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WHY WHhhhhhhyyyyyyyy Does Barack Obama keep having such BAD TERRIBLE judgment with picking friends...

Rev. Wright
Pleger
Ayers
Rezko
And now Jim Johnson added to the long long list.

WHY????

Can we PLEASE have someone else to elect... For the sake & safety of The United America.

This bad naive Judgment only further proves why Barack Obama wants to talk to people like Ahmadinejad.

How can people keep voting for this kind of stuff, What is wrong with their brains and their common sense, why are they unable to notice a scandal? Does it have to blow up in their face first?

Open your eyes & wake up America, please.

I don't understand the whole issue. Why are the mortgage companies to blame? The fault is with the home owners that took out mortgages they could not afford and then defaulted. Another case of greed, not corporate, but individual.

John McCains words and deeds of now and the past form the rope that he holds high over his head in one hand are his sword in the other hand. Behold, I will send.......For without...Rev.22.15

You can keep trying, but this just isn't a scandal. The man got loans from a bad company. He doesn't work for Countrywide, lobby for them, or defend them. He's a client. Doing this gotcha thing with ever single minute thing that happens is ridiculous.

Obama has been for a long time the choice of the Democratic leadership.....they follow the money not ideals...see "pork barrel" for explanation.

I get the feeling that people on this blog don't want ANY change.

No politician is clean. That's the nature of the business in this country.

HPBoston...You are so right!!!

So what you are saying is that companies provide special offers to political friends of the company and vice versa at the expense of everyone else ?

My God, they are going to have to shut down Haliburton.

The circumstances are not similar as some on this board are claiming. He hired the guy to vet potential VP candidates (not select the VP candidate). He's not hired on mortgage consulting. The worlds/purposes are far apart. The guy is not even being paid.

You can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. Obama is a complete nitwit! Ultra-libs, terrorists and uneducated youth define this guy really well!

Obama is not the Mr. Clean he claims he is. Some how whenever there's dirt on his side, he thinks it is totally acceptable. Under normal circumstances, yes, it is very silly to get a vetter for the vetter, however, he doggedly attacked Clinton for similar circumstances. That, to me, is the worst part. We all know Clinton was roaming around with lobbyists but we don't care. She never claimed she didn't. Obama claims he has a perfect record on this sort of thing but we find he doesn't. Hypocrisy much?

ngemason,

I am smart enough to see a con man with a big smile, a big suit, and a small political record for trying to be president. no more town hall meetings for obama, we cannot take it.

give obama a big rally, like his mentors
to get the people all emotional and crazy.

obama can say nothing better than anyone in politics. and look good doing it too.

There are two words that I think of when I think Obama: brilliant marketing.
How else could a product that is so little known and has so little track record go to to the top of the charts. This really has been perhaps the greatest political marketing job in American history.

Yeah with this...the "terrorist fist pump" he stole from charlie Sheen and Michael Jordan...

the gas tax and the picture of Hillary and John on the back of the boat looking like retirees riding the Maiden of the Mist at Niagara Falls...

yeah McCain must surely win...

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is this going to be a blow out.

somebody needs to tell John not to look like he is in pain every time he speaks now.

I don't think I can watch anymore...seriously and the words coming out of his mouth...I am starting to be in pain.

this is a made up story...

the guy, you would guess, would have an unbelievable credit rating and it is about the points... duh...

anyone (even on the republican side said this is a non-issue and it looks bad to create it as one)

especially with mcCain's LEAD strategists having seedier deals and his campaign "loans"...

I thonk most people would stay away from playing old time politics with a guy that is off to the side and one issue out of all the corporations that he deals with...and this issue may be because this guy if incredibly smart and financially savvy and has a good financial standing...

this is stupid.

another distraction from the fact that McCain loses on all of these issues...and the economy... and the war issue.

straws...

so this guys has loans with a company that gives loans, he has collateral for those loans, and clearly he has a high level of income and credit rating. How does that make him a lobbyist for the company? This is the rich man's life, they have other rich friends in positions of power that give them special deals. Where in the story does it show that this guy is lobbying for Countrywide?

I HOPE to God it is not to late to rid our selves of the worst candidate the DNC has shoved down our throats.

His CHANGE is just the usual flip flop,dirty politician, lying his way to the WH with all the sewer stench on him!
We could get stuck with him for 8 FREAKIN YEARS!
At least McCain will barely make the 4 and wait till we see who they get as VP to prop up that RNC joke, who I will vote for anyway.
4 years of John is less dangerous than 8 years of the BO.

jpt,

i hope you will be the hero of the day,
and help put some legs to this impeachment of bush.
I think the citizens of the us have the will and desire to see this happen.
no matter what nancy "smiling,head nodding and doing nothing" pelosi says.

impeach bush

thanks for the obama, no i can't moment

I knew that was more and more that would come out about this guy.
you don't have such a high rise, with not much to show for it, with out getting some dirt on you from somewhere.

It is so clear all the dem bigwigs wanted to do was to beat clinton.
at the expense of losing the white house.
sad.
and no i do not want sen. clinton on the vp spot. I hope she will be able to have enough sense to stay away from obama.
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Another major problem for Obama is he no longer has Hillary to act as a lightning rod for his "old politics" charge. The strategy won the Dem nomination and got Hillary out but now he deserves to be judged by the same standards he applied to his rival to win the nomination.

hopesprings

i never bought the new politics deal from obama,
because how are you going to bring new politics when you are surrounded by old school politicians? who are having to tell you everything?

I was thinking "How long will it take before you hear obama using sen. clinton lingo?" now i hear him talking about solutions.

we have seen the constant drip, drip,drip of what a fraud obama is,and the drip is getting louder and faster.
My husband said yester afternoon, maybe we should give obama a chance. and I was quiet and just thought about it.
but by late yesterday evening i was listening to him talk about the economy,and listened to him stumble and flub up so much, i was just twisting in my seat in agony at how i was witnessing such an incompetent, he said to the audience member, "be quiet i can't hear myself think". which was an insult to intelligent people, because it was clear he had forgotten what he had memorized. clearly not a good understanding of the subject.

how can i give obama a try, when i watch and try to listen to him, and he just frustrates you and makes you sick we have picked the wrong one.
the people who picked obama really have done HIM a disservice, he and his wife are in something that is way above their heads.
and i am all for people learning to grow into a job.
but these times in our country were not the times.

everyone who has made it possible for
barack obama and john mccain to be our only choices for president is unpatriotic.

no matter what you say about his personal life-bill clinton' presidency was good for a good many american pocketbook, and when he gave a speech here at home or in china, it was a good one. some of us may not have liked what he said, but none of us were put off by the way he rep.the country policies.

we got a dummy with bush, will not a real dummy, because financially with all of his failed ventures, bush has faired well financially. always made money.

and with these two, it seem we have managed to get two who will pattern themselves after bush in their incompetency.

i think we as a nation have gone collectively crazy in having only
mccain and obama to choose from for president.

i would like to see the impeachement of bush get some traction, and carry through

Obama gets more dispicible each day.

He is still playing his blame game. To take the eyes off him. Refuse to take responsibility.

His 10 year old behavior,pointing fingers at Hillary and McCain.

If he ever becomes President, who is he going to point fingers at blame for everything? who will be his scapegoat?

Actually the WSJ DOES say that there is no way to know the criteria that went into determing in the interest rate and depending on the place and type of home it could very well be ABOVE market rate.

"As President, Senator Obama will crack down on fraudulent lenders and bring real relief to Americans struggling in the grip of the housing crisis—"

Exactly how does a president "crack down" on a business? Send the secret service to lock the doors?

"Barack Obama has offered a real solution to the housing crisis-"

And the solution is.....?

And how do we decide what lenders are "fraudulant"

Mine is through Countrywide too. Got a fantastic rate. Doesn't mean I got an insider deal, just had great credit and 25% down.

This is something that is going to catch up with Obama. He often rails against things that he labels "the old politics" but then he goes and does exactly what he was condemning. This has happened many times but has not yet stuck but it will.

Gee, my mortgage is through Country - wide. Does this mean I can't vote for him?

It's always a major character issue when an opponent does it, but "overblown" when Obama does it.

The truth is, Obama says one thing and does another when it comes to sub-prime mortgage lenders. Contributors from the industry have provided more than a million dollars to Senator Obama's campaign. In fact, Senator Obama has taken $1.8 million from the folks who have pushed these loans on unsuspecting working families. He's taken more money from the top ten subprime issuers -- more than $400,000 -- than any other presidential campaign. Following his economic speech in New York, the senator scheduled a fundraiser at Credit Suisse, one of the top sub-prime underwriters in the country.

And we can all thank McCain's Economic Adviser Phil Gramm, co-sponsor of the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act for the Mortgage Meltdown.

Gramm's ties to McCain is a much bigger problem than Johnson's to Obama.