“One of Obama’s most controversial and contentious issues that he has allowed to fester for years is the question of his birth certificate,” says Martin. “Obama has posted at least two versions, maybe more, of a ‘certificate’ on the Internet.

“I want to see a certified copy issued by the State of Hawaii, not one issued by the State of Obama. Why Obama won’t allow direct access to his birth records is beyond me. But the closer we get to discovering the truth about Obama the more we understand why he is terrified of that truth.

“What is Obama hiding? Frankly, after being in Hawaii and conducting our first round of interviews, we think we have a clearer picture of what Obama is concealing, and why. We have more research and interviews to conduct before we can announce our opinions.

“In the meantime, I filed a lawsuit against the State of Hawaii to require the state to open Obama’s birth records. The Governor and Director of the Department of Health are named as defendants.

“The case has been docketed as number 08-1-2147-10 and assigned to Circuit Judge Bert Ayabe.

“We will distribute copies of the lawsuit at a Saturday morning news conference, as well as making them available on a limited basis Friday evening upon written request. We will hold the Saturday morning news conference in front of the courthouse to provide additional information.

“Friday evening I will be available by cell phone from AlaMoanaBeachPark.

“We will issue a news release later Friday with details of Saturday’s news conference.

“The basic question remains: why is Obama trying to hide his life from birth to adulthood from the American people? Interestingly, we think we also know now why he has virtually imprisoned his white grandmother and refuses to allow her to appear in public. Who is the man behind Obama’s mask? I think my book ‘Obama: The Man Behind The Mask’ is aptly titled.

“Next week, we believe we will be in a position to remove Obama’s mask and confront him with the truth about who he is and what he is.

“One TV news network has already tentatively scheduled a conference in New York on our return.”

John McCain- 49%
Barack Obama- 47%

Survey USA, a prominent national polling firm, shows John McCain leading Senator Barack Obama in the state of Florida. The Survey USA Florida poll was conducted after the final presidential debate on Thursday October 16th.

Tampa Tribune Endorses John McCain for President

“McCain brings a lifetime of useful experience, including his grueling captivity in Vietnam and long Senate service. He believes in federalism, a strong defense and disciplined self-interest. McCain has been willing to cross party lines to work on tough problems. He co-authored a campaign finance law that failed to fulfill its objective, but he did muster the bipartisan support needed to try to control the buying and selling of public office.”

Uncertain Times Require McCain’s Tested Vigilance
Editorial
Tampa Tribune
October 17, 2008

The direction of the nation is at stake in this election. Hard economic times, a disappointing Republican administration and the seductive promises of a master orator are pushing America toward a European-style social democracy.

If you don’t want that to happen, vote for Republican Sen. John McCain. First, it must be acknowledged that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama gets a lot of things right, especially when emphasizing what has gone wrong. Studiously unflappable, he is the most inspirational campaigner in memory. McCain, too, has many ideas for improvement, but his ch anges build on what has worked in the past to make our nation the strongest in the world.

McCain understands that U.S. companies must compete worldwide and shouldn’t have to pay one of the world’s highest corporate tax rates. He knows that federal spending is out of control. He knows that economic growth only comes from hard work and real investment, not through wholesale redistribution of tax dollars as Obama promises.

Obama became a political celebrity by representing the disaffected. He is generating unprecedented enthusiasm among the young and the poor, and their participation is welcome. Yet mainstream voters need to understand that the change these voters want will have historic consequences. Obama’s future America is largely unrestrained by many of the traditional values long held by Middle America.

Obama promises a tax cut for 95 percent of households, even though only 62 percent of households pay any income tax now. Taxes would increase sharply for households making more than $250,000 a year a policy that penalizes success. Profitable small businesses would be hardest hit. Obama even has the audacity to promise a tax break for businesses that create jobs, while simultaneously increasing taxes that would force some businesses to cut payrolls.

Last year, Obama had the most liberal voting record in the Senate. If elected, he would appoint activist judges capable of finding liberal surprises in the Constitution. He would push for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. He would agree to new barriers to trade, which would raise consumer prices.

We urge voters, especially independents and moderate Democrats, to think about where the candidates and their parties are coming from, where they want to go and who the candidates really are.

Obama is a lawyer, a professor, a best-selling author and a winning debater. He is smart and patriotic, but as a leader on the national stage, mostly untested. His short tenur e in the Senate has been unremarkable, other than being consistently partisan.

McCain brings a lifetime of useful experience, including his grueling captivity in Vietnam and long Senate service. He believes in federalism, a strong defense and disciplined self-interest.

McCain has been willing to cross party lines to work on tough problems. He co-authored a campaign finance law that failed to fulfill its objective, but he did muster the bipartisan support needed to try to control the buying and selling of public office.

He is more open-minded on energy reforms than Bush has been. He has an independent nature and passion for public service. He spoke out against torture and strongly criticized Bush’s first defense secretary for resisting the surge of troops McCain knew Iraq needed for peace to have a chance.

McCain’s biggest challenge is that after eight years of the Bush White House, it’s hard to say his party still believes in smaller government. He ha s run an uneven campaign, facing an unfair share of blame for budget deficits, feeble economic growth, costly military interventions, uncontrolled immigration, emergency bailouts of misled corporations, and a diminished world opinion of America.

Yet the record shows blunt-talking McCain would begin to return his party, and the nation, to a more conservative, compassionate and productive path. He is not the candidate preferred in much of Europe and the Middle East, but he would keep us safe and begin to repair America’s image worldwide.

A few states could make the difference in this election. Florida is likely to be one, and Tampa Bay will be a key battleground. The McCain-Obama race is a choice that divides families, friendships and even editorial boards.

Obama’s vision of hope shines like a rainbow, appealing but just out of reach. McCain’s call to freedom and responsibility is less exciting, but you know it works.

The Tribune encourages voters to vo te what they believe, not what they wish were true. The nation needs a stable leader in these unpredictable times.

For president, the Tribune endorses Sen. John McCain.

#38 Gogandalf (from above) on 10.18.08 at 3:19 pm FREDDIEBROWN – information on your above list is for Letterman Show –

this is the contact for SNL:

http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/

Did you even read my post? Did I really tell YOU to ‘get off your ass’?? Did I tell anyone to get off their ass?

I’m out of here. Pffft. With Pumas like these…

That is the email for The David Letterman Show! Letterman is on CBS…

Saturday Night Live is on NBC!

(I am attempting to find the best email address I can for the show, will post it here and on the next thread. If anyone else already has one, please post if!)

Well, I for one DO question their patriotism. And I believe there is more than ample evidence to support those concerns.

After 9/11, Obama lamented that we should focus more on why that tragedy occurred than on the event itself. Obama’s musings led him to offer his belief that the US’s lack of sensitivity to the needs of terrorists was a driving force behind this heinous act. Biden’s reaction was more mercenary – in response to the attacks on the ATC and the Pentagon, Biden proposed to offer Iran $200 million with no strings attached to show Iran there were no hard feelings.

At this year’s 9/11 memorial, Obama looked decidedly uncomfortable, and while McCain respectfully and reverently placed his rose on the memorial pool at ground zero, Obama tossed his from 3 point range. And while we are still ion the subject of this year’s commemoration of 9/11, Michelle Obama was a no show. Her excuse was that her children were in school, yet she had time the day before to attend campaign events in Ohio and Indiana away from her children and events in the days following the memorial. The same Michelle Obama that has no pride in her Country; the same Michelle Obama who has derided the US as a “mean” nation.

And the same Michelle Obama, who with her husband, Barak, sat through over 20 years of hateful and racist screeds of Jeremiah Wright. The Jeremiah Wright who has damned America on many an occasion; who has accused the US government of creating the AIDS virus to kill the black population in the US; who believes the government distributes drugs in minority neighborhoods; and who characterized 9/11 as righteous retribution for the acts of the US.

I suppose in Obama and Biden’s world it is patriotic to associate with the likes of William Ayers, a despicable and seditious domestic enemy of the US whose major lament in life is not planting more bombs to kill more US citizens. Or to embrace the likes of Louis Farrakhan, whose hatred of whites, Jews and the US has been very public. Convicted felons, black supremacists, Islamic radicals – all de rigueur.

Their form of Patriotism not only ignores the US Constitution – it tramples it with impunity. That most precious right to vote is nothing more than a means to be manipulated and stolen for their ends. A patriotism that has as its mantra, demand all that your country can do for you, not what you can do for your country.

It must be patriotic to work to destroy the US Constitution and replace it with a more fitting “modern day” paradigm based on the Communist Manifesto. A form of patriotism that deeply buries the thoughts, works and principles of our founding fathers and replaces them with the guidance provided by Marx, Mao and Alinsky, with selected input from other infamous socialists like Hitler and Mussolini.

It is safe to say that the Obama/Biden definition of patriotism is the polar opposite of mine. I swore an Oath upon receiving my commission in the US Army to defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies – foreign and domestic. Not to defend ushering in a new world order, or to defend a government that turned the bedrock of the US Constitution into dust and replaced it with a new keystone designed to form the foundation of a new order.

I recognize that my country has its faults, but I do love it just the same. I have not and do not associate with anyone who has advocated the destruction of the US or its government, through any means. I have not sat in a house of worship that preached racial animus or hatred of the United States. I have not been associated with any group that advocated or pursued the theft of Constitutional rights. And I have never worked with or associated with any group bent on the obliteration of our Constitution. To me, people that pursue such courses are NOT patriotic – they are seditious.

So, I suppose Obama and Biden can continue to express indignation, for I will continue to question their patriotism. For to me, the live in a world that is the antithesis of patriotism, and pursue and embrace people who are the polar opposites of patriots. From my vantage point, the only “love” they have for this country is in what they can reap from its bounty, using our freedoms to sew the seeds of a new crop that will choke and cause the Constitution to wither and die.

Let’s all question their patriotism in November by sending Obama and Biden packing.

Letterman was just pissed off that he got “stood up” by McCain. He’s like a vindictive, scorned lover when he gets “rejected.”

McCain backed out at the last minute from a scheduled appearance on Dave’s show. Dave took it out on McCain and Palin first chance he got. The hell with elections. Dave was getting Dave’s rocks off. In his nitpicky, ornery, sadistic, sucker-punching kind of way.

Mailed a big batch to a friend in Upstate NY and another in FL (who lives in a senior residence and actively belongs to a local church). asking both of them to spread the word far and wide.

Been stealth stuffing magazines (LOL)….This is NYC. I’m a little paranoid about doing it in the open. Don’t want some crazy man attacking me with his umbrella!

I just can’t resist stuffing some in Oprah’s mags…. though I doubt that will actually sway any Oprah fans (but you never do know). I’ve been mostly sticking to mags related to business, economy, hard news, entrepreneurship, etc. Figure that’s a riper audience for our message.