the piece above is analyzed in
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

etc etc.
before you are the dumb idiot forwarding stupid things… make sure you check YOUR source. And there is a lot of true verified statements to use to badmouth on Obama, without even tapping into hoax.

(just for the fun, check http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/rally.asp
or http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/vpchange.asp )

WHAAAAAAAT the Hell !!! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. This could possibly be our next President. I, for one, am speechless.
Dale Lindsborg, Washington Post

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THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK THEM UP!!!!!!!

To All My Friends,

This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind since then. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with.

About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to college, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life. Where has the money come from?

Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental. He even admits that he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time. Even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used during his early years) had two roommates during this time, Muhammad Hassan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both Muslims from Pakistan .

During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia ; next to Hyderabad in India ; three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family; then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college.

When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he asks everyone to call him Barrack – not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It’s not cheap, to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe.

After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago ? Why not New York ? He was already living in New York.

By ‘chance’(?) he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo, Syria and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko was convicted of fraud and bribery this year, (nice guy?). Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’.

About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ? Where did he get the money for Law School ? More student loans?

After Law school he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with the law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? That’s the firm that represented ‘Rezar’, which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago . In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race.

In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago. He paid $1.65 million for the place. While paying off all those previous student loans (?) – Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama purchased this new home. Obama has met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without consulting with her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here, or am I just stupid?

On May 10, 2008, The Times reported that Robert Malley, an advisor to Obama, was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’. The same Hamas that controls Gaza and is connected with Iran and terrorism.

Oh, and by the way, remember Obama’s college roommates, the Muslims who where from Pakistan ? They are now in charge of all those ‘small’ internet campaign contributions coming in for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?

And a final tidbit. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that Obama made on the ‘This Week’ TV show with George Stephanapoulos. Obama, when talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned about this, it was stated, ‘he made a mistake’. Some mistake!

I got all of the above information on-line. If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.

Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the media been reporting this?

A phrase keeps running through my mind – ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!!!?

[Editor's note: I'll second that.]

In the US, the culture is “when the kid is 18 he/she is out of the house”. But the kids are pretty poorly equipped to be out of the house.

“But to blame Greenspan for everything is wrong. Whether it was Democratic support for Fannie/Freddie, Republican desire for deregulation, Wall Street greed, feckless rating agencies, predatory lenders or irresponsible borrowing by homeowners, there’s plenty of blame to go around.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/101108/Greenspan%27s-Fall-Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-Just-by-%27the-Maestro%27?tickers=%5Edji,%5Egspc,%5Eixic,TLT,SPY,UUP,DIA