Long article but worth the read. moving it over and keeping the formatting was a real pain, so i just kept a very small amount of the list.
In this section lets take a look at the radical people that Obama has endorsing him. Of course, this isn't something that Obama can control but it says a great deal about the type of people that are not only supporting but endorsing him. It tells us that these individuals or groups expect to get something positive for themselves or their cause from an Obama presidency. Take a look at the following and draw your own conclusions.
Ahmed Yousef (Hamas Political Advisor)
Hatem El_Hady Terrorist Fundraiser:
Irans leadership
Louis Farrakhan:
Fidel Castro:
Hugo Chavez
Chicago Young Communist League
Communist Party USA:
George Galloway
Francois Hollande,(French Socialist Party)
Kim Jong-Il (North Korea)
Jodie Evans, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink
Jane Fonda
George Soros
UN
lots more, and links to source material are in the full text. RTWT
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BO's endorsements ought to give any U.S. voter pause for a lot of concern.
By MATT APUZZO and JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that tainted the 40-year Senate career of Alaska's political patriarch. The verdict, coming barely a week before Election Day, added further uncertainty to a closely watched Senate race. Democrats hope to seize the once reliably Republican seat as part of their bid for a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Stevens, 84, was convicted of all the charges he faced of lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor. Jurors began deliberating last week.
The senator showed no emotion as the jury foreman said "guilty" seven times. After the verdicts, Stevens sat in his chair and stared at the ceiling as attorney Brendan Sullivan put his arm around him.
Stevens faces up to five years in prison on each count when he is sentenced, but under federal guidelines he is likely to receive much less prison time, if any. The judge originally scheduled sentencing for Jan. 26 but then changed his mind and did not immediately set a date.
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Thanks, Ted, for bringing your baggage with you into the general election. You could have stepped aside and let someone else run. Instead you are handing a safe (R) seat to the Dems. Well done.
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Yup, the hubris is amazing, isn't it. He's 84 and should have stepped aside anyway, but he couldn't think of whatever else he could do other than hang around Washington. Looks like he won't be doing that anyway, and now we have another D in the Senate.
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Trouble is that he's a Trunk. Had he been a Donk, then like NJ or MO the state judges would allow the party to put someone else into the seat with the nominee now unavailable just before election day regardless of what's written in the law.
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Him and Young as well. They are the Old Guard that Palin sought to force out. Now instead of stepping side, they've brought the roof down on our heads. Going to be 6 years before peopel get a chance to fix this mistake.
The head of the GOP should be fired as should anyone else involved in keeping this POS running instead of putting Parnell in there.
Got accosted by a little Obot twerp when I said I wouldn't vote for him. Naturally....it's because of racism, and I was suckered in by Palin.....blah blah blah.
I replied, no....the Messiah is only half black. I chose to vote for the authentic African American, who also happens to be a woman, because I'm not sexist, racist and locked into a two party mental straight jacket.
The twerp didn't know what hit her. ;)
(And no....didn't vote for Cynthia, so calm down. Playing with Obots' heads is fair game.)
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The "O-Bot" door-to-door folks are just beginning in our town. Gotta find me a McKinney sign. I'll put it next to my Ron Paul sign (That's a diversion and mind-muck, too).
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Thank Cthulhu for Cynthia.
Now that the election is in the bag according to infallible media authorities like Keith Olbermann, Dems can vote for principle rather than politics.
Yes, I urge progressives everywhere to live up those Che t-shirts and revolutionary posters and cast those precious ballots for Ralph or Cindy, and make a profound personal statement about their lifestyle and political image (always important for libs).
Concerned that voting machine breakdowns could cause long lines on Election Day, particularly in minority neighborhoods, several groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday to force Pennsylvania election officials to provide paper ballots when half the machines in a precinct have failed.
The top election official, Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortés, has directed poll workers to provide paper ballots to a precinct only when all of its touch-screen voting machines are broken.
The lawsuit was filed in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania N.A.A.C.P.; the Election Reform Network, a nonpartisan group; and a coalition of individual voters. It asks a federal judge to declare Mr. Cortéss directive unconstitutional on the grounds that it puts an undue burden on residents who may have to wait hours to vote.
Mr. Cortés said that current safeguards should ensure an efficient election and that forcing a change could confuse poll workers who had already been trained.
Its going to be busy on Election Day, but Im confident that we are prepared, he said. We hope that the court 12 days before the election doesnt change the rules.
Fifty-four of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania use touch-screen machines without paper ballots. According to the lawsuit, 10 percent to 20 percent of the machines will break down on Election Day, based on experience, and 99.4 percent of precincts have three touch-screen machines or fewer.
If you disenfranchise voters, its the No. 1 civil rights issue, said J. Whyatt Mondesire, president of the Pennsylvania N.A.A.C.P.
Mr. Mondesire added that breakdowns and delays were particularly bad during the April primary in Philadelphia neighborhoods with large black populations, like Germantown and Mount Airy.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs said one of them, Angel Coleman, was a single mother in Philadelphia who could not wait in a long line the morning of the primary and had to return in the evening after she made baby-sitting arrangements. Two of the three touch-screen machines in her precinct were broken.
The ultimate effect when we see these long lines is to turn people away, said the lawyer, John Bonifaz, who is legal director for Voter Action, a nonprofit voting rights group. People often cannot wait.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- or Acorn -- the troubled left-wing activist group, has new headaches. Last week Michael Slater, head of its Project Vote, admitted that some 400,000 of its claimed 1.3 million newly registered voters were rejected by election officials as either duplicates or fraudulent -- i.e. it doesn't sound as if Acorn's vaunted "quality control" efforts were all that effective.
Some reasons why may be exposed next week in a lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in state court. The Web site PolitickerPA reports that Anita Moncrief, an Acorn worker in Washington D.C. from 2005 to 2008, will testify that the group engaged in "minimal to nonexistent" checking of its voter registration work during her time with Project Vote.
The Republican suit, filed by Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, demands that the Pennsylvania Secretary of State follow federal law requiring that first-time voters using an absentee ballot show some form of identification. It also seeks to have Acorn turn over its voter registration lists, identify registrants who signed up fraudulently and instruct them not to vote.
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That still leaves 900,000 unrejected - actually quite an impressive number. How many of these should have also been rejected? We'll never know.
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No, Glenmore. Half of the remainder were either registration forms for those already registered, or for those who'd changed addresses, so they don't count either. Additionally, this does not count rejections of those registered by ACORN previous to January 2008, or those yet to be rejected on closer inspection. I imagine that first third are the "Mickey Mouse" and 72-forms-for-the-same-person registrations, whereas a significant number of the final third will turn out to have addresses that are really shops or vacant lots, or those with someone else's Social Security number. This will make no difference in areas like New Orleans and Chicago, where it's a tradition to have 150% of the population registered, but elsewhere the election boards have got the bit between their teeth, and will continue checking registrations after November 4th.
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Registration should be done no later than 30 days prior to an election date. Twenty days prior every new registered voter should receive a notice to appear for jury duty 10 days later. Those who don't appear are stricken from the rolls. Those who don't show up for the summons but do show up to vote should be permitted to vote, but also issued a warrant for failure to appear. They can discuss the particulars with the judge. Those filing a registration at the polling place on the day of election also receive a notice to report for duty within a week [with their vote held till they show].
Illinois political insiders say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who defended Barack Obama after his father famously threatened to castrate him, is the favorite to replace the Democratic nominee in the Senate.
That alone should cause us to elect Senator McCain. This joker is the Congresscritter next door to my district and he makes "Mister Ten Percent" Zardari look like an djinn angel.
Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) scolded his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, publicly after his comments were caught unexpectedly on tape before an interview with Fox News this summer.
But Jackson Jr.'s path is by no means assured. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) also wants to replace Sen. Obama (Ill.) in the upper chamber if he is elected president.
Another uber-liberal and a bad choice for all of us.
This gives Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who must choose between an African-American political scion and a close ally of the labor movement, a difficult decision.
Assuming Blago hasn't been indicted ...
Jackson has made plain that he would like to succeed Obama in the Senate. "If Sen. Obama wins -- and I'm optimistic that he will, I indeed would be honored and humbled to succeed him in the U.S. Senate," said Jackson in a statement. "But, in the end, the decision rests with Gov. Blagojevich and I'm confident that he'll make an appointment in the best interest of the state as well as the nation."
Jackson's case is strengthened by the fact that Obama is the only African-American member of the Senate. Presumably, Obama would like to see at least one African-American representative in the chamber.
What the voters want, of course, is of little consequence. This is Illinois, after all ...
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Bill Daley (yes, that Bill Daley - da mare's brudder and former Clintonista) is also supposed to have an "in" and given the corruption is Illinois, I think more likely than either of the 2 mentioned. Of course, that's assuming Blago doesn't appoint himself...
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Does that mean he'll have to sell the Budweiser distributorship? Geez, and after all the shake downing and race baiting hard work daddy had to do to get it for him.
Yikes - she's in the district next me, and she's to the left of Bernie Sanders - the only avowed socialist in the congress. Her husband is a convicted criminal, tax fraud I believe, or at least faced a severe civil tax action from the IRS for misuse of his non-profit. An altogether wholesome situation.
I spect Bill Daley has an in, as noted, or perhaps Rahm Emanual - both of which are far more substantial than the other two - much as all of their policies are distasteful.
An outside investigation has cleared International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of abuse of power accusations resulting from an affair he had with a former division chief at the organization. If you're boning a subordinate it's abuse of power by definition, even if both sides are perfectly happy with the relationship.
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I won't ask why Mr. Strauss-Kahn was cleared, when the neo-con Mr. Wolfson (if I recall his name correctly) had to resign from the top spot.
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Paul Wolfewitz was forced to resign over giving his girlfriend a top job but it was really cuz he threatened to focus on corruption. Sliding scale for standards at a bank--imagine that.
A foundation chaired by Barack Obama that was designed to improve Chicago public schools gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Small Schools Workshop, an organization led by former Weatherman Bill Ayers and by Michael Klonsky, a former chairman of both Students for a Democratic Society and, according to The Washington Post and New York Times, a group called the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).
"Ayers and an old comrade from SDS, Mike Klonsky, run the Small Schools Workshop to mentor and provide guidance and technical support to educators seeking to start small schools, The Chicago Tribune reported on Sept. 16, 2001.
In a September 6, 1977 article headlined Chinas Ideal American; U.S. Marxist Gets Red-Carpet Welcome in China, The Washington Post said Klonsky was chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance got a good reception in Peking last month, but nothing like the red-carpet treatment received by that distinguished representative of the American people, Michael Klonsky, the Post reported, before asking: Michael who?
Answering its own question, the Post said: Klonsky, as it turns out, is the chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America, an amalgam of various pro-Peking leftist troops whose memberships are not thought to total more than a few hundred people--if that. Klonsky enjoyed a period of notoriety during the late 1960s when he headed Students for a Democratic Society and, for the first time, brought a radical Communist rhetoric to that New Left organization.
The August 26, 1977 New York Times, citing Klonsky as leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), reported that he was one of only five Americans other than Secretary of State Vance and former President Richard Nixon and two Chinese-American scientists to have met with new Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.
According to publicly available IRS 990 documents, the Small Schools Workshop that Klonsky ran with Bill Ayers received at least $800,000 from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) between 1998 and 2002. Obama chaired the CAC. Rest at link.
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You know, Fred, I understand the idea behind the "Seedy Politician" Grouping, but frankly seeing them all together just scares the hell out of me.
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Its looking more and more like a 2nd civil war and to finally put to an end what started in the 60's, disguised itself for years and is now emerging from under their respective rocks. If reparations are on the table, as it seems, there will be hell to pay. What the hell do you call The Great Society and all the "inner city" programs, EEO/AA etc. We are talking trillions and trillions. I just cannot see Americans taking this laying down.
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Jack, civ war... don't think so.
1. Obamarx is a loser. He'll not win. Many reasons, the most relevant is that a majority is not stupid. It may be silent, but it realizes that losing would mean its last opportunity to vote--it would be just an acclamation with Obamarx at the helm from then on. Even the political affiliation does not play a major role. Many Dems will vote Mac, they are sick of Obamarx, to the point of violent nausea just seeing and hearing that shapeshifting slime. Black, purple or orange-green striped has nothing to do with it.
2. Obots may be rioting (actually, rather a certainity), but basically they are cowards. A few cracked obot skulls and they'll think twice to stir trouble. Make my day, I say!
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"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it Id be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society.
"To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasnt that radical. It didnt break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states cant do to you. Says what the Federal government cant do to you, but doesnt say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasnt shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that."
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Hang on to your wallets -- half the country is about to vote for "reparations".
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The other day, driving home, I was station hopping as it was getting close to 5:00 and the hosts were shutting down.
I stopped on Hannity, when a man identified himself as a black Republican. Further listening, the point he was making, and just as he said it, Hannity had to cut him off for end of program and added, "we don't do racial here."
What the man was talking about, and finally put into words was, "Black people are saying that Obama is going to take the money from the white people and give it to the blacks."
Hannity tried to end the conversation, but he said, "Sean, I'm telling you, this is what is happening in the Black Community."
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...this is what is happening in the Black Community.
It is true. I forget which black commentator said it, but he mentioned that the blacks feel "They are owed."
Prepare for massive tax hikes and redistribution of wealth and power if Bambi wins.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle Winston Churchill
As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:
1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales commissions into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a "fair shake."
2. All hourly employees will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are "too busy for overtime" to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.
3. All top management will now be referred to as "the government." We will not participate in this "pooling" experience because the law doesn't apply to us.
4. The "government" will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging its workers to continue to work hard "for the good of all."
5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's "good to spread the wealth." Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more "patriotic."
6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don't feel bad though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?) !!!
If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th.
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You're not getting any breaks, Zeb. The Democrats always find a "need" to hit the middle class after they're elected. Your standard of living will go down.
... but it won't matter anymore since your employer will no longer afford to pay you and has to let you go. And good luck landing any of the few jobs which might be available.
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"Black people are saying that Obama is going to take the money from the white people and give it to the blacks."
I put that right up there with my wife's Muslim co-worker who is certain that Obama is a secret Muslim. Pity Obama if he wins -- he's going to have to answer to extremely high expectations from blacks, Muslims, Bill Ayers, the Third World, Barney Franks, Nancy Pelosi, and Michelle.
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Hey Zeb, I don't make nearly that much $$$ either - but no other man owes me his money due to being more successful than I. The old marxist meme is that one becomes rich at another's expense when in fact most people become poor by their own decision making process (or, lack there of).
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The middle class will most certainly feel the sting of "tax" increase. It may not be explicit, but you will pay more after The One is selected. Just one example is his "windfall" profit tax on oil companies (by the way, when did 9% profit become a windfall?). Who do you think will pay that tax? When companies start laying people off due to increased corporate taxes and because they can't raise capital due to increased capital gains taxes...we'll pay for it. He wants to mandate more flexfuel usage, that will increase food costs and vehicle costs. If he recklessly pulls our troops out of Iraq before Iraq can defend itself, there will be war in the Middle East...fuel prices will go through the roof. If he lets Iran get a nuclear weapon, oil will go through the roof. Pretty much if The One is selected his lack of foreign policy experience almost guarantees the middle east will be come less stable, driving up fuel prices. To sum up, America, bend over and grab your ankles, cause Obama is going to put it to all of us.
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Huey Long: "I won't tax you and I won't tax me, I'll tax that fella standing 'hind that tree."
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Friend sent along a story that goes like this: going into a diner, I saw a homeless guy with an Obama shirt on. Wait person was also wearing an Obama shirt. Ordered up a meal and when the bill came, told the waiter that sine he supported Obama he evidently approved of the redistribution of wealth and was going to give the homeless guy the tip. And did. according to the story the waiter was pissed.
i love a tory with a happy ending.
Don't know how true that is, but if we all did that between now and 11-4 whenever we could to a bamamanic, it might make some re-think their vote.
So if you are poor then you know what I think of you. When I hear about single, welfare moms and deadbeat dads crying for help from the government I get real pissed off because as far as I'm concerned it's nothing but armed robbery. If you didn't pay attention in school, that's tough because that's the only break I'd ever give you. I worked my ass off to get where I am and I don't appreciate commies like you trying to rip me off. If you're not happy with your financial situation then get off your butt and get a job like the rest of us. Otherwise you can go ahead and starve. You won't get any sympathy from me. I don't owe you squat.
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Listen to the Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years, tape where he says "G*d D*man America". In that audio he lambasts "Rich, White, America". That is where Obama gets his policies.
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To be fair, Ann Althouse and Orin Kerr have different opinions. Both are lawyers and see the legal, constitutional law argument Obama was trying to make. Take a look so that you're properly armed when discussing this with liberals.
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Obama comes from a very small world called Chicago, where black people are still held down. That's why he is so popular there. I don't thing the rest of the country is going to like it once they find out what he's really about.
Giving the white people's money to the black people? Why not teach black people how to make "white people money"?
All part of the whiney, "I can't do anything" mentality.
Foreigners are coming here with nothing and are cleaning up.
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Forgot how long those songs were . . . Obama probably grew up on that stuff because of his mom, and didn't realize it was a temporary "movement" of the youth culture at that time.
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