Barack Obama & Raila Odinga REDUX

[Needa Pass Rush]

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[Needa Pass Rush]

And the far left is scared of Sarah Palin. WOW!

[SJ Bronco]

The revolution WILL be televised! I'm curious though, what does this have to do with Obama?

[Bronco Bob]

And the far left is scared of Sarah Palin. WOW!

Would this be the Sarah Palin who pals around with people who want to
take one of the stars out of our United States flag?

[SJ Bronco]

Released on February 6th, 1988, he was rearrested in September, 1988 for his involvement with the Kenya Revolutionary Movement (KRM), an underground organisation pressing for multi-party democracy in Kenya, which was then a one-party state.

Raila was released on June 12th, 1989, only to be incarcerated again on July 5th, 1990, together with Kenneth Matiba, and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia. Raila was released on June 21st, 1991, and in October, he fled the country to Norway alleging government attempts to assassinate him.

On July 12, 2007, Odinga alleged that the government was withholding identity cards from voters in places supportive of the opposition and that the intended creation of 30 new constituencies was a means by which the government sought to ensure victory in the December 2007 parliamentary election.

In August 2007, the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya split in two, with Odinga becoming head of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) while the other faction, the ODM-K, was headed by Kalonzo Musyoka. On September 1, 2007, the ODM elected Odinga as its presidential candidate in a National Delegates Conference held at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi. Odinga received 2,656 votes; the only other candidates receiving significant numbers of votes were Musalia Mudavadi with 391 and William Ruto with 368. Earlier, Najib Balala had withdrawn his candidature and endorsed Raila. The defeated candidates expressed their support for Odinga afterward, and Mudavadi was named as his running mate.

Odinga launched his presidential campaign in Uhuru Park in Nairobi on October 6, 2007, which saw a record attendance in this or any other venue in independent Kenya. The police estimated an attendance of close to 50,000.

Following the presidential election held on December 27, the Electoral Commission in controversial circumstances declared Kibaki the winner on December 30, 2007, despite widespread evidence of electoral malpractices, placing him ahead of Odinga by about 232,000 votes. Other observers also viewed election process as having been manipulated in order to ensure victory for Kibaki. Notably, and the reputable US foundation, International Republican Institute (IRI) is said to have conducted an exit poll that indicated that Raila had won by 8%, though the IRI has never released the report. Other observers base their claims on the fact that while Raila's party had 99 members of parliament elected, Kibaki's had 43, with many of his former cabinet ministers being roundly defeated, at the end of the elections, and so they posit that it is unlikely for people to have voted overwhelmingly for ODM members of parliament, and still voted for Kibaki as President. In addition, the European Union observers reported that they were barred from the tallying room at the Electoral Commission of Kenya command centre when the allegations of manipulation of the figures and acceptance of incomplete election tally forms by the ECK were being made. They also reported that the ECK commissioners and other officials were remarkably unwilling to acknowledge and address electoral malpractices that the EU observers and others pointed out to them. Further, Jeffrey Sachs (Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Special Advisor to former UN Secretary General) faulted the United States' approach to the post-election crisis and recommended an independent recount of the vote.

Odinga accused Kibaki of fraud, and widespread violence broke out in the country. Following two months of unrest, a deal between Odinga and Kibaki, which provided for power-sharing and the creation of the post of Prime Minister, was signed in February 2008; it was brokered by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Odinga was sworn in as Prime Minister, along with the power-sharing Cabinet, on April 17, 2008. Previously the post of Prime Minister had not existed since 1964, when it was briefly held by Jomo Kenyatta following independence; Odinga is thus the second person in Kenya's history to hold the position.

According his website, Raila lists himself as a social democrat, thus distancing himself from his late father, who was openly socialist. His party, the LDP, is affiliated to the Liberal International.

Raila Odinga gets noticeable support from all over the country, especially among third largest ethnic base in Kenya, the Luo. A Gallup/USA poll taken in September 2008 found him to have an 85 percent approval rate. He is seen as an effective mobilizer of grassroots support.

Raila Odinga is of the Anglican faith and is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They live in Nairobi (but have a second home in Bondo District) with their four children—two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro and their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela.

In a January 2008 interview, Odinga asserted that he was the first cousin of American Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama through Senator Obama's father. However, Barack Obama's paternal uncle denied any direct relation to Odinga, stating "Odinga's mother came from this area, so it is normal for us to talk about cousins. But he is not a blood relative." Obama's father belonged to the same Luo tribe as Odinga.

[SJ Bronco]

Please see above to show what lengths repubs will go to lie about someone..... nice try though guys......

[Needa Pass Rush]

HYMAN: Obama's Kenya ghosts

Mark Hyman
Sunday, October 12, 2008


About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Raila+Odinga), the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Kenya), heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Barack+Obama)'s father.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Jaramogi+Oginga+Odinga), the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."
President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.
Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
Mark Hyman is an award-winning news commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

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[Paladin]

NPR, go vote and leave the rest of us alone. Your misguided efforts to smear Obama are not working. Tha's why I think McCain is in danger of seroiusly losing this election: it is because of numbnuts like you, people are turning away from your candidate.........

[Needa Pass Rush]

NPR, go vote and leave the rest of us alone. Your misguided efforts to smear Obama are not working. Tha's why I think McCain is in danger of seroiusly losing this election: it is because of numbnuts like you, people are turning away from your candidate.........

Good luck to you, your family and your candidate, Paladin.

[TailgateNut]

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FEAR is all your party platform is and has been about. Don't be afraid, we'll protect you and actually pay attention to "Credible" intelligence and act on it, unlike you last hero and unlike you unstable candidate for president.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

FEAR is all your party platform is and has been about. Don't be afraid, we'll protect you and actually pay attention to "Credible" intelligence and act on it, unlike you last hero and unlike you unstable candidate for president.

That's all this dipsh*t is peddling here, isn't it?

The republi-cons can't point to any ideas or plans McSame might have to solve America's problems, so their only remaining refuge is "attack, lie, distort, smear, repeat cycle."

Despicable. :oyvey:

[theAPAOps5]

NPR is just throwing **** at the wall in panic levels now. All the while thinking PLEASE GOD SOMETHING STICK PLEASE

[Needa Pass Rush]

That's all this dipsh*t is peddling here, isn't it?

The republi-cons can't point to any ideas or plans McSame might have to solve America's problems, so their only remaining refuge is "attack, lie, distort, smear, repeat cycle."

Despicable. :oyvey:

I'll talk about any relevent thoughts regarding these two men. What have you got, LA? Tailgate?

http://www.heritage.org/Research/taxes/images/CDA08-09_chart3.gif

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Heritage Foundation?

Hilarious! Hilarious! Hilarious! Hilarious!

Thanks for the morning levity.

[Needa Pass Rush]

NPR is just throwing **** at the wall in panic levels now. All the while thinking PLEASE GOD SOMETHING STICK PLEASE

lol like swaying the minds of a handful of koolaide drinkers is going to have an impact on the election outcome. You can't believe what you just wrote. You don't have any comment on the message, just the messenger? That's cool.

[Play2win]

NPR is just throwing **** at the wall in panic levels now. All the while thinking PLEASE GOD SOMETHING STICK PLEASE

NPR is just a sad exaggeration of what is going on throughout the whole republican party right now...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

NPR is just throwing **** at the wall in panic levels now. All the while thinking PLEASE GOD SOMETHING STICK PLEASE

Yep.

http://www.bartcop.com/palin-hurry-dammit.jpg

I wonder if he's a paid staffer for McBush/Palin? :giggle:

[Needa Pass Rush]

Heritage Foundation?

Hilarious! Hilarious! Hilarious! Hilarious!

Thanks for the morning levity.

Information put into Global Insight's analytical model. Argue the facts, LABF. Prove it wrong. Bet you can't. This is exactly what is wrong with slaying the jobmakers with additional taxation. Rally the class warfare crowd.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

You don't have any comment on the message, just the messenger? That's cool.

What do you expect when your source is the Heritage Foundation?

That's like me presenting you with something from moveon.org and expecting you to take it seriously. :rofl:

[theAPAOps5]

lol like swaying the minds of a handful of koolaide drinkers is going to have an impact on the election outcome. You can't believe what you just wrote. You don't have any comment on the message, just the messenger? That's cool.

No I don't have any comment on this message because its number 500 in your panic driven crap posting fest.

[Needa Pass Rush]

From the Grinning Chimp's link to Global Insight Macroeconomic model.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/taxes/images/CDA08-09_chart4.gif

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

This is exactly what is wrong with slaying the jobmakers with additional taxation. Rally the class warfare crowd.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

How many jobs did those "jobmakers" create after Bush gave them those fat tax cuts?

Answer: Bush presided over the first net job loss since Hoover.

Outsourcing went through the roof, and good-paying jobs were replaced with lower-paying service jobs.

[Needa Pass Rush]

No I don't have any comment on this message because its number 500 in your panic driven crap posting fest.

Yet you always show up. Thanks for playing, Apa.

[Needa Pass Rush]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

How many jobs did those "jobmakers" create after Bush gave them those fat tax cuts?

Answer: Bush presided over the first net job loss since Hoover.

Outsourcing went through the roof, and good-paying jobs were replaced with lower-paying service jobs.

Yup. Right after your welfare boys at fannie and freddie destroyed the economy. Your dem congress has gotten a lot done in two years. Congrats.

[theAPAOps5]

Yet you always show up. Thanks for playing, Apa.

Oh yeah its a fun game. I don't take the WRP forum seriously so I could care less. Its funny to watch how your article posting has skyrocketed recently. So I come in make a comment and leave. You just happen to be engaging me today so all the more better! :thumbs:

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

4. "Bush Was Riding High on Claims of Solid Job Growth."
That is what The New York Times says, although it's not clear what that means to it. Job growth has actually been pretty bad through most of President Bush's time in office, so what does it mean that he was riding high on claims of solid job growth?
http://www.prospect.org/galleries/img_articles/0501_baker_fig1.png

President Bush comes in dead last in job creation among recent presidents, even falling behind his dad's dismal record. So, is the Times pulling our leg when it says he was riding high? Is it making a reference to the use of illicit substances? Or is this just a really badly informed article?

[Play2win]

Its like the little boy that cried wolf... then he started crying "SHEEP"... the he found out he was one...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Right after your welfare boys at fannie and freddie destroyed the economy.

Didn't take you long to shift to "repeat a lie often enough" mode. tsk tsk

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

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[Needa Pass Rush]

Its like the little boy that cried wolf... then he started crying "SHEEP"... the he found out he was one...

Weak. More lemmings on your side according to the polls. Have a great day, DS.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

http://www.legalhardware.com/economics/jobcreation.jpg

[theAPAOps5]

Weak. More lemmings on your side according to the polls. Have a great day, DS.

So if the polls reflected your candidate it wouldn't make them lemmings? I beg to differ I think voting for McCain is voting for more of the same maybe not in economics but in failed foreign policy and a war first mentality. And if he passed away Palin who can't even sniff Obama's jock in terms of Federal Government experience would be the leader of the free world.

I am not saying Obama is a master in Federal Government, he isn't but compared to Palin he is. Its funny to hear republicans talk about how someone will test Obama and it may lead to loss of american lives. Heaven forbid what the enemy does if Sarah somehow makes it to the Presidency.

[SJ Bronco]

HYMAN: Obama's Kenya ghosts

Mark Hyman
Sunday, October 12, 2008


About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Raila+Odinga), the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Kenya), heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Barack+Obama)'s father.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Jaramogi+Oginga+Odinga), the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."
President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.
Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
Mark Hyman is an award-winning news commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

Why are all your sources garbage, ladies and gentleman, the writer of this article

Controversy over Hyman began after the September 11 attacks, when he attacked some journalists and news agencies - such as National Public Radio, the New York Times, and CNN - as "aiding and abetting the enemy" when they reported on civilians accidentally killed during the U.S. attack on Afghanistan. (In the U.S. Constitution, these are the exact words used to define treason).

He later used the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys to describe the French in one of his editorials. Other notable slurs include calling war protesters "whack-jobs" and "communists."

In late 2004, he took heavy criticism for the firing of Jon Lieberman, Sinclair's Washington bureau chief and reporter, following the latter's public criticism of Sinclair's announced plan to air the controversial anti-Kerry film Stolen Honor as a news program in prime time on all of its stations.

Hyman called Lieberman a "disgruntled employee" and said the firing was because Lieberman had "[spoken] to the press about company business." Lieberman pointed to the fact that Sinclair had previously been pleased enough with him as an employee to promote him, and attributed his firing to his criticism of Sinclair's Stolen Honor plan, a plan he claims originated with Hyman.

On August 30, Hyman claimed that Social Security discriminates against minorities; in fact, some minorities have longer life expectancies after retirement than whites. Even though some minorities may have longer life expectancies than whites, the vast majority of minorities in the United States do in fact have shorter life expectancy than their Caucasian counterparts.

He also claimed spouses who worked for less than 10 years because they "gave up [their] career in order to raise a family... get diddly-squat". In fact, married Social Security recipients are eligible for all the benefits that they have earned for themselves, and, in addition, if those benefits are less than half of what their spouse receives, they also receive spousal benefits that increase their overall benefits to an amount equal to half their partner's benefit, plus survivor benefits

[SJ Bronco]

more on Mark Hyman:

Beginning in 2001, he created conservative one-minute editorial segments called, The Point that were broadcast on many of the group's 62 stations, during local news programs. Sinclair Broadcast Group's own description of the program was as follows:

The Point is a one-minute daily commentary that is intended to stimulate public discourse. The Point encourages viewer feedback, and every Saturday we air select viewer comments, both positive and negative. In an age of homogenized, bland, politically correct news, we are proud to deliver news and commentary that stimulates critical thinking and encourages viewers to get involved.

The program became known for its controversial political commentary. It was frequently criticised as one-sided propaganda.

[jsco70]

No I don't have any comment on this message because its number 500 in your panic driven crap posting fest.

Well said.

I suggest the OP change his handle to "Needa Life".