Obama's sister coming to Tampa Bay

Barack Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is expected to campaign in the Tampa Bay area later this week, including meeting with teachers. Soetoro-Ng, 37, is a teacher at an all-girls school in Hawaii. Details are not yet available.

-- Adam Smith

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A big Tampa Bay WELCOME to Maya, a member of the next First Family of the United States!

HARDLY!! HIS POLL NUMBERS ARE DROPPING LIKE A ROCK---SHADES OF OUR 'POPULAR' GOVERNOR.

Obambi's sister is just like him---we are getting half a loaf!!!

I saw an interview this morning on CNN with Obama. I was surprised he even knew his own name without a script telling him what it is. He stumbled more than I do after a night drinking in Tampa with the media types.

[Should Have Picked Hill]

We want a drug test from Obama now.

Obama why won’t you take a drug test?

Citizens demand a drug test from Obama.

Obama you don’t look well, you are losing weight faster than a Jenny Craig diet!

Poll results may be the cause, but I suspect something else.

The heck with Obama’s half sister! Someone needs to bring Cynthia Mckinney here. Now that lady is the real deal. She won’t pander and change positions the way Obama does. She’s my choice.

Who Cares?

Obama's Florida ads are awful!!!

His emphasis on his Harvard Law School background just reinforces his elitist attitude. It won't play well with many, many Florida voters. I'm already hearing the "arrogant jerk" comments from my neighbors--and yes they are Democrats.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/politics/main3831108.shtml

Barack Obama is a dirty racist. He can bring all his relatives and friends including Rev Jeremiah Wright to campaign for him, & it won't help.

Get out of our state!!

[McBush talk express]

McCain is trying to obscure the issues that are most important to Middle Class America...the Economy...the Iraq War and Healthcare.

McSame is married to a Beer Heiress worth $100 million dollars, the terrible economy doesn't bother him.

He wants to keep our kids and grand kids and great grand kids in Iraq for 100 years.

As for as healthcare he can AFFORD the best healthcare money can buy...because he is super rich and money is no object.

9:10 sounds like he is about to pee himself he is so worried about President Obama's sister.

Didn't Obama's brother Malik indicate Obama grew up Muslim?

Is Baarack Obama lying to the people of America? Yet another of his flip-flop?

We've been in Japan & Germany for nearly 70 years. I have no problem having troops in Iraq to protect America's interest especially against terrorism.

I have a lot of problems with Obama wanting to appease terrorist states

[NEWS ALERT:]

NEWS ALERT: Barack Obama Sliding Fast in Polls:

tied with McCain in latest poll:

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Bleat

7:51 PM....I'm with you--Who Cares?

Yep, who cares if Obama's part-sister comes to Tampa. More pandering. This time to teachers. Won't work, he's sliding fast.

9:13 PM--Sounds like he is about to pee himself he is so worried about McCain's closing the gap. It ain't going to be pretty for the Obamabots.

[McBush for Corporations]

Obama is on the record telling Americans he will END tax breaks for companies that export American jobs.

McSame...defends the Corporations that export the American jobs.

If you want your job to be exported to a foreign country then vote for McBush.

If you are a patriot and want to keep jobs in American for Americans then vote for Obama.

[Dr_Dug]

Simple call....We don't care.....

[Anheuser-Busch not in America anymore]

Due to the Bush Economy the US dollar has fallen so far against the Euro that it has led to a foreign country buying the last big Beer maker in America.

Budweiser has been sold.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-anheuser-inbev-agreement.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

George Bush is ruining America and McCain will continue the same Bush policies.

Vote for Obama to save what is left of the America we love and know.

[jjackso1]

Talk about bitter, biased,whatever... you folks on here need some positive news in your life. Get out and make a difference for someone who needs help.
Blathering on this site doesn't appear to be working for you.
JIM JACKSON

Yet another dumb post by 10:22. Obama wants to raise the taxes on most Americans.

Obama wants to increase:

the capital gains and dividends tax (which will reduce tax receipts)

increase the social sercuity tax (Think it's only on the folks that make over $100k? Think again. Many of the nation's richest are small business owners. These employers would have to pay both the employee and employer side = 12.4% taking money from those employers to invest in R&D, equipment, and providing raises to their employees).

Obama's tax plan is bad for Amercian small business and its employees.

Let's ask "Joe and Joanne Employee" if they like their BUD stock raising from $45 to $70 in less than 2 months.

Much of the $50 billion will go to help the average Bud employee pay off their debt, retire comfortably, and invest in new goods, services, and maybe even a business.

On the other hand, Obama's poll numbers have dropped like a Wil E. Coyote anvil.

Hillary sounds pretty good right now, eh?

Great site for more information about Barack Obama:

http://roadsassy.com/index.php/2008/07/04/barack-obamas-muslim-family-featured-on-al-jazeera/

Also, I see that the Obama Trolls were out in force this AM spreading more BS on the blog. The Messiah will be very disappointed that they weren't in Church. His faith based efforts and his goal of returning God to government must be accepted by the Messiah's followers. Hey, wait a minute! He's beginning to sound Republican. Can we say Barack W. Bush???

Why the majority of voters and the electoral college are going to reject Obama--one word: ARROGANCE!!!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132008/news/nationalnews/ego_bama__swallow_some_of_that_pride_119709.htm?page=0

[The McBusch sellout]

11:07 This is another sign of the Bushite-caused weakness of the dollar, which allows companies in Euro denominated countries to buy American companies on the cheap.

The Foreign takeover of Anheuser-Busch will enrich Bud shareholders like Cindy McCain, and cost thousands of regular A-B workers their good jobs.

This will also doom McCain in Missouri as the majority of folks there were against this sellout.

The 156-year-old American legacy of Budweiser is over.

The sell-off of America continues under McBusch.

Man, you republican elite racists are one scared bunch of kkk’rs. I guess Cindy will loan Lil’ Johnny Napoleon a boatload after she profits from the selling of America.

Then, McSame can continue to pay you blog snipers to spew your “ineffective” rhetoric.

“RUN AWAY, THE DARK MAN COMETH!”

I thought you closet pervs only used that as your public restroom defense.

[Flagophile]

Touting the latest national poll numbers as evidence that Obama is going to lose in November only reinforces what I already knew about the sad Republicans on this blog. Not only do they know very little about policy but they know even less about politics.

First of all, national polls aren't worth much in November, let alone in July.

Obama is up in all of the states that he needs to win. That's what counts. As long as he keeps ahead in PA, OH, and IA, McCain cannot win.

Two words explain why polls are useless this cycle… “Cell Phones”

Obama/Biden ’08! “Giving Our Country Back To Its Owners”

What Flagophile, you don't think all the racist stuff from the McCain Toad is singlehandedly bringing down Barack "Hussein" Obama in the polls? Every time hear "Big Brown" it makes me so proud our nation has never had a black or woman president and I want to run out and pull the lever next to all the GOP candidates just like 'ol Toady tells me too.

Good job, Flag, you're using states that the poll data is at least 3 weeks old.

Obama had another bad week. The more he speaks off-script, the more folks realize he doesn't have a clue what his position is that day.

Obama = McGovern = UnElectable

[Disgusted Republican]

9:07 - Race has nothing to do with the fact I don't want a socialist as a President. (and I am in the minority class).

10:11 You're right! You have lot of other things to be disgusted about without worrying about GOP racism. You and the rest of your selfish fascists are ruining our country! It only amazes me that you have the capacity to be disgusted with yourselves. Or do you mean to tell me you are disgusted with the Democrats because they haven't fixed your mess yet? Just vote Obama and give us a chance. Thanks!

McCain = McSame = Proven Disaster for USA

Wow, Obama's sister is hot!

I'd hit it.

NO thanks... we don't need to take any chances with an inexperienced "community organizer" as the POTUS.

Have you seen how well his plans worked in south Chicago?

Obama made the projects WORSE.

Republican at 10:26: please restrain yourself. The New Republican Bible* clearly states "Thou Shalt Not Hit Thy Neigbor's Wife, Unless It Has Lots Of Investments to Assist In Thy Campaign."

*N.R.B. - "Rationalizing the Word of God for the Good of the People."

10:38-

So she's married then?

[Donald Lance]

Have you ever heard the term, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"? Just look at Barry's relatives and then try to make the case that he isn't like them at all. His father was a Socialist in Africa during the sixties(fact), his mentor,growing up, was a Communist(Fact), his cousin led a bloody revolt in Kenya because he didn't win the election to bring Sharia Law into practice(fact), His 1/2 brother says he's a muslim(fact), and now his 1/2 sister is going to tell us what? That his family has been lying to us about the character of this clown? Look where he came from. Look at his extended family. Look at the company he keeps. If you can't do that for yourself then you already lost without knowing it.

I loved that satire on the New Yorker cover. It was perfect. I, at first, didn’t see the picture of Bin Laden over the fireplace. If one magazine can wake up the world, then they did it. A lot of people believe he’s muslim educated at an early age, he admitted to it, and those teachings will stick.

Then he joins a white hating, anti-American church and stays there for 20 years, and we can’t guess his true leanings are anti-American in nature because of his early exposure to anti-American Muslim teachings? Of course it has stuck with him. Who can listen to Wright go on and on, and still stay there for so long? He agrees. It’s as simple as that.

He’s doing the expedient. Telling us all what we want to hear. Well, I hear him say he’ll up taxes on small business owners. They are the backbone of America, and he’s going to make them pay, BIG TIME. They probably don’t understand his taxing program and they’ll be the very people voting for him, and then they’ll “get it” when it’s too late.

Tired of Obama, tired of Flip-Flopping.

Tired of FISA and Obama’s empty promises.

People United Means Action:

http://blog.pumapac.org/

[Donald Lance]

11:12. What I'm tired of is being taxed to death and that PAC won't solve it since it's a major party operation. Change only comes from the outside and that PAC is a Democrat-morphed committee. Nothing good to read there.

[McCain Toad]

Thanks for covering for me there, Doanld Lance. I've got the Rove Memo for today and Grover's punched me in, so I can take over from here!

"Big Brown" Hussein Obama Wright is going down!

[Obama Toad]

I have awakened, kissed a picture of The Messiah's behind and will now begin my day spreading the lies and scripted comments I have been programmed to do (since I can not think for myself). Hail to out Messiah!!!

[Bring back Donald Lance!]

At least he's original, although lame and misguided.

[Flagophile]

You gotta give it to these R's.

These same people who voted for Bush and Cheney (twice no less!), have the audacity to criticize Obama and the D's. Our country's predicament is your fault.

Donald Lance and his three cronies on this blog are truly pitiful. Day in and day out, they repeat the same empty, simple and intellectually dishonest babble. "Big Brown," "HUSSEIN," "SOCIALIST," etc.

If experience is so important, why have Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld been an utter disaster?

Why are Obama's plans socialism but bailing out Bear Stearns, IndyMac and the rest of them with my tax dollars isn't?

Simply put, you are all dim-witted, uninformed hypocrits.

Would You Hire a President Who Padded His Resume?

Obama is resorting to a common, but risking tactic of under-qualified job-seekers: fudge the resume.

Barack Obama has a solution to his lack of accomplishment and experience: pad his resume. If resume fraud were a crime, Obama would be looking at fifteen to life. And it is not just an isolated incident or two. He is a repeat offender.

Obama started early. Even the New York Times acknowledges that in his book Dreams From My Father Obama accomplished little as a “community organizer.” (”It is clear that the benefit of those years to Mr. Obama dwarfs what he accomplished.”) But he did manage to steal credit for asbestos testing and removal in the Altgeld Gardens, a public housing project in Chicago. But he didn’t quite tell the whole story. The Times writes:

What Mr. Obama does not mention in his book is that residents of the nearby Ida B. Wells housing project, and some at Altgeld itself, had already been challenging the housing authority on asbestos. A local newspaper had also taken up the issue.

Now Obama is running for the presidency on the slimmest record of accomplishment of any major party candidate in recent memory. In June Obama was interviewed by ABC’s Jake Tapper. There was this exchange:

TAPPER: But have you ever worked across the aisle in such a way that entailed a political risk for yourself?

OBAMA: Well, look, when I was doing ethics reform legislation, for example, that wasn’t popular with Democrats or Republicans. So any time that you actually try to get something done in Washington, it entails some political risks.

But I think the basic principle which you pointed out is that I have consistently said, when it comes to solving problems, like nuclear proliferation or reducing the influence of lobbyists in Washington, that I don’t approach this from a partisan or ideological perspective. And the same is true when it comes to the economy. The same is true when it comes to national security. You know, this administration, the Bush administration, has made, for example, the war on terror into a sharply partisan issue. But the truth is, is that I admire some of the foreign policy of George Bush’s father. And I’ve said so before. I think that there’s a tradition of us working together to make sure that we are dealing with the threats that are out there and that we are building a consensus here in the United States. That’s the kind of approach I intend to take when I’m president of the United States.

If you missed the answer to Tapper’s question — name a bipartisan accomplishment putting you at political risk — don’t worry. There wasn’t one. Because unlike John McCain who has taken his lumps from his own party but who has actually accomplished something in Congress, Obama’s record is relatively barren.

Even friendly bloggers remarked that he might have to improve on this non-answer.

Perhaps sensing that Obama needed to demonstrate some record of accomplishment his campaign put up an ad in early July touting his record on welfare reform, claiming he “passed a law to move people from welfare to work — slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” But this wasn’t true. He actually opposed the 1996 welfare reform bill passed by his former rival Hillary Clinton’s husband. As Factcheck.org pointed out:

That’s going too far. First, the law in question wasn’t dreamed up out of thin air by its sponsors. It was the follow-up to the welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, that President Clinton signed on Aug. 26, 1996. That law gave states the ability to design their own welfare programs as long as they met certain federal requirements, including limits on how long recipients could get benefits. The bill that Obama cosponsored was Illinois’ version. And far from having “passed” the bill single-handedly, Obama was among five Senate sponsors of the measure, as we said previously. It was passed by both chambers of the Illinois Legislature and signed into law by the governor.

. . .

But we don’t think Obama alone, or even Obama and the four other sponsors of the Illinois law, can take credit for all of this. It was the federal law, hammered out by Clinton and the Republican Congress, that set the wheels in motion and forced states to act.

That same ad also contained an exaggeration about his personal life. Although he claimed to have worked his way through school, his campaign could identify only two summer jobs during his college years.

This propensity to pad his own resume has continued unabated. John McCain nearly committed political suicide by championing comprehensive immigration reform. Obama? His role was slight. Indeed he helped sink the bill at a critical time by joining other pro-Big Labor Democrats in voting on poison pill amendments. But now he boasts of his own role. Chicago Sun-Times’ Washington bureau chief and longtime Obama watcher Lynn Sweet calls foul. She writes:

Obama on the campaign trail inflates his leadership role — casting himself as someone who could figure out how to get something done. Obama “did not absolutely stand out in any way,” said Margaret Sands Orchowski, the author of “Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria,” and a close follower of the legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a McCain ally and a key player on immigration, said Obama was around for only a “handful” of meetings and helped destroy a 2007 compromise when he voted for making guest worker visa programs temporary. A permanent guest worker program was to be a trade for a legalization program to cover many illegal immigrants. “When it came time to putting that bill together, he was more of a problem than he was a help. And when it came time to try to get the bill passed, he, in my opinion, broke the agreement we had. He was in the photo op, but he could not execute the hard part of the deal,” Graham said.

So what to make of all this? Obama claims that experience is not as important as “judgment” or “change.” By manufacturing or existing accomplishments, however, he suggests that he does not buy his own pitch.

Rather, his repeated attempts to bolster his resume indicate that he may be nervous about his non-existent record of achievement. Not trusting that voters will buy his disparagement of experience, Obama is now resorting to a common, but risking tactic of under-qualified job-seekers: fudge the resume.

Resume fraud carries grave risks. If the employer finds out you are lying, you are unlikely to get the job, even if the competition is weak. And for Obama, who is already belaboring under an avalanche of tough press about his many policy flip-flops, he hardly needs another storyline which sheds doubt on his credibility and character.

It is not yet clear whether more than a few savvy reporters and fact checkers will pick up on Obama’s exaggeration and outright lies about his accomplishments.

But the McCain camp’s new communications team would be smart to ask: would your hire someone who lied on his resume?

Flagophile:

Name calling is all you elite Democrats can do. A do-nothing Dem led Congress with NO plans and a switcheroo Presidential candidate is all you have to offer America.

Keep up the name calling it fits your personality and that of the ineffective Party you belong to

“RUN AWAY, THE DARK MAN COMETH!”

I thought you republicon closet pervs only used that as your public restroom defense.