The back story of the blogger who broke 'bitter' story

Mr WES,

You must be racist or ignorent. When you call OBAMA a muslim, This guys grew up as a street organizer and serving the neighborhood church not that being muslim or jew or christian is a bad thing.. waker up ashooool...

you need change in the USA .I THINK OBABAMA IS THE ANSWER...YOU SPEND SO MANY MONEY IN THE WAR THAT YOU CAN WIN

I'm bitter that the media is making news out of this. I'm even more bitter Clinton won't accept a lost and help unit the Democratic party.

Obama needs to hang it up. Between his big mouth wife, the preacher thing, and now cracking on the white middle class he's done.

He did not in any way crack on the white middle class, and if you would really stop and think about it he was speaking about those people who were out of work for 25 years in those rural towns. It is ironic that the woman who served on the board of Wal-Mart, and spent her time in ball gowns and high heels as the governer's wife in Arkansas and the first lady of the US can tell a man who lived in a single parent home as the only black face, lived in an impoverished country and who sent himself to Harvard law, out of touch. GIVE ME A BREAK!. Obama walked and worked the streets of the southside of Chicago when he could have had the plush living that the Clinton's enjoyed and McCain married into, but no he chose to work among the people. We are bitter with a country who cares more about profits than the lives of young men and women fighting a pointless war, we are bitter that the only jobs people in middle america can get is when a Wal-Mart or Target rolls into town. If you think voters are not fed up, disgusted, and disappointed with our government you should take the blinders off your eyes, look beyond yourself and walk the streets as Obama did for years so you too can wake up to the cruel reality... Our Government has let us down.

Remember that...we can say pretty much anything so if someone has an opinion thats not your view...don't lash out...respect that they have can express that view...and why say change america...so all can be like you... we all can say and do anything unless it infringes on anothers rights...I just love it when someone is all bent out of shape about someones comments but yours can be just as crazy....

anyone supporting Obama is a genuine moron with little or no intelligence. He talks a good game which has deceived you all.... he has accomplished nothing and anyone who votes 200 times "present" instead of yes or no during his time in Illinois senate is a man who stands for nothing... clearly a man like that cannot be trusted

What I really admire about this journalist is that although she supports Obama, she decided to do what a good journalist does--Report the story. Obama really put his foot in his mouth, and the more he tries to smooth over his remarks the worse it gets. Obama is a devoted christian and reads his bible. Did he not read this quote "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks?" His wife Michelle has also spoken out of the abundance of her heart. Or perhaps, its not really the Obamas talking, it's the voice of Reverend Wright. After siting in the pews and listening to the angry sermons from Wright, no one can tell me that it has had no lasting effect on the Obamas. Perhaps Oprah can get Dr. Phil to have a few sessions with the Obamas. They really need to be deprogrammed. Better still, they should have their speeches reviewed before they address any audience.

In response to Mark, Obama voted present 100 times in the Illinois senate, out of the 4000 votes that he cast. It would seem to me that a moron is someone who would just look at on pinhole point and then makes a broad generalization.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/feb/13/obamas-present-tension/

In just one year . Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratically controlled Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for "change" in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes the law, not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Si ngle making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married mak ing 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the

American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at:
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcri pts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and mariju ana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

Hey # 10, you are really trying to make a point there bud. I remember seeing all them nifty numbers on another article... but it doesn't matter, I DO have a question though:

Do you remember where YOU came from ?
I can't seem to find a Cherokee or Apache trace on your last name...

Also, why don't you add to your fancy little numbers there the Billions going into the War, Tax cuts given to the rich and Corporations, etc etc etc ...

Immigrants have always been a part of this country, and will always be, maybe (just a thought...) if we stopped exploiting them 3rd world countries and and stopped OUR corporations from having them do crappy jobs for a few cents an hour, they would not have a need to follow the so called American Dream...

# 10. Check your data.

regarding "Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008 " ,

see debunking of your claims at http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/22958.html (the site allegedly supporting the data you are quoting).