Jimmy Justo

Pinocchiobama – in 1996, Barack Obama’s campaign answered a questionnaire saying he favored bans on manufacturing and selling of guns, opposed parental notification of abortions for minors, and opposed the death penalty. When asked about that, Obama threw his campaign staff under the bus, claiming the staff had sent in the questionnaire. He issued a blanket denial that he had ever held those positions. Except that is not true. As Human Events RedState noted, a review of the actual document shows “that [Obama] reviewed the answers closely revising some of the answers in his own handwriting.” Obama claims to be the only one willing to re-engage the Taliban. He faults the Bush Administration for depleting the number of military personnel in Afghanistan and claims we need to increase the number of ground forces to 92,000 troops, something Obama says the Bush administration is opposed to. Funny how Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered the exact same policy prescription and number of troops back in 2007. Obama said, “John McCain got upset today apparently because I had repeated exactly what he said, which is that we might be there [Iraq] for 100 years if he had his way.” Only, that is another lie. As RedState documented, the Washington Post’s FactCheck, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s nonpartisan FactCheck.org, and the Columbia Journalism Review all report Obama’s words were grossly misleading. The Annenberg Public Policy Center called Obama’s statement a “serious distortion to the point of rank falsehood.” In Pennsylvania, Obama is running a television ad saying, “I’m Barack Obama. I don’t take money from oil companies or Washingtonlobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.” No federal candidate can accept money from a corporation – no one. But, Obama has cashed $213,000.00 from oil company employees.

Super delegates constitute super hypocrisy.

But the Supreme Court has upheld any political parties right to choose their candidate however they want.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO EVEN RESEMBLE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPALS.

So the Republicans have one set of rules for the selection process and the Democrats have another. And the “Party” bosses are indeed the bosses. The processes are fraught with historical baggage including a lot of ways to try to keep the “voter” from making a mistake.

This link bares this in a way I am sure very few really understand, especially those who think their vote counts as much as any other. Bill Clinton has two votes, one counts for next to nothing like any individual vote in a pure democracy with a large population of voters. But the other, additional vote counts as 1 of 800 appointed voters of the just over 2000 required votes to get the Democratic Nomination. Together these 800 or so appointed voters are about 40% of the total required voters. The individual voters like you and I, altogether only count for about 60% of the votes.

I speculated quite some time ago that the Democratic Party could almost lock up the White House if Hillary and Barack were on the ticket together. I believe that even more today with the same caveat that it must be done before too much political damage has been done to each by the other, making a union impossible.

Romney evidently agrees that he said - paraphrased, “There is no question Bush and Maliki must have a series of private timetables they speak about (between themselves) but we do not want them (terrorists in Iraq) to wait in the weeds until we are gone”

McCain has characterized that statement as supporting a timetable during the time frame when McCain very publicly campaigned against any kind of time table and for the Surge and against Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld finally fell under the weight of McCains’ continuing criticism.

At the time, many thought he was politically dead because of his support for the very unpopular Surge. How is it, that it seems to have become even more unpopular today because nobody is talking about it

The Obama bandwagon is picking up steam in many quarters and being referred to as the candidate of change by more Democrats every day. There are increasing and not so subtle references to taking the high road, for instance as opposed to Hillary’s pandering in Florida, evidently contrary to informal agreements amongst the candidates due to the delegate problem.

Proposal:
Enact legislation enabling (not requiring) lenders and state and local laws to allow and keep the current occupants in homes that are go through foreclosure. Foreclosure does not stop. The mortgage is exchanged for a Homesteaders Agreement between the Lender and the Occupant

Who Stays:
Current Occupants

Help us stay. Let’s Make a Deal. Consider This.

Everyone seems to have a plan and non of them are having great impact on the housing problems. That’s mostly because the most intractable part of the problem is that too many houses are overvalued, driven by fog a mirror housing finance that purshed demand for homes beyond the natural real need curve to a speculative demand dynamic and that will not be changed a lot by any plan out there, except possibly this “Homesteaders Act of 2008″

1. Change the whole deal and keep all current occupants in the house with a troubled mortgage as follows:
   1. Before foreclosure modify the mortgage deal to a profit sharing deal “Homesteading Act of 2008) with the owner occupant by lowering rate so all housing finance cost are less that 33% of gross income.
   2. Foreclose ASAP on non occpant owners and offer financing to the renting occupant as to the
2. Laws need to be changed to facilite this and formulas for profit sharing must be determined.

IMMEDIATELY send this or talk about it with you political prepresentatives, I have seen NONE talking about this human solution.

Send it to your press outlets and watch them ignor it.

“We have been sort of like John McCain, but not completely” per Barack Obama? Yes.

Hillary and John Edwards did not question what Barack meant by that sentence, which surely requires some explanation, because they were stumbling over each other to say why they could beat him (McCain).

Mitt & Mike must also have McCain envy right now and be chaffing at the bit to lock horns with McCain in Florida and are no doubt praying for a Super Super Tuesday.

Forecasts that this goes all the way to the convention in Minneapolis are a bit far fetched but the back room deals for VP might .

Duncan Hunter who recently dropped out of the race endorsed Huckabee.

Obama words as he walks the political and personal line all candidates walk. Sometimes it is called going negative and in most markets most candidate go that way. It is a dicey strategy because it can backfire.

Maybe this was Obama trying to limit damage to his campaign or maybe it is what he really feel and regrets contributing to negativism. Either way the remaining Democratic candidates are doing their best to at least minimize without putting themselves in the wax museum.

Regardless, congratulations to Barack for saying what he did and doing so in a fashion I can easily hear Martin Luther King saying it.

Words and Money.

And what happens in Vegas may not stay in Vegas.

John Edwards is the third man in a two person race.

He did say he got his BUTT kicked in Vegas, and it wasn’t even by George Bush.