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Obama First in More Ways Than Any U.S. Presidential Candidate
Bloomberg.com / Yahoo News ^ | 06/07/2008 | EagleUSA

Posted on 06/07/2008 7:29:43 PM PDT by EagleUSA

Barack Obama's political career boasts a long list of firsts. He is the first presumptive presidential nominee to be a native of Hawaii and the president of the Harvard Law Review. He's also the first candidate with more than 1 million contributors.

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Obama, an Illinois senator, is the first presumptive presidential nominee in modern times to have a father who wasn't a U.S. citizen, the first to earn an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in New York and the first to have attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

``Obama's nomination would be historic in almost every respect that you can think of,'' said presidential historian Michael Beschloss.

Obama has also chalked up many near-firsts in the race for the White House. He is the fourth Illinois elected official to clinch a party presidential nomination; if elected he would be the first since Abraham Lincoln. Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois and was governor of California. Obama is the only first-term senator to lead a major party since Warren Harding in 1920.

No presidential nominee since Republican Wendell Willkie was so unknown to the American public and political establishment just a few years before he ran for president. Republicans recruited Willkie, a low-profile utilities executive, to run against two-term incumbent Franklin Roosevelt in 1940.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: blueturban; extreme; marxism; obama; propagandawingofdnc; radical; socialist
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Osama Obama, A FIRST in many ways ---

Yes, I would agree: FIRST in radicalism, FIRST in extremism, FIRST in liberalism, FIRST in socialism, FIRST in American hate, FIRST in racism, FIRST in inexperience, FIRST in military-hating, FIRST in defense-hating, FIRST in anti-Americanism, FIRST in anti-Constitutionalism, FIRST in enemy-pandering, FIRST in....well the list is just too long.

Yes, he is certain tops in FIRSTS.

1 posted on 06/07/2008 7:29:43 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Don’t forget, he’s also the first candidate to visit all 57 states.


2 posted on 06/07/2008 7:31:57 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: EagleUSA

I should e-mail the author of this fluff piece to just get a room, pull out a lot of Obama pictures and “enjoy herself”.

From top to bottom, it was a love poem to Hussein. Sheesh, wipe the drool of your computer, sister.


3 posted on 06/07/2008 7:33:38 PM PDT by max americana
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To: EagleUSA

You left out FIRST Muslim candidate.


4 posted on 06/07/2008 7:35:22 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: EagleUSA

FIRST disciple of Saul Alinsky, FIRST Marxist, FIRST convert from Islam ...


5 posted on 06/07/2008 7:35:45 PM PDT by freespirited (Difference #1 between McCain and Obama: McCain is actually qualified to be president.)
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To: EagleUSA
"No presidential nominee since Republican Wendell Willkie was so unknown"

And may his fate be exactly the same as Mr. Willkie's was in November.

6 posted on 06/07/2008 7:36:11 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: EagleUSA

obasm:
The pleasure that a liberal-leaning journalist gets when writing a fawning story about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). An “obasm” is a story so gushy and so fluffy, bereft of objectivity, that one imagines having to clean up after the writer with a mop and bucket.


7 posted on 06/07/2008 7:36:51 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: EagleUSA

A MAJOR barf alert.


8 posted on 06/07/2008 7:38:17 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
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To: EagleUSA

“Obama is the only presidential nominee in modern times whose father wasn’t American. The parents of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee in 1988, were Greek immigrants who became naturalized U.S. citizens.”

Isn’t is interesting to note that the author deliberately forgot to include the first to be raised as a Muslim. The first to belong to a black-liberation church. etc..


9 posted on 06/07/2008 7:38:19 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: max americana

Maybe he’s a black Rudolph Valentino, only one that ever swooned em like this gal swoons. He is also the only closet Muslim to run for U S President.


10 posted on 06/07/2008 7:38:51 PM PDT by Uncle George
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To: EagleUSA

btt


11 posted on 06/07/2008 7:38:55 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: TheWasteLand

More vowels in name ...


12 posted on 06/07/2008 7:39:52 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: EagleUSA

I speculate that if a Hawaiian separatist read this column they will be very angry that Obama is called a “Native” of Hawaii.


13 posted on 06/07/2008 7:39:55 PM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: EagleUSA
first Muslim named who ever had to hide his name; Hussein
14 posted on 06/07/2008 7:41:06 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: EagleUSA

One must also remember that President Bush was the first President with a MBA. However I wouldn’t be surprised if the writer thinks that OUR President is a moron.


15 posted on 06/07/2008 7:41:22 PM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: EagleUSA
Obama First in More Ways Than Any U.S. Presidential Candidate

Maybe that qualifies him for being in the Guinness World Records, but NOT in the White House.

16 posted on 06/07/2008 7:41:24 PM PDT by Maceman (If you're not getting a tax cut, you're getting a pay cut.)
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To: TheWasteLand
Don’t forget, he’s also the first candidate to visit all 57 states.

No, he didn't go to ALL the states, just 57 of them. Remember, he didn't go to Alaska.

17 posted on 06/07/2008 7:41:41 PM PDT by frankiep (Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: frankiep
Remember, he didn't go to Alaska.

Right. He did go to the great 54th State of Spalaska. I always mix those two up.

18 posted on 06/07/2008 7:43:56 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: EagleUSA

It is also first time when media insist that political views and connections of the presidential candidate are irrelevant for the job of Presidency.


19 posted on 06/07/2008 7:44:46 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: EagleUSA

Well....he’s not the first self-important prat, that’s for certain.


20 posted on 06/07/2008 7:45:24 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: frankiep

Or Hawaii and Cuba


21 posted on 06/07/2008 7:46:10 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: EagleUSA

The first to have parents who weren’t legally married.


22 posted on 06/07/2008 7:47:30 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: EagleUSA
Yes, he is certain tops in FIRSTS.

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He's also the first to routinely flip off his skank of a wife in public. Not that she doesn't deserve to be flipped off. I'm just sayin'.

23 posted on 06/07/2008 7:47:32 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: EagleUSA

Even though his Mother was a white American, since his Father was born in Africa, he can factually claim that he is in fact the first African American Presidential candidate (sorry Al and Jesse).


24 posted on 06/07/2008 7:48:01 PM PDT by OCC
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To: EagleUSA
I would not mind seeing a conservative decendent of American black slaves become the first black president.

This Obama guy is not black. The only connection he has with American blacks is that his skin is the same color and his ancestors likely sold the ancestors of the American blacks he pretends to be like.

Obama is a fake and a fraud. He pretends to be something he is not. He lies.

25 posted on 06/07/2008 7:48:46 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Hillary / Obama - 2008 <---Bet on it. She will do it to win.)
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To: EagleUSA
Obama's ardent followers are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth. To them, regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol.


Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lenin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Finally, note this comparison:


A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

26 posted on 06/07/2008 7:50:26 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: A_Former_Democrat; freekitty; oswegodeee

First Muslim Manchurian Candidate endorsed by our terrorist enemies, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, .....

This election is a national disgrace; our forefathers are turning in their graves.


27 posted on 06/07/2008 7:50:39 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: EagleUSA
Obama, who will officially be nominated at the Democratic convention on the 100th birthday of Lyndon B. Johnson and will deliver his acceptance speech 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream Speech,'' has become the first black MULATTO candidate to lead a major U.S. party.

Damn, I wish they'd get that straight!

28 posted on 06/07/2008 7:53:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
This needs a 'Get the bucket' alert.

We're all gonna have the dry heaves by November.

29 posted on 06/07/2008 8:00:47 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: EagleUSA; All

The first to show us why Che Guevara had to grow hair like a filthy hippie to hide the size of his ears?

30 posted on 06/07/2008 8:02:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: EagleUSA

You beat me too it, that was exactly what I was going to say.


31 posted on 06/07/2008 8:02:54 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: EagleUSA; SevenofNine

32 posted on 06/07/2008 8:04:52 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

OMG is that new trailor for upcoming Godzilla movie LOL!


33 posted on 06/07/2008 8:08:40 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I am sick to my stomach everytime I think we could have a President that is friends with our enemy.


34 posted on 06/07/2008 8:13:08 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: EagleUSA

I just flipped over to Lifetime during their “Army Wives” weekend marathon and who appears? Wonder boy Barry himself, complete with American flag and CHANGE sign in the background, with a message to Army Wives everywhere. Will there be no end to it!


35 posted on 06/07/2008 8:15:46 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: rlmorel
LOL!

BTW, I thought we were forbidden to talk about B hussein O's ears!

36 posted on 06/07/2008 8:26:27 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Merta
I speculate that if a Hawaiian separatist read this column they will be very angry that Obama is called a “Native” of Hawaii.

I thought he was an African-American. Is he an African-American-Hawaian?

Now I'm confused. What do Germans call African-Americans born in Germany?

37 posted on 06/07/2008 8:27:13 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: EagleUSA

He’s not first in military hating. That belongs to the clintons.
But the rest is true.
And more.


38 posted on 06/07/2008 8:27:39 PM PDT by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: EagleUSA

First to destroy the U.S. without a weapon...First to make ANYTHING said on the internet punishable by fine/jail if its a word against a black person/liberal...


39 posted on 06/07/2008 8:27:42 PM PDT by madison10 (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rlmorel

ROFLMAO!


40 posted on 06/07/2008 8:28:27 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: Just A Nobody

No, just forbidden to mention his sweet wife or the color of his teeth . . . er, skin.


41 posted on 06/07/2008 8:28:59 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: EagleUSA

And the media love affair builds....


42 posted on 06/07/2008 8:31:28 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: EagleUSA

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST MUSLIM to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST ARAB to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is NOT the FIRST BLACK to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is 50% White, 43.5% Arab, 6.5% Black.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST Son of a Polygamist to ron for
President.


43 posted on 06/07/2008 8:31:58 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
No, just forbidden to mention his sweet wife or the color of his teeth . . . er, skin.

And his MIDDLE name! I'm pretty sure I'm remembering him whining about those making fun of his ears...way back in the early days of the campaign. ;*)

44 posted on 06/07/2008 8:39:00 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: TheWasteLand
Right. He did go to the great 54th State of Spalaska. I always mix those two up.

Did he get to Franklin?

45 posted on 06/07/2008 8:42:39 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: EagleUSA

He’s also the first far left rabid dog socialist to get this close to the white house in our short history! People are being fooled BIG TIME by him and his thinking!


46 posted on 06/07/2008 8:44:26 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 6SJ7
Interesting. I didn't know that, thanks for the link.

As for Obama, I don't think he got there. He was heard to remark, "Franklin my dear, I don't give a damn."

47 posted on 06/07/2008 8:47:22 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Cobra64

Personally I think that the term African-American is a stupid term anyway especially in referring to Barack Obama. Is Obama a Dual Citizen, not born here, or is he a Citizen of the USA? In order to become President, one must be American not African-American.

I Still find it funny that Jesse Jackson coined the term, supposedly, around the time he ran for President. So if I was Russian-American would I be able to run, even if the hyphenated term sounds like I wasn’t born here, especially in the proper terminology?

What one must also wonder is what if Obama was born in one of those island countries where people have very dark skin but are not African? Are they Carribbean-African-Americans?


48 posted on 06/07/2008 8:51:26 PM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: EagleUSA

In Addition:

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST Bozo to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST Ding Dong to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST to call his Grandmother a Racist.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST ANTIAMERICAN to run for President.

B.O. HUSSEIN is the FIRST Really Terrible Candidate to run
for President.

Well maybe John F***ing Kerry (alias: LURCH, HANOI JOHNNY)may have been equally Terrible!!


49 posted on 06/07/2008 8:55:13 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: EagleUSA

The media is trying to make us thick Americans understand-Obama is The Way, The One, The Alpha, The Omega-The Obamassiah. Finally a gospel in which they can believe, apparently. They sure never believed in the Christian one, they mocked and ridiculed it. Christians were dim and unevolved for believing.

I’m torn between wondering if this getting absurd or scary.


50 posted on 06/07/2008 8:58:41 PM PDT by mrsmel
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