Obama’s Con Job Destined to Break a Lot of Hearts

To me it really looks like a paint can opener that’s been twisted back on itself. I have one in the garage! Wow! I was ahead of the fad! You can get one too for about $1.98 at your local hardware store!

Now that’s change you can believe in.

Q: Is the ChangeRing directly associated with Barack Obama’s campaign?
A: No. While The ChangeRing was inspired by Barack Obama’s message of change and created in support of his run for the White House, it is not directly associated with his campaign. Part of the proceeds from the sale of The ChangeRing will be donated to the campaign. You can track our progress on The ChangeRing Tracker Map and also on barackobama.com and also help us by donating through our donation tracking page at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gDhMs

according to the website - don’t let the facts get in the way of your smear though.

What a scam. I just looked at the website. That goofy piece of bent metal is supposed to be cool? This is cultish.

I think this is much more scary than the Feds taking over AIG.

OMG I want to invent some change jewelry and sell it too, I’ll donate a penny of the proceeds to the Obama campaign.

Put these pampered, elitist, robotic twits to good use - make money off of them!

Form over substance. It would be pretty funny if those items where actually made in China

Ack - under their “How It Works” section,
“The Changering Is Powered By Generosity”

The ChangeRing is about giving. You buy one and you give one, or two, or three, or four or fifty, or a thousand…..It’s up to you.

The creator of this product is brilliant, and has tapped into the narcissist generation with precision.

What was going on in Alaska when Palin was there?
Apparently, a pretty big anti-Palin rally…Interesting….

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/

Look at it this way…..

With the dog tag on the “change ring” the Obama camp can track these little bastards….

When Obama looses in November, we can track them ourselves, for migratory purposes….

That’s scary that the Hitler Obama Youth Movement is buying into it. I’ll bet you can bend it into a swastika very easily.

This guy’s ego is not to be believed.

this “change ring” reminds me of the “pet rock”…

at least this thing grows and does something……
http://www.drugstore.com/search/search_results.asp?N=0&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntk=All&srchtree=1&Ntt=chia&aid=336064&aparam=chia%20pet&scinit1=chia%20pet

Q: Why can’t I buy just one ChangeRing?

A: The ChangeRing is about giving and being generous with one another. Therefore, you also “give” a ChangeRing for free when you buy one.

I’m just glad that some teens and young people are actually taking an interest in politics. I’d rather Obama chains than some of the other stuff I’ve been seeing. They won’t be wearing them forever anyway. Once the election’s over, whether Obama wins or loses, they’ll stop wearing them and move on to something else.

My local Repub party chair returned my call this evening. I will be going in tomorrow to volunteer to elect McCain, and while there will change my registration from Dem to Independent. A very sad day. My first campaign was Carter. Will never forget how happy my Mother was (bless her sweet soul) the day she got to meet Jimmy and Rosalind. Time passes. We move on to do the right thing. I am ashamed of my party, and no longer want to be called a liberal. Their treatment of Sarah Palin is disgraceful. Their treatment of Hillary was nothing compared to this. I guess they were just getting warmed up. The Hollywood crowd is particulary disgusting. So many movies I won’t be seeing, so many songs I won’t be hearing.

That’s enough–I’m leaving to find a place to purchase PUMA stuff.

Ani, I always relate to your posts. Don’t worry too much about the future candidate who is authentic and not a bullying phony. I am always amazed at the number of people who cannot see through the masks of phonies. But when someone is authentic, it is hard not to see the authenticity. That’s what we all saw in Hillary of the pantsuits.

I do wonder at our inability to create real leaders in this country lately. They say our thoughts precede reality. Let’s keep envisioning two leaders–McCain and Hillary (as the leader of the Senate, or maybe as someone in his cabinet–finally breaking this long run of great animosity between the parties and leading us to a new prosperity and a resurrection of renewed American greatness.

That’s enough–I’m leaving to find a place to purchase PUMA stuff.

Ani, I always relate to your posts. Don’t worry too much about the future candidate who is authentic and not a bullying phony. I am always amazed at the number of people who cannot see through the masks of phonies. But when someone is authentic, it is hard not to see the authenticity. That’s what we all saw in Hillary of the pantsuits.

I do wonder at our inability to create real leaders in this country lately. They say our thoughts precede reality. Let’s keep envisioning two leaders–McCain and Hillary (as the leader of the Senate, or maybe as someone in his cabinet–finally breaking this long run of great animosity between the parties and leading us to a new prosperity and a resurrection of renewed American greatness.

Is O.J. Causing Obama To Tank?

There seems to be a correlation between the ongoing robbery trial of O.J. Simpson, which is unfolding before our eyes… and the presidential trial of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. How ironic that everyday O.J.’s smirking face is on television… as he sits in that Las Vegas courtroom facing robbery, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and coercion charges… Obama’s poll numbers keep tanking. What??? New York and New Jersey are now in play!

Say what you will, but the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial was one of the most racially divisive events in the history of this nation. The lingering effects of that trial’s verdict can still be felt, as racial tensions hover across America like a wet blanket.

In light of that reality… who scheduled this ‘new’ Simpson trial to run concurrent with the final 47-days of the Obama presidential campaign? Did no one think to postpone O.J.’s memorabilia ‘thug’ trial until after November––especially considering O.J. and Obama both are experiencing national ire for the perception of one (literally) and the other [figuratively] having killed-off a blond, talented white women… and a hero White male?

Not good timing!

Let’s think about it. How many Whites remain chafed, angry, and will not ever vote for Obama because they feel he (with the help of the biased media) smugly and arrogantly gamed the system, and got away with robbing Hillary of her place in history… and now, has the audacity to set his sights on taking out America’s war hero John McCain as well?

Then, how many of those same Whites, harbor subliminal anger, as they are reminded each day via television, of how another good-looking African American man, (who with the help of the late Johnny ‘if it don’t fit, you must acquit’ Cochran) smugly and arrogantly gamed the system and got away with the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman?

Those once media darlings, O.J. and Obama, although not by their own choosing, are on simultaneous tracks, as both are now on trial and are currently being judged by their peers. Will one walk and one win? Now, that would be utopia for both.

But I wouldn’t bet the farm. There remains the chance that O.J. and Obama will each go down in defeat… big time! The jury is still out on both.

You know we should start a charm bracelet PuMA down ticket Democrate site, since obama aint trying to share his deminishing wealth. Get at the charm bracelet and a charm or two for free and then by the rest for yourself or someone else.

The photo gallery has shots of twenty-somethings, one in each race, then an older, black street musician with a changering hanging from his saxaphone strap, another in a guitar case along with that street musician’s dollar and coin tips.

Please tell me this is satire.

Why the change ring is even cooler than the “Bros before hos” Obama campaign tee shirt!

Dude, change! Alright! What kind of change? Uhh Change dude, change! Like all that old stuff is so old! Cool, change! Alright!

The change ring is a very clever idea to get a little money for his camp and tie his base together. I don’t believe I have seen a single follower with any humility. They were told by the media very early in the primaries they were intellectually and financially superior to Hillary’s supporters and they bought the hype. Not only do they lack compassion for the poor and lower middle class, they never miss an opportunity to call them “low information” voters and they realy don’t seem to be interested in improving the quality of life for others. Elite groups are exclusive, not inclusive. Maybe this is why Obama and followers have found it difficult to reach out to others even though they can’t win the election without them. I agree with you Ani. This is not the Democratic Party I thought I knew or the principles they claimed to represent in the past. Thanks for this intuitive post.

There is an interesting ‘unofficial’ Obama strategy site here:
http://www.obamaco.com/2008/09/16/the-eight-things-that-will-win-or-lose-this-election-for-barack-obama/

I like this little nugget and I think I will send it to friends in some swing states to see how they like to have their intelligence insulted some more by Obama supporters:

“First, they have the naïve belief that the American electorate is intelligent, and that it will be able to sort out the lies from the truths of the campaign trail. But, as experience has shown over and over again, the electorate is not intelligent. It will believe what it is told by politicians, especially politicians who know how to tell their story and how to make up stories that, because of their plausibility, can become believable narratives (remember the Bosnian sniper story Hillary told in the primaries?). Thus, in the arena of campaign politics, victory generally belongs to those politicians who are best able to shape public opinion around their (misleading and/or not so misleading) narratives. John McCain seems to have accomplished this more successfully, and more effectively, than Barack Obama.”

The funny thing is, they could be saying this about their own followers couldn’t they? All they have is the story from the two books and the myth crafted by Emil Jones in Chicago. They don’t want to hear anything that contradicts the story line.

Here is another:

“Second, the Obama campaign seems to rely heavily on media inquiry and reports. Its belief seems to be that the media will collaborate in exposing the lies and misleading characterizations in the McCain/Palin narrative. This, again, is a very naïve belief. The media and pundits of America are, just like the rest of us, citizens with ideologies, preferences and sets of beliefs that do not necessarily lead to objective analysis. As a result, they are as much as the rest of us likely to be wowed by the personal stories and histories that fascinate our post-rational America (as Rachel Maddow of MSNBC likes to put it), a post-rational America of debased punditry, fallen journalism, bedazzled electorate, and Hollywoodized media. In fact, by simply making Sarah Palin the story of the day (or of the next 50 days), the media are, consciously or unconsciously, contributing to the shaping of public opinion about and around Sarah Palin. This means less coverage for Barack Obama and less coverage of the issues of substance that really matter.”

This idea has been getting a lot of play lately. The media is actually against Obama. The McCain campaign has manipulated them. Apparently, McCain is so brilliant that he made them all write stories of Palin being power-hungry, a bad mother, a whore, a zealot, a book burner, and hiding her daughter’s pregnancy in order to shift the coverage to her. McCain, that wily dog, convinced them to descend into Alaska to dig up dirt from every saloon, hair salon and coffee shop in Wasilla, all the while making sure that they didn’t go near Chicago–that sneaky old guy. I am sure it was the Clintons who made the media behave the way they did to them as well–we all know Bill and Hillary’s history of being racists right? Those Clintons are sneaky too.

I am starting to see one of the fall-back plans. It was the media’s fault because they are dupes for McCain and the Clintons. Poor old Obama and Axelrod are as pure as the driven snow, other than the fact that they only know how to run one kind of campaign and it may not work on the national level.

You should definitely read their post. One last line: “As odd as it may seem, one of the biggest problems for Obama is that his campaign seems to know how to function only in one mode, and this mode is a passive/defensive one.”

I think they mean passive-aggressive.

it looks like a weird IUD…is it also contraception?

I just found this little piece of info on a little government website:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190#sMonofilemx003Ammx002Fmmx002Fmmx002Fmhomemx002Fmgovtrackmx002Fmdatamx002Fmusmx002Fm109mx002Fmcrmx002Fms20060525-16.xmlElementm0m0m0m

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.

The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.

For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.

I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.

I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.

Guess who said these words back in 2005 when Fannie and Freddie were still lobbying the Republicans?

Just saw this on a post on PUMA’s blog:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084014/posts

I will always remember that line she said in her interview during the summer about barry “…frankly, I don’t like the guy.” Well said my lady.

Gee, looks like a nose ring for one of those big cows to be led around. Wonder if Michelle has one?

Great. Presidential gansta wear.

Don’t these idiots realize that this just makes Obama less appealing to most Americans? Most Americans don’t want a celebrity for a president. They want someone who is taken seriously and can fix things. They don’t want someone that sells jewelry to twenty-something hipsters and Hollywood celebrities. This is a horrible move but maybe it just shows how desperate they are for money.

The Obama campaign has no affiliation at all with the “Change Ring”. They are just using his name to try and make a buck. That’s obvious just by looking at the “Change Ring” site.

From the sites FAQ:

Q: Is the ChangeRing directly associated with Barack Obama’s campaign?

A: No. While The ChangeRing was inspired by Barack Obama’s message of change and created in support of his run for the White House, it is not directly associated with his campaign. Part of the proceeds from the sale of The ChangeRing will be donated to the campaign.

Looks like a fetus to me too; rather ironic given that Obama voted Against keeping alive babies who survive abortion.