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Despite a vow to focus on issues, the Republican Party plans to use Barack Obama's relationships with controversial figures to undermine the public's view of his character. The party will make an issue out of Obama's ties to such people as Chicago developer Antoin Rezko and '60s radical William Ayers.

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jakob-z02 months, 3 weeks ago

How come the Democrats and the media didn't go after George Bush's ties to the Bin Laden family?
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  Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  The Democrats have more class than that, and the majority of the msm is a branch of the Republican Party or, at best, is a talking point recorder for the admin.
  Rezko actually has tighter relations with Rove and has stated in sworn testimony that Rove actually targeted Fitzgerald for termination before previously known. Rezko also attended a Christmas gala at the WH thanks to a GWB invite. Now how does a man get on GWB`s Christmas invitee list...
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    Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    And every time the nuttos try to bring up any Obama relationship, just remind them of a few McCain/Bush/RW relationships.
    The 30-year intimate relationship between the Republicans and the Moonies.
    Hagee
    Parsely
    Pat Roberts
    bin Ladin family
    The Saudi royals
    Chalobi
    Katherine Harris
    Lobbyists for Iran and Burma
    Saddam Hussein
    Abramoff
    Mrs Phil Gramm
    9/11
    No state with more systemic corruption than TX, except maybe Florida, both of which have been run by the Bush family machine
    2001 Bush-endorsed coup attempt in Venezuela
    McCain voted for domestic terror
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      Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      http://www.jedreport.com/2008/05/why-did-mccain...
      But if John McCain really wants to make being terrorist sympathizer a central plank of his campaign, it's about time he explained why he sided with pro-life extremists and opposed essential new legislation to protect women's reproductive health clinics across the nation from a wave of domestic terrorism.
      The legislation, which was signed into law in 1994, was important because the campaign of violence against the women's health clinics crossed state lines -- and it worked. Violence fell dramatically after President Clinton signed it into law.
      Extraordinarily, however, John McCain opposed the law, voting against it not once but twice, each time joining a small band of thirty extremist pro-life Senators.
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        Dionys2 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        Maybe he should talk about how he abandoned his wife during her Chemotherapy for his current wife. How's that for moral fortitude.
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        miklkit2 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        Didn't Newt Gingrich do the same thing?
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aniokly2 months, 3 weeks ago

We will look at all Obama's associates from his anti-American Pastors Wright, Otis, and Pfleger, to his terrorist friends, the Bomber buddies, Ayers, and Dohrn. Then we will look at his land baron friend Tony Rezko, and his lobbyist friends Axlerod, and Johnson. Did you read what the Genius has done now? He is moving DNC headquarters to Chicago. Back to Chicago where we can remind America of the 1968 Riots, and all his corrupt political homies. I laughed so hard.
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  CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Laughter is good.
  Aniokly, I want you to consider voting this november for Obama.
  He is a good man, a husband and father, a Christian who loves his country, a brilliant speaker who is full of hope.
  You would like him if you met him; I bet you and he could talk about Chicago.
  He would probably enjoy hearing about the bad old days.
  Just a thought.
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    JoseMadre2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Obama is a quasi-Marxist who is clinging to the failed policies of Jimmy Carter.
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      HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Oh for crying out loud, what a brain dead statement, bet you even think that Stalin was a Marxist too, don't ya.
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      CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      I like the word 'quasi'; it has a complex, sinister feel, like 'quantum queerness' or 'surreptitious quantitivity'.
      Marxist is dusty but still good for something to hook an adjective to.
      Jesus-Mary-Joseph will you even TRY to address real issues?
      I don't know what Jimmy Carter's 'policies' were except that he was 'born again' in a place called washington where that does not fit the spirit of things.
      What does a quasi-marxist DO? Share some of the power, some of the wealth, some of the land? Obama's a fricking millionare harvard lawyer, not an expreso-drinking beatnik.
      He wants to spend more American tax dollars on America, less on the global economy and nation building in Messopotamia.
      That's not marxism; it's patriotism.
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      bubba22 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Hit the pos button by mistake ... dang it ...
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        HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        I normally don't give negs, it seems to be a badge of honour to some of these idiots, but for you i will even it out.
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      ADAGUY2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      I think you may have done some "brain damage" the last time you wiped your butt!
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      Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      > Obama is a quasi-Marxist who is clinging to the failed policies of Jimmy Carter.
      First, you would not know a Marxist, quasi or otherwise, if one bit you in the arse.
      Second, the failed policies of Jimmy Carter failed because Reagan overturned them or canceled them, thereby leading us to two oil wars, several trillion in debt, and we`re still stuck sucking the Saudi pumps. If Reagan had half the brains and integrity Carter had/has, we would be in great shape.
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    aniokly2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Barak Obama is pro Abortion, even voting to ban medical attention to live babies that survive abortion. He is for the 2nd Amendment, with restriction, but won't spell out what those restrictions are. His brother Malik confirms, once again, he is a former Muslim, who traveled with Rev Wright in the 90s to visit Lybia. He would raise my taxes, and repeal the Bush tax cuts, he would surrender in Iraq, and I don't want a 100% Liberal President nominating a Supreme Court Justice, or two. If he would lie about being a former Muslim, he will lie about anything. He had to know that was going to be revealed. And those bad old days in Chicago, they are still bad. He is a corrupt Chicago Politician.
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      CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Denying medical attention to babies born prematurely or surviving abortion was already entirely against the law .
      Obama voted against a bad addition to that law.
      Being a dad, he is pro-baby all the way.
      He SAYS he is a Christian submitted to Christ; if you still doubt it you must take your suspicions to heaven; though I think the rumours comes from the other direction.
      If you thought you had a tax cut under Bush, you were only getting a deferment; since there was no spending cut. It was charged on the national credit card.
      Obama intends to raise taxes for the super-rich of the country, who have had it easiest the last 8 years. For the regular rich, the middle class and the working poor, he wants lower taxes and raised services*
      __________...
      Hey, if we end the war it is doable.
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      bubba22 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      It is no surprise that you continue to believe and perpetuate MYTHS that have been TOTALLY debunked.
      Obama is NOT "pro abortion". There is NO SUCH THING.
      Obama is pro choice, and so am I.
      Obama is NOT a Muslim! Get OVER it.
      You must be pretty ticked off at the current "conservative" court that ruled that detainees actually have some BASIC rights.
      If you want to talk about LIES, talk about McCain's lies and flip-flops.
      McCain was against Bush's tax cuts before he was for them. He was for troop withdrawal from Iraq before he was against it. He was against torture before he was for it. He says he will end earmarks while he still votes FOR them. He says he supports veterans when he votes AGAINST additional funding for them. He says he has always been against privatization of Social Security, then he describes the kind of private accounts he supports.
      Chicago has NOTHING on D.C. and on the dirty politics of Clinton and Bush and the Republicans.
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        bubba22 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        I MUST correct myself ...
        My last sentence should have read --
        "Chicago has NOTHING on D.C. and on the dirty politics of McCain and Bush and the Republicans."
        I don't know if "Clinton" was a Freudian slip -- I am a supporter of Bill but not necessarily Hilary, which is now moot since Obama has the nomination.
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      Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      > even voting to ban medical attention to live babies that survive abortion.
      Shock. That would be social medicine, you know marxism.
      > He is for the 2nd Amendment, with restriction,
      So is everybody with a half a brain, including Bush, McCain, Moses, etc. How many NRA members think Stinger missiles should be sold at Target? So, the NRA is stepping on my rights to be a `well armed militia`.
      > His brother Malik confirms, once again, he is a former Muslim, who traveled with Rev Wright in the 90s to visit Lybia.
      Why do you lieth so?
      > He would raise my taxes, and repeal the Bush tax cuts,
      He would lower taxes for 90% and you know it. He would repeal the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy who don`t need it. So cry me a river.
      He would support the Iraqis while our troops withdraw and theirs take over.
      Who cares that you want another activist RW judge. Why do you hate America so?
      Why does McCain lie about being a former AQ member??
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      Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      If you make less than $150K, you will get a better tax cut under Obama than McCain.
      Isn`t it about time that the people who really drive the economy and keep this country great get a break? No?
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    agoodlibertian2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    To crymtyphon: You want anickly to vote for Obama. Never happen. She is way way too brainwashed to do that. All she and her fellow anti american republicans care about is trying to figure out the best way to destroy what is left of this great nation. Mccain has a better chance of destroying the country than Obama so that is who they are going to vote for. It is who they are.
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      CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Nonsense.
      Aniokly, AlphaGnosis, heck, even Automan666 don't want to destroy the country.
      They have beliefs they don't question; and those beliefs lead them to policies which could destroy the country.
      So could some of yours or mine.
      Obama is a good man; not the evil joke the chicken-hawk radio-squawking chinese-flag-pin patriots have painted.
      I think, not just victory in November, but healing in January, comes when enough of America see past the fox-talk slander.
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        Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        http://thetrashbin.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/how...
        Sen. Barack Obama's major legislative accomplishment in the Senate, the The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 has been to bring transparency to federal spending. Send your Republican friends to http://www.federalspending.gov which his legislation created, a veritable "Google of the Federal Budget", where anyone can research every dollar to see where their tax money is actually going. The whole Federal Rathole is now online, for the first time ever, inviting scrutiny from whoever has the patience to slog through it all. You dont have to be a CPA to realize that this does more in the long run to control wasteful federal spending than all the speeches Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon ever gave on the subject, put together.
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        agoodlibertian2 months, 3 weeks ago
        
        I was trying to make a point, no I do not believe that they intentionally want this country destroyed. But when they type their pro Bush or Mccain propaganda which is hurting this country, they are in effect destroying this country.
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      BillieMaxer2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Actually AniHoodly is only worried about a colored person getting to be the president, check out most of her posts.Soon she will be bitching about him and his color after he is president and I will just sit back and smile.
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  JoseMadre2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  How is it dirty tricks to call attention to Obma's poor judgment when it comes to choosing friends and advisors? Choosing advisors and department heads is one of the primary duties of the President.
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    HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    How many times have friends utterly surprised you, as you just didn't think that they would do certain things.
    Who knows what other people are really like, we all have skeletons in our closet, many that can't dance either.
    And dirty tricks are not the realm of one party, just look at what shrub did to McC to see that politics will even eat their own.
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      CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      I deny having skeletons in MY closet; just old shoes and coat hangers and a suitcase I can't unlock but might have some stuff I borrowed from a hotel 10 years back.
      I am sorry to hear that many skeletons can't dance. Is it that they have no rhythm and dance badly, or is it that they lack the nessessary musculature, being dead?
      HB, I do agree that dirty tricks are not confined to one party.
      
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    Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Jose,
    If you have ever had a friend (highly doubtable), associate, coworker (do you have a job?), or other you would understand that sometimes they don`t say or do things you agree with.
    Trying to hold Obama responsible for every relationship he has ever had is like trying to hold the Bush`s responsible for the bin Ladins, the Moonies, the Abramoffs, the Limbaughs, the Coulters, the Roberts, the Brownies, the Israelis, etc. In other words, not only can we make your guys look worse if we tried to hold them to the same litmus test, but this would absolutely have no productivity and would only district from the issues. Unless of course that is the goal...
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      Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      *would absolutely lead to nothing productive and would only distract from the issues.
      cannot type too well sometimes.
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fsev412 months, 3 weeks ago

McCain says he wants to run a campaign on the issues. There are some pretty important issues out there. The economy, the "war", our crumbling infrastructure, our image with the rest of the world, immigration etc. Now his people want to make some relatively minor associations major issues so that they can "muck up" the campaign. John has some pretty shady acquaintances also. Why can't we leave all of them out of the picture on both sides and evaluate them on the important issues. Once one side starts the other must respond.
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  HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Well I believe that the Reps have to stay away from the real issues, as they had the power to do something but did nothing, not even an attempt.
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JoseMadre2 months, 3 weeks ago

There is nothing minor about having a potential President whose judgment is so poor that he thinks it's cool to have "friendly relationships" with domestic terrorists like Ayres and Dohrn.
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  CRYMTYPHON2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I won't list all the embarrasing people the current Prez knows so well*.
  But pick a president, any president. Won't I be able to google your choice, and make a quick list of embarrasing friends and relations? Thieves, liars, adulterers, robber-barrons, slave-traders, war-profiteers, criminals, madmen and lawyers?
  Your own close association with Kevin Bacon links you with a dirty crowd, JoseMadre.
  And politicians know THOUSANDS of people. It's their job.
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  * Like the BinLaden family, or the Rev Moon, or Abramof, or Libby
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  Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  as opposed to friendly relationships with the bin Ladins? The Saudis? The Moonies?
  How about all of McCain`s domestic terror buddies who murder doctors and women because they work at or visit parenthood clinics? McCain fought to keep them off of FBI terror watchdog lists even though terror is their tool.
  Do you watch Oliver North? He is more of a terrorist than Ayres ever was! He sold weapons AND DRUGS illegally to our worst enemy and to a known terrorist army. Yet he`s got a job on Faux now. How many innocent locals were killed by the weapons North & Reagan sold to Iran or the Contras? How many Americans?
  Bush is another anti-American terrorist funder, he gave $43M of our $ to the Taliban in Spring of 2001. How much of that money was used to kill Americans?
  Bush, North, McCain, Reagan...worse than Ayres by any standard, and Ayres aint Obama.
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automan9092 months, 3 weeks ago

Obama is a racist loving, terrorist loving, anti-American Marxist. I's vote for GWB again before I even concidered voting for him.
There is no room for racism or racist/terrorist lovers in the White House.

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  HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Of course your loving remarks aren't racist at all are they.
  And stating who you would vote for shows how your one little brain cell is overloaded.
  Have a nice day EH!
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  Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Well, that rules out every Republican.
  So it will be Obama vs whom??
  McCain`s fascism is boiling over, isn`t it?
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    Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/06/13/...
    More Republican anti-american, anti-militar fascist policies in action.
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hefaa12 months, 3 weeks ago

He's moving DNC headquarters to Chicago. Back to Chicago where we can remind America of the 1968 riots, and all his political homies. I laughed so hard"
Aniokly, I laughed hard too. Your ignorance in out of date. Reminding America of the 1968 Riots?
When Barack Obama was seven years old!
Aniokly, go back to your N.A.M.B.L.A meeting with the rest of your conservative fun-boys and show em' this. Now here's some true Republican relationships!
http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/05/27/t...
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Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago

But if John McCain really wants to make being terrorist sympathizer a central plank of his campaign, it's about time he explained why he sided with pro-life extremists and opposed essential new legislation to protect women's reproductive health clinics across the nation from a wave of domestic terrorism.
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/05/why-did-mccain...
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