Morning Roundup: Around the Web with Buckets of Loot

By Beau Friedlander

The treasury department today announced that it will copy Europe's solution to the credit crisis by investing $250 billion for ownership positions in large nine banks, thereby assuring another bumper crop of stock market victims sometime down the line when this temporary fix doesn't work out. (New York Times)

Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index continued its ascent today, marking the largest two-day increase since God started putting together the world and everything in it.  

Progressives least favorite Dem gets knocked getting knocked for a hundred grand by mistress. (Via The Raw Story) 

You write something positive about ACORN, we'll post it. Here's proof.  

In the UK, inflation has biggest jump in 16 years. (The Guardian

Amy Goodman's up on Alternet talking about the damage McCain has done to this racist nation.  

The Washington Post goes to India to look at the state of debt collection in the US today. 

Demoinesdem at MyDD argues that Obama should aim higher when it comes to renewable energy. We're in mixed company here, so I will merely provide the link.  

Since you can never get enough of McCain at an ACORN event (we ran this last night) here again is McCain at an ACORN event, via Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic.  

Crooks and Liars brings you: the Clintons! stumping for Obama. Um, Bill Clinton is, er, monstrously good when he wants to be. Seriously. 

All right, it's beginning to seem a lot like Christmas: Obama gaining among rural voters.

Josh Marshall notes that McCain did not take questions at a Cape Fear Community College event yesterday and asks, has he taken questions since the Arab flap last week? 

 

 

Jay Weber is a morning show host on 1130, WISN, Milwaukee WI

Teflon Obama

While prepping for my show this morning, I started to make a list of the types of things that would have knocked any other candidate for office out of the running. I included associations of Barrack Obama’s, as well as gaffes and mistakes he’s made.

I had to stop after 25 minutes because I just had to move on to prepping the rest of the show, but I could have continued on much longer. Folks, it’s amazing how many passes Obama has received. I know it’s an overused charge by talk show hosts, but any other candidate really would have been disqualified immediately, or mocked until their candidacy was a joke, if they had even a single one of these associations or mistakes.

I didn’t want this post to be gargantuan, so I give just the essentials. But these are all easily researched.

Associations:

Bill Ayers. What other politician wouldn’t even have to answer questions about his long and close association with a known and unrepentant terrorist?

Related to Ayers: This week’s revelation that Obama was a member of the radical ‘New Party’ in the 90s. This is a political party formed by socialists to push the country closer to socialism. Obama was a member and got their endorsement when he ran for the Illinois State Senate.

Jeremiah Wright. Imagine if John McCain were a member of a mainstream church that was in the least bit controversial. Imagine if he had just gone a few times to see Jerry Falwell preach. But Obama sits in a radical Afro-centric church for twenty years…week in and week out...and listens to all sorts of racist, vile, anti-American, anti-whitey, anti-Jew crap, and maintains a very close personal association with this pastor. He gives one hollow speech, kicks Wright under the bus,and so much for that. No questions can ever be asked…again…

Father Michael Flager: some white priest trying to ingratiate himself to the black community. A modern day reverse step-and-fetch it who spreads the same type of nonsense Wright does.

Obama’s not a Muslim. ….but he does have a number of Muslim associations that haven’t been investigated, including being friendly with Louis Farrakhan, who is another anti-America, anti-white, anti-Jew racist.

Tony Rezko…we all know his story.

Obama’s also got a fat poker buddy who is a county exec in Illinois who’s under federal investigation.

Obama’s close ties to Acorn, and the revelation this week that his campaign paid acorn 800-thousand dollars to register voters and then hid that expense on their election reports.

Obama’s got close ties to Fannie Mae, including Franklin Raines, who skimmed millions from Fannie while running it into the ground, and now advises Obama on ‘housing matters.’

Gaffes: Some call Biden a walking gaffe machine. Obama’s actually worse

He said he’d visited 57 states, with more to go. This guy is running for president and he doesn’t know how many states there are? Isn’t that worse than not knowing how to spell potato?

Joe Biden was called out for plagiarism. Well, Obama stole an entire speech from a black governor, Duval Patrick, and gave it as his own.

Obama often doesn’t know where he is: he’s called Sioux City Sioux Falls. He’s called Brownsville, Texas Brownville.
He’s called Rapid Falls Grand Rapids. He’s called Sunrise, Florida Sunshine, Florida..

Obama called a woman ‘sweetie’ while at an event in New Hampshire. That ‘offense’ alone would have ruined any republican politician.

Obama claimed that tornados in Kansas had killed ten-thousand people. Actual death toll: twelve people.

Obama said his parents got together as a result of the march on Selma. He was born in 1961. The march on Selma was in 1965.

Obama said Iran is a small country, so it doesn’t pose a serious threat to us.

Obama said he’d meet, without precondition, with the world’s dictators and thugs.

Obama said Arabic translators that were in Iraq were needed in Afghanistan. They don’t speak Arabic in Afghanistan..

Obama called Matt Lauer ’Tim’ three times in an interview, even after Lauer corrected him and said, I’m Matt….

Obama said he didn’t want to see his daughters punished with a baby.

Obama asked a crowd in Iowa…Iowa…if they’d seen the price of arugula lately.

And this is where I had to stop.......

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