I received an email from a relative today:
I thought the Snopes.com response was so terse as to be lame:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
1.) What is the source of this email?
2.) Money For School
So, how did the Obamas pay for all this education?
If the election goes forward without interruption, it appears doubtful that your voting against Obama will matter, so you might as well get to know the man you fear:
To All My Friends, this is very important, please take the time to read it. |
I thought the Snopes.com response was so terse as to be lame:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
1.) What is the source of this email?
Would you believe information from Philip Morris about how tobacco prevents lung cancer? Who authored this email, and did they really change their mind 'three times'?
Relying upon spam as a source for news and information is bad form. This practice will result in your medicine cabinet being full of bust and penile enhancers and your bank account being moved to someone Nigerians account.
Relying upon spam as a source for news and information is bad form. This practice will result in your medicine cabinet being full of bust and penile enhancers and your bank account being moved to someone Nigerians account.
2.) Money For School
Obama's educational background is radiant (source: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama):
- Columbia University - majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
- Held a position as a research associate at Business International Corp. in its financial services division, where he edited Financing Foreign Operations, a global reference service, and wrote for Business International Money Report, a weekly financial newsletter.
- 3 years as a community organizer in a poor area of Chicago.
- First black president of the Harvard Law Review.
- Graduated with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School
- 12 years teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School
- Worked at a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation during the 12 years he taught at the University of Chicago
Obama told the crowd that when she and her husband left law school, the monthly payments on their school loan debt was more than their monthly mortgage payment. She said they only got out of that debt when Barack Obama wrote his two books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father." ... Both Obamas graduated from Harvard Law School. |
So, how did the Obamas pay for all this education?
- they worked their way through school
- they took out student loans
- their families helped out
- they qualified for scholarships
Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. Let the that sink in. Now, doesn't it seem like a stupid question to ask how he paid off his student loans?
3.) Drugs
Obama on America's addiction to prisons:
So, while we are on the subject of drugs, did you know that America has the largest prison population in the world? Yes, even larger than China in terms both of number and ratio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Incarceration_rate
Prisons are big money. They generate lots of jobs. Ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about the might of California's prison guard union:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/08/MNL512Q96A.DTL
Support the Prison Industrial Complex by making more laws and mandating tougher sentencing. Overturning Rowe v. Wade will boost the incarceration numbers.
4.) Traveling Abroad & Foreign Friends
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-rezko-storygallery,0,1028378.storygallery
6.) Nadhmi Auchi
What is his relationship to Barack Obama?
Is this relevant to anything? Perhaps your reasoning is:
Obama did drugs and yet he is a brilliant Presidential candidate.
Therefore, you must not vote for Obama, because doing so is promoting drug use.
Interesting logic...
Therefore, you must not vote for Obama, because doing so is promoting drug use.
Interesting logic...
Obama on America's addiction to prisons:
Obama on medical marijuana:
John McCain on medical marijuana (stark contrast):
So, while we are on the subject of drugs, did you know that America has the largest prison population in the world? Yes, even larger than China in terms both of number and ratio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Incarceration_rate
Nearly 1 million of America's 2.3 million inmates is serving time for a non-violent offense. In 2002, 93.2% of prisoners were male. About 10.4% of all black males in the United States between the ages of 25 and 29 were sentenced and in prison, compared to 2.4% of Hispanic males and 1.3% of white males. In 2005, about 1 out of every 136 U.S. residents was incarcerated either in prison or jail.[14] The total amount being 2,320,359, with 1,446,269 in state and federal prisons and 747,529 in local jails. |
Prisons are big money. They generate lots of jobs. Ask Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about the might of California's prison guard union:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/08/MNL512Q96A.DTL
Support the Prison Industrial Complex by making more laws and mandating tougher sentencing. Overturning Rowe v. Wade will boost the incarceration numbers.
4.) Traveling Abroad & Foreign Friends
Scary fact: When I attended university, I had a couple friends from India and Pakistan. In fact, we discussed my traveling abroad to visit their homes. It would have been a great experience. BOO!
Where did the money come from? His family.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
5.) Tony RezkoWhere did the money come from? His family.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
According to his campaign staff, Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent "about three weeks" there, Mr. Obama's press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India. Mr. Obama appears not to have previously cited his travel in Pakistan in speeches during the campaign. In "Dreams from My Father," he talks of having a Pakistani roommate when he moved to New York, a man he calls Sadik who "had overstayed his tourist visa and now made a living in New York's high-turnover, illegal immigrant work force, waiting on tables." Mr. Obama, the campaign and his publisher have not provided any details about the identity of Sadik. During his years at Occidental College, Mr. Obama also befriended Wahid Hamid, a fellow student who was an immigrant from Pakistan and traveled with Mr. Obama there, the Obama campaign said. Mr. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York, and according to public records, has donated the maximum $2,300 to the Obama campaign and is listed as a fund-raiser for it. Mr. Chandoo is now a self-employed financial consultant, living in Armonk, N.Y. He has also donated the maximum, $2,300, to Mr. Obama's primary campaign and an additional $309 for the general election, campaign finance records show. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezko
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-rezko-storygallery,0,1028378.storygallery
Between Jan. 15 and Jan. 23, Obama submits three bids: $1.3 million on Jan. 15; $1.5 million on Jan. 21; and $1.65 million on Jan. 23. ... Obama raised the possibility that he was the first to bring the lot to Rezko's attention. ... "Tony asked me during the course of one of these conversations why I might not be interested in buying the lot and keep the property intact. And I said that, you know, it wasn't worth it to us to spend an extra $600,000 or so on a lot next door when Michelle and I were really interested in the house. So, he said, 'Well, I might be interested in purchasing the lot.' And my response was, 'That would be fine.'" ... "And my thinking at the time, and this is just to sort of flag this, this is an area where I can see sort of a lapse in judgment. Where I could have said, 'You know, I'm not sure that's a great idea.' But my view at the time when he expressed an interest was that he was a developer in this area that owned lots, that he thought it was going to be a good investment. And my interest, or my motivation was here's somebody that I knew who, if this lot was being developed, it'd be better to have somebody who knew, who I knew, who you know would give me schedules, keep me apprised of what was taking place and so forth. So I didn't object." ... "A larger lapse of judgment existed when it came to the strip of property," Obama said. "Because at that time, it became clear that Rezko was getting into bigger problems. And this was now a business transaction with him. And this is what I've referred to as a 'boneheaded' move. But it is in the context of, somebody, again, that I had known for a long time, who I was now a neighbor with; who, frankly, I did not think was doing me a favor because I was paying a substantial amount of money, and he continued to have a developable piece of property. In retrospect, this was an error. And I've said so publicly and repeatedly." |
Nadhmi Auchi graduated in Economics and Political Science from Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, in 1967. He also worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, becoming Director of Planning and Development. In 1979 he founded General Mediterranean Holding SA of Luxembourg. ... In recent years he has entered into several partnerships with Chicago-area businessman Tony Rezko, effectively coming to his rescue as his various investment schemes began collapsing. Auchi bought about 15 of Rezko's pizzerias in Wisconsin, according to court records. In 2005 he took a stake in Rezko's South Loop development at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street, a deal estimated by observers familiar with the details at $170 million. |
We are really stretching here. If there were actually a relationship, why would it matter?
Perhaps you are worried that Nadhmi Auchi is an Arab and a Muslim? Isn't that racist?
Perhaps you are worried that Nadhmi Auchi is an Arab and a Muslim? Isn't that racist?
- Nadhmi Auchi has business relations with Tony Rezko.
- Tony Rezko has political relations with Barack Obama
- so... if Barack Obama has a relationship involving even second degree connections to an arab of Islamic faith, then Obama is what? A terrorist sympathizer? Stupid.
7.) Valerie Jarrett
8.) In an interview, Obama referred to his "muslim religion".
9.) An Obama advisor meets with Hamas
10.) Foreign Campaign Contributions
11.) Beware of the enemy from within?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
This is just extremely stupid. Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran, and that makes her what? A friend of arabs? We need to have a lynching, because we've got a damned Arab lover here. Get the rope.
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This is just extremely stupid. Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran, and that makes her what? A friend of arabs? We need to have a lynching, because we've got a damned Arab lover here. Get the rope.
8.) In an interview, Obama referred to his "muslim religion".
Here is the video of the interview being referred to, and if you believe that this is Obama claiming himself to be Muslim, then your intellect is undeserving of respect. Seriously.
Watch: ABC's Stephanopoulos interview with Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I
Watch: ABC's Stephanopoulos interview with Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I
9.) An Obama advisor meets with Hamas
Perhaps you care to enlighten me as to why an expert on things "Middle East", learning from the actors in the theater and transferring his is knowledge to Obama, is threatening to you?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/943467,CST-NWS-Sweet11.article
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/943467,CST-NWS-Sweet11.article
Rob Malley, a Middle East policy adviser to likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, resigned after news surfaced that he had been meeting with Hamas -- something Obama pledged he himself would never do. ... Malley is an analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based International Crisis Group, specializing in the Israeli-Arab conflict. He told NBC News that his job "is to meet with all sorts of savory and unsavory people and report on what they say. I've never denied whom I meet with; that's what I do." |
10.) Foreign Campaign Contributions
It is not surprising that people of color across the globe may be excited at the prospect of a non-WASP in the White House. I would bet that some foreign campaign dollars have slipped into the campaign coffer. However, there is oversight by the FEC.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/05/rnc_to_file_fec_complaint_on_o.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/politics/07foreign.html?ref=politics
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/05/rnc_to_file_fec_complaint_on_o.html?hpid=topnews
Obama campaign aides said today that a number of steps have been taken to safeguard against foreign or illegal contributions coming in in smaller increments. The measures include: requiring donors to present a passport at fundraising events held for Americans overseas, ending contributions to the Obama Store from contributors with addresses outside the U.S. or its territories, and requiring donors to enter a U.S. passport number when contributing via the Americans Abroad page. ... And aides note that Sen. John McCain had his own foreign fundraising issues, having been forced to refund about $50,000 in donations solicited by Jordanian Mustafa Abu Naba'a, who was raising money on behalf of one of McCain's top Florida bundlers. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/politics/07foreign.html?ref=politics
A New York Times analysis of campaign finance records, however, found $3.3 million in contributions in which the donor listed an abbreviation other than that of one of the 50 states or an American territory. That is about 1 percent of the $270 million in itemized donations over $200 that the Obama campaign has reported. The largest amount, about $2 million, came from people who list NA, presumably for not applicable, in the space where they would normally list a state. The other abbreviations listed included UK, for United Kingdom, and JP, for Japan. Others could simply be data entry errors. Senator John McCain’s campaign received about $517,000 in contributions from such donors. Donations from overseas are legal if the donor is an American citizen or has a green card. But federal candidates are barred from accepting contributions from other foreign citizens. The Republican National Committee was hard pressed to furnish definitive proof that this was occurring with Mr. Obama. |
11.) Beware of the enemy from within?
George W. Bush & Co.:
- War Crimes
- Torture
- Patriot Act
- Wire-tapping & surveillance of citizens
- National Debt
- Response to Hurricane Katrina
- Firing non-Republican State Attorneys
"Terrorist!", "Treason!", "Kill Him!", "Off with his head!" -- (the McCain base is scary):
Who is John McCain?
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Who is Sarah Palin? (because McCain might not expire during his term... maybe)
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If the election goes forward without interruption, it appears doubtful that your voting against Obama will matter, so you might as well get to know the man you fear:
All your base are belong to us:
Political positions of Barack Obama:
Get to know his grandparents (he was raised by them from age 10):
His mom, an amazing woman, died of cancer at age 53 (health care is important to Barack Obama)
Health Care:
1 comment:
I too got this email. I am smart enough to realize that most of what it actually said is a form of persuasion used to not tell facts but scare people into thinking that this is true and if you vote wrong that bad things will happen. When in actuallity if you believe the spam emails you must truly be at a loss already and perhaps could use an intelligent presidential candidate such as Obama. Thank you for clarifying to those who believe in such nonsense. You'll be happy to know I did not forward this email. I deleated it.
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