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There's a bit of a brewing tempest about 12,000 flags discovered in the trash after the Democratic convention in Denver. Fox News reports that the Democrats tossed them in the trash. The Obama campiagn says they didn't toss the flags in the trash, that they wouldn't mistreat the flag like that. Here is AP photo number 467 from the last night of convention. The AP caption reads Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., his wife, Jill, center, and Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applaud during talk on the final night at the...

Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years, and his campaign challenged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same. The list included $1 million for a hospital where Mr. Obama’s wife works, money for several projects linked to campaign donors and support for more than 200 towns, civic institutions and universities in Illinois. But as the Senate debated a bill to restrict the controversial method of paying for home-state projects — a measure defeated Thursday evening — Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign also said...

Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."...

Naivete" is a euphemism for Ann Dunham's motivation. Friends describe her as a "fellow traveler", that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice.... Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his...

Barack Obama says we have “an obligation” to fix the current health care system. In his plan, “No American will be turned away.” Michelle Obama disagrees. While an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she developed the hospital’s Urban Health Initiative, a program to refer patients without private insurance to other health care facilities in their neighborhood. Those shown the door tend to be poor minorities, mostly blacks. In order to sell the program to the community, the hospital hired ASK Public Strategies, co-owned by David Axelrod, a top aide to the Obama campaign. The recommendation to hire...

TOLEDO, Ohio - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's fiery ex-pastor, re-emerged yesterday with a crude reference about race and sex in the White House. "This ordinary boy [Obama] just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania legally," Wright said, referring to Michelle Obama, in a sermon at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston. It was unclear whether Wright was making a reference to prostitution, to old miscegenation laws, or to the history of illicit interracial sex under slavery.

1. Steps on the story of Obama's speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time. 2. Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam. 3. Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person. 4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished...

Yesterday, Michelle, my Bell, Obama quoted her husband quoting the radical Marxist Saul Alinsky in his book "Rules for Radicals" (The book is dedicated to Satan) This didn't go unnoticed by the Geezers on AARP.

Michelle Obama gave a passionate prime time speech last night kicking off the Democrat National Convention. Even though I am no fan of Obama for President, I thought Michelle did a good job describing her life and conveying a softer side. She came off as a smart, successful woman with strong family roots and values. (It was nice to see her in that light.) Her biggest gaffe, however, is she made a great case for herself, not so much a case for her husband. What I was expecting to hear was some biographical information about Barack Obama. Americans do not...

Anyone else notice that Michelle didn't Thank her Mom in her speech? Didn't hear any of the pundits comment on this last night. All it would have taken was six words, Thank You Mom, I Love You. Opportunity of a lifetime to honor the person who raised and cared for you, gave you a great video intro, and you missed it. Shame on you Michelle.

For those of you who really want to see how superficial her speech was... One only needs to check out the Foxnews captions. :) Obama wants to better the economy Obama will bring us together Obama: Treat people with dignity and respect Mrs Obama describes family life Obama: I know the American dream endures Obama: Your word is your bond. Do what you say. Obama: America should be a place where you can make it Obama: I stand at the crossroad of history Mrs Obama: I love this country Obama: Barack committed to our children's future Obama: Barack is same...

This is the third installment on our series about Barack Obama and his open association with racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-hating bigots, as well as his highly questionable campaign financing methods. (http://www.stentorian.com/Obama/) There are many urban legends and outright smears about Dreams From My Father and Michelle Obama’s thesis, such as “America is a nation founded on crime and hatred.” Our position is that, unless you can show us an independently-verifiable reference or page number, don’t show it to us at all. None of the smears and urban legends provide references of the kind one would cite in a scholarly paper...

WASHINGTON -- Michelle is the Obama who fits in a small room. She does the coffeeklatch to Barack's coliseum. For months now, she's lifted her husband up by downsizing him gently, while grappling with her own critics. Sure, he's the orator who electrifies the faithful by the tens of thousands. But he snores, and smells not so good in the morning. Sure, he's got what it takes to be president, she offers. But he's "just a man." A tall woman with an outsized personality of her own, Michelle Obama has toured the community centers, church basements and ballrooms of the...

Michelle is the Obama who fits in a small room. She does the coffeeklatch to Barack's coliseum. For months now, she's lifted her husband up by downsizing him gently, while grappling with her own critics. Sure, he's the orator who electrifies the faithful by the tens of thousands. But he snores, and smells not so good in the morning. Sure, he's got what it takes to be president, she offers. But he's "just a man." A tall woman with an outsized personality of her own, Michelle Obama has toured the community centers, church basements and ballrooms of the land, pulling...

Up to now, I haven’t had anything to say about Michelle Obama. However, the Washington Post today has published a long story that has a great deal to say about Michelle Obama’s work at the University of Chicago. The Post story concentrates on Michelle’s involvement in a program to bring medical care to poor South Side Chicago residents. Yet there is a great deal about Michelle Obama’s work at the University of Chicago that goes uncovered here. In particular, the Post has almost nothing to say about Michelle’s five year stint as "founding director" of the university’s community service center....

One of the first images that prime-time viewers will see of the Democratic National Convention next week is that of Michelle Obama, who will begin the four-day introduction of her husband, and her family, on her terms. Like everything else at the meticulously orchestrated gala, that is by design.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., boards the plane to leave Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Sen. Obama was in Hawaii for a vacation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The racial politics of the Obama marriage. On a recent Wednesday, Michelle Obama looms over a crowd of about 200 in Pontiac, Michigan, a Detroit suburb after which the car was named. In her chic outfit—sleeveless navy dress, delicate gold jewelry, peep-toe patent-leather shoes—she verges on six feet, and her firm-hold Jackie O. coiffure adds a few inches to the top. The dress fits snugly, with a bit of blue-and-orange-beaded flair sewn near her chest bone, sparkling like a costume necklace from a flea market. These days, Michelle campaigns about twice a week—she’ll appear at one public event per city,...

The senator's tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal.Barack Obama's neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen...senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title "Springfield Report," between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama's columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy battles then raging in Illinois, however, the young legislator's dispatches powerfully illuminate his political beliefs. Even more revealing are hundreds...

Contact Recent forays into Ramesh Ponnoru’s “Right Matters” forum over at the Washington Post online reveals the need for an update to Godwin’s Law. (You know—whoever brings up Nazism first loses the argument.) A prototypically knee-jerk liberal over there (“All conservatives are racist, sexist, bigot homophobes…) asserts that labeling Obama a socialist immediately sucks all credibility out of one’s argument. Fine. I’ll grant that Obama may or may not be a socialist—it is a broad-brush term to describe his policies—and that one needs to be more precise in how one portrays the change he apparently believes in. (And I call...

Michelle Malkin talking about Obama's 300 foreign policy advisors. "It takes a large village to prop up an empty suit" Discuss.. and then drool.... :)

Washington state GOP hits Michelle Obama I am glad I am not the only one who thinks Michelle Obama is fair game for saying the outrageous things she has said. In anticipation of her meeting with liberal Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, the state GOP produced this video. http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=zOcU-BP0T4c&rel=1&eurl=http%3A//www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post&iurl=http%3A//i.ytimg.com/vi/zOcU-BP0T4c/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIJonIElc-TAm7UrL1cJB8M&fs=1&hl=en

Maybe...if you buy the sort of earrings the wife of a US Senator who makes a big salary because her husband got her boss a big, fat earmark would wear. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, complained the government’s $600 economic stimulus check was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings” while stumping for her husband. “You’re getting $600 - what can you do with that?” Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week. “Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month. The short-term...

A new detail about the courtship of Michelle Obama: It took two years for Obama to finally propose. Though she knew he didn't fear commitment, Michelle had become a bit irritated with his struggle over whether marriage had become an outdated institution. Wow. And with this offhand comment, a thousand new excuses are born. "Honey, it's not that I fear commitment. It's that I'm struggling over whether marriage has become an outdated institution." I recall from that other Obama profile in the New Yorker, this one on Michelle: Barack had a more bohemian attitude toward romance. “We would have this...

I know I should like Michelle Obama. But . . . I just don’t. I can’t! Because, every time I try, I’m snake-charmed back by the pearlised nail varnish and Mars Attacks! hair of the one, the only, the ultimate power cheerleader: Cindy McCain. It all came to a head the other week when the putative First Fembot bowled through London on her way back to America from Vietnam. (Clearly, heiresses don’t worry about their carbon footprint — just as long as it’s a diamond-studded, snake-skin-heeled stiletto mega-stomp.) With an Air Force One blow-dry and coral-pink lipstick, the former junior...

In 1828, President John Quincy Adams's reelection campaign reportedly traded on innuendoes that Rachel Jackson had been imperfectly divorced from her first husband. Since her second husband, Andrew Jackson, once killed a man in a duel for the same insult to his wife's honor, Adams was perhaps lucky to lose no more than the presidency to Old Hickory. So, while there are abundant signs that Republicans this year are itching to take the practice to new lows, let's not forget that attacks on first ladies, actual or putative, go back a long way. And for all of the fear in...

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to become the Democrat candidate for President of the United States. After an unbroken string of wins in primary battle against Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Obama appears to be unbeatable among Democrats.

Now that Barack Obama has pretty much wrapped up the nomination, it's time to raise a question that lots of people have been talking about privately but not publicly. Is it possible that Michelle Obama is the force behind Barack Obama's refusal to embrace traditional patriotic symbols? Could Obama's wife be largely responsible for the candidate's damaging associations with crackpot race-baiters like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the Reverend Michael Pfleger? In sum, could Obama's wife be a large part of his political problem? Obama himself seems, at least on the surface, relatively free of the kind of corrosive racial...

Michelle Obama speaks to gay Democrats NEW YORK - Michelle Obama won a standing ovation on Thursday when she paid a campaign visit to gay and lesbian Democratic activists to promote her husband Barack Obama’s presidential quest. Obama, appearing at a dinner meeting of the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee, cited her husband’s efforts to fight discrimination and promote equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people. She said he supported a complete repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which only recognizes marriages between men and women and upholds states’...

SAN DIEGO – Introducing Michelle Obama, Angry Black Woman. What an absurd caricature this is turning out to be. Not to mention a confusing one. Growing up on Chicago's South Side, Michelle Obama was probably accused of "acting white" because she excelled academically and went off to the Ivy League. Now – abracadabra – she's a Black Panther. There was even a malicious rumor that she had given a speech in her church in which she had used the word "whitey." Never happened. Shame on those who spread the lie, and shame on those who rushed to swallow it. Still,...

Many of you may have heard this audio clip before. However, prior to this morning, I haven't. I wondered why I have heard in the media over and over again that Republicans have been referring to Michelle Obama as Barack's 'baby's mama.' Well, all it takes is a simple youtube search and you find the audio clip of Michelle Obama calling herself exactly that.

June 20, 2008Berkeley, California This week the global edition of the New York Times ran an article titled "Michelle Obama to get subtle makeover." This in itself would normally not be a big deal, but it just so happens the consultant brought in to do this makeover is an old friend of mine, (Fabulous) Frankee Felaesho! I call Frankee (Fab) to get the inside poop on his Obama overhaul.According to Fab, there were several areas the campaign staff wanted to address in response to negative public perceptions. He faxed me his Makeover Action Plan (MAP): Perception: Michelle Obama hates white peopleRemedy: Instruct Michelle to (1) start referring to...

Yes he did. On his show tonight, Dan Abrams drew attention to a quote from John McCain in an interview with Sean Hannity that flew under the radar for the past 3 months: HANNITY: -- and then I understand you didn't get any medical help for nine days. You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement? MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her...

MIDI - DON'T MAKE ME OVER

Guest Michelle Obama (3rd L), wife of presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), appears on "The View" in New York June 18, 2008. From left to right are hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Obama, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters. Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) talks with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (L) after meeting with his foreign policy panel of former U.S. government officials at a hotel in Washington June 18, 2008. Obama created the panel to give him advice and possibly fill top posts in his administration if he is...

Now her husband’s presidential campaign is giving her image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots and a tough new chief of staff. On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama will do a guest turn on “The View,” the daytime talk show on ABC, with an eye toward softening her reputation. Her problems seemed hard to imagine last fall and winter. Mrs. Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, appeared so at ease with the tactile business of campaigning and drew praise for humanizing, often with humor, a husband who could seem elusive. Then came some rhetorical stumbles....

Michelle Obama's eyes flicker tentatively even as she offers a trained smile. As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range in Montana, she is asked to consider her complicated public image. Conservative columnists accuse her of being unpatriotic and say she simmers with undigested racial anger. A blogger who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton circulates unfounded claims that Obama gave an accusatory speech in her church about the sins of "whitey." Obama shakes her head. "You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be," she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom,...

Hillary and Bill are busy updating their enemies lists. And Obama is racking his brain trying to figure out where to stash his erstwhile rival. If a President Obama put her on the Supreme Court, of course, we would have the infinite fun of hearing Bill rant about how Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Roberts were dissing Hillary. It’s good news for Obama that Hillary’s out of the race. But it’s also bad news. Now Republicans can turn their full attention to demonizing Michelle Obama. Mrs. Obama is the new, unwilling contestant in Round Two of the sulfurous national game of...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - First Lady Laura Bush spoke candidly for the first time about the presidential race on Monday, saying she admired Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) "endurance" and that Michelle Obama's controversial statements had been misconstrued. "I know what its like to run those campaigns, to be the candidate and how very difficult it is both emotionally and physically," The first lady said in an ABC interview while in Slovenia with President George Bush for a summit with European leaders. "It's a huge endurance, process of endurance, and so I'll have to say I have a lot of admiration...

Obamamania is sweeping the world as media types, aging hippies and socialists around the world quiver with delight over their new messiah. Barack Obama finally prevailed over the energizer bunny (Hillary), to win the Democrat nomination for president and a new world is coming. The utopians now have a spokesman and his name is Obama. These are heady days for the left. Finally, things are going their way. The economy is tanking right on cue, just in time for political contenders to validate their platforms, which consist of 'its all Bush's fault - so elect me.' And now, with Obama...

All I can say is after reading this from a pro-Hillary site, the author either has a vivid imagination or Obama is about to be put in a world of hurt by his wife: The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event. Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks. Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended. Michelle Obama...

Sometimes, this rumor of this alleged tape of Michelle Obama denouncing “whitey” sounds like something out of a clichéd political thriller novel. Actually, it sounds exactly like something out of a clichéd political thriller novel. Specifically, Stephen Frey’s The Power Broker, published in 2006 by Ballantine Books. A major plot line of the novel is the presidential campaign of Democrat Jesse Wood, aiming to be the country’s first African American president — “Wood was handsome, smart, charismatic, and being mentioned increasingly often in the press as someone who could unite a twenty-first century America growing more, not less, racially and...

I give the Obama folks credit–they’ve tried mightily to shift the meaning of my original report. I learned last week that Republicans have a tape of Michelle in a racist rant. She does so while part of a panel discussion. I do not know where this occurred. And the specific date is not known either. BuzzHill offered up his view earlier today but I have not confirmed one way or another. At no time have I claimed to have the tape or promised to deliver said tape. In fact, I reported that Republicans working on behalf of McCain are desperate...

Say it ain't so. Barack Obama has worked hard over the last 18 months to convince Americans that he is the untraditional politician – immune to special interests, loyal to his faith, close to the people, guided by principle. SNIP And now Obama goes and does something foolish that shows he is a traditional politician after all and may suggest that his religious convictions are not all that firm: He quits Trinity SNIP Not because he is uncomfortable sitting in the pews all those years but because other people were uncomfortable that he sat in the pews all those years....

Church leaders and members cheered Pfleger’s racial hate speech, sanctioned blood libels of U.S. and Israel In one of George Macdonald Fraser’s “Flashman” books, Harry Flashman–the school bully from “Tom Brown’s School Days”–is watching a public hanging. The man next to him suggests that, instead of watching the actual hanging, he watch his fellow Britons’ reaction to it because it will be far more entertaining and enlightening. It is similarly far more enlightening to watch the reaction of Barack and Michelle Obama’s fellow churchgoers to Father Michael Pfleger’s hate speech, even though Pfleger’s obvious feigned outrage and overacting is the...

There are people in this world who believe that America is a force for evil in the world. They are called Europeans. Then there are people who feel the same way, but who will help elect the next president of the United States. They’re called Obama supporters. Calm down, my Cambridge friends. I am not saying that Sen. Barack Obama hates America. But even his most ardent supporters must admit - when they aren’t fainting away at his campaign appearances - that there is a direct and disturbing correlation between hating America and loving Barack. In Europe, for example, they...

Obama supporters AGAIN alleged to misuse United Church of Christ tax exempt resources to campaign for Obama Chicago Catholic pastor Michael Pfleger, speaking Sunday at Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ, implied Clinton was a white supremacist who believed she would win the nomination because of “white entitlement.” “We must be honest enough to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head. …Reverand Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m...

Here are screen shots of pages that the Obama campaign had to delete from its official Web site because they contained testimonials from controversial figures (that Obama accepted but later decided to disown), anti-Semitic and other forms of hate speech from my.barackobama.com, and similarly embarrassing material. Since Obama doesn’t want people to see these, please copy (don’t link, it uses this site’s bandwidth) and circulate as widely as possible.Obama accepted a testimonial from Father Michael Pfleger, a defender of Louis Farrakhan. This page was deleted a few days ago. Obama accepted a testimonial from his hate-spewing pastor, Jeremiah “God ****...

We encourage our readers to circulate the following in its entirety. Instead of speaking for (or about) the Obamas, we will let them and their church speak for themselves. Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would use all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. My experiences at Princeton have made me more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama], “Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” page...

Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at Wesleyan University the other day. Pinch hitting for Teddy Kennedy who out sailing on his yacht, he peppered the speech with references to other Kennedys who had gone before. Adding to the list of things we cannot say about Obama, we can’t compare him to Robert Kennedy, but he can … and does. It will be remembered by people who have been following the Jeremiah Wright controversy that Wright denounced “middle classism” in no uncertain terms all the while having a $1.6 million, 4 bedroom 10,000 square foot house built for him in...