Hussein Obama's illustrious life....
2004 Responding to questions about his intent to serve out the six year senate term, Obama says, in this video, that he will not run for the presidency in four years.
"I think I've been very clear. Ah-ah-mumble-mumble, there's a presidential election in four years. I'm not running for president in four years."
During a meeting with reporters at his Illinois campaign headquarters after his election to the U.S. Senate, that he ridiculed as "a silly question" whether he would run for president or vice president before his term ends in 2011. "I’ve never worked in Washington," he said. "I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois." Liar, liar, pants on fire
2004
Obama is elected to the United States Senate.
2005 Obama is sworn into office as the junior United States Senator for Illinois (D).
2005 Less than two months after ascending to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.
He also bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.
A spokesman for Obama says the senator did not know that he had invested in either company.
"I don't recall."
2005
Ted Kennedy refers to Obama as Osama -- and don't miss the video.
Ho Ho
2005 In April, the beatification of Obama begins when Time magazine names Obama one of "The World's Most Influential People." He is listed among other leaders and revolutionaries. This same year, the British journal New Statesman names Obama one of "10 People Who Could Change the World." Who or what is behind this?
Is Obama a
PR genius?
2005
Ethical questions surround Obama's shady real estate deal and relationship with indicted political fundraiser and Arab-American activist Tony Rezko, who befriended Obama during his Harvard days.
Obama bought a $1,650,000 Georgian revival mansion at a gigantic discounted price, some $300,000 less than the asking price. The same day, Rezko's wife bought the adjoining lot, paying the full $625,000 asking price.
The Rezko lot wasn't accessible from the public street. However, it abuts Obama's property and provided a private preserve that adds to its ambience. Obama bought the Rezko property for $104,500 -- $520,500 less than Rezko's wife paid for it.
Did Tony Rezko and his wife subsidize the purchase of Obama's opulent home?
Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.
Beyond that, what does it cost to furnish and move into a $2,275,000 home -- another $500,000?
At any rate, this is pretty good for a guy earning $165,200 per and who once ran his credit cards up so high that the credit card company denied him access to further use of his card.
Arab-American activist -- what does that mean?
2005
Obama supports the interests of Planned Parenthood 100%.
Obama supports the interests of NARAL Pro-Choice America 100%.
Obama supports the interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0%.
Obama supports the interests of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 100%.
Obama supports the interests of the AFL-CIO 92%.
Project Votesmart
2005
Obama accepts 23 rides on corporate jets, some to attend his own fundraisers.
Influence peddling or does he just like nice things?
2006
Obama becomes the Senate's point man on ethics and says he will no longer accept rides on corporate jets.
He's ethical AND eloquent
2006
Obama supports the interests of Planned Parenthood 100%.
Obama supports the interests of NARAL Pro-Choice America 100%.
Obama supports the interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0%.
Obama supports the interests of the American Immigration Lawyers Association 88%.
Project Votesmart
2006 In October, Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream," which details his views of politics and his vision for the future of the U.S. government and its people.
“Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different,” Obama wrote. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will."
He added: "Malcolm’s discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation." Obama's Plan
NOTICE: He has it backward we aren't the government's people.
It's the other way around, the people's government.
Some whites? -- if they are Muslims -- this guy still thinks like a Muslim.
2006 In "Audacity of Hope Obama advocates civil unions for gay people, declaring tartly that he is not "willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."
He says he doesn’t "believe we strengthen the family by bullying or coercing people into the relationships we think are best for them – or by punishing those who fail to meet our standards of sexual propriety." Homosexual agenda -- Obama's on board.
2007
CNN (Cable News Network) mistakenly refers to Obama as Osama (as in ben Laden).
Ho Ho
2007 Obama formally announces he is a candidate for the Office of the President of the United States of America on February 10th.
2007 Two days later, Obama Obama says that the lives of more than 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been “wasted.” (video) Gaff #1
2007 In her column, Maureen Dowd writes that Barack Obama looked as if he needed a smoke and he needed it bad.
So there he was, trying to meet the deep, inexhaustible needs of both Iowa activists and the global press behemoth on his first swing across the state, while giving up cigarettes.
He was a tad testy.
“I’ve been chewing Nicorette all day long,” he told reporters at a press conference in Ames on Sunday.
The question begs asking, how much of a striver can he be if he's also a smoker? Still smokin'
2007 George Soros is a key supporter of the media-darling Illinois Democrat's presidential campaign.
2007 On the February 19th edition of Paula Zahn Now, guest host Kyra Phillips, confused Obama with the world’s most wanted terrorist, saying -- on air -- "What do you think is Osama bin - is, is Obama - boy that was a terrible slip of the tongue, right? Barack Obama, is he that new leader?" Ho Ho
2007 Seven days later, ABC’s Joy Behar, Rosie O'Donnell's straight man on "The View," confused Obama and America’s Most Wanted Terrorist "Obama bin Laden."
In a discussion about Britney Spears, and where she could go to escape all the paparazzi and attention, co-host Joy Behar proudly exclaimed: “She needs to go wherever Obama bin Laden is hiding, because we can’t find him!” (video) Ho Ho
2007 In February, Obama pays $400 in parking tickets to Cambridge (MA) and $71 in excise taxes to Somerville for fines and taxes incurred while he was at Harvard Law School.
Obama’s operatives paid 17 outstanding tickets in Cambridge for on a vehicle with Illinois plates.
Missing are the penalties and fees on a 17 year old tax bill which are considerable. Just another sleazy Dhimmicrat hypocrite
2007 As another example, consider Obama's stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alaabama," he said, "because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"
Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the whole civil rights movement." LIAR, LIAR, pants on fire