Republicans to file complaint against Obama

So I guess the 'merits' of the BO/Biden ticket are that they do anything they want whether legal or not and talk about their 'plans' but never say anything about those plans.  If the media was doing it's job of actually checking out who BO is then the McCain campaign wouldn't have to be doing the media's job and could focus on the issues.

Jim, thats ridiculous.  McCain cant focus on the issues as he has no plans.   Nor will he release his medical records cause they would show that the PLAN is for Palin (Bush in a skirt) to be president. 

Also Jim, if you feel that you have not learned enough about Obama's plans please read the Blueprint he has on his website detailing everything.

You cannot tell me that you honestly believe what you wrote. This is such a diversion it's unbelievable. You think the party that got Bush elected twice. TWICE! can't present it's case against what they refer to as a 'terrorist'? Come on!  They are suffering because Obama has done something they weren't able to. If you listen to McCain and know him just a little bit ,you'll know he's a racist mad man that is furious he's not winning in his version of a Confederate flag country. 

McCain scares me and Palin scares me even more. Obama has earned my trust and believe me i have done research daily on both of these campaigns for the past 2 months solid.

If the media was doing it's job of actually checking out who BO is then the McCain campaign wouldn't have to be doing the media's job and could focus on the issues.

Poor John, if ONLY the media were doing it's job, he could concentrate on his campaign!  LMAO.

Jim, are there really any straws at all for you to grab?

Maybe McCain should tell us about his old friend Charles Keating.  Since it cost the taxpayers Tens of Millions of dollars, we should at least get a story out of it!

McCain has dealt with the keating scandal for years whereas O'Bama has denied anything being wrong with Rev. Wright's sermons over the years. Then after saying he could no more disown Rev. Wright than he could disown his own white grandmother, who he threw under the bus as a racist. Then he did disown the reverend when it became politically expedient. There has not been anything that came out of O'Bama'a mouth that he would not change if it were in the way of him accessing power and money. When you hear about his plan to tax the rich then giving it to the underpriviledged in the name of "Fairness, the oldest of dem talking points, then claiming he will cut taxes for 95% of the US citizens. Where has O'Bama ever voted for a tax cut or against a tax increase when gigven the option? Will someone anyone cite one instance where this has been the case? Good luck. The rest of his campaign is just as full of half truths and lies designed to promote division in the country. If he is so strong on the issues, why does he not run against McCain instead of Bush? The reason is clear. Against Bush, who is not running for those who do not understand this point, O'Bama stands a chance. This is a tactic born of desperation as O'Bama has no p[lan he really wants to discuss openly. The reason his at best questionable associations,yes far more than one, are critical is that every thing he is running on is about wether he can be trusted to keep his word. If he is trying to fool you about who his friends are, and yes if you start your first political campaign at someone's house as he did with Ayers, he is your friend. The man who brought you into "religion" and had been your pastor for 20 years, who performed your wedding and molded your religious world view would be a strong influence on your life. To say otherwise is dishonest, just as saying "I never heard anything controversial in these last 20 years" is just not believable. If any of you has been in a church for any period of time, much less 20 years, you know that you could not sit there and not knowwhat the preacher believes and preaches. O'Bama's credibility is the issue at hand. If you have any doubts about what kind of man he really is, you understand what is at the core of this is.He doesn't want you to really know him. If you think you do know him and it is what you want in a peader, someone who wants to socialize more and more of the american economy in the name or "Fairness" which just means taking from one group and giving to another as he sees fit, then he is your kinda guy. Physical Blindness is a handicap, political blindness is a weakness. Learn all you can about a person's character then make a sober judgement. If the person says one thing and does another, you can believe what he does is what he really believes. Don't be fooled by a slick talking back to old ways politician trying all the same class warfare tactics the democrat party over all the years since the civil war. This is the party of slavery that the republicans were formed to end, and they succeeded, The republicans enacted the civil rights agenda by standing up for minorities in the 60's and had several big names bolt to the democrat party because they knew racism was still alive there, and still is. The only polls showing someone is voting based on race were about democrats, abotu 1/3 of which said they were voting for or against O'Bama based on nothing else. Vote your conscience, but make sure your candidate ison your side.

Tom,

It's Obama, not O'bama. He's not Irish!

McCain and his agents are "gambling that he can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance," Obama added. "They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up. It's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time."

McCain's course correction reflects a growing case of nerves within his high command as the electoral map has shifted significantly in Obama's favor in the past two weeks.

"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," a top McCain strategist told the Daily News. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."

Source: The Daily News.com

Why, exactly, won't McCain or Palin talk about their ideas for the future? Why won't McCain or Palin talk about their vision of America under their (alleged) leadership? Why won't McCain or Palin talk about exactly what they intend to "reform" as "mavericks" besides the goofus non-answer, "greed of Wall St."?

McCain & Palin have been completely outclassed by Barack Obama every step of the way!

McSame/Caribou Barbie can't discuss what they don't have-plans for the future. And yes, I think that this and all their little side trips are because they are falling behind and they have nothing else to discuss. Seldom glad when Nov. comes, but come Nov. come.  

Whille we at it, how about  a list of American donors to McCain campaign?  Bet you find a lot of KKK members, American Nazi party and white supremacist donors!  ALL racist and anti-semitic!

These are home-grown terrorists!

FredC, what about Obama's student loans being paid off with help form the BLack Panther party? 

what about Obama's student loans being paid off with help form the BLack Panther party? 

It's a lie.  Next question Ryan?

Ken, did Obama release the records to you and nobody else?  Obama refuses to release the records, and Percy Sutton, has said that Khalid Al-Monsour paid Obama's way.  Al-Monsour was an advisor/mentor to the Black Panther Party, and many other hateful things.

did Obama release the records to you and nobody else? 

No, did he release them to you?  And if not, how do you make the assertion that the Black Panthers paid for Obama's education?  Hersey?  Not admissible.

I'll tell you where the money comes from.  From the hard working Americans who are sick and tired of being passed over and lied to time and time again by King George and his band of merry republican puppets.  I'm on disability and I donated $10 x 2 and would definately give more if I could. I will also volunteer and do everything I can to make certain that McBush and his little mouth piece, McNurse, are not elected. ENOUGH!

OBAMA/BIDEN

Good for you Karla!  Keep up the good fight.  There's more besides money that we can do to help.  Make calls etc.

Obama/Biden '08-'12!

The lie about republicans lining up lawyers is very old and deathly weak. Gore started the fight because the media and their exit polls convinced him he had been robbed. These were the same exit polls that created the headline " Dewey defeats Truman" which Truman was waving overhead during his victory parade. After all the votes were counted, he lost and he conceded this. The only ones clinging to this fantasy are tose who think they are so superior in thought and deed that anyone who disagrees must be too simple to understand. This is why so many people think your ideas are elitist and uninformed about the working man in this country. The onnly thing the suprmem court did was say that the Florida supreme court had to follow the law and not rewrite it to ride in and save the country. How ever I am sure that will never play into your concept of reality since the facts do not fall into your agenda.

The American people were the ones who were robbed, not Gore.

Mcscum and Mcslander are at it again...they are running scared..and they should be ...lol how about those electorial votes...

Hope they bury porkbelly palin in troopergate...wouldn't it be funny if porkbelly lost in Alaska...hehehe..

 I am also a community organizer who is registering people to vote in St. Louis, MO. And, do remember that Obama did great things for his community just like all of us who are community organizers and how is this organization's voters fraud related to Obama , remember he has way more dignity than most Americans do, Newsvine demonstrates the disparity in thinking in this country.
 If you want to talk fraud, lets....now where do we start with McCain...oh ya, watch this......Mccain has enough ghosts in past to arise from the dead., and it not because he is OLD..........

Bob ...
"Reason to look...."
HA!
Obama did not work for ACORN.
Stop spreading lies, Republican.

Folks - please read what I wrote. I said just because ACORN was found guilty is no reason to assume Obama is guilty.
Obama did wwork for ACORN as an attorney when he and a team of attorneys won a suit in 1995 which forced Chicago to implement the "motor voter" bill and he also did work as a trainer for Acorn operatives.
He reportedly raised money for ACORN through the Woods Foundations and others.
It would be interesting to look. He should be able to stand up to a little scrutiny.

Please read what *I* wrote. Obama did not work for ACORN, period. He was one of the lawyers involved along with the Department of Justice in the motor voter bill.

HE DID NOT work as a trainer for ACORN. That is a fact. You are trying to imply guilt by association, and Obama has suffered enough of that as well as answering all the bogus charges against him again and again. He has been under intense scrutiny through the entire primary process. If there were anything to discredit him to be found, Hillary Clinton surely would have found it. She was highly motivated.

Stella....you are soo right

Palin contributed "TAINTED" money to 3 charities on September 26, 2008 on the

advice of the McMummy camp from a CONTRIBUTION she received for HER 2006

GUBERNATORIAL RACE....2 YEARS LATER and.. McMummy's CAMP had to TELL her to.

.....WOW.. to bad Obama's people aren't that SCUMMY...they could have FILED A

COMPLAINT FIRST....against....McPIT

My entire family has been republican as far back as I can remember.  Nearly every last one of them has sworn off McCain.

That's how bad McCain is.

My family was voting for the republican party all the way back to 1620!  We've been proud republicans even before the party existed... just like the other 'former republicans' who post about how they've 'seen the light'.  The only light that you've seen is the spot light that BO has been shining in your eyes so you can't seen that there's NOTHING behind his facade...  When is he actually going to tell the world what he accomplished during his life... not what someone gave him but what he actually accomplished.  I'm sorry, I forgot... he's already told us what he's done...nothing!!

Tradition is one thing Jim, but you might want to check your calender.  We're no longer burning witches, (though some today are having evil demons and witches exorcised).

With the massive changes and iterations that the Republican party has gone through over the years, your "always voted Republican" comment is a little confusing.

I'm sorry, but I just have to say this.

I would rather shop at WalMart and buy stuff from the Chinese then do business with  republicans. I think it's time to boycott some of these scumbags and see how they like the economy.

I'm fortunate to live in a upper middleclass town outside of Detroit, but way to close to where all the exec's from the car companies live. The money they throw around, and the so called charities they support are a joke. Since the CRASH, there are more and more garage sale signs in the ritzie neighborhoods. Seems like it's a sign of the times. Too bad they all have McCain signs in their yards!

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, AND I'M SO FED UP, I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

Jim b just slow down on your Kool aid you're scaring the normal people... you are not living in reality...sounds like you're not feeling well.....hope you get better soon...

jim i have a question ,given all the damage the repug party has done to America in the last 8 yrs should we even keep calling them Americans?the repugs have done more damage to America than the 911 terrorist and we went after them with our army.so jim before you run your mouth about how patriotic you are just take a look at how much pain and suffering your wonderful repug party has caused,not only in America but in the world.

I donated this year for the first time ever.

So count me in.

see israelisforobama on youtube

they don't understand that regular working people make up 95% of donations in support of the Obama Campaign. I gave my 1st donation which wasn't more than 4 bucks afer hearing Obama's DNC speech.  The next time i gave 5 bucks in august and someone emailed me back saying that they matched my humble donation. last week i gave 30 dollars, joined neighbor 2 neighbor to make phone calls from the comfort of my home in support of Obama.

Over 2  million people made doantions under 200 bucks.

Its not about Obama..its about me and my family getting up off the sidelines and making a difference.  Now I just got this email & i know i can't do it because my husband is deployed right now.  I'm sure if he was here he would be fine with their lastest request.  However, just because I can't do it doesn't mean that some of you cant.  Please spread the word because I know this same request is going out to every state that is closly contested.  Spread the word.

All across New Mexico, volunteers are talking with voters, spreading Barack's message of change, and working to build this movement through November.

This election could come down to our state. And as Election Day gets closer, hundreds of volunteers will be coming from out of state to help Barack win New Mexico. Some of them need a place to stay -- sometimes for as little as a few days, but often for a few weeks.

Do you have an extra bedroom or a foldout couch? Could you host a Campaign for Change staffer or volunteer at your home for a few days, a few weeks, or even through the election?

This is not a small request, but it's extremely important. Supporter housing goes a long way towards strengthening our movement for change.

Learn more and sign up to help the Campaign for Change by hosting a staffer or volunteer.

Someone from the campaign will contact you as the need arises.

If you have a guest room or any spare accommodations, hosting a staffer or volunteer is a great opportunity to make an impact.

The Campaign for Change will take into consideration any restrictions or concerns you may have, and match you with an appropriate staffer or volunteer.

If you think you can help us in this way, please sign up to host someone:

http://nm.barackobama.com/NMhousing

Thank you for your continued support,

Matt

Matt Kasdan
General Election Director
New Mexico Campaign for Change

Robert

I agree how about those electorial votes..!!!

mcsame and porkbelly aren't doing so good, you betcha!...lol

Sharon,

I just wanted to let you know that you made my day!  I do the same thing when Sarah Palin comes on the television.  LOL.  Obama/Biden 08!

Someday when you're bored, rent 'A Hard Days' Night'(the old Beatles movie.)  I stole the line from George describing his reaction to the most popular supermodel of the time to her manager who is convinced that George must be an aberration...then decides not to extend her contract..'just in case it's a new trend.'

Yes, Sharon, send BO some of your government money so he can buy another vote from someone who believes everything the DNC, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc. tells you and the media refuses to check on.  You'd be much better off to spend that money on food storage so you'll have something to eat when the world of BO collapses around you... as you wonder what happened to all the ludicrus promises.

Jim.... take a break and compose yourself for God sakes, your snarl is showing....

First let me apologize for any grammatical errors.

I am recently became an American Citizen and I am still learning the English language.

My mother use to say:

"The worse blind is the one which does not want to see".

The sad thing about all this situation (Presidential Elections 2008) is that…after all is done… (Obama wins)…people are gone say: What happened? I was so sure!

He sounded so good!

To good to be true!

This is what I have to say...To much talk...Who is him? Do you really know Obama? Two years in the Senate…campaigning…that’s all!

Promises…He says what people want to hear!

We all gone pay a very high price for this big mistake we (you) are getting yourselves in…

Open your eyes people!

Study the situations…get informed…Don’t believe in promises!

Look at the person! Their precedent…

Don’t you know that “were there’s smoke there’s fire?”

We should be more prudent with our choices…

We leave in a very dangerous world…very dangerous…

Look at the history of this world!

We are all living in a “lalala” world, not taking in consideration that bad people are out there, and they are planning right now, as we speak, to kill us!

Even if it takes 100 years…They will succeed!

And do you want to know why!

JUST BECAUSE WE CHOOSE TO BE BLIND…AND DEAF!

BE CAREFUL…AND… GOOD LUCK!

God bless you all!

Go Sharon I like you!!!!!!!

OK, enough with the spam already!

I couldn't have said it better!

I'm with you.  I am insulted when she refers to the american public as all hocky mom and joe six-packs.  I wish biden and Obama take the gloves off and put them where they belong, in the garbage with their worthless gibberish and no plans to help the hockey moms or joe six pack.  Her mouth run it over and i'm sick of it.  I can no longer stomach watching Bush, now i feel the same about those two. My dog has more sense than Palin, atleast he knows when to stop barking.  4 more years of the 8 we've had is too scary to even think about. I wonder, every time I'd ask someone if they voted for George Bush they'd say no, are you kidding... how in the heck did that happen.

Reality 101, You said:

"Jim.... take a break and compose yourself for God sakes, your snarl is showing...."

More like the green eyed monster JEALOUSY  is showing.

All these people saying they give $5 , 10, 15, 20, 25  makes me so proud.  I'm sending you all a great big ole cyber hug!  Thank you!

Sharon you made my day also thank you. After reading so much repugnant junk I needed a chuckle. Thank you. I turn my sound down because her voice is so annoying.

Gee, I just found out that I'm not the only one that turns down the volume when McSham and Palin come on.  The lies are just more than I want to hear.  The GOP has every plan to give our country to the highest bidder.  Look at the Top GOP leaders.  Help, If you think I am fully of it, let me tell you, I went to the new Micheal's in our town yesterday and ask for cupcake liners for Halloween.  Six green card workers, spoe among themselves trying to figure out what I needed.  The store manager had to come out just to help me find cupcake liners, and 153,000 of our citizens filed this week for Employment Ins.  My better half sets on hiring panels for our state and is not aloud to ask if the applicant is a citizen.  Obama says he want to look into making NAFTA fair.  GOP sure hasn't.

Obama/Biden all the way

Isn't that the truth. They claim to not be like Bush/Cheney but man... look at Troopergate, look at this pathetic attempt to swiftboat Obama. If this isn't Bush/Cheney all over again it is sure fooling me. Refusing to honor subpoenas, refusing to testify in a hearing. Now going to the extreme's here and even starting legal means to try to steal another election just like Bush/Cheney did.

HMMMMM sure looks familiar to me.

Annette, you can't 'swift-boat' someone who's done nothing!!  There are talkers and there are doers.  The worst possible situation is when the talkers have to be the doers because all they can do is talk.  BO has admitted that all he did as a community organizer was to get others to give money for those he represented.  I think that's what a lobbyist does... nothing of their own, just getting others to do something.  Wow! 

So, you think Palin is accomplished?  I have to laugh every time I hear her supporters tell us about "all the things she has done."   You all know how to spin crap pretty well don't you.  You are just jealous that you are not winning in the polls and that you don't have an honest candidate running for the GOP.

gop lawyers;mcsame, mcsum, mcmummy & mcgrumpy

couldn't put palin back together again...

If ANYONE else in this country was served with a subpoena, they would HAVE to answer....what gives Palin the right to refuse???  Because John McCain SAID not to?????  Who made him lord and master of our justice system?  Put HIM in control of the country and see what Little Lord Fauntleroy would do to get even with those who made him mad.  He's not only erratic, he's UNSTABLE and DISHONEST; no, he's UNSTABLE and a LIAR. 

Fact is, I have a sincere really bad feeling that he will stop at NOTHING in his desparate pathetic attempt to CONTROL this country. 

Besides all that, he simply gives me the creeps.

shame, shame on mcsame...the gop does not have a platform to stand on so they stand on the broken backs of the Middle Class Americans...sad, broken desperate, little man...

Hey, if you lie with dogs, you're bound to wake up with fleas. Palin knows who she's doing business with and it's all right with her. I don't think the "minister" witch man wasn't revoking satan on her behalf, I believe he was INVOKING him.

It's too bad that her children have this woman as a mother and role model. That is how the Republicans raise their children and we will never be rid of them.

Commonsensewins the saddest thing is watching her pick up her 6 month old down syndrome baby on the stage in front of the cameras for a few seconds & using him as a PROP for her benefit. If see is using her own 6 month baby don't you think see would use all of us even the people voting for her. What a mother.

Of course she knows who she is doing business with that is why they picked her. She operates under the same rules, obey or you fired or dead, don't have to be educated just have to be a malice, ugly Pit Bull that likes to lie to the american people to their face!

Being the wise man that Obama is, he knew he would never accept public financing for his campaign. He has way too many obstacles to overcome, and overcome he did. Boy, and that really ticks off the ole' GOP! He ran around their backs and let them think he was that stupid. Oh I love that one!

Don't you worry Dems, Obama has so much money to spend in the last 30 days, McCain can never catch up. Barak won't let all this crap impede his momentum, and he'll just be hammering McSnake on the issues that matter to his supporters, health care, ecomony, alternate fuels, jobs etc, etc. Just wait, victory will never seem so sweet!

Lower than dirt and anyone who believes them should be lobotomized!

I suspect that they already have been.  How else could they accept this pair as viable candidates for President and Vice President of the United States of America?

criminal actions of his campaign personnel at the caucuses

You are aware of the laws regarding slander are you not?  Criminal actions?  Charges filed?  Source please.

Don't you people realize you are voting for a puppet?

No, we are not voting for McCain/Palin, we are voting for Obama.

Sorry Midsun,  Who is the puppet master behind McCain?  Maybeeeeee Satannnnnn!!!!!

AT least Obama has never stood in the way of bringing home our POWs like McCain has.

Do any of your allegations, midsun, have a factual basis? Any of them?

Of course not.  Mids been sipping at that flowing purple drink at the fount of the Repub brainwashing machine.  If they can't dig up garbage, then they aren't Repubs.  If they can't brainwash America's drones, then they can't swiftboat the Dems outta the water. 

The only thing I'm worried about is, even if Obama wins by a landslide, the Repubs will get their powerful, secretive pals in the Supreme Court to throw out a victory on some trumped technicality.  Way back in the 80's, I first began to recognize the adroit Republican brainwashing machine and began to believe, we were moving to a one party system because all the Americans fell in line for America's purple drink.  It works everytime -- only in 2004, we got a label for it -- swiftboating!

Next, the Repubs will be saying Obama fathered a down-syndrome baby with Hillary and named her Sarah but gave the baby a laying down of the hands to purge the witches outta the poor thing. 

And then there is the Keeting 5 scandal.  Even the Pope has skeletons in the closet.  Why are we so obsessed with electing Jesus as our President?  Let them talk about the issues, for once.

Here, here JK!

"Next, the Repubs will be saying Obama fathered a down-syndrome baby with Hillary and named her Sarah but gave the baby a laying down of the hands to purge the witches outta the poor thing. "

OMG! white trash you cause me to spill soda all over my keyboard.  Too funny.

I agree though. McCain is beyond scraping the bottom of the barrel.

If you don't know about Obama's legislation it's because you CHOOSE not to know. He didn't come to the Senate acting flashy as if he was going to save the world. However, he has plenty of bills as a jr senator. In fact he was ranked very high in terms on bills introduced and passed. 40% of his bills are with Republican co sponsors. He went to Russia with R-Lugar very early in his 1st year as Jr. Senator & R-Lugar was impressed and asked him to joining the power Foreign Services Committee.

Veterans: He has a PERFECT score card with all the Major Jewish Groups and Pacs. Obama has a 90% approval rating with Veterans while McCain only has a 20% approval rating in terms of passing or supporting bills that would benefit Veterans. Obama recently voted in favor if the GI bill while McCain voted against it. He is receiving 6 times more in donations from Military personnel than McCain.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud; climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. In 2005 he was ranked sixteenth, and in 2006 he was ranked tenth.[53][54] In 2008, he was ranked by Congress.org as the eleventh most powerful Senator.[55]

U.S. Senate time: Obama has sponsored 136 bills since Jan 4, 2005. Two have become law.[2] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed very substantially as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006. Nor does it include amendments to other bills, although in the Senate these are not required to be germane to the parent bill and can therefore effectively be bills in their own right.[3] Obama has co-sponsored 619 bills during the same time period. Over all Obama has been more active in the Senate by than McCain by 60%. Obama has voted 100x More than McCain in 2005 with increased voter participation each year after while McCain’s activity as declined.

2007-08 2006-05
All bills sponsored by Obama 70 66
All amendments sponsored 59 86
All bills cosponsored 404 255
All amendments cosponsored 106 172
Bills originally cosponsored 230 161
Amendments originally cosponsored 75 125

The focus of legislation reflects his minority party appointments in Senate Resolution 6 of the 109th Congress to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and subsequent majority party appointments in the 110th Congress to the latter two committees and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Go to thomas.loc.gov. To see a complete list of bills he authored or sponsored with amendments. The site will tell you if they have been approved and what the committees ranked his bills are currently in.

NOTICE he doesn't have any RADICAL LEFT WING BILLS! A sample is as Follows:

Homes for Heroes Act of 2006
Alternative Diesel Standard Act of 2006
Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2006
Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act
Fuel Economy Reform Act
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006
Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act
E-85 Fuel Utilization and Infrastructure Development Incentives Act of 2005
Innovation Districts for School Improvement Act
Health Care for Hybrids Act
Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight (HERO) Act
Lead Free Toys Act of 2007
National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Act of 2007
Iran Sanctions Enabling Act
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007
Transparency and Accountability in Military and Security Contracting Act of 2007
Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act of 2007
Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007

Education & International Travel: Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[10] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[11] Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation[12] and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[13][14]

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[13][15] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[16] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[17] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.[18]

Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[22]

Organizations & Companies: Obama directed Illinois' Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of ten and seven hundred volunteers; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[23][24]
He also, in 1993, joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[13][26]

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.[13][27] He served from 1993 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama's DCP, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation.[13] Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.[13] He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.[13]

State Legislator: Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws.[29] He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.[30] In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures.[31]
Obama was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, and again in 2002.[32]

In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority.[35] He sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations.[30][36] During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.[

In all he has over 870 Bills As a State and US Senator. Get busy reading people. In this case Ignorance is not bliss.

Please show me some legislation that Obama has authored or co-sponsored that you have a problem with.  Please list for me any committee actions that he made as he chaired the various committees he was a member of that you have a problem with.

On his website he has a list of earmarks he has supported with his partner in the senate. He is one of a handful of Senators who list their earmarks for the public to view.  Please tell me which of these earmarks are wasteful spending.

Nice work, nuumskee2002 !

I would like to see some interviews of the people Obama grew up with (birth to today). I hate that all of his family members have passed away. Maybe when we were all trying to decide which person we wanted for our own party, we forgot to really look at who the other guys were. I know about Hillary and Biden, they have histories, they have people. Heck, we've even talked to enough people in Alaska to know who Palin is. I would like to know where Obama came from, and more than just a repeat of factoids. And more than what he says, or Michelle says, or Oprah says. It's not like Oprah's known him her whole life. Who is Obama? Really? I don't think we really know. And, personally, that is a very scary thought.

Hellooww.....  there is plenty of information about Obama and who he is.  About his youth and and young adulthood.  Do you not watch TV or read?

CNN ran a couple of documentaries a while back of the lives of both Barack Obama and John McCain. You might not like that network, but I thought they were pretty balanced accounts of both men. Maybe you can find them on the internet somewhere.

Thank you for your suggestions. After a search, I skipped all the anti-Barack videos (we know who made those) and went to CNN and watched Revealed. If you are voting for Barack Obama, you need to get online and watch this video. I will surely be blasted for this, but if you are voting for this man based on his books or speeches (absolutely some of the best, most inspiring of this decade, no doubt), you need to see how he got to where he is. The first two segments were nice, though I wish they had less stories from him and his books, and more of other people's personal stories concerning him. But by the end of segment 6, I had chills. And not the good kind. He is the ultimate power player. How fast can he get to where he wants to be, who will help him get there and who does he need to move out of the way. His character is revealed in this documentary. He used the political machine to promote his career, used his law degree to wipe other candidates off the ballot (not just one, ALL), even joined a church because it was where all the big players went. Even CNN said things were done "with power from on high..", and they weren't talking about God, and they sure weren't talking about the people. Did he do any good along the way? Yes. But I know a man whose been a senator for forever because he puts on a fish fry every year. That's no reason to vote for anyone. Everyone has to see this show.

There is now no doubt in my mind (and there was a sliver before) that this man is only in it for himself, not for the people. If I thought I was scared before, now I'm petrified.

Please, watch this show.

Swing and a miss Misstocally

Your oh so sincere concern for the rest of us "before we vote for this man" is ridiculous.  No go back to Rush and find out what your next marching orders are.

I don't like Rush. He was o.k. for the first six months of his career, but then he went crazy. Just to note, I don't like O'Reilly, either. Too much yelling. Ann's a nut, too. (Why does everyone have to be so violent?) I flip between 31, 37 & 39 (CNN, FOXNEWS, MSNBC). I asked a question and CNN gave me an answer. Did you actually watch the show? There is no way an open-minded person can't be a little concerned by what they see.

Jim... when people see BO speak and decide that he is who he says he is, they are either very stupid or naive!  When very simple facts are presented but they don't accept them because they don't fit what they want to think, they are either very stupid or naive.  When people lose millions of dollars because of regulations put in by the democrats, the same democrats who are blaming the republicans for no regulations, and people ignore the reality that the democrats are lying... they are either stupid or naive.  Almost all the problems we have in this country now were not caused by real republicans, the problems have been caused by the coalition of democrats and people who campaign as republican but then vote with the liberals.  Real republicans support the Constitution because anything else destroys this country... as BO is promising to do.  When he gets in and we're suddenly back to the Carter years multiplied by 10, just remember that stupid or naive is also very dangerous, especially with a closed mind.

Yes, Jim B. Yet, the GOP of today is not the GOP that you refer to in your post.  These fellows have an agenda of divide and conquer, simpleton talking points, and no "compassionate conservatism".

Today's GOP relay on scare tactics and breaking down the civil liberties and Constitutional powers.  Yet, you look into that polished crystal ball and foretell a future with a vibrant and charismatic leader as a failure to our political system. 

Personally, I'd vote any day for inspiration and hope over dusty rhetoric and empty promises, i.e. lies.  We've had enough of the bull, time to take it by the horns.

If you don't know about Obama's legislation it's because you CHOOSE not to know. He didn't come to the Senate acting flashy as if he was going to save the world. However, he has plenty of bills as a jr senator. In fact he was ranked very high in terms on bills introduced and passed. 40% of his bills are with Republican co sponsors. He went to Russia with R-Lugar very early in his 1st year as Jr. Senator & R-Lugar was impressed and asked him to joining the power Foreign Services Committee.

Veterans: He has a PERFECT score card with all the Major Jewish Groups and Pacs. Obama has a 90% approval rating with Veterans while McCain only has a 20% approval rating in terms of passing or supporting bills that would benefit Veterans. Obama recently voted in favor if the GI bill while McCain voted against it. He is receiving 6 times more in donations from Military personnel than McCain.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud; climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. In 2005 he was ranked sixteenth, and in 2006 he was ranked tenth.[53][54] In 2008, he was ranked by Congress.org as the eleventh most powerful Senator.[55]

U.S. Senate time: Obama has sponsored 136 bills since Jan 4, 2005. Two have become law.[2] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed very substantially as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006. Nor does it include amendments to other bills, although in the Senate these are not required to be germane to the parent bill and can therefore effectively be bills in their own right.[3] Obama has co-sponsored 619 bills during the same time period. Over all Obama has been more active in the Senate by than McCain by 60%. Obama has voted 100x More than McCain in 2005 with increased voter participation each year after while McCain’s activity as declined.

2007-08 2006-05
All bills sponsored by Obama 70 66
All amendments sponsored 59 86
All bills cosponsored 404 255
All amendments cosponsored 106 172
Bills originally cosponsored 230 161
Amendments originally cosponsored 75 125

The focus of legislation reflects his minority party appointments in Senate Resolution 6 of the 109th Congress to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and subsequent majority party appointments in the 110th Congress to the latter two committees and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Go to thomas.loc.gov. To see a complete list of bills he authored or sponsored with amendments. The site will tell you if they have been approved and what the committees ranked his bills are currently in.

NOTICE he doesn't have any RADICAL LEFT WING BILLS! A sample is as Follows:

Homes for Heroes Act of 2006
Alternative Diesel Standard Act of 2006
Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2006
Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act
Fuel Economy Reform Act
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006
Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act
E-85 Fuel Utilization and Infrastructure Development Incentives Act of 2005
Innovation Districts for School Improvement Act
Health Care for Hybrids Act
Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight (HERO) Act
Lead Free Toys Act of 2007
National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Act of 2007
Iran Sanctions Enabling Act
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007
Transparency and Accountability in Military and Security Contracting Act of 2007
Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act of 2007
Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007

Education & International Travel: Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[10] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[11] Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation[12] and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[13][14]

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[13][15] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[16] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[17] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.[18]

Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[22]

Organizations & Companies: Obama directed Illinois' Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of ten and seven hundred volunteers; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[23][24]
He also, in 1993, joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[13][26]

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.[13][27] He served from 1993 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama's DCP, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation.[13] Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.[13] He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.[13]

State Legislator: Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws.[29] He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.[30] In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures.[31]
Obama was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, and again in 2002.[32]

In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority.[35] He sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations.[30][36] During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.[

In all he has over 870 Bills As a State and US Senator. Get busy reading people. In this case Ignorance is not bliss.

Please show me some legislation that Obama has authored or co-sponsored that you have a problem with.  Please list for me any committee actions that he made as he chaired the various committees he was a member of that you have a problem with.

On his website he has a list of earmarks he has supported with his partner in the senate. He is one of a handful of Senators who list their earmarks for the public to view.  Please tell me which of these earmarks are wasteful spending.

Awesome, thank you, nuumskee. Obama also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years.

He's led a very busy, very highly accomplished life thus far. Quite an achiever in every arena he's entered.

Our country has always given to the poor. Even before, ecspecially before, the the new deal of FDR, the poor did get food and shelter from those willing to give of themselves. Then FDR started the great socialist experiments. These are the programs that extended the great depression to 12 years instead of the 3 years the rest of the world had. This is also why it took 26 years for the stock market to recover after the crash of 1929. The government got in the way of the American people and deeply into their pockets. He ruled as absolute power and anyone who stood in his way was taken out of power, even supreme court justices. It took WWII to recover and that invoked rationing of almost everything for the war effort. This is the only similar situation in our nations history. The economy was stagnant for decades and the standard of living did not credibly increase in this time. If you think this insane $700 billion bailout is bad, waith until social security goes bust. It will happen because it is mostly feeding beauracracy instead of the people. When you hear "fairness" from a politician in respect to class envy, it means more socialism and more beauracracy which is just another bottomless money pit for government excess. You have been warned so ignorance is not an excuse, however stupidity will never be cured by any amount of information. While neither of McCain or O'Bama reaqlly seems to be a good choice, they are who we are saddled with at this time. And please don't bring up a third party candidate as a real choice since none of them can actually win. My greatest hope is the next set of primaries, people will get more engaged earlier, that we will create a credible third party, and the press will quit playing "Citizewn Kane" again. We need good information on the candidates from day one, not just at the end. Hopefully during the next cycle, everyone will get the kind of scrutiny that Gov.Palin has as quickly as she has. The biggest loser, outside the country, will be the press this election cycle. Their crediblitiy should be shattered after the sorry excuse for reporting done on either party, but they know who pays their salaries, that being political campaigns.

@Tom

See: "Grapes of Wrath"

And don't even start to tell me this was a work of fiction!

I LOL'ed.

Europe recovered on the strength of the german economy run by the National SOCALIST Party.  Say what you will about them, they knew how to run their economy.

Also remember, the Supreme Court blocked most of FDR's initiatives.  It wasn't until a few of the justices stepped down that the laws started to have an effect.  Starting with 1935, the economy began to recover.  The economy might have recovered sooner if the Supreme Court didn't try to circumvent the Congress.

Pure free market systems can not function today, because coorporations have killed competition that would have kept the balance.  Whats to stop one company from putting the economy at risk to make a buck, when theres no one that can compete, and no oversight from preventing them from doing so?

Thats why minimum wage and overtime laws were passed in the 19th century, and child labor and overtime laws were put into effect later.  I suppose you feel we should overturn those laws, as they are by DEFINITION, anti-Capitalistic laws.  While we're at is, lets disband Medicare, Medicade, and Social Security.  You can't fund socialist programs on one hand, and say that socalism is the cause of every economic downturn on the other.

Finally, note the last two economic downturns happened on Republican watch (Regan and Bush), both of which featured banking collapses caused by de-regulation of the economy.

and me...I give $5. a month for 11 months. It's all I can afford, the only way I can afford it.