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UK’s Telegraph reports that Barack Obama’s brother is living in Poverty…

From the article:

Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.

“No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.”

and

He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.”

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.

and

For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college.

He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.

The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”.

Of their second meeting, George Obama said: “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”

and

“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.

“I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”

Commentary:
It’s incredibly amazing and hypocritical of some in the media that went after Mitt Romney’s Grandfather’s polygamy when we have a presumptive nominee of a major party who’s father was a polygamist and has multitudes of children living in poverty in Africa. Why isn’t Barack taking care of his own destitute family members???

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You know the end of the saying…

Apparently Mr. Huckabee is scared of the good ole USA, and feels safer in suicide bombing on a regular basis Israel. Now don’t get me wrong I am a friend of Israel, but Mr. Huck has some serious mental problems if he believes he’s safer there than back here.

He’s like Obama, who doesn’t seem to have much pride in his own country.

[See: The New York Post]

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Some comments on last night’s Civic Forum at Saddleback Church.

~~John Cronin~~

http://planetromney.org/

But the starkest contrast came as soon as McCain started his half of the forum. Asked the three people he would listen to as president, McCain said right off the bat Gen. Petraeus (Obama had led with his wife and grandmother). It was an immediate signal that this is a man who is concerned first and foremost with matters of war and peace—just as you expect from someone who wants to be president of the United States. Asked when he had bucked his party at risk to his self-interest, McCain rolled off his greatest hits, and went all the back to differing with Reagan on Lebanon (a reminder of how long he has been immersed in national-security issues). It made Obama’s answer about promoting an ethics law with McCain seem incredibly weak in comparison. Then, McCain’s answer about the toughest decision he had ever made—refusing early release in Vietnam—was riveting and moving.

In the first fifteen minutes, McCain had established a moral seriousness stemming from his conduct in Vietnam as a POW and his long-time as a national leader that Obama can’t match. Throughout the rest of the night, he brought up Iraq, al Qaeda, and the Georgia crisis, when Obama was more inward-looking. McCain sounded like a potential commander-in-chief, Obama more like a potential friend. This is not to say, again, that Obama was not impressive. But the skills he showed tonight—the thoughtfulness and verbal dexterity—were those of a very talented memoirist, which, of course, he is.

As for the social issues, tonight should throw a damper on the notion that Obama is going to make major inroads among evangelicals voters. Why would they vote for his social liberalism couched in exquisite equivocations, when they can vote for someone who agrees with them on most everything like John McCain?

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Matt Hurley writes about the economic challenges facing Massachusetts, including the fact that the state is one of the few states in the country losing population. Many of the reforms implemented by Gov. Romney are in the process of being undone by Obama pal Deval Patrick as Mass. returns to it’s old Soviet style government.

U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Beatty decries Deval Patrick’s plan to RAISE state income taxes at a time when the voters are angry enough to be supporting a Proposition that will ELIMINATE state income taxes. Talk about being 180 degrees out of touch with the voters!

~~John Cronin~~

http://massdiscussion.blogspot.com/2008/08/massachusetts-update.html

Boston – US Senate Candidate Jeff Beatty called out John Kerry for again for ducking an opportunity to address (much less solve) the problems facing Massachusetts voters.

Speaking at a candidates forum in Holliston, MA, Beatty pointed to the announcement that Deval Patrick will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention with John Kerry continuing his role as super surrogate to Barack Obama as evidence that the attention of these politicians is on self promotion and not on solving the problems of the Commonwealth.

“Gas and food costs are too high, with the price of heating oil two and a half times last year’s price. It’s the middle class that is feeling the squeeze. And where are John Kerry and Deval Patrick during this crisis? On their way to Denver, looking for new jobs and confirming for voters that they are more interested in their own political futures than they are in protecting families and protecting jobs in Massachusetts,” said Jeff Beatty, Republican US Senate nominee, founder of a successful Homeland Security consulting business and former Delta Force Officer.

In his speech today and a Human Events OpEd published this week, Beatty pointed to problems that are going unattended here at home — problems created and piling up while John Kerry and Deval Patrick were supposed to be on the job: “Under Kerry and Patrick, Massachusetts now has one of the nation’s highest property tax burdens, is among the highest in per capita debt, and is one of the few states in the country to be losing population. Now, Governor Patrick is flirting with raising income taxes to wipe away the sins of his Democratic buddies. In short, the Patrick/Kerry movie boils down to a series of broken promises and failed leadership.” Beatty points to evidence, also “piling up”, that Massachusetts voters are now angry enough to turn John Kerry out of office and deliver the Bay State’s 12 electoral votes to John McCain.

He spoke about Obama’s primary loss to Hillary Clinton by 15 points, the Question One ballot measure to eliminate state income tax and a recent poll that shows John McCain closing the gap with Obama from 23 to just 9 points. All of this mounting evidence points to what six months ago may have seemed unlikely in Massachusetts - a potential victory for McCain over Obama and a Jeff Beatty win in the US Senate race against John Kerry.

Posted by Matt Hurley at 3:12 PM

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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Presumptive Democratic Nominee Barack Obama

Mr. Obama has talked about how Mr. McCain would be going after him for his “Funny” name, well, since he finds his name so funny (hehe)…I figured why not call it so, and why not add Mr. Kwame Kilpatrick to the mix too…because guess what? Mr. Kilpatrick of “spent a day in jail time” for violation of his probation is coming too. Isn’t this just so dang exciting all? I can’t wait to see the pictures. I wonder if Mr. Obama has the guts to actually chastise his fellow Democratic leader? We shall see I guess.

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When I read the article written by the editorial staff of IBD and saw the multi-trillion dollar give aways proposed by Barack Obama it only took a couple of seconds to figure out what Obama is trying to do.

The last thing he wants is to do is start making direct cash payments to the offended parties. He wants to engineer a massive shift in wealth that will be administered by……you guessed it, him and his buddies in the federal bureaucracy. Thereby assuring relevancy and employment for the income redistributers for generations to come, assuming, of course, that they don’t wreck the American economy for themselves and everyone else in the process.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303088377885894

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Election ‘08: Barack Obama says Washington shouldn’t just offer apologies for slavery, but also “deeds.” Don’t worry, he says, he’s not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don’t be.

‘I consistently believe that when it comes to . . . reparations,” Obama recently told a gathering of minority journalists, “the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”

A few days later, he clarified his remarks, saying he’s not calling for direct cash payments to descendents of slaves, but rather indirect aid in the form of government programs that will “close the gap” between what he sees as white America and black America.

He says government should offer “universal” programs — such as universal health care, universal mortgage credits, college tuition, job training and even universal 401(k)s — that “disproportionately affect people of color.”

In other words, reparations by another name.

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Figured that I’d share this old video of The Cars to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s indecision on whether to put her name forth for nomination at the Democratic National Convention [See Story]

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Jeff Beatty has come out swinging in an interview with the POLITICKERMA.COM. It seems the former Delta Force veteran is less than intimidated by “The One”.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.politickerma.com/jeremyjacobs/593
/mccain-will-beat-obama-mass-i-ll-beat-kerry-beatty-says

By Jeremy P. Jacobs

Category: President, US SenateTags: Jeff Beatty, John Kerry, Barack Obama, John McCain

Responding to a recent poll showing presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s lead over presumptive GOP nominee John McCain in Massachusetts narrowing, Jeff Beatty (R), the Republican challenging U.S. Sen. John Kerry, predicted victory in both his race and for McCain in Massachusetts.

A 7News/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed Obama (Ill.) with a nine-point lead over McCain (Ariz.) - 47 percent to 38 percent. The last 7News/Suffolk University poll, released a month and a half ago, showed Obama leading McCain by 23 points, 53 percent to 30 percent.

“People see him for what he is,” Beatty told PolitickerMA.com referring to Obama. “Obama is shallow. He’s an empty suit. He doesn’t have the relevant experience to work the country out of its problems and John McCain does. I’ve been advocating an action policy to solve these problems and that’s resonating with voters. That’s why I’ll say McCain is going to carry Massachusetts and I’m going to beat John Kerry.”

The Beatty camp contends that McCain is gaining ground in Massachusetts because Bay State voters are not comfortable voting for Obama. Obama’s recent shifts in position on energy policy, they say, have raised doubts about where Obama stands. At the same time, they say, McCain’s brand remains strong among unenrolled voters in Massachusetts.

Beatty said Massachusetts voters may be reluctant to support a candidate about whom they know little after Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D-Milton) missteps after he first took office.

“It’s a function of knowing your voters,” Beatty said, “being out there and listening to them. They’ve seen this movie before; it was John Kerry and Deval Patrick the first time it came out. They don’t’ want to see the John Kerry and Barack Obama version of the movie.”

This isn’t the first time Beatty has predicted McCain would win Massachusetts. In an interview with PolitickerMA.com on July 22, Beatty said if McCain picked former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) to be his vice presidential candidate, he would carry Massachusetts.

Ultimately, Beatty said he is seeing the momentum turning in the GOP’s favor.
“I believe that John McCain will win the 12 electoral votes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts,” he said. “What you saw in the poll yesterday, that’s a tremendous swing.”

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Are we seeing the beginning of the end for liberal hopes to recapture power after eight years in the political wilderness? The wrong headed energy policies of the Dems have now become symbolized by the humble tire air gauge. It has been said that a politician can survive anything except for becoming a laughing stock. Obama’s recommendation to check our tire’s inflation and to get a tune-up as his prescription for high gasoline prices has now been torn to shreds by every credible source on the subject.

Car maintenance experts are pointing out that, starting in 1985 and especially by 1996, cars DON’T GET TUNE-UPS ANYMORE. Sen. Obama doesn’t know this and he wants to lead 300,000,000 Americans, command the most powerful military in the world and set policies for a $15 trillion economy??

Another ditzy Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, was asked what Congress might be able to do to get a vote on domestic drilling before year’s end and she said politicians should “Use their imaginations.”

Upwards of 75% of the voters are in favor of domestic drilling and yet the Dems will not allow a vote on the issue. A little over a year ago, politicians got on the wrong side of 75% and that was on the issue of illegal immigration. We see how well that worked out for them. McCain pulled a 180 degree change of direction, the fence is being built, 1.3 million illegals have left the country, Chris Cannon has been swept out of office and the rest of the open borders crowd is hiding under their desks.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302740186673857

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW

As John McCain and the GOP leaders nationalize the drill, drill, drill message, the Republican Party might conceivably be riding a summer political rally.

The question of offshore drilling, along with expanded domestic energy production, has suddenly become the biggest political and economic wedge issue of this election. Is there a Republican tsunami in the making?

According to the major polls, Sen. McCain has overcome a big deficit to pull even with Obama. Meanwhile, according to a Rasmussen survey, Democratic Party identification has slumped.

As Republicans on the House floor shouted “vote, vote, vote” and “lower gas prices,” the Democratic majority turned off the lights, cameras and microphones. Determined GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell offered unanimous-consent requests to vote on lifting the ban on deep-water exploration, and the Democrats objected. When McConnell asked Democrats if they’d overturn the ban at $4.50 a gallon, they replied “no.” When he raised the price to $5, $7 and $10, they cried “no,” “no” and “no.”

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At times the long primary and general election campaign can get tedious, as we all know from first-hand experience, but once again the wisdom of the Founding Fathers is evident.

When Barack Obama first emerged on the scene, many Americans were willing to accept him without performing their “due diligence” to make sure he was thoroughly vetted before turning over the Presidency to him. With the long campaign, however, come some substantial benefits, in Obama’s case, the information about his radical associations over the last 30+ years. This time it’s not about his anti-American ex-pastor, now new revelations come to light about his Communist childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302827467707515

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Election ‘08: The mainstream media have finally gotten around to revealing Barack Obama’s early mentor. But they’ve downplayed the mystery man’s communist background.

As noted in the July 29 curtain-raiser to this series, the seeds of Obama’s far-left ideology were planted in his formative years as a teenager growing up in Hawaii — and they were far more radical than any biography or media profile has portrayed.

A careful reading of Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 — a man he refers to only as “Frank” — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his “subversive,” “un-American activities.”

In a belated story on the relationship, the Associated Press describes Davis as “left-leaning.”

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Many things concern me about an Obama Administration. His inexperience in foreign affairs, his non-existent legislative accomplishments, his hard left economics and the company he has kept for 20 years. This articles speculates that Kerry might want to be Secretary of Defense in an Obama administration. The only group of people that Kerry could be persuaded to go to war against are the veterans of Operation Swift Boat that helped to scuttle his chances to win the 2004 presidential election.

~~John Cronin

http://www.politickerma.com/jeremyjacobs/535/analysts-chime-would
-kerry-leave-senate-position-obama-administration

POLITICKERMA.COM

By Jeremy P. Jacobs

As the presidential race plugs along and U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Boston) continues his work as a surrogate for presumptive Democratic nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, one hot topic of conversation among the Massachusetts political punditry is whether Kerry is eyeing a spot in a possible Obama administration.

Asked if he thought Kerry would leave, Michael Goldman, a veteran Boston Democratic political strategist responded, “Absolutely. If there was a position, either secretary of state or secretary of defense, I think that he would jump at the opportunity to serve his country in either of those capacities. Maybe UN Ambassador is a third possibility…But certainly there’s no question in my mind that he would love to have an opportunity to do any of those jobs, and quite frankly, I think he believes he’d do a great job with of them.”

To be fair, Kerry has repeatedly said that is not the case. Kerry, who is currently facing a primary challenge from Gloucester attorney Ed O’Reilly and a Republican challenge from former CIA and FBI agent Jeff Beatty, has said he is only focused on returning to the senate for his fifth term.

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Figured you might want to see it…

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Back in those dark days of early 2007 when the MSM informed us that the nomination of Hillary Clinton was “inevitable” and that she had the “biggest and most professional campaign staff in U.S. history,” I used to say that the best defense against a Hillary Clinton presidency was an open microphone.

Ditto for a Barack Obama presidency as well. The Pubbies can’t make up anything better than what BO comes up with himself. Check out Obama’s latest wild hair as he positions himself to the left of Karl Marx.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302222641317480

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Election ‘08:

A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we’re also going to be taxpayers of the world.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama has said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”

Oh, really? Who’s to say we can’t load up our SUV and head out in search of bacon double cheeseburgers at the mall? China? India? Bangladesh? The U.N.?

In an Obama White House, American sovereignty will become an endangered species. The Global Poverty Act is the first toe in the water of global socialism.

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Latest in our our ongoing series of exposes of MSM bias towards conservatives in general and Republicans in particular. Engaging article at the consistently excellent IBD Editorials.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301792142700714

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Media: The gaffes Barack Obama has committed would have crushed the typical Republican politician. But the reporters who can’t get over Dan Quayle’s misspelling of “potato” have little to say about their man’s slip-ups.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Obama is really fouling up or simply puffed up when he tries to live up to his media-fed image as a leader ready for prime time.

Consider his claim during a news conference Wednesday in Israel that “just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran.”

His committee? Obama isn’t even a member of the Banking Committee, let alone its chairman. So was it a self-promoting lie or a misstep? Only he knows.

In other cases, however, it’s clear the junior senator from Illinois has erred. It was Obama — and not a too-old-to-serve John McCain or a too-dopey-to-take-serious George W. Bush — who once said he’d visited 57 states, not including Alaska and Hawaii, and still had “one left to go.”

It was also Obama who said Tuesday from Amman, Jordan: “You know, it’s always a bad practice to say ‘always’ or ‘never’ ” — a statement only Yogi Berra could fathom but which those aboard O-Force One seemed to regard as incontestably profound.

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More buzz in the national press about a possible announcement (we are told within the next 48 hours or so) regarding Sen. John McCain’s selection of his running mate. If it’s Mitt, Obama just got some world class competition.

I was doing some neighborhood canvassing this past Sunday for Dr. Bob Onder’s Congressional campaign and the two hottest topics were: 1. Illegal immigration (voters want the borders secured) and 2. Energy prices (voters want domestic drilling started, yesterday). As we Mittheads know, Gov. Romney is pitch perfect on these issues as well as many others and his coming onboard right in the middle of Obama’s World Apology Tour would change the campaign calculus dramatically.

~~John Cronin~~

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080722/D9233BT80.html

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -

Yet another town-hall meeting isn’t doing the trick. Neither is dropping in on a former Republican president. So just what can John McCain do to draw attention away from his showy Democratic rival? Pick a running mate, perhaps.

Speculation swirled Tuesday that McCain might name his vice presidential partner within the next few days - right in the middle of Barack Obama’s overseas tour.

McCain aides were not helping tamp down the speculation with their comments, often made late in the afternoon, of “no announcement today.”

But what about tomorrow? Or where? On Tuesday, McCain campaigned in New Hampshire, not all that far from a lakeside summer home of vanquished GOP rival Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor. Romney was nowhere to be seen. Well, it wasn’t really that close to his lakeside home.

One member of the audience told McCain he seemed like a very “forgiving” man. “Have you forgiven Mitt Romney?” he asked the senator.

Amid laughter, McCain said, “Mitt has been of tremendous help to my campaign. … He does a better job for me than he did for himself.”

Last Sunday, McCain was in the Bronx at a Yankees game with another former rival, one-time New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. “You hear all kinds of stuff,” Giuliani later said, “but I’m not thinking about anything but helping to get him elected.”

The campaign is also not very open about where McCain is going next, keeping scheduling matters close to the vest. And that adds to the frenzy.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: HERE ARE TWO WEBSITES THAT ARE REPORTING THAT MITT IS McCAIN'S CHOICE FOR VP RUNNING MATE. I CAN'T VERIFY WHETHER THE REPORTS ARE TRUE OR NOT. THIS IS MEANT STRICTLY AS A FYI.]

http://nyformitt.blogspot.com/

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