ATTEMPTS TO STIFLE THE GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE CONTINUE

Seems somebody wants to stifle the global warming debate and make sure that that only one side of the debate is heard. The Minnesoteans for Global Warming website was hit with a DOS (denial of service attack) causing them to temporarily shutdown and move to a different host company. As the song says they got knocked but, they got up again.

Obama, ACORN and the Presidency

At the debate at Hofstra University here on Long Island last night Obama downplayed and tried to dismiss his involvement with ACORN the multinational political organization that is currently at the center of voter registration fraud investigation in a number of states. Here is how Obama addressed his connections with ACORN

"Now, with respect to ACORN, ACORN is a community organization. Apparently what they've done is they were paying people to go out and register folks, and apparently some of the people who were out there didn't really register people, they just filled out a bunch of names."

Except Mr. Obama this has been happening over and over through the years in a number of states. Only now is this rampant fraud starting to be exposed.

"It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs."

Now this was a little bit of shuck and jive on Obama's part. Because there was no mention of the $832,598 payment made in February by the Obama campaign to Citizens Services Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with Acorn.
The Obama campaign initially reported that the payment was for “staging, sound, lighting” and other advance work when it reported its expenditures with the Federal Election Commission. It filed amended reports in August and September to reflect that those payments were for get-out-the-vote efforts. Also not mentionedwas Obama's training seminars for ACORN workers.

"Now, the reason I think that it's important to just get these facts out is because the allegation that Sen. McCain has continually made is that somehow my associations are troubling."

Troubling I'll say it's troubling watch this video from December 2007 to see what to expect from Obama's presidency and the influence of ACORN. Ask yourself what exactly does she mean by "community values" . Here is exhibit A:

Dems at the Debate

I watched the Democratic debate last night on CNN and was impressed with the choice of candidates despite the "staged" appearance of the the top three Edwards, Clinton and Obama standing next to each other. I think Mike Gravel (who I never saw before ) impressed me most with his "inconvenient truth" comment on the war:"Former senator Mike Gravel (Alaska) accused Democrats of complicity in Iraq. "Sure, it's George Bush's war. But it's the Democrats' war also," he said."
If he's in the New York Primary I'm pulling his lever. As for the others they lost me on there immigration positions especially Bill Richardson.