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Obama: Another 527 pops up

Posted: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:10 AM by Domenico Montanaro

The New York Sun has the scoop on a new anti-Obama 527 popping up. "Leadership for America's Future was formally created on Thursday by a Sacramento, Calif.-based attorney, Thomas Hiltachk, according to a form registering the so-called 527 group with the Internal Revenue Service. The organization's slick Web site includes a 30-second video (click on "MEDIA") that shows images of war and misery around the world as an announcer gravely warns of the dangers of putting America in untested hands.”

“‘It's not always the world we dream of. It can be belligerent and unpredictable, where an unsure response can have lasting consequences for generations,’ the announcer says over a montage that includes a plane crashing into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and video of an American flag fluttering at the gutted site after the terrorist attacks. ‘No matter how eloquently spoken, hoping for change won't change the world. Only the strength of experience can do that.’

Other portions of the Web site pay tribute to leaders such as presidents Reagan, Eisenhower, and Lincoln, as well as Mayor Giuliani, and ‘the American Soldier.’ The site was created by a Sacramento-based political consulting and advocacy firm which does work for Republican candidates, McNally Temple Associates, Inc." 
 
With the Palin pick creating massive grassroots enthusiasm, there has been some speculation that the conservative 527 world, which had been sleep this cycle, might finally wakeup.

“Obama intends to meet Clinton for a private lunch Thursday at the Clinton Foundation headquarters in New York City, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said yesterday. Obama will be in New York that morning for a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, where he will appear with Republican presidential rival John McCain to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.”

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I think I know who's getting Keith's Worst Person tonight...and I'd expect a special comment on Thursday about the RNC 9/11 video. Now that he doesn't have to play non-partisan because MSNBC folded to the GOP, give 'em both barrels.
You can bet that McCain is behind this 527 attack just as Bush was strongly for the 527 attacks against Kerry.
Isn't it ironic that "Petty Partisan Politician" McCain is now whining for the partisan political rancor to stop?  After wasting 3 days on nothing but petty partisan poltical rancor coming from the RNC Freak Show the hypocrite now wants the Democrats to stop pointing out the inconvenient truths that the repugnant ones fear most.

I see that "Sinner" Sarah has something in common with "Embezzler" Cindy McCain, yes Embezzlement.  While the ancient barbie stole from her own foundation, ""Embezzler" Palin has stolen our federal tax dollars and refuses to return them.  Reuters has reported that while the Bridge to Nowhere project was cancelled the federal money was sent to Alaska but has never been returned.  Time for "Embezzler" Palin to confess her sins about what she did with our money and to return it posthaste.

Hey how about "Sinner" Sarah's Pipeline to Nowhere?  She dishonestly claims credit for this project that was started in the 1970's, has no funding and has had nothing done on it.  Just another lie that "Sinner" Sarah will pay for on her Judgment Day, November 4th.

Go Obama/Biden 08/12!
Here comes the fear, can 2008 Americans handle it or will they hide under the bed as they did in 2004.  Oh, that right a number of us don't have beds to hide under since we lost our house this year.
This kind of stuff is laughable!  They'd put out an add saying this about Obama yet support a ticket that is on heart beat away from someone with ZERO foreign policy experience on it.  Palin is a joke.  The more I learn about her the more I realize that she's just a beauty queen that has learned the political equivalent of "world peace" to answer every question.  Too bad McCain didn't pick someone with more depth. I am a white female in my mid 40s and I'd love to see a competent woman on a major ticket but Palin isn't it!  Why is she STILL being chaperoned by McCain when she goes out on the stump? Because there is no there there!
“‘It's not always the world we dream of. It can be belligerent and unpredictable, where an unsure response can have lasting consequences for generations,’"

Are you kidding me ? A right wing establishment is going to print that ? Are they trying to pin the debacle of Iraq on someone other than themselves ??
Talking about untested hands.

NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN/MCPALIN! GO DEMS.

JUST FOR YOU PEOPLE WHO KEEP SAYING OBAMA IS NOT READY TO LEAD. TAKE HEED OF THE BELOW:

The republican party have no ideals of their own. But yet they continue to bash Obama.  If you watched the RNC convention. You should have notice, they took (STOLE) all of Baracks ideals and talking points. They implemented (STOLE) everything from the DNC convention with a twist and turn, but still could not top the DNC. American, please DO NOT be fooled by the RNC Karl Rove tactic. This race is about our Children's future and American.

McCain offer up no real solutions to the American people, yet riding on the coat-tail of Barack Obama. They say Barack can't lead, but McCain is study following Barracks lead. Q: WHO IS THE LEADER? McCain played on the sympathy vote. Though McCain's service is commendable. We were flooded with the POW story every single night.  McCain even went so far as to say in his speech. It doesn't matter who came up with the ideal (CHANGE).  What he was say in this statement was I STOLE your message of change, and you can't do anything about it.  Here we have the out and out right lying republicans. That introduce the American people to an unknown Gov. Palin, which is under all kinds of investigation. They don't want the media to interview her. Why? Because they are running out of campaign funds and want to use the media as free advertisement. How the media is fallen for this garbage is beyond me.

The media should vet Gov. Palin, just as they did with every other candidate. As she had the nerve to challage the media. Who do she thing she is? We need to know what make her so different. They hound the heck out of Barack Obama for over 18 mos. She is running for the 2nd highest office in the nation and the American people have every right to know who she is and want make her tick and her views on all the issue.  With that said, I don't know how so many people who claim to be so educationed can buy into this garbage that the republicans are trying to sale.
The media should dig into her back ground hard and heavy and should not drag their feet. They owe it to the American people. I do agree her children have nothing to do with the issue.  My question to you the American people. When you have a chance to choose an original. Are you going to pick the copy? I don't think SO. NOT THIS TIME.



No talk of the Pro Obama 527 that is in Michigan running ads all weekend??????
527 ...takes one to know one...slime is a crime..

Obama/Biden'08
this makes me very sad..that is all i have to say
Can you smell it????? The smell of fear is in the air.
Guess the GOP has figured out that Palin wasn't the answer afterall, that she, alon, can't save John McCain and his flawed campaign, so now the 527's will start. However, people this year won't be as stupid as they were for the past 8 years. The Karl Rove fear tactics won't work in 2008.......NOT THIS TIME! Obama/Biden '08/'12!
the republicans and this organization need to stop EXPLOITING 9/11, it's disgusting!
Groups like the 527 have never served in the military, served their country and only use money to try to influence the country on their belief. I hope when Senator Obama gets into office that he exposes groups like this for who they are!!!!  Do not try to pour you beliefs onto me.. You’re nothing that an agitator who is seeking to go and pull someone out of a jail cell and lynch them.....You're just Nasty!!!
None of this matters.  The American electorate votes on fear and nothing else - they hardly need to be instructed.  The media may have propped up Obama to provide the illusion of a close race for the sake of their ratings, but a white legacy versus a black legislator from Chicago?  Please... This is America we're talking about.  Base paranoia will decide this race - it wouldn't matter if McCain were 107 years old.
I hope the Independents are watching and thinking.  Is it not funny that McPOW could not pick his own VP.  Is it also not funny that earlier in the campaign that it was noted that McPOW did not speak for the campaign.  McPOW is being used by the republican party as a frontman and the Executive Branch of the government will be ran from behind the scenes by the Neocons that have been running the Bush administration for the last 8 years.
Hillary doesn't want to be seen with Obama in public. Just like Obama, she'll talk the talk, but won't walk the walk. Her support for Obama is in rhetoric only. An Obama victory this year is the last thing Hillary wants.
I thought Obama gave up having 527's when he gave up on public financing of his campaign?
I guess we are supposed to forget that a REPUBLICAN was in office when 9/11 happened.  I guess are also supposed to forget that the very same administration had done NOTHING to catch the man responsible for said attack.  

Republicans have always counted on the ignorance of the American people and we have never let them down.
Those war monger repubs are at it again -- SCARE TACTICS about 9/11 again. It was Bush's fault 9/11 happened in the 1st place.  The papers worning him about Arabs taking flying lessons and learning to fly commercal Jets, he never looked at them.  "he was too busy having fun playing president..
Just more swiftboat lies from a party of liars.  Hopefully the Democrats will put up their own 527 ads blasting the past 8 years of utter mismanagement of our secular democracy, economy and military by the repugnant ones.

Way past time to pull the plug on 527 groups.  They're just a bunch of rich fat cats who only care about how much they can get in tax cuts they don't deserve or need.  If they have money for 527's then they have money to pay more taxes!

Go Obama/Biden 08/12!
More smear from the republicans.  surprise surprise.

it is sad to watch lies convince the base that McCain Palin are the instruments of change.  they are nothing but charlatans deceiving the very people that they claim to care about soooooo much.

they claim Obama to be a flip flopper, but everything about this campaign has been a flip flop.  it is a joke and unfortunately nobody is laughing... they are caught up again in a stream of false religious blinders and hate rhetoric.  great way to show you have the right vision for this country.

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http://www.twocanpete.blogspot.com/
The drones are just pretending to be happy about their new turd sandwhich. They are the vocal minority. The silent majority will vote the least crazy of these candidates and it won't be Sarah-Barracuda and McNasty. Read the 'Palin Letter'.
Screw The GOP and the Born agains
I hate them
WELL THE AD IS GOOD AND SPEAKS VOLUMES OF TRUTH. OBAMA IS AGAIN TURNING TO THE CLINTONS TO WIN THIS ELECTION FOR HIM,CAUSE HE CAN'T DO IT HIMSELF. SEE, THE DEMS HAVE THE WRONG NOMINEE.WITH HIM RUNNING TO HILLARY OR BILL EVERYTIME HE NEEDS SOMETHING SHOULD TELL EVERYONE HE IS UNFIT AND THAT SHE IS THE RIGHTFUL NOMINEE ! WHAT A BUNCH OF DUMB A$$ES. tHATS WHY THIS DEM IS VOTING MCCAIN
The Dems ought to run virtually the same ad---war and destruction and misery, maybe even stock footage of a nuclear blast---and have the voice-over that this could happen if the oldest person ever to become president died or became incapacitated; the world would then be in very, very untested hands.
Firght fire with fire!
McCain has been in the senate for 26 yrs...the president has been a republican for the last 8 yrs....what has he changed...nothing...and we are supposed to believe him now...I don't think so.
The only thing we know about Palin is that she has Bush speech writers and Bush aides on board...that she can deliver a good speech with lots of sarcasism and demeaning comments.  She is a typical republican.
What reform is she going to accomplish...she's just like them.
The republican party has become the party of right wing evangelical intolerence to anyone different than them.  They have become the party of lies, distortions, fear mongoring, warmongoring and hate.
It is sad....and if people fall for it again this cycle like they did in 2004 then they really are stupid.
Politics of fear. Plain and simple. Disgusting.

We saw it in the RNC 9/11 video. I was afraid this is what it would lead to. More Bush-Rove crap.

Come on everybody, it's not 2004 anymore, we shouldn't be panicked into voting for McCain. McCain has been wrong time and again about Iraq and Afghanistan, he's voted against benefits for veterans time and again. How can we trust this guy to be commander-in-chief?

http://www.rodneyhopper.com
John McCain is mindless, which means he is not totally present in each moment. If Palin is a heart beat away is it--, an affront, taboo or sexist to say she is unfit to be CIC?
"I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." Palin said at the church she was baptized in. So Palin thinks God's will has to be done does this mean if and when Palin becomes Prez she’ll tell an America filled from coast to coast of different religions that we must pray for what she wants?  She is the mother of 5 of kids; not this nation!



Enough!
No way
No how
No McCain/Palin
Nobody but Obama/Biden
Can you smell it????? The smell of fear is in the air.
Guess the GOP has figured out that Palin wasn't the answer afterall, that she, alon, can't save John McCain and his flawed campaign, so now the 527's will start. However, people this year won't be as stupid as they were for the past 8 years. The Karl Rove fear tactics won't work in 2008.......NOT THIS TIME! Obama/Biden '08/'12!
Diane from Illinois (Sent Monday, September 08, 2008 9:44 AM)

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Don't know what you're drinking, but it really detaches you from reality.
To Copy-cat. You are not too smart yourself. Where did you learn to spell?
Why is McCain all about Veitnam?  Should we expect him to take the country to war against his former captors or other communist counties?  Just like Bush II who was fixated on Iraq, McCain cannot get Vietnam off his mind.
Obama's got his own 527 - it's called Oprah.
I hate it when fear is used to try and get my vote. Are your policies John McCain so absurd that they alone aren't enough to get my vote? I'll tell you when fear is enough to get my vote. When you choose a VP running mate who is so woefully unqualified, she scares me. I will vote Obama/Biden.  
I just think its sad that John McCain was ravaged by these people in 2000.  They insulted his service, his family and everything he stood for.

Now they work for him.

John McCain - a Sell-Out for All Seasons
We are doomed to 4 more years.  People aren't really asking any questions about Sarah Palin's policies, who she is or if she's really as "qualified" as they claim.  If she, let her answer questions.  The problem is also, that when the McCain campaign and the 527 groups tell lies, those are what people remember and they think by virtue of the fact they are on the air, they must be true. They are doing it because it works.
OMG, please America - we can not be forced in the fear for your lives plot again.  

The Repukes continues to use this platform - honestly are there still that many people that are still afraid of a group of "so called" terrorist – so that they would continue to allow the rip - off  stock market monopolies by the GOP's and wealthy?

I don't believe it - but as the Repukes continue to do these type of "fear mongering" 527 ads and also ads that slanders Barack Obama

However I feel it does cut into the unsure or undecided - that are still afraid from the fear mongering tactics of old.

God save us - we can not have 4 more years of George Bushes policies under John McCain.

WE would not be able to stand it - I really believe if John McCain got elected and he continued the same old George Bush policies - this country would surely turn into anarchy, with underground bandits, etc.

Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Way past time to pull the plug on 527 groups.  They're just a bunch of rich fat cats who only care about how much they can get in tax cuts they don't deserve or need.  If they have money for 527's then they have money to pay more taxes!
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Good, then I guess we won't have to see any more of those ridiculous MoveOn.org ads either.   Or are 527s that hammer Democrats the only ones that need to go?  
This plays to our fears.  McCain can hide his hands with the blessings of the evangelical right.

Why cry about republican 527s? Obama choose to back out of his promise to take public financing, thereby changing the playing field. It wasn't fair of him to back out of a promise to all Americans not just democrats. Besides Obama has his own 527s.


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