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McLin warms up crowd
Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin, who recently announced her own re-election plans, warmed up the crowd on Thursday, Oct. 9, for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rally at Fifth Third Field.
“Sen. Barack Obama has vision and plans that will help change the direction of our country,” McLin told the crowd, gathered on a sunny day, with not a cloud in the blue sky.
“He is committed to bringing those job opportunities back home again by ..a new approach to old problems,” she said.
She compared him to Dayton visionaries such as Charles Kettering and John Patterson.
McLin spoke about 11:05 a.m. with Obama expected about 11:20 a.m.
“Sen. Obams is the only candidate with an original plan, not one warmed over (for) eight years,” she said.
She told them to choose the candidate that was the most “innovative and original.”
The crowd chanted “yes, we can.”
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By Danielle
October 10, 2008 6:28 AM | Link to this
As Chris Rock said….. I’ll vote for the man with one house, for he fears loosing his house…… OBAMA 08’By John McCormack
October 9, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Tape Discovered of Obama Listening to Rev. Wright Sermon Here. Okay…I use the word “discovered” a bit loosely—the way one might “discover” a Big Mac at McDonald’s. But now that I have your attention, the point is that most voters don’t have a clue that Obama writes in his memoir that the very first time he attended Trinity United Church, he heard Rev. Wright rant that “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” As you may recall, Obama said, following Rev. Wright’s infamous press club appearance in April, that “The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.” The racist Rev. Wright quote included in Dreams from My Father contradicts this statement. While some bloggers and opinion journalists were quick to draw attention to this passage in Dreams from My Father shortly after the Wright story broke in March, this quote was never reported on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, or PBS, according to Nexis. I bring attention to this fact because McCain and Palin are saying that Obama’s statements about his relationship with Bill Ayers call into question Obama’s judgment and truthfulness. While Obama has misrepresented his relationship with Ayers and never told the whole truth about that relationship (when did Obama learn that Ayers was an unrepentant domestic terrorist, and what did he say to Ayers about it?), I don’t expect a smoking gun to emerge proving that Obama is lying about Ayers. We’re never going to find a picture of Obama reading a newspaper story about Ayers’s terrorism. On the other hand, in Dreams from My Father—an audio version of which may be purchased for $17.13—we have Obama’s recollection of listening to a radical Rev. Wright sermon, which proves the Rev. Wright he got to know 20 years ago was strikingly similar to the Rev. Wright of those more infamous sermons—fodder, perhaps, for a campaign ad. Would McCain be accused of flip-flopping if he were to bring up Wright? Sure, but Obama flip-flopped on the relevance of the Keating scandal. McCain can always point out that Hillary Clinton and Obama himself have said that Wright is a legitimate issue, and the DNC went after McCain merely for being endorsed by John Hagee. The press of course will say that it is racist to point out that Obama listened to Rev. Wright make racist remarks in the first sermon he ever attended. But most people realize that if McCain had chosen a racist pastor to be his mentor for 20 years, it wouldn’t make any one a racist to point that out. Exit quotation: “There are reasons not to talk about Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, etc. — not to talk about Obama and radicalism. But there are reasons for doing so, too. And I ask this: If not now, when? (If not us, who?!) After November 4, it will be too late. Isn’t now the time to talk about it, discuss it, air it? Let Obama address it? What are campaigns for?”By Leslie
October 9, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up. Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15” times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others. Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN. “I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register,” Barkley said. “They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it [register] again. “Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it,” he said. Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic. “You can tell them you’re registered as many times as you want - they do not care,” said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed. “They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter,” she told The Post. She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name. A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.By rubbish
October 9, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
McCain did not help the Veterans affair people as he disguises himself to have done. Obama has voted more for the Veterans affair than McCain.By DEM
October 9, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Leslie, You can copy and paste ALL you want to. Keep reading, its gets even better. WHY DON’T YOU READ ALL THE ARTICLES DUMMY!! I read that this morning too. AND!!By Leslie
October 9, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
The barbs have become like a soundtrack to Richard Ivory’s life: Uncle Tom, sellout, self-hater. Being black and Republican does indeed have its challenges — especially in New York. And even though the remarks sometimes wear on Mr. Ivory, they mostly seem to have emboldened him. Mr. Ivory started a blog, HipHopRepublican.com, four years ago to voice criticism of what he perceived to be the political pigeonholing of blacks. The blog is part of a small but vibrant collection of black Republican sites that have given right-leaning blacks a sense of community during an election in which Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy has made their political stance seem particularly unlikely. At one demonstration in New York in 2004, he recalled, an antiwar protester, who was white, used a racial slur against him, and black demonstrators with the protester kept silent. Mr. Ivory said he was incensed that blacks would ignore such a slur because it was aimed at someone with opposing political views. “There was something annoying about the idea that if you were black, you had to be Democrat,” Mr. Ivory said. “The blog started out as a means to vent.” Beyond his support for the Iraq war, Mr. Ivory considers himself a conservative on economic issues who believes government should help people help themselves. Mr. Ivory recently posted a blog entry about a poll suggesting that one-third of white Democrats held negative views toward blacks. The headline: “Poll: Dixiecrats Still Democrats???” Though Mr. Ivory has succeeded in finding a niche in cyberspace, his message certainly runs counter to what polls of black voters have found. Polls show that likely black voters overwhelmingly support Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain. Several black conservatives also said there was a perception among many blacks that Republicans did not care about them. Even Mr. Ivory is sparring with his conscience. He said he was about 80 percent sure he would vote for Mr. McCain. Many black Republicans believe that conservative policies are more beneficial to the black community than liberal policies. The virtual networks are a refuge for conservative blacks who might be reluctant to publicly espouse their views. Other than these Web sites, Mr. Bowen said, “there’s no support for them, there’s no place they could go and not be ridiculed.” Being black and Republican, however, can still be very lonely. Kimberly Brown, 26, a personal trainer in Chicago, said she lost about 100 friends from her MySpace page after she revealed that she was Republican. “I think it’s just ignorant,” Ms. Brown said of the reaction. We need to be at a point in time where there is such a diverse inclusion of African-Americans that the African-American roots for their favorite team based on their preferences, not based on the existence of one person playing on the ball field,” said Mr. McCallister, who planned to vote for Mr. McCain.By Dem
October 9, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
PRESIDENT Obama…Thanks Leslie! You are right with us! Obama/Biden 08By Bakari
October 9, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Too think you are a joke prob a white republican shitting in his pantsBy and too think!
October 9, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
And Barack is only 10% black … hmmmm … 50% white, got any idea the last 40% … Arab!By Bakari
October 9, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
I agree tracey 100%. Fear (mostly republican whites) are afraid of change because for many of them this will be the first time that they won’be the one in the CEO’s chair and that scares them. Whites have been running the country since 1776 actually before that and look where it has gotten us they can’t do the job!!!!By Bill Clinton ... sheesh
October 9, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
Come on … Armageddon didn’t happen, but while Bill was getting a “hummer” Osama Bin Laden was planning his attack!By Leslie
October 9, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
From CBS News’ Dean Reynolds: (NASHVILLE, TENN.) - After most of the previous 12 months covering Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency, it was interesting, instructive and, well, relaxing to follow John McCain for the last few days. The differences between the two are striking. Obama is the big time orator, McCain is the guy who struggles with a teleprompter or even note cards strategically placed nearby. Obama’s crowds are larger, more enthusiastic. McCain’s events are smaller, but to my eye, better choreographed. And now with the addition of Sarah Palin to some of his events, McCain can boast of crowds that match Obama’s in energy. There is an urgency to the McCain campaign now that I don’t think was there before. Due to the fact that he is running second, no doubt, but it may also be because McCain has a finishing kick. Whatever the case, he is sharper on the stump than he was before. (Though I would suspect a candidate running behind would want to schedule two or three appearances per day, instead of the one McCain usually does.) It is true that McCain enjoys taking questions from the audience in town hall-style settings. That doesn’t mean he is the master of that kind of forum, it just means he’s good at it. He likes to converse with voters. Obama does it well too, but seldom achieves that intangible bond with the people that all politicians crave — or fake. Behind the scenes, where the public is not allowed, there are other differences. Obama’s campaign schedule is fuller, more hectic and seemingly improvisational. The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about. Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it’s all for security reasons. If so, I would love to have someone from Obama’s campaign explain why the entire press corps, the Secret Service, and the local police idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot recently because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. It was not an isolated case. The national headquarters in Chicago airily dismisses complaints from journalists wondering why a schedule cannot be printed up or at least e-mailed in time to make coverage plans. Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn’t be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it’s true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night. The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who’ve been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure. The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated. The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama’s past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood. Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he’s just said. It’s made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move. Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama’s that is focused solely on victory doesn’t have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters. But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.By rubbish
October 9, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
What about McCain being in an organization that developed the Taliban. Is that an association with terrorist? Or Palin’s husband being in the Alaska Independence that wanted to succession from AK. Is that not domestic terrorism? You racist or Republicans can say all the hate you want. You are desperate!!!By really?
October 9, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
Leslie, can’t wait to see your SO scared face in November…love people who have no self esteem and optimism. You have a 3rd rate education. REad a BOOK! Read the real biography of JOhn McCain, he has done nothing and skated by in life b/c of his ELITE background with Daddy and Grandaddy! He and Bush are very similar in background, sad, sad, sad that people dont see this! Then they claim they have faith, funny stuff.By Danielle
October 9, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
OBAMA IS A WONDERFUL BREATHE OF FRESH AIR FOR EVERYTHING AMERICA IS MISSING AND FOR EVERYTHING AMERICA STANDS FOR!!By Tracey
October 9, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
I have heard so many unfounded comments on Obama…that he is running for President in order to destroy the country, for one. I remember years ago hearing that Bill Clinton was the anti-Christ. Well, Armageddon hasn’t happened yet. We are still here. If people want to debate on the issues, then do that. Leave all the fear tactics that McCain and Palin are using behind.By Leslie
October 9, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
Millions of Americans are caught up in the nation’s housing crisis. Franklin Raines, the Democratic insider who ran Fannie Mae between 1999 and 2004, isn’t one of them. Washingtonian says Raines just paid $4.9 million for “a three-bedroom, seven-bath penthouse condominium” in Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Residences. The Washington Post says Raines and his wife are splitting up and agreed to sell their old house for $7.6 million. Fannie Mae, a mortgage finance company that is now controlled by the government, had to restate billions in earnings because of accounting problems during his tenure. “Regulators have said that of the $90 million paid to Mr. Raines from 1998 to 2003 at least $52 million — more than half — was tied to bonus targets that were reached by manipulating accounting,” The New York Times reported two years ago. Thanks Pelosi, Barney Frank, and President Obama!!!! Glad this democrat isn’t suffering!! Guess wealth redistribution really works! I see Obama’s economic plan works for the wealthy democrats. Keep selling your BS concern for the middle class.By Steve
October 9, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Their is only ONE point I want ANYONE to remember that is voting for Obama or is thinking of voting for him - If he is elected, the USA will effectively become a socialist country! It will no longer be a democratic republic. If that is what the majority want, so be it. But freedom was we have always known it, will be finished! Steven G. MeyerBy Really?
October 9, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
An afraid American, really? Did you learn that in Senior year Government. Its called fascism and the Republicans support it. Give me a defenition of Socialism? Do we own any companies or corporations? You would vote for a monkey if it was Republican. Afraid of Corporations taking over the american life has already happened, wake up! Believe in something other than your bad education, you gave no reasons why. Big government? Ask W about that, spends money we dont have, borrows it from CHINA (there ya go) and dishes it out to the military industrial complext in Iraq. Its our tax money being taken by Contracts and Corporations, FASCISM!!! Go read a book!By Leslie
October 9, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
Obama will do to America want McLin did to Dayton!By A terrible Mayor
October 9, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
What a horrible mayor. Good luck to all of you thinking about buying a house in the city. The city of Dayton is doomed. Her dad was corrupt and so is she.By Leslie
October 9, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
People believe Bush is tied to big oil and corporations and works for them and they don’t want that anymore. Great so Obama is tied to big anti-American corporations and wealthy anti-Americans and he does their bidding. Excellent I’m ready for change. Time to let the anti-Americans run this country. Communism here we come.By An afraid American
October 9, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Barack Hussein Obama wants to take over ALL aspects of our life and once we have lost our independence to make our own decisions then we might as well call ourselves Russia or China.By Jeff
October 9, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
Go Obama! Looking forward to change for the better.By Thomas Sowell
October 9, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
The Real Obama. Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.” We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood, or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics. Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you. Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers, and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands. Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance — but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time. Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that. Unfortunately, all that most people know about Barack Obama is his own rhetoric and that of his critics. Moreover, some of his more irresponsible critics have made wild accusations — that he is not an American citizen or that he is a Muslim, for example. All that such false charges do is discredit Obama’s critics in general. Fortunately, there is a documented, factual account of what Barack Obama has actually been doing over the years, as distinguished from what he has been saying during this election campaign, in a new best-selling book. That book is titled The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating those critics of Obama who “have been content merely to slander him — to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran, or that he was born in a foreign country.” This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don’t believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check it out. Barack Obama’s being the first serious black candidate for president of the United States is what most people consider remarkable but how he got there is at least equally surprising. The story of Obama’s political career is not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot — after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates’ petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with. Despite his words today about “change” and “cleaning up the mess in Washington,” Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates. Senator Obama is running on an image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini. Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic party: “People don’t come to Obama for what he’s done, they come because of what they hope he can be.” David Freddoso’s book should be read by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of Obama’s true believers, who have made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by the facts.By GW
October 9, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Notice how the Democrats keep referring it to another 8 years.. You can’t compare McCain to Bush just because they are both Republicans. That is like saying Obama is the same as Rev. Wright because he went to his church for 20 years.. But we can’t bring that up can we..By SA
October 9, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Everyone at the rally might want to ask Mr Obama some of the questions brought up in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4By It Takes A Thief
October 9, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
As Bill Cosby says, “yes indeed. Investors Business Daily asks what Barack Obama knows about the epidemic of voter fraud in ACORN, and it’s not an unfair question. Not only has Obama publicly endorsed ACORN, he has paid them at least $800,000 for their services, an amount that he didn’t immediately disclose until pressed. ACORN has responded in kind, with their voter-registration efforts that have resulted in criminal investigations in more than a dozen states: For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”) What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year. The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud. Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters. For a man with a short track record, Barack Obama spends a lot of time disassociating himself from political partners. He spent most of the campaign misrepresenting his years-long working relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist of the Weather Underground and a man who still wants the overthrow of the capitalist economic system in the US. Now he wants to hide his work over two decades with an organization that should be looking at the business end of a federal RICO prosecution. IBD outlines the scope of their criminal behavior, and Michelle gives us the details: Missouri - Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August. Connecticut - A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud. Wisconsin - Registering convicted felons. Ohio - ACORN tells Cuyahoga County’s election board that they can’t stop themselves from committing fraud. Indiana - Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote. In Nevada, officials seemed surprised by the news that the Dallas Cowboys had moved en masse to the Silver State. The entire starting lineup registered to vote in Nevada, including Tony Romo, their quarterback. However, Secretary of State Ross Miller assured Nevadans that anyone posing as Terrell “TO” Owens would get a big NO if they tried to cast a vote. Barack Obama helped run an ACORN unit, represented them as an attorney, and is now a client of ACORN. He needs to answer for their fraudulent tactics. His money helped fuel the organization, after all, and there is little doubt that they are working on his behalf. Their fraud intends to get him elected President. Will he denounce it, and demand prosecution? Or will he keep pretending that he doesn’t know them? Update: The New York Post notes the nationwide pattern of fraud as well: Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party’s mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama’s favorite “community organizers,” and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, “I started working as the director … here in Chicago.” ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post’s Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud. Hey, you know who else funds these fraudsters? You do. Congress sends them money every year, usually for housing assistance.