Newsflash: Sara Was NEVER in IRAQ
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| Mon, 09-15-2008 - 11:01am |
Okay...the lies are getting BIGGER! Can you imagine the crap they'd pull and lies they'd tell in the WH? OMG!
Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip
Says she never ventured beyond Kuwait border
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate's campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.
Following her selection last month as John McCain's running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard.
During that trip she was said to have visited a "military outpost" inside Iraq.
The campaign has since repeated that Palin's foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone.
But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as "K-Crossing," on July 25, 2007.
Asked to clarify where she traveled in Iraq, Palin's spokeswoman, Maria Comella, confirmed that "She visited a military outpost on the other side of the Kuwait-Iraq border."
It was the second such clarification in as many weeks of the itinerary of what Palin has called "the trip of a lifetime." Earlier, the campaign acknowledged that Palin made only a refueling stop in Ireland.
In her interview with ABC News Thursday night, Palin did not mention Iraq in describing the visit, saying only that she went to Kuwait and Germany to meet with US forces.
According to an itinerary obtained from the Alaska National Guard, the Republican governor visited troops and airmen at a series of bases in Kuwait, including Camp Buehring, Camp Virginia, and Ali Al Salem Air Base.
Her visit to Iraq itself was during a short stop at Khabari Alawazem Crossing on the second day of her two-day trip to the region.
Palin arrived at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, where she held a town meeting with soldiers and reviewed various training programs designed to prepare troops to deploy into Iraq, said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Osborn, commander of the 3d Battalion, 207th Infantry of the Alaska National Guard, who was in charge of the 570 local troops serving in Kuwait and Iraq.
"The whole intent was to check on the Alaskans," Osborn said in a telephone interview yesterday.
On the second day of the trip, he said, Palin was flown to the border crossing, about 100 miles north of Camp Buehring, where she spent the morning meeting with troops and presiding over a ceremony in which an Alaska National Guard soldier extended his enlistment.
But she did not venture into Iraq, Osborn said. "You have to have permission to go into a lot of areas, and is where her permissions were," he said.
Palin did not stay the night in Iraq, and spent the rest of the second day at Camp Virginia and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Osborn said.
Palin also told ABC that she had traveled to Mexico and Canada. Her campaign had previously mentioned a Canada visit, but not a trip to Mexico. Comella said yesterday that Palin had visited Mexico on vacation, and Canada once last year.
"We did not have 100 percent confirmation about the Mexico trip in the initial days we were being asked. It was a personal trip," Comella said.
Palin's campaign did not respond to requests for details about when she traveled to Mexico and where she went, nor did it provide details of her 2007 Canada trip or indicate whether it was for business or pleasure.


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((After, all she can see Russia from her window;))
lol.
Yep - and because it's such a great line, I'll repeat it again here, even though I didn't come up with it:
"Yeah, and I can see the moon from my kitchen window. Doesn't make me a friggin' astronaut!"
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
(("Yeah, and I can see the moon from my kitchen window. Doesn't make me a friggin' astronaut!"))
lol. I drive by the hospital, so now I'm a doctor?? lol.
NEWSFLASH!!!
Guild Member since 2009
McCain received $117,500 from Lehman Bros.
Obama received $370,524 from Lehman Bros.
How about AIG?
John McCain got $36,875 from AIG
Barack Obama raked in $75,899 (+205%)
Got that? Barack Obama, the guy who supposedly is not beholden to special interests, took three times as much money from Lehman Brothers and more than twice as much from AIG.
Gee, and who did the now Government financed mortgage broker Fannie Mae give its money to when it wanted to influence a politician?
OpenSecrets lists the top three politicians in which FNMA “invested” from 1989 to 2008.
Top Recipients of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008Name Office State Party Grand Total
Dodd, Christopher S CT D $165,400
Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349 ($6000 came from the PAC)
Kerry, John S MA D $111,000
What about McCain?
The folks at Fannie Mae didn’t show him a lot of love. According to Open Secrets:
McCain, John S AZ R $21,550 (all from individuals).
Oh yeah, and who tabbed the former head of Fannie Mae to head up his Vice Presidential search team? OBAMA, that’s who. Back in May Barack turned to Jim Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae.
When it came time for a tough decision who did Barack turn to? A former community organizer per chance? Hell no! He went with the inside the beltway uber lobbyist.”
((When it came time for a tough decision who did Barack turn to? A former community organizer per chance? Hell no! He went with the inside the beltway uber lobbyist.”))
Once again...Saying that the company gave Barack money is a LIE! Tell the TRUTH...EMPLOYEES, you know, private citizens donated to Barack. They have to list their place of employment for tax purposes.
So, INDIVIDUALS that work for these companies know that Barack will be the better POTUS. They know that McCain is incompetent, and they put their money where their mouths are. lol.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-07-16-1571558437_x.htm
Obama taps Wall Street for dollars
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By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama, who has decried Wall Street profits and CEO pay, has tapped a vein of donors among bankers and financiers who have given generously and helped drive his successful presidential campaign sprint for cash.
Among the firms whose employees gave the most to Obama in the second quarter of the year were Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JP Morgan. Their money, much of it the maximum donation allowed by law, placed Obama in competition with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for high-finance dollars in her own backyard of New York.
For Obama, the money represents one side of a fundraising and support-building equation. The other is the campaign's outreach to small donors -- a concerted effort to build a broad network of contributors who give less than $200.
The campaign has built that network aggressively, charging $25 a person to attend rallies and even counting buyers of Obama T-shirts and bumper stickers as donors.
In all, Obama came out of the first six months of the year as the top fundraiser among all candidates and is sitting atop the largest amount of cash on hand in either the Republican or Democratic fields.
"It's really astounding to me that this underdog candidate is way out ahead in fundraising," said Michael Malbin, executive director of the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute. "He's running neck-and-neck with everybody else in large contributions. His advantage is in the small contributions."
Obama, marching with workers striking at a hotel in Chicago, said his financial success is a function of momentum.
"The fundraising is an expression of the enthusiasm at the grass-roots levels," he said.
So far this year, Obama has collected $16.4 million in donations under $200 -- that is 29 percent of his total primary election contributions of $56.8 million. The small donations have come in through the Internet, in the mail and from those attending about a dozen rallies in cities across the country.
Attendees count toward the 250,000 donors that the campaign says it has amassed this year. So do online purchasers of merchandise who pay $20.08 for an Obama T-shirt or $2.50 for a campaign placard. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said such small donors account for "less of half of 1 percent of all donors."
"A lot of those folks have given otherwise," Burton said. "It's probably even a smaller number than that."
The challenge for Obama now is to turn those donors into a volunteer force that will make a difference in early presidential nomination contests, especially Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Malbin said former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean used such grass-roots supporters effectively for fundraising during his 2004 presidential bid, but was unable to convert them into activists. President Bush, on the other hand, was less successful using the Internet to raise money as he was in building neighborhood networks.
"Obama appears to be trying to put the two halves of the circle together," he said.
In contrast, only 10 percent of Clinton's $39.4 million in primary contributions came from donations of $200 or less. About three-fifths of her primary donations come from donors who have given the maximum $2,300 for the primary, putting pressure on her campaign to expand her donor base. Clinton had $3 million in debts at the end of the quarter, but her $33 million cash on hand almost matched Obama's money in the bank.
As he builds up his grassroots, Obama is hardly ignoring big donors himself. Nearly 40 percent of his total fundraising has come from contributors who have given the legal limit.
During the first three months of the year, donors employed by the securities and investment industries gave Clinton $1.75 million and Obama $1.38 million, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Clinton scored an early coup by winning the support of Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, a former Bush fundraiser. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett threw her a fundraiser in New York in late June. (Buffett says he plans to have one for Obama as well.) She made the cover of Fortune above a headline, "Business Loves Hillary!"
Judging by the companies whose employees have given to his campaign, Obama appears to have improved his standing in the second quarter. He received $139,810 from Lehman Brothers employees, including $4,600 from company president Joseph M. Gregory. Goldman Sachs employees accounted for $80,000 and Citigroup for $61,000 of his contributions, his financial report for the quarter shows.
The money comes even though Obama's statements have not always been kind to Wall Street. He has called for taxing anticipated future profits of some financial managers at income-tax rates of up to 35 percent instead of the current 15 percent, the rate for capital gains. It's a view embraced by other Democratic candidates as well, including Clinton.
"Folks who support him at all economic levels know exactly what kind of president he will be," Burton said. "They are drawn to him because they are attracted to the way he is going to change Washington."
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This might help you out.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie.html
Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Lawmakers
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
Name
Office
State
Party
Grand Total
Total from
PACs
Total from
Individuals
Dodd, Christopher J
S
CT
D
$165,400
$48,500
$116,900
Obama, Barack
S
IL
D
$126,349
$6,000
$120,349
Kerry, John
S
MA
D
$111,000
$2,000
$109,000
Bennett, Robert F
S
UT
R
$107,999
$71,499
$36,500
Bachus, Spencer
H
AL
R
$103,300
$70,500
$32,800
Blunt, Roy
H
MO
R
$96,950
$78,500
$18,450
Kanjorski, Paul E
H
PA
D
$96,000
$57,500
$38,500
Bond, Christopher S 'Kit'
S
MO
R
$95,400
$64,000
$31,400
Shelby, Richard C
S
AL
R
$80,000
$23,000
$57,000
Reed, Jack
S
RI
D
$78,250
$43,500
$34,750
Reid, Harry
S
NV
D
$77,000
$60,500
$16,500
Clinton, Hillary
S
NY
D
$76,050
$8,000
$68,050
Davis, Tom
H
VA
R
$75,499
$13,999
$61,500
Boehner, John
H
OH
R
$67,750
$60,500
$7,250
Conrad, Kent
S
ND
D
$64,491
$22,000
$42,491
Reynolds, Tom
H
NY
R
$62,200
$53,000
$9,200
Johnson, Tim
S
SD
D
$61,000
$20,000
$41,000
Pelosi, Nancy
H
CA
D
$56,250
$47,000
$9,250
Carper, Tom
S
DE
D
$55,889
$31,350
$24,539
Hoyer, Steny H
H
MD
D
$55,500
$51,500
$4,000
Pryce, Deborah
H
OH
R
$55,500
$45,000
$10,500
Emanuel, Rahm
H
IL
D
$51,750
$16,000
$35,750
Isakson, Johnny
S
GA
R
$49,200
$35,500
$13,700
Cantor, Eric
H
VA
R
$48,500
$46,500
$2,000
Crapo, Mike
S
ID
R
$47,250
$40,500
$6,750
Frank, Barney
H
MA
D
$42,350
$30,500
$11,850
Bean, Melissa
H
IL
D
$41,249
$34,999
$6,250
Bayh, Evan
S
IN
D
$41,100
$16,500
$24,600
McConnell, Mitch
S
KY
R
$41,000
$40,000
$1,000
Maloney, Carolyn B
H
NY
D
$39,750
$16,500
$23,250
Dorgan, Byron L
S
ND
D
$38,750
$30,500
$8,250
Miller, Gary
H
CA
R
$38,000
$31,500
$6,500
Rangel, Charles B
H
NY
D
$38,000
$14,750
$23,250
Tiberi, Patrick J
H
OH
R
$35,700
$32,600
$3,100
Bunning, Jim
S
KY
R
$33,802
$29,650
$4,152
Stabenow, Debbie
S
MI
D
$33,450
$32,000
$1,450
Chambliss, Saxby
S
GA
R
$33,250
$22,500
$10,750
Menendez, Robert
S
NJ
D
$31,250
$30,500
$750
Enzi, Mike
S
WY
R
$31,000
$27,500
$3,500
Van Hollen, Chris
H
MD
D
$30,700
$11,000
$19,700
Landrieu, Mary L
S
LA
D
$30,600
$20,000
$10,600
Murray, Patty
S
WA
D
$30,000
$23,000
$7,000
Clyburn, James E
H
SC
D
$29,750
$26,000
$3,750
Crowley, Joseph
H
NY
D
$29,700
$25,500
$4,200
Sessions, Pete
H
TX
R
$29,472
$24,000
$5,472
McCrery, Jim
H
LA
R
$29,000
$26,000
$3,000
Hooley, Darlene
H
OR
D
$28,750
$19,500
$9,250
Royce, Ed
H
CA
R
$28,600
$4,000
$24,600
Renzi, Rick
H
AZ
R
$28,250
$28,000
$250
Lieberman, Joe
S
CT
I
$28,250
$11,500
$16,750
Baucus, Max
S
MT
D
$27,500
$21,000
$6,500
Moore, Dennis
H
KS
D
$26,550
$25,500
$1,050
Coleman, Norm
S
MN
R
$24,690
$12,000
$12,690
Matheson, Jim
H
UT
D
$24,500
$24,000
$500
Schumer, Charles E
S
NY
D
$24,250
$1,500
$22,750
Durbin, Dick
S
IL
D
$23,750
$14,000
$9,750
Rogers, Mike
H
MI
R
$22,750
$21,000
$1,750
Lynch, Stephen F
H
MA
D
$22,500
$13,500
$9,000
Rockefeller, Jay
S
WV
D
$22,250
$5,000
$17,250
Smith, Gordon H
S
OR
R
$22,000
$20,000
$2,000
Mikulski, Barbara A
S
MD
D
$21,750
$16,500
$5,250
McCain, John
S
AZ
R
$21,550
$0
$21,550
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