Detroit please wake up. Look at these people that you keep electing. Please start electing respectable people so that the world will actually respecet your city.
I love Detroit and hate seeing what your Officials are doing. This is all over the size of her room. She is a thug just like Kwame Kilpatrick and needs to be kicked out as well.
(WXYZ) Reports are circulating that Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was involved in a disturbance at a Denver hotel while in town for the Democratic National Convention.
According to our reporting partners at the Detroit News, the reported disturbance took place in a hotel lobby. A spokeswoman from the Magnolia hotel said a police officer called for additional help, on Tuesday afternoon, after Conyers caused a disturbance. The officer was assigned to the hotel during this week's Democratic National Convention.
The confrontation occurred when hotel staff tried to move Conyers' from a room she had been given on Monday night, after she complained that her original room wouldn't accomodate her family.
The family was in town for the Democratic National Convention. Monica Conyers denied the incident occurred.
According to hotel staff the dispute was resolved without further incident.
The councilwoman's husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, is also staying at the hotel, but was apparently not involved in any dispute.
Looks like the Democrats don't agree with the 1st Amendment when it could interfere with them whining and dining Lobbyists. Hmm don't like the world seeing that you guys are so locked up with Lobbyists that it isn't even funny.
Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.
During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."
Goo job Dems!!
Its all about taxes, stupid. Tax tax tax is what Obama is all about. If you let him in Government will swell to the point it may pop.
Here is a great article from Larry Kudlow of the National Review
There is no Biden bounce according to the latest Gallup tracking poll, as John McCain actually is taking a 46-44 lead over Barack Obama. Scott Rasmussen reports a 46-46 tie after the Democratic National Convention’s first night, which reverses a 3 percentage point Obama lead.
Meanwhile, another Gallup poll says 50 percent expect their taxes to be raised under Obama, despite the complaints of his economic advisors that they’re only raising taxes on the top few percent.
Make no mistake about it: There are many doubts and unanswered questions about the Illinois senator regarding his experience, his foreign policy, his economics, and his prior political and spiritual relationships. And despite some good moments last night, I don’t think Michelle Obama made the sale. At the end, only her husband can do it. Hillary can’t do it. If the badly split Democrats can be united at this late date, only Obama can do the job. No one else.
Reagan united a split GOP in 1980. George W. Bush united the McCain, Forbes, and cultural-conservative factions in 2000. Goldwater couldn’t do it in ’64. Neither could Humphrey in ’68. Of course, Jerry Ford couldn’t do it in ’76. And Carter failed dismally in 1980. But Bill Clinton succeeded in 1992.
Now it’s Obama’s task in 2008. That’s his job. No one else can do it for him.
And as the stock market looks on warily, falling slightly today after plunging yesterday, the lead story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal is a serious indictment of Obama’s economic program. “Senator Obama is proposing to use the government to remake economic policies in a way that hasn’t been seen in Washington in decades.” And if it’s a three-house Dem sweep, it will be Katy bar the door. Big-government spending programs, tax increases, trade restraints, a government health-care plan, cap-and-trade on climate change - all without any real deficit restraints, which are accorded a low priority.
Incidentally, while the public clamors for drill, drill, drill, Obama wants high-cost, cap-and-trade carbon regulation enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, McCain also wants cap-and-trade, but not if India and China don’t go along. Apparently Obama will not be constrained by the rest of the world.
Sure, the economy is languishing. But do we really want a big-government, high-tax solution? Do we really want higher investment taxes that would leave government bigger and private enterprise smaller? Do Americans really blame “rich” people? Or do they actually believe success is a good thing and should not be punished? Do rank-and-file working folks really want to do away with the secret ballot for unionization in the form of the so-called card check? And if there were a three-house Dem sweep, wouldn’t Obama’s middle-class tax credit be overturned in favor of even more government spending, just as Bill Clinton’s plans were subverted back in 1993? The National Taxpayers Union says Obama’s new spending would total $344 billion. That’s a big number. One has to wonder if that’s the opening bid or the final one.
The Obama economists sincerely believe that theirs is a growth program. His advisors are friends of mine - all of them terribly smart: Jason Furman, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Reich, Jarrod Bernstein. So this is surely not personal on my part. But I question their economic model. Raising marginal tax rates will minimize - not maximize - economic growth and jobs. Ditto for enlarging the size, scope, and sweep of government.
Business cycles come and go. Each has its own set of excesses and subsequent corrections. It is the nature of free-market capitalism. But heavy-handed government solutions are being rejected worldwide, and it seems foolhardy for the USA to move away from economic freedom when virtually the rest of the world is moving toward it.
One of the greatest tax reformers of all time was John F. Kennedy. He slashed marginal tax rates across the board for businesses and people of all income levels. The economy boomed in the 1960s. Reagan copied the JFK model in the 1980s. Are we turning back this supply-side model? I fear the Obama men are doing just that. I think that fear is worrying the stock market right now.
John McCain’s economic program is certainly not flawless. And his ad bashing business, oil, and others nearly reaches the class-warfare level of Obama-Biden. It’s a Big Mac mistake. Nor does McCain have a solid tax-cutting program for the middle class. More on all that later.
But as the Democrats discuss the economy tonight, I’m willing to bet they are not gonna make the sale. Obama’s task Thursday night will be a monumental challenge.
Barack Obama said he wouldnt except lobbyist money. The Democrats like to try and point out that McCain has taken money. Should they be looking at their own convention?
According to ABC News:
Lobbyists are once again spending millions of dollars here on gourmet food, top-shelf liquor and private lavish parties for Democratic elected officials who seem more than happy to play the role of world-class freeloaders.
According to Denver's top chefs and caterers, no expense is being spared.
Kevin Taylor, of the Denver restaurant Palette, who says he is the only four-star chef in Denver, says he is booked to prepare delicacies for more than 100 "high end, hush-hush events."
"The demand is over the top, you've never seen anything like this," said chef Taylor, especially for his signature King Crab terrine appetizer with white champagne caviar.
At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where rooms for Democratic VIP's are now going for $2,000 a night, the executive chef, Andre Jimenez, says even the room welcome gifts need to be elaborate for the 35 top donors and celebrities, including "the rarest peaches in America."
"It's only for the best of the best that we host here," the chef told ABC News.
"We're seeing lobbyists gone wild," said Craig Holman of Public Citizen, a non-profit group that lobbied for the new ethics law enacted last year, aimed at curbing lobbying abuses.
"Many of the new rules also apply to the national nominating conventions, though the public would not know this by looking at the roster of parties being planned by lobbyists and lobbying organizations," Holman wrote in a letter to both Democratic and Republican members of the House of Representatives.
In fact, one of the country's leading lobbyists, Steve Farber, was chosen by the Democratic party chairman Howard Dean in 2006 to serve as co-chair and chief fundraiser of the Denver host committee that puts on the convention.
Farber, a Denver lawyer, is the founding partner of Brownstein, Farber and Hyatt, one the most prominent and active lobbying operations in Washington.
Farber and his team have persuaded some 141 corporations to contribute more than $50 million to pay the costs of putting on the Democrats' convention.
I love the double talk from Democrats.
The Democrats scheme to turn this whole state blue has failed. They tried to bamboozle everyone in the state but it didn't work.
Attorney General Mike Cox is pleased to announce that yesterday the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with his conclusion that the "Reform Michigan Government Now!" (RMGN!) ballot proposal is unconstitutional.
The Court cites Cox's arguments and brief routinely throughout its opinion, agreeing with Cox that RMGN! is not an amendment but rather a "general revision" of the Michigan Constitution. The Opinion from the Court of Appeals is affective immediately and prevents the Board of Canvassers from placing RMGN! on the ballot.
This is a great article from Glenn Beck. He is right. The Democrats in major cities are like sheep and constantly vote in the same people even though they do nothing for them. This is just common sense but people who vote this way don't have much.
"I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading them or driving them out of it."
What hate-mongering politician would be so politically incorrect as to suggest that things like higher minimum wages and more government handouts don't actually help the poor?I'll identify the culprit at the end of this column, but for now, I'm more interested in figuring out why that statement sounds so controversial.
Poverty is one of the few national issues that, at least on the surface, unites us all. It's not a political condition; it's a human one. After all, when's the last time you've heard a politician campaign on a pro-poverty platform?
But although the problem may unite us, the solutions don't. And perhaps nothing illustrates that better than what's been happening in Detroit, Michigan, and Buffalo, New York.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly a third of the residents in those cities are living beneath the poverty line, the highest rates among large cities in the entire country.
No matter what side of the political aisle you're on, that is nothing short of appalling. Yet if you ask people what we should do about it, you'll probably hear answers that inexplicably break down right along party lines.
Is there a perfect answer? Probably not. But what bothers me is that people stubbornly stick to their solution, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it's not working.
For example, Detroit, whose mayor has been indicted on felony charges, hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961. Buffalo has been even more stubborn. It started putting a Democrat in office back in 1954, and it hasn't stopped since.
Unfortunately, those two cities may be alone at the top of the poverty rate list, but they're not alone in their love for Democrats. Cincinnati, Ohio (third on the poverty rate list), hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1984. Cleveland, Ohio (fourth on the list), has been led by a Democrat since 1989. St. Louis, Missouri (sixth), hasn't had a Republican since 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (eighth), since 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ninth), since 1952 and Newark, New Jersey (10th), since 1907.
The only two cities in the top 10 that I didn't mention (Miami, Florida, and El Paso, Texas) haven't had Republicans in office either -- just Democrats, independents or nonpartisans.
Over the past 50 years, the eight cities listed above have had Republican leadership for a combined 36 years. The rest of the time -- a combined 364 years -- they've been led by Democrats.
Five of the 10 cities with the highest poverty rates (Detroit, Buffalo, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Newark) have had a Democratic stranglehold since at least 1961: more than 45 years. Two of the cities (Milwaukee and Newark) have been electing Democrats since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in
1908.
Two cities, 100 years, all Democrats.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, the asylums in those cities must be as full as the soup kitchens.
Not too long ago, I had the great honor of being invited to a charity dinner hosted by Chris Gardner. He's the guy whose rags-to-riches life was portrayed by Will Smith in the movie "Pursuit of Happyness." Chris had been on my show a few times, and I've always admired his story and his message of hope through personal responsibility.
As I prepared for the dinner and looked into Chris' charity, I started to get nervous. The roster was filled with liberals, most of whom would probably hate me. Hillary Clinton, Mario Cuomo, Alan Alda, Kenneth Cole and Charles Grodin were just a few of the people I was worried about running into.
But the question I kept asking myself was, why? Why can't people from wildly different political stripes come together in support of a common cause without feeling alienated? Why is an issue like poverty "owned" by one political party?
I consider myself a conservative, but I consider myself an American and a human being first. When people whom I normally agree with screw things up, I call them on it. Yet the people in these cities apparently don't. Newark keeps drinking the Kool-Aid, electing the same people with the same ideas, slipping down the poverty list (along with the "Places Never to Visit Unless it's the Airport" list) and wondering why.
We've talked a lot about "change" in this country recently, but there's a much more important catchphrase that we've neglected: "All politics is local." Maybe instead of focusing so much on who we put in charge of our country, we should focus more on who we put in charge of our cities.
Oh, and before I forget. The hateful politician who suggested what we should be "driving" or "leading" the poor out of poverty? It was Benjamin Franklin.
Good thing he never tried to run for mayor of Newark
Howard Dean is calling the Republicans that party of the white? Does he forget that George Bush has had the most diverse cabinet in the history of the United States? What can you say of JC Watts, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, and many many more.
Is the media bias when it comes to Democrat scandals? Apparently so.
This is from Political Grapevine on Fox News.
We told you about Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick getting out of jail Friday. Thursday, when the Associated Press reported that he had been imprisoned for violating terms of his bond in his perjury case, the AP failed to mention his party affiliation. Kilpatrick is a Democrat.
But back on July 29, when Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted, the AP made his party affiliation clear. The headline read, "Ted Stevens indicted, longest-serving GOP senator." The article included the word "Republican" seven times and "GOP" four times.
Media watchdog Web site NewsBusters.org reports that both "ABC World News" and "NBC Nightly News" also failed to report Kilpatrick's party affiliation.
I knew that the Judge would not leave Kwame in jail but I didn't think that he would be put on a tether. He also has a $50,000 bond. Looks like Detroit residents will be footing another bill from King Kwame.
On top of this Attorney General Mike Cox is dropping the hammer on Kilpatrick also. Kilpatrick as you know assaulted an officer when he was trying to serve subpoena papers. If found guilty of this charge he would have a felony on his record which would immediately kick him out of officer.
People of Detroit, wake up and elect someone on the level of Dennis Archer.
Here is what the Detroit Free Press had.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Thomas Jackson ruled this morning that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must pay $50,000 cash bond and wear a tether before he can be released from the Wayne County Jail. He also is forbidden to travel, meaning the mayor must cancel his trip to the Democratic National Convention and a family
trip to Florida.
Jackson said earlier this morning that a lower court judge did not abuse his discretion in sending Kilpatrick to jail.
Jackson's decision came moments after prosecutors arguing to keep Kilpatrick behind bars for violating his bond told Jackson that Kilpatrick brazenly ignored restrictions on his travel, despite being given great leeway and warnings not to leave town without calling the court.
"He knows what the bond requirements are and yet he professes to take this case seriously," said Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran. "It's about him not telling anyone and trying to get away with it."
When it was the Republicans turn to speak about the Oil crises that we are in, Nancy Pelosi closed Congress and went on recess. Now Pelosi is on a nation wide tour for her new book, which is flopping. Some of the Republicans have stood strong and have not left, but Pelosi who would rather promote her book then fix problems in this country refuses to call Congress back in session. This is from RedState by Congressman Tom Price who is still there.
It is rare that one gets a chance to realize the historic nature of a series of events while they are still ongoing – to watch history unfold before your very eyes. But, this is one of those times. We need not look back in reflection to see how the winds of change are sweeping through America this week. With the nation more despondent with their leaders than ever before, one act of arrogance allowed the American people to see that there is a voice for them in Washington.
Last Friday, as we stood ready to speak on behalf of the millions of Americans crippled by high gas prices, the microphones in the House of Representatives were cut off and members were denied an opportunity to speak to and for the American people. As the lights fell, House Republicans became energized around one shared understanding: the American people will not tolerate having their voices muzzled. So we began to speak. Instead of being shut out, we fought for American energy in the dark until the last tourists were shuffled out of the hallowed House chamber.
One week later, our voices are still going strong in the darkened chamber, and a gust of change has been carried from Washington out to the American heartland.
The American people are no longer willing to allow their leaders to put partisanship, special interests, or vacation before serious solutions. They will no longer accept an
abandonment of the American can-do spirit. We are a nation of achievers, and we will no longer allow the Speaker and a liberal Democrat majority tell us we cannot meet our energy needs.
As the events of this past week have shown, and the coming months will continue to demonstrate, the American people are taking back the People’s House. They don't want Speaker Pelosi to have free reign to impose her anti-energy views on unwilling Americans. Citizens across this great nation have risen and realized they have a voice in the House, even if the majority is intent on silencing it.
It took an act of arrogance to spark a fire, but it has been lit. In the coming weeks and months, House Republicans pledge to hold the feet of this liberal majority to that fire. Just as the American people, we will not accept the Democrat majority’s indifference to America’s challenges.
With your help, we will fight back. We simply ask this of you: call your representative, Democrat and Republican, and ask them to join our call for more American energy. Prove that they are with the American people and not beholden to Speaker Pelosi. If they are serious about changes, serious about progress, every member will join us and demand Congress return to work for a positive solution to this energy challenge.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is behind bars for violating his bond and going to Canada. This just shows how arrogant Kilpatrick is. How much more will the City and this Region have to take?
Of course Kwame thinks that he did nothing wrong and his Lawyers will fight this. The judge says he would have given the same treatment to any criminal defendant.
Now will Granholm now kick Kwame out of office? Like I said before, if it were a Republican she would have already done so.
Kwame now has the Text Message Scandal, pushing a Police Officer, the death of a stripper, the Bobby Ferguson contracts, Violating his bond, and many many more.
Here is what Kwame had to say to the Judge:
Your Honor, I am asking for your forgiveness. It will never happen again," he said.
He told Giles that he violated his bond to save the city and close a $300 million deficit facing the city.
Kilpatrick continued to praise Giles and the court.
"I respect the heck out of you for taking this case under all this scrutiny," he said humbly. "I apologize. This was not at all a front to you or the court. I don't believe there is a person who has ever been through this process that respects it more than I do."
Kilpatrick also said he has been under intense pressure to continue to run the city and bear the burden and media parade of the trial.
"My life has been revolutionarily transformed and it's transforming in front of the eye of these media people who don't know me at all," he said, referring to what he called intense scrutiny. "Your honor, I ask for your forgiveness...it will never happen again."
Thomas acknowledged the mayor violated the terms of his bond, but said it was an emergency.
The judge asked. "Who was sick? Who was dying?"
"The city of Detroit was sick," Thomas said referring to the $75 million deal the mayor said would help balance Detroit's budget
Challenger Tracey Schultz-Kobylarz narrowly defeated incumbent R. Miles Handy II on the Democratic ticket for township supervisor, 3,416-3,298. Hopefully she will continue the Downtown improvements and continue the Redford Road Paving Project. Redford has come a long way and needs to continue to move forward.
Township Clerk Garth Christie beat challenger Kathleen Mooradian, 3,324-3,150. I voted for Mooradian since I was not a big fan of Christie.
In the trustees’ race, Diana Brang-Schroeder, Kathleen Maher, Pat McRae and Patricia Kennedy were the top four finishers on the Democratic ballot for trustee. The only Trustee that I wanted back was Kim Sivyer but that now looks like it may not happen.
At the Team Handy election night party, most of the pizza was gone and the crowd had taken to the parking lot of the Moose Lodge before any indication of results were announced, just before 11 p.m.
“It was a very spirited election here in the township. We came up a little bit short, which is OK,” Handy said in his concession speech. “But the team did win in some of the races. Clerk Christie did pull it off in the end.”
Kobylarz is going to be the favorite to win in November, Handy said.
Handy said there will be other opportunities for him.
“Redford Township has come a long way. I think the township is definitely moving forward in the right direction. ...I gave it the best I could,” he said. “It’s not about me. It’s not about individuals. It’s about the community.”
Handy called the supervisor’s race a “great campaign.” “I wouldn’t do anything differently. Don’t be sad for me.”
Andy Dillon and Sandra Eggers will face off in the State House race in the 17th District in November. Dillon won the Democratic race by a comfortable margin Tuesday over David Parker and Frank Tomcsik, while Eggers defeated David Malhalab. Hopefully Eggers can pull off a win against Dillon.
In the Wayne County Commission race in the 9th District, Janet Webb won on the Democratic ballot with 4,193 votes, followed by Roger Miles Handy with 3,214 votes and Janet Badalow with 2,464 votes and Jennifer White with 1,225.
Webb will face Republican Mark Slater in November, who ran unopposed.
Barack Obama was in Lansing Michigan reciting his Socialist energy plan. This may win Obama some votes but it will not solve the nations oil problems. Obamas plan is to release the nations Strategic Oil Reserves and add a wind fall tax on to Oil companies so that he can give each household a Thousand dollar energy rebate check.
This does nothing to help the situation at hand and the Detroit News knows this.
The 707 million barrels of oil in the strategic reserve are there to protect the country from disruptions in its oil supply. It's essential for the United States to have such an insurance policy, considering that it gets much of its imported oil from some of the worlds' most volatile places.
The stockpile was last tapped after Hurricane Katrina cut off oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico. President Bush, under pressure from Congress, stopped filling the reserves earlier this year in hopes of easing fuel prices.
Draining the reserve would drop consumer fuel costs for the short run, as would any sudden increase in supply. But then what? Once the reserves
are gone, prices would go back up, and perhaps even higher because the reserves ultimately would have to be replaced.
Oddly, although Obama's proposal shows he recognizes the impact of supply on prices, he remains hesitant about lifting the congressional ban on off-shore drilling. Credit Obama for moving slightly away from the hard-line no drilling position of the Democratic congressional leadership by saying he'd consider "limited" coastal drilling if it were packaged with big increases in government subsidies for alternative energy development.
But at the same time, he proposed taking away any incentive oil companies would have to expand drilling and increase supplies by pushing a windfall tax on Big Oil's profits to fund the $1,000 rebate checks.
Perhaps the senator is hoping the checks will make Americans forget, as he apparently has, about what happened when Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter played the price and profit limiting game the 1970s.
As the pay-off for oil exploration dwindled, so did oil supplies, driving up fuel prices and creating long lines at the pump. There's no reason to think Obama would be any more successful in executing this dubious redistribution strategy.
His plan also would give the state-owned oil companies in places like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela a huge advantage over domestic companies, since they'd be beyond the reach of Obama's profits grab.
Hmm, Obamas plan would end up helping countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and hurt our own companies here at home. Just like Jimmy Carter, Obama would be a huge failure.
It looks like Obama should be in a sticky situation but I doubt he will. The main stream media will not cover this so most voters will never see it.
Here is what Stop The ACLU has on this.
It sure looks like it. Pamela Gellar broke the story of two Palestinian brothers from Rafah in the Gaza strip — currently controlled by Hamas, a notorious terrorist organization — who have apparently donated over $29,000 to the Obama campaign.
A series of donations were made in 2007 by Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan. The online form for donations on Obama’s campaign site was filled out by the two with the city listed as “Rafah, GA”. The only problem is that there is no Rafah in Georgia. There is, however, a city of Rafah in the Gaza strip. The brothers also used a zip code of “972″, which, of course, is not a zip code in Georgia. Here’s the file from Atlas shrugs.
While I’m sure that Obama will have some far-fetched explanation, the least of which will probably include blaming staffers, it doesn’t matter. This is a violation of election laws, which prohibit contributions from foreigners and donations over $2,300 from one individual. Monir’s donations totaled $24321.41. Hosam’s totaled $5,200.13. All donations took place during October of last year.World Net Daily tracked the brothers down:
A WND investigation tracked down the Edwans, who are brothers living in the Tal Esaltan neighborhood of Rafah, a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The Edwans are a large clan that include top Hamas supporters.
Speaking to WND, the two brothers praised Obama and admitted giving the money online to his campaign. They said they are not U.S. citizens or green card holders but are citizens of “Palestine.”
The Edwans denied they are affiliated with Hamas. Palestinian sources
in Gaza confirmed the Edwans in question are secular, but could not say whether they supported Hamas.
Monir and Hasam Edwan denied their financial transactions online – listed as donations in U.S. government election filings – were actual donations to Obama’s campaign. Instead they claimed they purchased about $30,000 in Obama T-shirts from the presidential candidate’s online store – a contention that did not hold up during a WND interview, when they changed their story several times.
“My brother Hosam and I knew that Obama will be a big hit even before he became a candidate. We knew the guy would be a celebrity in Gaza so we decided to invest the amount of $29,000 to buy Obama T-shirts from his website and sell them in Gaza,” Monir Edwan told WND, speaking by cell phone from Gaza.
“I know on the back of this story Obama rivals will present our business as a donation and they will try to use this story to let Obama fall, but I’m telling you, we bought T-shirts,” Edwan maintained.
Edwan said any profit made from purportedly selling the Obama T-shirts was not returned to the Obama campaign.
“We have nothing to do with the Obama campaign. We just like Obama and believe he will be the best for the Palestinians and for the world.”
At first Monir Edwan claimed he sold the T-shirts in Gaza for around $9 and that a profit was made.
“Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama,” Edwan claimed.
But it was pointed out to Edwan the T-shirts for sale on Obama’s website are listed as $20.08 and that selling the merchandise for less would not yield a profit.
“Maybe we sold the shirts for a lot more. I can’t remember now,” said Edwan.
Asked why he would purchase T-shirts at such a high rate and pay the cost of shipping when he could pay a company to produce T-shirts for less, Edwan replied, “We wanted the shirts to come from the campaign.”
But Edwan could not explain how he managed to get shipments of T-shirts into the Gaza Strip during the months he claimed to have purchased the merchandise, since Israel imposed a tight closure of the Gaza Strip starting in June 2007 that lasted until June 2008, when the Israeli government agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza.
“We don’t want to cause any damage to Obama’s campaign,” was Edwan’s reply.
The Obama campaign apparently did not return WND phone calls or e-mails.
Has Obama returned the money? If he hasn’t yet, then why did he feel like he didn’t need to?
And is he going to? Obama may be in a lot of hot water with this, and he should be. This kind of violation should be taken seriously and a full investigation needs to take place. If everything is as it seems (and the evidence certainly looks solid), and Obama so blatantly violated election laws, then Obama certainly shouldn’t be President. Period.
This is just prof that the Democrats care more about what the Environmentalists think then the consumers of this country. Will drilling drop oil prices right away? No, but we can start and in a few years we can be close to energy independent. Then we can work on alternative energy.
Anyone who thinks that alternative energy is going to be a quick fix, is a fool.
I picked up on this from Stop The ACLU.
