Obama will have us "Fleeced"

Dick Morris on how specifics will drag Obama down:

In our new book, Fleeced, we try to bring the debate back down to earth, focusing on the specific plans that Obama has announced during his presidential primary campaign and discussing the consequences. This is the debate Barack Obama hopes he can avoid.

Consider his proposals:

• In effect, he would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He’d raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He’d apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

• He would double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes.

• He’d double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

• He wants to cover 12 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

• He proposes requiring Homeland Security operatives to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation

• He says that unless they can establish that there is “probable cause to believe that a certain individual is linked to a specific terrorist group,” Homeland Security cannot seize his documents and search his business. The current standard is only that the search be “relevant” to a terror investigation.

• In effect, he would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He’d raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He’d apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

He does not oppose $5-per-gallon gasoline but only says that he wishes there had been a more “gradual adjustment” to the higher prices.

Obama can talk about the Rev. Wright and flag lapel pins and his wife’s love of America all day long. But what he resists is a specific discussion of his own plans for our country. That’s the discussion he fears and he avoids. And it’s the discussion John McCain must force upon him if he is to have any realistic chance of winning the election.

NObama says NO way too many times

Nice McCain dig at "NO" Obama:

Obama the Natural-born US Citizen

Let me help the Obama camp on one item: "Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. Natural-born citizen"

Yes he is. He was born in Hawaii, and he was born after it became a state. He is a natural-born US citizen. Your detailed explanation is meaningless in this case as it would be a concern only if he was born overseas. He was not. He was born in Hawaii.

Some claim the birth certificate that has been presented is a fake. As there is no evidence the *location* of his birth was faked, there is no reason to be concerned on that point.

The Obama File, Wash Post, and Barack Obama's real roots

The Washington Post is going after Free Republic for going after Barack Obama's muslim roots, by reviewing a woman, Danielle Allen, who has been digging around to find out who is calling Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim. They found him - "Beckwith" - maintainer of The Obama File. A breathless article on finding a source you can get by googling in 3 minutes? Yup. Free Republic's "kristinn" answers. Freeper "Beckwith" responds:

The first thing I have to say about "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether," published by The Washington Post on June 28th, is that at NO time was I ever contacted by this woman, Danielle Allen. I spoke to two male Post reporters, who spoke to me over the phone for a period of months. The first contact was in the fall of 2007. They told me they were trying to track down the source of emails they considered negative to the Obamamessiah.

Allen obsesses about the "Muslim" Obama stories, but steers clear of Obama's relationships with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists and convicted swindlers. The trick she attempts to use is to knock down one or two or three items and the other four thousand don't count.

The following notice appears on my website's "About" page: "I don't write this stuff -- I cherry-pick it and publish it here -- every attempt is made to provide attribution and/or links to the original source -- if you don't like the writer's viewpoint -- send them an email -- not me. If the reader finds content that is incorrect, I will correct or delete it upon the submission of two links to an independent source with more accurate information."

And I mean just that and I do just that. I want The Obama File to be able to withstand the type of attack that Allen attempts in this article.

What we have here, in campaign terms, is a pre-emptive counterstrike against negative information. NextRight notes the contradictions.

A month ago, the press ran with the Obama's 'fightthesmears' website, pushing the Obama press release as a 'news story'. The subtext, that any criticism of Obama was illegitimate and wrong, was clear, and made clearer when Obama himself paired critiques of his inexperience with racism. Now we have a further attempt to in effect demonize the right as an 'innoculation' on the expected "Swiftboat" attack. By "Swiftboat" they mean when a right-wing source 'smears' them, ie, outs the liberal Democrat candidate for faking his biography. The worst crime you can commit is apparently the crime of undermining a liberal's campaign narrative.

There is no secret conspiracy to push the question of Obama's whitewashed bio, it's out in the open:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/765631/obama-and-the-giant-bl...

All Allen had to do was look up Barack Obama's first autobiography, and you'd find the *REAL* source of the Obama-Muslim links. His Muslim father, muslim step-father, muslim half-brother, muslim step-sister, his account of making faces during Koranic studies as a child growing up in Indonesia. You can then see the trajectory through this Nick Kristoff piece:

"He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ " - Nick Kristoff

(dont ask how Kristoff got be a frist-rate evaluator of Arabic accents; it sounds like he gate Obama a big wet kiss for the sophisticated white liberal looking for Mr International; now he's got to get those mainstreet USA votes, this will be quietly snuffed out.)

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/771896/princess-obama-derange...

Melanie Phillips could have been interviewed. Daniel Pipes could have been quoted.

They could remind you that - according to muslims, if you say the call to prayer, you *are* a muslim. It's like a man reciting the Nicene creed or the Lord's prayer. It makes you go, hmmmm.

Especially when Obama has also said: "I've always been a Christian" yet his own bio shows no Christian affiliation (his white mother was a leftist secular type) until he was 30 years old and got hooked on Rev Wright's Black Liberation fulminations (hardly orthodox Christianity, and from a good friend of Farrakhan no less).

Now Barack Obama is not a Muslim. He is not, even though he ancestry is such and his blood relatives on his fathers side are. Just as the issue in John Kerry's case was not "did he serve with honor in Vitenam?" but more about how Kerry used one narrative way back when as a war protester and a wholly different narrative in 2004, so too is Obama doing the same. Black Liberation African-roots soul-searching in "Dreams of My father" has been white-washed into ads that tout his "Typical White Person" grandmother's influence and "Kansas values" and deny the Muslim roots.

As Melanie Phillips says: "The issue is NOT Obama’s religion, now or in the past. It is the many questions which need to be answered about a) why he has sought to conceal his early background; b) why he has so many indirect associations with radical Islamism; and c) whether these two questions are in some way related."

We have a man who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, yet has a vague and dishonest ad that speaks of growing up with Kansas values. None of the current campaign Obama comes through in the "Dreams of My Father" Obama of 1995. Obama's own autobiography is a different story:

From Dreams Of My Father, “NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MEN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF”.

From Dreams Of My Father:
“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE AWAY,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE— some cruel, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

From Dreams Of My Father;
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “IT REMAINED NECESSARY TO PROVE WHICH SIDE YOU WERE ON, TO SHOW YOUR LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT, AND NAME NAMES. “
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “THE EMOTION BETWEEN THE RACES COULD NEVER BE PURE...THE OTHER RACE WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT; MENACING, ALIEN AND APART.”

Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, though, was [HALF BROTHER ] ROY .. HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM” .

In that book, Barack Obama found his identity in his own father: A Socialist economist in the Kenyatta govt, a member of the Kenyan elite who was also a Muslim and polygamist. There is no discernable trace of Christian upbringing.

All that the Free Republic internet poster did was to recite these above particulars, and do it sooner than anyone else did. "Expat Guy", a blogger out of Indonesia, added some additional flavor by bringing up some quote from friends of "Barry Sotero" (his name back then) to fill in the gaps.Really, Allen and the Washington Post need not have dug so hard and so far to find a trail that really starts at Obama's own words and history. Instead, they should be examining the unexamined question of Barack Obama's real roots, real sentiments and real theology.

It is perhaps the keenest indication that there is something "there" to observe how the Obama camp and their proxies (like Allen, who gave Obama a $2700 contribution), are desperate to get such questions and issues labelled as 'smears' and 'swiftboating'. They are unintentionally signalling the importance of this issue with their hyper-concern.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/765631/obama-and-the-giant-bl...

Google Crushes NObama blogspot dissent!

Google closing NObama blogs:

I thought this was a fluke and that I was alone, until I went to the Hillary Clinton Forum and saw Nobama’s post “Blogger just shut down my NObama Blog!!“

Turns out that a number of us were “blocked”. The common thread, our membership in the Just Say No Deal Coalition — a coalition of millions with one thing in common: NObama. Then, Diane Mantouvalos, one of the founders of the coalition, advised the next day that her personal computer had been hacked.

Well, Obama and his supporters can knock Alice Palmer off the ballot, pilfer Hillary Clinton’s delegates in Michigan, and bamboozle the masses, but he cannot silence us and these tactics will only strengthen our resolve.

Uppity Woman has a running list of blogs affected as well. In an abundance of caution, she’s set up an alternate site to be used if and when her blogger site is blocked completely (I was shocked to learn that since June 3, she’s had to use word verification to create new posts.)

I should note that Google has done that to our other blog, Travis Monitor (making us use word verifcation). There is something afoot!

Ratings Game - McCain v Obama

Here are some ratings for comparison:

American Conservative Union
http://www.acuratings.org/2007senate.htm

McCain: 82, Obama: 8, Clinton: 8

Americans for Tax Reform
http://www.atr.org/national/ratings/2008candidateratings.html

McCain: 83, Obama: 8, Clinton: 7

Citizens Against Government Waste
http://www.cagw.org/site/VoteCenter?page=congScorecard

McCain: 95, Obama: 30, Clinton: 14

National Taxpayers Union
http://www.ntu.org/misc_items/rating/VS_2006.pdf

McCain: 88, Obama: 16, Clinton: 17

Dobson v Obama

Dr Dobson took Obama to task over his arguable statements in a speech on religion:

"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology." Dobson said.

Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible with: "somebody would be pretty hard-pressed to make that argument" that he was distorting the Bible. Um, no, Dobson just did. Dobson is a mainline evangelical, and Obama went to a Black Liberation Theology church and had no religious training growing up except for that time when he was studying the Quran. Who's the expert and who's the pandering politician?

Obama and ACORN

The ACORN Obama Knows. Michell Malkin on ACORNs voter fraud problems:

Don't bother asking Barack Obama. He cut his ideological teeth working with ACORN as a "community organizer" and legal representative. Naturally, ACORN's political action committee has warmly endorsed his presidential candidacy. ACORN head Maude Hurd gushes that Obama is the candidate who "best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about" -- like ensuring their massive pipeline to your hard-earned money. Let's take a closer look at the ACORN Obama knows.

Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in the history of Washington State. Seven ACORN workers had submitted nearly 2,000 bogus voter registration forms. According to case records, they flipped through phone books for names to use on the forms, including "Leon Spinks," "Frekkie Magoal" and "Fruto Boy Crispila." Three ACORN election hoaxers pleaded guilty in October. A King County prosecutor called ACORN's criminal sabotage "an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls."
The group's vandalism on electoral integrity is systemic. ACORN has been implicated in similar voter fraud schemes in Missouri, Ohio and at least 12 other states.
As the Consumer Rights League points out in its new expose, the ACORN Housing Corporation has worked to obtain mortgages for illegal aliens in partnership with Citibank. It relies on undocumented income, "under the table" money, which may not be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Moreover, the group's "financial justice" operations attack lenders for "exotic" loans, while recommending 10-year interest-only loans (which deny equity to the buyer) and risky reverse mortgages. Whistleblower documents reveal internal discussions among the group that blur the lines between its tax-exempt housing work and its aggressive electioneering activities. The group appears to shake down corporate interests with relentless PR attacks, and then enters "no lobby" agreements with targeted corporations after receiving payment.

Obama wants to give ACORN more taxpayer money, praises them as a good organization, and supports their activities. Egads.

Thin-skinned Obama

Bozell: 'Demonization' By Democrats? Surely You Jest: "leftists are already displaying their hypocrisy. They've launched pre-emptive warnings against a Republican "swiftboating" of Barack Obama at the same time they're making up wild allegations about the villainous ultraconservative plots against goodness planned by John McCain."

He points out: "Cynical liberals think that the only way Obama can lose is for conservatives to take their well-traveled "low road" with negative ads. They've utterly forgotten — if they ever acknowledged — the low road they've traveled with millions of dollars in harsh ads against George W. Bush in the last two election cycles."

Obama is counting on the years of negative campaigning and Bush-bashing to do the work for him so he doesn't have to campaign on anything except vaporous fumes of Hope and Change. He will look positive because the leftwing media and MoveOn surrogates have done the dirty work for him. But he wants mroe than that. He wants to tag every critic of his as a "divisive" racist.

Barack Obama is a lying, plagiarizing, flipflopping, elitist, arrogant, leftwing socialist with poor judgment and radical extremist friends and associates, including the racist pastor Rev Wright, who he called his friend and mentor for 20 years and ex-terrorist and current radical William Ayers. Obama was rated the most liberal Senator in 2007 by national journal and has otherwise hid his paper thin record with a series of cowardly ‘present’ votes and recent flipflops. Obama is not just an empty suit, but a cheap, easily foldable empty suit. Obama will hurt our economy with his higher taxes, hurt our culture with pro-abortion extremism and racial grievance politics, and get Americans killed with his naive and weak foreign policy. Oh, and did I mention he’s as crooked as all the Chicago politicians?

If that is not enough material to bury him, what is?

It is completely playing into the MSM and Obamedia and Obama campaign to let Obama be offlimits. Why? Because Obama wants a referendum on Bush. Because the Obamessiah sheen, that phony and plagiarized lie that Obama is different, is the image he needs. If that’s the vote Obama wins. McCain has to make this a referendum on *Obama*. Not the campaign material Obama, but the real gaffe-prone poor judgment leftwing inexperienced all-talk-no-cattle Obama. Do we really want the LEAST QUALIFIED AND MOST LEFTWING NOMINEE EVER to be our President? Do we? Obama thinks its racist to even raise the question. I ask: CAN WE TRUST SOMEONE SO THIN-SKINNED AND INTOLERANT OF CRITICISM TO BE OUR PRESIDENT?

The answer is NObama!

Obama Jumps the Seal

Other people jump the shark ... Obama has Officially Jumped the Seal!

Obama's Presidential "Seal" = Dukakis' Tank says Sheri Jacobus: "Much like Michael Dukakis' now famous ill-fated staged gaffe in his failed 1988 presidential bid where he sat in a military tank wearing an oversized army helmet as a short cut to credibility on military issues, Obama's impersonation of Commander-In-Chief may go down in history as similar folly."

It may well be that this exemplifies the 'not ready' nature of the candidate and undermines exactly what he was trying to show: "Hey, look at me, I can be President." No, more like you can look like a guy on Saturday Night Live pretending to be President.

Race is Tied - 45% each

10% undecided make it 'anybody's race to win' right now. But the advantage might go to McCain on account of him being the far more qualified and the fact that Obama has yet to be seriously examined as for character, judgement, and qualifications by the voters.
It's been very superficial so far.

Obama Team "Dont Trust us"

"I don’t think you should necessarily trust an Obama Administration anymore than you should trust a Bush Administration or a McCain Administration."

— Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters, on the FISA wiretapping legislation.

What Obama would do on FISA and Iraq

Obama's Unpaid Parking Tickets

... are a small window into his careless character. Small Things destroy candidates:

Barack Obama received 17 parking tickets while he was at Harvard between 1988 and 1991. He paid them in 2007, back when reporters started digging into these small things.

Barack Obama was admitted to the Illinois Bar in December of 1991 and had to answer, on his bar application, "Do you have any outstanding parking violations?"

What did he say then? By 2007, he claimed to have totally forgotten about the tickets. Did he forget in 1991 or just decide it was no big deal.

Descent of St Obama

The descent of St Barack, the Glow in Glowbama is wearing thin: "Barack Obama, the Different Kind of Presidential Candidate, has begun his metamorphosis into the same old kind of presidential candidate by backing away from his earlier promise to accept public financing."

Obama is a Hanuman idol worshipper.

Mike Klonsky, another communist friend of Obama: "Mike Klonsky is one of the founders of Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (USA) and the Students for a Democratic Society a fervent Obama supporter, friend and former member of the terrorist group the Weatherman."

"However, it must be pointed out that a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the official Obama website Here where he claims to be a "professor of education" (the website of the Small Schools Workshop that he directs says only that he teaches some graduate courses, though it appears he was a visiting professor for one year at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in 2006-07) and says he blogs for Obama on "education politics and teaching for social justice."

Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago to push their school reform agenda."

Obama - Outside the American Experience

Via
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/obamas_lack_of_ordinary_modest.html,
a summation of the life of Obama:

As Victor Davis Hanson pointed out, Obama spent the first eighteen years of his life outside of the continental United States. He doesn't know this country very well at all. (Hawaii is another-worldly place to grow up in, as is Indonesia, compared to Indiana or Georgia.) Then he entered the unreal Ivory Tower of American colleges, followed by twenty years of weekly indoctrination lectures by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his buds in the Black Liberation Theology political ideology. That's Obama's life to date. Obama's total experience at the national level of American politics comes down to two-plus years in the US Senate, most of which was spent campaigning for president.

An Old Obama promise is like Sour Milk

... it needs to be thrown away.

NRO campaign spot says:

All Obama Promises Expire. It's Just a Question of When.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton on October 24, 2007: “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”

Barack Obama, June 20, 2008: “Given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as president, I will carefully monitor the program.”

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

20 Reasons

20 Reasons Why I Can t Vote for Obama
with facts, figures, and references
By Charles Meek
1. Barack Hussein Obama has been objectively rated the single most liberal member of the
US Senate 100th out of 100. Is this just so many words, or does it mean something?
Well, let s take a look.
2. Obama has promised the abortion industry that the first piece of legislation he will sign
is the Freedom of Choice Act. This act would overturn every piece of state or federal
legislation that puts any reasonable restriction on abortion. For example, it would
overturn partial birth abortion restrictions , abortions after viability, abortions after the
baby has a heartbeat and fingerprints, parental consent legislation, health and safety
rules for abortion clinics, and required education and waiting periods for women
wanting abortions. This is no longer merely a religious issue. Because science has
allowed us to see the unborn baby in the womb (and doctors are now operating on
unborn babies under 22 weeks of age), there is even now an emerging pro-life atheist
movement. And it is no longer a Republican issue as many Democrats in the Congress
are now pro-life and the majority of Americans want reasonable restrictions on
abortion. Obama s views are ghastly and out of the mainstream.
3. Obama has a dangerously naïve view of the War on Terror. His approach is to pull out of
Iraq immediately and focus our attention on prosecuting terrorists through the courts.
Think about this. We only get the opportunity to prosecute terrorists through the courts
after they have committed an act of terror, and then only if we can catch them.
Prosecuting the terrorists who committed the World Trade Center bombings did not
prevent 9/11. One of the masterminds of the World Trade Center bombing who avoided
the law was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed). He became the principle architect of
the 9/11 attacks and several other terrorist acts. While none of us like the war in Iraq,
the facts are clear: President Bush has prevented further terrorist attacks on our soil for
7 years. As Ann Coulter said, Produce one person who believed, on Sept. 12, 2001, that
there would not be another attack for 7 years, and I ll consider downgrading Bush from
Great to Really Good . During the War on Terror, some 20,000 terrorists have been
killed and so will never be able to hit us on our own streets or in our malls and office
buildings. And our military has kept a lot more of them pinned down in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Meanwhile, if Obama were to surrender in Iraq, the terrorists would re-
gain their momentum. The logic seems undeniable that our risk would escalate. My
professional life has focused a lot on RISK. This is not fear-mongering. To elect Barak
Obama would be a change that would be very risky.
4. Obama said he would meet without pre-conditions with Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad), a man who has vowed to
obliterate Israel. This may sound reasonable to some, but again it is a dangerously naïve
view of the War on Terror. Prior to World War II, British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain) took a similar approach to
Hitler. At the time, Hitler s position of authority was weak as he was appointed
Chancellor while his Nazi party only had 37% of the votes. Chamberlain s visit to Hitler in
Germany strengthened Hitler s prestige and power and this policy of appeasement
ultimately weakened the Allies preparedness. Even Obama s Democrat opponent
Hillary Clinton warned against Obama s approach to appeasement of this extraordinarily
dangerous Iranian leader. Obama must be criticized for not learning from history.
5. Obama has a utopian view of evil, similar to others on the far left. He thinks that we can
just all be nice guys and get along. All of history proves this to be wrong. The great
American leaders have had one thing in common the willingness to stand boldly
against evil. Think of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and
Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama would sell the American soul to the forces of evil in a
utopian dream. The danger of this cannot be overstated.
6. On the economy, Barack Obama simply does not understand basic economics. For
example, he favors a windfall profits tax on oil companies. Look, the more you tax
something, the less of it you get. We need MORE oil not less. Jimmy Carter tried an
excess profits tax with devastating effects (http://www.taxhistory.org). It didn t work
then, and it won t work now. Carter s experiment stopped domestic energy exploration
and made America more dependent on foreign sources of oil. And why would Obama
single out the oil industry? The facts are that the oil companies make about 8.3 cents in
gross profit per dollar of sales. This is far below many other industries for example,
electronics companies make about 14.5 cents per dollar of sales. Oil and gas companies
made $86.5 billion in profits in 2007; at the same time, the financial services industry
made $498.5 billion. Obama is pushing nonsense.
7. There is no quick fix for high gasoline prices. But if the Congress had acted in the 1990 s
to spur oil production, we would not be in the fix we are today. The fact is inescapable
that liberal Democrats are squarely responsible for blocking all initiatives at a
comprehensive energy plan. I am tired of obstructionists stopping America from moving
forward on energy. We are producing no more oil domestically now than in 1948! We
need to move forward NOW to open drilling with modern environmental safeguards.
We need nuclear energy, more coal, more natural gas, and more oil. We need to open
the door to offshore drilling, onshore shale oil, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR). By the way, ANWR is a frozen tundra with no trees or rivers. The liberals (i.e.
Obama and Company) consistent blocking of development there is based on false
utopian ideas of pristine wilderness. Not only are these ideas false, oil development of
the region would not spoil what is there. Development of ANWR will impact only about
2,000 acres of the 19.9 million acre refuge. Even the residents of the area support
drilling there (http://www.anwr.org/people/people.htm). We heard that the Alaska
pipeline would decimate the caribou; but the caribou are thriving where the pipeline
runs. Obama s response to cries for help from the American people about $4 gasoline is
a deafening silence. Where is the leadership on this key issue from this man? (If he
caves on this between now and the election, it is clear that it is only because of public
outcry.) There is no sense hoping for conservation to solve the problem. We are in a
new era of demand from emerging nations that will overwhelm efforts at conservation.
While the deepening American recession may drop oil prices in the short run, we should
not let any such drop slow our efforts at a comprehensive energy policy.
8. The ultra-environmentalists want to focus all their attention on wind and solar. Great.
Let s go for it. But it cannot solve all our problems. I have extensive personal knowledge
of wind and solar. Because of unique circumstances, my wife and I have to rely on a
solar/wind installation for 100% of our power for our rural Texas home. I can tell you
that off-grid power is so expensive that it will never pay for itself, no matter how high
the price of grid power gets. And it is incredibly wasteful of resources. Environmental
religionists conveniently ignore how much fossil fuel energy it took to mine the lead in
our necessary 48 battery bank (each battery weighs 200 pounds) not to mention the
fossil fuels expended in constructing the building to house the batteries, the resources
to produce the solar panels or the large back-up generator to provide power (when
there is inadequate sun and the batteries are depleted). We are so green we are in the
red. By the way, I am as much of an environmentalist as the next guy. I have worked to
pass environmental legislation in our area. I am enough of an economist to understand
that when there are spillover costs (pollution), the government has a legitimate role to
play. But the problem with extreme environmental positions is that they go beyond
science to a utopian philosophy which pits capitalism against environmentalism. This
ultimately harms not only all of us but the environment as well. It is no accident that the
country with the best environmental record is the USA, which happens to be the beacon
of capitalism.
9. As a Christian, I feel a sense of responsibility to be a good steward to what God has
given us. But Jesus principle commands are to love God and serve our fellow man; there
is no mention in the Bible of worshipping a Mother Earth. By the way, it should be noted
that the no-energy-policy-global-warmist approach is anti-poor. The poorer one is the
more ultra-environmentalism damages the family budget. See
http://www.gerrycharlottephelps.com/2008/06/core-says-globa.html. Where is
Obama s sensitivity on this? Well, Ok. I ll give him credit for not being uncaring toward
the poor, so he must just be ignorant of this effect.
10. Here s the way I see the ultra-environmentalist movement. When its proponents are
unwilling to listen to contrary evidence, it ceases to be science. There is plenty of
contrary evidence against Al Gore s thesis. But it is accepted by many on faith in the face
of evidence against it. Ultra-environmentalism is a fundamentalist religion. And Obama
is a priest of its dogma.
11. Obama said that small-town Americans cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people
who aren t like them out of bitterness over lost jobs. I must say, this statement stunned
me. I was beginning to have some suspicions about who Obama really is, and this
confirmed it for me. Those who say that he is a liberal elitist have evidence to back it up.
Such comments are especially telling coming from a man who claims to be bringing
Americans together. I m proud to have friends from all socio-economic levels and am
concerned that a President Obama would push this country further in the direction of
the two Americas of John Edwards and Howard Dean. This is not healthy. I want to see
America ONE Nation under God again, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder against evil and
toward noble shared goals such as going to the moon and energy independence.
12. A bit more on this two Americas notion. Have you noticed how some liberals though
certainly not all tend to vilify successful men and institutions? I don t think I have to
name names of those on the receiving end of this hatred. If I am wrong, none will come
to mind. If I am right, many will come to mind. But I will mention one group
evangelical Christians, of whom I am one. Never in my life have I seen this group
experience such disdain. The idea of tolerance from liberals stops here. I m sure that
when people figure out that I believe that Christianity is true all of it that my
arguments in this essay will be rejected out of hand, no matter how reasonable. I
welcome the other side s views if they can back them up with reason and evidence. But I
don t think this openness comes back the other way. Thus the times we live in.
13. And what of this Rev. Jeremiah Wright association? Along with Rev. Wright s hateful
comments about the America I love we note Michelle Obama s comments about how
she has never before been proud of her country. It seems that Senator Obama lives in a
world of hatred and distrust toward America. How can we expect to get anything better
if he is President?
14. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Senator Obama discussed his view that we are in a
winner take all economy, in which the gains from economic growth skew heavily
toward the wealthy. Actually, I have some sympathies for this view. I am inclined to
agree that corporate CEO s, as a group, are overpaid. But I disagree with the one-sided
generalization Obama makes. To a very real degree, when the companies large and
small thrive, so does the entire economy. Obama s idea of boilerplate redistribution of
wealth is pure socialism. His attack on the successful is not justice. It is theft! I want to
see leaders that encourage every American to work hard and make personal and family
decisions that improve their chance of success, rather than preaching negativism that
success is beyond their control because of race, class, poverty, etc. As Cal Thomas says
(http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=2294), America once was a country of
overcomers. Today, we are not about overcoming. The successful are not studied to see
how they succeeded. Their stories of overcoming obstacles are not told, at least in their
totality. If they are told at all, it is just the success and wealth part, not the part about
how they got there .Obama s economic doctrine subsidizes people who make wrong
decisions and does little to encourage them to make right ones.
15. Obama says he won t raise taxes on the middle class. That s going to be a pretty hard
promise to keep, given his list of new programs including government subsidies for free
college, social security, health care, etc. While I am fed up with Democrat s and
Republican s continued failure to balance the budget, I have more hope for Obama s
opponent than for Obama. John McCain has been a long time champion against pork
barrel spending. He is unusual in that he has never garnered any pork for his own state.
When he says that he will veto bills with pork in them, I m inclined to believe him. I m
very uneasy about Senator Obama s ability to pull off a change in Washington to
balance the budget.
16. I m frazzled about Obama s socialization of America. The comments Obama has made
about ignoring the Constitution are alarming:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/06/20/obama-the-living-constitution-and-the-
socialization-of-america/. His stated criterion for appointing judges is that they have
empathy. Good night, nurse! The President of the United States does not promise to
uphold empathy but to uphold the Constitution!
17. Obama is proving to be a flipper in the vein of John Kerry. He has changed his mind on
Iraq, campaign finance, NAFTA, corporate tax rates, and Social Security:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=298769662128800. What next? He
seems to be for change all right for changing his mind.
18. Obama supports gay marriage. Goodness knows that Americans come down on
different sides of this issue. But whenever it goes before a vote of the people,
Americans usually vote 2 to 1 against gay marriage. Obama wants to appoint judges that
will force gay marriage on us. This whole debate is based on the idea that some people
are born gay. That idea has no basis in science. The real problem for those in a
homosexual lifestyle is not discrimination, but rather physical devastation
(http://www.familyresearchinst.org/). This lifestyle has much greater statistical
incidence of disease and addiction. In fact, the best evidence we have on it indicates
that the life expectancy of homosexuals is 20 to 30% shorter than others, not even
accounting for AIDS. The real bottom line is surprisingly simple: Every child has the right
to a mother and a father. Statistics confirm that children do much better in a traditional
family. The definition of marriage as between one man and one woman is rightly
discriminatory for children in family formation. While there may be more research left
to be done, let s allow the people to decide how they want marriage to be defined in
this country.
19. Obama s solution to everything is to have government tax it or nationalize it. This is Big
Brother on Steroids. Maybe change means that we can emulate great societies like,
well, Venezuela.
20. Obama is the most inexperienced person to run for President in my lifetime. Even he has
admitted that his experience makes him unqualified:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/barack-obama-says-he-is-not-
experienced.html.

NOBAMA NATION

This site is very impressive! Nobama Network. Links galore to Nobama sites and anti-Obama information and sites, inspired by the pro-Hillary "PUMA" movement (Party Unity My Ass=PUMA), that is morphing into 'Democrats for McCain'.

Obama Supporter Lashes Out

Got this in the inbox:

Shut the fuck up *******. Your Mr. McCain is an old fat fuck cancer face flip flopping republican bitch! McCain = McBush!

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change!

Obama, the politics of hate just swirls around him doesn't it?

Here's what makes their heads explode - the truth!

Obama is a lying, plagiarizing, flipflopping, elitist, arrogant, leftwing socialist with poor judgment and radical extremist friends and associates, including the racist pastor Rev Wright, who he called his friend and mentor for 20 years. Obama will hurt our economy with his higher taxes, hurt our culture with pro-abortion extremism and racial grievance politics, and get Americans killed with his naive and weak foreign policy.

Obama at the Movies

Obama YouTube
Obama's Votes and Record
Obama's dancing around on the issues
Hannity on Obama's record: Accidently voted wrong 6 times; voted present 130 times; did things that showed he was 'politically ambitious'.
Obama's sick voting record
Obama's voting record
Partial Birth Abortion (graphic).
Also, Mad World of Barack Obama on infanticide.
Barack Obama lied about his accomplishments and about not taking lobbyist money.
Obama too busy running for President TO DO HIS JOB AS SENATOR! - failed to hold Afghanistan hearings.
Obama full of it - says Iran too small to threaten us!
Obama and Iran - Great video that ties
Obama on taxes - get your hands out of my pocket!
Obama is for sex education for kindergarteners. Idiot.
The Friend - Obama introduces his friend, Rev Jeremiah Wright.
Obama and Rezko and Auchi, the Iraqi go-between to Saddam.
"I won't wear that pin on my chest" - Obama
Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Jeremiah Wright & Senator Barack and Michelle. A medley.
Rev Wright rants
Obama lies on "The View", Morning Joe review
"I dont think this church is particularly controversial" - "an occassionally fierce critic" - Obama listened to tapes, used a Wright sermon as a source for his convention speech. Yet he claims to have not heard Rev Wrights comments! Comment: It's like going to a KKK meeting for 20 years and claiming your not racist.
Obama plagiarizes Edwards
Obama plagiarizes Deval Patrick
"For the first time I am proud of my country" - Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama wants to take your piece of the pie
Obama lies about the 100 years in Iraq


More Barack Obama youTube videos

Sowell on Obama

Irrelevent Apologies


Despite clever spin from Obama's supporters about avoiding "guilt by association," much more is involved than casual association with people like Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger.

In addition to giving $20,000 of his own money to Jeremiah Wright, as a state senator Obama directed $225,000 of the Illinois taxpayers' money for programs run by Father Pfleger. In the U.S. Senate, Obama earmarked $100,000 in federal tax money for Father Pfleger's work. Giving someone more than 300 grand is not just some tenuous, coincidental association.

Are Barack Obama's views shown by what he says during an election year or by what he has been doing for decades before?

Despots for Obama

North Korea's leader joins list of rogue dictators favoring Obama's win:

North Korea prefers Democratic candidate Barack Obama over Republican John McCain, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan said.
The communist country, which has survived a relatively hawkish Bush administration, considers McCain “a variant of Bush” and “nothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,” according to the Choson Sinbo, a newspaper run by ethnic Koreans in Japan. The organization of Koreans, called Chongryon, has served as Pyongyang’s de facto embassy in Japan, which has no diplomatic ties with North Korea. ...

Pyongyang favors Obama because he has vowed to meet leaders of rogue states, such as the North Korean leader, without conditions if elected.

Malkin calls it the Ultimate Endorsement and notes its a Hatrick - Castro, Qadafi and RPNK's Kim Jong Il.


European allies worry obama's Iran policy will hurt us all and encourage Iran to continue developing nuclear weapons.

Obama's Fundraising

"Obama's money raising operation is unpresedented and it's grass roots."

Not like you think. Sen. Obama said recently that 90% of his donations are from small donors, which is half-true at best. 90% of the people who donated to his campaign are small donors, but the money they sent only makes up 36% of the money he has raised. Think about that.

Oh, yeah, and he has 14 of those "evil" lobbyists acting as "bundlers" for his campaign funds.

Refusing money from Washington lobbyists and PACs alone is an illusion if underneath there is not consistency.

Just today:

Wall Street and the banking sector have given $19 million to Obama compared with $12 million to McCain through the end of May, according the Center for Responsive Politics and Federal Election Commission. Hedge funds, mortgage lenders, investment banks and private equity firms, which have been hit by the subprime mortgage and housing market crisis, are included in that group.

The trend holds true for a number of other industries, which are contributing more campaign funds to Obama, but flips on a few other business sectors:

- Communications, electronics and technology: Obama, $10.2 million; McCain $2.3 million.

- Construction: Obama, $2.1 million; McCain, $1.8 million.

- Health care, drug companies: Obama, $6.6 million; McCain, $2.5 million.

- Transportation: McCain, $988,000; Obama, $609,000.

- Energy: McCain, $1.4 million; Obama, $1.1 million.

- Agriculture: McCain, $1 million; Obama, $834,000.

Barack Obama often boasts he is “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show.

Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for the Illinois senator’s presidential race. Employees of their firms have given Obama’s campaign $2.26 million, a USA TODAY analysis of campaign-finance data shows.

Thirty-one of the 38 are law firm partners, who typically receive a share of their firms’ lobbying fees. At least six of them have some managerial authority over lobbyists.

“It makes no difference whether the person is a registered lobbyist or the partner of a registered lobbyist, if the person is raising money to get access or curry favor,” said Michael Malbin, director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a non-partisan think tank.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said that while Obama’s refusal to take money from lobbyists “isn’t a perfect solution … it does reflect Obama’s record of trying to change the way that Washington does business.” He declined to elaborate.

http://www.usatoday.com/...

Here’s another, going back to the start:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is benefiting from the support of well-connected Washington lobbyists even though he has prohibited his campaign from accepting contributions from them and political action committees (PACs).

While Obama has decried the influence of special interests in Washington, the reality is that many of the most talented and experienced political operatives in his party are lobbyists, and he needs their help.

Mike Williams, the director of government relations at Credit Suisse Securities, said of the network of lobbyists supporting Obama: “I would imagine that it’s as large as the Clinton list,” in reference to rival presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who is an entrenched favorite of the Washington Democratic establishment.

He said that while lobbyists cannot give money to Obama, they can give “policy” and “campaign support.” Indeed, K Street denizens have rare policy and national campaign expertise.

Williams is actively building support for Obama among lobbyists and the corporate clients they represent. While other Obama supporters have described him as a leading activist, Williams demurs: “I wouldn’t want to put my position as a spearhead.” He acknowledges that the gains Obama is making among Washington’s Democratic establishment are hard to see because Obama’s K Street supporters have kept a low profile. As a result, Obama’s K Street network is a stealthy operation.

http://thehill.com/...

My problem has always been the fact that he creates a different impression when he is just more of the same. It’s easy to discover with simple inquiry.

Lefty Puts Lipstick on that Possum

David Brooks lets the 'other' Obama that has peeked through Obamessiah. And the Left is starting to notice.

Obama team to play pro-abort card

The Plan all along was to play the Roe-v-Wade card:

The SCOTUS, Roe v. Wade and women’s issues was the BO campaigns “ace in the hole” according to Chuck Todd from MSNBO network. The BO spokesperson told Todd that they would use any means necessary to beat Hillary and if women were offended, they would come back to the party during the GE because their plan was to “play the Roe v. Wade card.” THAT is a direct quote from the BO campaign via Todd.

Yes, I can see it now: "Vote for me, I'm the pro-abortion extremist!"

Really, now. Are all women Democrats so gung ho for abortion and partial birth abortion and taxpayer funding of abortion and even Obama's opposition to an bill outlawing infanticide of born-alive victims of botched abortions, they will toss overboard concerns about Obama's judgment, experience, campaign tricks, and dishonest rhetoric. They will ignore that womens issues are a lot broader than killing a fetus?

Hmmmmm. Hear those PUMAs out there?

Obama Helps Barrow (GA-12 Congresscritter)

Another case of political expediency trumping positions:

Despite all of this, The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reported yesterday that Barack Obama — who has been claiming to be so emphatically opposed to warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty, to say nothing of the Iraq War — taped a radio endorsement this week for Rep. Barrow, with the specific intent to help him defeat Regina Thomas in the Democratic primary (h/t sysprog):

Obama cuts an ad to help John Barrow in his primary fight

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has taped a radio commercial on behalf of U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Savannah, who faces a July 15 primary challenge.

It’s the first case of Obama involving himself in a local race in Georgia. . . But the Obama campaign made clear to my colleague Aaron Sheinin that it sees Barrow, a two-term Democrat, as an important ally. . . .

“Senator Obama believes that Congressman Barrow has worked hard to bring change that families in his district deserve, and we’ll work hard to help John Barrow win in November,” Obama spokeswoman Amy Brundage said.

In the ad, Obama asks voters to join him in supporting Barrow. “We’re going to need John Barrow back in Congress to help change Washington and get our country back on track,” Obama says in the 60-second ad.

The article highlighted the reason Barrow was so eager to have Obama record an ad endorsing him and why it’s so potentially important in helping Barrow win his primary:

Barrow beat a Republican incumbent in 2004 and had tough GOP opposition in 2006. But this April, Barrow picked up unexpected opposition from Regina Thomas, a well-known African-American state senator based in Savannah. Barrow is white, and in past primaries in the 12th District, black voters have cast nearly 70 percent of the ballots.

What makes this even more amazing is that, as the article notes, Barrow cynically waited until after Obama’s sweeping primary victory in Georgia to endorse him. He did so only once he saw that Obama would likely be the nominee and obviously with the hope of having Obama encourage Barrow’s sizable African-American constituency to support him. And now Obama turns around and intervenes in a Democratic primary on behalf of one of the worst Bush enablers in Congress — not in order to help Barrow defeat an even-worse Republican, but to defeat a far better and plainly credible Democratic challenger.

Obama Jumps the Shark

Source: RezkoWatch

"Looks like the progressives are finally starting to wake up and smell the disillusionment. ... I wonder how the Obots will respond to this cartoon? They'll probably call the caricature "racist." That trick always works."—Joseph Cannon, Cannonfire, 06/21/08.

Obama’s arrogance is beyond belief. I just pray that the American people will see him for the lying, elitist, inexperienced, anti-American, Hamas-supportive, self-centered, self-glorifying and condescending snob that he is. There is no issue, no endorsement, no media, no extreme makeover and no propaganda that could ever make me vote for Obama.

Obama's despicable "you're a racist" attack

Obama "despicable" says Hewitt:
"Barack Obama's attribution to John McCain and the GOP of the intention to use racist appeals in the campaign ahead is despicable."


That it is. And it's a bit early in the game to be playing the racist card. Obama: "He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?"

Now, since when is calling out Obama's lack of experience an illegitimate issue? And who's fearmongering and casting more aspersions now? It's Obama more than anyone else who keeps injecting race into the Presidential contest.

One comment puts it: "Obama has been playing the race card since day one. He keeps pretending everyone else is the racist when it is HE who is the biggest racist of all."

Indeed. His racist afrocentric Black Liberation Theology church that he attended for 20 years has more hate and venom based on race than anyone else out there. Pot calls kettle, er, um, never mind that analogy, it will probably be called racist too.

OBAMA LIED, CREDIBILITY DIED.

Here is why Obama's broken promise on campaign funding is a big deal: It emphatically destroys Obama's claim to be anything but another lying politician.

It's about the lying and dishonesty. OBAMA LIED, CREDIBILITY DIED.
Obama's campaign is a tissue of lies built on dishonesty about who he is (he's a leftist not a centrist), what kind of politician he is (he is a race-baiting Chicago-style kneecapping finger-in-wind pol, not a post-racial messianic wunderkind), and who's on his side (Soros, the moveon.org leftist nutroots and Hollywood lib millionaires, not everyman contributors).
Obama made a commitment in Nov 2007 to use public financing. He broke that promise. Then in June 2008 when breaking his promise he lied about his opponent, he lied about making efforts that were not made. OBAMA LIED, CREDIBILITY DIED.

The shocker is the OBAMEDIA is in the tank for Obama so much that when the curtain is lifted, they pretend not to notice, knowing they are in on the farce. THEY KNOW ITS A SCAM AND DONT CARE. They never cared enough to report on Obama's real past, they've
covered up his gaffes, etc. Obamedia are willing to take a bullet of credibility 'for the team' and cover up this blatant broken promise.

Obama plays the VRWC Card

"Well, Sunlen, you and I both know that 527s pop up pretty quickly and have enormous influence and we’ve seen them. There was an ad, one in South Dakota, by Floyd Brown, I think, where it took a speech that I had made extolling faith and made it seem as if I had said that America was a Muslim nation. We’ve already seen attacks on my wife from, you know, the Tennessee Republican Party. I don’t think that I am off the wall here to say that, you know, a lot of outside groups are potentially going to be going after us hard."

Obama makes mountains out of molehills: If there is a single ad against him out there,
it means the VRWC is out to get him. Who's the fearmongerer? Obama, that's who. "Boo, there's a rightwinger in your inbox!"

"Velcro Possum" Obama expropriates President's Seal

Obama uses Presidential-like Logo for his podium.



Ah, the ARROGANCE ! He's already president, see! He's decided to skip the job interview and figures to even question him is to be a racist hack. "Vero Possumus"? They put "Yes, we can" into latin - actually it sounds like "Velcro Possum" and yes we've had our Teflon President, BUT THIS MAN IS A VELCRO POSSUM!

The Hype and Chains candidate will be the Velcro Possum from here on out, the arrogant elitist flip-flopping leftwing inexperienced junior Senator with bad judgement and a dishonest campaign.

Pejman Yousefzadeh opines:

Consider me officially gobsmacked. Bear in mind that all of this means (a) someone proposed this idea to the top levels of the Obama campaign, (b) the top levels of the Obama campaign agreed that it was a good idea, (c) the candidate himself may have had a hand in designing and
tweaking the logo, (d) someone with a knowledge of Latin was sought out in order to translate "Yes, We Can" into the language of the Caesars (repeat that last bit to yourself a time or two to grasp the full significance of how important this matter apparently was to the Obama campaign) and (e) there was no one in the campaign who perhaps nervously cleared his or her throat and piped up with the words "um . . . folks, given all of our concerns about the Imperial Presidency, as articulated during the Bush-Cheney Administration, doesn't anyone else think that it might be . . . er . . . well . . . a little hypocritical for us to be doing this kind of thing?"

What Barack Obama could learn from King Canute has already been noted, but not only has the Obama campaign refused to take note of Canute's modesty, they have transcended their earlier acts of grandiosity (the waters are really going to stop rising because Barack Obama won the Democratic Presidential nomination?) with an act that reveals just how much the Obama campaign resembles a cult of personality. ...

Relatedly, John McCormack notes that technically, the Davids Axelrod and Plouffe may be risking a stiff fine or a prison sentence. Of course, this will never happen but I can easily find that the Obama campaign has "reproduce[d]" a "likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof" for a purpose not pertaining to "the official use of the Government of the United States."

UPDATE: Found here - NYT blog: "The country is now known as the United States of Obamerica. " The Obamedia will make sure we know how to worship the new Obamessiah.

UPDATE: It's against the law:
18 USC 713: Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress.

UPDATE: NextRight commentater says vero possumus looks like "ZERO POSSIBILITIES" Riverdaughter comment says: "I think Vero Possumus, loosely translated, means “lipstick on a possum”

Another view
Edgeofforever
got this from the LA Times - "The possum speaks truthily."

And it's got olive branches, which stand for peace, which we haven't really had since 9/11 but DailyKos promises will come as soon as we shoo out Bush and Cheney.

The seal's also got a terrifically impressive motto in Latin -- "Vero Possumus" -- which means "The possum speaks truthily."

No, just kidding. It actually means "Truly we're able," which translates as "Si se puede," which translates as "Yes, we can." Obama is clearly copying George W. Bush's Texas gubernatorial reelection motto from 1998.

Plus it's got Obama's website right up there too. Lord knows, he needs more donations because the poor White Sox fan from Chicago's impoverished South Side has only raised a little under $290 million so far.

As chronicled by our colleagues over at the Swamp, some folks figure he'll top a half-billion dollars before election day, now that he's scrapped his promise to take public funds, this year a measly $84 million to spend between Labor Day and Nov. 4. Public money was good enough for every other presidential candidate for the last three decades. But how could any serious candidate possibly get along on only $1.3 million a day?

During the Democratic primary voting, a lot of folks were fooled into thinking Obama agreed with public funds when he signed a pledge last fall to use them and told constitutents before that, "If we're still getting financed primarily from individual contributions, those with the most money are still going to have the most influence."

As Jill Zuckman notes in the Swamp, the John McCain camp is using Obama's own phrase -- "Don't tell me words don't matter" -- to skewer the Illinois senator on his finance reversal.

An improvement to the logo has been made:

Obama's Childish foreign Policy

Kristol dissects Obama's foreign policy:

"Winnie-the-Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."
--former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, one of Barack Obama's key foreign policy advisers, June 11

Obama's messiah complex and thin skin

Obama smears his opponents - ""They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"

Yes, how dare the Republicans point out that Obama is naive, foolish and wrong on how to deal with terrorist. Yes, how dare the Republicans point out that Obama's economic policies will make us poorer. Yes, how dare the Republicans point out that Obama has a lifelong history of leftwing activism, but has done nothing of patriotic service (military or otherwise) for the nation.

This ad that challenges Barack on his "Messiah" complex

Obama caves on FISA, gives nutroots a goose egg

Says Stop the ACLU viewing the NutRoots Left reaction to the FISA bill:

"And where the fuck is Obama on this? Talk about missing in action.
If he doesn’t do anything to stop this going through the Senate, I’m going to be really pissed off."

Obama, via TPM, comes out and deflates all the "hope" for "change":

"So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives - and the liberty - of the American people."

Leftie blogger reaction: "Obama earns a Wanker of the Day from Atrios. And it's well-deserved. I thought he'd issue some vague statement of disapproval and then miss the vote. This endorsement of a X'ing out the Fourth Amendment is waaaay out of bounds."

American Thinker has more on Obama's pre-cave - the Dems gave him a few days to figure out his position.

Obamedia in Illinois

He's been here so he's gets a vote. "It is so bad, so pointless, so filled with empty platitudes and meaninglessness that one might suspect it was written by Barack Obama himself instead of a reputed journalist. But it is a perfect example of the sort of slavish devotion the Illinois press is bestowing on it’s almost native son."

Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi says Obama has "inferiority complex"

Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi: Obama Suffers Inferiority Complex That Might Make Him Behave "Whiter Than the White." He Should Be Proud of His African, Muslim Identity. Ben-Gurion Gave the Green Light for the Killing of JFK :

Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya. The address aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 11, 2008:

There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.

But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother, who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his supporters in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Islamic world. We hope that this is merely an elections "clearance sale," as they say in Egypt – in other words, merely an elections lie. As you know, this is the farce of elections – a person lies and lies to people, just so that they will vote for him, and afterwards, when they say to him: :"You promised this and that," he says: "No, this was just elections propaganda." This is the farce of democracy for you. He says: "This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I was fooling you to get your votes."

Allah willing, it will turn out that this was merely elections propaganda. Obama said he would turn Jerusalem into the eternal capital of the Israelis. This indicates that our brother Obama is ignorant of international politics, and is not familiar with the Middle East conflict.

We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity...

Aadafi speech

First Ad: Hype and Chains Obama Lies Again

Here's the script: "OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama. America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life’s been blessed by both. I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents."

His Dad went back to Kenya to be a polygamist and abuse later spouses. His Mom remarried
a Muslim who took him to Indonesia. Then she came back to Hawaii and gave him to grandparents to raise.

"We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up."
Barack Obama did not set foot anywhere near Kansas his entire life. Those values included inculcating Barack with Communist, Socialist and leftist sensibilities.
Barack didn't go to public school, but to an exclusive private school. Not much money?

"Accountability and self-reliance."
- Learning to smoke pot in his exclusive Private School in Hawaii
- Disowning racist pastors

" Love of country."
- Not wearing the flag ping because you don't like the patriots who do
- Attending a Black Liberation Theology church that attacks the US as built on "White man's greed"

" Working hard without making excuses."
- Making excuses for lying about his campaign finance flipflop
- His feeble excuses over Trinity church (I wasn't there when he preached hate, etc)
- Making more excuses when he had to throw VP vetter Johnson under the bus

" Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated."
- bringing guns to knife fights (figuratively)
- getting other candidates off the ballots with subterfuges
- helping your neighbor Tony Rezko

"It’s what guided me as I worked my way up – taking jobs and loans to make it through college."
- Dont we all? Only obama can make the ordinary seem monumental

"It’s what led me to pass up Wall Street jobs and go to Chicago instead, helping neighborhoods devastated when steel plants closed."
- there is no record of him helping anybody in any consequential way, just hankering for a political career
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"That’s why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families"
- Liar, liar pants on fire. He's opposed tax cuts and voted for tax increases.
He's opposed real welfare reform.
- He was endorsed by the New Party, a socialist group

" and extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected.
"I approved this message because I’ll never forget those values, and if I have the honor of taking the oath of office as President, it will be with a deep and abiding faith in the country I love."
- This man has managed to surpass Bill Clinton on the dishonesty score

This Pandering Ad is a complete subterfuge. It is designed to hide, not highlight the real barack Obama.

UPDATE:
Obama's 3 points are lies:

"Obama makes three rather grand pronouncements in this ad. First of all he says he passed laws moving people from welfare to work. While this is the truest of the claims, he does seem to be pandering to a right-leaning audience. If any of you read my post on Clinton bashing, several commenters blasted Clinton for doing the same thing with his comprehensive welfare reform. Obama contradicts himself on the Clinton legacy as well. And while he claims to have moved people from “welfare to work” he was mostly interested in allowing convicted felons to continue to enroll in welfare programs:"

They note Obama OPPOSED welfare reform:

Obama: “I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare. Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems.” (Sen. Barack Obama, State Of Illinois 90th General Assembly Regular Session Senate Transcript, 5/31/97, www.ilga.gov, p. 42)

Obama take credit for an Illinois EITC tax credit program (ie income subsidies):

When Gov. Ryan Signed The Earned Income Tax Credit Into Law, He Credited Democrat Senate Leader Emil Jones With Its Passage. “Crediting Illinois Democratic Senate Leader Emil Jones with its passage, Gov. George Ryan Thursday [May, 11, 2000] signed the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) into law, which will put about $50 in the pockets of poor workers. In signing HB 3939, which amends the Illinois Income Tax Act that established the first EITC program for individuals, Ryan said this credit will be equal to five percent of the federal earned income tax credit for the years 2000-2002.”

Third took credit for something that he didn't even vote for and which was not contentious:

Obama Missed The Vote On The Defense Authorization Act, Which Passed By An Overwhelming Bipartisan Majority. (H.R. 4986, CQ Vote #1: Passed 91-3: R 46-0; D 44-2; I 1-1, 1/22/08, Obama Did Not Vote)

Obama Lied, Credibility Died

Obama breaks promise on public financing -
"We've made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election,"

Flashback:
Obama: "Well, I strongly support public financing. And I know [Senator] Dick [Durbin] does too. He's going to have some things to say about it because when we were having - as you'll recall - the major debates around lobbying reform, one of the things that Dick, I think, properly pointed out was that you can change the rules on lobbying here in Washington, but if we're still getting financed primarily from individual contributions, that those with the most money are still going to have the most influence." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Constituents Breakfast, 6/29/06)

"In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system "in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."

In November 2007, in a debate, Obama was asked:

If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?

OBAMA: Yes.

"I’m asking you to try to do something that’s never been done before. Declare our independence from a broken system, and run the type of campaign that reflects the grassroots values that have already changed our politics and brought us this far." - Obama today, doing the opposite of what he says he is doing and the opposite of what he says he would do.

UPDATE: SO the Obama campaign tries to make a virtue out of this egregious flip-flop.

"The system is broken" so we will be the biggest spenders ever. The absurdity and brazenness of the Obama campaign boldly breaking a promise and being outrageously rude about their moral superiority in doing so requires a riposte. So I complained to the stie administrator about the announcement:

"This announcement violates statements and promises made by Barack. This idiot must be fired!"

Unexamined Obama

The Unexamined (by Chicago Press) Obama

Hugh Hewitt - big Obama gaffes.

Obama's Control of Media Message

Obama controls media access:

According to the New York Times, the Obama campaign is tightening 'control of image and access' over the past few weeks in a clear attempt of prevent manipulate media coverage. On Monday in a meeting with African-American Civic the Obama campaign barred cameras from the meeting and recently refused to release the names of a group of religious figures Obama met with. According to the times report, the campaign went as far as providing a separate entrance to protect the identity and prevent press interviews of those in attendance. The new strategy has also resulted in this week's "head scarves" incident which has outraged much of the Muslim community; especially in light of the Obama's recent Jerusalem gaffe.

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Obamas campaign strategists have defended the moves claiming that they believe they need to take extra steps to "prevent against attack". In reality, the measures are aimed at manipulating public perception.

The Times report was complimentary to the McCain campaigns stating "they still enjoy a reputation for giving reporters traveling with him an unusual amount of access." Again, a laughable irony considering that Obama expects the American people to view McCain as the typical politician in attempt to manipulate his 30 year record of bipartisanship.

The Obama campaign's new tactics are reminiscent of those used by the "propaganda ministries" of leaders of the past and those utilized by some of the most notorious "leaders" of today. The Obama campaign has become so afraid of Obama's gaffes, associations, and hypocritical statements that they now believe that Americans need to be told what issues and information are important and can be discussed. Sshhhh... Did anyone else just hear that crack in the foundation?

Obama Puts Muslim Pals In Back of Bus

The Obama campaign has Islamophobia. Apparently, having a muslim father, muslim step-father, muslim half-brothers and half-sister, and attending a muslim school and studying the Koran as a child for 2 years is such a deep dark secret that Obama has to bury it all behind the phony mask of "Obama is a Christian, end of story". (well, if that extremist anti-American Trinity church is "Christian" I may have to turn Buddhist in protest.)

Yet these adoring Muslims show up inconveniently. The campaign has decided they don't like Muslims in the same shot with Obama. Just like when they call for "more white folks" in their stage, this raises questions of Obama campaign practicing the kind of racial and sectarian animosity that they denounce - WDEF story:

When two young muslim women wearing headscarves, were told recently they could not sit behind Barack Obama at this rally......it raised questions in their community.
"It speaks towards a bigger issue as far as the pervasive Islam phobia that is in our society that two Muslim females would be turned away..."

Funny, but Obama wasn't afraid to stand with radical extremists like Rev Wright. He's not afraid to be the most liberal member of the U.S.Senate. So why isn't he willing to stand by Muslim supporters, who are legion and eager?

You see, the weaker the candidate, the more you have to stage-manage him, and this is the most stage-managed and phony candidate since 1992 if not before. The Muslim garb photo was worth a 3-day kerfuffle back in the heyday of the Clinton-Obama slugfest:

Meanwhile, Evangelist Challenges Barack Obama to explain his Christian faith. Pigs will fly before the stage-managed campaign would respond to that challenge.

This is yet another example of Obama cowardly throwing those people under the bus who are inconvenient to him gaining power.

Marxists Cheer Obama's Victory in Iowa

Letters: Jan. 12, 2008
>Archive - PWW Print Edition Archive - 2008 Editions - Jan. 12, 2008

Author: Readers
People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 01/10/08 14:40

Happy New Year and congratulations on a job well done. These have been trying times when the hyenas of war have again been turned loose on humanity by a greedy ruling class.

Now, beyond all the optimism I was capable of mustering, Mr. Obama won Iowa! He won in a political arena 95 percent white. It was a resounding defeat for the manipulations of the ultra-right and their right-liberal fellow travelers. Also it was a hard lesson for liberals who underestimated the political fury of the masses in these troubled times.

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.

The old pattern of politics as usual has been broken. It may not have happened as we expected it to happen but what matters is that it happened. The message is clear: we can and must defeat the ultra-right, by uniting the broadest possible coalition that will represent an overwhelming majority of the people in a new political dynamic. We must quickly shed yesterday’s political perspective and get in step with the march of events.

Frank Chapman
Via e-mail

Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2033337/posts?page=6#6

Obamedia Bias

As extreme as it ever was:

From January 2007 through May 2007, Harvard, along with the Project for Excellence in Journalism (part of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press), examined 1,742 presidential campaign stories. The stories appeared in 48 print, online, network TV, cable and radio news outlets. Their conclusion?

"Obama's front page coverage," said the study, "was 70 percent positive and 9 percent negative, and Clinton's was similarly 61 percent positive and 13 percent negative." For Republicans, however, only 25 percent of the stories had a positive tone, and 40 percent were negative. As for network TV newscasts, Democrats were positively portrayed more than twice as often as they were negatively. For Republicans, however, fewer than 20 percent of the stories were positive, with a negative tone twice as often.

Obama and Dont Drill Democrats Wrong on Energy

Dont Drive is not a solution. "When Barack Obama told a Pennsylvania audience this past weekend that "We can't drill our way out of this," he was repeating the same line that Nancy Pelosi used days earlier and that Harry Reid used on Wednesday."

Saying drilling wont solve the energy crisis so dont drill,
is like saying sandbags wont stop a flood so dont bother building levees.
It’s an absolutist and insanely illogical position.
Every little bit helps in the battle of supply and demand.

Democrats propose Socialism instead. Democrat Representative Maurice Hinchey stated that “we (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”

Kerry is Stuck In Iraq

"Kerry has the best credentials of any Senator on terrorism and has been the leader since 2005 on Iraq. "

Really? If this clueless dolt is the best the Democrats have to offer on Iraq and foreign policy then the Democrats have practically endorsed McCain.

Kerry, like his bad joke, is stuck in Iraq. The Democrats have painted themselves into a 'surge wont work' corner as the ducks finally line up to deliver stability and security in Iraq. Many mistakes were made by the Bush administration, but all along, the Democrats were there peddling defeatism and advice that was worse. Kerry said the elections wouldnt work - they did. Kerry (and Obama) said the surge wouldnt work - it did. Violence is down 75%. the Iraq security forces are now strong enough to tackle many challenges and keep getting stronger. We have gotten into a position where winning stability in Iraq is inevitable so long as we continue supporting the Iraqi govt in the next 1-2 years as it gets up to speed.

McCain is the one man whose advice and perspective has been vindicated by events. McCain was the one arguing with Rumsfeld over Bush admin mishandling of Iraq war, an arguing for more troops and the right strategy; The lame attempt to tag him as Bush's 3rd term will not work.

McCain will get our troops back home ... with HONOR.

Foreigners Have No Confidence in Obama's Policies

The Two obamas:

The same poll that documented unfavorable opinion of the United States also asked how much confidence respondents had in Obama’s projected international policies. The results will bring no joy to the Obama camp.

The countries having “a lot” of confidence in Obama’s foreign policy—25% and 23% respectively, are the ones that disapprove of us most strongly: Turkey and Pakistan. In five countries, confidence in Obama’s policies is in single digits: China 2%, Egypt 4%, Russia 5%, Lebanon 5%, Brazil 5%. The highest confidence is in Germany (24%) with Nigeria and France tied at 16%, and the United Kingdom at 13%.

Obama the man is idolized, the policies of Obama the possible president are viewed with profound skepticism. These contradictory commentaries and figures show that the world, like much of America, is swept up in a dream or fantasy about Obama. Unlike America, however, the world seems to understand that it is a dream. That is shown by the abysmal ratings they give to what they think Obama might actually do as president.

Hope over Experience

A vote for Obama is like a second marriage: the triumph of HOPE over EXPERIENCE.

What Obama really offers is HYPE and CHAINS.
The HYPE of an over-promising candidate, the CHAINS of a leftwing Socialist agenda.

Obama campaign slogans:

CHANGE ... what you'll have left after I raise taxes.
CHANGE ... your gas prices upwards, but gradually
CHANGE ... my hat size because every day my head gets bigger
CHANGE ... the national motto to: In Obama We Trust.
CHANGE ... what I do to my story depending upon whom I'm talking to.
CHANGE ... what I do every day to my foreign policy
CHANGE ... what I do to my trade policy depending upon whom I'm talking to
CHANGE ... your lifestyle because the rest of the world doesn't like you
CHANGE ... my friends when they turn out NOT to be "The person I knew"
CHANGE ... what my radical left-wing ideologue handlers have in store for you
CHANGE ... what I do to facts to suit my needs.
CHANGE ... FISA line that we crossed but I have now moved back
CHANGE ... from public to private campaign financing because I can raise more money
CHANGE ... I'll debateJohn McCain anytime, anywhere; except when and where he asks me.
CHANGE ... the words of others and claim they're mine, because words count.
CHANGE ... more of you into victims of something and build government programs to take care of you
CHANGE ... you into a ward of the state so that I OWN you and your vote
CHANGE ... your mind and believe in me for I am the Obamessiah come to save you
CHANGE ... into giggling sycophants; liberal mainstream media do under the spell of the Obamessiah
CHANGE ... the chant I use to control the weak-minded Obamanized masses
CHANGE ... into an Obamatron; join the cult, repeat the chant: CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE ...
CHANGE ... what I plan to do to America because it's the greatest country on the planet.
CHANGE ... the national anthems of all the nations of the world to Kumbaya using my messianic foreign policy skills
CHANGE ... into mumble-mouthed idiot when I don't have prepared speech to read.
CHANGE ... what I said because my rhetoric was overheated and amplified
CHANGE ... but not for us, not the left-wing liberal elite, CHANGE is for YOU.
CHANGE ... anything and everything I've said or done in my life if it will help me win
CHANGE ... the definition of change to: What I say, when I say it, to whom I say it.
CHANGE ... your underwear because you'll defecate in your pants when you wake up to find out what the left-wing liberal ideologues have done after gaining complete control of government.

CHANGE ... I can CHANGE
CHANGE ... you can't keep up with
CHANGE ... you better freaking BELIEVE in because it will WORK you over.
Obama: the AUDACITY to count on you and I being DOPEs

Obama = Status Quo Liberalism

Jay Ambrose Opines:
For all his rants about lobbyists, Obama represents no break from ties to special interests or independence from popular but ill-advised positions; he was for the lavish farm bill, he supports unions in their misbegotten opposition to free trade, he's an ethanol man through and through, and maybe he made at least some voters in Nevada happy with his opposition to the perfectly acceptable nuclear waste depository there. Unlike McCain, he has not been much of a compromiser in the U.S. Senate; if a bill is not sufficiently leftist, it gets no support from him.

Some movement toward the center would be welcome from this candidate, who maybe doesn't have to move an inch to win the general election.

Michigan v Texas

The worst state in the union wrt the economy is Michigan - it is run by Democrats. Democrat Governor, Democrat lege, etc. Michigan has been shedding jobs, losing business left and right, and high unemployment, over 7%.

The best economic performing large state is Texas - lower unemployment, highest growth, more business and job creation - the Government there is run by Republicans - Republican Governor, republican lege, etc. More private sector job growth than any other state in the union and unemployment under 5%.

A vote for Obama is a vote to make America just like Michigan.