Lets not forget Lehman

Since today apparently was the last day of Lehman Brother's existence as they file Chapter 11...i thought i would add the list of political donations from this bank over the last 20 years. Once again, i will only show a partial list from Open Secrets that will include our two major candidates.

Members of the 110th Congress who have received campaign contributions from Lehman Brothers, 1989-2008

Name Office State Party Grand Total Total from
PACs Total from
Individuals
Clinton, Hillary S NY D $409,980 $3,000 $406,980
Obama, Barack S IL D $395,574 $0 $395,574
Schumer, Charles E S NY D $181,450 $25,500 $155,950
Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,800 $25,400 $140,400
Lieberman, Joe S CT I $165,450 $10,000 $155,450
Kerry, John S MA D $151,664 $0 $151,664
McCain, John S AZ R $145,100 $1,000 $144,100
Rangel, Charles B H NY D $38,650 $24,750 $13,900
Castle, Michael N H DE R $38,500 $38,500 $0
Lugar, Richard G S IN R $37,250 $12,000 $25,250
Reed, Jack S RI D $37,100 $7,500 $29,600
Lowey, Nita M H NY D $35,225 $5,000 $30,225
Lautenberg, Frank R S NJ D $34,100 $1,000 $33,100
Biden, Joseph R Jr S DE D $33,700 $0 $33,700
Feinstein, Dianne S CA D $32,100 $24,000 $8,100
Bayh, Evan S IN D $31,309 $5,500 $25,809
Emanuel, Rahm H IL D $30,350 $0 $30,350
Specter, Arlen S PA R $26,100 $3,000 $23,100
Baucus, Max S MT D $21,400 $14,500 $6,900
Boucher, Rick H VA D $20,000 $20,000 $0

Now, where should i begin????? The first two on the list...Hillary and Barack Hussein Obama; both taking in more than twice as much as Sen. John McCain. But let's not forget Joe Biden down there with Dianne Feinstein, Evan Bayh and Rahm Emanuel. Don't forget though, these are donations over a 20 year period and Obama came on the national scene at the 2004 DNC Convention. Change? No...just right him a check!

He said it...

Jack Nicholson on Rick Dees radio show this morning (yes, the same Rick Dees of "Disco Duck" fame or...or maybe infamy) said he is in the Hillary Clinton camp because "She is the best man for the job".
Bad politics Jack...but a great line!

My endorsement...

Just for the record, this is the Liberal Implosion owner, bobby speaking here, not my partner in crime from CCG who is also a contributor to Liberal Implosion.

Tomorrow is the Arkansas Primary, we are one of many states voting on "Super Tuesday" to select our party's nominee for President of the United States. This has been a rough campaign season for me and i've done what i can not to criticize any of the candidates unless it was absolutely necessary, and have seen some great possible Presidents drop out of the race. On issue by issue I probably agreed the most with Rep. Duncan Hunter from CA or former Sen. Fred Thompson from TN, but both of these men have set aside their campaign after seeing the writing on the wall. That now leaves us with Sen. John McCain of AZ, former Gov. Mike Huckabee from AR, former Mitt Romney from MA, and Rep. Ron Paul of TX.

I'll start with Ron Paul...he's a libertarian, and although i can agree with him on many issues, i disagree with him far too much, so he is not an option.

Then there is John McCain, the alleged "maverick" of the Republican party. I have seen his name on too much bad legislation and he has consistently sided with the democrats far too much since 2000 for me to support him in this primary. Although he does have an about an 85% conservative voting record...that 15% worries me.

Mike Huckabee is a great man who i greatly respect. He came in to the Governor's office in AR and had to clean up behind both Bill Clinton and then Jim Guy Tucker who could not carry on the Clinton legacy without getting caught. While i respect him as a leader, and even though i am a baptist pastor myself who is serving in the same association he once moderated...i just don't think i can support him in this primary. I believe Mike Huckabee is the essence of compassionate conservative, but with a little too much emphasis on the compassionate part. I can only imagine him becoming what President George W. Bush has become in terms of spending because of this.

That leaves Mitt Romney, and tomorrow when i walk into the voting booth with a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America and my Bible in hand...i will be voting for Gov. Romney. I realize as a baptist many would expect me to balk at his religious beliefs, which i do disagree with whole heatedly, but i'm also not electing a theologian in chief. I think he has the know how to lead us out of the economic quagmire we are in, and i do believe that he has seen the light when it comes to issues of sanctity of life and traditional family values. And i also have no doubt that when put head to head against either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, he will show that he is the proven leader that this great country needs in the Oval Office.

So my endorsement (Bobby speaking only) is Mitt Romney.

Well, DUH!

From the AP: "In his speech, Obama depicted Clinton as a calculating, poll-tested divisive figure who will only inspire greater partisan divisions..."

You know, i'm starting to think the democrats are on the left of the bell curve too if they are just now figuring this out!

Make it an Obama and a Double Scotch on the Rocks

Not sure if he was quite over last night's hangover or not, but the Patriarch of the Kennedy Socialist Dynasty threw his hat into the endorsement ring today by joining niece Caroline and son Patrick on the Obama bandwagon. Sen. Ted Kennedy (DUI-Chappaquiddick) apparently believes the future of this great nation lies on the broad, untested (and unqualified) shoulders of Sen. Barak Obama.



The Elder Kennedy said, "Through Barack, I believe we will move beyond the politics of fear and personal destruction and unite our country with the politics of common purpose." Politics of fear and personal destruction, huh?

First of all, Ted Kennedy created the politics of fear and personal destruction when he personally chose to attack Judge Robert Bork when he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the Supreme Court. Kennedy put down his drink long enough to get on national TV and say, "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government." Once again, the hypocrisy of these people amaze me.

And it was with the help of Ted Kennedy during the 1990's until present that the Clintonistas perfected the politics of personal destruction and fear. How many times would we see Kennedy's fat face in the background of a Clinton or DNC press conference with Bill or Hillary at the mic telling lie after lie after lie. Maybe he was just too drunk to remember.

Ultimately the Kennedy's are doing the same thing the Clinton's do in a time like this, destroy the ones who have the power that you so crave. Do what is necessary to knock them off their perch, and then kick them while they are down.

I'm going to enjoy watching these two "die-nasties" tear each other apart. I expect Hillary to man up here and do something about this...Hill the Shrill will not go down quietly.
And a word of warning to Barak Obama...this endorsement isn't free. If by some slim chance you do become President, remember that Teddy is in charge.

Hillary: The Rules Don't Matter, I am a Clinton!

I suppose before getting into this one, I should introduce myself.

I go by the nickname "C-C-G," which stands for Christian Conservative Geek, partly because it describes me so well, partly because my first name is too darned common, and partly because I don't know how my day-job bosses would take my activities online, and really don't wanna find out, if ya know what I mean.

I granted Revbeaux contributor privileges on my blog a while back, and he's graciously reciprocated (thanks, brother!), so here I am, making my first contribution:

Once again, Hillary is making the claim that rules don't apply to her:

In a bit of political theater, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Florida Democratic Party clamored to restore convention delegates that had been stripped by the national party.

At stake: 185 delegates in a state where Clinton leads almost 2-to-1.

The presidential candidate said Friday — just four days before Florida's primary — that she wants the convention delegates from Florida and Michigan reinstated. The national party eliminated all the delegates from those states — more than 350 in all — because they broke party rules against holding their primaries before Feb. 5. All the major Democratic candidates also made pledges not to campaign in those states before their primaries.

Uh, excuse me, Hillary, if you're campaigning for the nomination of a given party, don't the party's rules kind of apply to you?

What's interesting here, tho, is that a couple of left-leaning commentators are taking issue with Hillary's stand, here and here.

Congratulations, guys, you're finally figuring out what the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has known about the Clintons for over a decade.

(cross-posted at my original blog, CCG)

A Convenient Lack of Truth

When the top 3 democrats in the race for the White House debated this past week in the South Carolina (their most recent nationally broadcast pandering opportunity), Hill the Shrill confronted the rookie Barak Hussein Obama with the following: "I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

This in your face attack by Hillary not only showed Obama who the man was in this race (Obviously, John Edwards finishes a distant 3rd there also)...but also left the young Senator from Illinois speechless for a moment. You can almost hear Oprah waving her finger in the air with her hand on her hip, "Oh no you didn't!". Oh yeah, she did Oprah, she did.

Well, as fate and the general hypocrisy of the democrat party, especially the Clintons, would tell...Barak Obama was not the only one who had some contacts with the now infamous Tony Rezko. In fact, this picture has now surfaced:


And as would be expected from Hillary, she responded like my 6 year old caught with his hand in the cookie jar by saying "What...not me?" On the NBC Democrat Campaign Committee propaganda machine known as the "Today Show", The Hill said "I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I don't know the man. I wouldn't know him if he walked in the door."

Uh...yeah. OK.

This is the same Hillary Clinton who once said "I don't recall" or something similiar 50 times in a 42 paragraph statement presented to a House committee concerning the Whitewater investigation and didn't know how those hundreds of sensitive FBI files got into a secluded area of the White House that she was pretty much the only person using at the time.

Don't forget, this picture was taken at a FUND RAISER for the Clinton Campaign Machine, and those who were in attendance and got that close to the then President had to have some sort of clearance.

Amazingly, people still believe this woman; which really makes me worry for the future of this great nation.

Barak...don't be a wop!

"Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight." Sean Connery as "Malone" in The Untouchables.

Apparently Barak Hussein Obama, who until recently was within reach of becoming the nominee for the democrat party for the Oval Office is turning out to be nothing more than a "wop". Facing off against the Clinton Campaign Machine and the big guns they bring in, he seems to be fighting back with nothing more than a Swiss Army Knife.

Since 1992, if not before, Republicans and most common sense Americans have known one thing...the Clintons will lie, cheat and steal to get and keep power; and do more than that if necessary. For whatever reason Barak Obama seems to be shocked that the Billary would dare "twist his remarks" for political gain (most people call it lying Obama). Recently on Good Morning America the Presidential hopeful said in an interview, "The only thing I want to make sure of is that when he goes after me, that he goes after me on the basis of facts and policy differences, and, you know, stuff isn't just made up,"...does he not know who he is dealing with here?????

How do you tell when Bill Clinton is lying? His lips are moving! When Barak won in Iowa and began leading Hillary in the polls, he basically placed the target on his back for the Clinton Hitmen to fire at will. And when it comes to political gain, truth is nothing more than collateral damage in the sick and twisted Clinton mind.

And to add insult to injury Bill Clinton said this recently according to the AP: "I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful...no character, was poll-driven. He had more pollsters than she did." Make sure you picture this in your mind; Bill Clinton waving that bony finger of his at Barak Obama and saying "You can't do that...even though we do it...you just can't do it yourself!"

The lies are just starting Sen. Obama...and should you find any more personal success between now and the nomination being won, expect it to get worst. In fact, you may even be looking at the end of your political career should the pioneers of the politics of personal destruction see fit.

My advice to you is get some guns and fight back. Being politically correct and saying "she's twisting the truth" while fielding softball questions on your favorite talk shows won't cut it. Be a man...after all, Hillary is!

Oh, the irony...

This past Sunday morning Hill the Shrill was making her rounds on the political talk circuit and trying to pander to her shrinking constituency. I believe it might have been on Meet the Press where she said the following:

"This is the most exciting election we've had in such a long time because you have an African-American, an extraordinary man, a person of tremendous talents and abilities, running to become our president. You have a woman running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. I don' think either of us want to inject race or gender in this campaign. We are running as individuals..."

OK...so as she brags about the woman and the black guy, isn't she injecting race and gender???? Or is not so since she is the said woman (I still have doubts about that fact by the way).

Personally i think it's great that the race and gender cards are being thrown around in a democrat preliminary race since the democrat party really is full of racists and racial bigots to begin with; they just try to label the Republicans that way in hopes to cover their own spots.

When the Hill Speaks...

"Was I the only person who distinctly heard [Hillary] insist during the last debate that Americans have known exactly what she's been thinking for the past 35 years? The woman was born, quite appropriately, just a few days before Halloween, in 1947. That means she is 60, and that 35 years ago she was 25. The year was 1972, and she was nothing more or less than a law student at Yale. Is she really so deluded that she actually believes Americans were somehow listening in on her conversations in the student union? This may come as a shock to the ice princess, but America had never even heard of her until 15 years ago when her clinically dysfunctional husband ran for president. But perhaps because that decade and a half has been so jam-packed with political scandals and sexual escapades, it just seems like 35 years to her. God knows it seems even longer to me." ---Burt Prelutsky

What an endorsement!

The big news today was the major endorsement that THE Hillary received early in this election cycle...what? The United Transportation Union? No, not that one! I meant the endorsement of a Hillary-Obama ticket by the one man in our hemisphere who shares many a political stance as these to democrat heavy weights: none other than Fidel Castro himself!

That's right, the 81 year old Cuban dictator....oops, i meant "duly elected president" of the Caribbean island nation has tipped his hat in favor of Hill the Schrill and Osoma Obama as the next leader of what could become a once great nation if it actually happens. Castro was quoted as saying in the New York Times...oops, my bad again, i meant the Granma (the Cuban Communist Party paper) as saying, "The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,".

Not that this is unexpected seeing how Castro as referred to Bill Clinton as "really kind", has claimed that President George W Bush stole the 2000 election (hey, they use DNC talking points down there too!) and also names Jimmy Carter as his favorite US President since he himself took control of Cuba in 1959 according to a Reuters report.

So there you go folks, as if the Al Qaida/Taliban endorsements of the democrats in the 2006 midterm elections weren't enough...this is definitely gravy!

2008 Democratic National Convention Schedule

A proposed schedule for the 2008 DNC Convention in Denver, CO has been leaked and i thought i would go ahead and give you a heads up as to what to expect from the Blue Staters:


7:00 p.m. Opening flag burning.
7:15 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations.
7:30 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:30 p.m. Nonreligious prayer and worship: Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton leading the idolatry
8:00 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

8:05 p.m. Ceremonial tree hugging.
8:15 p.m. Gay Wedding: Barney Frank, presiding.
8:30 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
8:35 p.m. Memorial for Saddam: Cindy Sheehan, Susan Sarandon.

9:00 p.m. Keynote speech: "The Proper Etiquette for Surrender", French President Jacques Chirac
9:15 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
9:20 p.m. Collection to benefit Osama Bin Laden Kidney Transplant Fund.

9:30 p.m. Unveiling of plan to free freedom fighters from Guantanamo Bay: Sean Penn.
9:40 p.m. Why I Hate the Military: A short talk by William Jefferson Clinton.
9:45 p.m. Ted Kennedy Proposes a toast.

9:50 p.m. Dan Rather receives "The Truth In Broadcasting" award, presented by Michael Moore.
9:55 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

10:00 p.m. Presentation: "How George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld brought down the Trade Center"

10:30 p.m. Nomination of Hillary Clinton for President by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
11:00 p.m. Ted Kennedy Proposes a toast.

11:05 p.m. Senator Obama nominated for Vice President by Fidel Castro
11:15 p.m. "Our Troops are War Criminals", presented by John Kerry.

11:30 p.m. Coronation of Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
12:00 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:05 p.m. Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home.

Well, it just sounds like a good old time to me...a liberal love fest filled with more the typical blame America rhetoric and hatred of George W. Bush that we can expect from them!

You bunch of cowards!

No, i'm not talking about the French, Germans or even Canadians. I am on the other hand talking about our friendly neighborhood candidates vying to become your next presidential nominee for the democrats.

It all started with John "The Breck Girl" Edwards opting out of a Fox News sponsored debate in Nevada which led to a mass exodus and the event being cancelled because FNC doesn't worship at the alter of the DNC. Now he has been joined by Osama Barak Obama and Hill the Schrill in boycotting a September debate that was cosponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. The Edwards camp said, "But we believe there's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they're objective." Just so you know, "right-wing agenda" to the likes of Edwards and that bunch means traditional American values and fair and honest reporting that doesn't have a liberal spin.

Expect more of the cowards to do the same to avoid anything other than softball questions and the liberal love fest you can expect from the likes of ABCNNBCBS...or as i call them, the DNC Media Machine.

But the good news, according to The Politico website is that they plan on particpating in a January debate that is once again cosponsered by the CBC, but this time it is with the Clinton News Network; you know, CNN. In fact an aide for Obama said, "CNN seemed like a more appropriate venue". Yeah, more appropriate means that they will not be challenged or questioned about anything that they need to discuss in order to occupy the White House...and if at all possible, give them the easiest possible path that goes directly to the Oval Office.

Of course, i can't let Hill the Schrill off this easy. Clinton spokesman Blake Zeff emails, "We're going to participate in the DNC-sanctioned debates only. We've previously committed to participating in the SC and Tavis Smiley debates." Yeah, like Tavis Smiley, one of the DNC's most loyal hitmen will ask them about the truly important issues.

So, to Edwards, Obama, Clinton et al...you are nothing more than a bunch of cowards!

10 Questions for the Clintonistas

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton has been on an ongoing quest since at least 1992 to expose the one thing Bill and Hillary Clinton hate the most...the truth about them. Personally, i'm really amazed how nothing seems to stick to these two as if they really are teflon; i suppose having the major media doing your spin work helps out tremendously.

Well, as the former Wicked Witch of the West Wing continues to move toward what she considers her own manifest destiny (returning the White House, but as the President this time), Mr. Fitton has brought forth 10 questions that he feels are the most pressing in regards of the Clintons being honest for possibly the first time in their life. And for your enjoyment, here are those questions:

1. Who in the Clinton administration devised the plan to sell taxpayer-financed trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the Clinton-Gore 1996 re-election campaign? (Sworn testimony from Nolanda Hill, partner and confidante of the late Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, points to you as mastermind of the scheme.)

2. Why did you give “factually false” testimony under oath in the investigation of the White House Travel Office firings, as former Independent Counsel Robert Ray stated in his final report. (Ray said his office found "overwhelming evidence" you played a role in the dismissals of the seven longtime employees in the White House travel office, which you denied under oath.)

3. Who hired former bar bouncer Craig Livingstone and ordered him to illegally obtain for the Clinton administration the FBI files of former staffers in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush? (Sworn testimony and at least one FBI document shows you hired Livingstone.)

4. Why did you fail to report more than $2 million in contributions to your Senate 2000 campaign? (Testimony from the criminal investigation and trial of your National Finance Director, David Rosen, shows you knew the total costs of the fundraiser, yet failed to accurately report them.)

5. Your brothers Anthony and Hugh Rodham allegedly brokered cash deals to obtain presidential pardons from your husband on behalf of convicted criminals. Were you aware they were each paid large sums to obtain these pardons? Did you play any role in any of the 140 presidential pardons provided by Bill Clinton in the waning days of his administration, bypassing the normal pardon review process? How about the pardons of the Puerto Rican terrorists in the run-up to your first Senate campaign? Did you have any input on those?

6. Did you or your lawyers hire private detectives to investigate and intimidate critics of the Clinton administration?

7. What did you instruct James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to say in order to discredit and defame Gennifer Flowers, a woman with whom your husband had an affair? (Evidence suggests they smeared her at your behest.) Did you play any role in smearing and defaming other women sexually and otherwise abused by your husband, including, but not limited to: Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Dolly Kyle Browning, and Juanita Broaddrick?

8. Records from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reveal that you turned a $1,000 investment in cattle futures in 1978 into to more than $100,000.00 in ten months… a return of 10,000%. How did you earn such an astronomical, and unbelievable, return on this investment?

9. How much money does Bill Clinton earn from his relationship with Ron Burkle, a contributor to your Senate campaigns, and Burkle’s company, Yucaipa? Are these funds currently available in bank accounts to which you have access? Will you use these funds for your campaign? How about Bill’s speaking fees, some paid for by foreign interests and governments – what are the financial benefits to you?

10. How do you explain the mysterious disappearance of your Whitewater billing records from the office of Vince Foster, the former Rose Law Firm partner and Clinton White House counsel who allegedly committed suicide in 1993? How do you explain the mysterious reappearance of those same records in the White House with your fingerprints on them?

Of course, this leaves out the illegal White House coffees used to get campaign donations from the Chinese, Hillary's questionable business transactions in Arkansas while her husband was serving as Governor, Web Hubbell, John Huang, Chinese generals, the Lippo Group, paid sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom...and the various other felonies that these two seemed to get away with.

When all is said and done though, Hillary won't have to answer to any of these because of her campaign team; also known as the major media outlets like ABCNNBCBS.