8/23/2008

All Eyes on Biden Amid Obama VP Speculation

By: Cao, Filed under: Communist, Socialist & Nazi , Demonrats , Larry Sinclair , Obama @ 6:16 am

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There is a cloud of foreboding over the Bidens in my opinion, in view of what they’re doing to Larry Sinclair in Delaware.

Supposedly Obama is going to notify people via TEXT MESSAGE regarding his veep choice some time today.

Story on Obama possibly announcing Biden as his running mate at Newsmax.

Obama names veteran Biden as VP choice

CHICAGO (AFP) — Barack Obama Saturday named veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate, adding foreign policy heft — but also a loose tongue — to his ticket for November’s election against Republican John McCain.

After hours of media leaks, the 47-year-old Democratic White House hopeful confirmed that he was picking the Delaware senator, 65, in an early-hours email and text message sent out to millions of signed-up supporters.
“I’ve chosen Joe Biden to be my running mate,” Obama said in the email. “I’m excited about hitting the campaign trail with Joe, but the two of us can’t do this alone. We need your help to keep building this movement for change.”

Movement for change my ass. With over 30 years in the US Senate under his belt, one has to wonder - is he just another Washington insider who’s never had a job in the private sector? Biden is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; does this mean that Obama doesn’t need those 300 foreign policy advisors anymore?

Joseph R. Biden II, the poster child for the “same old Washington insider” who cast his 10,000th vote in the US Senate in 1999, the same year Barack Obama smoked crack cocaine and engaged in gay sexual encounter in the back of a Limo and a Gurnee, IL hotel room with Larry Sinclair…..… contradicts the very mantra of the Obama Campaign’s call for a “New Politics in Washington.” -Larry Sinclair: SON OF DEM VP CHOICE TRIES TO THREATEN ME WITH LIFE 2 DAYS BEFORE FATHER IS CHOSEN FOR VP SLOT

Seems like a rather stupid pick to me, but Obama is striking me as not all that bright when you take away the teleprompter.

29 Responses to “All Eyes on Biden Amid Obama VP Speculation”

  1. Albert Says:

    Who do you think would have been a good pick for him?

  2. Cao Says:

    I don’t think Obama is eligible to run, so maybe we should talk about old-fashioned democrats and republicans and what the race should really look like.

    This election cycle is a joke.

    If it turns out that Obama qualifies to run and is natural-born (NOT)–and is not a dual or triple citizen of Kenya, Indonesia and US, Obama should be running on the Communist Party ticket and have Leonard Peltier as his veep choice.

    America should have two real choices of people who are qualified to lead and have resumes that reflect that- instead of two puppets of George Soros whose only claim to fame is victimhood and being Senators. There is nothing about being a Senator that prepares you for the office of the presidency; Senators have staff members at their beck and call who do the work, write their stuff, and in Obama’s case, make sure that his cheese table is stocked on his airplane. In McCain’s case, his staffers are paid members of his Reform Institute…and are busy with that campaign finance reform stuff…all that leftist elitist stuff that has placed Georgie porjie in the driver’s seat!

    Not to worry, if one of them ends up president, I’m sure that Soros will be an informal advisor behind-the-scenes along with his leftist goons. Who cares about that qualifications stuff, anyway…this isn’t an election; it’s a puppet show.

  3. Albert Says:

    You might have answered this earlier on you blog, and if so I apologize. Who did you support for the nomination(s)?

  4. sisterrosetta Says:

    “Biden’s Smile, the Likability Factor and Judgment (Gosh, I always thought Biden’s smile was kind of creepy)”

    http://rosettasister.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/biden%e2%80%99s-smile-the-likability-factor-and-judgment-gosh-i-always-thought-biden%e2%80%99s-smile-was-kind-of-creepy/

    :twisted:

  5. sisterrosetta Says:

    “FactCheck’s photos of Obama’s birth certificate just proved that their posted image of it was forged” “Tell the faithful that the COLB issue is not dead, but given new life” (Polarik)

    http://rosettasister.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/%e2%80%9cfactchecks-photos-of-obamas-birth-certificate-just-proved-that-their-posted-image-of-it-was-forged%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9ctell-the-faithful-that-the-colb-issue-is-not-dead-but-given-new-life/

    :twisted:

  6. Ina Says:

    It sounds like you’ve decided to sit out this election entirely.

  7. ThinkingMeat Says:

    Can’t get anything past Cao…

    Everybody’s favorite screeching wingnut Cao posted this hot news at 7:16 AM EDT this morning:

    Supposedly Obama is going to notify people via TEXT MESSAGE regarding his veep choice some time today.

    This, of course, is yet another demonst…

  8. Cao Says:

    Well actually, meaty, I knew about it since about 3:00 in the morning (before that, actually - Sinclair has been saying that Biden was Obama’s pick for veep since Biden’s son has been involved with the Delaware Sinclair case -you might want to check into how long that’s been going on)….lol but I know how you love to hate…your blog is full of your hatred for others, and your targeting the Wide Awakes is what that seems to be all about.

    Actually i favor a brokered convention…if that’s still possible. I didn’t vote the last time around; there isn’t a candidate that deserves it, except maybe my dog. I’m standing along with Vietnam Veterans Against McCain, and Joseph Farah, among others who refuse to accept the choices we have before us…there are no choices as far as I can see.

    And I’m sick and tired of being forced to chose between the lesser of two evils.

    Yes, I’ve talked about it numerous times on my blog…that’s why I have a section set up for GOP and RINOS

    Top 10 Reasons Conservatives Dislike McCain

    I’m not alone in these sentiments…

  9. Albert Says:

    Well I’m a moderate and think McCain is a good man who will make a fine president. I disagree with him on some issues, but at least he sticks to his convictions, unlike most politicians. I’m looking forward to a McCain presidency and (hopefully) never hearing from W again.

  10. Cao Says:

    Okay, why will he make a fine president?

    And what ‘convictions’ is he sticking to?

    And what the hell is a “moderate”?

  11. sisterrosetta Says:

    There’s No Such Thing As A Stupid Question. But If There Were Such A Thing, That Would Have Been One – Decoding Obama Birth Certificate Mystery (Polarik – TexasDarlin – Techdude – Pamela Geller)

    http://rosettasister.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-question-but-if-there-were-such-a-thing-that-would-have-been-one-%e2%80%93-decoding-obama-birth-certificate-mystery-polarik-%e2%80%93-texasdarlin/

    :twisted:

  12. sisterrosetta Says:

    Cao,

    I know you love your country.

    And I know you love God.

    You’re okay in my book, baby!

    :smile:

  13. bongoman Says:

    So Joe Biden is involved in the Sinclair drama?

    I bet Biden has never even heard of Larry. Talk about a drama queen.

  14. BWBF Says:

    Sinclair Joins Obama / Biden Ticket

    I guess we now know who John McCain’s choice will be as Vice President in a guard from his Vietnam POW days beating on American Soldiers as Barack Obama has chosen his chief thug whose family has been joyously bashing, torturing and terrorizing a *** invalid in Lawrence Sinclair.

    I had honestly thought Biden had shot his wad when David Plouffe took over for David Axelrod in dealing with Lawrence Sinclair and “smilin’ Joe” decided not to bribe Mr. Sinclair, but to send in the storm troopers in everyone from the Federal Marshal’s, DC Police, Social Security and the entire state of Delaware justice system led by his bouncing baby boy, Beau Biden was complete overkill like nuking an ant.
    Apparently though, the stomach turns both ways like in the mafia, because when Barry Obama came asking for a favor, Joe Biden made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

    “It’s like this Barry. I get your sodomite keester out of hot water by tossing Lawrence Sinclair in prison and you make me Master of the Obama plantation or I happen to pass this onto the FBI and you end up in prison.
    You may kiss the ring now”, quothe the Biden.

    For Barack Obama to choose Biden is simply Watergate suicidial. For Biden to willingly jump on a ticket considering the outright unAmerican thuggery he has had his boy carrying out against Lawrence Sinclair in the biggest *** bashing in history, is just begging for impeachment and prison time for him.

    For a review of Joe Biden’s accomplishments:

    1. He had the Delaware Attorney General’s office create a bogus Grand Jury indictment.

    2. He had the DC police illegally arrest and detain Lawrence Sinclair.

    3. While in custody he deprived Mr. Sinclair of his needed medications as he has a brain tumor.

    4. While in custody he had the DC police “loose” Mr. Sinclair so legal counsel could not find him.

    5. While in custody he deprived Mr. Sinclair of phone access.

    6. While in custody he had the Federal Attorney attempt to hold Mr. Sinclair indefinitely on outrageously high bail.

    All of those facts are human rights violations against international law which belong in The Hague.

    Out of custody, Joe Biden, as this was coming out of Delaware was sending out forged legal papers to Social Security to get Mr. Sinclair’s benefits cancelled which he depends on and then had him terrorized in threatening to make him repay all benefits.

    Out of custody, the Delaware Attorney General’s office has been seeding false stories into the press.

    Out of custody, the Delaware Attorney General’s office via Susan Dwyer has refused to provide Mr. Sinclair’s legal counsel with evidence of charges which they are illegally quoting to the press.

    Currently, Joe Biden, via his son, Delaware Attorney General and the above deputy, Susan Dwyer, are attempting to imprison Mr. Sinclair for life on a misdemeanor, blackmailing him to plead guilty on the twisting of the law “he is a career criminal”.
    That charge is meant for criminals who are committing ceaseless crimes in the said state in violent crimes, not for petty theft. (Note Mr. Sinclair has shown proof there was no crime in Delaware and in fact by the outrageous “check cashing charges” he was made to pay he in this is the victim which Delaware should be investigating.)

    Ms. Dwyer in a recent taunting letter to Mr. Sinclair threatening him with life in prison muses that it, “Makes my misdemeanor offer seem really good, doesn’t it?”

    Yes Ms. Dwyer it does sound good like a Chinese communist threatening to bash in your child’s brains unless you testify against your husband for being a subversive “Christian”.

    One does not have to agree with one aspect of Lawrence Sinclair in being a non violent *** male with a habitual criminal past, to note Lawrence Sinclair is an American Political Prisoner by Barack Hussein Obama and his chief thug, Joe Biden.
    One does not throw *** people acting out into prison in not being able to deal with their homosexuality in their past. One instead Ms. Dwyer puts them into counseling in humane treatment.

    This is thee most reprehensible forms of the abuse of power. This is worse than Hillary Clinton stalking the “bimbo eruption women” and the Mexican blackmail of George W. Bush which has left Border Agents Ramos and Compean in United States prisons for doing their jobs.

    This is the sort of political thuggery one finds in Marxist regimes throughout history. If Mr. Sinclair was a Georgian he would now be having his South Ossetia explored by having a big Russian gun shoved up it for daring to exercise his rights inside his own country.

    For this kind of despotic action to be occurring before a group is even elected and getting away with it is the blackest of marks on Helen Thomas, Charlie Rose, Dan Rather and Seymour Hersh who are touted as the biggest antagonists of the United States government.
    Antagonists when it is George Bush, but as long as it is a brooding Robert Mugabe and his own smiling Joe Stalin terrorizing an American citizen, one will notice complete silence from these shills for a new Marxist order.

    Perhaps all of this will be a good thing though as now the world press will have to start paying attention to what Joe Biden has orchestrated out of Delaware and in political payback he has now been chosen to be the literal VICE or Criminal President in waiting the impeachment of the criminal Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama who is guilty of forgery in producing fraudulent documents concerning his United States birth which is a federal crime, and, in definite crimes against the United States government Mr. Obama is guilty of trying to overthrow it by establishing himself as a foreign national against that nation’s Constitution.

    Deputy Dwyer can be smug in her power now brutalizing an American citizen, but when the political tides turn, she will not have her excuse in her own trial nor more than Nazi’s did after 1945 and no more than KGB thugs did after 1991 when Russia settled it’s political debts.

    Normal American governmental employees strain to protect the citizenry as inside their hearts there is a still small voice reminding them of the power they have is a responsibility.
    Ms. Dwyer has shown none. Beau Biden has trampled, spit, ripped and ground into the dirt the Constitutions of the United States and Delaware all so his father can get his Vice Presidential nomination.

    As for Barack Obama and Joe Biden, well they must be so enamoured with Lawrence Sinclair that they have now asked him to join their ticket as Mr. Sinclair is going to be a part of the Obama / Biden union in a menage a trois in some type of suicidal pact these two politicians have in destroying their careers.

    There are felonious high crimes from abuse of power, conspiracy, terrorism, fraud, false charges and illegal imprisonment.
    Lawrence Sinclair is not guilty of any of this, but it is pure guilt from Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

    Lawrence Sinclair’s original embarrassing story was transformed into a felony story, but now his story will be a historical story of impeachment and prison time for the Obama machine and Biden syndicate.

    Democrats had better wake up to this as Obama/Biden 2008 is going to forever destroy the Democratic Party in the United States if this is not checked immediately.

    God help this country from the lamentation, mourning and woe which is being foisted upon it by the blind who think Barack Obama is the messiah and Joe Biden is his dingy halo.

    agtG

  15. Cao Says:

    bongoman says: Joe Biden is involved in the Sinclair drama? I bet Biden has never even heard of Larry. Talk about a drama queen.

    But I think agtG said it all in this paragraph:

    “It’s like this Barry. I get your sodomite keester out of hot water by tossing Lawrence Sinclair in prison and you make me Master of the Obama plantation or I happen to pass this onto the FBI and you end up in prison.
    You may kiss the ring now”, quothe the Biden.

    Thanks, sisterrosetta, and thanks BWBF.

    bongoman is a good little propagandist, now, isn’t he? With his mind firmly placed in his fantasyworld…much like meatbrain.

    And Albert, you have no substance to offer me behind those sweeping generalizations…?

  16. sisterrosetta Says:

    Inconsistencies abound in FactCheck report on Obama “birth certificate” (Israel Insider – Atlas Shrugs – Polarik)

    http://rosettasister.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/inconsistencies-abound-in-factcheck-report-on-obama-birth-certificate-israel-insider-%e2%80%93-atlas-shrugs-%e2%80%93-polarik/

    :twisted:

  17. Albert Says:

    Sorry, I haven’t been online since yesterday. I think McCain is a good man because he does what he believes is right, not what special interest groups tell him is right. I love that the fact that he called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell agents of intolerance…they are two of the worst men in politics. That goes for Sharpton and Jackson too.

    He will make a good president because he will do what’s right for the country, regardless of what special interests on either side tell him to do. Look at his efforts against pork barrel spending. He was the first politician to support the surge and has lead the charge against torture, two things I am very much in favor of. He is pro-states’ rights, and will not overextend federal authority as Bush did. Like most military men, he will ensure we have strong and able armed forces, but will be more reticent to use them then the chickenhawks in both parties.

  18. Cao Says:

    What is the Reform Institute? Is George Soros and Campaign Finance Reform not a special interest?

    I think you’re rather confused, LOL…

    Illegal immigration - he’s got a pro amnesty guy working for his campaign that is paid by the Reform Institute. And the communist smash the borders lobby and hispanics are not a special interest group? Do you recall…perhaps the McCain/Kennedy amnesty?

    And what about his attitude toward judges? And his cooperation with the gang of 14?

    Environmentalism?

    I think you need to re-think your position or at least what it is you’re saying about him.

    You should read up at the website Vietnam Veterans Against McCain and see how he got pilots killed by turning over classified information for that bed they’re showing in his ads, and how he spit on the surviving families of POW/MIAs to normalize trade relations with Vietnam (alongside communist traitor John Kerry).

    As I recall his wife’s Annheuser Busch stock stood to benefit with that deal. And that’s not a special interest?

    That man is disgusting, and I don’t think he deserves to be a Senator - let alone President…much like Obama.

    And what else is interesting is that I’ve seen a McCain/Clinton ticket suggested.

    So there is little difference between any of these sleazebags.

  19. Albert Says:

    So he’s disgusting because he believes things that you don’t? A very small minority of men he served with make claims that they cannot back up, and you believe them over the vast majority of men who served with, above, and under McCain and praise his service?

    McCain says he would nominate men like Roberts to the court…sounds good to me, the Chief’s a brilliant legal mind who reaches out to the other justices and tries to build coalitions.

    If you could pick any person, right now, to be president, who would it be?

  20. Cao Says:

    Wow, that’s an amazing stretch. If it talks like a duck, walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. You mustn’t have really read through what it was I said there, or else you’re not willing to face the truth about this guy because the alternative might involve a little work on your part; like thinking, for example.

    I’m disgusted because he’d rather work with democrats than people of his own party.

    I’m disgusted because he claims to be a conservative when he hangs around with Joe Lieberman and people are talking about his running with Clinton.

    C’mon. What party are you with again?

    He looks like a democrat.

    And yes, this is supposed to be a two-party system - STILL - NOT a 1-party system, which is what it looks like now.

    There should be a difference between the candidates; we should have more representative government instead of lifelong members of the Senate who’ve never been in touch with the private sector.

    This is most certainly about someone who is claiming to be a member of the Republican party who holds no Republican values that I can think of. I think it was Tancredo who said he’s done more to damage the Republican party than anyone he could think of, and that’s nothing to be proud of in my book…yet he is courting our votes? Who is he kidding?

    He deserves no votes; we need a brokered convention because he doesn’t represent the party platform, or the values of his constituents.

    He should have crossed over to the democrat side; he’d be more honest that way…but then he wouldn’t be serving George Soros’ interest in smashing the Republican party and giving him control, which is what McCain/Feingold did.

    You are not really in touch with what’s going on, are you?

    McCain is no different than John Kerry…and neither of them deserve our respect, our votes, or taxpayer money.

    By the way, isn’t McCain just like the other two Senators who were running - who didn’t show up for their Senate jobs, didn’t resign, and continued to collect their Senate paychecks from the presidential campaign trail?

    It was Tom DeLay who said it. And if you don’t find this disgusting, then you’re not looking at this with a level head.

  21. Albert Says:

    Why is it that every time disagrees with you, you criticize their (perceived) lack of intelligence?

    Joe Lieberman is well-respected by just about everyone. No problem at all with McCain working with him, especially on foreign policy issues. Lieberman’s always been a huge supporter of Israel, so I definitely want to see McCain and others working with him on that issue. I’d much rather see him with Lieberman than idiots like DeMint and Inhofe who only get elected because they give shoutouts to the evangelicals.

    I don’t get what you’re saying about the two-party system. Should McCain only do what the party leaders tell him to?

    I believe McCain spent quite a lot of time in the military which I think is a little more beneficial then spending time in the “private sector”.

    Wow Tancredo, said that? Tom Tancredo is a political opportunist and a chickenhawk, I don’t really care what he thinks. He is also a career politician, unlike McCain.

    No one credible is claiming that Clinton and McCain will run together.

    You still haven’t said who you want as president.

  22. Cao Says:

    You’re apparently not watching the video and making assumptions based on your emotions; which doesn’t bode well for your ability to think and reason, that’s why.

    If you can’t actually absorb what it is that I’m saying or the content in the videos that I’m putting up, I have no other alternative than to question your level of intelligence.

    Your generalizations have not answered with specificity the questions I’ve posed to you.

    What other explanation do I have for your inability and unwillingness to answer?

  23. Albert Says:

    Sorry, didn’t see that you had mentioned DeLay. I think crooks like DeLay have done more damage to the party and the country then anyone else. How many Republicans are in jail or awaiting trial on corruption charges? (not that there aren’t dem’s in the same boat).

    McCain-Feingold is not unconstitutional. Corporations and organizations have no rights, only people do.

  24. Albert Says:

    You asked why I supported McCain and I told you why. I gave a list of specific things that I liked about him. I watched the video, and it doesn’t change my opinion either way. I understand it completely, I just do not come to the same conclusion you do.

  25. Cao Says:

    Okay, instead of just saying that, can you give me documentation as to why you say McCain-Feingold is not unconstitutional? (By the way, in your emotional outburst you neglected to notice I never said that McCain Feingold is unconstitutional.)

    Corporations and organizations have no rights? Are you crazy? Politicians give them all the rights they need - and use government in order to pass legislation to give them more.

    What side of the aisle did you say you’re on again…?

    You said “moderate”.

    Explain what that means exactly.

    And what in the hell are you coming here and calling DeLay a criminal for? Are you a member of George Soros’s CREW?

    So to you, the “moderate”, all republicans are corrupt?

    You’re spelling out to me what your positions are, and they’re radical - they’re not even moderate.

  26. Cao Says:

    You didn’t give me specific things you liked about him; I asked for clarification and you didn’t give it to me.

    Campaign finance regulation or “reform” presumes that government should be empowered to act on and order the lives of citizens without influence or pushback from those very same citizens.

    To me, that is infringing on everyone’s 1st amendment rights, the very rational idea of personal responsibility, and the idea that government should be representative. How are politicians going to represent constituents if they don’t get pushback from them? And how is this idea constitutional? Doesn’t it seriously deviate from the carefully designed system our forefathers put in place for representative government?

    The “reformers” believe that politics should be reserved for the folks inside the Beltway who can handle it. In short, McCain-Feingold supporters grasp that changes in the rules–changes enacted in the name of ethics–can enhance their influence and foster their political aims by silencing their political opponents.

    Just like you’re attempting to do here, although rather poorly in my estimation.

    By the way, I think your defending Lieberman and the rest is overlooking the fact that McCain’s preferences of people to work with - and things to work towards - are not from his side of the ideological aisle.

    Yes, I think people in the same party should agree on issues, and live into the party platform. McCain doesn’t, hasn’t, and won’t.

    I don’t particularly care if Lieberman is respected; the fact is he’s with the opposite side. If McCain is going to work with the democrats and **** all over republicans, why doesn’t he become an official democrat and stop pretending???

    GET MCCAIN OFF THE REPUBLICAN TICKET!

  27. Albert Says:

    I was responding to your video in which DeLay said it was unconstitutional…sorry I should have clarified. Corporations do not have First Amendment rights, unless you really want to stretch the interpretation.

    I never said that all Republicans are corrupt…far from it. DeLay is on trial for corruption, he resigned because of it. There are plenty of honest Republicans that I’m happy to support…Delay is not one of them.

    I’m a moderate because I believe in a strong military and responsible spending and personable accountability…but I also support *** rights and science, which many conservatives do not.

    Here’s a list of things I like about McCain:
    -Military service
    -Supported the surge before it was popular
    -Doesn’t kowtow to evangelicals
    -Supporter of Israel
    -Pro-free trade
    =Against earmarks
    -Supports a balanced budget
    -Is against a federal ban on *** marriage, even though he’s personally against it (showing me he supports states’ rights)
    -Works hard to build coalitions

    I support th BCRA becuase I don’t think money is equivalent to freedom of speech. The forefathers held no opinion on this issue, because campaign finance did not exist in the 18th century as it does today. There are many legal scholars who hold this belief, just as there are many who hold the opposite position.

    Working with Dems does not preclude McCain from working with Republicans. I want him, and every politician, to do whatever it takes to better the country…party lines be damned. Republicans selected him and he’s the candidate…he wasn’t selected in some back room.

  28. Cao Says:

    Still not specific enough.

    You do understand what ’specific’ means, right?

    “Military service” - you mean his father and grandfather who were admirals, or the fact that he screwed up and crashed three fighter airplanes that would have taken anyone else out of commission? Or is it his victim status as POW that gets you? Or the fact that the communists gave him preferential treatment for giving up classified information that got his fellow pilots killed? You DO know that the communists put up a monument at the site that he crashed, right? And that he’d made a second pass over - which is against regulations - when he was shot down?

    C’mon, you have to be more specific. I have the ability to quote it.

    And I am an evangelical, so that “doesn’t kowtow to evangelicals’ isn’t something that I particularly appreciate, although i don’t know what you mean.

    He isn’t extreme like Barack Obama on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, is he? I mean…he doesn’t want to kill babies who’ve already been born like Barack? Or what do you mean by ‘kowtow to evangelicals?’

    What is wrong with the bible and what is your problem with being specific?

    “Works to build coalitions” - and compromises principles?

    “Suppoerts a balanced budget” - where does he do that and how? He was against Bush’s tax cuts. McCain diligently has stymied conservative, free-market policies.

    “Against earmarks” - Bruce Riedl, a budget analyst with the Heritage Foundation, says it might be possible to eliminate roughly half the expenditure on earmarks every year, i.e. around $9 billion, using the Taxpayers for Commonsense figures. He identified $5 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds, most of which goes to local governments, as a prime target for cuts. Even if earmarks were eliminated altogether, many other expenditures would have to be shifted to other parts of the budget.

    Like other analysts, Riedl was mystified by McCain’s argument that previous year’s earmarks automatically become a “permanent part of the budget.” “I don’t understand how they come up with that,” he told me.

    Excluding those programs McCain has promised to preserve, the draconian slashing of earmark expenditures might save around $10 billion a year. But that is still a long way from the $100 billion in savings that McCain says that he can identify “immediately.” - Washington Post -McCain’s Fantasy War on Earmarks

    Pro free trade - you mean he’s in favor of NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA? Which would create a Western Hemisphere equivalent to join with the European Union for one world government…and that’s a good thing? What does “free trade” mean to you? The words mean one thing, but what constitutes it is anything but “free”.

    “Supporter of Israel” - If he’s a supporter of Israel, what did he do to free the kidnapped Israeli soldiers?

    “Is against a federal ban on *** marriage” - and that is a good thing to you?

    BCRA muzzled political speech for conservatives, in case you hadn’t noticed. You should do more reading on it.

    Working with dems - considering that they are fulfilling the communist objectives - and haven’t deviated from the communists’ goals (go read the CPUSA website - they’re interchangeable) - is NOT a good thing.

    Sometimes you have to stand for something.

    Reagan is a good example of someone who had principles.

    I don’t see that McCain has any.

    While he generally is appropriately hawkish overseas, he is dangerously soft on captured terrorists. And, thanks to the McCain Uncertainty Principle, it often is anyone’s guess whether he will support the right or sandbag its efforts.

    Some of the lesser known problems with McCain from DeRoy Murdock: McCain: Not Right for the Right:

    * Environmentalism As barrels of oil oscillate between $90 and $100, and rising energy prices make driving, flying and heating costlier, GOP voters should know that McCain rejected drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at least four times. Had April 2002 legislation prevailed “to reduce dependence on foreign sources of crude oil and energy … and to promote national security,” an area the size of Washington-Dulles Airport would augment Earth’s petroleum supply. Instead, McCain joined Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton (N .Y.) and John Edwards (N.C.) to defeat this measure. Thus, U.S. wallets are lighter, the economy is running out of gas and America pumps increasing billions into OPEC-some of which fuels car bombs.

    * The McCain-Lieberman bill would combat alleged “global warming” by making power producers pay to exceed government-imposed limits on carbon-dioxide emissions. The John Locke Foundation’s Roy Cordato cited a July 2007 Environmental Protection Agency letter to McCain measuring McCain-Lieberman’s de facto energy tax:

    ‘The present value of the cumulative reduction in real GDP for the 2012-2030 period ranges from $660 billion to $2.1 trillion,” EPA calculates.

    (Sorry, but reducing GDP and more government control is not sound economic policy or fiscally responsible)

    * McCain voted to extend President Bush’s ‘01 and ‘03 tax cuts and now wants them permanent. Still, among Republicans, only he and Sen. Lincoln Chaffee - Rhode Island’s defeated archRINO-originally spurned them. As McCain told NBC’s Tim Russert in April 2004: “I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthiest Americans.”

    (I’m sure you’ll defend this for some wacko reason - your reasoning thus far isn’t very sound)

    * McCain opposed the Death Tax’s repeal in 2002. Also, he backed former South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle’s 1998 motion to waive the Budget Act and approve Big Tobacco’s Master Settlement Agreement that included a $1.10-per-pack cigarette-tax hike.

    * McCain vocally resists water-boarding, even though that interrogation technique finally elicited intelligence from taciturn al Qaeda leaders and September 11 conspirators Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Their revelations helped U.S. officials capture and imprison at least 10 hardened Islamo-fascist terrorists-including the architects of the deadly U.S.S. Cole and Bali nightclub bombings-who collectively had murdered 3,216 and wounded 8,795.

    “The way Sen. McCain has equated water-boarding with torture, the way he seems to equate it with what was done to him in the Hanoi Hilton-to me, it hurts us in the eyes of the world,” New York Congressman Peter King tells me. “It shows, really, a lack of familiarity with just how tough this enemy is.”

    “I strongly supported John McCain in 2000,” adds King, the House Homeland Security Committee’s ranking Republican. But “what John McCain has said about Guantanamo and water-boarding made me stand with [former New York Republican Mayor] Rudy Giuliani.”

    It would be bad enough if McCain merely voted against key conservative and free-market priorities. But as he did regarding military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees in fall 2006, he erupted from nowhere and ambushed Republicans.

    “I served 12 years with him, six years …as one of the leaders of the Senate,” former Senate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (Pa.) told radio host Mark Levin January 10. “John McCain was not only against us, but leading the charge on the other side.” Santorum ominously warned: “There’s nothing worse than having a Democratic Congress and a Republican President who would act like a Democrat in matters that are important to conservatives.”

    DeRoy Murdock is a New York-based commentator for HUMAN EVENTS, is a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

    Copyright Human Events Publishing, Inc. Jan 28, 2008
    Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved

    McCain is against the free market, he wants to be soft on terrorists, he’s an environmental wacko who is responsible for our not drilling in ANWR, he was a traitor to his fellow fighter pilots at the Hanoi Hilton so he could get preferential medical treatment (which he admits in his book)- the man is a disappointment to his father and his grandfather and I am embarrassed that he is in the Senate, let alone a presidential candidate. On top of that, he has no business representing conservatives; and that is why we reject him.

    But why am I talking to you…you’re a ‘moderate’, whatever the hell that is.

  29. Cao Says:

    Another priceless quote from the Murdock piece (link in the comment above)

    Rather than simply disinfect Washington’s cash-for-favors culture, McCain-Feingold muzzles free speech within two months of Election Day — precisely when speech should be freest. Last summer’s permissive McCain-Kennedy bill turbocharged conservative rage over illegal immigration.

    When is there not a democrat involved with the doings of McCain and when is he going to start working with members of his own party, or are those points not important to you?

    Sheesh

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