Streisand gave three leading Democrats, Barack Obama, Clinton and John Edwards, hefty campaign donations last month, but she has now settled on one presidential candidate. Hillary!

"Hillary Clinton has already proven to a generation of women that there are no limits for success. She is driven by her passion for public service and her belief in the enormous potential of our country. Smart, capable and strong in her convictions, Hillary has transcended the dictates of what is thought to be possible for our time.”

The singer added that she believes Hillary  will prioritize issues of global climate change, health care and rebuilding the economy.

Clinton, the said she was "honored to have Barbra’s support."

(June 22, 2007) Romney Aide Accused of Pretending to Be a Cop

Mitt Romney's  director of operations for his presidential campaign has taken an indefinite leave of absence while he is being investigated for allegedly impersonating a state trooper.

New Hampshire's Attorney General's office is looking into a claim by a NY Times reporter that Jay Garrity illegally stopped his vehicle.

The reporter says Romney aide told him that he had checked his license plate. Garrity's lawyer and Mitt Romney's campain deny the accusation.

Garrity was cited 3 years ago for having lights and other police gear in his car without permission. At the time, a spokeswoman for Romney said that Garrity, a former federal employee who previously worked as a security consultant, had a federal permit for the equipment in his car, but not a Mass. permit.

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(Feb. 19, 2009) President Obama unveils $75B mortgage relief plan

Attempting to tackle "a crisis unlike any we’ve ever known," President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious $75 billion plan Wednesday to keep as many as 9 million Americans from losing their homes to bank foreclosure. "The American Dream is being tested by a home mortgage crisis that not only threatens the stability of our economy but also the stability of families and neighborhoods," he said. "While this crisis is vast, it begins just one house and one family at a time."

More expensive than expected, Obama’s plan aims to keep between 7 and 9 million people from foreclosure. Of the nearly 52 million U.S. homeowners with a mortgage, about 13.8 million, or nearly 27 %, owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth right now, according to Moody’s Economy.com.

Headlining the President's plan is a $75 billion Homeowner Stability Initiative, which would provide a set of incentives to mortgage lenders in an effort to convince them to help up to 4 million borrowers on the verge of losing their homes. The goal would be to cut monthly mortgage payments to sustainable levels, defined as no more than 31 percent of a homeowners income. Funding would come from the $700 billion dollar financial industry bailout passed by Congress last fall.

On the issue of equating his “white mother’ or “white grandmother” on equal plane with the bigoted Wright, displays Barack’s flawed thinking also. As many have said…we can’t choose our blood relatives, but we certainly can choose our Pastor. Obama’s defense of Wright with “all the good things that he and the church has done…” amounts to a load of horse shit. A Christian church, and a man of God, is supposed to do good work in the community…it is not anything special, beyond what is expected. A true follower of Jesus Christ, anointed in the Spirit and believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, does not speak in a church to his congregation, like Jeremiah Wright.

“Typical white person”…????? What thinketh thee of a man who takes offense to being referred to as “articulate”, then freely uses a stereotypical remark about his white grandmother? Me, I don’t think much of a hypocrite like that…I don’t trust hypocrites, and I don’t want another one as my President.

Would somebody ‘PLEASE’ come out of the crowd who is worthy of our vote…I’m so tired of waiting.  TAO - http://www.policeblues.com/

(Jan. 2008) Obama Sweeps Iowa 

 Jaws dropped, and eyes rolled across the political sphere last night, with Barack Obama sweeping the Democratic Iowa Caucus to an overwhelming victory. Edwards squeezed out Clinton by a hair, pushing her to third. While on the republican side, Huckabee left his opponents in the dust as well.

Both candidates surprised most of the political watchers with their huge voter’s support. It has been estimated that more than sixty percent of eligible voters turned out to vote. That figure indicates a 10% higher voter turnout than in 2004, and enormous when compared to the norm.

Pollsters have reported that on the Democratic side, Barack received the biggest support by woman voters, and the young. Hillary had been expected to rake in the female vote, of which, she seemed to be counting upon for a win. Huckabee can thank the huge Christian, Evangelistic support for his landslide victory.

It has been postulated that, both Barak Obama and Huckabee’s surprising lead in Iowa, came from a cross-section of race, age and gender who are simply tired of the Washington insiders, who have consistently, failed the American people. There seems to be a loud cry for real change at the Capital, and last night…one would need to be hearing deficient, to have not heard it.

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