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UNITED HEALTH CAUGHT STEALING FROM PENSION FUNDS

OUR HEALTH COVERAGE VENDOR is one of those MANY corporate giants who like steal...now they are paying millions in fines.  Gee, I wonder why our costs for health coverage go up?  Do you think it might be to pay fines such as this?  This system sucks ... ...eggs.  In the era of corporatism, ballooning since 9/11, we have a government that protects these robbers while we continue to pay higher and higher costs for health coverage.  I once thought that Obama and previously Hillary might do something about this...but lately, Obama seems to be moving to a position on the political spectrum that continues to protect these insurance scam artists and at our expense.  John McCain is even worse. 

 

NEWS ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal

July 2, 2008

UnitedHealth reached a $895 million settlement with California Public Employees' Retirement System and Alaska Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry Pension Trust in a federal securities class-action lawsuit related to stock-options backdating.

The health-insurance titan was one of the largest corporations to become ensnared in the backdating scandal, in which dozens of companies manipulated the dates that options were awarded, in order to give recipients a chance to reap additional compensation.

UnitedHealth also scaled back its earnings forecasts for 2008.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see: http://www.wsj.com?mod=djemalertNEWS

VOTE OBAMA???

It has been an exciting primary season.  The first woman to run for the presidency (not withstanding Margaret Chase Smth who was nominated for a laugh by the Reps.)!  The first African American to get the democratic nomination for the presidency!

 

Those of us who were supporting Hillary Clinton for the nomination...in the face of unbelievable sexism will now support the other good candidate in the run, Sen. Barack Obama.

 

He is a good man, open to the idea of helping us get universal healthcare, lowering taxes for the poor and working classes, the middle class, the retired.  His agenda is the reason most Americans should vote for him in november.  He wants to end the killing in

Iraq

finally, while McCain wants a socalled "victory"--after 100 years...

 

McCain on the other hand will continue the Bush War in

Iraq

.  I war we were lied to about by Bush/Cheney.  McCain admits he knows nothing about the economy and the economy is tanking.  Why would a voter make his X for a man who admits he doesn't know how to improve our economic plight?

 

Anyone who was supporting Hillary, as I was, and doesn't vote for Barack, is a fool.  Hillary knows that...Obama is the by-far preferred candidate for all of interested in those issues she talked about:  ending the war, healthcare for every american, improving our image in the world, improving our desperate economic condition....

 

LIKE ME, I HOPE EVERYONE WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA.  HE HAS THE AGENDA WE WANT AND NEED.  The first African American president!!!  How exciting is that??????

IS IT CLINTON, OR BARELY OBAMA?

According to newspapers all across the country it looks as though after today's final two primaries, Barack Obama might BARELY be the Democratic nomination winner.  Hillary, and rightly so, will continue to make the case that she is the better candidate to the undeclared Super Delegates.

Obama, unlike his counterparts in recent presidential cycles, is not exactly sprinting across the finish line. 

"Usually there's this I-want-to-be-with-the-winner mentality, and you're not seeing that this time," said David Johnson, a pollster who heads the firm Strategic Vision.

Obama is still in DEEP TROUBLE with core Democratic constituencies, voters he can not win without.  He must put Hillary on the ticket as Vice President to win those voters firmly to his cause.  If he does not offer the VP spot to Hillary, even I will need to think long and hard before voting for the Illinois Senator.  It is not that I don't think he will make a much better president than John McCain, it's that I don't like the way Hillary, the first female candidate for the presidency has been treated. 

I really want to vote for Obama.  He's a good man, a good candidate, but I need to see Hillary on that ticket for that to happen.  I so hope he asks her and SOON.  I will never vote for McCain, but I might just stay home if he doesn't offer Hillary the VP job and now.  SHE'S MORE THAN EARNED IT!!!

MAKE SEBELIUS VICE PREZ CANDIDATE AND LOSE CONSERVATIVE CATHOLICS

There has been a lot of speculation about Barack appointing Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his VP running mate.  If he is thinking that a woman, and a Catholic woman at that, would help him win the Catholic vote, he is dead wrong.  If fact, the Kansas Gov. was recently scolded by the Archbishop in Kansas City.  She will not win conservative Catholic votes, in fact, she will drive them away...see this article from today's National Catholic Reporter. on the communion politics surrounding the Gov. of Kansas.

If there is to be woman VP for Obama, it cannot be anyone other than Hillary Clinton.  Many of us will take it as a personal insult to appoint any other woman.

SUPER DELEGATES: CONTACT THEM FOR HILLARY!!!

If we all contact them, maybe we can influence many of them to vote for Hillary... Don't let them shove her out when we want to hear her and have her as VP if nothing else...LET THEM KNOW WE DON'T LIKE SEXISM, ANTI-WOMEN ATTITUDES ANYMORE THAN WE LIKE RACISM.

Bud Cramer (AL)
Gabrielle Giffords (AZ)
Nancy Pelosi (CA)
Jerry McNerney (CA)
Mike Honda (CA)
Sam Farr (CA)
Bob Filner (CA)
Susan Davis (CA)
Mark Udall (CO)
John Salazar (CO)
Jim Marshall (GA)
Rahm Emanuel (IL)
Nancy Boyda (KS)
Dennis Moore (KS)
William Jefferson (LA)
Charlie Melancon (LA)
Don Cazayoux (LA)
Rep. Michael Michaud (ME)
John Sarbanes (MD)
Steny Hoyer (MD)
Chris Van Hollen (MD)
John Olver (MA)
Niki Tsongas (MA)
John Tierney (MA)
Edward Markey (MA)
Collin Peterson (MN)
Gene Taylor (MS)
Rep. Travis Childers (MS)
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ)
Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC)
Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC)
Rep. Tom Udall (NM)
Charlie Wilson (OH)
Marcia Kaptur (OH)
Rep. Zack Space (OH)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH)
Rep. Dan Boren (OK)
Bob Brady (PA)
Jason Altmire (PA)
Tim Holden (PA)
Rep. Mike Doyle (PA)
John Spratt (SC)
Rep. Jim Clyburn (SC)
Lincoln Davis (TN)
Bart Gordon (TN)
Nick Lampson (TX)
Jim Matheson (UT)
Alan Mollohan (WV)
Distinguished Party
Leaders
Jimmy Carter (GA)
Al Gore (TN)
Fmr. Senator and Majority Leader
George Mitchell (NY)
Fmr. DNC Chair Bob Strauss (TX)
Senators
Ken Salazar (CO)
Joe Biden (DE)
Tom Carper (DE)
Tom Harkin (IA)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Ben Cardin (MD)
Carl Levin (MI)
Max Baucus (MT)
Jon Tester (MT)
Harry Reid (NV)
Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
Sherrod Brown (OH)
Ron Wyden (OR)
Jack Reed (RI)
Jim Webb (VA)
Herb Kohl (WI)

Governors
Bill Ritter (CO)
Steve Beshear (KY)
Brian Schweitzer (MT)
John Lynch (NH)
Phil Bredeson (TN)
Joe Manchin (WV)
Add-Ons
Terry Goddard (AZ)
Jay Nixon (MO)
Rusty McAllister (NV)
Jerry Lee (TN)

DNC Members
Joe Turnham (AL)
Nancy Worley (AL)
Don Bivens (AZ)
Lottie Shackleford (AR)
Art Torres (CA)
Hon. Carole Migden (CA)
Bob Mulholland (CA)
Christine Pelosi (CA)
Robert Rankin (CA)
Steve Ybarra (CA)
John Perez (CA)
Nancy DiNardo (CT)
Donna Brazile (DC)
Christine Warnke (DC)
John Daniello (DE)
Harriet Smith-Windsor (DE)
Richard Ray (GA)
Edward Smith (IL)
Helen Knetzer (KS)
Jennifer Moore (KY)
Nathan Smith (KY)
Chris Whittington (LA)
Claude "Buddy" Leach (LA)
Elsie Burkhalter (LA)
Sam Spencer (ME)
Jennifer DeChant (ME)
Hon. Heather Mizeur (MD)
Susan Turnbull (MD)
John Sweeney (MD)
Belkis Leong-Hong (MD)
Debra Kozikowski (MA)
James Roosevelt Jr (MA)
Carnelia Pettis Fondren (MS)
John Temporiti (MO)
Yolanda Wheat (MO)
Leila Medley (MO)
Hon. Robin Carnahan (MO)
Hon. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (MO)
Dennis McDonald (MT)
Margarett Campbell (MT)
Sam Lieberman (NV)
Hon. Yvonne Gates (NV)
Hon. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Philip D. Murphy (NJ)
Raymond Buckley (NH)
Irene Stein (NY)
Ralph Dawson (NY)
David Parker (NC)
Muriel Offerman (NC)
Carol Peterson (NC)
David Strauss (ND)
Hon. Chris Redfern (OH)
Ronald Malone (OH)
Patricia Moss (OH)
Hon. Joyce Beatty (OH)
Ivan Holmes (OK)
Jim Frasier (OK)
Jay Parmley (OK)
Frank Dixon (OR)
Wayne Kinney (OR)
Gail Rasmussen (OR)
Hon. Bill Bradbury (OR)
Eliseo Roques-Arroyo (PR)
Hon. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (SC)
Cheryl Chapman (SD)
Gray Sasser (TN)
Dr. Inez Crutchfield (TN)
Boyd Richie (TX)
David Hardt (TX
Denise Johnson (TX)
Betty Richie (TX)
Linda Chavez -Thompson (TX)
Helen Langan (UT)
Jim Leaman (VA)
C Richard Cranwell (VA)
Hon. Alexis Herman (VA)
Jerome Wiley Segovia (VA)
Howard Dean (VT)
Eileen Macoll (WA)
Ed Cote (WA)
Sharon Mast (WA)
David McDonald (WA)
Nick Casey Jr. (WV)
Alice Germond (WV)
Paula Zellner (WI)
Cynthia Nunley (WY)
Marylyn Stapleton (VI)

OBAMA, A CATHOLIC PRIEST, SEXISM AND RACISM!! SHAME ON THEM ALL

The following is a sermon preached by one of Obama's mentors at Obama's longtime church...a Catholic Priest...sexism, racism, just awful stuff.  Let's see if that "good" catholic Chris Matthews gives

 

 

 

this as much attention as it deserves!  And they wonder why WOMEN ARE UPSET WITH BARACK....

 

And this FROM "The Cafeteria is Closed" a very conservative blog:Another far left clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger, has joined his Southside Chicago friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the media spotlight, thanks to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The national political media first noticed F. Pfleger when he spoke at a raucous welcome home for Rev. Wright, following his recent media firestorm.

Christopher Hitchens uncovered a years old newspaper article in which the candidate named "three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks, and Father Michael Pfleger. Dave Kopel describes some of the more notable left wing activism of the Catholic priest. The media food chain has found a new colorful, ranting man of the cloth in the orbit of the candidate peddling change and hope.

Every Catholic in Chicago is well acquainted with Father Pfleger. For 25 years he has made local headlines for both his political activities and his clashes with the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. From asking parishioners to fill the collection plate with losing lottery tickets in order to highlight how state Lotto officials targeted the economically disadvantaged to encouraging the adoption of children out of the foster system by legally adopting a child himself, Pfleger knows what makes a good story. I've been dreading the kind of showdown he recently had with Bill O'Reilly and the national attention it has brought to his parish. That's because I long feared that the Archdiocese of Chicago was in the process of creating a monster.

No one has mentioned this astounding fact. Father Pfleger has been at St. Sabina's since 1981. The standard length of service for a pastor in Chicago is six years. Exceptions may be made, especially if a priest is nearing retirement or if special conditions are involved. This policy of regular rotation of priests among parishes is meant to avoid precisely what has happened in Pfleger's case: A cult of personality developing around a single priest in what is supposed to be a universal church. Such intense attachments are discouraged because the priests at their center often tend to succumb to the impulse to flexibly interpret their vows of obedience to Church doctrine and the authority of their bishops. .

How did this situation develop? Pfleger is a master at manipulating a media that loves to cover his many political antics. When it first came time for Pfleger to be transferred to a new parish, the story hit the Chicago media about a group of black parishioners who held their white pastor in such high esteem they didn't know if they could continue their membership in the Catholic Church after he got transferred. With racial tensions in Chicago high because of the reaction of a great many whites to the election of Harold Washington as mayor, this was a true feel good story. Rather than look like bureaucrats blindly enforcing a rule, the Archdiocese waived policy and allowed Pfleger another term at St. Sabina's.

In November, 2001, Cardinal George was reported as absolutely refusing to consider allowing Pfleger to remain at St. Sabina's for a fourth term as pastor. Pfleger and his parishioners talked of picketing the Archbishop's residence, located in a prime Chicago residential neighborhood. They even threatened schism if yet another exception was not made. Ministers from various denominations on Chicago's South Side spoke of petitioning the Vatican to intercede. Thus it is that another six year's later, Pfleger is still at St. Sabina's. And Cardinal George has an even bigger headache to deal with now that Pfleger has become a national news story.

Judas of the Democratic Party, Lieberman, Turns on Barack

Joe Lieberman, who is a Republican in all but name, attacks the Middle East policy initiatives of the Democratic party and specifically those advocated by Sen. Barack Obama.  I am still for Hillary, but if Barack becomes the democratic presidential nominee, with Hillary at his side as VP, my soul and vote will be with Barack also.

In the Wall Street Journal article, Lieberman again demonstrates his bellicose nature, his willingness to sell out the U.S. in his over-the-top war-mongering about Middle East issues.  Luckily, Joe Biden, the man who actually knows foreign policy and what is probably best for the U.S. has written a response that puts the Democratic turncoat, Lieberman in his place.

How did Connecticut ever elect this Bush/Cheney tool as their senator?

RFK Jr. and Hillary

RFK, Jr. said no one should take offense at what Hillary said in reference to the June 1968 death of his father.  It's a slow news weekend, MSNBC et al have nothing else to talk about, so they are dragging the name and memory of RFK over the coals in order to continue to attack Hillary Clinton.

Shame on the media, especially Chris Matthews, et al over at MSNBC for even admitting online that they are looking for "anything" on a Memorial Day Friday to talk about.  So the memory of a great man, and reputation of the truly good American, Hillary Clinton, is dragged around so that MSNBC and other media can try to keep ratings up and people interested in their Obama-fest.

Thank you RFK, Jr. for putting this in the proper perspective...

NO DEMOCRAT WILL WIN SAYING THIS

No presidential candidate, in my humble opinion, will win the presidency espousing this:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

We like the idea of protecting the environment, but think about who this talks to, or demands action from...actions that will adversely effect the quality of life of all working Americans, both people of color and white.....no, this is not going to win us votes for the democrats...another reason why we need Hillary...

Hillary to Win Kentucky BIG...

Kentucky papers are making it clear that Hillary will win Kentucky and probably very big.  Obama will win Oregon and equally big. 

Unfortunately, Obama will again lose to Clinton among the democratic party's biggest constituency, working class white Americans with incomes less than $50K and with no college preparation.

Obama needs Hillary as VP and this Democrat will be incredibly disappointed if Obama is not strong enough to have Hillary as VP.