Financial Advisor Hampshire

Who do you think has better ethics? Who has the better character?

Before you answer consider the following:

McCain was far deeper in bed with Charles Keating than Obama was with Tony Resko. Keating gave far more to McCain's campaign than Resko gave to Obama's. In fact, Keating was one of McCains' top fundraisers. Keating paid for many McCain vacations and flights to his resort homes, which McCain never disclosed (by law he must as a congressman) until years later during the Keating 5 fiasco. Cindy McCain and her dad invested $400,000 in a Keating strip mall. But here's the big difference, Obama dropped Resko like a wet cigar when Resko's started stinking. McCain on the otherhand, stepped in and tried to prevent a Senate hearing into Keating's fowl deeds. Keatings stench was all over McCain during those hearings. How McCain stayed out of jail is amazing.

OK, I know I know the Keating stuff was 20 years ago. Fair enough, but has McCain changed? Well now, McCain has a whole army of Keatings working for him, more lobbyists than any other presidential candidate in history. He On March 7, 2007, McCain named ex-Texas Representative Tom Loeffler, who has one of the most lucrative and influential practices in the nation's capital, as his campaign co-chair. In the same month, McCain named former Washington Sen. Slade Gorton, now a heavyweight lobbyist, as his honorary chairman for Washington state. Loeffler's client list includes PhRMA, the drug industry association; Southwest Airlines; Toyota; and Martin Marietta. Gorton represents, among others, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Weyerhaeuser and Fidelity National Financial. In addition, David Crane, now the campaign's senior policy advisor, was a senior executive at The Washington Group, a firm with 2006 billings of $10.4 million and 52 clients, including Delta Airlines, the Association of American Railroads, and the governments of Panama and Bangladesh. And Charlie Black, who is now a campaign spokesman appearing on McCain's behalf on radio, television, and as a "spin-doctor" after debates, is chairman of BKSH & Associates, with lobbying billings of $7.6 million in 2006, representing J.P. Morgan, Occidental and General Motors.

All told, there are 11 current or former lobbyists working for or advising McCain, at least double the number in any other campaign. Among the current and former lobbyists working for McCain are: Campaign CEO Rick Davis, a partner at Davis Manafort, where his clients have included SBC Communications and Verizon; and former Davis Manafort associate, National eCampaign Director Christian Ferry. At the end of 2006, Mike Dennehy, who founded The Dennehy Group, a New Hampshire lobbying firm, was appointed McCain's national political director. He gave up that post in May to become a senior campaign advisor.

McCain's new buddies make Keating look like an amateur. They are far more intelligent than Keating ever was. In otherwords, they are good at hiding the stench of their crookedness.

obama is honest, intelligent and cares about the poor, will give college students money to go to college, will give everyone free health care and those in need tax breaks and make the rich pay their way instead of raping the working class. obama will take from the rich and give to the poor like robin hood. and thats a good thing.

2008-08-25 16:48:51 by Skull Boy

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The Treasury official who attempted to clarify statements Obama made TWICE in public is not very convincing.

Do you think his political team didn't fully understand how TARP worked when they were writing his State of the Union speech (portions of which he then used in New Hampshire a few days later)??

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/021 0/32616_Page2.html

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed using $30 billion in bailout funds for small-business lending. He later repeated the idea in Nashua, N.H.

Both times, Obama said he would use bailout funds that were “repaid” to the government by financial firms — conjuring up the politically appealing image of taking money from a chastened Wall Street and sending it straight to Main Street.

But Obama’s description didn’t give an accurate picture of how he plans to pay for the new program. And his comments sowed controversy and confusion on Capitol Hill.

In reality, the administration is proposing taking $30 billion from the unspent portion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program to seed the new initiative, not — as Obama’s language suggested — taking the funds from the approximately $170 billion that banks have returned to government coffers.

While that distinction might seems painfully technical, it carries significant political weight on Capitol Hill. The reason: The legislation creating TARP dictates that repaid funds must go to pay down the national debt.................“The policy was always to transfer $30 billion of existing unused TARP authority to a new small-business lending fund, not to use repayments,” said Gene Sperling, a top Treasury adviser. “The moment we realized that there was any confusion we took immediate steps to clarify. The point the President and others were making was that the combination of repayments and increased financial stability … allowed there to be TARP funds available to have a special reserve for small banks and small businesses.”
roxann............I didn't say Obama set it up.

But when your proposing using money from the program to do certain things, it always good to understand how the law was written.
reality........."Why don't you want to help small business owners?"

Can you point out where I said I didn't want to help small businesses..........oh wait, I didn't.

I'm talking about Obama's plan to use TARP money (which seems to be against the original intent of TARP).

It's called "doubletalk." I compliment you on your astuteness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXSl0zZ8 EA
We don't trust the government with the spending of tax monies for good reason. Almost every time there is financial corruption, the government has a hand in it either because of something they should have done or something they did wrong. Look at the billions improperly given to government contractors. Look at the corrupt low income tax credit allocation program run by the IRS, HUD, and state allocation committees that refuse to exclude sporadic income effecting the rights of thousands of apartment applicants and tenants across the country, and indicating the abuse of tax dollars. A US President is always a puppet controlled by the strings of many.

2010-02-06 12:30:05 by Water Over Gold

So who do you think is right??

The Obama administration is "incredibly confident" the U.S. economy will rebound within a year, a top adviser said on Sunday, before a critical week in efforts to flesh out and sell the president's recovery agenda.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090322/ts_n m/us_financial_usa_3;_ylt=AlZp4ucCs2.Vn8 6PNhndKdCX.aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTE2N2U5ZnU2BHBv cwMzBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDZXYtb2Jh bWF0ZWFt

But Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire also says President Barack Obama's massive budget proposal will bankrupt the country..........The senator said Obama's spending plan in the midst of a prolonged recession would leave the next generation with a country too expensive to live in.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/ap_o n_go_co/gregg_budget;_ylt=Aq9lsFa0Z3qzSn u_OOvHFLOX.aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTE5cG1wZmczBHBv cwMxBHNlYwN5bi1tb3N0LXZpZXdlZARzbGsDc2Vu Z3JlZ2dzYXlz
jimmy g..."something thats backed up by every Economist worth their salt"

What might that be?? It's certainly not Obama's plan.

If Obama's quick recovery does not come, then I agree totally with Sen. Gregg. That is why I believe it is necessary for Pres. Obama to hold off on committing all this money right now. One year or even two years is not going to make a substantial difference in his programs if the economy does rebound as he says.

2009-03-22 11:24:19 by Water Over Gold