Central FL Road Course / Kami Speed Track Day

Went out [very briefly] today for the Central Florida Road Course Meet and Greet track event sponsored by Kami Speed.

It was cool getting to see the new track in person, and getting a feel for it in the MINI. Called a "meet and greet," Kami Speed rented the track to promote their company name as well as get Central Floridians out on the new roadcourse. We got to do 4 "parade laps" where cars were very quickly inspected visually and drivers without safety helmets let loose on the track. I'm glad to say that by 1PM, there weren't any accidents!

Unfortunately though, there were too many ricers at the event, and cars like the one in front of me in the picture above were full of issues that I didn't want to be a part of. That 240's trunk lid wouldn't latch down, so under hard braking, it would open. And luckily nothing fell out to hit my car...... Other reports of mufflers falling off were relayed to me by track officials after finding out the owner used plastic washers to bolt the muffler to the exhaust pipe!

I still had a good time taking the MINI out on a track again, but next time I'll make sure it is more competitive and less rice!

The REAL FastLane

Previously, I had all my information about my car(s) on this, my own personal website designated with my real name. Unfortunately, there were some internet trolls that obtained the link I had attached to my signature in certain online automotive forums who just couldn't deal with the fact that I had personal information on the website owned by me, and tried to publically chastise me for saying what I wanted or needed to say on my own damn site....

While they have been dealt with, the situation remained that I still had to take care of - separating my personal site with that of my cars. If you know me, you know my cars are an extension of me - I don't think a car defines a person, but the feeling I get by throwing the throttle to the floor around turns in the MINI certainly thrills me! Separating the sites meant having to buy a new domain just for the cars and not having any personal information on it, and not linking it back to here. Now, obviously, I can link THIS site to the site with the cars no problem, if you know this address, good for you, you already know who I am and what I'm all about!That's great, but what to call it? I started a business in college with a partner and named it "Fast Lane Tuning, Inc." where it could be shortened to FastLane, one word. Fast Lane Tuning dot com (no link to it because I don't own it any longer) was the original site address, and once that was lost mistakenly, it became The NEW FastLane dot com, where we focused the brand name just on MINI performance parts and accessories.

That was stolen from me by a guy my family and I trusted for many years before starting me out on a successful career path after graduating college, and after he turned out to be a fake and a thief in more ways than domain name theft, I lost that one too. So I came up with The REAL FastLane so no one would get the wrong idea. Plus, I was out of ideas, and hopefully I want to end up owning many fast cars during my lifetime, so it seemed fitting to keep FastLane closeby!

And there you have it! Check out the site for pictures of my cars, past and present, and the work I did to them. Let me know what you think, thanks for reading!

main page update: BLOG!

Well, I've finally done it.... joined everyone else in the world and made a blog! But not just ANY blog.... one that is framed over my actual website. Take a look for yourself and follow along!

• Check out the website address of this page - while you're actually viewing mikegarcia25.blogspot.com, it's framed over using the index.html file from my own website.
• Check out the title bar of the page - it would normally read my blogger user name, but instead, it's that of my actual website.
• Lastly, click on the links on the right hand bar under "other elements of my site." They link directly to other parts of my actual site and that of my cars' website, The REAL FastLane.

So there you have it. I can now update my homepage quicker and easier using blogging technology, and hopefully that means many of you will come back to it more often then to just see pictures of stuff, see what new firearms are in the safe, or how much more work I've done to my cars! Take a look back at some of the previous blogs I dated back in time before I had the blog (or the site for that matter) that were featured on my original style homepage. You can also leave comments to each one of my blogs, give it a try now (if you aren't a registered member, they will have to be approved by me before they are published, however) and let me know what you think of the changes or click on the "reaction" you choose, thumbs up or thumbs down!

It was a bad day to be a Republican..........

Now that I've had ample time to cool off from the devastation that occurred yesterday, I'm ready to make a few comments about what happened in this year's elections. I liked Jay's introduction to his note, and I'll start by saying the same thing - these are my views, and if you don't like them, feel free to comment with an EDUCATED response.... many of you haven't been working in politics as much as I have this year, some of you have and I love being able to respectfully debate issues with you, but regardless, I'm not being racist, blasphemous, or otherwise arrogant, and I trust that you won’t be either. I’m going to put a lot of this in the language that everyone will understand because this is how I understand it best – I’m not a political guru, but I will be analyzing the facts as best and as unbiased as possible. I look forward to comments from those who have voted Democrat, but only if they are more educated than “ha ha, look who won!”

While I didn’t anticipate the disaster that occurred yesterday, I was paying attention to the signs that could have led to its occurrence. The two candidates had to make a choice earlier this year to determine how they would be raising money for their campaign, and the two choices were to accept federal money valued at $87 million and NOT be allowed to accept donations or to attempt to raise money via political contributions. Both McCain and Obama stated they would be accepting federal money, only McCain upheld his word, as Obama decided he would try to raise the money to campaign on his own. The average contribution to Obama's campaign was $175.... there were over 3 million people that contributed to his campaign.... doing the math, that's $525,000,000, and correlates to the fact that he did indeed spend over half a BILLION dollars on campaigning.... Let that sink in for a minute - he spent over 6 times the amount McCain was ALLOWED to spend since he accepted Federal money to campaign with, and there are millions starving who voted for him in hopes that he will SAVE them! What would liberals be saying if McCain spent $525M and Obama "only" spent $87M and McCain won? They would say he BOUGHT the election..............

There are people like Joe the Plumber whom we’ve all come to love or hate or ignore, and then there are people like Peggy the Moocher as she’s come to be known:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

Does anything strike you about what she says? I’ll copy some of the quotes – she says that after attending an Obama rally that it is “the most memorable time of her life” even though she’s there with her daughter…. as if her daughter’s birth wasn’t the most memorable time of her life. When questioned why it was so memorable, she states “because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s going to help me.” This may not be the views of anyone I’m friends with (Lord, if I am friends with you and you believe this way, first delete yourself from my friends list, then deport yourself to another country and stop being a burden on society), but this is how many Obama supporters felt about what he was saying to them about supporting the middle class! No, I’m not taking this out of context either – she believes that if she votes for Obama and helps him become president, she’ll get something out of it in the form of being able to pay less money for gas at the pump and less money on her mortgage. I’m not assuming she truly meant that Obama was going to pay those things for her (or is she?), so don’t assume I’m that much of a cynic or poor loser. 

Gas prices are plummeting and soon interest rates will too once the bailout comes into effect. This is still occurring in Bush’s second term, by the way. For all those who blamed Bush for high gas prices and the failing economy, both of which have been attributed to the war in Iraq / Afghanistan, as the weak link between the two negatives and the Middle East revolve around oil and deficit, what did anyone have to say about the recent drop in gas prices or the 70 month equivalent of the war in Iraq (we spend $10 billion per month fighting the war in Iraq, 70 times that equals the amount of the bailout just approved by the senate, the house, and President Bush)? Is that Bush’s fault too? Interesting how some people have selective memory when it comes to what they’re putting down our president for....

McCain’s concession speech included something very important if you caught it – he commended Obama on being able to get people to believe in his cause and to get out there and vote in a way that has never been done before. Hundreds of celebrities and musicians attempted to do the same thing in past elections, but during the last two, they didn’t do a good enough job of promoting Gore or Kerry, and now they succeeded. Unfortunately, the millions who had never voted before or were too young to vote before didn’t know what to do about voting for other candidates in other races, and nearly achieved a supermajority, preventing the possibility of any opposing viewpoints to be heard – very UN-American if you ask me. Since 1994 and through Bush’s first term, it was a Republican majority in the house and senate, but the latter half of his second term had a Democratic majority in the two, which was “coincidentally” when we had the worst of our economic problems. I still don’t know why all the problems weren’t solved in the first 100 days as Nancy Pelosi said they would be though…. but anyways, dozens of important Republican members of all facets of government were ousted as the hoards of uneducated voters stormed the polling places yesterday because they simply went “DEM” all the way down the ballot. 

My father has always questioned my voting record – not because he wanted to condemn me if I voted differently than him, but to question whether or not I knew who or what I was voting for after casting the ballot, insuring that I was voting for something or someone because it was what I truly believed in. My father lost in his campaign to become Supervisor of Elections for Orange County, Florida because those millions called out to vote uneducated on the issues or candidates, as did many, many other more-qualified-than-their-opponent candidates in Orlando and in every other city nationwide, without reason. 

Obama won the country with 7.488 million votes, but the states that mattered most in this election were much closer:

NEW MEXICO – Obama leads by 120,000 votes (788,000 total, or 15% lead)
NEVADA – Obama leads by 120,000 votes (942,000 total, or 13% lead)
IOWA – Obama leads by 141,000 votes (1.495 million total, or 9.4% lead)
NORTH DAKOTA – Obama leads by 27,000 votes (309,000 total, or 8.7% lead)
VIRGINIA – Obama leads by 155,000 votes (3.429 million total, or 4.5% lead)
OHIO – Obama leads by 204,000 votes (5.142 million total, or 3.96% lead)
FLORIDA – Obama leads by 195,000 votes (8.011 million total, or 2.4% lead)
INDIANA – Obama leads by 26,000 votes (2.708 million total, or 0.96% lead)
NORTH CAROLINA – Obama leads by 14,000 votes (4.232 million total, or 0.33% lead)
MONTANA – McCain leads by 16,000 votes (456,000 total, or 3.5% lead)
MISSOURI – McCain leads by 6,000 votes (2.878 million total, or 0.2% lead)

By saying Obama won “BIG TIME” with 364 electoral votes verses McCain’s “dismal” 174 electoral votes is misleading…. In the states above, the battleground and party change states, just over 1 million votes decided the election where only 120,300,954 voted in a country with 301,139,947 residents, representing only 39.95% of the total population of the United States. By the numbers again, 0.85% of the lead was taken in those states above by those who actually voted. Just over 8/10ths of one percent of the amount of votes decided this race in the big deal states listed above declared Obama 44th President of the United States. 

The last point I want to make is that although it will take some time for me and probably a lot longer for others, this is still democracy, this is still America, and we should still support our president. The one quality I admire most about those I learn so much from in Republican politicians is to be non-partisan after the elections are over. Not to say that everyone in the right-wing follows that concept, but many like John McCain exhibit traits of both parties and vote according to their better judgment and with help from advisors rather than up and down party lines. A very hypocritical thing to do that occurred daily from 2004 until yesterday was to be unsupportive to President Bush and still enjoy the freedom of living in America – in dozens of other countries around the world, like Cuba namely, unpatriotic comments about the leaders would involve harsh consequences, but in America, they have their own channel to be unpatriotic (MSNBC). Bumper stickers like “Impeach Bush” and “1.20.09 – the last day Bush is in office” are not only disgraceful to the president, but to the country. I will continue to be critical of our next president, and will most likely not agree with a lot of his plans to CHANGE this great country, but I was always taught to be respectful. I am deeply saddened by the loss for many Republicans who deserved their positions, but look forward to see how the Democrats will CHANGE America given all the power necessary to do so, and then compare the quality of life without bias in 4 years from now.

The Bass Fisherman & The Balloonist

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. 

She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a bass boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." 

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude." 

She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican." 

"I am," replied the bass fisherman. "How did you know?" 

"Well," answered the balloonist. "Everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me." 

The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat." 

"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?" 

"'Well," said the bass fisherman. "You don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, it's my fault now."

Obama's Political Views and Votes - KNOW YOUR CANDIDATE

Okay, so even with 130 PRESENT votes in the Senate, he must have voted on SOMETHING, right? here's Obama's stand on the issues, did you know this? for all the Obama supporters, do you even know which way your candidate choose? or are you just so sucked up in the HYPE--i mean HOPE-- that he's going to lead us in the right direction.......... 


Barack Hussein Obama's Political Views 
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Unsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals. (2002) 

Voted against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang. (2001) 

Voted against letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home. (2004) 

Voted against restrictions on public funding of abortion. (2000) 

Being gay or lesbian is not a choice. (Nov 2007) 

Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; they know already. (Sep 2007) 

Legal rights for gays are conferred by state, not by church. (Aug 2007) 

Gay marriage is less important that equal gay rights. (Aug 2007) 

Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Aug 2007) 

Let each denominations decide on recognizing gay marriage. (Jul 2007) 

Supports health benefits for gay civil partners. (Oct 2006) 

Opposes gay marriage; supports civil union & gay equality. (Oct 2006) 

Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998) 

Support granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. (Nov 2007) 

Forthright on racial issues and on his civil rights history. (Jul 2004) 

Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (Jul 1998) 

Include sexual orientation in anti-discrimination laws. (Jul 1998) 

Miscegenation a felony in 1960 when Obama's practiced it. (Aug 1996) 

Voted NO on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006) 

Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006) 

Rated 100% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006) 

Need justice that is not just us, but is everybody. (Jun 2007) 

Videotape all capital punishment interrogations. (Oct 2006) 

Battles legislatively against the death penalty. (Jul 2004) 

Supports alternative sentencing and rehabilitation. (Jul 1998) 

Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007) 

Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006) 

61 Lies Barack Obama has made thus far.... and counting!

1.) Selma Got Me Born - Lie, you were born in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.


2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - Lie, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.


3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - Lie, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had


4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - Lie, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in many years.


5.) My Name is African Swahili - Lie, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.


6.) I Never Practiced Islam - Lie, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.


7.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - Lie, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).


8.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - Lie, not one teacher says you could speak the language.


9.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - Lie, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.


10.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - Lie, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.


11.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - Lie, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.


12.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - Lie, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.


13.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - Lie, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.


14.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - Lie, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 PRESENT VOTES.


15.) Oops, I Misvoted - Lie, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.


16.) I Was A Professor Of Law - Lie, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.


17.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - Lie, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.


18.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - Lie, you didn't write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.


19.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - Lie, it took just 14 days from start to finish.


20.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - Lie, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.


21.) I Have Released My State Records - Lie, as of May, 1 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.


22.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - Lie, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.


23.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - Lie, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.


24.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - Lie, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.


25.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - Lie, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.


26.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - Lie, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.


27.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - Lie, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.


28.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - Lie, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.


29.) I Didn't Run Ads In Florida - Lie, you ran ads ONLY along the florida border as well as national ads in an attempt to reach Florida voters 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.


30.) I Won Michigan - Lie, no you didn't.


31.) I won Nevada - Lie, no you did not.


32.) I Want All Votes To Count - Lie, you said let the delegates decide, and you have fought to have another primary in Michigan or Florida.


33.) I Want Americans To Decide - Lie, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.


34.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - Lie, you passed 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.


35.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - Lie, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has finally stopped saying this.


36.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - Lie, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer (a fellow democrat that wanted you to replace her in the next term) from running against you by challenging ALL of her signatures and thus running unopposed.


37.) I Don't Take PAC Money - Lie, you take loads of it. The Obama PAC is the largest PAC in the US Senate. I dare Obama supporters to go look this up.


38.) I don't Have Lobbyists - Lie, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.


39.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - Lie, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.


40.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - Lie, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this to MySpace clients.


41.) I Inspire People With My Words - Lie, you inspire people with other people's words.
42.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - Lie, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.


43.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - Lie, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date in Iraq - AGAIN.


44.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - Lie, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.


45.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - Lie, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no records of any such letters ever being created or sent.


46.) My Wife Didn't Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - Lie, your wife's words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.


47.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn't Support - Lie, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.


48.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - Lie, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.


49.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - Lie, your wife's pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate (going from $120K to $320K weeks after you got into the US Senate and tried to get a $1 million pork project for the very same hospital) and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!


50.) I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - Lie, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko's wife buys the lot beside it that you can't afford, saving you $625,000.


51.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - Lie, you only gave back Hsu ($72K [Yes, the same Hsu, Obama supporters try to tie Clinton to]) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K, then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN, it's $250k) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.


52.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - Lie, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.


53.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - Lie, you only recently repudiated Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.


54.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - Lie, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Mr. Auchi was also found guilt in another political corruption scandal (largest in France since WWII). And this is one of Obamas' good supporters that paid millions into the Obama campaign.


55.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright's, that have been in videos all day, You Tube - Lie! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa speech you said "Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did." FLIP-FLOPER


56.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! - Lie. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the company that looked into your records. Could it be that you had them look into yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton's and McCain's more than a year before!


57.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - Lie. Rev. Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and helped raise money, then AND NOW. He also seems to despise America as much as Rev. Wright.


58.) My wife didn't mean America is ignorant, she was just using a phrase - Lie. Again, MicHELLe's comments are perfectly in sync with Wright's, Meeks', and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and direction.


59.) I am very Anti-Terror - Lie. One of your good pals is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against Israel. PS - Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto - guess you weren't there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.


60.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis - Lie. You and your campaign buddy Penny 'SubPrime Bank Collapse' Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?


61.) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion - Lie - It was found that Obama -- the day after sitting for the interview -- filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama's own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had greater role on liberal survey.