The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Chaney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Chaney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.

The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten's of billions.

Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.

Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.

Two years ago, Iraq's Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin "Tony" Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON.

Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming tax fraud charges -- Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It's time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --

OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK.

"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It's time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.

Michelle Obama should be ashamed.

"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It's time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

I too attended the Boise caucus, my seventh since I was old enough to vote (skipped 1996 since Clinton was unopposed). I got in the 2nd CD line at 6:10 and it was nearly 1/2 mile long! Within 5 minutes it was another half a block long behind me, but it seemed to move pretty well considering. The ballots came out about 15 minutes later and we were asked to fill them out so the line could move a little quicker. We got within about 500 feet of the front enterance around 7:00 p.m. and the Qwest Arena was full. No one else was allowed in. Ballots were being collected in a box by one of our state senators.

I wanted in anyway so I could keep my attendance streak alive (by the way santafe2, Kennedy actually won the Idaho caucus and delegate votes in 1980 though Carter won the primary). So I wandered up to the front doors as the line was quickly melting away as people dispersed after turning in their ballots. No way to get in.

As a veteran Qwest Arena denizen I knew another door to the sports pub so I went there. A third deck view of the arena! And only about 30 people in there at that time. I hung there for about an hour and watched the proceedings from the pub and also caught the returns on the TVs tuned to CNN and Fox. There was one still on ESPN but the game was a runaway, much like some of the primary contests.

Bethine Church gave a great speech, though one rude Obama fan interrupted her when she was saying, "She [Sen. Clinton] has faced many challenges" and the kid shouted "LIKE OBAMA!" Which was kind of funny too.

Mayor Bieter gave a rather rousing if unprepared speech for Sen. Obama that got the place rocking. Then we had to sit and wait for the results. That took too long. And my only other complaint was there was no beer served, even in the pub from where I was watching. A great night! Go Obama!

Wow! I'm encouraged to hear these comments by the Idaho voters. Thanks so much for your support and commitment to help change the country!

The Clinton camp's claims of a victory today, after spending weeks retreating from a much stronger position vis-a-vis her other competitors, reminds of the story told by John Kenneth Galbraith of the debriefing of the German Albert Speer at the close of World War II.

How was it, Galbraith asked, that Speer knew his Germans were losing?

It was, Speer replied, because the glorious victories of the Fatherland were growing ever closer to Berlin.

Let's liberate the Democratic Party from the occupation forces of corruption and moral relativism!

The Big "O" has got the Big Mo !!!
Go Obama !!!

MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN

I live in Latah County (mid-northern Idaho) and we went 76% Obama, 13% Clinton. They were expecting 350 people and more than 1,100 people showed up. It was so incredibly packed that when they told us to go to our candidate to caucus, it took 15-20 minutes for everyone to wiggle around until they got where they were going, which was almost entirely to Obama. It was ridiculous.

My parents, sister and sister-in-law all were at the Ada County caucus and said it was the same thing. I just about flipped when my mom sent me a text that said "H not viable" after the first round. My jaw DROPPED. I wiggled over to the Obama people and told them and they just about lost it.

Obama won Idaho by the largest margin of any state. Why? Because Idaho is the reddest state in the nation, and Democrats in a state like this are so depressed about politics that it takes someone truly magnificent to inspire them to even vote, let alone get out to caucus.

I'm also working for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team, which has one person from each state that represents their state's youth. Of course I'm representing Idaho. To see the whole list (and mine) of Street Team profiles, go to:

www.chooseorlose.com

and click on my (or your) state.

santefe2

It was downright cold last night in Ada County, well below freezing and the wind was biting as well. Yet thousands, like my daughter and I, stayed in line for well over an hour, stomping in the snow to keep the feet from totally freezing. According to others, the line started forming two hours before the doors opened, and was over an hour long when they finally opened, so every one of the 7500 that made it into the building waited over an hour, and most of the 2000 left outside had waited that long as well.

This was a committed, and excited, group. Repubs crossing over in hopes of choosing a weaker candidate wouldn't go to that much effort.

And from an Idaho perspective, it's far from clear which candidate would be easier to defeat. However, ask any local Idaho candidate, of either party, and they will tell you a Clinton on top the ballot will bring out the R's and hurt democrats in November.

Thank you, Idaho!!! God bless each and every one of you!!!! OBAMA!!!!

Thank you Idaho. This family in Virginia loves you and really don't know how to thank you because it seems like its not enough. I am scared as sh*t of the Clintons. After all the bad things they have done during this election and in the past, I keep waiting for them to attack and ruin everything. I guess this is what it felt like in Washington w/ them in power.

I attended the Nez Perce County caucus (in north central Idaho) last night and it was amazing! In 2004, only about 125 people attended - this time we had 474!! And at least 20% were young voters who were new to the system and passionate about getting involved. Obama has clearly struck a cord with people and I can't wait to see how the rest of this election cycle goes.

Here, people seem inspired by Obama's honesty and vision - plus, he spoke in Boise about Native American treaty rights, etc. which is hugely important to residents here.

I attended the Canyon County caucus--waited in line outside in the snow. Inside there was a huge crowd of Obama supporters. I was in line with a family of Hispanics supporting Obama. There were many other Hispanics in the Obama line. Obama's appeal crosses race, gender, and age; but even more importantly in Idaho he has crossed the party line and picked up Republicans who are sick of what has been coming from Washington DC. Obama's sweep is just beginning.

The reason Idaho's decision and Obama's win is more important than the results in either Illinois or New York, never mind Arkansas or New Jersey, or Hillary's bare delegate count, is that Obama was a nearly unanimous victory in a state that is nearly unanimously non-black, and hugely white. Hillary won at home and next-door-to-home in both the Northeast and the upper-South. Obama has demonstrated that he has core support outside his region and outside his demographic. He has captured, among Democrats, most white men, most white women below middle-age, almost all blacks, most educated people, most rich people, most young people, and is beat by Hillary only among older women and Latinos. This means he'll likely win Louisiana, Mississippi, DC, and maybe Maryland and Virginia. Depending on the women, he will likely get Washington and Oregon. Who cares that Clinton can ride her husband's coattails in Arkansas and carpetbag to New York and Kersey? If he can convince Latinos in Texas, he'll be the next president.

And the **REASON** why the state of Idaho is more important than larger states such as California and New York is.... ????

When I just now looked at the numbers, Hillary had almost a 10% lead in California.\ - a state we were told was going towards Obama.

Instead we hear about ... Idaho.

I am very dismayed at the lack of any positive coverage given Hillary.

It exists of course -- Why has the Post made a concerted effort to hide it from its readers????

Now if a Democrat could actually figure out how to win a federal or even high state level position in Idaho...

There have been many missed opportunities in this state recently and I don't think anyone has it quite figured out how to accomplish such a task with a D behind their name.

When I arrived at the caucus arena two hours before the start, I found the longest lines I've ever seen. Organizers explained there were two lines, one for each congressional district. As I walked through the snow past thousands of people to the end of line "2", I thought there must be a mistake and that people were lining up in candidate lines. Nearly every single person in had an Obama sticker. I thought I must be in the "Obama" line (where I belonged)

Once inside, it was clear what a blowout it would be. There was a small (mostly empty) Hillary Clinton section on the lower level of the arena. The Obama section was on the other side, top and bottom, completely full, and completely circled "end zones" and the top section above the Hillary section, plus most of the floor.

In the end, the vote was 87% for Obama, 11% for Clinton. She did not even reach the threshold of being considered a "viable" candidate.

Admittedly, Idaho is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. But consider this: everybody considered New Jersey a big prize. By wining that contest, Hillary Clnton won 13 more delegates than did Obama. However, by so thoroughly trouncing her in Idaho, Obama gained 12 delegates over her. So, in effect, Obama's victory in "tiny and irrelevant" Idaho wiped out the benefit of Clinton's victory in "delegate rich" New Jersey.

Idaho is Obama country. That just sounds strange, but it's true.

santafe2:

I'm an Obama volunteer in Idaho and I can tell you, flat out, that these are people coming out to caucus who will be voting in November, and will be voting for Senator Obama.

When you have a crowd of over 6000 people packed into the Qwest Arena chanting "Obama!" prior to the caucus proceedings going forward, with thousands more waiting outside in the freezing cold, you're got something special happening.

This was an Obama blowout in my state because he's that well liked. He's the only major candidate to even bother coming to this state.

Quite frankly, the suggestion that thousands of Republicans would all decide, simultaneously, to try and infiltrate a Democratic Caucus in order to influence who Idaho nominates is just plain silly.

Carter won Idaho in his re-election bid because HE WAS A SITTING PRESIDENT. Neither party tends to toss out sitting presidents running for reelection.

here's my question.

are these people coming out for Obama people who will actually vote for him in November, or are they Republicans wanting the Democrats to put up the weaker candidate.

If you'll recall Carter won Idaho over Kennedy in his re-election bid only to be swamped by Reagan.
It seems Republicans got him norminated so they could defeat him in Nov.

Is there a parallel here?

Of the 5 Northwest states, Obama has won both that have now voted. He'll pick up a third in WA this Saturday. Can Hillary win any state in the NW?

Hooray for Idahoans! Thanks, Idaho.

IDAHO,
Way to come through!!!
I pounded the pavement in Iowa from Columbus Day to New Years, to get my precinct fired up & bring my boy back from Iraq.
But I have got to give it up to what you folks have done. Looks like I'm going to take a vacation to Idaho when he gets back in August, just to see what you are all about.
Love from Iowa

We love you, Idaho!