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Daily Obama Fact

Barack Obama knows what earmarks are really for.
He directly received over $500,000 dollars in donations from people who sit on the board of organizations he earmarked money to. Beyond that, he received a total of about $2,000,000 dollars in fundraising help from bundlers who received earmarks.

Since 2006, Sen. Obama has earmarked $11.2 million to the […]

You know…

We could all be living here instead. I say chuck the politics and start packing…

Daily Obama Fact

Barack Obama says women should register for Selective Service.

Daily Obama fact

This is on Barack Obama’s website (tucked beneath the fold because of offensiveness and just plain bad taste):

Daily Obama Fact

Barack Obama’s records:
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy […]

Daily Obama Fact

Barack Obama chose as his running mate someone who graduated from law school in the bottom 11 percent of his class (76th in a class of 85).
Judgement.

Daily Obama Fact

In his remarkably short career in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has skipped 45% of the votes.

Daily Obama Fact

Dead people vote….

Daily Obama fact

Spent 8 years as a Director on the Joyce Foundation board.
Why is this important? Given his comparatively short career this is a huge chunk of time. More importantly, the Joyce Foundation attempted to sway the Supreme Court’s views on the 2nd Amendment.
During Obama’s tenure, the Joyce Foundation board planned and implemented a program […]

Daily Obama Fact

The Cuba embargo
In January 2004, Obama said it was time “to end the embargo with Cuba” because it had “utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro.” Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not “take off the embargo” as president because it is “an important inducement […]

For fun

<a href=”http://www.mystudiyo.com/act71655/mini/go/test_your_diy_knowledge”>test_your_diy_knowledge</a>
Much to my wife’s surprise, I’m a PM kind of guy. How do you score?

alignment

Harvey imagines Gwen Ifill’s reaction to challenges that she’s not impartial for tonight’s VP debate:
“It’s pretty simple,” said Ifill, “if Obama wins, I sell more books, which means I make more money. As moderator of the Vice Presidential debate, I’m in a position to help make sure that happens. That’s not a conflict of interest, […]

Thanks, Congress!


Inside Baseball

This is for a small percentage of the audience, I know. The program for which I’d recently applied announced it’s new class. For those who’ve been wondering who got in, the announcement is here.

Oh yeah?

Well, I have a bracelet, too!