What? No comment about Bill Clinton saying Obama "hit it out of the park" with his Biden pick? I guess we all know that Bill was oozing with sarcasism.

McCain/Romney would be a dominant combo against the elitist Obama.

With a McCain/Romney ticket, Obama wouldn't stand a chance.

President McCain baby, get use to it!

RUMORS: Barack Obama may appear Thursday like a rock star including Roman columns and all.

He may be trying to outstage Paris Hilton if it's true.

picture coming?

Romney appears to be a pathalogical liar and just wait for the country to figure out his religion, war avoidance in France and his flip-flop count. He will say anything. He was the opposite of McCain on most issues they discussed.

Is Barack Obama an Al-Qaeda spy?

He has friends that bombed the U.S. Capitol & other government buildings.

That is a fact, not speculation.
Google: Bill Ayers

Mr. Coffee, uh everything you just described is Obama. Nice try though.

Can't wait till tomorrow's "Greek Tragedy"

LOLOL. You can't make this stuff up!

Obama had ABC investigators arrested for daring to take video of powerful lobbyists schmoozing with the dems.

I thought the dems were "different."

Lol.

Opposite attraction, brother Coffee. Sounds familar? OB and Fiden.

I think Romney would be a bad idea. Evangelicasts don't like him.

Dear Mr. Keeney:

Yet again, the Obama for America campaign has sent a letter to you and your office, demanding now that the Department of Justice prosecute one of the donors to American Issues Project, Inc., (“AIP), a non-profit organization which is presently sponsoring advertisements to which the Obama campaign objects.

As stated in my letter sent in response to the Obama campaign’s first letter, AIP has not violated the law, is not violating the law and is taking every possible precaution to assure that it does not violate the law in the future.

The Obama campaign dislikes the content of AIP’s advertising – but is unable to contradict the facts contained in the ad. That is precisely why the ad is presently being broadcast by numerous television stations. It is accurate, documented, and truthful.

The Obama Campaign has specifically called on the Department of Justice to prosecute a donor to AIP, whose contribution was disclosed publicly in accordance with federal law. See 11 C.F.R. §109.10.

Information contained in AIP’s FEC Form 5, filed on August 19, 2006 was attached to the Obama Campaign’s Second Letter to DOJ and information contained in the filing forms the basis for the Obama Campaign’s latest demands of you and the Department.

The Obama Campaign’s request gives rise to a significant legal and constitutional question: that is, whether the Department of Justice would seriously undertake the prosecution of a citizen under pressure from a prominent government official / political candidate, relying on information contained in truthful and accurate government filing, disclosed in accordance with federal law. There are serious Fifth Amendment self-incrimination issues involved in a situation whereby a criminal prosecution could be ordered at will by political pressure on your Department based solely on a timely and accurate federal government disclosure.

AIP has sought and received the voluntary after-tax contributions of donor(s) to support its policy objectives, which happen to differ from those of the Obama Campaign. Rather than addressing the facts contained in the AIP advertisement, it has instead set about to “deal” with AIP through your Department.

This is, however, only the latest in a series of brazen public statements and efforts by liberal Democratic operatives and agents of the Obama Campaign to silence their critics and organizations with whom they disagree, by initiating what they acknowledge is a concerted national effort announced in recent weeks to intimidate, harass and otherwise bully conservative donors.

An organization calling itself “Accountable America” announced two weeks ago its intent to obtain publicly filed disclosures to attempt to coerce donors to conservative causes to stop making contributions and essentially threatening potential donors into not making contributions to conservative groups. Like the Obama Campaign, this group of operatives is using information obtained from legally mandated public disclosures to identify and target for their attack donors to conservative causes.

Of course, should the Department decide to yield to the pressure from the Obama Campaign and undertake its requested ‘investigations’ of donors to politically related conservative causes, the Department would necessarily be required to do so in an even-handed, non partisan and non-ideological approach. In that regard, the Department would be required to review all donors to all causes and political / policy organizations, whose contributions exceed $5,000 per calendar year to any such causes, the vast majority of which are donors to liberal causes, not conservative ones.

Based on calculations from the Center for Responsive Politics (www.crp.org ) the following are leftwing donors whose substantial contributions to political causes in the last three election cycles have consistently landed each of them on the top donors list and surely each of these donors warrant the Department’s review, scrutiny and prosecution, if the Obama Campaign standard is to be applied evenly:

George Soros:

2004: $23,450,000

2006: $ 3,542,500

2008 (to date) $ 4,650,000

Steven Bing:

2004: $13,852,031

2008 (to date) $ 4,850,000

Peter Lewis:

2004: $22,997,220

2006: $ 1, 624,375

2008 (to date) $ 850,000

Herb and Marion Sandler:

2004: $13, 008, 459

Linda Pritzker:

2004: $3,300,000

2006: $2,101,000

John Hunting:

2006: $1,647,000

2008 (to date) $1,243,000

Alida Messinger

2004: $ 3,580,200

2006: $ 1,042,000

2008 (to date) $ 883,000

Pat Stryker:

2006: $ 1,331,293

2008 (to date): $ 300,000

Jon Stryker:

2006: $ 1,271,313

2008: $ 604,054

The list is quite lengthy and this is but a partial list of those the Department would be obligated to pursue if it bows to the demands of the Obama Campaign to undertake investigations of wealthy donors making large contributions to political causes. The Obama Campaign should be aware that most of the donors on the list are individuals who consistently support left-wing, liberal and Democratic causes. And most of the donors listed above have made public statements regarding their intent to use their wealth to impact the outcome of federal elections should the Department need further evidence of their activities.

The letters from the Obama Campaign to you and your Department are a gross misuse of the power and prestige of that organization. However, because of the environment in which we function, it is important that AIP respond to the ongoing baseless allegations in the letter war now being waged against it by the Obama Campaign.

AIP has violated no provision of law. The donor(s) to AIP have violated no provision of law. However, if the Department of Justice decides to initiate investigations of donors to AIP and other conservative political and policy organizations, as well as the activities of citizens groups such as AIP, we will be prepared to counter such efforts with our list of targets and entities with which we disagree politically and philosophically for the Department to also investigate and prosecute.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Cleta Mitchell

Cleta Mitchell, Esq.

Counsel, American Issues Project

Mitt Romney's house in NH is worth 10 million dollars. It's on a lake and Mitt actually tried to section off part of the lake in front of his house for himself. That's illegal...he is not well-liked in NH.

rich and richer...just what america needs. go for it mccain-it'll play in peoria.

Obama campaign committing economic terrorism to shut down free speech?

It’s pretty amazing how far these thugs will go.

The nutroots have began targeting other companies that advertise on the TV networks that ran this ad. I work in IT support/consulting and one of these advertisers is my client. They were “email bombed” by the Obama supporters today in retaliation for advertising on the same network that ran the AIP ad. My client received over 200,000 emails today warning them not to advertise on TV networks that run the ad. My client is a small company without a large network infrastructure and the flood of automated emails nearly shut down their system.

Here’s the letter they received over 100,000 times today until we determined and blocked the originating servers:

From:
[name removed]
[location removed]

Dear Sir or Madam,

Right now, your company is advertising on some of the same TV stations
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Virginia that are airing a false,
discredited, and potentially illegal political attack ad against Barack
Obama.

I hope you will do the right thing and pull your ads from these
stations.

The American Issues Project ad is full of baseless lies and re-hashed
false assertions. It is designed to play into the worst biases and
fears, contributing nothing of value to the public discourse.

This is not the kind of controversial and destructive ad any responsible
company should want to be associated with.

There is no room on the public airwaves for these kind of lies that
violate the most basic standards of political discourse. CNN and Fox
News have each refused to run such an ad filled with lies, and I hope
you will do the right thing by pulling your ads from stations that air
it.

Thank you.

Due to the sheer volume of identical email originating from a very few mail servers, it’s evident that the intent was not just to send the letter, but to shut down my client’s email system. They nearly succeeded.

This is basically domestic economic terrorism.

I would love a McCain/Romney ticket! I hope McCain will select Romney. Romney is awesome and will be a great VP.

McCain * Romney '08!! The Dream Team :)

hahahhaaa that letter is so funny. Kerry sat back and did nothing when they swiftboated him but Obama's fighting back.....love it. Great article in this morning's paper about this.

McCain/Romney?

God, Obama and Biden are going to eat them for breakfast. LOL

jason, That letter is a thing of beauty. If the Obamahdi Army is willing to try use the Justice Department in this way now, imagine what they would do once The One is in office.

Is there any way we can forget the primaries and just flip a McCain/Romney ticket?

MITT '12

jason,

I am with some of the others commenting here, that surely Obamitler has something up his sleeve. He does act like someone who is hiding something big, of which, we will probably never know until he has either gone the way of Gore or has completed his term in office.

We can hope that San Fran Nan Queen of Botox and Harry Desert Lizard Reid will continue their blockage of the comprehensive energy plan. What should be happening is a two pronged approach by running this Ayers ad and an ad attacking both dem leaders.

We can only hope that a filibuster majority in the house and senate does not occur for the dems, because we know how McCain loves to reach across and join them.