Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

In this video (I picked up at Gateway Pundit) Barack Obama tries to minimize the damage the McCain campaign is doing to him by labeling him a socialist. He attempts to make fun of their alarmist name calling, but instead he reveals something more essential about his philosophy.

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Boo_Radley, my old buddy in Ohio, sends along some local news;

The family, which didn’t want to be identified, said their father has dementia and wouldn’t even know who the candidates are, let alone for whom to vote, reported NewsChannel5’s Alicia Scicolone.

The father is living in the Good Samaritan nursing home, suffering from severe dementia. The family said they feel he was taken advantage of in the election process.

The nursing home held early voting last week, and the family said they had no idea it was happening until they walked in and saw the sticker their father was wearing.

Family members talked to a nurse about it.

“I said, ‘Nursing home patients are allowed to vote?’ She said, ‘Yeah.’ I say, ‘My father in law was allowed to vote?’ She says, ‘I guess so,’” one family member said.

The family said that’s when they got nervous. They said they asked their father who he voted for and he said he didn’t know.

Sweet!
Boo also sends this from a local radio station;

A Shaker OH woman called WTAM to state that she had just taken her 18yo daughter to vote for the first time since she’ll be visiting a college next week and witnessed a busload of cognitively disabled assisted living residents come in to vote. The people who brought them filled out their forms, as they were not even able to do this themselves. This happened in downtown Cleveland and she called the Cuyahauga (sp) BOE.

I guess the Obama crew couldn’t wait for them to die and resurrect their vote.

Michelle Malkin has more instances from across the country.

That would be headline splashed across every newswire in the country except that it happened in the other direction. I picked this up from Newbusters‘ PJ Gladnick by way of Bits Blog;

Wendy Button, who became disillusioned with The One and switched to supporting McCain. Here are the highlights of Wendy Button’s explanation of why she made the switch:

Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”

Young lady, only when the switch is made from Republican to Democrat will it be mentioned in the MSM.

See any major US news outlets reporting it?

Ya know, with the race tightening to within the margin of error and now this defection, you have to wonder what’s happening inside the Obama campaign. No Democrat would get a sudden attack of conscience less than a week from the victory the media has promised Obama unless there’s something up.

Well, maybe the fact that this “spread the wealth around” yammering rings a little hollow when Obama fails to fund the school named for him in Kenya that he promised to support, his half brother lives in squalor in Kenya and now the Times Online finds an Obama aunt living in the slums in Boston.

If I was big on that whole “social justice” thing, I’d start questioning Obama’s committment to the cause based on his hypocritical behavior that doesn’t seem to follow his talk.

How many years has it been that we’ve been hearing that George W Bush is personally listening to every phone call we make? The Left is worried that all of their stupid conversations are being taped and stored for Republicans’ listening pleasure. But then an actual real case of privacy violations occur, but because it’s Joe the Plumber, there’s a big yawn across Ohio. I picked this up at the Columbus Dispatch by way of Ace of Spades;

Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.

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“Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. “Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way.”

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Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland is satisfied that there are no political overtures to the check on Wurzelbacher, a spokesman said.

“Based on what we know to this point, we don’t have any reason to believe the information was improperly accessed or disclosed by a state employee,” said Keith Dailey, Strickland’s press secretary.

Yeah, the governor is satisfied. He’s satisfied that anyone else in Ohio seeking to ask questions of Barack Obama will think twice before popping their heads up in the state government’s crosshairs. Ace also confirms that Jones-Kelley just happens to be a donor of the maximum $2300 to the Obama campaign.

I guess you folks in Ohio are feeling safer now that you know that the Ohio government is watching your neighbor so closely…oh, and you. I suspect those man-on-the-street interviews will drop off shortly.

From Drudge; Obama says that we still suffer from the the Supreme Court’s inability to bring about redistributive change (at about 1:40).

Michelle Malkin transcribes;

A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Gateway Pundit writes;

Hmm. It sounds like those meetings with Marxist Bill Ayers and those sermons by Black Liberation Theologian Jeremiah Wright rubbed off on The One.

I guess he figures he can fix it. It’s never ceased to amaze me that the Left is enamored with the “idea” of the Constitution. They recognize that it’s the closest thing to perfection in the history of a flawed people, but their main goal has always been to change it and the way the way the Constitution gets in the way of their vote buying. The only thing the Constitution is good for is a skirt to hide behind while they plot their nefarious deeds to undo it.

Do you still think he’s not a Socialist?

h/t DefendUSA.