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Perhaps this webpage may seem contradictory since there is pro-Obama and anti-Obama information present - such is the nature of my opinion of Barack Obama. Let me make this perfectly clear: I believe the Democratic and Republican parties are hopelessly corrupt. I believe Americans need to stop supporting political parties and begin supporting a specific, consensus agenda instead - just like the corporations do.

However, I do believe there is sufficient reason to vote for Barack Obama over John McCain; if for no other reason, one should vote for Obama because the next President will more than likely have to appoint at least three U.S. Supreme Court Justices - and you don't want John McCain appointing three justices who would most likely set America back a hundred years. Another good reason to vote for Obama would be if you earn less than $250,000 a year, since Obama's tax plan benefits Americans earning LESS THAN $250,000 a year, whereas McCain's tax plan benefit those making MORE THAN $250,000 a year.
 




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"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Obama's Energy Plan"

How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street

Obama's Role Models: Bush I, Reagan & Kennedy - This is Change?
  

 

The Washington insider who made Obama rich

 
 
McCain On Obama
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A CounterPunch Special Investigation
How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street
Obama's Money Cartel  By PAM MARTENS
Wall Street, known variously as a barren wasteland for diversity or the last plantation
in America, has defied courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
for decades in its failure to hire blacks as stockbrokers. Now it’s marshalling its money
machine to elect a black man to the highest office in the land. Why isn’t the press
curious about this?
Walk into any of the largest Wall Street brokerage firms today and you’ll see a self-portrait
of upper management racism and sexism: women sitting at secretarial desks outside fancy offices occupied by predominantly white males. According to the EEOC as well as the
recent racial discrimination class actions filed against UBS and Merrill Lynch, blacks make
up between 1 per cent to 3.5 per cent of stockbrokers --  this after 30 years of litigation, settlements and empty promises to do better by the largest Wall Street firms.
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The first clue to an entrenched white male bastion seeking a black male occupant in the
oval office (having placed only five blacks in the U.S. Senate in the last two centuries)
appeared in February  on a chart at the Center for Responsive Politics website. It was a
list of the 20 top contributors to the Barack Obama campaign, and it looked like one of
those comprehension tests where you match up things that go together and eliminate
those that don’t. Of the 20 top contributors, I eliminated six  that didn’t compute. I was
now looking at a sight only slightly less frightening to democracy than a Diebold voting
machine. It was a Wall Street cartel of financial firms, their registered lobbyists, and go-
to law firms that have a death grip on our federal government.
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Why is the “yes, we can” candidate in bed with this cartel? How can “we”, the people,
make change if  Obama’s money backers block our ability to be heard?
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Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consisted of officers and employees
of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly
implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages. These latest
frauds have left thousands of children in some of our largest minority communities
coming home from school to see eviction notices and foreclosure signs nailed to their
front doors. Those scars will last a lifetime.
These seven Wall Street firms are (in order of money given): Goldman Sachs, UBS AG,
Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. There
is also a large hedge fund, Citadel Investment Group, which is a major source of fee
income to Wall Street. There are five large corporate law firms that are also registered
lobbyists; and one is a corporate law firm that is no longer a registered lobbyist but
does legal work for Wall Street. The cumulative total of these 14 contributors through
February 1, 2008, was $2,872,128, and we’re still in the primary season. 
But hasn’t Senator Obama repeatedly told us in ads and speeches and debates that
he wasn’t taking money from registered lobbyists? Hasn’t the press given him a free pass
on this statement?  Barack Obama, speaking in Greenville, South Carolina on January 22,


Obama's Role Models: Bush I, Reagan & Kennedy - This is Change?
by ken17762003 :: Thu May 15, 2008
 
Many people support Senator Barack Obama for president because they see in him the hope for
change from the direction that the U.S. has taken over the last seven plus years. His campaign refers
to this as "change you can believe in." But looking at what Obama has actually said while on the
campaign trail should dash any real "hope" of real "change."  For instance how would he change
U.S. foreign policy?
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Return to the Foreign Policy of Bush I, Reagan & Kennedy
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On March 28, 2008 at a town hall event in Pennsylvania, Mr. Change said he would return the
country to the more traditional foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush,
John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.  According to Obama, "The truth is that my foreign policy is
actually a return to the traditional bipartisan realistic policy of George Bush's father, of John F.
Kennedy, of, in some ways, Ronald Reagan..."
Killing can be made cheaper
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He also likes the idea of making war on the cheap. He emphasized that the first Gulf War only
cost the U.S. $20 billion, as many of the U.S. allies helped finance the war.  Of course Obama
made no reference to the cost of the war in Iraqi lives or the over one million Iraqis killed as a
result of the sanctions against Iraq that were instituted after the first Gulf War.  (He further failed
to mention the 1989 Bush invasion of Panama, which cost the lives of as many as 4000
Panamanian civilians.)
Obama is against the Iraq War?
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Of course we know Obama is against the war in Iraq.  He said so.  

But why did he then support the pro-Iraq war Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman in his primary election battle against anti-
war Ned Lamont in 2006?

  Why did he also support and campaign for other pro-war candidates
who faced anti-war challengers in their primary races?
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Why after his election to the Senate did Obama support and vote for unconditional funding for the
Iraq War in both 2005 and 2006?

 Why did he vote to confirm Bush’s National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to become Secretary of State?

 Did he admire how she helped launch the Iraq war?  

Why did he vote against an amendment by Senator Russ Feingold which called for an Iraq withdrawal timetable?
Why in a speech in November 2006, did Obama call for "a pragmatic solution to the real war
we're facing in Iraq," while also making repeated references to the need to defeat the Iraqi resistance
against the U.S. invasion?

Why has he refused to pledge to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of his
first term if he is elected president?

 Why has he admitted that U.S. troops may need to remain in
Iraq for an "extended period of time," and that "the U.S. may have no choice but to slog it out in Iraq."

Why has he called for U.S. forces to maintain a "reduced but active presence," to "protect logistical
supply points" and "American enclaves like the Green Zone" as well as "act as rapid reaction forces
to respond to emergencies and go after terrorists?"

 How many tens of thousands of troops will
remain indefinitely in Iraq with these large loopholes?

Increasing the size of the U.S. war machine and escalating the war in Afghanistan
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Why does candidate Obama want to increase the size of the U.S. military?  "I strongly support
the expansion of our ground forces by adding 65,000 soldiers to the Army and 27,000 Marines,"
he says. Maybe he wants to send them to Afghanistan. Obama has promised to send at least two
additional combat brigades to Afghanistan.

Following in the footpath of George W.
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Under Obama the U.S. foreign policy will change?  Then why has he refused to unconditionally
endorse U.S. ratification of the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court? Which war
criminals does he wish to protect from prosecution? Why has he not condemned the torture policies
of the Bush regime and called for impeachment and criminal proceedings of those responsible? Why
does Obama refuse to call for an end to most U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba? Why has he
not endorsed a ban on nuclear weapons in space? How is he different from the current leader who
also refuses to do the above?

Who does Obama represent?
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None of the above should really surprise anyone. Obama did not get to where he is by threatening
the interests of the actual rulers of this country.  While posing as an agent of change, he is actually
catering to the real interests of the U.S. imperialists. But in his campaign he is also playing a powerful
role.  There are tens of millions of Americans alienated by the political trajectory of the Bush regime.  Obama’s role is to play the "pied piper" to round up these people to follow in his footsteps to serve
U.S. imperialism. He knows he can not do this by telling the truth, so instead he plays on people’s
hope for change by sewing false illusions of what he will do as president.>> http://snipurl.com/29c8t 
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Three former SEC chairmen will publicly endorse Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid, including
one who served under President Bush, according to the Wall Street Journal. http://snipurl.com/29cbc 
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Excerpted from:    www.truthout.org  Updated Daily
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"The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the
main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the
United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come."
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Israel: US Sees Need  for "Tangible Action" on Iran
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"The United States and Israel agree on the need for 'tangible action' to prevent Iran from developing
nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman said after a visit by US President George W. Bush. 'We are on the same page. We both see the threat ... And we both understand that tangible action is required to prevent the Iranians from moving forward on a nuclear weapon,' Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said on Friday."
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Cheney's Assets  Nearly Triple Bush's
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Disqualified General  Won't Quit Tribunals
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann
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[snip]...he will not resign as legal advisor to war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, despite his
removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver because of a lack of impartiality."
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Robert Scheer:  The Tortured Law on Torture
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"Ah, yes, those torture confessions have proved so useful. That, at least, was the claim of our
president in justifying one of the most egregious assaults ever on this nation's commitment to the
rule of law. But now comes news that charges have been dropped against the so-called Sept. 11
attacks' 20th hijacker, one of dozens so identified, because the 'evidence' he supplied under torture
and later recanted is not credible enough to go to trial. That fact, of course, will not compel
President Bush to cut the tortured prisoner loose."
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Probe of Blackwater Killing Moves Forward
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Ex-Army Corps Consultant  Indicted in Bribery Case
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"A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday
on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina."
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Burma Raises Cyclone Death Toll to 78,000
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What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food
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U.S. Holding 51,000 Iraqis In Prison, Most Illegally
The U.S. is illegally holding more Iraqis in prison than ever before---24,700---and is expanding
its facilities to accommodate another 10,000, according to a published report.In addition to those
detained by the U.S., the Iraqi government is holding 26,000 Iraqis in jail, bringing the total number
of prisoners to almost 51,000.
“U.S. forces are holding nearly all of these persons indefinitely, without an arrest warrant, without
charge, and with no opportunity for those held to defend themselves in a trial,” writes Ciara Gilmartin,
the Security Council Program Coordinator at Global Policy Forum(GPF), of New York City.
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