truthhurts wrote:
SilentReader wrote:
I came across this little tidbit recently. A fairy tale you say?
More like a another tall tale told by a fairy, I'd say.

She's tiptoeing through the tulips of her tiny mind. May Ed McMahon show up at her door soon!

SilentReader, here is a lesson for you on how to post a critique.

First lesson: Choose a topic that has direct relevance to a candidate's actions or decisions. Not unsupported innuendo, but real direct evidence stemming from the candidate's actual actions.

Today, I choose McCain's usage of his wife's corporate jet for campaign related travel, despite his own stance in the past against such behavior by others, and despite his promises to the contrary.

Last year, McCain used his wealthy wife's jet often for campaign travel, to the point which is flew almost exclusively for him rather than the company to which it belongs for a period of 5 months. McCain had supported legislation to force a candidate to compensate a corporation for the actual cost of corporate jet usage rather than the equivalent in airline tickets.

What did John McCain choose to do, when now presented with the decision himself? He chose to compensate only the equivalent in airline tickets. You can judge his character on this direct test, rather than have to invent dubious connections to various people. (By the way, I'm still waiting for your condemnation of Bush for the same connection, SilentReader-The-Hypocrite.)

Also, McCain has been quoted as saying that he would never use his wife's money in his campaign:

Last summer, just before starting to use his wife's plane, Mr. McCain was quoted in a newspaper report as saying that he did not plan to tap her substantial wealth to keep his bid for the Republican presidential nomination going.

"I have never thought about it," Mr. McCain was quoted by The Arizona Republic as saying at a July appearance. "I would never do such a thing, so I wouldn't know what the legalities are."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/politics/27plane.html?hp

McCain's character is on full display for all to see. Will you judge it, or ignore it because he is a Republican? What is more important to you, the candidate's party or his character?

SilentReader wrote:
Obama's friend and long-time business associate indicted Tony Rezko is bailed out. Ali M. Baghdadi is on the list of people who helped bail him out.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Follow the Money: Obama, Rezko and Ali Baghdadi (2 Updates)

On April 26, 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times published a list of people who helped to bail indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko out of jail a week ago. On that list are Ali M. Baghdadi and Darlene Bagdadi, who put up a "two-story retail building in Chicago" as surety.

In a March 23, 2008, World Net Daily article, Aaron Klein wrote about the open letter to Oprah published in Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s Trinity United Church of Christ church bulletin. The letter was published on the "Pastor's Page" of Sen. Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by an activist named Ali M. Baghdadi. Originally printed March 6, 2007, in the Palestine Times, a "pro-Palestinian newspaper published in London", Ali M. Baghdadi "labels Israel an 'apartheid' regime and claims the Jewish state worked on an 'ethnic bomb' that kills 'blacks and Arabs'," Klein wrote.

Who would have guessed that the same Ali M. Baghdadi who published the Arab Journal, and who wrote the vile letter published by Sen. Obama's anti-American, hate-spouting pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would turn out to be a good friend to Tony Rezko, currently on trial in federal court for corruption?

Who would have guessed that the same Palestinian-American Ali M. Baghdadi, who accompanied Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to Mali in 1997, and served as his Middle East advisor, was only one-degree of separation from Sen. Obama?

Update #1: On April 18, 2008, Ali M. Baghdadi appeared at the federal court to state that he would be willing to post his home as collateral towards Tony Rezko's bond. Baghdadi said "he has known Rezko for 20 years through their work with Arab charities."

Update #2: The following is according to Ali M. Baghdadi's bio that followed his article published June 10, 2007, by the TUCC (page 11):

Ali Baghdadi, an Arab-American activist, writer, columnist; worked with several African-American groups on civil and human rights issues since the mid sixties; acted as a Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan; visited more than 80 countries throughout the world and met with many of their leaders, including Mandela, Castro, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad, Qathafi, Abdallah ibn Abdel-Aziz, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei, among many others.

Who would have thought that McCain would bash the faux-hero Bush about Katrina? McCain will not tolerate the above nonsense when he is President, and those neo-cons who hope they will be forgiven are fools. Out the door they go with no pension or parachute.

SilentReader wrote:
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"To sin by silence when they should
protest makes cowards of men."


-Abraham Lincoln

What a description of Tom Delay and his gang of criminals. What a commendation for Newt, George, Dick, and the others who told the President, "You are wrong!"
What a description of Tom Delay and his gang of criminals.

What a commendation for Newt, George, Dick, and the others who told the President and his neo-cons, "You are wrong and will cost us our permanent majority!"

They were right: the GOP will keep the Presidency but lose the House and Senate by larger Dem majorities because of Bush, Cheney, and the other former-liberal neo-con loonies who have spent seven years driving this great country right into the ground.




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RogerWilco wrote:
SilentReader, here is a lesson for you on how to post a critique.

First lesson: Choose a topic that has direct relevance to a candidate's actions or decisions. Not unsupported innuendo, but real direct evidence stemming from the candidate's actual actions.

Today, I choose McCain's usage of his wife's corporate jet for campaign related travel, despite his own stance in the past against such behavior by others, and despite his promises to the contrary.

Last year, McCain used his wealthy wife's jet often for campaign travel, to the point which is flew almost exclusively for him rather than the company to which it belongs for a period of 5 months. McCain had supported legislation to force a candidate to compensate a corporation for the actual cost of corporate jet usage rather than the equivalent in airline tickets.

What did John McCain choose to do, when now presented with the decision himself? He chose to compensate only the equivalent in airline tickets. You can judge his character on this direct test, rather than have to invent dubious connections to various people. (By the way, I'm still waiting for your condemnation of Bush for the same connection, SilentReader-The-Hypocrite.)

Also, McCain has been quoted as saying that he would never use his wife's money in his campaign:

Last summer, just before starting to use his wife's plane, Mr. McCain was quoted in a newspaper report as saying that he did not plan to tap her substantial wealth to keep his bid for the Republican presidential nomination going.

"I have never thought about it," Mr. McCain was quoted by The Arizona Republic as saying at a July appearance. "I would never do such a thing, so I wouldn't know what the legalities are."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/politics/27plane.html?hp

McCain's character is on full display for all to see. Will you judge it, or ignore it because he is a Republican? What is more important to you, the candidate's party or his character?

OK, then, full disclosure -- no one cares except a few Dems. And they don't count.

Wren wrote:
OK, then, full disclosure -- no one cares except a few Dems. And they don't count.
Don't count, huh?

Like hundreds of others, their quests led them to the Wake County voter services office this month to register as Democrats for the first time. The line of newcomers that snaked across the checkered tile floor was emblematic of those that have formed across the country this year: black voters, young voters, lifelong Republicans switching parties -- all registering in record numbers, and all aligning as Democrats.

Elections Director Cherie Poucher waited for them behind a counter with a jar of pens and a 10-inch stack of registration forms. She had hired 10 people from a temp agency to help handle the rush on this final day of North Carolina voter registration. Now, as she watched four more people file through the door, Poucher wished she had hired more.

"In 20 years," she said, "I've never seen anything quite like it."

The past seven states to hold primaries registered more than 1 million new Democratic voters; Republican numbers mainly ebbed or stagnated. North Carolina and Indiana, which will hold their presidential primaries on May 6, are reporting a swell of new Democrats that triples the surge in registrations before the 2004 primary.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24344152/

As I have been predicting for sometime now, it matters not who the Democratic candidate is. Obama or Clinton, makes no difference. McCain will loose. Bank on it. Even the typical Republican "swiftboating tactics" of people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and here in this forum, RushReader, won't save them this time.

The tidal wave is growing...