How cute… the liberals have gone and made themselves a little video of some unsuspecting kids praising the dear leader…

Praising the Dear Leader… Where have I seen that before?

Barack Obama, his policies and beliefs are dangerous for America. But don’t take my word for it… listen to him tell you, himself.

File this under “O” for obvious… (or perhaps for “Obama”).

A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.”

and this…

I have a couple friends who work in the MSM, too, and one of them tells me the newsroom is (exact words) “unbelievably cavalier” about any complaints viewers register about their reports, what they ignore, their bias or the way they edit Republicans vs. the way the treat Dems. “Cavalier” as in the fix is in and they don’t even have to pretend to care what half the country thinks or wants.

I’m not as worried, though. Because this isn’t news. Americans with a pulse understand the MSM is in the tank for liberals. Liberals are happy about MSM being their fourth branch of the government. But the rest of us are grounded in reality. Bush won in 2000 and again in 2004 despite every attempt in the leftwing media to thwart his campaign. The MSM generates their own polls, then trumpets them as news to tell us how well the liberal candidate is doing. But then they start believing their own hype. This leads to election day disappointments and the inevitable claims of election theft (despite the evidence showing they’re the most likely culprits themselves).

Listen to this 2004 hearing to investigate the shenanigans going on at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as indignant Congressional Democrats repeat the notion that there’s nothing wrong, there’s no impending crisis, everything’s fine. They even have the audacity to attack the regulator who’s warning them about the potential financial crisis.

Of course, they had to say that. Democrats are the reason we’re in this fiasco today (even as their empty suit of a candidate claims the Democrat-induced meltdown is “a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush”). They passed legislation designed to force banks into giving loans to folks who couldn’t repay them so they could pat themselves on the back and tout low-income and minority home ownership statistics. For the record, the Bush Administration tried to overhaul it in 2003, so did the Republicans in Congress in 2005. But Democrats opposed those measures. It’s all part of the socialist state design. Take from the producers and give to the non-producers. Redistribute wealth.

And they’re about to do it again with this monstrosity of a “bailout” bill. They’re going to force you and I to pony up $700 billion to clean up the mess they created. Those who defaulted on their loans and the executives like Obama’s Economic Advisor Franklin Raines (former CEO of Fannie Mae) and Obama’s VP Search Team Lead, Jim Johnson (former Chairman of Fannie Mae) and many others who received tons of money from this epic scam will walk away wealthy and without remorse…. and you and I, because we work hard, are financially responsible and pay our bills on time will be saddled with yet another government invoice.

Watch this video, send it everyone you know. Let them see how Democrats were acting when Republicans tried to head off this financial quagmire. Let the public see how corrupt, incompetent and criminal the Democrats are. Let them see just who is responsible for this financial disaster.

Hell, just look at the bailout bill, itself and you’ll see how brazen the scum-sucking Democrats are. They’re including a provision that requires Treasury to divert 20% of all profits away from taxpayers and towards left-wing advocacy groups like the election fraud promoting ACORN.

So Democrats have used groups like ACORN to commit voter fraud in elections all over the country. Once in power, Democrats have passed legislation forcing private businesses to take on risky loans so they can tout “affordable housing” statistics for their low-income and minority constituents. Then when the biggest financial crisis of our time hits because of their socialist policies, they first ignore it, then get indignant at regulators calling them on their scam, then blame Republicans for causing the problems. When the financial crisis reaches a boiling point, they ask responsible, hard-working Americans to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars and divert some of it to their fraud-committing, community-organizing groups.

And the circle of Democrat life is complete.

Throw them all out. Now.

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:26:50 +0100
Message-ID: [3FE4E0F500019E2B@mk-cpfrontend-1.mail.treasury.us.gov]
From: hank@treasury.gov
Subject: investment
To: american_taxpayer@screwed.com

Dear Sir,
I seek your strictist confidence in the ensuing matter. Through the courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on a strong desire to solicit your assistance on this mutually beneficial and risk free transaction which I hope you will give your urgent attention.

My name is Mr. Henry Paulson, secretary of the United States Treasury. My duty as empowered by the American government is to provide free home loans in urban and rural areas and corporate bonuses for crooked executives.

This program includes assistance to local community organizing groups who promote election fraud and to coordinate safety nets for irresponsible borrowers. Furthermore,from this projects we have been able to secured some Reasonable amount of U.S.$700 billion (seven hundred billion US. dollars only) as commission from various member of Congress resulting from over invoicing ,hence all the necessary approvals has been completed.

These approved fund was packaged and dispatched through a security late night secret session and will be delivered to the recipients promptly.

These fund do not actually exist at the moment, so before we arrange for its movement to said recipients through diplomatic channel using decoy purporting that the fund belongs to the American taxpayer as protection from a financial crisis, we need you to stand as the beneficiary and claim the fund on our behalf from the congress.

Presently I am now in Washington to search for reliable taxpayers who will pay this fund on our behalf. And we have agreed to give you, in return a percentage of the total sum as commission for your Assistance/effort. I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

Please honor our transaction by sending your fax number and completing a form 1040, providing me your information in confidence and you will be richly rewarded soon.

I look forward to your response as soon as possible.

In Kindest regards,
Hank

UPDATE: Looks like YouTube banned the previous video claiming copyright infringement by Time Warner Group for the background music. I wonder why…

…back to the Democrats, as usual.

It’s one of the hidden success stories of the Clinton era. In the great housing boom of the 1990s, black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded. The number of African Americans owning their own home is now increasing nearly three times as fast as the number of whites; the number of Latino homeowners is growing nearly five times as fast as that of whites.

These numbers are dramatic enough to deserve more detail. When President Clinton took office in 1993, 42% of African Americans and 39% of Latinos owned their own home. By this spring, those figures had jumped to 46.9% of blacks and 46.2% of Latinos.
…
What explains the surge? The answer starts with the economy. Historically low rates of minority unemployment have created a larger pool of qualified buyers. And the lowest interest rates in years have made homes more affordable for white and minority buyers alike.

But the economy isn’t the whole story. As HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo says: “There have been points in the past when the economy has done well but minority homeownership has not increased proportionally.” Case in point: Despite generally good times in the 1980s, homeownership among blacks and Latinos actually declined slightly, while rising slightly among whites.

All of this suggests that Clinton’s efforts to increase minority access to loans and capital also have spurred this decade’s gains. Under Clinton, bank regulators have breathed the first real life into enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act, a 20-year-old statute meant to combat “redlining” by requiring banks to serve their low-income communities. The administration also has sent a clear message by stiffening enforcement of the fair housing and fair lending laws. The bottom line: Between 1993 and 1997, home loans grew by 72% to blacks and by 45% to Latinos, far faster than the total growth rate.

Lenders also have opened the door wider to minorities because of new initiatives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–the giant federally chartered corporations that play critical, if obscure, roles in the home finance system. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from lenders and bundle them into securities; that provides lenders the funds to lend more.

In 1992, [the Democrat-led] Congress mandated that Fannie and Freddie increase their purchases of mortgages for low-income and medium-income borrowers. Operating under that requirement, Fannie Mae, in particular, has been aggressive and creative in stimulating minority gains. It has aimed extensive advertising campaigns at minorities that explain how to buy a home and opened three dozen local offices to encourage lenders to serve these markets. Most importantly, Fannie Mae has agreed to buy more loans with very low down payments–or with mortgage payments that represent an unusually high percentage of a buyer’s income. That’s made banks willing to lend to lower-income families they once might have rejected.

…and what happens when those buyer’s can’t fulfill their contractual obligations to pay back the high risk loans?

You’re witnessing it today…

Looks like racism is alive and well in America…

“You know, they think that because of who I am and where my politic[al] base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the ‘cracker vote’ there.”

And it’s being advanced by the usual perpetrators…

Still amazing constituents by his ability to hold elected office despite being a disgraced, indicted and impeached former federal judge, Alcee Hastings is now shamelessly and pathetically race-baiting on Obama’s campaign trail:

“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida said at a panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats Wednesday. Hastings, who is African-American, was explaining what he intended to tell his Jewish constituents about the presidential race. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,” Hastings added as the room erupted in laughter and applause.

Such thought-provoking rhetoric.

We’re now into our 12th day without electricity thanks to Hurricane Ike. There have been conflicting reports on when our power might be restored. Centerpoint Energy’s map last week said we’d be on by now, but yesterday’s updated map shows that we won’t have power until Sunday at the earliest. Rumor in our neighborhood, however is that we shouldn’t expect to see any power return until Friday, October 3.

So I’ve now entered the generator era. It’s funny that with all the electronic gadgets, computers, phones and toys, we’re dead in the water without a simple watt of electricity. So instead of me being the one promoting to all my friends and neighbors the advantages of the latest hi-tech toy, they’ve finally convinced me to purchase a good ol’ fashioned, gasoline-powered, rock concert-loud Briggs & Stratton 5500-watt generator.

And this morning there was cold air coming from a portable a/c unit sitting by my fireplace, hot coffee in the coffee pot… and a lamp by which to shave with an electric razor.

I guess sometimes getting back to the basics reminds you to appreciate all that you have.