America in Turmoil No Way Out; the 2005 Bankruptcies Overhaul Bill is Killing Americans & the Economy; Americans unload prized belongings:

America in Turmoil No Way Out; the 2005 Bankruptcies Overhaul Bill is Killing Americans & the Economy; Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet:
By Marc Chamot

Update: My good friend Mr. Unloadingzone posted on his blog more details about this story see below:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 on

Beyond the massive losses of good paying factory jobs going abroad, mainly to China and Mexico Americans are stuck in a financial rut.

Good paying jobs no longer exists and as American families are slowly losing their jobs to foreigners and their salaries are being strimlined, they are stuck with their bills and debts that they can no longer pay.

With gasoline prices skyrocketing to new highs never seen before. And the inability to bankrupt themselves so they can restart with a clean financial slate to support themselves and their families.

How bad is it now for Americans?

Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business WriterTue Apr 29, 6:04 PM ET
The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, "Please buy anything you can to help out."

Or the seller in Milwaukee who wrote in one post of needing to pay bills — and put a diamond engagement ring up for bids to do it.

Struggling with mounting debt and rising prices, faced with the toughest economic times since the early 1990s, Americans are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates.

To meet higher gas, food and prescription drug bills, they are selling off grandmother's dishes and their own belongings. Some of the household purging has been extremely painful — families forced to part with heirlooms.

"This is not about downsizing. It's about needing gas money," said Nancy Baughman, founder of eBizAuctions, an online auction service she runs out of her garage in Raleigh, N.C. One former affluent customer is now unemployed and had to unload Hermes leather jackets and Versace jeans and silk shirts.

At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings has soared 70 percent since last July. In March, the number of listings more than doubled to almost 15 million from the year-ago period.

Craigslist CEO Jeff Buckmaster acknowledged the increasing popularity of selling all sort of items on the Web, but said the rate of growth is "moving above the usual trend line." He said he was amazed at the desperate tone in some ads.

In Daleville, Ala., Ellona Bateman-Lee has turned to eBay and flea markets to empty her three-bedroom mobile home of DVDs, VCRs, stereos and televisions.

She said she needs the cash to help pay for soaring food and utility bills and mounting health care expenses since her husband, Bob, suffered an electric shock on the job as a dump truck driver in 2006 and is now disabled.

Among her most painful sales: her grandmother's teakettle. She sold it for $6 on eBay.
"My grandmother raised me, so it hurt," she said. "We've had bouts here and there, but we always got by. This time it's different."

Economists say it is difficult to compare the selling trend with other tough times because the Internet, only in wide use since the mid-1990s, has made it much easier to unload goods than, say, at pawn shops.

But clearly, cash-strapped people are selling their belongings at bargain prices, with a flood of listings for secondhand cars, clothing and furniture hitting the market in recent months, particularly since January.

Earlier this decade, people tapped their inflated home equity and credit cards to fuel a buying binge. Now, slumping home values and a credit crisis have sapped sources of cash.

Meanwhile, soaring gas and food prices haven't kept pace with meager wage growth. Gas prices have already hit $4 per gallon in some places, and that could become more widespread this summer. The weakening job market is another big worry.

Christine Hadley, a 53-year-old registered nurse from Reading, Pa., says she used to be "a clotheshorse," splurging on pricey Dooney & Bourke handbags. But her live-in boyfriend left last year, and she has had trouble finding a job.

Piles of unpaid bills forced her to sell more than 80 items, including the handbags, which went for more than $1,000 on a site called AuctionPal.com. Now, except for some artwork and threadbare furniture, her house is looking sparse.

"I need the money for essentials — to pay my bills and to eat," Hadley said.

At AuctionPal.com, which helps novices sell things online, for-sale listings rose 66 percent from February to March, much faster than the 25 percent to 30 percent average monthly pace since the company was formed in September, CEO Maureen Ellenberger said. She said she was surprised to see that most of her clients desperately needed to sell items to raise cash.

For LiveDeal.com, a classifieds and business directory site, for-sale listings for January through March rose 10 percent from the previous year.

"We can definitely detect economic stress on the part of the consumer," said John Raven, the site's chief operating officer.

On Craigslist, Buckmaster said, three of the four fastest-growing for-sale categories are tied to gas — recreational vehicles like campers and trailers, cars and trucks, and boats.
Raven noted more and more listings for furniture, particularly in areas around Miami and Las Vegas and other regions hardest hit by the housing crisis.

Baughman, who runs eBizAuctions, said that over the past four months she's been working with mostly desperate sellers instead of mainly casual ones. Most are middle-class customers who can't pay their bills and now want to be paid up front for the items instead of waiting until they are sold, she said.

The trend may be hurting secondhand stores too. Donations to the Salvation Army were down 20 percent in the January-to-March period. George Hood, the charity's national community relations and development secretary, said that was probably partly because people were selling their belongings instead.

And secondhand buyers want better deals now as well, driving prices down. Secondhand merchandise online is going for 25 to 35 percent below what it commanded a year ago, estimated Brian Riley, senior analyst at research firm The TowerGroup.

"It won't hit the saturation point until the (economy) hits the bottom and right now, we don't know when that is," he said.

In Alabama, Bateman-Lee said that she only received $30 for her TV and $45 for her DVD player at a local flea market. She doesn't have too much left to sell, but she's going back to "sort through more things."

Her $30 water bill is due this week. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_bi_ge/cashing_out_the_attic

Continued by Marc Chamot

The 2005 bankruptcy laws have put a shackle in debt obligations on Americans where these debts will linger with them for as long as the debts last or until they are paid in full. Which means to most debtors that owe money, no more lines of credit and no more moneys available to buy fine things and pump back into the economy.

People and professionals had warned the Republican Congress back around when this new bankruptcy laws were being proposed even before President George Bush signed it into law, that it was a bad idea, and it would cause undue damage to Americans in the future and they were absolutely right!

People are being forclosed in large numbers, credit card bills going unpaid. But regardless for as long that they are in the United States and carry a valid social security card number these debts will linger behind them for life. No matter where they work or how much they earn, they will run risks into garnishments of future wages to pay off these debts, mainly in homes and credit card companies that they no longer own or live in and credit cards that they don’t have.

The 2005 bankruptcy laws is another prime example on how politicians favored banks and big corporate interests over the populace, it’s another prime example on how Americans got the shaft again once again by these sorry politicians in office. And you also got to remember that the Republicans had the majority of the house and senate in the U.S. congress when they pushed for these laws to be passed.

It’s never been this bad for Americans in recent memory as it is now.

The gross decay and neglect for Americans within our political system is reaching alarming proportions where sooner or later Americans will revolt. It could come to a point of no return for many Americans.

If this keeps up a bloodless civil war could be looming not to far in the near future for America if the populace at large and their needs are still being ignored.

We need more than presidential candidates in promising big changes for Americans, we need the U.S. congress to step in line and take action to agressively work and help Americans! The 2005 bankruptcy laws also need to be repealed immediately!

Why is the new 2005 bankruptcy law going to hurt filers in the future? Posted from The Law.

New Bankruptcy Law Affects Debt Negotiation
Since my whole approach is about avoiding bankruptcy, I won't go into a detailed analysis of the provisions of the new law. But just to summarize, the net effect is that many (if not most) people seeking relief under Chapter 7 bankruptcy will be forced to file under the Chapter 13 version instead. In plain English, that means that most filers will be forced to pay back a portion of the debt over a 5-year schedule set by the court.

One of the worst aspects of the new bill is the use of IRS "allowable" expense schedules for determining your monthly budget. In other words, your actual living expense are thrown out the window in favor of the IRS standards (and we all know how generous the IRS can be!). So if your actual rent is $1,300 per month, and the IRS says it should be $1,045 for your county and state, that's TOUGH! The court will only allow the $1,045, period.

In short, people attempting to file bankruptcy after October 17, 2005 are in for an extremely rude awakening! Goodbye cell phones, cable TV, high-speed Internet access, movies, meals with the family, and anything else beyond the minimum allowable expenses as determined by the IRS and the courts.

So what makes me so certain that the banks will be as eager as ever to settle with consumers for 50 cents on the dollar or less? Simple. Two words: Stealth Bankruptcy. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to discover the new reality of this tough law, and they are going to forgo the court system of filing bankruptcy in lieu of what I call "stealth bankruptcy."

A stealth bankruptcy is when you move (with no forwarding address), change your phone number, and drop off the radar screen to live on an all-cash, no-credit basis. Many people already choose this path rather than deal with the invasion of privacy that comes with formal bankruptcy. After the new law goes into effect, more people than ever will take this approach. Besides the problem of stealth bankruptcy, there are other good reasons the banks will settle as they always have. Consider these points:
Full Story: http://www.thelaw.com/law-help-articles/bankruptcy/new-bankruptcy-law-affects-debt-negotiation.html

Tougher Bankruptcy laws now hurting Banks that pushed for them
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ar909uO1CqHw&refer=home
Bankruptcy reform written by the banks themselves is putting them in the red just a few years after they were written to protect 15-20% profit margins.

Bankruptcy Law Backfires as Foreclosures Offset Gains (Update1)
By Kathleen M. HowleyEnlarge Image/Details
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Washington Mutual Inc. got what it wanted in 2005: A revised bankruptcy code that no longer lets people walk away from credit card bills.

The largest U.S. savings and loan didn't count on a housing recession. The new bankruptcy laws are helping drive foreclosures to a record as homeowners default on mortgages and struggle to pay credit card debts that might have been wiped out under the old code, said Jay Westbrook, a professor of business law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin and a former adviser to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

``Be careful what you wish for,'' Westbrook said. ``They wanted to make sure that people kept paying their credit cards, and what they're getting is more foreclosures.''

Washington Mutual, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. spent $25 million in 2004 and 2005 lobbying for a legislative agenda that included changes in bankruptcy laws to protect credit card profits, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan Washington group that tracks political donations.

The banks are still paying for that decision. The surge in foreclosures has cut the value of securities backed by mortgages and led to more than $40 billion of writedowns for U.S. financial institutions. It also reached to the top echelons of the financial services industry.
Prince Exits

Citigroup Chief Executive Officer Charles O. ``Chuck'' Prince III stepped down this week after the country's biggest bank by assets said it may have $11 billion of writedowns on top of more than $6 billion in the third quarter. Stan O'Neal was ousted as CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage, after an $8.4 billion writedown. Both firms are based in New York.
Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest securities firm, said in a statement today that subprime losses will cut fourth-quarter earnings by $2.5 billion. The New York-based bank said it lost $3.7 billion in the two months through Oct. 31 as prices for securities linked with home loans to risky borrowers sank further than traders expected.

Even as losses have mounted, banks have seen their credit card businesses improve. The amount of money owed on U.S. credit cards with payments more than 30 days late fell to $7.04 billion in the second quarter from $8.37 billion two years earlier, according to data compiled by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

In the same period, the dollar volume of repossessed homes owned by insured banks doubled to $4.2 billion, the federal agency said. New foreclosures rose to a record in the second quarter, led by defaults in subprime adjustable-rate mortgages, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington.

`Let the House Go'
People are putting their credit card payments ahead of their mortgages, said Richard Fairbank, chief executive officer of Capital One Financial Corp., the largest independent U.S. credit card issuer. Of customers who are at least three months late on their mortgage payments, 70 percent are current on their credit cards, he said.

``What we conclude is that people are saying, `Honey, let the house go,''' but keep the cards, Fairbank said Nov. 5 at a conference in New York sponsored by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
The new bankruptcy code makes it harder for debtors to qualify for Chapter 7, the section that erases non-mortgage debt. It shifted people who get paychecks higher than the median income for their area to Chapter 13, giving them up to five years to pay off non-housing creditors.
No Help Left

The court-ordered payment plans fail to account for subprime loans with adjustable rates that can reset as often as every six months, said Henry Sommer, president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. Two-thirds of debtors won't be able to complete their payback plans, according to the Center for Responsible Lending.

``We have people walking away from homes because they can't afford them even post bankruptcy,'' said Sommer, a Philadelphia- based bankruptcy attorney. ``Their mortgage rates are resetting at levels that are completely unaffordable, and there's nothing the bankruptcy process can do for them as it now stands.''

Four million subprime borrowers with limited or tainted credit histories will see their mortgage bills increase by an average 40 percent in the next 18 months, according to the National Association of Consumer Advocates in Washington. About 1.45 million of those will end up in foreclosure by the end of 2008, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, a research firm and unit of Moody's Corp. in New York.

Lenders began the process of seizing properties on 0.65 percent of U.S. mortgages in the second quarter, a record in a quarterly Mortgage Bankers study that goes back 35 years. The percentage of subprime borrowers making late payments increased to 14.82, a five-year high, from 13.77.

Bankruptcies Increase
Personal bankruptcies rose 48 percent to 391,105 in the first half of 2007 from a year earlier and Chapter 13 filings accounted for more than one-third of those, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. In the first half of 2005, they were just 24 percent of the total.
Bad mortgages slashed Washington Mutual's profit by 72 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the Seattle-based thrift said Oct. 17. Income from credit card interest rose 8.8 percent to $689 million in the period, helping to offset a loss the bank warned on Oct. 5 would be 75 percent.

Washington Mutual shares tumbled the most in 20 years yesterday after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said the thrift had pressured real estate appraisers to assign inflated values to properties. Its dividend yield fell to 11 percent and the company traded at 0.74 price-to-book value.

Citigroup's third-quarter earnings fell 57 percent on mortgage losses. Bank of America stopped so-called warehouse lending to mortgage brokers after its profit declined 32 percent in the same period.

`Unintended Consequence'
JPMorgan reported profit growth of 2.3 percent in the quarter, the smallest in more than two years, after reducing the value of leveraged loans and collateralized debt obligations, investment packages of mortgages, by $1.64 billion.

Washington Mutual spokeswoman Libby Hutchinson in Seattle, JPMorgan spokesman Thomas Kelly in New York and Bank of America spokesman Terry Francisco in Charlotte, North Carolina, declined to comment on the bankruptcy law.

``The law had an unintended consequence of taking away a relief valve that mortgage borrowers used to have,'' said Rod Dubitsky, head of asset-backed research for Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. in New York. ``It's bad for the mortgage borrowers and bad for subprime investors because it means more losses.''

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was the biggest overhaul to the code in more than a quarter of a century. The old law, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 that was signed by President Jimmy Carter, had loosened requirements for debt forgiveness.

Lobbying Effort
Financial companies began a coordinated lobbying campaign for bankruptcy reform in 1998 when the American Financial Services Association, a trade group representing credit card companies, joined the American Bankers Association to form the National Consumer Bankruptcy Coalition.

Campaign contributions from the coalition and its members totaled more than $8.2 million during the 2004 election that gave Bush his second term in office. Two-thirds of the donations were given to Republicans who supported the bankruptcy changes, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The group, later renamed the Coalition for Responsible Bankruptcy Laws, has since disbanded. Its members included Washington Mutual, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, MasterCard Inc., and Morgan Stanley.

Ford Motor Co., General Motors and DaimlerChrysler also were members. They won provisions in the new code that changed the way car loans are treated in bankruptcy.

Reform the Reform
Congress may soon take action to ``reform the bankruptcy reform,'' Zandi said. The House Judiciary Committee is working on legislation to let bankruptcy judges restructure home loans by lowering interest rates and reducing mortgage balances to reflect current market value.
Banks including Washington Mutual, Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. sent a letter to the committee opposing the change, saying such restructurings should be done privately.

Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. lender, said last month that it will modify $16 billion worth of adjustable-rate mortgages. Washington Mutual said in April that it will spend $2 billion giving discounted rates to help customers with subprime loans refinance at better terms.
So far, most lenders have been reluctant to change loan agreements.

About 1 percent of mortgages that reset in January, April and July were modified, according to a Sept. 21 Moody's Investors Service report that surveyed 16 subprime lenders that account for 80 percent of the market.

Congress probably will approve at least a limited measure to permit loan modifications, said Westbrook, the University of Texas law professor.

``They are going to have to figure out some way to address the problem,'' Westbrook said. ``I don't think our economy or our consciences can handle the number of foreclosures we'll see if they do nothing.''

To contact the reporter on this story: Kathleen M. Howley in Boston atmailto:kmhowley@bloomberg.net Story: http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/6961/Tougher_Bankruptcy_laws_now_hurting_Banks_that_pushed_for_them

New bankruptcy law may hurt small businesses
Toledo Business Journal, Aug 01, 2005 by Reynolds, Susan
When President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act into law on April 20, 2005, he said the new legislation would protect those that legitimately need help, prevent people from defrauding the system, make it fairer to creditors and debtors, and strengthen the nation's economy.

Bankruptcy filings cost business nearly $40 billion a year, according to a March 2001 US Chamber of Commerce press release. These unpaid bills wind up costing the average American family $400 a year as the increased cost of doing business is passed down to consumers in higher prices.

The new law was designed primarily to bring responsibility to consumer debt. Individual bankruptcies increased fivefold from 1980 to 2003, But it also changes the rules under which small and large businesses file for bankruptcy. Despite numerous highprofile Chapter 11 filings in recent years, many of them in the airline industry, total business filings decreased 19% from 1980 to 2003 and were down 13% for the 12 months ending 3/31/05 versus 3/31/04.

Full Story:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5333/is_200508/ai_n21386214

My good friend Mr. Unloadingzone posted on his blog more details about this story:

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 on http://theunloadingzone.blogspot.com/

American's Crushed Due to New Bankruptcy Laws
An Introduction by Mr. Unloadingzone to an Incredible piece of writing by Marc Chamot:It used to be if your financial circumstances overwhelmed you, Americans had a chance to start over through bankruptcy. But in 2005, Congress and the Bush Administration sold out to the banking and credit card industry and overhauled the bankruptcy laws. Here's an example: a down-sized husband who can't find a job in today's market. His family has been living off their credit cards; using them to pay other bills. Amazingly, they qualify for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy which wipes away all unsecured debt....but they can't file. Read more: http://theunloadingzone.blogspot.com/

Where’s Oprah Winfrey? MIA with Barack Obama lately, is the Oprah Winfrey Show Reputation Damaged?

Where’s Oprah Winfrey? MIA with Barack Obama lately, is the Oprah Winfrey Show Reputation Damaged?
By Marc Chamot

Since Oprah Winfrey was last heard campaigning for Barack Obama in California during Super Tuesday February 5th 2008 and Hillary Clinton won that state hands down. Oprah Winfrey never went back stumping for Barack Obama ever since.

Around May 2007 Oprah Winfrey made public that she would endorse and go head over heels for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential bandwagon run. She would also endorse him, and she would fundraise millions of dollars for him at the same time.

Oprah Winfrey had never been political before and it was kind of strange seeing the billionaire, queen of afternoon TV show stumping for any political candidate.

It was a risky affair for her to do it and quite evidently she is now paying the high price for this blunder.

With the majority of her viewers who are white women the Hillary Clinton core group of supporters, a good many of them who helped Oprah Winfrey become a billionaire throughout the years resented it when a woman in Hillary Clinton who’s also running, and Oprah’s abandonment and doing a total 180 on women issues and causes, was the last straw that most of her white female fans could take.

Her shows have always been on themes of female and women empowerments in the world of male dominated societies. Large portions of her fans were left to wonder about Oprah’s agendas, intentions and hypocrisy choosing a man, male over women who were her core fans.

It’s a heavy price to pay for this blunder and I am sure that Oprah Winfrey has lost a lot of respect and fans over this fiasco. When you are a revered celebrity with a show, you NEVER get political, are one of the biggest carnal rules in TV survival. She should have come across as fair, unbiased and neutral but instead she went stumping for a male presidential candidate over a female who were the core of her fans.

Since the revelations about Obama’s racist pastor Jeremiah Wright came about. We discovered that Oprah Winfrey was briefly a member of the same Jeremiah’s Wright’s racist church, Trinity United Church of Christ. And now with Barack Obama’s growing unpopularity among white voters and Oprah Winfrey having been on the Barack Obama corner the manure is hitting the fan on Oprah.

Oprah Winfrey’s got a lot of questions to answer for. The biggest lingering question about Oprah Winfrey is why was she pawning to America a far leftist anti-middle class, anti-free enterprise, corporation candidate in the likes of Barack Obama. What are her real connections to Jeremiah Wright? A man that teaches black Americans that there is no American dream that white rich people got every thing.

How about you Oprah? You’re a billionaire and so is Tiger Woods. So are many other successful African Americans around like Bob Johnson of BET and so forth? It doesn’t make any sense that you would support a man that doesn’t believe in your having the American dream and such wealth. It might be just out of sheer ignorance we don’t know?

Being silent and hoping that people would forget about it will never solve the problem for Oprah.

Can Oprah survive a political backlash because of it? Time will tell but things aren’t well at the Oprah Winfrey Show right now.

It definitely was a huge blunder on Oprah’s part and she’ll be paying for it years to come in lower ratings and lost money. Was it really worth it financially for Oprah? I don’t think so. You NEVER get political when you’re an influential TV show host especially when you go against the core of your viewers and fans principles!

Women turn on ‘traitor’ Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama
Oprah fans leave a barrage of negative messages on her official website in response to the talk show host's support of Obama
Tony Allen-Mills, New York

AMERICA’S favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has been dubbed a “traitor” by some of her female fans for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton.

Winfrey’s website, Oprah.com, has been flooded with a barrage of abuse since the queen of daytime chat shows joined Obama on a tour of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in mid-December.

Her intervention was widely credited with broadening Obama’s national appeal - especially among women - and with helping him to an upset victory over Clinton in the first vote of the election year in Iowa.

A race like a crackpot Dynasty
The contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton matches any fiction
Yet a backlash by Clinton supporters appears to have prompted a rethink by Winfrey, the African-American media titan who is routinely described as the most influential woman on television.

She did not reappear in the final days before the New Hampshire primary - which Obama lost to Clinton - and has been absent from the most recent campaigning in South Carolina, which votes next weekend.
Full Story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3216586.ece

Pennsylvanian Voters say no thanks to Barack Obama; exposes his Major Weaknesses; You’re definitely “NOT” the man Barack!

Pennsylvanian Voters say no thanks to Barack Obama; exposes his Major Weaknesses; You’re definitely “NOT” the man Barack!
By Marc Chamot

Did Barack Obama's racist pastor Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ do him in with the Pennsylvania "White" voters?

In my previous piece I talked about the Barack Obama miscues and missteps that have been dogging him for the past month and a half. I talked about trends based on facts not unscientific polls that mainstream media want to shove down our throats, and that trends were favoring Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. Pennsylvania proved that Barack Obama is a very flawed presidential candidate.

The problem with Barack Obama’s "change we can believe in" his mantra, is only change for a few and the neglected few of his core of supporters. He’s not for the majority of Americans.

The only core voter groups that seem to be carrying Barack Obama are African Americans and young college groups along with the quiche and white wine drinkers and lattes lefties elitists within the Democratic Party.

Actually his campaign has been on the wrong track from the beginning with inadequacies .

Like wanting to grant drivers licenses for illegal aliens and the Tony Rezco scandals. Also fallout from Barack Obama’s pastor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright anti-white, anti-American, anti-rich hate preaching’s from his pulpit and the Barack Obama arrogant “small town bitter comments” that rural Pennsylvanians cling to guns and religion and that they are anti-immigrant and anti-trade because they are angry and bitter. Barack Obama’s ties to a known American bomber and terrorist in Bill Ayers didn’t help him much either.

Pennsylvania showed that Barack Obama has a total disconnect among white voters, especially the predominant Catholic and Reagan Democrats, the blue collar and working man. Hillary Clinton broke new voting records among white voters last night.

African Americans are ten percent of the Pennsylvanian population and voting group. If you look at the results and subtract 92% percent of the total Pennsylvanian African American votes that went to Barack Obama then your left with the difference of almost 2 to 1 white voters deficit for Barack Obama.

After all said and done white voters in general voted almost 2 to 1 for Clinton and a FIRST, white women voted for Hillary 3 to 1 compared to Obama with new records broken by Hillary Clinton among white voters unseen in past primaries.

According to CNN’s John King with his trusted “magic board” and their best elections coverage teams said that it was a real Barack Obama thumping across the board in Pennsylvania. CNN does have the best elections coverage around and better than any other network in the business. They turn any dummies like myself into an instant political connoisseur with a wealth of information. They explain things for the novice political junkie to understand things better. CNN elections coverage is a gem to watch.

According to CNN stats numerous predominantly white counties in Pennsylvania voted for Hillary upwards 65% to a high 80% in her favor something that has also never happened to Barack Obama before.

Compounding with the danger that approximately 29 percent of Hillary Clinton “White” supporters and voters have said that they will not vote in any shape or form for Barack Obama in the general elections. It’s a dangerous sign for the Democratic Party to be able to seat a Democratic president in the White House if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.

Don’t blame whites for your troubles; blame Barack Obama for hiding his true self from the voters through his mainstream media buddies and your pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright for the chaos.

Race once again is becoming an issue for some of Barack Obama’s supporters. You could see the FEAR in their eyes on CNN and Fox News last night. They are witnessing a first African American possible presidential candidacy slipping away from their grasps.

I have no doubt that Pennsylvania showed that Obama’s radical pastor Jeremiah Wright has done insurmountable and possibly un-repairable amounts of damage to Barack Obama especially among white voters. His refusal to wear an American flag on his lapel and placing his hand over his heart during a pledge of allegiances, and Michelle Obama’s comment “I am finally proud of America” has in one way or other compounded more damages to this candidate for the American presidency.

Barack Obama is the most leftwing of all senators in the US senate. I consider him our American version of Venezuela’s left wing radical Hugo Chavez.

On CNN last night Bill Bennett was absolutely right in one thing when he said the secret success to Bill Clinton was something that I have been complaining on my blogs for quite sometime that neither candidates were doing.

Bill Clinton’s success was his ability to reach the middle, the center and neglected moderates and somewhat conservative voters, especially like myself disillusioned and neglected by the Bush Republican Party.

And Barack Obama certainly isn’t the man to do that for me and never has been.

In one of my past pieces I wrote about how concerned I was with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s pandering to the very same left wing groups of the Democratic Party for their support. Apparently it now looks like Hillary Clinton has learned her lesson the hard way. It looks like the very same left wing group that she pandered to have abandoned her in droves long ago in favor of Barack Obama.

Had she recognized this month ago, she could have been the front-runner not playing catch-up with Barack Obama.

David Gergen on CNN last night made another sound comment on Barack Obama, he said that Barack Obama is in deep trouble over the white voters when he saw these 65 to 80% figures in some blue-collar counties going to Clinton. Unless he fixes it soon he’s in deep trouble in the general election.

Having pumped in 11 million dollars into the Pennsylvanian campaign by Barack Obama almost 3 to 1 in money spent compared to Hillary Clinton hasn’t fazed Hillary’s success at all.

It will take more than just African Americans, big money, young college students and quiche and white wine drinkers lefties elites to bring about an Obama US presidency.

It will take a core of Latinos, that has been proven will never vote for Barack Obama and it will take a core of blue collar, religious white voters, Reagan Democratic states which Barack Obama has alienated through Jeremiah Wright and other missteps.

How to Start an Influential Political Committee & Club; Political Fundraisings, Targeting Registered Voters for your Cause Easy as 123:

How to Start an Influential Political Committee & Club; Political Fundraisings, Targeting Registered Voters for your Cause Easy as 123: Secrets that Seasoned Campaign Managers don’t want you to know!
By Marc Chamot

Political clubs are not hard to start, they are common and if you’re very political in your local politics it’s a way of creating like-minded committee of people that support a common cause for the betterment of your local politics and community.

The benefit of having your own political club is that you have easier access to all registered voters in your city and county. You can also have easier reach and access to these voters directly and can raise money for your cause.

These registered voters are the people that vote in your local/county politics. Most municipalities break down registered voters in numerous ways. Name and address and usually phone numbers are available broken down by precincts.

They also list voters as casual voters, one time voter to regular voters who vote every time. Regular voters are usually the ones that vote in every election and these are usually your target group for your cause in smaller to medium sized town they can also be the ever corrupt “good old boys network” of your town and small city too.

Most cities under populations of 50,000 usually the local police, firemen, city employees and key churches and their families control voting outcomes in their communities because politicians who are in the “click” like to bribe them with higher salaries and tithes increases for votes trade offs.

I discovered that when I lived in Muskogee Oklahoma for three years and I put out an anti-good old boys network popular monthly newspaper called the “Muskogee Free Press” that lasted for almost two years! It took two years for the Muskogee Good old Boy’s Network to decimate my advertising support, my bread and butter in my publishing survival!

Muskogee Oklahoma and San Francisco California are two of the most corrupt cities I have ever lived in these United States of America.

To save costs in printing materials and work efforts during campaigns it’s always best to have a listing of registered voters and have easier access to intermingle directly with the voters directly rather than going through lengthy door to door reaches.

Voter registration records will never show you what voters voted on. This is private and confidential record not accessible to anybody by law.

Any registered voter/voters, church group members, any like-minded political allies and groups can start a political club and committee. Usually register your club-committee as none profit.

It’s easy and it’s legal in most communities and states. You get your group together and think of a name. Usually it’s a committee of some sort, like Committee to stop Tax Fraud, Committee to improve City Business Relations to Committee to Elect so and so.

It can also be the Democratic Club of whatever, Republican Club of whatever, Independent Club of whatever and Libertarian Club of whatever of so and so city or county depending on your political target focus.

You’ll have to do a quick clerk search to make sure that someone else does not already take your name.

Your political club can be just about anything political that concerns you, your allies and your community welfare and lack there of. You can even use your club to register new voters to defeat or clean up your town from undesirables and corrupt officials.

There is no need for any lawyers to get your group going. You can do it yourself!

Once you got your group together you do a simple DBA, (Doing Business As) at your local city hall and county clerk’s office as you would do any other business start up.

Remember to register as none profit, because you’re not into the business of making money. You’re into improving political quality for your community.

You then elect officers just as you would do any business. You elect your president, CFO, secretary and treasurer and so on. Then you open a bank account under your new committee name, you take your DBA form to the bank and assign signers to the bank account that you trust. Usually require two signatures for security reasons.

After you got your bank account under the committee or club name, take all of your paperwork to voters registrars office of your county and register your political club-committee with them and you will have access to all voting registered voters information of your city, town, county and election results that you want from past elections results.

Depending on your size of town and city. Your list of registered voters might be printed on sheets of paper in smaller towns, on CD ROMs to larger towns and cities. Most use Microsoft Access that is a common database available through Microsoft on PC’s.

This is only for a simple committee and club where you deal with simple donations to make your committee/club work. Usually no salaries are involved.

But if you get larger and deal with larger amounts of money you can easily convert to PAC-donations/contributors, where you deal with large amounts of money into political interests and if officers get salaries off this club it’s highly advisable to register with the IRS as none profit check out starting a none profit on http://www.managementhelp.org/strt_org/strt_np/strt_np.htm

Is Barack Obama made of Teflon where nothing sticks to him, or is he just full of “Hot Air” or a flash in the pan ready to fizzle?

Is Barack Obama made of Teflon where nothing sticks to him, or is he just full of “Hot Air” or a flash in the pan ready to fizzle? Does Hillary Clinton have a compelling reason to win the delegate votes?
By Marc Chamot

A comment made by Ann Coulter, she likened Barack Obama to former president Bill Clinton’s 1992/1993 Democratic presidential campaign. Where mainly conservatives took on Bill Clinton with the likes of Jennifer Flowers, White Water scandals and so forth. Nothing fazed him and none of it stuck to Clinton. Eventually he made it to the U.S. presidency.

The irony is that two Bushes, the father and son presidential tag team have brought about inherent anger and economic neglect and downturns for America through incompetence. Bush Sr. brought about the rise of Bill Clinton through H Ross Perot. And the current one brought about Barack Obama.

People are so filled with resentment and anger at this administration that they don’t care who is president as long as it’s someone entirely different from the current Bush administration. This happened with Bill Clinton in 1992/1993 and possibly it could also with Barack Obama this year no matter what.

But we cannot compare Barack Obama’s current questions in bad judgments to Bill Clinton of 1992/1993. Racism is at issue that is dogging Barack Obama at this point. Obama’s fateful relationship with some shady characters like his Racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, anti-Jewish, anti-white and Muslim supporter Louis Farrakhan and Obama’s off the cuff anti rural Americans comment is a whole lot more serious than Bill Clinton’s campaign misdeeds with Jennifer Flowers and White Water.

The damage to Barack Obama is far worse than what Bill Clinton experienced in 1992/1993. To top it off Bill Clinton had the support of the majority of Hispanics/Latinos and Asians at large over Bush Sr. and whereas Barack Obama does not. Bill Clinton also had the African American votes, which is the only group that Barack Obama dominates.

At the ABC Democratic debates last week that was the most viewed of all debates so far, since a lot of people don’t have cable and access to CNN’s past debates. Exposed Barack Obama to more scrutiny and even his connections to former American bomber, terrorist Bill Ayers and his connections to racist Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s “small town” comment. It is not known yet what kind of damage this will do to Barack Obama. But it could be substantial.

Democratic polls have not been very accurate this year. They have been proven to be wrong. Numerous past Democratic primaries in past states had predicted a Barack Obama large margin victory over Hillary Clinton but never materialized. The actual opposite occurred and he lost a few. But if trends are to be believed then Hillary Clinton has the advantage/uperhand over Barack Obama in these upcoming states like Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky,

Trends don’t look good for Barack Obama but it could still be too late for a Hillary Clinton comeback but she still has a chance.

In the last few primary states Barack Obama’s once dominance over white male voters has been slowly eroding in every primary elections and that was even before his Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s Racist controversy came out and his recent gaffe with “small town” rural America comment that brought him into more controversy.

Another amazing trend that could affect Barack Obama mainly in the general election is that he’s never been able to capture two key minority groups that help sway national elections, the Hispanic/Latino and Asian voters. Hillary Clinton has dominated these two categories and so has Republican nominee John McCain.

Predicting primary elections results for the Democrats is very hard thing to do. Nobody can really gauge the mood of the voters when they get in front of the voting booth. Poling is not an exact science but trends are more concrete and are based on facts.

What can be predicted after the Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana primary results is whether Barack Obama is made of Teflon or will he fizzle away and hurt the Democratic Party in the general election behind these past negative revelations.

If Barack Obama does well, he wins the Democratic nomination. It will be a far longer hurdle for him to win the U.S. presidency than for John McCain. Not only he’s got to improve on the white male voters but also he’s got to improve on the Hispanic/Latino and Asian voters if he wants the White House. After all said and done Barack Obama has to also win the confidence of the “electoral college’ and Barack Obama’s gaffes and bad judgments could give the college a good reason not hand him the U.S. presidency but to give it to John McCain.

Hillary's Bosnia fib didn't help matters much for her either and but once again proved that she's not to be believed and trusted. However;

If Hillary Clinton does well and wins by 6 points or more in those states, she has a compelling, convincing reason to tell the Party that Barack Obama is not elect able in the general election and that the delegates/super delegates should go to her.

Where they are in delegates According to CNN http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#D

TOTAL DELEGATES
Delegate Definitions

Barack Obama
Pledged: 1418
Superdelegates: 226
Total: 1,644

Hillary Clinton
Pledged: 1250
Superdelegates: 248
Total: 1,498

Remaining Democratic Primaries Source; http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/democraticprimaries/index.html

Tuesday, April 22
PA 188
Pennsylvania
Primary
188 delegates

Tuesday, May 6
IN, NC 218
Indiana
Primary
84 delegates
North Carolina
Primary
134 delegates

Tuesday, May 13
WV 39
West Virginia
Primary
39 delegates

Tuesday, May 20
KY, OR 125
Kentucky
Primary
60 delegates
Oregon
Primary
65 delegates

Sunday, June 1
PR 63
Puerto Rico
Primary
63 delegates

Tuesday, June 3
MT, SD 47
Montana
Primary
24 delegates
South Dakota
Primary
23 delegates

Popular VOTES total according to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_vote_count.html

Popular Vote Total Obama in the lead:
13,355,209 Obama
49.5%
12,638,123 Clinton
46.9%

Obama ahead by +717,086
+2.6%

Left Wingers like to call me a Right Winger Zealot and Religious Right Wingers call me a Leftie;

Left Wingers like to call me a Right Winger Zealot and Religious Right Wingers call me a Leftie; why It’s a can’t win Situation in the World of Blogging:
By Marc Chamot

You can call me a liberal or a conservative, but don’t EVER call me a leftie whack job or a religious right wing zealot! You just can't win for losing in the world of political blogging.

During my many months of blogging, I’ve been accused of a few things, but some groups like Left Wingers whacks and religious Right Wingers zealots like to mischaracterize me for their own purported self-convenience and ignorance.

My main blog theme and postings on the Net have been mainly anti-Barack Obama Left Winger and George W. Bush Religious Right Wing issues. And to me personally folks, I can’t stand either group.

The American Religious right wing experiment with George W. Bush was a total failure in American politics. It was a total disaster for America and the religious right and I doubt it will ever happen again in America in my lifespan.

To me, I’ve been pondering with this question for months. What’s the difference between our religious right governance compared to religious governance of mainstream radical Muslim nations? What’s the difference between our religious right and an Ayatollah running their Muslim country? Not much, each country is basically run on faith-based issues, hate, distrust and war. And it’s a very bad idea, and it isn’t working for either of us.

There is no room for compromise when two extremist religious groups don’t see eye to eye on political and religious issues.

I have no doubt that the inherent anger from most Americans towards George W. Bush has brought about a need for change in America. And I am one of those that want it also.

But there are the problem folks. Does that mean for America to see this change should have to swing far left from the Bush’s religious right, like a leftie Barack Obama to bring about drastic change from the norm?

I don’t think so, it’s like when driving a car and you over correct your steering, what happens then? You get into an accident. A Barack Obama presidency is to extreme far left for America and could be very damaging.

It’s no doubt that an Anti-Bush backlash has brought about the rise of Barack Obama. It didn’t help matters any when Democrats took back congress late 2006. What Republicans were accused of doing business as usual were ensued by the Democrats alike.

Americans are very angry right now, they are sick and tired of American politics being dominated by these two small, minority groups that don’t represent the majority of the American population at large.

Both groups are completely out of touch with mainstream America wants and needs.

Both are powerful forces to reckon with and they are the mainstay and money in American politics.

While I agree that we do have a Christian moral majority in America and I am one of those; we’re not all Right Wing Religious Zealots.

Some estimate that only 20% of the nation is religious right-winger zealots and between 15 to 30% of Americans make up the left-wingers whacks of America.

Unfortunately both groups dominate popular websites and blogs on the Internet to their advantage.

Even though both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have become more populist lately and John McCain hasn’t quite gotten there yet. John McCain is still leading in national polls over the two Democrats. John McCain has a more middle of the road approach to moving this nation away from religious right wing zealots compared to the Democratic candidates.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had the opportunity to move towards the middle from their leftie pandering. By taking advantage of attracting more center and middle of the road neglected voters along their way. But unfortunately they missed the boat on that one and Republican nominee John McCain is taking in their slack in a fanfare and it may cost the Democrats their 2008 presidential dreams.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fell into the trap of moving too far left for the powerful minority lefty groups while John McCain has vigorously avoided the temptations in acquiring religious right wingers of America. These religious right-wing zealots have no choice but to vote for John McCain if they want to keep the White House Republican in lieu of what Democrats have as an alternative for them.

That’s is why John McCain is going to be able to capture hordes of Democratic and Independent voters like myself in the general election to put him over the top against any Democratic presidential nominees.

The real losers behind the 2008 presidential elections are going to be these left-wingers whacks mainly people like George Soros and Moveon.org and religious right wing zealots. Just mark my words folks! It’s time for these groups to play second fiddle and let Americans take back America for their own interest and survival!

Exposing the truths to your community; how to be a slam, hit master and influence your local politics affordably through cheap mass printing:

Exposing the truths to your community; how to be a professional slam, hit master and influence your local politics affordably through cheap mass circulated newsprint:

By Marc Chamot

Secrets in publishing your own influential local political newspaper cheaply!

Want to expose stuff that your local media ignores, like corruption and other stories about your community and local politicians? Do you want to make change? Do you want to get your word out to your community and to the masses about the wrong candidates running for office before Election Day?

"Depending on the size of your town and amount of deliveries, the average areas won’t cost you more than $900 to $1,700 total cost to print, supplies, roll and deliver!"

By law most local and state public records are readily available to any one who ask for them.

The problem with the Internet on the average towns and small cities throughout America people are still not connected to the Net. In most areas 65% and higher do not own a computer and aren’t connected to the Net. Most people still depend on their local biased mediums for their news and information.

Good old boys politics with the help of your local crony medias are still able to get that undesirable corrupt candidate that you do not like or want to run your city and town.

With my years in print and newspaper publishing experience there are ways that you can level the playing field with your allies and can derail and turn the tables in ridding the chances for these corrupt individuals from winning any elections in your town affordably.

Web press newsprint is the cheapest mass form of printing you can find anywhere. For under $900.00 you can print a four-page “tabloid” for a total of about 29,000 in quantities or a four-page “broadsheet” which is double the size of a “tabloid” which means that you can print half the number for the same price all in black and white.

Best newspaper layout programs are Adobe and InDesign by Adobe Corp. Quark express Corel and some other layout programs are okay but most printers now days are Adobe compatible only.

Finding a graphic artist isn’t hard; they come like a dime a dozen. Usually layout costs range from $40.00 to $75.00 per page or nine to ten dollars an hour.

Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software used for printing. Most people have that already on their computers.

To be very effective be sure that all of your articles are well written, truthful, and back it up with solid facts! Be truthful and honest with your work. Don’t look like a nutcase.

Usually in politics, politicians, political donors, competing medias, grant recipients of public moneys like churches etc., exposing public records and so on they are all considered public figures and they have limited to no libel protections under our court systems of law. Newspaper libel secret is if you publish any public records you cannot be sued.

They can’t sue you nor go after you for exposing these facts. But if you go after Joe public a none public figure and say something derogatory about him accusing him of being a drug dealer or a molester just because on your hunch, and you don’t have public records to back up that claim you can be sued out of existence.

NO ONE, in city municipalities in America can keep you away from public records, like political donors of candidates, payroll of city county employees, contracting records of construction companies, delivery companies, taxis, lawn care and gardeners (usually that’s where corruption is found in most municipalities good old boy’s networks) and so forth, that do city and county work,

Including finding out city employees, fireman and police pay records and so forth, and including school payroll records are all legally available to any tax payer or publication that want them.

When you go to the city and county clerks office you must fill out a request form and on it say you’re a taxpayer and want to see how your tax money is being spent. If they refuse to provide you the information within a reasonable amount of time complain to the state and federal government under sunshine laws violations. All local and state public records are available to the general public “taxpayer” by law! Most folks out there don’t know that.

Getting someone’s criminal records is a different matter and that is much harder. They are more protected in court of law and it isn’t of any political interest for someone to have those. Only political candidates who run for office their criminal records become public records for people to view.

Putting out your slam piece:
Cases of newspaper rubber bands are cheap. A case may hold enough bands to roll about 17,000 newspapers for under $30 dollars! A case of newspaper plastic wraps isn’t bad either. Cases of 2,000 plastics go from $17.00 to $22.00 each. As you can see that banding your newspapers and delivering on a clear day is the cheapest and best way to go. Continental Products is one of the best newspapers suppliers for poly bags around http://www.continentalproducts.com/

For rubber bands check them out at, http://www.aerorubber.com/bands.htm and http://insupply.net/_wsn/page2.html , and more choices on http://www.aapsinc.org/asscmembers.php?id=8

Your local “Good Old Boys Network” newspaper may not want to print your stuff so go outside the area to find your printer. Usually competing newspapers outside your immediate area will be more than happy to print your job they want your money.

Hire unemployed to roll your newspapers, do not use teenagers or minors unless they are your own kids because it could or may develop into problems for you later.

Small thin newspapers should be rolled bulky so it makes it more massive and more air resistant to deliver out of automobiles. Average pay for a roller is $13.00 per thousand. Place all rolled newspapers in large trash bags so it is easy to load up in vehicles to deliver.

If you are delivering with rubber bands check the weather report on weather.com to make sure that there is no chance of rain. Usually it’s best to deliver when it’s 60% or higher percent of rain. Look at the Doppler radar surrounding your area to make sure that there are no imminent of rain and storm clouds otherwise wet papers become unreadable papers and your throwing your money away including littering.

Easy house to house delivery is also the best way to reach people:
Best delivery times are early in the mornings from two AM onwards. With less traffic and you can move quicker, hassle free from people that may not want your paper delivered to their homes. Cut off time is best by ten AM and follow the routine every day until all of your deliveries are completed.

Best strategic way to deliver your area is you get an updated map of your target area:
Go to you local post office and get their total deliverable addresses of your area broken down by zip codes and only print sixty to seventy-five percent of the amount.

Do not use the costly mail to deliver your product. I’ve had horrendous experiences by mail deliveries. Most of the saturated deliveries that you pay for at the post office never get delivered they end up in dumpsters. It is very costly way to deliver and hard to gauge its results. If someone doesn’t agree with your politics at the post office it will not get out.

Postal saturation permits (cheapest way to mail), cost upwards $325 and .16cents a piece to deliver. You could spend upwards $4,000 to deliver compared to a few hundred dollars in gas doing it yourself.

NEVER put newspapers in US mailboxes! All mailboxes are property of the US Postal Service, they can fine you and charge you first class mail rates for every piece placed in their mailboxes. In rural areas you may place your publication on bottom of mailbox stands or next to the mailbox not inside it.

Your “freedom of speech is guaranteed under the US constitution” Most cities and municipalities do not require permits for home deliveries of newspapers, but some may require you to get a permit just to be an ass about it.

Permits shouldn’t cost more than fifty dollars. They usually notify you of this requirement after the fact don’t argue about it with your municipality.

Before you deliver break it up into delivery zones and neighborhoods and communities:
You take a highlighter and mark off the main thorough ways and work upwards on one side of the throughways, when finished you move on the other side down and so forth. Stay on the street and deliver on the right side and keep on staying, turning on the right side until you reach a point of a U-Turn then come back and do the other side and so forth. This way no one is being missed delivered from your newspaper. Deliver on all driveways! If there are no driveways to deliver on, place it on walkways. Do not do sloppy deliveries.

When you deliver to apartment buildings and complexes leave one third of the amount of number of mailboxes and do not leave them loose! They’ll blow all over and the manager will be upset with you.

Follow all traffic laws. Police officers usually don’t hassle you or mess with you when you’re out there delivering your newspaper.

DO NOT TRUST any one to deliver your newspaper because they don’t know how to do it and they will dump it at the dump and will expect you to pay them for the job. YOU must deliver your product yourself and it isn’t very hard to do. Actually it’s fun!

Finding advertising for your newspaper is not easy especially on a slam piece. It’s easier to find like-minded allies and friends who are willing to share the costs of your newspaper.

Depending on the size of your town and amount of deliveries, the average areas won’t cost you more than $900 to $1,700 total cost to print, supplies, roll and deliver!

Special Attention Editor’s Note:
When you put out your publication it’s imperative to either have a phone number or an email address where you can be contacted. If you regularly put out your paper more than once a year, when a homeowner requests for you to stop delivery on his property it is imperative that you follow their wishes. Unwanted papers are becoming a nuisance especially when they are not being stopped when asked. Jot down their address and ask for a cross street then database it for your records.

Helpful libel proof protection words that may be helpful for you are, accused, suspected, and alleged. For example when someone is arrested over a crime he’s suspected or accused on an alleged crime before he’s convicted Remember this.... You cannot say that the arrested party is a rapist or a murderer without his due process in court of law....

Barack Obama Racist Remarks: Small Town Americans are bitter and they cling to their guns, and are religious zealots.

Barack Obama Racist Remarks: Small Town Americans are bitter and they cling to their guns, and are religious zealots.
By Marc Chamot

Updated April 13th 2008: A Great Update on Politico (Below) about what it may mean for Barack Obama behind his latest gaffe:

What’s wrong with this picture folks? Was Barack Obama’s statement about rural Americans and small towns racist, anti-white, anti-gun and anti religion? You make the call.

His comment about small town America mainly Pennsylvanians in liberal San Francisco a few days ago, said of small town Americans/Pennsylvanians that they are bitter and they cling to their guns, and are religious zealots.

They are antipathetic to illegal aliens and anti-trade because they are bitter in their lives.

Unfortunately to me, Barack Obama is talking about all small towns in America, mainly those of the Midwest not just Pennsylvania.

Folks? Who makes the majority of rural America and small towns in America?

Bingo! They are predominately “white” religious, hunters and gun owners Americans and his attack on rural/small town America is an attack on white Americans, our religion and gun ownership.

Obama’s slant is also an attack on Christians as whole mainly on Baptists, Southern Baptists, Pentecostals and many others in Midwest America, considered Republican and more conservative red states.

Considering coming from a man who was tied to a racist anti-white and American pastor with Muslim ties for twenty years in Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Jesus Christ. See story The Audacity of Hope/Hate; Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ’s Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A Wright Racist Sermons & his Racist Supporters: Is Barack Obama Poised to lose the White Votes Down the Stretch?

Quote Source Newsmax: “Wright's strong sentiments were echoed in the Sunday morning service attended by NewsMax. Wright laced into America's establishment, blaming the "white arrogance" of America's Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the "United States of White America." Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made. Full Story: ”http://marcchamot.blogspot.com/2008/03/audacity-of-hopehate-barack-obamas.html

Barack Obama’s comments once again proved to white America that he is into globalization, anti-white, anti-gun and pro-illegal alien African American candidate for the U.S. presidency. He’s not for uniting the races, and supporting the American dream, securing our gun rights, and worker livelihood or saving American jobs.

Barack Obama has never had any job guarantees for Americans from any of his phony speeches. He’s nothing more but a tool of leftwing anti-white, religious hating America and the United States.

** BREAKING NEWS—BARACK OBAMA INSULTS SMALL TOWN PENNSYLVANIA AT SAN FRANCISCO FUNDRAISER.**

[The Politico]Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, attempted to explain the “bitterness” in “small-town Pennsylvania” that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking:

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not."“And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. FULL STORY: http://boards.boston.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=2&nav=messages&webtag=bc-news&tid=26867

Say it isn’t so Barack! More on my blog on Barack Obama and don’t say I didn’t tell you so:
Saving the White House for Democrats: Should Barack Obama Bow Out Now, Have His Chickens Finally Come Home to Roost?

Change we CAN’T Believe in; is Barack Obama’s Media Love fest Over & is he a Flawed Candidate with Full of Rhetoric Just to get Elected?

Is Race Card in Question? The Shameful Leftwing Mainstream Media Love Affair With Barack Obama:

Snobbery and Arrogance MAR the “OPRAH” Winfrey Show and Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama; Obama’s Double Standards are we being taken for a Ride?

A Great Update on Politico about what it may mean for Barack Obama behind his latest gaffe:

12 reasons 'bitter' is bad for Obama
Mike AllenSat Apr 12, 6:04 PM ET
A Clinton comeback was looking far-fetched. But operatives in both parties were buzzing about that possibility Saturday following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told wealthy San Franciscans that small-town Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners “cling to guns or religion” because they are “bitter” about their economic status.

Obama at first dug in on that contention Friday after audio of the private fundraiser was posted by The Huffington Post. Altering course, on Saturday in Muncie, Ind., he conceded that he “didn’t say it as well as I should have.” And he told the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal that “obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. ... The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so."

Here is what he said April 6, referring to people living in areas hit by job losses: “[I]t’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

The Obama campaign contends that coverage of the San Francisco remarks is overheated and distorted. One aide said that “any logical analysis” would make it obvious that the brouhaha will not “change the pledged delegate count” — the key to the Democratic presidential nomination.
In fact, this is a potential turning point for Obama’s campaign — an episode that could be even more damaging than the attention to remarks by his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, since this time the controversial words came out of his own mouth.

Here are a dozen reasons why:
1. It lets Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) off the mat at a time when even some of her top supporters had begun to despair about her prospects. Clinton hit back hard on the campaign trail Saturday. And her campaign held a conference call where former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Pittsburgh native, described Obama’s remarks as “condescending and disappointing” and “undercutting his message of hope.”

2. If you are going to say something that makes you sound like a clueless liberal, don’t say it in San Francisco. Obama’s views might have been received very differently if he had expressed them in public to Pennsylvania voters, saying he understood and could alleviate their frustrations.

3. Some people actually use guns to hunt — not to compensate for a salary that’s less than a U.S. senator’s.

4. Some people cling to religion not because they are bitter but because they believe it, and because faith in God gives them purpose and comfort.

5. Some hard-working Americans find it insulting when rich elites explain away things dear to their hearts as desperation. It would be like a white politician telling blacks they cling to charismatic churches to compensate for their plight. And it vindicates centrist Democrats who have been arguing for a decade that their party has allowed itself to look culturally out of touch with the American mainstream.

6. It provides a handy excuse for people who were looking for a reason not to vote for Obama but don’t want to think of themselves as bigoted. It hurts Obama especially with the former Reagan Democrats, the culturally conservative, blue-collar workers who could be a promising voter group for him. It also antagonizes people who were concerned about his minister but might have given him the benefit of the doubt after his eloquent speech on race.

7. It gives the Clinton campaign new arguments for trying to recruit superdelegates, the Democratic elected officials and other insiders who get a vote on the nomination. A moderate politician from a swing district, for example, might not want to have to explain support for a candidate who is being hammered as a liberal. And Clinton’s agents can claim that for all the talk of her being divisive, Obama has provided plenty of fodder to energize Republicans.

8. It helps Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) frame a potential race against Obama, even though both of them have found support among independents. Now Republicans have a simple, easily repeated line of attack to use against Obama as an out-of-touch snob, as they had with Sen. John F. Kerry after he blundered by commenting about military funding, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”

9. The comments play directly into an already-established narrative about his candidacy. Clinton supporters have been arguing that Obama has limited appeal beyond upscale Democrats — the so-called latte liberals. You can’t win red states if people there don’t like you. “Elites need to understand that middle-class Americans view values and culture as more important than mere trickery,” said Paul Begala, a Clinton backer. “Democrats have to respect their values and reflect their values, not condescend to them as if they were children who’ve been bamboozled.”

10. The timing is terrible. With the Pennsylvania primary nine days off, late-deciding voters are starting to tune in. Obama and Clinton are scheduled to appear separately on CNN on Sunday for a forum on, of all topics, faith and values. And ABC News is staging a Clinton-Obama debate in Philadelphia on Wednesday. So Clinton has the maximum opportunity to keep a spotlight on the issue. Besides sex, little drives the news and opinion industry more than race, religion, culture and class. So as far as chances the chattering-class will perpetuate the issue, Obama has hit the jackpot.

11. The story did not have its roots in right-wing or conservative circles. It was published — and aggressively promoted — by The Huffington Post, a liberally oriented organization that was Obama’s outlet of choice when he wanted to release a personal statement distancing himself from some comments by the Rev. Wright.

12. It undermines Democratic congressional candidates who had thought that Obama would make a stronger top for the ticket than Clinton. Already, Republican House candidates are challenging their Democratic opponents to renounce or embrace Obama’s remarks. Ken Spain, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said: “There is a myth being perpetuated by Democrats and even some in the media that an Obama candidacy would somehow be better for their chances down ballot. But we don’t believe that is the case.”
Politico's Jonathan Martin, Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris contributed to this story.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080412/pl_politico/9561&printer=1;_ylt=AmfGupTyVZCVzSmFD8WE.A_Cw5R4

Is it Time for Americans & Gutless U. S. Politicians to Get Tough with China?

Is it Time for Americans & Gutless U. S. Politicians to Get Tough with China?
By Marc Chamot

"China is a growing menace to the free world and America, and our blood-sucking politicians leave them unchecked in favor for globalization over our own people’s expense and miseries."

With their atrocious human rights record, Source Wikipedia: Human rights in the People's Republic of China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The situation of human rights in the People's Republic of China has been addressed by various sources, particularly Western countries and some international organizations, as being poor in many respects. Past human rights issues include the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, when 2000-3000 civilians were killed and thousands more were injured.

Multiple sources, including the U.S. State Department's annual People's Republic of China human rights reports, as well as studies from other groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented the PRC's abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms. Full Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People

And their unauthorized occupation of Tibet; Freeing Tibet; America, Corporate Advertisers and the Free World May/Should Boycott Chinas’ Olympic games: It’s time for the world to show that China has no sovereignty and rights over Tibet.When will American politicians have the guts to stand up to China in stopping these abuses? We have given China Carte blanche with massive economic improvements over our own losses of American worker jobs, loses in good paying manufacturing jobs and a huge trade imbalance. We, not the people of America, but these blood sucking hapless American elected politicians both Democrats and Republicans have turned China into an abusive economical superpower at the expense of our own decimating economy and disappearance of good paying manufacturing jobs.

When you go shopping for clothes or items and look at the labels all you see is MADE IN CHINA, the most common items found in American stores these days including Wal-Mart. Even Wal-Mart totally abandoned their principals that made them great “Buy American.”

With their callous refusal late last year to allow some of our United States Navy ships to shelter from Pacific storms U.S. Navy steaming from Chinese inhospitality U.S.S. Kitty Hawk is towed by tug boats on arrival at its home port in Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday Nov. 27, 2007 after being refused a Hong Kong port call by the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara) by Frank James, updated at 3:40 pm with White House response: The saying "Any port in a storm" may resonate with mariners and even landlubbers around the world but apparently they're not the ones calling the shots inside the Chinese government.

The U.S. Navy is apparently fighting mad with China because of a recent incident in which the Chinese prevented two U.S. naval ships seeking safe harbor from a Pacific storm from entering the port of Hong Kong.

As Los Angeles Times reporter Julian Barnes reports, this is a violation of maritime customs dating back centuries.

And apparently, you don't have to go to a naval academy to know this. All you need do is listen to some Jimmy Buffet lyrics. Barnes quotes Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command: "This is, kind of, an unwritten law amongst seamen, that if someone is in need, regardless of genus, phylum or species, you let them come in; you give them safe harbor," Keating said. "Jimmy Buffett has songs about it, for crying out loud."

The ships, two minesweepers named the Patriot and the Guardian, rode out the storm without damage though anyone whose been on a ship tossed around by waves and wind can identify with any of the sailors who would rather not repeat the experience anytime soon. Full Story: http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/us_navy_steaming_from_chinese.html

And with their shooting down of their own satellite in space for preparation for “star wars” and criticizing our own shooting down of our own satellite a few months back. Our sycophants pandering government are doing nothing about it when it comes to China.

We like to pick on little nations who can't fight back and can’t do much about us, but when it comes to China our American president and congress in Washington have their tails between their legs like cowardly dogs.

With record economic growth in China while they are killing the American trade industry manufacturing jobs and labor in general.

According to World News at About.com; Why the U.S. China Trade Deficit is Unsustainable Writing of Hu Jintao's April 2006 visit to the United States, The Observer quipped, "Last week George Bush, leader of the most powerful country on earth, met Hu Jintao, his banker."
While issues like human rights and freedom of speech capture much of the public's attention, one of the most pressing (although admittedly less glamorous) issues in U.S.-China relations is the continued trade deficit.

The United States and China share the most imbalanced bilateral trade relationship in the world. The United States imports more goods from China than it exports to a tune of $202 billion dollars each year. All told, China alone accounts for nearly 26% of the United States' $725.8 billion trade deficit. Full Story: http://worldnews.about.com/od/china/a/china_trade.htm

We got this imbecile Republican at the Whitehouse George W. Bush that hocked our nation to the tilt for billions of dollars in communist China money to help keep our economy solvent, including with the financing of a costly Iraqi war. And we got idiotic inept Washington Democratic politicians that control both the House and the senate who are also mum when it comes to China and Bush idiotic foreign and domestic policies.

China is a growing menace to the free world and America, and our blood-sucking politicians leave them unchecked in favor for globalization over our own people’s expense and miseries.

Meanwhile we got two Democratic presidential candidates and the mainstream media bickering about meaningless issues while one of the biggest issue is China and our economy are being neglected, a serious matter that need addressing to. And that Republican nominee John McCain is part of the Washington group of panderers to China’s every whim.

The Democratic Apparatus Betrayals/Defections from the Clinton Machine was it tied to Homosexuals’ “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”; Payback Time?

The Democratic Apparatus Betrayals/Defections from the Clinton Machine was it tied to Homosexuals’ “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”; Is it Payback Time from all sides?
By Marc Chamot

It was before the 2006-midterm December elections; the talk of the time mainly through conservative talk radio was that Hillary Clinton was the shoe in for the democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential nomination.

The Clinton machine had it all, the best of all worlds and a well orchestrated easy run for this upcoming Whitehouse.

The Clinton machine and Democrats got a good boost after the Republicans got thrashed from congressional and senate control in Washington. It was for the Clintons and Democrats to win the 2008 Whitehouse and it was theirs alone.

That was then, but unfortunately something came along the way on January 2008 that monkey wrenched the whole Clinton strategy broken to pieces and that was Barack Obama.

Obama Starts ’08 Bid, Reshaping Democratic Field WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — Two years after arriving in Washington, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois made clear on Tuesday his intention to enter the Democratic presidential race, creating an exploratory committee while preparing to open a full-fledged campaign next month to become the nation’s first black president. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/us/politics/17obama.html

A racially charged Barack Obama presidential candidacy would take away the traditional African American voters from the Clintons, by making it from a run away Clinton race into a tight race and possible elimination.

While most Democrat voters in the nation revered Bill Clinton, homosexuals despised him and unfortunately for Hillary Clinton there was a big problem for her in getting the majority of powerful Democrats in unison behind her because of Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” On top of it all Hillary Clinton is not well liked made it that much harder for Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination.

There was a concerted effort by some left wing Democratic liberals structure to derail the Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton presidential machine. Bill Clinton as president somehow angered most of these left wing homosexual Democratic apparatus because of “don’t ask don’t tell” military policies and went through all efforts in finding a suitable candidate that could defeat Hillary Clinton and the Clinton machine for the Democratic nomination.

One of the biggest groups still seething with anger towards Bill Clinton are the homosexual groups still angered by Bill Clinton’s refusal to allow more open gay military. Bill Clinton’s;

U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Panders to PrejudiceAnti-Gay Harassment Flourishes

(New York, January 23, 2003) The U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of discharging gay and lesbian servicemembers who reveal their sexual orientation violates human rights and deprives the military of skilled personnel, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

America prides itself on being a nation of liberty and tolerance, yet it permits its military to remain a bastion of discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Jamie Fellner, Esq.Director, U.S. Program

Under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” any servicemember who acknowledges his or her homosexuality by word or deed is discharged. Between 1994 and the end of 2001, more than 7,800 servicemembers were forced out of the military because of the policy.

“America prides itself on being a nation of liberty and tolerance,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch. “Yet it permits its military to remain a bastion of discrimination against gays and lesbians.”

In a letter sent to President Bush with the report, “Uniform Discrimination: The ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy of the U.S. Military,” Human Rights Watch asked him to seek an end to discharges on the basis of sexual orientation and to work with Congress to repeal the 1993 law codifying the policy.

“‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ panders to prejudice,” said Fellner. “Gay and lesbian servicemembers are discharged without regard to their skills, training, commitment or courage — victims of the irrational fears and stereotypes some heterosexuals have about them.”
http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/01/us012303.htm

Liberal homosexuals saw it as Bill Clinton abandoning his leftist liberal roots; they saw him as a traitor for their causes and weren’t ready to forget and it was payback time.

When Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama the Liberal floodgates opened up the collapse for any hopes in a Hillary Clinton presidency with mass defections from powerful Democrats like Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential candidate, endorsed Obama recently. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius climbed aboard, the morning after she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal speech to President Bush’s State of the Union address.

Was New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson a Clinton "Judas?"

Along with the recent New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama, who as James Carville called the “Judas” for the Clintons, may have been the final straw into a possible smooth Hillary Clinton withdrawal?

Bill Clinton’s presidency made Bill Richardson to what he is today. Prior to the Clintons Bill Richardson was virtually nobody until Bill became president and doors of opportunities opened up for Bill Richardson.

His run for governorship of New Mexico wasn’t totally on his own. Barack Obama wasn’t there for Bill Richardson. It was primarily Bill and Hillary Clinton who made it happen for him.

According to Wikipedia: In 1997, Clinton appointed Richardson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. As ambassador, he represented the United States in UN proceedings regarding the Palestinian National Authority and the State of Israel[6], the completion of negotiations that strengthened the role and mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme regarding ecologically sustainable development[7], as well as other duties of an ambassador to the UN. Richardson served there until 1998, when he was appointed U.S. Secretary of Energy, a post that he held for the remainder of the Clinton administration. According to his autobiography, Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Monica Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the UN. Richardson did so, and offered her a position, which she declined.[8]
The Senate confirmed Richardson to be Clinton's Secretary of Energy on July 31, 1998. His tenure at the Department of Energy was marred by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage scandal. Richardson was also criticized by the Senate for his handling of the espionage inquiry by not testifying in front of Congress sooner. Richardson justified his response by saying that he was waiting to uncover more information before speaking to Congress.[9]

Richardson created the Director for Native American Affairs position in the Department in 1998, and in January 2000 oversaw the largest return of federal lands, 84,000 acres (340 km²) to an Indian Tribe (the Northern Ute Tribe of Utah) in more than 100 years.[10] Richardson also directed the overhaul of the Department's consultation policy with Native American tribes and established the Tribal Energy Program.

The Clintons certainly feel betrayed and angry by the Democratic elites and political apparatus that abandoned them and destroyed their machine.

For a Clinton easy withdrawal to help the Democrats in aligning themselves for a smooth Barack Obama Democratic nomination and presidency will never happen and cannot happen under these circumstances of betrayals.

I personally don’t blame the Clintons for being angry by these betrayals, especially from these so called friends who turned out to be total traitors. It makes a lot of sense to me for the Clintons to drag this race into the Democratic convention even to the point of damaging the Democratic chances for the 2008 presidential elections as payback for your payback.