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#1 Oct 06 2008 at 5:36 PM Rating: Default
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Barack Obama is guilty of having a black cousin with a Funnye (fun-NAY) name.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081007/D93LB1280.html

Again, Barack Obama is indeed BLACK and as far as we know he is not a MUSLIM TERRORIST.

This could be a major new story in the Presidential race over $75,000 was wasted on job training and counseling for poor minorities.
#2 Oct 06 2008 at 6:46 PM Rating: Default
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The bigger aspect of this is not the potential nepotism involved, but the underlying story that Obama personally distributed 6 million in "fun money" to whatever political causes he wanted to. The relevant part is the earmarks comparison made near the end of the article.


Cause you know. If Obama really wanted to save taxpayers money, couldn't he have like given the money back or something? But I'm sure he didn't target that money at groups and organizations who helped him win elections or anything, so let's not worry that any self interest or backscratching might have been involved...
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#3 Oct 06 2008 at 7:14 PM Rating: Good
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Hmmm....vote for Obama who gives money to 'adult literacy and counseling services and to help improve parks' and isn't a senile old fart who likes the idea of dropping bombs on people in oil wealthy countries, or.....

Vote for a senile old fart and his delusional sidekick who thinks that people and dinosaurs co-existd at the begining of time 6000 years ago, and can see Russia from her backyard....


Tough choice!



USA. You are rapidly becoming a laughing stock. Sack the fuck up will you!

(No offense meant to (most) alla posters who are obviously not fully representative of the rest of the US, and would be most welcome to come and visit and have a beer at my place any time)
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#4 Oct 06 2008 at 7:31 PM Rating: Decent
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If Obama really wanted to save taxpayers money, couldn't he have like given the money back or something?


Give $75,000 back to the taxpayers of Illinois. Hmmm, thats about $0.006 per taxpayer...and how would he do that? Hand out pennies on the street, or push some agenda through the state legislature that would probably cost more money with the time spent on it. ...or maybe he could give it back to the taxpayer some other way, like through job training and education programs, ya know, what the money was allotted for?


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Hmmm....vote for Obama who gives money to 'adult literacy and counseling services and to help improve parks' ...


As I said. I'm more concerned about what the rest of the 6 million was spent on. It also somewhat matters what the money actually does, not what it says it's for on the line item accounting.

If I go to a strip club and get lap dances all night and then creatively label that "communication training", or "improving community relations", should I get to expense it? You can put a nice sounding title on anything if you try hard enough. Color me a silly conservative, but I don't immediately support spending for something just because it has a name that makes it sound like it's critically important. In my experience you'll never run out of things like that to spend money on.

And apparently, neither could Obama when he was put in control of that 6 million. Again. I'm a conservative, so that actually does matter to me...


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Vote for a senile old fart and his delusional sidekick who thinks that people and dinosaurs co-existd at the begining of time 6000 years ago, and can see Russia from her backyard....


Lol! What a "fair" comparison! You should be in politics... ;)
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#6 Oct 06 2008 at 7:39 PM Rating: Decent
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soulshaver wrote:
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If Obama really wanted to save taxpayers money, couldn't he have like given the money back or something?


Give $75,000 back to the taxpayers of Illinois. Hmmm, thats about $0.006 per taxpayer...and how would he do that? Hand out pennies on the street, or push some agenda through the state legislature that would probably cost more money with the time spent on it. ...or maybe he could give it back to the taxpayer some other way, like through job training and education programs, ya know, what the money was allotted for?




What part of "6 million" did you miss? That was just one of the many many programs he scattered that money around on. My understanding from the article is that this was basically surplus money that the various legislators just got to allocate however they wanted. It's not like the voters approved a set of line item expenses here. They taxed them. They had more money left over then they needed for the programs the taxpayers approved. So they spent the remainder on whatever pet projects they wanted to, with pretty much zero oversight.


It's relevant because it gives us a window into Obama's thought process. It apparently didn't occur to him that this wasn't really his money to hand out, but he didn't hesitate to do it. As I said before though, I'm sure he avoided handing that money out to any organizations that might have helped him out when he was running for office though...
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#7 Oct 06 2008 at 7:44 PM Rating: Good
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As I said. I'm more concerned about what the rest of the 6 million was spent on.



Knowing the black people I know, it would be spent on cocaine and chrome rims.

Knowing the septugenarians I come across, it would be colostomy bags and incontinence pads.


Not that I'm generalising or anything......


So to summarize.....Palins a moran.
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#8 Oct 06 2008 at 7:46 PM Rating: Good
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and...

Ps. You remember that tax refund you all got a few months ago to 'stimulate the economy'?? Does it smart to know that its all just been reclaimed by the Feds and handed over to the boys on Wall street?

I was just wondering....

Edited, Oct 7th 2008 3:40am by paulsol
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#9 Oct 06 2008 at 7:51 PM Rating: Good
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$75,000 was the amount Obama gave to the program his wife's cousin was in charge of (you know, the black guy with the funny name) $6 million was the total amount Obama spent, and the article states

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Illinois legislators were handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants. The money was part of a deal that legislative leaders cut with the governor to approve a major public-works program.


although it is likely they spent it all on lap dances and I'm sure you have plenty of evidence to support that assertion.
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If Obama really wanted to save taxpayers money, couldn't he have like given the money back or something?
Well, no. It was already allocated as grant money. Someone else just would have spent it.
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But I'm sure he didn't target that money at groups and organizations who helped him win elections or anything
Funny thing about people and elected officials. They actually expect the elected officials to bring stuff back to the community. To the folks in his district, literacy programs and park improvements and even drill team uniforms & cultural events might actually strike them as something they'd like to see happen.

God forbid they think well of Obama for it though. That'd be some shady shit right there... heh.
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#11 Oct 07 2008 at 5:04 AM Rating: Decent
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gbaji wrote:
If Obama really wanted to save taxpayers money, couldn't he have like given the money back or something?
Well, no. It was already allocated as grant money. Someone else just would have spent it.
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But I'm sure he didn't target that money at groups and organizations who helped him win elections or anything
Funny thing about people and elected officials. They actually expect the elected officials to bring stuff back to the community. To the folks in his district, literacy programs and park improvements and even drill team uniforms & cultural events might actually strike them as something they'd like to see happen.

God forbid they think well of Obama for it though. That'd be some shady shit right there... heh.


You can't blame people, Jo, for taking this mentality. I mean, with all the Enrons and Haliburtons and Blackwaters of late, seeing a black man give back to the community that elected him to represent them in the first place is just as shocking as the next scandal.
#12 Oct 07 2008 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
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gbaji wrote:
If I go to a strip club and get lap dances all night and then creatively label that "communication training", or "improving community relations", should I get to expense it? You can put a nice sounding title on anything if you try hard enough. Color me a silly conservative, but I don't immediately support spending for something just because it has a name that makes it sound like it's critically important. In my experience you'll never run out of things like that to spend money on.

Yes, because the responsible thing to do is always assume that the politicians is doing something underhanded, immoral and usually illegal with the appropriated funds.

No, I'm not being sarcastic or smarmy. Do not trust these guys. Ever. With a single cent.
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#15 Oct 07 2008 at 11:19 AM Rating: Decent
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These scandals pale in comparison to the subprime meltdown caused by the Democrats.


Is there anything that is not the fault of the Liberals or the Democrats in your eyes?
#17 Oct 07 2008 at 11:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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I don't think they were really involved with enron. Other than that no. Liberals is synonymous with thief. They steal from people they think have too much and give it to whoever they think needs it the most. This is the antithesis of freedom, which is what i'm all about. Apparently Democrats don't believe in freedom or the concept that one can work hard to build a life and expect to hang on to some of what they earn.


That's so sad and pathetic. Smiley: frown
#18 Oct 07 2008 at 11:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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knoxsouthy wrote:
belkira,

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Is there anything that is not the fault of the Liberals or the Democrats in your eyes?


I don't think they were really involved with enron. Other than that no. Liberals is synonymous with thief. They steal from people they think have too much and give it to whoever they think needs it the most. This is the antithesis of freedom, which is what i'm all about. Apparently Democrats don't believe in freedom or the concept that one can work hard to build a life and expect to hang on to some of what they earn.

No, Democrats believe that all people should have an equal opportunity to achieve, and that there are aspects of unchecked capitalism that do not always allow this.
#19 Oct 07 2008 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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You mean we aren't already? According to marxists like yourself we've been a laughing stock for years now.


Its true. I was being kind.

But we used to laugh with you for stuff like your fashion sense and your monotonal accents.

Now its more of the nervous laugh when an old wino sits down on the train opposite you with his dick hanging out of his fly.


So....Knox. What did you spend your 'economy stimulating tax refund' on?? You did spend it didnt you?? Or did you save it so that you could hand it back (and then some) to Bush so that he could give it to the Wall Street chaps?


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#21 Oct 07 2008 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent
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That's so sad and pathetic


Isn't it though. Question is what are the Democrats going to do to fix this.



I don't think anyone can do anything to fix you. Sorry. Smiley: frown
#24 Oct 07 2008 at 11:48 AM Rating: Good
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Actually I didn't get any kind of refund. My tax liability was too high so the irs got it.


So 100% of your 'charitable donation' to the poor waifs on Wall Street came out of your own pocket??

Dude! That must really smart!
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#25 Oct 07 2008 at 11:49 AM Rating: Decent
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Oh and Obama is a marxist who will do everything he can to kill small businesses in this country. But that shouldn't concern a marxist like yourself.

I must have an imperfect understanding of Marxism. Why would it destroy small businesses? I'd think that it would benefit small businesses and do away with the large corporations which do much more to exploit and ***** over the general populace. In small businesses where the ownership/management is closer to the labor socially, this should maintain a closer balance financially, unlike the silk suits who hoard cash in their skyscrapers and pitch pennies to the poor shlubs mucking around in their factories.
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