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2008-08-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

New Obama Kids Book Sets the Record for Messianic Creepiness.

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Posted by Beavis 2008-08-15 09:46|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Can half he country really want this fruitcake for president?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-15 11:16|| 2008-08-15 11:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Nikki's a winner in the Cynthia McKinney Lookalike Contest. With hair by Sideshow Bob.

Hey, gang! Check out my newest book, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (Simon & Schuster), which will be available on August 26th at bookstores everywhere. I'm excited about every book I do, but this one was especially intriguing. The publisher asked me to write about Mr. Obama, and the illustrator, Bryan Collier, and I didn't have much time to get it ready. In fact, I had just about three weeks. Want to hear a miracle? I researched and wrote it in two! God answers prayer, I'm just saying. Then Bryan worked his magic with the illustrations. You can read more about the book in Publishers Weekly and a forthcoming issue of Newsweek. Read more...

And how's this for exciting news? I'm going to sign books at the Democratic National Convention! That's right. On August 27th and 28th, I'll be in Denver at the Convention Center where the Democratic Party will officially make Barack Obama its presidential candidate. I'm so thrilled to be able to share my book there.

http://www.nikkigrimes.com/

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 11:18|| 2008-08-15 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The kid on the cover looks like a 6 year old Yao Ming.

Posted by Scott R 2008-08-15 11:29|| 2008-08-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Even God himself talks to Barry while he's in church on Sunday

I thought most jews and christians believed that G-d DOES talk to us when we open our hearts in prayer?

Didnt Bush say G-d talked to him?

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-15 11:38|| 2008-08-15 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 For me it's the hypocrisy of the Left and the media. If GW were the subject of this book, the Left and the MSM would be screaming "theocracy!" But since it's BHO, well then speaking in tongues is just dandy as long as yer on the left side of the isle.

Whats more creepy is the repetitive and not so subtle retro socialist propoganda art his camaign is using.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-08-15 11:57|| 2008-08-15 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 You're right! It looks just like the NKor propaganda art!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-15 12:13|| 2008-08-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Unbelievable.
Imagine what they would do if he actually became President?

Posted by john frum 2008-08-15 12:21|| 2008-08-15 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 the Left and the MSM would be screaming "theocracy!"

my impression is that the more militant atheists are quietly uncomfortable with him.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-15 12:26|| 2008-08-15 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 ...well at least as atheists, they would be consistent.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-08-15 12:34|| 2008-08-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Hah! I laugh. She researched and wrote a children's book about Obama in 2 weeks? Big friggin honky deal. What's it weigh in at - 10, 15, maybe even 20 thousand words tops?

Try writing 65 thousand words in 35 total writing days, bitch. Then you can say something.

(Yes, I did - the research took me somewhat longer, but there were 35 total writing days on a 65 thousand word book (now in 5th draft and 80 thousand words))

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-08-15 12:39|| 2008-08-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 I laugh, too... hollowly. Two weeks of work and scribbling, a deal with Simon & Schuster and a signing at the Dems' Convention.... wonder what her advance was?

10-20 thousand words - eh, that's about three chapters of the Adelsverein Trilogy for me, which now clocks in at about half a million total and took eighteen months for the first draft and initial revisions.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-08-15 13:22|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-08-15 13:22|| Front Page Top

#12 I doubt it's 10000 words. It's a 48 page children's picture book written in verse.
Amazon's running a deal. Buy the Barack book with Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight and get an extra 5% off. It must be Indoctrinate Your Child Week over there.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 13:43|| 2008-08-15 13:43|| Front Page Top

#13 In novels, it's generally accepted there are about 250 words/page. That'd be about 12 thousand words if the book were 48 pages long and filled like a novel. It's obviously not and it's for children, so figure about half that/ Let's be nice and give her 6 thousand words. That's 428.6 words per full day of writing.

I do better than that in an hour.

My average was 1857.1 words/day on my book. In my other writing I average easily 1600 words/day (I'm ashamed of myself for not working hard enough if I don't hit a grand every single day).

She probably got an enormous advance since it's political, for children, about the Obamessiah, and from Simon & Schuster (didn't they shill for Hillary too to the tune of $10 million advance?).

And she's proud of this crap?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-08-15 14:17|| 2008-08-15 14:17|| Front Page Top

#14 my impression is that the more militant atheists are quietly uncomfortable with him.

Kinda like saying that some of the Khmer Rouge had twinges of conscience about what they were doing to Cambodia.

Posted by Pappy 2008-08-15 14:50|| 2008-08-15 14:50|| Front Page Top

#15 if it averages more than 50 words a page, i'll kiss a horse.

pure drivel.

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-08-15 17:03|| 2008-08-15 17:03|| Front Page Top

#16 I, for one, welcome the chance to read the gospel according to The One.

I also love Big Brother, and recognize that we have always been at war with Oceania. (Now if someone could kindly tell me where my boy hid my soma, I would be deeply appreciative.)

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-15 20:06|| 2008-08-15 20:06|| Front Page Top

#17 That you don't find this creepy "Even God himself talks to Barry while he's in church on Sunday" and that you would attempt to provide an explanation for Barack's hearing God himself talk back - says really creepy things about you. eech

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-15 20:55|| 2008-08-15 20:55|| Front Page Top

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