receive a free ride because of his skin color, incredibly the media still seems fearful of portraying Obama for what he really is, half white.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Unless I missed something, this was the core issue in the case:
“Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories.” Several federal laws and the Constitution were implicated.
Basic discrimination claim, seems to me. What is fundamentally shocking or appalling about a discrimination claim? By the way, lawyers in Illinois as in other States are ethically bound to not bring frivolous lawsuits. Doing so can result in sanctions being imposed on the lawyer.
Where’s the beef?
October 10th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Maybe we should start some type of campaign to rase some money to buy some 30 min prime time air time on ABC and CBS (like obama has done) and put this article and video and other findings on the air to get it across America. People NEED to find out the truth. I knew all along that president Bush had NOTHING to do with this financial melt down. Why is the media not pushing these issues? WHY are they so pro obama? I was on OBAMACRIMES.com all day yesterday and I hope to God that Mr Berg’s civil lawsuit against obama goes thru as planned. For those of you that not have heard of this lawsuit, There is a private lawyer in Lafayette Hill, PA by the name of Philip J. Berg that has put a civil case against obama pleading that he IS NOT eligible to run for POTUS because of him not being a natural born citizen of the USA. All that Mr Berg is asking of obama is to produce to the court is a ceritfied copy of his “vaulted” birth certificate and obama has yet to do so and keeps putting it off (wonder why?). You can check the whole thing out at OBAMACRIMES.com. Obama and his cronies have even went as far as putting a fake birth certificate on his website but he has been busted. PLEASE PLEASE check this out. Be sure to check the whole site out even go to the links at the bottom of the page and pass it along. Thanks
October 10th, 2008 at 4:12 am
WAKE UP AMERICA….can’t you see where this OBAMA wants to take us….not a straight and narrow path. Just more distruction and he is ahead of it all.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:23 am
If you believe ACORN, you’re nuts!–Obama cannot be trusted. Vote for McCain!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Unbelievable, LOL! Nothing this spear-chucking, liberal idiot does, surprises me, anymore! Wake up and smell the coffee, America! John McCain: OUR LAST HOPE.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Subprime loans helped my family. I have a subprime loan. This loan helped me to buy a house, which we still pay on. But our was a good subprime loan, because I did my homework. They do help people to make their dream a reality. It’s not Obama’s fault. It’s the greedy predatory lending that happened and the real estate agents that pushed it. And no one to regulate these greedy people. I saw horrible loans out there that people were offering because they were making money on the back end. People can’t go into something blindly, but they did because they did not understand how the system worked. Also the real estate agents pushed the prices up more than they were worth, because they get 6% commission. They started the hype by saying if you don’t over bid, we have 10 other offers we have to compete with. I was outbidded on houses 6 times before finally we found a good real estate agent who didn’t do that to us and fought for us. People were over bidding like $25,000 over the actual appraised value. This is what happened. The system would have worked nicely if it was regulated more to screen the bad apples.
I’m voting Obama. He’s not exactly the ideal, but he’s thinking about the working class. McCain is all about continuing the war. We need to concentrate on America. Obama is for keeping jobs here and he’s going to cut the act to do that as soon as he gets into office. I just heard another of my friends losing their job next month because the company is shipping the job to overseas. India. Everytime I call Dell, I get an Indian person on the phone with such a thick accent. I can’t even understand them. Keep the jobs here. Its not the housing economy. Its the job. Big companies shipping our jobs overseas. If people had jobs, they could pay for their mortgage. That’s the problem.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:24 am
No one forced the banks to give out money. They did so because they didn’t care if the loans would be paid back as long as they made money in the loan origination process. All the banks had to do to combat any claim was to be truthful and deny the loan based on credit worthiness. The banks used the CRA to rake in billions that they knew the could pass off to Fannie and Freddie. The last thing the banks are in this case is the victims. The fact is that the lawsuits were legitimate in combatting redlining of minorities that qualified for loans on a legitimate basis but were declined by banks and mortgage brokers from buying in “certain” neighborhoods. Say it with me now….President Obama. Get used to it.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I guess you folks overlooked the actual claims alleged by the plantiffs (e.g. Obama and others):
“Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories.”
The suit is about ethnic discrimination - not forcing a company to do things that were not already being done.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:14 am
ENOUGH OF THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS AND BULL CRAP. IT IS TIME TO JOIN TOGETHER TO CONFRONT OUR PRESENT SITUATION. OBAMA RULES.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:19 am
As long as McCain continues to behave in a gentlemanly, non-partisan manner he will lose. He needs to come out swinging on this issue. His campaign has been too timid. This is often the problem with Senators - they are so used to the gentle nature of the Senate they can’t get tough.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
ENOUGH OF ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS AND BULL.PEOPLE ARE HURTING FINANCIALLY. WAKE UP AND COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. McCAIN RULES.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:23 am
If you notice that Obama said “It started out as a good idea” but why did the end it there. They were taking his words out of context. Obama was pointing that “It started out as a good idea but now something is wrong”
October 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I have never voted in my life. But 4 years ago when Bush was reelected I could not understand how. I always thought the American people would do what is right as a whole. But now I can see that America has gone down the wrong path. I could not understand how Bush could lie to everyone about Iraq and let the one that attacked us on 911 get away and then send our Military over to fight for Iraqy freedom. This all done in the name of our freedom. Was Iraq going to take our freedom? This was for the oil. This was to line their own pocket books. And now to set here and watch this election, is this Democracy. I can’t understand now how McCain is even close to Obama in the poles. I can’t understand how he even has anyone believing his lies. I am ashamed of this country. From the torture of POW’s to how McCain’s election campaign is being run. If McCain is elected I am seriously considering taking my family and moving from the United States.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:55 am
You Obama supporters are confusing a plaintiff’s allegation with a court rendered verdict of guilt. The text above says “alleging that Citibank had engaged in redlining practices”. The parties settled out of court. Insurance companies do similar settlements on what might be viewed as silly suits because it’s cheaper in the long run.
Imho, Citibank should have argued the case with Obama and ACORN in court, but probably saw a cheaper way out by selling crap loans to Fannie/Freddie.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Hey Joe, why wait? Hell,if you live close to me, I will come help you pack.If you are so ashamed of this country you do not deserve to be here. No matter who wins, this is our home, our country. I do not care who you want to be president, but I do care that you are ashamed of this country that has given you the right to even say such a thing. So while you can say whatever you like, if you want to leave, I will more than happy to help your sorry butt do just that.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Joe, Maybe with that attitude we would all be better off if your family did move out of the USA. Your man is nothing but a socialist.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:11 am
PEOPLE like joe our the typical jerks in our country that i wish they would move themselves out of this country with there families and gee just think how much better this country would be.understand i cant believe how these joe types think.iam ashamed of these stupied joe types that where born in this country .
October 10th, 2008 at 8:12 am
JOE: Go ahead leave the country now, you are obviously uneducated and clueless.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Well duh Joe something is wrong. Something is very wrong. You are an American citizen and you are ashamed of your country? Well I am ashamed of you. Why is it that it is so convenient to forget all that has gone on to get to this point in history? I guess its convenient to notice that we haven’t had an attack on our country in over 2000 days. Finding Bin Laden? The man is dead. Has been. Al Qaeda keeps his memory alive to further the fear that you and other ignorant people gravitate to. We are fighting in Iraq to keep those terrorist on that battlefield not on the streets of NYC or elsewhere in the states. But here you go, you, take your family to Mexico or Canada or somewhere you feel safe, we don’t want or need you here anyway.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:18 am
I can’t understand why the American Public can be so blind. In all the past Democratic President’s Tenures, we always had higher taxes and financial problems. Obama is like a bright light bulb that draws all the American Moths to it and then they die form the heat. This country will do nothing but get worse under his Government. I hope we can see the truth before it is too late but it seams that too many are following him to destruction. I’m not saying that McCain has all the answers, but he would be a better leader than someone who has only been in Congress for 145 days and who has Muslim backing. We are fighting in Irac the same people that have sent millions of dollars to support Obama, what does that tell you??????
October 10th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States,and we should do whatever we can to make sure he isn’t elected.
The Republican party however, brought its problem on itself. Of all the possible candidates the party could have nominated, McCain presented one of the least electable. His lack — of speaking ability, charisma, and general likeability makes him a tough sell. Add to that his obvious leaning toward the more well-off segment of society and we have the makings of a real challenge to get him elected. Had he not fortunately chosen Sarah Palen as a running mate, he would really face an uphill battle.
But we must work with the hand we were dealt, and get out the vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. Otherwise — our values, standard of living, and whatever we may have accumulated in life — will go down the drain if Obama is elected.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:23 am
There are too many issues with Obama. I can’t see myself voting for a man who claims he is for change but doesn’t take a stand. His senate voting record shows he voted “present” instead of for or against a bill. This means he rather abstain from chosing a side during risky votes. He has a swirl of negative events, votes etc.. surrounding him. All you hear that is negative about McCain is his ideas and how he would lead, but he really doesn’t have any controversial events really tied to him that would cast doubt on him like Obama does. Obama has great ideas but so do all the rest of us, but it is experience and being a real leader that sets McCain and Obama apart. Both of their records show McCain is better fit. I wouldn’t trust a anyone to be the head of our country’s military when they never even served!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Everyone is missing the point, the financial meltdown is being caused by sub-prime mortgages that started after 1999, the mortgages involved in the asuit listed above were regular mortgages at regular rates, NOT sub-prime mortgages at discount rates that later raised interest to the point where people could not repay the loans. The loans issued before 1997 rarely wnet into foreclosure and if they did, the bank did not lose money because there was not housing boom infalting the prices ofhomes until 2002, FIVE YEARS after these lawsuit! People pay attention tot he facts before you start accusing!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I don’t know how well Mac is doing amongst the Polish population, Joe, but your astroturfing check from ACORN may not be as fat as you had hoped after all these FBI busts.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:56 am
HEY YOU FAR LEFT WINGERS AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN IF YOU HAVEN T
FIGURED IT OUT YET OBAMA IS THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE READ THE BOOK OR
FOR YOU NON READERS WATCH THE MOVIES IT WAS SO GOOD THEY REMADE IT
RECENTLY WITH DENZEL WASHINGTON.HINT…A YEAR AGO HILLARY,THE
BILDEBURG GROUP, THE MEDIA AND THE COUNTRY HAD HER ELECTED AND PLACED
AS PRESIDENT WITHOUT EVEN AN ELECTION AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE
DISAPPEARS DUE TO AN INEXPERIENCED 3 YEAR SENATOR WHO VOTED PRESENT
OVER 100 TIMES ,HAS NOT ONE SINGLE IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
TO HIS NAME . HIS MOST MEMORABLE PIECE OF WORK IS A BIOGRAPHY ON HIS
FAVORITE SUBJECT…HIMSELF.MOSES AT LEAST HAD HELP PARTING THE RED
SEA,OBAMA APPARENTLY THINKS HE WORKS ALONE.WAKE UP
PEOPLE…MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE…AS OBAMA SAID ON VICTORY NIGHT WHEN
HE TOOK THE NOMINATION,HIS RISE MARKS THE MOMENT WHEN “OUR PLANET
BEGINS TO HEAL”.AS I RECALL-AND MIND YOU IM NO EXPERT ON THIS-JESUS
PRACTICED HIS HEALING ONLY ON THE SICK. OBAMA OPERATES ON A MUCH
LARGER CANVAS. THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF THE CAMPAIGN, THE QUESTION
ABOUT OBAMA WAS WHO IS HE? NOW THE QUESTION SEEMS TO BE WHO DOES HE
THINK HE IS?….MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
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October 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am
People have said they would leave the US if McCain wins the election. These same people should not be here to begin with because they support the most UN-American candidate in history.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am
JOE I LL BE GLAD TO HELP YOU PACK
October 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am
At least Obama was trying to help a majority of the American people. The republicans are ONLY concerned with the rich. If we haven’t been fighting this unnecessary war, which is making millions for folks with multiple milliion dollar plus homes we might not be in this mess. If the banks, investment banks and insurance companies of the world were paying their fair share in taxes and not giving each other huge bonuses maybe some of the riches would have trickeled down to the folks working hard to make mortgage payments. I truly hope that the American public is not as dumb as these folks hope. McCain is way too OLD for this Job!!!! He will not last four years. What I truly can’t understand is that John McCain was NOT good enough for then eight years ago, George Bush was their guy. Now they wont even mention George Bush and McCain/PALIN is suppose to get the job done. For what it’s worth I would vote for George Bush over John McCain because McCains short election campaign has been just as disaterous as Bush’s Presidency. I would hate too see four years of that duo in office. Train Wreck.
Obama/Biden 08
October 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I know people who are big Obama supporters and they truely believe that the day he is innogarted (sp?) everything (the economy, the war in Iraq ect.) will be magicaly better - Obama utopia will reign in the USA! I have heard Obama called “the messiah” and thought it was just a joke, but there are many people who really think that he is our country’s savior - they will be sorely dissappointed - but will never admit their mistake - they will only continue to blindly blame the republicans for all of his ignorant choices. People are blinldy following this man, so called “educated people”, because they have portrayed all republicans as ignorant gun toting rednecks, if you ask me the Obama disciples are the truely ignorant. The state of our country and the mentality of the media and many of the citizens of this country truely frightens me.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Exactly Joe. It’s refreshing to know someone can actually listen and hear without bias and comprehend what they just heard without some preconceived slant that they have subscribed to courtesy of Rupert Murdoch.
When do neo-conservatives NOT take something out of context?
T Maz…McCain is done. Put a fork in his, and his supremely stupid wife’s, rear end and roast them.
President Obama. Can’t wait for that to become a reality on November 4th.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Fine, Joe. Go. We don’t need people in America who expect hand-outs from the government. I’m not necessarily poor, but I can’t afford to buy a house. So I don’t. Now, banks shouldn’t be raising the premiums on people after they signed - that’s just wrong. But a lot of those people lied about what they earned just to get those shady mortgages. “Can a blind man lead a blind man?” No. And wasn’t it JFK that said, “Ask not what your country can do for you…”? You know the rest. All I want my taxes to do is protect me from getting murdered or robbed. I don’t need hand-outs. I don’t need Obama.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Joe said “I have never voted in my life. But 4 years ago when Bush was reelected I could not understand how. ” It was people like you who did not vote that alowed him back in office. So please take your non voteing family to a country where you’re not given that right or allowed to voice any opinion.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I am sorry but I think the people one associates with are an indication of the person you are the values hold, and as a Democrat before the primary as Obama was a new person on the scene I did extensive research on him. I googled him and found out about the Saul Alinsky, Acorn, Rezco, Ayers, Rev. Wright stuff on my own. (I might add I found about Hillarys infatuation with the Socialist Alinsky also and was not pleased), however if you can sit in a racist church for 20 years, be affiliated with a terrorrist like Ayers who’s agenda and values are so far removed from my belief in what one should hold ideal, family, education, self reliance. I find it offensive that you would sit on a board in which you help him (Ayers) disperse 60 million dollars for his so called education plan which did not focus on things I find important, Reading, Math, Science but instead want to radicalize students against there parents school, etc. I do not think Obama’s friendship with Rezco is inconsequential when he represented the people living in Rezcos Slums and did nothing to make him address the conditions the people he represented were living in when he could have influenced him.So by doing my own research I have come to the conclusion that while Obama can make a pretty speach, change his mind and discard people in his past when it is politically expedient he shows me that his lack of resolution and socialist leanings do not inspire me to vote for him and I choose the lesser of two evils, McCain may not be the ideal candidate but I do believe he has a strong desire to serve his country. Again I truly believe Obama is a Trojan Horse and that my Party has let me down promoting a candidate whose past associations I find personally repugnant, and whose lack of experience I find frightening. Obama may have gone to the best colleges and can be touted as very bright but for a person described this way he has made in my opinion some Very poor choices.I do not like what I have found out about his past, I feel he has not been vetted by the Media who instead chose to tear Clinton down while annointing this neophyte.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:20 am
If you’ve never voted then YOU are part of the problem in America. Please don’t wait for the election to move out of the USA.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Anyone that tries to justify Obama’s involvement in this mortgage fiasco is not
living in the world of reality. I nor anyone else I know would buy a home that
was priced 10 times higher than I could afford, unless you want government to take care of you.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Joe, On behalf of America I would like to say, CYA.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
The law was passed to protect bank depositors from the practice of redlining (i.e. racial descrimination). People were dicriminated against because the banks, ususally in urban areas, took the money from the redlined area and wouldn’t lend it back to the very community were it came from. It’s amazing that just by posting a bunch of idiotic half truths, you can fill up a band wagon of supporters that can’t do even the most basic of research. Oh, the case was settled, so do you think CITI was innocent or guilty of the practice? This was a very common practice in Chicago.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
The article basically claim’s Redlining is based on ethnicity. I disagree, it’s about property values and customers ability to repay loans within a specific area historically. Just like the insurance company has “Actuary Tables” to decide the risk vs profit potential in different neighborhood’s to adjust their rates accordingly. If the people and property in that zone are “Risky”, custom is to charge more for it. I don’t care what color you are or your ethnicity, the property history and potential profit is the question.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
People who can’t differentiate between ACORN and the subprime crisis, who don’t understand that the time bomb in the economy, to use Buffett’s phrase, was CDS, really should stick to voting for American Idol. Ditto heads who want to blame Jimmy Carter for today’s economic mess, who are going back 10 years to find an Obama connection when pretty much every intelligent person, conservative and liberal thinks the lax regulation policies of Bush played the major role, are just proof of Mencken’s contention that no one every went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Good-bye Joe. And take all the rest of those who do not appreciate our freedoms with you. It’s too bad you don’t realize we live in the greatest country in the world. My two sons, who served in the military, tell me no one would believe the things they have seen or the way other nations have to live. Say good-bye to your freedoms if Obama makes it. With his LACK OF INTEGRITY, he won’t think twice to really “change” our nation, and it won’t be for the better!
October 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
This just proves how we have so complete opposite world views. Our Country is divided. We have those like me , that belive in our Constitution and Freedom, and those as Obama , that believe that the government should provide and control the population. I am afraid we have come to this opposition because history is not being taught in our schools. If anyone with a brain will read the real history of our Constitution and why we fought for our independence I think your world view will either change - or you will decide to move to Russia - or as a matter of fact since all of these Countries we are harming - such as Iraq and Iran - since they are so great - why don’t you just move there and let us that love freedom abide in America.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lets face it, people who hold racist inclinations will justify and twist to their advantage anything that they can, rather than just admit they don’t like or trust black people. Its a fact that 50 percent of all white Americans still view blacks unfavorably and would not want one running this country. But racism is no longer acceptable, so what do people do instead? Like I said, they rationalize anything they can, to find fault with the unacceptable candidate, because they can no longer come out and say “I don’t like darkie”, so the smear tactic is used to cover up their true feelings. This is largely what we are seeing out there in responce to Barack. Just thought some of you should realize that. The fact of the matter is, Barack is the finest leader to come along in our lifetime, black or white (in his case both). Now this is the kind of man/leader we can truly take pride in, to represent us with the highest integrity. People without this integrity( and there’s a lot of them), just can’t see it yet. Cultivation takes time.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am
“Joe”, if a person can’t afford to buy something, how is it a good idea to saddle him or her with debt in order to buy it? The problem is that the original premise is flawed. If you can’t afford a house, then dont’ buy it!! And if McCain does win, we won’t miss you.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Ibama has three men working for him that cause the mess in the first place with WallStreet. I dobn’t like McCain but hell I don’t want Obama in . Obama is for the blacks I am sorry to say, and the blacks arn’t they only one that is poor or living on the streets either, Obama better get that in his thick skull white”s are having just as much as the blacks do the blacks arn’t the minority here either. So please lets vote for the indepence person . or the country will go to hell with either Obama or McCain Can’t let either of them in. we all can VOTE INDEPENDENT NOT DEMOCRATE or REPUBLICAIN.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hey Joe… you should move now.
Try Canada, they are almost a Socialist country… or Mexico. Although, I think it is tougher to move to Mexico than it is to illegally enter the USA and get a home loan without a Social Security number.
Obama will most likely steal this election, and the Liberal elites will feel the short lived thrill of victory. That thrill will dissipate quickly as taxes are raised, our country is weakened, and the USA stops being a strong, sovereign nation and is forced to become a citizen nation of the new world.
Joe… you don’t need to vote in this election either… there is a cemetery in your town where all the registered voters are voting multiple times for Obama.
Don’t blame McCain for G. W. Bush, they are not the same people, and do not have the same ideals.
Please don’t start voting…
October 10th, 2008 at 11:10 am
What about all of those High End homes that retailed for 500k-1m that were marketed to Middle Class and upper Middle class income families as Vacation and second homes, or Executive first homes. Where Mortgage companies offered ARM’s, Pick a Pay and interest only ARM’s? Millions of these homes were bought and sold using similar underwriting guidelines that were used for CRA lending. The only difference was zip code, type of customer(White). The result of which millions of people hoping to catch the wave of flipping high end homes for a profit got caught holding properties with inflated values when purchased, lost market value when trying to sell and as a result, just walked away from the property, or declared bankruptcy to avoid paying their mortgage on these second and investment properties. These types of deals had as much if not more to do with the Bankning/ Mortgage collapse as CRA Loans, Nobody wants to talk about the invensment banks packaging these products in the market as well even though they were a bad deal for the economy (i.e. taxpayers). Stop trying to blame Urban communities for the collapse. This is a widespread problem that all income classes in this country are responsible for. Don’t just blame the Dems. The GOP is largley responsible (due to deregulation) as well!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:13 am
CYA Joe!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Joe - feel free to take your friends too. You can also bring the people who feed you your misinformation. Obama will DESTROY this country.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Joe, you can move but you can’t take your money with you thanks to Charlie Wrangle & the House of Representatives. If you move out of the country they will tax your money at 50% to prevent it from leaving the country with you.
Socialism in action…with more to come when Obama gets elected.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:31 am
T Maz
Your comment about McCain being gentlemanly is sarcastic humor, right?
October 10th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Mr. Obama originally did not strike me as presidential material. Now, he scares me. He goes to “church” for 20 years, never hears this rev. speak hatefully (the congregation fully supports the reverend’s hate message) and is also never present when they occur. How will his presidency by: “I never saw that…”?
Mr. Obama contributed to the housing/banking crisis as well with Acorn. His logic and justifications are always 20/20 hindsight. What we need is 20/20 foresight. If any of you feel the need to move out of the USA because McCain makes it to the White House, please, do go. Your judgment is as impaired as your “messiah.”
October 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Once you stipulate to the racism of this article’s author, I guess the rest just falls into place, eh?
See, as pointed out by other posters - and even the author - the ACORN lawsuits were about redlining - about denying loans based on racial discrimination.
The author assumes that:
A) the claims are “bogus” (thanks for being both judge and jury in your spare time) and that …
B) since these are, by definition, claims brought by racial minorities, that they MUST BE bad loans.
C’mon, be honest… How often do you bleach your Klan hood to keep it so lily-white?
October 10th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Joe, leave now!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Will you Obama haters cut it out! Let’s get real here for a change. John McCain is a great man that I have nothing but respect and admiration for and who I supported for President against lil w and who was smeared by the very Republican machine that now works to elect them.
In these times, forget about Barrack as a black man and get over it and check your prejudices, hatred, racism, and bias at the door. Barrack, just like you, me, and ANYONE is first a huMAN, next a MAN, and then an American. He is cool, calm, and collected and what we need in these troubled times.
He has strategic insights that are uncanny and an ability to execute a vision (see defeat of Clinton and polls in red states he “targeted” and did not concede).
If he was white and his name was Barry Jones, he would be leading by a margin of 70% or more right now and even Republicans would be headed his way.
Stop, think of yourself, your family, and your nation, Stop letting powerful “banking interests” sway you by their divide and conquer tactics. Become one, unite, and support the one man who has Warren Buffet at his side to help calm these volatile markets!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I do my best to expose Obama (and Biden) on my blog site http://widmer-peoria-watch.blogspot.com
Keep ciruculating to everyone you know, Republican fence sitter, doubting Democrats and Independents.
Thanks for this site.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hey Joe,
Good, go ahead and leave this country, make sure you do not return. Just make sure the country you want to run to allows you to have the following freedoms and rights: SPEECH, make a decent living, and the right to purchase a home and good decent healthcare.
Don’t always think the grass is greener on the other side of the road.
It is people with your mental attitude that gives the impression that all AMERICANS are like you, this is one reason why we are not liked around this world.
And you are promoting the idea that AMERICANS are only good for what they can do for others.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I stand by my comment, if it is not likes. TOO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
As with most things in this Racist Country. If Whites were given the same treatment as other’s… There would be no need for any of this. I am to believe all White people are good risks? I am to believe, all of the failures, are due to Blacks and Mexicans? Ed McMahon’s house was in Foreclosure… How does one explain that? Plenty of White people are losing their homes… It was predator vs greed… Neither won… It wasn’t a Black think either…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
See ya Joe. Say hello to Alec Baldwin if you happen to go north of the border.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I’ve lost half my stock investments, but I’m so grateful for Gangsta Rock emerging as a culture! We have the FBI to investigating lynchings from the 1940’s while they protect their pride by murdering us if we “dis” them. Now that they have the globe on it’s knees, they have to feel empowered with self-esteem. Any ideas what country I can move to? Somewhere the idiot Joe won’t go?
October 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
As with most things in this Racist Country. If Whites were given the same treatment as other’s… There would be no need for any of this. I am to believe all White people are good risks? I am to believe, all of the failures, are due to Blacks and Mexicans? Ed McMahon’s house was in Foreclosure… How does one explain that? Plenty of White people are losing their homes… It was predator vs greed… Neither won… It wasn’t a Black think either…
Jane Jane Jane, I think you projecteth too much. A red flag (as apposed to a black flag) went up with your very first sentence. What is racist about our country other than you? Put down your crackpipe,I’m sure there are some Kung-Fu movies to be watched and some malt liquor and pork skins to swill…and remember a stitch in time is probably a skin laceration.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
For all of you supporting Obama, note this: the man is is an empty shirt. He has no morals, no values, no compunction about lying through his teeth. He has nothing but the worst interests of the country in mind.
He and his cronies are crooks. Vote for him and you’re throwing your vote away. He has no experience - and as I’ve said elsewhere, even if Sarah Palin had only her mayoral experience in Wasilla, it’s still a lot more than Obama has ever had.
Name one thing the man has done. You can’t. He’s a do nothing, know nothing kind of person. It’s really sad that so many of you are supporting him based upon his race when there are far more decent, honorable, and experienced African-Americans out there. For example, there’s J. C. Watts, Ken Blackwell, Condoleeza Rice….
Wake Up. Wake Up.Before it’s too late. These facts coming out about Obama’s deep association with ACORN, William Ayers, Bernadette Dorhn, Saul Alinsky’s ideals, etc….are only the tip of the iceberg. He’s a shill.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
My question is this if Obama is so smart and has such a great plan to fix the country, why has he never introduced any of it as legislation. It has been a long time but if I remember government class, the President cannot introduce legislation. So then what happens to the “plan” He should have stepped up in congress and actually done some work with the plan.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Obama say…
Jeremiah Wright was a preacher, he was a good friend of mine. In 20 years I never heard a racist thing he said, but when we had communion I got full as a tick on his cheap ole wine!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
as usuall people are twisting things so that they can try and drive their point home. If you really read the above you would have realized that the area’s that were being “redlined” where area’s in which high risk loan applicant’s lived. Just because these area’s happened to be predominatly inhabited by people of different ethnic backrounds (eX. black, hispanic, ect.)doesn’t mean that thier weren’t whites there as well, and even if there was no white population in those area’s “redlined” why does that make it acceptible to hand out high risk loans? maybe people in these area’s should have been using some common sence and not trying to purchase something they couldn’t afford. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE FACTS.. IN 2004 REPUBLICANS WARNED OF THIS HAPPENING AND THE DEM.’S…. WELL… DID WHAT YOU SEE HERE…
VOTE FOR OBAMA? THIS GUY IS DANGEROUS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED SOMEHOW INTO THINKING THIS CHANGE HE OFFERS IS GOING TO BE THE END ALL SAVE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP! PLEASE DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN. THERE IS TOO MUCH WITH HIM THAT IS UNKNOWN AND TOO MUCH THAT IS KNOWN THAT MAKES ME QUESTION HIM. MY FELLOW AMERICANS…. PLEASE! USE YOU HEAD!
***VOTE McCAIN***
October 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
SORRY GUESS YO