Slynay
Joined: 11/29/2005
Posts: 238
Occupation: Owner&Operator (OTR) Commerical Truck Driver
Bio:
My husband and I run our own Trucking Company and also drive one of the trucks over the road..Very hard business right now with the price of fuel and the cheap freight rates..But we are hoping and praying everyday that things will get better for all trucking families

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Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/27/2008 06:54:32 PM
at the National Review Online (NRO) brings us up-to-date on the early stages of digging through alleged Obama-Ayers related documents released yesterday to NRO's Stanley Kurtz.

Some highlights from NRO:

1) Obama and Ayers "doled out tens of thousands of dollars to charities, among them, Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ - Obama's church, and the Arab American Action Network:

(co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat apologist who has supported attacks against Israel and now directs Columbia University’s notorious Middle East Institute, founded by Edward Said).
2) Ayers secured a $49.2 million grant for the Annenberg Foundation

...matched two-to-one by public and private contributions — to promote “reform” in the Chicago school system. He quickly brought in Obama, then all of 33 and bereft of any executive experience, to chair the board. With Ayers directing the project’s operational arm and Obama overseeing its financial affairs until 1999, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in public education...
3) Michelle Obama:

...then a dean at the University of Illinois, invited Ayers to participate in a panel with her husband, then a state senator
From the Chicago Chronicle 1997:

Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system;...

Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus...
Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/27/2008 02:29:41 PM
August 27, 2008
Conservative Democrats Peeling Away From ObamaModerate/Liberal Republicans also shifting more to McCainUSA Democrats Election 2008 Government and Politics Republicans Americas Northern America
-- Barack Obama has been struggling to maintain his Democratic base thus far in August, and according to weekly averages of Gallup Poll Daily tracking, the problem seems to be with conservative Democrats
Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/26/2008 09:01:38 AM
It's a Bird,It's a Plane,It's BARACK AMERICA.....Obama's pick for VP is really amusing...
Naman Crowe: McCain, Obama and war
08/26/2008 08:52:51 AM
An excellent essay but I doubt Liberalism can go away with debate. It's too easy a philosophy for one to accept.

It's easier to be dependent than to provide; easier to spend other people's money than your own; easier to destroy than create; easier to protest than support; easier to be entitled than to earn; easier to demand than supply; easier to observe than act; easier to run than to fight; easier to criticize than to do; easier to lecture than perform; easier to follow than to lead; easier to complain than adjust; easier to cheat than to merit; easier to receive than give; easier to conform than to stand out; easier to give in than to convince; easier to be in consensus than independent; easier to think with the group than for yourself; easier to be liked than ridiculed; easier to be feared than respected; easier to savage than to praise...

We conservatives, on the other hand, do not have the luxury of 'easier'. We have to go to work, raise our families and fend off the government's ever reaching meat hooks away from our homes, children and income. We do not give money to elected representatives to compete with lobbyists so as to leave us alone. We do not organize, riot, protest, seek outrage behind every word or deed, search out injustice or stick our preferences into everyone else's business. In short, we don't have the free time to be gullible. We've grown up, moved on and long ago accepted that life ain't always fair.

But the siren song of 'easy' can become too tempting to ignore even for the non-gullible. Why fight it constantly? "What the heck, I'll take a gubment dollar or two - God knows I've been bled dry". That's how they keep staying in power - steal from one, give to another while the simple-minded applaud and do a lemming march to the voting booth.

The founders of our country had no intention of turning over the government to the popular vote. Instead, land owners had the only say. Senators were appointed by the several states and the President was elected by the electoral college. Today, the gullible are a problem because we give them the ballot without the consequences.
Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/24/2008 10:19:04 AM
DID YOU KNOW THAT...
... if you say "hope" many thousand times in a row every day for a year, you will start seeing wonderful things?

5,000 times - lose weight and look younger
10,000 times - feel capable of maintaining a regular job
20,000 times - the bank will give you back your house and your cats
40,000 times - your ex will move in back with you.
80,000 times - you will win a Mega Millions jackpot without buying a ticket.
160,000 times - the Democrat Party will make you their candidate for President

Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/24/2008 10:00:35 AM
Denver to allow marijuana during Democratic convention?
Seattle's not the only city where people have strong feelings about marijuana.

One man in Denver thinks marijuana laws are so ridiculous that he wants cops to stop enforcing them ... but only during the Democratic National Convention, which will soon be held there.



Could Democrats be free to get stoned during their convention in Denver? (Gilbert W. Arias/Seattle P-I)
Why only then, you ask? It's not because Democrats are more likely to smoke reefer than Republicans (although that's arguably true).

It's becuase the member of the mayor's Marijuana Policy Review Panel, which makes recommendations regarding the drug to Denver's mayor, says resources would best be spent providing security for the convention and not enforcing marijuana laws.

He wants police to allow adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of the drug during the DNC.

Mason Tvert's proposal - he's on the panel and incidentally leads an organization called Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation - will be introduced during a news conference tomorrow.

But even if the proposal passes, it's merely a recommendation. I'm not betting on its adoption by the mayor.........


"I STILL WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR OBAMA EVEN IF THEY PASS OUT FREE DRUGS"
Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/23/2008 07:30:59 PM
The best Obama could do for his choice of V.P. was to ask some old guy who insisted he really didn't want the job and he didnt even want to be asked!!!!! Perfect Pair
Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/22/2008 08:47:56 PM
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The "Obama" Prayer

Our Obama, who art from heaven, or Hawaii, or possibly Chicago,

Liberal be thy name,

Thy presidency come,

Thy will be done,

On Earth, as it is in San Francisco.

Give us this day our daily handouts.

And forgive us our individualism,

As we forgive those who don't properly inflate their tires.

And lead us not into the Clintons,

But deliver us from McCain

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory,

for two full terms.

Copyright 2008 Matthew C. Kramer





Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/22/2008 04:56:26 PM
Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:09


For Immediate Release: - 08/21/08

Suit filed 08/21/08, No. 08-cv-4083
Contact information at the end of this press release. Documents filed with the court and a copy of this press release can be downloaded at the end of this press release.

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 08/21/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court today, Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083, seeking a Declaratory Judgment and an Injunction that Obama does not meet the qualifications to be President of the United States. Berg filed this suit for the best interests of the Democratic Party and the citizens of the United States.

Philip J. Berg, Esquire stated in his lawsuit that Senator Obama:

1. Is not a naturalized citizen; and/or

2. Lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia; and/or

3. Has dual loyalties because of his citizenship with Kenya and Indonesia.

Berg stated: “I filed this action at this time to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated.

There have been numerous questions raised about Obama’s background with no satisfactory answers. The questions that I have addressed include, but are not limited to:

1. Where was Obama born? Hawaii; an island off of Hawaii; Kenya; Canada; or ?

2. Was he a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia and/or Canada?

3. What was the early childhood of Obama in Hawaii; in Kenya; in Indonesia when he was adopted; and later, back to Hawaii?

4. An explanation as to the various names utilized by Obama that include: Barack Hussein Obama; Barry Soetoro; Barry Obama; Barack Dunham; and Barry Dunham.

5. Illinois Bar Application – Obama fails to acknowledge use of names other than Barack Hussein Obama, a blatant lie.

If Obama can prove U.S. citizenship, we still have the issue of muti-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and allegance to other countries.

Berg continued:

Attachments: File Description File size
Complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief 142 Kb
Memorandum in support of temporary restraining order This document contains a complete narrative of the facts. 164 Kb
Plaintiff's motion for temporary restraining order Plaintiff's motion for temporary restraining order 108 Kb
Temporary Restraining Order 79 Kb
Press Release PDF of this press release 45 Kb

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 August 2008 01:01 )




Jeff O’Bryant: With friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies
08/22/2008 04:21:13 PM
The Born-Alive Act and the Undoing of Obama
By Hadley Arkes
Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2008


ARTICLE
The Catholic Thing
Publication Date: August 19, 2008


In an interview with the Rev. Rick Warren, Barack Obama was asked about abortion, and he remarked that it was a serious, vexing "moral" question. On the matter of when human life began, he said, that "whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade." In the hands of Obama the meaning of "moral" is recast: What does it mean to say that this is a "moral" question and yet it must depend on judgments that are wholly subjective and personal, and which cannot be judged as true or false? For Obama, a "moral" question is one for which reason can supply no judgment, and the judgment may turn finally turn on nothing more than self-interest.

The question of global warming is a tangled, scientific question, generating serious controversy, and yet Obama has never confessed any disability that prevents him from consulting the testimony, the presentations of evidence, and trying to form a judgment. What prevents him then from consulting the textbooks of embryology or obstetric gynecology, or asking anyone who knows, in an effort to inform his judgment? The textbooks will tell him of course that human life begins with the merger of male and female gametes to form a zygote, a unique being with a genetic definition quite different from that of either parent. If that is too much to absorb, he may retreat to the point readily understood even by people without a college education: A pregnancy test is a sufficient and telling sign that new life is present and growing. We know now that this life does not undergo any change of species from its beginning to its end. Conceived by humans, it cannot be anything other than a human life. And if there was nothing there alive and growing, an abortion would no more be indicated or relevant than a tonsillectomy.

Now if that is truly above Mr. Obama's "pay grade," then the presidency must surely be beyond his competence and his pay grade.

As I have mentioned already in these columns, not a single Democrat in Congress voted against our Born-Alive Infants' Protection Act (2002), a bill that sought simply to protect the life of a child who survived an abortion. But Barack Obama actually led the opposition to the same bill as it was offered in the legislature in Illinois. Obama has claimed now that he voted against the bill in Illinois because it lacked a clarifying amendment that had been voted for the federal bill: "Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being 'born alive' ... "

But as it turns out, this amendment had indeed been added to the bill in Illinois in March 2003, in a Senate committee chaired by Obama. Nevertheless, Obama voted finally to kill that bill in committee. And yet why should this be a surprise? Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee rightly observed that the amendment had never made a difference to the substance of the bill. For the very point of the bill was to confer protection on the child when it was no longer in the womb, when the child could no longer encumber any "interests" of the mother. The bill sought to establish the point that even a child marked for abortion has, at some time, a claim to the protection of the law. And if that is the case, what was the difference between the child out of the womb and the child several minutes, several weeks, several months earlier?

The National Abortion Rights Action League saw at once the principle that lay at the heart of the bill, which is why they opposed it when it was introduced in July 2000. Barack Obama saw precisely what those activists saw. He voted against the Born-Alive Act, as he said, because he thought it would threaten, down the line, the right to abortion. But there lies the depth of his radicalism. For the sake of protecting that right to abortion, for any reason, he was willing to withdraw even the protection usually offered by the law for children born alive. The one exception would be: the children marked for abortion. For Obama, the right to abortion is nothing less than the right to an "effective abortion" or a dead child. For all of his nimbleness and his Ivy League bearing, that is the unlovely truth of his position; the truth that the media cannot quite grasp or report.

The Born-Alive Act was truly "the most modest first step" of all in legislating on abortion. Its purpose was to plant premises in the law and to break out news that the public would find jolting. A new group has formed now under the banner of Bornalivetruth.org with the purpose of bringing out to the public what Barack Obama has revealed about himself as he has confronted that bill. There is something to be savored in the notion that this measure, so modest, meant simply to teach, may turn out to be a critical force this year in the unraveling of Obama.

-- Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.