Now that most people have gone home for the day, I can find a few secs to skim through some of my e-mail from the last day or so, and I run across this:
To: Warthen, Brad – External Email
Subject: Why is it that the press does not press on for info on the items below?Missing Obama information…
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Your Record of baptism– Not released or ‘not available’
14. Your Illinois State Senate records–‘not available’Oh hey listen! I know you are busy! Is this too much for you now? I mean tell you what. I will come back tomorrow. Give you some time to get these things together, you know? I mean, I know you are busy, so I will just let myself out. I will be back tomorrow.
To which I can only respond: Yeah, get back to me in about five minutes. I know I’ve got that stuff sitting around here somewhere….
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95% of the former journalists in America are “too busy” and too afraid to ask for any documentation on Obama.
Well, there are plenty of us volunteers doing the job they won’t do. It won’t end with the election. If Obama had a genuine birth certificate, he would have gotten it on his last trips to Hawaii, instead of getting the governor to refuse to hand it over to the federal court.
Until Obama proves that he is was born a U.S. citizen under the laws of the time, no legislation he signs will be valid.
Yeah, I almost wrote back to the guy that “I don’t have it, but I know a guy named Lee Muller who’s probably got all that stuff in his hip pocket, or will claim that he does, which is almost as good”… but I restrained myself.
You know, of course, that NORMALLY I’d have gotten all that stuff, plus report cards back to kindergarten, on all candidate, but we decided to MAKE AN EXCEPTION with Obama, on account of his being The One and all. I’ve got McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s transcripts and personal medical files right here on my desk somewhere. And whoa, baby, look at Sarah Palin’s grades in civics class in the 9th grade! Good for her she was cute, huh?…
Actually, other reporters have all the information that the Obama Media didn’t want to see, if they could get it.
As your letter explains, Obama refuses to hand it over, and you don’t care.
He also refused on October 20, to hand over to the FEC the names of most of his campaign donors, including the donors of half his cash.
His campaign also refused to explain the $32,500,000 in “purchases” to his online store from Palestine, using thousands of untraceable cash debit cards. The store “sold” another $31,000,000 domestically, also mostly to untraceable cash cards, and only shipped $2,000,000 of goods.
But you don’t care who finances Obama.
The old partisan press killed itself.
The new, objective press is arising out of this campaign.
It does appear that Obama is going to some effort to keep certain things about his past secret, or simply not making an effort to make some things about his past public.
Whatever might be legally actionable, here’s hoping someone presses it. Rather than the court of public opinion, a read court is the best place to settle some of these matters.
Real court, by dingo, not read court.
Lee Muller, citizen journalist.
Lee, being a true patriot, you probably understand we have these American institutions called the NSA, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and others. At present, these particular institutions are, if not directly controlled by, certainly strongly influenced by the sitting administration of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
Surely Mr. Cheney has the real dirt on Obama that you claim exists.
Why hasn’t he leaked it?
I think you should spend the next three hours double-checking the journalistic credentials of your sources.
Note: right-wing ranting does not count as “objective press”.
I’ll tell you who finances Obama: native-born Midlands products like me, with our $25 and 50 donations. I’ve seen more Obama/Biden yard signs around Columbia than I have McCain/Palin signs. Weird, huh? The Obama campaign doesn’t hand those things out. You have to donate money to get them. AMERICA-HATING SOCIALISTS IN ACTION!
Do you really think the NSA, FBI, BATF and Secret Service should release their files on Obama, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and all the rest of that crew?
Could you handle it?
I think the Obama file must be pretty thin for somebody in a high place in a Cheney administration to not have leaked anything explosive. There’s nothing there. I know you want very badly for there to be something. ANYTHING. And you need it to come out fast….like, before Tuesday. Problem is, Obama’s the most vetted person on Earth over the last 18 months. Every right-wing hitman has been digging for that one piece of genuine, damning dirt…in vain. The best you’ve got is “OH HE SAT ON AN EDUCATION REFORM BOARD WITH BILL AYERS….(and also some Reagan Republicans but we won’t mention that too loudly)…!!!!” Or “HIS PASTOR WAS AN ANGRY BLACK GUY WHO SAID SOME HATEFUL CRAZY STUFF!!!”
Dude, that doesn’t mean Obama is a terrorist, a socialist, or a monster. Believe what you want. Belief is not truth.
Why don’t you call your buddies down at the FBI office and get the file, Lee?
The news media has got to get out of the business of running the country, selecting our presidents, bringing down admistrations, and otherwise determining policy. They hand picked Obama and he has come with a lot of bagage they don’t want us to know about. We cannot let the New York Times and their buddies railroad us anymore.
Indeed, Ish. I resent the news media for having selected George W. Bush twice in a row for the Presidency.
Obama Hid His Father’s Socialism From Readers
April 7, 2008 5:47 PM by Greg Ransom
http://blog.mises.org/archives/008007.asp
If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father. Obama tells us, “All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own.” (p. 220) And what was that image? It was “the father of my dreams, the man in my mother’s stories, full of high-blown ideals ..” (p. 278) What is more, Obama tells us that, “It was into my father’s image .. that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself.” And also that, “I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father” in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)
A bit of research at the library reveals the answers about Barack Obama’s father and his father’s convictions which Obama withholds from his readers. A first hint comes from authors E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and David William Cohen in their book The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio U. Press, 2004). On page 182 of their book they describe how Barack Obama’s father, a Harvard trained economist, attacked the economic proposals of pro-Western ‘third way” leader Tom Mboya from the socialist left, siding with communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga, in a paper Barack Obama’s father worte for the East Africa Journal. As Odhiambo and Cohen write, “The debates [over economic policy] pitted .. Mboya against .. Oginga Odinga and radical economists Dharam Ghai and Barrack Obama, who critiqued the document for being neither African nor socialist enough.”
1. Socialist farms on the Maoist agrarian model
2. Confiscation of European and Asian businesses
3. Socialist centrally planned economy
4. Only black Kenyans allowed to hold office
Barack Obama in Kenya with socialist leaders in 2006:
Odinga recently claimed to be Barack Obama’s cousin, and the two appeared together in 2006 at pubic events.
http://www.jaluo.com/wangwach/0806/obama/wuod%20Ogola%20C%20C%20photo%204.html
Posted by: Lee Muller | Oct 29, 2008 7:22:43 PM
Ish, the truth is McCain enjoyed a free pass from the press during the primary season. That helped him secure the nomination. Now that he’s running a vile, fear-based campaign the press is finally exposing him a little. There’s much, much, much more they could do. For instance his cozy relationship with G. Gordon Liddy, convicted felon, has received FAR less attention than Obama’s so-called link with Bill Ayers. McCain’s campaign, especially his choice of Palin, has been so disgraceful even the MSM, McCain’s darling for so long, finally had to take notice.
Every knowledgeable political observer predicted that the push the media was giving McCain would end as soon as Hillary or Obama got the nomination. Then the press would savage McCain and promote Hillary.
Since they got behind Obama to salve their racism, they can’t promote him, because of his lack of credentials, sordid friends, and socialist agenda. So they have to just cover for Obama, and not ask him to come clean about anything.
Lee,
Do you believe that “the media” has been planning for the Obama election all along — starting with the primaries? If I did a search of Brad’s blog, would there be any posts made by you early on that would claim that “the media” wanted Hillary to win? I haven’t looked yet… but I think it’s pretty certain that a whole bunch of people were making claims the “the media” wanted Hillary to win — and, if so, then why is Obama standing on the doorstep to the Presidency? Either “the media” didn’t have the power you and others think it has or there never was a grand scheme in the first place.
Yes, the media is biased. On both sides. But I think there is little evidence that “the media” has the power to do anything. They are more lemming-like than leaders.
According to independent analysis of the news by schools of journalism, which are hardly conservative, libertarian or Republican,
* the coverage of McCain has been 63% negative.
* the coverage of Obama has been 36% negative.
Doug, the media is a big, fat Democrat, whatever Democrat is convenient. It buries Democrat sins and sky writes Republican sins. It was Hillary or Barack, one or the other, whoever, and the media really wanted both on the same ticket.
And you’re wrong about the media’s effect. I have talked to more than one person who told me what they saw on the news has convinced them to vote for Obama. Publicity by the yard on every edition of the nightly news is bound to have an effect. It’s been the most shameful display of the Umpteenth Estate’s lazy, unprofessional, ethics-free existence since Watergate.
So it’s just stupid people who are influenced by the media that vote for Obama. It was all a clever ruse by “the media” to set Hillary up and then switch to Obama. I get it.
And despite the overwhelming power of the media, the truly intelligent Americans were able to resist its mind control and were able to elect Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II… Republican presidents for 28 of the past 40 years…
And people like Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Greta, Beck, Savage, Coulter, Ingraham, Drudge, Hugh Hewitt, Gordon Liddy, George Will, Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, et al are just tiny little voices who carry no weight in the political discourse of America. They can’t overcome the awesome power of people like, um, Keith Olberman — a blowhard ex-sports reporter? A few minutes of Katy Couric? Matt Lauer? Seriously? They’re just too smart, too tough, and too crafty for the conservative message to get out?
There is plenty enough media outlets for both parties to spew their idiocy. And the reality is that most people either don’t care or don’t understand.
There is no media conspiracy. Media reflects society, not the other way around.
Crying about how unfair “the media” is when your side is losing is pretty weak.
Lee:
“According to independent analysis of the news by schools of journalism, which are hardly conservative, libertarian or Republican,
* the coverage of McCain has been 63% negative.”
Could it be that McCain has simply run a horrible campaign and he deserves a negative assessment?
I would assume independent analysis of the coverage of the Ted Stevens trial would be negative as well. BECAUSE HE’S A LYING CROOK!
McCain’s campaign has been all about negativity, poor strategy, pandering with Joe The Plumber and Joe Sixpack, and no substance. He’s earned the coverage he has received. When you jump of the Straight Talk Express, you’re probably going to get run over on the Hypocrite Highway.
The only media who you should be looking to blame are Fox News. They wanted Rudy to win so badly that they allowed McCain to sneak in the backdoor when Rudy blundered out of the gate. Had Fox backed a better candidate, McCain wouldn’t have been in the position he’s in now.
McCain was forced to get the truth out on Obama, since most of the media is covering for Obama, or actively assisting him with fundraisers and producing his ads for free (Oprah, Spielberg, Ron Howard).
The McCain advisors are timid and inept, waiting too late and with too little.
Additionally, they failed let other groups run the ads exposing serious issues about Obama’s socialist agenda and Muslim financing. That would have left McCain to just campaign on his own platform.
I love this “liberal” media mantra. I can hear the drumbeat now: liberal media, liberal media, liberal media. I’m sure you could make up a catchy disco song using those words.
So why haven’t we heard about McCain’s car wreck in 1964? Or his 2 plane crashes that were caused by “pilot error”. His low ranking at Annapolis gets very little press. And his adulterous life style in the 1970s gets about 1/1000 of the attention that his POW status does. We have about 20 times as many stories about Obama’s ties with Bill Ayers as we do with McCain’s cozy relations with G. Gordon Liddy.
Then there’s Caribou Barbie. Why haven’t we heard more about her ties with the Alaska independence movement? Or her expensive trips for her daughters at tax payers expense? Some maverick.
And the list goes on and on. Fact is the McCain campaign and it’s candidates are simply so awful it’s just not possible for the media to balance this situation out. They’ve tried with all the Ayers/Wright/Rezco BS. Nothing of substance to any of it but the media’s obligation for “balance” required them to say something.
All this is just a pitiful, predictable, sad ploy by the right to push for a third Bush term. Not sure why given the horrors of the last 8 years with war, terrorist attacks and the worst economy in 70 years. But for some reason the koolaid drinkers continue to believe in the almight power of the GOP to make things right. It flies in the face of reality, yet they continue to worship at the almighty church of FOX. I guess you can chalk this up to religious freedom. Even the nutty neo-cons need something to worship, why not FOX News?
> Ron Howard
You mean that ad where he dressed up like Opie and Richie Cunningham? You think that has influenced 50% of Americans to vote for Obama?
I just want to be clear – you’re saying that when George Bush won the election twice, it was done so by overcoming the media. But when a Democrat wins, it’s because the media does a better job of duping people than the right wing media does.
McCain’s car wreck is equivalent to which scandal of Obama?
The Alaska Independence Movement hardly the equivalent of Obama’s ties to the Communist Party.
McCain admits his errors with his first wife.
Obama still clings to his rotten socialism
Obama still admits to no errors in his association with Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Michael Klonsky, Rashid Khalidi and other scum.
Obama refuses to produce a birth cerficate to the court or press to certify that he is a U.S. citizen.
Yeah, Doug, every stupid person’s vote counts just as much as yours or mine.
Even them that can’t read the names on the ballots.
The Pelosi platoon.
It is difficult to argue a point with you fellas when you don’t stay with the facts. 80% to 90% of the news media are liberal democrats. It is what they don’t report sometimes as in the case of Obama. Scince the media’s success with the election of Lyndon Johnson, reporting lies, half truths, and distortions on Goldwater, the American people have rejected their choice in all presidential elections except with Carter and Clinton. Carter got in because of watergate hangovers and the Nixon pardon. Clinton got in because of Ross Perot with less than 43% of the vote. After each election loss the news media has become more organized and determined. If we can reject them one more time next Tuesday, we can save America, and hopefully they will get the message.
If you want to see where the Democrats would take us, look at the last two years:
* Democrat mortgage program crashes the entire banking system
* Democrats run up more deficits in 2 years of Pelosi in control than in the previous 6 of Bush and the GOP having some power.
* Democrats plans to abolish 401-k plans after the election
* Democrats filing legislation to outlaw most firearms, many SUVs, and raise taxes to pre-Reagan levels
The Great Depression began 3 years after the stock market crash in 1929, when taxes on “the rich”, those making over $100,000 a year, were raised from 25% to 55%.
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It is difficult to argue a point with you fellas when you don’t stay with the facts.
-Ish
How about these facts. The GOP has been 100% in control of everything for 8 of the last 14 years and was in partial control for the other 6. During the last 8 years under Bush the national debt has incresed from 5 trillion to 10. Annual deficits, not counting our adventures in the middle-east or the latest bailouts are approaching 1/2 trillion. Wages are stagnant. Housing values are plummeting. Unemployment is about 30% higher and rising than in 2000. Job creation is at it’s lowest since the 1930s. Our trade deficit soars. And our respect from the rest of the world sinks. In life expectancy, education and health care we are dropping compared to the rest of the world. So don’t give me this crap about discussing facts. The supporters of the GOP status quo are fact-deprived.
Clinton rode the Reagan Tax Cut Boom, then killed it with a tax increase and left us with a recession in 2000.
Only Bush’s tax cut for everyone pulled us out of Clinton’s recession.
Now Pelosi in control has run up more debt in 2 years than she did with Bush in the previous 6 years.
Now, Obama promises a $1.2 TRILLION deficit next year and hyper-inflation. His dimwit followers lap it up.
Bud, go read the constitution and find out which branch of government controls appropriations.
Then you’ll see that when you say “during the last 8 years under Bush the national debt has incresed from 5 trillion to 10,” you can blame Congress, not Bush, for appropriating every last nickel.
Make sure Pelosi and Reid get credit for their marvelous stewarship. Their approval rating is not even half as high as Bush’s, ya know.
Actually, the national debt increased from $5.9 TRILLION to $7.2 TRILLION under Clinton.
It increased from $7.2 TRILLION to $8.7 TRILLION under Bush and the Democrats.
It increased another $1.3 TRILLION in the last two years with Democrats controlling both the House and Senate.
Projected deficits under Obama are more than $1.0 TRILLION each year.
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Wonderful article, thanks for putting this together! “This is obviously one great post. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have so provided here. Keep it up!”
Wonderful article, thanks for putting this together! “This is obviously one great post. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have so provided here. Keep it up!”