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Four years ago, during one of the dullest and most depressing American presidential election campaigns in living memory, I happened by chance to watch an obscure senator from Illinois deliver a speech to the Democratic National Convention. It was electrifying. I can still remember the power of his voice, as he said: 'I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' Barack Obama was the best political speaker I'd...

It looks like the declaration by Louis Farrakhan that Barack Obama is the new Messiah, as you can see in this video, is not an isolated belief. It seems this bizarre theology of Obama worship has spread to our college campuses. In particular this belief in the sanctity of a certain sacred Chicago machine politician now seems to have devout acolytes in hallowed halls of Smith College, the nation's largest liberal arts college for women, located in Massachusetts. And the high priestess singing praises of The One is one Maggie Mertens, the associate editor of the Smith College student newspaper,...

Obama is my homeboy. And I'm not saying that because he's black - I'm saying that in reference to those Urban Outfitters t-shirts from a couple years ago that said, "Jesus is my homeboy." Yes, I just said it. Obama is my Jesus. While you may be overtly religious and find this to be idol-worshipping, or may be overtly politically correct and just know that everything in that sentence could be found offensive, I'm afraid it's true anyway. As with many spiritual enlightenments, mine came in the middle of a bleak, hopeless period of my life. The innocent, idealistic world...

A video called "Obama Youth - Junior Fraternity Regiment" is a hit on YouTube, but reportedly has caused the suspension of a middle school teacher in Kansas City, Mo. The video, showing children in military uniforms addressing "President Obama" and chanting his "yes, we can" campaign line, has been viewed more than half a million times.Joyce McGautha, head of the Urban Community Leadership Academy, was quoted by Fox News saying, "People are upset that possibly taxpayer money is being used to support one particular candidate." She said the charter school's board will rule on the teacher's future, according to...

In case you missed the video this is a copy that has Farrakhan's words in text, because it can be hard to hear without them. This is a MUST SEE

ELECTION 2008 Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking' 'Barack has captured the youth,' will bring about 'universal change' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 09, 2008 8:03 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House. He says when Obama talks "the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

What Lies Beneath Farrakhan’s “Messiah”? This past week, Louis Farrakhan referred to Barack Hussein Obama as “the Messiah.” I’m going to repeat that. Louis Farrakhan referred to Barack Hussein Obama as “the Messiah.” For those who don’t know, Farrakhan is the leader of the Nation of Islam in America. The leader of the Nation of Islam. A muslim. To a cheering crowd of muslims, referring to Barack Hussein Obama as his (and their) “Messiah.” Problem is that Barack Hussein Obama claims to be a “Christian.” A Christian who lives a few blocks away from Big Louie Farrakhan in Chicago, but...

I've not seen this before. I just saw O'Reilly play it on his show and found it on youtube. Chilling and scary!

"You are the instrument God is going to use to bring about universal CHANGE. That is why Barack has captured the youth. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking." (VIDEO)

And now, America, we introduce the Great Obama! The world's most gifted political magician! A thing of wonder. A thing of awe. Just watch him defy politics, economics, even gravity! (And hold your applause until the end, please.) To kick off our show tonight, Mr. Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don't pay income taxes! How can our star enact such mathemagic? How can he "cut" zero? Abracadabra! It's called a "refundable tax credit." It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing...

10/9/2008 Farrakhan calls Obama "the messiah"

A FReeper asked me if I could post this video. We both agree that it is very creepy in that Farrakhan calls Obama the messiah as thousands listen intently.

This video is unnerving. Look at the gleeful look on Farrakhan's face. He's talking to thousands of burka-wearin goofs about "Change, Obama and Youth." Something's really wrong here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowxMcVTjTE

Imagine the excitement of the mainstream media if they had discovered that some preacher up in Alaska had declared Sarah Palin to be like a deity? Well, the same basic thing happened when the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, declared Barack Obama to be a messiah as you can see in this video. I believe this messianic pronouncement by Farrakhan was made last February but the video was uploaded to YouTube just yesterday. Better save this video before it gets scrubbed by the Thought Police. I don't know which is creepier, the pronouncement of Obama as...

Glenn Beck presents the Obama National Anthem

Imagine the excitement of the mainstream media if they had discovered that some preacher up in Alaska had declared Sarah Palin to be like a deity? Well, the same basic thing happened when the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, declared Barack Obama to be a messiah as you can see in this video. I believe this messianic pronouncement by Farrakhan was made last February but the video was uploaded to YouTube just yesterday. Better save this video before it gets scrubbed by the Thought Police. I don't know which is creepier, the pronouncement of Obama as...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy09UpI60F8A salute to Obama from "the youth"

First came the disturbing video of very young children singing the praises of Obama, in the style of North Korean children hailing the transformative powers of the Dear Leader. Now comes equally or more disturbing video of older children, this time in uniforms, marching and proclaiming that "because of Obama" they will achieve various accomplishments.

This is one of the scariest things I've ever seen: a group of kids wearing paramilitary uniforms, marching and chanting to the man who is probably our next president as if he's some third world dictator.The left likes to call Bush a "Nazi." I don't recall him ever making or encouraging kids to sing songs about him and chant his name.

The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less. Aides say that's an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don't have to be publicly reported. Consider the cases of Obama donors "Doodad Pro" of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and "Good Will" of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000—both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit... (read more...

Obama's Paramilitary Youth Movement (Frightening Video of brainwashed youth)

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=188153 you decide.

Obama Song Brings Back Memories By Nonie Darwish FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/3/2008 I was born and raised as a Muslim in the Middle East and lived for 30 years in oppressive dictatorships and police states. I remember the daily bombardment on Arab radio of praise and songs of adoration of the Egyptian dictator president Gamal Abdel Nasser. ‘Ya Gamal ya Habib Al Malayeen, ya Gamal,’ that is Arabic for Gamal beloved by millions and the song goes on to say, we are following you in your road and mission. Day in and day out songs like that was chanted by Egyptian...

The Wash Post's Jonathan Weisman reported on a closed-door meeting between Obama and the Democratic caucus last night and what the nominee said was the buzz of the morning news shows: The 200,000 souls who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience of congressional representatives. "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions," he said, according to the source.

I've never seen this kind of thing before by a candidate for POTUS. - having a room full of children "singing Obamas praises" is very frightening to me.

I’m a little sick of the idea of using children to promote political positions and especially candidates, so I’m inclined to look at this kind of effort with a jaundiced eye under any circumstances. However, this video seems even creepier than most. Sing for Change brags about getting 22 children from 5-12 to regurgitate some execrable lyrics as though they had the first clue about the topic of the songs:

VIDEO: Obama kids "Sing for Change Obama" by GVnana on Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:38 am I'm appalled. Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA "Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon... Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon, when 22 children, ages 5-12, gathered to sing original songs in the belief that their singing would lift up our communities for the coming election. Light, hope, courage and love shine through these nonvoting children who believe that their very best contribution to the Obama campaign is to sing." WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD Music and lyrics by Lily Campbell, age 9...

Obama Offices Different, Separate and Apart From Democrat Party Offices Does Obama Campaign Not Trust the Democrats? Or is it the Clintons? Will Election 2008 be remembered as the first contest between Republicans and Obamacrats–or the first between the Obamacrats and the Democrats? Senator Barack Obama is building a national organization separate and apart from the national Democrat Party apparatus–at least in any state where the outcome of the November election is at all in doubt. In state after state, the Obama campaign, in a break with tradition, has opened up its own offices–which largely push Barack Obama, and only...

Is there a doctor in the house?

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to...

Obama's image, like that of Roman emperors and European monarchs, to appear on commemorative coins It is illegal for the U.S. Mint to produce a coin that bears the image of a living person, and the U.S. Postal Service never puts a living person's picture on its stamps. This taboo probably dates back to the War of Independence, when the Founding Fathers decided that the United States would never exalt an individual, no matter how prominent, in the manner of Roman emperors and European monarchs. This law does not apply, of course, to private mints that produce commemorative (non-legal-tender) coins,...

First we had Barack Obama's personal Presidential seal, and then Greek columns for a speech in a huge stadium. Now we have commemorative coins with Barry's face on them, in the manner of Roman emperors and European monarchs. It may be noted that, in the United States, the face of a living person is NEVER printed on a postage stamp or a coin. Nonetheless, the Democratic Party not only failed to protest such an action, it actually welcomed it. This underscores our position that the Obama campaign is nothing more than a personality cult, and a dangerous one, that appeals...

IN Monday's Post, I discussed how Barack Obama, during his July trip, had asked Iraqi leaders not to finalize an agreement vital to the future of US forces in Iraq - and how the effect of such a delay would be to postpone the departure of the US from Iraq beyond the time Obama himself calls for. The Obama campaign has objected. While its statement says my article was "filled with distortions," the rebuttal actually centers on a technical point: the differences between two Iraqi-US accords under negotiation - the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA, to set rules governing US...

The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to "start slamming down some phones." Camille Paglia suggests, "Be boring!" Meanwhile, a posse of Democratic lawyers, mainstream reporters, lefty bloggers and various other Obamaphiles are scouring the vast tundra of Alaska for something, anything, to bring down Sarah Palin: her daughter's pregnancy, her ex-brother-in-law problem, her $60 per diem, and now her religion. (CNN reports — news flash! — that she apparently has never spoken in tongues.) Not since Henry II...

The Obama campaign seems to have experienced a "Minsky Moment." That, as any financial bubblologist worth his weight in tulips knows, is the particular point in time when no more "greater fools" can be found to support a bubble and a Great Deflation finally begins. Sssssss. (The financial phenomenon is named after economist Hyman Minksy.)Now Obama's Minsky Moment is morphing into the McCain Moment. The evidence? Here goes: 1) The final 10 national polls in June had Barack Obama up by an average of 7 percentage points. The past eight polls this month have John McCain up by a bit...

Update - Anyone wondering if I have lost it or the dems really are running amok in a craze can now go to CNN and see the transcript for the show: BRAZILE: First of all, I don’t think they understand the role of a community organizer, often to help people who are in distress, they’ve lost their jobs, they’ve lost their homes, they’ve lost their health care. And for many of us, it’s a time honored tradition to give back, especially those who have been rewarded with so much. The Bible says to whom much is given much is required...

Obama’s public image has suddenly begun to revert from the carefully choreographed caricature of the bike-riding savior of the planet to the more candid and accurate picture of the Chicago political machine operative with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth. The Obama-Biden campaign also understands that the McCain-Palin ticket is not without nostalgia of its own. This pair embodies the American pioneering spirit. They represent flyover country, the real America that most Americans live in beyond the media and financial center of New York, the political center of Washington, and the mind-numbing popular culture of Hollywood...

The Kos: “Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor” Oh we get it Kos. So Palin is Pilate and THE ONE is Jesus. Right. Which proves why the devil is a lousy theologian. Fact is that Jesus wasn’t anything of the kind. True he was called a “rabble rouser, drunkard, glutton and friend of sinners”, but he was never accused of, nor worked as a community organizer. In fact his followers then we anxious at the fact that he seemed totally disinterested at the “social ills” of his time, speaking of a world to come and...

ST. PAUL, Minn -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took repeated swipes at Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and the news media Wednesday night after accepting the vice presidential nomination before an enraptured audience at the Republican National Convention. Shortly after her speech, convention officials ordered a roll call of the states, and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was officially handed the Republican presidential nomination. Facing enormous pressure to deliver a credible performance under intense media scrutiny, McCain's vice presidential pick defined herself in a lively speech as a change-oriented political outsider committed to reform and uninterested in the finer trappings of...

Obama Very Interesting Audio Surfaces Obama says in his own words HE HAS TO SAVE BLACK PEOPLE TO SAVE OUR COUNTY. This is the only audio were Obama fully explains his strange "My salvation depends on collective salvation " line This audio proves OBAMA THINKS HE IS OUR SAVIOR, our Redeemer , the Anointed One!!!

When the Republicans mocked Barack Obama's decision to speak in an outdoor stadium with Greek columns as an opportunity for Obama to descend to speak to "mere mortals," Washington Post essayist and apparent psychic Philip Kennicott didn't see mockery of hubris. His mind-reading exposed white Republican racists resenting a black man appropriating Greek culture, with its "white temples, white statues, white marble."

SPRINGFIELD, IL — It is unclear who was responsible for providing water to attendees of an August 21 event featuring Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, where an estimated 150 people were treated for heat-related illness, including 17 who required hospitalization, according to an August 26 article in the Journal Star. Justin DeJong, spokesman for Obama for America in Illinois, said the Obama campaign worked with Downtown Springfield, Inc. (DSI) to provide water for the crowd. DSI volunteers sold water for $2 per cup at three locations near the plaza. Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin said in the article that the city...

Well, FReepers, imagine my shock when I received the following package in the mail. I don't know quite what to think of it. It may have significant political implications. Perhaps I need to find a lab to authenticate it. THE PACKAGE: THE LETTER:THE SHROUD:

Is Barack Obama about to go spectacularly over the top? Setting the date for his big nominee acceptance speech on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech tonight is poignant enough. But Mr Obama - who has been criticised in the past for his rock star image - is set to outdo himself. And the mockery is coming before he's even begun. But when the man who has engendered more political fervor than anyone since John F. Kennedy takes to the stage tonight, the lights, cameras and action may prove too much. It remains to...

As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour. ... Some Republicans have dubbed it the "Barackopolis," while others suggested the delegates should wear togas to fit in among the same Doric columns the ancient Greeks believed would stroke the egos of Zeus and Athena. "It's only appropriate that Barack Obama would descend down from the heavens and spend a little time with us mere mortals...

Obamapalooza: LIVE THREAD (Greek Temple Coronation, Fireworks, and 80,000 Fans) Survey Poll: Which feature of tonight's Greek Temple coronation will really jump the shark and send the Obama cult over the top in silliness and grandiosity? The hydraulic elevation of the candidate to the podium , the fireworks and flashpots, the 80,000 hypnotized, screaming fans, or the rock concert soundtrack? About the only things missing will be Hannah Montana, Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones strutting down the runway with "the One" as the crowd boogies to the groove of Obamamania. When it's over, will the 80,000 faithful pull...

Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has released a memo mocking Democrat rival Barack Obama’s decision to decorate the stage he will give his acceptance speech tonight on as the “Temple of Obama.” The memo, titled "Proper Attire for the Temple of Obama (The Barackopolis)," pokes fun at the neoclassical style Britney Spears’ set supervisor Bobby Allen designed for the elaborate stage at 80,000-seat Invesco Field, home of the NFL’s Denver Broncos. "It's only appropriate that Barack Obama would descend down from the heavens and spend a little time with us mere mortals when accepting the Democratic nomination," Republican National Committee...

After last night, there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that "He, Who's Middle Name Must Never Be Spoken", is a well rehearsed, finely groomed American superstar. What is the difference between someone like Brittney Spears and BHO? They both came out of nowhere. No one knew anything about them until the train wrecks were in sight. From day one they were told by their handlers what to do or say. How to act, how to respond, all to prefect the desired image. Everything choreographed and timed to make them appear appealing, flawless and charismatic. Make no doubt about...

Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns about the political risks posed by Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium Thursday evening. From the elaborate stagecraft to the teeming crowd of 80,000 cheering partisans, the vagaries of the weather to the unpredictable audience reaction, the optics surrounding the stadium event have heightened worries that the Obama campaign is engaging in a high-risk endeavor in an uncontrollable environment. A common concern: that the stadium appearance plays against Obama’s convention goal of lowering his star wattage and connecting with average Americans and that it gives Republicans a chance...

<p>“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.</p> <p>The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.</p>