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  • Posted By: bluegrass101 @ 08/15/2008 11:38:16 PM

    A WONDEROUS VISION of THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION```````~~I was There and here is what I saw, 10,000 Rebels with pitchforks in bib overalls , some with no teeth , some with one tooth and mostly yellow, Chanting GIT ER DONE , 10,000 Evangelicals led by Hagee, Robertson, Romney, Dobson, Haggert with their hands in the back pockets of the Hillbillies as they headed for the mens room, the Fixed News merchants of lies and hate all lathered up and foaming at the Mouth , as they cheered their Hero Hannity as he passed The Falafel to O'Liely, and the scariest sight imaginable was, Cyndi, McFudd, Lindsey Graham, Jo Lie berman, all hugging Dubya on stage, I'll never forget the terrifying sight. Cheney sang ,Lieber alles Deutchland.

  • Posted By: DavidCA @ 08/15/2008 11:07:03 PM

    Remember John McCain before he sold his soul to the devil for the 2008 Republican nomination? I still believe the pre-zombie McCain would have had the decency to repudiate Obama Nation and its author. Instead, according to CNN, all he has to say is "Gotta keep your sense of humor."
    Every day, in every way, McCain is becoming more and more like Bush.

  • Posted By: Phil08 @ 08/15/2008 10:50:13 PM

    Obama - Rezko - Auchi - Saddam Hussein?
    Jaded by the political corruption the state of Illinois is immersed in, one might be tempted to shrug off the Rezko trial today as simply another showpiece for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. After all, he's put away close to 150 corrupt Daley and Ryan administration workers and the Illinois public mumbles, but no shows no outrage.

    One wonders if public sentiment would change (Yes, "CHANGE!") if it could be shown that Barack "CHANGE" Obama's strong opposition to the War in Iraq was based on financial ties to a Saddam Hussein arms dealer?

    Obama buys a house in a land deal with Tony Rezko's wife, whose income at the time was $35k/year. In the days before the papers were signed, Rezko gets a loan from Auchi. Auchi and Rezko are pizza and real estate partners -- you know, little ol' harmless "Tony" Rezko, the small time Chicago operator.

    Then mysteriously last month, Rezko goes to jail for breaking a bail agreement because he gets another $3.5 million loan from Auchi, the man who became the 279th richest man in the world partially by making arms deals with Saddam Hussein.

    No, not a discredited urban legend about Obama's connections to terrorists, but this time a viable direct connect? RealClearPolitics.com's Jack Kelly comes thisclose to connecting the poisonous dots between Obama and Nahdmi Auchi:

    http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/03/obama---rezko-.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bm1QHXAig&feature=related

  • Posted By: MXYZPTLK @ 08/15/2008 10:49:45 PM

    The problem I have with Obama???s 20 year attendance at Trinity United Church is that Rev. Wright, by his own admission, preaches black liberation theology, which is a very racist theology based upon the conflict between the "black oppressed" and the "white oppressor". That is why, for example, Rev. Wright portrays Jesus as black, and his murderers as ???garlic nosed??????white people,??? because that is the only way that the story of Jesus will fit with his theology. That is also why so many of his statements are framed as black and white issues (e.g. "rich white people"; Natalie Holloway was a "white girl" who "gave it up" on an Aruba beach; 9/11 was a wake-up call to ???white people???; the "garlic nosed" Italians in the time of Jesus who killed Jesus were "white people"). Consistently making the point that Jesus was black and his murderers were white is very much like the bigoted fundamentalist Christians who continually make the point that the "Jews killed Jesus." We all know what that is code for; that means that the Jews are evil, as a group, and responsible for the murder of Jesus. Rev. Wright, Obama???s 20 year ???mentor and spiritual adviser,??? is guilty of the same type of bigoted rhetoric.

    Finally, what I object to most is the framing of the issues by black liberation theologists. There is simply no excuse for calling white people "the devil" or the "white enemy." Those who developed this theology could just have easily framed it as a struggle between, for example, the "oppressors" and the "oppressed," or the "ruling elite" against "the rest of us." But no, they had to make it a racial thing, instead. And that's why those who follow this belief system in accordance with the teachings of James Cone, as does Rev. Wright and Obama, are following a racist creed.

  • Posted By: steve02001 @ 08/15/2008 9:26:43 PM

    Obama is already hitting McBush hard in Indiana and other toss-up states with ads showing Sidney McBush's real colors: ignorant/indiferent about the economy, wrong on the war, wrong on the environment and just plain wrong for America. People seems to forget that Obama has only been in the National scene for about 4 years, and yet he was able to defeat the Clinton political machine (which everybody picked to win in early 2007), and has been ahead of McBush in the polls for most of the year, even though good old philandering Sidney has been in the National scene for 20 years!!. OBAMA 2008, THERE IS NO STOPING REAL CHANGE!!!

    • Posted By: JoeDoaks @ 08/15/2008 10:44:34 PM

      Yes...steve02001...Barack Obama will win the election for president in 2009...No matter all the false attacks...no matter all the false innuendos...no matter all the false and tricky, lying "books"...America is finally awakening from this awful eight year long nightmare of lost dignity in the world, lost hopes at home, lost lives of our precious soldiers ...all due to and with no thanks for the supporters of George W. Bush and lost health care and lost earnings and family stability that have come from being held down under the thumb of the Republican Party. Americans...All of us...Black and White...Young and Old ...Democrats...Republicans with real intelligence and understanding...and smart Independents... We will all show up and vote by so many more MILLIONS to make this happen! Barack Obama will get my one vote added to all those others... and because of this and all those who believe in this great idea of "WE...THE PEOPLE..."......Barack Obama WILL WIN this Election in November! God Bless the United States of America!!!

  • Posted By: Phil08 @ 08/15/2008 10:42:56 PM

    Obama - Rezko - Auchi - Saddam Hussein?
    Jaded by the political corruption the state of Illinois is immersed in, one might be tempted to shrug off the Rezko trial today as simply another showpiece for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. After all, he's put away close to 150 corrupt Daley and Ryan administration workers and the Illinois public mumbles, but no shows no outrage.

    One wonders if public sentiment would change (Yes, "CHANGE!") if it could be shown that Barack "CHANGE" Obama's strong opposition to the War in Iraq was based on financial ties to a Saddam Hussein arms dealer?

    Obama buys a house in a land deal with Tony Rezko's wife, whose income at the time was $35k/year. In the days before the papers were signed, Rezko gets a loan from Auchi. Auchi and Rezko are pizza and real estate partners -- you know, little ol' harmless "Tony" Rezko, the small time Chicago operator.

    Then mysteriously last month, Rezko goes to jail for breaking a bail agreement because he gets another $3.5 million loan from Auchi, the man who became the 279th richest man in the world partially by making arms deals with Saddam Hussein.

    No, not a discredited urban legend about Obama's connections to terrorists, but this time a viable direct connect? RealClearPolitics.com's Jack Kelly comes thisclose to connecting the poisonous dots between Obama and Nahdmi Auchi:

    http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/03/obama---rezko-.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bm1QHXAig&feature=related

  • Posted By: MXYZPTLK @ 08/15/2008 10:37:00 PM

    The Audacity of Death
    Wall Street Journal: By DANIEL ALLOTT
    June 5, 2008
    According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist.
    Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.
    Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. As it was, a startled nurse called an ambulance, and Gianna was rushed to a nearby hospital, where, weighing just two pounds, she was placed in an incubator, then, months later, in foster care.
    Gianna survived then, and thrives now, because, as she told me recently with a laugh, "I guess I don't die easy." Which is what the abortionist might have thought as he signed his victim's birth certificate. Gianna's medical records state that she was "born during saline abortion."
    As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions. Babies like Gianna. Mr. Obama said in a speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother's wombs are "persons," and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
    A federal version on the same legislation passed the Senate unanimously and with the support of all but 15 members of the House. Gianna was present when President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.
    When I asked Gianna to reflect on Mr. Obama's candidacy, she paused, then said, "I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning. . . . He is extreme, extreme, extreme."

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 08/15/2008 10:24:39 PM

    Dear sharenews: I agree. Nobody does a better of job of unmasking Obama than Obama himself in Dreams from My Father. Every citizen should read it.

  • Posted By: uuforyou @ 08/15/2008 10:22:25 PM


    www.bravenewfilms.org

    www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com

    Learn the truth about Exxon John!

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 08/15/2008 10:20:29 PM



    Only pigs eat garbage and the Repugnant "ROVEBOTS are lining up at the trough. Oh but the tiny brains in the Repugnant "ROVEBOT" mind set of,... "You really want to believe all of the lies because you don't really believe in anything so you will swallow everything, including garbage. No need to chew on anything just get your face deep in the garbage and slobber around in it. You don't have to research anything because Sean, Anne, Rush and Bill O. etc,.... tell you not to and they will do your thinking for you." Oh don't forget to tune into Fixed News tonight they have a special on how flat tires will save you fuel. Well I guess thats true since you will not be going anywhere just as you are trying to legitimize this cr@p!

    Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho He He He


    Extend you Slobbering in the garbage PAIN with your vote for McCain


  • Posted By: josemarti @ 08/15/2008 9:58:34 PM

    The book Obama Nation should only be read AFTER Obama's own book Dreams From My Father.

  • Posted By: steve02001 @ 08/15/2008 9:57:45 PM

    For a candidate running on character and biography, it is awkward to remember: McBush abandoned his cripled wife, who had reared their three children while he was in Vietnamese prisons, and he then began his political career with the resources of his new wife's family. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02EFDF1439F934A15751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

  • Posted By: just-another-sweetie @ 08/15/2008 7:33:40 PM

    I don't have to read a book to know what Obama is about.Hell I have saw him and Michelle on TV.Heard what THEY said.Saw their preacher,what else do you need. I also heard Obama's FLIP FLOPS PUMA JOHN MCCAIN 08

    • Posted By: Right is RIGHT!!! @ 08/15/2008 8:49:54 PM

      www.therealmccain.com

      • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/15/2008 9:17:28 PM

        http://talkstraight.org/

    • Posted By: 12waz @ 08/15/2008 8:38:26 PM

      i like your name!

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 08/15/2008 8:35:57 PM

    WAIT!
    Forty pages of counter-points from Obama? Something is fishy, here!
    How about the 40 pages were PROVIDED the author before the book was wrote,and the book simply cover each point but change things! intentionally?
    Obama gets to be BEAT- UP- ON for the political points AND prevail with his "tough" counter points, cuzz he's black and tired of being beat up on! Been to Europe and the middle east, healing the world..

    Yes!!!
    And the crowd goes wild!!! Obama fighting lies and injustice, live on stage, ladys and gentlemen!

    I smell fish!
    Like when people were fainting all over their selves at Obama rallies and then..suddenly no one. When it got fishy smelling.
    SEE? The author "honestly" makes his money from the $ales of his book and Obama gets an "attack" he controled and can magicly "counter!" a win win. A deal for both! It's just politics.
    Lets use our heads here people: politicians ignore and try to avoid oppositions' nastyest attacks! To avoid giving them power!
    Obama energeticly composes a rebutal on EVERY POINT!?
    Obama his self just convinced me I better read that book and his rebutal and the book again and check the web! Is there any link between the author and the Obama campaign?
    I'll bet there is!
    Are there honest journalist who might just check into a unusual book deal,as the author is sure to make Killer Bucks! And this is the kind of gimmick Obama comes up with.
    His face on fuel pumps, Nascar,but not found a way to get his face on the wrappers of boxes of new handgun ammunition. but he might try OBAMA curb feelers to go with the tire gauges!

    i can't believe a thing about this guy!

    • Posted By: JoeDoaks @ 08/15/2008 9:15:46 PM

      So..."TheHappyAmerican" smells something..."Fishy" Huh? Ironic ...isn't it that this Yo-Yo -***-author Corsi obviously followed the source of his supposed intellect back to its "Fishy" origins ...You remember?...Does the Island of Corsica ...or perhaps more to the point of this reflection..."Sardinia" ring a bell? LOL...Talk about being "Fishy"... The fact that Corsi was able to get this bilge published at all is proof that with enough Right Wing ThinkTank Money...Any drunken, sausage chewing wino can get his cocktail napkin scratching published. This "book" has about as much believability as the idea that "W" can read (My Pet Goat), write, and conjugate verbs ...and all while lying to every American about the presence of WMD in the once sovereign nation of Iraq ...before the likes of Corsi and his Wing-Nut Republican friends got all damp and bunched in their BVDs over illegally invading that nation. If there is anything fishy going on here, this book and whatever else the RNC can throw against the wall hoping this crap will stick is the fact that since they cannot beat Obama on the real issues in an equivalent of a Cage Fight, without that slender black genius making McCain and his rich cronies "Tap Out"... is for them to spend all their ill-gotten 527 dough trying to drain the Obama Campaign with one stupid attack after another, mistakenly thinking that America at large can't see through all their "Bravo Sierra". This book has value only as being laminated into quick-starting fire bricks along with all the other nonsensical efforts by the Right Wing Nuts of the Republican Party to try and stop the inevitable victory of the Democratic Party to take back the White House from these incumbent idiots.

  • Posted By: just-another-sweetie @ 08/15/2008 8:49:42 PM

    Obama reminds me of those Verizon commercials???he requires that crowd of helpers following him wherever he goes!

  • Posted By: eshuster @ 08/15/2008 5:56:30 PM

    From what I can gather there are some wild assumptions made in the book, but if even a quarter of the book is true we are in trouble. This guy may be ready to run in eight to twelve years, but not now. Even he must realize he's not ready to be the leader of the free world. Obama doesn't lack intelligence, he lacks wisdom.

    • Posted By: 12waz @ 08/15/2008 8:42:39 PM

      And even if one is correct...why hasn't the MSM exposed it?

    • Posted By: Iconoblaster @ 08/15/2008 6:28:59 PM

      What if NONE of it is true, eshuster?

      • Posted By: cobalt6 @ 08/15/2008 7:25:24 PM

        But what if it is true? I don't think the United States can take a chance on that!

  • Posted By: Appalachian Mom @ 08/15/2008 8:17:05 PM

    Obviously the author has not been paying attention to anything other that his precious Obama, because if he had, he would be aware that Obama, if he is smart, and elected, will be following policy that has emerged during the Bush Administration's last four years. Not changing it. Condy Rice should be running instead of Obama. Now there is a leader! I am sick and tired of people bashing Bush. He did what had to be done and when we get out of Iraq & Afganaistan I hope everyone remembers the ancient tribal wars that have plagued the Middle East and all of Europe for hundreds of years. It is impossible to sort out their issues that have been handed down generation after generation. We cannot solve their problems. Only They themselves and God can do that. We must rebuild our own country, now, before we become the "Third World" country. We must never again allow a recurrence of 9/11. I pray that whomever is elected President this year will possess the clarity of mind, and the temerity, to rise above all this partisan "stuff" and be the leader we must have in this changing world.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/15/2008 7:40:07 PM



    Me thinkth Obama camp protest too much. . . Why?
    Obama gives kudos to Kwame Kilpatrick: I want to first of all acknowledge your great mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, . . . .who I AM GRATEFUL TO CALL HIM A FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE . . .

    VIDEO of Obama making above kudo to Kilpatrick:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKaOWI_7fsk&eurl=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-friend-supporter-jailed-detroit.html

    The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision
    Steve Mitchell Mon Aug 11, 8:30 AM ET
    Excerpts

    Although Kilpatrick has distanced himself from Obama and Obama has distanced himself from Kilpatrick, they are BOTH INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT. And, that is Obamas problem.

    The night before Wright imploded in front of the Washington press corps, Obama was the featured speaker at an NAACP dinner in Detroit where MAYOR KILPATRICK GAVE HIM A ROUSING INTRODUCTION, AN INTRODUCTION SHOWN ON LOCAL TV NEWS SHOWS. Undoubtedly, some 527 committee or the Michigan Republican Party has that introduction on DVD.

    Rev. Wright has already proven to be an albatross around Obamas neck. Obamas support plummeted among white North Carolina General Election voters after TV ADS linking him with REV. WRIGHT were aired during the North Carolina Democratic primary. That plunge in support did not go unnoticed by McCain supporters. It is VERY LIKELY that SIMILAR ADS will be run in key battleground states starting in MID-OCTOBER. In Michigan, you can bet that the much hated Kilpatrick will be included in the Obama/Wright ads, making them look like the Three Musketeers, one for all and all for one.

    Not only does Obama have to overcome Wrights fiery rhetoric, he has to overcome the Kilpatrick connection, too. KILPATRICKS tremendous unpopularity has FUELED LATENT AND SOMETIME BLATANT RACISM AMONG MICHIGAN VOTERS, the last thing Obama needs in a key state less than three months before the election.
    White voters around the country demonstrated their concern with Obama when they voted by a more than 2:1 margin against him in all the primary elections after March 4th. Michigan has a large number of lower income, less educated white voters, the same type of voter who rejected Obama in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and other states.
    During the primaries, Obama dismissed some white voters by saying they CLING TO THEIR GUNS OR RELIGION.

    (Continued in Reply area below - The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision )

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/15/2008 7:41:44 PM


      (Continued from my post up above - The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision )

      Democrats must now worry that WHITE VOTERS IN MICHIGAN MAY WELL CLING TO THEIR ENORMOUS ANTIPATHY towards Kwame Kilpatrick and take it out on Barack Obama.

      The timetables being set for Kilpatricks HEARINGS AND TRIALS certainly seem to have an incredibly coincidental LINK TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, something that the two state leaders who have set them would deny. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm has scheduled her removal HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 3rd. It is probably not a coincidence that the date she has chosen is the day before Sen. John McCains scheduled acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. The timing assures that almost everyone in Michigan will be concentrating on the mayor in Detroit, not on the GOP convention in Minneapolis. So, the DEMOCRATS WIN ROUND ONE on Kilpatrick.

      However, even if he is removed, Republican Attorney General Mike Cox said that he expects the ASSAULT CHARGES WILL BE TRIED IN THE NEXT 90 DAYS. He said at the time he announced the indictments that simple assault cases like this almost always go to trial within three months. That means the HIGH PROFILE TRIAL SHOULD OCCUR IN LATE OCTOBER OR EARLY NOVEMBER, RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION. In fairness to Cox, his timeframe is absolutely consistent with how other similar cases are handled. Round two to the Republicans.

      Democrats hope Kilpatricks removal from office will insulate Obama from any connection to Kilpatrick, just as they hope Obamas renunciation of Wright will end the controversy about his former pastor. HOWEVER, radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin have all kept up the drumbeat about Obama, Wright, and white radical Will Ayres.

      Its hard to believe that this association will not be the subject of TV ads in the weeks before the election, even though Obama has distanced himself from his former pastor. And, you can also expect that pro-McCain forces will try to tie Wright, Kikpatrick and Obama together in Michigan, no matter what happens to Mayor Kilpatrick. In office or out, guilty or not guilty, the clip of Kilpatrick introducing Wright does not go away. Neither does the clip of Obama defending his former spiritual leader or the clip of Wright saying: Its not God Bless America, its God Damn America.

      WITH KILPATRICK ALL OVER THE NEWS FOR HIS ASSAULT TRIAL AT THE SAME TIME AS THE OBAMA/KILPATRICK/WRIGHT ADS ARE ON TV, IT MAY WELL BE THAT THE FINAL ROUND GOES TO MCCAIN, PERHAPS BY A KNOCKOUT. Michigan is a pivotal state for both Obama and McCain. The final results might hinge on guilt through association.

      (Continued from Reply area below - The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision)

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/15/2008 7:43:29 PM



        (Continued from Reply area up above - The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision)

        It would be more than ironic if two African-Americans, Kwame Kilpatrick and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are responsible for Barack Obamas loss in Michigan. And, it is hard to write a scenario where a Democrat can be elected president without winning Michigan.

        Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20080811/cm_rcp/michigan_the_obamawrightkilpat

        Scandal-Ridden 'Hip Hop Mayor' Superdelgates Democratic Power Links

        http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2008/03/11/scandal-ridden-hip-hop-mayor-obama-superdelgates-dem-power-links





        • Posted By: loriw @ 08/15/2008 8:10:27 PM

          I would be very skeptical of any candidate if an alleged felon was supporting that candidate. The judge in Michigan would have done Obama a big favor if he had ruled that Kilpatrick could not go to the convention.
          Michigan can't seem to get anything right lately...this coming from a Michigander (currently living in IN)

        • Posted By: 12waz @ 08/15/2008 7:45:13 PM

          haha.you got on this fast.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 08/15/2008 3:45:13 PM

    We have the smear book researched from fringe blogospheres, and the smear campaign against Mr. Obama. If he wins, he'll be well healed shortly thereafter with unnoticeable scar tissue. The beating he's taking over the past year are horrific. If it were physical, I think he would be bloodied and maimed. Mr. McCain's ignoring comments about the Corsi book, along with his own personal smears - a road he pledged not to go down - show me a guy with absolutely no character, and another guy with inner strength and patience. The Spears, Hilton, Castro, gas-break, get-9-cents-off-the-price-of-gas-in-25-years drill-for-oil farce, tax, Social Security dip, nuclear power dip and the ever-present "straight-talk depressed" jargon are used up. You have some bloggers (Below) believing that Mr.Obama plants all this negative himself. The writer claims he "has to fight back" or become another McGovern. This is what the "greatest nation in the world" has come too. Bullies win, good behavior suffers, and survival of the meanest. If this Mr. McCain wins, remember how he did it, than ask yourself if that's how you want yours to win.

    • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/15/2008 7:55:39 PM

      Sounds exactly like what Rachael Maddow said earlier...

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