Breaking: Oregon AFSCME breaks ranks, endorses Obama
Earlier this afternoon, Oregon AFSCME voted to endorse Barack Obama for President. Previously, the national AFSCME organization had endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Oregon AFSCME becomes the only state organization in the country - other than Illinois AFSCME, in Obama's home state - to break ranks with the national.
Oregon AFSCME's executive director, Ken Allen, described the vote as "overwhelming."
From their statement:
Several members of the Oregon AFSCME Executive Board explained their support for Obama."I think he's a uniter, not a divider," said Becky Steward, President of AFSCME Local 88, which represents Multnomah County employees. "I believe his record better reflects how my members feel in Multnomah County."
"I believe Obama has a proven track record of fighting for our members," said Jack Tucker, President of AFSCME Local 2067, which represents City of Salem workers. "I also believe Obama has a much better chance of winning in November against John McCain."
Dal Ollek, President of AFSCME Local 1724 that represents City of Eugene employees, said Obama brings a message of change. "We need more collaboration at the national level," said Ollek. "I believe this vote in support of Obama represents the best choice for the American people."
Oregon AFSCME also notes that they've joined a number of other Oregon labor unions in supporting Obama.
With the Obama endorsement, Oregon AFSCME joins the other biggest unions in Oregon supporting Obama in the Oregon primary, including the Oregon Education Association, the Teamsters, Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers and others. Allen said AFSCME plans to mail to its members and participate in other get-out-the-vote activities both for Obama and for Jeff Merkley for U.S. Senate.
In January, Oregon's Ken Allen joined six other state AFSCME leaders in strongly condemning the national's independently-funded anti-Obama attack ads.
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Posted by: Charlie Burr | Mar 15, 2008 5:00:24 PM
This is big, big news for our May primary. AFSCME understands how to win elections from the bottom-up, and their grassroots field operation will make a potent combination with the massive outpouring of interest from young, first-time organizers. The diverse membership of AFSCME looks a lot like the diverse membership Obama will appeal to in May and beyond. Thank you, Green Machine!
Posted by: James X. | Mar 15, 2008 5:07:46 PM
Sorry to threadjack, but the previous post is unattributed and does not allow comments. It should be attributed. It reflects a personal point of view. It should also allow comments, as MyDD is not a neutral place to discuss Daily Kos or the melodramatic misuse of the term "writer's strike."
Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Mar 15, 2008 5:37:47 PM
James X - it's fixed. Thanks.
Posted by: Charlie Burr | Mar 15, 2008 5:40:56 PM
James, you are right. Chris is free to argue the victimization of Hillary Clinton as he wants, but the terms "Hillary bashing" and "intolerant" from his post are not neutral. I also take issue with his backhanded compliment -- that Blue Oregon has been doing a good job "lately." This forum has been open to Clinton supporters from day one; we welcome their recent arrival to the conversation but are not responsible for their self-imposed silence earlier.
Now, back to the thread.
Posted by: Kevin | Mar 15, 2008 5:42:08 PM
AFSCME and SEIU, which also endorsed Obama, both have hard-earned reputations for knowing how to win elections. This is great news for Obama. It's also great news for Merkley as both have heartily endorsed him as well.
Posted by: JustDaTruth | Mar 15, 2008 6:30:16 PM
Another union endorsing another Democrat is not news.
Posted by: joel | Mar 15, 2008 7:22:46 PM
I would be interested in hearing some commentary (perhaps a new post) from someone more knowledgeable about the labor movement than I, to compare/contrast 2008 with previous electoral cycles, in regards to the role of organized labor. Not a scorecard of who is endorsing whom, but more commentary on, and analysis of, why. Pretty clearly we are no longer living in the era when the AFL-CIO was monolithic and played a big role in the nomination process.
Posted by: Stephanie V | Mar 15, 2008 7:36:37 PM
I have phonebanked with AFSCME many times (including in Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, and DC). They are well organized and very diligent. AFSCME is a formidable union.
Posted by: Bill R. | Mar 15, 2008 8:34:06 PM
Wow! Actually this is pretty stunning. AFSCME have been Clinton loyalists, gave her big, big help in a number of states, real foot soldiers. And to have the state branch break his way is pretty big.
Posted by: Taylor M | Mar 15, 2008 9:09:59 PM
This is great news. Besides putting a formidable force on the ground for Obama, at the very least it should further the case that once Oregon goes strongly for him, uncommitted supers should support Obama, and perhaps even Governor K and Congresswoman Hooley should come around.
Did anyone see former Senator George McGovern on Colbert earlier this week? He said that while he committed to Clinton early, he was very impressed with Obama, perhaps implying that had he waited to endorse he would have backed Obama. I get the sense that if more well-connected Dems (including national AFSCME), questioned Clinton inevitability, this race would be even clearer than it already is.
Anyway, this is great news. Well done AFSCME OR!
Posted by: Bear Wilner-Nugent | Mar 15, 2008 10:31:10 PM
As a proud member of AFSCME Local 3668, Metro Public Defender, I am happier about this than about any Oregon AFSCME news I can recall hearing.
Posted by: shirl | Mar 15, 2008 10:49:10 PM
Hillary will mist up and shed some tears in Pennsylvania, touting her ONE year working as an advocate for the Children's Fund before spending EIGHTEEN years as a corporate lawyer and serving double digit numbers of years on the board for Walmart. She will ask older white women from the working class to send her money, because she has loaned five million dollars of her many millions to her campaign. She will not release her tax returns or her WH files. She will insinnuate that the she is having a tougher in the US as the very rich white wife of the President of the US than a black man raised by a teen single parent, bearing the name "Barack Obama." Her surrogates, including her co-president partner, Bill, will use the gender and race cards. The Clinton dynasty's ads will feature the fear and slime politics of personal destruction, including the scorched earth politics that is destroying the Democratic Party. In the meantime, the party elders like John Edwards, Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi sit on their hands and watch the Roman circus proceed and the imperial Clinton co-presidents move on to an unconstitutional eight more years in the WH. Hooray for the Oregon AFSCME for so bravely supporting the only one who can unite the nation in this perilous time and whose support for the struggling working class has never wavered.
Posted by: M. H. Wilson | Mar 16, 2008 12:02:57 AM
Last Democrat this Libertarian voted for was Barbara Jordan and if the Libertarian Party does not come up with a decent candidate this year I might just vote for Obama, if he gets the nomination, simply because he can change the face of American politics. That would be a big improvement.
MEW
Posted by: Michael O Hanna | Mar 16, 2008 1:49:18 AM
This was a difficult vote for AFSCME Council 75, with a lot of our leadership and members supportive of Obama yet initially hesitant to challenge AFSCME International (who endorsed Clinton back in October 2007, in large part because President McEntee is a long time political and personal friend of the Clintons, and AFSCME International has spent and will continue to spend millions of dollars on the Clinton campaign). But in the end we stood up to be counted, and the vote was almost unanimous. This vote was a demonstration of rank and file member democracy in action within AFSCME, and a small step towards the 21st century for AFSCME. I am proud and humbled to be a part of AFSCME Council 75.
The full Resolution can be found here
Posted by: sundaymorning | Mar 16, 2008 9:57:40 AM
Oregon Next Wave represent! This is particularly notable because the resolution was written and introduced by members of AFSCME Council 75's "Next Wave," a committee organized within the union representing members under the age of 35.
Posted by: MarkieBee | Mar 16, 2008 10:19:20 AM
Great job Oregon! Even with all the crap floating around out there you folks had the courage to go with a proven winner for workers' rights. Has Hillary ever walked a picket line? I don't think so. Obama has several times.
Posted by: mike fuler | Mar 16, 2008 12:19:55 PM
who is this guy? he's had 3 years of public
service. Most companies will not hire lower
management with such short tenure, it could well
be another back-door republican election
buy-out attempt
Posted by: Matthew Sutton | Mar 16, 2008 2:43:04 PM
Mike, if you are referring to Obama, that is not true. He has been an elected official longer than Hillary. He has been in "public service" since his community organizing days in the 1980's.
Posted by: Suzanne | Mar 16, 2008 2:46:07 PM
The bottom line is the union understands grassroots organization and Obama's campaign is a classic example of using that tool to organize,
Bravo to the union for getting behind the best candidate.
Yes we can!
Posted by: Suzanne | Mar 16, 2008 3:02:59 PM
To Mike Fuler,
Where have you been since this campaign began? Please study Obama before you make such comments.
What Matt says is correct. Obama has been a legislator longer than Hillary.
Study first, then comment.
Posted by: Amber | Mar 16, 2008 3:19:00 PM
to james X:
"MY DD" isn't neutral
They have endorsed Sen Clinton
and although Daily Kos has technically not endorsed yet. Markos has endorsed Sen Obama so that is Daily Kos--
There is pretty much no site in the liberal bloggesphere that has not endorse or at least favored one candidate and Sen Obama has the vast majority of support out there
MY DD , Talk Left (and Big Tent on Talk Left) are two pro Hillary sites I can think of
Posted by: Charles McGee | Mar 16, 2008 4:42:31 PM
I love Oregon!!!
Posted by: westside next waver | Mar 16, 2008 6:37:01 PM
It's great to see what unfolds when a Union is truly democratic and listens to its membership.
Oregon AFSCME is proud to join the broad coalition of labor and progressive organizations supporting Senator Obama.
Si Su Puede!
Posted by: Frank Carper | Mar 16, 2008 6:39:33 PM
Obama/Allen 08!
Posted by: westside next waver | Mar 16, 2008 6:41:20 PM
It's great to see what unfolds when a Union is truly democratic and listens to its membership.
Oregon AFSCME is proud to join the broad coalition of labor and progressive organizations supporting Senator Obama.
Si Su Puede!
Posted by: Tim | Mar 16, 2008 7:15:25 PM
Barack Obama has a track record of fighting for the voiceless. Some in the media have made concerted efforts to undermine Obama as the voice of change. Fortunately, they've failed time-and-time, "you cannot keep a good thing away." No. Obama is not perfect nor does he claim to be, but he is what this country needs. Thanks AFSCME
Posted by: Black/White Rose | Mar 16, 2008 9:40:37 PM
God bless Oregon AFSCME's and its executive director, Ken Allen for staying smart, brave, bold and beautiful and not giving in to the politics of fear and being willing to give Obama a chance. Very proud of the 'Peoples'
Republic of Oregon' today!
The Black/White Rose
Posted by: Ahti Lahtimanen | Mar 17, 2008 1:54:00 AM
Great news!
It's on front page of the "Supporters United". www.obama4us.net
All for Obama
Ahti
Posted by: Irish for Obama | Mar 17, 2008 11:14:07 AM
It's extremely exciting to see my union stand up for what's right. I know that some folks on DailyKos had questions about how AFSCME's endorsement came about and who was asked so I thought I would post.
Members brought up the idea of endorsing Obama in February's PAC meeting siting his undeniable support of labor. Members of the PAC were charged to conduct a survey of members to see where they stood and report back to the March PAC meeting. Needless to say, it was pretty obvious that our local members supported Obama overwhelmingly.
Our corrections locals, known for being more conservative, also spoke in favor of the Obama endorsement of Hillary Clinton because of Obama's record of supporting corrections officers in the Illinois Legislature...and also recognizing that the union would not likely endorse a Republican for President.
Other points of discussion included HRC's divisive campaign tactics. Specifically, how the Clinton campaign has turned the race into, well, a racial issue.
Oregon AFSCME is prepared to help Senator Obama in his efforts to change the country and to win big in Oregon.
This may just give other AFSCME councils excuse to follow suit...
Posted by: Tahler | Mar 18, 2008 5:25:43 AM
Shame on Oregon's AFSCME!
Hillary is the only candidate with the strength and experience to bring about the change we need!C
Posted by: Carol | Mar 18, 2008 7:22:06 PM
I recently canvassed for the Democratic Party in my neighborhood of Medford and was encouraged to see that almost every voter expressed the strong relationship between the economy and the Iraq War. I am hopeful for Oregon. Even though Southern Oregon has some history of racism, it looks like AFSCME has resolved on behalf of an important portion of Oregon. I am grateful for this action, and hope that Obama will be able to address critical issues of the economy, the war, health care and government accountability as well as race.
Posted by: Sue Stinson | Mar 20, 2008 11:22:43 AM
Relating to the latest bluster over the seating of the Michigan and Florida delegations: For years and years those states who had their primaaries\caucuses later in the spring essentially lost their right to make a difference. I didn't see a lot of DNC tears or Clinton hand-ringing. Why now? In Michigan and Florida the tied-up leadership (and possibly the Clinton Campaign) thought they could make an end run around the rules (like the law) and do what they wanted or needed to do. That is a Bush tactic. It wouldn't matter who the candidate was who was ahead of Hillary Clinton, they would still have the ace in the hole at convention time because they control the party and therefore the credentials committee.
This is not my Democratic Party (and I have been a member longer than either of the Clintons). Let the Michigan and Florida delegations either be drawn at random, like a jury pool, from registered Democratic voters who are free of pledges, or let the delegations be seated after the first roll-call vote if it does not designate a "majority of delegates" Democratic Presidential Candidate (with a nomination at 2024 votes required for the first vote). There's a compromise!
After all, it has been years since Oregon mattered.
Sue Stinson
Portland, Oregon
Posted by: Nancy | Mar 23, 2008 9:25:50 PM
I was wondering if the union workers would be interested in posting articles to local newspapers (with photos of members) stating why they support Barack. Also, if they can contact others in the remaining states such as PA, NC, IN, WV and encourage them to do the same in their local newspapers. The best endorsements are from local people that voters can relate with. It'll be a great. Thank you.
Posted by: fastjack | May 6, 2008 11:51:28 AM
Beginning in Iowa the "leadership" of AFSCME has spent millions upon millions of dollars acting as a financial surrogate to Sen.Clinton during this PRIMARY campaign.The money that King Mcentee has spent in a few of these states alone is more than many AFSCME members will earn in a lifetime of work.The E-board members who have sat silent throughout this charade are as guilty as the King himself. It is time the members of this union speak out and demand that this costly display of ego be stopped immediately.
Posted by: Janet Reno | May 17, 2008 12:25:09 PM
Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.
Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.
Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.
Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming Tax Fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Oddly enough, Barack Obama, and his mentor Rev. Wright, failed to mention Planned Parenthood, an organization established by eugenicist Margaret Sanger expressly for the purpose of black genocide. The Obelus -- Kiss-A-Cuss and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X, foreshadows X - PATRIOT Obama (the nuclear AGA KHAN) - the Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), translated "Spear of the Nation" - as the bringer of a “new politics,” rising above the old Washington ways of expediency. It's hard to think of an act more blatantly expedient than renouncing Wright when his show, once done from the press club instead of the pulpit, could no longer be "contextualized" as something whites could not understand and only Obama could explain in all its complexity. Pope Benedict XVI quoted Alexis de Tocqueville and Franklin Roosevelt on the positive role of faith in society, used the term “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin for "Out of Many, One."), and extrapolated America’s long history of interfaith cooperation efforts in his speech to America. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --
OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --
"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.
Michelle Obama should be ashamed.
"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-Complex of Barack and Michelle's relationship with MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
"God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
"God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton --
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beast-'ist Michelle, his jackanapes' excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas Our Father Our King -- black rage, and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
THE SPEECH --
The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama's speech takes credit for Ashley's dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. In Obama's speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama's grandmother share; represents Obama's self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama's Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn -- a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama's speech is a brilliant failure.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
MUSLIM LIES --
The ILLIGITIAMTE MUSLIM MESSIA has blundered yet again!!! The self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, lied about the politics of his campaign. The danger involved with this self-aggrandizing, -a-hoop, Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama is that -- "Like Father Like Son" X - PATRIOT Obama (the nuclear AGA KHAN), is constantly wanting to impress America with "...his incapacity for sound judgment." In 2005, Sen. Obama voted for the Dick Cheney energy bill, which Cheney wrote in secret with the Exxon Mobil oil industry. Hillary Clinton opposed Cheney's energy bill, has a plan to eliminate oil industry tax breaks, and would require oil companies to contribute to a $50 billion strategic energy fund to jump-start research and investment in clean energy technologies. On top of the horrible crime Obama executed in Harlem, the fact is, we have to hear it from Karl Rove about Obama's latest Campaign Crisis.
"GLORK" Top Ten Obama Lies:
1. Obam said his parents met at the Selma march -- Reality: He was born 4 years before that.
2. Obam said he was a constitutional law professor -- Reality: . . . Obama Made This False Claim In His 2004 Senate Race. “Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school..
3. Obam said he spoke fluent Indonesian as a child -- Reality: . . . Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet another Phi Beta Krakatau lie from Obama. Those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews. Israel la Pareira Darmawan, Obama's 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. Truth-be-told: Obama's Indonesian teachers say Kaku-Pooh.
4. Obam said he was involved in community asbestos and housing project for the poor -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. This was the basis for Barack and Michelle's claim, that he was a community activist on the South and East Side of Chicago. Usher United Arab Emirates (UAE) A+ lie both he and his twenty-four (24) mule-team, Hus-suey loving wife Michelle Obama have been claiming in the campaign -- Reality: The Chicago Newspaper's Obelus -- Kiss-A-Cuss:...NO-MAMA.
5. Obam said in his book that he received his racial awakening at age nine reading a Life/Ebony Magazine story about a black man who was scarred trying to dye his skin white -- Reality: . . . Didn't happen. Both Magazines (Life and Ebony), and the Rev. Wright and Farrakhan MUSLIM Trumpet Newsmagazine say, just didn't happen.
6. Obam’s Campaign Didn’t Have The “Technical Capacity” To Produce The “1984” Ad:
Obama: “But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like that.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 3/24/07) -- Reality:...The Creator Admitted All It Took Was A “Sunday Afternoon” On His Mac. Phillip de Vellis: “I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.”
7. Obam’s Campaign Claimed His High School Friend Tried To Extort Money From Them:
“According To The Obama Campaign, [Obama’s Punahou Classmate Keith] Kakugawa Explicitly Raised The Possibility That He Could Make Up False Stories About Obama, Implying He Would Do So If The Campaign Did Not Give Him Money.” (Maurice Possley, Kirsten Scharnberg and Ray Gibson, -- Reality: “...An Old Friend's Troublesome Return,” Chicago Tribune, 3/25/07).
8. Obam voted to bring low-cost foreign labor into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- Reality: . . . This was a slap in the face against the African-Americans who were displaced in that city. Obama also voted to place Michael Chertoff, the man responsible for the Katrina catastrophe, in charge of Homeland Security. Obama voted for Senate-Bills that gave Blackwater the funding they needed to shoot the folks of New Orleans who were only trying to save their own lives. Inextricably, the towel head voted to allow Michael Chertoff to waive all applicable laws, including murder, torture, kidnaping, and he suppoted water-boarding.
9. Obam voted more than five times for USA-PATRIOT ACT renewal -- Reality: . . . This is a Senate-Bill patently offensive to most Americans. City after city has passed resolutions condemning USA-PATRIOT ACT. Passively or reflexively, Obama chose to side with tyranny over freedom and Bush over the folks on this issue. The Real ID Act, which would allow Michael Chertoff to declare martial law and imprison Americans, was supported by ex-patriot Obama, as noted above.
10. Obam is not a MAD MAN. Sen. Obama has not exaggerated the disconnection with . . ."The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth" --Ex. xxxiv. 6; or extolled his venomous-vexatious-Vesuvius MUSLIM madrassahs'-faux-pas on us. Sen. Obama Is not involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor, now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO); or Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley. Sen. Obama is not involved with- nor has Sen. Obama exhibited any nuclear security, bribery, money payoffs, or cronyism in the state of Illinois; or criminal activities related to the BIG HALIBURTAN and V.P. Cheney's Halliburton bribery case; or any political misjudgment in his escalating Campaign Crisis. Sen. Obama does not take money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists or state lobbyists. "GLORK" Sen. Obama Is not involved with any Hoax or Oxfam volunteers and HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed. Sen. Obama is not associated with Exiled "God damn America" SOULJAH JIHAD -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan and black-rage demagoguery; or Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia; or Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; Sen. Obama has not exulted the virtue of being an aggrieved black man. Sen. Obama does not accept political contributions from terrorists. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the October Surprise: "X-Files" -- The 1980 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and aging [VX] Vietnam-era Weather Underground Radical Terrorist William Ayers. Sen. Obama has not expressed the troublesome sub-text of the November Surprise: "X-X-Files" -- The 2008 election scandal exposed... the extraneous-demon-us-venomous anger driven association between Obama and 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam and Solar-Solecism-Sista-Soljah-Souljah-Jihad -- AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan, and Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST underground-money connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Sen. Obama is not a separatist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast is not a liberal-leftist-sexist-racist. Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- did not fail the Illinois Bar Exam and trot out her Marxist leftist-separatist-racist Socialist X box - Soapbox; X - PATRIOT Obama Is not the new AGA KHAN. Sen. Obama is not a self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box. "GLORK" Obama executed no crime in Harlem. Obama is Not America's Poison -- Reality:...He's Radio-Active.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
NUCLEAR SOULJAH JIHAD -- OBAMA CAMPAIGN CRISIS
The Republicans' disengagement (media bias), if not disillusionment, with the economic campaign issues is borne out by the fact that many more Republicans are able to explain, extinguish, and excoriate the name Barrack Obama with the term (JIHAD), than can name Bush/Dick Cheney and McCain -- as the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN politicians expanding GOP IRAQ WAR ideology, and Republican White House Party Elders' GI Bill of Rights for the 21st century IRAQ WAR ECONOMY. Even among Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, Ben Holt, Cotton-Club to Lenox Club- a.k.a. "The Breakfast Club," Staples Singers In Ghana 1971: "When Will We Get Paid," Paul Robeson, DMX or Jay-Z . . . excerpts from the infamous Malcolm X speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” inexperienced Obama and conservative Republicans: Clinton is much more visible than GOP presumptive candidate John McCain towards affecting positively the important economic issues facing America's middle class economy. Next, Speaking at an awards banquet for the Society of Professional Journalists on April 4, "Phoenix New Times" and Village Voice Media Inc. Executive Editor Michael Lacey used the "N-word" to refer to a former colleague who voted for the godless, money-laundering, call-girl-reach-around loving liberal McCain, who collaborated with the Viet Cong, hides a Rx- cyanide pill in his check, and secretly fathered a black child with a Unicorn Crêpe Suzette look-alike, who turned out to become -- you guessed it -- Barack Obama?
When asked who they would vote for in the general election for president of the United States, the natural pendulum swing in America is approximately 79% of Republicans named Hillary Clinton as their choice. Reasons for Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis include:
No excuses. Sen. Obama accepted more money from oil company executives last month than any other candidate, while he ran an ad saying he didn't take money from oil companies. Context of ad extends that oil money taken by IL Sen. Barrack Obama from BIG HALIBURTAN spells bad MO-Jo for Obama Campaign Crisis and RX for U.S. stock x-change = VX for U.S. economy. Sen. Obama's giveaways to the oil industry are not limited to tax breaks. They also include provisions like royalty relief that are worth billions. And many of the tax "increases" are simply extensions of existing taxes that do not impose any additional burden on oil companies. Exactly half of giveaways were not tax provisions. For instance, the oil companies received billions in royalty waivers. Obama voted for Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 energy bill containing "billions in dollars in giveaways to the oil companies." [ Ludacris ]
Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN -- OBAM 50 Cent LIES --
EXAMPLE:
Sections 344-345
Waives royalty payments for drilling for some natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Section 346
Waives royalty payments for drilling in offshore Alaska.
Sections 353-4
Waives royalty payments for gas hydrate extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf and public land in Alaska.
Section 383
Allows oil companies drilling in federal land off the coast of a particular state to pay the state 44 cents of every dollar it would have paid to the federal government for the privilege of drilling on federal land.
"Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show. Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month. At least $140,000 has come in chunks of between $1,000 and $2,300, the maximum permitted under federal law." [LA Times, 4/24/08]
"Obam has more holes in him than Swiss-Cheese." [CNN's "Politics.com," 4/01/08]
Obam presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obam has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam extracted $666,357 from Exxon-Mobil. [factcheck.org]
Obam extorted $213,000 from Exelon- a nuclear plant operator in Illinois. [truthdig.com]
Obam has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
NUCLEAR "GLORK" SOULJAH JIHAD -- CAMPAIGN CRISIS
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WASHINGTON -- Obama's support among Democrats nationally has softened.
"GLORK" Sen. Barack Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month, particularly among men and upper-income voters, as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The survey suggests that Mr. Obama's proximity to Chicago, Democrat of Illinois, may have been at something of a peak in February, propelled by a string of primary and caucus victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and that perceptions of him are dramatically trending downward.
Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seventeen percentage points, to 42 percent, since the last Times/CBS News survey, in late February. While that figure is steadily declining, this dramatic decline came in a month during which he endured withering attacks from Mrs. Clinton, and responded to reports that his exiled former pastor had made politically inflammatory statements from his church’s pulpit in Chicago, and swirling questions about Harlem, and the criminal money generating underworld of 501-(C)-Shaddy-Sharpton-Semilunar-Crescent of Allah Islam Mosque No. 7; and what Barack Obama did in Harlem -- from which he cannot extricate himself.
The events of the last month (with the possible exception of Muslim Jihad).appear to have fundamentally altered the race for the party’s nomination and provided Mrs. Clinton’s campaign extensive evidence of a collapse in Mr. Obama’s standing or an overwhelming preference voiced for Mrs. Clinton by Democratic and Republican voters in polls: -- perplexing developments in Obama's ongoing Campaign Crisis, that could be used to persuade uncommitted super-delegates to sign on with Hillary Clinton.
Twenty-six percent of the general electorate voters who heard of the Apologia speech that Mr. Obama the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama gave to try to deal with the controversy over Obama's separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah, said it made them dislike him. And 74 percent of Democrats and Republicans said Mr. Obama's Campaign Crisis "GLORK" Campaign Crisis "God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. "God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton... stems from the fact that he shows continued misjudgment for even the most challenging problems. Next, the overall opinion of people in the news this year; Mr. Obama lacks the decisive capability to lead, willingness to listen, conviction and courage. Mr. Obama is no Alexander Manly when it comes to sexist-racist issues, and he uses false charges and exaggerated hate-the Saxon-race claims to play politics with national security.
The junior senator from Illinois has been doing a lot of explaining about the inexcusable company he has kept for the last 17 years or so. The complexity of Obama's extremism is that it is all about him. He's the change... as in La change, c'est moi! ("I am the State") Exactly. Barack Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX, and his wife Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- the Marxist Leninist Separatist-Racist Socialist X box - SoapboX come across as condescending Ivy League black rage liberationists. A politician can not chose the family he has However; he can chose the pastor he keeps. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has influenced Obama's liberal-elitist-separatist-racist Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad views on a variety of subjects. This flare-up may have exacerbated what happened to Obama over the years, as his MUSLIM radicalism and demonize the White-Saxon-race, may expel the same Rev. Wright belief -- that America and its US allies brought on 9/11. In a sincere re-examination of his world-view, Obama's Mea Culpa-Apologia says this guy is like an uncle to him. To Obama the excursus of AXIS OF EVIL Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Wright and MUSLIM EXTREMIST Malcolm X KillA -- Louis Farrakhan black rage, is grounded in extremist-racist hate Israel world-view, and extols Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s praise of Barack; while white resentment of Obama's black-rage demagoguery is exaggerated and exploited. But shouldn’t his long term relationship with these despicable characters call into question at the very least Obama’s judgment? From Waxahache, TX.-- to Axis-of-Evil, Mr. Obama lied about the politics of his campaign, and knew about Ex-Pastor Rev. Wright's MUSLIM Militant Farrakhan Malcolm X Mosque No. 7 - JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMIST mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Colfax: Sen. Obama on Lobbyists --
“Considering that Sen. Obama voted to suspend the gas tax three times when gas cost less than $2 a gallon and has an energy lobbyist chairing his Indiana campaign, it's hard to take his latest criticisms very seriously. Senator Obama wants Americans to pay the gas tax but Senator Clinton thinks the big oil companies should pay it this summer.” - Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer
Colfax: Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon. Next, Kip Tew, the top advisor to Obama's Indiana campaign is an energy lobbyist. Tew said recently, "I'm not running away from the fact that I'm a lobbyist. I have a healthy client list, and I'm proud of it."
May 3, 2008--APEX-- 2:11:35 PM #
The choice is simple: Senator Obama wants the American people to pay the gas tax this summer but Senator Clinton thinks Big Oil should.
The Clinton gas tax holiday is financed exclusively through a tax on windfall profits from oil companies and keeps the Highway Transportation Trust fund intact. Hillary opposed a plan in 2000 for a gas tax holiday because it was financed with transportation funds.
Sen. Obama voted three times for a gas tax holiday in 2000 when gas prices were less than $2 a gallon.
MAY 2, 2008--APEX-- 11:54:21 AM #
"When it comes to lobbyists, Senator Obama’s words might sound nice but voters need to make sure they read the fine print. Despite trying to give the impression that he has no relationship with lobbyists or special interests, the reality is that Senator Obama takes money from people who hire lobbyists, partners of lobbyists, spouses of lobbyists, former lobbyists and state lobbyists."
Statement from Clinton Deputy Communications Director, Phil Singer
Sen. Obama Has Ties to Lobbyists in His Presidential Bid.
Public Citizen: 10 of Sen. Obama's bundlers have been federal lobbyists. The Public Citizen report listed the following ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists: Frank Clark, Commonwealth Edison; Scott Harris, Harris Wiltshire and Grannis; Allan J. Katz, Akerman Senterfitt; Robert S. Litt, Arnold & Porter; Thomas J. Perrelli, Jenner and Block; Thomas A. Reed, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; Paul N. Roth, Schulte Roth & Zabel; Miriam Sapiro, Summit Strategies; Alan Solomont, Solomont Bailis Ventures; and Tom E. Wheeler, Core Capital Partners. [Public Citizen, 1/29/08]
Sen. Obama and his thugs extort money from employees of firms that lobby and has lobbyists as advisers. "But those who lobby for a living say it's not that simple, and even Obama's stance shows some flexibility. He won't take money from federal lobbyists but accepts money from employees of firms and corporations that lobby, and he uses lobbyists and other government relations professionals as advisers... Obama has also used major fundraisers who are registered lobbyists on the state level. And he uses registered federal lobbyists such as Broderick Johnson, who lobbies for AT&T and Shell Oil, among others, as a campaign adviser. Because Johnson isn't giving money to Obama, his name won't show up in Federal Election Commission records." [Chicago Tribune, 2/10/08]
Bloomberg: Five of [Obama’s] ten biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington. "While Obama doesn't accept money from registered federal lobbyists, five of his 10 biggest sources of funds are groups of employees at law firms that lobby in Washington…Among Obama's top donors were employees of the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, who gave $105,750 in the first quarter. The firm was paid $4.5 million last year" for lobbying the federal government. [Bloomberg, 6/7/07]
Obam presidential campaign has received $2,812,336 from firms that employ registered federal lobbyists. [fec.gov]
Obam has taken $405,747 from the Pharmaceutical industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received $1,185,937 from the Commercial Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has received over six million dollars from the Securities & Investment industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $608,822 from the Insurance industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam has taken $168,584 from the Mortgage Banking industry. [opensecrets.org]
Obam extracted $666,357 from Exxon-Mobil. [factcheck.org]
Obam extorted $213,000 from Exelon- a nuclear plant operator in Illinois. [truthdig.com]
Obam voted for the Big Oil -- BIG HALLIBURTAN Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill, Hillary opposed. [H.R. 6, Vote #213, 07/29/05]
Prior to His Presidential Campaign, Sen. Obama extorted Money from Lobbyists and PACs
Obam's Leadership PAC includes John Gorman of Texas-based Tejas Securities, a major supporter of Senate Democrats as well as the Bush presidential campaigns. [truthdig.com]
1996-2004: $296,000 of the $461,000 Sen. Obama raised as a state senator came from PACs, corporate contributions or unions. "But behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator in Illinois, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant. In Obama's eight years in the Illinois Senate, from 1996 to 2004, almost two-thirds of the money he raised for his campaigns -- $296,000 of $461,000 -- came from PACs, corporate contributions, or unions, according to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and many other corporate interests, the records show." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Sen. Obama raised $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs. "Obama's US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. His $1.3 million from PACs represents 8 percent of what he has raised overall." [Boston Globe, 8/9/07]
FITNA: Nostradamus often used anagrams: barack hUSsein oBAMa. The capitalized letters spell MABUS--Nostradamus name for the antichrist.
Remember--God is good, and is in time, on time--every time.
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40's, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal.... the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything.
Is it OBAM ??
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Posted by: muhabbet | Sep 6, 2008 9:59:57 PM
I had a gut feeling about Clinton back then although I was a gung ho supporter. That event was a giant red flag many of us ignored...or just buried in our subconscious.
Posted by: RW | Sep 6, 2008 11:47:45 PM
Reno Troll: did you remember to take a breath during all of that? I tried very hard to read it. Really. There might be meaningful information in there that a THINKING person wants to read irrespective of loyalties and bias. I am voting for Mr. Obama (it would be nice if you'd all stop with twisting people's names as a disrespect - rarely are the monikers clever enough to warrant the effort you have or have not made), but despise much about the political dynamics he and all others running are going to engage. I am as ready to see his crap as I am to see someone else's... for instance, I wish the guys I WANT in power would SHOW UP for the votes like Smith seems to by the published numbers. Good for him to be there and do the job he was asked to do. Even if I feel the he does is one he's doing on me and mine...
So think about breaking up your ventilations into bite-sized, single-concept chunks. You might find a readership instead of sore scroll-mouse fingers flying past your rant.
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Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Mar 15, 2008 4:47:43 PM
Here's the statement in full, since it's not online anywhere yet: