Tuesday, October 7, 2008

More: Obama Youth in Action

This video was actually done in school. These are the people that support Obama. I can't think of any political leader that I would support in this fashion no matter how much I liked them.





Friday, October 3, 2008

Fanny and Freddy's Investment in Lawmakers

Published by Lindsay Renick Mayer

When the federal government announced two months ago that it would prop up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.

All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008.

Mikes Note: Barak Obama is number two on this list, and has only been in the Senate for 4 years.


See the Complete list of who recieved Money

Palin VS Biden

This the debate was far more entertaing to watch then the McCain/Obama debate.

I think Sarah did a great job of holding her own. It bothered me that she dodged a few questions, but I think the standards were higher for her. What candidate doesn't dodge questions in a debate? Usually the questions is dodged because they don't want to answer them. In Sarah's case I think it was because she really didn't know.

That's not a bad thing, it just means she has spent 35 years debating in the Senate like Biden has.

Overall I think she did a great job appealing to her base, and maybe some independant, undecided voters. I doubt that she changed any minds though. But at this point in the game if you have made up your mind you probably are not going to change it. This is a passionate election. Right now both sides are after the undecided Indy voters.

Barney Frank Getting Hammered by O'Riely

Thursday, October 2, 2008

McCain Pulling out of Michigan

McCain had hoped to make it into a battle ground state, but has fallen sharply behind in the polls there. All TV adds and mailing will be dropped and most of the campaign staff will be relocated to more competitive states.

Obama pulled out of North Dakota in late September.

451 Pages of Pork

And John McCain voted for them. So much for vetoing any bill that had earmarks in them and making the person who put them in there "famous".

I think John McCain may have lost my vote. I am tempted to right in Ron Paul next to every person on the Ballot who voted in favor of this bill.

Here are some of the earmarks placed in the bill:

New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)

Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)


Wooden arrows, Race Tracks, and Wool research?! That's where the problems with our economy started?

Please...