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• Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 1:16:49 PM

  Comment: Comment: Posted By: olderwiser @ 07/05/2008 10:58:21 AM
  Comment: Barack Obama had the right as a U.S. Senator to go to look at Iraq. He did not. Then, one of his big vote getters was a promise to get us the hell out of Iraq. Now, nominated, he plans to go to Iraq to see if he needs to change his mind. I voted for him principally because he promised to get us the hell out of there. If he goes there and comes back to endorse staying there, then I reserve the right to flush my Obama vote down the toilet.
  
  HERES PROOF THAT THE OBAMA MESSIAH IS FALLING APART!
  
  

• Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 8:51:22 AM

  Comment: This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."
  
  
  Radical and Socialist Influences:
  
  Saul Alinsky
  Bill Ayers
  Carl Davidson
  Frank Marshall Davis
  Democratic Socialists of America
  Bernardine Dohrn
  Gamaliel Foundation
  New Party
  Socialist Scholars Conference
  
  
  Political Allies and Advisors:
  
  Ali Abunimah
  Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji
  David Axelrod
  Gregg Craig
  Jim Johnson
  Marilyn Katz
  Anthony Lake
  Robert Malley
  Alice Palmer
  Eli Pariser
  George Soros
  Cass Sunstein
  Dorothy Tillman
  Joyce Wheeler
  Tim Wheeler
  
  
  Religious Affiliations:
  
  Louis Farrakan
  Rev. Joseph Lowery
  James Meeks
  Rev. Otis Moss
  Rev. Michael Pfleger
  Rev. Al Sharpton
  Jim Wallis
  Rev. Jeremiah Wright
  
  
  Organizational Affiliations:
  
  ACORN
  Arab American Action Network
  Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
  International Crisis Group
  MoveOn
  National Council of La Raza
  Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  Project Vote
  Sojourners
  
  
  Academic Affiliations:
  
  
  Rashid Khalidi
  Edward Said
  Cornel West
  
  
  Foundations:
  
  Joyce Foundation
  Woods Fund of Chicago
  
  
  Money Scandals:
  
  Nadhmi Auchi
  Robert Blackwell, Jr.
  Tony Rezko
  
  
  Family:
  
  Michelle Obama
  Raila Odinga
  
  

• Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 8:01:59 AM

  Comment: CONT....the OPFOR was reduced in strength by half, thus enabling Clark, despite deploying tactics of signal ineptitude, to triumph. His third star came down a few weeks later.
  Battle exercises and war games are of course meant to test the fighting skills of commanders and troops. The army's most important venue for such training is the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, where Clark commanded from October 1989 to October 1991 and where his men derisively nicknamed him "Section Leader Six" for his obsessive micro-management.
  At the NTC, army
  
  units face a resident OPFOR that has, through constant battle practice coupled with innovative tactics and close knowledge of the terrain, become adept at routing the visiting "Blue Force" opponents. For Clark, this naturally posed a problem. Not only were his men using unconventional tactics, they were also humiliating Blue Force generals who might nurture resentment against the NTC commander and thus discommode his career at some future date. To the disgust of the junior OPFOR officers Clark therefore frequently fought to lose, sending his men on suicidal attacks in order that the Blue Forces should go home happy and owing debts of gratitude to their obliging foe.
  All observers agree that Clark has always displayed an obsessive concern with the perquisites and appurtenances of rank. Ever since he acceded to the Nato command post, the entourage with which he travels has accordingly grown to gargantuan proportions to the point where even civilians are beginning to comment. A Senate aide recalls his appearances to testify, prior to which aides scurry about the room adjusting lights, polishin
  
  g his chair, testing the microphone etc prior to the precisely timed and choreographed moment when the Supreme Allied Commander Europe makes his entrance.
  "We are state of the art pomposity and arrogance up here," remarks the aide. "So when a witness displays those traits so egregiously that even the senators notice, you know we're in trouble." His NATO subordinates call him, not with affection, "the Supreme Being".
  "Clark is smart," concludes one who has monitored his career. "But his whole life has been spent manipulating appearances (e.g. the doctored OPFOR exercise) in the interests of his career. Now he is faced with a reality he can't control." This observer concludes that, confronted with the wily Slobodan and other unavoidable variables of war, Clark will soon come unglued. "Watch the carpets at NATO HQ for teeth marks."CP