Obama “Say it to my Face!”
October 9th, 2008 | by Papamoka |Barack Obama and Joe Biden have hit the nail on the head with the non stop lies coming from John McCain’s campaign. John McCain had the chance to look Barack Obama in the face and state his wild accusations. He didn’t because he could not! This makes one fact clear in voters minds, one party wants to talk about the truth and the other is hiding behind baseless lies in political advertisements.
In the past two debates between McCain and Obama, John McCain could not look at his opponent Barack Obama. Matter of fact, after the last debate John McCain practically ran out of the hall. Barack Obama stuck around to actually talk to the people there. Something smells wrong and it is coming from John McCain and what he has had to become since morping into George Bush 3.0…
Papamoka
Originally posted at Papamoka Straight Talk
31 Responses to “Obama “Say it to my Face!””
By steve on Oct 9, 2008 | Reply
Obama said it right at the end… “I have been running for President for the last two years.”
You guys gotta put down the Kool Aid and step onto the side of America for once.
By Windspike on Oct 9, 2008 | Reply
Steve? Huh? Do you have an argument to make? The GOP Faithful have been sucking so long and hard on the W, Rove and Co Propaganda Crack Pipe, they can’t find the truth if it smacked them on the right side of their heads.
By steve on Oct 9, 2008 | Reply
Obama said he had been running for President for 2 years… McCain talks about being in the Senate for over 20 years. No experience… enough said… McCain wins.
Say it to his face…
By Peet on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Republicans have known Sarah Palin for only a couple of months but still she is the second coming of christ for the GOP.
I´ll take a couple of years over a couple of months any day.
By steve on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Sarah Palin isn’t running for President. John McCain is Peet. Big freaking difference.
By Ditto on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
That is a selective suspension of realty, Steve. (Not uncommon of GOPer grunts.)
Obama could manage the complexities of the Wasilla City Council and the oil-rich state of (no-budget-worries) Alaska.
Could your GILF make it thru Harvard Law School?
By manapp99 on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“Obama could manage the complexities of the Wasilla City Council and the oil-rich state of (no-budget-worries) Alaska.”
This is an assertion you simply cannot prove.
Not uncommon with brain dead Dems.
“Could your GILF make it thru Harvard Law School?”
Sure, why not. After all it doesn’t take all that much to get through Harvard.
From Wiki:
“Bush then attended Harvard University, where he earned his MBA”
By steve on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“Obama could manage the complexities of the Wasilla City Council and the oil-rich state of (no-budget-worries) Alaska.”
I guess we wouldn’t know since the only thing he has done is run for President.
If Obama ran for Governor of Alaska would he win?
By Windspike on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Steve, you are the master of hyperbole. Have you looked at his past record? My town has more people in it than the entire State of Alaska. Simply because you believe the Governor of Alaska qualified to be Veep doesn’t make her so.
The days of leadership by faith over fact are over.
By manapp99 on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“The days of leadership by faith over fact are over.”
Apparently not. You are about to vote for the least experienced presidential candidate since….well ever. Just because he says he can change Washington with absolutley no record to back it up. If that isn’t faith over fact then nothing is.
By Windspike on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
More hypoerbole, Man? I thought Steve was an expert in that category. Where’s the proof of your claim. I’m 100% sure you are wrong.
The subliminal message in your comment is that you think that 4 more years of the same is going to get you an improvement. In that case, you are dead wrong because you haven’t been looking over McSame’s full record.
By manapp99 on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“The subliminal message in your comment is that you think that 4 more years of the same is going to get you an improvement.”
I don’t know if you read any newspapers or magazines Wind but here’s a newsflash.
Bush is not running for president this time. He is term limited and cannot seek office again.
This message is NOT subliminal. This is not a test.
McCain, being the maverick he is, will bring the change we need while providing a steady hand on the tiller, so to speak.
I won’t know about the proof of my claim. Can you prove that he is not? You said you are sure that I am 100% wrong, can you prove it?
By manapp99 on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Should have read “don’t know” not “won’t know”
By Ditto on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“If Obama ran for Governor of Alaska would he win?”
Probably not, and not because of racism either. I believe that Obama has a genuine love of his country, as do I. He wants it to continue to improve and become stronger. A significant majority of Alaskans would rather not be a part of the USA. Just ask Todd and Sarah and the AIP.
The simple FACT that John W McCain selected Palin as his veep when their feelings about the USA is public record, and now common knowledge, speaks to his leadership capabilities.
Why do GOPers hate America?
By Ditto on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
“Bush is not running for president this time. He is term limited and cannot seek office again.”
Bush has been a figure head of the giant oil machine – nothing more. John W McCain seeks to be that figure head now. It’d be the same old greedy, greasy machine with a fresh paint job.
By Lisa on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Subprime-ACORN-OBAMA-Democrats
Facts never matter do they? Obama can’t even successfully run a community and he wants to run a country. You think subprime ruined the economy wait till he puts in all the new programs that will further tank the economy.
I don’t know how much more proof you guys need but you certainly are in some sort of denial.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/10/video-subprime-loans-affirmative-action-andrew-cuomo/
By Lisa on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Speaking of Honest Abe
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm
By steve on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Windspike:
You just got owned by your faith comment by manapp. Hilarious.
Ditto:
There is basis to the claim that Sarah and Todd were with the group that wanted to leave the US. No basis whatsoever. Look it up!! Sarah Palin was not introduced to her party in the living room of a known terrorist. That is also a fact.
That one… has the same problem as Clinton. “Someone from the neighborhood” is just like Bill Clinton saying his not having a sexual relationship with Monica was legally accurate.
Why do you hate freedom?
By Ditto on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Utter bullshit, Steve. Funny, those must be Todd and Sarah Palin LOOKALIKES in the numerous AIG endorsement videos we’ve seen surface on Internets. They even had all the AIG members fooled too apparently! Does it hurt being that naive? I hope calluses build up after a decade or so of towing these GOP “facts”. Some things never change!
Barrack has denounced Ayers’ radical actions of 40 years ago. Sarah still LOVES the AIG! Fact and fact.
Still doing the Clinton bashing thing, eh? Time to expand the repertoire, guitar boy. Yeah I have some recollection of Clinton. He was the president that could balance our collective checkbook. And oh yeah… from the start of the first Clinton term to the end of his presidency my personal income rose over 100%. I make the same now as I did when Bush was appointed POTUSA in 2000. BTW: It’s the same job, I’m the boss, and I am struggling not to lay anyone off. Go free market!
I do not hate freedom. I’m just down on ignorance and stupidity.
By Windspike on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Really, how has his voting for complete deregulation of the banking industry helped the current situation. McSame amounts to more of the same. I don’t have any proof otherwise other than that they claim to be mavericks, which they are not simply because they say so.
By Windspike on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Why do you hate liberty, Steve?
Oh, and no one owns me, baby.
Blog on friends, blog on all.
By manapp99 on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
“Really, how has his voting for complete deregulation of the banking industry”
Do you have links to back up this spurious claim?
How about this lead from the oh so conservative NYT’s
“WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain is correct: He warned two years ago that Congress should rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant mortgage finance companies, before their financial risk-taking threatened the economy, and Senator Barack Obama did not.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/us/politics/26check.html?_r=2&dlbk&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
This is action of a maverick with a cool hand on the tiller and great grasp on reality.
By Windspike on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
So, Man, McSame was really successful, wasn’t he? You and I would have to disagree on his maverick status. Even so, his actions didn’t help, now did it? If, instead, he did something that would have staved off the crisis, he just might earn my vote. Until then, we have a long history of McSame’s to vote against.
Why do you hate liberty, btw? You didn’t provide an answer, now did you?
By manapp99 on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
The reason the legislation did not help is that Dems blocked it.
Maybe this was due, in part, to Barney Franks sexual relationship with Herb Moses a high ranking executive at Fannie Mae. No?
“I am the only member of the congressional gay spouse caucus,” Moses wrote in the Washington Post in 1991. “On Capitol Hill, Barney always introduces me as his lover.”
The two lived together in a Washington home until they broke up in 1998, a few months after Moses ended his seven-year tenure at Fannie Mae, where he was the assistant director of product initiatives. According to National Mortgage News, Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”
Critics say such programs led to the mortgage meltdown that prompted last month’s government takeover of Fannie Mae and its financial cousin, Freddie Mac. The giant firms are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.”
Hell, even Bill Clinton knows the Dem and especially Barney Frank are to blame for the mortgage mess.
Check it out:
“Although Frank now blames Republicans for the failure of Fannie and Freddie, he spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations on the mortgage giants. In 1991, the year Moses was hired by Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes, respectively.
Three years later, President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development tried to impose a new regulation on Fannie, but was thwarted by Frank. Clinton now blames such Democrats for planting the seeds of today’s economic crisis.
“I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” Clinton said recently.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html
Of course the liberal MSM has avoided this story. For those that really think the MSM is right winged, explain away their failure to point out that it was the DEMS agains regulation not the GOP.
The record is clear.
Why do you hate the truth Wind?
By Paul Watson on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Same reason you do. it’s election time.
btw, the deregulation of the securities markets, and especially a provision introduced by Republican congressmen (and signed into law by Bill Clinton, so there’s blame to be spread), is why this is such a problem. A housing collapse is bad. A housing collapse that through crappy securitised debt causes runs on dozen of banks worldwide and the complete gridlock of the financial systems? Rather worse.
Both parties have done things to make this fuck-up possible. Personally, I consider the debt package to be the bigger issue, but the Democrats do have to answer for supporting Fannie and Freddie as well. But the Republicans need to be held accountable for allowing bad debt to be packaged with good.
By windspike on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Man,
Why do you Hate?
By manapp99 on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Paul, while there are many that feel the way you do about the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999, Bill himself has spoken on this and disagees.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/09/bill-clinton-re.html
“I have thought about that,” Clinton told me when I asked whether he was reconsidering any of the de-regulatory economic policies his administration pursued under Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. …
Clinton said he has two regrets: First, not pursuing more aggressively an aborted attempt to provide stricter oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to Clinton, the move was stymied by Democratic and Republican members of Congress and by mayors, who saw the lending giants as “the New Jerusalem” and “pure” because of their role in increasing home-ownership to historic levels. But “it just didn’t feel good,” Clinton said of Fannie and Freddie’s outsized political influence”
Notice it says the “de-regulatory economic policies his administration pursued under Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin”
He pursued. Not made to by the GOP congress. It also implicates Rubin in the pursual of de regulation.
Then there is this:
“One policy Clinton said he doesn’t regret is his repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, which, for the first time since the Depression, allowed commercial banks to engage in investment banking activities. Clinton said the commercial banks were an important moderating force on the risk-taking of the big investment firms that collapsed this week. “In the case of the current crisis, I believe the bill I signed allowed Bank of America to take over Merrill Lynch,” he said.”
In all fairness there are some lefties blasting Clinton for his part and even one Dem congressman (I don’t remember his name but I will try to find it) who admitted to being wrong to oppose legislation the GOP wanted to introduce to try and regulate Fannie.
You are correct in asserting that both houses share blame in this mess along with financial systems getting greedy with gambling with levereged assests. It is correct in this debacle as it was in the accounting scandals of the 90’s (remember Enron?) the government did not do enough keep companies honest. It is also true that many everday regular citizens decided to gamble with future house values and overbought or got caught speculating.
The problem I have is with the hyper partisans like Barney Frank that can admit to no wrong and want just to blame others. It is no secret that this meltdown has boosted Obama’s chances because he has been allowed to sell this mess to the public as due to Bush policies and the press has let him get away with it.
Ask the man on the street who let this happen and you will hear about Bush and GOP and deregulation.
There is a rest of the story.
By manapp99 on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
“Same reason you do. it’s election time.”
Guilty as charged. We are all spinning for “our side” aren’t we.
You know, it is too bad we cannot come together with our collective passions and address the real problems.
As I see it the politicians have got us all worked up against each other when it is them that we should be taking our anger out on.
The Dems in Washington on no more on your side than the GOP is on mine. Truth be told I could give a rat’s fart about senators like Stevens in Alaska or Jefferson in Louisianna.
If we could launch a non-partisan grass roots attack on the bad guys no matter the party we could probably force them out one at a time and send a message.
By manapp99 on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
“Man,
Why do you Hate?”
Windspike, seriously now, I do not hate. Most of all I do not hate you. You just remind me of that old Art Linkletter show, Kids say the darndest things.
Your a lot of fun dude. You are one of my favorite reasons for coming here. I look forward to your posts and miss you when you are absent. Blog On.
By Matthew O'Keefe on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
This election needs to move forward on the issues and not on ideology that even resembles hate. We are all Americans and we are all entitiled to our opininons. Discussing those opinions is how we find common ground. We don’t have to love or hate one another in order to do so. Talking about the issue is what is most important.
Radical participants from both political parties are out of control and as a moderate Democrat, a Liberal, and a firm believer in the first amendment I encourage all debate.
Debate on the issues end when hate is brought into the discussion at any level.
By Lisa on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Obama could manage the complexities of the Wasilla City Council and the oil-rich state of (no-budget-worries) Alaska.”
Of course he can he’s the savior. The spring in my step. The sparkle in my eye. The PCILF.The man of my dreams, Oh I am so hypnotized I can’t even think straight. I’m just star struck.
Sorry I couldn’t help myself. It’s Saturday night and I’m home.