......but rather the fact that the driver of the vehicle (country) is inexperienced and shows it often.

Yes, by apologizing and painting our country in the worst possible light.

Thanking them politely, respectfully, and briefly did not require his drawn out popularity play lasting several minutes.

If this was not meant as an act to show his hatred of America and the War, Why did he drive back to Base and Kill those in the Military?

Not supporting issues of someone because of their race, color, religion, age and the list goes on does not make someone prejudice. It just says they have a different view that should be respected.

When one does not support the issues of someone and they just happen to be of different race, color, religion, age, economic background and the list goes on does not make someone prejudice.

..yet you figure Barack can make everything nice and shiney in 9 or 10 months ??

Most striking in Ms. Norwood's numbers is her level of support among widely fractured African-American voters. An InsiderAdvantage poll on Oct. 16 showed Ms. Norwood leading all candidates among black voters, with nearly a third of African-Americans supporting her.

........completing a process begun during the Bush administration.

Here we have this man who won a Nobel Peace Prize,..

It is interesting however that Obama has realized that the usefulness of ACORN has ended and it is now time to throw them under the bus.

Good point! Please let me explain something here. I have an allergy
to eggs, so by the same laws that invoked this Mandate, I am exempt.

Well, Brandie my dear, given where you live that makes you a "square peg in a round hole".

The peace prize was created partly to encourage ongoing peace efforts but Obama's efforts are at far earlier stages than past winners'. The Nobel committee acknowledged that they may not bear fruit at all.

U.S. Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele contended that Obama won the prize as a result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has made no secret of his admiration for Obama, called the decision the embodiment of the "return of America into the hearts of the people of the world."

"I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee," Obama said.

"Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."

John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.
As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.
The documents show that a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, made the payment to Lincoln Strategy, of which Mr Sproul is the managing partner, for the purposes of “voter registration”.
Mr. Sproul has been investigated on numerous occasions for preventing Democrats from voting, destroying registration forms and leading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to leach the Democratic vote.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4992730.ece

SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.
State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.
Jacoby's arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department comes after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by his firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM. The voters said YPM tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters. The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/20/10151/415/732/635928

“We thought it best at the time to protect the organization, as well as to get the funds back into the organization, to deal with it in-house,” said Maude Hurd, president of Acorn. “It was a judgment call at the time, and looking back, people can agree or disagree with it, but we did what we thought was right.”

The amount Dale Rathke embezzled, $948,607.50, was carried as a loan on the books of Citizens Consulting Inc., which provides bookkeeping, accounting and other financial management services to Acorn and many of its affiliated entities.
Wade Rathke said the organization had signed a restitution agreement with his brother in which his family agreed to repay the amount embezzled in exchange for confidentiality. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html

In the wake of the UBS settlement with the United States government over bank secrecy and offshore tax evasion, some questions have been raised about whether former Senator Phil Gramm, the Texas Republican who is now a vice chairman at UBS, knew about the Swiss bank’s offshore activities and whether he blocked laws meant to prevent tax evasion.

Mr. Gramm has not been involved in the Internal Revenue Service’s tax investigation of UBS. Still, Mr. Gramm is a controversial figure in the economic debate right now, since it was under his leadership as chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee from 1995 to 2003 that a bevy of laws were passed that deregulated many parts of the banking sector.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/phil-gramm-and-the-ubs-tax-case/

Just maybe we could catch some of the other organizations, corporations and persons committing fraud with our country's money People are tired of hearing about our elected officials just letting federal fraud build up.

Yea they can just try to go bully some more corporations into contributing by threatening charges of "racism", which of course would make their stock drop..

What gets me though, is the hypocrisy. First you have ACORN suing lending institutions demanding they make loans to minorities who can't qualify for them.

Take for instance factcheck.org. It was founded in 2003 and funded by the Annenberg foundation which also funded part of Obama's early career along with activities of his friend, [former?] terrorist Bill Ayers.

Hmmmmmm, if the numbers are on his side why are a vast majority of people against his health care bill?

What is up with all these formerly proud people lining up for federal bailouts when their house get's too wet? Just wondering.

AP SPRINGDALE, Ark. -
Officials at an elementary school in northwest Arkansas say they're getting angry calls over a You Tube video by students at a New Jersey school with a similar name.

September 23, 2009
Atlanta - The reddish waters of the metro Atlanta flood continued to ebb Wednesday, leaving many Georgians knee-deep in mud and uncertain about their future.

Over the weekend and lasting into Tuesday, the floods struck a wide swathe of neighborhoods from rural Cherokee County to the northern suburb of Buckhead, taking ten lives and causing $250 million in damages.

Coming unexpectedly after a two-year regional drought that had residents more used to water restrictions than inundated interstates, many here now face a harsh reality: They didn't think their homes would flood, so they didn't bother to get flood insurance.

Some of those affected took a double-dunk: Their mortgages are already under water, which means they won't have any equity to borrow against to rebuild.

"I saw some potentially bankrupt families," Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said after a helicopter tour Tuesday.

Around Atlanta, water could still be seen lapping at some rooftops, the result of nearly 20 inches of rain falling in 35 hours in the Georgia mountains. Many residents left homeless have few options.

"We don't know what to do," Jenny Roque, who lived in a mobile home park west of Atlanta with her husband and four children, told the Associated Press. "The only thing we have left is our truck."

Failure to anticipate

The number of uninsured victims, experts say, shows that even after a decade of major disasters, understanding and communicating risk remains a weak spot in America's preparedness.

Thirty percent of Americans who get hit by floodwaters live outside established 100-year flood zones, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The 1993 Midwest floods and the 2006 flood in Washington, D.C., are other examples where many property owners failed to anticipate the flooding hazard.

"We're living in a world of great hydrologic and climate uncertainty. So the lesson here is that we can't necessarily count on what we saw in the past as the judgement of where storms are going to be in the future," says University of Maryland engineering professor Gerald Galloway, author of the 1994 Galloway Report on flood insurance and a current White House adviser.

In Atlanta, explosive growth in the past 50 years means that residential and industrial development may have contributed to flooding in areas that historically have stayed dry.

Signs of faulty risk assessment could be found even after the flood – at the most personal level. A 46-year-old Tennessee man was still missing two days after he took a $5 bet that he could swim across a swollen ditch next to his house. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) warned residents Monday not to go out on roadways after emergency officials found themselves rescuing risk-takers.

Improving disaster preparedness

Still, there have been some efforts to upgrade preparedness nationally. Some experts are pushing FEMA to offer federal flood insurance for 500-year storms instead of 100-year storms (that is, storms that are likely to happen once in 500 years as opposed to a 100 years). A growing number of communities such as Charlotte, N.C., have begun in-depth flood mapping that takes into account development patterns in order to give a more accurate picture of what a flood might look like.

And in Atlanta, plans to build a series of reservoirs to alleviate future droughts could also help to control future floods

But a heavy responsibility also falls on property owners who need to better "visualize" possible disasters, says Mr. Galloway. "I think people are beginning to say, 'We cannot go on like this, having people caught unawares.' "

If ACORN had been this up and up organization with NO or maybe one mark on their record since their conception, there just might be more to the filmmakers being out of bounds. These filmmaker's were looking into an organization that already had huge red flags which everyone seemed to be ignoring.

ACORN's history has been screaming for Full Investigation long before this.

It's about time ACORN is investigated and by an Independent auditor chosen by the government not the organization.

ACORN Housing provides one-on-one mortgage loan counseling, first-time homebuyer classes, and helps clients obtain affordable mortgages through our unique lending partnerships.

We look at your savings and credit history to see if you qualify for a mortgage. We can help you with credit problems and to create a downpayment savings plan.

When you qualify, we can help arrange a mortgage with lower interest rates, lower down payments and lower settlement costs than what banks usually offer.

ACORN utilized their Community Organizing tactics to intimidate banks and mortgage companies to lend to "the mis-fortunate" who would not have qualified for mortgages otherwise as they did not have the ability to repay the loans.

Our mission - to make the American dream of home ownership available to everyone who wants it and to keep people in the homes they already have - has not changed. We are proud of the work we do. The numbers back us up. In the last 18 months, we have helped over 50,000 families in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure, with over 80% of those having low and moderate incomes. Since we started in 1986, we've assisted over 110,000 families to get mortgages and buy their first homes. We've provided mortgage counseling to at least 350,000 families. We have provided foreclosure prevention counseling to at least 50,000 people. Thats the ACORN Housing story.

My boyfriend just ended our relationship of one year.

Monday, September 14, 2009

South African runner Caster Semenya, who is at the center of a gender row, has been placed on suicide watch amid fears for her mental stability.

The Daily Star quoted officials as saying that psychologists are caring the 18-year-old round-the- clock after it was claimed tests had proved she was a hermaphrodite.

Leaked details of the probe by the ­International Association of ­Athletics Federations showed the 800m starlet had male and female sex organs - but no womb.

Should Obama be entering his opinion into celebrity events of this nature?

Should there be concern that Obama seems to have over-stated his opinion rather recklessly on numerous occasions, most recently before this involving a law-officer and a professor?

The incident is reminiscent of past "open-mic" incidents involving politicians. President Ronald Reagan, while waiting to make a speech in 1984, joked that he had outlawed the Soviet Union and that "the bombing begins in five minutes." During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush turned to running mate****Cheney to point out a reporter from The New York Times and used an obscenity to describe him.

Does anyone feel that Kanye was NOT behaving in untoward manner?

I am focusing on pursuing other ventures out their and closing this chapter and learning from this experience.

It's 9:35 and so far it's not what I was led to believe it would be.

I don't know where my email sender got his information.

I'll know better than to listen to this guy again.

No one is claiming that he's a "liar".

His history does show that he bears a lot of "resentment" of the "white authority structure", and has been heard to use black racist rhetoric. I doubt that he remembers clearly every word he said, while upset. The words he used were heard by others.

So, hang him,...

...because for some, if a white man and a black man have a confrontation, the white man is ALWAYS wrong.

I think most rational people would think that breaking into a house, and initially refusing to produce ID, followed by following the police outside and yelling racial epithets at the officers is sufficient probable cause for the "suspicion" of a "disorderly conduct" charge.

Of course, we can never know, for 100% certain, what they said. On one hand, you have a police officer with an unblemished history, and was selected as a training officer for his overall sensitivity to diversity. On the other hand, you have a woman who was freaked out, because she got some hate mail and phone calls for having called in a complaint, and wanted to appear to have not been involved.

Who has the motive to lie?

And what in Sargeant Crowley's background supports the notion that he would go around violating someone's rights "for no good reason"?

Nevertheless, he has made several public statements where he has referred to Caucasians using the term "whitey".

You are probably right about people fearing him. However the vast majority that do not like him, fear him or think Obama is a LOUSY leader want to just wait him out. Most DO NOT want to see such a lousy president end up an icon when he shouldn't.

According 2 officers of the law(not including Crowley) and several neighborhood wttnesses this was not what Gates was saying or asking when he came out his door way.
Gates was saying (ACTUALLY YELLING ) "This is what happens to black men in America", among other slurs to Crowley and the officers outside.

This was such a petty, trivial incident, that resolved itself quickly.

Quite simply, Gates is a "whitey" hating, angry, black racist, who made a mountain out of a molehill with the sensationalist media.

Then it really took off when the President made it an issue with no knowledge of the actual facts.

If a leader unduly fears his own people then something is very wrong.

....Gates wan't arrested 'in' his house...he was arrested 'outside' of his house.

As soon as my father’s foot crossed the threshold of the room, the storm of mediators immediately rushed to introduce us, but true to form, my father cut right through the thick tension of hurried salutations and offered the Sergeant his hand and joked, “You looked bigger the last time I saw you.” Crowley’s cheeks flushed red as a smile dashed across his lips, and his young son, whose cheeks had long since flushed the same muted crimson, looked up at his father and smiled. This wasn’t a family raised on hate. At that moment, right there in the library, they were just like us: a young family groomed to perfection, waiting to learn how to get those damn cameramen off their lawn and to put this sensationalized hell behind them.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-31/what-i-saw-at-the-beer-summit/

The truth behind this story is that the White House wants people to turn in the bad information filling right wing hate sites and mass chain mails.

First of all from everything I've read so far, I'm 60% convinced that racism was involved in this pool incident. Is 60% enough to crucify the pool director?