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Joseph T. Burkeson, CMI · #1 9/23/08, 2:49 AM

Phone And Fax Numbers For All US Senators; More On What To Do
by Mike Shedlock

Here is a list of phone, fax, and email address for all US senators: United States Senate 110th Congress Phone, Fax, Email Addresses

Here is a second List Of Senate Contacts. I am told this list is more current. It was used to formulate the fax contact table below.

Here is the Complete List of Email Addresses and Fax Numbers for US Congress and Governors.

What I Am Doing

I am emailing the plan I outlined in Open Letter To Congress On The $700 Billion Paulson Bailout Plan to every senator.

Please phone, fax, or email your Senators asking that Congress consider my alternative plan or the Hussman plan.

Anything is better than the plan Paulson put together.

Please phone and FAX your Senators.
Ask 10 people to do the same.
Send them this link
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogsp...or-all-us.html

Thanks

Adendum:

Please Act On This Now! It Is Easy

In at least one email please send your senators a brief message to consider the Mish Alternative (or whatever alternative you prefer).

Here is an easy way for those with outlook.
Please Click The Following Link To Email Them All Now: Email All Senators.

This is what I ask you to send. Please copy the following as the body of the email.

Dear Senator

Instead of rushing into a $700 billion Paulson bailout proposal, please consider the following alternatives:

Mish's Open Letter To Congress On The $700 Billion Paulson Bailout Plan
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-to-congress-on-700-billion.html

Hussman's Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Regarding the Current Financial Crisis
http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc080922.htm

Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone Number
Your Email Address

Greg Bell · #2 9/23/08, 8:25 AM

I was amazed to get responses from many of them that don't want to hear from you unless you are in their state.

I have another alternative. If enough Americans moved to a small nation we could take it over just like the cubans have done in South Florida. Please give suggestions on where we should go.

Thanks

Joseph T. Burkeson, CMI · #3 9/23/08, 10:35 AM

Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT" The Rules Are...

Marcy Kaptur for President!

Joseph T. Burkeson, CMI · #4 10/1/08, 5:14 PM

Last shot before these assholes sell out!

Ian A. Niquette · #5 10/1/08, 5:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gbell

I was amazed to get responses from many of them that don't want to hear from you unless you are in their state.

I have another alternative. If enough Americans moved to a small nation we could take it over just like the cubans have done in South Florida. Please give suggestions on where we should go.

Thanks

Well, how about south Florida then!!

Linas I. Dapkus · #6 10/1/08, 6:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jburkeson1

Phone And Fax Numbers For All US Senators; More On What To Do
by Mike Shedlock

Here is a list of phone, fax, and email address for all US senators: United States Senate 110th Congress Phone, Fax, Email Addresses

Here is a second List Of Senate Contacts. I am told this list is more current. It was used to formulate the fax contact table below.

Here is the Complete List of Email Addresses and Fax Numbers for US Congress and Governors.

What I Am Doing

I am emailing the plan I outlined in Open Letter To Congress On The $700 Billion Paulson Bailout Plan to every senator.

Please phone, fax, or email your Senators asking that Congress consider my alternative plan or the Hussman plan.

Anything is better than the plan Paulson put together.

Please phone and FAX your Senators.
Ask 10 people to do the same.
Send them this link
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogsp...or-all-us.html

Thanks

Adendum:

Please Act On This Now! It Is Easy

In at least one email please send your senators a brief message to consider the Mish Alternative (or whatever alternative you prefer).

Here is an easy way for those with outlook.
Please Click The Following Link To Email Them All Now: Email All Senators.

This is what I ask you to send. Please copy the following as the body of the email.

Dear Senator

Instead of rushing into a $700 billion Paulson bailout proposal, please consider the following alternatives:

Mish's Open Letter To Congress On The $700 Billion Paulson Bailout Plan
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-to-congress-on-700-billion.html

Hussman's Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Regarding the Current Financial Crisis
http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc080922.htm

Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone Number
Your Email Address

FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?

The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, “we are here to save you” from the crises they created.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess. He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans. The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.

Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk “community service,” social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president. We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.

The FBI investigation

An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America ’s financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.

Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings — by offering higher fees or the promise of more work — form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.

The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they “hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key” as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

How did we get here?

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION! A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.

The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O's Dangerous Pals.

Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster. ONE key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies.

Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics

It would be tough to find an "on the ground" community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago , Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.

He returned to Chicago in the early '90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN's up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott's drive against Chicago 's banks.

Obama Funds ACORN

More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago 's Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation's board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers - and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.

That committee's report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama's organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott's ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.

More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN - whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.

Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public's eye. The Woods Fund's claim to be "nonideological," it says, has "enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government 'establishments' without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship."

Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics

The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN's Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.

And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott's way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN's overall efforts.

In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama's first campaign for state Senate, saying, "We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."

In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN's Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes are needed to be delivered to EACH AND EVERY Congressman right away. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FORCE our government to STOP the EXCUSES and Save Main Street Not Wall Street!

Tell the Congress to Stop the Wall Street Bailout and Prosecute!
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799
Keep calling your Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE at increasing oil prices!

DO NOT BE SILENCED – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

NOTE: We need HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of FAXES and PHONE CALLS delivered to ALL Congressmen right away!

Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.

Since 1980, AmeriPAC has helped fund and elect a large number of candidates to public office. In addition to direct financial support of candidates, AmeriPAC also makes independent expenditures, funding proven campaign techniques such as media appearances, press releases, newspaper and magazine advertisements, direct mail, yard signs, television and radio commercials, bumper stickers, and billboards. Scores of candidates from coast-to-coast have received direct and indirect support through AmeriPAC.

Tell us you agree that our nation would be jeopardized by the radical changes being advocated by Barack Obama and his far left friends. Send your contribution to help defeat Barack Obama and restore the Republican majority in Congress in the upcoming November election.

It is time to say we the American people will pick our president.

nwagner · #7 10/2/08, 9:17 AM

Its official, there is no way in hell I will ever vote for McBush ...

Quote:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Busin...5931648&page=1
McCain expressed confidence on the bill Wednesday, stressing the urgency of the bill's success in the Senate during a campaign event in Independence, Mo.

"I am confident there are enough people of good will in both parties to help see America through this crisis," McCain said. "And when the last vote is cast, we can be grateful to all of them -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- for helping to solve the crisis instead of merely exploiting it."

But, he continued, "If the financial rescue bill fails in Congress yet again, the present crisis will turn into a disaster."

Bob Barr for President in '08

nwagner · #8 10/2/08, 9:24 AM

There is no doubt I'll be voting against this radical lefty representing my district who voted yes for the first version of this despicable bill.

Randy D. Stufflebeem · #9 10/2/08, 9:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ldapkus

FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?

The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, “we are here to save you” from the crises they created.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess. He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans. The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.

Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk “community service,” social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president. We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.

The FBI investigation

An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America ’s financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.

Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings — by offering higher fees or the promise of more work — form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.

The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they “hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key” as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

How did we get here?

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION! A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.

The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O's Dangerous Pals.

Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster. ONE key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies.

Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics

It would be tough to find an "on the ground" community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago , Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.

He returned to Chicago in the early '90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN's up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott's drive against Chicago 's banks.

Obama Funds ACORN

More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago 's Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation's board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers - and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.

That committee's report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama's organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott's ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.

More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN - whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.

Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public's eye. The Woods Fund's claim to be "nonideological," it says, has "enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government 'establishments' without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship."

Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics

The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN's Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.

And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott's way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN's overall efforts.

In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama's first campaign for state Senate, saying, "We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."

In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN's Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes are needed to be delivered to EACH AND EVERY Congressman right away. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FORCE our government to STOP the EXCUSES and Save Main Street Not Wall Street!

Tell the Congress to Stop the Wall Street Bailout and Prosecute!
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799
Keep calling your Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE at increasing oil prices!

DO NOT BE SILENCED – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

NOTE: We need HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of FAXES and PHONE CALLS delivered to ALL Congressmen right away!

Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.

Since 1980, AmeriPAC has helped fund and elect a large number of candidates to public office. In addition to direct financial support of candidates, AmeriPAC also makes independent expenditures, funding proven campaign techniques such as media appearances, press releases, newspaper and magazine advertisements, direct mail, yard signs, television and radio commercials, bumper stickers, and billboards. Scores of candidates from coast-to-coast have received direct and indirect support through AmeriPAC.

Tell us you agree that our nation would be jeopardized by the radical changes being advocated by Barack Obama and his far left friends. Send your contribution to help defeat Barack Obama and restore the Republican majority in Congress in the upcoming November election.

It is time to say we the American people will pick our president.

I feel more and more everyday the American Press is picking our next President!

Michael Larson · #10 10/2/08, 9:45 AM

McCain blows perfect opportunity to sew up the election. A pox on all of them

Read em and weep and then call your congressman.
Because of how this was done the house has to pass exactly the same bill that the Senate passed last night without one comma being changed. If it is to be stopped the battle is in the house.

McCain will support earmark-stuffed Senate Crap Sandwich; Obama: Me, too!
By Michelle Malkin • October 1, 2008 11:15 AM

McCain has made his battle against earmarks the hallmark of his campaign. He couldn’t stop talking about them for the first half of the last week’s first presidential debate.
The Senate bill is stuffed with earmarks to grease its passage. I repeat:

- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)
Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 30
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)
- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

McCain supports them all.
Business as usual.
No earmark left behind.

whandley · #11 10/2/08, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ldapkus

FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?

The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, “we are here to save you” from the crises they created.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

Yes, Mr. Obama knows a great deal about the mess. He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions and pressuring them to make high risk loans. The very same left-wing ACORN was guilty of voter fraud in the last presidential election.

Now these same Democrats want to do another high risk “community service,” social engineering experiment. They want to elect a high-risk, low experience, socialist one of the same community organizers that created the mess to be our next president. We cannot experiment with the office of president and learn as we go. Barack Obama is not qualified and has no history of success as a leader in government or business.

The FBI investigation

An FBI investigation is under way at Lehman Brothers and three other contributors to America ’s financial crisis to determine whether they put pressure on ratings agencies to award top ratings to securities they issued.

Concerns that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG or Lehman may have sought to encourage agencies to inflate their ratings — by offering higher fees or the promise of more work — form part of a broad inquiry by the bureau.

The agencies are widely regarded as having failed debt holders by attributing the top ratings to many securities that turned out to be extremely risky and have lost investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

The FBI, which is also investigating whether any of the four institutions deliberately misled investors about the true health of their assets, is expected to demand that they “hold all papers and e-mails under lock and key” as it sifts through the evidence, a source said.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

How did we get here?

FOLLOW THE MONEY AND CORRUPTION! A Lending Policy created by democrats for democrats run by democrats monitored by democrats enforced by community organizer democrats and profited from by democrats.

The following information is condensed from an article by Stanley Kurtz. O's Dangerous Pals.

Fannie and Freddie acted in response to Clinton administration pressure to boost homeownership rates among minorities and the poor. However compassionate the motive, the result of this systematic disregard for normal credit standards has been financial disaster. ONE key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies.

Obama Trains ACORN Staff in Shakedown Tactics

It would be tough to find an "on the ground" community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

When Obama was just a budding community organizer in Chicago , Talbott was so impressed that she asked him to train her personal staff.

He returned to Chicago in the early '90s, just as Talbott was starting her pressure campaign on local banks. In those years, he also conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN's up-and-coming organizers. That is, Obama was training the army of ACORN organizers who participated in Madeline Talbott's drive against Chicago 's banks.

Obama Funds ACORN

More than that, Obama was funding them. As he rose to a leadership role at Chicago 's Woods Fund, he became the most powerful voice on the foundation's board for supporting ACORN and other community organizers. In 1995, the Woods Fund substantially expanded its funding of community organizers - and Obama chaired the committee that urged and managed the shift.

That committee's report on strategies for funding groups like ACORN features all the key names in Obama's organizer network. The report quotes Talbott more than any other figure; Sandra Maxwell, Talbott's ACORN ally in the bank battle, was also among the organizers consulted.

More, the Obama-supervised Woods Fund report acknowledges the problem of getting donors and foundations to contribute to radical groups like ACORN - whose confrontational tactics often scare off even liberal donors and foundations.

Indeed, the report brags about pulling the wool over the public's eye. The Woods Fund's claim to be "nonideological," it says, has "enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government 'establishments' without undue risk of being criticized for partisanship."

Obama Aware of Intimidation Tactics

The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN's Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.

And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott's way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN's overall efforts.

In return, Talbott proudly announced her support of Obama's first campaign for state Senate, saying, "We accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."

In short, to understand the roots of the subprime mortgage crisis, look to ACORN's Madeline Talbott. And to see how Talbott was able to work her mischief, look to Barack Obama.

Select Below to Demand Congress Protect Taxpayers Not Speculators
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes are needed to be delivered to EACH AND EVERY Congressman right away. Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help FORCE our government to STOP the EXCUSES and Save Main Street Not Wall Street!

Tell the Congress to Stop the Wall Street Bailout and Prosecute!
FAX All Congressmen - Tell Them No Bailout – Prosecute Offenders!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/ameripac_bailout/?a=1799
Keep calling your Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE at increasing oil prices!

DO NOT BE SILENCED – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

NOTE: We need HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of FAXES and PHONE CALLS delivered to ALL Congressmen right away!

Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.

Since 1980, AmeriPAC has helped fund and elect a large number of candidates to public office. In addition to direct financial support of candidates, AmeriPAC also makes independent expenditures, funding proven campaign techniques such as media appearances, press releases, newspaper and magazine advertisements, direct mail, yard signs, television and radio commercials, bumper stickers, and billboards. Scores of candidates from coast-to-coast have received direct and indirect support through AmeriPAC.

Tell us you agree that our nation would be jeopardized by the radical changes being advocated by Barack Obama and his far left friends. Send your contribution to help defeat Barack Obama and restore the Republican majority in Congress in the upcoming November election.

It is time to say we the American people will pick our president.

Linus, Linus....

Will you guys never learn? When a small socialistic program doesn't work, don't abandon it. You just need to enact a much bigger socialism system for it to work properly. Once the dems add national health care, free education to everyone who sneaks in the country and gives every minority one of our recently acquired REO properties, we'll be just fine....

Remember there is a "Free Lunch" program and its alive and well right there at ground zero in Illinois...

Linas I. Dapkus · #12 10/2/08, 2:11 PM

How true. Back in the late 90's and early 2000 I worked for a demolition company that tore down the drug infested, crime ridden Chicago Housing Authority high-rises. They are being replaced with $300,000 and up townhomes and condos. They did not replace public housing. All of Obama's people were given section 8 vouchers and migrated to the suburbs.

Michael Larson · #13 10/2/08, 2:20 PM

Thank goodness the bicyclists have been save in the bailout bill.

Looks like page 206 of the Senate version of the "Wall Street Bail Out" bill allows a tax credit for purchase, improvement, repair and storage of of a bicycle of $20 for each month the bicycle is used to commute between your home and workplace.

Have these people, including McCain and Obama no shame?