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Posted By: pastorvm @ 07/18/2008 5:07:22 PM

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  Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:32:37 PM

  Obama???s background activities for his supporters to consider!!
  
  It is very apparent that most Obama supporters have relied on Obama???s rhetoric and think they know him, but really they know nothing about him, and even in some cases, they prefer not to know anything about him. Many are so blind and caught up in his ???hope and change??? message that they just will not listen to the real truth. I feel so sorry for them, but I feel even worse for this country and future generations if this UNKNOWN is elected. Below are facts that Obama supporters need to think deeply about and to be sure that they are satisfied that this is the person to whom they are ready to trust the presidency of their country and the commander-in-chief of their brave military men and women.
  
  . Obama sat in a church for 20 years listening to a minister who hates America, as well as, white Americans. He was close enough to this minister to call him his ???uncle???. This minister of hate married the Obamas and baptized their children. Obama also exposed his children to the hate messages. Use your heads; when Obama said he had never heard these hate messages, do you honestly believe him?
  
  . Obama was close friends with William Ayers, a known domestic terrorist in the Weatherman terrorist group who tried to bring down our government by bombing federal buildings. The Weatherman???s philosophy was, ???Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that???s where it???s really at.??? In 2001, Ayers told the NYT, ???I don???t regret the bombings.??? Well, if domestic aren???t enough reason for you to raise a red flag on Obama, former Sandanista Rebel Leader, Daniel Ortego praised Obama???s campaign as revolutionary. Also, during an interview, a top Hamas political advisor essentially endorsed Obama.
  
  

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    Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:35:24 PM

    . William Ayers and Obama were paid directors of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that described itself as a group helping the disadvantaged. Obama , along with Ayers gave speeches together. They lived in the same neighborhood and their children attended the same school. Ayers also help Obama jumpstart his political career. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama???s senatorial campaign fund and served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
    
    . The Woods Fund provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in 2001, for which Rashid Khalidi???s wife, Mona, served as president. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002. The pro-Palestinian movement on Columbia???s campus is led by Rashid Khalidi, who holds the Edward Said Chair for Middle East Studies and was director of the official PLO press agency, WAFA from 1976 to 1982 (this was at the time that the U. S. State Department considered the PLO a terrorist group). Columbia University has become a hotbed of pro-Palestinian, anti- Israel, and anti-American activism. Khalidi has been a major supporter of calling for Ahmadinejad, the Iranian radical president, to speak at Columbia???s campus, which Ahmadinejad did on Monday, September 24, 2007. Both Ahmadinejad and Khalidi call for the destruction of Israel, with Khalidi praising the 4-year Palestinian second intifada which left hundreds of Israelis dead. Khalidi has also called Israel an ???apartheid system in creation??? and a ???racist state???.
    
    

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      Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:37:48 PM

      . Prior to going to Columbia, Khadili was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago where he befriended none other than U. S. presidential candidate Obama. In an unsuccessful bid for the U. S. House of Representatives in 2000, Khalidi held a successful fundraiser in his home for Obama where he developed the admiration of another Palestinian activist, Ali Abunimah. In 2000, Abunimah recalled, ???He came with his wife. That???s where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues and critical of U. S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs. He was very supportive of U. S. pressure on Israel. In addition, at a going away party for Khalidi in 2004 to celebrate his new professorship at Columbia, Obama gave a testimonial on his behalf.
      
      . Obama has established ties with Sojourners, a liberal Christian group (with emphasis on liberal) as a way to burnish his religious credentials and gain political strength. This very same group is supportive of Hamas, a vicious Palestinian terror group responsible for the deaths of many innocent people and a group that indoctrinates it???s youth to hate, not to mention to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.
      
      

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        Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:41:30 PM

        Nadhmi Auchi is a controversial Iraqi-born British billionaire who, ???set up a variety of deals with Saddam Hussein???s regime prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and was one of the largest private shareholders in BNP Paribas, the bank that trafficked most of the funds involved in the U. N. Oil-for-Food scandal. He also admitted taking kickbacks from the French petroleum company, TotalFinaElf in the 1990s (Auchi later sued Elf for Entangling him in their criminal activities, according to Forbes.) Just weeks after winning the Democratic U. S. Senate primary in 2004, Obama was the guest of Antoin ???Tony??? Rezko at a party for the controversial British billionaire whom Rezko was trying to lure into an investment, a witness testified Monday at Rezko???s corruption trial. ???Stuart Levine, the government???s star witness, said Obama and his wife, Michelle, were among the guests at Rezko???s home on April 3, 2004, for the party honoring Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born tycoon currently appealing a fraud conviction in France.??? The (London) Times discovered state documents in Illinois recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to Obama???s fundraiser in May, 2005. Fintrade???s directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Nadhmi Auchi???s wife. Mr. Auchi???s spokespeople declined to respond to a question about whether he was linked to this business.
        

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          Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:42:59 PM

          Obama is weak and ignorant when it comes to terrorism as indicated in an interview with CNN. Obama said, ???What I think that we have to do is transfer them to military prisons and make sure that they are receiving the due process that is necessary. Those who we have tried and we find are not culpable, we need to release. Those who have committed terrorist acts or helped terrorism, we need to imprison. And ??? and so, you know, we have experience dealing with these issues. We ??? we???ve, very effectively, tried and convicted those who were responsible for the first attack on the World Trade Center. There was no sense that somehow or other we were getting soft on them. But it was done in a way that was consistent with our ??? our belief in due process and the rule of law. And it sent a message around the world that, even under duress, we???re going to stay true to our values.??? As you know, not all the terrorists involved in that bombing was not caught, tried, and convicted. The terrorists, that were not caught, immediately laid plans to completely destroy the World Trade Center, which they did on 9/11. The Clinton administration did nothing to capture the remaining guilty terrorists. Obama doesn???t get it. All terrorists throughout the world must be captured or destroyed.
          
          . Obama???s wife, Michelle, gave her opinion of the United States many times. She stated clearly that she ???I am proud of my country for the first time in my adult life,??? and that, ???In 2008, America is a mean country.??? These are not slips of the tongue. These are the kind of things that are taught by Reverend Wright. When you sit in his church for 20 years and listening to his ???hate America??? speeches, you have to be agreeing with at least some of his feelings.
          

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            Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:44:38 PM

            Obama does not know this country very well and he wants to lead it as president. When he said, ???We have been to 57 states and we only have one left to go,??? that should have been a clear signal of his lack of knowledge of this country. I am sure most of his supporters just let that go and that is scary. He never came back and acknowledged the mistake, corrected it, and explained why he said it.
            
            . Obama said that he was embarrassed that Americans visiting other countries didn???t know other languages. I don???t know about you, but I am not embarrassed. It is good that Americans know other languages, but it shouldn???t be mandatory and you should not be embarrassed by not knowing anything, but English. He should be more supportive of immigrants coming to this country and learning English. It would make them more competitive in the job market and help them blend into our society and our customs..
            
            . Obama said that it looked bad around the world when the United States had 3 % of the world population and used 25% of the energy. He said that we looked bad to other countries if we didn???t drive fuel efficient automobiles and set our thermostats on 78 degrees. He doesn???t consider that we are the most developed nation in the world and we are automated. I think it is good that we conserve where we can comfortably do so, but he should not be trying to set our progress back a few years. He should support more oil drilling, nuclear power plants, renewable energy, and new energies so that we can maintain our standard of living. The poor people are suffering, yet Obama says that the high price of gasoline is good because it will force Americans to conserve energy. Poor people will starve because they can???t get to the store or can???t afford the high prices of goods caused by the high prices of fuels. And, really, who cares what other countries think about how we use energy?
            
            

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              Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 07/19/2008 11:46:17 PM

              . Obama wants to weaken our military. This is what he said, ???First, I???m the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president, I will end it. Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems???and I will institute an independent Defense Priorities Board to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending. Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal I will not develop new nuclear weapons???I will seek a global ban on the development of fissile material???and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off of hair-trigger alert???and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.???
              
              . As a state senator, with no power to vote on national issues or without access to any privileged information, Obama was against the going to war in Iraq. But, why was he against the war? On what information was he basing his decision? Do you want a president to make decisions because of his feelings or inner beliefs, or do you want him to make decisions based on privileged information and knowledge? Was Obama just lucky? I think not!! I think his decision was based on his association with shady characters. I think he was trying to protect their interests.