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It’s time for McCain to turn the tide on Sen. Barack Obama and be aggressive with substantive points. In this next debate, McCain needs to inspire optimism for Americans by clarifying his plan to strengthen our economy, keep homeowners in their homes, lighten the tax burden to create jobs in America and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. Concerns about Obama are that he will raise our taxes, costing jobs, and increase our dependency on foreign oil. Obama’s Global Poverty Act is evidence of this. Additionally, his naiveté, from inexperience in foreign policy, will be visible to our adversaries and...

As John McCain's campaign hits hard at some of Barack Obama's past associations, one person closely tied to the Democratic candidate is conspicuously absent from the attacks: the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. It is an omission that some Republican strategists and McCain supporters find puzzling and frustrating. In advertisements, in Web videos and on the campaign trail, McCain repeatedly heaps scorn on Obama for his ties to convicted Chicago financier Antoin "Tony" Rezko and to William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, the violent 1970s radical group. The Republican nominee never mentions Wright, the controversial black minister...

America has since its birth been a place where men and women from around the world could come and have 'a chance' to reach their individual desires. It has never been a place freeloaders would seek because real effort was normally required to obtain personal dreams and vision. Until the relatively recent past, the Public Schools tried very hard to teach and make clear the reasons that people were seeking America. American History and Civics were requirements for graduation and were understood to be the foundation for creating a good citizen. (Personal responsibility was also expected in the schools.) A...

You two have been very popular lately. The most important presidential campaign ever in history revolves around you and some unanswered questions about your interactions with Barack Obama. But not a peep from either of you. Why hide? Do you not consider yourselves highly gifted, able to understand with a level of intelligence unreachable by most? Do you not think your ideology absolutely essential to the establishment of order in this world? Be men! Don’t hide like little girls. (I don’t know, maybe you guys want to be little girls. But never mind that.) Ayers—surely your propositions are worth more...

Have the mainstream media been fair in their coverage of Barack Obama's associations with radical elements of the American left? Here is a useful guide for answering that question: What if John McCain had similar associations with the radical right? Barack Obama's political career was launched in the home of William Ayers, a left-wing terrorist who spent the 1970s running from the FBI. Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a domestic terror organization that bombed the Pentagon, police departments and the homes of government officials. In a 2001 New York Times interview, Ayers said, "I don't regret setting...

WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association. But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically...

WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association. But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically...

Transfixed by the two-candidate "horse race," maybe we didn't focus precisely on what happened in the home stretch of the last Democratic debate when Barack Obama tried to pick and nuance his way through a straight-ahead question from MSNBC's Tim Russert. Q: Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan? The question arose because the longtime racist and anti-Semitic leader of the racist and anti-Semitic Nation of Islam had delivered a two-hour speech devoted mainly to praising Obama's candidacy. Here is Obama's answer: "You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think...

Here. Okay...I use the word "discovered" a bit loosely--the way one might "discover" a Big Mac at McDonald's. But now that I have your attention, the point is that most voters don't have a clue that Obama writes in his memoir that the very first time he attended Trinity United Church, he heard Rev. Wright rant that "white folks' greed runs a world in need." As you may recall, Obama said, following Rev. Wright's infamous press club appearance in April, that "The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago." The racist Rev. Wright...

Interesting 2 minute video sent to me today, sort of says it all. Good song as well.

For 20 years he sat in the pews of Jeremiah Wright church. For 20 years he listened to the Reverend of hate, racism, and anti-Americanism. For 20 years he called Wright a friend and a mentor. Even when the Reverend that asked God to damn America was exposed Barack Obama still could not disown him more than he can disown his white grand mother as he said in this ridiculous speech he gave in March 2008. Obama and his liberals believe that they are going to fool America and win the Presidency. The media gives us dozens of biased polls...

There is nothing dishonorable about drawing attention to Barack Obama’s ties to Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, or Bill Ayers. In each relationship, Obama displayed a willingness to tolerate corruption or radicalism if it helped him get ahead in politics. The mainstream media is usually quick to detect this kind of pattern in ambitious pols, but they’ve been too preoccupied painting halos around Obama’s head to notice it in him. Let’s take them one by one. Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in the late 1980s, during his community-organizer days. National Review’s Byron York has reported that Obama...

Three debates, moderated by three well-known left-wing Democrats, have taken place and regardless of their overt efforts to provide cover for Mr. Obama’s radical life of ill-advised associations, his nuanced incoherent lies and empty résumé, the American voter can still draw the right conclusions on the basis of information Obama refuses to provide. ABC, NBC and CBS want to keep Obama’s secrets (this list is really much longer)

"The independents don't like negative attacks." Isn't that the line we hear? You know, I can think of negative attack they will like even less - Obama's oblivious naivete allows Iran to slip a nuke to al Qaeda, who promptly wipes Denver off the map. But McCain has decided to leave his most powerful ammo at home. From Politico. After days of attempts to persuade voters that Obama’s ties to ‘60s radical Bill Ayers are a crucial character issue, McCain didn’t mention Ayers’ name during the 90 minutes of Tuesday’s forum. His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the...

Obama either didn't know or didn't care that his friend and fellow partner on several Chicago community organization boards and in whose home he launched his political career, William Ayers, was an infamous and unrepentent radical leftwing terrorist who boasted about planting bombs and killing people in this country. Obama either didn't know or didn't care that his close friend, Frank Marshall Davis, whom he wrote about with such admiration in his book "Dreams Of My Father" was a radical member of the Communist Party USA, an ardent Stalinist and a outspoken supporter of the 60's Black-Power movement. Obama...

I wanted to post a follow up to today's column. Ross Douthat over at the Atlantic was kind enough to mention it today. He writes: Jay Cost makes the strongest possible case for campaigning on Ayers, Wright et. al. in the waning weeks of the election. He thinks that an issues-based campaign, pegged to McCain's bipartisan brand, made sense before the bottom dropped out of the economy; now, though, it's character or nothing. He notes that the sharpest, steepest drop in Obama's favorable numbers all year came during the initial wave of Wright-related coverage, and argues that this is the...

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his “past associations.” That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against “guilt by association.” We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood, or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics. Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason....

First Obama's racist pastor was exposed. Obama's response: "I might not know him as well as I thought." Then Obama's buddy, Tony Rezko, went to jail. Obama's response: "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew." And now Obama's friend, William Ayers, is being scrutinized. The response from Obama's camp? Obama "didn't know the history."

The Obama campaign has come out saying that Barack Obama was unaware of former Weather Underground member William Ayer's past when the two met more than a decade ago (when Obama kicked off his Illinois political carrer in Ayer's living room). When Rev. Wright went on a tirade before the National Press Club, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the man I knew." When Tony Rezko was being exposed as a crook, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew." Is America dumb enough to believe that Barack Obama was clueless...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign.

I can't possibly understand why know one has asked this question. Obama has said that he never heard any of bad stuff said by Reverend Wright. Ok, so for us to believe that, we have to believe that Obama did not go to church the Sunday after 9/11. This was the Sunday after the most vile, visious attack in this nation's history. And Obama didn't go to church to seek guidance or pray for this nation. If that doesn't deserve a trip to church, what does? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8 Either way, we would have to quesiton his judgement.

As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of...

(FORT MYERS, FLA.) On the day when the McCain campaign released a new attack ad not-so-subtly titled “Dangerous,” Sarah Palin made a concerted effort to use words like “fearful” and “afraid” to describe Barack Obama, signaling her campaign’s decision to make the election a referendum on Obama’s character, rather than the issues facing the country. “I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America—as the greatest source of good in this world,” Palin said at a rally this morning in Clearwater, Fla. “I’m afraid this is someone...

Good grief. Lieberman: McCain draws the line at using Rev. Wright. "Wallace asked Lieberman if McCain would bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright after condemning state Republican parties for running ads criticizing Obama for his relationship with the controversial figure." "Lieberman responded: “He [McCain] didn’t like that approach. Senator McCain feels that same way about bringing up Reverend Wright through his campaign. And that’s the kind of line drawing that I think John McCain is all about.” "Later on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume said the McCain camp would be “out of their mind” to not bring up Obama’s relationship with...

Pete Tiffany voted for George W. Bush in 2004 on the basis of an online quiz, which asked him 12 questions about his views on issues such as abortion, free trade and gay marriage, and told him which candidate was closest to his views. The 44-year-old construction worker in the battleground state of Virginia said he isn't sure how he will vote this year. "I want to say I'll vote on the economy, which Democrats are better on, but I'm not sure if the economy is all that bad," he said recently. "Obama's pastor bothers me, but I take everything...

Watching the TV news on both FOX and the lib channels it is becoming increasingly apparent that Obama is scared that he will be tied to Ayers adn Wright and the other kooks he hangs with. Even on "This Week" with Stephy, EVEN the once brilliant Peggy Noonan looked into the camera and spoke directly to the McCain ccampaign WARNING them NOT to bring up Ayers and to act like "adults" It's CLEAR, the Obama connections to radicals and kooks is his achilles heal and the entire left in his campaign and on TV including the pudits are WARNING McCain...

Hannity will try to shine some light on his past associations.I`ve got no idea how hard he`s going to hit but its worth an hour of our time.

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The National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, it has nothing to do with any Jews or Democrats we know), Jewsvote.org, and other shills would have Americans believe that Barack Obama supports Israel's right to exist. Perhaps he does, to the extent that the United Nations supports Israel's right to exist. Recall that it was the UN that adopted a resolution to the effect that Zionism is a form of racism. Barack Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright, agrees that Zionism is racism, and Barack Obama's church sanctioned the publication of this position in one of its official publications. The...

Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers. But Obama isn’t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters...

Content of "disappeared" Trinity United Church of Christ bulletins could cost Obama the election. Napoleon's general Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle once told an associate, “My friend, any hussar who does not die by thirty is a blackguard.” We would not have appointed someone with this attitude to a command during the horse and musket era of warfare, because cavalry was too expensive an instrument to throw away in swashbuckling, glorious, but suicidal enterprises. Our ideal commanders would have instead had enough common sense to stay well away from intact infantry formations that presented solid hedges of fixed bayonets, but enough...

If a Presidential candidate was not only an enabler of racists and anti-Semites, but also an actual racist, would it be worth $10.17 to know that before you vote? $10.17 is the Amazon.com price for Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, and used copies can be purchased for considerably less. As opposed to the smears and urban legends that are circulating about Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin, the following quotes from Dreams From My Father (paperback, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3) all have page numbers so you can verify for yourself that Barack Obama wrote this material. If you can find the book at a...

CBS News’ chief political consultant Marc Ambinder reports that a group called the Judicial Confirmation Network will spend over $1 million on a TV and print advertising campaign in a smaller markets in the key swing states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania featuring some controversial figures Barack Obama has been associated with.

He'll deliver the keynote address Nov. 7 at FMO's "State of the Black Union" event at Cahn Auditorium. "He was very humbled and honored that students at Northwestern wanted to give him this honor," Parker said. Wright is best known as the former pastor of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee. Clips of his sermons, in which he stated "God damn America" and suggested the AIDS virus was developed to infect blacks, were replayed constantly on cable news. "In light of the controversy surrounding statements made by you that have recently been publicized, the celebratory character of Northwestern's...

ELECTION DAY UNTIL JANUARY 20th, 2009 Thirty-five days until Election Day, and counting. What can we expect for the eleven weeks between November 4th and January 20th when the forty-fourth president of the United States takes the oath of office? If Senator Barack Hussein Obama wins: —Reverend Jeremiah Wright will reappear in full glory. He will be seated behind Obama in all his regalia, sneering and thinking, “We gots them now! God HAS damned America!” —Michelle Robinson Obama will be released from captivity and named Liaison to Recently Proud Americans and Ambassadorette to Nigeria so she can re-organize the efforts...

The most destructive issue against Obama is Jeremiah Wright. It is this issue that will ensure Obama defeat on November 4th 2008. The Reverend of hate, racism, and anti-Americanism is the most important factor that will cause 15% to 20% of the White democrats who voted for Kerry in 2004 to vote for John McCain and/or to simply stay home. These White democrats are mainly from the blue collar class and they concentrated in battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, etc… These voters have had a problem voting for black person to begin with and for sure...

The McCain campaign and/or the 527 groups on the Republican side should bring back immediately the Reverend of hate, anti-American, and racism back to the debate and not only tie him to Obama but make it in such a forceful and clear way that the majority of voters will not distinguish between the two comes Elections Day. There is not a single issue that it is more damaging to Obama than his 20 years relationship with Wright church of hate and racism. The ads should be powerful and simple. Clips showing the Reverend of Hate trashing America and spouting his...

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts: 1. Commitment to God 2. Commitment to the Black Community 3. Commitment to the Black Family 4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education 5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence 6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic 7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and...

YouTube: THESE ARE AMONG THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS - the enemies of America, here and abroad

As the presidential campaign unwinds, we are increasingly seeing the dark (no racial pun intended) and sinister side of Barack Obama. When he instructed his followers to get in the faces of Independents and Republicans, it was THE turning point in his campaign. This statement incites violence, plain and simple. It shows that Obama has no desire to negotiate with his political enemies at home, unlike those abroad. It shows that he chooses intimidation over the power of ideas. It is becoming disturbingly clear that Obama is applying lessons learned from Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and the rest of his...

Via the Standard, I’m simply weak at the thought of the magnificent theatrical sorrow to which we’ll be treated when the blogosphere’s shrillest Obama mega-shills find out. If Joe Klein and Sullivan don’t already have pieces prepared for the occasion, consider their weekend schedules cleared. Remember, The One himself calls this a “legitimate issue.” Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama. McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using...

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Friends and Neighbors: Given the upcoming election, I have taken it upon myself to do a little research into Obama’s religion. From what I have heard, Obama attended Jeremiah Wright’s church for approximately 17 years. Obama recently told Bill O’Reilly that he went to church more or less twice monthly during this time. During an interview with Sean Hannity, Jeremiah Wright persistently asked Hannity how many James Cone books Hannity had read. For those of you who, like me, aren’t very familiar with James Cone, he is considered the father of a movement called “black liberation theology.” I have taken...

We've all seen the shocking clips of Reverend Wright screaming, "God damn America," "US of KKK," and declaring with seeming delight in his heart -- a mere 5 days after the 9/11 attacks -- that "America's chickens have come home to roost." While Obama unconvincingly attempted to dismiss Wright's rantings as mere out-of-context "snippets," the reality is that such sentiments are entirely consistent with the theology of Obama's church -- that is, black liberation theology. As Reverend Wright has explained, black liberation theology is based on the teachings of Dr. James Cone. So who is Dr. Cone and what does...

If you're like many of us, you become uncomfortable when anyone asks you why you’re voting against Obama. You can’t just tell the truth and say "it’s because he’s black." That's socially unacceptable. So you come up with an excuse like "I think he’s secretly Muslim" or "he compared Sarah Palin to a pig." But you can only get away with parroting McCain surrogate talking points for so long before people start laughing at you and asking you to become an Amway distributor. You need to vary your response, so it looks like you're not desperately latching on to the...

Sunday, September 14, 2008 Obama's Hidden Marxist Past Why does the media refuse to investigate Obama's Marxist past? Let's look at the evidence:

These are AWESOME!

First of all: fair warning. You have to be really, really shallow, or really, really patient to enjoy watching this interview between Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey. The "Pain Body," according to Eckhart--who has all the eyeless animation of a beige-colored tub of salt-free tofu--is the collective, atmospheric body of wrongs done to your demographic. If you're Native American, the victory of European settlers is your "pain body." If you're African-American, slavery is your "pain body." If you're a woman, the patriarchy is your "pain body." Keep in mind, you don't have to have been victimized by any particular evil,...