New Presidential Hopeful Appears On Ballot

226. Mr A...isn't pass your bed time?...you sure sound!.. like it is!...can you even vote?...i've got my doubts...you're probably
just some young punk...ranting on this Tmz post.....come back in a few years buddy...when you've grown up..go to bed now.

Posted at 10:06PM on Oct 12th 2008 by not for nothing

227. What a hoot! The truth always comes out about BO. Hey did anyone hear get an opportunity to hear Louis Farrekhan's recent speech to the Nation of Islam? Truely scary. What is BO saying that is attracting groups like the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers? Libs/Dems: You better check yourself before you wreck yourself....BO = death march towards socialism/fascism.

Posted at 10:09PM on Oct 12th 2008 by Thanking God for canned goods and guns

228. Unfortunately, b/c I am not dumb, it seems as if BO will win this election (still hoping for the Bradley effect though) ~~ OR ~~ even better, he finally shows his true colors in the next couple of week ~~ OR IS EXPOSED. CNN had some interesting commentary today. It ain't over until its over. Right now 49% Obama; 41% McCain; 10% Undecided - just posted on CNN (unchanged from yesterday). Obama is the worst choice. Do your homework.

Don't pop that champagne just yet.

Posted at 10:39PM on Oct 12th 2008 by Another Concerned Citizen

229. 227. ^^ Mr. A PRETENDS to give a damn about women.. cute.

Posted at 10:03PM on Oct 12th 2008 by Liz


Why Liz! How shallow and narrow-minded you are! You would have to believe that YOU represent ALL women, therefore while hiding behind that illusion of yours...you can accuse people who think POORLY of just YOU, as thinking poorly of ALL women, and try to play the SEX CARD!

Pathetic and ignorant.

not for nothing....

You're just too stupid to give a sh@# about. Sorry. You might as well be typing goo goo gah gah poo poo pee pee...at least I'd get a giggle out of that.

Posted at 11:28PM on Oct 12th 2008 by Mr. A

230. concern citizen...i never thouht you were dumb..but i have my doubts now...theres an old saying "sh#t in one hand and
wish in the other" guess which one fills up faster?...so keep wishing...but watch for the pile around you.

and Mr A...i must of hit a nerve....Good!!..but go to bed now...he who giggles at poo poo and pee pee..be sure you
clean it up before your mommy does.

Posted at 12:07AM on Oct 13th 2008 by not for nothing

231. HEY !

I PAINT MY "MASTERPIECE"....AND EVERYBODY GOES TO SLEEP ???......ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz......

Posted at 3:16AM on Oct 13th 2008 by AL GOREs VAGINA

232. I think the question is just how low can McPalin go? It's obvious they were behind that or at the very least one of their cronies were. I can't wait, 22 days and they will see all of their lies, smears and hatred they've spewed out will be all they have to take home with them when Obama wins!!!

Posted at 4:58AM on Oct 13th 2008 by Obama2008

233. What if this whole Obama crap is just a set up through Osama Bin Laden? How ludicrous would that be if Obama really wasn't who he appeared to be? 'Change change change' yeah he'll change us alright! You DO know that Osama is still in hiding don't you? What better way to attack America than through terrorists tricking Americans into thinking that a Muslim as our president can bring "change". What change is he going to bring? It all seems so shady to me. Granted, McCain might not have ideas that everyone agrees with, but come on people! This Muslim MUST NOT get his hands on our top secret information!! If you don't agree, that is understandable. But at least with McCain we don't have to wonder if he's in cahoots with Obama - oops! I meant Osama. WAKE UP AMERICA!

You may say that I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.

Posted at 9:32AM on Oct 13th 2008 by jus sayin'

234. I SUPPOSE THE LIBERALS WERE SO UPSET HEARING THE TRUTH.....THAT THEY MADE TMZ TAKE MY POST DOWN AFTER IT WAS UP FOR APPROX. 6 - 8 HOURS !!!

ISN'T THAT CALLED......"CENSURESHIP" !!!!.......BTW....THERE WAS NOTHING OBSCENE STATED ON THE POST....CERTAINLY NOT LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER POSTS....SUBMITTED BY LIBERALS !!!!

Posted at 2:06PM on Oct 13th 2008 by AL GOREs VAGINA

235. WOW, at this...I mean look at what has been going on the past 8 years!!!!!! People have DIED in this war an STILL dying...The economy is in the dumps....People are losing jobs.... MEL you said that he is providing benefits for HIS people...who da H3!! is HIS people...fellow Americans? I surely hope thats what you talking about. McCain backs Bush 90%...so do we need another Bush in office?

The economy is in the dumps now...Instead of speading 700 Billion dollars on a bail out, it should be spent to get this economy going again. Speaking of PEOPLE, the bail out is intended for the mortagages companies NOT the people who lost their homes...so In essence the mortgage companies are getting DOUBLE...WTF!!!!!

Im not saying Barrack is completely right...but he is definitely talking about issues that concern me and many other people such as healthcare, education and tax relief which EVERYONE including HIS PEOPLE will benifit from. You don't fix a problem like this by starting at the top or pacifying it. You start from the bottom. If the comman man can not afford to spend money with businesses, then the business owner id going to miss out...of course Republicans want McCain in office becuase they dont want to foot the bill to help the less fortunate in the US, but think about it...if it wasnt for the common man, then their wouldnt be commerce.

Prime example was the stimulus checks...they were suppose to stimulate the economy but H3!! by the time I got mine, I spent it on bills, Yay for Stimulation!!!! *sarcasm*... Please, please please...we dont need another Bush term...I really believe in my heart if McCain gets office...there is going to be hard times ahead because his ideas doesnt appeal to the common man. Yes you may have it good now and you are not concern about other people just because you born into a home that was much fortunate...but please believe me, if you dont start from the bottom (comman man) and work your way up, there will be problems...BIG problems

Besides....We having money problems NOW, shiiiiiiii name one republican president that DID NOT ruin the budget??? Democratic presidents have always been better with money....The Economy has always been better, H3!! look at the Clinton administration *applause* JUST VOTE WITH YOUR HEARTS. DONT DECIDE NOT TO VOTE FOR BARACK BECAUSE HE IS A BLACK MAN AND YOU STILL HAVE A RACIST BONE IN YOUR BODY. IT KILLS ME HOW PEOPLE WOULD RATHER SEE THE US SUFFER THAN TO HAVE A BLACK MAN IN OFFICE, SMH@ALL DAT.

WHEN HE IS IN OFFICE, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PROBLEMS I KNOW. THEY WOULD BLAME EVERYTHING THAT BUSH DID ON HIM. I DONT SEE ANYONE TALKING BOUT HOW BUSH F#$%ED UP EVERYTHING GAWD!

Posted at 8:29PM on Oct 13th 2008 by LetsBeReal

236. To number 5 - the destruction that 8 years of Bush and the Republican Administration is leaving behind equals to 9/11.
Now go vote Obama. Anyone but McCain-Palin and the Republicans.

Posted at 11:05PM on Oct 13th 2008 by nazirmo

237. By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

The Obama campaign’s Muslim outreach director participated in a meeting in mid September that was attended by several controversial Muslim activists, NBC News has learned. The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment, and that its top Muslim staffer would not have attended the meeting if she had known the full participant list beforehand.

“Would a campaign staffer have attended if they were aware of the complete list of attendees? No,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email statement to NBC.

The Muslim outreach meeting
On September 15, newly named Muslim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and potential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield, Virginia, several meeting participants and the campaign said. Two other Obama-affiliated Democratic Party workers joined Husaini and also spoke to the crowd. Some Virginia and Washington, D.C.-based Muslim activists and interested citizens attended, and flyers were passed out from “Arab Americans for Obama” stating Sen. Obama’s goals for achieving peace in the Middle East, protecting the civil liberties of Arab Americans and ending the war in Iraq.

Several participants told NBC News that Husaini and other speakers delivered a standard Obama campaign pitch. “They said, ‘We’re here to get the concerns of Muslim voters and let everyone know that the Obama campaign does want the support of the Muslim community,’ ” recalled one participant, who requested anonymity. The meeting was not advertised and some attendees got text phone messages notifying them that day of the meeting’s location, the participant said.

Nearly a month later, the meeting is drawing controversy--and not because of anything said at the meeting itself.

The attendees
One meeting attendee was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society, several of the participants said. The MAS website describes Bray as an imam and “long time civil and human rights activist.” Bray’s critics say he has a history of defending terrorists. They point to a video of Bray at a rally in 2000, for example, in which he can be seen pumping his fist in the air in support of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. In a 2004 interview, he called the Israeli assassination of a Hamas spiritual leader an “unlawful, cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorism.” Bray did not return a call requesting comment.

Also attending the meeting was Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is a Muslim-American civil rights group that has, as its website states, “consistently and persistently condemned terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians.” Nonetheless, the group has many critics, especially in law-enforcement circles, and is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case.

In an interview on Thursday, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said that the group has filed a legal brief seeking to have its name removed from the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the federal terror case. “Obviously we see it as politically motivated and a cheap way to stigmatize” CAIR and other Muslim groups, Hooper said.

Hooper said that CAIR has consistently condemned “every act of terrorism” by groups including Hamas and Hezbollah. But he would not answer whether CAIR condemns those designated terrorist groups themselves. “I’ve already answered your questions,” he said, and abruptly ended the interview. Nihad Awad, the executive director, did not return a call seeking comment.

"Political liability"
A second meeting participant speaking on condition on anonymity said he was stunned to learn that Awad and Bray had been invited to an event where Obama representatives would be present. The participant said Awad and Bray are considered politically “radioactive.” He said that some in the Obama group knew ahead of time that top CAIR officials would be in attendance--an allegation the Obama campaign disputes.

“Yes, when I knew they were coming it made me uncomfortable,” the attendee said. “There was some hope it wouldn’t get out” into the media, the attendee added. “There was some concern within the Obama camp that some of these people coming may be a political liability.”

Chicago-based lawyer Mazen Asbahi also attended the meeting. He is the Obama campaign’s former Muslim outreach coordinator, who abruptly resigned in August after the Wall Street Journal and websites that track fundamentalist Islam began questioning Asbahi’s involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups. When reached by NBC News, Asbahi would not comment about the September gathering or his brief stint eight years ago on an investment fund board which also included a fundamentalist imam.

When informed that Asbahi had attended the recent meeting, an Obama spokesman said: “Mazen Asbahi resigned from his role as the campaign’s Muslim American outreach coordinator and was replaced--he is not an employee of the campaign and does not speak on behalf of the campaign.”

The Obama campaign has been delicately trying to court Muslim American voters in key battleground states while simultaneously knocking down Internet rumors that attempt to link the presidential candidate to radical Islam. Sen. Obama is a Christian.

Obama campaign reaction
The Obama campaign would not allow NBC News to interview its Muslim outreach director, Minha Husaini. It issued a statement explaining that she was not a meeting organizer. “Our campaign has an interfaith outreach organization that is equipping people of faith with the tools they need to educate their friends and family members about Senator Obama’s plans to bring the change we need,” the statement said. “This meeting was not organized by the campaign--our outreach staff attends many meetings in the course of each day, and they accepted an invitation from community leaders to attend.”

Posted at 9:25AM on Oct 14th 2008 by Goodmorning

238. everyone's comments definitely make for good reading. conversations about politics always bring up the most anger, don't they? i love it though, gets my blood flowing. osama is absolutely out of his mind to even think of running for president with such little time in politics. that speaks to his judgement, to his egocentrism, to his holier-than-thou mindset. and liberals say sarah palin is unqualified and has no experience... PLEASE. the democrats have shown that they are completely blind to anything negative that obama does, as is the media. it's terrible. i really wish i could strangle him sometimes. if he wins this election, it will be by selling false hope to desperate people, and that makes him a despicable human being. and "not for nothing," what are you retarded with all the "...?" any point you try to make is immediately made invalid by your third grade typing skills.

Posted at 12:29PM on Oct 14th 2008 by bree

239. 229. What a hoot! The truth always comes out about BO. Hey did anyone hear get an opportunity to hear Louis Farrekhan's recent speech to the Nation of Islam? Truely scary. What is BO saying that is attracting groups like the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers? Libs/Dems: You better check yourself before you wreck yourself....BO = death march towards socialism/fascism.
Posted at 10:09PM on Oct 12th 2008 by Thanking God for canned goods and guns

I heard Farrekhan loud & clear. I've been hearing everything about BO & none of it sounds good. Unfortunately, Bush didn't do us any favors & people would vote for Mickey Mouse just to get even with him. They don't realize that by "getting even" they are exposing everyone, including themselves, to a socialistic society & I guarantee you they won't like it.

Posted at 3:42PM on Oct 14th 2008 by romil1

240. 238. Barack Obama is simply the most unqualified, egotistical, liberal man ever to be this close to the office of the presidency. And you have the gall to make fun of Sarah Palin? Hold on to your purses everyone, Barack may be at the top. I wake up in the middle of the night in fear of an Obama presidency. What on earth are all of you O supporters thinking? Look into the financial mess........all caused by Democrats FORCING lenders to let unqualified people - most of them illegal aliens and minorities - buy houses they couldn't afford. It is a horrible mess. When you don't et capitalism and the markets take care of messes, they become worse. Fewer and fewer people will be supporting more and more people. Think about it everyone, think about it.
Posted at 10:01PM on Oct 13th 2008 by Donna

I'm thinking about it & wake up in the middle of the night in fear of an Obama presidency also. I think there are alot of people just like us but how can we possibly win when the mainstream media (they don't even show up for McCain/Palin speeches anymore) so noone knows what large crowds they are attracting) is in the tank for BO & don't forget the thousands (or millions?) of votes we are losing to BO as we speak because of the voter fraud being conducted by ACORN. It is, indeed, scarey & I'm convinced that most of his fans are voting him in to "get even" with Bush.

Posted at 3:43PM on Oct 14th 2008 by romil1